THE NOME NUGGET
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AH, THE PEACE LOVER _
THE JET AGE
An item the the newspapers recently told the story
of a naval pilot, Lieut.-Cmdr. George H. Whistler, Jr.,
who had crossed the country, coast to coast, twice in
one day.
It seems that Lieut.-Cmdr. Whistler breakfasted
in Norfolk, Virginia, lunched in San Diego, California,
and dined again that night in Norfolk. He traveled
to the West Coast in a Cougar jet and returned in a
Skynight jet. The pilot made two stops on the first
trip and stopped once on the return trip.
Thus he flew about 5,000 miles in less than twelve
hours. The achievement of Lieut.-Cmdr. Whistler is
a forerunner of what ordinary airline passengers will
be experiencing in a few years, when jet transports
are put into coast-to-coast operation.
There is no reason to doubt that jet transports
will make it possible for business men to eat both
breakfast and dinner on the East Coast, having filled
a luncheon engagement on the Pacific Coast. That
would be a rather expensive business luncheon, al
though as long as taxes remain where they are, we
suspect many of them will be arranged, as soon as the
jets are operating on such schedules.
DRAFT CONTINUES
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director of
Selective Service, said recently young men of draft
age should not have an illusion that the end of fighting
in Korea will mean an end to the draft. The general
warned that those who jumped to the conclusion that
the truce in Korea would allow them to escape two
years of military service are jumping to the wrong
conclusion.
In fact, there is a possibility that the monthly
draft call will be considerably increased by the middle
of next year.
Although the call for the immediate month ahead
might be something less than has been averaged since
the war in Korea started in 1950, large numbers of
those called up in the first 18 months of the Korean
War have about completed their terms of service and
calls will probably go up in several months as tliey
are discharged. It is also true that many of the
casualties suffered in Korea were suffered by those
called up in this initial period.
Repatriates Tell Of
Comrades Who Turn
Informer For Reds
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Korean winter cold after he was
caught.
Others told of “spy rings” that
worked against them. They said
names of informers will be turned
over to Army authorities. The
men said they would testify
against them if the Army held
courts martial.
Others threatened to “get even”
in their own way. Repatriate after
repatriate vowed in interviews to
newsmen they would get revenge
against “the rats and the squeal
ers.”
A Missouri soldiers said he was
thrown into solitary confinement
for 42 days because “an Ameri
can told the Chinese I was plan
ning to kill Chinese.”
The informer, said Pfc. Robert
Chyers, 24, of Steele, Mo., went
through the Freedom Village pro
cessing center Wednesday.
“He is not a pro—he is a rat.
He is in this group right here,”
Chyers declared bitterly.
Pfc. Laurence A. Rix of Dowa
gaic, Mich., said he tried to es
cape but was caught because an
informer found out his plans and
relayed them to the Chinese.
“I know the man who turned
me in,” he said. Asked whether
he intended to turn the name over
to ethA rmy, CTc,Mgaiich.
to the Army, Rix replied: “I
would just as soon handle it my
way.”
U.S. Tin Corp. Bid Only
One Accepted On Rails Of
Seward Peninsula Railway
JUNEAU, UF—Kenneth J. Ka
dow, president of United States
Tin Corp., submitted the lone
sealed bid Monday for the rails of
abandoned Seward Peninsula
railroad.
Archie Ferguson telegraphed a
bid for one lot of the rails, for
the Arctic Oil Sales, Inc., of Kot
zebue, but Territorial Highway
Engineer Irving Reed expressed
the opinion the bid was invalid.
Kadow formerly headed the
field services of the Interior De
partment in Alaska. The tin cor
poration has a mine at Lost River.
Kadow’s bid for one lot, 26
tons of rails at Lost River, was
$5 per ton, for a total of $130.
His bid for 165 tons in lot 2 was
$3 a ton, for $495.
Ferguson’s bid for lot 2 only,
was $501, which was $6 above
the Kadow bid. Reed expressed
the opinion it was not valid be
cause it was not accompanied by
a check and there had been ample
time for a mailed bid.
Reed said the final decision on
the bids will be made by the Ad
ministrative Board of Road Com
missioners.
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Diehard Americans Return From
Korean Prisdn Camps Vowing
Vengeance On “Progressives”
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Mrs. Wm. O’Dwyer
Wins Uneontested
Divorce In Mexico
By CHARLES GUPTILI
MEXICO CITY, UP) — Court
records at Cuernavacca Tuesday
showed that Sloan Simpson
O’Dwyer had won an uncontested
civil divorce from the former
mayor of New York two months
ago. But ex - mayor William
O’Dwyer said he would wait and
see what the church decides.
The O’Dwyers announced last
January that the Roman Catholic
Church had granted them permis
sion for a temporary separation.
Later Msgr. Luis Maria Martinez,
Archbishop of Mexico, said an
annulment was being sought
which would set both free to seek
new mates.
But the newspaper Excelsior
first reported Tuesday in a copy
righted dispatch from Cuerna
vacca, resort town 40 miles south
of the Mexican capital, that the
impetuous Sloan had obtained a
civil divorce.
The newspaper said the 34
year-old former model filed suit
there Feb. 18 charging O’Dwyer
with “irascibility” and was grant
ed a divorce from the 62-year-old
O’Dwyer on June 3.
O’Dwyer refused Tuesday to
comment on the decree, except to
say, “my marital affairs are in
the hands of the church, period.
That’s all I have to say.”
He quit his post as U.S. am
bassador to Mexico after Presi
dent Eisenhower’s election and
opened a law office here.
IT'S SO HOT!
McCLOUD, Okla., UP)—This is a
new version of it being so- hot you
can fry an egg on the sidewalk.
Mrs. Albert Godwin searched
high and low one night for a peep
ing noise. The next morning she
found a bantam egg left in the
kitchen cabinet by her young chil
dren had hatched.
» PANMUNJOM, UP) — A bitter
band of diehard Americans came
back from their Red prison camps
Tuesday — vowing vengeance on
weaker comrades who turned to
Communism under pressure.
They spat out “progressive” as
a dirty word, and wore with
honor the label of “reactionary”
fastened on them by Red Chinese
who clubbed and tortured them
but did not break their spirits.
One tough Amercan had to be
held back by force when he spot
ted a “progressive” at the Free
dom Village reception center.
“I’ll get that s.o.b. when I get
home,” he said.
One hundred Americans came
back from the north, along with
24 British, 25 Turks and 250
South Koreans in the seventh day
of the Korean war prisoner ex
change.
The first week of exchange has
brought 648 Americans o-f the
3,313 the Reds say they hold. A
total of 2,372 Allied captives have
been returned; the Reds listed
12,763.
The U.N. Command has return
ed 19,406 of its 74,000 Red prison
ers.
The latest group of Americans
released won the “reactionary”
honors the hard way.
There were bitter men among
the first groups last week, but
few matched the anger of the last
groups.
“If any progressives get on the
boat with me,” said one, “they’ll
be shark bait. They are hated
worse than the Chinks.”
“If I met one in a bar I’d hit
him in the mouth,” said another.
“One of us wouldn’t walk out—
and it wouldn’t be me.”
American officers and news
men were startled at the violence
of the reactions and immediate
steps were taken to keep some of
the groups separate to prevent
possible bloody clashes.
After months and years behind
the iron curtain, many still had
courage to defy the Communists.
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