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, July 9, 1951
NO RED HERRINGS, EITHER
“PERFECTLY MARVELOUS JOB”
“Our medical people have done a perfectly mar
velous job—perfectly marvelous,” declared General
J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff, in telling Sen
ators that the percentage of deaths among the wounded
in the Korean War is “a third less” than in World
War II.
Total casualties in Korea, up to about two weeks
ago, including battle and non-battle, were 141,995,
with 11,292 dead. Non-battle casualties were 72,679.
General Collins reported to the Senators that 90.4
per cent of non-battle casualties have returned to duty.
Of the battle casualties, 70.2 per cent have been re
turned to duty—57.3 per cent in the Far East and 12.9
in the United States. '
A MOVE FOR ECONOMY
The 1,900,000 civilian employes of the Federal
government will have their annual leave cut from 26
to 20 days if Congress follows the recommendation of
Senator Paul H. Douglas, of Illinois.
This mav '•sound severe but; in view of the five
day week, it means that employes will have four com-1
plete weeks of vacation time, including Saturdays and
Sundays. In addition, most of them have allowances
for sick leave, if needed.
There will be a bag stir over such an economy
item. The Senate, which passed the amendment, re
versed its previous vote aaginst it and may, when the
showdown comes, change its mind again.. What the
House will do is a pure guess but, like all moves for
economy, there seems to be a way to get most cuts
restored before the savings gets to the Treasury.
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Harry S. Truman: “We cannot go it alone in Asia
and go it in company in Europe.”
Nancy Astor, American-born former member of
the House of Commons: “An average politician is far
better than his average critic.”
Daniel A. Poling, editor The Christian Herald:
“Never again can even ‘Fortress America’ be sufficient
unto herself alone.”
NUGGET ADS PAY DIVIDENDS
NLRB To Conduct
Election Bristol
Bay Fishermen
SEATTLE, (/P)—A plan to send
seven National Labor Relations
Board election examiners to Nak
nek, Alaska, to conduct an elec
tion among resident and non-resi
dent Bristol Bay fishermen was
announced Friday.
It is an aftermath of the com
plicated labor controversy which
ended with the return to work of
Bristol Bay resident fishermen
and cannery workers.
Thomas P. Graham, Jr., region
al NLRB director, estimated it
will take at least two weeks to
conduct the election. Russell Mil
ler of Washington, D. C., chief
NLRB election examiner, will
head the group.
The Bering Sea Union, which
broke away from the Alaska Fish
ermen’s Union originally asked
for the election last January. The
NLRB ordered it June 15, after
the strike had started. By that
time the union opposed holding
it.
The Bering Sea Union orig
inally asked that the election be
limited to resident fishermen but
was overruled by the NLRB. Ob
servers believe that inclusion of
the non-resident fishermen in the
balloting, along with recent devel
opments in the dispute, have les
sened greatly the chances of the
Bering Sea Union to win the el
ection.
New Amendment Would
Allow Alaska Voters To
Elect Own Officers
Senator Hugh Butler of Neb
raska has introduced a bill in the
U. S. Senate in the form of an
amendment to the Senate bill
(S-50) for admitting Alaska as a
state.
He would allow the people of
Alaska to elect their own Gover
nor, Secretary of Alaska, and
Auditor.
The Senate bill is an attempt
to repeal the reorganization bill
<No. 141) passed by the recent
Territorial Legislature, which
takes away the rights of the
people to elect these territorial
officers.
COL. ALEXANDER TO BE
TRANSFERRED TO NATIONAL
GUARD BUREAU IN WASH.
Col. J. D. Alexander, acting ad
jutant general of the Alaska Na
tional Guard, leaves August 12 on
transfer to the National Guard
Bureau in the Pentagon, Washing
ton, D. C., after completing three
years of duty in Alaska.
He has been the adjutant gen
eral since his arrival in Juneau
on August 13, 1948 when he was
transferred from the office of the
Army Chief of Staff, the Penta
gon. Col. Alexander was desig
nated senior Army instructor in
May, 1949 and Territorial director
of civilian defense, in July, 1950.
No one has been officially desig
nated as yet to replace Col. Alex
ander.
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Treasury Dept. Seeks
Ex-Girl Friend Of
“Bugsy” Siegel
EL PASO, Tex., UP) — Virginia
Hill, a Eal who told the Kefauver
Crime Committee she knew lots
of fellows the senators said were
racketeers, turned up in this bor
der city Friday.
She said she was “probably”
on her way to join her husband.
The whereabouts of the former
girl friend of the slain gangster
Bugsy Siegel, had been of par
ticular concern to William E.
Frank, in charge of the Seattle
office of the U. S. Treasury De
partment.
Frank said Tuesday he had
been questioning Miss Hill about
income tax matters. The interest
in her whereabouts became pub
licly known when the New Jer
sey State police asked for infor
mation on the location and direc
tion of travel in which she, her
husband and their baby were
headed when they left Seattle. Re
ports stopped near Minneapolis.
SAN GABRIEL, C&lif., (/P)—“I
never fool with this thing when
it’s loaded, Frank Gibiser, 42, told
his bride of two months, as he
twirled a pistol on his trigger fin
ger.
Just then, the gun discharged.
A bullet through the head killed
him instantly.
27 Children Drown
In Ship Explosion
In East
BERLIN, (JP) — East German
authorities announced Friday they
have found the bodies of two more
children drowned in the explosion
of a small ship on the Spree river,
raising the official death -toll to 27.
• East German police at the same
time ordered the seizure of all
gasoline engines and a critical in
spection of all other river craft in
the Soviet sector. The police
blamed the tragedy on a faulty
gasoline engine which caught fire.
The eastern announcement ack
nowledged the accident as the
worst disaster involving children
in postwar Germany. But the So
viet sector press limited cover
age to publication of a 400-word
official communique from the city
government. Apparently on orders
from above, no details or pictures
of the accident were published.
The explosion came at a most
unfortunate time for Communist
authorities who are waging a
propaganda campaign for their
world youth festival in East Ber
lin next month.
When cigarette smoking was in
its infancy they were known as
coffin nails — today it’s just
coughin’. •
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