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Nome, Alaska, Monday, May 12, 1952
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PRODUCTION CURBS EASED
The government decision to authorize major in
creases in the production of many consumer goods, in
cluding passenger cars, washing machines and the like,
will mean that some buyers will find the market more
nearly normal than had been expected.
The government move, announced a few days ago,
is based on the new program to stretch out defense
production over a longer period of time, thus freeing
some metal to civilian industry. Administrator Manley
Fleischmann, of the Defense Production Administra
tion said more metal would be available for schools,
hospitals, stores and office buildings, merchant ship
construction, erection of industrial plants, passenger
cars, washing machines and other goods.
The easing of controls in this election year is a
significant development and could act to reduce the
amount of irritation being experienced by businesses
all over the nation. Whether this step indicates any
political developments is an open question. It is safe
to assume, however, that the stretched-out defense
procurement program will be worth an unknown num
ber of votes to the administration this fall.
Combined with the expected easing of the Defense
Production Act by Congress, which will probably be
accomplished before June 30, this relaxation of controls
will make for a more normal business market.
% COMPULSORY AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Governor Thomas E. Dewey recently signed a
bill which authorizes a state census of uninsured driv
ers in New York. The bill may lead to a decision wheth
er the Dewey Administration in New York will press
for enactment of a compulsory insurance law for all
automobile owners.
New York State is not the first, or even a pioneer,
state to ta^e up this serious problem. Various states
have a variety of driver-responsibility laws and the
trend seems to be toward a greater insistence on the
part of state governments that drivers be either bonded
or insured against losses they might inflict on other
people or property.
In the United States there are, on the average,
750 pebple for each doctor.
COMMUNICATION
To the Nome Nugget:
All commercial “bush” and pri
vate airplane operators and pilots
within Alaska who encounter any
difficulty in the purchase of avi
ation gasoline due to the present
curtailment of aviation gasoline
usage by the Petroleum Defense
Administrator are advised to con
tact Tony Schwamm, Alaska dir
ector of aviation, Anchorage, Al
aska, immediately.
Mr. Schwamm is acting as co
ordinator for the Alaska aircraft
owners and pilots in meeting gas
oline shortage problems.
Many aircraft owners may not
have actually flown much during
the month of March, 1952, the
period on which the gasoline ra
tioning is based. This may be be
cause of the winter weather con
ditions or for the reason that
this period of normally unsettled
weather is used for engine or
airplane overhaul in preparation
for spring and summer flying.
The Alaska Department of Avi
ation will do everything possible
to assist all aircraft owners in
obtaining sufficient gasoline to
j carry on the normal flight oper
■ ation if the details of the particu
lar case are made known to the
! Department Of Aviation.
Tony Schwamm
Director of Aviation
Gruening Urges Airlines
i To Wire PDA to Learn
Effects on Each of Gas Cut
JUNEAU, bP)—Governor Gruen
ing h-ars urged airlines throughout
Alaska to wire or write the Pet
roleum Defense Administration to
learn the effects upon each car
rier of the May 7 order curtailing
gasoline allotments.
The request followed a protest
to the petroleum administrator by
the governor Thursday. The gov
ernor ssid his protest was an at
tempt to forestall serious damage
to Alaska’s entire economy. Some
territorial lines have said they
will be forced to curtail schedules
unless relief is granted.
Delegate E. L. Bartlett, after
the governor’s protest reached
Washington, informed the govern
or he hed met with the petroleum
■administrator. He suggested that
Alaska Airlines furnish the ad
ministrator with specific informal
tion on what effects the allotment
cuts will have in their operations.
Western Military Patrols
Barred by Red Sentries
From Helmstedt Autobahn
BERLIN, (/P)—Russian sentries
barred regular western military
patrols from the Berlin-Helm
stedt Autobahn Saturday.
Patrol vehicles were stopped
at nearby Babelsberg as they star
ted their routine daily patrols
along the 110 miles between Ber
lin and the Helmstedt, the exit
point from the Russian occupa
tion zone to the British. Stiff
faced Russian guards gave no
reason for their action.
Regular truck and private ve
hicle traffic continued rolling as
usual, with only the normal stack
up of truckers at each entry where
fussy Soviet guards check papers
and cargoes.
Western officials clearly wanted
to* soft-pedal their latest tangle
with Russian bureaucracy and
confided they looked on the whole
affair as a tempest in a teapot.
Up to the 1952 elections, the
Democrats and Republicans have
been opposed in 24 U.S. general
elections of which the Democrats
i won 10 and the Republicans 14.
Saturation Bombings
Make Things Tough For
Red Rail Repair Crews
SEOUL, (jr*) — United Nations
warplanes Monday blasted the
North Korean rail network with
another of their new saturation
bombings designed to make track
repairs as tough as possible* for
the Reds.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
fighter-bombers made 28 cuts in
a short stretch of the vital Kan
ggye-Sinanju line near Huichon
in the northwest. Nine U.S. B-29s
hit the Huichon rail bridge Sun
day with 90 tons of bombs. Fight
er-bombers cratered rails in more
than 80 places on a small section
south of Sunchon at the same
time.
In the past two weeks, U.N.
warplanes have been concentrat
ing bombloads in short sections on
the main lines. This makes repair
work more difficult for the Red
track crews, whb have been able
overnight to repair cuts by only
a few bombs.
Graft Trial Prosecutor
Gets Telephone Threat
NEW YORK, .(/P)—The prosecu
tor in the graft -trial of five New
York policemen said Saturday he
received a telephone threat—only
hours after the brother of the
chief prosecution witness was
beaten.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Victor J. Herwitz said a man
telephoned his home that morning
and declared:
“You son of a _, you better
lay off.”
Herwitz said Jackie Gross, 24,
was assaulted on a Manhattan
street Friday night by -two men
as a warning to his brother, book
ie Harry Gross, to stop testifying
about paying graft to New York
policemen.
Herwitz quoted young Gross as
saying one gravel-voiced assail
ant told him:
“This will teach your brother
to keep his trap shut. Tell him
not to testify at any more cops’
trials.
Wall Street in New York City
gots its name because Peter Stuy
vesant, early Dutch governor, had
a wall built there to protect the
city against expected raids by the
* English.
Many poisonous snakes do not
lay eggs but produce living young.
Admiral Joy Accuses Reds
Of Using Truce Talks For
Propaganda Purposes
MUNSAN, (/P) — The United
Nations Command Monday sharp
ly accused the Communists on
using the Korea armistice talks
for a propaganda sounding board.
A UNC communique said the
Reds fired “their most vicious
propaganda attack of the 10
mofrith-old armistice negotiations”
in a 34-minute “tirade, obviously
prepared in advance” and “filled
with invective, distortions and
palpable lies.”
Another plenary session was
scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday,
but Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy,
senior U.N delegate, told the Reds
the U.N. Command “formally dis
associates itself from the propa
ganda purposes for which you are
utilizing these meetings”
Never before had newsmen cov
ering the negotiations in Panmun
i jom seen the usually mild-man
! nered admiral so angry.'
MILITARY TEST OF SERVICES
PUT OFF DUE TO OIL CUT
Headquarters, Alaskan Com
mand, Elmendorf AFB. May 9—
Drastics curtailment in use of pet
roleum products has necessitated
postpdhement of scheduled test
of services, assembly and trans
portation of military dependents
and civilian employees, the Alas
kan Command announced today.
The routine test had been
scheduled for Saturday, May 10.
Mr. and Mrs. William Evans of
Kotzebue are the parents of a
daughter, Paula Jane, born May
10 at the MMM Hospital, weigh
ing 5 pounds 2 ounces.
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