OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LII. No. 100 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1950__Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
MINNEAPOLIS, (/P) — Four of
the Pacific Northwest’s five-man
contingent survived first round
play Monday in the National Am
ateur Golf tournament. Two of
them triumphed in matches that
featured the first day’s play.
Gene Littler of Seattle, who
tied nor national medalist honors
in recent qualifying rounds, turn
ed in the day’s top upset when he
scorched his way to a 6 to 4 vic
tory over Ray Billows, three
time runner-up from Poughkeep
sie, N. Y.
A1 Mengert of Spokane won one
of the day’s longest matches, A 1
pu verdict in 21 holes over Ed
Lowery of San Francisco.
RAMBOUILLET, France, (/P)—
France's cabinet decided yester
day to send a French land force
to fight with United Nations
troops in Korea.
France’s contribution will be
composed of an infantry battalion,
probably numbering 800 soldiers,
many of whom will be volunteers,
informed sources said.
The decision was reached after
an all-day cabinet meeting held
here at the summer chauteau of
the President of the Republic, Vin
cent Auriol.
BRIDE SHOOTS HUSBAND
ON HONEYMOON
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Leslie have
been honeymooning somewhere
up Snake River. Friends were sur
prised to hear the bride say this
morning, “Well, I shot Walter.”
The groom is convalescing in the
hospital from a flesh wound
caused by the accidental shooting
of a 22 by the bride.
It is reported that the groom is
not suing for a divorce.
VANCOUVER, B. C. (£>)— The
threat of the Canadian rail strike
cancelled the scheduled run Mon
day night of the steamship Prince
Rupert, a Canadian National Rail
ways spokesman announced.
The Prince Rupert was sched
uled to sail at 9 p.m. for Prince
Rupert, B. C., Ketchikan, Alaska,
and way ports.
FAIRBANKS, (£>)—'The body of
an Indian father of five children
was found on a sandbar yesterday.
It was identified as that of Wil
liam Siverly, who disappeared
Aug. 13 while swimming in the
Chena River.
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NEW YORK, (^P)—A new annu
al contract for round trip air
transportation between Seatt 1 e i
and Kodiak, Alaska, has been!
awarded by the navy to Alaska
Airlines, Inc., it was announced j
today by R. W. Marshall, board
chairman.
The contract, for transporting
both supplies and men, also calls
for service between Seattle and!
Adak Island on the Aleutian
chain.
Alaska Airlines recently com
pleted a two-year navy contract
for service between Fairbanks
and Point Barrow, Alaska. Since!
July 5, the company has been fly
Practice Military
Dependents Evac
uation Saturday
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A practice
evacuation to prepare dependents
of military personnel for a possi
ble attack on Alaska by an enemy
will be staged here Saturday
morning with a 50-mile “with
drawal” up the Alaska Highway.
Dependents of Elmendorf Air
Force Base and Fort Richardson
troops will participate in the part
theory, part-practice action. Its
purpose is to set up a quick, or
derly procedure for evacuation to
the United States without clog
ging travel arteries or snarling
military traffic.
In theory, it will be Territory
wide and include air travel. In|
fact, as set up by Lt. Gen. William
Kepner, commander-in-chief of
Alaskan defenses, it will not in
clude civilians living in Anchor
age, Fairbanks and other cities.
It does not, military officials
said, point to the need for evacua
tion at this time. “Our main con
cern,” one officer said, “is to avoid
a panicky populace. We are not
going to punch a panic button.”
As worked out, the dependents
will gather at designated collec
tion points when the signal is
given Saturday morning. They
| will be picked up by buses and
driven as far as Palmer. There
they will be processed as if they
were beginning the long drive to
the reception station at Great
Falls, Mont. This would be via the
Glenn and Richardson highway to
Big Delta, on the Alaskan High
way.
In a genuine evacuation the de
pendents would be taken in con
voys across Canada by the U. S.
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BULLETIN
(Special to The Nugget)
WASHINGTON. (£>)-_'Trainmen
and conductors called a nation-,
wide railroad strike to begin at
6.00 a.m. Monday. The two unions
have been locked with the rail-|
roads for months on a wage and
hour dispute. They issued the call
after the collapse of White House
negotiations. About 300.000 men
are involved.
ALASKA AIRLINES
INCREASES MAIL SERVICE
The Alaska Airlines have an
nounced an increased mail service
to points nort hand south due toj
the large volume of mail being
carried to these points, as of Sep
tember 6.
Teller, Wales, Shishmaref will
receive weekly service instead of
every other week. Teller will also
have two extra mail runs on Mon
day and Friday.
Solomon, Council, White Moun
tain, Golovin, Moses Point. Koy
uk, Haycock, Ungalik and Shak
toolik will have mail every Wed
nesday, Thursday, Saturday and
Sunday intsead of Saturday and
Sunday.
ing men and supplies to Tokyo via
the Aleutians for the air force.
U. of A. Geophysical Institute -
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Top: The Geophysical Institute
at the University of Alaska, now
nearing completion. The struc
ture will be dedicated this fall.
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Right: Clement J. Gerber, pro
ject engineer, who has supervised
construction of the building.
Lower: One of six two-bed
room cottages just completed on
the campus for Geophysical per
sonnel.
Alaska’s first “earth-quake
proof” building, the new Geophys
ical Institute at the University of
Alaska, will be completed for
dedication early this fall, accord
ing to Clement J. Gerber, project
engineer for the Federal Works
Agency.
“The Geophysical Building will
be the strongest structure in the
Territory,” Gerber stated. “It has
been built to withstand an earth
quake of intensity 9; intensity 10
is total destruction.”
The building, costing almost a
million dollars, was sponsored by
Delegate E. L. Bartlett and au
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^horized by the 79th Congress. The
structure is 120 feet long, 52 feet
wide, and contains* 125 tons of re
inforcing steel. It has three floors,
a penthouse and an astra dome
with a powerful telescope. “When
all scientific equipment is install
ed, the Geophysical Building will
have some of the finest facilities
i nthe world for studying the Arc
tic, the stratosphere and regions
beyond,” Gerber said.
Army Plans More
Alaska Expansion
((JP) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (IP)—The army
plans to send more men to Alaska
as it carries on its present expan
sion.
And it wants Congress to appro
priate $29,305,640 for construction
of facilities for them.
This was revealed yesterday in
testimony made public by the
House appropriations committee
on a supplemental request for
$10,486,976,000 for the armed
services for the year that began
July 1.
No figures were given on the
size of the force it was contem
plated to put in the Territory.
“This is all part of the Alaskan
development program for the de
fense of this country from that
area,” Brig. Gen. W. iL. Barriger,
chief of the army’s service divi
sion, told the committee.
“We do not have the facilities
there now to put the troops in
that should be in that area.
“As a result of expansion of the
army we will get in that area and
we would like to have this appro
priation to take care of them.”
The army’s request for Alaskan
construction is broken down this
way:
Fort Richardson, $16,325,000.
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Motor Breaks Away
Plane Flies 100
Miles; Lands Safely
DENVER, </P)—The cabin of an
American Air Lines plane was
ripped open when an engine
broke away high over the Colora
do Rockies early yesterday and
the big ship landed here with one
dead and seven injured.
The four-engine DC-6 was
bound from Los Angeles to Chi
cago, carrying 52 passengers and
a crew of five at 21,000 feet near
Eagle, Colo., when the right in
board engine suddenly broke
from its wing moorings.
Part of the propeller or a piece
! of the shattered engine slashed
through the top of the passenger
compartment, tearing a hole about
four by eight feet over the for
ward three rows of seats and re
leasing the air from the pressur
ized cabin.
Pilot R. K. Baker reported the
mishap to the Denver CAA office,
obtained clearance for an emer
gency landing and brought the
ship about 100 miles into the Den
ver airport in 19 minutes. Landing
without further trouble.
Here it was found that one pas
senger was dead and seven others
injured. All of the injured were
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday* August 22* 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Red North Korean forces at
tacked at both ends of the western
front today and were thrown back
by U. S. infantryment in heavy
fighting. With their casualties
soaring, the apparently off-bal
ance communists seemed unable
to get rolling with their ominous
ly poised offensives.
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The Reds made their heaviest
attack on the southern end of the
western front, but U. S. 25th Divi
sion infantrymen there slammed
shut the attempt to break through
for a drive on Pusan, main United
Nations supply base. The Dough
boys retook every inch of ground
they had lost in bitter fighting.
The Reds attacked the U. S.
27 th Regiment on the northern
end of the front. Nine Russian
made tanks led a battalion of com
munists in the pre-dawn assault*
When the smoke cleared, four of
the nine tanks were knocked out,
bringing the toll to 10 Red tanks
in three nights. No American
tanks were hit.
Behind the enemy lines infil
trations raised cain, covering
roads with sniper fire. One road
block two miles behind U. S. lines
and 10 miles from Taegu was
wiped out after it stalled Allied
supplies to the front for two
hours. The Americans fought un
der a rain of heavy artillery fire.
But Allied forces held firm all
along the battleline against the
combined weight of nine enemy
divisions—90,000 men—poised for
offensives in any of three direc
tions—down the east coast, from
the north against Taegu, or along
the south coast against Pusan.
On the eastern coastal sector of
the 120-mile Korean battle line,
the South Korean Third Division
edged to a point nine miles north
of Pohang, under cover of shelling
by U. S. naval units. Just to the
west of them, the South Korean
capital division moved north and
east of Kigye. z
On the Naktong front southwest
of Taegu, wearied 24th Infantry
division troops dug in along the
east bank of the river where they
and marines had wiped out a
threatening communist bridge
head. They kept dose watch on
another small Red bridgehead
north of them at Hyongpung, 14
miles southwest of Taegu.
(JP) correspondent William Shinn
reported from a Korean port that
South Korean marines landed at
Ejak Island, off Inchon, Seoul’s
port, yesterday. The landing was
the third made in the area of the
Yellow Sea off the west coast in
the past week. Other South Kore
an Marines advanced on the ex
treme southern front fro their pe
ninsular bridgehead on the Tong
yong area, south of Kosong.
With the Red momentum ap
parently halted on the fronts, ob
servers in the Orient looked upon
communist China’s appeal to the
U. N. for a “peaceful settlement”
as a possible attempt to save face
and make the best of a worsening
situation which might develop
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