THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME. ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618
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W. A. Boucher .Owner-Publisher
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 6, 1950
TIME MAGAZINE FEATURES ALASKA DEFENSE
Time Magazine, in its November 6th issue received
in town this week give a candid two page summary of
the Alaskan defenses as they see it today.
A large map explains clearly how completely out of
the picture of defense Nome and the entire Bering Sea
coast is “500 miles out in front of the new U. S. defen
sive position.”
It quotes General Kepner in explaining the concen
tration of air power on the other side of the Alaska
Range—“Alaska is a one shot deal.” That, says Time
seems to be the big risk of concentration and any poten
tial enemy could more easily hit and wipe out the entire
U. S. strength in one darting surprise.
This information is not new to Alaskans, who have
been saying the same thing over and over again for the
past year and that is that coastal defenses are impera
tive to back up the heartland defenses. That is why they
have deplored the closing of the only air base on the
coast, which is at Nome, at such a crucial time in the
face of the international situation as it exists today.
Time mazagine is to be complimented in the thorough
way they have sized up the situation, and portrayed it
to its readers.
More people should know that twelve thousand good
Americans are outside the line of defense and expend
able in case of war, and that is not the American way
of life as we know it
' More members of Congress should be made to real
ize that Alaskans are willing to defend their country on
the front line of defense if they feel they have sufficient
military support
Alaskans know the military defense weakness,
Hearst papers have spread the news to its readers, Time
Magazine now sums it up again. How long will it be be
fore the military leaders begin to admit they have a
weak link in their strategy, or will it be-too late?
C. F. JANNSEN AIDS SCOUT MOVEMENT
C. F. Jannsen, who passed away last y^ar after spend
ing the greater part of his life in Nome, was not too well
known to many people, as he was a quiet, retiring min-1
ing man. He spent his summers prospecting for many
years and later developed his quartz mine at the end of
the Snake River road. In the winter he worked at the |
Northern Light and Power Co. plant. !
Although he had no children of his own he liked the
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Assassin’s Widow
On Hunger Strike
NEW YORK, (#>)—1The slim, de
fiant widow of President Truman’s
slain would-be assassin was on
a hunger strike Saturday in a
federal jail cell.
The woman, 21-year-old Car
men Dolores Torresola, was track
ed down by secret service agents
Thursday night. She was taken to
the federal house of detention and
a federal officials, who refused to
be quoted, said she had been on a
hunger strike since the arrest.
Mrs. Torresola, her dark eyes
smoldering during her arraign
ment Friday, heard a U. S. attor
ney say she “expressed herself in
entire sympathy with the attempt
on the President’s life.”
She was held in default of $50,
000 bail'on a charge of conspiring
to injure the President.
Polio Closes
F airbanks Theaters
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Fairbanks schools and theaters
were ordered closed for an indef
inite period by Dr. Robert P.
Gorman, city health officer, after
polio struck another high school
boy.
Dr. Gorman acted after William
Eagan, 15-year-old fr'eshman, was
hospitalized with what appeared
to be the bulbar type of infantile
paralysis. The youth was placed
into an iron lung this morning.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Eagan, William is one of 4 chil
dren. His father is an employe of
the Alder Creek Mining company.
This brings to 21 the number of
polio cases in the Fairbanks area,
Dr. Gorman said.
Ladd air force base authori
ties said the Territorial school at
the base will remain open unless
there are further cases of the dis
ease, but that the pre-kindergar
ten classes, kindergarten and the
nursery will remain closed.
Young Polio Victim
Recuperating
In Seattle
SEATTLE, (vP) — Little Joann
Wold, 12, Fairbanks polio victim,
was recuperating Saturday at
Children’s hospital after a 1,640
mile flight by Pan American Air
ways from Alaska.
Left crippled by the dread dis
ease, little Joann was still smil
ing when the Pan American clip
per landed her here at Boeing
Field.
Her hardest battle was ended.
She spent 21 days in an iron lung
in a Fairbanks hospital fighting
for her life.
Accompanying Joann an her
long airplane trip south were her
mother, Mrs. Eleanor Johnson and
her physician, Dr. John Weston
of Fairbanks. i
At Children’s Orthopedic hospi
tal, aided by the resources of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, it is hoped Joann will
overcome the crippling after-ef
fects of the disease.
{Bristol Bayites To
Protest Power
Boat Fishing
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — A repre
sentative of the Alaska Salmon
Industry says residents of the
Bristol Bay area will join the In
dustry in opposiiton to a proposal
to open the Bay to power boat
fishing.
Elmer Harris, of the Industry,
said residents will join the Indus
try in opposition at a fish and
wildlife service hearing today in
Seattle.
Federal regulations keep power
boats from fishing in Bristol Bay
at present. A bill aimed at forcing
repeal of the federal rule passed
the House of the Alaska Legisla
ture in 1949 but failed in the Sen
ate
“The residents are vigorous in
j their opposition and they have,
many reasons,” Harris said heer. j
“The residents have no power
boats tcf use and the Industry does j
not plan to buy any.”
He said that would mean out-1
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i siders “will bring in their boats
! and take the fishing away from
| the residents.” j
He said the Industry is opposed
■ to power boats because of the
prospect of having the season
shortened and a big share of thej
catch taken by boats equipped
with freezing facilities, which i
| could take the fish back to the
j States for canning.
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Bernard Shaw To
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Be Cremated Today
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LONDON, (/P)— The body of
[ George Bernard Shaw will be
! cremated today (at 11 a.m. EST'
in the presence of a few friends
and servants.
There will be no religious ser
vice and no funeral service. The
ashes of the great dramatist will
stand beside those of his wife,
Charlotte, until it is decided what
1 o do with them.
Shaw told friends he v anted
his ashes mixed with those of
his wife who died in 1943.
There is a possibility, however,
that the remains of the great play
wright and wit will be placed in !
the poets’ corner of Westminster
Abbey, where irlost of England’s
great men of letters are buried.
No decision on the question can ;
be maae until it has been formal- j
iy mnposed, and then decided by
the dean of Westminster. j
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St. Louis Jumps
Phone Strike Gun j
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NEW YORK, (i*P)—A coast-to- j
coast telephone strike set for |
Thursday got off to* a head start j
Friday in the St. Louis area andj
threatened to spread through five 1
southwestern states.
National officials of the union, j
the CIO Communications Workers
of America, said here, however, it
would not be used as an excuse to
jump the gun on the major walk- i
out deadline.
One out of eight telephones in
young people of the community and dedicated his life
savings to them when he died.
Around five thousand dollars has been willed to the1
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of the community as a last
ing memorial to an Alaskan Pfbneer who left his money
where he made it.
The future of Alaska which he explored and loved is
in the hands of these younk Alaskans. What a splendid
way to help them be better citizens!
SPECIAL SERVICES AT
EVANGELICAL MISSION
Rev. Emory E. Lindgren and
ReV. Roald Amundsen, Covenant
missionaries from Unalakleet are
spending a week in Nome with the
Paul Carlsons. Services will be
held at the Evangelical Mission
Covenant Church Tuesday, Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday eve
nings at 7:30 p.m. Special music
will be rendered on each of these
nights.
Sight Wreckage Of
India Plane Crash
GENEVA, Switzerland (/P)—A
rescue party today prepared to
scale Mont Blanc, highest of Alp
ine towers to reach the wreckage
of an Air India Constellation
which crashed Friday near the
sno’w-clad summit with 48 per
sons aboard.
Airline officials said they be
lieved there were no survivors.
The plane, enroute to London
from Bombay on a charter, was
carrying 40 East Indian seamen
to England to man a cargo ves
sel there. All of the crew of eight
were Indians except the British
pilot, Capt. Alan Saint.
Swiss flyers spotted the wreck
age yesterday near the Vallot re
fuge hut — a resting spot for
mountain climbers—not far from
the 15,781-foot peak of Mont
Blanc. The flyers reported the
plane’s cabin was almost intact
but there was no sign of life.
Alaska Fishermen
Merge With ILWU
SEATTLE, (/P)—'The merger of
the Alaska Fishermen’s union
with Harry Bridges’ International
Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s
Union (IND) has been affirmed by
the members, a union official said
today.
Oscar Anderson, A.F.U. secre
tary-treasurer, said the confirma
tion came during a series of unity
conferences in Seattle. The meet
ings were attended by delegates
from AF.U. branches in San Fran
cisco, Portland, Bellingham, An
chorage, Ketchikan and Dilling
ham, Anderson said.
A long fight has been waged
within the fishermen’s union over
the merger with the ILWU, which
was recently ousted from the CIO
for left-wing activities.
Representatives of the union
will meet Wednesday with the
Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., to
submit proposals for contract ne
gotiations, Anderson said.
Ground cork is still used for
bottle stoppers, but the larger
quantity goes into insulation for
refrigerated structures; coverings
for cold pipes and gaskets; and
cork floor tile.
Marry in haste and repent at
your father-in-law’s.
the St. Louis metropolitan area
was dead—or nearly dead—after
some 3,000 workers struck Friday
to protest the suspension of six
truck drivers.
Joseph A. Beirne, president of
the IWA, said the strike could
spread through the rest o*f south
western Bell, which operates in
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Okla
homa and parts of Texas.
On the national front, federal
mediators and negotiators met in
New York in an effort to head off
the coast-to-coast walkout set for
6 a.m. Thursday that could in
volve most of Bell’s 300,000 em
ployees.