THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
What was that one about eating your cake?
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING?
It was first said of World War I that the U.S.
didn’t win—we bought it. But now, on the heels of
General Mark Clark’s offer of $100,000 and political
refuge to the first Red pilot who delivers a Russian
built MIG-15 to the U.N. forces in Korea, and $50,000
apiece to those who follow, the old “silver bullet”
strategy comes to the fore again.
From time to time since the Chinese Reds took a
hand in Korea, some “old China hand” has suggested
buying the Chinese Commies off, just as they had
previously bought large numbers of Chiang Kai-Shek’s
Nationalist troops. Andrew Tully, writing in the
Scripps-Howard papers says Maj. Gen. Claire Chen
nault, the famous former boss of the “Flying Tigers,”
thinks $100 apiece ought to do it. Doing a little figur
ing on the back of an old income tax form, Tully
comes up with the news that we could buy the million
Chinese Reds committed in Korea for four million
dollars less than the present cost of a week’s fighting.
As of this writing, the first Red MIG pilot is still
to be reported as checked in, but it is agreed among
the experts that the Clark offer has brought conster"
nation to the Commie air command, with the flyers
so busy watching each other they can’t keep their
minds on their business.
Nor has there been any indication from Wash
ington that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s letter to Sen.
Harry Byrd, containing his up-to-date blueprint “to
bring the Korean struggle to an end without further
bloodshed” is likely to change “the lack of will for
victory.”
So, perhaps, if we’re not going to win the war,
we’d better buy it . . . but not on time payments.
SPIRIT OF 76
The Daughters of the American Revolution, in
their 62nd Congress assembled—in their magnificent
Constitution Hall in Washington — put the United
Nations in its place by a vote of 1,118 to 6.
The resolution declared that the U.N. should be
only a deliberating body of sovereign nations working
together for the adjustment or settlement of inter
national disputes . . . that its activities threaten the
Constitution of the U.S. and conflict with Federal and
State laws. The declaration turned thumbs down on
partial or complete world government, on the Genocide
Convention, the Covenant of Human Rights and the
overall busy-body U.N. Economic, Social and Cultural
Organization.
Demos Hit GOPs
As Favorers Of
Big Corporations
WASHINGTON, W’)—Democrats
had a theme Saturday for their
opposition to the Eisenhower ad
' ministration —the charge that its
record is one of “give-away, back
away and dream away.”
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash) con
tributed ,the phrase Friday in a
speech to a $24 a plate Democratic
luncheon here.
Margaret Truman, daughter of
former President Truman, pre
dicted a Democratic victory in the
congressional election next year.
Jackson said the Republicans
are giving away the nation’s re
sources, and backing away from
tax cut pledges and other cam
paign promises and:
“They want to dream away the
Russian menace so they can safely
cut the Navy and the Air Force.
They want to dream away the
entire free world around us in
their haste to get back to a high
tariff era.”
On the floor of the Senate, Sen.
Magnuson iD-Wash) accused the
Eisenhower administration of
scheming “to make the resources
of the West a grab-bag for eastern
corporations and Wall Street
underwriters”
He denounced withdrawal by
Secretary of the Interior McKay
of opposition to a plan for pri
vate power development on the
Snake River between Idaho and
Oregon
Sen Morse »Ind-Ore) who left
the Republican party to oppose
Eisenhower but did not become a
Democrat, suggested that the dam
is built by the Idaho Power Co.,
should be named “Eisenhower
Dam,” as a monument to be left
for all to see what happens when
the people go to sleep.”
Space Needed For Beta
Sigma Phi Hot Lunch
Program Next Year
Beta Sigma Phi members met at
the home of Omie McCarthy with
Maybelle Lenert assisting as host
ess.
The hot lunch program discus
sion consumed much of the time.
Space seems to be a facing us
next year. If the lunch cannot be
served in the school building we
must locate other quarters. This
will involve fuel, light and water
bills in. addition to expenses for
food, paper cups and workers
necessary to manage the program.
Our balance for the forthcoming
lunch program is $40. Well, that
is the situation now.
The girls are talking of plans
for a skin-boat ride to Sledge Is
land. All members are interested
in the trip which will surely be a
thrilling experience.
We are sorry to lose a recent
new member of the group, Betty
Shea, who left due to her father’s
death. She is not returning.
Slides of the Pasadena Flower
Festival were shown by Ruth Mc
Lean. Thousands of roses, mums,
orchids, stocks, sweet peas and
other flowers were arranged to
perfection on the 60 floats which
this year depicted song titles.
A delightful lunch was served,
starting with tomato juice and
ending with ice cream a- la- Burt
McCarthy. A feature of the lunch
eon was the designing of our own
place cards. Each girl was given a
card with from one to three pussy
willow buds glued on in various
places. The prize-winning card
was done by Peggy Lucas, who
designed a “Schmoe” with the two
pussy willow blooms representing
the big, expressionless eyes.
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Reds Release AP Correspondent
After Two Years In Czech Prison
NEURNBERG, Germany, UPI —.
William Nathan Oatis, thin and
pale but feeling “great, returned
to freedom Saturday. The Com
munists had shut him off from
the world for two years in Pra
gue’s grim Pancrac prison.
The Associated Press corre
spondent, jailed because the
Czechoslovak leaders considered
as spying his insistence on re
porting honestly about their re
gime, was let out of prison Sat
urday morning and sped from
Prague to West Germany in a
U.S. Embassy car.
“I feel great,” were the first
words he said as he stepped out
of the car on this side of the
Iron Curtain at the border town of
Waidhaus in the U.S. Zone of
Occupation.
He said he had been completely
cut off from news of the world
since his arrest in 1951 and his
sentence to 10 years on the spy
charges which the U.S. govern
ment called a travesty. His release
came as a complete surprise to
him.
Asked how he was treated in
prison, Oatis’ reply to the throng
of western newsmen who came
to greet him was:
“Well, they treated me pretty
good. But it’s great to be out.”
The Indiana-born reporter, 39
years old, was expected to return
to the United States within a few
days for a reunion with his wife,
Laurabelle, whom he married
only three months before his
arrest.
A poignant letter Mrs. Oatis
penned six months ago to Czecho
slovakia’s then president, the late
Klement Gottwald, was respon
sible—Prague and Moscow said—
for moving the authorities to par
don Oatis. Gottwald’s successor,
president Antonin Zapotocky, said
in a statement broadcast from
Urague that__the pardon was his
response to Mrs. Oatis’ petition.
He was picked up in April 1951
by Communist secret agents, held
69 days incommunicado, and then
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brought before a five-man court
to “confess” in a feeble voice that
he had spied out Czecoslovakia’s
state secrets. The Red prosecutor
said Oatis was “particularly dan
gerous because of his discretion
and insistence on obtaining only
accurate, correct, verified infor
mation.”
Oatis’ imprisonment caused the
LLS. to impose a tight economic
squeeze cm Czechoslovakia. The
lanky, bespectacled reporter with
the Hoosier accent and a passion
for playing hot jazz on the piano,
became one of the most famous
prisoners the Reds held. He was
the only American newsman ever
imprisoned behind Europe’s iron
curtain.
AP photographer Frank Noel is
a prisoner of the Communists in
Korea.
Sitka Natl. Guard Unit
Gets “Superior” Rating
From General Miley
HEADQUARTERS, Alaska Na
tional Guard — Men of Sitka’s
Company D, 208th Infantry Bat
talion received high praise last
week from the top Army com
mander in the Territory. In a
letter to Col. Larry Johnson, the
Adjutant General, A. N .G., the
Commanding General of U. S.
Army in Alaska, Maj. Gen. W. M.
Miley, praised the unit for their
“superior” rating on recent in
spection.
General Miley said, “The fact
that this is the first such rating
earned by any unit of the Alaska
National Guard indicates the fine
progress which the Guard has
made in its few years of existence
in Alaska.”
“The members of Company D
can be particularly proud of the
fact that in less than two years
since they received federal rec
ognition, they have twice won
the annual Eisenhower Trophy
awarded to the outstanding unit
in the territory,” General Miley
stated.
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