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THE AMMUNITION BOY
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Use Your Voting Privilege Tomorrow
Joseph Meek, head of an Illinois retail association,
made a talk not long ago before a women’s club. In
the course of it he made this memorable observation:
“The greatest mistake the housewife can make
is to presume that voting is not for her, that a trip to
the polls is a waste of time!”
Actually, her city leaders are most important to
her, as good leaders make a good, progressive city
with up-to-date schools and civic improvements.
“It is time the women of America made going to
the polls part of the things they consider among the
must do.”
Tomorrow, among the candidates are those who
will make up the first utility board and it is impor
tant to all of us.
Remember—in a city election anyone of age may
vote whether or not they have registered, just as long
as he has lived in the territory a year and in Nome for
a month.
Dn!ies Tell s Congress Communists In
Indochina Come Close to Aggression
Which Will Bring ‘Massive Retaliation’
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of State Dulles told Congress to
dav that the Chinese Communists
are “coming awful close” in Indo
china to the direct aggression
which he said might produce mas
sive retaliation.
Dulles made this statement be
fore a House Foreign Affairs com
mittee after saying freshly veri
fied information showed that new
communist radar - controlled 37
mm. anti - aircraft guns, which
aim bringing down French planes
over Dien Bien Phu are “operated
by members of the Chinese mili
tary establishment.”
Dulles urged free world nations
to rally behind French Union
defenders in Indochina to teach
Communists they cannot smash
freedom by “massive, suicidal as
saults.”
“The need of the hour is solid
arity on the part of the free
world,” he said, “and notably on
the part of all those nations which
have a direct and vital stake in
the freedom of the area.”
His plea was aimed at a budget
slashing Congress growing ob
viously impatient with some Eu
ropean allies.
Dulles gave notice Congress
will be asked to authorize as
much military and economic as
sistance for Indochina as it did
during the last fiscal year when
the United States gave more than
i 81,200,000,000 for this purpose.
In his review of the military
picture, he wTarned anew that So
viet rulers “still seek world dom
ination.”
Dulles said bluntly “Not one of
us alone could face with confi
dence” a war with the Soviet
bloc.
Heintzleman Proposes
Only Developed Alaska
Be Admitted to Union
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instead of being subjected to con
tinued interference and domin
tion by federal officials and a fed
eral bureaucracy.”
Both Atwood and Bartlett com
mented that while most of Al
aska’s population would be in the
area proposed by Heintzleman,
that some of the territory’s great
est natural resources would be ex
cluded.
Atwood said Heintzleman’s pro
posal was a maneuver “to make
the issue confused so that Con
gress might drop it for this ses
sion.” He said the proposal also
threatened to defeat Republicans
seeking election this year.
Heintzleman said it had not
been unusual in American his
tory for states to be established
within the borders of large terri
tories.
Asked if he had discussed the
proposal with Secretary of the In
terior McKay or other Interior
Department officials who admin
ister the territories, the governor
said he had not.
He also expressed his belief
that “the great majority of Al
askans are overwhelmingly anx
ious for early favorable action by
the House.” Such an assurance of
quick action, Heintzleman said,
had come from Reps. A. L. Miller
|R-Neb) and Saylor (R-Pa>.
Government Seizes
Millions Worth Of
Heroin In ’Frisco
WASHINGTON, UPI — Narcotics
Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger
announced today the seizure in
San Francisco' of “millions of dol
lars” worth of heroin which he
said was smuggled in from Com
munist China.
Eight persons were arrested in
the raid yesterday.
The commissioner said the il
licit heroin seized was brought to
the United States for the most
part by merchant seamen who got
it at a gambling emporium in
Hong Kong by a man Anslinger
names as Judah Isaac Ezra, 62.
Anslinger said in an announce
ment from his headquarters at the
Treasury here that Ezra was for
merly “a large trafficker in nar
cotics on the West Coast,” and
that he had been sentenced in
1933 to 15 years in prison for
a narcotics violation.
Anslinger said Ezra was deport
ed at the end of his prison term.
He said it was expected that Ezra
will be prosecuted in San Fran
cisco.
Treasury aides said an indict
ment against Ezra would be
sought at San Francisco' and that
it was expected he would be re
turned to this country through
extradition proceedings.
Anslinger said federal narcotics
agents had seized, or purchased
as evidence, six pounds of pure
heroin “worth millions of dollars
in the illicit narcotics market.”
He said “the source o'f the her
oin was . . . Communist China.”
A standard meter and kilogram
kept in Washington, D.C., are so
precise in their accuracy that the
men who work with them do their
work 10 feet away to avoid affect
ing results by body heat.
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HOME ARTS CLUB
Home Arts Club is meeting to- j
morrow at 7:30 p.m. instead of the
usual 8:00 as they are entertain
ing the Girl Scouts, whom they
sponsor, at the LWY Community
Center.
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Air Force Abandonment Of
Shemya In Aleutian Islands
Seen As False Economy
By LOUIS R. HUBER «
SEATTLE—The closing of the
United States Air Force base at
Shemya in the western end of the
Aleutian Islands is being fought
here by the Port of Seattle and
two commercial airlines.
It can do without Shemya now,
the Air Force explains, because
its planes are using the central
Pacific for their main haul to and
from the Orient. Although it is
1,800 miles shorter, the Aleutians
route is more costly, according to
the Air Force.
Not so, says Northwest Orient
Airlines, which has been flying
this route for several years. Pan
American World Airways agrees,
and while it flies the central Pac
ific route it also is seeking per
mission to use the Great Circle
route from Seattle through An
chorage and the Aleutians to
Tokyo.
The Port of Seattle is concerned
because its Seattle-Tacoma Inter
national Airport is the closest
air gateway to the Orient—’the
only true gateway, according to
Port authorities.
The Aleutians route to the Or
ient was used extensively for the
airlift to Korea in the early
months of that conflict. It un
doubtedly will be an important
link in Europe-to-Orient trans
polar flights.
The Air Force maintains that
since it no longer wants to use
Shemya, it is up to the Civil Aero
nautics Administration to keep it
going. But the CAA insists it
doesn’t have enough funds to do
this.
Closing of Shemya would leave
the Aleutian Islands with virtual
ly no Air Force bases in the 1,500
mile-long chain. Thornbrough Air
Force Base at Cold Bay, near the
western end of the Alaskan Pen
insula, is now maintained by
Reeve Aleutian Airways—b u t
only to the extent required by its
DC-3 commercial passenger-and
freight service into the island
chain. ^
This would leave the only other
manned air base in the Aleutian
Islands at Adak, which is still
maintained by the United States
Navy both as a surface and air
base.
Spokesmen for the let’s-keep
Shemya movement contend that
Air Force abandonment of bases
in the Aleutian Islands is a foolish
economy—that it may cost the
nation dearly in the future.
They point out that first-class
air bases were constructed at a
cost of millions of dollars in the
island chain during World War II.
Shemya with its 10,000-foot-long
runway was not the only one.
Amchitka, with a comparable
runway, also had a “FIDO” or
gasoline-burning fog raiser along
its edges; sizable bases also were
built at Attu. Umnak, Cape Sari
chef, and Dutch Harbor.
Most of these bases, although
their runways can still be used,
are otherwise literally in wrack
and ruin. Whenever maintenance
is halted in the Aleutians, strong
winds begin to take over—often
ripping buildings apart.
Explanation of this military
neglect is found in the belt-of
strength theory on which Alaskan
defenses have been predicated
since the end of World War II.
Briefly explained, the belt-of
strength thesis is that so long as
bases in the 600-mile-long belt
running from Kodiak Island
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northward through Anchorage to
Fairbanks are maintained and
garrisoned, invasion of Alaska at
any point can be repulsed.
Alaskans never have fully ac
cepted this theory, and they are
now joined by the Port of Seattle
and the two airlines in question
ing the wisdom of Air Force with
drawal from the Aleutians.
The Seattle Times, in a recent
editorial entitled “One More
Example of Unwise Economy,”
warned that building up Aleutian
bases belatedly under “a new
emergency arising from a familiar
quarter” would be much more
costly than maintaining them in
a routine fashion.
Hawaii Delegate Acts
To Educate Kids Who
Write ‘Hawaiian Embassy’
WASHINGTON, Iff)— Delegate
Farrington (R-Hawaii) Saturday
called upon the school children of
Hawaii to help educate the main
land as to Hawaii’s status as an
American territory.
Farrington said that every day
he receives letters from school
children throughout the country
addressed to the “Hawaiian Em
bassy.”
He bundled up 60 such letters
received during March from 45
towns in 18 states and one from
Germany and sent them to the
territorial school superintendent
in Hawaii. He suggested that the
school children of the territory
write to the individuals and the
schools involved to promote a
better knowledge of Hawaii
throughout the country.”
<P.S. Foreign governments have
embassies in Washington. Hawaii
has a non-voting delegate in the
House.)
TO THE VOTERS
AT THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION
This is ihe llih year I have
served ycur community as City
Clerk, an office that is coupled
with the attending office of Mag
istrate. Assessor and Tax Collect
or. The trust and reliance you
have placed in me, I hope, has
been manifested in the handling
of these various City office.
Thirty-nine years a resident of
Nome and 46 years a resident of
Alaska, has given me a back
ground that is commensurate
with this office of City Clerk.
The light and power utility the
City has acquired and the new
school addition project, that de
mands government forms of pro
cedure, still require an "old hand"
on ihe job.
Your vote shall be appreciated.
CARRIE M. McLAIN
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