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VOL. Lll. No. 75 NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, </P) — Rep. J.
J. Delaney, 49-year-old New York
attorney and former prosecutor,
is reported slated to head a Con
gressional investigation of the
purity of the nation’s food.
One of the first things that may
be investigated is the possible ef
fect that food grown on land fer
tilized with a by-product of the
atomic bomb would have on hu
mans who eat it.
The House unanimously order
ed the investigation last week.
DETROIT, i/P) — The City of
Cleveland III, her rear port side
splintered in a fog-shrouded crash
that claimed at least three lives
straggled home last night.
The white-decked excurs ion
ship collided with a Norwegian
freighter at 6:20 a.m., Sunday on
Lake Huron, near Harbor Springs
in Michigan’s thumb district. The
other ship loomed suddenly out of
a “pea soup” fog about five miles
off shore.
Besides the three who died in
the wreckage, one man still is
missing and six others reported
injuries. Three are in a critical
condition at a hospital in Harbor
Springs.
SEOUL, (A*)—Two ships carry
ing 700 dependents of Americans
still in South Korea sailed from
the port of Inchon tonight with a
U. S. naval and air escort.
The two vessels—one Norwegi
an and one Panamanian — are
bound for Fukuoa on Japan’s
southern island of Kyushu They
are scheduled to arrive sometime
tomorrow night.
The women and children were
transported from Inchon’s docks
to the two freighters by lighters.
PARIS; (IP) — Former Premier
Henri Queuille today agreed to
consider trying to form a new
French government.
Queuille said he ' would give
President Vincent Auriol a defin
ite answer tomorrow whether he
would accept the designation as
premier.
The most recent government
under Georges Bidault was
thrown out of office by a negative
vote in Parliament Saturday.
VATICAN CITY, UP) — Pope
Pius XII completed sainthood
rites yesterday for little Maria
Goretti, “martyr of purity” who
died at the age of 11 resisting a
rapist.
Wearing a blood-red mantle
symbolizing martyrdom, the Pon
tiff celebrated the culminating
Pontifical mass before some 60,000
persons, including 11 cardinals
and more than 100 bishops.
The two-part canonization cere
mony began Saturday before an
estimated 500,000 persons in St.
Peters Square.
VATICAN CITY, (/P)—Vatican
radio said today that nearly 1,000
priests, monks and nuns were
rounded up in Budapest June 9
and transported to concentration
points.
The Vatican speaker said secret
police of the Communist regime,
which recently intensified its
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| Service Denies
McCarthy's Charge
Of Collaboration
WASHINGTON, f/P) — Career
diplomat John S. Service, accused
by Senator McCarthy of aiding
Chines Communists, declared last
week that on the contrary he had
done all he could to resist “the
domination of China by Commun
ists.”
The veteran foreign service of
ficer was before a public session
of the Senate foreign relations
sub-committee which is investi
gating the contentions of McCar
thy, Wisconsin Republican, that
the State Department harbors
Communists and Red sympathiz
ers. .
The Senators had first planned
to hear him behind closed doors,
but Service asked for a public
hearing.
A thin wiry man, Service lean
ed forward in the witness chair
and told the Senators it just is
not true that he was a “collabor
ator with Communists” as Mc
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All Air Force
Bases In Alaska
Are Alerted
ANCHORAGE, (&)— Air Force
bases throughout Alaska were or
dered on the alert yesterday, but
Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, com
manding officer of U. S. forces
throughout the Territory, said
there was no need for alarm.
Personnel of fighter aircraft
groups and anti-aircraft units
were alerted at Elmendorf, Ladd
and Eielson air force bases.
Troops at nearby Fort Richardson
also were held on the ready.
General Twining, absent from
his headquarters here on a tour of
inspection of other bases under
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Alaskagram
Winners Named
SEATTLE — Alaskagram win
ners are: First—Dorothy BelL
Juneau housewife. Second—John
Walsh. Anch o r a g e carpenter.
Third—Bud Olson, Petersburg
fisherman. Fourth — Joseph Mat
thews, Elmendorf Field master
sergeant. Fifth—Trygve Hansen.
Petersburg aviator. Sixth—Phyl
lis Helmstrom, Fairbanks house
wife. Seventh—Sergeant Richard
DeWeil, Juneau signal corpsman.
The tie breaker top score was
826.
Did You Get Your Book?
Some Alaskagram contestants
who are entitled to copies of the
Alaska Alamanac have still not
received them. Final copies to
complete the supply to contestants
are enroute to the Territory today
on two vessels, the S.S. Square
Knot and the S.S. Alaska.
Contestants should have re
ceived books by direct mail. Any
who have not, should write for a
copy to David Tewkesbury, 2930
Van Asselt Court, Seattle 8. Wash..
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Northwest Air
Liner Crashes;
58 Feared Dead
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (/P)—A big
Northwest air liner with 58 per
sons aboard disappeared Friday
night in a thunderstorm over
Lake Michigan.
Hours after dawn Saturday,
searching planes and surfa c e
craft found two oil slicks and a
little unidentified wreckage on
the lake’s choppy surface e&s't of
| Milwaukee.
One slick was about six miles
*off shore, the other about one
mile out. The search was concen
trated near the one farthest from
shore.
But there was no actual trace
of the big four-engined air liner
or its occupants.
Fog which cut visibility to about
600 feet hampered the search by
army, navy and coast guard
planes and surface craft from
coast guard stations at Kenosha,
Racine and Milwaukee.
Meanwhile searchers reported a
third oil slick on the east side of
the lake about 12 miles northwest
of Benton Harbor, Mich. Lake
sailors have said oil slicks are
fairly common in the steamship
lanes, resulting usually from fuel
oil seepage of ships.
If all aboard the DC-4 four-en
gine air coach are lost, it will be
the most disastrous crash in U. S.
commercial aviation history. The
plane was enroute from New York
to the Pacific Northwest.
There was a crew of three on
board the craft. The skipper was
Robert Lind. 35 of Hopkins, Minn.
Co-pflot was Vem F. Wolfe, 35. of
Minneapolis. Stewardess Bonnie
Ann Feldman, 25, of S$. Paul com
pleted the crew roster.
The night plane last reported
its position at 11:15 ajn. Friday.
At Minneapolis the civil aeronau
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“Flying Saucer”?
Seen In South
ADLLAS, Tex. (/Pi—A ball of
fire flashed across the southern
sky as the sun sank Friday night,
trailing a streamer of flame and
startling thousands.
Or did it? Was it just a speeding
plane with the sun’s last red and
vapor trail? Was it a real ball of
gold rays playing tricks with its
fire, a meteor? Or was it—could
it have been—a flying saucer?
Here are the known facts: A
brilliant light, variously described
as a fire ball and a fiery streak,
was seen from Montgomery, Ala.,
to Fore Worth, Tex., at about 7:40
p.m. (CST). A ship 350 miles at
sea from Galveston, Tex., saw it.
A similar flash was seen an hour
earlier at Natchez, Miss., and
about about 20 minutes later at
Abilene, Tex. During this period
a jet plane was whizzing over the
south on a course from Langley
Field, Va., to El Paso.
The weather bureau at Moisant
International Airport in New Or
leans said there were theories
that the fire ball was either the
tail-end of a comet or the vapor
trail of a high-flying aircraft.
Northern Reds Invade South Korea
At II Points* War Reported Declared
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Artillery, Tanks
9f
Back Invaders
—
(By O. H. P. King)
SEOUL, (/P) — North Korean
armed forces yesterday invaded
South Korea at 11 points along
the border which divides the
Communist regime from the south
ern republic.
j (The United Press quoted the
Northern Pyongyang radio as re
porting war had been declared
formally.)
Invading North Korean Com
munists stabbed a tank column to
the outskirts of this southern re
public’s capital early today and
broadcast a demand for southern
surrender.
The surrender demand was
made over the Pyongyang radio
by Gen. Chai Jung Jun, com
mander of the northern forces
that suddenly invaded South Ko
rea Sunday morning.
Prospects of total defeat of the
southern forces through bad mo
rale rather than by being beaten
in the field were in evidence at
this zero hour today.
The invaders were supported
by artillery and tanks. Heavy
overnight rains were believed to
have prevented use of the North
Korean air force.
The northern mobile column
that thrust perilously upon Seoul
did so by piercing two full south
ern divisions that were engaged
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Assessment Work
Bill To President
(By Mary Lee Council)
Action was completed iast week
by Congress on legislation to ex
tend until October 1 of this year
the time limit for assessment work
on mining claims in the Continen
tal United States and Alaska and
the bill has gone to the President
for approval.
Present law requires that all
work for the assessment year cov
ering the period between July 1,
1949, and July 1 of this year be
completed by July 1, a deadline
which would be extended for
three months if the President
signs the bill into law.
The bill provides also that work
for the assessment year between
July 1, 1950. and July 1, 1951.
may be started any time after
July 1 of this year as desired.
Britain Wants To
Use Atom Bomb
i On North Korea
| LONDON, (fl5)—A Conservative
member of Parliament urged Bri
tain today to seek use of the atom
bomb against . communist con
trolled Northern Korea.
This call came from Conserva
tive Peter Geoffrey Robert , a
wartime major in the Coldstream
Guards.
Prime Minister Attlee told the
News of tlie \\ orld
At A Glance * - -
Saturday. June 24, 1950
<By The Associated Press)
France's middle-of-the-road gov
ernment fell today on a confid
ence issue. Some feared the event
might prove a severe blow to the
Schuman plan for pooling West
Europe’s coal and steel, in which
France boldly seized the initiative.
While the issue forcing the res
ignation of Premier Georges Bi
dault was a relatively minor one
concerning budget outlays for gov
ernment employee’s wage in
creases, the Premier had made it
plain the vote would be a broad
overall question of confidence.
The national assembly voted
against him, 352 to 230. The main
opposition came from the Social
ists, who have supported him in
other matters. Allied with them
were the right wing De Gaullists,
the Communists and a scattering
j of independents.
The result may hasten a French
election, normally scheduled for
1951. There has been much talk
in Paris that the general elections
must be put ahead.
East Germany’s Communist gov
ernment last night renounced all1
claims of 2,000,000 expelled Ger
mans to return to Czechoslovak
ia’s Sudetenland. The Sudeten
larid was the scene of Hitler’s
bloodless Munich victory in 1938.
Renunciation of the German’s
rights to go back there brought
immediate protests from West
Germany, just as did East Ger
many’s renunciation of claims to
lands taken over by Poland. The
East German agreement with
Communist Czechoslovakia was
signed in Prague.
A British frigate fired on three
Chinese Nationalist planes yester
day off the communist-held post
of Swatow. It was the first time
the Royal Navy took retaliatory
action against Nationalist planes
or ships which have been enforc
ing the Chinese Nationalist block
ade of the Communist-held coast.
The British ship said their frigate
Hart opened fire after three Mus
tang fighters, common to the Na
tionalists, made an “unprovoked
attack” on the British tug Frosty
Moller. A Chinese Nationalist
communique reported National
ist planes were fired on by a gun
boat, presumably meaning the
same incident.
House of Commons before Robert
spoke that Britain is “deeply con
cerned” over the outbreak of
fighting in Korea.
His brief message was given in
reply to Conservative leader Win
ston Churchill, who asked for a
statement on the situation in Ko
rea.
Attlee said the British govern
ment welcomes the cease fire res
olution adopted by the Security
Council. He expressed the “ear
nest hope that all concerned will
duly comply with it.”
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