THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffi™*
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Wednesday April 16, 1947
Ninth NWA Fair Best Ever
THE NORTHWESTERN ALASKA FAIR is sched
uled to begin with a bang tonight when the Nome Eski
mos welcome their visiting brethren with a Potlatch
Party in the Native Clubhouse.
The reindeer have already arrived by plane from the
north country to be on display and will participate in
many of the “Fair” events. The potlatch is a regular
event of the Fair, but the reindeer events are an inno
vation of the 9tn Annual Fair. This is the first time in the
history of the Fair that live, trained reindeer have been
flown to Nome to participate in the Fair. The events
should create considerable interest.
The Ninth Annual Fair, and its predecessors, show
the many phases of Alaskan industry, and ingenuity,
with a view toward advancement and the fostering of
mining, fishing, agricultural, and manufacturing inter
ests in the Second Division embracing northwestern
Alaska. Accordingly the “Educational - Entertaining -
Enlivened - Ninth Annual Fair,” being held Wednes
day evening through Sunday, holds many interesting,
and valuable exhibits and events and should prove an
inspiration to greater achievements. ,
Report On Statehood j
(Alaska Daily Empire)
THE GOVERNOR OF ALASKA has charged that the
Alaska Legislature, Eighteenth Session just adjourned,
has violated the Federal Organic Act by appropriating
several million dollars more than will come into the
Treasury in taxes during the next biennium.
The Organic Act provides that “ ... no indebtedness
for actual running expenses shall be created or assumed
in excess of the actual income of the Territory . . . for
that year.”
Apparently the Legislature did one of two things:
Either appropriated too much money, or;
Didn’t pass enough new tax measures.
It’s all in your point of view.
However, this is by no means the first time the Or
ganic Act has been violated in this connection.
iTwo years ago the Territory had $500,000 or $600,000
in bonds which were spent during the last two years in
addition to the Territory’s income for any one year. The
Board of Administration also last year apparently au
thorized the borrowing of around $150,000, also in “vio
lation of the Organic Act.
Of course the present Governor has charged before
that various sessions of the Legislature failed to provide
sufficient revenues, but only to find out that he was
wrong.
However, we are inclined to believe that the ends will
not meet this time. It will be interesting to see what is
done about it. Will the Board of Administration make a
new budget that will fit the expenditures if the Terri
tory goes broke? Or will we have another expensive spe
cial session of the Legislature and let the legislature
work it out?
To hop over picket lines of striking teamsters, a New
Bradford, Mass., electrical firm hired a commercial heli
copter. It flew supplies to the plant while pickets ran
box-kite interference and urged Washington to ban
strike-fighting aircraft. But the air battle was lost on the
ground. The helicopter stopped when teamsters threat
ened to bar gasoline deliveries by picketing its home air
field. That leaves us still wondering: How high is a
picket line?—The Denver Post.
That’s That
By BRUCE GUSTIN
I
John L. Lewis thumbed his no e
at the courts a grin. Toe six-day
work sloppv.te ho yi’.ln 1 us a peri
od of mounvng for victims of the
Centralia coai mine disaster was
nothing but a strike. The date he
picked for beginning th s work
stoppage was the identical date he
had set for a coni strike until the
United States supreme court stop
ped him.
The last time Lewis showed his
contempt for the courts, it cost him
$10,000 personally and his union
$700,000. This time, he is hiding
behind a technicality which may
save him from punishment for
contempt. Up claims there is a'
clause in the coal contract which
permits the union to order a “me
morial” shutdown at any time. And
he took advantage of that to dem
onstrate that when he made up his
mind to call a strike on April 1, he
could order to miners to walk out,1
regard le-s of what the United'
States supeme court or anybody
else said. *
The mourning period strike call
ed by Lewis was another demon- |
stration of his power. The attitude:
of the miners appears to be sum
med up in the statement by one of
the Pennsylvania coal diggers who
said: “Whatever Lewis says goes. |
He’s our leader.” The German peo- j
pV once gave Hitler that same kind j
of blind fellowship. Whatever Deri
Fuehrer decided was law to them, j
The Italian people were the same j
way about Mussolini. They allow-;
ei him to do their thinking. And '
look where the Germans and Ital-1
inns are now!
Bernard Baruch has expressed
deep concern over leaks of atomic
secrets and has suggested that the I
Russians have been getting infor
mation from .Canada. That may
not be their only source. Congress
man Mundt of South Dakota told
the House last week that during.
the year ended June 30, 1946, 3,696
Russians were admitted to this
country. He said there are only 250'
Americans in Russia. And they do
not have the freedom to look
around the country that visiting
Russians have here.
Mundt may have something ^in
his idea that “Russia is getting all
the information it needs about our
defenses over here and they are not
interested in making any conces
sions that might permit America to;
learn what they are doing over
there.” His suggestion that “may
be, if we make it more difficult for
them to get further information
here, it will help get an agreement
with Russia from the standpoint of
controlling the atomic bomb by
having an arrangement for inter
nal inspection” makes sense.
Backing Marshal Tito, a Com
munist, in Yugoslavia was the
worst political blunder made by the
late President Roosevelt and for
mer Prime Minister Churchill in
World War II. They really let Sov
iet Russia sell them a “bill of
goods” in that deal. After all the
lend-lease and UNRRA help he
had from the United States, Tito
now is accusing us of threatening
war, and warning that Yugoslavia
will stick with Russia, which he
declares is Yugoslavia’s real friend.
“From the west we are always
hearing about the atomic bomb and
threats of war,” he told the Yugo
slav parliament. If he gets too ram
bunctious, dropping an atomic
bomb in his front yard would teach
him to have some respect for that
weapon and the country which
produced it.
NEWS IN BRIEF
LOWVILLE N. Y. (*> — Only
two taxpayers appeared at a pub
lic hearing to determine whether
this community of 3,500 favored
daylight saving time. One was
against it. The village board went
along with the first fellow, and
voted to start “fast” time Sunday,
April 27.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—23,282 U.
S. government Alaskan seal skins
in three colors—matara, safari and j
black—were sold at the regular
sp.ing auction yesterday at the
Foulk Fur company for a total sale'
price of $1,134,513.50. The total;
average for all colors was $48.75
while the average last fall was
$52.45.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (/P) —
The private plane of industrialist
Henry Kaiser slewed off a landing
strip here last night and was
wrecked, but Kaiser and his two1
sons, Edgar and Henry, Jr., es- i
caped injury. 1
SEBRING, La. (/P)—Mrs. Rex
Beach, wife of the novelist, died at
their home were yesterday with
her husband at her bedside.
PRAGUE, (/P)—Augustin Precul,
34-year-old Czech accused of be
traying countrymen to t|ie gestapo
and delivering to the luftwaffe a
new model RAF plane during the
war, was executed last night at
Pancraz prison for crimes against
the state.
KANSAS CITY, (/P) — Lt. Roy
Wigdon, stationed in Tokyo, Ja
pan, telephoned his wife here yes
terday, despite the telephone
strike. Later Mrs. Wigdon, who is
planning to leave next month with
their 5-months-old son to join her
husband, was asked if it was an i
emergency call.
“In a way it was,” she replied. |
“My husband wanted me to be
sure and take the washing ma-'
chine with me. There are no pro- j
per facilities in Tokyo for wash- j
ing baby diapers.”
WEST LOS ANGELES, (/P) —
“The world is gold.” That is what
a burglar wrote, in German, on a
mirror in the home of Prof. Max S.
Dunn, after pocketing some jew
elry.
Now the thief can add to his re
pertoire the saying “All that glit
ters is not gold.” The professor
told police the loss was entirely in
costume jewelry.”
CHICAGO f^P)—For seven years
August Richter, 79, and his blind
sister, Amelia, 89, had lived in vir
tual poverty in a squalid South
Side flat.
Yesterday, August suffered a
fatal heart attack and his sister
asked a neighbor to summon po
lice. “This is all we have” Amelia j
told detective Thomas Edwards as
i she led him to an old trunk. Ed- j
| wards took the contents for safe- j
keeping—$21,000 in curency and
$22,159 in domestic and foreign
; stocks and bonds. Richter was a
j night watchman until his retire
ment.
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. (/P) — The
1 little fishing boat Mabel Jo, with
J four aboard, hoisted a distress sig
, nal when the engine failed several
1 miles off San Diego Bay entrance
and—The super-battleship USS.
Iowa came to the rescue.
The Iowa launched a small boat
and the boat towed the Mabel Jo
safely to port.
SUPPORT YOUR RED CROSS1
PUBLIC WELFARE
HERE TO CLOSE
Advices have been received by
Miss Frances K. Schoenig, district
worker, from director Russell G.
Maynard, department of public
welfare, instructing that the Nome
district office be discontinued ef
fective April 30, 1947.
Miss Schoenig announced that
arrangements were being made for
the shipment of more than 520 in
dividual case files of all depart
mental programs to the centred of
fice at Juneau, Alaska. She also
declared that bids were being re
ceived at the Nome district office
for the sale of certain office equip
ment, and that any interested part
ies could contact her with regard
to submitting a bid for the pur
chase of them.
Miss Schoenig, who has been
distict worker at Nome since July
1946, explained that in the instruc
tions received from the director of
the department, the Second Judi
cial Division would return to the
former procedure of being served
from Territorial office at Juneau.
Special fee agents located though
out the Division have been instruc
ted to communicate directly with
the office of the director at Jun
eau on all program matters.
Since the establishment of the
Nome district office, all special fee
agents throughout the Division
have maintained direct contact
with the district worker at Nome,
which type of service proved to be
much speedier efficient, and more
.satisfactory in handling of social
service cases and special problems
relating to pensions, relief, medi
cal care, and care for children.
* This type of service will no long
er be available to the Division. In
addition to this service, Miss
Schoenig, has provided social serv
ice consultation and case work
services through local groups and
Federal and Territorial officials in
the Nome district.
Wallace Speaks
As Private Citizen
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The White
House said today that Henry A.
Wallace speaks only as “a private
citizen" in his attacks abroad on
American foreign policy, and no
“official notice” has been taken of
his speeches.
Presidential secretary Charles
G. Ross emphasized that when re
porters questioned him at a news
conference about the furore raised
in Congress by the former vice
President’s assertions that the
United States is embarked on a
course of “imperialism.”
One question was whether this
government would notify *he Brit
ish government that Wallace is
speaking for himself.”
Ross replied: "It is an obvious
fact, is it not, that Mr. Wallace is
speaking as a private citizen? I
have no comment on that.”
Asked if it would be correct to
assume that the U. S. government
has taken no official notice of Wal
lace’s speeches, Ross said: “Of
course it has taken no official no
tice.”
He added that any official notice
would be published.
The questioning started with a
query as to whether President Tru
man has been asked, or the White
House asked, by Congress mem
bers to make some statement about
Wallace.
“Not to my knowledge,” Ross
replied.
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