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The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
HOUSE CONSIDERS TWO CONTROL BILLS

WASHINGTON, (P) = T h e House had two bills to continue expiring wage-price-rent controls, one passed by the Senate and the other approved by its own House Banking Committee.
 The governments present au- thority for all anti-inflation curbs expires midnight June 30.
 The Senate measure generally would continue control authority about as is, but for eight months instead of the two years the Presi- dent had asked. The House yer sion is for one year but it would end all curbs on consumer and real estate credit.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
Escaped Convict Kills
 9-Year-Old Girl Hostage

CARMEL, NY, R- An es- caped convict, making a desperate effort to seize a getaway car, stabbed a 9-year-old girl hostage to death Wednesday as police closed in on him.
 Hit by three police bullets, the convict surrendered and was taken to a hospital.
 His little victim, stabbed with a butcher knife as her mother looked on helpless, died an hour later.
 The slayer, Donald Snyder, 25, of Canastota, N.Y., gave warning of his desperation and cried:
 eff you come near me, I'll stab the child"
 Alex Williams, 45, school bus driver and a special policeman, tried to persuade Snyder to re- lease the child, Betty Lou Arnold. AS he talked, he sidled up closer and fired, hitting Snyder. The ex- con then plunged the knife into the little girls abdomen.
 Snyder, who was serving a 21s-5-year term in Green Haven State Prison for auto theft, had escaped Tuesday. Putnam County District Attorney Fred A. Dickin- son said a murder charge against Snyder would be presented to a grand jury.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
Nome Citizens Appeal to SUP tO Send Boat

Continued from Page One) plies for the hospital, and vitally needed machinery parts and min ing equipment was brought out.
 The following wire was sent to Harry Lundeberg in San Fran cisco: t1
 "The citizens of Nome present the following and request your earnest consideration:
 We have been without a boat for eight months.
 No other steamship line oper- ates to Nome.
 All our supplies come by boat. The stock of medical supplies in the local hospital and drug store are depleted.
 Milk, flour, sugar, and other staples are depleted.
 Unless you come to our aid and effect an immediate release for a boat to Nome the whole com munity will suffer considerable hardships and innocent people will be made to suffer.
 We request your cooperation without jeopardizing your posi- ton in working for a boat for Nome and will greatly appreciate such effort upon your part. L Early reply requested. ,- Committee: .o
 Chas. D. Jones, Mayor
 Mrs. Helen Fagerstrom
 w. C. McIvor
 Fred M. Langsam, MD.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
NOME OFFICE or ALASKA STEAMSHIP co. OPENS

Mir. and Mrs. Jack Dillon ar rived yesterday and are opening up the Alaska Steamship Co. of flee which has been closed all winter.
 MT Dillon stated the Alaska Lifeline Committee organized by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is made up of outstanding busi- nessmen of Seattle who are going all out to solve the shipping strike for the good of all concerned and to relieve Alaska of the handicap placed upon it at least once year by problems of ship owners and the many unions which serve shipping.
 The Dillons arrived via Anchor age and Fairbanks.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
Driver Killed When Light Truck Plunges Off Bridge At Knik Near Anchorage

ANCHORAGE, (P1 - D a vi d Allen Davis, 22, was killed We'd nesday when the pickup he was driving enroute to a reunion with his brother went out of control and crashed through guard rail on the Anchorage Palmer highway.
 Davis was rushing to meet his brother at Anchorage. The bro ther, Wayne, had flown here to work with David during the sum- mer. Their father, Franklin Davis, is a Bureau of Public Roads em- ployee at Juneau.
 The light truck tore out 90 feet of a wooden guard rail on the Knik River bridge, dropped l6 feet and landed on its top in the river bed.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
US. Troops Search For 399 Ant-COlnmuniSts
 Who Flee Withdrawal

KOJE ISLAND, Korea, tP) - US. troops hunted Thursday for missing comrades of 399 fright ened anti -Communist prisoners of war who broke away from 4,800 marching Reds.
 The breakaway came during an otherwise orderly evacuation of the fourth trouble-ridden POW enclosure at this United Nations prison camp.
 The anti-Red POWs said the missing prisoners had been haled b before Communist kangaroo courts" before the transfer. They didn't report the number.
 Death at the hands of their diehard leaders was the fate of 16 POWs missing from an enclos- ure enptied Wednesday.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13

Tn the Middle Ages many lead ing poets and thinkers of ancient times were widely supposed to have been magicians.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
w A N T A ID s

FOUND -. Three keys in case. Inquire at Nugget. If LOST Black, zippered billfold. Name of Richard Escholt, ST. Please return to Nugget.
 NOME GARAGE now open, inn mediate and efficient service. Complete automotive repairs, Front and Mettler Way. Expert mechanics to do your work.
The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
N o M E

Now Nome is town of great renown, Far off on the Bering Sea, And the things I've heard and stories I've read Have always intrigued me. But now that I'm here in an atmosphere Of icy wind and spray, The very first thought that comes to me Is Brother, let pray" Yes, let us pray we return some day
 To the people and land we know, And just as soon as the air is quiet My boy, I'm ready to go. But while on the ground we'll look around, Take in all there is to see, Until my stomach from Fairbanks
 Finally catches me. For the ride in the plane brought me pain I'm not good sailor, you know So I'd better wait til things settle down Before I'm ready to go. The sea rolls in with an awful din, And the wind is always there, But I'm incased in parka like
 An Arctic Polar Bear. We'll, let it blow, because know,
 Despite their chilly stare, s.' That the natives warmth lies deep swithin And the love of life is theirs
 ;. ]. You ask me now with furrowed brow
 What there is to see a9 Why pretty girl, in passing
 Just turned and smiled at me- Though worlds apart from the very start By custom, habit and style, The language of friendship is always such In anybody's smile. So the winds may blow wherever go
 But so long as people are there Who smile at me, think that l
 Better change my original prayer. And this I'll say til my dying day,
 Though lonely and homesick be, That all those things are forgotten when pretty girl smiles at me. So look at this town of great renown
 Far off the Boring Sea Through different eyes, like it's my home, Just because she smiled at me.
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The Nome nugget., 1952-06-13
FATHERS DAY. 1852

Forty-two years ago Mrs John Bruce Dodd was the driving force in starting Americans to celebrate Fathers Day Since 1910 the third Sunday in June has been observed as Fathers Day. although it is not de- clared legal holiday. This year Fathers Day comes on the 18th of June.
 Each year on Fathers Day, emphasis is placed on closer father-chd relation of building better world. In the average family in Nome or any other community in America, the father is away from the home during the major portion of the day Children do not have an opportunity to become we'll acquan- ted with their father as they do with their mother
 All of realize how important it is to the proper development of child to have the sympathetic guid ance of Dad" Too often fathers weighted down with the responsibility of making living, fail to devote enough of those precious moments to the youngsters
 NOME WILL MISS REV TREAT
 Rev Robert Treat of the Community Methodist Church leaves our community and the territory this week to assume his duties minister in his home state of Indiana
 Nome will miss him not only in matters pertaining to the church but in many other fields he has been not only jealous religious worker but civic leader as we'll Since accepting his Nome post he has worked to assist in every way possible the improvement of this northern city .4..
 Through his efforts Cub Scouting got it's start and now has three dens Scout Troop 666 and the Explorer Troop much of their development and activity to his enthusiasm and interest.
 As chairman of the local Red Cross chapter Rev. Treat has personally helped service men of all colors and creeds when they needed financial other assist ance.
 As Rotarian he has been responsible for interest ine weekly reports and items in this newspaper
 If would be impossible to mention all the civic roects in which Rev Treat has assisted. His cheer f h,ovant frendlness and wholehearted cooperation have won him many friends who will miss hlm and ho know that this community loss is 1ndianas gain Cn,r hest wishes go with him and with his family - +,o,, "roa<e new beginning in Indiana.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Police and u. 5. Liuison Luuded
In Dope and Gambling Arrests
Donohue Gets Prosecutor IreIon's Report
And Chiefs 'Worksheets' Showing July Totals

Commissioner F. Joseph Dono-
hue said today recent police ar
rests indicate narcotics statesmen
and gamblers are coming out of
their holes again."
Mr.. Donohue, who is District
police Commissioner, based his
statement on the July police re-
port submitted to him by Maj
Robert V. Murray. The report
shows more than 200 narcotics
and gambling law violations by
about so defendants.
The Commissioner said that it
was generally believed that gam
blers and narcotics racketeers
ran to cover" during the Kefau-
yer committees crime investiga-
ton, and the subsequent local
probe by the Senate District Crime
subcommittee.
However, Mr.. Donohue said. the
report shows the police are ''ex-
ceedingly active" in arresting vio-
lators as they go back into action.
He said the statistics reflect much
credit on the work of the police
morals squad. which combines the
activities of the old gambling, mar
cotics and vice squads.
At the same time, Mr.. Donohue
Evening star., 1952-08-08

WAS told dozens of narcotics and
gambling arrests hare have been
made only because of the close
liaison between the police and the
United States attorneys Office.
United States Attorney Charles
M. Irelan, chief Federal prosecutor
for the District. made this report
to Mr.. Donohue today. One OF
Mr.. Ireland's top assistants in the
|racket-busting field. Thomas A.
Walden, actually presented the
information to the Commissioner
Prosecutor Walden, who is still
hard at work presenting cases as
they arise to the special rackets
grand jury impaneled several
months ago, reported that as a
result of police-prosecutor CO.
Operation, in conjunction with the
Federal Narcotics Bureau, seven
major national narcotics violators
have been apprehended. along
with II major local violatorS and
IA other additional local small fry.
At the same time, he reported.
four large local numbers rings,
doing about $1,000 worth of busi-
ness daily, have been smashed.
Two of these cases resulted from
(Cee CRIME paUe Am
Evening star., 1952-08-08
IS B-36 Atom Planes
Attack Big Eastern Cities
BY the Associated Press

FORT WORTH, Tex, Aug. g.
New York and Philadelphia were
in simulated ruins today after q
mock bombardment by two squad.
rons Of giant B-36 bombing
planes.
Thirty-five of the planes
termed Americas atom bomb
carriers, joined in the simulated
air strike yesterday, and "a re-
turned.to Carswell Air Force Base
here after the round-trip, nom
stop flight.
The other plane bucked head
winds on the return and. short of
fuel, landed at Hensley Air Force
Base in Dallas. 80 miles short of
its home base.
Planes from the 7th and l1th
Heavy Bombardment Squadrons
left Carswell Wednesday on the
practice mission.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Searchers Fail 10 Locate
Plane Missing in China Sea
By the Associated Press

MANILA. Aug. 8.-American
planes and ships today reported
no success in their hunt for a
twin-engined United States Navy
Mariner patrol bomber missing
since yesterday with 13 aboard.
The plane was on a routine
flight over the China Sea from its
base at Sangley Point near Manila
when the crew reported engine
trouble. Half an hour later Sang
ley Point lost radio contact with
the craft.
A Navy spokesman said heavy
monsoon rains hampered the
search.
About 26 Navy and Air Force
planes from Clark Field, north o1
Manila. went out to look for the
plane. Six Navy vessels were sem
to search the shores of Manils
Bay.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Chicago Postal Probe
Checks on 'Payoffs'
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Aug. 8. - United
States Attorney Otto Kerner. jr.
said today his Office is studying
a report that "at least 38" super
visors in the Chicago post office
system paid large sums for their
promotions.
The report was submitted tc
Mr.. Kerner's Office by postal in
spectors and was based on an in
vestigation which began siS
months ago. Copies of the report
also are in the hands of the Post
master General and the Attorney
General, Mr.. Kerner said.
Jerome C. Williamson, CHIEF
postal inspector in Chicago, who
headed the investigation. said hi
could not comment since 1T is
a confidential investigation"
Mr.. Kerner said, however, that
"at' least 38" supervisors were in.
volved in the investigation.
From other sources it was
learned the inspectors reported
the supervisors paid $500 each for
their promotions.
Investigation of the big Chicago
post Office was begun last Febru.
ary after a grand jury indicted
Frederick P. Wall. secretary to
Representative William L. Daw-
son. Chicago Democrat. Mr.. Wall
was charged with taking money
in exchange for promises to use
influence to put temporary post
office workers on civil service
rolls.
Mr.. Wall and three others in
dicted with him are awaiting trial.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
.$75,600 Army Poyroll
Stolen in Australia
By the Associated Pres.

SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. g.
Soldiers of the Australian south
ern command are getting paid
today despite the theft in Mel
bourne yesterday of their f33, 500
($75, ,60O payroll. 1t was the big
geSt cash steal in Australia's his
tory.
The thieves have not been
caught and the money has not
been recovered. But another pay
roll was provided.
Police said the stolen money, In
small notes and in an ammuni-
tion box, disappeared from a
strongroom where it was awaiting
armored-car delivery to the army
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Britain S FirstAtomic Arms Test
To Be Set off in Indian Ocean

hint Of the actual date or dura-
ton Of the tests. Nor was it clear
how much significance attached
to the admiralty's reference to
weapons" instead Of q single
weapon.
Prime Minister Churchill dis
closed last winter that Britain
had produced an atomic weapon
and set up arrangements for its
llarge-scale production. He said
he had ordered tests to be carried
iout on the uninhabited, almost
Iwaterless Monte Bello Islands
about so miles OF the Australia 4
northwest coast.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Citizens Group Backs
|FIuoridafed Water in
Report 10 City Heads
Advisory Council Finds
Treatment Program
Is in PubIic's Interest
By John w. Stepp

The Citizens Advisory Council
today announced its approval OF
the fiuoridation of the Washing
ton water supply.
This support of the program
which was put into effect about a
month ago by the District Com.
Imissioners. reflects the views of 8
special committee set up by the
council to determine professional
and lay reaction to t1uoridatior
and to look into the medica
lramifications.
The committee. headed by DR.
Edward c. Mazique. presented it,
report to the council yesterday
The report was forwarded to the
Commissioners who released it al
noon today.
In Best Interest of Public.
On the basis of hearings which
the committee conducted during
the past month. the council con-
cluded that from all available evil
dence, the public interest woulc
best be served by continuing the
medication of the water supply
with one part of sodium silicoflu.
oride per million gallons of water
At the same time the council
recommended that a program o1
public education on fluoridatior
be conducted here. with the aid
of the District Health Department
and the press. The stated purpose
of this program is to disseminate
information to the citizens"
The council, in arriving at its
decision, pointed out that the
Commissioners, before goine
ahead with fluoridation, won in.
dorsement of the idea from 9
number of civic and professional
medical and dental groups. locally
and nationally. It also was
pointed out that nearly TOO com.
munities in the United State.
either already have fluoridatec
their water supplies or have ap.
proved it.
Tooth Decay Reduced.
The council also noted that
tooth decay was reduced materi.
ally in these communities, while
no adverse effect has been notec
in the water itself or on the health
of persons who have consumed
f1uoridated water.
The council did not mention ir
its report the uncertainties ex'
pressed by a number of medica
authorities on the possible ulti
mate effect of 1luorides on tn,
human system.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Showers to Continue
In Area Until Tonight

The intermittent rains that wet
the Washington area down today
and last night will continue until
this evening. the Weather Bureau
said.
Temperatures will remain in the
low 80s today and drop to about
10 degrees tonight. Tomorrow will
be cloudy with o high Of about
1888 degrees.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Greek Troops on Alert Ruling Fixes Dec. 20
Against Bulgars Until As Dead|ine for Using
Island Fight Is Settled Accumulated Leave
Venizelos Says Army Must
Keep Reds Off Gommo;
No New Firing Occurs
BY the Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 8.-Act-
ing Premier Sophocles Venizelos
told packed press conference to-
day that Greek forces had been
ordered to keep Bulgarian troops
off the border Evros island of
Gamma. from which the Commu-
mist Bulgars were driven by
Greek fire yesterday.
Premier Venizelos said Greek
troops at the river border between
Greece and her Soviet satellite
neighbor on the northwest had
been ordered on the alert until
the United Nations back Greek
demands for unquestioned SOW
Iereignty over the tiny island.
GA dispatch from Istanbul,
Turkey, said reports from the
Turkish border 10 miles from
Gamma indicated no new ac-
tivity in the area and that
Turkish authorities appeared
unexcited over the latest Greek
Bulgar f1areup.
Cat the United Nations head
quarters in New York yesterday,
the Greek firing on Bulgarian
patrol on the island generally
was considered just another one
of the border incidents which
have been a common feature of
Greek-Bulgar relations in re-
cent years.)
The Greeks earlier had report
ed a Bulgarian patrol-probably
of 10 or IL men-on the island
and ordered them off by Wednes-
day morning. Yesterday the
Greeks said the Bulgars were still
on the island and fired on them
for several hours with mortars
and machine guns. The Greeks
said the Communists withdrew
after the firing.
Situation Held Critical.
Responsible quarters here in
the Greek capital regarded the
situation as crucial and speculated
as to the results if the Greeks
landed on Gamma. These sources
wondered whether the Bulgars
had mined the island and wheth-
|er they had gun positions on the
Bulgarian side of the river.
A Greek General Staff an
Inouncement last night said, how
ever, that no Greek troops had
been sent to the island since the
only objective was to get the Bull
garians out.
I'm New York, the United
Nations received a report from
its Balkans Commission observ-
ers on the scene that both
countries had large forces ready
for action and that the situation
was very dangerous. The OBJ
servers urged Greece to ask for
United Nations Intervention but
Greece's delegate at the United
Nations already had said his
country was not contemplating
such a requeSt.)
Evening star., 1952-08-08
|Mun Chuses Patrol
|On Foot to Beg for
|ANeW Jail Term
BY the Associated Press

DETROIT, Aug. 8.-Lawrence
Pitcherella today got back ION the
wagon" the hard way-30 days in
the Detroit House of Correction.
Pitcherella, of no permanent ad-
dress, received the sentence from
Recorders Judge Paul E. Krause.
Police said the vagabond saw a
police patrol wagon cruising the
downtown area and chased it on
foot, screaming, Take me! Take
mel"
Pitcherella explained to Judge
Krause that he recently was re-
leased from a similar sentence
and had started drinking again.
He said he wanted to be re-
moved from temptatiOn.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Mississippi Voters
Advised of Rules

MISSISSIPPI VOTERs-Residents who
wish to vote in Mississippi will find the
rules in todoy's instoIiment Of O series
for obsentee voters on pose B-l.
DIRT cHEAP-Notionol copitoI Parks
is working with building contractors to
their mutuol advantage. The builders
get free dumps for their exeovoted
dirt and the perks people get play.
grounds and picnic spots. See pa2e B-l.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Treasury Aides Agree
To Open Some Files
On Tax Settlements
Will Permit Newsmen
To Examine Duto in
Challenged Cases

Treasury Department officials
have decided to allow newspaper
men to examine files of any tax
settlement case in which propriety
of the settlement is publicly chal-
Ilenged.
Internal Revenue Bureau spokes-
men said the policy decision, for
the first time in the bureaus his
tory, will enable examination of
file material which traditionally
has been closely guarded.
The decision was made by Reve-
nue. Commissioner John B. Dun
lap with the complete approval"
of Treasury Secretary Snyder,
spokesmen said.
The action follows campaigns
by the American Society of News
paper Editors and other groups to
break down secrecy bars In Gov
Iernment. There have been at least
two indications recently that such
a policy change might be adopted.
In June, a group Of newspaper
officials praised Mr.. Snyder and
Mr.. Dunlap for relaxing certain
data dealing with Alcohol Tax
Unit matters. That change will
Cd let the public know who ap-
plies for and gets permits to op-
crate as liquor and vine pro-
ducers. wholesalers and importers.
and (2) give local and State con-
troll officers data to help them
crack down on dealers who dilute
alcoholic drinks.
At q press conference three
weeks ago, MIR. Dunlap also offered
to let reporters see files of about
40 cases made public last month
by Senator Williams, Republican,
Iof Delaware. Senator Williams
had made public basic information
about compromise settlements in
the cases.
Bureau spokesmen quoted Mr..
Dunlap as stresSing he cannot
make public files of every case
in which tax claims are settled
by compromise for a lower
amount.
The files will be opened to re-
porters when the case is made
known by outside sources in a
manner which reflects adversely
either on actions Of the bureau
or of the taxpayer, the spokes-
men said.
One source said the new de-
lcision was made because top Fed
eral ofhcials felt the rigid policies
did not permit them to defend
bureau actions. Such change. :.
lit was understood, has been under
consideration for several months.
The bureau. under law, is for
hidden to make public actual tax
returns. or any material on them.
lit was explained. But the ques-
ton of other material has been
handled according to policy. The
bureau, it was said. has been ex-
ltremely reluctant to release any
thing having to do with tax files
because of a feeling that was fol-
flowing congressional policy.
Evening star., 1952-08-08
Ten Navy Crewmen
Killed as Bomber
Crashes off Japan
By the Associoied Press

TOKYO. Aug. 8.-United States
Navy headquarters said 10 crew.
men were killed in the crash of a
Navy patrol bomber today on the
southern Japanese island Of
|Shikoku.
A helicopter was flown to the
site, on the coast three miles south
of Nagahama. to remove the
bodies.
Names of the dead were with
held.
The bomber was on q flight
from Iwakuki Air Base near
Hiroshima.