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VOL. LIV No. 97 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1952 Per Copy—15*
White Mountain
ANS School To Be
Closed Next June
Delegate Bob Bartlett stunned
the Chamber of Commerce noon
luncheon Tuesday with the an
nouncement that he had just
learned of the proposed closing
of the ANS White Mountain
Boarding School next June. He
suggested to the members of the
Chamber that they demand a full
explanation from Juneau for the
reasons for closing the only board
ing school for native children in
the Second Division.
This school has had a fine repu
tation for training Eskimo chil
dren not only academically but
in developing good citizenship,
stated Dewey Goodrich, and
should be maintained for the good
of the native population.
Approximately 100 students at
tend the school with Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Russell, well known teach
ers of this area in charge.
Bartlett also stated that he had
wired Washington stating the need
for the re-establishment of the
Coast Guard in Nome and had
been advised the Coast Guard
will make an on-the-spot investi
gation immediately.
Duane Force, Boy Scout execu
tive, bid farewell to his friends
here by announcing that he had
been transferred to the Ketchikan
district. He said the “financial
support of Nome has made it pos
sible for Kotzebue, Teller, Unal
akleet and Shishmaref boys to
have the opportunity to partici
pate in the Scout movement.”
The Chamber, with vice-presi
dent Boyd Harwood presiding,
donated $50 to the Scout fund, on
motion of director Dr. Fred M.
Langsam.
Truman Candidate For
Arkansas Governor
Is Defeated
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., </P) —
Gov. Sid McMath, a political pal
of President Truman, was de
feated for a third term nomina
tion yesterday by a one-time col
lege classmate, Judge Francis
Cherry.
It was apparent early as re
turns from the runoff Democratic
primary poured in that McMath
had suffered the first setback in
his rapid six-year political rise.
McMath was the second Tru
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man-backed Democrat to be de
feated within the last two weeks.
Last week J. E. Taylor, the Presi
dent’s choice for the Democratic
nomination for U.S. senator from
Missouri was beaten by Stuart
Symington.
Cherry, a 43-year-old Chancery
court judge, is a newcomer to
state politics with a new political
weapon—the radio talkathon on
which he answered questions
from all comers and discussed
issues for as long as 24 hours at
a time.
Commerce Secty. Sawyer
Says Unfounded Forecasts
Have Speeded Inflation
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Secre
tary of Commerce Sawyer says
those who predict sharply rising
prices are just guessing, and that
their unfounded forecasts could
help speed up inflation.
He said Tuesday he plans to
make a survey to get at the real
facts.
Retiring Office of Price Stabil
ization Director Ellis Arnall has
said the drought will have “dis
astrous” effects on prices and that
the $5.65 a ton steel price in
crease will cost the average fam
ily $100 a year.
Without mentioning Arnall by
name, Sawyer said inflation often
is stimulated by public fear that
prices may go up—he mentioned
the fear buying following the Ko
rean invasion—and added:
“Statements predicting the in
crease of inflationary pressures
which are not based upon facts
render a great disservice to the
American people.”
Sawyer said reports from the
Commerce Department’s regional
offices show that the drought has
caused no widespread price in
creases. He said he plans to make
a similar survey of the effect of
the recent steel price boost on
U.S. economy.
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Communist Scheme To
Infiltrate Boy Scout
Movement Is Revealed
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A Com
munist scheme to infiltrate the
Boy Scout movement and feed its
youngster - members “Commun
ism with sugar coating” was de
scribed in sworn testimony made
public by Senate investigators
Wednesday.
The Internal Security Subcom
mittee in a report to* the Senate
termed it part of a Moscow-in
spired plan to warp generations
of teen - agers to the Kremlin’s
view's, in the schools, colleges,
churches and youth organizations.
“I can conceive of few greater
crimes,” said Senator McCarran
(D-Nev), the subcommittee chair
man, in a statement released with
the report.
The report includes a transcript
of sworn testimony given last
March by Harvey M. Matusow of
Dayton, Ohio, a self-styled for
mer Communist now an agent of
the Ohio Commission of un-Am
erican activities.
CANADIAN DOLLAR CLIMBS
TO 18 - YEAR HIGH
NEW YORK. (/P)—The Canad
ian dollar climbed to a new 18
year high Wednesday, trading at
$1.0425 in U.S. currency in for
eign exchange dealings here.
Wednesday’s quotation was the
highest for the Dominion dollar
since November 1933. Traders
said the advance resulted from
continued heavy demand for
Dominion currencey for invest
ment in Canadian securities and
purchases of Canadian grain.
Delegate Bartlett
Speaks Tonight
At Nome School
Politics will move into focus in
Nome today when Democratic
candidates, headed by their
party’s standard bearer, Delegate
Bob Bartlett, launch their 1952
campaign.
A meeting open tor all has been
set for 8 o’clock this evening at
the High School auditorium.
Among the speakers will be Sen
ator Howard Lyng, Ted Duffield
and Bartlett. Ed Anderson, sen
atorial candidate, may return to
town in time for the meeting but
Charley Fagerstrom and James
Wells will not be able to make
it. With Duffield, Fagerstrom and
Wells are candidates for the
House of Representatives.
‘This marks the start ot a
hard - hitting, aggressive cam
paign,” said Duffield, who is also
chairman of the Second Division
Democratic committee, '“Delegate
Bartlett has already covered many
communities in the Division. As
election nears, other candidates
will be out spreading the Demo
cratic message. Our party has a
solid record of accomplishment
and a sane program for the fu
ture. I am altogether confident of
victory. It is already apparent
that Delegate Bartlett will re
ceive a smashing majority in this
Division.”
In his talk tonight Bartlett is
expected to review the accom
plishments of the administration
and to give his opinion as ip what
the future holds for Alaska.
“Error in Judgment”
Blamed For Collision
Of Wasp and Hobson
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The mid
Atlantic collision of the Carrier
Wasp and the destroyer - mine
sweeper Hobson at a cost of 176
lives has been blamed on an “un
explained left turn” ordered by
the Hobson’s commander.
A naval court of inquiry an
nounced Tuesday that a “grave
error of judgment” by Lt. Cmdr.
W. J. Tierney caused the April
26 collision that sent the Hobson
to the bottom and the Wasp limp
ing back to New York, badly
damaged.
Commander Tierney of Phila
delphia, the only person blamed
in the incident, went down with
his ship and a Navy spokesman
said the court’s findings probably
would end the case. The court
said the reasons for Tierney’s ac
tions “will never be known.”
The 1,700-ton Hobson plowed
into the 32,000-ton Wasp during
maneuvers at 27 knots. The Hob
son sank in 15,000 feet of water,
700 miles west of the Azores.
Many of its crew are trapped for
ever in its hull. A total of 61
crewmen were saved during dif
ficult and hazardous rescue op
erations.
Alaska Housing Authority
Has $60,000 For Use In
Remote Housing Program
Special to the Nome Nugget —
Word came in Nome today to
Delegate Bob Bartlett from his
Washington office that the Hous
ing and Home Finance Agency
has purchased Alaska Housing
Authority bonds and $60,000 will
be used for the remote housing
loan program.
The program, according to Del
egate Bartlett, calls for housing
assistance to 63 families in Kot
zebue, 31 in Selawik, 13 families
in Shaktoolik, a similar number
in Unalakleet and six families
each in Teller and Lost River.
The money will be used to con
vert yak huts turned over to the
AHA without cost by the army.
“This news is most gratifying,”
said Delegate Bartlett. “I was dis
turbed to learn at Unalakleet that
some of the huts had been re
ceived in damaged condition. With
the additional money now made
available it can be expected they
will be put in proper condition.”
Truman Ready
To ‘Whistle-Stump’
For Stevenson
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois tight
ened his command over his presi
dential drive Wednesday, with
President Truman ready to take
campaign orders.
As a result of an historic—if
somewhat indecisive — White
House conference Tuesday, Stev
enson had assurances he could
count on Truman as a subordinate
member of his team.
White House aides said Tru
man probably will make about a
half dozen speeches in key areas
where his give-’em-hell style is
calculated to do the most good for
candidates for the Senate and
House whom Truman wants
elected.
Under any circumstances, they
said, Truman definitely will not
make anything like the 358
speeches he delivered in the 1948
campaign.
They said, too, that from now
on any speechmaking by the
President will be construed as
political and chargeable to the
national committee, rather than to
the White House travel funds.
. The President was quoted by an
authoritative source as offering to
undertake a whistle stop tour for
the Democratic ticket, but as tell
ing Stevenson:
“You are the one who has got
to run the campaign—it is up
to you.”
Stevenson apparently made no
direct reply. But some of his
friends believe about the last
thing he now wants the President
to do is to take to the whistle
stops, since any such move might
distract attention from the nomi
nee's own efforts to carry his
cause to the country.
Eisenhower Makes
Sharp Attack
On Administration
DENVER, (iP) — Dwight D.
Eisenhower says Adlai Steven
son’s White House visit shows the
Truman administration is deter
mined to continue its policies
through its hand-picked successor.
Those policies, General Eisen
hower charges, have carried the
nation to a situation “of bewilder
ment, indecision and fear for the
future.”
In his sharpest attack on the
Democrats since his own nomina
tion for the presidency, Eisen
hower declared Tuesday night in
a written statement the Washing
ton conferences between Gov.
Stevenson of Illinois and admin
istration leaders presented these
“far-reaching implications:”
1. The question as to whether
the President and his cabinet “can
possibly contemplate using re
sources of the federal government
to influence the judgments of
voters.” ,
2— An implied decision to in
volve non- political officers,
through the inclusion of military
and national security personnel in
the meetings, in a political cam
paign “in which they have no
part.”
3— “The obvious fact that the
Democratic party, if given an
other four years to control our
destinies, would not change its
policies.”
“The American people want a
change,” Eisenhower said flatly.
“They want a change in order
to replace corruption with hon
esty; reckles spending with econ
omy; inflation with economic sta
bility; mismanagement in foreign
affairs with clear-cut policies and
programs for positive peace;
brazen assertions of ‘inherent
power’ with constitutional gov
ernment, both in spirit and
deed.”
DEFENSE BROKEN
MUNCIE, Ind., </P)—An attor
ney defending a client in an
assault case in city court asked a
patrolman:
“You struck the defendant so
hard you broke your club, didn’t
you?”
The policeman admitted it, but
said it won’t happen again.
“I’ve got a bigger club now,’K
he added. ,
Nomeites Incorporate New
Mining Firm, Alaska Tin
Articles of incorporation were
filed in U.S. Clerk’s Office this
morning for a new mining ven
ture in Second Division.
The new corporation is called
the Alaska Tin Corporation, with
three well known Nomeites head
ing the Board of Directors: Carl
Lomen, Harry Gabrielson and
Ralph Lomen. Other directors are
Floyd Hagie and J. J. Underwood
of Seattle, both of whom have
been active for many years in
Chamber of Commerce work.
HEAR DELEGATE BARTLETT TONIGHT
OPEN MEETING AT THE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM - 8:00 P. M.