THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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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.
TAMPERING WITH FIRE HYDRANTS
A fire last Sunday brought to light a serious
menace to the fire protection of everyone in the com
munity. When the fire department pumped water and
didn’t get the required pressure, investigation revealed
that individuals had tampered with the fire hydrants
and opened them up all along the line. Further investi
gation in other parts of town revealed a similar con
dition.
Tampering with fire apparatus is a serious offense
as it involves the property and lives of everybody in
the community. Anyone caught or suspected of tam
pering will be dealt with severely by the law. Parents
of children are urged to explain to them the serious
ness of meddling, and parents of children involved
will be held responsible.
Anyone seeing children or adults tampering with
the fire hydrants are requested to notify the fire de
partment at once.
DRUMMING UP A CROWD FOR THE UNVEILING
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Narcotic Arrests
Made At Anchorage
SEATTLE, B. Crisler,
head of the Federal Narcotics Bu
reau here, said Wednesday Wil
liam W. Childress, 39, had been
arrested in a raid on a roadhouse
at Anchorage and charged with
illegal possession of narcotics.
Crisler said the former Seattle
man was held in lieu of $10,000
bond, as were two persons ar
rested at the same time, Gladys
Holt and James Abner Holt.
World War I General Dies
CLEVELAND, (/P) — Brig. Gen.
Benedict Crowell, who helped
guide the nation’s military pro
grams during two world wars,
died here Monday after a two
year illness. He was 82.
Crowell served as director of
munitions and as assistant secre
tary of war during World War I.
In World War II he was a special
defense consultant to the late
secretary of war, Henry L. Stim
son.
Although bobcats can grow to
weigh 40 pounds, their usual
weight is 15 to 20 pounds.
Chamber Directors To
Consider Vital Matters
Pertaining to This Area
The N.W. Alaska Chamber of
Commerce went on record yester
day as favoring and urging fed
eral legislation in connection with
boat strikes which have jeopar
dized the economy of the entire
territory so many times in the
past. Their action supported a re
cent resolution of the Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce.
Several important matters per
taining to this area are now be
fore the Board of Directors and
are in need of action. The matter
of the contemplated closing of the
ANS White Mountain School; the
proposed closing of a section of
the Kougarok railroad, and mat
ters relative to civic problems will
be taken up at a special board
meeting on Friday evening.
'LEG' MONEY STOLEN
INDIANAPOLIS, \JP) — There’s
no place a man can hide anything
these days. Fred Parker, 85, told
police someone stole a paper sack
of money he pinned to his arti
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ficial leg before going to sleep
in a rooming house.
Gov. Stevenson Advocates The
Continued Federal Development
Of Our Natural Resources
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Navy Rocket Researchers
Forecast 1,000-Mile Trips
In Space In Five Years
CHICAGO, (JP) — Navy rocket
researchers forecast Tuesday that
rockets will probe 1,000 miles
into space in five years.
By that time, they told the
American Society of Mechanical
Engineers Convention, single
stage rockets may be expected to
reach a 500 - mile altitude and
multi-stage rockets, 1,000 miles.
A multi - stage rocket is one
with more than one power plant.
As the fuel in one section is ex
hausted, the section drops off and
the fuel plant of the section ahead
is cut in.
The researchers are Milton W.
Rosen, head of the rocket section,
and Richard B. Snodgrass, physi
cist, of the Naval Research Labor
atory, Washington.
In a' paper prepared for the
meeting, they said the higher al
titudes will be made possible by
improvements in motor efficiency
and weight efficiency.
LOSES HIS SHIRT—
BUT GETS IT BACK
OKLAHOMA CITY, (£>)—Clar
ence Wilson finally caught up
with his shirt. It was stolen two
weeks ago.
He was sitting in a downtown
office Monday when the shirt
walked in on someone else.
Wilson summoned police who
jailed the other wearer — bare
backed.
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The Democrat’s ver
sion of prosperity con*
sists of inflation, strikes,
corruption, taxes and
war.
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By RELI4AN MORIN
SEATTLE, (/P)—Gov. Adlai E.
Stevenson advocated in a speech
here Monday night the continued
federal development of natural
resources.
But he declared in a major
speech of his Western campaign
trip as the Democratic nominee
for President:
“The return of the investment
must be real, not hypothetical,
and the gains must be national,
not merely local.
“We must be eagle - eyed and
tight-fisted about these expendi
tures.
“And a more immediate test—
in the coming fiscal year, the one
in which to start this investment
in public funds.”
The Illinois governor spoke to
a crowd that overflowed the 6,700
person capacity of the Civic Ice4
Arena.
A roaring, wildly applauding
crowd heard him assert:
“Our atomic weapons could .not
have been developed without the
power generated by Grand Coulee
and Bonneville (dams on the Col
umbia River). In some people’s
view, you remember, Grand Cou
lee and Bonneville not only were
a waste of the taxpayer’s money,
they were—and this was a worse
crime—an interference with the
sacred right of a private mono
poly to leave a region undevel
oped.”
He said he drew some “morals”
from the history of the develop
ment of the Northwest:
1. “The people who conduct the
nation’s business frequently know
what they are doing, and an in
vestment made on behalf of the
public is not necessarily money,
poured down a rathole—or out
here, I should say money over
the dam.”
2. “Works like Grand Coulee
and Bonneville were beyond the
capacity of private enterprise to
undertake ... If the government
had not built them, they would
not have been built -at all.”
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MONDAY BASEBALL
National League
Brooklyn 10-2—New York 2-3
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 6—Seattle 1
Los Angeles 5—San Diego 1
STEVENSON BACKS
TRUMAN ADM.
FOREIGN POLICY
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onstration that an effective sys
tem of collective security is pos
sible.?
5. “I want to assure pur friends
in Asia that America will never
seek to dominate their political
and economic development.”
He began by ripping into* Eisen
hower’s speech on foreign policy,
delivered last week in Philadel
phia. He said seven of the gen
eral’s 10 points were echoes of
the program the Democrats have
been following. The other three,
he said—and his voice was icy
with sarcasm — were simply
“throw the rascals out.”
Actually, there were points of
similarity in the statements of
both candidates.
Both said peril confronts the
United States. Both said the
United States has not adopted an
imperialistic course of action. But
whereas Eisenhower called Korea
a case of errors in judgment,
Stevenson strongly defended the
administration.
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Red Army Newspaper Calls
For Vigilance To Guard Soviet
Secrets From 'Imperialist' Spies
MOSCOW, (jP) — The Soviet
Army newspaper Red Star called
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on Russian troops to guard state
and military secrets from the eyes
of “imperialist” spies.
“The enemy is clever, sly and
experienced in deceit,” Red Star
explained. “Using all sorts of dis
guises, agents of foreign intelli
gence services first of all strive
to get information concerning de
fense of our homeland and the
state of the armed forces of the
U.S.S.R.”
“This obliges the Soviet people
and warriors to be vigilant at all
times and in everything to shar
pen their sharp weapon—revolu
tionary vigilance.”
ALASKAN REPUBLICAN
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says ...
That Alaskan voters should express their desire to
call to the attention of voters in all of our 48 states, that
Alaskan voters demand a clean sweep of corruption and
graft out of Washington and they will show the way by .
voting for only Republican candidates here in Alaska. If
Alaskans vote for Democratic candidates, then they sig
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nify their own desire for corruption and graft in govern
ment, whether it be in Washington or elsewhere in the
United States or in Alaska. Such votes indicate their
own approval of high and higher taxes . . . high prices
and higher prices tomorrow.
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For a Change Vote Republican—W in with Ike