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The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Senator Lyng Reports
 Candle Miners Hard Hit By Lack of Annual Boat

Senator Howard Lyng returned last night from Candle, where he has lately taken over the Billy French mining ground on Jump Creek.
 Jump Creek empties into Can dle Creek mile from town and half mile from the 3500-foot airfield built and maintained by the Havenstrite Mining Co.,, suc- cessor to the Arctic Circle Mining and Exploration Go.
 MT. Lyng states drilling opera tions will be conducted this fall on the French ground.
 The Havenstrite Co. has 20 men employed and is hydraulicing nine miles up Candle Creek. Its two large dredges have been shut down for several years past.
 Henry Xavier, longtime Can dleite, is carrying on a one-man operation on his California Creek holdings.
 This sums up the actual mining now going on in this once lively, thriving mining camp up on the Arctic Circle.
 Candle residents, as well as those of our other far northern Second Division towns and viii lages, are becoming increasingly alarmed over the prolonged ship ping strike, for they are depen- dent for their essential supplies on one commercial vessel a year from Seattle to Kotzebue Sound, an arm of the Arctic Ocean.
 Due to ice and weather condi- tions, the open season of naviga- ton for large commercial ships is limited principally to tn e month of August in this area.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Army Will Step Up Draft To 54,00O Men The Last Three Months of Year

WASHINGTON, (P) - T h e Army Wednesday called for 30,000 draftees in September. It said it would need 54,OOO more men a month for the final three months of the year.
 The announced quota for Sep tember brings to 1,013,430 the to- tai number of men drafted since Selective Service resumed opera ton in September in 1850.
 The Defense Department said the projected increase in induc- tions during the last three months of this year, is necessary to re- place men drafted in the latter part of 1850 and early 1851.
 Men who entered the service at that time will be eligible for sep aration by the end of the current year.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Lundeberg And Owners Further Apart Than Ever

SAN FRANCISCO, (PD - The number of ships tied up by the five-week-old West Coast sailors strike approached the 100 mark today with AFL sailors and ship owners farther apart, if anything, in their positions.
 Harry Lundeberg, secretary treasurer of the striking Sailors Union of the Pacific said his union is increasing it's demands on the Shipowners' Pacific Mari time Association.
 He did not elaborate, but said his sailors would demand "more money, shorter hours and more jobs"
 Meanwhile, the appeal from Congressional Delegate Bartlett of Alaska, to President Truman for federal intervention and use of military ships for civilian cargoeS was followed by a second Seattle Chamber of Commerce appeal to John R. Steelman, the presiden- tial assistant.
 Steelman had answered a pre- viOus chamber wire:
 My latest information was that an arrangement had been worked out with the armed services. I know it was far from satisfactory but hoped it would be of some assistance until a better arrange ment could be made"
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Seafair Will Unload All Seward Pen. Freight At Nome and St. Michael

Alaska Steamship Co. has been advised that the SS. Seafair is loading over the weekend for Nome and St.. Michael, with stops enroute at Seward and Naknek. There is neither cold storage nor cool room on this ship.
 Golovin freight will be ac- cepted, they are advised, but only to Nome, and Unalakleet freight will be unloaded at St. Michael.
 Efforts are being made to alert K0tzebue to get their freight on the Seafair as far as Nome as the strike remains deadlocked in it's fifth week.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Alaska Steam Cancels
 Sailing of Aleutian, 22nd Vessel, 2,2O0 Passengers

SEATTLE, (P)-Alaska Steam ship Company announced Mon day that it has cancelled the scheduled Friday afternoon sail ing of the steamship Aleutian be- cause of the shipping strike.
 A company spokesman said the 300 passengers who had been booked for the trip will bring to 2,200 the number who have been disconnected by the strike of Sailors Union of the Pacific.
 The cancellation of the Alaska trip is the 22nd since the begin ming of the walkout, Alaska Steamship officials said.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Truman Opens Campaign With Whistle Stop No. l

BULL SHOALS DAM, Ark, (Fo - President Truman opened up the Democratic presidential cam paign Wednesday with a slugging attack on special interests" and a blunt suggestion to the South that it owed its prosperity to the New and Fair deals.
 He accused the private power interests, the American Medical Association and the "real estate lobby" of using the "lying slo- gan" of Socialism" in fighting administration efforts to help the people.
 Reporters who read Truman's speech in advance, told him it sounded like ''preview of the Democratic campaign"
 That's what's intended" he said with grin.
 His appeal for Southern votes was reminder to the South of it's improvements.
 The New and Fair Deal have done a lot for the whole country, but 'I believe that they have done more for the south than any other part of it."
 He described his appearance as "The number one whistle stop of 1852. There are going to be a lot more of them"
 He added, however, this year, "Pll be working for somebody else"
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Commons Will Not Blame Churchill For US. Raids On Yalu Power Plants

LONDON, (P)-The House of Commons decided Tuesday night it couldn't blame Prime Minister Winston Churchill's government because it hadn't been told the Americans were going to bomb the Yalu River power plants in North Korea.
 The House, by a 300-270 vote, defeated Laborite motion to cen sure the government because it hadn't been consulted before the raids. Churchill warned the House that the motion, while technically aimed at his cabinet, really falls on the United States"
 Adoption of the motion could have resulted in the resignation of the government. 8
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Committee Recommends Perjury Charges Against LattimOre and Davies

WASHINGTON, (P - A Sen ate committee charged Wednes- day that Owen Lattimore has been ca conscious articulate in- strument of the Soviet conspir- acy" and recommended perjury proceedings against him and John P. Davies, Jr., State Department official.
 A formal report of the Senate Internal Security subcommittee said both Lattimore and Davies had testified falsely during its re- gently concluded inquiry into the Institute of Pacific Relations.
 Lattimore is a John Hopkins University professor and a Far Eastern affairs specialist who has served, as an occasional consult ant to the State Dept. Davies, formerly on the State Depart ment's policy planning staff, now is a deputy political adviser to us. occupation authorities in West Germany.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
Sweden Will Seek Justice In International Tribunal For Russian Air Attacks

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, (P - Sweden told Russia Wednesday she would seek justice in an in ternational tribunal unless Mos cow admits that Soviet fighters shot down two Swedish planes over the open Baltic Sea.
 A new Swedish protest note, re- jecting Russian claims that the planes had violated Soviet terri torial waters, insisted Swedish military aircraft are of couse en- tirely free to fly over the free sea and will in the future, as hither- to, make use of this right.
 Soviet military forces cannot, any more than the military forces of any other country, claim the right to exercise sovereignty in such waters over aircraft of an other nationality" the note de- clared.
The Nome nugget., 1952-07-02
N O T I C E

There will be no publication of the Nugget on the 4th of July. Instead. special edition will be published on Thursday. July 3.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
FedeoI Spotlight
Civil Service Board Continues Analysis of Retirement Plans

mind. we can draw the following
conclusions:
/. Social security provides larger
benefits where the qualifying
period of coverage is short-old-
age benefits for those now ap-
preaching retirement age, and
survivor benefits for the widow and
children of the employe who dies
young. In the latter area partic-
ularly, because of the insurance
principle. social security has a
decided advantage over civil serv-
ice retirement.
2. For the employe who makes
career of Government service.
civil service retirement offers bet
ter benefits in practically all
areas. It provides disability pro-
lection, and optional retirement
before age 65. Annuities to widows
are on more favorable terms-the
uninterrupted payment to the
widow when her youngest child
reaches age ID, and the COM
mencement of the annuity at age
SO rather than age IS for the
widow without children. The
guaranteed return of contribu-
tions is of particular Importance
to single employees. The younger
employe, who can look forward to
many years of contribution under
either system, will receive an
nuity benefits which are decidedly
larger under civil service re-
Itirement."
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Archbishop Dedicate,
s.. MichaeI's Church

The new $45O,0O0 st. Michael's
Catholic Church, 805 Wayne ave-
nue., Silver Spring. was dedicated
by the Most Rev. Patrick A.
O'Boyle. Archbishop of Washing
ton, yesterday.
After the dedication rites, q
solemn high mass of thanksgiv-
ing was celebrated by the Rev
Joseph J. Deppe. pastor Of 'the
parish.
This splendid church is elo-
quent Of the faith and achieve
ments of Father Deppe and hi
parish" the Rev. Philip M. Han.
nan, chancellor Of the Washing
ton Archdiocese, told the gather.
ing. 'It is worthy of its patron
the Archangel Michael, whose
name, meaning who is like God,
expresses a Single-minded anc
consuming devotion to God"
Archbishop O'Boyle praised
Father Deppe and those helping
him in the parish.
Assistants to Father Deppe art
the Revs. AloysiuS E. O'Connol
and Ralph Maher.
The new building, which seat!
$50 in the main church and 6Ot
in the basement. was designed BY
Frank Duane, Washington archi.
tect,
Evening star., 1952-04-21

age IS if there are no minor
children.
Under civil service, q retiring
married man must make a positive
election to provide an annuity for
his surviving widow. Under this
election, he takes a small reduction
in his own annuity-between S
per cent and 10 per cent depend
ing on its amount) if his wife has
reached age so, and slightly more
if she is below that age. Her
widows annuity will be one-half
of her husbands full rate before
any reduction, and it can COM
mence at age so instead of age IS.
The same type of election is avail
able to married women, whereas,
under social security, widower's
benefits are payable only in cases
of dependency.
The average annuity to widows
of retired civil service employees
who exercised this election is
nearly $40 per month greater
than the maximum widows bene-
fit under social security. It is
unfortunately true that some
civil service widows receive no
benefits because the election was
not made. But it is beyond ques-
tion that the married man, after
a career in Government service
can provide far better protection
for his wife under civil service
retirement than is available un-
der social security.
General Conclusions.
We have examined at some
length the relative benefits pro-
vided by civil service retirement
and social security under various
circumstances. Is it possible to
summarize these comparisons and
draw any general conclusions?
The basic concepts of the two
systems are different, and here
we find our answer. Under civil
service retirement, the Govern
ment says to the employe: You
must contribute 6 per cent of
your salary to help meet the cost
Iof your annuity. You and your
survivors may look forward to
benefits related to the value of
your services to the Government,
as measured by your salary and
the length of your service. In
any event. the return of your
contributions with interest is
guaranteed, and if you or your
survivors qualify for annuity
benefits, you may normally ex-
pect considerably greater re-
turn.
Social security is an insurance
system - "the Federal Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance System. "
It is supported by scale of in
, creasing taxes on covered en-
ployes and their employers, with
out any guarantee that benefits
paid to an individual or his sur
vivors will equal taxes paid by
him. Maximum benefits are pos
sible after short periods of
Qualifying coverage. Family needs
weigh heavily in the benefit
structure, as is proper in a ma
Itional social insurance program.
! With these basic differences in
Evening star., 1952-04-21

tions determines the type and
amount of benefits under both
civil service retirement and social
security.
For the single person, the ad-
vantage of civil service are pre-
dominant. Upon death before re-
tirement, all contributions plus in
terest are payable in a lump sum.
Upon death after retirement. any
balance of contributions and in
terest in excess of annuities re-
ceived is payable in the same
manner. Or the single employe
who retires in good health may
elect a reduced annuity, thus pro-
viding an annuity of one-half the
reduced amount payable after his
death to a person having an in
surable interest in the employe.
Under social security, the only
lump-Sum payment upon the
death of an insured single person
is maximum reimbursement OF
$240 for burial expenses. This is
true regardless of the number OF
years taxes have been paid. Under
certain conditions, monthly bene-
fits may be payable to aged de-
pendent parents, but as a general
rule the single person who dies
before qualifying for old-age
benefits will have paid more in
taxes than will be paid back in all
types of benefits. No such loss is
possible under civil service retire
ment, and single Federal employees
are more than a negligible per-
centage. -
Social Security Advantages.
However, married workers are
in the majority, and it is in the
area of family protection that
social security has advantages un-
der certain conditions. Only six
quarters of coverage for a $500
married man may qualify his
widow and two children for initial
maximum monthly benefits Of
$3.50. in addition to a lump-sum
death payment of $240. The bene-
fits are no larger for longer pc
riods of coverage. When the Older
child reaches age 18, monthly
benefits decrease to $120, anc
disappear completely when tht
younger child reaches that age if
as is likely, the widow IS the1
under age IS. However, she ma!
be eligible for a monthly widow
benefit of as much as $50 begin
!. ming at age IS. if she has not re-
married.
i Under civil service retirement
no survivor annuities are payable
on the basis of less than five year.
of civilian service. Because of tn,
relation to length of service ane
lower childrens' annuities, civi
service family benefits do no
compare favorably in amount will
those under social security for ,
widow and minor children, excep
at long periods of service. How
Evening star., 1952-04-21
0'Connor, Columbia
Union Head, (, Resigns

James ]. O'Connor has resigned
for health reasons as president OF
Local 101, Columbia Topographic
cal Union, which he has headed
since 1947.
The announcement Of his de-
cision came at q regular meeting
of the local yesterday at the Pyth-
ian Temple. Mr.. O'Connor, 46
has been active in the union fol-
20 years. He formerly was an
employe of The Star and headed
the unions unit there.
AS local president, Mr.. O'Con-
nor was affiliated with a number
of organizations including the Al
lied Printing Trades Council
Central Labor Union, Government
Employees Council, Virginia Caro-
lima Conference, Eastern Typo
graphical Conference and Mary
land and District Federation oi
Labor.
Joseph z. Lins, secretary-treaS-
urer of Local 101, said a success
sor to MIR. O'Connor will be named
at q special election. The date
will be announced later, he added
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Welfare Worker Leaves
For Pukistun Point a Post

Paul r. Cherney. staff mem
Der of United Community Serv-
ices here, will be the first social
welfare consultant to serve ir
Pakistan under the Point
program.
MIR. Cherney, who was to leave
today for his new duties. has beer
granted a f1ve-month leave OF alb
sence from his post here as Sec
retary of the Family and Chile
Welfare Section of UCS. In PAX
istan he will serve with the Pun
lab Children's Aid Society in
Lahore.
With his wife, Muriel, and three
children he lives at 1924 NORTH
IChesterbrook road, Arlington.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Truman Letter on Steel Case

fact finding board, and for an 30
iday delay in any work stoppage.
The act provides no means for
preventing a shutdown while the
Ifact-finding board is making its
inquiry. and it forbids the board
to make any recommendation.
In the present case, we have
had a board which made a thor
ough study and report on the facts
and recommended a settlement.
We have also have had a delay
voluntarily.of 100 days in the
threatened work stoppage. 1t may
be that some people will insist that
we should have had a compulsory
delay of 80 days instead of a
voluntary delay of 100 days, but
I see no advantage in it. Some
members of Congress may feel
that, in spite of all the steps al
ready taken, the Taft-Hartley Act
should yet be invoked. It appears
to me that another fact-fnding
board and more delays would be
futile. There is nothing in the
situation to suggest that further
fact-flnding and further delay
would bring about a settlement.
And it is by no means certain
that the Taft-Hartley procedures
would actually prevent a shut
down.
Furthermore, a Taft-Hartley in
junction in this situation would
be most unfair, since its effect
would simply be to force the work.
ers to continue at work for another
80 days at their old wages-de-
spite the fact that they have
already remained at work for more
than 100 days since their old con-
tract expired, and despite the fact
that the Governments Wage Sta
bilization Board has already rec
commended a wage increase. To
freeze the status quo by injunction
would, of course, be welcomed by
the companies, but it would deeply
and properly be resented by the
workers.
Hopes for Constructive Action.
These are some of the facts that
need to be kept in mind in con-
sidering this situation. No real
solution can be found that ignores
them.
I hope the Congress will give
deep and serious consideration
to the potential consequences Of
Iany action it chooses to take.
If the Congress decides to pas:
Legislation indicating its belief a:
to what ought not to be done II
the steel case, I think it Is in.
cumbent on the Congress to in.
|dicate by legislation at The same
Iltime it's views as to what shoulc
he done. And hope that any
Isuch legislation will be worked out
carefully and constructively tt
help bring about fair settlement
of this problem in the public in
Iterest.
! Sincerely yours,
Il HARRY S. TRUMAN.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Ex-EpiscopoI Minister
To Be Catholic Priest
BY the Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn, April 21.-
"A former Episcopal clergyman is
scheduled to be ordained as a
Catholic priest May % by Bishop
Henry j. O'Brien of the Hartford
Diocese, it was learned yesterday.
He is the Rev. Gordon Butler
Wadhams, who resigned as pastor
Iof the Church of the Resurrec-
|tion in New York March IS, l949,
Ito embrace Catholicism. Soon
IafterWard he was received into
the church at the Regina Laudis
Monastery in Bethlehem, Conn.
and is now studying at st. Mary's
Seminary in Baltimore.
His ordination will take place
at st. Thoms' Seminary in Bloom
field.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Louis SpiImon Elected
To journalism Council
by the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, April 21.-Louis
Spilman. publisher Of the Waynes-
boro (Va.) News Virginian. has
been elected vice president of the
lAmerican Council on Education
for Journalism.
Edward Lindsay, editor Of the
Herald and Review. Decatur. H.,
Twas elected president at meet
ling Of the council here yesterday.
Evening star., 1952-04-21
Warehouse Owner
Describes Divertinq
81 Million in Beans
By james {. Roper

A private .warehouseman told
Senators today how he sold al
most 81 million worth of Govern
ment beans-and nearly got away
with 1t.
Harold D. Tanner, a little man
with big ideas. had stored the
beans for the Agriculture Depart
ment starting in 1948.
He told the Senate Agriculture
Committee that since the de-
partment's inspectors seemed easy
to fool, he started selling the beans
and using the money to build more
warehouses.
When Tanner started storing
Government beans in 1948, he
operated warehouses in Colorado
and New Mexico. His contract
with the Agriculture Departments
Commodity Credit Corp. stated he
would deliver the beans upon de-
mand at Gallup, N. Mex.
Checkup Left to Others.
"CCC inspectors would go to the
Gallup warehouse and ask where
the Governments beans were,' ,
Tanner related. I'VE would tell
them the beans were in Colorado. >
CCC did not make any further
check, Tanner said, because
United States warehouse inspec-
tors-not CCC-were supposed to
be watching the Colorado ware
houses.
Tanner said that when he
first started telling this story tc
the CCC, the beans actually were
in his Colorado warehouse. He
added, however, that after the
CCC failed to pursue the search
for the beans, he started selling
them. He refused to give a spe-
cific amount of his shortage, but
did not challenge committee rec.
ords showing it was nearly 81
million.
Tanner said he expected to use
the money along with some out
side financing to put up more
storage facilities. He was caught
short, however, when the othel
financing failed to materialize, HI
said.
Decided Not to Fight Case.
A United States warehouse in.
spector-rather than a CCC mar
finally discovered the shortage
in November, 1850 and took tht
case to court in February, 1851
Tanner has been indicted on Grim
inal charges and has decided not
to fight the case.
Tanner said at one time he wa'
worth $3.50, 900. but now has beer
thrown into bankruptcy. Pending
the outcome of the court case, HI
said, he has been working as &
truck driver.
Committee members trying tt
find out how such a shortage wa!
undetected for two years called il
John Cunningham, an inspector
for the Dallas Office of the Agri
culture Departments Production
and Marketing Administration. HI
said CCC leaned heavily on re-
ports of inspectors who were sup
posed to watch warehouses II
censed under the United State
warehouse law. .s.
Tanner testified that before h
started selling the beans, he noti
fed the Dallas PIMA office tina
some of the beans were deterior
Eating. He said Harry Solomon
No. 2 man in the Dallas office
told him to try to sell some of tn
beans in Mexico. Mr.. Solomon
has been fired.