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Vote Tomorrow
MORROW IS AN IMPORTANT DAY, a day
— which only free people enjoy. Voting is a privi
lege which should not be taken lightly. We fought
for Statehood so that we could cast our vote along
with other Americans in national elections. Let us
demonstrate that we appreciate the privilege.
Pick your candidates and support them by voting.
These are good and conscientious citizens who
will give their time, in making Nome a good place in
which to live.
It is unfortunate that our city government does
not provide for absentee voting in local elections.
There are shut-ins who are interested in what is going
on; there are the sick and injured in the hospital who
would like to cast their ballot, and there are those
residents who must be out of town tomorrow, who
should be allowed to vote. Let’s do something about it.
Last year, 446 persons voted. Let’s go over 500
this year !
N, E. Cape Bids Opened
ANCHORAGE — American
Service, Inc., of Anchorage, was
the apparent low bidder for con
struction of quarters and support
facilities for the U. S. Air Force
at Northeast Cape Air Force Sta
tion. Alaskan Air Command’s 11th
Air Division operates this vital
AC&W facility.
Eleven bids on the project were
opened April 1 at the Anchorage
office of the U. S. Army Engineer
District, Alaska. A twelfth bid,
from Chemm Company, Inc., was
received after the opening, and
was not considered.
Slayer of Small Boy
Sought In Wisconsin
GRAFTON, Wis., UP — Author
ities pushed an intensive manhunt
today for the slayer of a 6-year-old
boy kidnaped while on the way
to a store and found dead oj stab
wounds in a roadside ditch.
The body of Ben Wagner of
Milwaukee, was found by a news
paper delivery man making his
morning rounds Sunday. Grafton
is 15 miles north of Milwaukee.
Ben still had seven cents in ice
cream money clenched in his fist.
He had been stabbed five times.
Chris Wilhelm, 6, a playmate
of young Ben, told police they met
in an alley near their home and
that he saw a stranger lure Ben
Into a car and drive off. The Wil
helm boy said that the man asked
them if they wanted a ride and
he said no.
Milton Geiger of Milwaukee told
police he was driving on Highway
141 Saturday night when he saw
a boy frantically waving from the
front seat of another automobile
Geiger said he cha ,ed the car be.
lost sight of it when it turned
onto a side road.
KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS IS
GREENER ON OTHER SIDE !
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UP) — The
grass was temptingly greener on
the other side of Edwin Keller’s
backyard fence. Somebody dug up
the newly planted sod and carted
it off.
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Appeasement Will;
Lead to Russian
Domination’ — Ike
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
GETTYSBURG, Pa., UFi —- Pres
ident Eisenhower asserted Satur
day any appeasement of Russia in
the Berlin crisis only would em
bolden the Reds to speed up their
world domination drive.
While cautioning against ap
peasement as dishonorable and the
most dangerous course the West
ern powers could pursue, the Pres
ident continued to hold the door
open to a possible summit confer
ence with the Soviets.
In a major foreign policy speech
at the Gettysburg College Spring
Convocation, Eisenhower said the
United States and its allies want
a negotiated settlement rather
than war.
“They seek to substitute the
rule of law for the rule of force,”
Eisenhower told his outdoor audi
ence of about 4,000 at the college.
Eisenhower called tiis speech an
effort to put across to the Amer
ican public “the international
facts of today’s life.” Those facts,
he added, make it imperative that
the world’s free nations unite to
resist the spread of imperialistic
Communism.
“A free America,” Eisenhower
said, “can exist only as part of a
free world, and a free world can
continue to exist only as it meets
the rightful demands of people
for security, progress and oppor
tunity.”
He called the Soviet move to
drive the Allies out of West Berlin
“a part of the continuing effort
of the Communist conspiracy to
attain one overriding goal: world
domination.”
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NATO Confirms
Continued Fight
For Berlin Rights
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON, —'The NATO
foreign ministers council Saturday
“confirmed its unanimous deter
mination to maintain the freedom
of the people of West Berlin” and
the West’s position there despite
Soviet ouster demands.
At the same time the 15-nation
group expressed in a final com
munique “its desire to see out
standing problems solved by ne
gotiation.”
' The foreign ministers ended a
three-day meeting held in Wash
ington for the first time in 10
years to commeorate the 10th
anniversary of the signing of the
Atlantic Pact in Washington,
April 4, 1949.
The NATO conference was pre
ceded by Berlin crisis talks among
the foreign ministers of the United
States, Great Britain, France and
West Germany.
Among the principles which the
council endorsed with its asser
tion of “full agreeent” on broad
policy lines are those which hold:
1. Any Western concession must
bring a corresponding Soviet con
cession.
2. The Western powers must not
barter away their right to be in
Berlin as conquerors in order to
obtain an agreement with Russia
to remain there.
3. There can be no new military
agreement or freeze which would
upset the present power balance
in Europe.
With respect to other parts of
the world, the communique said
the council considered that Com
munist pressures at many points
constitute “a threat not only to
member nations but also to many
other free countries, including
some whose independence has
only recently been established.”
State Planning Comm.
Proposal Passes House;
To Specify Improvements
JUNEAU, [ft — A bill propos
ing the creation of a state plan
ning commission to study capital
improvements in Alaska passed
the House Friday on a 29-7 vote.
The measure calls for a five
man commission appointed by the
Governor to report on needed cap
ital improvements. The report
would be submitted to the next
regular session of the Legislature
in January.
The Legislature then could pro
pose submitting a bonding pro
posal. which would specify the
items to be financed, to a vote
of the people.
The planning commission pro
posal was offered as an alterna
tive to a 50-million-dollar blank
check measure which would have
been financed by a 30-year bond
ing program.
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Magnuson Will Ask That Coast Guard
Board Russian Ships Fishing Near U.S.
SEATTLE, UF> — Dispatch of a
Coast Guard cutter to investigate
Russian fishing activities in Alas
ka’s Bering Sea was advocated
Friday bj Sen. Warren G. Mag
nuson (D-Wash).'
“I am going to ask that the
Coast Guard board those vessels
and ask the Russians, politely but
firmly, exactly what they are do
ing,” Magnuson said at a sub
committee hearing of the Senate
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee.
The remarks came as Magnuson
told witnesses and congressmen at
tending the hearing that the Navy
had informed his Washington of
fice Russian aircraft are flying
patrols over the Soviet fishing
fleet.
The air patrols are increasing,
Magnuson said, and Sen. Henry
M. Jackson (D-Wash) added:
“We have reason to believe the
Russians are fishing for more than
fish.”
The announcement highlighted
a day of testimony in which wit
ness after witness demanded pass
age of legislation aimed at pro
tecting the Bristol Bay, salmon
run.
The bill would prohibit impor
tation of salmon from any coun
try not following conservation
methods practiced by the United
States. Such legislation would
strike a telling blow to the huge
Japanese salmon market in this
country. Japanese fishing fleets
have been held responsible for the
eecimation of Alaska’s valuable
salmon resources.
Magnuson said American long
shoremen may boycott fish ship
ment from Japan as result of that
nation’s refusal to stop fishing for
Alaska-spawned salmon.
“The longshoremen may feel so
keenly they may refuse to unload
Japanese canned salmon,” the sen
ator added.
Donald McKernan, head of the
commercial fisheries division of
the Interior Department, told the
committee he could not comment
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; on the present status of the bill,
which has been sent to the In
terior Department.
However, Magnuson said he be
lieved it would be approved, but
might find a less welcome recep
tion by the State Department.
“If the Secretary of State would
take this up directly, it could be
settled overnight,” Magnuson
said.
George Johansen of Seattle, sec
retary-treasurer of the Alaska
Fishermen’s Union, suggested
countering the new Russian threat
by subsidizing a fleet of U. S. ves
sels to fish off the Russian coast
Magnuson said he believed the
Russians would board any Amer
ican ships fishing off the coast of'
Kamchatka.
Many witnesses, including Alas
ka Governor William A. Egan,
said they had decided reluctantly
that fhe only way to persuade the
Japanese to cooperate in salmon
conservation is to pass the import
ban.
Noel Hemendinger of Washing
ton, D. C., counsel to the United
States-Japan trade council, led the
fight against the restrictive legis
lation.
He contended American import
ers and distributors of Japanese
canned salmon would be hurt more
than the Japanese by the bill.
Hemendinger charged the bill was
designed “to compel compliance
by Japan with measures which
the United States may unilater
ally deem reasonable.”
Under probing by Rep. Thomas
Pelly <R-Wash) Hemendinger said
the council he represents has been
registered with the Justice De
partment as a foreign agency.
The hearing was before Mag
nuson and Sen. Bob Bartlett. Sit
ting with them were Sen. Jackson
Alaska Governor Egan and Rep
resentatives Pelly and Thor Tol
lefson (R-Wash).
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