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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943 at he no^roffir**
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, January 12,1951
RUSSIA OPPOSES ARMING WESTERN GERMANS
Soviet Russia has entered a formal protest against the
proposal of the Western democracies to incoroo'-ate a
group of Germans into the common defense force de
signed to protect Western Europe from Communist ag
gression. *
In notes to Great Britain and France, the Russians
maintain that such a program would violate the Anglo
Russian Treaty of 1942 and the Franco-Soviet I r
1944. In addition, they contend that it violates the Pots
dam Agreement of 1945.
It is not necessary to enter into a discussion of the
terms of these diplomatic agreements. The contemp - -
ed action of the Western powers/is justified by the pro
cedure of the Soviet Union, not only in arming Eastern
Germans, but in its military cooperation with the na
tions of Eastern Europe.
The only question that arises in connection with the
protest involves its significance, not its logic. Whether
the diplomatic representation of the Russians is for the
record or designed to create an issue justifing military
action in Europe is the question that invites conrkP -
tion. There s n^ way of telling and there is nothing to
do but to wait and see.
THE JOY OF BEING AN EDITOR
Getting out this newspaper is no picnic.
If we print jokes, people say we are silly.
If we don’t they say we are too serious.
If we stick close to the office all day,
We ought to be around hunting material.
If we go out and try to hustle,
Ws ought to be on the job in the office.
If we don’t print contributions,
We don’t appreciate genius.
If we do print them, the paper is filled with junk!
If we edit the other fellow’s write up, we’re moronic,
If wo don’t we’re asleep.
J' ,,ro ?ht> from other papers,
We are too lazy to write them ourselves.
IJ V7-* don’t we’re stuck on our own stuff.
Now, like as not, some guy will say,
We swiped this from some paper.
We did!
When the dollar outranks honor and integrity the
loss is not felt by those who have honor and integrity.
MORE THAN WE EVER DARED EXPECT!
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cause of Otto Geist's ex
tremely colorful career, his story
is being run in two parts).
.jcLy a boo : should be writ
* . ^o*u O to William Geist. Few
p jjoas have had so many excit
ing experiences, or have contrib
a zd so much to
the advance
ment of human
knowledge, as
has Otto—“the
bone man.”
curing the
summer mining
.uson Ouo
.aeist may be
found any
where from the
.o Geist tip of the Al«s
Ka Peninsula to
, ^j.i uroa. He is ardently
s.. a v.»c -ai^gaioS” for an-.
,_.c..i spvCimens of all
i w.iicn existed on this
ear.u „0,000 or more years ago.
.g .he win.er he is hard at
Woi .. .he e^Si. end of the base- i
mci. of the Main Building, sur-!
i by vas. piles of prehistor- !
ic _s of mastodon, mammoth,1
biso~, he Fuiroan ;s lion, camels,
and ~ ler specimens. Geist is pres
ent-day man’s first contact with
the r lies of the paleontological
era in this part of the world.
^ a came to Alaska in 1923 to
vis. as brother Joe in Ketchikan.
He s ..yed in the Territory for 27
years.
But let’s start at the beginning j
of his colorful career.
Oc.o was born in Germany in
1888, and went to school in Ba
varia and Austria. His father was
a noted educator in Bavaria. Each
summer Professor Geist took Otto
along with a group of scientists to
carry on excavations of the Ro
man Roads and the walled cities
of Caul and the Austrian Tyrol.
Long before Otto was graduated
from high school he was an expe
rienced archeologist and thor
| oughly trained in the art of col
lecting the evidence of past ages.
On completion of high school,
Otto served his three years in the
German Army under Kaiser Wil
liam II. But young Otto had no
stomach for the Prssian system. In
1910, when he was 21 years old, he
came to the United States as an
immigrant.
He spoke not one word of Eng
lish. After passing through Ellis
Island, he gave New York and
Chicago a quick survey. He liked
neither. Having a brother in Mis
souri, he went there, worked on a
farm for two years and learned
English. Then he migrated to
Louisiana and paints west.
Otto was an experienced gaso
line engine mechanic. In 1915 he
put this knowledge to use by join
ing the Mexican Border Motorized
Transport Service, the forerunner
of the mechanized Army we have
today. At that time the U. S. Army
was still pretty much behind
mules, and the Mexican Border
Motorized Transport was an ex
perimental unit to determine whe
ther or not the new-fangled gas
{engine was a dependable means
: of transportation for the U. S.
J Army.
The Army soon decided it would
convert to automobiles. Geist be
came i civilian employee of the
Army, wearing an Army uniform
and the stripes of a sergeant.
On June 1, 1017, Otter’s entire
company of civilians enlisted in
the U. S. Army. By Act of Con
gress, Geist (along with others in
the service) received his second
papers and became a full-fledged
American citizen. First Sergeant
Geist became an instructor in mo
torized transportation. He went
overseas in 1918.
“After everybody went back to
the States and got the Fifth Ave
nue Treatment, 75 of us regulars
remained in France and were as
signed to the Peace Commission,”
Otto said. “I chauff eured President
Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Wilson,
General Kerensky, General Bliss
and all the big-wigs. I chauffeur- (
ed Dr. James Brown Scott of the
Carnegie Foundation th r o u g h
Spain, the Riviera and the Low
Countries. It was a most interest
ing experience; we drew full pay
from the Army and full pay from
the State Department. We had di
plomatic immunity passes and no
M. P. could touch us. In f°ct, they j
had to salute us. That was a real j
pleasure, you may be sure.”
Otto was in Paris when the
American Legion was bom. He
carries in his wallet a most treas
ured card—charter membership
in The American Legion Post No.
1, Paris, France.
Otto returned to the United
States in 1920. After his discharge
he went into the trucking busi
ness in Missouri. Three years in
this business convinced him that
he wanted wider horizons. He de
cided to go to Alaska.
After visiting his brother in
Ketchikan during 1923, Otto came
to the Interior. In ^airbrn’'*;
teamed up with mining men from
the Koyukuk. He mined that year
with Frank Smith on Wild Lake.
In those days before airplanes it
took 33 days of backbreaking work
to get supplies in from the end of
navigation on the Koyukuk to
news r; iii{.
(Continued from Page One
topic. The committee is composed
of officials of various interior de
partment agencies. Kenneth Ka
dow is chairman.
A water measure may be intro
duced in the coming legislative
session.
The committee session is ex
pected to run three days. James
P. Davis, director of the office of
Territories, and oe Flakne, chief
of fhe Alaska Division in the de
partment of interior, flew from
Washington, D. C., for the meeting.
LOS ANGELES, </P) — Three
men kissed Mrs. Mildred W. Young
Wednesday, all without her con
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sent.
She told police they came to her
door, asked for a “Mr. Johnson,”
ordered her at gunpoint back ink>
the house, trussed her to a bed
stead, ransacked the house of $20,
000 worth of jewelry, silverware
and clothing, took it to their auto,
and then returned, each to take a
goodbye kiss.
Mrs. Young told police she
wants the jewelry back. The kiss- <
es? Focoey! She is 51.
....WASHINGTON, (^—Announc
ed American casualties in Korea
now total 42,713, an increase of
2,537 over a week ago.
The new total, announced Wed
nesday by the defense depart
ment, includes 6,247 killed in ac
tion, 29,306 wounded and 7,160 «
missing.
It represents c°sualties whose
next of kin received notification
through midnirht of last Friday.
Wild Lake.
In 1924 Geist met O. J. Murie
who was studying caribou migra
tion in the Brooks Range. Geist
..d Mruie became good friends
nd their common interest in sci
gave them much to talk
about. a
hen Dr. Murie returned to ^
' ir r n \S he called on Dr. Charles
T*. Bunnell, president o*f the Uni
versity. “There is a fellow up at
r~rild Lake you should meet, Dr.
Runnel, he said. “He is a trained
archeologist and a good man. I am
nui e sure you could use him
here.”
(To be concluded)
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J/a^U/ T/jt&X, Director, GAINES DOG RESEARCH CENTER
THE RECENT DEATH OF FIELD CHAMPION GRAY& LINESMAN
ENDED THE CAREER OF ONE OF THE GRANDEST BEAGLES THE
OS. HAS PBODOCED-SIRE OF 4WEIP CHAUPtOHS, ABOUT
TWICE THE RECORD OF HlSClOSEST RIVAL ft R- ..
ENGLANP IMPS ALL COUNTRIES
in the number or pog
BRERPS GIVEN ID 1HE
WOtflP- 27 IN ALL
FAWN,"seeing eye'oog of el
NASD, TEXAS, BECAME THE FIRST
DOG ID HEAR a ils. SENATE DE
BATE WHEN ANITA BLAIR,BLINP
LECTURER WHO OWNS HER,
WON AN EXCEPTION TO THE.
CHAMBERS STRICT RULES AGAINST ♦
ANIMALS IN THE GALLERY
• I960, Goinct DO0 Research Center, R.Y.C.
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