THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
poctoffice at Nome. Alaska, under Act of March 3. 1879
A STRONG ARGUMENT FOR HER SIDE
Via Nome to Moscow
The Pan American route via Alaska to Moscow
has been talked about for a generation and the route
via Nome was pioneered by Charles Lindberg many
years ago.
If this route is established it can go through Nome
as prophesied, establishing yet another international
airport in the fast-growing territory as well as becom
ing a -port of entry for foreign trade as it was many
years ago. This will hasten the completion of Highway
97 to Nome, increase the tonnage on our steamers and
thereby reduce freight rates.
This is not day-dreaming, as in the 20 s many thou
sands of dollars were exchanged in the open trade with
Russia which existed at that time. Instead of small
trading boats of that era the Nome airport would be
used to transport the exchange of supplies to that vast
country to the east of us.
A recent press release disclosed that there is a
Soviet move to open Moscow and Leningrad to com
mercial American air travel and Pan American has
held a certificate to fly the route since 1945. Civic
groups are urged to vioce their support to Pan Ameri
can in visiting Moscow for a conference.
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Airman Shot
Accidentally in
Play Drawing
ANCHORAGE UP>—A young air
man was accidentally shot to
death Saturday as he and two
camping companions playfully
tried to see which was quickest
on the draw.
Territorial police said that after
four or five contests one of the .38
revolvers went off. Airman 3/C
Charles D. Whiting, 19, stumbled
a few steps and fell dead with a
slug in his head. Joseph Jurkie
wicz, 18, said he was holding a
revolver when it discharged. He
did not know how the gun went
off, he told police.
Whiting, of Tacoma, Wash.,
Jurkiewicz, and Gene Olson, 20,
had been trying to outdraw each
other with hoLstered .38s, the sur
vivors told police. Two others in
the camping party at Mile 89 on
Glenn Highway were asleep when
the shooting took place.
There were no arrests. Military
and territorial authorities are
continuing their investigation.
Tuesday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 5, Cleveland 3
Kansas City 6, Washington 1
Detroit 3, New York 2
Baltimore at Chicago, pp, rain
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 7, Brooklyn 3
St. Louis ’6, Pittsburgh 3
Cincinnati 6, New York 3
Chicago at Phila., pp. rain
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Diego 11, Los Angeles 7
Seattle 8, Vancouver 1
San Francisco 8, Sacramento 3
Hollywood 4, Portland 1
Soviet Move Might
Permit U.S. Air Trade
(Continued from Page One)
I never scold anybody when
things don’t go straight so I wish
you would clear it up.”
In his original account of Tru
man’s remarks, the AP correspon
dent accompanying the former
President quoted him as saying
he didn’t know who planned the
Italian landings but “there were
a lot of easier places that could
have been picked.”
Eugene Bailey, secretary to the
former President, told Zusy today :
“The President makes a com
plete denial of the quoted state
ment that he termed the Salerno
and Anzio landings ‘totally un
necessary and planned by some
squirrel-headed general’. That
was not the President’s statement.
He never told you that.”
Zusy, a Milwaukee native who
has been a journalist since 1937
and an AP foreign correspondent
for seven years, said:
“My quotes were copied while
the President was talking to me
and arc precisely as recorded.
“Both in my memory and in the
notes written down word by word
as he spoke the quotes are as
reported.”
Truman's remarks stirred up a
storm of criticism in the United
States and Britain, since Allied
casualties at( both battles were
heavy.
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