THE NOME NUGGET
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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.
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Nome, Alaska, Friday, April 6, 1951
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YOUR CHANCE TO HELP IN EMERGENCIES
Monday the American Red Cross drive gets under
way with several outstanding women’s organizations
assisting in the campaign.
The people of Nome know through experience how
quickly disaster can strike a community and the need
of a ready fund to assist those who are left in need. Part
of the funds raised stays right in Nome for that purpose.
The people of this community do not need urging
to support the American Red Cross or any similar cause
as they have always responded whole-heartedly.
There will be no house to house campaign—only
voluntary donations will be received at the Post Office
in the foyer all next week. We know you’ll be there!
The first contribution has been received from
Ralph Zwolsman, who recently gave a course in Red
Cross First Aid here “in appreciation for the co-opera
tion of the citizens of Nome during his short stay.”
In 1949-50 18,000,000 people contributed to the
Red Cross with a dollar or more.
NOTABLE BUT HARDLY NEWS
The development of aerial travel, including the
crossing of oceans, has reached the point where record
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breaking flights from the American Continent to Eur
ope receive routine treatment as news.
Recently, Captain Charles Blair, in a F-51 Mustang
fighter plane, made a non-stop, solo trip from New York
to London, a distance of 3,500 miles, in seven hours and
forty-eight minutes. This was about 450 miles an hour.
The history of past progress has indicated that
records of today become the commonplace of tomorrow.
Consequently, we may look forward to the era when
flights from the United States to England will be rou
tine in about eight hours. This is annihilating distance
with a vengeance. _
Red Mass Attack
May Be Fouled By
Surprise UN Drive
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size unit of defenders near Chail.
“Things are progressing very
smoothly,” Ridgway commented.
The Allied path through the
hilly terrain was blazed by artil
lery. Warplanes rocketed and fire
bombed the defending Chinese.
AP correspondent John Ran
dolph said the enemy was strong
ly entrenched in some areas. He
said they had well-prepared dug
outs, some with concrete walls 2
feet thick.
On the east coast, where oppo
sition was light, two South Kor
ean divisions were 13 miles deep
in enemy country.
Friday, April 6, 1951
A surprise Chinese withdrawal
on the central front last night left
a “no-man’s-land” in front of Uni
ted Nation’s forces today north Of
Parallel 38.
AP correspondent John Ran
dolph said Chinese who had been
fighting stubbornly for two days
suddenly broke contact Thursday
night and retreated.
Americans thrusting forward on
Friday reported only patrol con
tact.
All along o 40-mile stretch of
the front, U.N. units forged slow
gains.
At one point on the west-central
front the Allies were eight miles
inside the Communist northland,
while to the east South Korean
troops penetrated 15 miles north
of the Parallel.
Troops of General Mac Arthur’s
command — American, British,
Greek, South Korean and Thai
(Siamese)— chased Chinese from
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hill to hill in their central front
advance. : .
The Allied push is an attempt
Decentralization
Planned For
Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Ad
ministration proposes, the move
ment out of Washington of 5,183
federal employes as the first step
of a decentralization program ex
pected to ultimately reach at least
25,000.
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Transfer of part of the first
5,183 already* has started. It is ex
pected to be completed this year.
The move is part of the drive to
provide more office space here
for new war emergency agencies.
The budget Bureau in testimony
published today asked a House
appropriations subcommittee t o
approve spending $20 million to
finance the moves.
The Budget Bureau list of the
first 5,183 jobs to be transferred
includes:
Interior Department:
Bureau of Mines, Fuel and Ex-*
plosives Division, Petroleum and
Natural Gas Branch, one Juneau,
Alaska; Coal Branch, one Juneau; j
Health and Safety Division, Acci-,
dent Analysis Branch, one Juneau. I
to harass and delay a reported Red i
Chinese buildup for a gigantic \
spring offensive. j
Most erf the enemy have been
cleaned out of South Korean ter
ritory. The holdouts in the cen
tral sector—blocking the Haggye
Inje road east of Chunchon—were
slowly yielding territory .The Reds •
controlled ridges on both sides of
the road.
There were signs that the Allied
offensive and heavy bombing at
tacks have already thrown the
Chinese spring campaign off
schedule. Allied pilots reported |
the number of Chinese vehicles!
moving to the front last night!
were reduced. !
White House Guard Slayer
Sentenced to Die
WASHINGTON, {ff) — Oscar
Collazo today was sentenced to
die in the electric chair for the
slaying of a White House guard
in an attempt last November cm
the life of President Truman.
Federal Judge T. Allan Golds
borough asked whether Collazo
had anything to say. “I am not
pleading for my life,” Collazo told
the judge. “I’m pleading for my
cause. Anything that J have done
I did fcrr the liberty of my coun
try. I insist, even unto the end,
that we have a right to be free.”
Americans Linked With
Red “Peace Offensive”
WASHINGTON, (£■), The House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee has linked several hundred
prominent Americans — among
them movie Academy Award win
ners Jose Ferrer and Judy Holli
day—with what is described as
a Communist “World peace offen
sive.”
At the same time last night, the
committee intimated that many
so named may have been unwit
ting dupes of the Red campaign,
which it described as “the .most
dangerous hoax ever Revised by
the international Communist con
spiracy.”
MORMON LEADER DIES
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SALT LAKE CITY, (/P^George
Albert Smith, the kindly, soft
spoken eighth president of the
Latter - Day Saints (Mormon)
Church, died last night at his
home.
Death came on his Blst birth
day as members of the mighty
Mormon empire flocked into Salt
Lake City for the Church’s 121st
annual conference.
President Truman commented
that this nation has “lost a great
man.”
TIN CAN CUT
ORDERED APRIL 1
WASHINGTON, (#)■—■'The gov
ernment today ordered a further
cut in the use of tin cans for
packing civilian products for the
3-month period begun April 1.
The quota for use of tin in cans
for beef, pet food and various
other items was reduced from 90%
to 75% of average use in 1949 or
1950.
Packers of perishable foods and
a few items such as blood plasma
still are permitted unlimited use
of tin cans.
Non - perishable foods, which
were allowed 100% of 1949 or
1950 use during the fir$t quarter
of this year, will be permitted to
use 75 or 100% of quotas, de
pending cm individual items, dur
ing the second quarter.
2 Sailings in 1951
For Kuskokwixn
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The scheduling of two sailings
to the Kuskokwim-Goodnews Bay
district by Alaska Steamship Co.
vessels during the /1951 season has
! been announced by H.N.lPeterson,
general traffic manager of the
company.
The first vessel is scheduled to
leave the latter ;part of May and>
a second vessel, between August 1
rand .10.
“Freight will be received at
Pier 42 from May 14 to 25 for the
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first sailing,” Peterson said. How
ever, he stressed that for the most
rapid disposition of cargo, ship
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pers should deliver freight ter the
pier during the early part of the
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reception period.
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“Captain” is the Navy term that
comes from the Latin “caput”
; meaning “head”. Until 1862, a
captain was the highest commis
sioned officer in the United States
Navy.
Atom Spies Rosen
berg & Greenglass
Sentenced
NEW YORK, (/P)— Convicted
atom bomb spies Julius Rosenburg
and his wife, Ethel, were sen
tenced to death today in federal
court.
In sentencing the Rosenbergs,
federal judge Irving R. Kaufman
ordered them executed some time
in the week beginning May 21.
In 3 lengthy preliminary dis
cussion before imposing the sen- 1
tence the judge told the Rosen
bergs:
“I consider your crime worse
than murder.”
U.S. attorney Irving R. Saypol
said the federal law, under the
judge’s sentence, would require
the Rosenbergs be executed in the
electric chair.
Judge Kaufman told the Rosen
bergs:
“Plain deliberate murder is
dwarfed by ycrur acts.”
The court added that he had
[ “searched the records and my con
science for some reason for mercy
but I am convinced that I would
violate the trust placed in me if
I showed any leniency to the Ro
senbergs.”
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NEW YORK, (£>)— Confessed ,
atom spy David Greenglass, chief
'accuser of his doomed sister and
brother-in-law, will hear his own
fate today at 11 a.m., PST.
Greenglass is liable to the same
federal death penalty imposed on
his kin—but he looks for mercy.
His testimony was the bulwark
of the government’s case against
condemned Julius and Ethel Ros
enberg. Federal Judge Irving R.
Kaufman, who sentenced the
couple as Russian spies yesterday,
noted the “courage” and “soul
searching” that lay behind Green
glass’ decision to testify against
his family.
Late Bulletin— David Green
glass was sentenced to 15 years
imprisonment for his part in a
Russian spy ring.
U.S. Will Not Pay
For War-Lost
Aleut Sheep
1 WASHINGTON, (/P>—The gov- ‘
ernment refused today to pay the
Aleutian Livestock Co., Inc., any
more money for the wartime loss
of its sheep.
They were on Umnak island,
one of the Aleutian chain of is
lands. In 1942, civilians were or
dered off the island because of
the possibility of a Japanese at
tack. Among those ordered to
leave were the company’s em
ployes.
As a result, a U. S. court of
claims decision related yesterday,
sheep were left unattended, and
between §,000 and 7,000 were lost.
The company contended the or
dered evacuation of the island was
tantamount to government seizure
of .the sheqp.
The court held the evacuation
was a wartime safety, measure
and did not constitute a seizure.
The decision further stated that
the company previously was paid
for some sheep and other property
that “were subject to ‘midnight
requisitions’ by soldiers or sailors” '
stationed on the island, and that
the War Damage Corp. paid the
company $38,500 for loss of the
sheep.
This amount, according to the
decision, was the full amount of
the .war risk insurance which the
company held on its livestock.