2 THE NOME NUGGET Monday, August 31, 1953
THE NOME NUGGET
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APT TO END IN A DEAD HEAT
WHAT SECRETS?
While the detonation of Russia’s first hydrogen
bomb, said to have been touched off on August 12, but
not admitted here until the Moscow radio announced
it days later, echoed and re-echoed among the atomic
experts, Senator Joe McCarthy fulminated over what
he termed “fantastic” laxity in security at the Gov
ernment Printing Office.
And, in case you’re wondering what the huge,
sprawling, GPO has to do with the nation’s secrets,
testimony before the McCarthy subcommittee revealed
that last year alone this plant turned out 250,000 copies
of secret documents!
Furthermore, testimony thus far suggests that if
workers want to take any of their handiwork home,
it’s even easier than it ever was to find what an
enemy might want in the State Department’s file
drawers.
All in all, considering our present budget crisis,
and the vast sums that are spent to protect our “secrets”
. . . perhaps the thing to cut out is this security shadow
boxing. If we have any secrets left, they must be
strictly grade B . . . nothing collossal, maybe not even
stupendous.
WELCOME LABEL
(Christian Science Monitor)
Americans long have been accustomed to the nick
name “Yankee” when they go abroad, even when
spelled “Yanqui” or shortened to “Yank.” Another
appellation crops up occasionally in items from Europe.
It is “Ami.”
Whether coined in Moscow or picked up in West
ern Europe, it seems most often to appear under Com
munist auspices and with the overtones of a disparaging
epithet. As in French Communist posters which greeted
the Marshall Plan with “Ami, go home!” Or in worried
exhortations to East Germans not to accept “Ami alms”
in the form of needed food packages.
But after all, that is not such an unfavorable name.
Americans might not mind to have it stick. It suits
the relation they would like to hold to other peoples.
For in French, it will be recalled, “ami” means “friend.”
Meekness excludes revenge, irritability, morbid
sensitiveness, but not self-defense, or a quiet and
steady maintenance of right. —Theophylact
Yugoslavia Accuses
Italy Of Frontier
Provocations
LONDON, UP) — Marshal Tito’s
government Tuesday formally ac
cused Italy of frontier provoca
tions and warned that Yugoslavia
will “discard all Responsibility”
for what might happen if the in
cidents continue.
A stiffly-worded note delivered
in Rome protested “energetically”
against what it called “the armed
demonstrations of the Italian units
along the Yugoslav-Italian fron
tier.”
The note, as summarized in a
Belgrade radio broadcast, also
“expressed expectation that the
Italian government will renounce
such methods so that these acts
might not become a precedent in
the further relations between the
two countries.”'
The border incident was magni
fied in importance by the latest
flareup in the seven-year-old feud
between Italy and Yugoslavia
over Trieste.
Italy has “categorically” denied
the Yugoslav charge and a foreign
ministry spokesman in Rome said
the accusation was “absurd and
fantastic.”
The note warned that if the
border incidents continue “the
Yugoslav government will of nec
essity be placed in a position to
discard all responsibility from it
self for possible consequences and,
should the need arise, place the
question of relations between the
two countries before a competent
international forum. This ap
peared to be a threat to put the
issue of Trieste before the United
Nations.
Flood Dangers Subside,
Health Threats Linger
After Texas Cloudbursts
ROBSTOWN, Texas, 0?)—Flood
dangers subsided with receding
water Tuesday but threats of dis
ease lingered after 10 days of
south Texas cloudbursts.
Thousands forced from their
homes remained in emergency
shelters again Monday night as
health authorities gave typhoid
innoculations and warned resi
dents of this wide gulf coast area
near Corpus Christi to boil drink
ing water.
Nome To Have Museum
(Continued from Page One)
Nome has wonderful possibilities
for visitors during the winter and
that much consideration should be
given to- plans for attracting visi
given to plans for attracting these
visitors.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rohn also
entertained Miss Gourlie. Fred in
itiated her into the mystic opera
tions of panning for gold. She
panned some golden grains which
will be shown to prospective pan
ers next year.
She says she and others will
certainly endeavor to sell Nome
to sight-seeking travelers.
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Britisher Predicts Daily Round Trip
Flights Between New York & London
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First Jets for Alaska’s
Air National Guard
Expected Soon
JUNEAU, UP)—'First jet planes
for Alaska’s Air National Guard
may be expected shortly, Col. Lars
L. Johnson, acting adjutant gen
eral, predicted Tuesday.
Col. Johnson noted that the
144th Fighter - Bomber Squadron
at Anchorage will be eligible for
a share of the 200 jet fighters and
trainers to be delivered to the
nation’s air guard units by the end
of September.
He said it would be “just a mat
ter of a short time” until the Al
aska squadron gets its proportion
of the jets. The 144th currently
has one C-47 transport and four
T-6 trainers at Elmendorf Air
Force Base, its present operating
base. The squadron expects to
have its own facilities eventually
at Anchorage International Air
port. *
RED PLOT BARED
TO WRECK GERMAN
NATIONAL ELECTION
BONN, Germany, UP)—The West
German government said Tuesday
it has uncovered a Communist
plot to wreck next Sunday’s na
tional election by destroying vot
ing stations throughout the coun
try.
The federal press office said top
Red agents captured in an attemp
ted mass sneak invasion of West
Germany during the last three
days had admitted the Communist
plan. It was to send squacls of
riot-trained toughs to attack elec
tion officials, destroy ballot boxes
and frighten away voters.
The Communist “terror plan”
called for groups of 20 hardened
Reds to descend on each voting
station, the press officer said.
Federal border police and local
police have arrested 4,500 of these
agents along the international bor
der separating East and West
Germany. Most of these already
have been sent back.
Wien Pilot's Family Visits Nome
Fred Goodwin, well-known
pilot for Wien Airlines brought his
wife and son, Pepper, from Fair
banks Monday on their first flight
to Nome and they enjoyed see
ing all the things they had heard
about for a long time.
IT— --
> WASHINGTON, (tfV— Sir Miles
Thomas, head of the British Over
seas Airways Corp., Tuesday
prophesied daily round trip flights
between New York and London
for 1960—without an intermediate
stop on either trip.
Sir Miles said Britain has a
lead of four or five years over the
rest of the world in commercial
jet planes—“and we’re going to do
our best to keep it that way.” He
said this advantage exists both in
regular jets and turboprops., in
which a propeller is driven by a
gas jet turbine.
He said he looks for adaption of
“remarkable new bombers” now
under development in Britain as
100-seat commercial jet aircraft
with a range of more than 3,000
miles and a speed of more than
550 miles an hour.
He said such planes by "i960
might be flying the Atlantic in
5V£ hours. A U.S. Air Force six
jet B-47 bomber already has flown
from Maine to England in 53A
hours.
Sir Miles, in a copyrighted in
terview with the magazine U.S.
News and World Report, charac
terized as “completely silly” re
cent British complaints at U.S.
failure to approve the British
Comet jet liner.
In this country, Douglas Air
craft Co. reportedly has notified
airline managements a prototype
of an all-jet DC-8 will fly next
year. And Boeing Airplane Co.
has announced a jet transport to
be “fully operational” in 1956 or
1957, about concurrently with the
Comet 111.
Referring to prospective pro
duction of a Boeing jet prototype
by the end of 1954, Sir Miles said:
“It was more than 2V£ years
from the flight of the first Comet
prototype to our getting it into
service.
“Boeing will have a gestation
period, too.”
London-to-Tokyo flights with
only one stop were predicted by
Sir Miles. “I can see the day com
ing when we shall get to Tokyo
with only one stop—at Edmonton,
Canada.”
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