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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, October 4, 1950
FEW COMMUNISTS IN PERSIA
A communist crisis in Iran is removed, according to
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who has
just returned to this country after a visit of some weeks
to Persia, where he lived at. least a week with each of
the four principal Iranian tribes.
Justice Douglas says that the Persians “are highly
individualistic, with a passionate love for their land or
their villages." He finds “very few Communists” in Per
sia and points out that the Kurds, who recently rebelled,
are “not pro-Russian but pro-Kurd.” He thinks that
thev are now loval to the central government.
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The judge, incidentally, was in India for a while to
prepare for a mountain-climbing expedition in the;
Himalayas next year. After he settles down, it is sug
gested. he plans to write a book on the tribes of Iran.
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OFFICIALLY U. S. IS AT W \R
The people of the United States who clamored for the
immediate return of American service men from over
seas, when the actual fighting ended in Germany and
Japan, will realize their mistake when we point out that
up to this time no peace treaty has been made with
either Germany of Japan.
The state of war continues so far as official declara
tion is concerned, certain economic and legislative con
trols are in force and there is considerable difference
of opinion as to the methods to be used in relaxing
these controls. No unanimity of opinion is yet apparent
on the extent to which the governments of these na
tions can be returned to the full control of their citizens.
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E.C.A. FUNDS ARE DOUBLED
Practically every American knows thatt the Econo
mic Cooperation Administration is spending money in
foreign countries but not many of us realize that each
country is required to deposit domestic money for the
dollars received under the program. j
The United States gets five per cent of these funds.
The remaining ninety-five per cent must be devoted to i
fiscal and civil recovery program approved by the ECAI
in each countrv concerned. This means that American'
dollars, spent in any country, are matched bv domestic!
money put up by the country and used to promote the
recovery program. j
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Frank Nash, Of
A. R. C. Retires
! The Alaska Road Commission
announces with regret the impend
ing retirement of Mr. Frank Nash,
District Engineer, Alaska Road
Commission, Fairbanks.
Mr. Nash is one of the oldest
employees in point of service of
the Alaska Road Commission. He
has had over thirty-one years of
Federal Service and entered the
employment of the Alaska Road
Commission on June 1, 1924. He
was employed as a surveyor, fore
man, and engineer until July 1,
1929, when he was appointed Act
ing Superintendent of the Fair
banks District. On January 1,
1930, he was promoted to the po
sition of Superintendent of the
Fairbanks District (later changed
to District Engineer) and he has
served in that posiiton continuous
ly for over twenty years until the
present time.
During the early period of Mr.
Nash’s service with the Alaska
Road Commission, Fairbanks was
a pioneer community and the dog
team for the only way of* travel
when the winter snows had cov
ered the country. Mr. Nash was
an outstanding expert with dog
team transportation and made
many long and arduous journeys
by this means for the Alaska Road
Commission, exploring the Yukon
and Tanana River basins before
they were opened up by loads.
He was familiar with Beaver, Fort
Yukon, Circle, Eagle, the Forty
Mile, and the Upper Tanana River
long before the Steese Highway
and the Alaska Highway were
conceived. Later Mr. Nash was in
timately concerned with the con
struction of roads into all these re
gions and their improvement to
the present high standard. He also
was deeply concerned with the de
velopment of roads in outlying lo
calities such as Hort Springs, Ruby,
Wiseman, and many other places.
His work was of a very high cali
ber, and he has been recommend
ed for the Meritorious Service
Award of the department of the
interior in recognition of his long
and excellent service.
Mr. Nash is one of Alaska’s out
standing citizens. He has been
active in the work of the Rotary
Club and the American Legion
and has served as Department
Commander and Alternate Execu
tive Committeeman of Alaska for
the American Legion. His retire
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ment will take effect about No
vember 25, 1950, after the com
pletion of field operations of the
Alaska Road Commission for the
working season of this year.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
BACK FROM CAMPAIGN TRIP
Chas. A. “Chuck” O’Leary,
Democratic Senatorial candidate,
and Gearge Madsen, Democratic
candidate fo rthe House of Repre
sentatives, returned Tuesday from
a 4-day campaign trip covering
the following towns and villages:
Teller, Wales, Shishmaref, Deer
ing, Candle, Kotzebue, Noatak,
Kivalina, and Point Hope.
The Legislative candidates re
port a fine trip with excellent
weather and no delays.
They also speak highly of the
hundreds of Arctic residents they
met and talked with, praising their
kindness and hospitality. They
report the M-K. Co., contractors,
working around the clock on the
new $150,000.00 Territorial air
field, now in course of construc
tion at Kotzebue, and the whole
area extremely busy winding up
the season’s work prior to the an
nual big freeze.
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I Civilian Defense
Conference
Colonel J. D. Alexander, direc
tor of Civil Defense for Alaska,
rturned September 28 from at
tending the International Civil De
fense Conference held at the Mon
• tana State Capitol, Helena, on the
21st of September. This conference
was made up of civil defense rep
resentatives from Canada, Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho, South Da
kota and Wyoming. Mr. Hubert R.
, Gallagher of the office of the di
rector of civil defense, Washing
| on, D. C., represented agencies
coordinating national civil defense
plans.
All delegates to the conference!
expressed considerable interest in
the problems and progress of civil
and military defense in Alaska.
The program consisted of pre
sentations and discussions of pro
posals tio form an interstate and I
interprovincial compact both for!
the exchange of ideas and to pro
vide mutual assistance in formu-'
lating civil defense plans and op
erations. Col. Alexander stated
that this meeting made consider
able progress in the establishment
of a foundation for a broad civil
defense organization to encompass
the western states and Canadian
pro\ inces.
Representatives of the various
states and provinces described
their activities and progress in
connection with civil defense. Col.
Alexander was pleased to note
that Alaska has a civil defense
organization which compares fa
vorably with that of other organ
izations represented.
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Many Atrocities
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Committed In
South Korea
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SEOUL, UP)— A South Korean
official estimated today the com
munists massacred more than 10,
000 Seoul residents before being
driven from the capital city by U.
S. Marines and Dolighboys.
“Several thousand more are re
ported lying in the hills,” said Lee
Joong Choon, chief of the muni
cipal public information section of
Seoul. “Many were dumped into
rivers by the R^ds.”
Lee slid the city actually had
buried only 375 bodies, some of
them victims, of the street-by
s net figh'ing for Seoul.
Another source, who declined to
hi identified, said mass killings
were not the work of North Ko
reans alone. He said the number
non-combatants slain by both
the communist police and §outh
Korean soldiers probably would
total several tens of thousands in
all South Korea.
(/P) correspondent Stan Swmton
reported from Kunsan, west coast
port, that a survivor told United
Nations investigators 2,000 South
Koreans were killed at Chongju.
The investigators there are Lt.
Col. Benito N. Ebuen and Major
D. Dionisio Ojeda, both of the
Philippines.
One source said “people's
courts” in Seoul were organized
and in operation within 10 days
after communist occupation of the
capital June 28. He said political
prisoners were “tried” this way:
The prisoners were marched to
the balcony of the People’s Thea
ter building. The charges were
read and the crowd below was
asked: “Guilty or not guilty?”
He said executions followed in
variably.
Whale Nearly
Catches Plane
Of. Nat Brown
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Nat Brown,
former bush pilot from the interi
or, today brought back a whale of
a tale from St. Lawrence island
where he has been working this
summer.
Brown said he and his wife
were returning to Nome when #
they spotted a whale and landed
their ploat plane on the water
close enough to gett some good
pictures.
They were discoursing on the
length of the mammal, “a sizable
hunk of flesh in any man’s lan
guage,” when they suddenly felt a
movement on the other side of the
plane.
It was another whale. Brown
swiftly taxied the aircraft between
the two, hitting the air just as the #
second beast fipped its tail. When
they glanced back from a cozy dis
tance the pair discovered that
they had been sitting “like fig
ments of an Eskimo hunter’s
dream” practically in the middle
of a very large and potentially ac
tive, school of whales.
Korean Situation
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any traffic.
The Allied pilots flew lower and
slower and eventually found cam
ouflaged trucks off the paved
road.
The air spokesman said 35 of
the 56 trucks reported destroyed
were bagged in the vicinity of the
North Korean capital.
An air spokesman in Tokyo said
the northernmost attack line along
the highway was 30 miles south
of the Manchurian border. The of- 4
ficer refused to comment on
where the southbound traffic
might have originated. Fifth Air
Force pilots reported truck kills in
Kwaksan, Anju, Sinanju, Yongvu,
all along the battered highway.
Antung is 100 air miles north
west of Pyongyang and across the
Yalu River separating Korea and
China.
A Red column was reported last
month streaming down from Man- 4
chuhia but air patrols were unable
to find any trace of it later.
(The Pyongyang radio, in a
broadcost of the Reds’ Tuesday
night war communique, failed
again to mention the border cross
ing by South Koreans last Sun
day. The broadcast heard in San
Francisco said the Reds had de
stroyed six Allied planes and four
tanks. It contended there still was
heavy fighting in the Seoul area.)
(TP) correspondent Tom Lambert
said American Marines Tuesday
captured Uijongbu, 12 miles north *
of Seoul.
At Koryo* air field near Kang
nung, Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker,
Eighth army commander, and
Maj. Gen. Earl E. Partridge, Fifth
Air Force commander, talked with
Maj. Ken. Kim Pakil, commander
of the South Korean First Corps.
Wednesday* October A. 1950
South Korean troops push 60 V
miles beyond parallel 38, meeting
little resistance. Communists are
reported building up for a stand in
front of Wonsan. U. S. Third In
fantry Division arrives, bringing
American strength to six divi
sions. North Korean radio hints at
guarrilla warfare.
. In the United Nations the politi
cal committee squares off for a
showdown fighlj between western
backed plan for Korea’s future
and the Russian plan.