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VOL. LIII No. 71 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 195^ ; Per Copy—15^
Truman Asks
For Stronger
Economic Controls
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Fighting
for stronger economic controls,
President Truman declared last
night that runaway inflation could
give Russia global victory “with
out firing a shot.”
Administration leaders in Con
gress hoped his plea would fire a
wave of public opinion to help
them put across the President’s
program, which was still in
trouble on both sides of the Cap
itol.
In carrying his appeal to the
people by television and radio,
Mr. Truman said:
“This is a fight for everyone
to join—a fight for the very life
of this nation . . . We’ve got to
have a good, strong inflation-con
trol law on the books if we are
going to get through this emer
gency successfully.”
Although the present law ex
pires June 30, the House Banking
Committee recessed until Monday
consideration of the President’s
proposal for a new two-year law.
Chairman Spence (D-Ky) was any
thing but optimistic about the
chances of turning out a tougher
controls measure.
Administration leaders ex
pressed hope that during the week
end enough consumer-voters will
make their views known to turn
the tide. Truman had virtually
invited the voters to let their
congressmen know how they feel.
U.S.E.D. Engineers
Accept Breakwater
H. L. Moats and D. K. Josselyn,
engineers from the Anchorage of
fice of the U. S. Engineers, have
officially accepted the completed
breakwater from the contractors, j
Mansen-Osberg Co., this week.
They stated that much credit!
is due to Bill Brown, resident en-!
gineer who supervised the con-I
struction throughout the entire
period the breakwater was being
built. He will continue to watch
and check the project for at least
another year to determine whe
ther or not the wall will settle
any place. Present indications,
they stated, were that the sand
was building up rather than being
washed away.
When the seawall is turned over
to the city officially, all mainten
ance will be made through the
use of the special fund maintained
by the city from the city sales tax,
as agreed by the city before the
project was started.
Manson - Osberg Co. is now
equipment ready for shipment to
Seward where they have another
building contract. Some of the
local workers who were on the
Nome project are going to Seward
to continue working for the com
pany.
The seawall has already wea
thered a storm late last fall, be
fore completion and from all in
dications will prove to be a pro
tection for the business dictrict
of the city, providing sufficient
safety so that business houses may,
be built with a plan of perman
ence in the future.
Fishing Vessel Sea Lark
Disabled in North Pacific
SEATTLE, (/P) — The fishing
vessel Sea Lark, which called for
help in the North Pacific yester
day, was proceeding slowly to
ward the British Columbia coast
today under its own power. Twen
ty-six men were reported aboard.
The S. S. Sailor’s Splice of the
Alaska Steamship Co., reached its |
side at 5 a.m. today and was es
corting the crippled 165-foot ves
sel.
The Coast Guard Cutter Win-;
ona expects to reach the Sea Lark i
in late afternoon and take over
the escort job from the Sailor’s j
Splice.
The Sea Lark was disabled;
while proceeding to Kodiak with:
smaller fishing boats lashed to ■
its deck. Most of the 26 aboard
were fishermen. The vessel is
owned by the Global Packing Co., |
of Seattle.
—
Probers Reveal
Dope Addiction
In Washington
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senate
crime investigators yesterday made
public testimony describing drug
addicts’ parties in the nation’s cap
ital and relating that “dope” could
be bought here “as easy as a soft
drink.”
The testimony was taken from
inmates of the house of correction
for men and the reformatory for
women, both at Jessups, Md.
Most of the witnesses said nar
cotics are cheaper in Washington
than in Baltimore, but readily
available to adults *and teen-agers
in both cities.
Release of the report coincided
with a demand by Fairfax County
supervisors in nearby Virginia for
a state law providing mandatory
life imprisonment without parole
for persons convicted of peddling
dope to minors.
—
Louis Johnson Testifies |
He Feared U. S. Would
Recognize Red China
WASHINGTON, {JP) — Louis
Johnson testified today that as
Secretary of Defense he feared the
United States was moving toward
recognition of Red China.
Johnson told the Senate’s Mac
Arthur inquiry that he “never
knew of any decision by the State
Department, despite the British
talk and the British recognition,
for us to recognize.” Then he
added:
“But because of the things that
were said in those days, I feared
that we would not oppose -their
becoming a member of the United
Nations, and then we would have
to recognize them.
“We of the military particular
ly worried about it because it
meant another vote on -the U.N.
Security Council antagonistic to
the fundamental interests of the
United States, and for Commun
ism.”
Johnson was dismissed from the
defense post last September. His
exit from President Truman’s
cabinet is widely reported to have
resulted in part from his differ
ences with Secretary of State
Acheson.
Congressman
Describes Latest
“Bomb” Explosion
NEW ORLEANS, (A*) — The
mightiest atomic explosion yet seen
by congressional observers vapor
ized the steel tower on which the
bomb was mounted and blasted
everything except a few charred
palm tree stumps from an Eniwe
tok atoll island.
This picture of the power o*f a
new series of A-bombs was pre
sented yesterday by Rep. F. Ed
ward Hebert (D-La>, recently re
turned from the Eniwetok experi
ments. He attended as an official
observer for the House Armed
Services Committee. Of it Hebert
said:
“I had a feeling I was standing
at the gates of hell looking into
eternity.”
He gave a graphic -account of
the tests in the first of a series of
articles he wrote for the New Or
leans Statesman, which that paper
made available to the AP.
The Congressman wrote guard
edly that the bomb he saw deton
ated was “several times the power j
of the bomb dropped on Hiro
shima.”
MacArthur Asserts
Red Advances Due
i
To Our Weakness,
Not Their Strength
HOUSTON, Tex., (£>)—General
MacArthur brought his anti-ad
ministration stand to Texas’ larg
est city yesterday after drawing
a record crowd at a Houston wel
come parade.
The biggest crowd ever seen m
Houston turned out—but cheered
only with marked restraint—to
see MacArthur’s arrival parade.
About 20,000 Texans listened as
the 71-year-old general declared
America’s first line of defense is
on the Yalu River at the Man
churian border and not the Elbe
River in Europe.
“The policies of appeasement on
which we are now embarked carry
within themselves the very incita
tion to a war against us,” (he said.
“If the Soviet does strike, it will
be because of the weakness we
now display rather than the
strength we of right should dis
play.”
He blamed “the moral weakness
erf the free world” — not Soviet
military strength — for Russian
advances.
Korean Situation •
(By the Associated Press)
Large numbers of fresh Red
troops were reported digging in
today on the rain-swept ridges of
Eastern Korea.
Reds battled U. N. tank columns
on the central front, but vanished
completely in the west.
U. N. fighter-bombers slipped
through rain clouds to aid the
drive toward Kumsong. Pilots re
ported they caught a “large group”
of Reds on the open banks of the
Kumsong River just before dusk.
They said they got “excellent
coverage” with their bomb strikes.
“Emphatic No” MacArthur
Answer To Query Would '
He Run For President
AUSTIN, Tex., UP) — “Emphat
ically no,” was General MacAr
thur’s answer when asked if he
would run for president.
The reporter was not sure he
heard right, so he asked the Gen
eral to repeat his answer to thej
question.
“The answer was emphatically
no,” MacArthur said.
When asked if his Texas trip
was linked with political ambi
tions, MacArthur gave this ex
planation of his Texas tour:
“When I first came back to the i
United States, I went to my own!
ancestral home and then to Mrs.
MacArthur’s. And then I came to
where I was a boy—Texas.”
Award Medal
Of Honor To
22-Year-Old Pvt.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A 22
year-crld private, wounded four
times in a single battle, has won
the Medal of Honor for gallantry
in Korea. He died of his wounds.
Pfc. Robert H. Young of Val
lejo, Galif., refused medical aid
for three separate wounds before
the fourth put him out of the
fight. His unit, part of the 8th
Regiment of the First Cavalry Di
vision was in the van of a United
Nations attack last Oct. 9. Young
died Nov. 5.
His father, Melvin D. Young, of
Vallejo, will receive the medal
June 21 from Gen. Omar Bradley,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
A brother, Sgt. First Class John
D. Young, will come from Fort
Richardson, Alaska.
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Western Europe Defense
Plans Held Up Until
After French Election
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Gen.
Omar Bradley said today import
ant decisions in completing the
Western European Defense plans
have been held up until after the
French election next Sunday.
The chairman of Joint Chiefs
of Staff appeared at a Pentagon
news briefing to answer questions
about his recent trip to Europe
for talks with U. S., British and
French military leaders.
He was asked about published
reports that an Allied committee
had recommended a 10-division
force for Germany.
“That whole thing is still under
discussion,” Bradley said. “We are
going to talk about it at a meeting
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to
day.”
Bradley also said no final ag
reement has been reached yet on
naming American Admiral Wil
liam Fechteler to command the
North Atlantic Pact sea forces.
KETCHIKAN GETS NEW
BROADCASTING STATION
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'The Com
munications Confmission author
ized Aurora Broadcasters, Inc.,
Ketchikan, Alaska, yesterday to
operate a new radio station on
580 kilocycles, 500 watts at night,
one kilowatt daytime.
Scientists to Search
Arctic For Bones
Of First American
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (JP) —
Four Harvard scientists plan to
search Alaska’s Arctic wastes for
the bones of the first American.
They leave June 28 for two
months at Point Barrow to look
for archaeological remains whioh
may date back to the first in
habitants of the Western Hemi
sphere.
The Peabody Museum anthro
pologists are sponsored by the
Office of Naval Research.
Many authorities, believe the
forerunners of the American In
dian came to this continent from
Siberia by a passage across the
Bering Sea.
A Peabody Museum expedition
in 1948 reported no migrations
had come across the Aleutian Is
lands passageway.
Scientists now believe the first
Americans arrived by a route far
ther north and landed on the
northern shores of Alaska.
"COASTAL RAMBLER" DUE
IN NOME NEXT TUESDAY
J. J. Dillon of the Alaska Steam
ship Co. advises that the “Coastal
Rambler” is scheduled to arrive
here Tuesday of next week.
American Legion
Lays Plans 4th
July Celebration
Tuesday evening the Nome Post
of the American Legion met in the
Post Hall with Commander Dan
Jones presiding. The main busi
ness of the evening was the plan
ning of the 4th of July dance.
This dance is an annual affair
which has been put on by the
American Legion for many years,
and to which the citizens of Nome
are invited, to enjoy themselves
with dancing, entertainment and
food. Bob Scott was appointed
chairman of the dance committee
and he has with him Erik Hay,
James Walsh, Clyde Godsbe, and
Pearse Walsh.
• The next important order of
business was the plans for the
4th of July sports activities which
the Legion has always managed.
Clyde Kammerer was appointed
chairman of the sports committee
with Maurice Kelliher, Mark An
derson, Walter Leslie, and Ben
Young as helpers on that program.
Comrade Kammerer stated that a
full list of sports will be planned
{or that day so that all will have
a grand time.
It was reported that the Poppy
Sale was a success and that the
money has been set aside for the
veterans welfare program.
The post also laid out plans for
raising of the flag pole in the
near future and with ceremonies
commensurate with it. The last
thing discussed was with regard
to the starting of the Women’s
Auxiliary and it was stated that
as soon as the Auxiliary is ready,
the head of the Deparment in
Alaska will send a representative
to Nome to assist in the final for
mation.