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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LiJ No. 125 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1950_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF ;
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SEATTLE, (A>)—A member of,
the steward department on the
Seattle-Alaska freighter Palisana i
was ruled out by the Coast Guard j
Friday as a “poor security risk.” j
The marine cooks and stewards
union (Ind.) promised a replace
ment and other crewmen belong
ing to the union signed on the
ship. i
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WASHINGTON (/P)—The army
plans further calls on the selec
tive service system for physicians
dentists and veterinarians. It said
Saturday that the request already
made to selective service for 922
physicians, 500 dentists and 100
veterinarians by January 15 rep
resents only part of the army’s
total needs.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman said Saturday the late
Henry L. Stimson’s career in pub
lic service was “one of the great
est and most inspiring in our his
tory.”
Republica of Korea Army Head
quarters, (/P) — The war against
the Reds has cost the Republican
army 9,643 killed; 39,965 wound
ed; and 28,721 missing, this head
quarters reported Saturday.
These official figures represent
battle casualties only. Some 3,000
other deaths and injuries have oc
curred through accidents and ill
ness. !
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman passed up a week-end
cruise in the Presidential yacht
Williamsburg Saturday to work
on the speech he will deliver be
fore the United Nations in New
York Tuesday morning.
The White House said the Pres- J
ident would put in most of yes
terday on it, too. Press secretary
Charles G. Ross guessed the
speech would run about 20 min
utes.
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CHICAGO, iJP) — A small dog
jumped onto her mistress’ lap Sat
urday and knocked her out of a
third story window.
Mrs. Alice McElligott, 32, was,
taken to Woodlawn hospital for1
examination, said she was sitting j
on the sill of an open window
when her dog, Bridgett Ann, leap
ed affectionately onto her lap. j
She was thrown off balance and j
toppled out the window. Her fall j
was broken by tree branches. She!
landed on soft ground.
Doctors couldn’t find anything
serious—just some minor cuts and j
bruises.
SEATTLE (/P)—More than 1700
Seattle longshoremen will pay
in $2.50 a month for the first six j
months of 1951 far a “just in
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case” strike fund, officials an
nounced Saturday. If the $25,000
isn’t needed by June its will be
refunded.
The assessment was voted Fri
day by members of the Interna
tional Longshoremen’s and Ware
housemen's Union ('Local 19>.
They also approved a $5,000 de
fense fund drive for President
Harry Bridges in his fight against |
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Red Koreans
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Prisoners of War
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(By Don Whitehead)
SUNCHON, North Korea, (/P)—
Survivors of the Sunchon tunnel
massacre were saved because a'
brigadier general dared to push
into communist territory to check j
a report that American prisoners ;
of war had been killed by North
Korean, Reds.
At least 69 American prisoners
were slain by their Red guards
Friday night near the Sunchon
railway tunnel, 10 miles north of
heer. They had been led from a
train into nearby fields under the
pretext that they were being
taken to supper.
The guards machlnegun n e d
them. Sixty-six prisoners died on
the spot. Two others died during
the night of their wounds. At least
21, many of them wounded, lived
through the hour-long massacre.
Had Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen
of Cleevland, Ohio, not been so
persistent many of the wounded
undoubtedly would not have sur
vived the bitterly cold night.
This is the way the atrocity
was discovered:
As assistant divisional com
mander of the U. S. First Cavalry
Division, Allen decided Saturday
to drive by jeep from Pyongyang
to Sunchon to check on the prog
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Greater Alaska
Is Envisioned By
Noted Scientist
(Juneau Empire)
Despite “colossal problems” of
health, education and industry, a
“Greater Alaska” to surpass any
other region cm earth is envision
ed by a distinguished scientist of
wide Arctic experiences.
Now on his tenth visit to the
Territory, Dr. Victor E. Levine j
says he is more “sold” every trip.
His research is in the field of com- !
parative blood studies of Indian i
and Eskimo peoples.
Dr. Levine’s work this summer
j
has been in Southeast Alaska.
His Alaska medical and bio’log- j
ical studies of the Eskimoes were j
made in the lower Yukon region j
from St. Michael and Nome, in'
1934. on St. Lawrence and Little
Diomede Islands and along main
land coasts of the Bering Sea in i
1935.
“Above all,” Dr. Levine be- j
lieves, “Alaska is not fully awake i
to the possibilities of a much more !
extensive tourist trade. Surpris- j
ingly, Alaskans themselves do not
realize to the fullest that Alaska >
is the beauty spot of the world.;
It is not ‘Uncle Sam’s Attic,’ it is
Uncle Sam’s parlor—the land God
well remembered.
“Alaska is ten time more pic-!
turesque and more beautiful than
the Alps. It is a country with a
rugged and unique splendor, with
its ranges of mountains, its for
ests, islands, glaciers and water
ways, and its skies brightened by1
the shimmering, glim m e r i n g
Northern Lights.”
Senators Gratified
With Defenses
In Alaska
JUNEAU, (/P) — Three United
States Senators here expressed
gratification with Alaskan mili
tary defenses and pledged further
efforts to keep the northern fron
tier strong.
The Senators, members of the
Senate armed services sub-com
mittee, conducted a hearing here
Friday on proposals to enlarge the
Juneau airport. They flew from
Juneau to Portland, Ore.
Sen. Lester Hunt (D.-Wyo.)
said “We will carry home a report
to Congress which will emphasize
the need for adequate defenses in
Alaska for closer understanding
on the civilian front.”
Republican Leverett Saltonstall
of Massachusetts remarked that
“As a New Englander, I know
what security to Alaska means to
the Atlantic coast.”
Oregon’s Wayne Morse, a Re
publican expressed “Great confi
dence in American military es
tablishments in Alaska” especial
ly after noting their proximity to
Russian territory.
“Our armed forces working un
der great handicaps, are doing a
magnificent job that every Amer
ican should offer a prayer of
thinks for,” the Oregon Senator
said.
However, the American people
should also recognize the great
contribution of the Alaskan peo
ple to America’s security and de
fense. They should appreciate the
inherent right* of Alaskans to vot
ing representation in Congress.
Statehood for Alaska is vital to
American defense, it is necessary
to demonstrate to the people of
the world that we practice our
principle sof self-government.
Facts About YOUR
National Guard
It was on August 16, 1824, that
the name “National Guard” first
was applied to a State' militia. On
that date, New York units took
the title “National Guard” in
compliment to Lafayeete, who was
visiting the United States. Lafay
ette had commanded the National
Guard in Paris in 1789; by 1896
only three States retained the
word “militia” in their official
designa t i o n s , and “National
Guard” was practically universal.
However, the change in name did
not change the essential character
of the Guard as a Stateorganiza
ticrn.
Elihu Root instituted a general
program to reorganize the mili
tary establishment after the Span
ish American war, and part of
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There has been no further
change in General Election results
since the last publication of the
Nome Nugget. Absentee ballots
will be counted tomorrow, and
the unofficial total of votes cast
up to that time, will be published
in the Wednesday edition of the
Nome Nugget.
| Rush Military
Construction
At Anchorage i
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i ANCHORAGE, (A*) — Construe-;
! tion crews are rushing relief for i
I Alaska’s major military headache
! —housing for the reinforced!
armed forces. Long-awaited mul
ti-million dollar projects are well
under way. About 20 percent com
pleted, the housing facilities al
ready have allowed the military j
to double the strength of ground i
forces at Fort Richardson here in i
the past six months.
Because of the expanded activ- i
ities, Fort Richardson was offi
cially divorced from Elmendorf
Air Force Base in ceremonies at
the base last week.
The base includes family quar
ters to house army dependents in
the Anchorage vicinity. It also
will 14 barracks for 200 men
each and five 500-man barracks.
Military authorities say the en
larged base has three main objec- |
tives: A contral command for all
ground defense forces in the vi
cinity; defense eff Elmendorf Air
Force Base and Fort Richardson;
operation of a vast Alaska general
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Five Killed In
Clash In Saxony
BERLIN, (/P) — The United
States high commission newspa
per, Neue Zeitung, said Saturday
five persons were killed in a clash
between uranium miners and
Soviet zone police at Johanne
Georgenstadt, Saxony.
The report, unconfirmed by
other information sources, said
the incident occurred several days
ago when the miners, returning
home from work in a Russian-op
erated uranium concession, over
loaded a train.
The miners refused to obey a
station-master’s request to get off
the roof of the railway cars and
poMce opened fire, the paper said.
After several miners had been
wounded, the miners seized the t
stationmaster and four policemen
and beat them to death, Neue
| Zeitung said.
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Reds Call Doug and
Harry Imperialists
MOSCOW, {JP) — The Literary
Gazette said Saturday President
Truman’s recent meeting with
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Gen. MacArthur on Wake Island j
showed that “imperialists intend j
to broaden their aggression in |
Asia.” J
The Russian periodical describ-!
ed the President as being under |
the thumb of the military and as j
showing that “for the sake of1
speeding up preparations for war •
he is prepared at any time to
travel a thousand milometers.”
“Truman meekly reported and j
! his majesty MacArthur confirm- '
| ed,” the magazine said. “Never be
fore has the control of the mili
tary the entire White House been
so clearly demonstrated as during
i the meeting on Wake.”
Kore&n Situation
At A Glance —
Saturday, October 21, 1950
Parachute troops, dropped Fri
day in the Sunchon-Sukchon
area, linked forces today with
United States First Cavalrymen
over the 30-mile stretch between
Pyongyang, North Korean capital,
and Sunchon.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
said the fast-moving paratroopers
had sealed off 28,000 communist
Koreans after cascading behind
the enemy lines. The trapped Reds
were nearly half of the estimated
organized communist fighting
force left north of the 38th par
allel. . ft
All arteries of escape were
blocked for the North Korean
Reds in the Sunchon-Sukchon
area, where the 4,200 U. S. air
borne troops dropped out of the
sky.
The surprise maneuver left an
estimated 63,000 com m u n i s t
troops in North Korea unable to
mass for any effective stand
against on-rushing United Nations
forces.
A MacArthur spokesman said
there was no sign of any organ
ized defense line north of the
present battle zone nor of any
temporary capital for the all but
defeated Red regime.
Resistance in Pyongyang was
petering out as American tanks
crossed the Taedong and entered
the fallen city.
Gen. MacArthur said he was
confident that the end of the
fighting and a victory for the U.
N. forces are near at hand.
Five South Korean divisions
were preparing to rush to the
Manchurian border to cut off es
cape routes for the shattered re
maining Red forces, who were
surrendering in droves.
The airdrop, which sealed the
fate of the Korean Reds was the
first in the Korean conflict and
one of the largest in the history of
paratrooping.
All reports, except from the
Chinnampo area, west of Pyong
yang, indicated there was very
little fight left in the Reds, though
a few scattered bands of guerril
las were harassing the U. N.
troops in isolated hill positions.
There was no indication Gen.
Mac Arthur planned to send for
eign U. N. troops to the Manchur
ian border wher an incident might
involve Russian or Chinese com
munist troops.'
South Korean soldiers moving
northward along the east coast,
were 95 miles south erf the Man
churian border and still going.
Communist atrocities spurred
U. N. forces in their efforts to res
cue thousands of U. N. prisoners
seized during the four months of
war. They were seeking particu
larly the remnants of a band of
283 Americans who were forreed
into a death march from Seoul to
Pyongyang.
The air force continued its 24
hour schedule but there were few
targets north of the 38th parallel.
Gen. MarArthur, in a report to
the army department in Washing
ton, put the cost of the Korean
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