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ATROCITY HILL
JOINS LEST OF
, OTHER BATTLES
By HAL BOYLE
TAEGU, Korea, (Delayed!—IM—
In most military campaigns one <?r
more hills gain a brief or long
renown as giant memorial grave
stones for the men who bled upon
their slopes.
In war you’ve got to control the
high ground -to Win.
There was Hill 609 In Tdnisfa,
Troina In Sicily, Monte Cassino in
Italy, Mount S'uribachi on Iwo
Jlma and Sugar Loaf Hill on Oki
nawa.
Now a new name can be added i
to this historic list—“Atrocity Hill," j
scene of a four day fight that ranks
as one of the bitterest of the Kor- J
eah campaign.
It was in a ravine of horror on
this hill that Red guards executed
with burp guns 36 bound American
prisoners.
This massacre gave the hill its
;oickname—on the map it is marked
only as hill number 303—and that
is probably the thing those who
fought there will remember most
about it. That—and the heat and
the stench of death under a blazing
sun.
But the lastjing importance of the
battle of Atrocity Bill i? that, it
ended In th§, destrucion of a grow
ing be&chhSfid across the Naktong
River that had put the enemy
‘within 12 air miles of Taegu, then
the provisional capital of South
Korea..
To save Taegu, the United States
First Qavalry Division had to hold
this frowning ridge that stands as
a sentinel bulwark east of the
Naktoqg River. ( It is. a steep rug
ged, wodded hill about 1,000 feet
high, two miles northwest of Wae
kwan, and overlooks the main high
way leading from Seoul through
Taegu to the supply port of Pusan
at the south end of the peninsula.
Miss Thordis Larsen
Announces Her
Engagement
Miss Thordis Larsen announced
her engagement to* Mr. Gene Cash
Saturday afternoon at a party in
her apartment in the Klein Build
ing.
Miss Larsen is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Larsen of Pal
ouse, Washington, and Mr. Cash
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Cash of Seattle.
Both are employed by the Al
aska Road Commission.
Wedding plans of the young
Juneau people will be announced
at a later date.
BIDS ARE ASKED ON
KODIAK NAVY BASE
RUNWAY EXTENSION
Captain W. F. Wesanen, CEC,
USN, Officer in Charge of Con
struction, Headquarters, Seven
teenth Naval District, Kodiak, Al
aska, announced today that a con
tract is to be let in September, 1950,
for construction of a new taxiway
and extension of present runway
at the Naval Air Station, Kodiak,
Alaska.
Sealed bids, indorsed “Rids for
construction erf a' new taxiway and
an extension to present runway 7
25 at the U. S. Naval Air Station,
Kodiak, Alaska, Specification No.
24176,” will be received until 3:00
p.m., Kodiak time, 18 September,
1950, at the District Public Works
Office, Building S-12, Naval Oper
ating Base, Kodiak, Alaska. The
bids will then be publicly opened
for furnishing plant, labor, and any
materials required by the plans and
specifications to complete the con
tract.
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RED 2 ON IS
STRJ I MAN IN
CAPITOL PICTURE
With Fred Astaire and Vera
Ellen as an exciting new dancing
team, with Red Skelton in his first
straight character role, and with
such other luminaries as Arlene
Dahl, Keenan Wynn, Gloria De
Haven and Phil Regan adding to
the parade of star talent, "Three
Little Words" offers Capitol Theatre
audiences one of M-G-M’s most
dazling and delightful Technicolor
musicals.
Latest of the popular biographi
cal turners, the new offering which
closes tonight is based on the lives
and songs of Bert Kalmar and Har
rf Ruby, two of America’s most suc
cessful composers. The story traces
the careers of the songwriters from
their first meeting in a Coney Island
beer garden, where Harry Ruby
(Skelton) bungles up Bert Kalmar's
(Astaire) magician act, and con
tinues with their happy efforts as
collaborators despite such diver
sions as Ruby’s passion for baseball
and Kalmar’s propensity for leger
demain. With their rise to phenom
enal success as writers of popular
songs, Broadway and London stage
hits and Hollywood musicals, is the
story of their respective romances.
Kalmar marries his Palace Theatre
dancing partner, Jessie Brown
(Vera-Ellen). and Ruby makes film
star Eileen Percy (Arlene Dahl) his
wife. The team breaks up due to a
quarrel over a play written by Kal
mar, but through the efforts of their
wives, Kalmar and Ruby are reunit
ed to bring forth their biggest song
hit of them all, "Three Little
Words,” in the picture’s rousing
finale.
FINE PROGRESS
REPORTS MADE
BY JIRPJ4EMBERS
Thanks largely to the cooperation
of the U. S. Air Force and the
weatherman, fine progress is re
ported in Juneau Ice Cap studies
and related ones of the Juneau Ice
field Research Project (JIRP).
Primary sponsors are the American
Geographical Society of New York
and the Office of Naval Research.
Conversations with Field Director
Maynard Miller, who is on the Ice
Cap, and returning members of
small expeditions show that work is
being carried out according to plan.
Scientists working on a special
project at Glacier Bay returned this
week-end on their chartered vessel,
the Gallivanter, and hoped to be
flown to the Ice Cap today. The
ski-equipped twin-engine aircraft
from Elmendorf Base was grounded
at the Juneau Airport yesterday for
repairs, but is expected to make a
glacier landing today.
Aboard will be W. O. Field, head
of the Geographical Society’s De
partment of Exploration and Field
Research; Dr. Donald B. Lawrence,
University of Minnesota botanist
and glacier expert; Meterologist
Frederick A. Milan and Geophysicist
Charles R. (Bucky) Wilson.
As women are not included in
plans for Ice Cap camping, Mrs.
Lawrence and Mr. Field’s daughter,
Diana, will remain in Juneau.
They, with Geologist Paul V. Liv
ingston, were the other members
of the Glacier Bay expedition.
The ski-equipped C-47 made a
glacier landing Sunday, taking
JIRP equipment as well as per
sonnel.
Among the “inbound passengers”
were Dr. Louis O. Quam, here to
inspect the operations for the Of
fice of Naval Research, and Dr.
Robert L. Nichols, “Ph. D.” geol
ogist from Tufts College at Med
ford, Mass., a new arrival.
One of the early-summer ar
rivals, Richard C. Merritt of Seattle
atid Yale University, came out on
the ski-plane Sunday, and was
booked southbound yesterday via
Pan American. Among others who
have completed their work for 1950
is Dr. Henri Bader, Swiss-born
geol ogist, who was Seattle-bound
Sunday on Pan Am.
WANT ADS BRINO RESULTS
STEWARDESSES, 1930-1950 — Airlines host
esses model uniforms from 1930 to 1950 at the Chicago Fair. Left
to right: Virginia Vanderbie. 1930: Mary Crowell, 1933: Betty
Schults, 1937; Betty Glentzer, 1939 and Betty Williams, 1950.
Three Large Airfields for
DC-3 Craft to Be Built on
Seward Pen.: Schwamm |
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Three major airfield sites, large j
enough to accomodate DC-3 air- j
craft, will be built on the Seward j
Peninsula as the next step in the
program of the Alaska Aeronautics
Commission, George S. Schwamm
said today.
Schwamm. director of the com- ,
mission, arrived in Juneau this
weekend following a three-week
survey trip through the Second
Division to make selections of fu
ture sites and to confer with resi
i dents on prospective needs.
First field to get underway will
be at White Mountain, Schwamm
! said. A large Alaska Resident Ser
| vice-school is being built there, and
need for a large field is already
being felt.
Next projects will be a field at
Taylor, mining center on the upper
Kougarok River, and another at;
Quartz Creek, on the lower river, j
The landing sites will enable miners
to get equipment into the rich area j
with ease. Roads are now being,
built in the vicinity to enable equip- i
ment to be hauled to and from the j
proposed airports.
The Kougarok tramway, a small
motor train which runs over the
roadbed of an old railroad loca
tion, brings equipment from Nome
as far north as Quartz Creek. .
Smaller Fields
i
Other “prospecting” done by
Schwamm was from Marshall, on
the Kuskokwim River, to some 200
miles north of Kotzebue. He wants
to build smaller fields at Noatak,'
Selawik and Kiama.
Some 25 airfields on the Seward ;
Peninsula are to be extended and .
minor repairs made to them—such
as clearing brush, he said. Most j
of them have had no maintenance
work for years.
In Southeast Alaska, floats being
built by the commission for Port
Althorp, Sitka, Baranof and Hood
Bay are nearly completed, and will
be towed to their locations within ;
the next week, he said.
They are under construction in
Tenakee by the Paddock Brothers.
The Ketchikan float is completed,
but is awaiting anchors before it
can be moored. The Tongass Har
bor float is 80 per cent complete,
he said.
•
Petersburg Dredging
Schwamm will attempt to take
advantage of the presence of
dredges now working in Wrangell
Narrows to get the Petersburg har
bor dredged so hangars may be
moved closer to shore.
The director obtained clearance
from the Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration to negotiate with the
towns of Hydaburg and Craig, both
incorporated villages so they could
build their own floats. The CAA
had previously prohibited partici
pating federal funds in these proj
ects because of the requirement
that all' contracts had to be let to
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The communal villages may go
ahead, with clearances from the
CAA received, Schwamm explained.
In the Interior, the commissio.Vs
current program is rapidly near.ng
completion, with Ninilchik com
pleted, Fort Yukon 95 percent along.
Seldovia 90 percent, and the Palm
er and Skagway fields to be com
pleted within two weeks, he esti
mated.
Saved Fort Yukon
Lytle and Green, construction
contractors at Fort Yukon, deserve
considerable credit for saving the
outpost village when a forest fire
threatened to wipe it out recently.
He said men there told him they
worked 50 hours continuously to
dig a firebreak with their bull
dozers to stop the flames.
The Dillingham field has been
slowed down by muskeg being
reached, and more equipment had
to be asked for from Seattle.
Kotzebue was brought to a stop
by the fire aboard the Coastal
Monarch, which was carrying sup
plies north when she caught fire.
Archie Ferguson is1 now towing
equipment from Dilllngam to
Kotzebue by barge, and next week
will see resumption of work,
Schwamm believed.
He said Kotzebue is enjoying the
best weather it's had for 40 years,
according to old-timers there, and
this means possibly that the season
will be extended so work can go
ahead on the field, they said.
TODAY'S LANDINGS
The Queen, skippered by E. On
soien, landed 25,800 pounds of black
cod and 4,200 pounds of halibut for
E. C. Johnson today while the Ked,
skippered by James Peacock,
brought in 1,000 pounds of salmon
for Engstrom Brothers.
MONDAY’S LANDINGS
The Alrita (Albert Wallis) land
ed 18,000 pounds of salmon, the
Aurora (Albert Schraman) land
ed 3,500 pounds, Rainbow, 1,200
pounds, Service, 1,000 pounds, Uk
um, 1,000 pounds, Elliot (Bill Hel
int, 1,000 pounds and Plnta (Walt
er Maki), 1,000 pounds, all for
Engstrom Brothers. The Hicks,
skippered by Gordon Wahto, land
ed 500 pounds for Alaska Coast
Fisheries and Birdie II, skippered
by Leroy Deroux, landed 2,500
puunas ior E. C. Johnson.
FROM RENTON
C. E. Howson of Renton, Wash.,
is at the Juneau Ho\el.
"SONG OF LOVE" IS ;
ROMANTIC PICTURE
AT 20TH CENTURY
Tlie unforgetable mu ;c or three
great composers- -Schumann, Liszt
and Brahms—share stellar honors
along with Katherine Hepburn, Paul
Henried and Robert Walker in
"Song of Love," an impassioned,
stirring, and beautifully enacted love
story based on the lives of Clara
and Robert Schumann. The picture
on view tonight at the Gross 20th
Century Theatre, is one of the sea
son's distinguished productions and
offers an enriching experience to
lovers of music and drama alike.
It is easy to believe that Miss
Hepburn demanded the role of Clara
Schumann, the gifted concert pian
ist who married her father's bril
liant but impoverished composer
pupil and devoted her life to the
world's recognition of his genius,
for she gives it all she's got. In her
new role. Miss Hepburn probes deep
under the surface of her character
and gives a thoughtful, profound
and highly sensitive performance
which will add immeasurably to her
stature as one of Hollywood’s top
actresses.
The two men in her life, her
husband and Johannes Brahms,
whose love she rejects in order to
perpetuate her husband's fame after
his death, are faultlessly played
by Paul Henried, as the tormented
Schumann whose unrecognized gen
ius drives him to insanity, and by
Robert Walker, the the devoted
Brahms who takes over the manage
ment of his friend’s household and
family, and who tries to ease Clara’s
burden.
BPWC MEMBERS
SEE DUDLEY SLIDES
OF ENGLAND TRIP
Colored slides of a trip to England
with David Dudley as narrator, en
tertained members and guests of
the Business and Professional Wo
men’s Club at luncheon Monday in
the Baranof Terrace room.
Presided over by President Kate
Smith, the BPW Club members
were introduced to the speaker by
Miss Olive Montell, chairman of the
club’s international relations com
mittee. Dudley, who is with the
Construction Division of the Alaska
Native Service, recently returned
from a trip to his home in Twicken
ham in the Thames Valley, 11 miles
from London. ;
His slides, a lesson In English j
history, included views of the
Thames, of a church built in 1066
for missionaries on their way to I
Canterbury; of Hampton Court pal- |
ace, one of the finest specimens of
Tudor architecture, built by Card
inal Wolsey, who presented it to
Henry VIII in 1526. The 400-year
old home in which his mother was j
born; Windsor Castle and the fa- I
mous Kew Gardens were shown. ■
Scenes along the Thames with i£s j
boats and skiffs, pictures of Eng
land's famous chimney pots; its
buses and parks and the tow paths
along the river; a horse show, a
cricket game and a seaside resort
brought to the stay-at-homes a
trip to England.
Guests of the club included Miss
Beatrice Erickson, Mrs. Dorothy
Simpson. Miss Blanche Mosse, Mrs.
James Oooge, Mrs. Norbett Ottke,
Mrs. Anthony Trlpodi, Mrs. Eldor
Roberts, Mrs. Mamie Suit Melson,
Alice Sigismund and Marjorie Went
worth.
Miss Mosse, a BPW clubmemb'er
from Denison, Texas, told of the
various activities of her busy group.
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