THE NOME NUGGET
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SOMEBODY'S SURE TO GET HURT
HEAR DISCUSSION OF POWER ISSUE TONIGHT !
Are you interested in the community in which
you live?
Ahe you interested in what goes on in your city
government?
Are you a voter?
Are you interested in lower power rates for Nome?
Are you interested in a central downtown heating
plant?
Are you interested in running water in the winter
months ?
If you are—you will be at the open meeting called
by the Nome City Council to discuss the purchase of
the Northern Light and Power Company tonight at
8:00 in the school auditorium.
One of the recommendations of the engineering
firm of Metcalf and Harstad in connection with the
purchase of the Northern Light and Power Company
shows future planning for Nome that is worth investi
gating further.
In their report they recommend that the electric
service be planned to expand so that central heating
for the business district be made possible. Very high
insurance rates are paid by the people of this area due
to the disastrous fires which occur too often. Much
of this could be avoided with a central heating plant
and the elimination of so many stoves and furnaces
which must be kept conditioned and in use constantly
throughout the cold winter months.
Many phases both for and against the bond issue
cf $235,000 will be aired. If you have an opinion, you
will hear arguments to back it up. If you haven’t an
opinion, the meeting will be the proper place to make
up your mind in preparation for the election scheduled
for next Tuesday, November 24.
If Nome is your home, we expect to see you tonight!
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
How did the nest egg get its reputation? It never
does the hen any good.
Why be surprised that the modern world keeps
shrinking. Isn’t it in hot water most of the time?
Another reason why the professional politician
g°ts more than the people do is because he knows
what he wants.
Truman Labels
Atty. Gen. Charges
“Phony and False”
KANSAS CITY, Uft—■Harry S.
Truman’s promise to “tell all” in
the now - famed Harry Dexter
White case was summed up Tues
day as:
He knew the high government
official had been accused of dis
loyalty but decided to retain him
in order not to endanger an in
tensive investigation of subver
sives both in and out of the
government service.
It was the former president’s
answer before a nationwide radio
and TV audience to the charges
stemming from a speech 12 days
ago by Atty. Gen. Brownell.
Truman, jaunty and confident
as ever, made a step-by-step sum
mary of the White case, and* pre
faced and followed it by blast
ing Brownell’s charges as “phony”
as “false” and as “shameful
demagoguery.”
“The manner and timing of
what has been done,” Truman
said, “makes it clear that the
powers of the attorney general
have been prostituted for hopes
of political gain. No election is
worth so mu<di.”
The attorney general withheld
comment on Truman’s talk. Other
reaction ran generally along par
tisan lines.
At one point he lashed out
with this:
“It is now evident that the
present administration has fully
embraced, for political purposes,
mccarthyism. I am not referring
to the senator from Wisconsin—
he is only important in that his
name has taken on a dictionary
meaning in the world.”
He said he wanted the “Ameri
can people to understand that the
course we took protected the pub
lic interest and security and, at
the same time, permitted the in
tensive FBI investigation then in
progress to go forward. No other
course could have served both
purposes.”
Truman had told newsmen
earlier in the day he would talk
to them after his speech but on
departing from the studio he said
“Nothing tonight. I might say
something I shouldn’t.”
Hoover Refuses Accept
Responsibility for Decision
To Retain White In Job
NEW YORK, [R — The New
York Herald Tribune said Tues
day that FSBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover refuses to accept any re
sponsibility for former President
Truman’s decision to retain harry
Dexter White in the government
after an unfavorable FBI report
on him.
A Washington dispatch to the
newspaper said:
Even though Hoover was pres
ent at a luncheon conference on
the issue, it was learned that he
believes he was there simply as
an observer.
Hoover’s boss, Tom C. Clark—
then attorney general and now a
Supreme Coure justice — and the
late Fred M. Vinson, agreed with
Truman at the conference that
the proper course was to let
White take an international mone
tary fund post. Hoover does not
interpret his job as one that would
have permitted him to take issue
with Truman once he and the
others had made up their minds;
it would have been presumptuous
of him to have disputed their de
cision.
Brownell Challenges Truman
Contention White Was “Bait”
To Trap Soviet Espionage Bing
W ASrillN (jJLUiN, UP)—Atty. Gen.'
Brownell Tuesday made public a
letter from FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover to the White House on
Nov. 8, 1945, warning that Harry
Dexter White and others, includ
ing a White House aide, were
leaking information which reach
ed Soviet spies.
The top secret communication
was addressed to Maj. Gen. Harry
H. Vaughn, who was military
aide to President Truman, and
had been designated by Truman
to receive FBI reports on subver
sive activities.
Brownell gave the document to
the Senate Internal Security sub
committee at a hearing in which
he challenged Truman’s conten
tion that White was allowed to
take a post with the International
Monetary Fund in 1946, despite
FBI reports about him, because it
was hoped to trap associates of
White.
Brownell asserted that if the
I idea was to use White as “bait”
for other spies, “to accomplish
such an end would require in
finite and detailed care if the
national interest was to be at all
protected.”
He said the top government of
ficials would have to have been
forewarned of the reputed trap
and “great care would have to be
taken to make certain that these
spies did not effect the decisions
of our government.”
In point of fact, he declared,
“The records fail to show that
anything was done which inter
fered with the continued function
ing of the espionage ring of which
White was a part.”
This was Brownell’s reply to the
lashing attack on him by Truman
Monday night on nation-wide TV
and radio hookups.
FBI director Hoover was sitting
by as Brownell testified.
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in the past because the average
length of the life of women has
been increasing faster than that
of men.
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»-—
McCarthy Demands Radio
And TV Time To Answer
Truman’s Attack On Him
NEW YORK, (ff\— Sen. Joseph
McCarthy said Tuesday he would
demand “radio and television time
to answer former President Tru
man’s attack on me last night.”
“I am notifying the Federal
Communications Commission and
will demand time on the air to
answer Mr. Truman,” McCarthy
said.
McCarthy referred to Truman’s
statement in his speech that “It is
now evident that the present ad
ministration has fully embraced
for political advantage, mccarthy
ism. I am not referring to the
senator from Wisconsin — he is
only important in that his name
has taken on a dictionary mean
ing in the world.”
Ferguson Charges Truman
Failed To Answer
Several Questions
NEW YORK, (#) — Sen. Homer
Ferguson (R-Mich) says ex-Presi
dent Truman in his radio-TV talk
Monday night failed to answer
several questions about the Harry
Dexter White affair.
Ferguson said Truman should
not have allowed the Senate to
confirm the appointment of White
to the International Monetary
Fund post without letting that
body know of unfavorable FBI
reports on White.
The Michigan senator said Tru
man left people to draw the con
clusion he used the Senate “to
create a decoy” to get evidence
against subversives. Ferguson also
declared that Truman carefully ,
refrained from mentioning the
name of FBI director, J. Edgar
Hoover. ,
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Howard Lyng
and Walter Hodge.
To Kotzebue: Douglas Sheldon. ,
To Unalakleet: Laura Melgreen
From Anchorage: Wm. Winn
and John L. Barter.