THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffice
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Nome, Alaska, Monday, June 12, 1950
ALASKAN COMMISSAR FROM LABOR MERGER?
(From the Anchorage News)
The merger of Harry Bridges’ Longshoremen’s Union
and Joe Jurich’s International Fishermen and Allied
Workers of America portends no good for Alaska. Both
unions are under fire by the National CIO for assertedly
following Communist party lines and the merger ac
tually means the joining of forces of a triumverate of
leaders all marked for the Communistic activities.
It means that Joe Urich, IFAWA president, and Jeff
Kibre, who once hired the hall of a patriotic organiza
tion here to form the Alaska chapter of IFAWA, have
thown in their lot and their strength with Bridges.
If their is any doubt that the merger is anything else
than a powerful political rally of left wing strength,
some of the wording used by the national IFAWA exec
utive board in promoting the union should be in inter
est. Here is one quotation:
“The time has come to re-establish on the west coast
the same powerful unity which enabled the fishermen,
longshoremen, seamen and allied workers to mobilize!
their strength in the 1930’s and wrest from the employ
ers decent wages and conditions.”
We contemplate that wresting process in awe. Just |
how much more industry can stand is one question. Just'
how long Alaska can remain strikebound is question
number two. Remembering the bloody waterfront tie
ups of the 30’s this announcement promises little good
to Alaska.
ANOTHER statement is this significant paragraph ;
that indicates the true thinking behind the merger:
“Through the merger we will have sufficient econ
omic strength to guarantee our Alaska membership in
trade union statehood and thereby create a solid foun
dation for political statehood for all of the people of 1
Alaska.”
This is a brand new kind of statehood, perhaps, who
knows, with a commissar in charge.
DON'T OVEREMPHASIZE PEACE
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, returning to the
United States after attending a conference of the Big
Three Foreign Ministers in London, expresses the opin
ion that the “free nations of the West are making pro
gress along the road leading to the universal goal of
perce." He points out that the free world is strong,
“both materially and spiritually,” and that it is gaining
“in military strength.” i
Undoubtedly, the statement of the Secretary of Statei
is encouraging and, we believe, it is based upon a cor
rect appraisal of the factual situation. Nevertheless, we
sometimes think that our public officials lay too much
emphasis upon “the road leading toward” peace. WJiile
it is natural, perhaps, for them to make clear their de
termination to avoid another world war, the emphasis
should be placed, we think, upon the ability of the free
world to defend itself.
Wouldn’t it make some Americans look silly if it
turns out that the Russians do their big talking to con
ceal the weakness of the Communist regime?
Sucess story: He worked had all his life, seeking sec
urity for his family and cash for his hobbies but, just
when he was about to get the cash, he died.
You do not have to compliment everybody, but you
can afford, in all truth and sincerity, to pass deserved
compliments to those who are entitled to praise.
The world’s latest joke comes from lands that are
over-populated, with half-starving people, in the form
of advice to the western world on solving its problems.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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lyn if he neglects to stand trial.
Whether he will plead innocent
or guilty to the 11-count conspir
acy indictment is still in doubt.
When arrested at his home in
Philadelphia May 23. Gold told
a federal judge he would plead
guilty to handing over wartime
atomic bomb data to the Soviets—
but insisted he was innocent of
any intention to harm the United
States.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Alaska
road commission barricades are
going to have more meaning for
two Anchorage men hereafter.
The pair, Carl E. Libbey and
John McClary, planned to motor |
to their fishing stream at Willow
although the willow road is not
yet open.
To enter the Willow pass road
they removed the road block and
drove on. Their car stalled in a
ditch on the mountain-side. They
borrowed an ARC road grader.
The grader went in the ditch.
U.S. Commissioner May Carter
fined Libbey $50 for remcing
the road bauicade, and McClary
paid an equal amount for driving ;
a grader without the owner’s per
mission.
After payment of the fines, the
fishing party continued on its way
to Willow—by train
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The U. S.
board on geographic names said
today it has approved various1
place names as to the form to be
used on government maps and
documents. They include:
In Alaska—Quartz Creek, a
stream in Chugach national forest
heading four miles west of the
railroad stop at Johnson and
flowing for about 15 miles into i
the northwest end of Kenai Lake, I
12 miles west of Moose pass.
WASHINGTON, </P)—'The Sen
ate last week voted an investiga
tion of reports there are hun
dreds of homosexuals and moral
perverts among government em
ployes.
It adopted by voice vote a reso
lution authorizing $10,000 for the
Senate executive expenditures
committee to conduct the inquiry.
Action was without debate. The
rules committee had approved the
resolution earlier, but trimmed
the expense allowance from $23,
000 to $10,000.
QUEBEC, (/P>— Police today
said they were convinced three
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A three- ,
year extension of the peacetime
draft act was recommended to the
Senate today by its Armed Servi
ces committee.
The present draft act is due to
expire June 24.
The Senate bill would continue
tual inductions of youths between
the president’s power to order ac
18 and 26 years if he found that
necessary.
It also includes an amendment
by Senator Russell (D-Ga.) to re
quire racial segregation in any of
the armed services if this is re- |
quested in writing by any person 1
drafted. I
year-old Nicole Renaud, missing j
in a suburban forest since Satur
day had been eaten by bears.
Authorities called off the search
by nearly 1,000 police, soldiers
and civilians. *
Bear tracks were discovered in '
the vicinity where the tiny girl '
disappeared, eight miles north of
here. Police said there had been
no reports of previous attacks on
persons by bears in the area but
the police official in charge of the
search, Lieut. Martin Healy. said
last night:
“We have come to the conclu- |
sion that Nicole has been devour
ed by bear* or by a bear.”
TULSA, Okla., </P)—An Amy !
C-47 plane carrying 13 persons i
crashed into three aviation school
barracks on a take-off this morn
ing, injuring three persons critic
ally.
All those hurt were employes of
the Spartan School of Aeronaut
ics and were in the three build- j
ings sheared by the plane’s wing :
after it ripped through a fence!
at the end of a runway.
I
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WASHINGTON, <iP)— Legisla- j
tion to wipe out the Post Office j
department’s recent cuts in mail
service was approved today by'
the House Post Office committee, j
The vote was 12 to 8.
A similar bill has been ap
proved by a Senate com nittee.
LONDON, (/P)—Former foreign
secretary Anthony Eden won a
divorce decree last week by testi
fying that his attractive brunette
wife deserted him in 1947 to live
in America.
Eden, whose political ambitions
ns deputy Conservative leader
may be jeopardized by divorce in
strait-laced Britain, was granted a ■
decree in a five-minute hearing
before justice Francis Hodson.
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OIL FIRE QUICKLY PUT OUT
The Fire Department was called
out yesterday to put out a fire in
the living room of the residence
of Joe Amarok. The heater had
flooded with oil, it is reported,
and run dver on the rug, and
w h e n it was lighted the rug
caught fire. Aside from the rug
little damage was done and the
fire was quickly extinguished.
Truman Indicts
Soviet Union
ST. LOUIS, (yP)—President Tru
man bitterly accused Soviet Rus
sia Saturday of preaching peace
while “fomenting aggression and
preparing for war.”
Using language like a prosecu
ting attorney, he declared Russian
leaders, “with a cynical disre
gard for the hopes of mankind,”
have been “an obstacle to peace.”
At the same time, he declared
that Russia’s threat of a third
world war is being “offset by the
growing strength of the free
world” and that the United States
is enlisted “for the duration” in
the struggle to preserve peace.
The president chose the site for
a Jefferson memorial on the Miss
issippi river front as the setting
for this country’s most vigorous
answer to the Russian peace prop
aganda offensive.
His prepared speech fairly
bristled with charges against Rus
sia in language in keeping with
the matter-of-fact phrases of his
native midwest.
Time and time again he men
tioned Russia by name as he in
dicted the Soviet Union for:
1. “Maintaining the largest
peacetime armed force in history,
far greater than it needs for the
defense of its own boundaries.”
2. Seeking to extend the boun
daries of their totalitarian control
“by means of infiltration, sub
version , propaganda and indirect
aggression.”
3. Talking democracy but set
ting up “dictatorships.”
4. Proclaiming national inde
pendence but imposing “national
slavery”.
5. Turning the school children
of eastern Germany “into the
same kind of pitiful robots that
marched into hopeless battle for
Hitler.”
President Truman’s assertion
that Russia is preparing for war
stepped up congressional efforts
today to get this nation’s defenses
ready for any crisis.
At the same time, however, two
Republican senators suggested
that Mr. Truman’s blunt talk
about Soviet intentions abroad
may be aimed in part at minimiz
ing public attention to the com
munists-in-government c h a r g es
of Senator McCarthy <R-Wis.) and
others.
GOP .senators Wherry of Neb
raska and Brewster of Maine said
they don’t disagree with the pres
Louis that the Soviets “have
ident’s Saturday statement in St.
preached peace--but devoted their
energies to fomenting aggression
and preparing for war.”
But Wherry, the Senate Repub
lican leader, noted that the presi
dent had nothing to say about
subversive activity at home.
“It is just as important to clean
out the communists in our gov
ernment as it is to stop their ex
pansion abroad,"Wherry declared.
Brewster said it seems to him
Mr. Truman has been dwelling on
communist threats in the foreign
field almost to the exclusion of
any similar dangers at home.