THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the postoffict
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, March 8, 1950
LET S ALL JOIN HANDS
During the month of March, the American Red Cross
makes its annual appeal to the American people to give
it the funds to serve to nation and its citizens in times
of emergency.
Everybody is familiar with the great work of the Red
Cross during the war and in relation to the armed serv
ices. Nearyl everybody is familiar with the assistance
which it promptly renders whenever disaster strikes
any area. Emergency medical and nursing care is pro
vided to the victims and, in many instances, financial
assistance is a vital part of the relief extended to un
fortunate people.
In connection with the annual appeal tor tunas, we
should not overlook the important contribution made
by volunteer workers, serving in communities from
coast to coast. These individuals give hours of work
without compensation and help to make possible the
extensive assistance that the Red Cross provides.
While it is not possible for every citizen of Nome to
give of his or her, time to carry out the purposes for
which the Red Cross was organized, everyone of us can
have a part in this great work by making a cash contri
bution. This is necessary if the staff of professional
workers is to function and the thousands of volunteers
have an opportunity to make an intelligent contribu
tion to relief work.
It should not be necessary to argue the point with
readers of The Nome Nugget. We feel sure that most of
them will gladly make a contribution to the funds when
solicited. If everybody will promptly respond to the ap
peal, the necessary funds will be easily raised. This will
insure help to American communities in 1950, when
ever disaster strikes or disease threatens the existing
medical resources.
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NEW HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The United States has a number of organizations and
probably represents the most completely organized
people on the fact of the globe.
There seems to be room, however, for the newly-or
ganized Health Information Foundation, which is to be!
financed by drug, pharmaceutical and allied industrial
firms. Admiral William H. Blandy, who retired from j
the navy after forty years of service, is the president of
the organization, which will seek to improve the na
tion’s health program by developing and disseminating
factual information on health problems. ,
It is interesting to note that the foundation will avoid
“lobbying,” and “propaganda” and will seek to study
health problems in a “positive and constructive” man
ner. It will pay special attention to areas where there
is reason to believe that health facilities are not as fully
available to the people a sthey should be.
If the foundation carries out its announced aims, and
there is no reason to suspect that it will not, it will per
form a useful service and fill a field which has not been
claimed by existing organizations.
FILIPINOS CATCHING ON
The Filipinos may not be ready for democracy, as we
understand it, but they seem to be catching on.
Recently Elpirido Quirino cabled a budget message
from the United States to Manila, giving an accounting
for the first time since 1946 showing an accumulated
deficit of more than $250,000,000 for five years.
Newspaper reports say that the budget arithmetic
startled the Congress, which set it aside until a modified
one could be sumbitted. References to an expected sur
plus were called “just hot air” by a Senator and the re
mark reveals the aptitude of the Filipinos for some
thing like American politics.
Family Of Fight
Die* In Home Fire
SANDY, Ore., (>P)—A family of
eight died in a flaming one-room
mill cabin near here today.
The roaring fire apparently
started on the small building’s
north side—the only one with a
door.
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy A. Ludwig
and their six children died in the
trap.
The cabin was one of 14 housing
workers at the Wilson sawmill off
the Mount Hood Loop Highway
about 11 miles from here. Sandy
is 20 miles east of Portland.
Carl Wlison, owner of the mill,
said his barking dog awakened
him at 1:15 a.m., and he looked
out to discover the fire. He ran to
the cabin, ripped away boards
covering a window, and flame bil- I
NOTICE
A Religious Sound Film
"STANLEY and LIVINGSTONE"
Will be shown
Friday Night at 7:30 p.m.
At the METHODIST CHURCH
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lowed out. The interior was all
ablaze.
"It all happened so fast there
was no chance to do a thing,”
Wilson said.
WilstRi said he assumed the fire
started from a heating stove.
The dead were listed as Ludwig
34; his wife Wanda, about 32; Re
becca, 15; Jerry, 13; Dennis, 10;
Michael, 7; Ronnie, 2, and Kath
leen, 5 months.
Approximately a quarter-mil
lion workers are employed i n
making yams and fabrics in the
United States.
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News of llie World
Al A Glance —
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American arms aid shipments due
to arrive soon in French ports.
The communists have set up a
cominform-inspired “peace offen
sive” against the shipments.
The vote in favor of the bill
was 393 to 186. It now must be
approved by Parliament’s Upper
House where passage is expected.
The anti-sabotage bill provides
for prison terms of from five to 10
years to anyone convicted of sa
botaging the national defense, im
peding the transport of military
equipment or trying to demoralize
the army.
Communists fought the measure
tooth and nail. It was passed af
ter an all-night session marked
by pitched battles and roughhouse
play.
France had mounting troubles
on the labor front, too. Premier
George Bidault’s government or
dered the draft of 100,000 utility
workers to avert a nationwide
strike of gas and electric workers.
The workers in the nationalized
power plants were scheduled to
walk out at midnight.
Nationalist China reported at
Taipei, Formosa, that a commun
ist attempt Monday to land 900
mainland invaders on Hainan Is
land failed completely. The Na
tionalists also were heartened by
other optimistic news. Delayed
dispatches from Sikang province
in the Chinese interior said Kang
ting was retaken by Nationalist
guerrillas.
Chiang Kai-Shek’s last main
land foothold is in Sikang pro
vince wheer his forces maintain
a headquarters and airfield at Si
chang, 100 miles south of Kang
ting.
“Territories Are
Ready For State
hood,” Says Warne
SAN FRANCISCO, (£>)—Alaska
and Hawaii are ready for state
hood and they should have it, as
sistant secretary of the interior
William Elmo Warne said here
yesterday.
Warne, in San Francisco to ad
dress the North American wild
life conference, said statehood is
the first point in the interior
department’s four-point program
for development of Alaska.
Terming the northern territory
as “so strategically important to
national defense,” Warne said:
“We need local government in
Alaska — not absentee govern
ment.
“The United States is now op
erating Alaska like a puppet on
the end of a string. Washington
is far-far away. While the work
of the federal government has
been relatively good in Alaska, it
cannot operate things there as a
local government should.
“Alaska is mature enough to
conduct its own affairs.”
Point two in the development
program, Warne continued, is a
settlement project and adequate
enabling legislation to encourage
agricultural use of Alaskan lands.
He said point three calls for a
program of economic development
toilared to Alaskan needs that
will encourage business and in
dustry in the use of Alaskan re
sources—in Alaska.
Point four, said Warne, is the
settlement of native claims' in
Alaska “to do justice to the Indi
ans and to give clear title to land
for the orderly development of
the Territory.”