THE NOME NUGGET
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Nome, Alaska, Monday, May 29, 1950
" 'O WHOM WE OWE SO MUCH
_ We are truly grateful to those, our men and women,
vho so nobly sacrificed that we might continue to enjoy
he priviliges of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Hap
)iness.”
Our business houses will close tomorrow to show our
| espect and appreciation.
It is hoped that many of our citizens will join with
he members of the American Legion, who, for the first
.ime in many years are paying tribute to their departed
.‘omrades at Belmont Point Cemetery. It is also hoped
:hat other groups will follow the example set by the Pi
oneer Women in placing floral offerings on the graves
tomorrow.
Our cemetery has been a source of shame for many
years, and tomorrow might be a good day to renew a
pledge to our departed friends and dear ones to make
their last resting place a spot of peace and beauty.
“LARGEST IN THE WORLD”
The Library of Congress is the largest in the world,
housed in the two largest library buildings in the
world.
Among its contents, one will find 8,689,639 volumes
and pamphlets, 128,055 bound newspaper volumes, 11,
302,000 manuscripts, 1,928,574 maps and views, 76,609
reels and strips of microfilm, 81, 278 reels of motion
pictures, 1,819,609 volumes and pieces of music, 305,848
phonograph records, 1,9&3,231 photographic negatives,
579,398 fine prints, 668,732 broadsides, photostats and
items of miscellaneous data.
A file of the Nome Nugget will be found there.
DISLIKES U. S. SAILORS
As a “gesture of friendship,” the United States re
cently sent two destroyers to Saigon, Indo-China. The
visit of the ships was also taken as an indication of sup
port for the French-sponsored state of Viet Nam.
While the destroyers were in port, the Communists
organized an anti-American demonstration, which in
cluded rioting in which three persons were killed and
more than sixty injured. U. S. sailors were “shoved
around" and students in all schools went on strike to
protest police action against the rioters. Our sailors
were refused the use of taxis and rickshas and more
THESE WOMEN! By d’Alessio |
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BRABBLES
44 How can you be to stupid as to forget your key just
because I did?*4
| Espionage Arrest
In Philadelphia
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PHILADELPHIA, (JP)— A 39
! year-old Philadelphia research
1 chemist of Russian extraction was '
held today in $100,000 bail, charg
; ed with receiving atomic bomb se
crcts from Dr. Klaus Fuchs and
turning them over to Soviet Rus
sia.
Dr. Fuchs is the former top
; British atomic scientist serving
1 14 years for passing atom secrets
to Russia.
Dr. Fuchs is the former top
British atomic scientist serving 14
I years for passing atom secrets to
Russia.
Arrest of Harry Gold, senior
1 bio-chemist in one of Philadel
phia's largest hospitals for the last J
two years, was announced in
Washington last night by attorney
general McGrath and FBI direc
tor J. Edgar Hoover.
A few minutes later in the
Philadelphia chambers of federal
judge James P. McGranery, the
the short, pudgy Gold, was given
; a 15-minute hearing and hustled
off to Philadelphia’s Moyamen- |
sing phison in lieu of bail.
Gold’s work at Philadelphia
General Hospital was on feder
ally-financed heart research.
Judge McGranery set June 12
at 10 a.m. for a further hearing
j The time of his arrest was not
| disclosed.
The jurist told Gold during the
hastily called hearing that he did
not have to speak without benefit
of counsel.
And Gold spoke only twice. He
admitted he was the Gold named
in the warrant and requested per
mission to telephone a brother in
Philadelphia to obtain counsel.
Judge McGranery granted the re
quest.
| Later, the brother, Joseph, told
reporters he had received a call
I from Harry. Joseph said his older
i brother had been employed at the j
a civil service bio-chemist,
i Philadelphia General Hospital as
In announcing the arrest, Me- j
i Grath said the charges were
i based on information supplied by
Dr. Fuchs, who was arrested in
February and pleaded guilty
March 1.
In London two FBI agents ques- '
tioned Dr. Fuchs today for the
third time, trying to trace the
lines of the Soviets’ atom espion
age in America. They had quizzed
him first on Saturday and again
yesterday.
An American official described
the imprisoned British scientist
as “most cooperative” with the
FBI officials.
The joint statement, issued by \
Introduces Mine
Aid Bill In Senate
WASHINGTON, (£>)— A new
metal mine aid bill was intro
duced yesterday by senator Mc
Carran <D-Nev.>.
It follows, in many respects,
the bill now before the House
rules committee but includes fea
tures of an earlier McCarrin bill
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to devote part of tariff fees to
support domestic mines.
The McCarran bill would auth
orize the secretary of the interior
to spend $45,000,000 in 1951 and
$07,500,000 in each of the next
three years for conservation of
present mines and exploration for
new mineral and metal ore bod
ies.
The House bill would allow
$30,000,000 for 1951 and $45,000,
000 annually for the next three
years.
In addition, the McCarran bill
would earmark import revenues
as follows for aid to domestic pro
ducers: manganese, one-fourth
cent on each pound imported; an
timony, one cent a pound; mer
cury, 25 cents a pound; and tung
sten, 38 cents a pound. The reven
ues so set aside would be distribu
ted to producers of each of these
minerals on the basis of the pro
portion eeh contributed to the to
tal domestic production.
RED RIVER FLOOD
SUBSIDES IN CANADA
WINNIPEG, (/P)~'The Canadi
an army began disbanding its em
ergency control units today as the
worst Red river flood in a cen
tury ebbed away.
A few lonely sentinels stood
watch while the water receded on
Winnipeg’s sandbag dikes, but for
most of the city the flood was a
thing of the past.
The huge volunteer-services
machine—which at the height of
the menace had thrown 60,000
men into a round-the-clock effort
to save Winnipeg and its twin city
of St. Boniface from destruction
—was fast breaking up.
the justice department and Hoov
er, said Gold admitted contacts
with Fuchs and had given de
tailed accounts of his activities
since first meeting the scientist in
New York’s east side early in
1944. They had subsequent con
tacts in Brooklyn, the Bronx,
Manhattan and Queens, N.Y., the
FBI said.
During the war and postwar
period, Dr. Fuchs frequently vis
ited the United States. As an of
ficial British government atomic
scientist he had access to impor
tant atomic laboratory work at
Los Alamos, N.M., and elsewhere.
serious incidents were avoided by cancelling the shore
leave of the sailors.
FRANCE DISMISSES CURIE
The news from France is that Frederic Jolie Curie
will be dismissed as the chief of France’s atomic ener
gy commission.
The Communist scientist recently declared that
“Communist scientists will never contribute a particle
of their science to a war against the Soviet Union.” This
is bad enough, but what is more to be feared is the
strange willingness of Communist scientists to betray
their own countries and deliver scientific secrets of
others to the Soviet Union.
The French government should not hesitate to dis
miss this man. He is apparently unwilling to work for
the benefit of his own country or in conjunction with,
other scientists interested in preserving the freedoms
that make up western civilization. If this is his state of
mind the quicker he gets out of a position of confidence,
in connection with atomic research, the better.
News of the World
At A Glance —
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turned out to be just anothe-' bit
communist demonstration, not the
threatened putsch for which the
west had prepared.
Throughout the blustery day of
rain and sun yesterday the com
munists demonstrated their or
dered hate of the west and Ihcir
professed love for the Soviet Un
ion—and showed by their iron
discipline that the east was firmly
in the communist grip.
East Germany’s communist
president Wilhelm Pieck, sounded
the theme of the big Whitsuntide
weekend rally. He hailed Stalin as
“the greatest and best friend of
the German people.’
West Berlin was quiet, almost
like any ordinary Sunday ex
cept that west German police and
western allied troops lined the
streets on watch against possible
trouble. West Berlin’s mayor, Ern
est Reuter, said:
“Our peaceful determination,
together with the support we re
ceived from the allies, has resul
ted in a complete failure of com
munist dreams to overrun Berlin.”
Elsewhere around the world:
London—informed British sour
ces say the Labor government h is
rejected a French request that it
go on record as favoring in prin
ciple the Schuman plan of pool
ing west Europe’s coal and steel
output before it looks at the de
tails.
This does not mean, the sour
ces said, that Britain is against the
proposed plan which is being
hailed by French and west Ger
man officials as a great step to-'
ward European unity. The Brit
ish government wants first to ex
amine the details of the proposal.
Seoul—South Korea’s campaign
for national elections, to be held
tomorrow, wound up comparative
ly quietly—for Korea. Six dearhs,
three kidnappings, four cases of
arson and about 500 arrests—in
cluding 42 candidates and 178 el
ectioneers—have been reported.
This was calm compaied with
the bloody elections of two years
ago when some 800 were woun
ded in the campaign.
This wall be the first self-con
ducted election for the young
South Korean republic, set up by
the United States as a counter to
the Russian-controlled commu
nist regime of north Korea.
Tel Aviv—The Israel govern
ment has announced it will pay
$54,628 damages in connection
with the assassination of Count
Koike Bcrnadotte, the United Na
tions Palestine mediator who was
shot down while attempting to
bring about peace between the
warring Arabs and Jews in 1948.
The Israeli pledged a continued
search for his murderers.
Two Oomiaks arrived yesterday
from King Island to take on sup
plies for the island which, they
state, is out of all food supplies
except for flour and sugar.
Both boats plan to return im
mediately. One native woman
who came with the party will re
main in town. They report that
all are well and getting ready for
spring hunting.
Dan Noonan, veteran traveling
representative and partner of for
mer Nomeite Ed Seidenverg, is
here on his annual trip to Nome.
Betty Kriescher is the new wait
ress for the North Pole Bakery,
She arrived yesterday with the
Pan American.