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The Nome nugget., 1945-03-19

Ted Law, formerly with Mid Continent Airways Inc, will be the new general manager for the Alaska Airlines and will arrive in Anchorage this week, according to information received from a company official.
 MT. Law has recently purchased a substantial interest in the com- pany and has already made plans for reducing fares, increasing ser vice and extending the company's routes.
 Confirming his interest in the future of the company, he has wiggled a couple of DC-3's out of the surplus property commis- sion, which will be in operation soon on the company's routes.
 Seattle, Minneapolis, Russia and the Orient are in the planned routes for the postwar.
The Nome nugget., 1945-03-19
URGES
 END IDOLATRY

ROME, Italy, March 19, -(P)- The Pope yesterday urged the end of idolatry of absolute nat ionalism, pride of race Or blood and the desire for hegemony in the possession of worldly goods, as an important step toward last ing peace.
 The pontiff, speaking before thousands of Italians massed in St Peters Square, directed his appeal particularly to "those who allowed themselves to be seduced by advocate of violence, those thoughtless followers, who he said "are now beginning to reawaken from their exception in constern- ation, seeing what their docile servility led them"
 The Pope warned that stability could only be guaranteed if re- conciliation was carried out faith fully and with broad mindedness.
The Nome nugget., 1945-03-19
PLANES SWEEP SOUTHERN JAP ISLANDS
By Elmont Waite

USPFH. Guam. March l9,-(P)- Hundreds of American planes from the worlds mightiest task force swept vital targets on the enemy's main southern island of Kyushu yesterday, in a devastat- ing attack.
 The carrier planes attacked bases and installations on Kyushu but Tokyo claimed that Shikoku an island off southern Honshu was also raided.
 The 8-hour carrier raid came just before more than 300 super fortresses dropped more than 2000 tons of incendiary bombs on Nag oya.
The Nome nugget., 1945-03-19
AACS OFFICERS VISIT NOME

Col. Haskell E. Neal, It. Col. Mason H. White, Major Philmore L. Moen and Major William E. Geyser visited Nome last week and enjoyed a trip through the city, escorted by Captain Ken meth R. Higgins.
The Nome nugget., 1945-03-19
CELEBRATES 89th. BIRTHDAY

Robert Bob) Ledgerwood, a real oldtimer and souraough, celebrated his s9t,a birthday Sat- urday March l7th.
The Nome nugget., 1945-03-19

The first Marines, recruited in Philadelphia in 1775, were paid $6 month and given daily ra- ton of rum.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Fleeing the GuIIibIe

Like honey drawing nles, the
scores Of billions of dollars saved by
Americans during the war and the
large cash holdings OF returning
servicemen are activating cheats
and racketeers to such an extent
that the country is threatened with
the biggest swindling wave in its
history. According to Victor H.
Nyborg. president of the National
Association of Better Business Bu-
reaus. the gullibility of the victims
on one hand and the ingenuity OF
the victimizers on the other are
truly staggering. and unless some
thing is done about both. the fleec-
ing is going to be tremendous.
Mr.. Nyborg's statistics are slightly
appalling. After the First World War,
he says. the "gyp artists" swindled
Americans out of about $400. 100000
in Liberty Bonds alone, but this time
the stakes are much higher and the
charlatans are redoubling their ef-
forts. Thus, lot of veterans are
paying out good money for worth
less territorial rights" sold as some
thing guaranteeing them exclusive"
marketing privileges in different
parts OF the country. Thus. too.
housewives are giving cash deposits
to door -to-door "salesmen" In return
for fake promises to deliver scarce
household articles. and other Amer
leans are being taken" to the tune
of $1.o0o000 week by 4 mining
stock fraud now operating from
Toronto. All told, according to Mr..
Nyborg, the confidence men. using
no fewer than 750 different schemes,
are currently robbing the public at
the rate of $3.50. .0oo. 900 4 year.
These figures constitute in them
selves = timely warning. but Mr..
Nyborg and his organization feel
that the mere statistical recital Is
not enough and that the situation
viii grow worse unless there Is Z
widespread program to put the pub
lie on guard. To this end, outstand-
ing leaders In various enterprises
are organizing 10 launch IN inten-
Evening star., 1945-12-16

which held up and robbed bank In
Morton, Texas. He was suspected Of
participating in other robberies.
The Federal Bureau OF Investiga-
tion began an intensive manhunt
through the Southwest and finally
caught up with him when he was
injured several weeks ago in a Little
Rock trafi1c accident. He died from
his injuries in q hospital, under
guard. Prison authorities explained
that Kimes was given leave in re-
ward for good behavior" The
kimes case re-emphasizes the need
for extreme caution in granting
leniency to prisoners with records as
notorious as that OF this Oklahoma
outlaw.
Evening star., 1945-12-16

nate the struggle. while the United
States, in behalf of her citizens in
terests. will similarly press Spain ="
The author Of the words thus quoted
was a young lieutenant in the British
Army who had been in Cuba with Gen.
Valdez. His name was winston Churchill.
~ y
An anonymous writer in The Star for
December II, 1895, gave 1t as his opinion
that: ANY man
Fomous Musician who can hold the
In Town attention of 1900
people by a piano
recital must be genius" and "Pader-
ewski did that last night at Metzerott
Music Hall and at times moved his au-
dience to the highest enthusiasm. Even
those who did not understand the TECH
nicalities of his playing or who did not
really appreciate the masterful charac-
ter of his work felt the effect of his
marvellous personality and were swayed
by his interpretations. It was an audi
ence Of culture and refinement, those
who love music for its owl sake. who
are impressed by its effects and who
gave vent to their satisfaction after
every number in emphatic and sponta.
neous applause" The compositions
played by the visiting maestro included
Beethovens Walstein sonata, two of
Mendelssohn's Songs without Words"
Schumann's Carnival" seven Chopin
selections, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody
and melody Of his own. "only Pad.
erewski" could give such a recital, in.
sisted the reviewer at the end Of his
tribute.
The Star of December IS, 1895. listed
many distinguished characters who ad-
mitted notorious fond
Greet Mems ness" for cats. Mahom-
Feline Pets ct, Cardinal Mazarin,
Cardinal Richeleu, Sir
Isaac Newton. Charles Stewart Parnell,
Robert Southey, Lord Byron, Daniel
Maclise, Harriet Martineau and Thomas
Henry Huxley were mentioned In the
roster. supplementary names would in
clude: hnatole France, w. L. George
and the author OF "This and That" In
The star Monday 70 saturday.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
III-Advised Leniency

The death of Matt KimeS from
automobile accident injuries re-
ceived while he was being hunted
by local and Federal officers on bank
robbery charges brings to an end q
lurid crime career which, ironically,
was prolonged by the leniency OF
penal authorities who thought he
had reformed. On the basis of
Kimes' long criminal record, marked
by murders, holdups and prison
breaks sufficient to earn him the
sobriquet of Public Enemy No. of
the Southwest" it is difficult to un-
derstand the reason for the unusual
leniency shown this notorious gang
ster of the late twenties. The rec
ord showed, among other things,
that he had blazed q trail of bur-
glary, bank robbery and murder in
Oklahoma, Texas and other States,
during which he and members of his
gang had killed sheriff and po-
lice chief in separate forays. Sen
fenced to prison for life, he escaped
and continued his robberies and
shootings until recaptured and given
a second life sentence for murder.
There Is nothing in the record to
indicate any intention to referm or
even any feeling of remorse for his
crimes.
Yet Kimes, twice convicted of
murder and serving two life SEN
tences, was permitted to walk out
of the Oklahoma State Prison last
july on temporary leave" so that
he could obtain signatures to a
cleklency petition which he told
prison officials he wanted to circu-
late. The furloughed prisoner
promptly forgot about his petition
on reaching the wide-open spaces,
however, and shortly thereafter he
was identified rs leader OF . CANT
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Chopter

December is the last chapter in
the book, and many there are to
whom the month is a dreary period.
There are things to be said against
the last period of natures calendar.
The sun rises late and reluctantly.
It grudgingly makes short trip
into the sky and sinks out of sight
early in the afternoon. If the snow
blanket has not arrived, there is a
drab brownish gray tinge to. the
landscape. The pale-yellow brittle
corn leaves rustic in the shocks; the
brown leaves of the pasture hang
tenaciously to their twigs. The
frost-grayed grasses and weeds are
bent low by autumn's lashing rains.
Those who claim 1t Is weary period
have much evidence.
But there is beauty in the gray
month for him who loves nature.
There are dark gray days when the
heavy nimbus clouds hang low over
the bare fields and pastures. Then
the earth walks in quiet shadow.
There are other days when the
stratus and cirrus clouds make a
thin Aim high in the sky, and there
is = lighter, softer shade of gray
over the fields and hills. Sometimes
the sun breaks through the curtain
and for q few fleeting minutes one
sees the round ball of pale gold,
half obscured by the clouds.
Come days, also, of clear luminous
sunshine, when hardly a cloud
specks the deep blue and the rays
Of the sun mirror brightly the whole
countryside. On such days there is
an intensity OF light that makes dis
tant objects seem close and distinct.
Yes, December offers beauty in the
concluding chapter OF the. year. Now
on the farm all is snug and tight.
The land Is waiting through the
days-waiting for the snow blanket
to fall and tuck the earth to sleep
until the miracle Of spring is born
again.
Evening star., 1945-12-16

sive educational drive on Nation
wide scale. This should be helpful.
There would be no problem at all, Of
course, If the gullible would stop
being gullible and realize that easy
money is usually hard to make, that
things like the Brooklyn Bridge are
not for sale, and that the best way
to seek quick impoverishment is to
succumb to slick talk and invest in
some far-away project guaranteed
to yield quick riches. Caveat emptor!
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Restraints to Be Valued
By the Reu. William r. Wnnsch,
Minister, the Church OF the Holy City.

in barbaric contrast with ethical reli-
gion. The contrast is made by the
presence or absence OF certain hne
restraints, those Of humaneness, OF
mercy, of q sense Of life's sanctity, Of
the conviction Of mans moral and
spiritual capacities and destiny. BY
ruthless barbarisrn and In the sorry
exigencies Of war on both sides, these
restraints have been made to appear
what they are-man's highest loyal
ties. Until these restraints affect .
man, he has not come alive to what
it is to be human being. And while
lesser restraints may seem like sal-
vation to those in pit of lawlessness,
these, looked at from any angle, are
indeed salvation and rescue from =
subhuman level.
One of the most obvious lessons
from the war, II not also the biggest,
Is that We must not have another
war. Little would be left with
which to begin anew, and few If any
left to make the effort. Never was
the world put under such constraint
by war to avert another war. That
is a promising point for the collective
will of mankind to have been brought
to! Difficulties in the way of peace
may be great, but the dire risks OF
another war are greater. The con-
straint on the nations from this re-
Election may be relaxed as the crisis
passes and the pressure OF circum-
stance is relaxed At least it will
not be maintained by circumstance.
1t Is a moral constraint. The will of
mankind will have to rise to it and
make it its own. From over the bal
ancing difficulties Of peace and perils
of war, that constraint peers at us
and beckons the will of mankind.
Welcomed into human will and ac-
ton this constraint can tip the
scales for peace. It should be the SUI
preme constraint into q happier
world and future.
Evening star., 1945-12-16

From q war fought against gigan-
tic, enslaving restraints we may well.
learn many lessons about salutary
restraints.
Some commonplace restraints have
come to be priced all over again. To
multitudes who have not had the
least straw Of legality at which to
clutch in order to save life and
family, policing and military govern
ment must seem like salvation. The
victimized have learned what it
means when no legal restraints at all
exist. The normal" world, in which
decencies and right-doing are upheld
If only by fear of penalty or of dis
repute, looks like fairly good world
when one looks at 1t out OF chaos and
lawlessness. Fear Of penalty or Of
disrepute are not the finest Of re-
straints; they are hardly ethical mo-
tives; but shabby as they are, they
are props to morality and integrity
and do q social service. The reign
Of law, for whatever reason, must
strike hundreds Of millions as q su-
perlative good, even If 1t does not spell
disinterested integrity. What q gain
1t would be If law to require fair
trial for taking life or property could
be introduced everywhere! Yet what
an elemental human right 1t Is!
4
Besides legal restraints, maintained
by whatever motives in mankind we
have learned in the recent war about
some finer restraints. We have been
reluctant to credit reports of atroci-
ties, of which nevertheless over
whelming evidence has accumulated.
We we're misled, we remember. about
atrocities in one way in the First
World War; this time we have been in
danger of being misled in the other
way. But We have had it driven in on
us that there are pagan religions
fanatic nationalism and 4 fantastic
emperor worship-and that these are
Evening star., 1945-12-16
We Should Know More

From the Toronto Globe and Mail
It is unlikely that Canada will accept
the Soviet system for itself. But all
Canadians, we are certain, do want
peace with Russia; they want the rela-
tions between their countries to be good,
and, therefore they want to know about
Russia. But they want to study Russia
and Russian methods with the same
freedom that the Russians have to study
and form opinions about them.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
White House Expansion

Congress has taken steps to pro-
vide funds for the expansion OF
executive office facilities at the
White House. That means that the
official residence of the President
is to be enlarged, and people who
have appreciated the beauty of the
building as it was before its current
improvement" began as far back
as quarter of century ago natu-
rally are concerned for fear that its
beauty may be further spoiled.
The problem is not new. Again
and again the Executive Mansion
has been remodeled. The plans of
James Honan were altered soon after
the cornerstone was laid october
IS, 1892. Money for the construction
of the edifice had to be raised
through the sale of lots in the re-
Gently established Federal City or
donated by Maryland and Virginia.
The work on that account developed
slowly. 1t was not until April, 1900,
that the National Legislature gave
any help and then it appropriated
only fifteen thousand dollars and
"earmarked" the whole of that small
sum for the purchase of furniture.
Mrs. John Adams, the first Pres
ident's wife to reside at 1900 Penn
sylvaniSavenue, on her arrival found
mot single apartment finished"
Thomas Jefferson was responsible
for the erection of the first office
annex. His addition occupied the
site of the present series Of offices.
It seems to have disappeared in the
confiagration incident to the British
occupation in 1914. Reconstruction
of the entire edifice was intrusted
to Hoban, the original architect, and
he supervised the job and turned in
a bill for $246,490. The restored
White House was thrown open to
visitors on January l, 1918. During
the next year Congress authorized
the expenditure of eight thousand
dollars for the enlargement of "the'
Office west of the Presidents House."
The south portico was added to the
main building in 1898 and the north
portico in 1929. Meanwhile, the east
room was completed and decorated
at the cost of something less than
twenty-five thousand dollars. Gas
lighting was installed in 1848 and 4
heating and ventilating system In
1853. The west terrace was covered
with a conservatory about 1857. At
an unrecorded date prior to 1870
the east portico was removed. Many
other changes were made in the
next three decades-most of them
detracting from the dignity and
beauty of the Executive Mansion as
it primarily was designed.
Then in 1902 the great classic
architectural firm of McKim, Mead
and White was requested to prepare
plans and estimates for the restora-
ton of the Executive Mansion to an
approximation Of its original form.
President Theodore Roosevelt, sub
mitting the resultant report to Con-
gress, wrote: "The White House is
the property of the Nation and, so
far as it is compatible with living
therein, it shall be kept as 1t origi-
nally was for the same reason that
we keep Mount Vernon as 1t origi-
nally was" The sentiment thus
expressed is as good today as it was
forty-three years ago.
Evening star., 1945-12-16
The Reluctant Borrowers

ne keIuCt0nt borrowers
To many Americans it must seem
strange that the British House of
Commons has acted reluctantly,
after a bitter debate, in approving
our loan agreement with Britain
and in ratifying the Breton Woods
monetary plan. On this side of the
water the general impression is that
the loan is altogether generous and
that the Breton Woods undertak-
ing, despite some flaws, constitutes
a promising step toward reinvigo-
rating and stabilising the economy
Of the world.
But the British, especially as re-
CARDS the loan, have taken a diff
ferent view. Many Conservative
members OF Commons, following
Winston Churchills lead, abstained
from voting, as If to wash their
hands of the whole credit arrange
ment, and some Labor members
voted afirmatively only because of
party discipline. In short, as the
record of the debate shows, the ap-
proval was grudging one, reflect
ing feeling on the part of great
number Of Britons that America was
less than generous, that it had
driven a hard bargain, and that the
results had to be accepted only be-
cause there was no alternative.
1t does no good to oversimplify
the situation by describing all this
as an ungrateful attitude. From the
standpoint of the British, there are
several factors that cause disap-
pointment and misgivings. These
include Cd the psychological ad-
justment they must make in assum-
ing borrowing position after hav-
ing been for centuries bankers to
the world; (2) the hard times they
have had during an impoverishing
war; 81 the belief of many of them
that the United States could readily
have offered a grant-in-aid Or
credit requiring no interest pay
ments, and "a a fear among them
a real fear, however i'll founded
that the agreement, which appears
to commit them morally to a freer
now of international commerce, will
lead to the end of the empire pref
erence system and other devices pro-
tecting Britain's trade, thus giving
America a competitive advantage
over them.
When such points as these are
kept in mind, it becomes clear that
the British attitude cannot be ex-
planned away simply as one of in
gratitude and nothing else, and fair
ness demands that we recognize this.
BY the same token, however, fair
ness places a demand on Britons as
well: The demand that they give
fuller thought to our position as a
Nation that has expended scores Of
billions OF dollars on lease-lend
without asking or expecting re-
payment, a Nation nov burdened
with enormous debt and besought
for loans from every quarter. As
for protective trade devices-de-
vices which breed similar barriers
throughout the world and which
thus create dangerous economic
frictions between nation and ma
tion-no genuine international
peace can be established If an
earnest effort is not made to keep
them within the bounds of reason.
Considering this, along with the
state of their own national pocket
book, Americans do not feel that
they have made an ungenerous loan
to Britain, and the British should
realize it, just as we should realize
that certain factors in the picture
which they seem to exaggerate-
make the British feel uneasy. A
little of this understanding on both
Evening star., 1945-12-16
Curling Shinto

teneraI MacArthur'S impending
directive regulating the Japanese
shinto religion represents an at
tempt to deal with 4 problem as
inherently difficult as 1t is ILL
understood by the world at large.
Shinto is q religious phenomenon
unique In the modern world. It rep
resents = primitive cult deliberately
exalted into an theological instru-
ment Of jingoistic militarism, with
the goal Of worldwide domination
by master race" ruled by god
emperors divinely predestined to
universal authority. Obviously, so
dangerous an instrument must be
blunted before Japan can be recon-
structed on peaceful, democratic
lines. On the other hand, anything
savoring OF religious persecution or
suppression must be avoided, as
repugnant to the very ideals we
strive to inculcate.
Shinto, in its original form, was
primitive "animism" common to
many primitive peoples. 1t consisted
in the worship OF natural forces
combined with reverence for ances-
tors and the cult of the sun goddess,
Amaterasu-o-mikami, deemed alike
the patron deity OF Japan and the
ancestress of its imperial house.
This last factor was the germ OF the
Emperor worship which was
stressed by the makers of modern
Japan and exaggerated to a point
reminiscent of the Emperor worship
under the Roman Empire, when all
good citizens were required to make
obeisance before the shrine of the
ruling Caesar, regardless Of their
particular gods, who were fully toll
Grated. Refusal to render that
obeisance exposed Jews and Chris
tians to persecution IS bad citizens.
The rulers of modern Japan SINH
larly maintained that participation
in the Shinto cult was 4 civic duty
which did not imply any disloyalty
to the individuals particular faith.
Most Japanese are Buddhists, who
find no difficulty in this duality of
religious experience, and many ma
tive Christians have tacitly con-
formed under pressure or at least
have avoided an issue which the
authorities did not unduly insist
upon. Christians were taxed like
all others for the support Of the
Shinto cult, and their children were,
exposed to shinto propaganda in
the schools and the army. I
What General Macarthur plans is
the disestablishrnent Of shinto from
its status as the dmcial cult Of
Japan. The aim is to place 1t on an
equal footing with Buddhism and
Christianity, which have been ex-
enpted from taxation, but rely on
the support of their adherents.
There will be no attempt to close
Shinto shrinss or interfere with an
cestor worship as such. Just what
will be done regarding the alteration
of the Emperor and his exaltation
as the descendant Of the sun-god-
dess, with its political connotations,
is not clear. It may be assumed
that the absurdity Of the whole god
emperor, Yamato-race and divinely
predestined world-dominion con-
cept will automatically be impressed
on the Japanese consciousness by
the hard realities Of defeat and sub
lection to foreign control over long
period. .