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E. P. BOUCHER ..*. Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, March 24, 1952
A PERMANENTLY DISABLED WAR VETERAN
THE RACE FOR ATOMIC POWER
The United States is now engaged in a fantastic
race to gain atomic weapons supremacy, which goal
might well head off World War III. The Army, Navy
and Air Force are all experimenting and planning for
widespread use of atomic bombs, artillery, and guided
missiles.
Senator MacMahon, chairman of the Joint Atomic
Energy Committee in Congress, says that the new
U.S. atomic program will give the United States such
revolutionary power that no enemy will dare attack
us. Pentagon officials say that the United States is
already well ahead in the atomic weapons race and
that the increased program, requested by the Adminis
tration, will place us still further ahead of the Soviet
Union in this field.
The three services are working feverishly on such
things as radio-active dust which can be spread over
an area to prevent occupation of it by the enemy, pilot
less aircraft, which are already being operated in
strength, atom powered aircraft carriers and atomic ar
tillery. While no one can say at this stage of the game
just what the effect of these fantastic weapons will be
on the world situation, if U.S. experts are correct in
their analysis, these weapons may prove the major
hope of the United States to prevent another world
war.
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Forty-Four Perish In
Flaming Wreck Of
Royal Dutch DC-6
FRANKFURT, Germany, {JP}—
Forty-four persons perished Sat
urday in the flaming wreckage of
a Royal Dutch Airliner in a
Frankfurt suburb. It was the
worst plane disaster in German
history.
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Four of the 48 persons aboard
escaped death, but two were hurt
so badly they are not expected
to survive. The death toll was
announced by U.S. Air. Force of
ficials who helped direct rescue
work. They said the plane, a four
engined DC-6 inbound from Rome
on a flight from Johannesburg,
was carrying 38 passengers and a
crew of 10.
Cause of the crash was not de
Military Pay Raise Assured
WASHINGTON, </P) — Every
body in uniform—from buck pri
vate to five-star general—probab
ly will get a pay raise before
Congress quits.
The exact amounts and the date
it will begin are questions no
one can answer just now.
“But I’m pretty certain that
we’ll pass a bill,” chairman Rus
sell (D-Ga), of the Senate Armed
Services Committee told a re
porter.
termined. The day was gray but
not foggy and the plane—named
“Queen Juliana”—was making an
instrument landing. The ship was
the one Queen Juliana had in
tended to use on her flight to
Washington, where she is to start
a state visit April 2.
GAMBELL NEWS
R. Holland Armstrong, well
known Alaska minister now re
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siding at Juneau as a field repre
sentative for Alaska Presbyterian
Churches arrived here with the |
army plane on February 25. He
returned to Nome on March 13
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after visiting Savoonga Church.
He baptized about 35 babies in
both villages, arid received num
ber of members. The biggest event
he said during his visit at Sa
voonga is the baptism of twin
babies of Mr. and Mrs. Bobbie
Kava. Armstrong said, he had
never baptized twins anywhere.
His trip back to Gambell from
Savoonga was a bad one, he said.
They were lost just before coming
into town, but made it when they
came to the shoreline and fol
lowed the beach. Armstrong said
the snowstorm is good compared
with sandstorm blown off the
CAA runway, cutting into their
faces. Armstrong was so ex
hausted that he almost fell to the
floor when he came into the
kitchen of the manse. Armstrong
said, “The last few steps walking
from the sled to the house, took
all the strength I had left.”
Four skin boats were forced* to
seek a safe landing at “Sleepy
Harbor” about 15 miles south of
here, when a storm came sudden
ly and high surf began rolling in.
All hunters came home the same
day safely.
Harry Koozaata was taking his
mother to Savoonga with Mark
Nupowhotuk one day when storm
forced them to spend two nights
in the area of Camp Collier. Mark
gave up and returned to Gambell
when it cleared, but Harry and
his mother went ahead, and fin
ally reached their destination.
Donald G. McLean, the ANS
school teacher here was taken to
Fairbanks hospital for treatment.
He had been sick for a week or
more. Charles Slwooko was also
a passenger to Kotzebue hospital,
also for treatment.
Mrs. Harry Stotts from Gambell
weather bureau with her children
and her hand-maid Hilda Silook
are in Nome March 17, possibly
for physical examination.
There were two babies bom
in March, both girls. Parents are
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Iyakitan, and
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Campbell.
Carl Iyakitan resigned from
CAA and Roger Silook took over
the job. Carl is now repairing
army vehicles abandoned when
they fail to operate. Carl can do
most mechanical work some col
lege-taught mechanics could not
do.
MIDWAY, Ala., (ff) — You’ll
look a long time before finding
another hoosegow like the Mid
way jail.
It’s an wheels, sits in a Negro
woman’s front yard and puts its
occupants up for public inspec
tion.
Midway folks find it satisfac
tory, though. Very few of them
ever get locked up.
The jail, which resembles an
animal cage more than it does a
lock-up, is a discarded convic"
wagon. Since any passerby can
see who’s in it, the inmates usual
ly are subject to quite a bit of
ridicule from persons on the out
side.
No claims have been mad*'
about the jail being even remotely
escape - proof. Not so Ion" \~c*
eight persons got thrown in it tc
set something of a tenancy rec
ord. Seven promptly ripped ou
the floor and escaped. Th:
was too fat. He go s u
couldn’t get out.
Blood Experiment
Proves Fatal To
Seattle Student
SEATTLE. (fl-An injection of
blood which doctors said became
contaminated “by some phenom
enon” after it had been refriger
ated claimed the life of an 18
year-old college honor student
Sunday.
The injection was given at the
University of Washington as part
of a nationwide research project
'to find whole blood preservatives.
The victim, James Stanley Lee
dom, n freshman at Seattle Uni
versity, was one of 40 volunteers
participating in the project.
He died three days after the in-!
jection, despite every effort to
save his life.
Dr. Robert H. Williams, head of
the University o‘f Washington de
partment of medicine, said the
blood became contaminated “by
some phenomenon” after it had
been refrigerated.
“The only way we can explain
it,” said Dr. Williams, "Is that the
bacteria was able to grow in some
manner while the blood was at
freezing temperature and not at
body temperature.”
Bo:h Dr. Williams and Dr.
Clement A. Finch, associated pro
fessor of medicine in charge of
hematology at the University,
said they would “gladly partici
pate in the same experiment to
morrow.”
They said the bacteria had not
yet been identified, but they be
lieved it to be 3 saprophyte (any
organism living on dead or decay
ing organic matter, which does
not grow at body temperature but
thrives when chilled.) It produces
shock and high fever.
Steel Union Threatens
Strike If WSB Proposals
Are Not Accepted
NEW YORK, {£>)—An industry
spokesman said Saturday major
steel companies would begin in
dividual negotiations Monday
with the CIO United Steel Work
ers Union on the Wage Stabiliza
tion Board’s contract recommen
dations.
The union has accepted the
WSB proposals and has threat
ened a strike April 8 unless the
companies accept them.
“There will be no industry
wide bargaining,” the spokesman
said. “The bargaining will be
company by company.”
The steel industry in a joint
statement Friday denounced the
WfSB proposals for a basic 18Vfe
cent-an-hour wage increase and
a union shop. The industry said
the suggested wage boost would
require steel price increases up to
$12 a ton.
The proposed wage rates, the
statement said, would “increase
the direct employment costs of
he steel companies by abo'ut 30
cen4s per employe hour” and
would cost the industry a billion
dollars a year.
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Gen. MacArthur Visits
Birthplace, Little Bock
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., </P) —
Gen. Douglas MacArthur ducked
political talk and spoke nostalgic
ally of recapturing his youth, of "*
gratitude and doubt during a five
hour visit Sunday to this city of
his birth. •
The entire theme of his colorful
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trip, during which he was cheered
by approximately 25,000 persons,
centered on “I’m glad to be home
again.”
The general did not, by word or
action, touch upon his politically
tinged speech Saturday at Jack
son, Miss., where he said the na
tional administration “is prepar
ing us for war in Europe.”
He said the country was plun
ged, unprepared, into the Korean
war and pictured the administra
tion and its policies as a path to
the ruin of the country.
The only politcal inference as
sociated with the general's visit ^
here might stem from the con
spicuous absence of Gov. Sid Mc
Math and other prominent Demo
cratic leaders.
NOTICE
All petitions circulated for of
fice for the forthcoming City elec
tion, must be in the City Clerk's
Office by 5:00 o'clock p.m«, March
25, 1952.
Twenty-five signatures of qual
ified voters are required on each
petition.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
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