2 THE NOME NUGGET Friday, May 21. 1954
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WHO’S THAT BEHIND YOU, JOE?
NATIONAL MARITIME DAY
On May 22 this country will observe National
Maritime Day. It will be a very significant day indeed
in at least one respect—for, unless the current situation
changes drastically, the future of our merchant marine
looks dark indeed.
The Coatesville, Pa., Record gave a two-sentence
picture of conditions when it said: “Uncle Sam is
falling behind with his merchant marine. We now
have the largest tonnage total, but the ships are grow
ing older each day and are not being replaced.”
Raymond Moley went into the problem in a News
week article. He showed that a merchant marine of
our own is absolutely essential—yet we lag far down
the list of nations, in seventh place, in private ship con
struction. His conclusion was: “Subsidies in accord
ance with our shipping acts, which, incidentally, are
the only government subsidies that are subject to re
capture, plus a sound shipbuilding program can correct
the unfortunate and inauspicious state of our maritime
affairs.”
An excellenUplan to create such a program has
been offered by a spokesman for the Committee bf
American Steamship Lines. In his opinion, it would
encourage private and institutional lenders to invest
up to $2,500,000,000 in new U. S. ship construction.
Under it the government would insure mortgages on
the new ships, under rules and stipulations that would
fully protect the taxpayers’ interests. The time for
action is now, if in future years we are to have a reason
for celebrating National Maritime Day.
Windom, Minn., Reporter: “Perhaps the best an
swer to those who advocate compulsory government
health programs is the remarkable growth of voluntary
health insurance. Virtually unknown in the early 1930s,
hosp'tal insurance today covers almost three out of five
ners^ns in the United States. . . The huge expansion
of health insurance in this country has been 100 percent
voluntary. No American has been compelled by gov
ernment or any other agency to spend a dollar for
health insurance.”
According to the boys in the back room a naturalist
is one who throws a lot of sevens.
"Please Make It Work for Other Kids"
Senate Committee to Make ‘Searching
Inquiry’ Into Allies’ Trade With China
WASHINGTON, —■ Chairman '
Bridges (R-NH) said Thursday the
Senate Appropriations Committee
will make a “searching inquiry”
into the extent to which free world
Allies have agreed to relax bans
on trade with Red China.
Bridges’ plan for an investiga
tion of this issue came after Sen.
McCarthy told the Senate Wed
nesday it would be “criminal
folly” not to cut off U.S. financial
aid to nations which ship “the
sinews of military and economic
strength” to the Communists.
McCarthy had barely finished
his floor address before foreign
aid administrator Harold E. Stas
sen shot back with a statement
that what the senator said was
“fantastic, unbelievable and un- j
true.”
Stassen, who has tangled with
McCarthy before, said “We are
steadily building for peace under
Eisenhower’s leadership.” And in
an obvious reference to McCar
thy’s televised tangle with Army
officials, Stassen declared “Sen.
McCarthy is frantically reaching
for diversionary headlines after
the sorry spectacle of his record
in recent hearings.”
McCarthy, in what he said was
a “painful and unpleasant” dis
cussion of Republican “shortcom
ings,” called for the listing by
Stassen erf “every type of material
which we have agreed that our
Allies can ship to our enemies.”
Bridges said in an interview
Thursday that the appropriations
group, which passes on foreign
aid funds, “already has taken
cognizance of Stassen’s statements
indicating a weakening of the ban
on trade with the Reds.”
“We will want to go into this
matter very thoroughly and see
that the aid we are giving, or its
equivalent, is not directly or in
directly filtering into Communist
hands,” he said.
Stassen’s statement said a full
accounting of the administration’s
“successful administration of
trade controls” was given in a
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report to Congress made pubilc
on Sunday.
In that report Stassen portrayed
free world trade with the Com
munist bloc as a whole as declin
ing in 1953. While commerce with
Red China crept up at least tem
porarily, he said, “the glittering
prospect of a vast and lucrative
trade” which traders envisioned
with the Chinese mainland “was
not materializing.”
Bill to Ban Interstate
Liquor Advertising Called
Step to Prohibition Return
WASHINGTON. UP)—A liquor
industry spokesman Thursday
called a bill to impose a nation
wide federal ban on interstate
liquor advertising “a step to the
return of national prohibition.”
As opponents of the proposal
took their turn before the House
Commerce Committee, R. E.
Joyce, vice president of the Dis
tilled Spirits Institute appearing
as an industry spokesman, de
clared in prepared testimony:
“This bill should be recognized
for what it really is —a clever
attempt to erect a sizable obstacle
in the path of orderly sale of alco
holic beverages as a step to the
return of national prohibition by
a minority who, if they had their
way, would completely prohibit
the manufacture and sale of the
product.”
The current hearing represents
the fifth time since 1947 that Con
gress has considered measures to
bar interstate dissemination of al
coholic beverage advertising in
newspapers and magazines, and
over radio and television.
Spokesmen for temperance and
church groups gave the proposal
their solid backing Wednesday.
They assailed beer and liquor
promotions as “totalitarian brain
washing,” “lying 'propaganda,” a
means of recruiting youth to al
coholism, and a “one-sided glori
fication” of habit-forming drink.”
MEMORIAL DAY WREATHS
— AT CAVOTA'S
Fairbanks Woman Asks
Delay Statehood Pending
An Alaska Referendum
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voted for it, I’d be one of the
first to change,” she declared.
She has met with members of
the House Rules Committee, the
House and Senate Interior Com
mittees and Speaker Martin. She
has also been to the White House
but conferred with an aide.
“I didn’t bring gold nuggets or
forget-me-nots, just the facts,”
she declared, referring to memen
tos given the President by a pro
statehood delegation which visit
ed last week.
Among her arguments, Miss
Stuart contends Alaska has nei
ther the population to support
statehood nor to warrant the les
sening of the value of the vote of
senators from more populous
states.
She believes too much of Alas
ka’s economy is based on govern
ment construction—“let’s wait a
year or two after the boom and
see what happens.”
She suggests also that estimates
of Alaska’s population brought
out in Senate debates and com
mittee hearings have varied so
materially that Congress should
vote money for a census of the
territory in 1955 to see what the
population actually is.
She indicated only one reserva
tion about her stand during the
interview.
“The Senate bill,” she said, “is
such a beautiful bill I wonder
if when we’re ready we’ll get as
much.”
Then, as if to answer her own
question, she added:
“But if you can’t afford it; you
shouldn’t buy it.”
Chinese Reds May
Be Preparing to
Attack Nationalists
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP>—A sharp
increase in aerial action off Chi
na’s Chekiang Province the past
few days has stirred speculation
that the Communists may be pre
paring an attack on island bases
held by Nationalist forces off the
coast.
A Nationalist official said yes
terday there is no indication that
an invasion is near, but acknowl
edged that stepped up aerial at
tacks are aimed at disrupting any
plans the Communists may have.
The official also acknowledged
thal. a Red invasion could come
with little advance warning.
The most important of the is
land bases is Quemoy, just off the
China coast across the Formosa
channel. Next in importance are
the Tachen Islands off Chekiang,
northern anchor for the string of
offshore Nationalist strongpoints.
It is in the vicinity of the Ta
chens that Nationalist fighters
have clashed four times in the
past week with Communist Mig
jets. And it is in this area that
Nationalist pilots claimed to have
sunk two Red warships—one of
1,500 tons and one of 800 tons this
week.
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