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VOL. LII. No. 85 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1950_JPerjCopy—1$
, NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, (/P> — A defendant
charged with “going south” with
money the government gave him
for travel expenses north to a
Fairbanks murder trial pleaded
innocent Monday to embezzlement
^ of federal funds.
Lester Charles Edwards, 41
year-old logger, was arrested by
the FBI in Portland early this
month. Almost three years ago,
the government charges, he dis
appeared with $150 the U. S. mar
shal here had given him for trans
portation to Alaska to appear as
witness in a 1947 murder trial.
Edwards, the marshal’s office
said, told arresting officers he had
feared for his life if he went back
north as a witness in the trial.
Judge Lloyd L. Black set Ed
ward’s trial for August 31.
FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Mrs. Lilly
Frv of Fairbanks stood enchanted
on the bank of a river near the
Salcha bridge. She was watching
the anctics of salmon somersault
ing in the stream.
Suddenly the bank gave way
and Mrs. Fry somersaulted down
to join the fish, some 39 feet be
low. She escaped serious injury
by following a straight line be
tween sharp boulders scattered
along the way.
Four stitches were taken in her
forehead, but except for that and
a few bruises she apparently was
none the worse for her experience.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A helicop
ter pilot was rescued uninjured
from the wreckage of his plane
late yesterday.
The pilot, Archie Lush, had
cracked up at the junction of the
Susitna and Osheetna Rivers dur
ing a risky landing on a sandbar
near the camp of a U. S. coast and
1 geodetic survey group. The latter
party was marooned by boat
trouble, but is expected to be
taken out today with float planes.
Lush was rescued by an air res
cue service plane from Elmendorf
air force base.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Police list
ed as suicide yesterday the death
of Swan Bolin, about 40, who was
found dead in his hotel room bed.
He had been shot through the
K , head. A .32 caliber pistol was in
his hand.
Mrs. Hilda Saario, hotel owner,
said she had heard a loud report
Monday which she though to be a
firecracker.
Bolin, a construction worker,
had worked recently at Adak. He
formerly lived in Fairbanks and
is believed to be survived by a
sister.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Civilian de
fense plans for Fairbanks began
to take shape today with the ap
pointment of Dr. S. N. Bredlie as
commander of the civil defense
organization. He held a similar
role during World War II.
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FAIRBANKS, W-Samuel
Fisher, 71, was sentenced yester
day to serve a year and a day in
the penitentiary.
He was convicted of stealing a
cigarette lighter and $125.
Truman Asks Ten
Billions As Starter
For War Program
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman asked Congress today to
vote all the men and armed
strength needed to turn back the
communist armies in Korea and to |
block armed aggressio nelsewhere
in the world.
He put the starting cost of
building up the military power of
the united States ‘ and the free I
world at $10,000,000,000.
He said a, sharp tax increase, to
gether with other economic con
trols are necessary to curb infla
tion and help foot the military,
bills. The tax recommendations
will come later.
For the present, Mr. Truman
asked power to curb time-pay
ment buying, establish priorities,^
allocate materials, control inven
tories and requisition needed sup
plies and materials.
He reserved for the future such
more drastic measures as price
control and rationing and called
upon all Americans to avoid them
through voluntary restraint.
The President made clear that
his ten billion dollar program was
only the beginning. He foretold
the early need of more billions to
reinforce the military strength of
the North Atlantic powers border
ing Soviet communism in Europe.
He said higher defense spending
would go on for years.
And the future? Mr. Truman
coupled emphasis on United Na
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Appropriation Bill
Carries Large Sum
For Alaska
(By Charles D. Watkins)
((£>) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (/P)_The one
package appropriation bill now
before the Senate contains more
money for Alaska thatn ever has
been appropriated for the Terri
tory in a single year.
Delegate Bartlett of Alaska
said today the funds now ear
marked for the Territory total
$215,093,304.
He told a reporter he had ob
tained the tentative allocations
from the budget officers of the
various government agencies. The
measure itself does not list all of
the Alaskan items as such ,as
many of the appropriations are
lump sums which are allocated by
government departments.
Bartlett said the largest appro
priation in the bill for Alaska is
that for the defense department.
It totals $88,089,765. Of that, $69,
707,845 is for army and airforce
construction. This was added af
ter the measure reached the Sen
ate. These projects had not been
authorized by Congress when the
House acted upon the money bill.
Bartlett gave this breakdown of
army funds of $58,765,645; $8,741,
000 for Eielson air force base;
$11,352,300 for La,dd air force
base; 35,295,345 for Fort Richard
son, $3,131,000 for Whittier and
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Billy’s A Lucky Boy Say Bob and Kate
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Bob Hope and Kate Smith are co
chairmen of the nation’s first United
Cerebral Palsy Appeal.
Billy Townley of Bound Brook,
N. J. *
Billy is five and learning to
stand. He practices daily in the
standing table designed for Cere
bral Palsy youngsters. But only
one out of 100 CP children get
Billy's chance. The other 99 re
ceive no help. Some of them are
hidden in attics or committed to
mental institutions, even though
three out of four aTe as bright as
Billy. Billy is lucky.
To bring hope to America’s half
million Cerebral Palsied — and the
10,000 babies bom with this crip
pling brain injury each year —
Bob Hope and Kate Smith are
heading the pioneer United Cere
bral Palsy Campaign. Funds will
provide treatment centers, train
personnel and conduct research to
help CP youngsters walk, talk and
grow into useful citizens.
Send your contribution to Bob
Hope, Paramount Theatre, San
Francisco; or to Kate Smith, Para
mount Theatre, New York City.
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Fire Threatens
Fort Yukon
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FAIRBANKS, <jP) — The tiny
Arctic Circle village of Fort Yu
kon, rebuilt by residents after it
was destroyed by flood two years
ago, faced a new peril today: fire.
A radioed call for aid, received
here Monday night, said a wind
swept forest fire had moved with
in two miles of the village, ap
proximately 150 miles north of
Fairbanks.
Mrs. Ed Toussaint, town post
master and amateur radio opera
tor, said the wind had died down
but that residents feared a new
blow would send flaming fire
brands cascading down into the
heart of the town.
A heavy blanket of smoke cov
ered the village and its adjacent
landing field, making it impossi
ble to send help by air.
Men of the village bulldozed a
wide path around the town in ef
forts to halt the advancing blaze.
The village was carried down
the Yukon River by flood waters
in 1948. Residents inbuilt the
town last year, moving it farther
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Arrest Fourth
Member Of Fuchs’
Atomic Spy Ring
NEW YORK, The fourth
American allegedly linked to Rus
sia’s Klaus Fuchs atom spy ring
was seized at his home here Mon
day night by the FBI.
He is 32-year-old Julius Rosen
berg—a balding, bespectacled en
gineer, married and father of two
children.
£ 4 I £
The department of justice
charged him with conspiracy to
commit espionage, and said he
had recruited for a cloak-and-dag
ger Soviet spy apparatus that pen
etrated America’s atomic secrets.
He was arraigned and held be
hind bars in lieu of $100,000 bail
for a federal court hearing - on
July 31. His attorney insisted he
was innocent.
“Rosenberg is another import-,
ant link in the Soviet espionage,
apparatus,” FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover said in Washington, where
the arrest was announced.
In the past two months the gov
ernment has arrested three other
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Korean Situation
Glance — -
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(By The Associated Press)
i Tuesday, July 18, 1950
North Korean communists, with
ranks dented by “terrific” casual
ties, have slackened their attack
in south Korea and American for
ces are holding all along the front,
U-S. officials announced today.
Heroic U.S. 24th division troops
battling against overwhelming
odds still hold positions above
Taejon. , That rail center, once
considered the key to south Kor
ea’s defense, remains in American
hands, a U.S. Eighth Army spokes
man reported.
To the west, south Korean
troops attacked on the central
sector Tuesday night (Korean
time) and then withdrew to de
fense' positions after inflicting
heavy casualties, an Eighth Army
spokesman said.
The Reds were taking a batter
ing from the air by U. S. jet fight
ers, Mustangs and light bombers.
Heavy bombers struck behind
the lines in strategic attacks
which sooner or later would show
up in a slackening of communist
supplies at the front.
So terrific was the air beating
that fighter pilots reported the
Reds moving their armor and mo
tor columns only by night and ly
ing low in daylight.
U. S. Far East headuarters in
formed the defense department
that the defenders were holding
all along the line and that enemy
pressure slackened. The Washing
ton spokesman warned against
considering this a decisive turning
point.
A Red force to the east posed a
serious threat. Gen. MacArthur’s
headquarters reported the' Reds
moving”reinforcements to their
Fifth Division driving south from
Tanyang, 60 miles northeast of
Taejon, striking for American
supply lines. The South Korean
First Corps had blunted this drive
Sunday.
A lull fell over the main battle
sector and over the central sector
just to the east, where South Ko
rean troops dug in at defensive
positions.
Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters
estimated Red casualties to date
at 11,000, but said accurate figures
were impossible. The airmen bag
ged 21 tanks and 143 trucks Mon
day, They struck hard again to
day. Light bombers strafed com
munist supply lines all the way
back to Seoul. B-29 superforts,
blasted railyards at strategic
points and hit Seoul’s Kimpo air
field.
The North Korean Pyongyang
radio said more than 2,500 Ameri
cans were killed and more than
100 were captured in fighting
south of the Kum River up to 6
p.m. Monday, Toyko time. Reports
from U. S. Eighth Army head
quarters in Korean indicated,
however, U. S. casualties were
light in the last 48 hours while
the enemy suffered heavily try
ing to crack the defenses north of
Taejon.
Diplomatic maneuvers to end
the war continued. Moscow pub
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