_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LIL No. 82 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1950_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON — Delegate
Bartlett this week recommended
the appointment of James K. Lar
sen as postmaster at Golovin to
succeed Ingvald J. Folden, re
signed. Golovin is located in the
v southern section of Seward Penin
sula in the Second Division.
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Sixt e e n
forest fires were reported here
last night to be raging unchecked
over 500,000 acres of land in the
Yukon and Fairbanks area.
Smoke in the region has reduc
ed visibility from 75 miles to but
a quarter mile, a bureau of land
management agent reported.
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SEATTLE, (JP)—The last sailing
upthe Yukon River will leave Ne
nana August 22, the Alaska Rail
road office announced yesterday.
The return trip will be the last
down river voyage of the year.
General cargo for the downriver
trip will be received until August
15.
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Fifteen
month-old Roxanne Gee was re
turned to her home in Kenai Mon
day, safely recovered from her
narrow brush with death. t
The infant was found strug
gling in a tidal pool Sunday by
her sister, Raydelle. 2. Attracted
by the sister’s shouts, a neighbor
rescued the child and applied ar
tificial respiration. When the child
' failed to regain consciousness, she
was rushed to an Anchorage hos
pital in the private plane of Har
old H. Griffith. She revived while
in the air.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (/P) —
An $8,000,000 contract for recon
ditioning mothballed Douglas B-26
attack bombers for the air forces
was announced yesterday by
Douglas Aircraft Co.
Hiring of additional workers at
Douglas' Long Beach plant will
begin this week, and total 1,200 to
1,500 eventually. The plant now
employs approximately 7,000.
Company field service engineers
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IN THE KOREAN LIMELIGHT
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COMMANDER IN CHIEF in
the Far East, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur has shouldered
new responsibilities in the
Korean crisis. The Seventh
Fleet is in his control.
FORMOSA’S KEEPER, Vice
Adm. Arthur D. Struble,
commander of the Seventh
Fleet. It is patterned after
the hard-hitting task forces
that struck fast in World
War II.
IN THE AIR Lt. Gen. George
E. Stratemeyer rules the
roost. He commands the Far
East Air Forces. His fight
ers have orders to clear the
skies south of the 38th par
allel of latitude.
HEAD ADVISOR of the U. S.
military in South Korea is
Brig. Gen. John H. Church,
operating directly under Gen.
MacArthur. He heads the
Ryukyus (Okinawa) Military
Government.
Building Hangar
For ‘Eyes and Ears’
Of The Military
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — A new
$71,000 airplane hangar near the
Bering Sea Coast will be used by
Alaska Scouts in their job of
coast-watching.
Col. Joseph Alexander, chief of
the Territory’s National Guard,
said today the hangar for small
scout planes is being built at
Bethel, on the* Kuskokwim River.
The airplanes will be used in sup
port of Eskimo battalions which
are being outfitted to act as the
“eyes and ears” of the military
along the desolate Bering Coast.
Most of the Scouts are hunters,
trappers, fishermen and guides
who know the barren countryside
well.
A similar outfit of Alaskans be
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Draft Machinery
For 20,000 Soldiers
Set In Motion
(By C. Yales McDaniel)
WASHINGTON </P)—Draft ma
chinery to produce the 20,000 re
cruits asked for by the army was
in motion yesterday, while mili
tary leaders sought ships to carry
already trained troops to back the
defense of Southern Korea against
invading communists.
The army said it is studying the
possibility of opening induction
centers to handle the draftees as
well as the flow of volunteers
Monday’s call-up is expected to
produce.
Army officials explained, how
ever, that induction centers may
not be necessary, unless the en
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Bartlett Confident
Statehood Bills
Will Pass
WASHINGTON, </P) —- Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska said yesterday
he has been assured Statehood
bills for Alaska and Hawaii will
be considered by the Senate be
fore adjournment.
Bartlett said Senate majority
leader Lucas (D.-Ill.) assured hifh
that he would call up the state
hood legislation before Congress
adjourns or recesses .
The assurance from Lucas came
as a surprise because he hereto
fore has said he did not believe
there would be time before Con
gressional adjournment for the
Senate to act on the bills, already
passed by the House. The Senate
insular affairs committee also has
approved them.
“Getting this assurance from
Senator Lucas,” Bartlett told a
reporter, “means the two statehood
bills will be passed. I feel certain
that once they are called up on
the Senate floor they will be ap
proved.”
Red Koreans Com
mit Atrocities On
Allied Prisoners •
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(By The Associated Press)
An American base in South Ko
rea, (/P)—Front line reports Tues
day night indicated 18 American
soldiers have been bound and
slain by their communist North
Korean captors.
The executions all apparently
took place in the field, in most
cases not long after the victims
fell into communist hands. U. S.
fighting men expressed anger over
the manner of the killings.
Allowances were made for pos
sible duplications in the battle
front cases reported. In each in
stance the type of wound, nature
of the bindings and other distin
guishing markings were sifted by
reporters making the count; to try
to avoid duplications.
Lt. D. C. Cates of Joinerville,
Tex., was the first to report the
atrocity slayings of bound prison
ers. He said GI’s were slain after
having surrendered. Their hands
were bound behind them. The
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Communication
Delegate Bartlett has sent a
communication explaining the ex
tension time for the annual assess
ment work on mining claims. He
states that Public Law provides
that the period in which assess
ment work has been extended for
1950 until October 1st of this year.
NO REQUIREMENT IS CON
TAINED IN THE LAW TO THE
EFFECT THAT NOTICES OF
H O LDING MINING CLAIMS
MUST BE FILED.
THE NEXT ASSESS M E N T
YEAR IS STILL JULY 1st, 1950
TO JULY 1st, 1951, AND ASSESS
MENT WORK FOR THAT PERI
OD MAY BE STARTED ANY
TIME AND SIMULTANEOUSLY
WITH THE WORK TO BE COM
PLETED BY OCTOBER 1st, 1950.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
(By The Associated Press)
Tuesday# July 11# 1950
Tank-led communist forces
mounted a furious new offensive
deep in South Korea today and
an American field headquarters
spokesman said U. S. troops were
withdrawing to prepared positions
under pressure “all along our
front line.”
A communique from headquar
ters of Gen. MacArthur, U. N.
commander, said U. S. forces were
trying to halt the offensive above
the Kum River, last major defense
line the Americans have to stop
the offensive before Taejon, the
emergency South Korean capital.
North Korean tanks burst out
of fog-shrouded positions, cracked
a hole in American lines and led
possibly a division of communist
troops through the gap, shoving
Americans out of places gained in
an earlier counter attack.
The field headquarters spokes
man 'Said the Reds are using infil
tration tactics as good as any he
had ever seen. He said they “infil
trate by dressing in civilian clothes
and move behind our lines at
night”
The MacArthur communique
said U. S. forces blunted the drive
of one enemy column eight miles
northwest of Chochiwon on the
south bank of the Miho River, a
tributary of the Kum River. This
drive had peneterated to about 25
miles northwest of Taejon. Addi
tional Red troops and armor were
reported concentrating in the sec
tor, and a field headquarters
spokesman said the situation was
still “fluid” —t hat is, constantly
changing.
Unofficial reports reach i n g
Tokyo said Americans gave up
Chochiwon, 22 miles northwest of
Taejon.
This apparently was the area of
the new Red offensive which
started early Tuesday, Tokyo
time.
Eleven tanks, some of them 60
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