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Queen Contest
(By Neva Whaley)
Next Saturday night is less than
one week away and then we will
ill know who the Queen of Nome
will be. The latest entrant, Dora
Mae Homburg, has withdrawn
from the contest. As the other girls
had a couple of weeks head start
she decided there was not suffi
cient time to catch up with their
votes.
The remaining four are still go
ing strong, and their sponsors are
really in there pitching too. As the
contest is on its last lap, sponsors
and girls are working harder than
ever with such intensity that here
tofore life-long friends and bosom
pals are quietly considering TNT
under the other sponsors buildings
or maybe just a wee drop of ar
senic here or there. Never fear
though as come Saturday each and
everyone will welcome the Queen
-to-be in right royal fashion and
mean it.
Here is the list of the entrants
with their loyal backers:
•Mary Margaret Roell, Modern
Cleaners; Florence Bell, U. S. Mer
cantile; Leone Jonish, Arvo Saario;
Clara Seiffert, Vi’s Shop.
Don’t forget each ticket you buy
entitles you to 100 votes for your
choice and also a chance on the
Thor Auto-Magic Washing Ma
chine with dishwashing attach
ment.
MARIANNA FANNON
ARRIVES IN NOME
Miss Marianna Fannon of the
CJ. S. Weather Bureau, arrived Fri
day evening from Juneau, where
she has been stationed for the past
six months.
Photostats at The Nugget.
Smuggling Patrols
Discharged
WASHINGTON (^)—Rep. Dirk
sen <R.-I11.>, today branded as “in
spired” conditional discharge no
tices sent by the treasury to anti
smuggling patrols along the Ca
nadian order.
The department also announced
plans to curtail patrols at other
points if budget cuts ordered by
the House are allowed to stand.
But Dirksen, a chief proponent
of the $80,000,000 slash in treasury
funds voted by the House earlier
this month, said he considers as
“exaggerated” treasury estimates
of how deep the personnel cuts
will have to be.
As for the word that some bor
der patrolmen already have been
given tentative dismissal notices,
the Illinois lawmaker added:
“I think the inspiration comes
from within the department.”
However Walter E. Mackay, dis
trict superintendent of the U. S.
customs border control, said in
Buffalo, N. Y., yesterday that the
U. S.-Canadian border would be
“wide open” by the end of the
week unless more funds are grant
ed by Congress.
He said his district, which has
150 men in patrol work, “is going
to be liquidated.”
BOGOTA. Colombia, (A3)—1The
toll of dead in South American
plane accidents in the last two
months mounted to 91 today with
announcement that all five persons
aboard a Taca airliner which
crashed and burned yesterday were
killed. The ship went down on a
flight between Bogota and Buca-j
ramanga, the fifth plane crash in
South America in two months.
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CONGRESS
ROUND-UP
WASHINGTON, i/P)—Undersec
retary of state Acheson said today
the United States does not plan to
send troops to Greece and Turkey
to shield those countries against
the spread of Communism.
He told the Senate foreign rela
tions committee that this country
had not been asked to supply
troops, “We do not foresee any
need to do so. And we not intend
to do so.”
Acheson testified at the opening
of the committee’s hearings on
President Truman’s proposal for
$400,000,000 in aid to the t\Vo
countries.
As he had told the House foreign
affairs committee previously, Ach
eson said that he did not think
<>uch assistance would lead to war.
Undersecretary of ‘state Will
Clayton, meanwhile, gave the
House committee a breakdown on
the $400,000,000 program. He said
all except $150,000,000 would be
used for military purposes.
The two department officials
went before the committees fol
lowing release of hitherto-secret
documents accusing Russia of at
tempting to extend Communist
control over Greece and Turkey.
These documents told of a Rus
sian “war of nerves” against Tur
key and of a “master plan” to
bring Greece under Communist
domination. Poland was labeled a
Soviet “satellite.”
Release of the documents, pre
viously laid before the House for
eign affairs committee for the pri-,
vate “background” information of
members only furnished this coun-i
try with the first detailed informa-j
tion of the counter-Russia reasons
behind the administration’s Greek-'
Turkish aid program.
Chances developed that it might
be at least two weeks after March
31—the administration’s original
goal for the measure’s passage—
before the legislation could clear
both the House and Senate.
Hence a move got underway to
give President Truman stopgap au
thority to borrow’ $100,000,000
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation in anticipation of the I
bill’s eventual approval.
Of Greece, the formerly secret
documents declared:
“Armed band activities, directed
and assisted from outside the coun
try, are part of a master plan to
separate Macedonia from Greece
and to make untenable any Greek
government not subservient to
Communistic aims.
“U. S. representatives in Greece I
have become convinced that the
increasing effrontery of Greece’s
northern neighbors and of Earn
(the Communist organization), is
an indication of belief that Greece
is a ‘ripe plum ready to fall into
their hands’ w’ithin a few weeks
through lack of support by the
western democracies.”
Of Turkey, the documents said
that country’s trouble stems from
demands from Russia for “special
privileges” in the strategic Dar
i danelles, and for “strategic areas”
in northwestern Turkey. They
added:
“Turkey can do little to combat
this war of nerves, but the Turks
j have made it clear that they will
I oppose with force any attempt to
, violate their sovereignty and Ter
, ritorial integrity.”
• Of this nation’s stake in the out
outcome:
| “The United States recognized
that the maintenance of Greek in
| dependence and territorial integ
, rity is of importance to the secur
* ity and independence of the whole
Near and Middle Eastern area,
ELEVEN CANDIDATES {
FILE FOR CITY OFFICES
The following candidates have
filed petitions for the following of
fices: «
Jim Frye, mayor; Carrie McLain,
city clerk; C. C. Tanner, city at
torney; Margaret Saario, city
treasurer.
Councilmen, 2-year term: Fred
Cavota, Jerome Triggs, Lester
Bronson, C. Dewey Anderson, T.
A. McAllister. A. C. Steinwandel
for school board.
which is of vital importance to U.
S. security.
And of the American decision to
act alone rather than calling upon
the United Nations to shoulder
the load, the documents empha
sized that U. N. is not now equip
ped for action and that speed is
essential.
BALTIMORE, (JP) — C. Dorsey
Warfield, 49, publisher of the Bal
timore News-Post, fell to his death
from a twelfth-floor window in his
apartment at the Warrington
apartments on fashionable North
Charles street early this morning,
police said.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (/P>—Heir
ess Beulah Louise Overell, 17, and
her fiance, George R. Gollum 21,
were named in murder accusations
today in connection with the deaths
of her wealthy parents aboard
their yacht, blown up in Newport
Harbor last Saturday night.
CHARLEY TOOTKAYOLOOK
PASSES ON
Charley Tootkayolook passed
away this morning at the M. C.
hospital. The funeral will be held
at the new Covenant church in
Solomon.
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