OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—IIBMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LIII. No. 4 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1951 * Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
BRUSSELS, Belgium (JP)—Gen
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower ar
rived here yetserday on the sec
ond leg of his visit to Atlantic'
Pact nations which will provide
the international anti-Kremlin
army he is to command.
^ He flew here from a three-day
visit in France, where he talked
with French civil and military au
thorities and studied the five-na
tion Brussels Pact defense head
quarter sat Fountainebleau which
may form the nucleus of the 12- j
nation Atlantic Defense Pact force.
With Eisenhower were Lt. Gen.
' Alfred M. Gruenther, his chief of i
staff, and eiht other staff mem- j
bers
An attempt by communist-led I
demonstrators to march on Eisen
hower’s temporary headquarters1
near the Arc de Triompe fizzled
out just before the general left
Paris.
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INDIANAPOLIS, (£>)—Firemen
at the Broad Ripple station Mon- !
day were just standing around—j
no fires—when a woman walked i
past and noticed their boredom.
She stopped at a nearby store,
bought a television set, and or
dered it sent to the first station.
She went on her way, without;
giving her name.
ATLANTA, {JP) — The 9torks
were visited Monday — by the,
* stork. Mrs. Earl Stork, Jr., 17,!
gave birth to a six-pound, 12- j
ounce daughter at Grady Hospital.
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FAIRBANKS, (JP) — Donald;
Clark was named manager of the j
Nenana Ice Pool classic Monday. |
Five committeemen, all resi-!
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dents of Nenana; were named to j
assist Clark. They are Jack Swift, i
Bill Muhroe, Joe Scherer and!
Charles Shade.
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JUNEAU, {JP) — The fish and
i wildlife service awarded contracts
Monday to four low bidders to:
trap marten for transplanting in.
the Chicagof Island stocking farm, i
Under terms of the agreement
there is a maximum of 10 marten
for each bidder and the animals
must be alive and unharmed.
The bidders were B. Ruhland,!
Ketchikan; E Phillips, Sitka; $50 *
for each marten; Jack Buchea and 1
Henry Lemke, both of Ketchikan,
$69.50 for each animal.
SEATTLE (/P)—Alaska Airlines’
gross revenue fcrr November and
December, 1950, was $629,130,
compared with $231,995 for the
same period in 1949, the company
reports. All Alaska Airlines* DC-4
airplanes have been engaged in
the Tokyo airlift since last July
5. Many of its other planes are
serving the military.
BALTIMORE, </P) — Boo 11 e g
whisky has been caught in the up
ward spiral of the price of “con
* sumer goods.”
Unnted States treasury agent W.
T. Benson says here the current
* price for the five-gallon economy
size is $33 50. A like amount of
powerful old character builder
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Alaska Statehood
Committee Okays
Changes In Bill
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Eleven
changes in the new Alaska State
hood bill won approval of the
Alaska Statehood Committee at its
week-end session (here.
They will be submitted to the
new Congress. Members of the
statehood committee decided the
changes would make the enabling
act more desirable from the Alas
kan point of view and would tend
to eliminate some of the opposi
tion in the States.
The committee also decided to
ask the Territorial Board of Ad
ministration to “unfreeze” the
$55,000 balance of its appropria
tion for use in an educational, pro
motional and research program.
One of the proposed bill changes
would eliminate party considera
tion in the election of delegates ter
the Constitutional Convention of
the proposed new State. The com
mittee favored retention of a pri
mary vote to precede the election.
Another change would eliminate
references to native reservations,
a clause which drew fire from
many national organizations in
the last session of Congress.
The changes also provide for a
total of 31 delegates to be distrib
uted among Divisions on the basis
of the 1950 census. The bill passed
by the House in the 1949 Congress
based delegates on the 1940 cen
sus. The 1950 census base would
man a big gain for the Third (An
chorage )Division and a lesser
gain for the Fourth (Fairbanks).
Most other changes are minor.
A 12th proposed change was drop
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Inspection Shows 4
ANS Deer Herds
In Good Condition
(Juneau Empire)
Four reindeer herds under the
supervision of the Alaska Native
Service are in good condition with
the exception of one herd that has i
suffered a 200 head loss from foot
rot, according to Dale Belcher, Na
tive Resources assistant director.
He recently returned from a two
month’s inspection thip of the
herds and other native resources
activities.
The infected herd was inspected
eight miles west of Noatak in No
vember. Noatak is an Eskimo vil
lage on the lower part of the Noa
tak River in northwestern Alaska.
Two infected feet were taken lor
laboratory inspection ‘by the Arc
tic Health Center of the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service. It is expected
that some kind of control treat
ment can be worked out. The four
herds number approximately 7,000
head.
Early in the morning of Novem
ber 13 while Belcher was at the
Siyou corral across Eschscholtz
Bay on Kotzebue Sound, an on
shore wind blew water into the
camp site. Ice was also piled on
part of the line fence leading to
the corral. The water drove Bel
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“Prospect of World;
Peace Brightest In
3 Years”—Stassen
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NEW YORK, (^)—Harold Stas
sen returned from a round-the
world trip yesterday convinced
that while there “are very real
dangers of world war, the pros
pects of world peace are brighter
than at any time in the past three
years.”
The president of the University
of Pennsylvania gave three prin
cipal reasons for his conclusions.
First, he said, “The whole world
is awakening to the extreme evils
of communist imperialism and
that awakening is one off the key
things ”
Second, “People everywhere, in
cluding the iron curtain countries,
want peace and freedom and the
Russian Kremlin faces a counter
revolution, which will include the
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Deny Doug Asked
Korea Evacuation
TOKYO, (jP)—General MacAr
thur’s official spokesman today
denied there were any facts to a
stoify printed in the United States
that the general had recommend
ed withdrawal of all United Na
tions forces from Korea
He referred to a copyrightd
story by Keyes Beech, Chicago
Daily News correspondent cover
ing MacArthur’s headquarters,
which said MacArthur was “un
derstood to have recommended to
Washington withdrawal of all
United Nations forces from Ko
rea.” Beech said he obtained his
information from “authoritative
sources.”
Asked to comment on the story,
Col. Marion P. Echols, MacAr
thur’s official spokesman said:
“There has been nothing official
or unofficial said regarding the
evacuation of Korea. That story is
purely a figment of the writer’s
imagination.”
Warn Americans to
Leave .Hong Kong ;
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HONG KONG, (JP)—Americans
in. this British Crown Colony bor
dering Red China are being warn
ed to remove their families be
cause of the worsening situation in
the Orient. /
U. S. Consul General Walter P.
McSonaughy told a special news
conference no actual emergency is
seen but that the warning “is
more or less precautionary.”
An official circular is being put
out by the consulate general to the
600 heads of American families in
the colony. Nearly 1,400 American
citizens are registered here. The
list includes a large number of
American citizens of Chinese de
scent
A substantial number of Amer
icans already has left Hong Kong.
Dependents of five American com
panies were warned last week to
return home. Some British resi
dents and wealthy Chinese have
gone.
The official warning came as no
! surprise. Americans have been
i watching Chinese Red forces on
! the neighbetting mainland swell to
an army of more than 45,000 in
the past month.
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Marshall Urges
Draft Of All
18-Year-Olds
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Secretary
of defense Marshall urged Con
gress today to approve a draft of
18 year olds for 27 months serv
ice to build up the nation’s fight
ing forces.
He told a Senate armed services
sub-committee that a system of
“universal military service and
training represents what I believe
is the best way to meet our imme
diate need for enlarged combait
forces and at the same, to provide
an enduring base for our military
strength.”
Marshall, former army chief of
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Tuesday, January 9, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Red forces drive hard on the
heels of retreating U. S. Eighth
Army south of Seoul. A small Al
lied counteroffensive in central
Korea takes back nearly all of the
half-mile lost yesterday. Heavy
bombers dump more than 100 toms
of bombs on the North Korean
capital of Pyongyang by radar.
Fighters and bombers hit masses
of troops, damage some Chinese
field pieces and fire-bomb Red
occupied villages.
Wednesday, January 10 1950
Tank-led American and French
troops fight back into* strategic
Wonju from the southeast; they
find the hub deserted. The Allied
stab is aimed at throwing off bal
ance the communist central Ko
rean drive. Gen. MacArthur warns
of a “very large” communist force
preparing for an assault in the
west. He says the enemy has 280,
100 troops in the vicinity of the
Osan-Wonju line. Intelligence re
ports say communists have 200
tanks and 500 combat planes pois
ed for battle.
At Lake Success the United
States disclose a four-point plan
calling for U N. action against
communist China. British repre
sentatives are urging postpone
ment of the plan in hopes a cease
fire still may be worked out.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is
reported “reasonably well satis
fied” with defense prospects in
France and Belgium. He moves
into Holland on a preliminary tour
to build an international army.
Information About
The Alaska
Business License
The following information has
been siibmitted toy Tax Assessor
Paul Dryden to explain the Alas
ka Business Tax.
Ever since January 1, 1950, in
lieu of the mercantile licenses for
merly obtained from the Clerks of
the U. S. District Courts, the De
partment of Taxation of the Ter
ritory of Alaska issues what is
known as’ the General Alaska
Business License.
Under the new law, the license
period begins with January 1st
and ends on December 31st in any
given year. Any and all businesses,
except fishery and mining opera
tions, pay the same uniform ini
tial license fee of $25.00 This
$25.00 license fee takes care of the
business license tax on gross re
ceipts up to $20,000.00. From there
on the license tax becomes flexi
ble; if the gross receipts are over
$20,000.00, on. the gross volume up
to $100,000.00 <the tax becomes
Vi% of the amount of business
done; on anything over $100,000.
00, the tax is figures at Va% of
the gross intake, oil in addition to
the $25.00 initial license fee al
ready paid when applying for a
license. It should be noted here
that, when adding up gross re
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