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VOL. LII. No. 147 NOME?ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK, (/P) — The Com
munist China delegation at the
United Nations has been buying
books on atomic energy, the New
York Herald Tribune reported
yesterday.
The delegates bought $88 worth
erf book son atomic energy, Amer
ican armed forces and other mili
tary subjects and included a vol
ume on etiquette, the newspaper
said.
r The purchases were made at a
Manhattan book store, the account
said, adding that the booksellers
involved ‘did not deny the report.”
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SEATTLE, (>P)—Northwest Air
lines will swing back into full
scale air-lift activities this week
in their runs to and from the Ori
ent.
Seven additional DC-4 trans
ports have been assigned to NWA
for flying me nand supplies over
the great circle route to Japan and
Korea.
The line is now running one
flight a day to the Far East, but
have been authorized by the mili
tary to schedule as many flights as
possible with the equipment avail
able.
Northwest planes are still sched
uling flights from Tokyo tor Seoul.
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SEATTLE, (/P) — G. S. Duryea,
senior representative for the Alas
r ka Steamship company in Alaska,
will be transferred from Ketchi
kan to Anchorage after the first
of the year, D. E. Skinner, vice
president and general manager,
announced today.
“The move is being made to
place Duryea closer to the center
of military development of the
Territory,” Skinner said. “This
will help facilitate the movement
of essential traffic to that area.”
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SEATTLE (/P)—The waterfronts
of Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia
will be placed under wartime re
striciions early next year, the
commander of the 13th Coast
Guard district said Monday.
Rear Adm. R. T. McElligott said
certain areas, such as docks used
for military supply shipments, will
be restricted and be patrolled by
armed guards.
Entrance will be denied except
to persons with security cards or
seamen with validated maritime
papers, he said.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (/P)—A.
B. Chandler declared yesterday he
would stay on the job until the
end of his term as baseball com
missioner. His time is up May 1,
1952.
In a statement to the press,
Chandler declared “I have been
asked about my immediate and
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Health Center—MMM Hospital for
BCG tests. Everyone urged to be
there at the following time—
Thursday, Dec. 14, evenings 7:00
to 9:00 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 15, afternoon 2:00 to
5:00 p.m.; evening 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 16, morning 10:00
to 12 noon.
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Latest of Harry’s
Irate Messages
‘Stuns’ Rep. Hebert
WASHINGTON, (/^President
Truman’s assertion that election
campaigns in five States were “as
low as I’ve ever seen,” quickened
investigations under way today by
the Senate campaign committee.
C h airman Gillette (D.-Iowa)
told a reporter inquiries already
have been made in Utah and
North Carolina, two state mention
ed by the President in a Dec. 7
letter made public last night by
Rep. Hebert (D.-La.).
The Iowa Senator said that
Louisiana, Illinois, and Indiana—
the other states the President
cited—are being covered in a na
tion-wide survey by the commit
tee orf campaign costs and circula
tion of “defamatory” literature.
Hebert, a frequent critic of ad
ministration policies, had written
the President suggesting Mr. Tru
man set aside a Sunday 'before
Christmas and call on the people
to pray in their churches for guid
ance of the nation in “the Geth
semane of our existence.”
Mr. Truman replied by sending
Hebert a copy of his Thanksgiv
ing proclamation, saying he be
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Stop Marshall Plan
Aid To Britain
January First
WASHINGTON, (iP) — The
United States today cut off all
Marshall Plan aid to Great Bri
tain, effective January 1.
William C. Foster, the Marshall
Plan administrator said Britain’s
economic comeback in the past
year is the reason,
i Since the recovery program
started in April erf 1948, Britain
has been allotted a total of $2,694,
300,000. p
The program, named for Gen.
George C. Marshall who proposed
it while he was Secretary of State,
has had a dual purpose: to help
Europe recover from damages of
World War II and to strengthen
friendly nations against the threat
; of communism.
The move to stop all Marshall
Plan aid to the British comes five
weeks after conversations be
tween Marshall Plan officials and
the Briitsh government. Britain is
the first nation to step out of the
program.
In an announcement issued at
the same time that British chan
cellor of the exchequer Hugh
Gaitskell, was breaking the news
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Rescued After
15,000-Foot Fall
From Plane
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—An air force
radar observer was brought back
safely last night after plummeting
15,000 feet from an F-94 fighter
plane.
He was identified as 1st Lt. Ed
win T. Berry, attached to the
449th Fighter “Weather” squadron
at Ladd Air Force Base here.
Air Force officers said Berry
was suffering from shock and
cuts about the face. Thsi did not
know whether he jumped or was
blown from the plane.
Capt. Glenn Jackson, pilot of
the plane on which Berry served
as radar observer, said the lieu
tenant may have been blown from
the plane when a blast of wind
stripped it of the canopy and right
wing tip fuel tank during a 400
mile-an-hour flight.
Jackscm said during the plane’s
return flight to the Ladd base he
was unable to communicate with
Berry but thought his communi
cations might have been put out
of commission by the mishap. Not
until he landed here did he know
that Berry was missing.
A Tenth Rescue helicopter, a
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I Valuable Photo Collection To Be Exhibited In Nome
Herb Hilscher, of Fairbanks, who is scheduled to arrive in Nome tomorrow on a trip in connec
tion with Territorial Good Roads Association, is bringing with him an outstanding traveling exhibit
which is being presented to the University of Alaska this week.
The exhibit is a selection of 70 photos chosen from 500 photographic negatives of the Klondike
era which are being presented to the University by Ove Selid, president of the Selid Construction Co«
as a nucleus of an Historical Photographic Library for the* Territory. Mr. Selid discovered the collec
tion nearly two years ago and purchased it.
After the exhibit in Nome the exhibit, which has already been shown in Fairbanks, is planned to
be displayed in Seattle between Christmas and New Year's by the Pioneers, after which it will go to
Washington, D. C., under the sponsorship of Delegate Bartlett. After that it will be exhibited in other
Alaskan towns.
Where the exhibit is being held cannot be determined until the arrival of Mr. Hilscher and will
be announced later.
In the photo above, Mr. Nerland, Regent of the University of Alaska, is holding a picture of the
6Steamer Lavelle Young in winter quarters near Dawson in 1899. Right, is John Hall, President of
Igloo No. 4, Pioneer sof Alaska who is holding a photo of the Curling Champions of Dawson, 1902.
Left, Mr. Selid has the first refrigerator ship to arrived in Dawson in June, 1898. \
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday, December 12, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
United Nations forces all but
abandoned North Korean territory
today except for a defense perim
eter on the Hamhung coastal plain
in the east.
In the west, the bulk of the Al
lied Eighth Army had withdrawn
to the 38th parallel dividing North
and South Korea.
The Hamhung perimeter is not
a fighting front, (/P) correspondent
Tom Stone reported. A retreat by
land for the 10th Corps could
mean a suicidal run through en
emy-held territory to reach the
south. Stone’s dispatch indicated
that fighting in the northeast is
near an end and evacuation by sea
for the cut-off 10th Corps appear
ed to be the logical next move.
An armada of Allied Ships was
massed at the nearby port of
Hungnam in readiness for the
withdrawal by sea.
Three units of the 10th corps
were still not accounted for. The
U. S. Seventh Division’s 17th Reg
iment, the first to reach the Man
churian border, was somewhere
in the frozen wasteland and pre
sumably trying to gain the safety
of the Hamhung perimeter. Two
South Korean divisions that spear
headed northeastward toward the
Soviet border were likewise with
drawing to Hamhung.
Retreat of most of the Eighth
Army from its reformed line
south of Pyongyang to the 38th
parallel still was covered by se
curity which prevented locating
its precise position.
(#>) correspondent Don White
head reported that the U. N. forces
in West Korea now are safely
past the criitcal point in their re
treat southward and the Chinese
hordes had lost all chance of trap
ping the Eighth Army north of 38.
Whitehead, newly returned to
Tokyo from Eighth Army head
quarters said the army is in a po
sition to fight an orderly rear
guard action towards Seoul. 30
miles south of the boundary. Al
lied commanders believed the Chi
nese communists would not stop
at the boundary unless an agree
ment is worked out.
Whitehead wrote: “The U. N.
forces are not in a position to
build a firm defense line north of
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