OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. LII. No. 88 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1950 . Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEWARK, N. J. {JP)—A large
chain store today boosted the
price of hot dogs from a dime to
12 cents and hamburgers from 15
to 17 cents.
Some restaurants hiked the
price of a cup of coffee from five
to 10 cents with meals.
LONDON, (>P) — Informants in
touch with the government report
ed yesterday Britain has decided
to offer a small ground force to
the United Nations for use in Ko
rea.
They reported this after the
British cabinet met in special ses
sion, apparently to discuss a num
ber of major changes in the na
tion’s defense policy.
WASHINGTON, f/P)—President
Truman’s request for $10,486,976,
000 for military needs includes
$4,393,000 for Alaska Communica
tions.
FAIRBANKS, (£>) — Mrs. Edna
Todd, 64, a Cayucas, Calif., nurse
here on an Alaska tour, died in a
Fairbanks hospital Monday after a
heart attack.
She is survived by two daugh
ters, Mrs. Waldo Pate, Auburn,1
Calif., and Mrs. Sara Darritt,
Roseburg, Ore.
“Capt.” Lathrop
Killed In Accident
(Special to The Nugget)
FAIRBANKS (/P), Captain Aus
tin Eugene Lathrop, 87, northern
Alaska capitalist was killed out
right today when he slipped off a
coal car and was crushed beneath
the wheels. The accident occurred
at his Healy River Coal Corpora
tion holdings at Suntrana, about
112 miles houth of here. Few de-1
tails are known. Lathrop’s News
Miner here said it understood the
body was being returned to Fair
banks in an Alaska Railroad am- .
bulance car.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Delegate
Bartlett recommended the ap
pointment this week of Miss Lucy
Neakok as postmaster at Point
# JLay. Point Lay is on the Arctic
Coast between Point Hope and
Point Barrow.
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The Na
tional Congress of American Indi
ans opposed today passage of the
Alaskan Statehood Bill unless
# Congress removes a ban against
reservations for Alaskan natives.
The so-called anti-reservation
clause was inserted by the Senate
insular committee.
John Rainier, secretary of the
Indian Congress, said in a state
ment “The tragic experience of
the American Indians leads us to
believe that the natives of Alaska
will lost all their rights if this
l^ro vision is not deleted.”
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Police chief
Dewey Orell said yesterday a city
5:ail prisoner had turned a jail
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BILLBOARDS LIKE THIS border the iron curtain. Reds hope
Western Germans will come to the border to read their propa
ganda. This sign at Coburg reads: "Long live unity of the working
class in its fight against dismantling for preservation of work
ing places, for securing the right of co-determination in West
Germany." Border patrols criticize the quality of the blue and
white paint jobs.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, American troops
are now engaged in hostilities in
Asia, and
WHEREAS,, war or the threat
of a general war is of direct con
cern to Alaska as it is to every
other part of the United States,
and
WHEREAS, Alaska’s vulnerable
position, geographically and lo
gistically, suggests the possibility
of its direct involvment in any ma
jor foreseeable war, and
WHEREAS, Alaskans general
ly, mindful of such circumstances!
and alert to such possibilities, and
conscious of their responsibilities
as citizens of a free nation, should,
for their mutual protection and
well-being, organize themselves
against any threat to their secur
ity, health or welfare:
NOW THEREFORE, I, ERNEST
GRUENING, Governor of Alaska,
do, pursuant to national policy,
and in the discrarge of my official
responsibilities, hereby direct that
the Director of Civilian Defense
for Alaska, establish and organize
Civilian Defense facilities on a
Territorial-wide basis, and that he
cooperate with the various com
munities in Alaska in promoting
similar preparedness and organ
ization within their boundaries.
And I hereby commend to the sev
eral communities the desirability
of preparedness for any eventual
ity and urge that they avail them
selves of whatever facilities may
be procurable.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto subscribed my
hand and caused the Seal of
the Territory of Alaska to be
affixed. Done at Juneau, the
Capital, this 20th day of July
in th^ year of our Lord nine
“Global War Is
Very Possible
At Any Time”
WASHINGTON, <flV-Rep. Vin
son (D.-Ga.) said yesterday “A
global war is a real, distinct pos
sibility at any time” and Ameri
can forces must be built up for
that possibility.
Vinson, chairman of the armed
services committee, made' the
statement in a speech prepared
for House delivery in support of a
bill that would add a year to the
service of enlisted men now in the
armed forces.
The enlistment “freeze” already
has passed the Senate.
The House also expected to take
a vote 1/ter on legislation to lift
all limits from the size of the
armed forces.
On a speed up schedule, it may
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Truman Will Need
Much More Power
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Secretary
of commerce Sawyer said yester
day the economic control powers
the administration is asking may
not be enough. He declared great
er powers will be needed if mili
tary spending is increased further.
Sawyer was before the Senate
banking committee to urge that
Congress quickly give President
Truman the controls he has asked.
These include powers to parcel
out scarce materials to industries,
to say how these materials shall
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teen hundre dand fifty.
(SEAL)
/s/ ERNEST GRUENING,
Governor of Alaska,
/s/ LEW M. WILLIAMS
Secretary of Alaska
'Over Thirty Airstrips Planned
Imm ediately In This Area
_ /<&
Tony Schwamm, Director of
Aviation for the Territory, arrived (
yesterday with a survey crew to
start work on small badly-needed
airstrips through the Second Divi
sion. With him are Don Eyinck
and Harvey Turner of the Uni
versity of Alaska. A professional ^
crew will follow tomorrow, head-,
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Caldwell.1
,Mr. Caldwell is chief engineer
and vice preddent for the inter- j
national air port design firm of
of Thomas B. Bourne Co. 1
Mr. Schwamm stated that fields
in the Second Division which
have been approved in the Na
tional Airport Plan for 1950 in
clude the following: Council, Dahl
Creek. Deering, Hamilton, Hay
cock, Holy Cross, Kewalik, Kotze
but,. Koyuk, Marshall, Quartz
Creek, Shungnak, Teller, White
Mountain. All of these have been
approved so that matching funds
from the federal government may
be used if found necessary, Mr.
Schwamm stated, during the next
three years.
In the smaller villages where
airstrips are planned, wherever
possible, local equipment and men
will be used and work will start
immediately.
In addition to the nationally ap
proved fields mentioned, the fol
lowing will be started or improv
ed by Territorial funds: These in
clude a strip for Solomon, Golo
vin, Shaktoolik, Iron Creek, Ruby
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President Calls On
All Americans For
“Some Sacrifice”
(By Sterling F. Green)
WASHINGTON, (£>)—^President
Truman today summoned the na
tion to “some sacrfice” of its civil
ian plenty. He declared himself
ready to call for “complete econo
mic mobilization” if the defense
of freedom requires.
Mr. Truman told Congress, in
his mid-year economic message,
that price ceilings, rationing and
“serious shortages” can be avoid
ed if Congress quickly gives him
limited control powers and a
$5,500,000,000 tax increase.
But he warned: “We must real
ize that the engagement in Korea
will be costly and may not be
short. We must prepare against
the possibility that new crises
may arise elsewhere.”
That hazard means, the Presi
dent said, that industrial output
must be stepped up—possibly by
a rate of $10,000,000,000 annually
before January 1—and that basic
industry itself must be expanded
by federal loans and guarantees.
“We cannot afford longer to
risk the future desperate short
ages of some of the most essen
tial requirements for our national
security,” Mr. Truman said.
He did not name steel specific
ally as one of the industries critic
ally needing expansion. But it
headed the list of “scarcity” ma
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Korean Situation
At A Glance —
Tuesday, July 25, 1950
(By The Associated Press)
Yongdonk fell to North Kore
ans today. One the other side of
the ledger, U. S. and British Car
rier planes streaked across Korea's
southwest tip and struck hard at
advancing communist colum n s
threatening to flank United Na
tions forces in a push toward Pu
l>an.
The war was a month old, and
the MacArthur command was
fighting to keep the one-third of
South Korea it still holds.
On the central front, U. S. cav
alry division elements, “fighting
like hell,” retreated from Yong
donk before a sustained commun
ist frontal attack supported by
stabs in both flanks and sneak at
tacks from the rear. Fighting to
protect American flanks, the 25th
Division threw back two commun
ist infantry attacks with heavy
casualties. Yongdonk is 20 miles
southeast of abandoned Taejon.
The carrier plane attack was
part of Gen. MacArthur’s planned
measures against the burgeoning
threat on the southwest front,
where Red columns have been
driving against token resistance
from South Koreans and menac
ing vitally important U. S. supply
lines in the broad flank move
ment.
The navy pilots hit unidentified
front line targets “of opportunity”
in the area of Kwangju, where the
communists have been spearing
east in what looked like the be
ginning of a drive on Pusan. This
main American supply port is on
the southeast coast. The Reds al
ready have seized all the western
and southwestern part of Korea,
driving the Americans and South
Koreans into a corner making up
only about a third of the penin
sula.
U. S. army field officers were
reported to have asked the air
strike in which British planes
supplied cover for U. S. naval fli
ers. The attack was under the di
rection of Vice Adm. Arthur D.
Struble, who had just returned
with his ships from recent strikes
at targets north of the 38th para
llel. For. the first time in the cam
paign a re-arming ship came
alongside the task force as it pro
ceeded to its new operation.
A dispatch from U. S. Eighth
Army headquarters in central Ko
rea quoted North Korean prison
ers as saying 20,000 Korean vet
erans of the Chinese communist
army weer used for the. invasion
of South Korea. The prisoners also
said Russian advisers were work
ing with communist army units,
and that Russia, a month before
the invasion, supplied the North
Korea army with huge quantities
of equipment.
Front disptaches from the cen
tral sector said the Yongdong
withdrawal was orderly after the
Americans stood their ground
since Sunday before waves of at
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