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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, December 19, 1951
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CONGRESSIONAL JUNKETS
Each year, hundreds of Congressmen circle the
globe at government expense. The question always
comes up whether these pilgrimages, at taxpayers’ ex
pense, are in the interest of the public.
At the present time, there are over one hundred
Congressmen abroad. Of these, thirty are on trips to
various Latin American countries. The legislators in
the Latin American countries are from three different
congressional committees, with different missions but
covering the same territory.
Certainly, some of these trips are costly, over
lapping and wasteful. On the whole, however, these
trips are worth while in that they give the legislators
an opportunity to study at first hand conditions and
countries all over the world- It is, of course, vitally
important that our nation’s leaders are not provincial
in their thinking.
Vishinsky Turns
Down Western
Disarmament Plan
PARIS, (/P) — Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Vishinsky turned
down Tuesday a revised Western
disarmament proposal. He called
it “wishy-washy” and meaning
less.
Vishinsky gave his “whole
hearted support” to a new Polish
resolution which would turn over
the whole problem of disarma
ment to a new 12-nation commis
sion without any instructions
from the General Assembly on
how to proceed.
Britain’s Selwyn Lloyd shot
back that this would be a “com
fortable but inglorious course” for
the committee to follow. He said
it would give Russia a chance to
argue that the U.N. had, in effect,
reversed previous decisions call
ing for fool-proof international
control of atomic energy.
The British diplomat told the
committee “We have no intention
of abandoning our surest safe
guard (the atomic weapon)
against Soviet aggression, with
only Russian paper promises to
behave.
Military Begins Task of
Advising Kinfolks Of
3,198 Americans On List
WASHINGTON, (/P)_The mili
tary in Korea, Tokyo and Wash
ington yesterday began a gigan
tic, intricate task of advising kin
folk of the names of 3,198 Am
ericans reported held prisoner by
the communists.
Many families will be cheered
by word that their soldier-sons
are alive, although in enemy
hands. But a still greater num
| ber are in for grief and disap
| pointment.
The list supplied by the com
munists is little more than one
fourth of 11,042 Americans re
ported missing in Korea.
The Army in Korea arranged
to fly the prisoner list to Tokyo
where it will be distributed to
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newsmen and relayed on to the
' Pentagon in Washington.
That list will contain only the
names, rank, serial numbers and
| unit designations. It will have to
be matched in Washington
: against the roster of the missing
to obtain home town addresses.
Some women can dish it out a
; great deal better than they can
j cook.
Prisoner List Best
Christmas Present
For Thousands
By ROWLAND EVANS, JR
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The news
flashed out from Washington and
Tokyo, for thousands the best
Christmas present ever, for many
other thousands an empty, hollow
message of more despair.
The 3,198 names of American
warriors, said by the communists
to be prisoners of war in Korean
prison camps, were being check
ed by the Defense Department
as fast as they arrived from
Tokyo.
Special Pentagon forces whip
ped through the long lists, paired
name after name with the of
ficial missing-in-action list and
rushed telegrams to next-of-kin.
The list of names was little
more than one-fourth of the
11,051 Americans officially listed
as missing in action.
And the Reds said it covers all
POW’s in their hands.
That left a gap of 7,853, a ques
tion mark which only time could
answer.
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean,
Medal of Honor winner, was the
biggest name on the list. The 52
vear-old hero of Taejon was last
seen heading back for Taejon a
few hours after the Reds captured
it in July 1950.
(By the Associated Press)
Days of prayer. Months of
tears. Eternities of hope. Today
they were all crowded into hours.
Throughout the nation parents
and relatives scrutinized Korean
prisoner of war lists released yes
terday by communist truce nego
tiators.
For some Americans, the vigil
already had ended. Their missing
sons and husbands and brothers
were among the first names dis
closed in Washington or Tokyo.
But in other homes, the vigil
will not end—even with the last
name on the Red list. Of more
than 11,000 Americans officially
listed as missing in action, the
communists named but 3,198 pri
soners.
The communist list has not
been verified by the Allies.
At Duluth, Minn., Mrs. John
Muskulin expressed her feelings
this way:
“Those 21 words (in a news dis
patch telling of her son’s reported
safety) answers tens of thousands
of words of prayers.”
But in Richmond, Va., Mrs.
Florence Leake could not hear
that her only son, Pvt. Charles
Edkard Elliott, was on the pri
soners’ list. The 47-year-old worn
man drowned herself in Rich
mond Canal Nov. 27 because she
feared the youth was an atrocity
victim.
ATTENTION MASONS
Election of officers Thursday,
December 20, 1951. Your pres
ence requested.
Will M. Gillis, W.M.
C.A.P. MEETING
TONIGHT
December 19—7:30 p.m.
Federal Building
NOTICE
t o
Real & Personal Properly Owners
The Nome City Assessment Roll
for 1951 has been acted upon by
the Board of Equalization and the
property tax rale has been set at
one percent (1%).
City of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publish Dec. 17, 19, 21, 1951.
If You Have A Child In A
Home—Don’t Forget Him!
Last Christmas nearly two doz
en happy children were gathered
in the assembly room of the Un
alakleet Covenant Children’s
Home. After opening their gifts,
and exchanging admiration of
each other’s present, singing car
ols came next to their minds.
The boys’ counsellor, Miss Ol
son looked over the group and
immediately sensed someone was
missing. Immediately she went
upstairs to the boys* dorm, and
there found a little fellow with
tears streaming down his face.
Sympathetically questioning this
little fellow .his answer was, “But
my daddy didn’t send me a
thing, not even a card.’’
If you have a child at the Un
alakleet Childrens Home—or any
other home — Don’t forget him
this year! —Contributed.
Power Failure Brings
Rationing to Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, (IP) — Power
failures Monday night brought
about the darkening of the An
chorage business district and
power rationing throughout the
■city.
The action was taken after the
failure of a major generator at
Elmendorf Air Base and one unit
of the Anchorage Public Utilities
system.
Radio stations broadcast ap
peals to residents to voluntarily
ration their use of power to pre
vent possible damage to other
generating units and a major
shortage.
Diesel Engine Part For
Anchorage Power Station
Due Seward On Dec. 26
SEATTLE, (IP) — A 10Vfe-ton
^lgine mounting, urgently needed
in AnchoTage to help avert a
threatened brownout of electri
city, was loaded aboard the S.
Victoria here yesterday.
The mounting, built in Ohio,
will cradle a rebuilt Diesel unit
now out of service at the Alaska
Railroad’s generating plant in An
chorage.
The Victoria is due at Seward
December 26.
Four Children Burn To
Death In Anchorage Cabin
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—Four chil
dren burned to death in their
cabin at Spenard Tuesday as their
grandmother tried futilely to get
through a window to rescue them.
The dead are children of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas J. Fleming —
tRosielee, 2; Verann, 4; and Pris
cilla and Patricia, 10-month-old
twins.
Their grandmother, Mrs. Vera
Shaw, was caring for them in the
small cabin and had gone out
doors for a minute when the fire
broke out.
The first indication of the tra
gedy came for neighbors when %
they heard Mrs. Shaw scream.
The grandmother was unable to
gain entrance through a door. She
broke a window, cutting her
hands badly, but was turned back
by the fierceness of the fire.
—
T. Reeds Become Grandparents
Mrs. Teddy Reed, grandmother,
has been in Fairbanks awaiting
the event and plans to return
home this week.
DeHuse Baby Born Jn Fairbanks
Mr .and Mrs. Arnold DeHuse
of Haycock, who are spending the
winter in Fairbanks, have an
nounced the birth of their first
child, Arnold, Jr., born Dec. 16.
M-M M HOSPITAL
Admitted: Ruth Parcell.
Discharged: Madeline Mogg
and Lee Kammerer.
One of the twins, who had been
named Rose, born to Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Ayagiak of Unalakleet
last week, passed away yesterday
at the hospital.
10-DAY VISIT
BALTIMORE, </P)—A 56-year
old man from Arkansas had the
right plea, but the wrong town.
“Just give me a break, your
honor,” he pleaded before Magis
trate John Berry on a drunk and
disorderly count. “I’ll get out of
town right away. I’m on my way
to Baltimore to visit my brother.”
He was taken over to the city
jail to visit the boys there for
i 10 days.
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