THE NOME NUGGET
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AWAKENING AT GENEVA
Final admission from Geneva of the utter collapse
of the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference reminds
us of the words of Thomas F. Connor, spoken before a
church group in Arlington, Va., back in 1953:
“I wonder what it’s going to take to make us realize
that you can’t make a truce with evil. What is morally
wrong is never politically right—yet we are being en
treated constantly to sup with the devil.
“'The price of survival is the knowledge, the brutal
truth,, of the kind of world in which we are living. We
have been hurt already in our national life because
much of what is bitter reality has been sugar-coated.”
Connor, who first came to national notice as the
newspaper editor who brought new industry and fresh
hope into the dying coal town of Scranton, Pa., during
the depression, and later brought ringing conviction to
the Voice of America, was not speaking in 1953 of any
chimera such as the “spirit of Geneva,” but of our fail
ure to resist Communism at home.
He spoke of “the neutralists in our country, who
insist there is no danger in the Communistic threat—
that we have only to look the other way, mind our own
business and everything is going to be all right.” He
spoke of the growing ranks of Americans shielding
themselves behind the Fifth Amendment and expand
ing acceptance of the idea that it is impolite, even un
constitutional, to question suspected accomplices of
the Red conspiracy.
“It has come to pass,” said Connor, “where the
search for Communists amongst us has, in certain quar
ters, become the great crime, the duly constituted inves
tigators the great criminals, and loyal citizens stigma
tized as as the threats to our liberties.”
If the Geneva fiasco has finally convinced us of the
simple fact, so often stated by Lenin and Stalin, that
there is no compromise with Communism, the late con
ference will not have been in vain.
Unionville Republican (Mo.): “It is no safer to our
form of government and our liberty in America to have
a government dominated and controlled by labor than
it is to have it dominated and controlled by capital. In
either case we have an oligarchy, and the people lose
their freedom and are plundered in the interest of one
segment of our society, because ruthless and selfish
men always manage to seize the reins-”
Russia Chides Iran j
For Membership . '
In Baghdad Pact
MOSCOW tiW—'The Soviet Union
told Iran Saturday that her mem
bership in the Baghdad pact en
dangered Soviet frontiers. A note
placed responsibility for “possible
consequences” upon Iran.
Foreign Minister Molotov hand
ed the Soviet note on Iran’s par
ticipation in the Baghdad pact to
Iranian Charge d’Affaires Ette
Sami.
The Soviet note said that de
spite its “friendly warning,” Iran
decided to join the Baghdad
“bloc.” The pact links Iran, Iraq,
Turkey and Pakistan along Rus
sia’s southern frontiers in a mu
tual defense alliance with Britain.
The initial meeting of British
Foreign Minister Harold MacMil
lan with premiers of the other
four nations in the pact was held
in Baghdad last week. At the con
ference, it was arranged to set up
a permanent organization.
An Iranian memo of Oct. 17
said Iran could not accept fhe
Soviet opinion that the pact is an
instrument of aggressive circles.
The Iranians told the Soviet
government they were only exer
cising their own right of sover
eignty and taking all steps consid
ered necessaxy to guaranty peace
and security.
House Built of Live
Artillery Shells Being
Carefully Torn Down
CAPRILE, Italy, IjP)—Unable to
afford costly bricks, Nicolo Soja,
47, used scrap material from a
nearby military dump when he
built a house back in 1948. His
wife and two daughters moved in
with him.
Saturday artillery men evacu
ated the family and began, very
carefully, to tear down the house.
Nicolo had used artillery shells,
many of them alive.
Veteran Correspondent
For Ass x*iated Press
Dies at 5^ in Hong Kong
HONG KONG, —Veteran cor
respondent Fred Harnpson, Asso
ciated Press bureau chief for Chi
na with headquarters here, died
Saturday at '53.
Weakened by years of bronchi
tis and asthma which stemmed
from hardships as a correspondent
in the South Pacific during World
War II, Harnpson succumbed to
bronchial pneumonia.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Generally cloudy with occasion
al light snow tonight and and to
morrow. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 11, high Tuesday 18.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
22, low 5. Max. wind 18 mph. from
the NE. Sunrise 9:16 a.m., sunset
2:22 p.m.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -8 Clear
Kotzebue 5 Clear
Wales 10 Cloudy
Nome 18 Cloudy
Unalakleet 10 Part cloudy
Bethel 11 Part cloudy
McGrath -22 Clear
Anchorage 9 Cloudy
Fairbanks -23 Clear
Whitehorse -12 Snow
Edmonton -II Clear
Juneau 28 Snow
Ketchikan 42 Rain
Seattle 44 Cloudy
San Francisco 54 Smoke
Judge Sets Aside Verdict
Of Jury in Death of
Charles Menadelook
SITKA, Nov. 25, tA*)—A coro
ner’s jury, after an hour’s deliber
ations, brought in a verdict of
death by strangulation at the
hands of person or persons un
known in the case of Charles Men
adclook Jr., 30, employee at Mt.
Edgecumbe School, Monday. But
this verdict was disapproved by
the court.
Elliot Olanna and Kenneth
Dewey, two close friends, had
found the body hanging by a belt
from a coat hook on the back of
the door in Menadelook’s room at
Mt. Edgecumbe Sunday evening,
when they went to ask him to ac
company them to a show.
A letter, a holographic will and
a note found on the desk in the
room were considered by the jury.
The letter, addressed to Mena
delook’s wife, Verna, who was re
siding with her parents at An
goon, indicated he was very un
happy about their separation. The
couple had been married here on
Sept. 2.
Menadelook was born in 1925 at
Little Diomede Island.
Huge Traffic Jam
In Chicago's Loop as
Christmas Season Starts
CHICAGO, (A’)—Chicago’s loop
had one of its biggest traffic jams
in history Friday as an estimated
one million persons swarmed into
the downtown district for the tra
ditional opening day of the Christ
mas shopping season.
Michael Ahern, traffic police
chief who estimated the crowd,
said 188 traffic policemen were
put on 16-hour shifts to untangle
the snarls of auto traffic and to
guide the surge of pedestrians.
Egypt is virtually rainless ex
cept for a narrow strip along the !
Mediterranean. I
Bill Munz Writes Story
On Winter Wolf Hunting
For Alaska Sportsman
“When hunting wolves by air
plane, it’s sometimes a toss-up
who will be killed—the wolf or
the hunter,” writes well-known
Alaskan pilot and hunter William
Munz in a featured story in the
December issue of The Alaska
Sportsman, now on sale at news
stands.
In the article, Munz tells of his
experiences hunting the predators
by plane in the dead of winter.
Eddy Cantor 411
HOLLYWOOD, lM — Comedian
Eddie Cantor, 63, is being treated
at home for a kidney infection
which will prevent him from ap
pearing as a guest star next Tues
day on Milton Berle’s television
program.
Cantor’s wife Ida said the com
edian was stricken Friday. She
said he will remain in bed at least
two days.
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