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VOL, LV No. 106 _NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,' 1953 Per Copy—15^
City Lays Plans for Special
Election to Provide For
Issuance of School Bonds
The new addition to the Nome
Public School becomes a step
closer to reality as the plans are
laid out for the special election
to bond the city for the loan from
the Alaska Public Works Admin
istration.
The present school building,
originally planned for around 250
children, is without question in
adequate for the enrollment of
more than 400 students, handicap
ping them not only in their edu
cation but endangering their
health in the overcrowded rooms.
The plans for the new addition,
to be built east of the present
building, give the needed eight
classrooms as well as a utility
and assembly room which will
make it possible to include more
music, domestic science and other
subjects that the children are en
titled to, omitted now due to the
crowded conditions.
The plans for the completed
building; will be on display at
Polet’s Store for a few days.
A special meeting is called for
Tuesday evening at 8 at the City
Hall for the special election in
which the taxpayers must approve
the proposed bond issue before the
Public Works loan can be made.
Army To Allow Sale Of
Liquor At Open Messes
WASHINGTON, UP) — For the
first time in more than half a
century, the Army is going to
allow liquor to be sold by the
drink and by the bottle to com
missioned and non-commissioned
officers at open messes.
A directive from Maj. Gen.
William E. Bergin, adjutant gen
eral, made public Friday, says the
new system will bring the Army
into line with the practice al
ready observed by the Navy and
the Marines and soon to be
adopted by the Air Force.
Sales of liquor will be restricted
to persons over 21 and the new
regulation says:
“Commanders will encourage
abstinence, enforce moderation,
and punish over indulgence.”
THURSDAY SCORES
(By the Associated Press)
National League
Milwaukee 6, Brooklyn 1
Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 1
Cincinnati 9, New York 2
American League
New York 8, St. Louis 5
Cleveland 9, Philadelphia 4
Detroit 5, Boston 4
Washington 5, Chicago 1
Coast League
Los Angeles 4, Oakland 8
San Francisco 13, Hollywood 2
Seattle 2, San Diego 0
Portland 5-5, Sacramento 0-2 |
Montana Senator Believes
Hawaii and Alaska Will
Get Statehood In 1954
BUTTE, Mont., W)—Sen. James
E. Murray (D-Mont> reiterated his1
belief Thursday that both Alaska
and Hawaii will be granted state
hood soon, perhaps during the
next year of the present Congress.
Murray, ranking. Democrat on
the Senate Committee of Interior
and Insular Affairs, returned re
cently from Alaska where and
five other senators on the commit
tee conducted hearings on Alas
ka’s qualifications.
Commenting on the Eisenhower
administration, Murray said the
administration has encountered
disagreements in its own ranks
“on nearly every question that
has come up.”
Tito Threatens Use Force
Unless Italy Withdraws
Troops From Near Trieste
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, CP —
Yugoslavia threatened officially
today to send troops to the Italian
frontier unless Italy ends her
maneuvers, termed a “military
demonstration,” in that area.
The warning was contained in
a note—the fourth in three days—
sent by President Marshal Tito's
government to Italy’s foreign min
istery in Rome as a result of new
tension in the seven - year - old
feud between the two nations
over the future of the free terri
tory of Trieste.
“If the Yugoslav government
establishes that the Italian gov
ernment continues to adhere to
the abnormal situation on the bor
der,” the note said, “It will be
forced to undertake correspond
ing measures on its territory.”
In plain terms, this means
Yugoslavia plans to march in
troops to back up her frontier
guards in the Gorizia region,
north of Trieste, unless Italy with
draws the forces on the opposite
side of the frontier there.
(In Rome, a foreign ministry
spokesman said “There has been
no military demonstration on the
Yugoslav border.” Italy contends
the maneuvers are strictly rout
ine.)
In both government and diplo
matic circles of Belgrade, the
theory was advanced that the new
government of Premier Pella has
seized upon the Trieste issue to
sidetrack Italian disputes over
domestic affairs.
Well Prepared For It
JERSEY CITY, N.J., C5P) — New
Jersey’s record shattering heat
wave prompted Rev. Paul L. Jew
ett tP. P.ut up this sign in front
of the Emory Methodist Church,
where he is pastor.
“Now that you know how hot
heii is, what a<« ip -dor
about it?” .
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9-Year Project Of
Mapping of Arctic
Coast is Completed
SEATTLE, 151)—Coast! and Geo
detic Survey crews have com
pleted the ambitious 9-year proj
ect of surveying the Arctic coast
of Alaska.
Besides giving the first accurate
chart of Arctic Ocean waters off
the coast, Capt. Charles Pierce,
supervisor of the Coast and Geo
detic Survey’s northwest district,
district, said at Seattle Thursday
the operation will correct maps
of the coastline as much as a
mile.
Since 1945 Geodetic Survey
crews have spent Hundreds of
thousands of man-hours in their
land and hydrographic survey of
the Arctic coast.
Men worked out of temporary
camps of insulated canvas huts,
sticking on the job seven months
a year until bitter weather drove
them back to the States.
Their work may be of military
value, Moore said, as well as aid
ing civilian shipping. The survey
may lead to eventual charting of
much of the Arctic Ocean, which
now must be navigated in many
places with only sketchy maps.
Army Enlistments
Jump 75% After
Korean Truce
WASHINGTON, UP)—Army en
listments in the month since the
Korean truce was signed have
jumped 75 percent above the av
erage of the 12 months prior to
the truce.
An Army official who disclosed
the enlistment figures said it was
too early to tell whether the in
crease will continue. He said he
couldn’t comment on the reasons
for the increase.
The figures showed that 11,600
men enlisted between July 27—
the date of the Korean truce—and
Aug. 27. During the previous 12
months, the average enlistment
was about 6,600.
Showers Cool Off
Sun-Baked Mid-West
(By the Associated Phess)
A broad band of cool air and
chilling showers moved slowly
south and east from the sun-baked
Midwest Friday, pushing from its
path a stubborn 11-day heat wave.
Hot and humid weather, how
ever, continued in wide areas in
the eastern sections of the coun
try. But there was hope of an
early break, probably by Satur
day.
As the break in the heat wave
came to the mid-continent, ■ the
toll of dead from causes attrib
uted to the hot weather mounted
to at least 134. The searing heat
also has caused millions of dol
-laxs ijfflaSge to crops imd 'Re
stock.
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Gen. Dean Returned By Communists
Wife of Gen. Dean Hears
News of His Release Over
Her Automobile Radio
SAN FRANCISCO, UPl — Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean’s wife heard
that her husband was freed by the
Communists via an automobile
radio and immediately went into
seclusion Thursday night.
“The news hit me like a bomb
shell . . . I’m overwhelmed,” she
telephoned a daughter.
Mrs. Dean was driving from her
Berkeley, Calif., home to Mon
terey, 130 miles south, to visit
the daughter, Mrs. Robert Wil
liams, wife of an Army captain
at Fort Ord.
Mrs. Williams said the general’s
wife, who had waited three years
for her husband’s release, tele
phoned her:
“What I need now is eight hours
sleep. I don’t want any pictures
taken until dad gets home. Then
they can take them until they’re
black in the face. He’s the hero,
not I.”
American “Interference”
Charged In Bitter German
Election Scheduled Friday
BONN, Germany, UP)—A charge
of American “interference” ex
ploded as a major issue in West
Germany’s bitter election cam
paign Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles
touched off the new furor with
a statement Thursday at his press
conference that defeat of Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer’s govern
ment in next Sunday’s voting will
cause confusion and delay solu
tion of the Germany problem.
The endorsement apparently
was intended to boost Adenauer’s
pro-western regime, but instead
it may boomerang against the
Chancellor. American officials
here plainly were worried about
their government’s embroilment
in the campaign.
Whatever the result, the state
ment overnight became the hot
test issue of the entire campaign
for election of the 484 members
of parliament.
The Socialist party, chief op
position to Adenauer’s Christian
Democrats and two allied parties,
pounced angrily on Dulles’ re
marks.
“This is a vicious attempt by
the American government to in
terfere in the German election,”
the 'Socialist Party paper said.
Like Father, Like Son
SANTA MONICA, Calif., * —
Rep. Donald L. Jackson (R-Calif)
*nd his wife, Shirley, adopted a
three - month - old boy Thursday,
and father and son got the basic
issue settled at the outset.
“I asked him if he was a Demo
crat;; Jzck*m szid, “ Asdi he jack
ed me in,-the chin.”
* FREEDOM VILLAGE, UP)—Maj.
Gen. William F. Dean, white
haired and thin after more than
three years in Communist prisons,
rode a Russian-built jeep back to
freedom Friday. He received a
heart - warming welcome by the
first Americans he had seen since
his capture.
Dean, who won the Medal of
Honor fighting beside his men in
the streets of Taejon, had aged 10
years in appearance. He came
back wearing a dust covered blue
cotton suit, brown sneakers, yel
low shirt, a red tie and a wry
grin.
He said he had not seen an
other American since July 21,
1950.
At this processing center the
tanned old soldier told of his
capture in the midst of the swirl
ing confusion of the war’s dark
early days. . . of sleepless days
... 68 hours once—of question- ‘
ing during which he wore out
relays of Red interpreters ... of
'the terrible isolation of more than
three years.
Much of the time, he said, the
Communists gave him nothing to
read and no pencils or paper. He
spent his lonely days working
mathematical problems in his
head.
Dean did not lose his dry wit
... it crackled frequently as he
talked with newsmen.
He arrived in the last ambu
lance to come from Panmunjom
and after routine processing was
flown to the evacuation hospital
at Seoul. The Air Force said Dean
probably would be flown to Tokyo
Saturday.
The 54-year-old general, a vet
eran of almost 30 years in the
Army, said he wandered a month
through Korea trying to reach
American lines. For 20 days he
want without food. Then came
his capture, long marches and
hours of questioning.
The Communists used several
teams of interrigators but only
two interpreters, he said.
“The first time they questioned
me 68 hours,” Dean said. “I think
the interpreters just wore out.”
“The next time is was only 44
hours. The third go was 32 hours.”
“I was very thin at the time.
It hurt me to sit down. I sat on
my hands until they puffed up.
“They were going to punish me
as a ‘war criminal’ for my activ
ities as military governor of South
Korea.”
Dean said he met several Com
munists whom he had seen earlier
in various positions in South
Korea.
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Territorial offices, including the
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