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The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
ALASKA AIRLINES

From Anchorage: w. F. Nelson, It. Wildman, Tuck Esenituck, F. McDonell, E. J. Larson, Anton Sikora, C. Letzkus, Daniel Elowa, Arvo Saario, E.. Schaubel.
 From McGrath: H. C. McMas- ters.
 From Unalakleet: Helen Castel and Walter and Mrs. Marchell.
 To Anchorage: Bob Bartlett, Brandon Wentworth, MT. and Mrs. R. H. Gaines, Mrs. Long, James Holt, Jr., Peter Maloney, MT. and Mrs. R. A. Brechtefs- bauer, Borjeson, Pack, It. Wild man, R Nichols, O. B. Wicker sham, MT. and Mrs. G. Collins, Alec Bowker.
 To Unalakleet: Wm Evans, D. Monday, Stewart Landa.
 To McGrath: Henry Ullrich, E. J. Grimstad, Joseph Yesenski.
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
Thieves Enter Nome Hardware

Thieves Enter Nome Hardware
 Police and federal officers are investigating a theft of several revolvers from the Nome Hard ware Store.
 The persons entering the build ing are believed to have forced an entry through the rear of the establishment. Broken glass in the gun case alerted the store crew this morning.
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
MS FINCH REPORTED SUNK IN KoTZEBUE SOUND

The MS Tula of the B and R returned from Kotzebue with the news that the MS Finch, belong ing to Archie Ferguson, which went aground during a recent storm, sank in Kotzebue Sound while being lowed by the Tula into port. Due to damage sus- tained the pumps on the craft were unable to keep the boat aflOat.
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
Marriage of Louise Klassan To Julius Matson Announced

To Julius Mason Announced
 The marriage of Louise KlaSsan and Julius Watson has been an- nounced from Ashtabula, Ohio, as of July 20.
 Miss Klassan was we'll known here having served in Golovin as missionary for the Covenant Church and was also matrOn at the Children's Home at Unala- kleet.
 They plan to make their home in Ashtabula. -
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15

Wilson Shoogurkurk was order ed by the U. s. Commissioner to support his family, who reside at White Mountain.
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
Henry Drier. Formerly of Nome. Dies in Anchoraqe at S9

Henry H. Drier, 59, listed as a mechanic at Elmendorf Air Force Base, died on July 28th in the ProvidenceHospital at Anchorage.
 Drier was a civilian worker in Nome during the war years and is Well-known here.
 He was a native of Blackewik, Wisconsin.
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
2,ooo Lb. Mail Flown 10 Villages

Z,O00 Lb. Mall FIoWn 10 VHIdYeS
 Three special bush flights to northern points today took over 2,O0O pounds of mail for the vil- lages. The flights were made by Alaska AirlineS.
The Nome nugget., 1952-08-15
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYs

Arriving this morning were: MT. and Mrs. Vim. Angell, Mar garet Call, Ruby McQuire, Sadie Wright, Mrs. Dick Roell, Capt. Houghton, William Lennon, Will liam Zubach, Mrs. Rose Silver man.
 Departing were: Gilbert Kar- nun, Charles Cole, Bill Shep- herd, Mary Atkins, R. Sinner, Ed Morton, Wm. Anthony.
 It has been asserted that some groups of people depend so much on gestures to supplement speech that they cannot carry on a con- versation in the dark, but the assertation has been widely dis puted.
Evening star., 1952-09-29

But the delegates then baked at
the vice presidential selection
OF the bosses, Senator Lenroot
OF Wisconsin. Instead, they
stampeded behind Wallace Nc
Camant of Oregon. who got up
on a chair and called for the
nomination of Calvin Coolidge,
Governor Of Massachusetts,.
He later became President by
accident of death.
So, too, as we know. did
Harry Truman. There was a
floor revolt of q kind (Which
was checked, however) at the
1914 convention which nomi-
mated him for Vice President.
Henry Wallace, the incumbent
Vice President, almost won re-
nomination on the first ballot
against the wishes Of party
leaders. They got the conven-
ton recessed and, during the
night. organized the nomination
of Senator Truman of Missouri.
-Four years before, President
Evening star., 1952-09-29
Doris Fleeson:

The spate of Stevenson
Sparkman material on their
personal finances and political
funds is in carefully calculated
contrast to the emotional TV
accounting Of Senator Richard
Nixon.
The sleeper Of course is the
income tax returns which the
Democratic candidates are max
ing public. The implied chal-
lenge to Gen. Eisenhower and
Senator Nixon is plain. What is
not quite so clear is whether the
public will vehemently support
the policy Of such disclosures.
Every attempt made so far in
Congress to press for full pub
licity in matters Of this kind has
died a-borning. Too timid to
legiSlate themselves the salaries
they admit they need in WASH
ington. members Of the House
and Senate have protected each
other from public revelation Of
the expedients most of them
adopt.
They have got away with It
because the public did not seem
much interested, possibly be-
cause for many Americans the
present Congressional salary Of
$12,500 plus $4,000 seems ade-
quate. Yet students of govern
ment fix $4,000 q year as the
salary which would now more
nearly reflect the responsibilities
and importance Of Congress.
Democrats point out that
relentless publicity compelled
the Stevenson statement. They
figure the same forces will OPP
crate to bring some kind Of
retort from the Republican
candidates. Meanwhile they
have not abandoned their own
research into the points Sena-
tor Nixon did not meet on his
telecaSt.
1t was Gov. Stevenson's own
decision to develop his story in
such minute detail. Once he
became convinced that he
could not stand by his original
Evening star., 1952-09-29
Thomas L. Stokes:
Thonos [. Stokes:
Veep-Choosing Method S|ipshod
Dctoton by Pory Bosses Not the Way to Nominate Man
Who Might Become President of the United Stotes

When Gen. Dwight D. Eli
senhower was in Indiana on
his first visit a couple Of weeks
ago. this reporter ran into for
mer Senator Raymond E. Willis
Of that State. a newspaper pub
Usher by profession, a kindly
philosopher by nature, and a
Republican by party affiliation.
Asked how he had been, as
We stood waiting for an eleva-
tor. he touched his left arm and
said he still was recovering
from Q break in it suffered at
the Chicago convention to
which he had been a delegate.
With O twinkle in his eye, he
explained how that had hap
pened.
II did q foolish thing there.
We got word suddenly to get to
the convention hall for the
nomination Of a vice presiden-
tial candidate. I didn't know
who it was to be. We hadn't been
told. You know how it is. 1t
really wouldn't have mattered
whether I got there or not. But
I hurried and fell on the stairs"
We agreed, in the back-and-
forth common to the newspaper
fraternity, that with his long
experience at political conven-
tions and at his age-he is IT.
it was, indeed, unnecessary for
him to be hurrying to such an
event like q cub reporter dash
ing OF to a fire.
The "word" passed to the dele
gates who did get there was that
the man for whom they would
automatically vote would be-
Senator Richard M. Nixon Of
California. It might just as well
have been somebody else-and
the same automatic procedure
would have occurred, as former
Senator Willis knew.
Back through the years 1t
nearly always has been the same
in both parties. Similarly. the
word" has come to the dele
gates from a conference Of party
leaders with the presidential
nominee-sometimes in the mid
die Of the night after the con-
vention finally has filled first
place on the ticket. and always
as q sort Of after-thougtt, hap
hazardly.
There is a code Of a kind for
this process. The vice presiden-
tial candidate must come from
some other geographical area
than the presidential nominee,
and otherwise Is chosen for vari-
Gus reasons. For appeal, per-
haps, to some group or groups
not considered sufficiently rep
resented in the presidential can
didate; or to appease a wing Of
the party which lost in the bat
tie for first place; or perchance
to try to assure a big, key State;
Evening star., 1952-09-29

schedule and morals In govern
ment are his speciality.
Gov. Stevenson badly needs
all these reinforcements. He
has done his best and it Is very
good, but the load Of defining
the issues, answering the Repub-
licans and meeting all the DEM
ocratic politicoes he doesn't know
well has sometimes weighed too
heavily upon him. Because 50
many members Of Congress were
abroad. it was difficult to make
speaking dates for them. but
they are back now and going
into action to help him.
Even so, Democrats over the
country are still pressing their
candidate to do more whistle
stopping than he seems willing
to undertake.
Evening star., 1952-09-29
Dovid Lowrence:

Now that Gov. Stevenson
and Senator Nixon have made
. clean breast of it-and no.
body is able with justification
to impugn the motives of either
one-maybe the candidates will
concentrate on the important
issues Of the campaign.
Neither Senator Nixon nor
Gov. Stevenson prof1ted or OBJ
tanned any personal income from
the private funds. Each had a
set Of donors who understood
clearly in advance that they
were performing public service
by contributing.
Dana Smith, who collected the
funds for Senator Nixon's post
election campaign. had a distinct
understanding in writing ahead
OF time with each of the donors
he solicited that such contribu-
tionS as they would make did
not entitle them to any hold
on the Senator or any favors.
He told them exactly what the
money was to be spent for
expenses in connection with
speeches. printing, postage,
travel and greeting cards to the
10000 workers who had been
active in the campaign. The
persons or businesses to whom
the money was sent were
printers, StationerS, hotels, and
none Of them knew or cared
who the donors were.
So far as Gov. Stevenson is
concerned, the donors knew
only that the money was going
to be distributed by him and
they didn't know the identity
OF the recipients. The Governor
says not one of the contributors
had any idea that he was being
obligated in any way to them
and the public should take his
word for it. just as it should
do when Senator Nixon says he
never promised nor gave any
special favors to any of the
contributors. The truth is that
out Of the rs contributors the
Senator didn't personally know
more than Is or 20.
There's no income tax prob
lem 30 far as any Of the donors
Evening star., 1952-09-29

or maybe to symbolic and
dramatic an issue as was the
case with Senator Nixon's Sc
lection.
A factor in his nomination
was to emphasize the party's an
ti-communism crusade through
his part in the Alger Hiss con-
viction. He also happened to be
from a big key State.
5Customarily the delegates,
like sheep, accept the decision
and ratify it. usually in a weary
anti-climax. For. by this time.
they are physically worn-out
from the day-and-night conven-
ton ordeal and their nerves are
jaded from excitement over the
contest for the presidential
nomination.
Exceptions are rare. There
was one case in fairly recent
times when a sudden and sue
ceSSful revolt arose from the
floor. That was in the 1920 Re-
publican convention. Delegates
had accepted the nomination
Of Senator Warren G. Harding
of Ohio to break a deadlock at
the !dictation of a handful of
bosses, chiefly from the Senate.
Evening star., 1952-09-29
fletcher Knebel::
Potomac Fever

Stevenson makes public the of donors to his $4,000
political fund-thus jusfyng faith of ntelectuas
Ada is cheap politician.
Ike shrugs aside the collapse Of platform him
Richmond. didn't bt-he still whole Demo-
cratic platform to fall back on.
Stevenson and Sparman make public their
for the last 10 Now all
under the Fair Deaand Republicans another
Ike rests IN New York, but he still problem
o out that Nxons dog is ang-and might day
when there's television around.
Ada Stevenson reveals $4,000 gifts State officials
from private fund Democrats cling precepts
the Founding Fathesuch the enlightened
interest.
Oused Assistant Attorney Caude is dropped
from the Washington social register Henceor gentlemen are
requested not to take quite seriously on the re-
cevng line.
Evening star., 1952-09-29
DorIs FIeeson: I:
Does Public Want Tax Pub|icitv2
Gov. Stevenson Has Tossed an Implied Challenge
To Eisenhower and Nixon on Personal Incomes

reticence with respect to the
funds he used to attract better
and brighter people into the
State Government of Illinois,
he insisted upon telling all.
Whether his hope of showing
clearly the difference between
his operations and Senator
Nixon's will be realized remains
to be seen. He feels they are
poles apart. His major reason
for exposing his tax returns is
to show that nothing contrib
uted to his campaign or his
special fund saved him any
money whatever, in any way,
shape or form.
It is being said at Demo-
cratic headuarters that should
Gov. Stevenson be elected. this
whole matter Of political ex-
penses. salaries, etc., will appear
in q challenging message to
Congress with proposals for
remedial action.
Some politicos do not believe
the issue can or should be
kept alive during the campaign.
Both parties. they think, have
been hurt and should retire it.
It seems unlikely that this will
happen. A very talkative gen.
tleman has just taken to the
hustings, President Truman,
and he will be followed by such
big guns Of his party as Sena-
tors Kefauver. Kerr and Paul
Douglas. Senator Kefauver in
particular has q far-flung
Evening star., 1952-09-29

are concerned because these
were all gifts. Since all Of the
gifts were less than $4,000,
there is no requirement of law
that they have to be reported
on income tax returns. There
is no income tax problem either
for Senator Nixon or Gov. Ste
venson. None of the money
was received by the Senator
from the donors for any serv-
ices rendered or to be rendered
to such donors. Similarly Gov.
Stevenson doesn't have to re-
port as income any of the gifts
made to him for the State en-
ployeS.
Now. the Illinois State officials
may have an income tax prob
lem because the Governor
publicly says the money was
used to supplement" the sal
aries of those officials. Whether
given in the form of Christmas
bonuses or as other gifts during
the year, the fact remains that
the money was given for services
rendered to the State Govern
ment and the GoyernOr-the
employer.
Any worker who gets a bonus
check at Christmas from his
employer for services rendered
must report this as income and
pay taxes on it to the Federal
Treasury.
But this is. at it's worst, only
a technical error and there are
lots of these made during the
course of the year by taxpayers
generally on such fine points of
the tax law and they are later
adjusted and any extra tax
promptly collected. It doesn't
involve in the slightest any lack
OF integrity ON the part of any
one-the donor or the recipient
or the distributor of the funds.
What is regrettable about the
whole Nixon-Stevenson contro-
versy over the private funds is
the celerity with which many
persons were ready to impugn
the honesty and integrity Of
Senator Nixon or Gov. Steven
son, depending on whether they
Evening star., 1952-09-29
Let's Get On to Important Issues
None Can Impugn the Motives Of Senator Nixon
Or Gov Stevenson Concerning Political Funds

were in one political camp or
the other.
In this case also the "left
wingers" who always cry out
against guilt by association"
were quick over the radio and in
the press to charge that there
was a direct tie between the
donors of the funds and Senator
Nixon-the assumption being
that specific obligation of an
immoral kind was created.
There isn't a scintilla of evi-
dence to prove it.
If it is morally wrong to con-
tribute funds to a public man
for political expenses after elec-
ton, it is morally wrong to do so
before election. Private funds
to benefit a public mans poll
tical future after election may
look wrong to some observers,
but private funds collected to
help elect candidates in the first
place are then in that sense also
morally wrong.
Yet If there were no campaign
contributions, only rich men
could run for Office and stay in
office. Also, if poor man were
elected, a rich man could oust
him in a subsequent election.
The only solution is either for
Government to finance COM
paigns. which is impractical in
some respects, or else for the
Government to limit every sim
gle contributor to a maximum of
ten dollars a year, whether given
before or after elections and for
bid even the candidates for Con-
gress and for the Presidency
and Vice Presidency to spend
their own money for campaigns
to get elected or reelected.
Political expenses are the
public's business, and control
and limitation are plainly within
the power Of Congress to legis-
late upon if the American people
insist on such reforms. It may
take a little longer to collect ten
dollar contributions and it might
mean starting earlier than q
campaign year or carrying on
continuous drives by the two
party organizations or by their
supporters-but it can be done.
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Evening star., 1952-09-29

volt by delegates from one whim
or another can be the proper
way to choose the man who may
become President.
Heretofore second place on
both the Republican and Demo-
cratic tickets has gone to an
older man than Senator Nixon
and, with but few exceptions,
to one of much greater politi-
cal experience. Seasoning usu-
ally is included among the at
tributes in the code.
Evening star., 1952-09-29

Roosevelt had literally jammed
the nomination Of Henry WAL
lace down the throats of reluc-
tant delegates and in the in
tervening years Mr.. Wallace had
rallied support from rank and
file elements, especially labor,
which promoted the almost sue
cessful revolt in 1948.
The "bossed" nomination Of
Harry Truman was regarded,
later as a happy alternative in
view of Henry Wallace's subse-
quent political career.
But neither the usual hap
hazard, after-thought way of
picking vice presidential candi-
dates nor the very occasional
sudden, hastily organized re-
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Senator odqe Nav Be Down for the Moment He's Not Out

partisan of the bipartisan foreign
policy, close friend Of Senator VAN
denberg.
Lodges internationalism is of post
war vintage. In the '30s he was no
interventionist. He voted to hold
United States forces within the
Western Hemisphere, against lend
lease, against relaxation Of the Neu-
trality Act. Always a strong pre-
paredness advocate, he has been a
member of the Army Reserve since
young manhood. He first met Gen.
Eisenhower when on reserve training
in Louisiana in 1912.
In his early years in the Senate,
Mr.. Lodge consolidated his hold on
various minority groups through
shrewdly calculated measures. Among
these was stand he took on the
Irish naturalization bill. He was
able to relieve Irish immigrants seek
ing United States citizenship from
the onerous obligation Of renouncins
their allegiance" to the British mon
arch. He also used to address French
groups fluently in their own tongue.
which quite delighted them and no
doubt won many a vote.
Lodge won reputation as a pro-
gressive Republican when, as leader
Of the young Turks" he tried to
wrest g. O. P. Senate leadership from
Taft. He lost by vote Of 28 to IA.
His failure to assume even informal
leadership Of the coalition that un-
successfully backed him Is due, his
critics say. to his brand of liberal
mostly an ability to see two
sides to every controversial story.
Toft- -HortIey Attitude
Such critics cite by way Of evidence
Lodges vote for the Taft-Hartley Act
and his subsequent vote for its re-
peal. AS q member Of the Tydings
committee investigating the McCar-
thy charges Of communism in Gov
ernment, he submitted a minority
report In which he conceded that
the charges had not been proved but
ut the same time he insisted the in
vestigation had been superficial and
inconclusive." The report may have
Evening star., 1952-11-23
By Mory McGroy

won handily, though it was the year
of the Roosevelt landslide.
In 1912, faced with the opposition
of Representative Casey, New Deal
internationalist, he won again,
through his skillful appeals to the
various minorities which make up the
Massachusetts, electorate. Soon aft
erward. he went to North Africa as
an observer of tank tactics. In 1914,
he left the Senate-the first Senator
to quit seat for war service since
the Civil War-to become liaison
officer with Army forces in Europe.
Home from the wars in 1916, he took
on the aging Senator Walsh. The
campaign was very gentlemanly, with
the younger man showing proper
respect for his elder, whom he
showed under on election day. Back
in the Senate, he became a vigorous
Evening star., 1952-11-23
Red China Stresses Heavy Industry

HONG KONG.-The Communist
rulers Of China will launch an am
bilious industrialization program in
1858 in that sprawling land of peas
ants-and a Moscow minded Chinese
will crack the whip.
With wealth of natural resources
and cheap manpower, and with Rus
sian technical advice. Peiping expects
to erect an industrial system upon a
base that has been agricultural since
time out of mind.
A state planning committee in the
Russian manner has been set up to
boss an industrialization campaign
whose outline is slowly unfolding in
bits and pieces OF Peiping broadcasts
and publications.
Koo in Choree
The campaign has been placed in
the hands of Kao Kang, an ardent
member of the Moscow clique in Mao
Tze-tung's inner ruling circle. Kao
also is head Of the Sino-Soviet
Friendship Association.
1AdO, VIC AAu1td4y dAAN SCO4OA41C
BOSS of Manchuria. has been named
chairman Of the new State Planning
Committee.
He has had considerable experience
in this field for the past two years in
attempting to rebuild the great Man
churian industrial apparatus con-
structed by the Japanese before
World War II and then stripped by
the Russians in the last days of the
Pacific war.
VitoI Shortage
The lack Of trained personnel has
been one of the glaring weaknesses of
Communist industrialization efforts
thus far. This weakness was plugged
in part by the importation Of Soviet
skilled technicianS.
There are indications that the flow
of Soviet technical experts will be
stepped up-possibly as an outgrowth
Evening star., 1952-11-23

on a wave of accidents. complaints
from workers and an outburst of self
criticism.
The Reds started the campaign for
more production this year as the Ko-
rean war dragged on. They inten-
sif1ed the campaign last summer. All
the accent was on making man and
machine produce more and more.
Plant managers with performance
records at stake showed the throttle
into high and tied 1t there.
Immediately the accident rate
jumped. Pieping did much scolding
about carelessness and ignorance Of
safety laws, but said nothing about
slowing down.
Make that quota or else," was the
big point.
Accidents continued to mount.
Workdoy Heightened
The length of the workday has
been quietly boosted all over China.
The industrial accident committee
found Taiyuan power switch oper-
dGOI, VIII was dCC1uC41tdAly C1CNO4Os
cuted, had been working 16 hours a
day with no breaks for weeks.
Accidents got so numerous on the
Northwest Railway line by the end
of June that casualties were averag-
ing 26 per so days.
Workers handling asphalt, coal tar
and other commercial chemicals
were not given proper protection and
LOT were hospitalized in 81 cities.
The inquiring committee blamed
capitalist tendencies among some
managers, and urged more attention
to safety regulations, but there was
not a word about slowing down to q
safe pace. The unhappy management
must still try to "gloriously exceed
the quota"
Now China's toiling millions are
being harnessed to haul an even
greater load in 1858.
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