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NEWS IN BRIEF
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (/P)—A
49-year-old father was held on
first degree murder charges Sat
urday after admitting he blud
geoned to death his wife and
small son with a three-foot crow-'
bar.
Police Chief Clifford Blodgett;
said Claude L. Fillinger called;
him up about 8 o’clock Friday
morning and said: “I’ve killed my
family.”
Investigators found the body of
Mrs. Fellinger, 39, on the back
porch. The son, Johnny, 7, wasi
dead in the living room.
OAKLAND, Calif. (/P)—A catj
has sued a dog for $522.50 dam
ages in Oakland municipal court.
Owner of the dog, Cebert Cap
well, was asked Friday in the suit
to pay that amount in damages
because his hound allegedly “with
wilfull and malicious intent to do
bodily harm” attacked and injur-!
ed the cat.
The suit alleged that the cat,
owned by Mildred Smith, can
dance, stand up and rap on the
window for permission to enter
the house.
FORT LEWIS, Wash. (£>)—
The first large unit of the Cana
dian army’s special brigade des
tined for United Nations service
arrived here Friday from Van
couver, B. C.
The several hundred men were
the vanguard of thousands more
who will use this U. S military
reservation as an assembly area
before being transported over
seas.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—It looks as
if Anchorage’s proposed new four
million dollar federal housing
project has been dropped as a
war casualty.
“No further steps will be taken
on, acquiring a site because of the
recently established policy of cur
tailing federal projects not con
nected with national defense,” the
General Services Administration
replied to queries on status of
the proposed building project.
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Agree-i
ments granting 15 per cent in
creases for longshoremen at Whit
tier, Anchorage and Fire Island
were announced Friday.
The past was between the In
ternational Longshoremen’s Asso
ciation <AFL> and stevedoring
firms. It was reported a similar!
new contract was signed to coverj
Valdez.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—An army
spokesman repeated Satur day
that the fighting in Korea is not
over.
“Far from it,” he told reporters
at the regular Pentagon briefing.
The spokesman said the fact
the North Koreans have artillery
fire in some sectors indicates they
are still putting up pretty good re
sistance.
There were reports Friday of
two instances in which U. S. air
forces silenced communist artil
lery.
TOKYO, (^P)—General MacAr
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French Abandon l
Another Post To
Vietminh Reds j
SAIGON, Indochina, (/P) — The1
French today announced aban-j
donment of still another po'st on
the China-Indochina frontier —|
the small outpost of Nacham.
A military spokesman said the
Nacham garrison had withdrawn
nine miles southeast to Dong
Dang, last major French position
before the frontier headquarters j
fortress of Langson, six miles fur
ther to the southeast.
The spokesman said evacuation ‘
of Nacham had been accomplish-1
ed without important fighting.!
Other French sources said com
munist-led Vietminh troops had
occupied Nacham following the
French withdrawal.
The report of the abandonment
of the post came as French offi
cials said privately it soon might
be necessary to withdraw French
forces from all Chinese frontier
posts. In the past month the
French have aabandoned the posts
of Dongkhe, Caobang, and That
khe, leaving some 300 miles of the
Chinese frontier open to traffic by
the Vietminh to and from supply |
and training points in communist
China.
Dewey Calls For
Drafting “Ike”
For President
NEW YORK (^>)—Gov. Thomas
E. Dewey called yesterday for
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as
the Republican nominee for Pres
ident in 1952.
“If I should be re-elected Gov
ernor and have influence with the
New York delegation, I would
recommend to them that they
support General Eisenhower for
President if he would accept the
draft,” Dewey said. J
Speaking here over the NBC
television program, “Meet the
Press,” Dewey again took him
self out of a third White House
race in the most emphatic terms.
He praised Eisenhower as “a
very great world figure, the Pres
ident of Columbia University, one
of the greatest soldiers in our
history, a fine educator—a man
who really understands the prob
lems of the world.”
Dewey is running for a third
term as Governor after first deny
ing he would be a candidate.
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PRE-CHRISTMAS SANTA
HELPERS VISIT IN NOME
Grady Carothers, Texas Santa
Claus helper, accompanied by
John Allen are here to arrange
for their annual sHIpment of sev
eral live reindeer to be used in
exhibitions throughout the States
during the holiday season.
Last year the deer were shipped]
to the States via the Alaska Air-i
lines.
The reindeer may be purchased
from the Kotzebue herd or from
the Golovin herds, it is reported,
and then like Dancer and Prancer
take off over the house-tops all
the way to Texas.
Installment Buying
Credit Terms
Tightened Up
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Consid
erably tighter credit terms be
come effective today on install
ment purchases of automobiles,
furniture, television sets and other
major household appliances.
And they’ll hit a vastly greater
volume of purchases by applying
to items costing as little as $50.
Curbs applied less than a month
ago touched nothing under $100.
The new tightening up order,
issued Friday night by the federal
reserve board, set terms on auto
mobile sales as stiff as any ap
plied during World War II. New
and used cars and trucks are af
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Senate Defense
Committee Start
For Alaska
PORTLAND, (£>) — FDR’s old
four-motored “Sacred Cow” flew
out of here yesterday with three
members of the Senate armed
services committee en route to
look over Alaskan defenses.
Aboard wetr Senator Lester C.
Hunt (D.-Wyo.), chairman of the
preparedness sub-committee, and
Senators Wayne L. Morse (D.
Ore.) and Leverett Saltonstall (R.
Mass.)
“We hope to be able to bring
back such a report of the inade
quacy of our defenses that we
can stimulate unusual interest on
the part of Congress and the Chief
Executive to get the job done,”
Senator Hunt said as he boarded
the Air Force DC-4.
He said housing facilities at or
near the military establishments
in the Territory were on the sur
vey agenda. “It's impossible to
keep men up there without living
facilities,” he said. We never have
let them take their families. We
are forcing them to go there, and
immediately after their enlist-1
ments expire they either get out
of the army or we have to bring
them back to the States.”
The first stop was to be at El
mendorf Air Force Base near An- j
chorage. They will travel by rail j
to Whittier, Seward, Portage and
back to Anchorage. Then to Nome |
by air and to Ladd and Eielson!
Air Fields near Fairbanks and
stops at Juneau, Ketchikan and
Annette Island enroute back here.
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According to information re
ceived by Cal. D. C. Jamison at
M.A.F.B., the Congressional party
will arrive in Nome Wednesday
morning and go into immediate
session at the hearing on Marks
Air Force Base which is sched
uled to be held at the Jury Boom
in the Federal Bldg., Wednesday
morning some time after ten
o’clock'in the morning when the
party has arrived.
Following the morning meeting
the party will be guests of the
Chamber of Commerce at theBer- |
ing Sea Club for lunch, and are
planning to depart in the after
noon after looking over the mili
tary installations in this area. I
T ruman-M’Arthur
Talks End; Subject
Still A Mystery j
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HONOLULU, (/P) — President;
Truman was flying back to thei
mainland today to report on his i
meeting with General MacArthur,
op Wake Island which has world;
capitals still puzzled over the sig
nificance of that Pacific rendez
vous.
The President’s plane “Inde- ]
pendence” left Hickam Field,
Honolulu for San Francisco at
6:28 a.m., and the “Dewdrop,”
carrying his top advisers, depart
ed five minutes later. The flight
to San Francisco requires about
I nine hours.
Aides said the President is de
| voting extraordinary time and
care to the major foreign policy
address he will make in San Fran
cisco at 5:30 p.m. (Nome time> to
morrow.
While he will preface his talk
with a reference to his conference
with General MacArthur on the
barren far Pacific Island as a
move to help the Far East find
peace, there has been no indica
te nthat the President will elab
orate greatly on the Wake Island
statement.
The statement, signed by the
President and initialed by the
United Nations Supreme Com
mander, followed their less than
three hours talk.
Actually, the most important
phase of it was the hour Mr. Tru
man and General MacArthur
spent alone in the living room of
a quonset hut before they went
into conference with military and
diplomatic advisers.
The statement gave no hint of
any far reaching new decisions
such as many had speculated
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U. S. Strengthens
Forces In Berlin
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The army
announced Saturday that U. S.!
forces in Berlin will be strength
ened by the assignment of newly
formed units of the Sixth Infan
ttry regiment to the city.
The Headquarters Service com
pany is expected to be organized
in Berlin today, the announce-j
ment said, and other “newly-acti-j
vated” units will be in the city •
before Jan. 1.
A regiment has an authorized |
strength of 3,774 officers and men. j
An army spokesman' said that
the manpower for the newly-1
formed units of the regiment will
be drawn from other American
units all over Germany.
The exact strength of the pres
ent American garrison in Berlin
has not been disclosed..
The last publicly announced j
figure on total American troop
strength in Europe was about 97,
000 with approximately 10,000 ofi
that force in Austria and the rest1
in Germany. !
It seems likely that the strength- j
ening of the Berlin garrison is de-,
signed as much for its interna-j
tional political effect as for any
actual military value. i
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Saturday, October 14, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
President Truman hopped off
from Hawaii early this morning
bound for tiny Wake Island,
where Gen. MacArthur is wait
ing to meet with him for the first
time in a historic conference on
what to do about the Red menace
in Asia.
Before leaving Hickham field
in his plane, the “Independence,”
President Truman said he was
confident another war is not “in
evitable.”
MacArthur already had reach
ed Wake from Tokyo* last night,
having made the nearly 2,000
mile air trip in his new Constella
tion “SCAP”.
The President was joined in
Honolulu by Adm. Arhur W. Rad
ford, Pacific fleet commander
and the only naval officer in his
group of advisers. Also with him
are Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman
of the Joint Chief of Staff, secre
tary of the army Frank Pace;
Ambassador-at-large Philip C.
Jessup; W. Averell Harriman,
special Presidential assistant for
foreign affairs; Dean Rusk, assist
ant secretary of state for the Far
East, and Charles S. Murphy,
ambassador to Korea John J.
Muccio and Brig. Gen. Courtney
Whitney, head of the general's
government section for the Japan
ese occupation.
In Korea, U. N. forces and
South Koreans continued their
advances against some stiff oppo
sion north of the 38th parallel.
Theer was general drought of
reports on the ground action fol
lowing the announcement yester
day that the U. S. First Cavalry
Division had captured Kumchon,
on the southeastern approaches
to the North Korean capital of
Pyongyang. Kumchon is 70 air
miles from Pyongyang.
Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay, com
manding the First Cavalry said
spearheads had smashed eight
miles north of Kumchon to Hanpo
on the Reds’ main escape route.
“The trap is closed,” Gay said.
“They will not get out any tanks,
guns or vehicles.”
An estimated 20,000 North Ko
rean communist troops were said
to be caught in the steel clamp,
and there seemed no question
that the Korean war was in its
final stages.
The American push toward
Pyongyang, supported by United
Nations air cover and followed
by British and Australian troops,
was at the west end of a broken
line front slanting northeastward
130 miles across the narrow waist
of the Korean peninsula. On the
other end was the South Korean
First Corps, with columns pound
ing north along the coast trim
captured Wonsan toward the big
chemical center of Hamhung and
west to form another spearhead
toward Pyongyang.
British commandos, in weird
warpaint and heavily armed,
made two daring raids on North
Korea’s east coast only 65 miles
from Siberia. The commandos,
going ashore in rubber boats from
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