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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, Sept. 21, 1951
IN MEMORIAM
No one person in the entire community knew more
about people’s troubles than C. C. Tanner, our only
attorney, and everyone knew that their problems were
in safe hands when they were confided to him.
Mr. Tanner came to our community a quarter of
a century ago and started from nothing, building him
self a successful career and having the respect of the
community which he served.
His services to the community will be missed. His
record is one of the finest of the things a man can
leave behind when he comes to the end of the trail.
CONCILIATORY TREATY HUMILIATES JAPAN
The signing of a treaty of peace with Japan by
forty-eight former enemy states represents a great con
trast to the war-inspired denunciation of the Japanese
between Pearl Harbor and the Japanese surrender
in 1945.
While the treaty is notable for its conciliatory
treatment of major issues, the Japanese empire is prac
tically stripped of its territorial conquests and confined
to the four main islands of the empire. The Japanese
recognize the independence of Korea and renounce
all claims to the Kurile Islands, Formosa and the Pesca
dores, the Spratley, Paracel Islands and other Pacific
islands under the trusteeship of the United Nations.
The defeated country accepts the United Nations’
trusteeship of Ryukyu (Okinawa) and Daito Islands;
the Bonins, Rosario Islands, the Volcano Islands and
Parace Bela and Marcus Island.
Although the treaty is considered an exceptional
venture in reconciliation one must also recognize that
it humbles the proud people of Japan, relegating their
nation to that of a second-rate power.
One may sum it up in the statement of General |
Carlos P. Romulo, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the
Philippines Islands, who declared: “It’s not that we
will let by-gones be by-gones but making sure that by
gones will not happen again.”
Seattle Best Ball Club I
In Pacific Coast League
• By the Associated Press)
Seattle has the best ball club i
in the Pacific Coast league this |
year and demonstrated it convinc- ,
ingly Wednesday night by beat- ;
ing Hollywood in the fifth and
deciding game of the Governor’s •
cup playoff series, 9-2.
The game may have been the
last in the Coast League for the j
two managers, Rogers Hornsby of
Seattle and Fred Haney of Holly
wood.
Hornsby has been non-commit
tal, but it is known that Bill
Veeck is interested in him for the
St. Louis Browns’ job next year.
And the NewT York Yankees, it
has been whispered, may want to
talk things over with him in the
event Casey Stengel decides to
retire this year.
Haney can return to Hollywood,
but has said he has other offers
to consider.
THURSDAY BASEBALL
American League
New York 5—Chicago 4
St. Louis 4—Washington 3
National League
Brooklyn 4—St. Louis 3
Cincinnati 3—New York 1
Americans in the military ser
vices consume an average of 288
pounds of meat per capita a year.
London Stock Market
Booms At Prospect End
Of Socialist Government
LONDON, i/Pi—Prime Minister j
Attlee opened the British Labor
Party’s campaign for the Oct. 25 ;
general election yesterday by
telling the nation it must choose
whether it will “go backward with |
the Conservatives or forward with
Labor.”
At the same time Winston
Churchill and his Conservatives,
sensing victory for the Tories in
the air, began shaping their elec
tion strategy.
Conservatives considered a good
sign for them the developing boom
on. the London stock market in
the wake of Attlee’s broadcast
announcement Wednesday that
the general election would be
held. Millions of pounds were
added to the share values on the
London Exchange in a buying
spree obviously touched off by
the prospect that the Labor gov
ernment may be ending six years
I of socialistic rule.
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Gambler Defies
Judge In N.Y.
Graft Trial
NEW YORK, (JP) — Gambler
Harry Gross defiantly stomped
down from the witness chair at
Brooklyn’s mass police-graft trial
but returned after the judge
threatened to “chain you to the
chair.”
“You come back here, and take
the stand,” Kings County Judge
Samuel S. Liebowitz shouted. “If
you don’t, I’ll chain you to the
chair with handcuffs.”
Glowering, the one-time multi
million-dollar bookmaker ambled
back up to the stand and sat
down.
His defiant gesture came after
he had refused for the second
day in a row to continue his
testimony about his purported
million-dollar-a-year bribery pay
offs to police.
Gross, whose abrupt halt in tes
timony threatened to wreck the
graft trial of 18 present or former
policemen, had relented after a
recess, and agreed to resume his
testimony. But when the trial re
sumed he announced resolutely:
“I will not answer questions, now
or later.”
The gambler’s sudden silence
came after he already had told of
a police-shielded start to' a book
making career that spiraled to a
$20,000,000 annual business.
Million and a Half Postal,
White Collar Employes
Get $400 Annual Raise
WASHINGTON, </P) — More
than a million and a half postal
employes and government white
collar workers cah each look for
ward today to around $400 a
year more in their pay envelopes
from now on.
Three pay increase bills retro
active to July 1 and totaling $670,
000,000 annually were shouted
through by the House in rapid
fire order late yesterday.
The Senate had approved al
most similar measures earlier —
one of the biggest pay boosts ever
given federal employes at one
time—and a Senate-House com
promise committee now must iron
out the differences.
The big salary hike even had
the House talking about more
money for its own members, now
getting $15,000 a year in salary j
and expenses. I
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving from Anchorage were
Don Frazier, Jacie Sage, Dollie
Komachkuk, Arthur Padget, Roch
el Welsh, Henry Wuhrman, Koe
nig Edwards, Frank Lyons, J. C.
Thackeray, and C. Cochowski.
Departing for Anchorage were
Chester Lilly, Harvey R. Turner,
and Tuck Eseituk.
Lois Morey arrived from Mc
Grath, and H. Ashey and Capt.
T. Flowers departed for McGrath.
Mrs. F. Aijageak was a passen
ger to Unalakleet.
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks: A. R. Reels and
Mr. Holmes.
From Fairbanks: C. L. Hughes,
Karl Ellis, Jim Haviland, Louis
Jones, J. Frank Ward.
To Kotzebue: Mr. and Mrs.
Farrington.
From Kotzebue: Balfour Gnas
ner, Harry Swaggert, George
Good.
Joe Stiff was a passenger to
Galena.
A man who is stuck on himself
can’t foe pried loose until he gets
in hot watter.
Yunnan Could Be
Menace To Red
Grip In China
By FRED HAMPSON
AP Newsfmatures
HONG KONG—The f^rst ser
ious guerrilla threat against the
Chinese is building up in a wild
corner of Asia where China’s Yun
nan province thrusts down be
tween Burma and Indochina.
As a spawning ground for such
a project it is both good and bad.
It is good because it is moun
tainous country controlled mostly
by tribal chiefs who hate the com
munists; bad because there is no
satisfactory supply line and be
cause of the danger of bitter bor
der disputes with third parties.
But it offers the anti-Red Chi
nese their first real chance to fight
back.
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Can it be held and extended?
There’s a chance—a slim, outside
chance. Only that. The odds are
with the Reds, yet if this guerrilla
growth is handled with skill and
imagination it is possible for it
to win through and turn the tide
against Chinese communism.
Chinese Nationalists on their
Formosa island stronghold report
that guerrillas led by Gen. Li Mi
already control one-third of Yun
nan province. This probably is not
true.
The beginning of the guerrilla
build-up goes back to 1949, when
some of Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-shek’s armies crossed into
Burma and Indochina after Na
tionalist collapse cm the mainland.
In 1950, Nationalist refugee sol
diers, filtering back into Yunnan,
found the welcome mat out. They
reportedly were augmented by a
group of ex-nationalist soldiers
who had been impressed into the
Red army and deserted.
Formosa decided the situation
had possibilities and sent Gen. Li,
formerly a Nationalist army group
commander, to Burma. He was
charged with consolidating the
base, arranging a system of supply
if possible, and looking for out
side help.
Li Mi contacted several Ameri
cans in Hong Kong to get some
commitment on arms aid. He got
none. He moved on to Indochina
and Thailand (Siam).
What he managed to get is his
secret. There have been reports he
got aid from the United States
and other western countries
through an independent trading
agent. It was reported also that
a pool of wealthy Chinese staked
him to equipment. None of the
reports has been confirmed.
How he receives supplies also
is secret. It seems obvious that
someone in authority is looking
the other way to permit gun
running. The flow is not believed
to be very large.
Chinese here who hope for de
velopment of a big resistance
movement don’t fancy Li Mi as
its leader. One former Nationalist
general commented:
“Li is too much of a Chiang
man ever to cut loose in an inde
pendent command, take a firm,
bold leadership that would stim
ulate the unhappy people of China
to rush to his camp.
“He stands too much for what
was licked in 1949. He is not the
type of man to become a symbol
of free China on the march.”
M.D.s To Survey Army
Installations In The
Orient and Europe
SEATTLE, f/P)_Dr. Charles W.
Mayo, of the Mayo Clinic in Ro
chester, Minn., and Dr. W. Ran
dolph Lovelace, II, a noted re
searcher, visited here briefly last
night enroute to the Orient on a
project for the Defense Depart
ment. The doctors left by North
west Airlines plane this forenoon
for Anchor&ge, where they will
meet Dr. Leonard Sheeley, sur
geon general of the United States
Public Health Service.
The physicians will inspect Am
erican military and medical in
stallutions in the Orient and Eu
rope. They will report their find
ings to the Secretary of Defense
when they return in about six
weeks.
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