I HE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
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NOME. ALASKA
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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, Wednesday, February 14, 1951
FAKED PHOTOGRAPH MAY COST SENATE SEAT
One of the highlights of the recent campaign in the
State of Maryland was the exhibition of a “fake” photo
graph, showing Senator Tydings in conversation with
the Communist Earl Browder.
The picture was a composite photograph, made by
pasting two pictures together and then photographing
them. It was widely circulated in Maryland for^ the pur
pose of implanting in the minds of the gullible the idea
that Senator Tydings was favorable to Communists.
This is only one of the tricks used against liberal can
didates in the elections of 1950. Others are known but
this one has been documented by investigators and may
result in the loss of the seat won by the Republican can
didate, John Butler.
Drew Pearson recently asserted that the picture was
held in a Baltimore printing shop until the secretary of
a Senator brought the money to pay for the job. It was
then turned loose on the public for whatever effect it
could produce upon simple minds.
There is no excuse for such tactics. No honorable man
would stoop to such dishonest efforts to win an election.
Not only should those guilty be punished but the dis
reputable performance should warn all Americans not
to believe all that they see, much less what they hear,
during an election campaign.
ATTACK ON YUGOSLAVIA
WOULD ENDANGER PEACE
WASHINGTON (£>)—Secretary !
of State Acheson said today any j
communist attack on Yugoslavia j
would dangerously strain the fab- 1
ric of world peace.
He told a news conference that
is as specific as he can be now on J
United States policy as to the pos
sibility of a Soviet satellite as
sault this spring on Yugoslavia.
In general, Acheson said, Amer- ,
ican policy stands now as it was
summed up in President Truman’s
message to Congress last July 19,
after the outbreak of the Korean
fighting. j
At that time, Mr. Truman warn- j
ed those who have the power to
unleash or withhold acts of ag
gression that any new aggressive j
moves would strain the fabric of
world peace dangerously.
TOURIST BECOMES AVID
BOOSTER FOR ALASKA
Mr. C. C. Carr, president of the
Steelco Stainless Steel Co., of Chi
cago, who visited Nome last sum
mer as a tourist and took many
pictures and who is a subscriber
to the Nugget, because he “liked
Nome and its people,” writes that
he is showing his pictures, which
have been put to music with back
ground and dramatization for sev
eral groups.
Monday, Feb. 12, he showed it
to an enthusiastic group of over
two hundred, a Parent-Teacher
Assn., in Chicago, and has had
more requests to show it than he
can possibly accept.
Here is a tourist who became a
real booster for the Far North!
Charles Jones left this morning
for the States on a business trip
and will be gone several weeks.
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never had a chance to reply 'be
fore the last election.
Jdnsen was a member of a
House investigating committee last
session and his critics contend he
improperly tried to carry over the
authority between sessions.
He blasted 'McCutcheon on the
bases of the (Palmer airport deal
and his legal fees from the aero
nautics commission, among other
things.
In opposing Jensen’s appearance
Rep. Ameli Gunderson (D-Ketchi
kan) declared “Jensen has done
enough damage already, with his
statements and charges. That in
vestigating committee was crea
ted for last session only.”
Jensen, conservative Democrat
from Douglas, was defeated in
1950 for reelection.
Two or three members men
tioned that Jensen had appeared
before several Alaska grand jur
ies without result.
Kay, a close confederate of Mc
Cutcheon, declared “maybe we
have a duty to hear him. He is an
ex-member and has appeared be
fore grand juries without indict
ments.” Kay said he would like to
question Jensen.
Rep. Glen Franklin (D-Bound
ary), who served on the 1949 com
mittee with Jensen but said he
had no part in Jensen’s between
sessions activity, moved to hear
Jensen.
“I am sure McCutcheon can
take care of himself,” he added.
McCutcheon abstained from vo
ting on the issue. .
During argument before the
vote, he declared:
• “I see an old headline-hunter
in action again, making accusa
tions at the expense of other peo
ple. All I ask is fair play by all of
you. I am willing to meet Jensen
anytime any place. I see all too
clearly his motive.”
McCutcheon was House speak
er in 1949.
Other House developments'yes
terday included tabling of Kay’s
bill to create a legislative council.
Kay moved that it be tabled, ex
plaining he was doing so because
of passage of Franklin’s legisla
tive investigating bill.
The House also completed legis
lative action on a bill by Sen.
Frank Barr (D-Fairbanks) allow
ing prison terms of 3 to 20 years
instead of mandatory life, for
youths under 19 in juvenile rape
cases.
Sen. Gunnard M. Engebreth <R
Anchorage> said today he plans to
introduce -a new canned salmon
tax bill in the Alaska legislature
this week.
Engebreth said the measure will
propose a new levy of three quar
ters of a cent a pound on kings,
reds, and sockeyes; half a cent on
pinks and others.
Revenues, estimated at $1,000,
000 annually, would be earmarked
solely for school purposes, he said.
The present canned salmon tax,
based on raw fish value, produced
$1,400,000 last year.
Engebreth said the proposed
new tax is in line with proposals
of the Third division Republican
organization. He noted that can
neries also are subject to a fish
trap tax but are exempt from the
Alaska business license tax.
The proposed new tax probab
ly will just about offset the gen
eral property tax which was held
invalid in district court, Enge
breth said.
He added he will introduce a
bill calling for repeal of the prop
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64 Higherups Forced
Grueiiing To Be
More Conciliatory”
(By Jim Hutcheson)
JUNEAU, </P) — Two Alaskan
Republican leaders expressed the
opinion in Lincoln Day banquet
speeches Monday night that Gov
ernor Gruening’s proposal for his
removal from numerous Territo
rial boards was not a voluntary
gesture.
They contended he was told to
do so by “higherups.”
The speakers were Albert
White, longtime Alaska Republi
can party general counsel, and F.
E. Robertson, Juneau attorney.
They were among principal speak- j
ers at a banquet which was the
political main event of this capi
tal city’s legislative holiday.
Party unity, described as new-1
found in 1951, was the theme of j
numerous legislators who spoke. |
Robertson declared the “gover-1
nor is not surrendering anything
voluntarily—don’t be deceived on
that.”
White expressed the opinion in
structions from “higherups ac
counted for the conciliatory tone”
in Gruening’s message to the Leg
islature.
White lashed at Democrats for
what he said was an apparent de
sire to avoid any investigations.
He charged there was deletion of 1
a report in one Territorial office j
that warranted “FBI investigation!
instead of Legislative investiga- j
tion.” !
About 100 attended the banquet.
All Republican legislators spoke
briefly in confident tones of the
party’s future in Alaska.
“Mush” Moore Al
most Home, Sleeps
In George’s Bed
_
NEW PRESTON, Conn., (/P)—.
George Washington slept here—
and so did Cecil HMush” Moore. In'
George’s bed, too.
The bearded dog musher, who
trailed a team of huskies out o*f
Fairbanks, Alaska, 57 weeks ago,
stopped here Monday night near
the end of his dog sled trip to |
Lewiston, Me.
Moore’s story of trials and trib
ulations on the 5,100-mile trek
from Fairbanks found a sympa-,
thetic listener in Judge Walter M.
Pickett, present owner of the
house where George Washington
slept one night in 1777. I
The court of common pleas
judge not only put Moore up in
the George Washington bed in the
George Washington house, he;
found shelter for Moore’s eight
Husky dogs in a shed in which—
according to local legend—Wash
ington’s horse was once stabled.
Moore said both he and his dogs
weer footsore and weary when
they arrived here. He said he had
traveled 2100 miles on sled run- j
ners through dense Alaskan and!
Canadian wilderness and 3000 j
miles with wheels attached to the:
sled.
He had a team of 11 Huskies
when he left Fairbanks. The
wolves got one of them. One dis
appeared and one was left in Tor
rington Sunday after giving birth,
to a litter.
Moore began the trek more than
a year ago to raise funds for the
Lions’ Club at Lewiston, his home
town.
i
erty tax. A similar repealer al
ready has been introduced in the
House. 1
Report Secret Rus
sian-Cliinese Deal
(By Drew Pearson)
Word of a new and highly im
portant secret military agreement
between Russia and Communist
China has just reached Washing
ton. The deal could be a' serious
one for our future position in Ko
rea.
9
According to the best intelli
gence information, the agreement
was signed in Moscow at about
the time the United Nations’ cease
fire order was under discussion.
The deal was probably put across
in order to bolster the Chinese and
prevent them from yielding to the
cease-fire proposals. In brief, here
is what Russia gives to China un
der the new military past:
1. The Kremlin will help train
and equip ten new divisions for
the Chinese Peoples* Republic
These divisions are to be compos
ed of foreign troops, one-half Jap
prisoners of war, plus an unspeci
fied number of Inner (Mongolians.
2. The Kremlin to provide the
Chinese People’s Republic with
100 jet planes.
3. Train 1,000 Chinese pilots.
4. Train 2,000 Chinese para
troopers.
5. Station 300,000 Russian troops
in Manchuria.
6. Provide the Chinese army
with heavy equipment including
tanks and artillery—exact number
not determined.
7. Russia will return to China
47 of the industrial plants it re
moved from Manchuria in 1945
46.
At present the U. S. military sit
uation in Korea is better than
ever, with Communist forces, suf
fering terrible casualties. How
ever, this new military deal be
tween Moscow and the Chinese
has around considerable U. S.
worry regarding the future.
Gilmans, Anchor
age Bakers, Killed
In Air Crash
MALIBU, Calif., {JP)—The bod
ies of E. Dale Gilman, 40, wealthy
Anchorage baker, and his wife
Lois, 37, were removed Monday
from the wreckage of a light am
phibian plane that crashed in the
Santa Monica mountains last Sun
day.
Sheriff’s deputies reported that
Gilman, an experienced flier, ap
parently wag hemmed in by over
cast in the Toeanga Canyon area.
The plane smashed into a moun
tainside at an altitude of about
1,160 feet. The Gilmans were
crushed in the cockpit.
Gilman had taken off from
Orange County airport at Santa
Ana and was heded for Santa
Barbara. He and Mrs. Gilman had
been visiting relatives and friends
in Southern California. They left
Alaska on an extended vacation
last October.
The search for the twin-engine
Grumann started after deputies
heard it fly low over the Malibu
station in the fcrg. It came in from
the sea, one engine sputtering,
they said. Later, hikers reported
hearing it crash.
Gilman’s mother, Mrs. M. G.
Gilman of Orange, Calif., and his
grandmother, Mrs. Florence Ham
ilton of Santa Barbara, survive
him. Mrs. Gilman’s survivors in
clude a sister, Mrs. Ray Rasley of
El Centro, Calif.
Mr. B. Gerard, superintendent
for the Manson-Osberg Construc
tion Co., returned yesterday with
Alaska Airlines on a business trip.