Walrus Club Notes
The Walrus Club met last night
in the City Hall.
Mr. C. D. Haberman of tlv* N.
C. Co. won the $50.00 milk fund
prize for the week. A nextra prize
of $10,000 was won by John Mc
Nees, after the drawing of numer
ous names.
The boxing committee reported
plans progressing for a smoker to
be held in Nome on Saturday.
April 30, with local and army tal
ent showing.
The summer carnival commit
tee reported much hard work
ahead but are confident of a good
show for the coming summer.
The club was presented with an
ivory gavel by Mr. Paul Dryden of
A. Polet’s Store, to keep order at
meetings. It was voted to send
him a letter of thanks to be pub
lished in the Nome Nugget.
It was voted to send a letter of
thanks to the N. C. O. Club of
Marks Air Force Base for their
donation of $80.00 to the milk
fund.
It was decided to adopt the en
velope cachet as the official seal
of the Summer Carnival.
Due to the illness of Jack Len
cer he was unable to attend the
Jack Lencer, watchmaker and
new councilman, returned from
Anchorage where he has been hos
pitalized at the army hospital, and
states that he is feeling much bet
ter.
Mrs Carl Glavinovich left yes
terday for Spokane to visit with
her mother for a couple of weeks.
meeting but sent word that every
one in the hospital in Anchorage
is talking about “Operation Cow’’
in Nome.
LETTER TO PAUL DRYDEN
Nome, Alaska,
April 7, 1949.
Mr. Dry den:
The Order of the Walrus wishes
to publicly thank you for the
beautiful gavel presented to the
Club by you.
This gavel of carved ivory has
inscribed on one side “Order of
the Walrus.” On the other side is
etched a remarkable reproduction
of “Mr. Walrus,” the picture used
in all Walrus Club publicity.
The gavel was used at our last
meeting and very effectively
brought everyone present to at
tention. Again we say Thank You.
Sincerely yours,
Order of the Walrus.
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Snlernation’l News
At A Glance —
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civil war likely will continue.
In the United Nations, Russia is
expected to criticize the wcPern
owe- to - an attempt to have the
U. N. condemn Russian satellite
countries for the prosecutions of
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty and
Protes'ant leaders.
U. S. delegate Warren R. Austin
proposed yesterday that the assem
bly consider whether Hungary’s
trial of the Cardinal and Bulgar
ia’s prosecution sof 15 Protestants
was a violation of peace treaties.
Greece has protested to the
United Nations special commission
on the Balkans that her commun
ist-dominated neighbor, Albania,
is openly aiding Greek communist
insurgents. The Greek government
spokesman claimed that more than
3 000 men invaded the Grammos
mountain section of northern
Greece from the Albanian fron
tier.
In Washington it was reported
the United States would spend
$1,250,000,000 to arm Western
Europe under the North Atlantic
treaty. President Truman, it was
said, would absorb this expendi
ture in the current budget of $41,
900,000,000.
The President yesterday told a
group of freshmen Congressmen
he would not hesitate to order
dropping of atomic bombs if the
decision had to be made “for the
welfare of the United States” and
to preserve the democracies of the
world.
But he held out hope that world
peace can be maintained without
resorting to atomic warfare.
The British people had a bitter
pill to swallow in Sir Stafford
Cripp’s budget. The British finan
cial chief announced yesterday
that subsidies on food would be
reduced .raising the prices to
consumers. Anticipating grumbles.
Sir Stafford said: “We can’t have
our cake and eat it too.”
Friday, April 8, 1949
Members of the Western Euro
pean Union and three other allies
of the United States under the
North Atlantic treaty appealed to
Washington today for funds to
build defenses.
Britain, France. Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nor
way, Denmark and Italy appealed
for the funds.
In Washington, secretary of
state Dean Acheson informed the
eight allies that the U. S. govern
ment is “prepared to recommend”
that Congress enact a program of
military aid. Acheson said *he ap
peals “are consistent with the spir
| it" of the pact. No plea came from
I Canada, Portugal or Iceland, the
j remaining North Atlantic alliance
members.
Washington observers said the
requests and the American official
reply set the stage for President
Truman to go to Congress for an
endorsement of Western European
military assistance which may
amount to $1,250,000,000.
Uneasy negotiations are still un
derway in China for a peace set
tlement between the nationalist
government and the communists.
Acting president Li Tsung-Jen of
the nationalists, who rejected a
communist ultimatum to transfer
control by tiext Tuesday, has
made a dramatic plea to the Reds.
Li offered, in a message to com
munist headquarters in Peiping,
to be “burned in oil or dismem
bered” if it would help bring
about peace. He said he had “no
other wish but that of Jim in' ng
war ... so that the people may
be rescuer! from their suffeLng."
The Reds poise a threat of sen !
ing troops southward acros th(
Yangtze river, if the nutionalis.s
do not come to terms. Li’s rejec
tion of the ultimatum might well
mean the civil war will continue.
The expected surre n d e r of
Karen rebels in Burma did not
materialize today. The govern
ment. which has been trying to
put down a revolt ol the Karen
national union for over two
months, announced yesterday that
the Karens would lay down then
arms at Insein, a suburb of Ran
goon, the capital.
However, Karen president Saw
Ba U Gyi did not show up for the
surrender ceremony. It is feared
his warring tribesmen, who are
fighting for a separate and inde
pendent Karen state, are holding
him prisoner.
Foreign minister Munoz of
Guatemala charged that fascist
forces were attempting to over
throw the governmen' of presi
dent Juan Jose Arevalo. Two per
sons have been killed in fighting
near the Mexican border which
has been closed. Mexico has pro
claimed strict neutrality. A Mexi
can frontier commander describ
Single Engine
Plane Sets Record
BALTIMORE, </P)—’The Martin
Mauler, a navy dive bomber also
known t<> the fleet as Able Mabel,
has set a new unofficial payload
record for single-engine planes.
The Glenn L. Martin company,
manufacturer of the craft, said to
day that on a recent test flight the
plane carried a 10.639-pound pay
load. Its total weight, plane and
load, was 29,332 pounds, he said.
The load included three 2,000
pound torpedoes, twelve 250
pound bombs, and four 20-mm.
cannon with 800 rounds of ammu
nition.
ed the rebels as “subversive
groups of armed men without mil
itary experience who are devotipg
themselves to robbery and loot
ing.”
It is Guatemala’s 19th revolu
tion in four years.
American officials in Berlin
said the Russians show signs of
shifting their policy in Germany
by making a show of how much
they are doing for the Germans.
The Russians today offered coal
and potatoes at prices to win
friends and influence people.
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