2S NOME NUGGET
_OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS_
VOL. HI. No. 55 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
GUAM, </P) — Islanders and
American service personnel re
turned to their quarters yesterday
in the wake of a typhoon which
skirted Guam Monday doing neg
ligible damage.
The wind touched 60 knots in
gusts but hovered near the 40
knot mark most of the time. The
center of the storm passed 115
miles southwest of the island.
The typhoon, fourth of the year
in these latitudes, headed toward
Iwo Jima, famed World War II
battlefield in the western Pacific.
NENANA, (/P) — Two more
names were added Monday to the
list of guessers on the time of the
first Tanana River ice movement
here. They were Mrs. J. B. Meath
of the Kodiak Navy Base and Mrs.
Delia Watson, address unknown.
They were among the 29 others
who guessed the exact time: 4:14
p.m., May 6.
KODIAK (/P)—A former Mount
Vernon, Wash., couple began mak
ing plans today for an automobile
tour of the States because the ice
moved in the Tanana River at
4:14 p.m., Saturday.
Mrs. J. B. Meath, whose hus
band works in the communica
tions office of the navy base here,
said she guessed the time of the
breakup.
Th Meaths, with their son,
daughter and grandson, plan to
purchase a car and make a long
drive through the States.
To make it properly impressive,
Meath has promised he will don
a chauffeur’s uniform for the trip.
WASHINGTON, (/P) —Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska introduced a
bill yesterday to permit the agri
culture department to make loans
to fur farmers in Alaska.
Under present law the farmers
home administration of the de
partment can make loans to fur
farmers in the Continental United
States.
WASHINGTON, </P) — A House
sub-committee approved today a
bill to permit Canadian ships to
carry passengers between Skag
way, Haines and Hyder, Alaska.
Special legislation has permit
ted such operations for the last
three years. The Canadian ships
pass the three Alaskan towns on
their trips to and from Canada’s
Yukon Territory. No American
line furnishes regular service to
them.
WASHINGTON, OP)—President
Truman has sent to the Senate
these postmaster nominations for
Alaska:
Doris A. Wirsching, Annette,
succeeding R. C. Hutchins, re
signed.
James E. Evans, Metlakatla,
succeeding M. M. Benson, declined.
James M. McLean, Nome, suc
ceeding S. D. Mazen, resigned.
TOKYO, (/P) — The Japanese
government will allow breweries
and distilleries to produce 22,000,
000 more gallons of alcoholic
drinks in the fiscal year beginning
April 1. Saw materials are more
Ralph Bingham
Chosen to Attend
Scout Jamboree
The Boy Scout Committee has
announced that Ralph Bingham
has been chosen to be Nome’s rep
resentative in the Alaska contin
gent of the Boy Scout Jamboree
being held in Valley Forge this
summer.
They stated that Ralph Bingham
was chosen from a group of seven
on a competitive basis and was
the only Scout fully qualified to
attend this year.
The local troop is furnishing
$350.00 of his expenses.
Last-minute applications for
Boy Scouts to accompany the
Alaska contingent on its June and
July trip to Valley Forge, Wash
1 ington, D. C., New York, and other
continental cities are being re
ceived at the Council Headquar
ters in Juneau, according to Mau
rice Powers, Alaska Scout execu
tive, who will be in charge of the
group on their tour. Plans for the
party call for a group of 43 boys
and 5 men. Although 47 applica
tions have been received to date
from boys wishing to participate,
last-minute cancellations will pro
vide opportunity for several more
Alaska Scouts to go on the trip,
1 Powers said. Qualifications require
■ that boys be at least 13 years old
by June, that they reach first class
rank, and that they and their par
ents be able to finance their part
of the cost. Each scout is required
to earn a satisfactory portion of
his own fee also. Cost for the all
expense trip has been estimated
by the Jamboree Committee at
$450 for scouts from the Anchor
age and Fairbanks areas, $425 for
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Nation Paralyzed
By Railroad Strike
CHICAGO, i/P) — A strike of
railroad firemen crippled the na
tion’s rail network today and
within a few hours mediators
abandoned hope of quick settle
ment.
Francis A. O’Neill, chairman of
the national (railway) mediation
board said “We’ve given up.”
He added that a report on the
deadlock will be submitted to
to Washington.
The board has tried in continu
ous sessions since 9 p.m. last night
to reach some agreement.
Asked what the next step would
be, O’Neill replied “I can’t say
until we make our report to
Washington.’’ He added:
“W have been unable to get
anywhere. For the last three or
four days we have been working
on a ‘package’ deal with the bro
therhood.” He declined to say
what the .‘package” contained.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, one of
the five big operating unions,
struck against four key systems
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plentiful. Allowed production this
current fiscal year was 94,000,000
gallons.
! Senators Get Look ;
At Loyalty Files
—
; WASHINGTON (/P)—Senate in
vestigators got their first look to
day at loyalty files on 81 persons
named by Senator McCarthy in
j his charges of communism in the
government.
Four members of the Senate
foreign relations sub-committee
j began looking them over at the
i White House shortly before 10 a.
m. They were chairman Tydings
(D. Md.) ad Senators McMahon
<D.-Conn.), Green D(.-Ri.), and
Lodge (R.-Mass.»
Eben Ayers, assistant White
House press secretary, said the
files were brought to the White
House executive offices about an
hour before the Senators arrived.
Tydings said the committee
members intend to pursue the ex
amination of the files “with all
diligence possible commensurate
with our other duties in Con
gress.”
The Senators did their file in
specting in the cabinet room,
i Tydings has estimated that the
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A Proclamation
ARMED FORCES DAY, 1950
By The Mayor of The City of
Nome, Alaska
Territory of Alaska
WHEREAS, the Armed Forces
of the United States serve the na
tion with courage and devotion in
war and in peace; and
WHEREAS, the Armed Forces,
as a unified team, are currently
performing the task of keeping
the security of Alaska and of in
suring the establishment of a dur
able peace, and
WHEREAS, it is fitting and
I proper that we devote one day
j each year to paying tribute to the
Armed Forces as the servants and
protectors of our nation; and
WHEREAS, the Governor of the
Territory of Alaska has invited
the mayors of all municipalities to
issue proclamations calling for
the celebratio nof that day in such
manner as to honor the Armed
Forces of the United States and
the millions of veterans who have
returned to civilian pursuits.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, STEVE
ANDERSEN, Mayor of the City
of Nome, Territory of Alaska, do
hereby proclaim that Saturday,
May 20, 1950, shall be known as
Armed Forces Day and call upon ,
my fellow citizens of Nome to dis-1
play the flag of the United States 1
at their homes and places of busi
ness on Armed Forces Day, and
to participate in exercises expres
sive of our recognition of the
skill, gallantry and uncomprising
devotio nto duty characteristic of
the Armed Forces in the carrying
out of their missions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and
cause dthe Seal of the City of
Nome to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Nome, this
10th ray of May, in the year of
our Lord nineteen hundred and
fifty.
STEVE ANDERSEN |
(SEAL)
By the Mayor. '
Mining Leader j
Speaks On Gold
As A Commodity
»
Extension of remarks of Hon.
Clair Engle of California, in the
House of Representatives, Friday,
March 3, 1950:
The speaker, Harry Sears, of
Angels Camp, Calif., is director of
the California Gold Committee
and president and general mana
ger of Calaveras Central Gold
Mining Co., Ltd. He is a recogniz
ed leader among mining men and
is actively working to assist the
! gold-mining industry which has
suffered greatly at the hands of
our Government.
In opening this discussion of
gold, we should first define what
gold producers talk about. Gold,
to us, is a commodity, just as
wheat or corn or wool are commo
dities.
Gold did not grow valuable be
1 cause it was a currency base; it
became the backing for currency
, because it was valuable.
Because of its former use in
coinage, and its present use as a
I reserve behind paper currency,
great confusion has arisen as to
1 the rights and powers of the Gov
i ernment with regard to gold, also
! as to the rights and privileges of
gold producers. It has been the
practice of the Government to
broaden such rights as they had,
and through opportunism and
propaganda, to build up belief in
the minds of economists, bankers,
the general public, and even gold
producers themselves, that the
price and sale of thei gold was
limited by the absolute power of
the Government, as expressed in
the gold regulations of the treas
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NOME CENSUS
ALMOST COMPLETE
Have you been counted by the
census taker yet?
The Nome census is just about
complete, and your own doer has
been tapped at least once, and in
some cases, as much as six times. !
A few of these people have not
been counted, so far as the census
taker knows, because they were
not home at thfl time of the call.
On Page 2 of today’s Nugget
you will find a blank yau can fill
out and bring to the City Hall.
Please do so at once, because the 1
census has to be completed this >
week.
In order to save the taxpayers
money, the census taker’s legs,
and his case of laryngitis from
getting “out of sound” these j
names and approximate address- j
es are also included: Charles Bar
ney and Matt Erickson 'Wallace
Hotel), Henry Inner, William Mil- j
house, Erick Nelson and Jack,
who lives around the corner from
Erick, Gussie Walter, a G.I. and
his wife who live at 669 3rd St.,
the man who lives in the “doll
house” next to the school, and any ,
others who know that they have I
not been included in the U. S.
Gov’t census so far.
No matter who you arc, you
“count” too, and the census bur- (
eau wants to include you. George
Benoom won’t be right without |
you. j
News of the Vi oriel
At A (ilanee - - -
Tuesday. May 9. 1950
(By The Associated Press'
Heads of the foreign depart
ments of Britain and the United
States discussed today plans for
speeding increased unity of West
ern Europe as a Democratic bul
wark against communism.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
and Secretary of State Dean Ache
son met in London in preliminary
talks preceding a Big Three con
ference opening Thursday. Ache
son arrived from Paris after con
ferring with French foreign secre
tary Robert Schuman.
In the Paris talks, Acheson
promised stepped up military and
; economic aid for French forces
fighting communist insurgents in
Indo-China. Sehuman is joining
Acheson and Bevin in London
later for the three-nation foreign
ministers’ meeting described* as'*
the most important since the war.
The future of Germany looms
high on the agenda. Diplomatic
observers said the three ministers
are agreed that the occupation
law now governing West Germany
! should be eased. Acheson favors
the close integration of West Ger
many with Western Europe for
security reasons and to strengthen
Western European economy. Gri
tain fears German economic com
petition and France fears German
rearmament.
The foreign ministers will also
discuss the problems of the Mid
dle East. They will probe means
of bringing economic stability to
that oil-rich area whose poverty
stricken masses are now being
bombarded by communist propa
ganda.
The ministers probably will
also review Russia’s latest offer
to permit city wide elections in
Berlin on terms weighted heavily
in Russia's favor. A Russian note
last night proposed that elections
be held after occupation troops
are withdrawn.
In Bangkok, Thailand, Soviet
Union representatives walked out
of a regional United Nations meet
ing over the issue of seating Chi
nese Nationalist delegates. The
Russians had asked that commun
ist Chinese replace the National
ists at the regional economic con
ference. It was the 24th Russian
walkout in protest against Chiang
Kai-Shek’s Nationalists.
At Taipei, capital of Chiang’s
Formosan stronghold, the Nation
alist air force reported it sank the
better part of 2,800 communist in
vasion craft poised for an assault
on Formosa. The small craft were
trapped in surprise raids on the
ports of Swatow, Amoy and Foo
chow, the Nationalists said.
Wednesday. May 10. 1950
Western diplomats in London
for the opening tomorrow of a
Big Three foreign ministers con
ference today hailed France’s pro
posal to pool Europe’s coal and
steel as a blueprine for peace.
Integration of Germany’s econ
omy into that of Western Europe
is the major problem of the forth
coming conference. Diplom a t a
said the French proposal to pool
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