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Communist Capital
Target of Mightiest
Raid of Korea War
SEOUL, i/F) — Warplanes from
four Allied nations Friday hit
Pyongyang, capital and largest
city of Communist North Korea,
the mightiest blow of the war.
Three waves of land and car
rier - based fighter bombers
bombed and strafed the big Red
nerve center in a record 1,403
sorties, or individual flights, the
U.S. Fifth Air Force and Navy
said.
Black smoke poured from the
factories, supply dumps and troop
billets at the outskirts of Pyong
yang, which was forewarned of
the raids by radio and leaflets.
A returning U.N. pilot said the
city was ‘‘blowing up all over.”
South African, South Korean
and Australian planes joined U.S.
Air Force, Marine and Navy pilots
in this fifth attack on the Red
capital since Aug. 1.
Some 420 planes poured 4,000
gallons of flaming gasoline and
597 tons of high explosives on
more than 40 Communist targets
during the dawn-to-dusk raids.
They sprayed 52,000 rounds of
machinegun bullets on the area,
the Air Force said.
In the morning, 420 fighter
bombers strafed and hurled 100
tons of bombs at vital military
targets at the outskirts of the city
that had a population of 342,000
in 1942. In the afternoon 345
planes want back to hit the Reds
again.
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Pravda Editorial Attacks
General Eisenhower As
Propagandist, Warmonger
MOSCOW, (JP) — Pravda gave
its top editorial position today to
a blistering attack on Gen. Eisen
hower’s speech this week before
the American Legion convention
in New York.
The organ of the Soviet Com
munist party, in the first Russian
comment on Eisenhower’s speech,
termed the Republican party
nominee the “most energetic pro
pagandist of the hate, contempt
and enmity of the American ag
gressors and warmongers.”
The editorial was one more in
a series of increasingly bitter So
viet press attacks on the general.
Democratic party nominee Adlai
Stevenson has been attacked sim
ilarly in the past.
Pravda told its Russian readers
that Eisenhower announced his
intention of “including in the Am
erican empire” . . . the Soviet
satellites of Europe and Asia.
“Fascists of Hitlerite persuasion
ought to open their mouths in
amazement,” Pravda asserted.
“Their appetites were enormous
enough, but even they did not de
cide to include among their ‘flesh
and blood’ the Mongolian, Chi
nese and Korean peoples.”
(Eisenhower, in his speech on
Monday, enumerated the Soviet
satellites in Europe and their pop
ulations, and added that “the con
science of America can never
know ease until those people of
our own blood and our own way
are restored to the society of free
* men.”) /
Chamber of Commerce
Officials From Seattle
Pledge Cooperation
George Thoma's, Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce representative
at Washington, D.C., accompanied
by Frank Beaver of the Alaska
Committee of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, paid Nome a
brief visit while on the Wien tour
Wednesday. They were guests of
the Nome Chamber of Commerce
at an impromptu meeting held at
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G.
R. Jackson.
Attending the meeting were
board members H. F. Harper, A.
Polet, Dewey Goodrich and vice
president Boyd Harwood, who
presided.
Outstanding problems * of the
Second Division were surveyed
briefly, including the lack of com
mercial transportation due to the
government-operated North Star,
the growing tourist industry and
its relationship to Seattle, as well
as other factors involved in the
economy of this part of the coun
try.
Both guests pledged the cooper
ation of Seattle to the local prob
lems both in Seatle and in Wash
ington, D.C., and showed during
their discussion that they were
well oriented in problems con
fronting and confining develop
ments here. Both men had attend
ed the All-Alaska Resources meet
ing at McKinley Park last week.
Stevenson Urges Ike
Forego “Middle of Gutter”
Road In His Campaign
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gov. Adlai
Stevenson conferred Friday with
elder statesman Bernard Baruch
who is currently out of favor with
the Truman administration.
Emerging from Baruoh’s home
after a breakfast conference last
ing one hour and ten minutes, the
Democratic presidential candidate
told newsmen:
“There was no discussion of
politics at all. We talked mainly
about inflation and some other
economic problems. It was a good
breakfast and a very interesting
talk.”
Asked whether he and Baruch
agreed on the matters discussed,
Stevenson smiled and replied:
“We didn’t argue.”
Baruch, a financier who be
came a weighty unofficial advisor
to the late President Roosevelt,
has not yet stated whether he
favors Stevenson or his Repub
lican opponent, Gen. Eisenhower.
Stevenson taunted Eisenhower
Thursday night to choose some
thing besides the “middle of the
gutter” road in deciding whether
to support Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy for re-election.
The Democratic candidate also
urged Eisenhower to shake off
what he called his “middle of
•the gutter” counselors.
Stevenson said he did not “envy
the general having to listen to
all the conflicting advice about
how to treat the slanderers of
his dear friend and senior officer,
Gen. George C. Marshall.”
McCarthy has accused Marshall
of a “conspiracy of infamy”
against the security of his own
country.
Bradley & Twining
Say Alaska Defense
Is In Good Shape
WASHINGTON, UP)—'Two top
ranking military leaders, back
Wednesday from a first - hand
checkup in Alaska, said the de
fenses of the territory are “in
pretty good shape.”
Both Gen. Omar Bradley, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and Gen. Nathan Twining, Air
Force Vice Chief of Staff, ex
pressed satisfaction with the air
and ground defenses of the Amer
ican possession close to Russian
territory.
Bradley nodded cautious assent
when reporters asked him if he
thought the defense system could
stand up against Russian attack.
Both said that substantial im
provement had been made in the
intensive build-up during the last
three years. Bradley mentioned
“very fine anti-aircraft • refenses”
and a “lot of infantry troops” in
the territory.
Twining said that modern fight
ers and bombers are being “rota
ted” through Alaska as they be
came available to air units. (The
Air Force uses a system of rota
ting bomber and some fighter
units in areas such as Alaska and
Europe for training and familiar
ization purposes as well as to keep
up air strength in the forward
areas.) •
Twining said the radar warning
system now extends all the way
across the North American conti
nental rim, although all units are
not yet 100 percent operational.
However, all stations will be
functioning fully in another few
months, Twining said.
The two officers left hereabout
ten day ago for headquarters of
the Strategic Air Command (SAC)
at Omaha. There, Gen. Curtis
LeMay, SAC chief, described the
strategic plans and operations of
! his force before Bradley and
Twining left for Alaska to visit
air bases there.
Seventh Man To Swim
Rough Catalina Channel
SAN PEDRO, Calif., (IP)—Ray
Carmassi, the seventh man to
swim the rough Catalina channel,
hopes to tackle the English Chan
nel next.
The 23-year-old San Francisco
former Marine grinned as he
waded ashore Thursday at White’s
Point, 18 hours and 20 minutes
after he left Santa Catalina Is
land, more than 21 miles away.
Carmassi, who taught combat
survival swimming in the Mar
ines, didn’t complain about his
ordeal in the water.
“About noon the waves flipped
me over and pulled a left arm
muscle and I had very little use
of that arm after that,” Carmassi
said afterward.
Coast Guardsmen shot three
sharks when they approached the
swimmer. Later a large school of
porpoises came snooping close by.
The accompanying craft drove
most of them away but one brush
ed his face. Carmassi’s last hurdle
before reaching shore was a heavy
kelp bed which hampered him for
the last 200 yards.
U.N. Asked To Decide
Ownership of 20 Cows
In Belgian Ruanda-Urundi
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JP)
—A 90-year-old tribal farmer in
central Africa piled 20 or more
cows today onto the U.N agenda,
which is already burdened by
complaints of donkey cart owners
in Somaliland, fighting high taxes
and licenses fees.
In letters signed by thumb
print, the complaints have made
their laborious , way here from
Bigiraneza, a former chief of the
Mwami Mwambutsa tribe, in
Usumbura, Belgian Ruanda-Ur
undi. The cows are only part of
his trouble.
In one letter Bigiraneza says he
left the cattle in the care of a
fellow tribesman named Vyam
bambi, who later died. Bigiraneza
says he went around to the pre
sent chief and his aide to ask for
return of the cows.
“They told me that as Vyam
bambi had died, the 20 cows be
came the permanent property of
his widow,” the complaint went
on. “Accordingly I am asking you
to intervene on my behalf.”
Bigiraneza had that letter fash
ioned by one of the horde of pro
fessional letter writers who han
dle such chores for illiterate na
tives in U.N. trusteeship terri
tories. #
New Legion Commander
Urges Universal Military
Training Legislation
NEW YORK, (JP) — -Lewis
Ketcham Gough, newly elected
national commander of the Am
erican Legion, urges national se
curity military training legislation
to keep the nation in a state of
preparedness.
The 44 - year - old Gough, a
World War II veteran now living
in Pasadena, Calif., was elected
yesterday as head of the Legion
in the closing session of its 34th
annual convention.
In his acceptance address,
Gough urged “intelligence, firm
nessness and courage” in combat
ting Communism, and pleaded for
a decisive military program for
the nation’s youth.
“For 34 years the Legion has
had the answer,” he said, “a na
tional security training that is
universal, economical, effective
and safeguarded by civilian con
trol.” ✓
MAN IN PIPER CUB MISSING
FROM HOMER SINCE FRIDAY
VANCOUVER, B.C., (/P) — A
Search was started Friday for a
Homer, Alaska, man missing on
a flight along the northern British
Columbia coast in a single-engine
plane.
The flier listed only his last
name, Gaetano, on his flight plan.
The plane, a Piper Cub, was un
reported since Gaetano left Port
Hardy Thursday for Annette Is
land, Alaska.
NO PAPER LABOR DAY
The Labor Day holiday will be
observed by The Nugget. There
will be no paper on Monday.
Shoppers are advised to do
their purchasing for Monday to
morrow as stores will be closed
Labor Day.
Nome City Council
Votes for Purchase
Of Defense Needs
The Nome City Council, on ad
vice of Civilian Defense Chairman
H. F. Harper, voted to purchase
much-needed civilian defense
equipment which has been offered
to the city at a considerable sav
ing.
A jeep-type pumper to be used
as auxiliary to the Fire Depart
ment costs $5,500 when new, but
will be purchased for the city
through Civilian Defense head
quarters for $825. Volunteer fire
men will be trained to use a
walkie-talkie system valued at
$2,400. Two sirens, which have
been needed by the city for some
time, with a sound radius of 1,000
feet have been made available to
the city and will be controlled
from the fire station.
The Council recommended a
two-week vacation for both the
Fire Chief and the Police Chief
with both officers alternating and
taking over for the other during
the vacation.
The committee investigating the
purchase of a 40x60 building at
Pt. Spencer which was made
available to the city by the terri
torial aviation department repor
ted that due to the concrete foun
dation it would not be practical
to move the building for any civic
purpose as planned.
Fred Bourdon was granted a
chauffer’s license by the Council.
House Charges
Justice Dept.
“Dilatory” Action
WASHINGTON, (VP) — House
investigators today charged that
the Justice Department has been
’“most dilatory” in some prosecu
tions and cited a Detroit war
fraud case as “a typical example.”
Counsel Robert A. Collier laid
before a Judiciary subcommittee
a number of documents dealing
with the Norman E. Miller and
Associates, Inc., case which came
up in 1944 and was closed in
1951 without prosecution or re
covery of government funds.
Collier said Miller was indicted
July 14, 1944 on six counts al
leging fr a u d in that he had
“knowingly and fraudulently
charged indirect time as direct
time for his employes in perform
ing under certain government
contracts.” ^
In addition to the indictment,
Collier said a civil suit was filed
by the government seeking recov
ery of $36,000.
“Despite the fact that in its
early phases the case was de
scribed by the Justice attorneys
as ‘one of the best* that the De
partment had,” Collier said, “ac
tion was delayed through various
devices for over six years at
which time both suits were drop
ped.”
Collier told the committee that
its staff, after a review of nu
merous cases in Justice Depart
ment files, decided “it is to the *
best interests” that it demonstrate
publicly how dilatory the depart
ment has been.