Eskimo Scouts
Get Warm Praise
At Encampment
SEATTLE—“Because they are
more ambitious and more inter
ested than the average soldier, in
spite of the language barrier, Es
kimo members of the 1st Scout
Battalion, Alaska National Guard,
are fast becoming good soldiers,
Maj. William H. Crawford, battal
ion commander, said at the unit s
training encampment at Fort
Richardson last week.
The Eskimo citizen - soldiers
were at Fort Richardson for the
past two weeks attending their
annual encampment. Major Craw
ford has nothing but praise for
his scouts, “who have come a long
way when you consider they have
been working together just two
weeks.” The scouts get together
and train as a battalion only once
each year.
The Alaskan Guardsmen are
learning basic military subjects,
map reading, squad tactics, pa
trolling and familiarization and
firing of the M-l rifle. In addition
to the two-week training period,
members attend 48 armory drill
periods a year. Most of the as
semblies are held in native vil-;
lages. I
The scouts returned to their
hometowns and villages yester
day. Commercial lines flew the
men to three staging areas—at
Nome, Kotzebue and Unalakleet.
From the staging areas they are
flown to their respective villages
by bush pilots.
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Victor Young, Composer
Of Popular Tunes, Dies
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., —A
heart attack has claimed Victor
Young, 56, composer of such hit i
tunes as “Sweet Sue,” Ghost of I
a Chance” and “Street of j
Dreams.”
Bom in a Chicago tenement,!
Young began playing the violin :
at the age of six.
He gave up a concert career to
arrange for bandleaders Ben
Bernie and Isham Jones before
entering motion picture work in
1935.
Altar fires in Aztec cities were
so numerous they provided good
illuimnation at night.
Mrs. Betty Alexander Finishes Two
Weeks With 300 Eskimo Guardsmen
I SEATTLE, Nov. 7—One woman
i and approximately 300 men, most
of them Eskimos of the 1st Scout
Battalion, Alaska National Guard,
have spent two weeks at Fort
Richardson, Alaska, attending the
battalion’s annual training en
campment.
While the Guardsmen occupied
temporary type buildings in the
Camp Denali area, the woman
stayed at the Fort Richardson
guest house. She is Mrs. Betty:
Alexander of Nome, Alaska.
Betty is a civilian clerk in bat
talion headquarters and made the
trip to Fort Richardson to help
with the service, medical and pay
records of the scouts.
Amid parkas, rifles and olive
drab clothes she almost looked
out of place in her gaily colored
dresses. She isn’t, tho, for she has
held her job for more than a year,
Moscow Press Sees
U.S. Choice for President
As Case of Personality
MOSCOW (—In Moscow’s first
press reaction to the US, elec
tions, the Literary Gazette said
Saturday the Republican presi
dential victory was a “clearcut
case of the Eisenhower personal
ity defeating the Stevenson per
sonality.”
The newspaper said it found
nothing to choose between the |
platforms of the Democrats and
Republicans. The American vot
ers picked Eisenhower, it added,
because of his personality and
stature.
The Suez Canal was opened in
1869.
and has been working with Eski
mos since her arrival in Alaska
in 1939.
Jack Jefford, her brother and
a veteran Alaskan bush pilot, in
troduced her to the territory. He
has been flying in Alaska since
1936 and is one of the 20 pilots
who have portraits hanging in
Anchorage’s International Airport
as one of the pioneer pilots who
contributed to the progress of
Alaska flying.
The natives are wonderful peo
ple, she claims, and the only trou
ble she has is trying to pronounce
their names correctly.
“For example,” she said, “how
would you pronounce these: Ahn
angnatoguk, Nokapigak, or Nin
geok?”
During summer vacation, her
husband, who is employed by the
Civil Aeronautics Authority in
Nome, operates a small gold mine.
“We don’t make much money
at it but it is fun,” she said. “We
do find a substantial nugget every
once in a while, though.”
To prove it she showed a large
nugget about the size of a quarter
she had hung from a golden chain
around her neck.
Small Hawaiian Island |
Is Still GOP Stronghold j
HONOLULU, —Hawaii Dem- '
ocrats won victories in all coun-1
ties last Tuesday, but Republicans j
had some comfort today in having 1
swept one island.
As usual, Niihau, a tiny island '
off the coast of Kauai, went al
most solidly GOP. Its 81 voters
gave only six votes to the 15 Dem
ocratic candidates in the county
of Kauai.
Niihau is controlled by one fam
ily and its residents live much as
they did years ago. No outsiders
are allowed in—even to campaign.'
Niihau votes are delivered to I
Kauai by fishing boat, usually at!
least a day after the election. I
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