THE NOME NUGGET
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HIS STRONG ALLY
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MORE THAN AN INCIDENT ?
The Search has been called off for survivors or
further wreckage of the four-engine U.S. Navy patrol
plane reported shot down over international waters
32 miles off the Red China coast. A hint that this may
be more than just another “incident” and that tension
may be mounting in the Formosa area is seen in the
news that Lieut. Francis A. Flood Jr., of Washington,
D.C., was one of four officers in the crew. Just prior to
the flight he had received word of the death of his
father—and radioed his family that he was unable to
get emergency leave to come home.
The Reds probably have an alibi: mistaken identity.
FROM A LITTLE ACORN
Parcel post came into being at the beginning of
1913. It’s a safe bet that few people then had any idea
of how greatly this institution would grow, or of the
direction its development would take.
It was envisaged as a limited service, handling
small parcels, primarily for farmers and rural residents
not adequately served by private carriers. Congress
specified that the service should be self-sustaining, that
it should supplement and not supersede private car
riers.
Parcel post has gone astray from these intents. Dur
ing much of its life it has been run at a loss—the accu
mulated deficit for the 1926-52 period was in excess
of $1 billion. It has and does unnecessarily compete
with private carriers, in fields and in areas where pri
vate express service is perfectly adequate. And it has
made it constantly more difficult for private carriers
to stay in busines. That some have is a tribue to their
resourcefulness and standards of service.
Norwich, (N.Y.) Union: “There are few folks,
these days, who take pride in their ability to do Kvithout
the things they cannot afford.”
Beaver Falls (Pa.) News-Tribune: “The Chinese
Year of the Monkey—4,654—'has just begun. The year
of the Sheep has just ended. One could wish that Chi
na’s subjugated millions, instead of knuckling down to
their Red overlords like sheep, would emulate the mon
key during the coming year. For monkeys are individ
ualists. Moreover, monkeys can bite!”
200 Fishing Boats
Intercept Salmon
Bound for Rivers
SEATTLE, Wl—A fleet of some
200 fishing boats is setting up a
barrier of nets about 40 miles at
sea and intercepting salmon
bound for the inshore waters and
rivers of the Pacific Northwest,
the Times said yesterday.
“The boats are using gill nets,
some of them a mile long,” the
Times article reported.
It added the fishing “apparent
ly can’t be touched by any regu
latory agency—state, national or
international—under the present
laws.”
A man “close to the situation”
was quoted as saying “these boats
are doing the came thing we’ve
been criticizing the Japanese for
doing.”
“The boats offshore are said to
be about evenly divided between
American and Canadian craft,
with Americans possibly in the
majority,” the Times continued.
“Fish that would be protected
by Washington, Canadian or in
ternational law if they lived to
enter regulated waters are being
taken indiscriminately.”
Robert J. Schoettler, director
of the Washington Dept, of Fish
eries, said there is almost no
limit to the length of nets that
can be . used. Some Japanese
boats (used elsewhere) have nets
five miles long.
The article said the effect was
being felt by the offshore trollers
and quoted the fisherman as say
ing “the amount of troll-caught
salmon being brought in today is
hardly enough to grease a skillet."
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Sudden Illness of Gen. Ramey, USAF,
Will Delay Reorganization Integrated
Continental Air Defense Command
WASHINGTON. — Lt. Gen.
Roger M. Ramey, one of Ameri
ca’s most famous air generals, has
been stricken ill on the eve of a
new assignment and probably
will retire soon.
Ramey, formerly Fifth Air
Force commander in Japan, re
turned to the United States last
June to take charge of the Air
Defense Command. He was to
serve as deputy to Gen. Earle E.
Partridge, chief of the Continen
tal Air Defense Command, at
Colorado Springs.
Ramey, 52, suffered a heart at
Attorneys Seek Review
Of Graham’s Conviction
As Plane Dynamiter
DENVER, UP>—A transcript of
a hearing at which plane dyna
miter John Gilbert Graham, 24,
said he did not wish to appeal
his death sentence for murder
was filed with the Colorado Su
preme Court Wednesday.
It was submitted by lawyers
seeking a review of Graham’s
conviction, which resulted from
the explosion of an airliner in
which his mother died.
The reply brief again raised
questions over a judge’s refusal
to let Graham waive a jury trial
and Denver jurisdiction in the
case. It also questioned the valid
ity of Graham’s admission to the
FIJI that he placed a bomb aboard
the plane in the luggage of his i
mother, Mrs. Daisie E. King.
Graham was convicted of mur- j
der in the death of his mother, I
one of 44 persons who died last!
Nov. 1 when the plane exploded
and crashed near Longmont, Colo. |
tack" at Barksdale Air Force Base,
La., before he could check in at
hi§ new post. He has told friends
the heart attack means the end
of his Air Force career.
His sudden illness has delayed
Air Force plans for reorganiza
tion of the Continental Air De
fense Command, which includes
not only ADC’d 2,000 jet fighters,
but also the Army’s expanding
system of Nike antiaircraft de
fenses, and ships and aircraft
assigned to a central warning
and defense system.
VOTE REPUBLICAN!
Vote For
W.W. (Chief) Laws
For
House of Representatives
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