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_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LII No. 139 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1950 Per Copy—15c
. NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU, (JP) — David Kydd,
stenographer, was sentenced in U.
S. commissioner’s court Wednes
day after conviction for filing
fraudulent claims for jobless in
surance.
He was fined $50 on each of
three counts, and sentenced to 30
days in jail on each count, the
jail sentence to run concurrently.
Asst. Dist. Atty. Stanley Baskin,1
Ifiio prosecuted the case, said he
understood similar cases could be
expected in other parts of the
Territory.
CHICAGO, (/P)—Mrs. Julia Ha
genauer, 63, a grandmother, made
her first venture into big game
hunting a big success. She bagged
a deer and a bear.
Mrs. Hagenauer, who has been
hunting for 20 years — for birds
and rabbits—shot the deer and
bojir last week in Munising, Mich.,
where she hunted “in the timber”
with a guide.
Mrs. Hagenauer, the mother of
four and grandmother of seven
children, works as a press girl in
a soap factory.
“When I get a little older, I’d
like to live outdoors,” she laugh
ed. “Me and my rifle.”
KANSAS CITY (JP) — John P.
Cusack, police radio dispatcher,
answered a telephone call at the
station last night and thought he
recognized th voice.
He did. It was his wife, Viola,
calling to report the theft of the
Cusack automobile.
HEIDELBERG, Germany, (JP)—
The United States today announc
ed reactivation in Europe of its
Seventh Army—the first Ameri
can “army” on the Continent since
demobilization after World War
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Two veteran major tactical
units of American forces in Ger
many—the First U. S. Infantry
division and the U. S. Constabu
lary—have been assigned to the
new unit, the U. S. commander-in
chief in Europe, Gen. Thomas T.
Handy, announced.
The Seventh Army will have its
headquarters in Stuttgart.
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WASHINGTON, (/?}—Announc
ed American casualties in the Ko
rean conflict rose today ter 29,9£&
an increase of 1,115 over a week
ago.
The new total covers casualties
about which next of kin had been
notified thrugh Friday, Nov. 7. It
does not include all casualties
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that had occurred up to that time
because of the time required to
check casualty reports in the Far
dfcst.
Of the total number of casual
ties, 4,993 were deaths. The num
ber of non-fatally wounded was
20,518. An additional 4,439 had
been reported missing in action.
By far the largest number of
total casualties, 25,677, was re
ported by the army. Navy casual
ties totaled 320, marine casualties
,|».756, and air force 243.
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MECCA, (/P)—-More than 62,500
people have arrived in this Holy
City of Islam for the Moslem tra
High Winds Hit ;
Anchorage; Do
MuchDamage
ANCHORAGE (/P)—Steady high
winds downed power lines, shat
tered showroom plate glass win
dows and plunged this city inter a
temporary blackout last night.
Shingles and roofing paper litter
ed the streets.
The violent blow, moving north
northeast along icy Knik Arm off
Cook Inlet, averaged 45 miles per
hour with recorded gusts as strong
as 70 and even 85 miles per hour.
The weather bureau forecast di
minishing winds for today.
Property damage from the day
long pounding was great and po
lice were called out to guard j
stores where broken windows |
brought a threat of looting. Fire-!
men dismantled signs which en-1
dangered pedestrians and parked
cars.
I At Merrill field, the city’s pri
; vate airport, planes were up-end
ed and tom from their fastenings.
Two unoccupied craft crashed on
| the runway only to be swept aside
i by a heavy gust a few minutes
i later.
The current failure left hotels,
radio stations and police depend
ent upon auxiliary power facili
ties. Taxis were left to shift for
themselves without any centrally
located radio call system.
One fire was reported sweeping
through forest land on the Palmer
Highway near the Knik River
bridge.
Telephonic communication with
Palmer, at the north end of the
Knik Arm, was destroyed by a
similar, but weaker, storm last
week. How hard the community
was hit by the latest blow • was
undetermined.
The storm also swept ove rthe
Kenai Peninsula to the south
where where gusts of 70 miles per r
hour were recorded, and with
lesser strength at Kodiak.
77 Killed In Long i
Island Train Wreck
NEW YORK, OP)—Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey said today that prelim
inary evidence indicates “a hu
man failure” was the cause of the
Thanksgiving Eve Long Island
Railroad wreck which took 77
lives.
Dewey, who cut short a Florida
vacation to lead one of the several
investigations of the wreck start
ed today, made his statement af
ter a meeting with the State Pub
lic Service Commission.
As the Governor spoke there
were demands for quick action by
national, state and city officials to
put on end to the carnage on the
Long Island. It was the second
major disaster in a year on the
railroad.
Dewey said commission find
ings showed the express which i
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ditional pilgrimage. They have
come from all over the Moslem
world, which extends from Mor
occo, on the shores of the Atlantic
to the Far East.
Sen. Hunt Will Try
To Cut High Cost of
Alaska Defenses
WASHINGTON, (yP) — Senator
(D.-Wyo.) said today he hopes to
find some method of “whittling
away some of the terrific cost of
defense efforts” in Alaska. j
Hunt, chairman of a three-man
investigating group, added that
housing for the increased military
forces in Alaska isi -‘woefully in
adequate” and that some new
system of overall coordination or
planning appears to be necessary.
With Senators Morse (R.-Ore.)
and Saltonstall (R.-Mass.), Hunt
made an inspection trip to Alaska
recently for the armed services
preparedness sub-comm i 11 e e.
Their formal report is expected
about the first of the year.
The sub-committee, headed by
Senator Lyndon Johnson (D.-Tex.}
is acting as a “watchdog” over the
entire multi-billion dollar defense
program. It already has sharply
criticized government rubber and
alcohol programs and the disposal
of World War II surpluses.
Hunt and his colleagues flew to
Alaska with committee experts to
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Thanksgiving 1902
(From "The Gold Digger")
The stage belonging to Lutzin
ger and Clark made the round
trip to Council from Nome in five
days, breaking all records.
One dozen quarts of Wine were
advertised at the Ames Mercan
tile Co., for $5.00.
The Koyuk country is booming.
The Sisters of the Holy Cross
Hospital stated that they would
care for sick Indians for a dollar
per day.
B. J. Bishop claims his feet were
frozen while confined in the city
jail.
Salary of the Chief of Police
was raised to $250.00.
John Elliot opened a roadhouse
at the mouth of Dexter.
Fur Flies In Alaska
With Trapper Joe in
Middle of War
ANCHORAGE, »(#>) — Joe Noo
gachik, Big Wassilie and Wassilie
Snowball are in for a tough time
on the traplines this winter.
With scores pf other Eskimo
trappers in western Alaska, they
have found themselves right in the
middle of a fight between fur
buyers.
The trouble stems from a price
war between traders and fur buy
ers living in the wilderness, and
big mail order firms “Outside”
which are paying more for furs
and buying them sight unseen. It’s
still too early to tell who is win
ning, but Wassilie Snowball and
his friends wil have to pay in
pelts no matter what the outcome.
Up until a few years ago things
were more or less serene. In the
summer the Eskimo trappers
fished for a living or worked in
the canneries for their groceries.
Come winter time they went to
the White trader at Bethel or Dil
lingham or Holy Cross and bought
some new traps. If they didn’t
have the dough the trader would
grubstake them, giving them sup
plies on credit and counting on a
good trapping season to bring in a
profit.
“Why, I’ve got $37,000 in credit
on my books,” laments a Dilling
ham trader. “With mail order
houses offering more money for
the furs than I can afford to pay,
I’m going broke.”
In the good old days (before
mail orders) the trappers throng
ed to little villages like Ugashik,
Akiak, and Bethel with their furs.
There they went from one trader
to another.
Wassilie Snowball would un
pack his bundle of beaver and ot
ter pelts and say, “How much?”
The trader would make a face,
look down his nose at the furs and
murmur, “two hundred dollars.”
“Umph!” Wassilie would reply,
and go to the next fur buyer
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SILENT ALLY _
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Friday, November 24, 1950
Gen. Douglas MacArth ur’s
United Nations forces launched a
general assault today aimed at
ending the Korean war before
Christmas.
Three Allied corps jumped off
in freezing weather along an 80
mile northwestern front. The first
thrusts carried up to eight miles.
This is one arm of a giant nut
cracker which MacArthur order
ed, to “finish this off as quickly
as possible.”
The other |rm is in the north
east where the Sputh Korean cap
ital Division smashed through
“light ineffectual resistance” to
within seven miles of Chongjin,
the big Korean city south of the
Soviet frontier.
MacArthur flew to the front to
see the offensive get off to a good
start. He said: “I hope to keep
my promise to the GI's to have
them home by Christmas.” He
added:
“Tell the boys when they reach
the Yalu they are going home.”
That was the stuff the troops were
waiting for. They plowed ahead
on all fronts.
In a special communique an
nouncing the western offensive,
Mac Arthur declared: “If success
ful, this should for all practical
purposes end the war, restore
peace and unity to Korea, enable
the prompt withdrawal of United
Nations military forces, and per
mit the complete assumption by
the Korean people and nation of
full sovereignty and international
equality.”
The U. S. Second and 25th Divi
sions and a Turkish brigade im
mediately moved up to take over
a 25-mile sector in the middle of
the northwest line.
The big northwest push began
45 to 60 miles south of the border.
The South Korean First Divi
sion plowed ahead on the Tae
chon front, reaching within seven
miles of that important commun
ist base.
The Allied offensive, accompan
ied by strong air support, met
only weak opposition although
MacArthur said new Red armies
had joined an estimated 100,000
Koreans in the fighting. The U. S.
Seventh Marine regiment ran
into a fresh division of Chinese
Reds—the 89th—on the north
central front. Previously the regi
ment had been lightly opposed in
its march to envelop the Changjin
reservoir.
The all-out push to end the war
came as activity stepped up on
the diplomatic front and follow
ing a strange battlefront lull dur
ing which Tokyo was astir with
peace rumors.
A nine-member Chinese com
munist delegation arrived in New
York to press Red China’s charge
of American aggression on For
mosa before the United Nations
Security Council. Privately, if not
in council session, the Chinese are
expected to discuss and clarify
their government’s stand on Ko
rea.
Rumors were rife in diplomatic
circles at Lake Success yesterday
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