THE NOME NUGGET
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THE GUN BEHIND THE MAN
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ACT ONE
On the face of news reports from Moscow, the
U.S.S.R. has finally been completely “destalinized”—in
order to become entirely Khrushchevized. Just where
this leaves Traveling Companion Bulganin and the
theory of “collective leadership” (adopted by the 20th
Party Congress last year while it was un-deifying
Stalin), are but two of the mysteries to be unfolded.
More definitely, Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslav
Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich, denounced for “crim
inal” and “traitorous” conduct, were fired by the Com
munist Party Central Committee from both the com
mittee itself and its Presidium. Dmitri Shepilov, who
had been an alternate member of the Presidium, re
ceived the same treatment, and all were fired from
their Kremlin jobs.
Khrushchev will now show the Communist world
who is boss—if he can. But it is too soon to write off
the four old pros, whom he hopes he has disposed of.
Whether they are dead or alive is not known to us.
But if they are alive, the end of the purge is not yet.
WHOLESALE TAX DISCRIMINATION
The legislatures of three western states, Nevada,
California, and Idaho, have urged Congress to repeal
the wartime imposed excise taxes on transportation.
These taxes now amount to three percent on freight
shipments and 10 percent on passenger fares.
The Nevada resolution stated: “It should be a
principle of federal taxation to levy taxes in such a
manner as to prevent them from falling as an unequal
burden on citizens residing in different areas of the
country.” These taxes discriminate against the western
states, in that goods produced in the eastern industrial
centers must travel great distances and pay higher
freight charges, and so carry a greater tax.
The House Gommitttee on Small Business reports
that the tax on freight discriminates against these
businesses. The reason is that the small business,
generally speaking, relies on the common carriers,
while big manufacturers “can avoid the impact of the
-tax by operating their own private transport systems
to deliver their finshed goods to the market.”
Defense Drill
H-Bombs Blast , j
Half Population
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attack.
The main problems of recovery
were listed to Eisenhower as:
1. What to do about restoration
of credit “so commerce and in
dustry” can operate once again,
wages can be paid, and other
phases of pre-attack conditions
restored in that general field.
2. What vital transportation
and communications facilities
need immediate restoration, and j
how to accomplish that task.
3. How to meet the housing
needs of millions of “displaced”
persons.
4. How to handle rehabilitation
of “bombed out” areas.
U.S. May End
Ban of Newsmen
In Red China
WASHINGTON, (tft—1The State!
Department reportedly is plan
ning to end its ban on the travel '
of U.S. newsmen into Red China.
Secretary of State Dulles, it j
was learned yesterday, may an
nounce a new administration de- j
eision on the controversial issue!
next weekend. He meets Thurs
day with several leaders in the
newsgathering and publishing
fields in an effort to get their
backing tor a compromise plan
for China news coverage.
Meanwhile, the United States
is preparing to resume its battle
to keep Western trade with the
Chinese Communists at a bare
minimum.
Representatives of 15 major
trading nations meet in Paris this
week to discuss setting quotas for
about 25 important items which
previously were banned from
shipment to Red China.
A backstage argument seemed |
likely between the U.S. on one1
hand, Britain, France, West Ger- j
many on the other. The U.S. dele- <
gation has been instructed to'
work for the lowest possible quo- i
tas on the items under discussion. |
Britain, leading the fight to j
ease the trading controls, is ex
pected to demand bigger quotas i
than would suit the U.S.
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DAVE BECK AND SON INDICTED
ON CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY
SEATTLE, i# — The King
County grand jury Friday indict
ed Teamster President Dave Beck
and his son, Dave Beck Jr., on
charges of grand larceny involv
ing the sale of three union owned I
automobiles.
The rotund president of the na
tion’s biggest union quickly sur
rendered for „ routine booking,
mugging and fingerprinting. Then
he posted $3,000 bail and called
a press conference to denounce
the action as “simply ridiculous
as well as a complete surprise.”
Dave Jr. went thru the ritual,
too, but didn’t attend the confer
ence at which his dad said he
spoke for both.
Saturday, after saying there
wasn’t a chance in a million” he
would be convicted, Beck left on
a tour of the nation which will
take him to a half dozen union
meetings around the country.
King of the Hoboes
Will Include Fairbanks
In His Tour of His Realm
CINCINNATI, UP)—Jeff Davis,
Cincinnati-based “King of the
Hoboes,” starts the annual tour
of his realm today.
And Davis won’t be riding the
rods, either. He displayed a thick
sheaf of tickets for his trip.
Davis said the 30,000-mile, six
month trip will take him as far
north as Fairbanks, Alaska, and
south of Havana, Cuba, visiting
“tanks” or units of his organiza
tion.
At Fairbanks, Davis plans to
erect a monument to a “peer” of
his realm—William Stebbens, a
bartender killed while doing res
cue work in an apartment house
fire last winter.
Davis also will stop at Tucson.
Ariz., Oct. 12-19 for the annual
hobo convention, where 300 mem
bers are expected.
The hobo king says he has five {
suitcases of records which have !
to be audited at the convention, j
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The grand jury, which sat a
to'al of 15 days and heard 55 wit
nesses, indicted no other persons
altho it considered a number of
other matters. It did, however,
return a lengthy report lament
ing its inability to do more be
cause of “inadequate laws” and
the statute of limitations.
The elder Beck, the jurors
charged, kept for his own use
$1,900 received for a union owned
Cadillac. Junior, the jury de
clared in two separate indict
ments, kept $4,650 from the sale
of two other Teamster Cadillaqs.
“It isn’t so,” said the father in^
dignantly in a press conference
called in his posh offices in a new
union building—not “by the wild
est stretch of the imagination.”
Certainly, he said, the money
from the sale of the three cars
had found its way into his own
bank account or safe where he
keeps “large amounts of cash.”
But his secretary had put them
there by error, Beck explained.
The money, he said, was re
turned to the union “as soon as I
returned from a business trip and
found out the error . . .”
Maximum penalty for grand
larceny is 15 years in prison.
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