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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL, LII. No. 95 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950 Per Copy—15c
. NEWS IN BRIEF
HAMPTON BEACH, N. H. (JP)
“We will be shocked when we
learn the whole truth” of our cas
ualties in the Korean War, “which
are being concealed,” U. S. Sen
ator Bridges (R.-N. H.) told the
% Rockingham County Republican
club Wednesday.
“Our casualties are terrifically
heavy, and the truth of our affairs
in Korea of the past few weeks
will be come appalling, once it is
made known to us,” the Senator
declared.
“The Republican party,” he
added, “has got to measure up to
this undesired challenge.”
SAN DIEGO, </P)—The navy’s
annual resupply expedition to
Point Barrow, Alaska, has been
completed, Pacific Fleet Amphibi
ous Force headquarters announc
ed Wednesday.
Vessels unloaded food, clothing
and equipment for government
personnel living in the Arctic Cir
cle. Largest of the government ac
tivities in the area is the navy’s
35,000 square mile petroleum re
serve.
Except for a brief period at this
time of year, the region is ice
bound and cannot be reached by
ships.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—'The "ber
serk gunman" who reportedly ter
rified residents of Homer, 125
miles southwest of here early
Wednesday, was sound asleep in
his own bed when marshal's dep
uties arrived.
They said their investigation
showed earlier reports had been
overdrawn.
What had happened, they said,
was that the man fired a shot into
the air with his rifle after a num
ber of trespassers had refused to
get off his land when he ordered
them to "scram."
There was no complaint signed
against the man, so the deputies
returned here on the afternoon
plane.
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WASHINGTON, (/P) — A bill to
transfer federally owned land and
buildings, no longer required by
the Alaska Native Service to lo
cal Alaska nauthorities for school
purposes was passed by the Sen
ate Wednesday.
It now goes back to the House,
which passed it last year, be
cause the Senate amended it.
SEATTLE, (/P)—1The third high
est daily double of the season—
$1,316.80—was paid off yesterday |
to each of three lucky ticket hold- j
ers at the Longacres race track.
The big return came as lightly
regarded Dark Acres romped
home in the six-furlong opener
and Double Count sneaked in
rhead in the second, paying $178
and $42.60 respectively.
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AKRON, O. (/P)—Soap box der
by drivers—the boys who scoot
r downhill in low-slung, gravity
powered racers—were arriving to
day for Sunday’s national cham
pionship run at Derby Downs.
The 47 youngsters — each a
hometown champion — will com
pete for a four-year college
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No “Heads of State
Meeting”—!1 ruman
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman said yesterday he would
accept an excess profits tax if
voted by Congress, but added
that such controversial proposals
should be put off until the next
Congress meets.
He conceded that an excess
profits tax—for which he has not
asked—would be voted eventual
ly. But he said he preferred it to
come when Congress is over the
, election jitters.
He repeated that he had asked
| for tax increases which he be
' lieved could be enacted quickly
i and that an excess profits levy is
' verv controversial.
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The President also told his news
i conference that Jacob Malik, Sov
| iet representative on the United
Nations Security Council, is con
ducting a filibuster on Korea, and
it is a filibuster against the Rus
I sians themselves principally.
Replying to another question,
i he said he is optimistic on the Ko
1 rean military situation. He said
he is taking his advice from U. S.
military leaders and he is as op
timistic as they are.
A reporter remarked that Gen-;
| eral Douglas MacArthur had com
! plained that defeatists and ap
j peasers are working against him.
! The President said he had not
met anyone of that sort yet and
emphasized he and MacArthur
j are in complete agreement.
He said he put MacArthur in
i the Japan job and also made him
commander in chief of the U. N.
forces in Korea, and is satisfied
with what he is doing.
The President once more re
jected the idea of a meeting of
heads of state on the question of
peace. Asked whether the U. S.
would approve “high level” meet
ings if Trygve Lie, U.N. secretary
general, took the initiative, he re
plied that this had not been put
up to him yet and would comment
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scholarship in Sunday’s annual
all-American soap box derby.
About half the lads came yes
terday, and the rest poured in to
day by plane, train, bus, auto—
yes, and even by taxicab.
Another champion, Gerald E.
Taylor, who came parka-clad from
Juneau, where his dad serves in
the Coast Guard.
America’s W eapons
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The M-46 Patton tank, fore
ground, spins . on its own
treads to outmaneuver the fa
mous Sherman tank. It car
ries five men, a 90 mm. gun
and weighs 47 Vi tons. Speed
30 miles an hour.
Boy Makes A
Flying Saucer Fly
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CHARLESTON, W. Va. (IP) —
Department of Defense officials
please note.
„ There is such a thing as a fly
ing saucer.
Joe Ward, 14-year-old son of a
pilot, has one.
He made it himself.
And it flies.
The youth, who lives at Belle,
JOE WARD and his saucer
about 10 miles east of Charleston,
is a model airplane builder of
years standing. Intrigued by the
thought of a flying saucer, he
started out to make one. He had
no model to work from, obviously.
He wound up with a doughnut
shaped contraption made of balso
wood and silk and equipped with
a motor, flaps, landing gear,
wheels and propellor.
The boys of his gang scoffed at
the idea that the contraption
would fly. So did his father, who
bet Joe two cans of gasoline that
the saucer would be a flop.
The payoff came at a large cin
der plant field near the Dupont
plant. The saucer, attached to 50
feet of wire so that it would not
be lost, not only flew but it loop
ed, hovered, circled and dipped.
Joe now has plans for a larger,
radio-controlled saucer that would
put the skeptics to rout.
Banquet Honors
O. E. S. Dignitajry
Culminating four days of en
tertainment for the Most Worthy
Grand Matron of the Order of
Eastern Star, Mrs. Abbie Hanson,
was a banquet at the Masonic
Temple Wednesday night at which
the Grand Master of the Masonic
Lodge of Washington, Gail Huhn,
and Past Master H. C. Heil, were
also honored guests.
A delicious turkey dinner was
served over ninety guests on
tables decorated with locally
grown flowers and tapers in the
five colors of the organization.
The dinner was catered by Mrs.
H. Patterson, of the Northern
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Gov’t Appeals To
Good Citizenship
To Settle Strike
WASHINGTON, (tfV-The Gov
ernment is appealing to the “good
citizenship” of labor and manage
ment to settle a wage dispute
dispute threatening defense in
stallations in Alaska.
Cyrus S. Ching, director of the
federal conciliation service, sent
a telegram to the eight contrac
tors and the AFL plumbers union
involved in the dispute, saying:
“Neither the employers nor the
union, I am certain, desire to em
barrass their country in this mat
ter. Good citizenship and concern
for the national welfare require
the employers and the union in
this situation to make extraordin
ary efforts to compose -their dif
ferences by collective bargaining
aided by mediation.”
To help settle the case, Ching
called a meeting of the contrac
tors and union representatives in
Seattle next Tuesday.
Secretary of Defense Johnson
said at the White House this week
that the possible tie-up imperils
national security.
Regional director Harry H.
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Soviets Use U. S.
Ships In Korea War
W A S H I NGTON, (/P> — Rep.
Weichel (R.-Ohio) said today that
Russia is using American ships
borrowed during World War II to
carry military supplies to North
Korea.
He added that he is renewing
his demands for more energetic
efforts to recover hundreds of U.
S. warships and merchant vessels
from the Soviet Union.
“They are using the merchant
ships to haul cargo that’s being
used against our forces fighting in
Korea,” Weichel told a reporter.
“There is plenty of evidence of
that.
“We don’t know how they are
using the warships. The navy re
cently said it had heard a fleet of
about 800 large and small Soviet
I vessels was in Asiatic waters—a
pretty menacing thing to my mind
—and I just wonder how many of
them belong to us.”
America’s W capons
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The 3.5 BAZOOKA—A can
non without recoil. This dead
ly weapon has proved its met
tle against the tanks of the
North Koreans. It fires rock
ets.
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Korean Situation
At A Glance - - -
Thursday, August 10, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Two columns of Americans
closed a trap on at least 1,000 Ko
rean Red troops today in a strong
drive which carried them within
five miles of the communist south
ern base at Chinju. But the com
munists made menacing lunges on
two other fronts.
While the southern offensive of
the Americans shot patrols to
within two miles of Chinju, the
communists exploded into action
on a sector where they had been
stalled for some time, and men
aced Pohang, the U. S. air and sea
bas on the east coast. Gen. Mac
Arthur’s summary said, however,
the two-pronged drive by regu
lars and guerrillas appeared to
have been halted by strong South
Korean opposition eight miles
west of Pohang.
The North Korean Reds also ex
erted heavy pressure on South
Korean troops about 30 miles
north of the U. S. road-rail base at
Taegu. The communist concen
trated their push in the vicinity
of Uisong, west of Red-held Yong
dok. South Koreans were counter
attacking.
The headlong communist re
treat in the southern sector of Ko
rea was described as “in the na
ture of a rout.”
To the north in the bridgehead
battle along the Naktong River, U.
S. First Cavalry Division troops
finished wiping out a Red bridge
head, and counted 300 communist
dead and 20 catpured. But the U.
S. Eighth Army reported Red
pressure was building up farther
north. The U. S. 24th Division was
fighting new communist thrusts
along a Naktong bridgehead to the
south.
A serious threat developed in
the far northeastern end of the
140-mile battlefront. Just below
Yongdok, recaptured by the Reds,
two communist pincers drove
south against crumbling South
Korean opposition. They were at
tempting to destroy a main Amer
ican fighter plane base eight miles
southeast of Pohang.
Mustang pilots at the base said
the enemy was only 5Vfc miles
from the end of the airstrip. Four
Mustangs were lost during the
day defending the strip.
Vigorous countermeasures were
under way to contain the new
thrust, which burst from two
sides. The communists, driven
back in the south and held on the
Naktong, had been expected to
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launcn some sorx oi anve -in me
north and northeast where they
have been maintaining heavy
pressure on South Korean troops.
With civilian-led guerrillas, they
thrust out both from Yongdok and
captured mountain village only
nine miles from Pohang, Ameri
can sea and air base 25 miles
south of Yongdok.
The North Koreans apparently
ordered their Sixth Division to
stand to the death against the
American southern offens i v e
while they diverted units of their
First Division north to the Nak
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