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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LII. No. 106 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY^ SEPTEMBER 8, 1950
NEWS IN BRIEF
JUNEAU {/Pi—Alaska treasurer
Henry Roden reported yesterday
$837,114 cash in the Territorial
treasury on Sept. 1 to care for
running expenses until the new
biennium starts in January.
The new biennium starts when
the new Legislature convenes.
WASHINGTON, (/P) —FBI di
rector J. Edgar Hoover was re
ported to have told Senators yes
terday his agents are ready to ar
rest 12,000 dangerous communists
if war should break out with Rus
sia.
A member of thei Senate appro
priations committee, asking not to
be named, quoted Hoover as tell
ing the group in a closed session
that he needs more funds for ad
ditional agents to keep a close
check on these persons.
He said Hoover wants his agents
to be able “to put these people to
bed at night and get them up in
the morning” in watching their
activities.
PETERSBURG <.P)—It’s four of
a kind for the Justin Maces! (An
other boy, 8 lbs).
SEATTLE (/P)—Six persons, in
cluding three small children, died
early today when their light car
was crushed between a freight
truck and a bulldozer on the Seat
tle-Tacoma highway.
Four of the six were killed in
stantly. A fifth, a small boy about
3 years, was dead on arrival at
New Renton hospital. The sixth,
Lt. Carroll R. Larson, an air force
reserve officer, died shortly after
being admitted for treatment.
Coroner’s deputies said they be
lieved one of the two women kill
ed was Larson’s wife and that the
three children were the Larsons’.
HELENA, Mont. UP), Gov. John
K. Bonner today called an interna
tional conference to plan joint
civil defense “in event of any en
emy action.”
He asked six army officials,
governors of six western states
and Premiers of three Canadian
provinces to join him at a meet
ing here Sept. 21.
Among invitations was one to
Gov. Ernest Gruening of Alaska.
CAIRO, Egypt, </P>—No news
papers were sold on Cairo’s streets
today. A new law went into ef
fect ordering publication only six
days a week. The newsboys de
cided the off day should be Friday
—Moslem sabbath.
PLAINFIELD, N. J. (/P)—Wil
liam F. R. Murrie, 77, who origin
ated and popularized the modern
chocolate bar, died last night.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Edwin Lewis
Sampson, 70, retired Alaskan ac
countant, died suddenly Saturday
at his West Seattle home of a
heart attack.
A resident of Seattle the past
10 years, he had been an account
ant for Spruce Mills, Ketchikan,
for 25 years prior to his retire
ment.
He graduated from Oberlin Col
lege and the University of Chicago
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Truman To Broad
cast Saturday On
Home Controls
(By D. Harold Oliver)
WASHINGTON, <(jP)—President
Truman said yesterday he will go
on the radio Saturday night to
tell the nation what he has in
mind in the way of homefrontj
economic controls during the
emergency.
He said the plans will be put
into civilian hands and added em
phatically there will be no mili
I tary dictator in charge.
In making these statements at a
new conference, the President re
ported the anti-inflation bill pass
ed by Congress is now being ana
lyzed by many federal agencies.
He said he will answer a lot of
questions about it in his radio ad
dress over four networks Satur
day at an hour still to be set. He
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Policy Committee
Holds Fate Of
Consideration Of
Statehood Bills
WASHINGTON, (£>)—'The fate
! of Alaska and Hawaii statehood
| bills at this session of Congress
rested yesterday with the Senate
Democratic policy committee.
The bills already have passed
the House and have the strong
support—expressed anew Wed
nesday—of President Truman.
In the Senate, however, Demo
cratic leader Lucas of Illinois has
maintained they were too contro
versial to squeeze into the Sen
ate’s crowded schedule.
Much of the opposition has come
from southern Senators. This was
pointed up again in advance of
the policy committee meeting yes
terday morning by Senator Rus
sell 1D.-Ga.
He blocked an agreement Wed
nesday on fixing a time to vote on
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PIONEER WOMEN'S HOME TO
OPEN AT SITKA OCTOBER 1
The Alaska Pioneer i Women’s
Home at Sitka will be formally
oponed on October 1, 1950.
Applications for admission may
be presented either to W. W.
Knight, superintendent, at Sitka,
or to Henry Roden, chairman of
the board of trustees, Alaska Pi
oneers’ Hou^e.
i
Senator Howard Lyng was
scheduled to leave today for his
mining property at Dahl Creek in
the Kougarok. He plans to be out
of town for several weeks.
and came west to Denver in 1910
and went to Alaska in 1912.
He was a member of the Shrine
here; and of Ketchikan Lodge No.
159, F. and A. M. He was a past
patron of the Eastern Star; Ketch
ikan, and a past ruler of the Elks
Lodge No. 1429, Ketchikan.
Survivors include his widow,
| Elizabeth, and a daughter, Mrs.
| Evelyn Valentine and a son, Ken
neth P., both of Ketchikan.
Schoeppel’s Red
Charges Against
Chapman Collapse
WASHINGTON, (vP) — Senator
Schoeppel (R.-Kans.) demanded
and was promised today the right
to call his own witnesses in an ef
fort to back up his charges of
communist infiltration into the in
terior department and the Alaskan
statehood fight.
Schoeppel made the move at a
public hearing of the Senate inte
rior committee investigating his
charges against secretary of the
interior Chapman &nd others—
charges which Republican col
leagues said privately seemed to
be backfiring.
Randolph Feltus, a publicity
man whom Schoeppel had de
nounced in a Senate speech Tues
day as an “agent for the Krem
lin,” angrily denied the “guilt by
association” that could “cut both
ways.”
Schoeppel had accused Feltus
of working “for the Kremlin via
Warsaw” at a time he was serving
as publicity man for the Alaskan
statehood committee. He based
that charge on the fact that Feltus
was also on the payroll of the am
bassador of communist Poland, as
a public relations man, while
working for the committee earlier
this year.
Feltus testified today that while
working for the Polish ambassa
dor, he also wrote a letter, in be
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Harry Apologizes
To Marine Corps
For Remarks
WASHINGTON (/P)—President
Truman made an unheralded visit
to the Marine Corps League’s
meeting yesterday and expressed
the hope therei will never be “an
other misunderstanding” between
him and the Marines.
It was a personal and emphatic
follow up to his apology of yes
terday for his earlier “unfortun
ate” words about the fighting
corps.
The League gave him a standing
ovation and applauded furiously
when he said, with a grin:
“You succeeded in enticing me
over here.”
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With his mind obviously on the
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Marine
League delegates, in good humor
from President Truman's apology
for his cracks about their service,
were passing this gag around con
vention headquarters:
"What's for lunch today, crow?"
furor over his description of the
Marines as a “police force” with
“a propaganda machine that is al
most equal to Stalin’s,” Mr. Tru
man said:
“There are incidents that some
time appear almost as if it was the
end of the world at the time,” but
that eventually turn out to be for
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The Army’s New ‘Eager Beaver*
MU.HI! I ....I I
Here’s a brand new Army Ordnance vehicle—the “Eager Beaver".
The 2Vi-ton truck, now in full production at Reo Motors’ plant in
Lansing, Mich., is built for high speed on and off the highway, and
is designed to operate normally in sub-zero cold, blistering heat, or
with its Gold Comet engine completely submerged in water. Reo has
been awarded contracts for approximately 8,900 of them at a cost of
about $55,000,000. In the top panel, the “Eager Beaver" is shown
“cruising" in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland,
Korean Situation
At A Glance - - •
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Thursday, September 7, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
United Nations forces held firm
against new Red attacks today
all along the 120-mile rim of their
beachhead in South Korea, but a
renewed communist general of
fensive seemed in the making.
The Allies threw back assaults
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north of Taegu and 20 miles to
the east along their imperiled
wall and the threat there was
eased, at least for the time being.
But the Reds were reported
massing at the rear of the deep
wedge they have driven into the
right flank of the Allied northern
wall. And at the other end of the
battle perimeter, on the southwest
front, Red forces kicked off at
dawn behind an intense artillery
preparation against the U. S. 25th
Infantry Division west of Masan,
port city 27 miles west of Pusan,
main Allied supply base and ul
timate communist goal.
The drive in the south made a'
slight penetration of American
lines and then the Americans held
fast.
The twin drive in the north—
apparently part of the developing
communist master plan—also was
contained. Elements of the U. S.
24th Division, troops which have
been fighting ever since the inva
sion began, drove three and a
half miles north of Kyongju in a
counterattack. This town is 18
miles southwest of charred Po
hang, the communist-captu red
east coast port which had served
the Allies well.
Red forces had reached the out
skirts of Kyongju, a road hub on
the direct road southward to Pu
san, yesterday before being halt
ed. The Allie now battled to re
establish a strong northern line
anchored in the east on the Sea of
Japan.
The western anchor of the Al
lied northern wall was also being
held firmly ^ith U. S. First Cav
alry Division troops pinning down
the enemy northwest of Taegu.
At the side of the U. S. cavalry
division were Britishinfantry men,
who were fighting off probing at
tacks in their second day in com
bat. Just to the south, along the
Naktong River front, U. S. Ma
rines and infantry advanced
against the Red bridgehead, ivest
of Yongsan, 32 miles - south * of
Taegu. v .
The Red assault in two da^i on
the northern front has cost !* the
enemy 65 tanks, put out of acti°n
by Allied air power. This was of
a total of 84 Russian-made -tanks
the enemy had committed to the
northern offensive in two brigades
against the Taegu, and Yongchon
seceors. Allie aircraft was credited,
with knocking 41 tanks out of ac
tion alone.
In a week of fighting, Red loss
es were estimated at 20,000 killed
and wounded of a total of 150,000
troops ringing the perimeter. The
U. S. defense department put
American casualties for the week
ending Sept. 1 at 1,977, an<J for
the war since its beginning
through Sept. 1 at 8,863, of whom
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