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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
•at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Monday, November 12, 1951
LEW WILLIAMS CHALLENGES GRUENING
Lew Williams, recently fired Secretary of Alaska,
challenges Governor Gruening in a recent issue of the
Wrangell Sentinel, newspaper which he owns, to ex
plain the “Garland Fund” and his connection with it.
Mr. Williams states that Governor Gruening is
listed as one of the “officers and directors” of the
Garland Fund and that “this fund is a source of reve
nue to promote Communistic activities.”
Mr. Williams adds, in his column known as
“Through the Sentinel Periscope”: “Now, we’re not
the kind that takes this sort of thing about our gov
ernor, the Governor of Alaska, without inquiry. We;
don’t feel those guys down in Tulsa should be saying ^
these things about our governor unless they’ve got;
something most of the people of Alaska don’t know
about.”
The Nugget is non-partisan and neutral in the
Gruening and anti-Gruening strife between the Demo
crats of Alaska, but we hope that the Governor’s office
will answer the above challenge soon to clarify a
situation which should be left hanging on a question
mark for very long.
PROPOSED UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING
One of the issues that will have to be decided by
the people of this country is whether the nation will
adopt universal military training as a basic program
in keeping this country prepared for its defense.
The National Security Training Commission has
submitted a report to Congress, suggesting such a plan.
It is less drastic than the draft in many features. It
does not call for service from the physically unfit,
estimated to be one-fifth of the youth population.
Generally, the scheme provides that young men
will register at 18, go into training six months later as
called up by the draft boards. Training will last six
months, with membership in the trained reserve for
seven and a half years.
Needs of the three services are allocated. The
Army will get half the conscripts. The Air Force gets
22 per cent, the Navy 23 per cent and the Marines 5
per cent. All men in service will be paid $30 a month
cash, furnished clothes and $10,000 life insurance for
a 9-month period. There will accrue no veterans’ bene
fits.
Audrey Cutting On Trial
In San Francisco On
Bad Check Charge
SAN FRANCISCO, UP) — Mrs.
Audrey Cutting testified here Fri
day that when she cashed three
$100 checks here she thought
there was money to' cover them
in her account at an Anchorage
bank.
The 41 - year - old Anchorage
woman is on trial on a bad check
charge. She was arrested last
month when a check she cashed
at a San Francisco hotel was re
turned and the bank reported she
had closed her account.
Mrs. Cutting, however, told a
jury of seven men and five wom
en that she had “very extensive
holdings” in Alaskan gold, cop
per and coal. When she left An
chorage, she said, she deposited
$1,800 in the bank, writing checks
on the balance during a trip ac
ross the United States.
The prosecution closed its case
after Police Lieutenant Leslie Do
land testified that Mrs. Cutting
told him after her arrest* that she
had only $50 in the bank but that
Crumrine Cat Dies
SEATTLE, {]■P) — Chilkat is
dead. He was old, though his
years were short. He died in his
sleep at a hotel here Wednesday.
He was born in Haines, Alaska,
in 1938, and since then had pussy
footed the length and breadth of
the land. He was a specialist at
slipping unobtrusively into the
finest hotels, and when he left he
never gave -a thought to the rent.
Jo and Nina Crumrine, Alaska
artists, adopted him before he had
his first teeth. Where they went,
he went. His playgrounds ranged
from the vacant lot beside the
Nordale Hotel in Fairbanks to
New York’s Central Park.
It was a fine life—a fine nine
lives, you might say — and now
Alaska’s most travelled cat lies
in a pet cemetery.
lots of people owed her money.
Mrs. Cutting, who won a new
trial in Alaska after being con
victed on embezzlement, is free
on $1,000 bail here. She is also
on bail pending a second trial in
Alaska.
Father of Dead Hero Asks HST About
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Political Tampering Heroism Awards
GLEN WOOD SPRINGS, Colo.,<
(£>) — A retired World War I
army captain today awaited word
from President Truman in ans
wer to the question: “Has my
criticism of the administration
kept my dead son from getting
the Congressional Medal of
Honor?”
Eugene R. Guild, now a Glen
wood Springs rancher, wrote the
President Nov. 1. He says he has
received no word from the White
House or Defense Department as
yet.
“No comment,” presidential
press secretary Joseph Short said
last night in Key West, Fla.,
where the President is vacation
ing.
In his letter to Mr. Truman,
Guild said his son, 25-year-old
Marine Lt. John Guild, ar.d an
other officer, Lt. Henry Alfred
Commiskey, fought side by side
during a battle for Hill 85 near
Inchon in Korea. Commiskey sur
vived and was awarded the
Medal of Honor — the nation’s
highest military award. Guild
died Sept. 20, 1950, and a Navy
Cross was posthumously awarded.
Guild, in releasing his letter to
reporters, emphasized that he is j
not challenging Lt. Commiskey’s
right to the medal. The letter
said, in part:
“This is to ask you about evi
dences of political tampering with
awards for the heroism of our
fighting men in Kore-a.
“Marine Corps eyewitnesses, de
ciding that each of the boys had
exhibited the same degree of
heroism, recommended to higher
authorities the same award for
each boy—the Navy Cross.
“Some time later,” the letter
continued, “the father of the dead
boy severely criticized the Presi
p
dent for his battlefield appease
ment which shackled the hands
of American fighting men, and
had killed his son and thousands
of others.
“Subsequently, when the dec
orations were awarded, the boy
whose father publicly criticized
the president, received the Navy
Cross and the other was awarded
the Congressional Medal of
Honor.”
MOTHER OF JOHN COOLEY
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
John Cooley, ARC head here,
has received word of the death of
his mother at Rio Linda, Calif., at
the home of her sister, Mrs.
Frank Nash.
Mrs. Cooley was a resident of
Fairbanks since 1934, where she
was very active in club work.
She is survived by three dau
ghters, two sons, 18 grandchildren
and three great grandchildren..
Interment was a Hombrook,
Calif.
j Territory Has $5,084,744
Net Cash Balance
(Anchoage Daily News)
JUNEAU — Henry Roden,
territorial treasurer reported a
net cash balance of $5,084,744 as
of Oct. 31 with special funds
amounting to $4,080,848.
Roden said cash on hand is
$1,003,895. Included in the special
funds are $350,000, which may
have to be refunded to non-resi
dent fishermen if a tax, now be
ing tested in the U.S. Supreme
Court, prove to be illegal.
Also included in the special
funds were $243,188 collected
under property tax laws.
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