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at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, July 31, 1950_
FATHER HUBBARD
(Anchorage Daily Times)
What happened to Father Hubbard, the famed glacier
priest, between March 5, and April 24, 1950?
On March 5 at Loyola University in California he
gave an interview in which he came out strongly in fa
vor of statehood.
“Alaska has everything any state could have for tre
mendous prosperity,” he said. “I believe statehood will
speed up its development.”
On April 24 he appeared on the other side of the con- (
tinent, in Washigton, before a Senate committee as a
witness against statehood.
“Right now I would not like to see her precipitated
into statehood until many questions which I think might
prove important would be solved,” he told the commit
tee.
The capitulation of the clergyman from his previous
position as an ardent advocate to his Washington ap
petence as a witness against statehood, may remain
one of the unsolved mysteries of the year.
Father Hubbard’s»interview in March was given a big
play in the newspapers. The Los Angeles Examiner
gave it a seven-column headline, with a two-column
picture of the Glacier Priest.
He cited the vast natural resources and potentialities
of Alaska and said statehood would bring a new surge
of colonization and development.
"Settlers will be attracted first, and industry will fol
low,” he said. “I know plenty of capital is waiting to
come in with proper assurance of local protection for
private investments.”
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN ALASKA
Under the Antiquities Act of 1905 it is necessary for
museums and universities to make application to the
Department of Land Management for research on pub
lic lands.
Permits in Alaska include the Bering Strait Expedi
tion, sponsored by the University of Alaska; University
of Pennsvlvania Museum, and the Danish National Mu
seum which is now under way at Kotzebue; Cap Den
bigh and exploratory excavations along the south coast
of Seward Peninsula are also under way. The collection
made will be divided equally among the three institu
tions.
Another expedition by the University of Michigan,
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Korean Situation -
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Dunkirk”—no pulling away from
Korean shores by the American
infantrymen. “It would be impos
sible* for us to get out,” he said.
He again promised his army
would hold their mountain posi
tions.
Another headquarters spokes
man said the North Koreans have
lost 31,000 men killed and wound
ed since the war started. More
than 170 tanks have been destroy
ed and 100 damaged. An intelli
gence officer added: “There are
no signs of replacements for the
tanks.”
The fact that untrained con
scripts are being shoved into the
line at this critical stage indicated
time is running out for the invad
ers, it was contended. At the same
time, the headquarters spokesman
said, America ntroops are show
ing greater seasoning and stabil
ity.
In the air war, Allied war
planes blasted two communist
held towns on the southern tip of
Korea despite bad weather. For
the fourth consecutive day carrier
planes joined in the attack. Fight
er planes aided the Americans
near Hadong on the south coast
and at Kochang further north.
Monday, July 31, 1950
Fresh troops of the U. S. Sec
ond Infantry Division landed with
armor in Korea today and began
moving at once toward the des
perately sagging defense lines.
The troops walked ashore at a
busy South Korean Port directly
from the transports that brought
them from the United States.
They were no more than in
time, for North Koreans swung
the main weight of their offensive
from the central to the southern
sectors, where they punched two
wedges in American lines.
The communists captured Chin
ju, near the south coast, splitting
the Americans there and forcing
them to retire along divergent
roads to new positions less than
50 miles from the main Allied
port of Pusan.
“They beat the hell out of us,”
said an American commander.
Only 11* miles southwest of
Klim chon, main hub of the present
defenses; Chirye changed hands
twice and became a no-man’s
land.
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First Cavalry troopers defend
ing the centrol sector adopted a
scorched earth policy and put the
torch to hundreds of thatched
huts to smoke out guerrillas and
enemy regulars using infiltration
tactics.
The Americans acted after an
enemy band had slipped up to an
American command post, poked
their guns through the window
and killed several American offi
cers, and one South Korean, and
wounded eight Americans. Five of
the 15 or 20 raiders were killed.
About 20 miles south of Chirye
the Americans also were forced
back further to the east of Ko
chang, and in the Kumchon area
as well, despite orders to hold
their positions of die fighting.
All along the 70-mile line from
Chinju to Kumchon the Reds were
pushing hard with tank-tipped
columns, but American officers
said Kumchon would be held “at
all costs."
Gen. MacArthur’s communique
issued early Tuesday in Tokyo,
said the present lines ran from
Chinju northwest to the western
outskirts of Hamyang, northeast
to a point seven miles east of Ko
chang, four miles west of Kum-,
chon, four miles west and north
of Hamchang, one mile north of
Yechon and to the east coast south
of Yongdok.
Pressure was reported to have
lightened on the northern front,
though the enemy infiltrated into
Hamchang behind the front lines.
Both the Second Infantry Divi
sion and the First Marine Division
hove been enroute from the U. S.;
west coast. The First Marines left I
more than two weeks ago, and
the Second Infantry a few days
later. Either would fight as a unit!
merged in the U. S. Eighth Army l
in Korea.
Even if both divisions joined
the three from Japan already en
gaged in Korea, along with other
unidentified units from Okinawa,
the defenders still would be con
siderably outnumbered by the in
vaders.
Gen. MacArthur s intelligence
officers estimated the North Ko
reans have mustered an army of
200,000 men by “frantic mobiliza
tion.” U. S.-South Korean forces
would be only about half that.
Gen. MacArthur arrived on For
mosa for a visit with Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-Shek and his
Nationalist Chinese aides. The trip
could mean that the long-expect
ed communist invasion of Formo
sa was about to be attempted.
Chiang was expected to renew
his offer to send troops to Korea,
but this offer was not believed
likely to be accepted in view of
Formosa’s danger. Acting in “self
defense,” Nationalist warplanes
attacked 5C0 small communist in
vaion boats near Amoy Sunday
and claimed to have sunk or dam
aged 150. It was their first such
action since President Truman
asked them to refrain from at
tacking communist mainland.
Even as the fresh forces landed
in Korea a dispatch reported the
fall of Chinju, 55 miles west of the
defense port of Pusan. Chinju was
the southern anchor of the Amer
ican line and nea rthe coast where
a main enemy drive was shaping
up.
Tank led communists hit the
town in force early Monday, forc
ing the Americans to pull back
their lines from lowlands to the
east.
Their commander was anraged
at the loss' of the town after a
three day battle.
“This is the ninth licking in a :
row,” he said. “I have been fight- j
ing all my life but I never lost
nine in a row before.”
American officers said Red loss
es were double the American cas
ualties. The Americans dug in at
new positions less than 50 miles
west of Pusan.
Nearly 40 miles to the north
the communists also had broken
through Kochang, forcing Ameri
can defenders to take up new pos
sitions farther east. Kochang is
known as the Aleutian Expedition, is being carried on
by aerial reconnaissance through noticeable changes in
vegetation pattern. Twenty five hitherto unreported
village sites have already been located on various is
lands mapped from the air. . j
In view of the still inadequate state of knowledge
concerning the time and direction of human occupation
of the Aleutian Islands, continued archaeological exca
vation is planned.
Question Sale Of
Lattinore’s Farm
BETHEL, Vt., (/P) — The pur
chaser of Owen Lattimore’s farm
Heje—described by Sen. McCar
thy (R.-Wis) as a communist—
says he was unaware of the own
er’s identity and is “opposed to
his political views.”
Lattimore, Far Eastern affairs ^
expert accused by McCarthy last
fall of being Russia’s top spy in
the United States, was cleared
last week in a report by the Dem
oocratic majority of a Senate sub
committee investi gating the
charges. ^
Lattimore, now a Johns Hop
kins professor, has claimed tha*
Ordway Southard, the purchaser,
was a “complete stranger” to him
at the time of the sale.
Southard, communist party can
didate for the Governor of Ala
bama in 1942, told reporters Fri
day:
“I had no idea that Mr. Latti
more was part owner of the place”
when he answered an advertise
ment for its sale.
“ . . . When I did learn that he
was owner of the farm I felt and
still feel that there was no reason
under the sun why I should not
enter into a purely commercial j
transaction with him or anyone
else, regardless of his political
views or any political controversy
around him.”
Sen. McCarthy told the Senate
there was no question that South
ard and his wife, Mary, are open
communists and that they bought
Lattimore’s half interest •n the
farm last June for between $4,000
and $4,500. • . 4
McCarthy said he had no docu
mentary evidence that Lattimore
“was or was not being paid off.”
Southard, who said he used part
of an inheritance to purchase the
farm for his wife’s health, declar
ed:
“The inference that I have
bought the farm in order to assist
Mr. Lattimore in meeting the ex
penses of his defense is absolutely
false.”
Lattimore had commented that
he sold the property “in order to
meet expenses forced on me by
McCarthy's scurrilous attacks.”
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45 miles southwest of the new pro
visional South Korean capital of
Taegu, and about 75 miles north
west of Pusafn.
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The defense of both Chinju and
Kochang fel lto the 24th Infantry
Division, back in action under
Maj. Gen. John H. Church who
succeeded the missing commander
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean.
Maj. Gen. Earle E. Partridge,
Fifth Air Force commander, said
his men had destroyed 302 enemy ^
tanks and damaged 240 others
since the start of the fighting. This
was considerably higher than the
estimate of a MacArthur head
quarters spokesman Sunday that
204 tanks had been destroyed by
all forces.
Gen. Partridge said the Ameri
cans had lost 43 aircraft from ac
cidents, enemy action and me
chanical failures.
B-29 strategic bombers rained
500 tons of explosives on the North
Korean city of Hungnam and “hit
something big” at a chemical and
explosives plant.
In Britain Prime Minister Att
lee warned his countrymen that
the “fire which has been started ^
in distant Korea may burn* down
your house.” He said Britons must
tighten up their belts to re-arm
against possible aggression else
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where.
Barbers always get in our hair.