THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
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IT COULD BE PRETTY GRUESOME
SAME OLD CULPRIT
We think it must have been a tobacco plant, and
not that apple tree at all, that caused the trouble in the
Garden of Eden. The U.S. Department of Agriculture
has just informed us that in the year 1953, while many
doctors were fulminating against tobacco, and relating
the weed to the rise in lung cancer, Americans smoked
423 billion cigarettes!
We’ve been told ever since we can remember about*
the wicked wiles of Lady Nicotine. Oldtimers will
remember that, way back, anti-tobacco organizations
told women that they would grow moustaches if they
smoked, that they would get “consumption,” become
sterile, and go into a general decline. Further, the
reformers averred, you could assume the chastity of
such a female had gone up in smoke.
Maybe you remember, too, the stories that cigar
ettes were drugged with opium and morphine, the
paper was made by Chinese lepers and bleached with
poisons and the tobacco came from butts and “sojers”
picked up in the gutters by tramps.
But King James I started it in 1604 when he pro
claimed smoking “a custom loathsome to the eye,
harmful to the braine, dangerous to the lungs, and the
fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian
pit that is bottomless.” Charles I and II and Cromwell
all agreed with him. Pope Urban VIII excommuni
cated those who used snuff in church.
In Denmark, under Christian IV, as in China and
Jaoan, smokers were publicly whipped. The Czars
cut off the noses of Russian smokers; and in Turkey,
King Amurath got really tough and removed their
heads.
We mention all this as a public service, to remind
you that mankind has been warned against tobacco
ever since a friendly-appearing Indian gave an early
colonist a puff on his pipe. We can now assume this was
a diabolical plot to destroy the white intruders.
One more thing—have you got a light?
“The one result the welfare state never achieves
is welfare. It gives people more dollars to handle by
making each dollar worth less and less .” —William
E. Jenner, Senator.
Opening-Day Witnesses Invoke
Fifth Amendment in Seattle
Hearing by House Red-Hunters
SEATTLE, UP)—House Red-hunt
ers ^wung Tuesday into the sec
ond day of a Seattle hearing after
a trio o'f opening-day witnesses,
including a stole-knitting steel
worker, invoked Fifth Amend
ment immunity.
The afternoon session Monday
also was punctuated by a witness’
bitter denunciation of the House
Un-American Activities Commit
tee and a subsequent flareup over
his “Joe Must Go” button.
One of the balky trio', former
shipyard craftsman Carl Harvey
Jackins, 38, Seattle, touched off
the Fifth Amendment pleas with
a string of at least 25 identical
replies that included the phrase
“I cannot be forced to bear wit
ness against myself.”
Among the questions he refused
to answer on grounds of possible
self-incrimination was one asking
whether he ever had been a Red
spy, or had engaged in espionage
in Seattle.
The afternoon was replete with
shouting, bickering and angry
charges.
Will H. Parry, 34, Seattle, listed
recently as acting Northwest edi
tor of the Daily Peoples World,
called the committee headed by
Carr Says Stevens
Stopped Exposure
Of Red-Clearers
WASHINGTON, Ml—Francis P.
Carr testified Tuesday “I don’t
think at this time the Army is
coddling Communists.” But he
said he thinks Secretary Stevens
and Army Counselor John G. Ad
ams “went to great lengths to pre
vent exposure” of persons who
cleared Communists in loyalty in
vestigations.
Carr, staff director for Sen. Mc
Carthy’s investigations subcom
mittee, made the statements in an
exchange with Army Counsel Jo
seph N. Welch in the 34th day of
the McCarthy-Army hearings.
Carr had agreed with Welch
that McCarthy’s proposal to call
Army Loyalty Board members be
fore him was one of the main
factors in bringing on the “colli
sion” between Army officials and
the senator.
Welch suggested there is a
grave legal issue as to whether the
McCarthy subcommittee co'uld re
quire testimony from Army Loy
alty Board members about cases
they had handled. He said “hon
estly patriotic” persons could take
the view it would be “pretty awk
ward to call up the judge and say
how com you decided the way you
did.”
Carr said: “It may be a little
awkward, but I can’t see if they
were doing their job and doing it
right they would have anything
to fear.”
Sen. Dirksen (R-Ill) commented
it is the old issue of separation of
powers between the executive and
legislative branches of govern
ment.
Dirksen said the issue will have
to be settled some day, including
the question of whether a con
gressional committee can question
members of loyalty boards.
TOKYO, UP)—Search? s who
reached the wreckage of a Navy
plane on Yaku Island Tuesday
found no sign o'f life and reported
that all of the 17 men aboard ap
parently died in the crash.
Rep. Velde (R-Ill) “unconstitu
tional” and an “inquisitional pro
ceeding.”
It was Parry’s half-dollar-size
“Joe Must Go” button which
prompted committeeman Rep.
Scherer (R-Ohio) to’ remark that
“My opinion is that if people like
you cantinue to wear such buttons
Joe will never go.” The slogan
was one used in connection with
the recent unsuccessful recall
movement in Wisconsin against
Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
The steelworker who sat all
through his stint in the witness
chair steadily knitting like a mod
ern-day male Madame LaFarge
was 45-year-old Eugene V. Den
nett, Seattle.
(It was Madame LaFarge who
in Charles Dickens’ “Tale of Two
Cities” knitted her way imper
turbably through the unfolding
plot.)
Dennet reverted to the Fifth
Amendment when asked if he
ever had been a member of the
Communist Party.
State Loses in First Try to
Prosecute Fulton Lewis Jr.
On Criminal Libel Charge
ELLICOTT CITY, Md., (JV-The
state has until June 17 to decide
whether to make a second attempt
to' prosecute radio commentator
Fulton Lewis Jr. on a criminal
libel charge.
Lewis won a directed verdict of
acquittal Monday on a charge that
he libeled State Senator Paul J.
Bailey in a letter published in the
weekly St. Marys Enterprise.
Sheridan Fahnestock, publisher
of the paper and the state’s lead
off witness, refused to say any
thing about the alleged letter on
grounds he might incriminate
himself. And prosecutors were
never able to get their case off
the ground after that.
ANS Is Building
7 New Schools
In Territory
(Anchorage Times, June 11)
JUNEAU—A 1954 construction
program of seven new school
buildings, a school addition and a
duplex residence for medical per
sonal at Kqtzebue is under way
by the Alaska Native Service. The
foreman who will supervise the
work was in Juneau this week
enroute to Bering Sea construc
sites.
New two-classroom schools with
quarters for teachers will be built
at St. Michael, Shishmaref and
Selawik at a cost of $73,000 to
$75,000 each.
One-classroom schools with two
bedroom apartment quarters at
tached to each will be built at
Tanacross, Karluk and Kaltag at
a cost of $60,000 each.
A $36,000 one-classroom school
with one-bedroom quarters will
be constructed at Kiana.
An $80,000 project at Unala
kleet will consist of a one-class
room addition with full basement
and conversion of existing teach
ers’ quarters.
The new duplex residence at
Kotzebue will cost $75,000.
Meredith Custard, foreman, ar
rived here from Wrangell on his
way to Nome to board the North
Star for a trip to Shishmaref. He
will supervise the landing or stor
age of building materials which
are aboard the ANS motorship for
construction projects there, at St.
Michael, Kiana, Selawik, Unala
kleet and Kotzebue.
At Karluk and Tanacross the
work is already under way, with
completion dates of July 1 and
August 1 respectively. Building
materials at Tanacross were de
livered by truck from Valdez
which drove right across the ice
on the Tanana River to the school
site.
Work on the rest of the projects
will commence late in June, ac
cording to Leonard Lowell, con
struction management engineer.
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