THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
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BARUCH ON INFLATION
Bernard M. Baruch, former adviser of Presidents,
recently warned that inflation — if allowed to continue
— will destroy any economic or foreign policy the Ad
ministration, or the next Administration, formulates.
Inflation must be stopped, Baruch said, if any pol
icy at all is to be carried out successfully.
Mr. Baruch further charged that the recent steel
strike was completely unnecessary and that if the Ad
ministration had taken prompt action in 1950, and used
the powers voted by Congress, to place a strict ceiling
over wages and prices, it would have been avoided.
He pointed out that this was not done and accused
the Administration of practically legalizing inflation
for some period after the start of the Korean War.
National Guard Units
About 1,700 Guard units have been called to ac
tive duty since the beginning of the Korean War, ac
cording to Maj. Gen. Raymond H. Fleming, chief of
the National Guard Bureau. The units were composed
of 120,000 officers and men. A number of them have
already been returned from federal to state control.
Four New Jet Fighters
Are Given First Tests
‘WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
Navy disclosed today that four
new jet fighter planes have been
given their first tests aboard a
carrier.
Three of them—the* single-en
gine XFJ-2 Fury and F9F-6 Cou
gar and the twin-engine Chance
Vaught F7U-3—are those which
Navy Secretary Kimball recently
described as new Navy planes
which will be “better than the
Russian MIG.”
When and if the three are or
dered into production, they will
be the first of the Navy’s swept
wing carrier-based fighters.
They are first to have low
speed stability required for land
ing in limited space, along with
the high speed capability that
swept-back wings provide.
The fourth is the twin-engine,
straight-wing F2H-3, a new model
of the McDonnell Banshee.
All are faster .more maneuver
able and more powerful than
types now in use.
Season On Waterfowl
Opens On September 1
In Alaska the seasons and bag
limits for hunting ducks, geese,
brandt and coot are as follows:
Second Division: Sept. 1 to Oct.
25; and scoter, eider and mergan
ser ducks from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15.
Daily bag limit for scoters and
eiders is 10 singly or in the aggre
gate of all kinds and the posses
sion limit is not more than 10
singly or in the aggregate. The
daily bag limit for American and
redbreasted mergansers is 25
singly or in the aggregate of both
kinds with no possession limit
after the first day of the season.
Limits for other ducks not over 5
a day with 10 in possession. Other
limits: coot, 15 daily and 15 in
possession; brandt, 3 daily and 3
in possession; geese, 3 daily and
6 in possession of one kind or in
the aggregate of all kinds.
Shooting hours will be the same
as last year, one-half hour before
sunrise to one hour after sunset,
except on the opening day when
[ shooting begins at 12 noon.
, Eisenhower Says
Administration Is
On Leftist Road
KANSAS CITY, (/P) — General
Dwight D. Eisenhower says the
paths to the extreme left and the
far right both lead to tyranny—
and that the Truman administra
tion is traveling left.
“The greatest problem of Am
erica today,” he said, “is to take
that straight road down the mid
dle, the path of progress that will
never alow tyranny to become the
feature of the American govern
ment.”
The Republican presidential
nominee set forth those views in
a speech Wednesday night in
Boise, Idaho, and then flew here
for a conference Thursday with
GOP leaders from seven Midwest
ern states.
“We have had for a long time
a government in power that ap
plies the philosophy of the Left
to government.”
And he said centralization of
power in Washington has become
so great that the government
“does everything but come in and
wash the dishes for the house
wives.”
The General promised that as
President he would devote all his
efforts to providing a government
“that does not grow complacent,
that does not grow away from the
people and become indifferent to
them, that does not become arro
gant in the exercise of its pow
ers, but strives to be the partner
and servant of the people and not
their master.”
When one party has been too
long in power, Eisenhower said, it
becomes so sure of itself it does
not have to uproot the first sign
of dishonesty in government.
Instead, he added, “it goes right
along and thinks neve^r mind, that
it will be all right.”
The general spoke from the
steps of Idaho’s capital in making
what his associates had billed in
advance as his first frankly pol
itical speech since winning the
GOP nomination July 11.
CAB Denies Application
AT A to Operate Between
Anchorage, Fairbanks
WASHINGTON, (TP)—The Civil
Aeronautics Board has denied the
application of Air Transport As
sociates to operate passenger and
cargo service between Anchorage
and Fairbanks, Alaska.
The non - scheduled air line
asked for an exemption from
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Board regulations which prohibit
intra-Alaska operations by non
scheduled lines.
The Board said there is no evi
dence that existing air and serv
ice transportation services are in
adequate to meet the needs of
the two cities.
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Norman Stines Analyzes Russia’s
Bluff On Radio Broadcast Of
“Americans, Speak Up” Program
Norman Stines of the Zenda
Gold Mining Co., operating at Tin
City returned Tuesday from a trip
to the States. While outside he
was interviewed om a radio broad
. cast called “Americans, Speak
Up” by ^e well-known commen
tator Bill Slater. •
When asked about reports of
atomic explosions in Russia,
Stines stated:
“I have analyzed those reports
carefully in the light of my eleven
years working and traveling
throughout all orf Russia east of
Moscow and Leningrad, all the
way to the Pacific. I believe these
atomic explosions were prema
ture ones, occurring during the
attempted manufacture of atomic
bombs.”
“The Russians are always boast
ing about their discoveries—most
ly such things as were originally
invented by Alexander Graham
Bell, and Marconi, Edison, and
others.
“They are always bragging
about their military might. Wit
ness the huge May Day Red
Square Parades displaying their
latest tanks, guns and planes.
If They Have The Atom Bomb
“Now IF they have the Atom
Bomb, why wouldn’t they carry
out their scare psychology by ar
ranging demonstrations such as
we are carrying on all the time
with various types of atomic
missiles?”
Stines backed up this state
ment with:
“During my professional career
I have managed mining enter
prises in China, Russia, Man
churia, South America, Alaska—
all over the world.
“In selecting a crew of eight
men to handle a simple hand
drilling operation, we would have
to screen 10 to 12 Manchurians,
14 to* 18 Koreans, 20 Welshmen;
and in Bolivia, from the most
primitive people with whom I
have ever worked, we screened
40 to 50, to get a crew of eight.
“In Russia, to get this same
crew of 8 men, we had to screen
50 to 60.
Low Native Mental Ability
“Because of the Russians’ char
acteristic low native mental abil
ity, it took them nearly twice as
long to do the same work.
“Practically all our supervisors
in the mines were foreign—Balts,
Poles, Czechs, British, French,
German—anything but Russians,
who we invariably found were
lazy, careless and unstable.”
“While I was managing director
of the Lenskoi gold placer mine,'
I ordered what was at that time
the world’s largest dredge. Be
fore we could get into operation,
came the Revolution.
“Fcrr several years it lay idle.
Finally the Russians put it into
operation, and through inefficient
handling within a few days it
sank—a total loss of $1,500,000.
When questioned about the
modern industrial plants the Rus
sians are building, Stines used an
example from his own personal
experience:
Recognizes "Modem" Plant
“At one of our mines in Russia
during the first World War we
needed barbed wire for defense.
Our engineer designed a plant to
manufacture the barbed wire.
“Just the other day in a U. S.
magazine were some pictures of
‘the modem plants erected by the
present Soviet Government’ for
the manufacture of MIG planes.
“Imagine my surprise when I
recognized the ‘most recent’ of
these as that very same shop
which was erected during my re
gime some 30 years ago. It was
then completely equipped with
lathes, milling machines, drills,
etc., all manufactured in Niles,
Michigan.
Part of Russia's Big Bluff
“It’s all part of Russia’s big
bluff — to scare the world into
letting her have her way in every
thing.”
Stiifes emphasized the fact that
Alaska were not afraid of Russia
by illustrating his statement with
the fact that his company was
developing operations where Ber
ing Sea separate Alaska from
Russia by 36 miles.
Stines, when questioned on
statehood, said he was not in
favor of it at this time because
of the increased taxation he be
lieves it will inflict on the people.
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