22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LVIII No. 37 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1956 ~ Per Copy—15^
Emergency Food
Drop Is Made To
Savoonga Village
Wien Airlines dropped more
than two tons of emergency food
supplies to Savoonga Eskimo vil
lage on St. Lawrence Island at
7:30 a.m. yesterday, March 27
from their C-46 plane which is
equipped for airdropping sup
plies.
The shortage of food on the
island resulted when the native
walrus hunters failed to bring in
enough for subsistence. They have
killed only 30 walrus this winter
when ordinarily they get from 120
to 150 to supply their village
needs.
A similar situation existed last
year when only 45 walrus were
killed by this village.
The airdropped supplies con
sisted of rolled oats, rice, dried
fish, beans and butter.
When the food shortage at Sa
voonga was reported the Juneau
office of the governor, and the
Alaska Native Service authorized
immediate relief with the Sa
voonga Native Store paying for
all of the supplies, which had to
be purchased.
To aid in this emergency, the
Gambell Eskimo village was for
tunate in killing a large number
of walrus on March 11 and they
Immediately sent five dog team
loads of walrus meat to Savoonga
which is approximately 100 miles
by the spring time dog team trail.
Government Construction
In Alaska in 1956 Will
Reach $110,858,000
ANCHORAGE WV—Government
construction projects in Alaska
for 1956 will reach $110,858,000,
Col. Carl Y. Farrell, district en
gineer of the Army Engineers,
estimated yesterday.
Speaking at a meeting of the
Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
Col. Farrell said federal building
projects for Anchorage will total
$33 million. Some of these funds,
he added, will be for two-year
construction jobs. He said details
of specific projects will be re
leased soon.
Chamber Endorses
Alaska Constitution
The Chamber of Commerce, at
its regular noon luncheon Tues
day unanimously endorsed the
Alaska Constitution as written.
The advantages of “cribbing”
all Seattle-Nome boat shipments
was discussed. The transportation
committee head by Boyd Har
wood was instructed to take the
necessary steps to endeavor to
bring this advantageous method
of shipping to Nome.
The problem of accommoda
tions for tourists, long the major
problem for an overnight stay
for visiting people was discussed.
Martha Stephenson was appointed
chairman of a special committee
to work with Charles Frazier and
Willard Mecklenburg to assist her.
Frank Morris of ARC was wel
comed as a new member.
Guests were Mary E. Jolley of
the Welfare Office and Major
Kolb of the ANG.
Revenue Service Cracks Down On
Communist Party in Five Cities
WASHINGTON, U1V-Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue Rus
sell C. Harrington said today that
the national tax crackdown on the
Communist Party and its news
paper “is being handled precisely
as any other similar taxpayer
matter would be handled.
Harrington made the statement
after conferring here with Donald
R. Moysey, New York regional tax
chief, who, according to informed
officials, organized and carried
out the padlocking of a number of
party headquarters and the New
York plant of the newspaper
Daily Worker without previous
coordination with Washington.
The properties were seized to
satisfy federal tax claims.
Moysey’s descent on Commu
nist Party headquarters across the
nation and on the Daily Worker
plant in New York with claims of
tax irregularities was a complete
surprise to his bosses in Washing
ton, a number of informed offi
cials here said today.
Officials here were not inclined
to quarrel with Moysey’s action,
at least on technical grounds, be
cause reorganization of the Rev
enue Service three years ago had
made top regional officials almost
completely autonomous.
However, it was indicated here
that the legal ramifications likely
to arise out of the act made Trea
sury officials and others in the
government anxious to learn the
full background of Moysey’s case
against the Daily Worker and the
Communist Party.
In sudden raids yesterday, In
ternal Revenue agents snapped
padlocks on the newspaper and
Communist Party offices in five
cities. The government said the
party owed $389,265 in income
taxes for 1951 and the Daily
Worker $46,049 for 1951, 1952
and 1953.
The party took the position that
it was tax exempt. The Daily
Worker claimed the government
move was an effort to force the
paper to disclose names of its fi
nancial backers.
In Washington, an Internal
Revenue Service spokesman said
income of political parties which
goes for party expenses and non
individual benefits is tax exempt.
But he said income from profit
making activities is subject to
taxation. The Communists long
have conducted parties, dances,
lectures and the like as fund-rais
ing devices.
The Daily Worker’s attorney
said 'Internal Revenue officials
assured him that no effort would
be made to interfere with actual
j publication of the paper.
City Council
Meeting Notes
Three firms have written the
city concerning the reorganizing
and printing of the city ordin
ances which job has been pending
for some time. The matter was
discussed at the regular council
meeting Monday and it will be
deferred until after the new
council takes over in April.
A suitable site for tly.' reloca
tion of the Alaska National Guard
has been submitted and the local
head of the organization is to
meet with the council at their
next regular meeting. The pro
posed site is the N. C. property,
formerly the Polet warehouse on
Mettler Way, where a full base
ment is available as well as a
well and other features of value
to the ANG installation.
The new traffic ordinance No.
374, published elsewhere in this
issue, goes into effect and owners
of vehicles are reminded they
must have territorial registration
of their cars and 1956 license
plates must be on all operating
vehicles.
The council approved the action
of the Utilities Board allowing
Larry Galvin to use power poles
for the purpose of stringing TV
cable. All all poles are to be used.
Egar Murphree
Named Boss of
Missile Program
WASHINGTON, —'The Pent
agon has ordered top priority for
development of a missile powerful
and accurate enough to deliver a
shattering hydrogen charge, at
supersonic speed, to targets thou
sands of miles away.
Secretary of Defense Wilson
took this action yesterday in ap
pointing Egar V. Murphree to be
a new assistant with broad auth
ority to direct the job of striving
for victory in the missile race
with Russia. Murphree, 57, is
president of the Esso Research
and Engineering Co. He will serve
without pay while on leave from
Esso research.
Wilson said Murphree would
“devote major emphasis to mis
siles of the long-range type, par
ticularly ballistic missiles.”
The defense secretary desig
nated Murphree to speak for him
in all matters pertaining to new
missiles within the defense estab
lishment and before the National
Security Council and the Presi
dent.
Wilson said Murphree will start
work next week and stay on the
job for at least a year.
Some Democrats in Congress
have been critical of Eisenhower
Administration efforts in the mis
sile field, contending this country
has been lagging behind Russia.
Sen. Jackson (D-Wash', one of
these critics, said of Murphree’s
appointment: “Better late than
never ... I hope he will take a
strong administrative control of
the missile work.”
Jackson had urged a single civ
ilian official in the Pentagon to
coordinate and supervise the mis
sile program.
Pravda Denounces Stalin as Man
Who Harmed the Communist Cause
Just One of Those Days
For City Commissioner
FORT PIERCE, Fla., LPV—Yes
terday was just one of those days
for City Commissioner R. F. Ar
nold.
He was late for jury duty in
the county court and drew a $5
fine.
After an extra long city com
mission meeting he found an over
parking ticket on his windshield.
Arnold then went to a garage to
have some repair work done on
his car. The mechanic suggested
a spin on U.S. 1 to test the repair
job.
A state patrolman said he
caught Arnold testing his car at
80 miles an hour.
The summons is answerable in
county court next Tuesday.
Wien Orders 3
New Type Planes
To Succeed DC-3
SEATTLE, UP)—The aviation in
dustry’s search for a DC-3 suc
cessor is about over, says Kurt
Weil, assistant to the president
of the Frye Corp. of Fort Worth.
Texas.
Weil stepped from a Pan Amer
ican World Airways airliner from
Alaska at Seattle-Tacoma Inter
national Airport recently and
paused between planes to outline
details of the new Frye Safari.
The Safari, a high-wing trans
port, will carry 51 passengers or
twice the cargo of a DC-3, Weil
said.
“It’s four relatively small en
gines and its high-lift wings will
permit it to operate easily to and
from 2,000-foot runways,” Weil
said. “The range is that of a DC-3
and its doubled capacity would
appear to make it the ideal plane
to replace that excellent but ob
solescent aircraft.”
The Frye company has firm or
ders for the Safaris from North
ern Consolidated Airlines of An
chorage, which has ordered three
planes, and Wien Alaska Airlines
of Fairbanks, which also has or
dered three.
An intensive, first-hand study
of the cold-weather operations
problems which will face the users
of the Safaris was the reason for
Weil’s trip to Alaska! The proto
type Safari will fly late this year,
he said.
SECRETARY WOULD LIKE
TO KNOW WHO PUT THE
MOUSE IN PNEUMATIC TUBE
NORMAN, Okla., — Who put
the mouse in the pneumatic tube?
That's the big question around
the University of Oklahoma Press
building these days.
Mrs. Louis Skinner, a secretary,
especially wants to know' the an
swer because the mouse jumped
out of the tube she opened and
ran up her sleeve. Four other sec
retaries scurried for nearby furni
ture. Mrs. Skinner suspects that
a joking male in the shipping de
partment was responsible.
' MOSCOW, Ijft—The Communist
Party organ Pravda today pub
lished a broad-scale denunciation
of Stalin as a man whose drive
for glory took monstrous forms
and harmed the Communist cause.
In a 7,000-word article spread
over 12 columns, the newspaper
brought home to the general Rus
sian public for the first time the
new Soviet leadership’s campaign
to chop down Stalin’s historical
stature.
Pravda paid tribute to Stalin’s
work in the first years after Len
in’s death.
“But then certain features and
qualities began gradually to ap
pear in Stalin’s practice of lead
ership which later developed into
the cult of the individual,’’ Prav
da charged.
“The gigantic successes in build
ing a new society, achieved by
the Soviet people under the lead
ership of the Communist Party,
on the basis of laws of history dis
covered by Marxism-Leninism,
were strongly attributed to one
man—Stailn—and were explained
by his special merits as a leader.
“He, lacking personal modesty,
did not cut short the glorifications
and praises addressed to him but
supported and encouraged them
in every way.
“As time went on, this cult of
the individual assumed even more
monstrous forms and did serious
haim to the cause.”
(The Pravda article appeared to
be only the opening gun in a
' newspaper campaign against Stal
in. It made no mention of the
most sensational charges which
reports reaching the West have
said the new Soviet high com
mand has leveled against their
former chief—that he maintained
a continuous reign of terror, mur
dered thousands of his party asso
ciates and the flower of the Red
army officer corps and placed the
nation in danger of conquest by
Hitler’s forces.)
EFFORT TO REVISE
ELECTION METHOD
STALLED IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, WV—’The latest
effort to revise the electoral col
lege system of electing presidents
and vice presidents has foundered
on the inability of senators to
agree on another method.
After a week of debate, the Sen
ate last night sent back to its Ju
diciary Committee various pro
posed constitutional amendments
to abolish the present system un
der which each state’s entire elec
toral vote goes to the candidate
receiving the most popular votes.
Sens. Kennedy <D-Mass> and
Douglas <D-II1», two leaders of the
opposition, said the effect of this
action was to kill the issue for
this Congress.
Sen. Daniel <D-Tex>, a leader
on the other side, agreed this was
likely to be the case unless an
agreement could be worked out
that would win over more sena
tors. He expressed hope this could
be done.