THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
•t Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, December 30, 1949
EDITORS NAME MEDINA “MAN OF THE YEAR”
(By Sherry Bowen, (/P) Newsfeatures Writer)
Judge Harold R. Medina, who presided at the year
long trial of 11 top U. S. Communists, was “Man of the
Year” for 1949. He has been so named by vote of Asso
ciated Press newspaper editors.
The court drama started Jan. 17 and did not end until
all defendants were sentenced Oct. 21. Defense attor
neys helped make headlines by their disruptive tactics.
They kept the court in an uproar day after day, refused
to heed warnings from the bench and, in the end, won
jail sentences for contempt.
Judge Medina won headlines early in the trial for his
patience in dealing with the lawyers. But in one hectic
session he had to call a recess and retire to his chambers
for a few minutes to calm his nerves.
It was not patience alone that got attention for the
judge. It was also his firmness in insisting that no one.
defendant or attorney, would be permitted to benefit
from disorder. Warnings were followed by action. Inap
propriate testimony was cut off. Side remarks were !
stricken from the record.
Before the trial, Medina had not been widely known.
When he came to the federal bench in 1947 he gave up
a $100,000-a-year practice for the $15,000 job. He was
known as a lawyer’s lawyer and had written 15 books on |
federal law.
When the editors voted for the leading men in special
categories, they found that President Harry S. Truman
was first in politics; Dean Acheson, U. S. secretary of
state, led in foreign affairs; Philip Murray was top man
in labor; Henry Ford II in industry; Vannevar Bush,
president of Carnegie Institution, was the leader in sci
ence: In literature, Thomas Merton, a trappist monk
and author of two best-selling books, was chosen. Ezio
Pinza, opera basso turned musical comedy star, got the
nod in entertainment.
As the head of the Democratic party, President Tru
man w atched it show new’ strength in the 1949 elections.
He had to deal w ith no spectacular political problems
during the year. But he did face some turbulent disputes
between factions. Many observers noted that the Presi
dent ‘‘sat on the lid" without major political disruptions.
ACHESON promoted more frankness in dealing with
Russia during the year. Sharp comments on matters in
the Russian sphere and on the cold war were common.
He took office as secretary of state in January. The
Berlin blockade ended in May. The year also saw the
Atlantic Treaty completed. This gave the United States
a defensive alliance with European countries and later
Congress voted arms aid for Europe.
During the year, the State Department issued a
“white paper” giving the background of the failure of
the U. S.-approved Nationalists in China. Also in the
talk stage are plans for U. S. aid to backward lands.
MURRAY won his vote as head of both the CIO and i
the steel workers. In steel he led the strike that won
company-paid pensions for the men. In the CIO Murray
led the ouster of left wing unions. He also started a
drive to replace them with groups farther to the right.
This year the Scotland-born former miner was again
named head of the CIO, which he has led since 1940.
FORD was forced to shut down his plants briefly dur
ing the year when the union struck because it said the l
company had speeded up assemby lines. But when the,
time came to talk over a new contract, Ford became the |
first big employer to agree to a company-paid pension
plan. It was a similar plan that was won by the steel
workers after a strike.
Ford took over the family industrial empire in 1945.
His father, Edsel, died suddenly in 1943 and his grand
father, Henry, resumed for two years while Henry II
Indict Two Women
In Bridges’ Trial
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conspiring and attempting to in
timidate Mervyn Rathborne, one
time secretary treasurer of the
California State CIO and former
close associate of Bridges.
Both women denied the charges.
They were arrested and booked
separately.
Rathborne is due to appear as a
witness after the trial resumes
next Tuesday
U. S. district Judge Michael J,
Roche withheld contents of the in
dictment against the two women.
Newsmen learned reliably, how
over, that the charges were based
on testimony by Rathborne before
the grand jury that unless he mod
ified his testimony in the Bridges
NEW CHIEF OF POLICE
ARRIVES IN NOME
Noel Robinson, new Chief of
Police for Nome arrived from An
chorage this week and assumed
his official capacity. Due to the
fact that the offices of Fire Chief
and Police Chief and being separ
ated into two diferentdepartments
there will be several changes made
in policy.
Mr. Robinson comes from An
chorage where he has lived for the
past year and has been patrolman,
and comes highly recommended
from businessmen and the City
Magistrate there.
His home is in Missoula, Mont.
case the two women threatened to
go to his wife with trumped up
stories that he had engaged in in
timacies with them.
was hastily trained to command.
The young men had not proved brilliant in college.
Nor had he shown his grandfather’s mechanical genius.
But he found sociology to his liking. He followed that
idea through, reorganizing the line of command in the
business, and working for closer relations with the un
ion. His success in these projects has been praised.
BUSH remained, in 1949, one of the nation’s leading
spokesmen for science. He has been head of Carnegie
since 1938 and ha strie dto make it an agency to help co
ordinate U. S. scientific subjects and his speeches get
wide attention.
In World War II he was head of U. S. agencies to help
weld the work of science to the war machine. This in
cluded the early stages of work with the A-bomb. In
1949, his comments on atomic issues still carried great
weight.
ROOSEVELT DYNASTY
Are we going to have a Roosevelt dynasty? asks the
East Camden, N. J., Times... . Franklin D. Roosevelt...
as President almost reigned as a king . . . until sudden
death snatched him from this earth .. . Last year Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, Jr. . . . divorced by his wife . . . moved
into a hotel in a New York district . . . and ran as a can
didate for Congress from that district.. . with the aid of
radicals. He was elected. . . . Now is it announced that
another son, James Roosevelt . . . also divorced . . . will
run as a candidate for Governor on the Democrat ticket
in California ... and word comes that another Roosevelt,
daughter Anna . . . also divorced ... is thinking about
running as a Democrat for Congress in California. Now
all we need is Elliott. . . another son and divorced ... to
file as a candidate for public office. Another son, John
(not divorced) and the best of the bunch . . . apparently
has no political ambitions.
Judge Harold R. Medina
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Masses:
8:00 a.m.
11:15 a.m.
10:00 a.m.—M. A. F. B. Chapel
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION (METHODIST)
! Rev. Paul B. F Carlson, Pastor
Esther McCoy, Director
1 Rev. Robt. Treat Methodist pastor
| Sunday—
10:00 a.m. Eskimo Speaking
Service.
11:00 un. Sunday SchooL
7:30 pjn. Evening Service.
Wednesday—
2:00 p.m. Children’s Miracle
Book Club.
Thursday—
7:30 p.rru Mid-week Service.
—
THE METHODIST CHURCH
(FEDERATED)
Rev. Robert Treat. Minister
9:45—Sunday School.
11:00—Morning Worship. Anthem
by the Senior Choir, “We Would
See Jesus.” Message by the Pas
tor, “A Faith to Live By.”
8:00—Evening Service — Message
by the Pastor, “A new Page in
the Book of Life.”
Tuesday 8:00 p.m., Church Board
Meeting.
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m Senior Cnoir
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Third Avenua West
Pastor A. E. Capenor
Sunday—
10:00 to 11:40 a.m. — Combined
Sunday School and Morning
Worship.
7:30 p.m.—Evening Worship.
Tuesday—
3:30 p.m.—Junior Young Peeples,
7:30 p.m.—Prayer Service.
Wednesday—
;7:30 p.m.—Bible Study,
j Friday—
; 7:30 p.m.—Senior Young Peoples
Everyone Welcome
“The family that prays together*
i stay stogether.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division
Pastor—Lewis I. Hudgins
“Start the New Year right-—
Come to Church.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
3:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MIS8ION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday—
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
Pl eaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday—
7:30 p.m. Bible Study—tranj.
lated into the Eskimo language.
Thursday—
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. K.Y.B Club toe
boys and girls.
Friday—
7:30 p.m. Prayer, Praise and
Testimony.