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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
et Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 26, 1950
HOOVER LOCATES 55,000 COMMUNISTS
There are approximately 55,000 members of the
Communist Party in the United States, acoording to J.
Edgar Hoover, National Director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. This estimate of card-carrying Com
munist Party members is considered a semi-official
count in view of the fact that Mr. Hoover’s organization
keeps in touch with subversive activities.
In addition to the “well-knit”, closely disciplined, de
structive force of approximately 55,000 members,” Mr.
Hoover says the real strength of the Communist move
ment must be “measured largely by the general mass
influence of the Party and its program.’’ He suggests
that there are “a half million fellow-travelers and sym
pathizers ready to do the Communists’ bidding.”
AID FOR SPAIN BEATEN AGAIN
The proposal to include Spain in the European recov
ery program has been defeated in the Senate but this
does not mean that the last has been heard of the
matter.
During the war, when other nations were fighting for
their freedom, Spain was decidedly pro-Axis. Nothing
is to be gained now by sending American dollars to the
support of the Franco regime.
An effort has been made by some military experts
to persuade this country that it must give Spain money
-in order to be assured of a base in Spain in the event of
a war with Russia. This argument falls to the ground
when one realizes that if Russia goes on a rampage the
Communists will want a lick at Spain more than any
other western nation. The Spaniards will have to fight
the Russians or surrender, whether they get American
aid or not.
UNIFORM DIVORVE LAWS
Daily Alaska Empire
The American Bar Association has embarked upon a
laudable effort to do something about the nation’s hap
hazard methods of handling divorces, but nobody knows
better than this group of lawyers what a tough job con
fronts them. Paul W. Alexander, the Toledo Judge who
heads the association’s committee dealing with the
problem, points out that legislators have been trying
since 1884 to get uniform divorce laws by constitutional
amendments and meeting with very little successs.
Judge Alexander says that the Bar Association is not
trying to get a “standard” divorce law, but does hope to
achieve a good working divorce model. The present
method of dispensing divorce, he says, is like permit
ting a sick man to diagnose his illness and prescribe his
own remedy. The model plan the association envisions
provides for conference, investigation, consultation and
deep probing, including, if necessary, psychoanalysis.
Lawyers are agreed that it is ridiculous to have 48
different kinds of divorce laws in one country (and a
few more in territorial possessions), and it is to be
hoped that the present efforts of the American Bar
Association will acomplish something toward correct
ing this situation.
WOULD KICK RlfsSIA OUT
Herbert Hoover, the nation’s only former president
now living, suggests that the United Nations be reor
ganized to exclude the Communists so that the rest of
the world can put up a united front against Russia and
her satellites.
Senator Robert Taft, of Ohio, advances the idea that
such a front could rave been accomplished under the
Atlantic pact but that the “administration made it a
military alliance.” Just what Mr. Taft would have pre
ferred escapes us. It should be obvious by this time that
what the free nations need is a combination of strengh
CHURCH SERVICES
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CATHOLIC CHURCH
1 Sunday Masses:
8:00 a.m.
I 11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
DAILY MASS SCHEDULE
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday .7:30 ajn.
'Friday . 7:00 ajn.
■ Saturday . 8:00 a.m.
Thursday evening Holy Hour
| 7:30 p.m.
! CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“Men will wrangle for religion,
write for it, fight for it, die for it;
anything but live for it.”—Colton
Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
i 8:00 p.m. Evening Message
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert S. Treat, Minister
MEMORIAL DAY SUNDAY
9:45—Sunday School
11:00—Morning Worship: Solo by
Mrs. Luther Dunbar; Message by
the Pastor, “Hope and Despair,
and the Christian Gospel.”
3:00— Hospital Service
7:30— Evening Service— at the
Mission Church.
Daily Vacation Church School
continues this week, with closing
service on Friday evening.
! Wednesday evening — Church
Board meeting planned, 8:00 p.m.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School fo- [
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskirm
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—trans
lated into the Eskimo language
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.E Club fo
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise anrt
Testimony.
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LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION (METHODIST)
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Esther McCoy, Director
Rev. Robert Treat, Pastor
9:45—Sunday School
10:00—Eskimo Service
7:30— Evening Service, Anthem
by the Choir, Message by the
Pastor: “Filled with the Power
of God.”
Daily Vacation Church School
continues this week.
Thursday, 7:30—Prayer meeting;
, Choir practice following.
THE EVANGELICAL MISSION
COVENANT CHURCH
Located at Fourth and Division
Paul Carlson, Pastor
Sunday—
10:00 a.m.—Service in native lan
guage.
11:00 a.m.—Sunday School, all
ages.
7:30 p.m.—Evening Service,
those who wish to go to Bacca
laureate Services at the school
may do so).
Tuesday 7:30 p.m.
Cottage Prayer Meeting.
Thursday 7:30 p.m.
Midweek Prayer Service.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
at
Pastor's Residence, second house
from corner of B St., between 3rd
and 4th Ave.
Saturday—
Junior Sabbath School—10:00 a.m.
Senior Sabbath School—11:00 a.m.
Picture Hour—7:30-8:30 p.m.
Visitors welcomed
Marvin W. Troutman, Pastor
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Thirtf Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday Morning—
10:00 to 11:40—This service is
designed to meet your need
with Bible Class studies for ev
ery age group, followed by a
message from the Pastor to the
Assembly.
Wednesday—
7:30 p.m.: Bible study and prayer
bring your Bible.
Friday—
7:30 p.m.: This meeting is con
ducted by Senior Young People
presenting spiritual truths,
.VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
I OFF TO GOOD STAHT
The Vacation Bible School be
ing held cooperatively by several
of the local churches got under
way this week with around 200
children enrolled.
The beginners’ class, which is
being held at the Nazarene Club
house has a staff of voluntary
workers composed of Ruth Town
er, V. Osborne, Mrs. A. Vaughn
and Mrs. R. Jenkins; Alice MiRer,
Thelma Cobb and Jerry Fager
strom are assisting.
The Primary group is under the
direction of Rev. and Mrs. R.
Treat, Mrs. R. Tveter. Mrs C.
Haberman, and Mrs. E. Coul
thard, assisted by Ellen Waldheim
and Sgt. LeRoy Linberg, and is
being held at the Federated
Church.
The Junior Group, headed by •
Rev. and Mrs. Paul Carlson, meet
at the Covenant Church with Mrs.
Pete Olson, Juanita Fagerstrom
and Orpha Abloogalook.
The Intermediates are located
at the Nazarene Church with Rev.
L. Hudgins, Mrs. Earl Clark, Mrs.
Duncan and Sgt. Hall, Miss Esther
McCoy and Mrs. A. Nerland.
OBEDIENT SON
CHICAGO, (>P) — His mother
told Michael Selin, 3, never to
climb over an iron fence that di
vides a balcony in their apartment
house. So Michael tried to crawl
through it. His head was trapped
between the iron bars. Firemen
pried him loose.
songs, special music, games, and
I fellowship.
Everyone welcome.
iOUR MESSAGE:—“Jesus Christ
the same Yesterday and Today
and Forever,” Hebrews 13:8.
“Seek ye the Lord while He may
be found,” Isaiah 55.6.
Catholic Information
Suppose I refuse to go to Mass ...
Catholics have to go to Mass on
Sundays! Yes, but let’s suppose
I, a Catholic, refuse. Let’s say
that an all-morning sleep sounds
good to me, and for that reason
only, I stay away from Mass next
Sunday. What then?
Would a priest come around
and pull me out of bed? Hardly!
Because of the great throngs that
attend every Mass I would not
even be missed. So there’s no
physical compulsion anyhow.
But wilfully missing Mass
breaks a Church law and I’d have
to confess it. So then, perhaps,
the fear of the confessional would
make me attend. Yes, but I am
commanded to go to Confession
just once a year. In fact, if I so
choose, I will not go at all. I can
even spend the rest of my days
known to the world as a Catholic,
yet breaking every law of my
church.
But please bear this in mind—I
don’t choose so to do. My will is
entirely free and it is my will,
helped by God’s grace, that makes
me worship God in the manner in
which I am convinced He directs
—that is, through the teaching
and the Atlantic pact, if strengthened a bit, can be wel
ded into a United front.
The best proposal, of course, comes from Senator
Estes Kefauver, of Tennessee, who points out that the
united front will be a fact if the United States will join
: in the effort to organize the free world into a limited
federation of nations. He was obviously referring to
the proposal that the free nations follow the example of
| the thirteen American colonies and organize a federal
union along the lines adopted in this country.
and direction of the Church
which He established.
To me it is just a question of
which shall be my master—my
free and intelligent mind or my
weak and unintelligent body. If
my mind rules me, I go to Mass
of a Sunday because my mind
tells me what is right and what
is wrong, and my will decides my
actions. If my body rules me then
I stay abed, admitting the en
slavement of my will to a lazy,
pleasure-loving thing I call my
body.
More than 86,000 people in this
country alone are joining the
Catholic Church annually—sin
cere courageous folk who are de
termined to seek the truth no
matter where it leads them. Even
to suppose that these free-minded
people would, of their own free
will, give up that very free will,
is too contradictory to warrant
argument.
Behind every Catholic belief
and practice, we submit, there is
sound common-sense.
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AUTOMOTIVE LEAP FROG
SAN MARINO, Calif. 1/P), Lloyd
Parish, 31, was pulling weeds on
a strip dividing two super high
ways. Motorist Victor Kingman,
58, swerved to avoid a car ahead.
His car somersaulted over Par
ish’s head coming to rest in the
opposite lane.
Kingman and a passenger were
seriously injured. Parish’s only
comment: “Suppose I'd been
standing up."