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.
TITO SAYS REDS REFORM
After watching the new leaders of the Soviet
Union operate for several months without crediting
them with anything more than bluff in the much pro
pagandized peace offensive, Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia announced a few days ago he was finally con
vinced that the Soviet Union is really changing its
policies. The Marshal’s statement is significant because
he has refused to accept the much-publicized change of
policy in Russia as anything but propaganda heretofore.
The Yugoslav dictator advised the West, in this
latest pronouncement, to reach an international set
tlement with the new leaders of the Kremlin, based
on realism. The recommendation, it seems to us, means
that we should exhibit patience and a willingness to
cooperate in any peaceful effort.
Tito said it was the Communist policy shift in
Hungary which had convinced him that the rulers of
the Soviet Union were actually changing their tactics.
There, Hungary’s No. 1 Communist w7as recently re
moved from his post as premier and his successor
immediately criticized him and promised the people
widespread reforms, which included some steps in the
direction of more private enterprise.
Tito thus joins the circle including Prime Min
ister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, that has ad
vocated a conference among the top-level leaders of
the great powTers in an effort to ease international
tension. An old Communist, himself, and a ruler who
led his country out of the Soviet-dominated orbit, Tito
must be credited with some knowledge in this field.
His statement that he is now convinced Soviet policies
are actually changing and that the shifts in Communist
policy are not all propaganda, is worth consideration,
though we suspect Tito to be a bit optimistic.
NOT REALLY!
We have always been skeptical of these people
who are preparing for the end of the world, but there
are signs that the millenium may be approaching.
Sentiment is gradually building up in Washing
ton for a bill that Congressman Frederic R. Coudert
of New York would like considered. It would make
it unlawful for the government to spend more than
it takes in!
After 177 years, someone would think of that.
Bob Brandt Named
Superintendent Of
Territorial Police
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JUNEAU, UFi—A veteran of 10
years with the Alaska Highway
Patrol, Lieut. A. P. “Bob” Brandt,
Fairbanks, was named superinten
dent of Alaska’s new Territorial
Police Force Friday.
His salary will be $10,000 a year.
Commissioners who chose him
for the position also created the
post of captain, with a $9,500 an
nual salary. The new police force
was created by the last legislature
with greatly expanded powers.
Brandt will make gll his own
appointments.
The commissioners, headed by
E. B. Collins, Fairbanks, empha
sized that political considerations
must be disregarded in selecting
qualified personnel for the new
patrol. They also assured 44 offi
cers transferring from the High
way Patrol that they will receive
preference in the new department.
Brandt, 52, entered Alaska in
1941 as a civilian guard for the
Army Engineers. He resigned to
enter the Patrol in 1943.
He had been a guard at the
Oregon State Prison from 1939 to
1941, and was with the Portland,
Ore., fire department from 1934 to
1939. He is married and childless.
His file shows numerous letters
of praise and gratitude for courte
sies. Included is one from William
S. Street, president of Frederick
and Nelson, Seattle, commending
Brandt for “heroic work above
the line of cjjjty” in assisting
Street’s son, Bill, whose feet
froze on the Alaska Highway in
January, 1949.
W. Berlin Food Give-Away
BERLIN, W) — Hungry, jobless
persons from the Soviet sector
flocked Saturday to a new West
Berlin food give-away. It was or
ganized by Mayor Willy Kress
mann to prove Soviet High Com
missioner Vladimir Semyenov
was wrong in claiming “unem
ployment does not exist in East
Berlin.”
Henry A. Harmon Reappointed
Director Alaska Public Welfare
JUNEAU, (J)—Henry A. Har
mon of Juneau* was reappointed
Friday as director of the Alaska
Department of Public Welfare.
The Public Welfare Board
named him to a four-year term at
its meeting. Harmon has headed
the department since 1949.
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Don Brach
ner, Herman Porter, Mrs. D. Cop
lin, Gale Coplin, A. Brauchli, H.
F. Lincoln.
To Anchorage: Maj. Kemkley,
John Radar, G. Bognar, C. A.
Smith, T. Ohnstad, H. Fitzpatrick,
F. P. Henry, D. Dipple, J. Earl
Cooper, M. Smith, Capt. Ventura,
E. C. Smith.
From Unalakleet: M. Ansell.
From McGrath: J. R. Clapp,
C. C. Beatty, Chas. Orr.
To Unalakleet: Lucile Dahle,
Arlene Amuktoolik.
Eo McGrath: Ed Dodd.
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Communis! propaganda aimed at GIs in Korea has long
amused the troops. The picture above is typical of earlier efforts.
A new example (shown below) may be no more effective, but
at least it is more polished grammatically, and better presented.
--LIVE AND LET
You may' be a Protestant or a Catholic. Your neighbor
may have a different religion.
But you don’t shoot vour neighbor for this reason—nor
does he keep a gun loaded for you.
Yet you are told that yon have to fight In Korea to “smash
Communism”—which is a belief and a way of fife treasured by
the Chinese, Koreans, and many others—about KOfl million
people all over tbe world.
Did the Chinese or Koreans go to America to “smash
Capitalism”—another way of life? The answer is “No". They
haven’t and they won’t, because they believe in peaceful
coexistence.
Of course, when you come here with a gun. attempting to
smash our way of life, we shoot back.
At present, your generals are plotting to expand the war. We
are determined and have the strength to defeat any aggression,
You would not be tn Korea if your Government said live
and let lire.
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SHIP BURNS
PORT HARDY, B.C., A Se
attle-owned ship returning from
Kodiak, Alaska, to the States
caught fire and was beached here
Friday.
One crewman suffered face
burns. Four others escaped in
jury. The captain of the ship says
the vessel is probably a total loss.
The ship had delivered a load
of cattle at Kodiak.
CANNIBAL FEASTS ENDED
SYDNEY, [ff\— A New Guinea
mission claims it has weaned a
group of cannibals away from
their age-old custom of eating all
their dead. Pastor H. White, Sev
enth-Day Adventist Mission Ad
ministrator for the Coral Sea
area, told of these New Guineans,
who, he said, formerly ate bodies
to perpetuate the strength of the
dead. The former cannibals, he
said in an interview, live in a re
cently opened area of New Guinea
near the Dutch border.
“They used to eat everybody
from young babies to old chiefs,”
he said. “Not only did they eat
the flesh, but they used to' grind
the bones up for bone meal.”
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"STRICTLY PLEASURE" FOR
GENERAL PETROLEUM HEAD
SEATTLE, UP — Now that his
company has planted the seed of
a great new industry in the Pacif
ic Northwest, Robert L. Minckler,
president of General Petroleum
Corp., and wife are Alaska-bound
for a vacation cruise.
They were among the 140 per
sons who sailed aboard the SS
Baranof of Alaska Steamship Co.
Friday afternoon. The ship, with
Capt. Henry Burns as master, left
in a hail of serpentine, typical of
the summer tourist season in the
Seattle-Alaska route.
Minckler said his round-trip
voyage is “strictly pleasure.”
“No business this trip,” he said.
“I’m going north to get away from
telephones for a while.”
LONG AND SHORT OF IT
ROCHESTER, Mich., W— The
annual field day of southeastern
Michigan farmers on August 4
will include a demonstration of
N - trichloromethylthitetrahydro
phthalandide.
It’s a fungicide used to control
apple scab.
Happily, it has another name:
Just call it “406,”
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