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VOL. LII. No. 90 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1950 - Per Copy—15c
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P)—All 49
persons aboard perished Friday
night when a Brazilian Constella
tion crashed near Porto Alegre. It
was the worst disaster in the
country’s aviation history.
Among the 43 passengers was
-t Ralph Motley, 4'8, an American,
f sales manager in Rio for the At
lantic Refining company. He came
from Richmond, Ind.
TOKYO, UP)—A British carrier
plane was shot down Friday by
American B-29’s but the pilot was
rescued.
An air force spokesman said the
plane, a British Seafire, encoun
tered a B-29 flight and was not
recognized. The incident occurred
off Korea’s west coast.
The spokesman said American
and British officers weer seeking
j improved air identification.
WASHINGTON (£>), The House
has approved legislation to re
peal two obsolete laws affecting
Alaska.
The first prohibited any corpo
ration association, for religious or
charitable purposes, to acquire
real estate worth more than $50,
000. The second permitted deligi
ous bodies to hold through trus
tees so much real property as
needed for their use and conven
ience.
The House public lands commit
tee reported neither law appears
necessary.
MOSCOW, (^P) — The Soviet
press and radio told the Russian
people in routine fashion Satur
day that Deputy Foreign Minister
Jakob A. Malik would become
president of the U. N. Security
Council August 1.
Dispatches pictured the “Anglo
American bloc” in the council try
ing to hurry up “illegal meetings”
before the Russian delegate as
sumes the chairmanship. The re
ports also made clear the Soviet
Union considers illegal all coun
cil meetings held in her absence. |
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FRANKFURT, Germany, —
Eight T-33 jet planes arrived at
U. S. air bases in Western Ger
many Saturday from the United
States. Air Force authorities said
the planes, two-seater versions of j
the F-80 jet fighter, will be used
for training purposes.
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, (IF)
Six army officers were reported!
Saturday to have been sentenced1
to up to seven years hard labor
for turning Czechoslovak military j
property to their own use.
The official news agency said
the centences were pronounced re
cently by the chief military court
in Prague and Brno.
CLAYTON, N. Y. (^'(—Buyers
of Calumet Castle, once a million-!
aire’s summer mansion on one of |
the St. Lawrence river’s thousand
islands near here, got an unexpec
ted dividend.
Workmen fixing wiring in the
basement of the stone building
discovered several hundred cases
of imported wines dated from
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Pusan Becomes Port Of Destiny
For United Nations
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KEY PORT OF KOREA—The waierfrini at Pusan.
((/P) Newsfeatures)
Pusan hase become a port of destiny for United Nations troops
fighting to hold in Korea against the Communists. Situated on the
! southeastern coast, it is the best port in Korea, the one through which
| most of the traffic to the outside world has passed.
When the Japanese held Pusan and its population of a third of a
million, they developed the port extensively. They linked it to Japan
by cable and other communications and they carried on heavy traffic
between it and their port of Shimonoseki, on the island of Honshu, 135
miles away.
• Pusan’s importance as a port of entry for GI’s is helped by its tre
mendons defensive assets. It has been fortified for centuries and the
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high bare hills surrounding it have proved a formidable barrier to in
vaders attempting to move in from the north. “Rugged terrain screens
the city so well,” say the National Geographic Society, “that only a
fraction of it is visible even from the waterfront. The harbor itself also
is well protected by nature. Outside the entrance is Mok To, an island
four miles long and a mile and a half wide, which incoming ships must
skirt in order to reach anchorage. There are two relatively narrow
I passages between island and mainland, and both are overhung by high
rock walls.”
Pusar in Allied hands guarantees- a port for the build-up of men
and material needed to throw back the North Koreans. It also is where
the U. S. could—if necessary—make its most prolonged attempt to hold, j
Taylor And Quartz
Creek To Get
DG3 Fields
Tony Schwamm, Territor i a 1
head of Aeronautics, has had a
very active week on surveying
airfields in thsi area and reported
this morning that immediate funds
have been made available and au
thorized for improvements or ex- I
tension and clearing for fields at
Coffee Creek, Atlas Creek, Dahl
Creek, Neva Creek, North Fork,
Macklin, Dick Creek, and Buck
Creek.
In the Kougarok area repairs
will be made on the Taylor air
field and a survey will be made,
Mr. Schwamm stated, for Taylor
and Quartz creeks to have DC-3
fields. He stated that by putting
in two larger fields in the upper
and lower Kougarok area, it will
be possible to fly in heavy repair
equipment as well as fuel and take
it from these fields by road, there
by cutting expenses of transporta
tion as well as saving time during
the short mining season.
At White Mountain the survey
ors and engineering crew were
able to locate ground that was
ideal for the field and also close
to the village.
Work was authorized at Teller
and immediate funds made avail
able for local people. Also the
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Bridges Barred
From Broadcasting
SAN FRANCISCO, (#>) — Long
shore chief Harry Bridges, haras
sed by near-revolts within his wa
terfront union, was barred yester
day from a radio program in
which he planned to explain his
views on the Korean War.
The American Broadcasting
Company over whose network the
program was to be aired said
Bridges’ appearance was cancelled
because it covered a “controver
sial” subject.
At the same time, ABC’s San
Francisco station KGO announced
that it will not renew its contract
with radio commentator Sidney
Roger on whose program Bridges
was to have spoken.
Roger frequently has defended
Bridges, in Bridges* legal at
tempts to retain his citizenship.
The Australian-born labor leader
has been ordered deported on
grounds that he lied about his
communist affiliations when he
applied for U. S. citizenship.
Roger, in his broadcast today,
said it was his “swan song” and
that he no longer would be heard
on the San Francisco station.
Added Roger.
“Long before the Korean War
the most outspoken liberal com
mentators went off the air—until
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Search For Missing
C-54 And Crew of 6
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Planes of
the Air Rescue Service hoped
for clearing weather today to
launch an all-out search for a
missing U. S. Air Force C-54 and
its six crew members.
The four-engine craft disap- j
peared Saturday over Cape Spen
cer, about 90 air miles due west
of Juneau. Based here with the
54th Troop Carrier Squadron, the
plane was enroute back to its base
from the Pacific Northwest.
Search planes scoured the Cape
Spencer area during the last two
days without success. Low-hang
ing clouds held the Sunday search
to a lone B-17.
The plane vanished without
giving any indication of trouble.
W e a ther conditions, however,
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Truman Doesn’t
Want “All-Out”
Mobilization
WASHINGTON, {/P) — Backers
of President Truman’s request for
limited economic controls fought
Saturday to stem a rising tide of
sentiment in Congress for all-out
mobilization of the home front.
In the House, support for con
sumer price controls and ration
ing was so strong that leaders
were reported concerned over
their chances to sidetrack those
proposals in favor of action on
Mr. Truman’s milder requests.
In the Senate, backers of the
drastic controls forced the bank
ing committee to abandon plans
for action on the Truman propos
als until today, so the all-out con
trols can be put into shape to be
offered either as an amendment
or a substitute.
The mounting pressure for com
plete wartime mobilization stem
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1414-Ton Rocket
Hits 3,600 M. P. H.
Long Range Proving Ground,
Cocoa, Fla. (#)—A 14Vi-ton two
stage rocket thundered eastward
over the Atlantic Saturday at a
speed of 2,727 miles an hour for
the first missile and around 3,600
miles an hour for the second.
Excellent conditions permitted
observers to watch twin vapor
trails after the two rockets separ
ated about nine miles up and 22
miles east of the concrete launch
ing pad.
The missle was made up jot a
captured German V-2 weighing 14
tons with a 700-pound rocket
known as ' the “WAC Corporal”
mounted atop it. The two missiles
were 60 feet high from base to
top.
In a matter of seconds the V-2
attained its 2,727-mile speed. It
reached an altitude of nine miles
in 63 seconds. There the “WAC
Corporal” separted from it and
roared eastward ab a speed in ex
cess of 5,000 feet a second, or some
3,600 miles an hour.
Korean Situation
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Saturday# July 29# 1950
(By the Associated Press)
American troops, under orders
to “fight to the death,” are hold
ing the line on the blazing Kore
an front despite a furious offen
sive by North Korean Reds striv
ing at a knock-out blow before
additional forces can be pitted
against them.
A release from Gen. MacAr
thur’s headquarters dated Sunday
said communist thrusts against
the U. S. First Cavalry and 25th
Infantry have been thrown back.
The American forces are striv
ing to hold their mountain posi
tions while fresh men and equip
ment and being funneled into
Korea for a major counteroffen
sive.
In Washington, an army spokes
man told newsmen: “I think you
can expect a continuous landing
of troops and material” which
could insure victory for United
Nations forces.
He did not specifically mention
the fact that elements of the First
Marine Division and the army’s
Second Infantry • Division (from
Fort Lewis), have been on their
way from the U. S. to the Far
East for some time.
The Reds were suffering terri
fic losses, but despite depleted
reserves of tanks and men they
smashed at Hwanggan on the cen
tral sector and were threatening
to outflank the Eighth Army in a
drive cutting in about 40 miles
south of Hwanggan.
For three days now the front
has been kept fairly stable with
no important penetrations by the
invaders. But for the communists
time is running out and there
were indications Red cpmmanders
are now pouring everything they
have into a major push.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters claimed United States coun
terattacks are safely holding the
line. It was announced at Tokyo
that fresh U. S. troops from Oki
nawa stalled a thrust on the
south coast at Ponggye, 55 miles
west of Pusan, vital southeast
supply port for the United Na
tions forces.
Americans were ordered to
“fight to the death,” with no sur
render and without giving another
inch of ground. The order came
from Gen. Walton H. Walker,
commander of the U. S. 8th Army,
in an unheralded visit to a front
line command post.
“We will hold the positions we
have and fight it out here," Walker
said. “Thitf is a fight for time . . .
everybody in this army knows we
must hold along the lines we now
have.”
He ordered that no one individ
ual, squad, company or higher
unit under any conditions will
surrender. •
Walker explained that the Ko
rean War has entered “its critical
stage.” He pointed to the fact that
fresh American troops and sup
plies are pouring into Korea but
emphasized that the Allied cause
could trade no more territory for
time.
He warned there would be no
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