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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 30, 1952
JOHNNY COME LATELY _ j
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NAVAL LOSSES OFF KOREA
The Navy recently revealed that 41 United States
ships had been hit by Communist shore batteries in the
last eighteen months in the Korean theater. Thirty
one of the ships were hit off Wonsan, a railroad and
highway junction on the east coast, which has been
under constant naval bombardment.
Among the warships that were hit by the Commu
nist shore batteries were the battleship Wisconsin, the
destroyer-mine-sweeper Brinkley Bass, and the de
stroyer Ozbourn. Casualties have been light, the Navy
said, although ten ships which were reported to have
been sunk or damaged by mines, have suffered heavier
personnel losses.
The Navy reports that the big Communist shore
guns are well hidden and that they are not used when
U.N. planes are over the area.
South Charleston Journal (West Virginia) Says:—
South Dakota, which cut its sales tax one-third
after paying off bonds issued for a veteran’s bonus,
now proposes to reimburse the government for federal
funds used for relief work after a recent blizzard.
South Dakota’s governor said he would ask the
State legislature to repay every cent obtained from
Washington. Endorsing that proposal despite the fact
that “Uncle Sam is pouring out billions here, there and
everywhere,” the Daily Journal, Rapid City, S.D., said:
“We’d feel like we live in a sovereign state if the
money were paid back in full.”
Spring Offensive
By Korean Reds
Held Possible
TOKYO, (iP)— United Nations
officers in a position to know
said Thursday a Communist force
just under 1,000,000 men is cap
able of mounting a spring offen
sive in Korea without warning.
A year ago the Red armies in
Korea totaled fewer than 600,000
men. The rapid growth in enemy
strength has been brought about
in the past two months as armi
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stice talks grow more bitter al
most daily.
Officers who should know said
the enemy’s current ground
strength includes 80 infantry div
isions, backed up by a number
of Chinese Communist artillery
divisions, each containing approx
imately 100 big guns.
A Chinese division is made up
of about 10,000 men.
Half these combat divisions are
in the forward areas.
U.N. officers say the Commu
nist force in Korea today is cap
able of greater offensive action
than any heretofore attempted.
Building Boom
Lures Thousands
To Alaska Cities
FAIRBANKS, l(/P)— Thousands
of persons have been pouring into
Alaska since the first signs of
spring—lured by the prospects of
the big military building boom.
In March and April alone, about
9,000 passed Tok Junction on the
Alaska Highway.
That doesn’t count the addition
al volume by ship and air.
Many who have come in quest
of the gold dust of a new Alaskan
era ‘have become discouraged and
returned to the States.
But cities like Fairbanks and
Anchorage are swollen by the
thousands. The best estimates
here' are that from 3,000 to 6,000
have been added to the Fairbanks
population in the past three
months.
Many of the new arrivals are
living in trailer camps, truck
homes and even in tents. Some
sleep in their cars. New trailer
colonies have sprung up all over
the area.
The Daily News-Miner reports
that probably close to* 20,000 peo
ple now are living in Fairbanks
and its immediate suburbs. The
1950 census for the city of Fair
banks itself was 5,771.
Rev. Soboleff, Alaskan
Indian, Elected Moderator
Of Presbyterian Synod
KETCHIKAN, (JP) — The Rev.
Walter A. Soboleff, -a native In
dian of Alaska, Thursday was
elected Moderator of the Wash
ington Presbyterian Synod, which
also includes the ‘Alaska and Yu
kon Presbyteries.
His election marked the first
time in the 63 year history of the
synod that a native Indian has
been elected to the high post. He
has been pastor of Memorial Pres
byterian Church at Juneau since
his ordination in 1940.
The Rev. Soboleff was the sev
enth to be elected to the moder
atorship from Alaska, but the
others were men who came to
the territory from “outside.”
He was born in Killisnoo, a no
longer existent town which once
served as a whaling and herring
center in Southeastern Alaska. He
holds a commission of captain in
the Alaska National Guard as a
chaplain and has been elected
chaplain of the Alaska Legisla
ture three times.
BRIG. GEN. AARON TYLER
KILLED IN JET CRASH
TOKYO, (/P)—Brig. Gen. Aaron
W. Tyer, vice commander of the
Japan Air Defense Force and a
twice-wounded veteran of World
War II, was killed Wednesday in
a jet crash.
Killed with Tyer was Capt. E. R.
Crane of Wichita, Kas., a veteran
fighter pilot with 160 missions in
World War II and in Korea.
Preliminary reports attributed
the crash to a possible flameout
— the failure of combustion in
a jet engine.
DAMME SICKLE IS SHARP!
MOLINE, 111., (/P)—Mrs. Elea
nor Van Damme sharpened the
sickle Wednesday night she uses
to cut grass. Her husband, Marcel,
came home, picked up the sickle
to inspect the honing job and took
a few practice swings with it.
Mrs. Van Damme, somehow,
backed into range. Her wound was
treated at the Moline Hospital.
Police Arrest Top
French Red Leader
In Demonstration
PARIS, (/P)— Jacques Duclos,
now France’s top Communist, was
charged Thursday with carrying
a gun during a bloody demon
stration against Gen. Matthew B.
Ridgway and was jailed to await
trial.
Interior Minister Charles Brune
declared the government had un
covered proof of an “organized
and permanent conspiracy by the
Communist troops” against the
French state during Wednesday
night’s clashes. One Communist
was killed and 17 badly hurt and
200 police injured in Paris. Twen
ty-five more persons were in
jured at Nice.
Nine hundred or more Commu
nists were arrested here and in
Marseille, Bordeaux and other
French cities during demonstra
tions against the new NATO gen
eral. ,
Workers downed tools in sev
eral factories in the region of
Tarbes, home district of Duclos,
and new demonstrations broke out
ANCHORAGE POWER PLANT
BID LOWER THAN ESTIMATE
DENVER, {&)—'The Rue Con
tracting Co. of Fargo, N.D., is the
apparent low bidder for construc
tion erf a power plant to utilize
the waters of Eklutna Lake in
Alaska to supply electricity to
Anchorage.
The Federal Bureau of Reclam
ation said Rue’s bid was $2,579,
607 as compared with an engi
neers’ estimate of $3,032,304.
Alaska School Bill Approved
WASHINGTON, W—The Sen
ate Agriculture Committee voted
approval Wednesday of a House
passed bill which would extend
to Alaska the federal benefits
now available to agricultural and
mechanical schools in the States.
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in Marseille, Melun and other
places in protest against the Com
munist chief’s arrest.
Duclos, a member of Parlia
ment and the party’s secretary
general, was nabbed at the height
of the riming in an automobile in
which police said they found a
loaded revolver, a blackjack, two
carrier pigeons and a radio geared
to intercept police orders.
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