OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LII. No. 130 NOME:ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950_Per Copy—15c
FAIRBANKS (/P)—E. B. Kluck
hohn for many years vice presi
dent erf ,the Seattle First National
Bank will take over active man
agement soon of the First National
Bank of Fairbanks.
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His appointment as vice presi- j
dent was announced yesterday by j
E. H. Stroecker, president of the j
Fairbanks bank.
Kluckhorn had been connected1
with the Seattle institution for 38 j
years as head of its Alaska divi- j
sion.
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ATHENS, Greece, (/P)—Premier (
Sophocles Venizelos formed his j
fourth Greek government in 11 j
months today, dropping Constan-'
tin Tsaldaris and members of his j
Populist (Royalist) party from!
the coalition cabinet.
All other members of Venize
los’ last government—representa-1
tives of the Premier’s Liberal i
party and of vice-Premier George |
Papandreou’s Social Democratic!
faction were retained. They take!
over portfolios here by the Popu
lists.
MIAMI, Fla., (/P) — A middle
aged woman who burned nine
children in a ‘trick or treat” inci
dent Hallowe’en night may escape
prosecution if she apologizes pro
perly.
Herbert Shapiro, assistant coun
ty solicitor, said yesterday he had
prepared an information charging
the woman—who was not named
—with “torturing and torment
ing” the youngsters.
He said she was suffering with
pangs of conscience.
Shapiro said the woman admit
ted heating coins in a pan and ef
fering them to the children after
they were invited into her house
to sing while she prepared a
“treat.”
SEOUL. (>P)—The Republic of
Korea national assembly refused
today to confirm President Syng
man Rhee’s appointment of Paik
Nak Choon as a Premier.
The vote against Paik was 100
to 21.
Other opposition to Rhee’s ad
ministration was expressed in a
petition demanding the regisna
tion of the entire cabinet. Signed
by some members of the assembly
(number not reported), the peti
tion blames Rhee’s cabinet for the
war.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — 4 anti
aircraft artillery units are going
to England to set up defenses for
American bomber bases there, the
army disclosed last night.
An announcement said the units
will be in the United Kingdom by
early winter. About 1,600 men
will be involved.
Three B-29 bomber groups
based in England share five for
mer Royal Air Force bases with
U. S. fighter outfits and aircraft
servicing groups. At present, how
ever, no ground force units are on
duty. So far as is known here, the
air bases have had no anti-air
craft protection. 1
Thoralf Rivenes
Has Big Job in New
A. R. C. Position j
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ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Control of
Alaska’s key highways and a
program that will put millions of
dollars into their improvement
has been placed in the hands of ■
Thoralf Rivenes. As district en
gineer of the Anchorage District,
Alaska Road Commission he'
hold’s the organization’s “key
field assignment.’’
The highways of the Anchorage
district were cited as particularly
vital to defense recently when
Alaska’s commander in chief, Lt.
Gen. William E. Kepner, declared
that their contribution to the lo
gistics of Alaskan defense is tre
mendous.
Rivenes replaces William J.
Niemi, who leaves to become chief
of the operations division at ARC
Juneau headquarters. Rivenes has'
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U. N. Overrides
Russian Objections
for Veto-Free Plan
NEW YORK, (JP) — The U. N.
general assembly ratified tpday
Secretary of State Acheson’s plan
for a veto-free system of collec
tive security on a world basis.
Backers of the plan said it was
designed to discouarge any new
Korean-type aggressions.
It will precent a freezing of U.
N. peace preserving activities by
g veto in the Security Council.
The resolution calls for a peace
patrol to check on the world’s
trouble spots, the calling of emer
gency assembly sessions on 24
hours notice and the earmarking
and training of military units by
member nations for U. N. use.
By overwhelming majorities the'
assembly voted down a series of
Soviet amendments which would
have emasculated the resolution.
Canadian foreign minister Les
ter B. Pearson criitcized Andrei
Y. Vishinsky’s debating methods
in the United Nations and told the
Soviet foreign minister “this is
the General Assembly and not a
purge.”
The Canadian referred to Vi
shinsky’s attack yesterday on U.
S. delegate John Foster Dulles
during the assembly’s debate on
an American-beaked anti-aggres
sion program.
Polio Closes
Fairbanks Schools
FAIRBANKS (ff)—A third Fair
banks high school youth was hos
pitalized with polio last night.
City health officer Robert P. Gor
man immediately ordered all city
schools closed indefinitely to fore
stall further spread of the disease.
The latest diagnosis came only
four days after the death of 17
year-old David Osborne. He died
Sunday three days after being
stricken.
Neither the name nor the con
dition of the latest victim was an
nounced. 1
Surviving Assassin
To Face Murder
Charge; Guard Dies
(By Sterling F. Green)
WASHINGTON {JP)—A murder
charge stood yesterday against
the wounded survivor of the pair
of Puerto Rican revolutionaries
who fell in a blaze of gunfire Wed
nesday tryin gto assassinate Pres-1
ident Truman.
Spared by the heroism and
smoking guns of White House po
lice, the PJresident was grave but
calm. He planned to held his
weekly news conference yester
day, facing a barrage of questions
about his reaction.
One of the would-be assassins
was shot dead by police fire. The
other was dropped, wounded, on
the Blair House steps and is ex
pected to recover and face a mur
der charge.
The secret service reinforced its
guard around Mr. Truman, and
roped off part of the busy block
on Pennsylvania Avenue which
briefly had become a bullet-spat
tered battle zone.
Three police were brought dofwn
in the fusillade before the would
be assassins were stopped. One of
them, private Lesli Coffelt, 40,
died Wednesday night.
For this, police filed a murder
charge against Oscar Collazo, 37,
of New York, who blasted his
way to the very doorstep of Blair
House before he was dropped, his
chest riddled with bullets. Maxi
mum penalty for murder in the
District of Columbia is electrocu
tion.
The other gunman, GriselioTor
resola, was killed almost instant
ly. Shot through the head, he died
close under the second story win
dow where the President lay nap
ping in the temporary executive
mansion.
In the youthful Torresola’s poc
ket were two letters, signed with
the name of Pedro Albizu Cam
pos, head of the Puerto Rican na
tionalist party—violently anti- U.
S.—which attempted a revolution
in the island possession this week.
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Carnival At High
School Gym 8:00
Tomorrow Night
—
Tomorrow evening at eight
o’clock the doors will open at the
high school gym where the Car
nival sponsored by the Arctic
Club is being held. Committees
have been busy working on the
many phases erf the event and an
evening of fun is assured for all
age groups who will enjoy the
many games, sports, and conces
sions—or take a rest at the re
freshment stands. Prizes are nu
merous and varied which will be
won at the fifteen assorted booths.
One of the highlights of the
evening will be the awarding of
the door prizes for both adults
and children. The adult prize is a
4'5-RPM record player complete
with carrying case and records.
And the prize fa rthe children is
a coaster sled in the most deluxe
model available, which some
lucky person will be able to put
to good use since our recent snow
fall.
All efforts are being made by
the carnival committee to endea
vor to furnish some much needed
entertainment for all individuals
young and old turning out for the
affair, which is one of the first
public functions of the winter sea
son.
Free Gold To Fight
Inflation
(Juneau Empire)
“Gold mining men believe that
the best weapon against runaway
inflaiton is return to the gold
standard,” Phil Bradley Jr., told a
Juneau Chamber of Commerce
meeting.
“For years mining men have
tried to free gold and have it
placed on the markets of the world
where it would find its true level
and give this country a stable
currency,” he said. He stated that
Canada had recently removed
controls on currency and have
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Alas, Poor Yorick —
Father Basil holds one of the skulls in the pile where the
bones on St. Catherine monks are stored. This picture was
taken in 1947. Father Basil has since died and his skull has
become a part of the pile.
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Reds Trap 5,000
Allied Soldiers In
North Korea
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(By The Associated Press)
Thursday, November 2, 1950
American cavalrymen gave up
tonight a day-long fight to res
cue nearly 5,000 foot troopers sur
rounded by communist forces in
Northwest Korea.
The trapped men were ordered
to attempt a break-out on their
own. They faced terrific odds—
and grinning furiously fighting
Reds who turned captured Ameri
can guns on the surrounded U. S.
foot troopers.
Some Americans already had
escaped the trap. It was clamped
shut last night by overwhelming
communist forces including Chi
nese Red troops in strength.
The regiment—one-third of the
U. S. First Cavalry Division—was
cut off near a dry river bed four
miles southwest of Unsa. This is
the area where the Reds have
made their strongest fight of the
North Korean campaign.
Usan is 66 air miles north of
Pyongyang, former Red Korean
capital.
Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay, divi
sion commander, said the regi
ment had been “very badly hurt”
A spokesman told (/P) Corres
pondent Tom Lambert the rescue
team ran into a “stonewall” of re
sistance.
Americans who escaped the
trap said there were many Chinese
Reds in the enemy force.
A Chinese prisoner said the
force included 3,000 Chinese Red
soldiers.
Correspondent Lambert, with
the Division quoted an American
platoon sergeant as saying the
Chinese soldiers were “crazy.”
The sergenat added:
“They would stand right up in
front of you laughing to beat hell.
We killed them by the hundreds.
Still they kept coming.”
That was a grim flashback to
World War II banzai attacks by
drink-crazed Japanese.
Communist forces, includi n g
some Chinese but mostly North
Koreans, stepped up their attacks
in the Korea-Manchuria border
land in a maneuver to hold down
United Nations forces until win
ter sets in.
Hitting with big guns, rockets
and fresh troops, the fury of their
counter-offensive halted Alii e d
forces in the northwest, where
they had previously made their
most sensational gains.
Referring to this sector, a U. S.
First Army Corps spokesman said
the situation was “very serious.”
The Reds again were supported
from the air by Russian-built jet
planes. Two Soviet-built Yak
planes weer downed by Allied
fire.
The communists were making
an all-out effort to keep United
Nations troops away from hydro
electric power producing areas in.
North Korean territory. These
areas supply electricity on both
sides of the border.
The Reds also were trying to
slow down the Allied time table
which calls for controlling the
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