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were evacuated by water, presum
ably from the big port of Chongjin,
CO mile- southwest of the Soviet
Siberian border.
In the non invest, below Red
occupicd Pyongyang, the U.S.
Eighth Army consolidated positions
on its newly-formed defense line.
Allied patrols probed for advance
elements of 13 Chinese Divisions
moving toward the line. A few
skirmishes were reported.
AP Correspondent Don Whitehead
reported that up to 40,000 well
armed guerrillas — mostly reorga
nized North Korean troops—are op
erating behind the Eighth Army
line and on its extreme right flank.
MRS. MYRNA SAVAGE AND
ARVID OBKRG MARRIED
HERE THURSDAY EVENING
Mrs. Myrna Gertrude Savage and
Mr. Arvid Oberg were married at
a 5 o'clock ceremony yesterday af
ternoon in the Hotel Juneau by
Judge Gordon Gray, U. S. Com
missioner.
Attendants for the couple were
Evangeline Norton and Walter L.
Jewell. A wedding dinner was given
fcr the newlyweds at their home at
021 W: t Tenth St. Guests were the
members of the wedding party and
relatives of the couple.
Mrs. Oberg is the daughter of
Mrs. Gertrude Jewell of Juneau.
Mr. Oberg is a logger with the
Owens Bros, at Barge.
FROM SEATTLE
Glenn H. Bowersox of Seattle is
registered at the Baranof Hotel.
MQUNTEES BEING
DISMOUNTED AS
GOES MECHANICAL
OTTAWA, Dec. 8— UP!— The
Mounties—Royal Canadian Mounted
Police—have only 153 horses, it was
disclosed today.
The R.C.M.P. told about it in
the final report for the year ending
last March 31. The force of 3,489
uniformed members is gradually
' going mechanical, with 17 fewer
horses than the year before. It add
ed an airplane to its equipment and
is seeking a helicopter.
But its members in the vast
northland patrolled 539,000 miles,
40,860 of them by dogsled.
Activities included everything
from recovering a lost wallet to
getting its man—43,000 convictions.
PACIFIC NORTHERN
FLIES SEVENTEEN TO
ANCHORAGE THURS.
Seventeen passengers departed
yesterday via Pacific Northern Air
lines for Anchorage; five arrived
here from the westward and three
were carried between points.
For Anchorage: Col. John R.
Noyes, C. J. Joe, A. N. Daniels,
Rollyn Oquillok, J. K. Tokeinna,
E. M. Taylor, B. E. Moto Jr., W.
I M. Meals, R. J. Nashoalook, Lois
Smith, Alice Riley, Arthur Hedges,
Helen Saale, Joe Murphy, Anna
Clark, Wayne Miller and Warren
Kerr.
Martin Mackey and Floyd Brown
arrived here from Anchorage.
Garry Hughes, A. Herbstreith and
Norman Sommers arrived from Cor
dova.
INSPECT ROADS
Chris Wyller and Morton M
Flint, Bureau of Public Roads oi
ficials returned yesterday from a
i routine inspection of road work
j in the Ketchikan area this week.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
TODAY
At, 6:30 p.m.—Scottish Rite banquet.
At 7:30 p.m.—Doubleheader basket
ball game in Juneau High gym.
At 8 p.m.—Scottish Rite, 32nd De
gree.
At 8:45 p.m.—Juneau Community
Chorus full rehearsal in Metho
j dist church.
! At 10:30 p.m.—Skagway Cowgirls
and Cowboys will put on skit in
Baranof Bubble Room.
December 9
At 1 p.m.—Sewing. Rummage Sale
at Memorial Presbyterian church.
At 8:30 p.m. — Sourdocey Square
Dancing Club will meet in Parish
Hall.
At 9:30 p.m.—Days of ’98 with Elks
host to troop of cowgirls and cow
boys from Skagway and Kangaroo
Court of Injustice.
December 11
At 10 a.m.—BPW rummage sale in
Dugout. No luncheon this day.
At noon—Lions Club meets at
Baranof.
! At 8 p.m. — Womans Missionary
Society of Church of God meets
r in parsonage, 526 East Street,
j At 8 p in.—American ■* Legion post
meets in Dugout.
December 12
At noon—Rotary Club. Baranof.
i At 8 p.m.—Concert at 20th Cen
tury Theatre by Desire Legetti
and Marcus Gordon.
At 8 p.m.—Eastern Star Christmas
party, Scottish Rite Temple.
At 8:45 p.m.—Community Center
Night for Adults at Teen Age
I Club.
December 13
At noon—Kiwanis Club, Baranof.
At 6:30 p.m.—Couple Club meets at
Northern Light Presbyterian
\ church.
At 8 p.m.—Elks Lodge.
At 8 p.m.—Turkey Shoot of Cardi
nal Club in Catholic parish Hall.
At 8 p.m.—Alaska Potters meet in
AB Hall for demonstration of one
piece mold.
December 14
At noon—Chamber of Commerce j
meets at Baranof.
At 7:30 p.m. — Juneau Rifle and
Pistol Club meets in AB Hall.
At 8 p.m.—Emblem Club annual |
Christmas party will be held in j
Elks Lodge rooms.
December 15
At 9 p.m.—Senior Ball of Juneau
High in High School Gym.
December 16
At 8 p.m. — ANB-ANS ceremonial
dances for Library Fund in High
School gym.
At 10 p.m.—Sons of Norway dance
in Elks Ballroom. All kinds ol
music to be featured.
December 17
At 8 p.m—Christmas program pre
sented by First Church of God
in IOOF Hall.
NS XMAS FURLOUGHS
TOR CAMP SOLDIERS
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—ttft—'The
Army has cancelled a general ten
day Christmas furlough for sold
! iers in training camps.
The announcement said training
! will continue through the holiday
j season at all camps in the United
I States except on Christmas Day
! and New Year's Day.
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GOING SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Moran tVho
reside on the Glacier Highway spent
! the night at the Hotel Juneau and
caught the southbound Princess
: Louise today for an outside vaca
j tion.
WRANGELL LUMBER
MILL IS TO BE
RECONSTRUCTED, '51
SEATTLE, Due. 8--OB—Ail official
of Alaska-Wrangell Mills, Inc., said
today the company hopes to start
reconstruction of its Wrangell Lum
ber Mill in late January.
The official, General Manager
Sam Burnsed, said present plans
are to start . operation sometime
in 1951, employing about 100 per
sons. He said the Wrangell plant
would be "one of the most com
plete lumber mills in Alaska.”
The company headed by C. T.
Takahashi of Seattle, bought the
Wrangell mill two years ago from
the Army, which started it during
the second world war.
BAN SHIPMENTS TO
COMMUNIST CHINA
OR SOVIET EUROPE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—IAf-*-The
Commerce Department today ban
ned American ships and planes
from carrying strategic materials
"anywhere in the world” destined
for Communist China or Soviet Eu
rope.
The ban is effective immediately.
It applies to movement of weapons,
fissionable materials or strategic
industrial goods consigned tetweeh
any two points outside the V>Wted
States, even intermediary points
if the goods are to go to those
areas.
The ban likewise was made ap
plicable to shipments destined for
Hong Kong or Macao, the British'
and Portugese ports off China, to
insure that goods will not be for
warded from those ports into Com
munist China itself.
FATHER OF FOUR
IS KILLED WHEN
PLANE IN CRASH
HARTFORD, Conn. Dec. 8—'.B—
First Lt. Arthur N. Bristol of Hart
ford, father of four children—the
eldest four—was killed Wednesday
night when his Connecticut Air
National Gard plane crashed near
Tacoma, Wash.
Staff Sergeant W. Troy, a mem
ber of the New York Air Guard,
was also killed in the crash.
Lieut. Bristol and Sgt. Troy were
enroute from Larson Air Force
base at Moses Lake, Wash., to
McChord Field to pick up airplane
equipment. The airmen have been
on active duty for the past six
weeks at Larson AFB, where the
plane, a B-26 light bomber, was
engaged in towing targets for anti
aircraft artillery practice.
HOLIDAYS IN IDAHO
Mrs. Aileen Olson left this morn
ing on the Princess Louise for
Seattle. There she will be joined
by her daughter Carol, a freshman
student at the University of Wash
ington and at the close of the
school quarter next Friday they
will go to Nampa, Idaho to spend
the Christmas holidays with Mrs.
Olsen’s mother, Mrs. E. Cohen.
FROM SEATTLE
T. Q. Brown of Seattle, is regis
tered at the Baranof Hotel.
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EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
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Operation of an Alaska Native
Service 10-bed emergency hospital
at Bethel has been approved to re
place the one destroyed by fire
November 20.
Plans are going ahead to build
[ the hospital using it' for patients
needing short-term hospitalization
| and as a transfer point for those
needing long-term hospitalization.
' Patients needing long-term hospi
1 talization will be sent to ANS hos
pitals at Kanakanak, Anchorage,
Kotzebue and Tanana.
There will probably be many of
j out-patients treatment at the Beth
el hospital and by a Public Health
nurse in various villages in the
area, according to an ANS source.
An approximate 8,000 people are
served out of Bethel.
GiANT VOLCANO
ERUPTS, DEPTHS
OF CASPIAN SEA
MOSCOW, Dec. 8—IjP—Izvestisf
reported today that a giant volcano
erupted from the depths of the
Caspian Sea Dec. 4 and spewed up
an estimated 6,000,000 tons of mud
forming an island 60 miles off the
coast of Baku.
The Soviet government newspa
per said flames belched forth by
the volcano shot high above sea
JeveJ and could be plainly seen from
Baku. It said the island is more
than half a mile long, 300 feet
wide and lies 18 feet aobve the sur
face of the water.
Pink and w’hite dogwood trees j
were sent to Tokyo, Japan, in 1915
and 1917 in return for the cherry
trees sent to Washington, D. C.
SOVIET CLAIMS
ARE CHALLENGED;
FACTS REVEALED
LAKE SUCCESS, Dec. 8— UP) —
The seven-member United Nations
Korean Commission sent the Gen
eral Assembly a special report to
day formally challenging Soviet
claims that the Chinese Communist
troops in Korea are volunteers.
The report said the Commission
had made an on-the-spot inquiry
and found that all prisoners taken
ty Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forc
es were members of regular army
units and “were not volunteers in
any possible meaning of the term."
RADIO REPLACES EIRE GONG
PITTSBURGH—I.?1—The resound
ing clang of the fire gong in dis
trict stations of the Pittsburg fire
department will be a thing of the
past soon.
A new system to be installed ai
a cost of $40,000 will depend en .
tirely oil radio. Receivers are te
be placed in each station. Fire
men will be alerted by a siren
Then they'll listen to the radio to
get their calls.
PERTH—UP)—Residents of Marvel
Loch declared a beer strike because
the beer was too hot.
For nearly a week, they boy
cotted the local pub and flocked
to soft drink shops. The pub keep
er installed a new cold storage
room.
ON CALIFORNIA VISIT
Dr. and Mrs. Howe Vance left
on the Princess Louise on a vaca
tion trip to the states. They will
spend most of the time in Calif
ornia. ]
OLE VIKE HERE
Ole Vike of Petersburg is in Ju
neau at the Baranof Hotel.
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