OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LII. No. 94 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1950 - Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEW YORK, (/P)—Gloria Van
derbilt Stokowski, heiress wife of
symphony conductor Leopold Sto
kowski, has made a maternity
reservation at the Lying-In Hos
pital here, the hospital said yes
k terday.
Mrs. Stokowski, 26, and her
husband, 68, were married in
Mexico in 1945.
A hospital spokesman said the
Stokowskis have made a reserva
tion for the “early part of this
month.”
Mrs. Stokowski inherited an es
tate of $4,295,628 on her 21st
birthday.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Marine
Corps officials in Washington
were digging into their existing
manpower resources and may
soon call for authority to expand.
The Corps announced Monday
to call up all their 80,000 volun
teer reserves. This will bring their
active strength to 200,000, about
as far as they can go now.
OTTAWA, (/P) — Canadian and
American military experts met to
plan pool war production. Prime
Minister Louis E. Laurent fore
cast “a pretty close collaboration.”
He announced Monday Canada is
equipping a brigade of between
4,000 and 5,000 men for use in Ko
rea or anywhere the United Na
tions needs them.
HONG KONG, (JP)—Communist
shore batteries opened up on a
Norwegian freighter 15 miles
south of Honk Kong. The 4,951
ton freighter carrying cargo to Ja
pan, main Allied base for the Ko-:
rean war, was not hit by the Red
barrage. In the last two days a
British and an American ship
i
were shelled in the same area.
JAKARTA, Indonesia, (#>) — In
East Indonesia, rebel Amboinese
soldiers in the island capital of
Makassar broadcast defiance of
the Central Indonesian govern
ment. They said they were sup-|
porting the rebel South Moluccas
government on their home island
of Amboina.
LONDON {JP)—British Conserv-|
atives presented an alternative to
the Schuman Plan to pool Eu
rope’s coal and steel. The new
British outline came before the
European Consultative Assembly
at Strasbourg, France.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—Carroll L.
Wilson resigned yesterday as gen- l
eral manager of the Atomic Ener- ?
gy Commission.
President Truman accepted the
resignation, effective August 15.
The commission designated Carle
ton Shugg, present deputy general
manager, to serve as acting gener
al manager.
The President said he had “no
alternative” but to comply with
Wilson’s desire to step out from a
post he has held since civilians
took over the development of
atomic energy.
NEW YORK, (JP)—Transatlan
tic communications were disrupt
ed yesterday by sunspot activity
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Seek Senate Dis
cussion, Passage of
Statehood Bills
((/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Makers
i of proposals to grant statehood to
! Alaska and Hawaii are making
■ attempts to get the bills passed
' by unanimous consent in the Sen
| ate.
Both measures were blocked
I by objections, but Senate major
; ity leader Lucas (D.-Ill.) served
notice he wants the issue debated
again before Congress quits—and
without any parliamentary tricks.
Lucas told the Senate he ‘has
heard” that ar* attempt will be
: made to add controversial civil
rights legislation to the Alaska or
Hawaii bill.
“I certainly hope that doesn’t
happen,” he said.
Alaska, Lucas said, “is one of
our outposts . . . vital to the de
| fense of all of the States” and
| should be admitted to the Union,
i Its admission, he said, would
* “open the frontiers . . . for mil-*
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O.E.S. Entertains
'M.W.G.M. Hanson
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Degrees were conferred last
Monday evening by the Order of
Eastern Star on Mary Bellury and
Mabel Jonish in the presence of
the Most Worthy Grand Matron
of the order, who is here on offi
cial visitation.
The M.W.G.M. Abbie Hanson of
Hammond, Indiana, has been the
guest of members o the order and
was served a lovely luncheon
Monday evening following the ini
tiation on tables decorated with
wild fireweed. The committee
consisted of Florence Bingham,
chairman Helen Stevens, Edith
Weaver, Mary Ellen Blattler. Sou
venir programs weer presented to
all guests present.
Yesterday at noon Mrs. Hanson
was the guest of the Star Points
at a luncheon served at the Bering
Sea Club. A guest gift of a beauti
ful pair of hand made Eskimo
slippers was presented to the hon
ored guest.
Last evening, following *a deli
cious dinner of Alaska crab, pre
pared by the Northern Grill, with
Mrs. H. F. Harper as hostess, a
short informal instruction discus
sion was held.
Moving pictures featuring the
round-up of reindeer were shown
by Sam Huxley of pictures which
he and Elmo Miller had taken of
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SISTERS ARRIVE FOR
CATECHISM CLASSES
Sister Ann Riter and Sister
Kathleen Mary of Holy Cross ar
rived yesterday from Holy Cross
and started catechism classes this
morning.
Regular daily classes are being
held every morning from 9:45 to
11:45 and in the afternoon from
1:45 to 4:00 p.m.
A special evening class for
older children of High School age
will be started this evening at 7:30
p.m.
Johnson Claims Anchorage-Fairbanks
Plumbers Strikes Are Security Threat
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FAIRBANKS, <£>)—Union lead
ers were surprised today to hear
that Secreaary of Defense Johnson
had labeled a Fairbanks plumb
ers’ strike as a national security
threat.
There isn’t any strike here, it
was settled July 12.
The Cabinet member was quot
ed as bracketing Fairbanks with
Anchorage, the other active major
Alaska military center. Plumbers
at Anchorage have been on strike
since July 26.
Union business agent Carl Slats
burg said plumbers here are ready
to go to work, but have not been
called for jobs. He said many men
are idle because construction jobs
are not getting started, as they
were supposed to. He said dozens
of men could go to work at a mo
ment’s notice.
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Various factors, including red
tape, are blamed for the delay.
Union leaders expressed the
opinion there was too much delay
in letting bids for* military pro
jects, including housing; that they
came so late that it has been im
possible to get materials in.time
for the short Far Northern con
struction season.
Contractors’ spokesmen said the
hold-back has been due to gov
ernment red tape and now to lack
of materials.
On office executive on the Ladd
Air Base project cited a specific
example. He said a crane was
needed. It finally was obtained.
Now it can’t be used until gov
ernment permission is obtained,
which will take about 10 days.
He said the delay in ordering
materials was due to uncertainty
about labor, and now shipments
are slowed up because of the Ko
rean emergency and more red
tape.
Contractors’ spokesmen said
they now are waiting for materi
als and hope to be back on sched
ule before the end of the season if
materials become available.
The Standard Oil Tanker “Chris
tine Voss” is in the roadstead to
discharge oil and gas.
Several Standard Oil officials
are also here for the unloading,
including M. B. Vincent and J. H.
Samson.
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Striking
Anchorage plumbers struck back
today at Defense Secreaary John
son’s charges their strike was
“jeopardizing” U. S. security.
They posed the question: When
is a defense project not a defense'
project? Then they gave their
own definition.
Clayton Bilderback, internation
al representative of the AFL
plumbers and steamfitters union
Local 367, but it this way:
“For the purposes of the strike,
all projects are not defense pro
jects. If corps of engineers money
is used in construction of a hous
ing project, we term that defense
housing. A job that involves direct
military authorization, planning
and funds, is a defense project.
“If government agencies and
private sponsors develop housing,
as it being done by the Federal
Housing Administration on a loan
basis, then we do not consider it
to be defense housing in the strike
picture.”
•Plumbers’ business agent Sam
Odle said:
“We haven’t pulled anybody
off defense projects and don’t in
tend to. Four additional plumbers
were dispatched to one military
■ installation yesterday.”
The union has agreed to man
highly important defense installa
tions at $3 per hour pending set
tlement of the strike, but insists
on its own definition of what con
stitutes a defense project, Odle
said.
About 300 plumbers are involv
ed in the strike, called July 26
when master plumbers refused the
wage boost from $3 tb $3.50 per
hour, and offered a compromise of
$3.15, with double pay for over
time and Saturdays and room and
board outside the Anchorage area.
Yesterday peace talks resumed
under Federal Mediator William
Hosie, who reported “some slight
progress.”
The Fairbanks local settled a
similar strike earlier in July at
$3.50 per hour.
The Anchorage local controls
not only Anchorage’s $100,000,000
construction, but additional pro
jects in central and western Alas
ka, at remote locations.
Battle Of The Pacific
((/P) Newsfeatures)
THIS IS THE ENEMY—Space—which the U. S. forces face in the
battle of Korea. Supply lines are very long.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday, August 8, 1950*
(By The Associated Press)
United Nations forces resumed
their counterattack on the blazing
southern Korean front today. To
the north Red troops swarmed
across the Naktong river in a
grave threat to Taegu. In the east
coast 1,000 Red troops or guerril
las were reported stabbing within
five miles of the U. S. beachhead
at Pohang.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
announced the southern offensive
by marines and doughboys stab
bed onward toward Chinju, com
munist jumpoff point threatening
Pusan, U. S. supply base 55 miles
away.
The new threat on the east coast
was reported by South Korean
army sources. Pohang, east coast
port wheer the U. S. First Cavalry
Division landed, is about 70 miles
north of Pusan and about 25 miles
south of Yongdok, where South
Koreans are resisting mounting"
communist pressure.
Front Reports said at least 9,000
Red troops forded the Naktong
River barrier in darkness for a
threat to Taegu, South Korea’s
provisional capital and a key to
American defenses in the remain
ing beachhead. More thousands
were reported massing on the far
side of the river, with Red tanks
rolling up.
Tokyo headquarters said:
“The possible threat from the
small bridgeheads thrown across
the Naktong River has neither in
creased nor decreased.”
It did not say wehther this re
ferred to the reported Taegu
threat or to communist stabs 30
miles to the south in the Chang
yong area, where U.S. troops were
battling to clean out the bridge
heads.
Headquarters said enemy cas
ualties continued high, with about
300 communists killed or captured
in a mopup of pockets by task
force Kean, the offensive drive
commanded by Maj. Gen. William
Kean. American casualties for 24
hours were placed at 10 killed, 50
wounded and seven missing.
Operation Kean began to gather
momentum again after bogging
down at the end of a 10-mile
plunge toward Chunju against
stiff opposition. It last was report
er 12 miles east of burned out
Chinju.
U. S. Eighth Army headquarters
in Korea said the Red break
through the Naktong River line
was of “primary corcem” now.
Three communist regiments slip
ped across the river and more
were on the way. At’least on tank
was across and the Reds were at
tempting to ferry over more ar
mor in the same manner in which
they breached other water de
fense lines in their march down
the Korean peninsula.
The new communist offensive
was only 1 miles northwest of
Taegu. Another Red prong spear
ed across the Naktong about 30
miles to the south near Changn
yong. Fresh U. S. troops were or
dered to wipe out this bridgehead
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