Scientists To Meet |
To Study Alaskan J
Research
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More than 60 scientists and ad
ministrators of Alaska have been
invited to participate in a confer
ence of 200 United State sand Ca- j
nadian specialists in Alaskan re- •
search, to be held in Washington •
under the auspices of the National \
Research Council, November 91
, through November 11, 1950.
The Alaskan Science Confer- j
ence is the result of recognition by ■
leading scientists and government}
agencies of the need for greaterj
coordination of information on i
Alaskan research, and will bring!
to the attention of scientists the i
problems of research in the Alas
kan environment. It is the aim of
the Conference to stimulate wider
interest in research relating to the
Alaska narea, and to discuss ways
in which those engaged in field
research can be of assistance to
each other, as well as ways to
make the results of research more
widely known and available to
scientists planning work in Alas
ka .
Leading scientists in the fields
of agriculture and forestry, bot
any, public health and medicine,
zoology, physiology, geology and
geography, geophysics, meteorol
ogy, oceanography, and anthropol- (
ogy, will participate in the con
ference. Primary emphasis will be
placed on the basic research as
pects of the scientific work being
carried out in Alaska, but con-,
sidera+ion will also be given to its
relation to economic, engineering,
and educational development.
Communications regarding the
conference should be addressed to:
The Steering Committee, Alaskan
Science Conference, National Re
search Council, 2101 Constitution
Avenue, Washington 25, D. C.
Among those invited to partici
pate from Alaska are:
Dr. Ivar Skarland, Mr. Roy
Earling, Mr. B. D. Stewart, Mr. G.
W. Gasser, Mr. B. Frank Ileintzle
man, Mr. Clyde Sherman, Mr. L.
T. Oldrovd. Mr. Robert B. At
wood, Gov. Ernest Gruening, Dr.
Terris Moore, Col. John R. Noyes,
Dr. James C. Ryan, Mr. George
Sundborg.
Alaska "Most
Precious Piece
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SANTA CLARA. Calif. t/P) —
Alaska is “our most precious piece
of offensive property, “the gla
cier priest, Father Bernard R.
Hubbard, S.J.. said here as he re
turned from five months in the
Far North.
Father Hubbard, who has spent
large part o: the past 24 years in
the Arctic regions has been lec
turir g on Arc io survival to
United States troops, weathermen
and airmen stationed in Alaska.
“Many persons have the mental
picture of Alaska as a huge hand
thrust' ;g outward from, the North
American Continent, warding off
a hostile Russia,” he said in an in
terview. “That is wrong. Alaska is
no warding hand. It’s a clenched
fist held right under the nose of
Joe Stalin, and he knows it.”
Alaska, the glacier priest said,
is too big, too rugged, and has too
few roads to be invaded. Probably
the best the Russians could do
would be to parachute five or six
thousand men itno Fairbanks and
Anchorage, he said.
“This,” he declared, “would only
serve to deny the use of them for
offensive operations. The supply
problem would be impossible.” 1
Tydings Wins
Renomination
In Maryland
‘By The Associated Press4
Senator Alexander Wiley was
upon to win Republican renomin
ation in Wisconsin yesterday fol
lowing the primary victory of an
other Senator, Democrat Millard
Tydings of Maryland.
Tydings, chairman of the Sen
ate armed services committee,
won renomination for a fifth term
Monday after a campaign in
which opponents had charged him
with lax conduct of a communist
in-government investigation.
Tydings did not wage an inten
sive campaign. But he replied that
he had acted “honestly and fair
ly” in the inquiry into allegations
by Senator McCarthy OR.-Wis.)
that the state department was
honey combed with Reds and fel
low travelers.
Incomplete returns gave him
nearly a 2 to 1 margin over the
combined vote of two opponents.
Yesterday the political picture
shifted to Wisconsin and Massa
chusetts.
Wiley was general rated an ex
cellent chance to defeat Edward J.
Finan. Bristol businessman, for
Allies Turn Red
Artillery Back On
North Koreans
(By Stan Swinlon)
With U. S. Second Division, Ko
I rea, (A5)—Scores of Russian-made
artillery pieces, which three days
1 ago hurled shells at American sol
diers, soon will be blasting their
! former Korean Red owners.
Ordnance men were ordered to
work ’roundtthe-clock preparing
the captured guns for action.
The order came after a prelim
inary survey of only two sectors
showed the North Koreans aban
doned at least 74 artillery pieces
and big mortars when the Second
Division routed them from the
east bank of the Naktong river. ,
There is a tremendous store of
captured Russian-made ammuni
tion for the guns. One regiment
alone took 200 tons.
Plans call for a special unit to
be organized to use the Russian
made guns against the Reds.
the Republican nomination to a
third term.
Massachusetts, without a Sena
torial race this year, picked nom
inees for the House and for Gov
ernor.
Marines Poised To
Capture Seoul
WASHINGTON, (/P)—First Ma
rine Division troops were ready to
cross the Han River into Seoul at
6:30 a.m. yesterday, defense de
partment spokesmen said . here.
Briefing officers told newsmen
that the Marines had occupied all
of Yongdungpo, suburb of the Ko
rean capital across the river.
Army spokesmen said there was
no evidence of any Red troop
movements from north of the 38th
parallel into the Seoul area, which
now is closely threatened by Ma
rines and army 7th Division
troops.
On the southern battlefront,
United Nations forces were said
to have established three firm
beachheads west of the Naktong
River.
The North Koreans show every
indication of withdrawing on the
north and northwestern sector of
the older Pusan front, briefing of
ficers said, but were offering stif
fening resistance to Allied attacks
elsewhere on the line.
British troops, who have been
fighting along an unspecified sec
tor of the Naktong front, ad-;
Lawvere Named
Territorial Direc
tor of N. E. A.
JUNEAU — Superin t e n d e n t
Donald W. Lawvere of the Kodiak
Naval Operations Base School has
been named Territorial Director
of the National Education Asso
ciation for a three-year period it
was announced recently. Mr. Law
vere and his wife represented
Alaska’s teachers at the NEA con
vention in St. Louis in July.
Miss Marjorie Tillotson, Juneau
high school teacher, replaced Su
perintendent Carl Carlson of Sew
ard as president of the Alaska Ed
ucation Association for the next
biennium, and Miss Ethel Murphy
of the Juneau Elementary Schools
will serve as secretary-treasurer
for the same period. She succeeds
Miss Marian Munson of Seward.
Petersburg’s superintendent of
schools, Mr. Lester L. Wingard, is
the new vice-president of the
Alaska educators’ professional or
ganization.
vanced Monday and wiped out a
pocket of 300 Red Koreans, the
army reported.
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