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TO EASY STREET ?
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THE
NOME NUGGET
Mb* oMeiml O. S.
pn^nAr w»l»i W Trmmm_
Senate Wants To i
Know Cost
1 Re-Arming
—
(By Jack Bell)
WASHINGTON, (Ah — Senator,
Vancfenburg tR.-Mich.) called on
the administration today for an (
estimate on the cost of helping
friendly European nations re-arm.,
Vandenberg told reporters he
! thinks the Senate will want to
know before it passes on the $5,
, 580.000,000 European recovery au
thorization how much the propos
, ed arms aid outlay may be.
The authorization bill now * is
before Senate and House foreign |
affairs committee.
Unofficial estimates have rang
| ed from one billion to two billion
i dollars for the military assistance
plan. But Vandenberg said he had
seen nothing official,
i “I believe we should have some
4
I approximate estimate of the cost
J of this proposed military assist
| ance before we take the economic
jbill to the floor,” he said.
The military assistance propos
al is expected to follow submis
sion to the Senate of the proposed
North Atlantic Security Alliance.
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! Truman and Stalin
Refuse Phone Calls
LONDON. —Housewife Mrs.
j F. M. Chandler booked a tele
' phone call to Prime Minister Sta
! lin Saturday, but Stalin wasn’t
| talking.
I She also tried to get President
, Truman on the telephone, she
said, but the White House, like the
, Kremlin, wouldn’t take her call.
; She said she wanted to ask the
j two men to get together and try
| to work out their differences.
Mrs. Chandler, 53, mother of an
I ex-serviceman, said she is a mem
! ber of the Crusade For World
Government and she just wanted
) to do what she could for world
i peace.
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29 Dead In Spain _
'Train Wreck
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TARRAGONA, Spain, «/P» — 29
dead were listed today in the
wreck of a Madrid-Barcelona ex
press train. Another 40 injured
were in hospitals.
The express jumped the track
early yesterday 40 miles west of
here, between the stations of La
1 Neuva and Mora de Ebro.
Reliable sources said saboteurs
! had removed several rails, caus
ing the accident.
, One American and three Eng
lishmen were among those Wiled.
| Police identified the American as
j Philip Liewerman, 46, an export
jer, of Lawrence, N. Y.
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TRUMAN AND CHURCHILL
TO ADDRESS MEETINGS
| WASHINGTON, (/P)—President
' Truman and Winston Churchill
will address a Massachusetts In
stitutee of Technology convocation
in Cambridge, Mass., on consecu
tive days.
Whether the two will meet is
not known, the White House said
in making the announcement.
Britain’s wartime prime minis
ter will speak March 31, Mr. Tru
man April 1. On April 26 the
President will return to Massachu
setts to receive an honorary de
gree and make a speech at Boston
College.
The occasion for the speeches at
M.I.T. is the mid-century convo
cation on the social implications
of scientific progress.
Seppala And The
Siberian Huskie
(As told to G. F. Freudenberg
By Leonhard Seppala
One day in May. 1947
<Par£ I»
Nome, in the early years of the
twentieth century was a booming,
high-stepping, free-spending gold
town. So far north that ships can
reach it only in the ice-free
months from June to October, it
depended in those flays for its
winter transportation principally
on dog teams. This dependence
made the breeding of dogs, and
the training of dog teams, a mat
ter of great interest to the inhab
itants. The sporting interests, to
gether ith the gambling instincts
common to all boom towns, soon
found an outlet in the sport of
sled-dog racing, and led directly
to one of the most famous sport
ing events of the Far North. The
Nome Kennel Club was formed in
1908, and the All-Alaska Sweep
stakes course—the roughest and
toughest racing course in the
world—was laid out. Four hun
dred and eight miles, from Nome
on the Bering Sea to Candle on
the Arctic Ocean and return it
ran, over terrain of utter desola
tion, and at a time of year when
blizzards often struck without
warning. The dogs used in the
first races were the Eskimo dogs,
now’ known as Alaskan Huskies.
These were of course not a true
breed by any means, as the origin
al Eskimo dogs had been cross
bred extensively with “out-side”
dogs of many different breeds.
The Siberian Huskie first came
into notice in 1909, the year of the
second Sweepstakes. A Russian
trader. Goosak, had brought a
team of dogs from Siberia that
were noticeably different from the
Alaskan Huskie. These dogs were
considerably smaller and lacked
the woltl:ke look of the other
dogs. Indeed, w’i'h their pointed
noses, prick ears, and bushy tails
they had points of resemblance to
the fox. Goosak’s team had been
completely overlooked in the bet
ting that year, as it seemed too
small for the hard grind. How
ever, it surprised everybody by
placing third, and. it is said, near
yl gave some of the heavy bettors
heart failure by apparently being
about to win at one time.
Naturally, this strong showing
attracted considerable attention to
this strange breed of Fox Maule
Ramsey, a young Scotsman then
in Nome, went to Siberia the f > -
lowing summer and procured a
number of the best specimens o
the breed that he could find and
brought them back to Nome. Ik.
found that they had been used ns
sled and working dogs as far back
as memory could reach, under
conditions very similar to those i
Alaska. Ramsey entered three
teams of these dogs in the ID in
sweepstakes—one driven by him
self, and the others by John and
Charlie Johnson. The Siberian
proved themselves as racers when
John Johnson and Ramsey placed
first and second that year again s
stiff opposition.
Seppala’s connection with the
breed began in 1913, when pups
from Ramsey’s dogs were pur
chased by Jafet Lindeborg, the or
iginal discoverer of the Nome g 1
fields. It was intended to pre*enl
these dogs to Raold Amund.-en fo
use on his projected North Pols
Expedition, and Seppala was
given charge of them for tra; y
The outbreak of the war in 1914
cancelled the proposed expedition.
however, and they were neve
used for ‘hat purpose. In 191*
Seppala entered this team in hi
fi rst try for the Sweepstakes.
The dogs were young and ha
never made trail over the Sweep
stakes route. On the first day t
the race, a blinding blizzard hi
them head on and the leader lor
the trail. With visibility zero, th»
only way to get his bearings, Sep
pala decided, was to head buck to
Norton Sound, and make a chetv
of his position by the landmarks
there. With the wind behind, in
stead cf in their faces, the dog:;
were making good :.me: and when
they hit a downhill stretch they
were almost beyond control. Just
in time, l'ar below he saw the ic<
hummocks of Norton Sound. Jam
ming an iron-tipped bar he ai
ways carried through the well o1
the sled into the icy sno»w, h<
braked with every ounce oi
strength. The team stopped with
the leaders on the very edge of a
high bluff, with nothing beyond
but the ridged ice hummocks of
the Sound far below. The wind
I
was doing its best to blow them all
I off the precipice as Sappala strug
gled to get the leaders turned
round and headed uphill. After a
desperate half hour, he managed
to get the team turned round, and
frantically pawing for traction
on the icy snow, they managed tc
pull themselves and the sled out
of danger. Seppala soon found an
Eskimo village, and got his bear
ings straightened out, but the team
was too exhausted to have any
chance of making a good showing,
so he reluctantly withdrew from
the race. Me still, however, had
confidence in his dogs, and the
following year was to be a very
different story.
'To be continued)
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