__OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA —MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LII. No. 124 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950_Per Copy—15c
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BALTIMORE, </P)—H. L. Men
chen’s condition grew worst over
Wednesday night. His doctor re
ported yesterday morning he was
barely alive.
The 70-year-old newspaperman,
author and critic has been near
death at Johns Hopkins hospital
since a severe heart attack a
week ago last night.
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (/P)—Claude
A. Klasner awoke in a fit of
coughing and found a bullet in
his month.
Consulting his physician, Klas
ner, 50, was told it was the pellet
that lodged near the base of his
brain in a hunting accident 13
years ago.
Since then the soft-nosed cop
per-jacketed .32 caliber slug had.
worked its way slowly through,
Klasner's neck, emerging yester
day through an old scar from a
tonsil operation, the doctor said.
DETROIT, I/P)—It takes a ‘hot
rod” to catch a “hot rod,” police
here decided.
So they ordered more than 100
“hot rod” scout cars for pursuit
of speeders. Police have received
the first batch of the new speed
jobs. They are souped-up to do j
110 miles an hour and can jump;
from zero to 83 miles an hour in j
30 seconds.
ERIE, Pa. (/P)—Reports of ‘‘a
shooting” at 18th and Peach streets
in downtown Erie yesterday
brought police on the run with
drawn guns.
When they arrived they found
the assailants and the victims still
at the scene.
The assailants: two youths,
ages 10 and 12 armed with BB
* guns The victims: some empty
beer cans.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Gene Tur
ner, 35, a power tool operator, fell
from a scaffold Tuesday.
He plunged down the face of
Eklutna Dam, glanced off sloping!
rock and landed 50 feet below.
Injuries: fractured wrist, minor
bruises.
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SEATTLE, (/P) — The Aleutian I
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Steamship Co., which recently
won the contract to carry mail
from Seward to the Aleutian Is
lands, announced yesterday that
it will carry passengers on the
mail boat Pomare. It has accom
modations for nine.
The Pomare leaves today for!
Seward, Seldovia, Kodiak and 19
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points in the Aleutians.
The Pomare does not operate on
a fixed schedule, but] it is expect
ed she will said from Seattle for
Southeastern Alaska about once a j
month, L. J. Cummings of the!
Alaska Consolidating & Forward-!
ing Co., the steamship company’s!
agent here, said.
Lyng Brings Party ;
Feud Into Open
SEATTLE, </P) — Responsibility
for Democratic party setbacks in
Alaska’s general election last
week was laid Monday at the
door of the Territorial Governor
in a stiffly worded protest by the
party’s national committeeman.
Howard Lyng, the committee
man, said the reduction in Demo
cratic strength in both houses of
the Territorial legislature was
“not a defeat for the Democratic
party.”
“It is rather,” he said, a regis
tered protest of the majority of
Alaska voters against the manner
in which the head of the present
administration—federally appoint
ed Governor (Ernest) Gruening—
has been conducting the affairs of
the Territory in recent years.”
(The election Iasi week saw Re
publicans win six out of eight
seats in the Senate and 10 out of
14 in the House. Holdover Demo-!
crats will give the parties an 8-8 |
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Express Train
Jumps Tracks; j
Kills Four j
ONEIDA. N. Y. W—The New
York Central Railroad’s “North
Star” Express, streaking west
ward in the darkness was violent
ly derailed here early yesterday
at a cost of two lives and 15 in
jured.
The fleet passenger train, roar
ing through this central New York
flatland, at a 75-mile-an-hour
clip, hurtled the rails in the heart
of Oneida. A steel freight-car
door that had fallen in the path
of the limited was blamed for the
wreck.
The engineer and fireman were
killed. None of the injured was
reported in serious condition.
The steam locomotive and all
11 cars of the flyer plunger off
the tracks and tore up 500 yards
of the Central’s four-track main
line, which hugs the north bank i
of the New York State barge can
al. Traffic was re-routed over the !
Central’s parallel West Shore
Railroad on the other side of the j
canal.
The North Star, enroute from I
New York to Toronto and Cleve
land, was racing through this city
of 11,500, located in the exact cen
ter of New York State.
Its conductor, Paul J. Schaefer
of Albany, said about 200 passen
gers were aboard, more than us
ual because of fog-bound air
transportation in New York City.
Sgt. Harold Lutz of the state
police said the freight-car door,
cut in two by the grinding wheels
of the train, lay in the center of
the tracks about in the middle
of the train.
“BATTLE MOUNTAIN”
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Korea’s Highest Priced Real Estate
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BATTLE MOUNTAIN with shell cases telling the story.
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You probably won’t find Battle
Mountain on the map. Officially,
it is Hill 665, a 2,000-foot high
prolongation of Pilbong Mountain
two miles southwest of what was
Haman.
But there it stands. Look over
on the right. See the green nob
with the tan supply trail winding
up? Look left of the saddle and
then up the steep slope with torn
scrub pines on it. See the jutting
cliff halfway up? Then the bushy
ridgeline sweeping up to a bald
nipple? That’s Battle Mountain.
American troops moved up
there Aug. 16 in a planned with
drawal back when there were so
many of those humiliating plan
ned withdrawals.
The Reds wanted it desperate
ly. From Battle Mountain you
could see the whole U. S. 25th Di
vision front, the men in foxholes
on lesser hills, the camouflaged
long-nosed tanks and the vehicles
moving along the washboard
roads.
Twenty-six times the commun
ists attacked it. 9nd in battle an
attack is the war for many a man.
Sometimes it is life.
Thirteen times Battle Mountain
changed hands. Then the U. N.
power pushed the battle lines far
beyond it and made its strategic'
value almost negligible.
When the enemy held it. you
could see them up there through
your field glasses.
What yau could not see was the!
remembered heroism of the,
Americans who fought there.
There were innumerable Amer
ican soldiers, mostly Negro, who|
were heroes.
Most of their stories will never j
be told. Their deeds—remember
ed and unremembered—are, in a
way, up on the hill now. Up on
' Battle Mountain where North Ko
1 erans cowered in holes dug by
Americans. Up on the most ex
pensive piece of real estate in
Korea.
It was expensive in the heroism
a man buys once with his life.
It was expensive in dollars—
America spent probably $5,000,
000 to try to buy it. It was expen
sive in weariness and in glory for
America—Negro and White—and
South Korea. It was expensive
for the North Korean Communist
rulers who purchased Battle
Mountain with blood—witfci up to
5,000 crumpled bodies of their
men—but all in vain.
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Seawall Stands Up
Under First Test
Nome’s seawall under construc
tion by the Mansen-Osberg Con
struction Co., of Seattle, had its
first test during the past week
with winds blowing to gale force
up to 60 miles an hour, according
to the weather bureau.
Mr. O. S. Weaver of the North
ern Light and (Power Co'., stated
that the power plant, which is at
the extreme east end of the wall
and where the seawall is still in
complete, was well protected. For
merly, he stated when the heavy;
surf hit his bulkhead during a
storm, the whole building and
even the machinery vibrated, but
during the past week this did not
occur. At the western end of the
seawall Mrs. Wallace stated that
the wall was “wonderful,” with
only a slight spray from the wind
coming over occasionally.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Thursday, October 19, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Most of Pyongyang, communist
capital of North Korea, was in the
hands of United Nations forces to
day. Red Premier Kim II Sung
and members of his government
have fled to the north.
Tank-led units of the U. S. First
Cavalry Division and the South
Korean Republic’s First Division
joined up near the heart of the
city. Communists surrendered by
the thousands. The capital appear
ed deserted by its 700,000 inhab
itants.
(TP) correspondent Don White
head said it was an easy contest.
Only a few snipers and diehard
communists were attempting to
stop the inexorable advance of the
Allies.
The communists had not plan
ned it this way. Banners strung
across the streets called on the
; people to “defend this city to the
last.” But there was no real de
fense.
Pyongyang civilians told a
South Korean army spokesman
that Premier Kim and his com
munist government had flown the
coop. They were said to have fled
to Huichon, 80 miles to the north.
Escape roads northward were
jammed. But in Tokyo, intelli
gence officers said there is no in
dication the Korean Reds are
planning an organized defense
line north of Pyongyang.
There seemed little chance of
further large-scale enemy resist
ance. Sa speedy was the Allied
advance that the Red’s overall de
fense plan seemed to have been
shattered. Allied commanders
said the comparative ease with
which the capital was captured
might indicate a change in the
war that started June 25 when
the North Koreans invaded South
Korea in force. The war from now
on, they said, might be in the
nature of scattered guerrilla ac
tions.
While U. N. forces chalked up
this victory, diplomats at Lake
Success were attempting to work
out a system of peace patrols in a
new anti-aggression pro gram
sponsored by the United States
and six other nations. The spon
sors met behind closed doors to
discuss Russia’s demand to serve
on the patrols.
The plan, which puts teeth in
the U. N. efforts to maintain peace
is supported by Britain, Canada,
France, Turkey, the Philippines
and Uruguay, besides its chief
sponsor the United States. Soviet
foreign minister Andrei Y. Vishin
sky has demanded that the 14
nation peace patrol include repre
sentatives of the five big powers.
In this list he included com
munist China as well as the Sov
iet Union, the United States, Bri
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