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| THE AMERICAN WAY
PROGRESS TAKES TIME
Douglas McKay’s stay in Nome was brief, much
•too short to try and explain in an understandable way
the unique problems of the Second Division which are
so very different from other parts of the territory and
yet correlated with its growth and development.
Those who met him, regardless of party, were
impressed with his sincerity, interest, friendliness and
ability to make the most of every minute spent in
the area.
Instead of speeches, the Chamber of Commerce
condensed the needs and foremost problems of this
coastal area in a well-balanced report for the Secretary
and were rewarded for their efforts with words of
praise from the Secretary and his companions.
His informal remarks to the group and to individ
uals throughout the morning brought out the fact that
the Administration is aware of many deep - rooted
wrongs done to Alaskans which have set them back
again and again, discouraging progress, but everything
cannot be corrected in a day nor can their actions
please everybody, but they are working for Alaska
and want to be given a fair chance and more time to
accomplish those many improvements Alaska needs.
Coming to Alaska has won the Secretary and the
Director of Territories many friends and brought a
closer unity between Washington and the people of
the Bering Sea region.
Coatesville, Pa., Record: “. . . Members of Con
gress have discovered that neither the State Depart
ment nor the Treasury has a complete compilation of
the amounts of money which the United States has
given, loaned or credited to foreign countries during
and since World War II. The total is believed to be
j&out $100 billion . . .”
Beria Henchman
Shot 16 Months
After Doctor’s Plot
MOSCOW, Iff)—M. D. Ryumin,
henchman of executed Soviet po
lice boss L. P. Beria, has himself
met death before a firing squad
nearly 15 months after he was
tagged with the blame for the
“doctor’s plot.”
His execution was announced
Friday by Pravda, the Soviet
Communist Party newspaper.
Pravda said the military colle
gium of the Soviet supreme court
tried Ryumin July 2-7 and or
dered him shot on charges of
forcing the doctors to “slander
themselves and other people.” It
also accused him of treason.
(There was no explanation why
the courts took so long to deal
with Ryumin, who was arrested in
April, 1953, as the scapegoat in
the bizaar case.)
The internal security ministry
first announced details of the doc
tor’s plot in January, 1953. It ac
cused nine physicians, several of
them Jews, of plotting to kill So
viet leaders and charged they
already had done away with Pol
itburo member Andrei Zhdanov
with reverse therapy.
Three months later the ministry
—which had since been taken
over by Beria—announced that
the nine doctors and six others
had been freed and that Ryumin
had been arrested. Beria was
jailed himself in June, 1953, on
treason charges and his execution
was announced last December.
THE STANDINGS
<By the Associated Press)
National League
W L Pet.
New York 62 32 .600
Brooklyn 56 38 .596
Milwaukee 48 45 .516
Philadelphia 45 45 .900
St. Louis 46 46 .500
Cincinnati 47 48 .495
Chicago 37 54 .407
Pittsburgh 30 63 .323
American League
Cleveland 64 28 .696
New York 64 31 .674
Chicago 59 36 .621
Detroit 40 51 .440
Washington 39 50 .438
Boston 37 53 .411
Baltimore 33 60 .355
Philadelphia 31 58 .348
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 73 42 .635
San Diego 67 45 .598
Oakland 43 55 .513
San Francisco 59 56 .513
Seattle 50 60 .455
Sacramento 51 63 .447
Portland 46 64 .418
Los Angeles 46 65 .414
Of the 238 copies of the first
folio edition of Shakespeare’s
work now known to exist, half
are in the United States.
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Stevenson Charges
GOP Appeasement
Indochina Settlement
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eign policy defaulted and France
salvaged what she could out of
the endless, weary war in Indo
china.”
Not only did the Communists
add valuable and strategic areas
to their domain, Stevenson said,
but they threw the western allies
“into confusion and dissension,
Russia’s greatest goal and dearest
dream.”
“In Indochina,’ Stevenson said,
‘The West suffered its worst dis
aster since the loss of China.”
The blame, “the original sin,”
for the “misfortune” in Indochina
rests with France, Stevenson said.
But he said the “blame for the
collapse of our policy in Asia re
mains our responsibility.”
“And,” he warned, “We shall
fail again and again unless we
profit from this experience.”
Stevenson’s sharp criticism of
the Indochina settlement followed
a statement in which he accused
the Eisenhower administration of
going back on its campaign pro
mises of statehood for Alaska.
“I know developments with re
spect to Alaska have disappointed
you,” he said. “And I know that
McCarthyism is a symptom of
America’s nervous mood and as a
startling revelation of a consti
tutional crisis, have been pro
foundly disturbing to many more
of us.
“And so" are the legislative im
potence, the executive confusion
and the paralyzing divisions with
in the majority party which is
charged not only with governing
us but with leading the great
coalition of the non-Communist
world in this perilous period.”
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: Dick Walsh,
Tommy Tootkayalook, G.E. John
son, Craig Strom, G. B. Withing
ton, G. Boram, Guy Hedreen, Joe
Woodward, Sally Ramsey.
To Anchorage: .Mrs. Roy Swan
son, Mrs. Sebastian Patti, Mrs.
Cody, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Plimp
ton, H. D. Smith, Mrs. E. T.
Smith, F. J. Stevenson, Alex Ford,
Robert Apok Jr., Chris Bjornstad,
Ken Hillman, John Martinole.
To Moses Pt.: Harry C. and
Harry D. Hardy, Chas. McKasson.
Mr. and Mrs. Purcell and Pat
rician and Johnny Purcell from
Elim.
From Koyuk: Olga Charles.
From ' White Mt.; Robert Apok
and Mary and Joe Kokoshuruk.
From Moses Pt.; Jack Jefford
and J. H. Alexander.
From Unalakleet: Elliott Brad
ley and Gordon Nashalook.
From Shishmaref: Eliot Alanna.
Intelligence Chief
Effected to East,
Report Indicates
BERLIN, Iff)—A West Berlin
custom guard said Saturday West
Germany’s missing security chief,
Dr. Otto John, told him Tuesday
night at the East Zone border he
was going behind the Iron Curtain
voluntarily.
The guard told police he had
stopped a car with John and a
West Berlin friend, Dr. Wolfgang
Wohlgemuth, for a routine check
at the British sector border and
had given them the customary
warning: “You are now crossing
into the Soviet sector.”
Both men laughed at his warn
ing and replied: “That’s where we'
are heading. We are going to the
Charite Hospital,” the guard said.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
has ordered a sweeping loyalty
investigation of all West German
officials who were friendly with
John.
Disclosing this today, a high
intelligence authority in Bonn
said hundreds of officials in the
ministries there and elsewhere—
including some in high positions
—are being checked.
A voice, introduced over the
Soviet Zone radio as his, said he
had contacted “Germans of the
east” so' he could work for the
divided nation’s unification.
The Soviet statement said John
defected because “Germany is in
danger of being torn apart forever
by the conflicts between East and
West—and “German policy has
come to a dead end.”
As intelligence chief in the West
German government, John had
first-hand knowledge of British
and American intelligence activi
ties and knew the identities of
several hundred East Germans
who regularly send information
to the West.
May Bale, former owner of the
Polaris Hotel, returned home Fri
day after a short trip to the
States. She plans to leave on a
mining trip for the rest of the
summer.
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