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Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, December 6, 1950
SMUGGLERS VALUE GOLD
When the United States devalued the dollar and be
gan acquiring most of the world’s gold, there were ex
perts in this country who speculated upon the possibil
ity that, eventually, we would have all the gold and it
would have no value anywhere alse.
This time is not in sight. Recently, customs agents
arrested two men who were apparently engaged
in gold smuggling. They had, on their persons, hid
den in brief cases, shoes and around them, gold worth
approximately $75,000 in this country at $35 an ounce.
However, the officials pointed out that in the foreign
black market, the yellow metal is bringing from two to
three times its price in the United States.
Last year, something like $37,000,000 in gold bullion
disappeared from the United States. Customs agents
have been very active in recent months, looking for the
smugglers. In September, four men were arrested about
to leave the United States by airplane with $50,000 in
gold in their luggage. In London, last month, three men
arrived on planes from New York and were discovered
with $62,000 worth of gold bars in their baggage.
PERISHABLE FOODS A PROBLEM
The present farm price support program has been
bitterly criticized because of the burning of Irish pota
toes and the huge surpluses that have been built up in
dried eggs.
When it was plain that the present plan was creating
chaos, the sugegstion was made by Secretary of Agri
culture Charles F. Brannan that some new plan should
be adopted in connection with the perishable products
of agriculture.
Mr. Brannan proposed that the producer be allowed
to sell his perishable products in a free market for
whatever price he could get. The Federal Government,
instead of buying up the supply at a guaranteed price,
would pay the producer the difference between the
market price and a pre-determined level of support.
The advantage of such a plan, when applied to per
ishable products, is that it would eliminate storage
problems and the creation of a surplus that must be
given away or destroyed. In addition, the price of per
ishable products would be lower on the market, thus
enabling consumers to buy them more freely.
Kill all the time you wish—but be sure it is your own.
WANTA MAKE SOMETHING OF IT ?
PL
CHINA
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If Forced From
Korea; U. N. Will
Return To Fight
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of the long-range struggle “to up
hold the values of peace and jus
tice and freedom.”
Beyond stressing the tremen
dous odds the U. N. forces face,
Mr. Truman made no assessment
of the Korean situation.
And against the talk of a pos
sible evacuation of the troops
there, some o'f the best informed
officials are saying it is still too
early to predict what will actually
happen or that the U. N. forces
will have to get out of Korea en
tirely.
Mr. Truman and Prime Minis
ter Attlee reviewed the situation
Monday with Gen. Omar Bradley
chairman of the Joint Chief of
Staff, in the first of their crisis
talks. Bradley is reported to* have
told them that evacuation plans
are ready if they have to be used.
In his address to the conference
on children and youth, the Presi
dent said that the intervention of
Chinese communists in Korea had
greatly changed the situation
confronting this nation. Then, in
a sentence interpreted by some
officials as his first move to pre
part the country for bad news—
news of a military diater in Ko
rea—the President added:
“No matter how the immediate
situation may develop, we must
remember that the fighting in Ko
rea is but one part of the tremen
dous struggle of our time — the
struggle between freedom and
communist imperialism.”
Mr. Truman and Attlee reached
no agreement in their opening
talk yesterday but diplomatic in
formants reported they were
moving toward ar> agreement that
Western Europe is the place to
offset communist victories in the
Far East.
As far as the present military
situation is concerned, it is un
derstood that the President and
Prime Minister dealt with three
alternatives and found themselvs
facing a choice between complete
and partial defeat in their initial
analysis.
The idea of establishing and
holding a line across the Korean
peninsula appears almost, if not
entirely hopeless.
There was still some belief on
the part of American leaders,
however, that it might be possible
again as it was earlier this year
to maintain a foothold on Korea.
This would be justified if there
was reason to expect a new build
up of U. N. forces capable of deal
ing with the Chinese communist
masses and so far there is no evi
I dence such a buildup is planned.
The other possibility which
bigger with each day’s news of
new Chinese communist successes
on the battlefield is a complete
military defeat for the U. N.
! forces.
I
William Beliz, Second Divi
| sion’s new Senator is in town for
a while after several weeks work
at the construction camp at Cape
Lisbourne.
He is busy feeling out the Nome
■ public as to what they want from
the legislature and expressed the
feeling that now election cam
paigns are over, party differences
: should be forgotten and all those
elected to office should work to
gether for the best interests of
the Division.
Mr. Beltz has several important
projects which he believes will be
beneficial to the residents of this
area when presented in Juneau.
Santa r C WBOYI
AP N«wif«ofvr*i By LUCRECE HUDGINS |
CHAPTER TEN |
THE GIANT OF THE LIGHTS
Bucky galloped his wonderful
horse toward the Northern Lights.
But no matter how swiftly he
rode he never seemed to get
closer to the great shafts of spark
ling color.
At first the lights seemed to be
•at the endge of Santa Land but
Bucky passed far beyond Santa
Land and still the lights lay far i
ahead. If you have ever set out to
find the end of a rainbow you j
know how it was with Bucky.
Though the rainbow seems to end
of the other side of town you may
travel *all days long and never
find the pot of gold that some
people say is buried at the rain-!
bow’s end.
Fast as Bucky went, the Jindi- i
an boy had gone faster still, for!
he was nowhere to be seen. It was |
a wild and lonesome rid for the
little cowboy.
Through the whole long day he
rode the horse that never seemed j
to tire. But Bucky tired and final
ly fell asleep on the horse’s back.
When he awoke it was night and
he was surrounded by tongues of
flaming light that darted at him, j
crackling fiercely like lightning.
He was in the midst of the North
ern Lights!
The horse shied from right to
left, reared on his hind legs,
whinnied shrilly in fear and as
i
tonishment.
“On Fellow!” shouted Bucky,
snapping the reins. “Keep on!”
And the horse tore on through
the forest of lights. It was like be
ing on a merry go round in a
scary house during a thunder
storm. Curtains of bluish-green
pink and yellow lights fluttered,
everywhere. Spurts of light rose
like whiffs of smoke.
Buck thought only of urging j
Fellow on faster. But suddenly a
giant of many colors stood in his '
path.
“Who goes there?” roared the
giant. Bucky’s blood, ran cold to
see the awful creature with pur
ple face, green ears and orange
hair. In his hands the giant held
one hundred strands of color that
sizzled and crackled and coiled
across the sky.
r
“Please, sir,” said Bucky in his
most polite voice. “I am running
a race to save Santa Land from
the Jindians.”
“Oh,” cried the giant. “I have
already met the boy you race. He
could not cross my walls of fire
and I have imprisoned him for
ever. If you can cross the walls
you will win the race. But if you
do not cross them you, too, shall
be my prisoner.”
“Show me the walls!” cried
Bucky eagerly.
The giant pointed behind him.
There stood three walls, one 'be
yond the other, each one higher
than the one before. The first wall
was a flaming blue, the second a
jagged edged yellow, and the
third was a scorching red with
tongues of flame licking at the
sky.
Without a word Bucky charged
at the wall of blue. Up and over
went Fellow in a jump that car
ried them over the wall.
But the second wall was higher.
Over the top went Fellow, but the
heat of the flaming color burned
Bucky’s cheeks and the jump was
made with no room to spare.
They came to the third wall.
Up, up rose Fellow while Bucky
clung to his back and made a
mighty prayer. The horse leaped
clear, though his skin was seared
and his mane singed from his
neck.
Still they had leaped the three
walls and were safe. Bucky shout
ed happily and galloped on his
way. But suddenly he wheeled in
Fellow and came to a halt.
There beside him lay Lone
some Boy and his horse. TheJ
giant had tied them up with ropes
of colored light and left them
there to die.
'“I have as good as won the
race!” thought Bucky. “And San
ta Land is saved!”
He started to ride away. But
there was no joy in his heart. “It’s
no kind of a race like this,” he
told himself. So he leaped from
his horse and ran back to Lone
some Boy. f
“I’ll untie you,” he said. “And
we’ll finish the race fair and
square.”
(Next: The End of ihe Race)
The hose tore on through the fearsome lights. It mas
like being on a merry go round during a thunder storm.