OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. Lin No. 63 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1951 * Per Copy—15*
CAB GRANTS ALASKA AIRLINES
PORTLAND-FAIRBANKS ROUTE
-SEATTLE, (/P)—Officials of two airlines, granted
air routes from Portland and Seattle to Alaska, began
making plans Saturday to start service to the territory.
The Civil Aeronautics Board, deciding a case
pending 18 months, authorized Pacific Northern Air
lines to fly between Anchorage, Seattle and Portland, and gave
Alaska Airlines a Portland-Sea ttle-Fairbanks route.
Pacific Northern, which already flies the Juneu-Anchorage run,
will operate here from Boeing Field, using four-engined DC-4 planes,
said Harold Olson, general traffic manager.
Alaska Airlines’ Pacific Northwest headquarters is at Paine
Field, but reactivation of 'that airport as a jet fighter base means
Alaska must fly from either Boeing Field or Seattle-Tacoma Airport.
The certificates approved for the two lines will become effec
tive in 60 days. Airline officials said it would take several weeks to
obtain equipment and supplies for the expanded service.
The CAB decision sets up the following Northwest-Alaska air
route pattern:
Northwest Airlines now flies a direct Seattle-Anchorage route.
Pan American World Airways flies from Seattle to Fairbanks
via Ketchikan, Juneau and Whitehorse, Y. T.
Pacific Northern will fly from Portland and Seattle to Anchor
age, via Juneau, Yakutat and Cordova. It now serves the Bristol
Bay area from Anchorage. This means the Portland-Seattle area
will have a scheduled air link with -that salmon canning area for
the first time.
Alaska Airlines will fly from Seattle and Portland to Fairbanks
without intermediate stops.
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West Gets Stronger
Voice In Choice Of
*52 Dem. Candidate
DENVER, (/P)—Democrats gave
the West a stronger voice in the
choice at Chicago of their 1952
presidential candidate, as they
challenged the Republicans on for
eign policy.
A reapportionment of delegates,
approved by the party's national
committee in a one-dav session
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here, gave California 14 additional
votes out of the 1,230 to be repre
sented in the nominating conven
tion the week of July 21, 1952.
Other states with gains included
Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio,
Wisconsin and Wyoming, four
each, and Texas, Virginia, and
Washington two each.
Based on population changes,
and 1948 election results, these
added votes will be offset by losses
in states which failed to return
majorities to President Truman in
1948 and thus lost their “bonus”
of four delegates each.
The 1,230 total was four less
than that represented in the 1948
convention when Mr. Truman was
nominated.
As an indication that the Demo
crats are willing to go all-out in
support of President Truman’s
program for fighting a limited
war in Korea, William M. Boylen,
Jr., the national chairman, chal
lenged Republicans to make for
eign affairs an issue next year.
Boyle told a windup dinner
meeting here that if -the Republi
cans insist upon making foreign
policy an issue, “We will meet
them on that ground and the Re- !
publican party will suffer a de-j
feat from which it may never
recover.”
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HASTINGS, England, (TP)—Den
nis Edgar, 14, the only male to
enter a cake making contest, fin
ished fourth with 86 points out
of a possible 100. Among the also
rans was his mother, with a score
of 5l).
Asserts Air Force
Greatest Deterrent
To Red Aggression
WASHINGTON, {.JP)—Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg said today the United
States is operating with a “shoe
string” air force and can not -af
ford now to adopt Gen. Douglas
Mac Arthur’s proposed strategy of
bombing Red bases in Manchuria.
Testifying at the Senate inquiry
into MacArthur’s dismissal, Van
denberg also said he believes there
are “reasonable chances” of get
ting a negotiated peace in Korea
without such bombing.
Vandenberg, the Air Force chief
of staff, said he believes if the
full power of the U. S. air force
were thrown into the balance in
Korea “there would, be a good
chance of forcing them (Chinese
Reds) to negotiate.”
But he contended it would take
the full weight of the air force to
accomplish this, and the air force
cannot afford to do it lest it be
called upon to meet a Russian at
tack elsewhere.
Asserting that the U.S. Air Force
remains the single largest deter
rent to any Russian attack that
might start World War III, Van
denberg said he thinks the fight
ing in Korea can be halted with- |
out full use of air there.
He said: “While I was and am
today against bombing across the
Yalu, it does not mean by any
stretch of the imagination that I
might not be for it tomorrow, a
month from now, or six months
from now.”
Vandenberg completed his first
day of testimony at 11:30 a.m. and
will return tomorrow.
Vandenberg also told the sen
ators:
1. The Russians-built MIG-15
fighter plane used by the Chinese
Communists has a jet engine “su
perior to any we have.” He said
he surmised it was developed with
the aid of German technicians.
2. The Russians now have the
“capability” for mass production
of first-rate aircraft.
U. N. Forces Capture 5,000
Red Prisoners In One Day
(By the Associated Press)
Communist resistance stiffened
today as United Nations -troops
pushed deeper into Red Korea
after taking -the war’s greatest bag
of prisoners.
But L-t. Gen. James A. Van Fleet
said the Chinese Communists had
lost their nerve and retreated
when they couldn’t crack the U.
S. Second Division.
“He (the enemy) lost his nerve.
He just quit and hauled out,”
added the U. N. ground command
er.
U. S. Eighth Army headquarters
announced 3,000 Reds surrendered
Sunday. Another 2,000 were taken
•last week.
Mctet of the 5,000 were captured
in a great box-like trap, 25 miles
across and ten miles deep. The lid
of the trap ifc the Hwachon Reser
voir with U. N. forces anchored at
each side in Inje and Hwachon,
both in North Korea.
Reds put up stiffening resist
ance against advancing forces to
day and fewer surrendered.
But the retreat, “fast as it is,”
said General Van Fleet, does not
necessarily mean an end to the
war.
“How far the enemy will re
treat I do not know,” the U. N.
ground commander said. “He still
has plenty of reserves and great
latent capabilities. He can smash
us again if he wants to.”
While the Chinese Communists
were taking a pasting for the time
being in Korea, they boasted of
success in Tibet — that mountain
kingdom of Buddist lamas. The
Peiping radio announced it was
taking over Tibet under a treaty
of “liberation.” The Red army in
vaded Tibet last October after
months of propaganda blasts
charging the western “imperial
ists” with plotting to seize control
of the country.
Empire State Bldg.
To Be Sold For
$50 Millions
NEW YORK, (/P)—1The Empire
State Building — tallest in the
world and £0 years old this month
will change ownership ait a re
ported price of $50,000,000.
A multi-million dollar syndi
cate announced Friday that a con
tract has been signed for pur
chase of the 102-story structure. A
spokesman for the group said the
deal will be closed near the end
of the year.
The syndicate is headed by
Roger L. Stevens, and Alfred R.
Glancy, Jr., Detroit real estate
men, and Ben Tobin, Hollywood
Beach, Fla., hotel owner.
Most of- the stock in the huge
building is held by the estate of
the late financier, John J. Raskob,
who died last fall.
NEW YORK, (JP)—Prime Min
ister David Ben-Gurion says he
believes the $500,000,000 bond is
sue for Israel “will be subscribed.”
Ben-Gurion made the statement
to newsmen last night as he ar
rived by plane from Chicago after
a nation-wide tour in behalf of
the bonds for the Israeli govern
ment.
Lincoln Ellsworth,
Polar Explorer,
Passes Away
NEW YORK, (/P)—Polar explor
er Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, a pioneer
in aerial survey of the Arctic and
Antarctic, died Saturday night.
Ellsworth’s wife, Mary Louise,
was with him at the end.
The explorer’s last major trip
of exploration was a flight into
the interior of Antarctica in 1939,
when ‘he claimed 81,000 square
miles of territory for the United
States.
In 1935, he had claimed another
300,000 square miles of the Ant
arctic continent for the U. S.
At the time of the last explora
tion, he 'was a lieutenant com
mander in the U. S. Naval Re
serve.
Ellsworth and Capt. Roald Am
undson, another famous polar ex
plorer, set out by plane in 1925
with hopes of being the first to
reach the North Pole by air.
But headwinds kept the two, us
ing separate planes, from their
goal. They were forced down on
•ice, and Ellsworth’s plane was
wrecked.
The two managed to join forces
after a month and took off in
their remaining plane. But they
were forced down in the open sea
and eventually rescued by a sealer.
Ellsworth’s father died believ-.
ing his son had been lost.
A year later, in 1926, Ellsworth
and Amundson succeeded in fly
ing over the North Pole in the
dirigible, Norge. They crossed the
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Fresh Fruits, Vegetables,
If Shipped Into Alaska,
Now Under O. P. S.
JUNEAU — Fresh fruits and
vegetables are now under price
control in Alaska if they are ship
ped in from the outside, the Terri
torial Office of Price Stabilization
said this week.
The territorial office made the
announcement to amplify and ex
plain further to Alaska grocers
and others the changes in Regu
lation 9 which were made known
in Washington earlier last week.
Regulation 9 is the price-control
regulation for retailers and applies
ta all the territories and posses
sions of the United States.
To Set Up Blood
Donor System
For Alaska
SEATTLE, (/P)—A seven-person
group will leave June 5 for Alaska
(to set up a blood-donor system for
(the armed forces, Dr. J. Richard
Czajkowski, director of the King
County Central Blood Bank, an
nounced today.
The blood bank, together with
the American National Red Cross
and Alaska medical societies, will
organize blood collection units at
Ketchikan, Juneau and Anchor
age.
The Alaska Steamship Co., and
the Alaska Railroad will provide
transportation of staff members
and equipment between Seattle
and the territory. Blood collected
in Alaska will be routed through
Seattle by air, according to O. W.
Dahl, assistant director of the
blood program of the American
National Red Cross, Pacific area.
Concert At Methodist Church Tuesday
Tomorrow evening ait 8:00 pm.
the following program will be pre
sented at the Community Meth
odist Church under the direction
of Cpl. Barksdale White.
The program which is sponsored
by the Community Methodist
Church is being given in honor
of Juanita Fagenstrom in appre
ciation for her musical contribu
tion to the community. The public
is invited. There will be no ad
mission charge.
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Piano Solo
Rhapsody in G Minor
Opus 79, No. 2 .....' . Johannes Brahms
Cpl. Barksdale White
II
Saxophone Solo
Serenade.. Franz Schubert
Cpl. Carl Berreckman
HI
Vocal Solo
Deep River . . . . ". , , . Negro Spiritual
Lost Chord ... Arthur Sullivan
Rev. Clark Lewis
IV
Group of Piano Classics
Scarf Dance.Cecile Chaminade
Traumeri, Opus 15 . . '. . .. Robert Schumann
Romance . .Robert Schumann
Prelude, Opus 28.Frederic Chopin
Prelude, Opus 27 . . . . . . Frederic Chopin
Trumpet Solo
Neopolitan Nights.* . . J. S. Zamecnik
The Little Old Garden .... Thomas J; Hewitt
Bill Boucher, Jr.
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