_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LII. NO. 117 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4^1950 \ Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
ANCHORAGE, <sP) — Military
transportation is again available
to Alaska for dependents of air
force personnel. The Alaskan Air
Commandl announced yesterday.
Restrictions against such trans
portation were put into effect at
the start of the Korean crisis.
PORTLAND, (/P) — Two iron
lungs were dispatched from an
infantile paralysis founda tion
equipment pool here Monday to
McChord Air Base for transship
ment to Alaska.
KETCHIKAN, (/P>—A prisoner
who had been arrested only two
hours before died early Monday
in a fire that destroyed the city
jail at Klawak, on the west coast
of Prince of Wales Island.
Officers identified the victim as
George Nickerson.
The fire, of unknown origin
broke out about 2:30 a.m. It burn
er ed out the jail and badly damaged
part of the city hall before it was
brought under control.
FAIRBANKS, i/P)—Louis Kum
ferman, 42, was killed outright
Monday when he was buried by
the collapsing walls of a sewer
ditch in which he was working.
Fellow workmen dug away the
earth with their hands and uncov
ered Kumferman’s head within a
minute of the cave-in, but efforts
to revive him were futile.
There are no known survivors.
FAIRBANKS, i/P>—The twelfth
polio case in Fairbanks during the
current outbreak was reported
Monday. Health officials said the
38-year-old mother of two children
had contracted the disease. Her
name was not made public.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—All Alaska
4 nurses with experience in the care
of poliomyelitis cases were urged
yesterday to contact the Alaska
department of health.
The call for assistance was
given as Anchorage’s seventh po
lio case was reported at the air
force hospital. The latest case was
described by doctors as “mild,”
possibly the result of early dis
covery made possible by public
alertness to the ailment’s symp
toms.
Two iron lungs are en route
here from an infantile paralysis
foundation equpipment pool at
Portland, Ore., two others arrived
here Monday from Los Angeles.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Frederick Ed
ward Becker, 83, pioneer Seattle
resident and former Alaska min
ing man, who died here May 19,
left his share of a community es
tate valued at $153,544, to his
wife, Mary. An estate inventory
was filed with county clerk Nor
man R. Riddell yesterday.
ATLANTA, (/P) — A young
mother scrambled into a 34-foot
well and rescued her two-year-old
son.
Mrs. Rowena Rickman was
working in her home late yester
day when she heard the child
scream. She called to her two
older children to summon aid
from a nearby service station,
World Series !
Opening Like A
Big Carnival
PHILADELPHIA, (/P)—The un-:
veiling of baseball’s big show
gave this city of two million a,
carnival atmosphere today as
housewives and schoolgirls shared
the unbridled enthusiasm of their
male counterparts.
From the produce merchants
around early morning street fires
along the riverfront to women
shoppers in the suburbs the prin
cipal conversation piece was the
world series.
Philadelphians had waited 19
long years to toast a pennant win
ner. In the Phillies — National
league opponents of t h e New
York Yankees for the world
championship—they had that win
ner.
The downtown streets were fes
tooned with enough red, white
and blue bunting for a couple of
New Year’s eves. Raucous hawk
ers peddled pennants and other
souvenirs on every corner. Hard
ly a store window was without
some expression of the series fe
ver.
Hotel lobbies were a seething
mass of baseball fans—some for
tunate enough to have series tick
ets in their pockets, others wish
ing they had. And in the back
ground the ever-present scalpers
were asking as much as $150 for
a pair of box seat ducats.
Every available hotel room was
spoken for with a convention of
brewmasters adding to the log
jam. A murder trial had to be
postponed because no hotel rooms
were available for the jurors.
, Many out-of-town fans were
forced to commute between Phil
adelphia and other cities within
striking distance.
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Two New Polio
Cases Reported
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By the Associated Press
Two new cases of poliomyelitis
were reported in Alaska yester
day, one case at Anchorage and
Juneau.
Dr. James O’Malley, Anchorage
city physician, reported a 2-year
old boy was the latest to show
symptoms of the disease there.
Seven patients diagnosed earlier
were reported doing well.
At Juneau, a four-year-old boy
from Detroit, Mich., showed symp
toms. The younger was visiting
grandparents after the death of
| his seven-vear-old sister at De
! troit from polio. A doctor said he
expectted only a two-week hos
pitalization.
"
! then ran to the well.
“I climbed, stumbled, and fell
I down,” the mother said.
Johnny had managed to keep
his face out of the water by cling
ing to debris. Mrs. Rickman hoist
ed him to her shoulder and stood
waist deep in the water until the
service station workers lowered
a rope and pulled the child to
' safety.
Yankees Favored
In World Series
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NEW YORK, iJP) — Baseball’s
brain trust—the major league
managers — yesterday lined up;
about three to one behind the New;
York Yankees to win the world1
series.
But Philadelphia’s Ph i 11 i e s
found strong support in the Na
tional league’s 1950 “Bride’s
Maids”—Brooklyn Burt Shotton
and Leo Durocher of the New
York Giants. ,
Shotton and Durocher both pre
dicted the Phillies’ tight-squeak
finish would provide a psycholog
ical lift that would propel them
past the confidentt Yankees.
“In seven games,” said Burt.
Eight of the managers, heading
for the opening game in Philadel
phia or relaxing at home yester
day, said the New Yorkers had too
much sock and savvy for Bob Car
penter’s youngsters.
Three—The Phillies’ Eddie Saw
yer naturally joining Shotton and
Durocher — picked the National
league champs.
Jonnie Mack, American
Leaguer and a Philadelphian,
deftly evaded the question:
“I’m neutral,” he said.
The four other skippers were
in transit somewher and not avail
able for comment.
Lou Bourdreau of Cleveland
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and Zack Taylor of the St. Louis
Browns said flatly New York
would win in five games. Others
hedged a bit.
Here’s how some of the man
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LATE BULLETIN
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SHIBE PARK, (/P)—'Yankee Vic
Raschi won the opening world
series game 1-5 in a brillian pitch
ing duel with Jim Konstanty, Phil
lies sensational relief ace before
a crowd of 30,746. Bobby Browns
double, followed by two outfield!
flies, produced the game's only
run in the fourth inning.
Lack Of Longshore
Workers Halts
Ship Sailings
SEATTLE, (/P) — The Alaska
Steamship company’s gen e r a 1
manager said yesterday that long
shore gang shortages are creating
a worse shipping situation on Pu
get Sound than “anything during
World War II.”
D. E. Skinner, the line’s vice
president and manager, added:
“Sailing schedules are going to
pieces, operations are grinding to
a stop and costs are skyrocketing
due to the abnormal vessel deten
tion with no relief in sight.
“Conditions' have degenerated
to the point where it is now impos
sible to accurately set sailings, not
knowing flow many, if any. of the
gangs ordered will be received.
| Vessels loading army and navy
cargo get first call; what’s left is
pro-rated among the commercial
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| carriers.
Skinner said that during the
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; Rep. Chatham
Takes Ride In
Soviet Germany
BERLIN, (/P) — An American
' Congressman has pierced Russia’s
| iron curtain in Germany and re
turned undetected with an eye
j witness account of new Soviet
1 baby tanks and jet planes.
The adventure was reported by
Rep. Thurmond Chatham (D.-N.
C.), who came to Berlin with a
: group of Legislators touring U. S.
' defense points in Europe.
Chatham in an interview de
scribed a 50-mile jeep ride into
the Soviet zone, which bristles
with 250,000 Russian troops. He
visited a new airbase and an in
fantry tank compound.
A westerner on such forbidden
territory is vulnerable to arrest
and possible shooting as a spy.
The Congressman said he was
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MAN OF THE WEEK _
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
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Tuesday, October 3, 1950
(By Russel Brines)
TOKYO, UP)—The Far East Air
Force reported Allied warplanes
pounded heavy traffic columns
rolling southward today in Red
Korea from Communist China’s
Manchuria border.
The reports came as South Ko
reans pierced nearly 50 miles
northward into Red Korea on a
drive aimed to carry all the way
to the Manchuria frontier.
Then the South Korean pene
tration army commander confer
red urgently with two top U. S.
generals who flew to Koryo air
field, just south of the parallel 3B
border on Korea’s -east coast, to
! meet him.
Pilots making the strike along
the international highway to the
North Korean capital of Pyong
yang reported they destroyed 56
trucks and five other vehicles.
They claimed damage on 12
other trucks and a dozen other
vehicles.
The increased traffic on the
road from Antung, Manchuria, to
Pyongyang was first noted Mon
day evening, an airforce spokes
man said.
At midnight, B-26 night intrud
er planes failed to find any trace
of the vehicle columns.
Fighter-bombers were sent to
the area shortly after dawn Tues
day. The *first flight failed to sight
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Second Destroyer
Damaged By
Floating Mine
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A second
American destroyer has been
damaged by a mine explosion off
the coast of North Korea, the
navy announced late Monday.
It said the U.S.S. Mansfield
struck a mine last Saturday and
that seven men were injured. The
incident was located 40 or 50
miles north of the 37th parallel
and off the east coast of Korea.
The skipper of the Mansfield is
Cmdr. Edwin H. Headland, Jr.,
Tacoma, Wash.
Admiral Forrest P. Sherman,
chief of naval operations, told the
House armed services committee
Monday that “a great many” float
ing mines of Russian type have
been found in Korean waters.
The navy had said earlier that
the destroyer Brush was damaged
when it hit a mine in the area last
Wednesday. The toll in that ex
plosion, revised Monday, was 11
men dead, 10 injured and three
missing.
The navy said the Mansfield, af
ter emergency repairs, made port
at Sasebo, Japan, as the Brush
had done.
Meanwhile, a navy spokesman
said that “no evidence is in hand
that any submarine or submersible
was sunk or damaged by U. N.
forces.”
This was in reply tct Congress
men’s questions aboue reports that
a U. S. ship had sunk a submarine
in Korean waters.