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VOL. LII. No. Ill NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1950_ Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P)—The final phase
of the 1950 “Fishermen’s Airlift”
between Alaska and Seattle got
under way during the past week
with Pan American Airways
scheduling approximately 20 ex
tra sections of regular flights to
bring commercial fishermen and
salmon cannery employees out of
Southeastern Alaska.
D. E. McMorran, PAA regional
traffic superintendent, said more
than 1,000 fishermen will be flown
out of Juneau and Ketchikan
areas within a three-week period.
The “lift” is expected to be com
pleted before October 1.
WASHINGTON i/P)—House pas
sage sent to President Truman
Monday a bill permitting wider
latitude in use of funds obtained
by the treasury from the sale of
seal furs in the Pribilof Islands.
The seal herd in the Pribilofs is
protected by an agreement be
tween the United States and Can
ada.
The purpose of the proposed
law is to allow some of the fur
sale proceeds to be used to devel
op other by-products of the seal
ing industry and to utilize other
fur resources on the islands.
CINCINNATI (^—“Profession
al sabotage” probably caused the
blast tfiat rocked Voice of Amer
ica transmitters at Bethany, Ohio,
James D. Shouse reasoned Mon
day.
Shouse, board chairman of the
Crosley Boradcasting Corp., which
built the transmitters, estimates
the damage at $5,000. He claimed
a high electric fence showed signs
of tampering.
The explosion early Sunday de
stroyed a shortwave radio anten
na, part of an array used for
Voice of America broadcasts over
seas.
ROME, N. Y. (/P)—One of the
auxiliary policement in Rome’s
civilian defense program is an 81
year-old great grandfather.
Stephen Beckwith, retired depu
ty police chief, volunteered Mon
day. His application was accepted.
HATBORO, Pa. (/P) — George
Washington would have to dig
pretty deep to buy one of his old
headquarters these days.
The 140-acre “Headquar t e r s
Farm”—used by the Continental
army commander during 1777—
was sold last Saturday for $97/700.
The main house and six acres—
three miles north of this south
eastern Pennsylvania community
—went for $49,000, with the re
mainder of the property sold in
three separate parcels.
OTTAWA, {IP)—A Royal Cana
dian Air Force plane will take off
today for bleak Eureka Sound,
680 miles from the North Pole, to
pick up Charles Leroy Havens, an
American soldier suffering from
blood poisoning.
Havens is attached to the joint
U. S.-Canadian weather station at
that Arctic outpost. Officials of
the meteorological services said
an infection in a small cut in his
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Allies Warn Reds
“Hands Off” In
Western Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany (/P)—'The
United States joined Britain and
France yesterday in a warning to
Soviet Russia to keep hands off
Western Germany.
The three nations moved to end ;
their state of war with Germany
and to strengthen her industrially
and defensively, but announced
that there is no call for recreating
a national army in the Western
zones.
Any attack upon Berlin or upon
Western Germany will be regarded
1 as an attack upon the occupying
; nations themselves.
This was made clear in a com
1 munique issued by secretaries
! Acheson, Bevin and Schuman af
ter their New York conferences.
The text was made public here
: last night.
! Air Force Gives Up
London-NewYork
Non-Stop Flight
I
WASHINGTON, (/P) - Two air
force jet fighters abandoned an at
| tempt to fly from London to New
i York non-stop yesterday after one
! of the planes damaged its equip
ment for refueling in flight over
Prestwick, Scotland.
The air force announced failure
of the flight. Another attempt will
! be made later, officials indicated.
The flight was planned by the
air force to point up its program
for stretching the range of jet
warplanes by refueling in flight.
The two Republic F-84E Thunder
I jets, single engine aircraft with a
j normal one-way range of slightly
over 2,000 miles, took off from
Manston airbase, England, about
1 p.m. London time, on the 3600
I mile flight against prevailing
winds.
The planes had been expected
to average around 450 miles an
hour.
The pilots were Col. Dave
Schilling. World War II ace with |
28 German planes shot down and (
10 more destroyed on the ground,!
, and Lt. Col. W. D. Ritchie, who
j flew more than 200 combat mis
sions, both men are 31 and as
signed to Pentagon posts.
F. D. SHELDON LAID
TO REST MONDAY
F. D. Sheldon, Alaska pioneer
pharmacist, was laid to rest last
Monday from the Federated
Church by the Pioneers of Alaska,
Igloo No. 1, of which he was a
member.
Officiating was Rev. Paul Carl
son, who read passages from the
Bible which had been chosen by
Mr. Sheldon.
Music was furnished by Mrs.
Earl Towner at the organ and
, songs which were also chosen by
the deceased, including Holy,
Holy, Holy and Jesus, Lover, of
My Soul.
Graveside song was Abide With
Me. All songs were sung by Mrs.
Towner, Mrs. W. Mclvor, Helen
Carlson, Jennie Oksukturok and
Mrs. A1 Doyle.
Secret Document
Of Polish Massacre
Lost By Army
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A top se
cret document bearing on the al
leged Russian massacre of 11,000
Polish officers during World War
II apparently has disappeared.
The army disclosed Monday
that it had been unable to find
the paper in a search begun late
last year. It offered no explana
tion for the loss.
At the same time, it made pub
lic a substitute memorandum on
the subject prepared from mem
ory last May by Lt. Col. John H.
Van Vliet, Jr., author of the orig
inal.
Van Vliet, now on duty in Ko
rea, was a prisoner of the Ger- j
mans when he visited the scene of
the alleged massacre in Katyn
Forest near Smolensk, Russia. He
said in his memorandum he be
lieved the Russians killed the Pol
ish officers.
The army also released a state
ment prepared in 1945 by Capt.
Stanley S. B. Gilder, British army
medical officer who was in the
I
party of Allied prisoners taken to
Katyn Forest by the Germans in
1943.
Both Van Vliet and the British
officer said they were forced to
make the trip and fully believed
at the outset that they were beipg
used in an attempt to support the
| Nazi propaganda line.
Statehood Bills
Will Be Called Up
Before Saturday
((/P) Special Washington Service) 1
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Sen
ate had the assurance of Senator
O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.) today that
the Alaska and Hawaii statehood
bills will be called up for Senate
consideration before Saturday.
O’Mahoney, the chairman of the
Senate interior committee which
recommended Senate passage of
the House-passed bills, told the
Senate last night that he will
make a motion to take up the bills
if the Senate majority leadership
does not.
Senator McFarland (D.-Ariz.),
acting majority leader in the tem
porary absence of Senator Lucas
(D.-Ill.), said the bills are on the
program agreed upon by the Dem
ocratic policy committee.
He indicated, however, that the
measures will be called up after
the Senate acts on the conference
reports on the tax bill and the
subversive activities bill.
Senator Magnuson (D.-Wash.)
agreed with O’Mahoney that the
Senate should not adjourn with
out acting on the statehood bills.
He said he favored a Senate re
cess until after the November
election, rathdr than sine die ad
journment.
Magnuson suggested that “If we
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Marks Air Base To Remain Open
It was revealed this morning at a special meeting of Nome’s
leading merchants and business men at the office of Col. D. C.
Jamison, that Marks Air Force Base would not be closed and a
military group of men, officers and their families, as well as
necessary equipment such as snow removal and the instrument
approach system for aircraft would remain in operation this win
ter.
It was also revealed that the snow equipment has been turned
over to C.A.A.
The meeting was brought about by the arrival yesterday of
Major James K. Bryan, head of public relations directly under
General Kepner, who met with these businessmen yesterday,
bringing a message to the people of Nome, that Nome and all
other parts of Seward Peninsula would be defended.
He stated yesterday that M.A.F.B. was not being abandoned,
but only de-emphasized, and gave the impression that the people
of Nome were not to consider themselves expendable.
Just why more emphasis was not being placed on M.A.F.B. in
stead of the present plan reducing the base was not made clear
or were those present convinced that the military leaders who
made the decision three years ago, should not change their plan
to include the “northern entrance” to North America in its pro
gram of “security of Alaska and protection or air routes through
this area to the United States,” as quoted from the address of
General Kepner, made at the American Legion meeting in Jun
eau recently.
“Armed weakness is on invitation to an aggressor and a pre
lude to disaster,” he stated in his address, and we agree with him
because we feel that these are prophetic words as we urge the
military heads to reconsider their plans for the northern frontier
before it becomes another battlefield that “might have been de
fended.”
Those present at the meetings were Arvo Saario, Ted Duffield,
Antonio Polet, H. F. Harper, Joe Wallace, Grant Jackson, John
McNees, Steve Andersen, Don Lyle, Dewey Goodrich, Jim
Walsh, Emily Boucher, Mr. Lennon, Mr. Klokkevold, Paul Spur
lock at the request of Capt. Stan Morgan of the A. C. S. The press
was not invited to this morning’s meeting, but conferred directly
with General Kepner’s spokesman Major Bryan and his assistant
Lt. Bellury.
After months of keeping the civilians in ignorance of what was
planned for Nome, it gave a small amount of assurance that we
would still have an airfield suitable for civilian as well as army
aircraft to use in case of emergency.
Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, September 19, 1950
(By the Associated Press*
' Communist troops appeared to
day to be abandoning the south
east Korea war cockpit and head
ing hastily northward ahead of
pursuing allied in an attempt to
escape the jaws of an Allied nut
' cracker.
The box-like Allied perimeter
apparently was cracking wide
open.
At the same time, in the north,
Allied liberation forces rushed
river crossing equipment to span
the Han River before Red de
fenses can be rallied outside Se
oul, communist-held South Kore
an capital.
In the southeast box, Red forces
were abandoning their positions.
One the eastern end, South Kore
an troops entered Pohang, hotly
contested port.
Allied forces pushed across the
Naktong River on the west. U. S.
First Cavalry units took the once
Red stronghold city of Waegwan
and fought into the hilltop walled
city of Kasan. It was from these
points the communists had long
posed a threat to Taegu, now no
longer menaced.
At least 4,000 Allied troops went
across the Naktong by boat and
bridge. Ordnance men were or
dered to work around the clock to
prepare captured Russian artillery
pieces which will soon be turned
on their former North Korean
owners. The abandonment of so
many heavy pieces underscores
the extent of the communist rout.
The northwest corner of the
perimeter is closest to the Allied
second front at Inchon, . where
tank-led Marines prepared to
jump the Han river.
The barrier stream still has to
be crossed by U. S. Marines be
fore they could fight their way to
Seoul. Its rail and highway spans
were mangled by repeated Allied
bombing raids.
One tank-led Marine column
has smashed into Yongdungpo, an
indutsrial suburb of Seoul while
another has snaked along the Han
River opposite the ancient Kore
an capital after capturing Kimpo
airport.
The air force said it has set up
a continuing airlift ihto Kimpo.
; More than 30 cargo planes landed
tons of cargo and troops on the
two concrete runways now open
for Allied business. It is Korea’s
: best airfield.
Allied 10th army corps troops
■ and supplies were still streaming
ashore at Inchon, on the Yellow
Sea, 22 miles west of Seoul.
The Red Koreans hurried rein
forcements to the Seoul area. Air
observers spotted three commun
ist columns moving toward the
beseiged city. They were being
withdrawn from the southeast
i perimeter front just as the Allied
i master plan had anticipated.
As the Reds withdrew in the
| south, Allied warplanes strafed
I bombed and rocketed their posi
I tions.
At Pusan, President Syngmar
Rhee of the. Republic of Korea
said his South Korean forces wil
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