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VOL. LIII No. 37 . NOME^ ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1951 Per Copy—15^
Reds Strong
On Central Front
By the Associated Press
United Nations troops contin
- ued a slow advance on both ends
of the line across Korea today
while American artillery poured
heavy fire into massed Commu
nist units in the center.
; On the east coast, south Korean
troops advanced behind a barrage
of naval gunfire to a point six
jjniles north of the 38th Parallel.
They occupied Yangyang, the first
Sizeable coast town north of the
border.
: The U.N. artillery on the cen
tral front had the two-fold ob
jective of clearing a path for in
fantrymen and greaking up any
Red efforts to counterattack.
Spring rains bogged the artillery
hub deep in places and hampered
the Allied air attack and mech
anized ground forces.
The central front was the focal
point for Communist troop-mass
ing activity. Some 10,000 Reds
were strung along the border with
another 80,000 backing them up.
Front line observers were wary
of a Red push down the center of
* the peninsula. The Reds might
pick the rainy season for such a
try, since their lightlj weighted
forces would have some advan
tage over the heavily burdened
Allied troops.
On the western front, Allied
troops encountered some answer
ing Red artillery and mortar fire.
On the diplomatic scene, the
Big Four,, deputy foreign ministers
resume their talks today in Paris.
There is no end in sight to the
j propaganda battle, that has waged
for 18 sessions and resulted in
little progress toward an agenda
for the proposed foreign minis
; ters conference.
Alaska Defenses
To Be Tested
ANCHORAGE, (£>)—The Army
Navy and Air Force will test de
fenses protecting the northern ap
proach to continental United
States in Alaska-wide maneuvers
starting April 3, Lt. Gen. W. E.
Kepner said Tuesday.
Kepner, commanding general of
the Alaska command, said the
maneuvers will be the first in
Alaska involving all military units
of the three armed forces, as well
; as troops'from outside Alaska and
possibly civil defense organiza
tions. - '
The excercise, designated “Op
eration Firestep,” will continue
through April 25.
The maneuvers will test ground
and air defenses in the Alaska
Theater, with most of the activity
centering in the Kodiak, Anchor
age and Fairbanks areas, Kepner
said.
Airborne troops will be used for
the first time, Kepner said, and as
part of the maneuvers communi
ties will order blackouts when
ever and wherever possible.
Kepner said the exercise will
be designed specifically to test
' effectiveness of preparations to
defend Alaska, northern outpost
bf the United States.
Top row: Pat Bell, Fairbanks; Truman Sage, gen ;sral manager Machinery Division; Gordon Tubman,
Whitehorse; Nils Rosenberg, saleman, NC Marine Division. Second Row: Jim Rogers, saleman, NC
! Marine Division; John E. Larson, treasurer; Steve Anderson, Nome; Melvin S. Roe, Ketchikan; Ern
est G. Whitehead, Juneau; David Erickson, salesman, NC Marine Division. Bottom Row: Elmer Engel
skjen, parts manager, Seattle office; Larry O. Johnson, manager, NC Marine Division; Howard D. Steph
ens, vice president; Win Erwin, Jr., Anchorage.
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N.C. Co. Managers
Meet To Discuss
Machine Problems
Alaska is one of the most fa
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vored regions in the nation for
getting delivery of essential mach
jinery during 1951, according to
Steve Anderson, machinery man
ager for Northern Commercial
Co., who returned March 15 from,
the company’s annual meeting in
Seattle.
“Our meeting was addressed
by representatives of 20 or more
machinery manufacturers,” said
Steve Anderson, “and nearly all
of them agreed that right now
Alaska is getting more machinery
on defense orders than any sec
tion of the West. We found, too,
that there’s a strong disposition
on the part of manufacturers to
favor non-rated orders from Alas
ka as much as they can. They’re
anxious to build up distribution
here because they look to Alaska
for expanding markets whenever
the war situation clears up.”
; Details of Caterpillar Tractor,
Co.’s new high-speed earthmoving
equipment, the 4-wheel DW 2d
tractor with wagon and 2-wheel,
DW21 tractor with scraper, were
described by W. G. Bloxham, Cat
erpillar engineer. Both units are
powered by the new 6-cylinder
Diesel, rated 275 h.p. @ 2000 rpm,
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Two More Candidates
File lor City Council
Two more petitions have been
filed with the City Clerk for cfcfr
didates in the City Election.
They are J. H. Alexander of the
iHdbeffir <5o. Hi P. |i
Reader, acting chief of the Fire
Department They have both filed
for the City Council.
ATOMIC BLASTS
FOR ALEUTIANS
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By Elton C. Fay
AP Military Affairs Reporter
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WASHINGTON,(/P), The United
States may be preparing its fifth
atomic weapons proving ground,
this one in a sub-Arctic waste
land.
A lonely spot on the Aleutian
Island chain, which stretches out
800 miles from the Alaskan main
land westward toward Russia’s
Siberian empire, appears a proba
ble choice.
There, for the first time, the
U.S. could test atomic bombs un
der conditions of climate and oth
er factors which might be en
countered should a war require
use of such weapons against
Russian cities.
Since Atomic Energy Commis
sion Chairman Gordon Dean hint
ed recently that new tests might
be made -at locations not used
heretofore, there has been ilevel
‘oping speculation that the Aleu
tians might be one of the sites.
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Tobacco Tax Up’d
(Press Release, Dept, of Taxa
tion, M. P. Mullaney, Tax Com
missioner.)
The 20th session of the Alaska
legislature increased the Alaska
tobacco tax rates effective March
27, 1051, as follows:
Cigarets (standard pock), pack
of 20 cigarets, 5c a pack or 50c a
carton; 10 cigarets to a pafck, 3c
a pack; 50 cigarets to a pack, 10c
a pack.
ThbSfe required to file Alaska
tobacco tax returns are beis^g air- ;
mailed supplement returns fbr the
period March 27-31.
M’Arthur Ordered
To Clear
Thru Washington
WASHINGTON, (£>)—The Tru
man administration reportedly has
asked Gen. Douglas MacArthur to
submit for Washington clearance
any future statements with poli
tical significance.
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Informed officials who told a
reporter of the request last night
said it followed consultation
among the White House, State and
Defense Departments.
In effect, the new message was
a reminder of a general directive
issued by President Trum’an last
December calling for advance
wrdd of any broad foreign policy
statements.
The message was a follow-up to
MacArthur’s offer of last week to
meet the Communist commander
in Korea for truce talks.
In that statement, he raised on
implied possibility that the United
Nations, whose forces he com
mands, might change its policy to
'authorize attacks on Chinese mil
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Acheson Urges Action
Against Communism
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Secretary
of State Acheson urged the Amer
can republics today to take imme
diate acttion to meet a menace
posed by international Commun
ism.
He said no free nation any
where in the world is secure
against the menace, and called for
full economic and military co
operation with the United States,
AcheSson delivered the keynote
speech of the first regular sessioh
bf 'th* Xhtfer-AMettcan Conference
of rmm Mpsttfs.
Grueiiing Protests
Seal Bounty Bill
In transmitting House Bill No.
82, an act relating to bounties on
hair seals, to the office of the sec
retary of Alaska for permanent
filing the governor made the fol
lowing -comments: i
“Although House Bill No., 82
was received Jbyyjpie, top late to
allow it to becdme law without my
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signature, I am, irt Signing’ it, tak
ing occasion to tell' attention to
what appears to me .an unwise
policy which has developed in the
payment of bounties on hair seal
as part of a program of predator
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control.
“Here I am concerned solely
with the need, purpose, and wis
dom of the Territory’s offering
such a bounty.
“The extension of the geographi
cal limits within which hair seals
could be taken for bounty disre
garded the alleged original pur
pose of that bounty as first estab
lished by the 1927 legislature at
$2, namely to diminish the de
struction of salmon by hair seal.
The 1927 act authorized payment
of bounties on hair seals taken
from the waters east of the 152nd
Meridian, which runs just east of
Kodiak.
“In 1939 the limits were ex
tended into the Bering Sea as far
as Golovin Bay and the bounty
increase to three dollars.
“The 1949 session doubled this
bounty,, making it six dollars, and
extended the area from Dixon en
trance to Demarcation Point,
thereby bringing into the bounty
area all of coastal Alaska includ
ing the Arctic. The present meas
ure, House Bill No.' 82, places the
northern limit at Cape Kruzen
stem, still, however^ well within
the Arctic Circle.
“Now it is obvious that commer
cial saliAon fishing exists hardly
at all north of Bristol Bay and
that if the alleged and original
purposes of seal bounty legislation
were adhered to, the limits would
correspond with the limits of the
commercial fishery. Seal bounties
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NWA FAIR ASS’N
ANNOUNCES
PART OF PROGRAM
The NWA Fair Board are plan
ning several new features in con
nection with the Fair and Spring
Festival, set for early in June.
Departments announced to date
in connection with the FaiT are:
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Department A- Nome School;
Dept. B- All other schools in this
area; Dept C- Native products;
Dept E- Mining and minerals;
Dept F- Furs and fur farming;
Dept G- Art (to be expanded);
Dept H- Photography; Dept I
Household econdmics; Dept J
House plants; Boy and Girl Scouts
will have separate departments
as well a$ a children’s department
for talent hbbbies, etc.
Phil Lancaster is handling ways
and hte&hs and several ribw ideas
arc ih the making. '
AH individual 6r dubs vetoing
concttfcoris fa) mike
tseft we m &si
am raie.