THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1S43, at the
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INDIANS’ FUTURE BRIGHTENS
* <San Francisco Examiner)
In California, in New Mexico, in the Dakotas, in
deed throughout the United States, our first Americans
are facing the future with confidence, sure in their own
minds that under the administration of President-elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower there will come a new policy
on Indian affairs and that they may be treated as
human beings, as citizens, will have schools adminis
tered by the states, and may even have the right to
own property and conduct their affairs without the
consent of the out-moded Indian Bureau.
Their hopes are based on the fact that they have
such an understanding friend and champion in the
House as Rep. O. K. Armstrong, of Missouri, and in
the Senate as Hugh Butler, of Nebraska. They have
seen at first hand how the Indian Bureau has failed to
meet the Indian problem.
They have seen how much of the $88,000,000 ap
propriated for the Navajo Rehabilitation Program has
been spent on the Indian Bureau and how little on the
Indians. They are familiar With the experience of a
Gallup, N.M., businessman who was out on a Navajo
reservation and was approached by two shiny new
station wagons carrying the seal of the Indian Bureau, j
Driving the cars were two women empoyes of the |
bureau. They were seeking a certain community. When
asked as to what they were going to do, they replied
that they had been sent out to teach the Navajos how
to “cook over an open fire.”
Nor was this experience an unusual one in Indian
affairs. Clear back in pre-Civil War days the Indian
Bureau was recognized as a medium of gross corrup
tion and Abraham Lincoln urged the elimination of
the bureau. But it had survived, has feathered the nests
of thousands of political appointees and through the
years has done very, very little to benefit our first
Americans.
Today the Indians ask:
To do away with the Wheeler-Howard Act which
is supposed to give the Indians self-government, but
actually has as its purpose the perpetuation of the
Indian Bureau.
Turn the Indian Bureau school system over to the
state school system.
Give freedom and full citizenship rights to all
Indians.
Do away with the Indian Bureau.
Settle all treaty agreements and pay off the In
dians what we have promised to pay.
These are points the Indians expect to gain under
an administration which will recognize them as citi
zens—and not dependent wards of the government.
U.S.-Canada Surveys
Show 200,000 Caribou
Moving to Arctic Coast
WASHINGTON, WV-Joint Can
adian-United States surveys have
revealed a herd of about 200,000
caribou moving towards the Arc
tic coast.
Secretary of the Interior McKay
reported this yesterday, said that
aerial checks in northeastern Al
aska and northwestern Canada in
March showed the herd was trav
elling along the western slope of
the Richardson Mountains in
northern Yukon.
Movement of stragglers and
density of old tracks indicated
that the herd had wintered in
the upper Porcupine Basin in the
Yukon and around the headwaters
of the Black and Salmon Trout
Rivers in Alaska.
The surveys, the first made
jointly by the two countries, will
be continued both in Alaska and
Canada until June and will in
clude establishment of a camp in
the caribou calving area near the
mouth of the Firth River on the
Yukon coast.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Generally clear tonight and
Saturday with gentle northerly
winds. Low temperature expected
tonight 34, high tomorrow 50.
In last 24 hours as of 7:00 a.m.
today: high temperature 51, low
34. Maximum wind 19 mph from
N.E. Sunrise at 3:28 a.m., sunset
at 8:29 p.m.
A year ago today: high temper
ature 25, low 5. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 48 in 1941,
low -6 in 1914.
Plan Defeated For
Federal Bossing of
Oil Beyond 3 Miles
WASHINGTON, (*>— The Sen
ate defeated Thursday what Sen.
Taft called a “half-baked propos
ition” for federal administration
of the submerged continental shelf
beyond the three-mile limit.
Action came on rejection of an
amendment by Sen. Monroney
CD-Okla) to a bill to establish
state title to potentially oil-rich
submerged offshore lands within
their historical boundaries. The
roll call vote was 59 to 22.
These boundaries are claimed
to extend out 10 Vfe miles into the
Gulf of Mexico irt the case of
Texas and the west coast of Flor
ida. Thus Monroney’s proposal
would have denied these two
states seven and one-half miles of
what they claim.
The amendment provided that
federal revenues from oil and gas
development in the area outside
the three-mile zone would be de
voted to retirement of the $264'V£
billion public debt.
The vote marked the defeat of
the third amendment to be offered
by the band of senators fighting
the state ownership bill. Several
more amendments remain to be
disposed of before the final vote
on the measure next Tuesday.
Methodist Missionaries
Given to Russia for
Return to U. S.
TOKYO, WP)—The North Korean
Communists announced Friday
they had turned over to Russia
for retutn home seven U.S. civ
ilians seized at the outbreak of
the Korean War in June, 1950.
The State Department had
asked Russia to help in obtaining
their release. Russia recently ar
ranged the release of French and
British civilians who- also had
been held since the outbreak of
the war.
The seven to be released were
announced as a Mnryknoll priest,
a former State Department em
ployee and five Methodist mis
sionaries.
THIS HEN IS A ROOSTER
WARSAW, N.Y., UPt — Reuben
Pfeifer says one of his hens is
turning into a rooster.
“Look aUthat thing,” he told a
reporter. Tl,ast year it was a
mother and now it’s bustling
around just like any young roost
er.
Pfeifer said the first inkling he
got was when the Rhode Island
Red last year suddenly started
laying soft shelled eggs that grad
ually became smaller. Then they
stopped.
Now it has grown a rooster’s
comb and tries to crow. '
“It’s not much of a crow,”
Pfeifer admitted. “But she—but
he is trying hard. Maybe he’ll get
better with practice.”
Kentucky Derby Saturday
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Ml—Twelve
three-year-old horses, including
unbeaten Native Dancer and the
highly - regarded Correspondent,
Friday were entered, as expected,
for tomorrow’s running of the
$100,000 added Kentucky Derby
at Churchill Downs.
All of the probable field was in
before the entry box officially'
closed.
Fifteen minutes before the
deadline the name of Dark Star,
winner of the Derby trial, was
dropped- into the entry box to
complete the expected field.
Track conditions will determine
whether all 12 face starter Ruby
White at 4:30 p.m., EST, for the
mile and one-quarter turf classic.
Corporal Saw Russians
While POW in N. Korea
TOKYO, MV-A North Carolina
corporal said Thursday he saw
“several truckloads of Russian of
ficers and enlisted men” while a
prisoner of the Reds in North
Korea.
Chinese prison guards called
them “white Chinese,” said Cpl.
Sam B. Edwards, Polktown, N.C.
He said the men had white skin
and some had blond hair.
The trucks towed guns covered
with tarpaulins, he said, adding:
“I think these Russians probab
ly were anti-aircraft specialists.
I believe, too, that Russians were
operating a searchlight near our
prison camp.”
LONGSHORE UNION GETS
MORE TIME TO OUST MEN
WITH CRIMINAL RECORD
WASHINGTON, (P-^Joseph P.
Ryan told Senate investigators
Thursday his International Long
shoremen’s Assn. GLA) has been
granted more time to comply with
an AFL directive to get rid of
men with criminal records.
The AFL ordered the longshore
men’s union last January to clean
up or get out of the federation. It
set April 30 as the deadline, but
Ryan said the IL A had been
granted an extension until May 15.
GOVERNOR OF GUAM AND
i HEINTZLEMAN ON WAY TO
GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE
SEATTLE, (P— Governor Ford
Q. Elvidge of Guam arrived here
Thursday on his way to- Washing
ton for a conference of governors
with President Eisenhower.
The Seattle man arrived here
by Pan American Airways plane
and Gov. B. Frank Heintzleman
of Alaska will arrive tonight by
the same line. Heintzleman will
leave for the capital tomorrow.
The conferences begin Monday.
SMART GARDENER
TOFIELD, Alberta, (P—Andrew
Spohn dug carrots from his garden
throughout the winter, even when
it was 45 below zero. He placed
a layer of straw over the carrot
beds just before freeze-up and the
i roots stayed fresh and juicy.
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Secret POW Camp
In N. Korea May
Hold Americans
TOKYO, UP)—A secret Commu
nist prison camp, hidden deep in
I North Korea, may hold some Am
erican fighting men known to .be
Red prisoners but who never have
been seen by other U.S. captives,
a young Navy flier said today.
He reported one was a Marine
officer and atomic energy expert.
“There was one camp we have
very little information on, Lt.
Marvin S. Broomhead said in an
interview at Tokyo Army hospit
al. He was repatriated in last
week’s exchange of disabled war
prisoners.
Broomhead, 26, of Salt Lake
City, said the Communists some
times broke down prisoners and
forced them to “confess” things
they had not done. He said other
prisoners believed these men also
were sent to the mysterious camp.
The flier said one of the prison
ers never seen by other POWs
was a Marine lieutenant colonel
with a background of experience
with the Atomic Energy Com
mission. That officer was shot
down over North Korea several
months ago.
Ace Downs 12th Mig
SEOUL, (ff)—Capt. Manuel Fer
nandez shot down his 12th Mig
Thursday in “the roughest fight
I ever had” to tie the individual
record for destruction of the Rus
sian - built Red fighters over
Korea.
Fernandez tied the mark set
last month by Col. Royal Baker of
McKinney, Texas, who has gone
home.
Ground fighting remained light
for the fifth straight day.
Civil Aeronautics Board
Proposes Airline Payment
For Carrying Alaska Mail
WASHINGTON, (ff) —The Civil
Aeronautics Board Thursday pro
posed the following payments to
airlines for carrying mail in Al
aska:
Alaska Airlines— $2,620,000 an
nually from Oct. 1, 1952, on; the
question of adequate rates for the
past kept open for further study.
Wien Alaska Airlines— An ad
ditional $150,000 in temporary
mail pay for Oct. 24, 1952, through
Feb. 28, 1953; an increase of $400,
000 annually, from March 1, 1953,
to provide a total payment of
about $1,453,000 a year.
The board said that forr its U.S.
Alaska service, Alaska Airlines
from Oct. 1, 1952, on should get
$1,296,000 annually, of which $87,
076 would be service pay and
$1,208,924 subsidy.
For operations within Alaska,
the airline would get $1,324,000
annually, including $365,327 ser
vice pay and $958,673 subsidy.
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