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The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Social Security Reform Bill Tied Up In Committee

WASHINGTON, R-The House Ways and Means Committee Fri day virtually killed chances of congressional action this year on proposals to expand the Social Security program.
 Eisenhower, during the presi- dential campaign, called for ex- tension of the old age and sur vivors insurance program. to cover millions of persons not included now. These include doctors, law years, farmers and others.
 The Ways and Means Commit tee put the brakes on this plan by appointing subcommittee to make a broad, deep-digging study of the whole Social Security pie ture.
 Rep. Reed R-NY, chairman of the full committee, said he ex- pected this study would preclude any legislative action this year on Social Security proposals. He said the idea is to survey the entire program and "get the bugs out of it."
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Mckay Still Undecided On Man For Governor

WASHINGTON, R - Aides to Secretary of the Interior Mckay said Friday no decision is ex- pected before Monday or Tuesday on whether he will recommend appointment of Frank Heintzle- man to be governor of Alaska.
 One factor reported to be in volved is a dispute between Port land, Ore, and Seattle, Wash, over whether Heintzleman might favor one city over the other in connection with Alaskan business.
 McKay's aides would merely say there are several things in connection Withj the decision that remain to be cleared up and that action is not expected until next week. Monday is a government holiday-Washingt0n's birthday.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
British Dust Argentine Party From Disputed Antarctic Islands

LONDON, R-The ng-stand- ing international contest over control of the Antarctic was stir red anew Friday by Britain's an- nouncement that it has busted an Argentine party from Deception Island, in the disputed Falklands, and ripped down Argentine and Chilean buildings there.
 The British have maintained a weather station on the barren nine-mile wide island for 10 years but their claims to the region have been challenged by the two South American countries. Both of the latter claim sovereignty over all territory between their southern borders and the South Pole. Britain rules the island group as a crown colony.
 There was no immediate re- action forthcoming from Buenos Aires to the foreign office state ment. In Santiago, Chilean inter for minister Guillermo del Ped regal said his country had no per manent base on Deception Island but explorers may have built a temporary shelter there.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Sickness Is No Longer Excuse to Avoid Trial For Income Tax Evasion

WASHINGTON, R-A lot of people who have pleaded they were too sick to face trial on charges of federal income a X evasion in recent years may soon be telling their stories to a fed eral judge.
 Attorney General BroWnell an- nounced Thursday night that the old 'health policy in criminal tax fraud cases, where prosecution was withheld on grounds that the defendant was in ill health, is out so far as his administration is concerned.
 Brownell disclosed that his new assistant attorney general for tax prosecutions, H. Brian Holland, has reviewed all of the cases where the question of health had delayed prosecution and has re- ferred these to the federal dis trict attorneys with a go ahead where the evidence warrants.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Alaska Fishermen's Union Protest Japanese Fishing
 In Aleutian Islands Waters

SEATTLE, LR - The Alaska F'ishermen's Union Friday sent a letter to the Pacific Fisheries Con- ference, which meets again March 20 and q, protesting Japanese fishing expeditions in the Aleu- tian Islands.
 A.F.U. secretary George Johan- sen said in a letter:
 Based on past experience, we think it should be apparent to all that when one offers the Japanese a finger, they sooner or later will get the whole hand. Operators in the tuna industry have certainly had that experience, and it looks like history repeats inself as far as salmon is concerned also.'
 He referred to reported Japa- nese plans for fishing for salmon, trout, crab and whale in Alaska waters off the Aleutian Islands.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Taft Says This Admin. Saddled Terrific Burden" Of Truman Budget

WASHINGTON, R-Sen. Taft said Friday the Eisenhower ad- ministration has been saddled with a terrific burden of pro- posed long-range military spend ing in it's efforts to balance the budget.
 But he and Sen. Milliken of Colorado, chairman of the confer ence of all Republican senators, predicted that spending will be cut and an increase avoided in the $275 billion dollar legal debt limit.
 ''I'm sure we will not lift the debt limit,' Millikin told inter viewers. If we went on the Tru- man budget we would have to in- crease it, but we're not going on the Truman budget
 Supplementing this, chairman Bridges R-ND of the Senate Ap- propriations Committee said there is a possibility that former Presi- dent Truman under estimated spending for the next year by 215 billion dollars. That would put the prospective deficit, by Truman's figures at over 12 bil- lions.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Radio Operators and Deck Officers Schedule Strike On West Coast Today

SAN FRANCISCO, R - Two simultaneous walkouts on West Coast merchant ships were sched- uled for 2 pm. today, as deck officers joined radio operators in demanding pay boosts from the Pacific Maritime Association.
 If strike should occur it would tie up Alaska as well as other West Coast shipping.
 Capt. c. F.. May, head of the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots Union, said the PIMA had failed to grant deck officers a pay scale equivalent to that on East and Gulf Coast ships.
 "We're sick and tired of it." May said. Right now, chief en- gineers on most ships get more pay than the captain. It's humil- iating."
 May said stop work meetings were scheduled at 2 pm. and would continue until we get what's due us."
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
NATO PLEDGES SPA MILLION MORE FOR EUROPE DEFENSE

PARIS, R-The NATO council in a surprise move has promised Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway $224 million more for 1853 European military construction - money it denied him last December. Now the council has to figure out which country will pay how
 much.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Nine Colorado School
 Children Missing in Snow Storm Are Found Safe

DENVER, R-A radio report to the Sterling, Colo, police station Friday said nine school children missing since Thursday in the snow - locked northern Colorado had been found safe and un- harmed at a farm house.
 The bus had last been heard from at 3 pm. Thursday when it made one of it's stops between Sterling and the Mount Hope area, a sparsely populated section of small farms.
 Deaths of three persons were blamed on the storm, which push ed its way into the area Wednes- day with winds that reached 65 miles an hour
 Whistling along the eastern slope of the Rockies, this storm shucked off 12 inches of new snow at Cheyenne and nine inches at Denver.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Voice. Employee Says BrOadcasts
 Slanted for Reds

WASHINGTON, R - A New York employe of the "Voice of America" Friday charged three of his fellow workers watered down anti Communist references in scripts prepared for overseas broadcaSts.
 The employe, Virgil H. Pulling, told a Senate investigations sub- committee he had encountered several such instances and had come to feel he was fighting "sin- ister influences"
 Asked by chairman Mccarthy to name those he considered re- sponsible flor this softening down or catering to the Communists" Pulling called off the names of Harold Berman, Donald Taylor and Robert Goldman.
 Pulling identified himself as chief of the Latin-American news service of the sFVoice."
 He presented to the subcom- mittee documents which he said covered specific instance of watering down last Jan. 21, the day after President Eisenhower's inauguration.
 On that day, Pulling related, he prepared a script which told of pro-American demonstrations by "anti Communist" elements in Guatemala.
 The demonstrations were spontaneous showing of affection of the American people and grat- ification over Eisenhower's inaug- uration, Pulling said.
 However, he said that the de- scription, "anti-Communist," was twice penciled out of his copy on the central news desk of the ''Voice" in New York.
 Pulling said the editing was done by Goldman, an emp1oye on the desk, at the direction of Fay Tor, a supervisor there.
 The witness said he protested to Taylor without avail and that they took the issue to German, assistant chief of the news branch. German upheld Taylor, Pulling said.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
Three Men Will
 Pitch Camp Near Active Volcanoes

ANCHORAGE, R-Three men, an airlines executive, a park ser vice, superintendent and an Alas ka sourdough, were to set up a base camp in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Thursday, only 20 miles from the largest concen- tration of active volcanoes in the world.
 Heading the party is Grant Pearson, the superintendent of the US. National Park Service in Alaskas a veteran of 30 years ser vice in the territory.
 The others are Ray Peterson, president of Northern Consolida- ted Airlines, and John Walotka, a resident of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes for IS years.
 Pearson said the camp will be set up on the floor of the valley only 20 miles from the active era ters of Mts. Trident, Nova Ruppa and Katmai, three of the most spectacular of the volcanoes.
 A lava stream boiling down the side of Nova Ruppa, the crew of a Navy patrol plane reported Wednesday, is one-half mile wide and 800 feet deep.
 Nova Ruppa, in a 1912 eruption of the volcanoes located in the valley, spewed forth an estimated two cubic miles of volcanic ash.
 Pearson and Peterson said the present eruptions have all the makings of another disturbance paralleling the 1912 eruptions, which were ranked in the first order of volcanic disturbances.
 The crater of Nova Ruppa was sealed by lava following the 1912 eruption, but Pearson said ifs sures have again opened and a substance that pr. Robert F.. Griggs of the University of Pitts burgh identified as ''incandescent sand" was being blown into the air.
 Griggs led a National Geographic expedition to the valley in 1915, following the 1912 eruptions. In a book published after subsequent expeditions and others during and after the first World War, Griggs termed the cluster of craters in the valley the largest concentra- tion of active volcanoes in the world.
The Nome nugget., 1953-02-20
STORES CLOSED MONDAY

Stores and federal offices in- cluding the post office will be closed on Monday in observance of George Washington's birthday.
Evening star., 1953-07-26
III Home Mishops
Here During Week.;
2 Babies Suffocote

A 74-year-old woman, who
broke her wrist when she tainted
from heat exhaustion. was among
I'll residents treated at local
hospitals during the past week
for home accidents.
The District Red Cross Safety
Services also reported, in it's
weekly tabulation, that two per-
sons died because of falls and two
infants suffocated.
The breakdown of injuries
listed 81 falls, five cases of burns,
five accidental poisonings. one
accidental discharge of firearms,
eight cases ,of persons suffering
from foreign objects. As from
cuts, seven from contuSions be-
sides 36 unclassified injuries.
Falls at home resulted in seven
fractures of the arms, skull,
spine and shoulders. A 43-year-
old man fell and suffered brain
conclusion.
Children who were accidentally
poisoned, ate or drank unknown
quantities of kerosene, disinfec-
tant. aspirin, bleach or turpen-
tine.
A 68-year-old man accidentally
shot his foot while cleaning his
gun. He was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital.
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Historical Collection
Presented to Librury

Materials relating to the early
history of the United States re-
Gently were given to the Library
of Congress by Mrs. Edith Blair
Station, of II East Bradley lane,
Chevy Chase, Md, and other
great-grandchildren Of Justice
Levi Woodbury..
The donation includes original
manuscripts, early printed items
and photostats Of manuscripts of
English, American, Italian and
French origin. They date from
the 10Th to the 10Th centuries.
More than half the material
deals with early 18th century
affairs in the Massachusetts dis
trict which now is Maine.
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Puerto Rico Marks
First Anniversary
As Commonwealth
By the Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. July
25.-Greetings from President
Eisenhower to the Puerto Ricans
on the first anniversary of their
Commonwealth status were read
today at the climax Of island
wide celebrations.
The message was read by
Resident Commissioner Antonio
Fernos Isern at San Juan's his
toric City Hall, where the city's
celebration centered. The oc-
casion conceded to the day with
the 55th anniversary Of the land
ing Of United States troops on
the island during the Spanish
American War.
Last July former President
Truman signed a Congressional
resolution approving Puerto
Rico's new constitution giving
the island the status of a free
Commonwealth associated with
the United States.
President Eisenhower said the
United States shares the Puerto
Ricans' pride in their achieve
ments. He added he is certain
the unity of the two governments
will last.
Gov. Luis Munoz Marin, last
speaker at the City Hall pro-
gram, said the islands status sis
definitely solved through the
Commonwealth. although the
new status is one which is con-
tinually growing"
About 5000 Puerto Ricans
gathered in the square facing the
City Hall. There was a carnival
spirit as the crowds sang on a
program broadcast throughout
the island. The celebration was
notable for the absence Of all
military display.
Evening star., 1953-07-26

can Governments agreed at Bonn
last February to set up a val
idatlng procedure. The valida-
ton board is made up of q
German, DR.. Reusch of Ham
burg, an American, Douglas w.
Hartman of Washington, and
a third neutral" American
still to be chosen-who will act
only as an arbitrator if the
other two disagree.
Only validated bonds will be
recognized for payment. The
board will certify only bonds
which were outside Germany on
January l, 1945, before the
systematic Russian looting be-
gan. The owners must also prove
an unbroken chain of owner
ship back to the person who
held the bond on that date.
Banks to Give Advice.
The process may not be as
difficult for bond holders as it
sounds. Local banks will be pre-
padre to give information and
advice, and to receive bonds Of
fered for valuation, officials
said.
On Friday, the West German
government took the first step
toward redeeming $3.50 million
in pre- Hitler bonds.
The governments anc e
minister, Fritz Schaeffer, in this
country on a visit, announced
the appointment of the National
City Bank of New York and the
j. P. Morgan Co. as depositaries
for validating the corporate
and governmental securities.
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Old German Bonds
y
Owned in u. 5. May
Be Worth Solid Cash
BY the Associated Press

Americans who have clung to
old German bonds through the
two decades since the rise of
Hitler plunged them into default
may find the yellowing securities
worth solid cash by the end of
this year.
On September /, officials said
yesterday. a new German-Amer-
lean "validation board for Ger
man bonds" will start examin-
ing and verifying the ownership
of the long-dormant securities.
AS soon afterward as enough
valid bonds and rightful owners
have been identified to establish
a market value and permit Or
derly buying and selling, trading
in the 90-odd German issues will
resume.
Old paper having a face value
of perhaps $500 million is be-
lieved to be held by some 100000
Americans, many of them of
German descent. Possibly an
other 500 million in unpaid in
terest has accumulated, officials
guessed.
Number Is Unknown.
But neither the Securities and
Exchange Commission nor any
other Government agency knows
for sure how many of the bonds
still remain in this country, hew
many have been sold abroad, or
how many have been lost, de-
stroyed or stolen. Only the vail
dation process will tell.
To protect the holders from
speculative grabbers, the SEC
has urged repeatedly that the
owners keep their bonds until
valuation is complete and trad
ing resumed. At the SECS re-
quest, brokers and dealers have
not dealt in German bonds since
the start of World War II.
Officials said they could not
estimate what any of the issues
might be worth when the SEC
gives the signal to resume buying
and selling. Like any other Sc
curities, the value will be what
ever investors will pay.
Looted by Russians.
But they are backed by an un-
precedented agreement under
which the Adenauer Government
last February guaranteed the
gradual but orderly repayment Of
Germany's external" debt -
meaning the debt held by for
eigners-incurred by predecessor
governments back to the reign of
Kaiser Wilhelm II.
This includes the great loans
f1oated after World War I under
the Dawes Plan" of 1924 and
other German recovery pro-
grams. 1t takes in specified Sc
curities issued by the German
Federal government, states, cities
and corporations. All went into
default after the NaziS seized
power.
Enormous numbers of the
bonds, which had been bought
back by the Germans at depre-
ciated prices during the Nazi re-
gime, were looted from Berlin by
the Russians when Red troops
drove into the capital in the clos
ing days of the European war.
Must Prove Ownership.
They would be a valuable
dollar asset to the Communist
if they could filter the bonds
back into the market when Ger
many starts paying off.
To screen out the looted
bonds. the German and Ameri-
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
Lions Enjoy Movies
Of Football Game

The bi-mOnthly meeting of the
Milford Lions Club on Thursday
Evening, October %, 1853 was hi
lighted by movies of the Pennsyl-
vania-DartmOuth Football game of
1850. Lion Bob Leslie, the football
coach of the Milford High School
was the speaker and also the mar
rator for the various plays shown in
the pictures. The program was more
than enjoyed by the Lions present.
Lion Joe McFaul announced that
plans are now complete for the
Halloween party to be held at the
American Legion Home on Friday
mite, October 30th. This party has
all the promises of being an out
standing one and all the Lions and
guests are cordially invited. The
committee for this party are as
follows: Lion McFaul, Chairman
Lions, Leslie, Geyer and Muncy
committeeman. All are invited tC
come masked but this is not neces-
sary. The tickets are $3.50 per per-
son. A spOOk committee will well
come the paTtygOers."
We would like to bring to the
attention of the members once again
that the club is meeting at the
Windsor Hotel in Milford and not al
Slaughter Beach as before. Also the
meetings for November and Decem-
ber will be held on the First ant
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
PTeSbyteriGnS Set
$IOO,OOO Building
Fund Goal
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E. HumeS and Crerar Bennett.
Other members of the Executive
Committee are Reverend Kenneth
E. Kepler, John Parks, Samuel C.
Evans, Jr., Mrs. Ida Phillips,
George r. Sheaffer, George T. Reed,
Jr., DR.. William Marshall and
James Cartwright.
In planning the fund raising
campaign it was decided to set up
six territories with a captain for
each under the general chairman
ship of DR.. Marshall. They are as
follows: Out-Of-State, Marjorie
Fry; New Castle County, Harry
POOre; Kent County, rural John
Parks; Kent County, urban, DR..
Marshall; Sussex County, rural,
William Lucas; Sussex County, ur-
ban, Robert WOrmingtOn.
The committee, following the
meeting, emphatically stated that
there would positively be no house
toulouse solicitation for funds
that they intended to seek the
necessary monies from within the
church membership and among
the friends of the church.
With funds already in hand, plus
the 100000 from the drive, the
new building plan can be success
fully executed, the church officials
say. J. Morris Whiteside of Will
mingtOn, is the architect.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30

The main floor houses the bank
ing room and officers quarters with
conference and investment depart
ments.
Downstairs is the vault and safe
deposit department as we'll as rest
rooms and telephone facilities.
The second floor houses the
Trust and Bookkeeping depart
ments, the Presidents office and
Board of Directors room, employ
ees' lounge and bank business area.
The board room is an 18th CEN
tury paneled room beautifully pro-
pOrtiOned and automatically detail
ed. In the handsome cOrnice in
direct lighting has been installed.
The floor is random width pegged
boards. 1t is painted in a rich
ivory of the period. 1t is furnished
with morocco leather chairs and
18th century table which seats the
27 members of the Board of Direc-
. tors. The curtains are caldrOn silk
damask. In an Illuminated niche in
the paneled west wall so placed to
be the focal point of the room
hangs Orville Peets' portrait of
Henry M. Ridgely, the First Presi-
dent. He is depicted standing before
the fireplace at the Ridgely home
discussing the formation of the
Farmers Bank in 1907. Portraits
of the succeeding presidents will
embellish the other walls.
The employees lounge is in soft
grey blue and lettuce green; fur
nished in contemporary furnish
ings and equipped with kitchen
facilities
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
Kent Protestant
Churches Adult School
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Methodist Church serving as Dean,
the Rev. Robert Dukes as Regis
trar, and the Rev. F. Douglas Mil
bury as Publicity Chairman. DevO-
tiOns on the opening night will be
led by the Rev. w. E. Mark, Pastor
of Whatcoat Methodist Church,
Dover.
Courses are designed to strength
en- the work of teachers and parish
leaders in their fall and winter
programs. Three will deal with
techniques for Sunday School
teachers. Mrs. Floyd Hart and Mrs.
Lloyd Daughlin taking the Kim
/ dergarten section; Mrs. Granville
/ Hooper of Cambridge, Md, the Pri-
mary section; and Miss Mabel
Dawson of the Maryland-Delaware
Council of Churches the Junior
section. DR.. Lawrence Slaght, Pas
tor of the Dover Baptist Church,
presents a course on Jesus and
His Teachings, while Prof. Don
aid Bleeke of Wesley Junior Col
/ lcSG3 DOFGl' udllulCo JSCu -dSoG plOu-
lens and possibilities in his course
on Understanding Youth. The
Rev. Charles r. Leech of Dover,
Director of Christian Education for
the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware
presents a missionary course, "The
Church's Task Around the World"
for ministers and leaders of local
mi S siOnary organizations. The
School represents the first such
interdenOminatiOnal co operative
venture in the area in the field OF
education in a number of years.