THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
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SULZBERGER ON KOREA
Arthur Hayes Sulzberger, publisher of the New
York Times, recently declared that the fighting in
Korea was “the first sane war in history.” The pub
lisher of what is probably the best newspaper in the
United States, said this was true because for the first
time “nations have joined together to resist aggres
sion, not merely in order to guard some particular
strategic territory.”
Mr. Sulzberger offered an interesting observation
following this statement. He declared he was “not
especially anxious to see a truce reached at Panmun
jom,” and added that, “if hostilities ceased there, Russia
would undoubtedly break out elsewhere, and checking
the Communists in any other spot in the would would
probably be more expensive to us both in lives and
in dollars.”
The Nugget does not wholly subscribe to Mr. Sulz- j
berger’s views, especially about an end of hostilities j
‘in Korea, though the general truth in Mr. Sulzberger’s j
statement that the war in Korea is a “sane war,” is *
indisputable. It is interesting to note that the pub
lisher of the New York Times, which supported Gen. |
Eisenhower in his bid for the presidency, and the gen
eral himself, both support the Democratic Adminis- i
tration’s 1950 decision to go into Korea, and resist
Communist aggression against a democracy.
Ike Will Avoid
Commitments In
Talks with Truman
By . MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
AUGUSTA, Ga., (TP)—President,
-ele.ct .Dwight D. Eisenhower re
portedly will steer clear of any
policy commitments to President
Truman when they confer at the
White House.
Eisenhower associates who asked
not to be named said his role at
the conference will be mainly that
of a listener, although they em
phasized that he agrees with the
President that the session will
amount to a demonstration of Am
erican unity.
The White House announced
Wednesday that the Eisenhower -
Truman meeting has been set for
Tuesday afternoon.
In proposing the meeting last
week, the President said it would
help achieve an orderly transition
from the old administration to the
new. He mentioned a need for
discussion of world problems.
Eisenhower replied that he
shared Truman’s hope “that we
may present to the world an Am
erican unity' in basic issues.”
Over the week-end, the Presi
dent-elect’s headquarters put out
a statement which said in effect
that any pre-inauguration con
ferences with Truman administra
tion officials would in no way
bind the President elect as to Re
publican policy.
Red Morlar Shell Gives
U.S. Soldier Headache
With the U.S. Third Division,
Korea, (TP) — A Chinese mortar
shell recently hit Cpl. James D.
Perry, Dayton, O., squarely on
the head.
Result: a hole in his helmet, a
scraped nose, and a headache.
The shell, which failed to ex
plode, ripped his helmet, slid
down his face, and buried itself
in the ground two feet in front
■of Perry.
Sen. Humphrey Would
Welcome Sen. Morse Into
Democratic Party Caucus
WASHINGTON, (A3) — Sen.
Humphrey (D-Minn) said Thurs
day Democratic senators should
welcome Sen. Wayne Morse of
Oregon into their party caucus if
he wants to come.
■ Morse, turning against Presi
dent-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower
during the presidential campaign,
quit the republican party to sup
port Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of
Illinois, the Democratic nominee,
and declared himself an inde
pendent.
Whether Republican Senators
will take reprisals against Morse
in the new Senate convening Jan.
3, possibly depriving him of his
present choice committee assign
ments, is uncertain.
Humphrey, a leader of the
“New Deal - Fair Deal” wing of
the Democratic Party, told a
reporter the Democrats should
throw open the door to Morse.
On the other hand, Humphrey
said that Democratic senators who
“turn their backs on the national
party ticket also ought to re
ceive their reward”—in less pre
ferential treatment.
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It's Triplets for Mother, 30,
300 Mi. South of Kodiak
KODIAK, (JP)—It’s triplets for
Mrs. Alma Rudolph of lonely
Unga Island, 300 miles southwest
of here.
The 30-year-old mother and her
babies, two girls and a boy, were
doing well after a Navy doctor
and plasma were flown to her,
the Coast Guard reported Wed
nesday. She was attended only by
neighbor women at their birth
and suffered from loss of blood
and shock.
An emergency radio call sent
pilots Donald Fraser, Barker, N.Y.
and William Wallace, Norfolk, Va.
on a flight in a Coast Guard PBY
to Unga Island. They faced a 50
mile-an-hour wind and Aleutian
fog on the flight.
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Around Nome
By HARRY LUDBROOK
Do you remember the good old
days when dad used to come home
in the evening and brag about the
town’s civic [accomplishments;
how every family table was used
lo’r round-table discussions, the
orizing, and planning the future
needs for their town and commu
nity? If you recall those days
then you should also be able to
remember that everybody in town
felt a glow cf pride when some
thing new was added that made
living just a little better for the
whole community.
Let me ask you citizens of
Nome a_ few questions: What are
your plans for this town? Are
you thinking of the future or are
you just concerned with living in
the present? Are your children
important to you? Do you wish
them to be denied the same privi
leges you had when you wei’e a
child? In the old “put and take”
game, are you the “putter” or the
“taker”? If you fit in the latter
category, then by all means, get
wise to yourself and do an abrupt
about-face and start giving out a
little bit.
If you think and do what every
good member of society thinks
and does, then by all means keep
up the good work. A good exam
ple is always an asset to a thriv
ing and progressive town. Nome
needs shaking up and the only
successful method is by education.
So let’s get together on a little
enlightenment and watch the re
sults.
If you have a good idea send it
to Box 585, Nome, and it will be
passed on to all the people every
week.
Bethel Epidemic Checked
After Toll of Eight Deaths
JUNEAU, (/P) — Apparent con
trol of. the diphtheria outbreak in
the Bethel area was reported by
Dr. Edward A. Rose.this week on
his return to Juneau.
He. went to Bethel for the
Alaska Health Department. His
wife also was there as a nurse.
Health Department reports list
eight deaths in the outbreak—
seven adults and one child. The
source of the disease has not been
determined.
Health Department and Alaska
Native Service medical aides im
munized 2,977 persons and gave
antitoxin to another 1,870 accord
ing to reports to the Juneau of
fice.
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Chinese Leader
Says Reds Don’t
Want Korea Truee
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP).—
Nationalist China’s Foreign Min
ister George K. C. Yeh charged
Thursday that “Stalin and his
Communist stooges do not really
want a truce” in Korea and called
on the U.N. to declare Commun
ism a threat to the world peace
and security.
Making his country’s major
policy adress to the U. N.’s 60
nation General Assembly, Yeh
said the Chinese Reds have suf
fered such huge casualties that
the Peiping government does not
dare to face its people “empty
handed.”
Although it is commonly as
sumed that only the question of
sending home prisoners is holding
up a truce, Yeh declared, the
fundamental problem is that the
Reds do not want a truce unless
it will “solidify and strengthen
the ranks of world Communism.”
Yeh also lashed world Com
munism for infiltrating and tak
ing advantage of national free
dom movements throughout the
world.
He recalled that China had
struggled for years to free itself
from colonialism and expressed
his country’s sympathy for similar
movements in other areas. But,
he warned, those countries should
be on their guard lest the Reds
use their nationalist movements
“to pursue their own nefarious
designs.”
NAVY PLANE CRASHES
ON OLYMPIC PENN.
SHELTON, Wash., (IP)—A four
engine Navy plane with 11 men
•aboard crashed and burned on a
hillside on the rugged, heavily
timbered Olympic Peninsula
Thursday night.
A farm family’s report of see
ing flares shoot skyward about
three hours after the first mush
rooming flames signaled the wil
derness disaster raised' a slim
hope that some one may have sur
vived.
In the face of heavy night rain
and early morning fog, searchers
tried by land and air to find the
crashed plane.
A night-long search was carried
on with planes dropping flares
and turning spotlights on the rug
ged terrain to aid loggers, state
patrolmen and military personnel
in their ground search.
The plane was a PBY-4 Pri
vateer from the Sand Point Naval
Air Station at Seattle.
U.N. Officers Protest
Killing of Navy Medic
In Neutral Corridor
MUNSAN, UP)—United Nations
liaison officers today took Com
munist officers behind Allied
lines to investigate the killing of
•an American Navy medical corps
man in a neutral “no fire’’ corri
dor along a road leading to the
Panmunjom truce site.
In an official protest, the U.N.
labelled the killing “wanton.”
Allied spokesmen said the bul
let which killed the medic while
he was standing in a tent was
the kind used by the Communist
troops.
And they argued, during the
hour investigation, that the
bullet’s line of flight showed it
had come from Communist terri
tory.
The United Nations officers
took the Communists to the tent
area after first making a “strong
protest” at the truce-talk site at
Panmunjom.
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