VOL. LII. No. 879 Per Copy—15c
' NEWS IN BRIEF
ANCHORAGE (£>)—'The assign
ment of Col. Bernt Balchen, famed
• for polar flight exploration, and 25
years of Arctic operations, to the
post of special advisor to the com
| > manding general of the Alaskan
air command, was announced Sat
urday.
Col. Balchen will leave his post
as commanding officer of the 10th
Rescue Squadron at Elmendorf
air force base to assume the new
position.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Donald
Bowersmith, 24, who FBI agents
said is wanted in California on
kidnaping, forgery and robbery
charges, was arrested here yester
day.
FBI special agent John H. Wil
liams, said Bowersmith was ar
rested on a charge of “unlawful
flight” and will be returned to
Oakland, Calif.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The
White House said today President
Truman has no intention of ad
dressing Congress or the nation
on the Koeran war at present
Presidential secretary Charles
G. Ross said the question of whe
ther Mr. Truman should appear
before Congress as some members
have urged, was among those dis
cussed at a secret Blair House
meeting Monday afternoon.
Ross said no final decision was
made and added:
“The President has no present
intention of going before Congress
or making a radio speech to the
country.”
DILLINGHAM, Alaska, (ff) —
Members of the Bristol Bay resi
dent cannery fishermen’s local
voted unanimously Monday to
withdraw from the International
Fishermen and Allied Workers of
America. The IFAWA affiliated
recently with the Harry Bridges
led International Longshoremen’s
and Warehousemen’s union.
Jim Downey, unani m o u s 1 y
elected businesh agent for the CIO
local, No. 46, said the balloting
went 720 for disaffiliation to none
against.
PALERMO, Italy, (JP) — Police
)) shot and killed Sicily's notorious
bandit king Salvatore Giuliano in
his mountin hideout shortly be
fore dawn today.
Officials said the outlaw leader,
who had defied and eluded the
law since 1943, was trapped and
slain in the Castelvetrano area
near here, long his favorite hide
out.
HAMDEN, Conn. (JP) — Light
ning striking unexpectedly yes
terday out of a sultry but almost
cloudless sky killed three persons
and injured seven.
The victims, gathered around a
large tree in the back yard of Mr.
and Mrs. Leonard Dorman’s farm
f home, were holding a holiday pic
nic and birthday party when the
tragedy occurred.
Killed were »the Dorman’s
daughter, Arthurina, 16; her bro
ther, Otis, 22; and his girl friend,
Elizabeth M. Lyons, 18, of Ham
den.
July 4 Celebration |
Great Success
With perfect weather and cam
eras clicking all day long, the 4th
of July events scheduled went off
with little delay yesterday.
Among the guests in the city
were Dan Fowler, editor of Look
Magazine and a Look photogra
pher who were working on a
forthcoming article for their mag
azine.
A charter trip from Anchorage
headed by Wayne Jacobs brought
in about sixty Anchorage resi
dents, another flight from Fair
banks also brought in tourists for
the day.
There were also groups of army
and navy personnel seeing the
sights and taking pictures.
Prizes were awarded for the
day’s events as follows:
1. Best Independence Day Cos
tume, Kay and Don Coulthard.
2. Cutest Costume, Robert L.
Fagerstrom.
3. Best Native Costume, Edna
and Harry Johnson.
4. Most Distinctly Decorated ve
hicle with Occupant, Gary Bing
ham.
5. Special Clever Costume, Corn
well children.
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Judges of above—Mrs. Travis,
Mrs. Gerald and Mrs. T. Fischer.
Boys 60-yard Dash
(13 to 16 years)
1st—Pete Larsen.
2nd—Ondrew Kingik, Jr.
3rd—Ray Miller.
Boys 30-yard Dash
(8 to 12 years)
1st—Robert Herman.
2nd—Jack Muller.
3rd—Bob Bahnke.
Boys 25-yard Dash
7 years and under)
1st—Billy Muller.
2nd—Eric Thompson.
3rd—Charlie Nershak.
Girls 50-yard Dash
(13 to 16 years)
1st—June Dunbar.
2nd—Christine Blatchford.
3rd—Alice Miller.
Girls 21-yard Dash
(8 to 12 years)
1st—Susanne Galloway.
2nd—Christine Hudert.
3rd—Audrey Hudert.
(7 years and under)
1st—Maidie Punek.
2nd—Karen Christine Baldwin.
3r—Clarice Hardy.
Boys Sack Race
(13 to 16 years)
1st—Araphael Alurac.
2nd—Clyde Nershak.
3rd—Jerome Trigg.
(12 years and under)
1st—Jack Muller
2nd—Robert Herman.
3rd—Georgie Kost.
Girls Sack Race
(13 to 16 years)
1st—Caroline Beltz.
2nd—Christine Blatchford.
3rd—Jerrie Fagerstrom.
(12 years and under)
1st—Wanie Beltz.
2nd—Lucy Anne Fagerstrom.
3rd—Arlene Muller.
Boys 3-Legged Race
(13 to 16 years)
1st—Gerald Trigg and Pete Larsen
2nd—Ray Miller and Araphael
Alurac.
3rd—Jerome Trigg and Junior
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B-29’s Leave On
Secret Mission
SPOKANE, (/P) — Swathed in
military secrecy, a flight of B-29’s
bombers pointed their noses west
ward last night toward an uniden
tified Pacific Ocean base after
taking off from the Spokane Air
Force Base.
At what Pacific bastion the
planes will set down was not dis
closed. Also restricted was the
number of planes participating in
the flight.
The battle-tested aircraft were
manned by veteran crews.
MARCH FIELD, Calif. (JP) —
B-29 planes of the 22nd Bombard
ment group left March Field to
night for the Far East.
Maj. Donald C. Foster, public
information officer of the 15th Air
Force, declined to say how many
of the giant bombers left or to
indicate their destination.
Transfer Radar
i Picket Submarine
To Pacific Fleet
The radar picket submarine, the
USS Spinax, departed from Nor
folk, Va., recently for the West
Coast where she will joint the Pa
cific Fleet submarine force, it
was announced by Rear Admiral
Stuart S. Murray, USN, com
mander, submarine force, U. S.
Atlantic Fleet, from his head
quarters at the U. S. naval subma
rine base, New London, Conn.
The Spinax recently returned
from assignment with the Sixth
Fleet in the Mediterranean. She
was relieve by the submarine USS
Piper from the U. S. Naval Sub
marine Base, New London, Conn.
The Spinax wa sthe first post war
submarine to be sent to the Med
iterranean.
The Spinax is equipped with
HospitalDedication
Service Set For
Saturday Morning
Dedication of the new Maynard
MacDougall Memorial Hospital is
planned for Saturday morning
with a group coming from the
States to take part.
Mrs. Frank G. Brooks, president
of the Woman’s Division of Chris
tian Service, national unit of the
Methodist Church, through which
the local Woman’s Societies chan
nel their activities, plans to be
here, arriving on Thursday’s
plane. Mrs. A. C. Johnson, vice
president, will come with her, as
will Mrs. Robert Stewart, secre
tary of the medical work for the
Woman’s Division.
A service is planned at the Fed
erated Church for 7:30 Thursday
night with the senior choir and
the native choir singing. Follow
ing the service, a reception is
planned for the guests. Rev. P.
Gordon Gould, superitendent of
the Alaska Methodist Mission,
who has been in Nome since Sat
urday, and Rev. and Mrs. Jordan
Detzer, who e is to have charge of
the local church through Septem
ber while the Treats are on fur
lough, will also be honored guests.
On Friday evening the local
Woman’s Society of Christian
Service is being host to their na
tional officers at a dinner and
meeting scheduled to be held at
the church social room af 6:30.
The hospital dedication, plan
ned for 10:00 ajn., will be broad
cast over the radio according to
present plans, so that any who
cannot be at the service will be
able to hear it. It is to be held in
the hospital reception room.
special radar and sonic detection
apparatus and snorkel breathing
tubes for underwater propulsion.
New Scientist At University of Alaska
Dr. William S. Wilson, newly appointed acting director of the
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, inspecting an analyti
cal balance just received by the Institute. It will weigh down to
one millionth of an ounce and a mosquito’s stinger could* be an
“overload” for this delicate instrument. Dr. Wilson was graduated
magna cum laude from Brown University. His Ph.D. was obtained
at Yale, and he is an authority on the structure of the atom. Dr.
Wilson was on the War Research Staff of M I T Working on top
secret experiments. He is regarded as an outstanding theoretical
chemist and physicist.
The balance in the above picture will be used to weigh little
known substances in the upper atmosphere over the Arctic regions.
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Wednesday* July 5* 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Communist troops and tanks
trapped an American infantry po
sition in the Korean fighting to
day and pushed a mass offensive
drive southward from captured
Suwon apparently aimed at lop
ping off the whole Suwon-Ichon
sector.
The spearhead of the communist
push reached the area of Isan, 11
miles south of Suwon, it seemed
designed to open the way for a
drive on Taejon, military center
73 miles south of Euwon.
The Communist tank thrust,
coming after an engagement with
American artillery units which
cost the Reds 5 tanks, blocked off
the escape route for an undisclos
ed number of GI’s in the advance
infantry position. The North Ko
rean Reds, meanwhile, poured re
inforcements into the blazing bat
tle area while U. S. arms and men
flowed in a steady stream from
Japan by sea and air.
While the Communist war
blazed, diplomats worried over
the next Communist move. Ob
servers in Hong Kong predicted
the Soviet Union is setting the
stage for another surprise blow
in the east against the U. S. These
observers said it could be expect
ed that within the next month the
Chinese Communists would rush
troops from Manchuria to support
North Korea in its war against
the South.
This tied in with London spec
ulation that Soviet foreign min
ister Andrew Gishinsky, appar
ently missing from the Moscow
scene since May 18, might be in
China—or even in North Korea—
planning the next Soviet blow
against the Allies in the Orient
Chinese Nationalists, alarmed
over their government’s ban on.
offensive action against the Chi
nese Communist mainland, were
assured by the government this
would not mean, passive resistance
to any Red aggression against
their island bastion of Formosa.
The air war raged in Korea,
with American and British carrier
planes joining the fray in tough
strikes Monday and Tuesday
against North Korean points, in
cluding the capital, Pyongyang.
But the setback on the fighting
front had the Americans anxious.
The situation of the trapped
Americans was reported “desper
ate,” but some hope was held out.
An undisclosed number of South
Koreans were also caught
An advanced American head
quarters spokesman said there
was a chance the Americans could
a chance the Americans could
punch their way out of the Com
munist pocket and make a safe
withdrawal. The Americans, set
ting up a position south of Red
captured Suwon, had met a Red
spearhead of eight tanks with ar
tilltry fire in which two com
munist tanks were knocked out.
Front dispatches said the sur
viving Red tanks wheeled sud
denly and rammed themselves be
tween the infantry position and
its supporting £rtUlery and sup
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