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VOL. LII. No. 116 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1950_Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF i
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WASH INGTON, (/P)— Surgeons!
performed a rare operation Friday j
in which they removed a jagged
shell fragment from the heart of a
33-year-old sergeant wounded in
Korea six weeks ago.
During part of the three-hour,
operation the heart was carefully
kept functioning by hand pres
sure of the participating surgeons, j
LOS ANGELES, (JP)—A recall;
election against Mayor Fletcher
Bowron will be held Nov. 7.
The recall measure was ordered
put on the election ballot by the
city council Friday after city clerk
Walter C. Peterson certified the
required 89,427 signatures — and
some 200 more.
WASHINGTON, f/P>—President
Truman sailed off Saturday night
on a week-long, landlubber-style
cruise through local waters.
The yacht Williamsburg took
4 him and members of his staff
dcfwn the Potomac and up Chesa
peake Bay, anchoring every night
somewhere along the way.
ANCHORAGE, (JP) — Alaska
Delegate E. L. Bartlett told a din
ner meeting here that Statehood
opponents are like those who op
posed the purchase of Alaska or
iginally.
‘They lost then, and they are
fighting a rear-guard action
against statehood now,” he de
clared.
DENVER, f/P)—The first winter
weather of the season crept down
the eastern edge of the Rockies
Saturday.
Wyoming stockmen were warn
ed to protect cattle against snow,
freezing tempeAtures and winds
up to 40 miles an hour. Along the
^ Montana-Wyoming border, snofw
already blanketed a large area,
with depths close to half a foot in
some places.
KODIAK, (IP) — A $35,000 fire
swept the wheelhouse, upper cab
ins and deck of the Kodiak Bear
III, a 98-foot bear-hunting yacht,
early Friday.
The fire was believed caused by
a carelessly dropped cigarette by
a crew member.
The Kodiak Bear is the former
yacht Principia, built in Tacoma
in 1930 at a cost of $183,000. It
was purchased by Charles Mad
sen. a Kodiak guide, in 1938 while
t was in a Lake Union dry dock
. Seattle.
MADRID, (IP)—In fables geese
y golden eggs, but in Spain hens
ve begun to produce silver ones,
n the town of Murcia in south
tern Spain, Julio Bernardo was
»ut to enjoy a fried egg. But
... m he dunked his bread into
the yolk, he say it contained four
pellets which turned out to be
real silver. His mother had bought
the egg at the market. Local mer
chants are looking for the silver
lined hen. •
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READING, Pa. — If Presi
dent Truman’s famous letter crit
icizing the Marines is sold as a
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U. S. Geological
Survey Completes
’50 Activities Here
With the departure of Mr. and
Mrs. D. M. Hopkins, the United
States Geological Survey com
pletes its 1950 activities on Sew
ard Peninsula. Mr. and Mrs. R. S.
Sigafoos, also members of the Geo
logical Survey field party, left
Nome on September 4.
The summer’s work marked the
completion of a four-year project
conducted by the Alaska Terrain
and Permafrost Section of the
Geological Survey in this area.
The project included detailed
studies at Nome and at Imuruk
Lake and reconnaissance studies
in many other parts of the penin
sula.
The principal object of the pro
ject was the study of perennially
frozen ground and frost action
and their effect upon construction
problems. Microclimatic studies
demonstrated the effects of small
differences in local climate upon
the distribution of frozen ground
and upon the rate of soil move
ments on slopes due to frost ac
tion. Tundra vegetation was stud
ied in order tcf develop criteria for
recognizing various soil and per
mafront conditions on aerial pho
tographs.
The study has already produced
several scientific publications, in
cluding “Frost Action and Vegeta
tion Patterns on Seward Peninsu
la, Alaska,” D. M. Hopkins and R.
S. Sigafoos (U. S. Gecrl. Survey
Bulletin in press), “Thaw Lakes
and Thaw Sinks on Seward Penin
sula,” D. M. Hopkins (Journal of
Geology), “Some Botanical Prob
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Facts About YOUR
National Guard
Older than our nation, the Na
tional Guard has the longest con
tinuous history of any military or
ganization in the United States.
Its origin goes back to the early
17th century.
In the United States, the oldest
regiment is the 182nd Infantry of
Massachusetts, originally organ
ized as a Middlesex County Mili
tia regiment in 1636. Known as the
old North Regiment, it responded
to the call at Lexington and Con
cord, where the American tradi
tion of Minutemen—citizen-sol
diers standing ready to serve their
country—was born.
The oldest National Guard or
ganization, however, was not
formed in the United States. Pre
decessor of the 295th Infantry, the
Puerto Rican Guard claims as its
ancestor the early Militia, organ
ized in 1510 and commanded by
Ponce De Leon.
Another historic regiment, the
176th Infantry of the Virginia Na
tional Guard, is the descendant of
the Charles City-Henrice Counties
Regiment organized in 1652. A
portion of this early regiment
merged into the Virginia Regi
ment under the command of a
Lieutenant Colonel George Wash
ington to resist the French in the
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Polio Outbreaks
At Fairbanks
And Anchorage
(By The Associated Press)
A polio outbreak has struck both
Fairbanks and Anchorage.
At Fairbanks, ten oases had
been reported Saturday with two
deaths. Another case was under
observation.
At Anchorage the sixth case
was reported Saturday. Los An
geles officials of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
complied with an Anchorage re
quest for two iron lungs, which
were to leave for Alaska by air
early yesterday.
Fairbanks schools were closed
as a precautionary measure. Only
the University of Alaska remain
ed open. At Anchorage, the school
board decided against closing the
schools “at this stage.”
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In the Territorial Capitol at
Juneau, Dr. James T. Googe of the
Alaska Health Department said
he did not recommend school clos
ings because of suspected polio
epidemics. He said children could
better be observed in school. But
—he added that it strictly was up
to local officials.
Fairbanks reported one new
case Saturday. The latest to come
down was a 12-year-old girl.
Dr. Robert P. Gorman, Fair
banks health officer, said all cases
to date were traceable to definite
personal contact between healthy
children and those infected.
He declared the disease was in
the early stages of epidemic pro
portion.
One Fairbanks child died at
Ladd Air Force Base hospital Aug.
11 and an Eskimo adult died in
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Find Many Russian
Floating Mines
WASHINGTON, (tf>) — Admiral
Forrest Sherman said today U. S.
navy ships off Korea have found
“a great many floating mines” of
Russian type.
Sherman, the chief of naval op
erations, told the House armed
services committee that an exam
ination of recovered mines indi
cated they had been “recently laid
and not long out of the store
house.”
On last Wednesday, the U. S.
destroyer Brdush hit a floating
mine and a hole was tom in her
bottom. Nine men were killed, 10
injured, and five are missing. The
destroyer was able to make her
way to a Japanere port.
Sherman said the mines recov
ered were “Mark 26” Russian
mines. He described them as a
rather standard type and contain
ing enough explosives to damage
small ships.
He said they were of the moor
ed type, but the indications were
they had been floated down rivers
or perhaps laid by small craft.
Sherman said that in addition
to the destroyer Brush there has
been mine damage to a small ves
sel.
He did not identify the ship but
said there were some fatalities.
Canada May Up
Dollar Value
OTTAWA, (/P).—American tour
ists may see the end of cheaper
Canadian dollars as the Dominion’s
cabinet meets to review foreign
exchange rates. The session is
widely expected to result in boost
ing the value of Canada’s money
in terms of U. S. dollars.
Ottawa and New York financial
circles regarded Friday night’s
Canadian announcement that for
eign-exchange dealing would be
temporarily suspended as an al
most certain prelude to narrowing
—or closing—the 9-cent gap be
tween the U. S. and Canadian dol
| lars.
At present, the Canadian dollar
is officially at a 9.1 per cent dis
■ count, in other words, one Cana
| dian dollar is worth 91 U. S. cents.
A striking improvement in Can
! ada’s gold and dollars resources
j has stimulated talk for some time
i that an upward revaluation of the
! Dominion currency might be in
! the winds. A strong hint in that
I direction was seen in Canada’s re
cent decision to lift or modify im
j port restrictions on many products
| bought from the United States.
The pause in foreign exchange
dealings was announced by fi
nance minister Douglas Abbott.
He said the matter was being dis
cussed with the international
monetary fund, official guardian
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Schoeppel Asks
Further Inquiry
Into His Charges
WASHINGTON, (fl5) Senator
Schoeppel (R.-Kas.) indicated Sat
urday he may ask a House com
mittee to take up cudgels in his
dispute with Secretary of the in
terior Chapman.
The Senate Interior committee
held public harings on his charges
that Chapman has a “personal al
liance, with the Russian cause,
called them a dud, and declined
to pay further attention to them.
Schoeppel told a reporter the
House un-American activities in
vestigating committee** might be
interested” in starting an investi
gation of his charges after Con
gress reconvenes Nov. 27.
The Senator said • he will be
back in Kansas, in three or four
days and will have more to say
about the case there.
He declined, however, to say
whether that meant he intends to |
accept Chapman’s dare to repeat
the charges without Congressional
immunity from libel action.
Schoeppel made the accusations
first in a speech on the Senate
floor on Sept. 5. Friday he pub
lished in the Congressional Record
an assertion that Chapman’s de
nials have not disproved his orig
inal accusations. He asked for a
deeper investigation.
Senator O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.),
the interior committee chairman,
told reporters acidly the group
plans no further inquiry.
“The thing fell flat as a pan
cake and is still flat,” O’Mahoney
said.
Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Saturday, September 30, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, (/P)—General MacAr
thur will demand the surrender of
Red Korea tomorrow, authorita
tive sources said tonight.
With four heavily-armed South
Korean Divisions gathering along
the Red border—the 38th parallel
—in position to strike northward,
the United Nations commander
will lay down strong terms, per
haps uncondtional surrender.
The surrender demand will be
broadcast starting at noon Sun
day (4 p.m. Saturday, Nome time).
It will be made in the Korean lan
guage, in MacArthur’s name. And
it will be repeated hourly.
The sources did not disclose the
terms—but presumably they will
be “surrender or else.” The “or
else” could mean unleashing the
South Korean armored columns
on what remains of the broken
and greately depleted Red army in
the north and complete annihila
tion of trapped remnants in the
south.
In Pusan, the South Korean as
sembly unanimously urged U. N.
forces to smash northward across
the parallel. The Pusan radio
broadcast an announcement that
the assembly called for “absolute
ly eliminating obstacles to nation
al unification and independence
and the establishment of an abso
lutely free and independent gov
ernment.”
The 38th parallel was the line
drawn by the United States and
Russia for acceptance of the Jap
anese surrender in Korea after
World War II. It was not intended
to divide North and South Korea
but Russian occupation forces re
fused to admit a U. N. commission
in the north to conduct free elec
tions.
While Allied planes and artil
lery hammered at the parallel and
rail and highway routes north of
it, the four South Korean divi
sions arrayed on the east coast
south of the Red border itched to
start rolling again.
(^P) correspondent William Jor
den, with the South Koreans, re
ported that Republican troops
“want desperately to cross.” But
he said they still not know whe
ther they would be ordered to do
so.
Elements of the South Korean
Third Division reached the bound
ary at the east coast village of
Ingu. Three other divisions were
moving up and some probably ar
rived at the line Saturday.
On Friday, (IP) correspondent
Leif Erickson. — flying over the
boundary—watched South Korean
artillery shells hit ridges along
the line.
Uijongbu, highway junction and
rail center 12 miles north of Seoul,
was flattened like a fiery flapjack
by rocket-firing U. S. Marine
f i g h t e r-bombers. 4 MacArthur’s
headquarters said it was the heav
iest strike of the war for the Ma
rine fliers.
Using “Tiny Tims”—a 1,000
pound rocket nearly one foot in
diameter—the Marines planes left
Uijongbu a flaming rubble. The
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