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. VIII, No. 29
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPT. 10, 1951
Price 10 cents
rsq Beach Homes
idergo
rcidental Barrage
.ong Beach, Calif. i.T1—Set off
a short circuit, 1,576 rounds
.50 caliber machine gun bul
were sprayed into an exclu
i North Long Beach rcsiden
area yesterday by an an
red Air Force fighter plane,
'vventy five homes were
ick by the bullets. There were
casualties.
am McGill, owner of one of
damaged homes, said he
nted 18 slugs in his house. ‘T
.ight the Russians were here,”
exclaimed.
he armor-piercing incendiary
ets were fired from a F-51
dang fighter plane of the
th Fighter Squadron, a unit
:onstant emergency alert. The
le was at its base at the Long
ch Municipal Airport. It was
ergoing a routine check,
he trajectory of the bullets
ied them over thousands of
les between the airport and
Virginia Country Club. In
area, which is on ground
liderably higher than the
ort, the bullets came hurt
^into homes, garages and
'mobiles. They sheared off
iches of some trees and
ltened scores of persons from
r beds at 5:45 a.m.
ne bullet whizzed through
nursery in the Ralph Kem
?r home but missed the two
imerer children, Phil, two,
Dawn, four.
w Military Training
d Service Act
hn L. McCormick, Terri
1 Director of Selective Serv
announced today that some
le main provisions of the
Universal Military Training
Service Act which will be
in the form of regulations
Tiie Selective Service Sys
is continued indefinitely,
luthorny to induct men into
\rmed Forces lias been ex
id only to July 1, 1955.
Age of liability for train
ind services in the Armed
is, 18 years 6 months to 28
; (formerly 19 to 26).
All registrants between 18
16 are liable for immediate
fication and examination
availability for service.
The definition of veterans
: same as in the 1948 Act,
hose meeting the require
; are exempt, married or
Another provision of the
legislation which has cre
much interest, but is still
nderstood in some quarters,
? provision that any man
was in a deferred classifi
l on the date the Act was
3 (June 19, 1951), or who
ubsequentlv placed in a de
I classification, shall re
liable until age 35.
IANS "REGRET"
[NG OF SOLDIER
:rlin
lin i.T!—An American sol
rnt and killed by East Ger
jolice on the Soviet zone
' last week was identified
as Robert de Brake of
h, Calif.
Army held up the au
gment until the soldier s
Frank de Brake, had been
d.
Brake had driven his car
Soviet border barrier, ap
ly by accident, Thursday
Eyewitnesses said a Corn
policeman shot the sol
; he sat behind the steer
heel. Russian authorities
sed regret.
Gromyko Defeated in Attempt
To Stop Japanese Peace Treaty
Russian Type Rockets
Used in
Korean Air Baffle
U.S. Eighth Army Headquar
ters. Korea i/Pi—Rockets of the
type used by the Russians in
World War II have landed be
hind Allied lines on the east
central front, it was officially re
ported today.
There was speculation they
might have been brought to Ko
rea by Communist Caucasion
troops recently reported near
the battlefront.
No Allied installations were
hit. Official sources refused to
disclose the number of Rockets
that landed.
In the air war, 30 American
F-86 Sabre Jets tangled with 80
Russian-type Mig-los over North
west Korea in one of history's
biggest jet battles. Two Com
munist planes were damaged.
It was the second jet battle in
two days. Sunday the Allies shot
down two Migs and damaged an
other. There were no Allied
losses in either scrap.
The Allied warplanes wore led
into battle by Col. Francis Gab
reski, America's top ace.
“It was one of the most fero
cious air battles I have ever
seen,” said Gabreski, a veteran
of aerial warfare against the
German Luftwaffe in World War
II.
Gabreska is America's leading
living air ace. He was credited
with 28 German planes shot
down in the last war, and three
others destroyed on the ground.
He has shot down two IVligs in
Korean air battbs.
ATEC To Add Lines
To System
Seward — Alaska Telephone
Corporation advised the City
Council at the last regular meet*
ing of the council that they had
been successful in securing sev
eral miles of new cable on in
stant delivery and that the cable
will be in Seward late this
month. It is planned to increase
the service from the downtown
area to the Jesse Lte Home and
through the Housing Area this
fall.
Mr. Starr, vice president of the
company stated that this cable
will provide service to approxi
mately 100 more people and that
applications which have not been
placed with the company should
be completed as soon as possible.
Application may be made at the
downtown office of the tele
phone company. Only people
living in the areas mentioned
need apply at this time. As ad
ditional areas are opened up
notice will be given.
LOCAL MAN INJURED
BY HELICOPTER
Wm. (Bill) Younker received
gashes about the shoulder and
arm yesterday when he walked
into the spinning tail prop of a
helicopter at the Engineer Base
Camp in the old Fort Raymond
area.
Younker was removed to the
hospital for treatment. His es
cape with only relatively minor
injuries was nothing short of
miraculous, bystanders stated.
No bones or major arteries were
touched by the spinning prop.
Helicopter Missing
Since Saturday
Anchoraoe i/Pl— A helicopter
and its pilot wore missing in the
south central Alaska wilderness
today.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration said pilot Jack Shields
had been unreported since 10:30
a m. Saturday when he left Tal
keetna for a point ten miles east
of Clarence Lake on the Susitna
River.
The CAA said Shields was fly
ing to the wreckage of another
helicopter which crashed last
summer. He carried enough fuel
for a five-hour flight.
The Tenth Rescue Squadron,
notified of the overdue ’copter,
sent a plane to the area, the
CAA said.
Both 'copters were being used
in government survey work.
The search for Shields and
the missing helicopter was start
ed as the Air Force added two
more names to the list of persons
killed or missing in a long series
of Alaska aerial mishaps.
The deaths of two men in Air
Force helicopter crash Saturday
raised to 54 the number lost in
13 aircraft which have crashed
or disappeared since July 21,
when a Korean Airlift plane
vanished with 33 aboard.
ALASKA DIVISION AAS
FORMED AT McKINLEY
CONFERENCE
Ml. McKinley National Park
L-V—Formation ox an Alaskan
Division of the Association for
the Advancement of Science was
completed at the Science Con
ference that ended here Satur
day.
Dr. Laurence Irving, chief of
the physiological section of the
Arctic Research Center at An
chorage, was named first presi
dent. W. Wilson of the Soil Con
servation Service was named
vice president and Rachel S.
Sirnett of Palmer was elected
secretary-treasurer.
The distinguished gathering of
scientists expressed optimism
over the possibilities of scientific
research in the Territory.
REPORTED BOMBER CRASH
CALLED HOAX
Wesiover Air Force Base,
Mass LtP*'—A V/estover Air Force
Base spokesman said today that
an alert for a possible search for
a possibly distressed plane at
sea had been called off here.
“Weak" SOS signals previous
ly had been described as an ap
parent hoax after they were
picked uo by a radio tower at
Tinker Field. Okla. Widely s?p
arated sources had followed up
with reports of a plane's crew
bailing out.
The Westover spokesman said
that New York Oceanic Control
called off all Westover partici
pation and that a temporary
alert here had been relaxed w’hen
the New York authority trans
ferred the checkup to units at
Fort Pepperell, Nfld.
Westover said a check of the
East Coast showed no bomber
missing. Air Force officials at
the Pentagon in Washington said
they couldn't locate any flight
plan which would place a plane
in the reported position off
Greenland.
Refuse Reds Report
On Kaesong
Checkup of Strafing
Munsan, Korea (.¥)—United Na
tions officers swapped sharp
words with Reds in Kaesong to
day after investigating a Com
munist charge that an Allied
warplane strafed the cease-fire
conference city this morning.
The U.N. officers refused to
give the Reds an on-the-spot re
port of their investigation. They
also refused to concede that an
attack had occurred or that a
U.N. plane was involved.
They acknowledged only that
during a four-hour checkup of
the alleged neutrality zone vio
lation they found one bullet
mark and a dozen .50 caliber
slugs in and around a group of
stone houses. The houses were
about three-quarters of a mile
from the site of the suspended
armistice talks.
The investigators said the bul
lets appeared to have been fired
from several directions and at
different angles.
This would conflict, they said,
with the Red assertion that the
plane made one pass over the
house.
When the investigation was
completed, the senior Allied of
ficer refused a Communist de
mand for a reply to the charge.
Three Members To
School Board
According to word received
since Friday, two new members
are to be added to the school
board in addition to the replace
ment of one 5-year member on
the old board.
The five-m:mber school board
was authorized by the last
Legislature. Chapter 51 SLA
1951: (Amending Section 37-3-32
ACLA 1949) provides for five
member school boards for city
school districts. In municipalities
presently organized the addition
al members will be elected at
the next municipal election and
will draw lots for term in office;
thereafter each member will be
elected for a five-year term.
NO INJURIES IN CANADIAN
PLANE CRASH LANDING
Vancouver, B.C. i.P'—A Queen
Charlotte Airlines plane made a
crash landing yesterday near
Garibaldi Lake. 30 miles north
of here. The light Norseman
plane was badly damaged but
the four occupants walked away
unhurt.
Johnny Jdatch. the pilot, said
the plane was caught in an “ex
ceptional downdraft” as he came
in for a landing on the lake. The
plane plunged 800 feet to a
crash-landing in a group of trees.
The three passengers, all of
Vancouver, continued the trip
to a camp near the lake on foot.
NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE
EFFECTIVE TODAY
A passenger train from An
chorage is due in Seward tonight
at 9 o'clock, and will depart two
hours after the passenger ship
Alaska arrives Tuesday. Tenta
tive time for ship arrival is
10:30 a.rn. Tuesday.
The new regular winter sched
ule for ARR trains is effective
today.
San Francisco (/P) — Andrei
Gromyko is going home from
the San Francisco conference
with Russia’s worst postwar dip
lomatic defeat on his record—
and with ammunition in his
pocket for a new wrecking cam
paign against the Japanese peace
treaty.
American diplomats, winding
up their affairs in the conference
city today, predicted Russia will
do its utmost to undermine pop
ular support for the treaty with
a massive propaganda attack
throughout Asia and the Far
East.
Gromyko, who left by train
for New' York yesterday, pre
pared the ammunition for that
assault in his speeches and ac
tions at the peace conference—
notably by his charges of Amer
ican “dictation” and his repeat
ed forecasts of a “new war” in
the Orient. He also made much
of Red China's exclusion.
At same point, furthermore, it
is considered probable that Rus
sia wdll put forth, in collabora
tion with Red China, plans for a
separate Communist bloc peace
treaty with Japan. Presumably
this would embody provisions
which Gromyko advanced here
in his vain efforts to get the
British-American sponsored pact
rewritten.
Forty-eight nations signed the
peace treaty with Japan in a
63-minute ceremony .^Saturday.
For three tense days of debate
Gromyko had cried his warnings
of w'ar and had tried to get ?r-~
ceptance of amendments which
would have rendered Japan de
fenseless when the treaty be
comes effective.
But when the document was
put on the table for signing the
United States scored a clean
sweep. Not one nation was held
back by Gromyko's arguments.
Salmon Waste Found
Good Mink Diet
Juneau <?'—‘‘Old Dobbin” en
trees will soon be passe on mink
ranch menus and salmon offal
promises to top the little fur
bearers' diets, if experiments
carried on by the Fishery Pro
ducts Laboratory in Ketchikan
are successful.
This was announced today by
Clarence J. Carlson, acting chief
of the laboratory.
The past several years the
laboratory has cooperated with
the Department of Agriculture's
experimental fur farm in Peters
burg on use of fish and fish by
products in the diets of mink.
In addition, it has assisted a
technological laboratory in Se
attle in developing a satisfactory
diet for hatchery fish.
In Petersburg it was found
that up to 80 per cent salmon
waste could be fed mink success
fully. Hatchery fish thrived al
most 100 per cent on waste pro
ducts with good results.
Alaska is the best source of
‘‘nutritionally superior” salmon
waste products, Carlson pointed
out. A test shipment was frozen
this season and is due to leave
Petersburg on the southbound
voyage of the Palisana.
Carlson estimated that 10 mil
lion pounds or more of wTasted
offal from Alaska could be used
for such feeding in the con
tinental United States.