THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
postoffice at Nome. Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
FIXING RESPONSIBILITY
FOR ALASKA SHIPPING
(The Seattle Times)
In virtually declining the assistance that might
be provided by federal legislation to cure Seattle
Alaska shipping stoppages, local groups interested in
that question have assumed a large and heavy respon
sibility. The groups referred to include both labor
and management in the maritime industry and Mayor
Allen Pomeroy’s Maritime Advisory Committee.
The upshot of the recent congressional hearing in
Seattle to inquire into this subject, was in effect, that
these groups undertook to assure uninterrupted ship
ping service between Seattle and Alaska during labor
controversies, without recourse to remedial federal
legislation. It is a/large order,' and this community and
Alaska can only'hope those who have accepted it will
be able to deliver the goods.
How large an order it is can be gathered from a
glance at a report prepared for the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Alaska Lifeline Committee showing the
extent to which Alaska shipping has been interrupted
by major labor disputes and strikes since 1934.
Five of the longest of these interruptions occurred
in the years 1934, 1936-’37, 1946, 1948 and 1952. In
those years, respectively, shipping between Seattle
and Alaska was compltely halted for 84, 94, 94, 95 and
53 days—a total of 420 days, one entire year plus two
months.
Thse figures do not cover all the stoppages that
ihave occurred in offshore shipping all along the Pacific
Coast, or tied up individual companies, as, for ex
ample, the Alaska Steamship Company in 1947. These
interruptions add up to 698 days and it is estimated
they cost members of the maritime labor unions almost
7,900,000 man-days of work. What they have cost the
people and economy of Alaska, ship operators, ship
pers, suppliers and the economy of Seattle and the
Pacific Coast cannot even be estimated.
All this serves to show how large a problem
Mayor Pomeroy’s committee and spokesmen for the
shipping industry — both labor and management —
have tackled. Specifically, their problem is to keep
ships moving to Alaska while labor strife is being set
tled. If they are to succeed, they will need the fullest
measure of support from the maritime industry, the
maritime unions and the entire business community
of Seattle.
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Princeton Students
Stage Melee After
Air Raid Drill
PRINCETON, N.J., MV—A prac
tice air raid drill wound up with
1,000 Princeton students staging
a three-hour melee in this college
town’s streets Tuesday night.
The air raid blackout was
scheduled by local Civil Defense
officials for 9:30 p.m. At the same
time campaign managers in a
campus election had scheduled a
“riot” for their candidate.
When the blackout ended, the
students started a parade. A fist
fight broke out between an ex
pelled student and a proctor, one
of the campus police.
Municipal police got involved in
the hassle and a patrolman was
taken to Princeton Hospital with
cut hands suffered when he went
through a plate glass window.
The marchers proceeded to the
railroad station for the avowed
purpose of derailing a train. When
they got there they merely blew
the train's whistle a few times
and left.
They staged a mass invasion of
a local theater, disrupting the
showing of a movie. At one point
they marched on Westminster
Choir School chanting “We want
sex.”
The parade route was marked
by a trail of overturned garbage
cans, mailboxes and signposts.
Dean Francis Godolphin issued
an ultimatum that broke up the
student mob.
Standing in the square across
from the campus Godolphin stated
simply, “Any man not back in his
dormitory within two minutes
will be liable to disciplinary ac
tion.” The square was clear two
minutes later.
Godolphin called the demon
stration a natural aftermath of
the air raid drill.
Dartmouth Students Disciplined
HANOVER, N.H., UP) — Two
Dartmouth College students have
been expelled and six others dis
ciplined for getting an eight-year
old boy drunk in their dormitory
last Tuesday.
The disciplining included one
suspension until September, 1954;
three probations until February,
1954, and two warnings.
Eden Undergoes Operation
LONDON, UP) — Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden underwent a
second operation today.
The foreign secretary, 55, was
operated on April 12 for removal
of gallstones. His recovery has
been slow with a recurrence of
jaundice and for a time develop
ment of tonsilitis with some fever.
The Foreign Office announced
his condition is satisfactory.
$37!/2 Million More Construction
For Alaska Gets Go Ahead
ANCHORAGE, UP) — A “go
ahead” from the Bureau of the
Budget for another 37 Vz million
dollars worth of Alaska military
base construction was reported
Monday by Col. L. H. Foote, the
Army’s Alaska District engineer.
He said the new “thaw” raised
to 254 million dollars the total of
projects in the clear for 1953 op
erations. This total includes all
projects released since the Feb.
7 “freeze” on new construction by
the Secretary of Defense, plus
contracts which had been award
ed previously and were not af
fected by the Feb. 7 order.
The latest release covers 19 Air
Force construction projects at El
mendorf, Ladd and Eielsoh bases.
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FAIRBANKS AGENT
PLUGS FOR TOURISM
BEFORE CHAMBER
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was appointed to arrange a pro
gram of entertainment.
Mr. Goshuw states that as this
will be the first business and
visitor contacts for the 1953 sea
son, all businesses and other citi
zens should join in welcoming our
Fairbanks guests and make plea
sant and interesting their short
stay here.
Goshaw also said the Fairbanks
Chamber is greatly interested in
the construction of an extension
of the Alaska Highway from
Fairbanks to Nome and to Wales
and will cooperate with the Nome
people towards its construction.
The construction of this great
connecting highway will not only
be of great value to our military
defenses but will assist in the
opening of our mineral resources,
bring thousands of visitors every
year and will again make Nome
a large port, for a great portion
of northern Alaska will be served
by trucks hauling freight out of
Nome. This is a needed project
that all Nomeites should endorse
and assist.
Other guests were Pfc. George
Moto, returned soldier from Ko
rea, who was wounded in battle
last October, and Rev. Gordon
Gould of the Methodist Board of
Missions.
NOTICE
Women's Society of fhe Com
munity Methodist Church will
meet Friday evening at the par
sonage for a potluck supper.
Dinner will start promptly at 5:30
followed by a short business
meeting so that all may go to
the program at the school.
52 Mrs. A; Norland, Pres.
U. S. Foreign Officer
Testifies He Attended
Communist Meetings
WASHINGTON, (£*) — A State
Department foreign officer now *
■assigned in Germany testified to
day he attended some meetings in
the 1930’s with persons he now
assumes were Communists.
Theodore Kaghan, the witness,
to'ld the Senate investigations sub
committee that he was not a
member of the Communist party
although he believed he was
worked on to join.
Kaghan also testified: ,
That he lived between 1935 and
1940 in New York with a man,
Ben Irvin, who he now assumed ’
was a Communist.
That he signed a nominating
petition in 1939 for a Communist
candidate for city councilman,
Israel Amter, but he did not vote
for him.
Kaghan, 40, stocky, dark-haired
and wearing a mustache, was
called back from Germany by the
State Department to testify before
the investigations committee
headed by Sen. McCarthy.
Kaghan appeared before Mc
Carthy’s committee in a closed
session yesterday. At that time,
it was disclosed, he said he did
not recognize Communism as a
danger in the 1930’s but had been
fighting it vigorously in the last
10 years.
One-Quarter of Irish Girls
Must Become Old Maids
DUBLIN, Ireland, (#)—One girl
out of four must expect to die an
old maid in the Irish Republic,
an official report disclosed Wed
nesday.
A new census said only 75 per
cent of all Colleens now find hus
bands, against 87Vfe per cent in
1941. <•
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
SUMMER SCHEDULE
! Effective Saturday, May 2, Pan American Airways j
I Will Adopt Its Summer Schedule
The Only Change in Operating Times
From the Present Schedule Will Be
1 DEPARTURE TIME FROM NOME
i This will be at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday i
Arrival time in Seattle Will Be
6:00 a.m. THURSDAY AND SUNDAY
Affprding ample time for connections east and south of Seattle
Briefly this is PAA’s Schedule After May 1: , j
Arrive Nome 9:30 a.m. — Depart 3:00 p.m.