2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday. September 24. 1952
THE NOME NUGGET
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COAST GUARD STILL NEEDED HERE
Nome welcomes Capt. W. W. Kenner, commander
of the 17th District of the U.S. Coast Guard, and hi?
party tomorrow.
They come to Nome in response to a request made
by the Chamber of Commerce for the reestablishment
of a Coast Guard station here. The request was made
following the tragedy during a sudden storm last month
which took the lives of eiglit young men serving in the
U.S. Navy.
There are old pioneers who can tell heroic tales of
the old life saving crews who did their rescue work
with a whale boat and oars. There are those who grew
up in the community who can tell of the little Coast
Guard surf boat that went out in all kinds of weather
and performed its duty without any show of heroism.
Records show that during the maintenance of a
Coast Guard station on the Bering Sea from the turn
of~ the century until World War II tragedies were
averted time and time again due to their vigilance.
Times have changed since the original Coast Guard
station was established, and boats alone cannot main
tain an efficient service.
When the U.S. Coast Guard was reorganized in
1915, Congress named one of its duties as the mainte
nance of a vigilant patrol of the Bering Sea. In order
to fulfil that duty in addition to a shore station a plane
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should be based in this area the year around. Another
duty of the Coast Guard is that of enforcing customs
laws and immigration. This area has been without
•'uch an officer since the withdrawal of the Coast
Guard. With our proximity to a foreign country it is
more important now than ever that the U.S. Coast
Guard fulfil its duty to the 12,000 people in the coastal
area of Northwestern Alaska with at least one station
on the Bering Sea.
Without such a service to this northernmost part
of the United States, the historic motto of the Coast
Guard dating back to 1799, “Semper Paratus”- (Always
Ready), is meaningless.
Bartlett Raps Day
In Handling of
Fishery Bill
Statement by
Delegate E. L. Bartlett
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 20 — I am
informed that Albert M. Day,
director of the federal Fish and
Wildlife Service, while in Juneau
recently felt himself called upon
once more to attack the bill which
I introduced this year in Con
gress to transfer administrative
control of the Alaska fishery
from the federal to the territorial
government.
Mr. Dale’s statement was highly
misleading. His resistance to ex
tending territorial 'authority in
this important industry gives es
pecial emphasis to the need for
doing just that.
The figures demonstrate exact
ly the contrary. Under his admin
istration the Alaska fish pack has
gone steadily down. This may
represent to Fish and Wildlife
people in Washington only a set
of figures. To the Alaska fisher
man who sees his income drastic
ally reduced year after year it is
quite another matter.
Mr. Day claims my bill was
“weak.” It was not. But what
he carefully refrained fi*om say
ing was that I was willing to
accept the two important amend
ments he suggested and that after
I made this concession he took a
trip to Canada and didn’t even
appear before the congressional
committee to testify.
Mr. Day cries out in anguish
because I said to him and to the
committee that my belief was that
the territorial legislature would
immediately after enactment of
the bill move to eliminate fish
traps. Of course, I did. No one
would assume for a moment that
the legislature would act other
wise.
What business would that be
of Mr. Day? The territorial gov
ernment certainly could not do
a worse job of administration
than he has. He has failed utterly
and lamentably to the serious
hurt of the most important fishery
resource in the United States.
Writing to Mr. Day after my
bill had been held in committee,
I observed to him that I was far
from confident as to whether he
was serving the interests of the
public in the position he had
taken, or other interests.
After reading his Juneau state
ments all doubts have been re
solved in my mind.
ALLIED TROOPS WITH TANKS
BEATEN FROM TOP OF HILL
SEOUL, (/P) — Tank-supported
Allied infantrymen battled to the
crest of Kelly Hill on Korea’s
western front today but were
thrown back after bitter hand-to
hand fighting with entrenched
Chinese Reds.
Eighth Army said the Allied at
tackers were Puerto Ricans at
tached to the U.S. Third Infantry
Division.
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The dawn attack was the Allies’
third attempt to recapture Kelly
Hill, a strategic height captured
by the Reds last Thursday night.
It is seven miles southwest of Old
Baldy.
A thunderous artillery attack
preceded the assault.
B - 26 Invader bombers again
pounded Communist supply con
voys. Pilots reported 118 Red
trucks destroyed.
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Admitted: Edith Simmons, R.
Tocktoo.
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Discharged: Douglas Waddill.
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Caudle Testifies He Lost
His Job Because of
“A White House Clique”
WASHINGTON, Lamar
Caudle testified today that for
mer Attorney General J. Howard
McGrath once told him, “I know
enough about the White House to
blow it so high the force of
gravity would never bring it back
to earth.”
Caudle also said McGrath, his
old boss in the Justice Depart
ment, reported Caudle lost his job
because of “a White House
clique.”
Caudle said the former attorney
general told him “the same cli
que” that was behind Caudle’s
dismissal as assistant attorney
general last November was also
“after” McGrath.
(Jaudle was closing several days
of testimony before a House Ju
diciary subcommittee which is in
vestigating the Justice JZtepart
ment.
He told the committee yester
day he looks upon his dismissal
by President Truman as “a grave
injustice.”
And he testified he has been
told that this view is shared by
the man who fired him—Presi
dent Truman. Roger Tubby, assist
ant White House press secretary,
told reporters there was “no
truth” in the assertion that Tru
man has changed his view.
On another part of Caudle’s
testimony—that White House sec
retary Matthew Connelly once
persuaded ‘him to delay action *>n
a St. Louis tax fraud case for
two months — Tubby said there
was no comment.
Appropriation Slashes
Brin? Halt To Alaska
Marine Health Ships
JUNEAU — Slashes in federal
appropriations to the Alaska De
partment of Health brought ser
vices of the three marine health
units to an abrupt halt this fall,
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, health com
missioner, announced recently.
He said the MS Hygiene, the MV
Health and the MV Yukon Health
will be tied up as of October 1.
A cut of $130,000 from the fed
eral Alaska grant to the Health
Department in addition to reduc
tions in other federal funds that
provide for operations of the ma
rine units necessitated “the re
grettable need to tie up the float
ing health centers,” Dr. Albrecht
said. Serving residents of areas
far from medical aid, he said the
marine units have been welcomed
as the “health ship” in remote
ports of the territory since the
first MS Hygiene was put into
operation by the Health depart
ment in 1945. Contributing to the
marine unit operations, he said,
have been the U.S. Public Health
Service, the Alaska Native Ser
vice and the U.S. Children’s Bu
reau.
”4-on” Duplicate Receipt Books
Senate Committee
Finds $10,000,000
Gov’t Grain Fraud
WASHINGTON. The Sen
ate Agriculture Committee said
yesterday it had found embezzle
ments totaling 10 million dollars
in government-owned grain. It
added that Agriculture Depart
ment employes had not profited
personally by them.
The findings were in a 43-page
report summarizing the commit
tee's six months investigation of
shortages in grain and other farm
products in connection with gov
ernment purchases under price
support programs.
Chairman Ellender (D-La)said
the report was approved unani
mously by the eight senators pres
ent—five Democrats and three
Republicans.
Although the report absolved
the government workers who han
dled the storage program of prof
iting • personally, it had sharp
words for the government admin
istration of the program.
“The evidence indicates as of
May, 1952, there had been em
bezzlement or criminal conver
sion of Commodity Credit Cor
poration-owned grain inventories
by 131 warehousemen, aggregat
ing approximately 10 million dol
lars, but no evidence was pres
ented to the committee that any
CCC personnel profited personal
ly or was criminally involved in
this connection,” the report said.
The CCC is the Agriculture De
partment agency which buys and
Stores grain and other farm pro
ducts under the price support
program. Conversion is a pro
cedure in which a warehouseman
uses government-owned grain for
his private purposes, expecting
to replace it before the CCC calls
on him to make good omit.
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General Election October 14, 1952