THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
THEY LOOK TOUGHER UP CLOSE TOO!
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NOME BASKETBALL HISTORY BEING MADE
Nome welcomes today a basketball team from
Palmer, the first visiting team ever to make the trip to
Nome. We have sent out many teams to compete with
other schools and in the past have even sent a team to
tour the States, but now history is in the making as
Palmer meets Nome High at Nome.
Win or lose, we are glad to welcome the team and
visitors accompanying them and will show our enthusi
asm and sportsmanship at the games tonight and to
morrow.
We hope that this may be the forerunner of an
annual event of its kind in the community, binding the
youth in the vast territory closer together and creating
lasting friendships among them.
Labor Leaders Say They
Will Fight Any Attempt
To Cut Living Standards
NEW YORK, .(£*)—Officials of
the CIO discussed labor problems
with President - elect Dwight D.
Eisenhower at his headquarters
Friday and said in a statement
later the CIO “will react vigor
ously to any effort to cut living
standards or to attack labor.
The officials said they did not
make any suggestions to Eisen
hower about a Secretary of Labor.
Their conference covered a
number of subjects, and the state
ment said the union members will
support Eisenhower in his “con
structive endeavors.”
It was issued by Henry C. Flei
sher, director of publicity for the
CIO.
In the group were Walter Reu
ther, president of the United
Automobile Workers; James B.
Carey, secretary-treasurer of the
CIO, and Allan S. Haywood, ex
ecutive vice president of CIO.
POLIO IN GREENLAND
GODTHAAB, Greenland, (JP)—
An outbreak of polio—first to hit
Greenland in 20 years — has
spread to Narssak, 40 miles from
a big U.S. Air Force base at
Narsaruak in the southern part
of the ice-capped island.
Only native Greenlanders have
been stricken thus far in the epi
demic.
ATA Petitions Supreme
Court Halt The CAB’s
Discriminatory Practices
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The head
of a non-scheduled airline asked
the Supreme Court Wednesday to
halt the Civil Aeronautics Board’s
“discriminatory practice of issu
ing certificates only to scheduled
! airlines, and limiting the non
: skeds to “letters of registration.”
Amos Heacock, Seattle, filed his
! petition as the Supreme Court
issued a stay order keeping his
company, Air Transport Associ
ates, in business.
Heacock said certificates and
registration letters both are li
censes to operate, but the denial
of certificates to non-scheduled
or irregular carriers withholds
from them the protection under
the Civil Aeronautics Act to
which they are entitled.
Heacock’s petition to the Board
said Congress provided that air
transportation be conducted under
a certificate, without restriction
of the right to change schedules
as the development of business re
quired.
“To hold that the petitioner’s
investment is deprived of the pro
tection afforded by the Act mere
ly because the Board did not see
fit to use the word certificate
when it issued a license, is no
valid reason for depriving the pe
titioner of benefits afforded by
the Act,” he said.
136 PERSON PERISH IN
CRASH AT TACOMA
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Getchman told a reporter: “I
couldn’t hear the motors;, it was
just a big whoosh.”
”1 thought it was a meteor,” he
added, “It just seemed to slide
into the ground.”
Many of the passengers were
returning to the States for the
year-end holidays. The C-54 left
Fairbanks yesterday morning,
stopped at Elmendorf Base at An
chorage, then flew the 1.400
miles to- McChord.
• The crash scene was strewn
with personal belongings. There
were many packages indicating
the passengers had been shopping,
possibly for Christmas, before
they started the ill-fated flight.
First witnesses at the scene
said they could hear the heart
rending cries of a baby in the
burning wreckage. They were
| helpless to do anything about it.
EILEEN UTTECH NAMED
WELFARE REPRESENTATIVE
FOR ANCHORAGE AREA
Miss Nan Blaha, district rep
resentative for the Department of
Public Welfare in the Anchorage
area has resigned her position ef
fective Dec. 1, 1952.
The director announced that
Miss Eileen Uttech has been ap
pointed as district representative
and is now in the Anchorage office
acquainting herself with the work
there.
Gussie Walters was sentenced
to 40 days in the Federal Jail for
disorderly conduct.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Rose Olson.
Discharged: Mildred Murdock
and son, Agnes Kunnuk and son.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Pan Am was delayed this morn
ing due to unfavorable weather
in Seattle. It is scheduled to arrive
this evening.
Sarah Edmunds, Public Health
nurse from Anchorage, is visiting
with the local health nurse, Mrs.
A. Olds, who plans to leave soon
for her new home in Anchorage.
A BETTER MOUSETRAP KILLS
RODENT BY ELECTROCUTION
NEW YORK, (Jp) A new
mousetrap killes by electric shock
that cannot be transmitted to hu
mans because of its unique de
sign.
The device, invented by A. G.
Burns of Farmland, Ind., catches,
slays and places the dead rodent’s
body in a drawer compartment.
The drawer is removable for easy
cleaning and eliminates handling
the mouse.
The trap resets itself after each
execution within a fraction of a
second. The device is now being
manfactured in volume. <Jalco
Motor Co., Union City, Indiana.)
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Navy’s U$e Guided
Missiles Termed
Publicity Stunt
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Presi
dent Arthur F. Kelly of the Air
Force Association charged Fri
day the Navy pulled off the “pub
licity stunt of the year” last
September in reporting the com
bat use of guided missiles.
Writing in Air Force magazine,
an unofficial publication, Kelly
cited news stories he said de
scribed as “the first take-off of a
guided missile in actual combat”
and the bombing of North Korean
targ’ets by unmanned, electronic
ally controlled fighter-planes.
Kelly called this a cruel hoax
to play on the American family
and said it raised false hopes that
the age of pushbutton warfare
had arrived.
He said the Air Force used un
piloted radio-controlled bombers
against German targets during
World War II and flew them
twice as far with nine times the
bombload as the Navy did in its
launching Sept. 5 from the U.S.
Carrier Boxer.
Kelly said the Navy censored
from the original news report, de
layed until Sept. 17, the designa
tion of the aircraft used, an out
moded Grumman Hellcat, and
substituted the term “guided mis
sile.”
Air Force magazine’s managing
editor John F. Loosbrook, writing
in the same issue, said “Exercise
Mainbrace” last September cast
grave doubts on the effectiveness
of aircraft carriers.
Loosbrook said the maneuver,
conducted off Scandinavia by
ships of the North Atlantic Treaty
Nations, was designed partly to
show carriers could adequately
defend NATO’s northern flank.
Instead he said the operation
demonstrated carriers’ vulnerabil
ity to mechanical failures, sub
marines and air attack and bad
weather. Other drawbacks, he
said were excessive cost and the
need for frequent refueling.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
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Former Red Czech Leaders
Face Gallows, Convicted
Of Plot Overthrow Govt.
VIENNA, Austria, (A3)—Eleven
former Czechoslovak Communist
leaders — including architects of
the coup that swept their country
into the Soviet orbit—face d&iths
on the gallows as confessed trait
ors.
Heading the list as convicted
ringleaders in a “Zionist-Trotsy
ite” plot to overthrow their pro
Moscow government, are Rudolf
Slansky, former secretary gen
eral of the Czech Communist
party, and former foreign minis
ter Vlado dementis. All but three
of the 11 are Jews.
Three other Jewish co-defend
ants were given life prison sen
tences Thursday at the close of a
week-long purge trial in Prague—
a trial marked by virulent anti
Semitism and an obvious attempt 4
to blame the group for Czechoslo
vakia’s failure to fulfill Russian
requisitions for supplies and war
materials.
The court explained its lenien
cy in the case of the three spared
from death by saying that one of
them had helped to implicate the
group and the three were “merely
links” in the alleged pro-western
conspiracy of treason, sabotage
and espionage.
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