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Nome, Alaska, Monday, May 8, 1950
SEEK TB. ISOLATION UNIT FOR NOME
(Contributed)
A most generous and heart-warming offer was made
last Thursday in the interest of humanity and the com-!
munity of Nome, in particular. Dr. Fred M. Langsam,
our local physician, is to be commended on his volun
teering to give services to patients in a proposed isola
tion unit for patients in advanced stages of tuberculosis,
if a building and facilities in Nome can be provided. Dr.
C. E. Albrecht, Commissioner of Health, will be ocn
sulted on the possibility of securing augmenting Terri
torial funds for this worthy project.
As Dr. Langsam puts it, while there is much satisfac-,
tion in rendering treatment to early cases of tuberculosis,
thus restoring those patients to happy, active lives, it is
also a very wonderful privilege to be able to do what
one can for those who are in the advanced stages. He
believes it is a mistake to believe “nothing can be done”
for many of these people. Dr. Langsam believes that
much can be done toward the ease and comfort of any
patient. By this means also, the rate of communication
of this sickness can be lessened. The community of
Nome can indeed be grateful to Dr. Langsam for his in
spiring attitude concerning this problem.
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TEST OF POWER IN BERLIN
The Russian Government seems to be embarked upon
a deliberate series of provocative acts against the
United States. These include the attack on the unarmed
Navy plane, the accusations against Allied troops in
Trieste, the expulsion of our information service per
sonnel from Czechoslovakia and, we may add, renewed
demands of the Russians for special rights in connection
with the Dardanelles.
In addition, the situation around Berlin is considered
rather serious because of the threat that 500,000 mem
bers of a Communist youth organization will invade the
Western one the latter part of May. To meet this chal
lenge, the Allied Governments are taking precautionary
action which, if it is to be effective, may have to include
the possibility of using force against the Red youth
marchers.
At present, police forces are under orders to turn back
the “Communist invasion” by fire-hose, tear gar and
other special weapons but, if these fail, the occupation
forces of the Western countries will not hesitate to use
whatever force is necessary to repel the attempt to
overrun the Western sector of the German capital.
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MARRIAGES VERSUS DIVORCES
Marriages in 1949 were 30.8 per cent below those of
the first post-war year, 1946, Acording to the U. S. Pub
lic Health Service.
Before coining to the conclusion that the institution
of marriage is going to the dogs, take note of the fact
that divorces, compared in the two years listed, showed
a decline of 36.7 per cent.
In 1949, there were 1,585,440 marriages in the United
States, its territories and possessions. In the same area,
there were 386,000 divorces.
AIR TRAVEL SURE TO INCREASE
In ten years, all first-class travel will be by air, ac
cording to the prediction of Joseph J. O’Connell, Jr.,
chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. He says that
longer runs through the air will be “more economical,
faster and just as safe.”
Mr. O’Connell does not think that trains, buses and
other forms of transportation will go out of business but
he intimates that they will handle the shorter-than-two
hundred-mile runs. Moreover, he thinks that commer
cial jet planes, traveling five hundred miles an hour,
will be in general service in less than four years.
Truman Asks
Senate To Pass
Statehood Bills
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a letter to chairman O’Mahoney
(D.-Wyo.) of the Senate Interior
committee which is considering
the two statehood measures the
House passed some weeks ago.
Noting the contention of oppo
sition forces that admission of the
two Territories would give them
the same representation in the
Senate as the most populous
States, the President said:
“This argument is not only en
tirely without merit, but also di
rectly attacks a basic tenet of the
Constitutional system under
which this nation has grown and
prospered.
“Without the provi s i o n for
equal representation in the Senate
for all States, both great and
small, regardless of population,
there probably would have been
no United States.”
Mr. Truman then added:
“There is no justification for
denying statehood to Alaska and
Hawaii on the basis of an issue
which was resolved by the Consti
tutional convention in 1787.”
“America justly takes pride in
its record of fulfilling to the let
ter its obligations to foreign na
tions,” he went on.
“We should be no less scrupu
lous in carrying out the promises
made to our own citizens in Alas
ka and Hawaii.”
Asserting “the need is more ur
gent today than ever before” for
action on the statehood measures,
the President added:
“By such action we will not
only promote the welfare and de
velopment of the two Territories,
but greatly strengthen the secur
ity of our nation as a whole.”
WOMEN'S SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS
The Women’s Society of the
Methodist-Federated Church met
last Friday evening at the home of
Mrs. Earl Clark.
The main business of the eve
ning was the election of officers
with installation in charge of Rev.
Treat.
Mrs. Earl Clark was elected as
the new president and Mrs. Chas.
Haberman, secretary; Mrs. A.
Nerland, treasurer.
Special departmental heads
elected included Mrs. R. Tveeter,
Mrs. Norman Bellury, Mrs. R.
| Truman Orders
Secret Kile Opened
Kor Senate Probe
WASHINGTON, (^—President
Truman’s decision to hand over
some government loyalty files to
Senate communist investigators
put Senator McCarthy to work
on a “not enough” protest.
In another development, the
justice department said it never
received any evidence from the
Office of Strategic Services (OSS>
to support charges that Amerasia
Magazine officials and state de
partment employees were ship
ping atomic secrets to Russia in
1945.
McCarthy, Wisconsin Republi
can, has said a former OSS agent
would testify that a-bomb data
did find its way to the Soviet Un
ion in the Amerasia case. The
agent, Frank Bielaski, said Friday
there is some substance to what
McCarthy asserted, but he did not
entirely back up McCarthy.
Senator Lodge (R.-Mass.), who
heard Bielaski testify at a secret
session, said the picture Bielaski
portrayed “is very serious.” But
Lodge declined to comment on the
a-bomb angle.
Reversing his earlier refusal to
release government loyalty files,
Mr. Truman agreed to let a Sen
ate foreign relations sub-commit
tee examine secret state depart
ment files on 81 persons cited by
McCarthy in his charges on com
munism in the government.
Senator Tydings <D.-Md.>, the
committee chairman, said in an
nouncing the President’s decision
! that the approval does not, apply
to the FBI’s so-called “raw” files.
Tydings added, however, that
“there will be FBI material in
some of the state department files
the committee gets.
McCarthy has charged that the
department is infested with com
munists and Red sympathizers.
Leese, Mrs. W. Boucher, Mrs. Del
mar Johnson, Mrs. R. Treat.
Mrs. Robert Baldwin who has
been president of the group for the
past two years and a very active
member in the organization for
many years, was recipient of a
life membership in recognition of
her service.
Fresh carnations will be the
share of the of the Women’s So
ciety in the Mother’s Day pro
gram at the Methodist Federated
Church.
PACKING IS SUCH A HECTIC JOB j
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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ding cycle, but could not make it
in time, the state patrol said.
OXFORD, England, </P) — Miss
Agnes Smedley, 56, American
writer widely known for her re
ports on China, died in a nursing
home here Saturday, it v/as an
nounced today.
Miss Smedley was accused last
year in a U. S. Army report of be
ing a Soviet spy but the charge
later was withdrawn.
The Missouri-born newspaper
woman was named as a Soviet
spy by the U. S. army in a report
of a wartime Soviet spy ring in
Japan. Later the army said it
lacked proof and should never
have made such a charge against
Miss Smedley.
GUAM, (/P)—This military out
post battened down today for a
typhoon packed with 90 mile
winds. The storm was expected
to hit in full fury at 2 p.m. (Nome
time,) today
Planes roared off airstrips for
fields outside the typhoon’s path.
■ Ships chugged out of Apra harbor
for the relative safety of sea.
Military personnel checked ty
phoon cable fastenings on quonset
huts and stocked shelter areas
I y
with supplies.
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Mayor, Minister,
Die In ^Red Revolt’
MOSINEE, Wise. (A*)—The peo
ple of Mosinee today mourned the
deaths of two community leaders
who played prominent roles in
last Monday’s mock communist
coup.
Mayor Ralph Kronenwett e r ,
who was yanked from his bed by
“Red toopers” at dawn on the
May Day demonstration, died at
Wausau Hospital Saturday night.
He had suffered a cerebral hem
orrhage just before his village
was “liberated” from “commun
ist invaders,” a week ago tonight.
The Rev. Will LaBrew Bennet,
72, Methodist minister who put up
a spirited make-believe struggle
when thrown into a barbed wire
“concentration camp” that day,
died at his home Sunday of a
heart attack.
Both men had entered with
gusto into the spirit of the Ameri
can Legion-sponsored event.
YOUR HOST TO GET
ANOTHER CHANCE
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (JP) — Your
Host, the Hollywood hope of film
maker William Goetz, will get an
other chance to earn his Oscar.
The souped-up comet from the
Pacific didn’t convince his hand
lers in the Kentucky Derby that
he can’t carry his great speed
more than a mile. He will have to
show them in the Preakness May
20.
Although an 8-5 favorite, Your
Host lagged in a badly beaten
ninth in Saturday’s Derby.1
Trainer Harry Daniels said five
different horses challenged Your
Host’s pace in the Rose Classic.
“It’s tough enough beating one
hrose,” he said.
The great derby champ Middle
ground, was taking it easy, mean
while.
He’s among at least seven derby
horses that will go after the sec
ond gen on American racing’s tri
ple crown.
The National Geographic Soci
ety says the Irish potato is not
really a potato but a member of
the nightshade family.