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Nome, Ala Wednesday, May 3, 1950
PROPOSES TARIFF CUTS
Forty nations, handling more than four-fifths of the
world's trade, will hold a conference in September for
the purpose of seeking agreement to remove barriers
of the free flow of commerce between the nations.
The United States announces that it will offer to
lower tariffs on about 2,o00 items and, in return, will
ask seventeen foreign governments to slash their duties
on American goods.
The conference will be the third in the last three
years for the purpose of promoting the swapping of
goods between nations. Eiforts have been made to re
duce tariffs and curtail import restrictions. The whole
program is based upon the belief that living standards
of all nations can be improved if international trade can
be pushed to a higher level.
There are many people who believe that the peace
of the world will be more easily kept if the peoples of
the earth have the opportunity to sell their goods and
services on the best markets. Naturally, if the people of
one country have a product to sell on, the international
market and discover that the best buyers are so circum
scribed by tariffs and controls that they connot pur
chase their goods, resentment will be inevitable. The
removal of economic barriers will do much to eliminate
the friction between nations which has sometimes led
to conflict.
O’DWYER S BAD MANNERS
Irish-born William O’Dwyer happens to be mayor of
New York City, a city which claims, with some justice,
to be the port of entry for distinguished visitors to the
United Statesl The Mayor recently exhibited bad man
ners in connection with the visit of the highest officer
of Northern Ireland, saying that the gentleman would
not be welcome at the City Hall.
Mayor O’Dwyer may be correct in assuming that he
has a right to reflect the bitterness of Irish-Americans
toward anybody from Northern Ireland but it would
seem that the chief executive of our metropolis would
be mindful of the fact that he represents all the citizens
of his great city and that, to a small extent, he repre
sents this country in connection with those who use
the facilities of New York.
Mayor O’Dwyer’s prejudice and intolerance is due
to the fact that Sir Basil Brooke is the Prime Minister
of Ulser, which, for reasons of its own, does not care
to be a part of Eire, the Irish Republic.
“UNTAPPED FOOD RESERVE”
We are unimpressed by the announcement that a
three-year study of the food content of plants indigen
ous to Central American countries has uncovered a
“vast untapped food reserve.”
The experts conducting the survey analyzed nearly
one thousand samples, representing more than two hun
dred kinds of food from plants collected in Honduras,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaraugua and
Panama. They found three common weeds- that yielded
high calues for calcium, iron, the V-vitamins, thiamin
and riboflavin and Vitamin C. They also contained
carotene and niacin.
The revelation will not satisfy the hungry because,
after all, what most people seek in food is taste and en
joyment rather than chemical content and health.
When a man seeks recognition of equality he evi
dently looks up.... If recent trends continue, the Amer
ican Cancer Society warns, the annual death told from
cancer will double in the next 50 years. . . . Now that
mail deliveries are to be reduced will this mean less
mail? .. .The freedom of the air, it seems, is not the same
thing as the freedom of the seas.
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William Mini/., apparently elim
inating Munz.
Outlying precincts sent Ipalook,
a full-blooded Eskimo missionary,
to a higher total vote than Rep.
William Belt/, who was nomin
ated without opposition on the
Democratic ticket. Belt/ had a
higher total through the first days
of counting.
Ross Kimball, of Fairbanks held
to a lead of about 400 votes in the
race for the Democratic nomina
tion for Territorial Labor Com
missioner yesterday.
On the basis of unofficial re
turns from 174 of Alaska’s widely
scattered 233 precincts, he had
3,079 to Rep. Alfred A. Owen, Jr’s,
2665.
I The Republican nominee is
Henry Benson, the incumbent.
From the same total of precincts,
he had 4184 to 2742 for Ray i
Beach.
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People who lead double-lives
don’t get twice as much out of it?
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Reds Have Rocket
Installations
Aimed At Alaska
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S.S. Monitor when it docked in
Philadelphia in April, 1949.
“I was determined to give the
United States information on the
operation of rockets and the work
ings of communism,” Czap quoted 1
Martunuk as saying.
Czap said he did not know the
extent of Martunuk’s revelations
to U. S. authorities, but “we can
assume, since Marunuk is an en
gineer, that his obseravtions were
thorough.”
Czap said he was assigned to j
the case the day Martunuk was
arrested in Philadelphia on in- 1
structions from Countess Alex- j
andra Tolstoy, chairman of the
Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., New
York.
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22 MILLION WILL DIE
Cancer will account for 22 mil
Jion deaths among Americans
now living if the present death !
rate continues, the American
Cancer Society points out. A gift
to the 1950 Cancer Crusade can
help cut this appalling, figure.
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733 Evacuees From
Communist China
Reach Ilong Kong
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HONG KONG, f/P) — The Gen.
W. H. Gordon arrived tonight
with 735 evacuees from Red Chi
na, including 196 Americans.
Many had been trying for months
to leave the communist country.
Other passengers included 79
British, 21 french and 377 state
less persons. The latter have no
home country.
The American President liner
left Taku Bar, port of Tientsin,
last Saturday. It brought out the
last of U. S. consular personnel
from Red China. Walter McCon
naughy, formerly consul general
at Shanghai, heads the group.
Communists balked an earlier
attempt sponsored by the U. S.
state department to evacuate 1600
foreigners on the Gordon. This
trip was a private venture.
The Reds permitted foreigners,
marooned for months in Shang
hai, to go by train to Tientsin.
Previously they had restricted
such travel.
One of the stateless persons
said Shanghai is becoming “a
second Russia.”
When foreigners went to Shang
hai police to get exit visas re
stamped, he said, they found Rus
sian advisers sitting next to Chi
nese officials.
The Russians are slowly taking
over Shanghai, he said, but sel
dom are seen on the streets.
An American business man said
the foreigner is through in Shang
hai. The Chinese communist re
gime is deliberately squeezing
him out, he asserted.
The American declined to per
mit use of his name because “I
have to return to Shanghai in or
der to protect another American
whom the communists are holding
as hostage. We are trying to close
down for good but the commun
ists won’t let us.”
He gave this story:
Chinese Reds have imposed
“crushing” commodity taxes.
These run as high as 120 per cent
on cigarettes and cosmetics.
Harry Gabrielson, who was
cashier at the M. and M. Bank for
many years returned today to be
with the Lomen Commercial Co.,
as auditor. Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel
son will live in the Lomen Co.
residence known as the Anderson
house.
I WAITING ON THE FINAL STEPS
HOBBY IS TAPED UP
LOS ANGEL5S, (/P)—As a hob
byist, Mrs. Sylvia Wexler “mea
sures up.” She collects tape mea
sures. Mrs. Wexler has acquired
18 unusual types since tho day in
193!) she asked for a tape and was
handed one wound in a celluloid
doll's head.
Her collection includes tapes
hidden in an alarm clock, a metal
turtle, a tiny harp, a porcelain
duck, an ivory spindle and a pic
ture of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Most numerous fur-bearing ani
mals in Utah are weasel, muskrat,
beaver, badger and skunk.
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