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Nome, Alaska, Friday, August 4, 1950
HEALTH COMMANDMENTS
The following ten commandments, given by the pas
tor of a metropolitan church sometime ago, might prove
interesting and helpful to some of us here in the Second
Division. Read them over carefully, one or more might
apply to you:
“1. Honor your parents by having a thorough physi
cal examination every birthday; for an ounce of preven
tion is worth a ton of cure.
“2. Honor your friends by taking a daily bath; for
cleanliness is a part of godliness.
“3. Honor your family by having your life insured;
for life insurance guarantees the co-operation of the in
surer in the prolongation of the life of the insured. t
“4. Honor your physician by avoiding patent medi
cines; for the most of these nostrums are humbugs.
“5. Honor your digestion by being careful of your
diet; for many a man digs his grave with his teeth.
“6. Honor your stomach by having youh teeth careful
ly examined by a dentist at regular intervals; for bad
teeth are an abomination to the system.
“7. Honor your lungs by breathing fresh air; for ven
tilation is a means of grace.
“8. Honor your nerves by taking plenty of rest in
sleep; for they who work all day and play all night pro
mote the brevity of their lives by burning the candle at
both ends.
“9. Honor your county by obeying the laws; for it is
a mark of good citizenship to obey a law whether one
likes it or not.
“10. Honor your God by chastity in word, thought and
deed; for the race that wishes eternity must exalt ma
ternity.”
The modern world appreciates results but it is not
interested in excuses, good or bad.... Laziness explains
more failures than ignorance, but combined are terrible.
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ONLY IN THE MIND? ■
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C VOUTUEUL MODEL PLANE
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BUILDING AND PLYING THE
SPEEDY DISCS. AS A RESULT
FLYING SAUCERS WILL BE *
AN OUTSTANDING FEATURE
AT THE GREATEST MODEL
PLANE MEET IN THE U Sy
THE PLYMOUTH MOTOR
CORPORATION'S 41*
INTERNATIONAL MODEL
PLANE CONTEST AT
DETROIT, AUGUST 14-21.
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
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said the communists had “lost
most of their preponderance of
tank strength” as a result of
A m e Hcan reinforcements and
heavy losses suffered from air, ba
zooka and artillery attacks.
He said the enemy also was sur
prised by the American with
drawals, showing that his intelli
gence service was not as good as
formerly.
The 47 Vfe-ton Pershing tanks
are heavier than anything the en
emy has yet used in Korea and
carry 90 millimeter rifles. If used
in the marshy terrain west of Pu
san they might be at a disadvan
tage with the Soviet-made North
Korean 34-ton tanks in maneuver
ing, but they could out-gun them.
Allied air forces flew a near
record 400 sorties, most of them
concentrated in the Chinju area
west of Pusan. A column of com
munists was caught in a defile by
fighter planes and riddled with
rocKets and machine guns. Five
more tanks were hit.
British naval gunfire smashed
| at Docks,#warehouses and rail sid
I ings at the south coast port of j
Mokpo through which the com- i
munists have been trying to move j
men and supplies.
B-29’s unloaded 400 tons of
bombs in a third major strike at
North Korean chemical plants. |
This time they hit the Bogun j
chemical plant at Hungnam, 1181
miles north of the 38th parallel
and but three miles from the ex- j
plosive factory reported almost to
tally destroyed in strikes on Sun- j
day and Tuesday. j
The foreign ministers and their
deputies from 13 West European
nations met at Strasbourg,
France, to set the stage for the
second session of the European}
Consultative assembly, the unof-;
ficial European parliament. Their I
main task was to prepare an,
agenda, which may include dis- \
cussion of the Schuman plan to
pool coal and steel. I
U. S. state department officials
said they expect the executive
board of UNESCO (United Nations i
Educational, Scientific and Cul-;
tural Organization) to hold an j
emergency session to Paris soon1
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and go on record against com-,
munist aggression in Korea.
Friday, August 4, 1950
Heavy tank and infantry fight
ing exploded on the Pusan front
in southern Korea today.
A communiue issued by Gen.
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Douglas MacArthur early Satur
day in Tokyo said the battle erupt
er Friday morning and there was
on let up. The enemy was describ
ed as still unable to advance
against American defenders who
got in some telling counterblows.
Heavy troop movements- in
North £orea suggested that the
communists were drawing rein
forcements from battle-trained
Koreans in Manchuria, but 45 en
emy tanks reported advancing
into the battle area turned out to
be old wrecks.
The battle raged on an arc from
21 miles southeast of Chunji to
11 miles east and 15 miles north
east of Chunji. This would be
from 35 to 45 miles west of -Pusan,
last-ditch Allied base port.
At one point a North Korean
force of about 850 stabbed to
within 35 miles of Pusan and only
eight miles from Masan. The 27th
Regimental combat team, which
had just made a 22-mile recon
naissance in force into enemy ter
ritory, counted 600 North Korean
dead including the commanding
colonel* after the four-hour battle.
Big 155’s fired point blank into
the enemy, and enemy dead were
left scattered over ridges, rice
paddies and in a ruined village.
Even American bakers and me
chanics helped turn back the at
tack. The American team lost 16
killed and 44 wounded.
U. S. Marines flying carrier
borne planes got into their first
action. Marine combat troops, in
positions close to the 27th regi
mental combat team, got their
first sight of an enemy patrol, but
exchanged no shots.
A Hong Kong newspaper re
ported that Chinese communist
general Lin Piao, known as the
Manchurian hammer, was being
slated for an “important assign
ment” in the northeast, possibly
in Manchuria on the North Korean
border.
The U. S. 25th Infantry Division
moved 80 miles from the north and
met the brunt of the enemy attack
in the South.
The much-battered 24th Infan
try Division, veterans of the bat
tle of the Kum. River and Taejon,
was shifted to a quieter sector
along the Naktong River. It dis
persed some North Korean patrols
prgbing the new positions.
A new American unit, a com
pany platoon from an unnamed
regiment, got into action in the
southern battle. It lost and then
recaptured a hill.
Another bitter battle—of words
—was to be fought in the United
Nations security council where
Soviet deputy foreign minister Ja
kob Malik met a series of defeats
in three days in his efforts to side
track discussion of North Korean
aggression.
The council was to take up a
U. E. resolution condemning the
THE BELGIAN CRISIS
! (.British Information Services)
Several British papers concentrate on the Belgian cri
sis in the light of King Leopold’s offer to delegate his
powers to Prince Baudouin. The papers recognize that
it must have been hard for King Leopold to reach this
decision, but they all think that the King’s offer is a
move in the right direction. The “Times” declares:
“It was no doubt easier for King Leopold to yield to
the harsh logic of his situation when he reflected that
the monarchy itself was not an issue. A new and young
king, starting with a blank record and the natural loyal
ty of his people in his favor, has every chance to become,
as he should be, the friend of all sections, and the parti
! san of none. But these bitter years have made it abun
dantly clear that such a position above the conflict is
out of King Leopold’s reach, not for today or tomorrow,
but for life.”
“The safety of Belgium,” tile Times concludes, “re
quires a frank acknowledgment by all that King Leo
pold’s reign is over for good.” i
High And Low
Mourn Passing Of
Capt. A. E. Lathrop
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tially covering it was a blanket of
deep red roses. Forming a back
drop were floral offerings of
many kinds and sizes, from the
big company and from the little
! man, all of whom had known him .,
and had called him “Cap.”
As the service neared its close,
the congregation left their ' seats
and in a long line filed slowly
past the open casket.
There were white-haired wo
men, their eyes red from weeping
and their handkerchiefs were held
to their faces. There were young
men and young women, and mid
dle-aged men and women.
Austin Lathrop was known gen
erally as the wealthiest man in all
Alaska. He had many interests.
And there were men of wealth
who paid tribute to him yester
day. But there were more men
who were not wealthy.
Along with the banker from
Anchorage was a barber from
Gray’s Harbor. There was a doc
tor from Portland and a janitor
! from Fairbanks. There was a
steamship company execu t i v e
from Seattle and a master me- .1
1
chanic from Suntrana.
One young men said: “He did
as much for me as if he had been
my father.” An older man said:
j “There will never be another one
I like Cap.”
Still fresh in the mind of all
■ were the words they had heard
• spoken during the service:
“We may console ourselves
with the hope that his being
among us for such a long succes
sion of years will serve as an in
| spiration for those who attempt to
• follow.”
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aggression and asking all members
to help localize the conflict.
President Truman’s special as
| sistant on foreign affairs, W. Ave
rell Harriman, prepared to leave
I for Tokyo to discuss Far Eastern
political questions with Gen. Mac
Arthur.
Among these questions are
whether the Allied counter-offen
sive, when it is finally unlimber
ed, should stop at the 38th paral- **
lei or continue on until all Korea
i is united under a non-communist
regime.
The future status ot Formosa
and a Japanese peace treaty are
| other questions uppermost.
Six U. S. jet planes, the first as
' signed to help defend Formosa,
arrived at airfields on that Na
tionalist Chinese island.
Britain announced she is ready
j to launch a $9,520,000,000 three
year defense program with U. S.^
help. British defense spending
would be 43 per cent greater than
before the Korean outbreak.
Allied planes were on a sharp
lookout for troop trains from
North Korea. The Reds were try
ing to move some troop trains out
of Chongjin in North Korea un
der smoke screens.
Air sweeps knocked qut 12 en
emy locomotives and damaged
seven and damaged docks and rail
yards at the south coast ports of
Mokpo, Yosu and Sunchon, stag
ing points for communist supplies
and troops moving to the front.
Naval guns rocked three towns
north of Yongdok on the east
coast. +
B-29’s • flying from • Okinawa
claimed they had definitely
knocked out of production for
some time the North Korean
chemical and explosives center of
Hungnam.