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Nome, Alaska, Friday, May 18, 1951
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HARDLY TIME TO BAIT HIS HOOK
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I AM AN AMERICAN DAY
Next Sunday has been designated by the Presi
dent as “I am an American Dav.” At this time we are
asked to observe and commemorate United States citi
zenship, especially recognize those of our youth who
have attained their majority and those foreign-bom
who have become citizens through naturalization dur
ing the year.
We are prone to take our citizenship lightly and
it is good to pause and weigh the many liberties we
enjoy as Americans during this period of uncertainty
in the history of the world, and consider our respon
sibilities as citizens of the freedom loving nation.
“BAD ... TO BE ... PRO-U.S.”
“It is bad for Latin-American politicians to be
labeled as pro-United States,” declares Herbert L.
Matthews, writing from Quito, Ecuador, where Ameri
can-born-and-educated Galo Plaza Lasso has managed
to serve three of this four-year-term as President with
out a successful revolution.
Mr. Matthews seems to think that Ecuador is
making a remarkable experiment in democracy, al
though he notes that, because of background and tra
ditions, democracy “is necessarily still on the surface
and without roots.”
The past history of Ecuador and her revolutions
reveal the surprising feat of the President. In the past
twenty-five years, there have been twenty-seven rev
olutions and even under Senor Lasso there have been
several unsuccessful attempts to change government
by force.
TALKS NONSENSE
George Santayana, 88-year-old Italian philosopher,
thinks that the United States would waste the lives
of its young men if it sends them to defend Europe,
which is “already a wreck.”
The Italian probably expresses some of the pess
imism that is natural to those who are overly impressed
by European conditions following the second world
war. He would let Communism “wither or rather rot”
away but confident that if the Russians occupy West
ern Europe they would have their hands “more than
full” with Europe, Asia and Africa.
Mr. Santayana does not believe that possession
of this vast area would enable the Soviet Union to pose
a threat to the United States.
Truman Censures
Taft For Seeking
All-out China War
WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
Truman lashed out at Republican
Senator Taft for seeking, as the
President put it, to' have this coun
try “go for an all-out war in
China all by ourselves.’’
Mr. Truman virtually discarded
a written speech prepared for the
national conference on citizenship.
He told his audience that one
week of all-out war would cost
this country “10 to 20 times” what
j is costing to rearm and contain
the fighting in Korea.
“We must have friends in this
troubled world,” the President ex
temporized. “Some Senators and
some people would have us go it
alone.”
The President, appealing for
strengthened price and rent con
trol legislation, said there was no
question that Congress will vote a
| two-year extension of controls ex
piring June 30.
He said the decisions he and
I Congress will make on this, on
defense rearming and on foreign
i aid “ought to be above petty poli
tics,” because the welfare of the
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country depends on them.”
Mr. Truman was greeted with
standing applause as he entered
the Presidential Room of the
Hotel Statler with Mrs. Truman.
He pleaded for consumers ' to
put pressure on Congress for
strong price and rent controls and
for higher taxes.
“Never was there a time when
the right decisions were more
necessary than at this time,” he
i said.
Even in departing from his text,
the President did not refer to Sen
ator Taft by name. In his pre
pared speech Mr. Truman hung
an “invitation-to-war” tag on the
Ohio senator’s proposal to reduce
the armed forces’ manpower goal
by 500,000 men.
■■ ■ ■■ ■■ —
Racketeer Louis Weber
Convicted of Lying to
Crime Probe Committee
I NEW YORK, OflP) — Numbers
racketeer Louis Weber was con
victed last night of lying to the
U. S. Senate crime probe commit
tee about his relations with
James J. Moran, pal of former,
Mayor O’Dwyer.
Weber, 51-year-old native ot
Puerto Rico, will be sentenced on
the perjury conviction in federal
court tomorrow.
He can get up to five years in
prison and a $2,000 fine — the
maximum imposed on Moran on
the same charge.
The two perjury trials were the
first prosecutions growing out of
the Senate committee’s sensational
televised hearings here.
The cases hinged on the num
ber of times Weber visted Moran
at his office when Moran was
First Deputy Fire Commissioner
from 1946 to 1950.
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Atlantic.
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Pioneer Jeweler Passes
SEATTLE, .(A5) — Funeral serv
ices were held here Friday ^after
noon for James Victor Brown, a
pioneer Anchorage merchant who
died at his home here Tuesday.
He was 57.
Brown was a jeweler' in the
Alaska city for many years prior
[to his retirement in 1942 because
of his health.
Scientist “X” Freed
Of Contempt Charges
WASHINGTON, (IP) — Dr. Jo
seph W. Weinberg, the “scientist
X” who figured in investigations
of atomic spying, was freed today
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of contempt of court charges.
... Four contempt charges against
the scientist were thrown out by
U. S. District Judge Alexander
Holtzoff.
The judge ruled 'that Weinberg
had a right to refuse to answer
questions put to him by a federal
grand jury on the ground, that an
swers might tend to incriminate
him.
The contempt charges were
lodged against the scientist by
Judge Holtzoff last Friday when
Weinberg repeated, in open court,
-his refusal to answer questions be
for a grand jury.
Dr. Weinberg was suspended
last night from the University of
Minnesota faculty as an out
growth of the contempt citation.
• The House Un-American Activ
ities Committee has said that
Weinberg passed atom bomb sec
rets to the Communists during the
war years, while he was a physi
cist at the University of Califor
nia radiation laboratory.
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Sharply Increase Steel
Orders For Defense Work
WASHINGTON, (;P)—The gov
ernment today ordered steel mills
to set aside sharply increased
quantities of steel products for
July delivery on defense orders.
In telegrams, the National Pro
duction Authority notified the
iron and steel producers that “an
even larger share’’ of their output
may be reserved for priority buy
ers in August to meet mounting
defense demands.
The action apparently is part
of a move to make deeper cuts
in civilian use of steel and other
strategic metals later this sum
mer. Plans for the cutback will
be unfolded to auto makers and
other producers in 57 industries
at a meeting here tomorrow.
NPA said today’s order states
that more than half of all blooms,
slabs and billets, re-enforcing
bars, hot rolled sheets, wire loop,
and other standard items must be
reserved for defense.
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
-today and Saturday. Moderate
east winds. Lowest -temperature
expected tonight 35, highest (to
morrow 50.
Nome data last 24 hours as. of
7 am. today: Precipitation, trace.
Month total 0.12 -inch. Tempera
tures: highest 51, lowest 39. Maxi
mum wind 17 mph. -from the east.
Sunrise at 2:32 am., sunset at
9:26 pm.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
57, lowest 36. Extreme tempera
tures this date since 1907: highest
62 in 1912, lowest 8 -in 1920.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today: ....
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 12 Snow
Kotzebue 37 Cloudy
Shishmaref 32 Cloudy
Wales 30 Part Cloudy
Gambell 30 Clear
Nome 45 Rain
Unalakleet 45 Cloudy
Bethel 45 Part Cloudy
McGrath 46 Cloudy
Anchorage 44 Cloudy
Fairbanks 55 Cloudy
Whitehorse 46 Cloudy
Juneau 47 Showers
Ketchikan 50 Showers
Seattle 53 Cloudy
San Francisco 60 Clear
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