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VOL. LII. No. 99 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUS# 21,1950 : Per Copy-^15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
f JUNEAU, (/P)—Two king sal
mon tagged by the Alaska fisher
ies department finned to a new
world record when they swam
1,100 miles in 37 days from Cape
Spencer near here to St. Helens,
Ore. Department records showed
the salmon were taken in a gillnet
Aug. 3 by E. L. Browning. The
salmon grew three inches during
the long swim.
The salmon were tagged by
Robert R. Parker who also num
bered the previous titleholder
which swam 1,000 miles from
northwest Washington and up the
Sacramento River.
WASHINGTON, (iP)—The gov
ernment has moved to curb bank
credit in a new stop-inflation
maneuver.
The step was taken by the Fed
eral Reserve Board Friday night
when it approved a boost from
1 Vi to 1% per cent in the discount
rate of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York. Such rate changes
usually spread to the rest of the
Federal Reserve system.
The idea is this: When federal
reserve member banks make a
loan on a note, they can get the
money tied up in the loan from a
Federal Reserve bank, less a sum
known as the discount rate. In
creasing the discount rate thus
tends to restrict bank loans.
JUNEAU, (>P) — Col. John R.
Noyes, Alaska Road Commission
er, said Saturday if good weather
continues paving of the Haines
Cutoff to the Alaska Highway
would be finished by fall.
He said 25 miles of the roadway
is paved to the Chilkat River at
Mile 25, 15 miles from the Cana
dian border.
WASHINGTON The White
House Saturday called a joint
meeting of union and manage
ment representatives in another
effort to head off the threatened
nationwide rail strike.
This will be the first joint meet
ing in several days on the de
mands of trainmen and conduc
i
tors for a 40-hour week with no
reduction in pay now received for
48 hours. Conferences ended in a
deadlock last week but Steelman
has talked to each side separately
since then.
NEW YORK, <ff) — The two
month strike of the CIO American
Newspaper Guild against the New
York World-Telegram and Sun
was tentatively settled Saturday.
An agreement covering “all is-(
sues” was hammered out in a 15
hour, all-night bargaining session
with the help of federal mediators.!
Guild delegates said they would
recommend the settlement to the
400 strikers, but said the terms
will not be released until the
membership votes on acceptance1
Tuesday night.
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NEW YORK, {JP) — Calumet &|
Hecla Consolidated Copper Com
pany announced today a two-cent
a-pound hike in the price of its;
copper to 24% cents delivered to
consumers.
Larger producers continued to
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Plumbers’ Wage
Hike Will Raise
Building Costs
SEATTLE (£>)—An Alaska con
tractor’s spokesman has predicted
a jump in Territorial building
costs as a result of Friday’s wage
settlement for striking Anchorage
plumbers.
Federal conciliators announced
the agreement without disclosing
terms. However, sources here and
in Alaska indicated the plumbers
won a 50-cent hourly wage in
crease as a result of their three
week walkout. The raise would
bring their hourly scale to $3.50.
The strike, which temporarily
tied millions of dollars worth of
Alaska defense work, brought a
call for early settlement by Secre
tary of Defense Johnson and other
government officials. The settle
ment meeting here was called by
Cyrus S. Ching, head of the U. S.
mediation and conciliation serv
ice.
Commenting upon unofficial re
ports of the wage hike, Larry
Moore, Alaska manager for the
Associated General Contractors,
said: “This raise for plumbers is
bound to be felt in all walks of
I life in Alaska.”
He predicted that there would
be an insistent demand from all
labor to apply for the same thing
the plumbers got.”
If that happens it will make pri
vate building impossible in Alas
ka in the future, and will greatly
increase government buil ding
costs as well.”
Involved in the strike, .which
started July 26, were about 225
plumbers, members of local 367,
Plumbers and Steamfitters Union
(AFL).
Fairbanks plumbers won a 50
cent hourly wage increase last
month, bringing their scale to
$3.50.
The Anchorage plumbers were
reported unofficially to have won
time and a half for overtime and
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Judge Pratt Signs i
Amended Decree
On Property Tax
Judge Harry E. Pratt recently
signed an amended judgment and
decree in favor of Luther C. Hess
versus M. P. Mullaney, commis
sioner of taxation, Territory of
Alaska, City of Fairbanks, Fair
banks School District, William
Liese, tax assessor, L. F. Joy,
Frank Conway, A. F. Coble, and
Frank P. DeWree, directors of the
Fairbanks School District.
Intervenor in the suit was the
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining com
pany.
The case, involving payment of
Territorial tax, was tried before
the district court June 19, 1950.
Judge Pratt’s decision enjoined
permanently Mullaney or any of
his taxation agents from collect
ing from the plaintiff or interve
nor the tax imposed by Chapter
10, Session Laws, upon property,
other than boats and vessels,
owned by them in the Territory.
Saturday work and double time
Democratic
Women Organize
A Territorial - wide organiza
tion of the Democratic Women of
Alaska is well under way, an
nounced Essei R. Dale, Democrat
ic Committeewoman for Alaska.
Mrs. Dale is a well-known busi
nesswoman of Fairbanks who
served as a member of the House
of representatives in the last Alas
ka Legislature.
The following prominent Alas
ka women have been appointed to
head up the organizing activity in
the fourt Divisions of the Terri
tory:
First Division: Amelia Gunder
son. Mrs. Gunderson, a member
of the Alaska House of Represen
tatives and a candidate for re
election, has her home at Ketchi
kan, where she lives with her
husband, Andy Gunderson, a for
mer ‘member of the Alaska House
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Disable 1, Sink 1,
Red Troop Ships
A South Korean Port, (/P)—An
Allied spokesman said tonight the
South Korean navy has knocked
out two Red Korean ships loaded
with troops and ammunition off
southwestern Korea. Red casual
ties were reported heavy.
One Red ship was sunk and one
damaged in naval shelling off Su
yong near Mokpo on Korea's
southwestern tip, the spokesman
said. He gave no details on the
number of troops involved or the
size of the vessels.
The spokesman said the Reds
were retreating with heavy casu
alties in the Tongyong area south
east of Chinju. South Korean Ma
rines landed on the coast there
behind enemy lines and captured
Tongyong town.
“It is only a matter of time to
clean up the enemy stragglers,”
the spokesman said.
The spokesman is a South Ko
rean naval official. He said South
Korean Marines were fighting
with high morale.
Korea Expects UN
To Reunite Nation
LENOX, Mass. (/P)—Korea’s am
bassador to the United States says
he hopes and expects his severed
country again will be one state
after “the invading armies are
smashed and destroyed.”
Dr. John M. Chang said yester
day that “It is our full hope and
expectation that . . . the United
Nations will proceed to restore
peace and security* in the whole
nation.**
“It is expected that the Ever
white Mountains, which mark our
traditional boundary with Man
churia, will be restored as the
northern limit of the nation,** he
declared.
Dr. Chang added that he expects
the U. N. will hold an election in
North Korea to fill 100 national
assembly seats held open for the
northerners in the recent South
Korean elections.
Trainmen Strike at
Three Terminals
WASHINGTON (/P)—'Trainmen
walked out in three key terminals
today, and President Truman
called on his top labor adviser to
make another effort to head off a
nationwide railroad strike.
He ordered John R. Steelman,
Presidential assistant, to get rep
resentatives of the railroads and
unions together in another at
tempt to reach an agreement.
Charles G. Ross, Presidential
secretary, said Mr. Truman then
will review the situation against
before deciding what to do next.
“If this fails,” a reporter asked,
“isn’t seizure the last resort?”
“You will have to draw your
own conclusions,” Ross said.
The President, Ross said, direct
ed Steelman to make “further ef
forts this afternoon to bring the
contending parties together to
seek an agreement.”
The country-wide dispute is
over wages and hours. Today’s
strikes were called for five days,
Trainmen said the idea is to call
attention to the fact that the dis
pute has dragged on for almost a
year and a half without a decision.
Here is where the men went
out.
In Louisville — 250 switchmen
on the Kentucky and Indiana Ter
minal Railroad left their jobs. All
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Brrr! It’s Cold
In The States
Nome was enjoying a nice
balmy 53 degree weather this
morning while—
COLUMBUS, O., MP) — Today
was just about the coldest Aug.
21 on record in Ohio. At East Liv
erpool, the minimum was 36, low
est in 35 years. Cleveland’s 45,
Dayton’s 46 and Toledo’s 44 all
were all-time lows for Aug. 21.
Hurricane Skirts
New England
BOSTON, (£>) — New England
breathed a sigh of relief today as
the season's first major hurricane
passed some 120 miles off the
coast. Abnormal high tides and
gale winds with gusts up to 55
miles and hour were reported in
Nantucket and Cape Cod in south
eastern Massachusetts as the
storm skirted the coast and roar
ed out into the North Atlantic.
The weather bureau said that
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the hurricane was expected to
pass Canada's maritime provinces
about 10 am. The provinces bat
tened down but it was doubtful if
the storm would strike on land.
The weather bureau said in ad
visory that the hurricane still was
“dangerous with winds up to .100
m.p.h. near the center.”
The coast guard credited ad
vance warnings with preventing
the loss of ships all along the At
lantic coast. One merchant vessel,
the SS. Edison Mainer, rode out
the center of the hurricane in a
100-mile an hour wind south of
Block Island, R. I.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
(Saturday, August 19, 1950)
(By The Associated Press)
The threat to Taegu, strategic
United Nations rail center was
eased today as North Korean com
munists retreated on two fronts
north and southwest of the city.
Resistance wa$ described as
| light or moderate, but a spokes
man at Gen. MacArthur’s head
quarters warned that the Reds
had three to five divisions, pos
sibly 50,000 en still poised north
of Taegu, abandoned this week as
the South Korean provisional cap
ital. :
South Koreans made a surprise
landing—the first Allied action of
its kind in the war—on Tokchock
Island, 35 miles southwest of In
chon, port of Seoul.A navy spokes
man said Tokchock may have
been a Red center for waterborne
reinforcements.
In the critical area north of
Taegu, U. S. and Korean troops
I drove the enemy back toward
Kumwha. Their counterattack
against huge Red forces that
threatened Taegu Thursday has
pushed the invaders back two and
a half miles in three days of bit
ter fighting.
The Reds also fell back in the
Changnyong sector southwest of
Taegu. U. S. Marines and infan
trymen advanced under the cover
of artillery fire directed at the en
emy-held west bank of the Nak
tong River. The Reds appeared to
have given up most of their
Changnyong bridgehead.
This was the scene of the fierc
est fighting. American planes
strafed and rocketed the com
munists as they tried to flee back
across the river. The onslaught
from rockets, cannon fire and jel
lied gasoline bombs pulverized
the Red Fourth Division. Maj.
Gen. John H. Church said his men
were out to “destroy that division
entirely.”
The last round-up of American
casualties, two weeks ago, was
2,616. The spokesman added that
there will be no further roundup
of American casualties until they
have no value to the enemy.
A spokesman at MacArthur's
Tokyo headquarters said the en
emy lost 2,200 men Thursday
along the whole perimeter—the
biggest single day’s bag for
United Nations forces.
The communists, however, ap
peared to be regrouping massive
i forces in the area between Kunwi
and Waegwan for another ham
merblow at Taegu. Three North
Korean divisions—the 3rd, 13th
and 15th were assembled in this
sector. There was a possibility
they were supported also by the
1st and 2nd Hed divisions.
The full significance of the
South Korean landing on Tok
chock Island was not explained.
A headquarters spokesman hinted
that South Korean Guerrillas—
and even units of the regular
South Korean army—are operat
ing far behind the communist
front lines. “I think the enemy’s
back areas are not too quiet,” he
remarked, indicated that not all
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