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VOL. LIII No. Ill NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1951_Per Copy—154
Reports Fantastic
High Rentals To
Alaska Servicemen
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Rep. Nor
blad <R-Ore) declared Tuesday
that many landlords are gouging
the families of military men who
occupy off-base housing in Alaska.
A member of the House Armed
Services Committee, NoTblad re
turned recently from an inspec
tion of military bases in Alaska.
He told newsmen that “fantas
tically high rentals for completely
inadequate shacks” are being
charged military personnel.
“While we realize that rental
conditions in areas adjacent to
nvany of our camps in the United
States are bad enough,” he said,
those in Alaska are unbelievably
worse.
“One room shacks for a soldier
and his family of two or three and
without adequate utilities are
renting for $100 and up. Tar paper
hovels of more than one room and
with only outside plumbing are
priced at $125 to $150 per month.”
“Many landlords seem to be
taking complete advantage of the
servicemen,” he went on, “and
trying to get all the traffic will
bear as long as the housing short
age lasts.”
He said the Defense Depart
ment should give housing con
struction first priority in its over
all building program “so that this
unfortunate condition can be al
leviated as soon as possible.”
Senate Investigation RFC
Churns Up Political Fight
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Former
RFC director William E. Willett
swore today that William M.
Boyle, Jr., contacted him three
times about loan matters after be
coming Democratic National
Chairman.
Willett, who left the RFC last
may in a reorganization, testified
before Senators investigating
charges that Boyle brought politi
cal influence to bear on operations
of the government loan agency.
Boyle has denied using any such
influence.
Willett told a Senate investiga
tions subcommittee he received
telephone calls from Boyle ar
ranging meetings for various per
sons.
The Senate investigation al
ready has churned up a grade-A
political fight.
Navy Lifts Restrictions
On “Privateer” Bombers
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Navy
announced today that flying re
strictions have been lifted for
Naval A i r Squadron Nine in
Alaska. The unit is based at
Kodiak.
An announcement was made
last Thursday that the squadron
was grounded for “morale pur
poses” after three of its Privateer
patrol planes had been involved
in crashes.
Undersecretary Francis P.
Whitehair said at the time that a
special board of inquiry was being
set up to investigate the crashes.
No details were available, how
ever, on any inquiry that may
have been conducted.
Big Road Program
Planned by C of C
It was announced at the noon
luncheon of the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday that the Road
Committee, headed by H. F. Har
per, has been increased to nine
members due to its importance in
connection with the development
of roads in the strategic minerals
areas immediately surrounding
Nome.
The committee, headed by H.F.
Harper, includes A. Polet, G. R.
Jackson, Ralph Lomen, Dan Jones,
J. M. Cooley, Dewey Goodrich,
Carl Glavinovich, and Richard E.
Lee. They plan to organize and
conduct a working organization for
the purpose of helping toward the
adoption of a general program of
road building and mining devel
opment and to encourage an in
dustrial business development. It
is planned to establish a mining
exhibit in Nome.
The Chamber also took action
on the vacancies in federal offices
and wired Delegate Bartlett for
early action on the appointment
of a District Judge and District
Attorney.
The Chamber discussed the sub
i ject of a better business bureau
i
i and the matter was placed in the
hands of the Civic Affairs Com
mittee to investigate before the
next meeting.
Britain To Hold General
Election On October 25
LONDON, (/P) — Britain will
have a general election Oct. 25,
with Winston Churchill’s conser
vative party bidding to oust the
Labor government of Prime Min
ister Attlee, an# informed source
reported today.
The report came from the lobby
(parliamentary) correspondent of
the British Press Association, who
usually writes with official guid
j ance. Attlee’s press spokesman,
! asked for comment, said “there is
I nothing official—yet.”
Heavy Snows Maroon
Several Hundred Hunters
Along Glenn Highway
ANCHORAGE, UP) — An early
heavy snow along the Glenn High
way gave week-end moose and
caribou hunters a rough time.
Two Wildlife Service agents re
ported several hundred hunters
were marooned along a 70-mile
stretch with snow as deep as two
feet. Holger Larsen and Dan Ral
ston said they found passenger
cars, trucks and even tractors
stuck in the snow. The Alaska
Road Commission said the high
way was reopened after a her
culean effort.
Rita Hires Detectives To
Guard Daughter Yasmin
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Rita Hay
worth, alarmed by anonymous
kidnap threats, has hired detec
tives to guard her 19-month-old
daughter Yasmin, the Los Angeles
Times reports.
The child’s father is Moslem
Prince Aly Khan, whom Miss
Hayworth is in Reno to divorce.
The Times said in a story last
night that the actress’ Hollywood
friends ascribe the threats to the
fact that she is seeking a large
financial settlement for Yasmin.
U. S. To Train
5,000 Soldiers In
Atomic Warfare
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Five
thousand U.S. fighting men are
going to learn toy the actual ex
plosions of live ammunition how
to operate when a battlefield is
blasted and seared under atomic
barrage.
These men and officers, drawn
from the Army, Navy and Air
Force, and including an army bat
talion combat team, will get their
atomic warfare indoctrination
during a new series of nuclear
tests at the Frenchman Flats, Nev.,
atomic weapons proving ground.
The military has designated as
“Exercise Desert Rock’’ this first
atomic warfare troop maneuver.
The combat team will establish
a battle position, dig trenches and
dugouts and string wire before
each explosion. Then they will
move to safe positions as the ex
plosion comes, an official army
announcement explained.
Turkey and Greece
Join North Atlantic
Pact Nations
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
OTTAWA, {JP) — The last ob
stacle to an Atlantic Council re
omcomendation that Greece and
Turkey be brought into* the North
Atlantic treaty apparently was
commendation ithat Greece and
swept away today by Norway and
Denmark government decisions to
vote for such action.
Military leaders of the Atlantic
alliance were reported already at
work on plans to set up a new
NATO Middle East command cen
tered on Turkey but designed to
create a common strategy for anti
communist forces throughout that
area of the world.
These plans, it was learned,
were tentatively shaped up by
the top-level standing group of
the NATO military committee.
U. S. Battle Casualties
In Korea Reach 83,257
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Announ
ced U.S. battle casualties in Ko
rea reached 83,257 today, an in
crease of 895 since last week.
Following is a Defense Depart
ment breakdown of the casualties
by services:
Army .67,133
Navy . 963
Air Corps. 777
Marine Corps .13,404
Korean War News
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Korea, (JP) — Swift
Allied jets shot down one Russian
type MIG-15 and damaged five in
three swirling air battles over
northwest Korea today.
At least 112 jets engaged in
fights flashing from 30,000 feet
down to three top level.
These were the first jet fights
in five days. Murky weather had
curtailed jet activity.
Communist troops forced Allied
defenders off a commanding
height in the ’’heartbreak ridge”
sector. The Allied forces had won
the hill after hard fighting Tues
day midnight and later had hurled
back two Red charges.
C. C. Tanner and Eric Nelson Drown
While Hunting In Safety Lagoon
The community was shocked Monday when news
reached town that C. C. Tanner and Eric Nelson were
drowned when their boat capsized in Safety Lagoon.
Mr. Tanner, who had been away on a business trip,
returned over the week-end and<
completed plans for his annual
hunting trip up the Eldorado,
taking with him Eric Nelson.
They left town about noon on
Monday -and were followed short
ly after by Hugo Lindfors and
Walt Kirkland. Both parties, with
their hunting gear and supplies,
left the camp known as The Nook
in two small motor boats and
started across Safety Lagoon, but
they became separated when Lind
fors’ boat developed engine
trouble.
It is reported that Tanner’s boat
was out of sight less than an hour
when the other craft caught sight
of it upside down with the anchor
caught in about 12 feet of water.
No sign of the two was found al
though their equipment and sup
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plies were floating around in the
water. The Lindfors boat searched
for the tv/o men and then returned
to land to report the accident.
At daybreak yesterday a search
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party, headed by chief deputy
marshal Geo. Bayer, left for
Safety and included Grant Jack
son, Ernie Ball, John Reader, A.
C. Miller, Pete Brandt, Barney
Crosby. Rev. P. Carlson and Spen
cer Strand participated in the
search with an -airplane-propellor
driven boat.
Dr. Maxwell Kennedy and Pete
Reader, flying their own planes,
and Capt. John H. Moerl, of the
54’2nd Engineers, flying a heli
copter, searched from the air.
Dr. Kennedy located the body of
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Reds Request
UN Liaison Team
Meet At Kaesong
TOKYO, (/P)—'The United Na
tions command tonight agreed to
a communist request to send a
liaison team tomorrow to the Kae
song neutral zone, site of the sus
pended Korean war armistice
talks.
The Reds made the request
shortly after the U.N. command
announced that four unarmed
South Korean soldiers yesterday
mistakenly entered the neutral
zone.
The Red request for a meeting
raised speculation that the com
munists may want to discuss re
sumption of the stalled talks, ot
they may want to lodge another
charge of Allied violation of the
neutral zone.
Tone of the notes exchanged be
tween the Reds and Allies recent
ly has been more moderate, a U.N.
command release said.
The Reds had charged that the
incident was a violation of the
Kaesong neutral zone.
The U.N. command took a light
er view.
It said the four, members of an
antUepidemic unit, were “armed
with nothing more dangerous than
DDT.”
Seattle and Hollywood
Play Final Game Tonight
In Governors Cup Series
(By the Associated Press)
The first and second place teams
in the Pacific Coast League pen
nant race meet at Hollywood in
the fifth and deciding game of
the Governor’s playoff series to
night.
Hollywood prolonged the agony
last night by rising up in the
ninth inning to score a run and
take a 4 to 3 decision. The win
ning run was unearned.
Seattle couldn’t do things right
last night. Rogers Hornsby’s club
outhit the Stars 10 to 6, but had
10 men left on base and two
erased at the plate trying to score.
Tonight’s winner gets $10,000;
the loser $5,000.
Korea Tougher
Than Anything
In World War II
FOCONO MANOR, Pa., (/P) —
Private health and welfare facil
ities of the nation have been
“carefully and deliberately or
ganized to meet a national emer
gency” for the first time in his
tory, Ralph W. Blanchard said to
night.
Blanchard, vice president of the
United Defense Fund, spoke at a
planning conference of United Ser
vice Organizations, Inc., here.
Earlier, the conference heard
Lawrence Phillips, executive vice
president o*f Camp Shows, Inc.,
quote performers who have re
turned from tours to Korea and
Alaska as saying that Korea is
tougher than anything they saw
overseas during World War II.
In Alaska, Phillips added, the
performers report conditions even
tougher in Korea, from the view
point of need for entertainment
and relaxation.
Cleveland Indians
Accept Orders For
World Series Tickets
CLEVELAND, (JP)—'The Cleve
land Indians began accepting
World Series ticket orders today.
“We aren’t counting our chick
ens,” the club announced, “but we
can no longer delay announce
ment of our World Series ticket
plans.”
The American League champ
ionship may not be decided before
the final day, Sept. 30, and the
club has to get started with ar
rangements well ahead of that
time—just in case.
TUESDAY BASEBALL
American League
Cleveland 6—Boston 4
Chicago 7—New York 1
Detroit 8—Philadelphia 6
St. Louis 8-3—Washington 0-2
National League
St. Louis 7—Brooklyn 1
New York 6—Cincinnati 5
Pittsburgh 6—Boston 5
Chicago 7—Philadelphia 4