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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ’__
vol. Lin. No. 7 nome!‘ Alaska, Wednesday, January n,1951_ Per copy—i5c
NEWS IN BRIEF
(</P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (JP)— Legisla
tion to grant statehood to Alaska
was introduced in the House Mon
day by Delegate Bartlett of Alas
ka. It is substantially the same as
a bill introduced in the Senate last
week by Senator O'Mahoney (D.
* Wyo.) and 18 others Senators.
Bartlett's bill provides the con
stitution to be adopted by the peo
ple of the Territory shall be ap
proved by the President* The Sen
ate version provides for approval
by Congress.
Bartlett's bill provides for a pri
r mary and general election to
choose delegates to the Constitu
tional convention. Candid a t e s
would run without party designa
tion.
DENVER, (TP) — The Reclama
tion Bureau’s engineer here re
ported invitations for bids were
sent out Monday for constructing
a warehouse for the Eklutna pro
ject in Alaska. The Eklutna site is
about 16 miles south of Palmer,
toward Anchorage.
The warehouse is to be a 55 by
142-foot steel structure.
The Reclamation Bureau’s Den
ver office said invitations are due
about Jan. 25 for bids on construc
tion of a government camp at
Eklutna. It will involve 12 frame
houses, two 10-car garages, streets
and utilities.
„ Bids listed for expected calls
within the next two months in
clude construction of 24 miles of
electric transmission line between
the Eklutna hydro-plant and Pal
mer.
DAWSON, Md., (TP)--'The neigh
bor’s horse trampled all over the
property of Damon House, ate six J
bushels of his apples and frequent
ly chased people.
House shot the horse.
Yesterday a circuit court judge
found House innocent of a charge
1 of cruelty to an animal.
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LOS ANGELES, (TP)—-Construc
tion of the $5,000,000 underground
bomb shelter and garage in Persh- j
ing Square has been delayed by a
federal order halting non-essential
building. j
Ground breaking ceremon ies,
had been scheduled for today.
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FAIRBANKS, (/P»—Fog and 50!
I below.
That’s been Fairbanks weather
since Sunday.
No commercial airplane flights
have come in or out of town since'
A Pan Amerian mail plane ar
rived Sunday morning. The town
is befogged.
The weather bureau predicts no
change in the 50 below tempera
ture for at least a week.
JUNEAU >(/P)—The Alaska Road
Commission awarded the Standard
Oil Co., at California a $333,880
l contract yesterday to provide as
phalt and fuel oil to Anchorage
and Valdez this year.
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MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (/P>—
Patrick John Regan of El Monte
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Fire Destroys Car j
Repair Shop Of
Alaska Railroad
ANCHORAGE </P)—-Flames, be
lieved to have started in a black
smith shop Monday night destroy
ed the Alaska Railroad’s car re
pair shop here, with *a loss unof
ficially estimated at $5,000,000.
There were no casualties.
The blaze engulfed the 550 by 90
foot shop building shortly after
breaking out at 7:45 p.m. Fire
fighters from the railway depart
ment, Anchorage, Elmendorf Air
Force Base -and Fort Richardson,
joined in the battle. They managed
to save nearby equipment and
buildings of the government-own
ed railway.
Lost were a new diesel engine, a
new power car, three coaches, the
shop building, and adjoining coach
shed, machine tools, three coaches
and “at least” two steam engines.
The damage estimates was set
by J. P. Johnson, general manager
of the railroad.
He said that an investigation in
to the cause of the fire had been
opened, and that the possibility of
sabotage was not being overlooked.
The fire was the first of three
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Morse Urges Draft
Of 18-Year-Olds; 25
Year Mobilization
WASHINGTON, (JP) — pregon’s
Republican Senator Morse today
backed the Pentagon’s plan to
draft 18-year-olds and went an to
urge a 25-year mobilization pro
gram because “we face a period of
tension that long with Russia and
communism.”
Morse is a member of the Senate
armed services preparedness sub
committee. It is considering a pro
posal by secretary of defense Mar
shall for a permanent military
service and training program.
Marshall’s plan calls for lowering
the draft age from 19 to 18, and
stretching service from 21 to 27
months.
After a week of testimony by
Marshall and assistant secretary
of defense Anna M. Rosenberg,
the chairman of the sub-commi
tee, Senator Lyndon Johnson (D.
Tex.), remained sharply critical of
the proposal.
Morse declared that a quarter
century period of military alert
may require “a widespread revi
sion of our educational systems.” I
He spoke to a reporter prior to the
appearance before the suib-com
■ S w .
mittee of a group of educational
leaders who helped develop the
new military training proposal.
“The manpower program is go- I
ing to confront us for 25 years,”
Morse said. “It may be that long
before we can feel s^fe. We must
gear our economy, manpower and
military plans for a long pull.”
If many thousands of young
men must take t^sic military
training each year, he said, most
college courses should be short
ened from the present four years
to three.
Can’t Remove Bod
ies of Crash Victims
Till Weather Clears
CORDOVA, (iP)—The bodies of j
four persons who froze to death
after their Cordova Air Service
passenger plane crash-landed on
blizzard-swept Copper River flats
will remain at the crash scene un
til weather conditions improve.
1 A rescue party braved high
winds and sub-zero cold Sunday
to reach the scene of the crash, 32
miles northwest of here. Rescuers
i found the bodies of the four vie- j
tims huddled in the cabin of the
plane. They apparently had * es
caped injury when a snowstorm
forced the plane down Saturday
but froze to death while awaiting
rescue.
Rescue pilot Stewart Starbuck
got out word of the tragedy Mon
day after narrowly averting disas
ter himself.
Stafbuck made a daring landing
of a rescue party Sunday near the
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I Sourdough Dies In
Fairbanks Fire
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — An elderly
sourdough died and a companion
was critically burned in a log
cabin fire here this week-end.
Mike Hays, 72-year-old miner
and prospector, burned to death as
he vainely tried to open a sealed
rear door in the blazing cabin. His
body was found in the charred
ruins.
Harry Fouts, about 50, staggered
from the cabin entrance with his
clothing afire and collapsed in the
snow. Hospital attendants Monday
placed him on the critical list.
Fifty below zero weather ham
pered firemen in efforts to com
bat the blaze. Firehose .nozzles
froze solid.
Neighbors said the fire was
caused by the explosion of an oil j
container. 1
10 Die In NWA j
Plane Crash In
Washington
EDWALL, Wash., {&) — Jagged
pieces of airplane metal sticking
up through snow on an eastern
Washington wheat field were the
only visible evidence today that 10
persons died there.
Investigators began to probe the
snow and question witnesses to
day. They are looking for the rea
son behind the crash of a North
west Airlines plane shortly after
noon yesterday.
There were seven passengers
and a crew of three aboard. Cor
oner Fred Campbell stood out in a
raging blizzard for hours probing
through the snow and late last
night said four victims had been
identified from personal effects.
The plane, a twin-engined Mar
tin 202, was torn to shreds. The
largest pieces left were an engine,
a wheel and a few pieces of metal.
The plane was on a flight from
Chicago to Seattle, when it stop
ped at Spokane to pick up passen
gers. Thirteen minutes after it
took off the pilort messaged by ra
dio that he was “in trouble” and
losing altitude. Moments later the
plane smashed into the ground
near the L. E. Bundy farmhouse
north of here.
It struck with terrific violence
and exploded. Bundy and his wife
said it sounded like the plane was
in a power dive.
Northwest Airlines released this
list of passengers and crew: W. J.
Craft, San Francisco; Robert R.
Mann Tacoma; Mr. and Mrs. G. J.
Milligan, Fairfax, Va.; Charles
Wood, Seattle; and W. H. Good
lowe, University Club, San, Fran
cisco. %
The crew—'Pilot Lloyd Rickman,
38; co-pilot Edmund J. Gander, 28,
and stewardess Joan Tabor, 22, all
of Seattle.
Wilson Gillis, CAA inspector of
Spokane, said last night it was
“too early to make any surmise as
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YEAR
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday# January 16 • #1951
United Nations western front
offensive drives into important
walled city of Suwon, 17 miles
south of eoul, in the second day of
“reconnaissance in force.” It is the
fourth town taken by the infantry
tank combat team. Allied troops
defending vital mountain passes
| on contral front pull back in or
derly withdrawal, supported by
massive plane and artillery at
tacks. The communique says the
“United Nations lines has been
straightened and shortened.”
The Western Big Three are re
ported touching up their* latest
joint reply to Russia on the pro
: posed Big-Four conference. They
| are said to agree to Russian de
| mands that Germany be the num
, ber one problem to be discussed,
but <are determined also to talk
'about all other problems causing
East-West tension.
Wednesday# January 17# 1951
U. N. troops pulled back from
Suwon and three other towns
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south of Seoul after goring deep in
to enemy lines. Probing attacks in
the past two days caught an en
emy battalion by surprise in Su
won, killing half of them. With
drawal to defense positions nearby
keeps forces within striking dis
tance of 120,000 Chinese Reds
south of Seoul. Withering air and
tank assaults and bitter cold are
said to be taking a heavy toll of
the Reds. *
French Premier Rene Pleven is
to visit President Truman in
Washington Jan. 29 and 30 to talk
over a wide scope of cold and hot
war subjects mutually interesting
to both countries.
General Eisenhower arrives in
Lisbon, capital of Portugal, but
finds promise of only limited force
there to add to his proposed Ttlan
tic past army. Observers say Por
tugal won’t offer much unless
Spain is included.
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Sen. Byrd Will Try
To Cut Truman
Budget, Tax Plan
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WASHINGTON* — Senator
Byrd proposed yesterday that
Congress carve seven billion dol
lars out of President Truman’s
huge new budget and . raise taxes
by $9,500,000,000 instead of the
sixteen billion the President ^sug
gested. *
The Virginia Democrat, an out
spoken foe of what he calls ex
travagant administration spending
policies, sisud that plan would not
deny a dollar for defense and pro
duce a balanced budget well under
the $71,594,000,000 the President
asked.
Meanwhile, crying “Socialism,”
the potent coalition of Republicans
and Southern Democrats in Con
gress made ready to war on a
flock of “Fair Deal” measures the
President put into his “national
survival” budget, his estimates of
government spending and reven
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