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The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-04-30
MIMI HOSPITAL

Admitted: Charlotte Bahnke,
Ralph Komakhuk.
Discharged: Arvo Saario and
Gerald Beltz.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-04-30
N 0 T I c

Please make your personal con-
tributions to the annual Red Cross
Fund campaign al the table in
hall of the Federal Building.
Nome Red Cross
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-04-30
THE TRADING POST
Just Received New Merchandise

Just Received New Merchandise
Jump Boots, Engineer Boots. Hip
Boots. Shoepacs. NYlon Rain Suits.
Raincoats (black & Army tYpe).
Whipcord Cruiser Coats & Pants,
Blankets and Sheet Blankets.
Pillows and Pillow Cases, Towels
and Wash Cloths. Sleeping Bags.
Fatigue Pants and Jackets
and Overalls
MANY OTHER ITEMS
AT LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES
At The Trading Post
Evening star., 1954-05-08
WeIch Is Named
To FHA News Post

w. Herbert Welch, co-publ-
Usher of a West Virginia weekly
newspaper, has been named a
special assistant to FILA Com
missioner Norman P. Mason.
Mr.. Welch served as executive
director of the Presidents Ad-
visory Committee on Government
Housing Policies and Programs.
He will direct new informa-
tion program in FHA.
Mr.. Mason said he feels every
strongly" that the FILA has IAN
obligation to the borrower as
well as to the banker and the
builder" and that the newly
established information division
will take into account the right
of all three to know" what the
FILA is doing.
Evening star., 1954-05-08

About the biggest congress
sional delegation in town, off the
floor of the House or Senate, is
to be found at the Coronet
Apartments.
Representative Francis E. Dorm
and Representative James c. Da-
Wis moved in recently. but Sena-
tor Alton Lennon is the sole resi-.
dent from the upper house.
Representative Ruth Thomp-
son and Representative Oracle
Pfost are among the permanent
residents. Others include Rep
reSentative and Mrs. Joseph L.
Carrig, Representative and Mrs.
Otto Krueger Representative
and Mrs. R. D Harrison and
Representative and Mrs. James
B. Utt.
Evening star., 1954-05-08
Single Apartment House Has
20 Congressional Tenants

Completing the roster are
Representatives Will E. Neal,
Hugh Alexander. Paul w. Shaf-
fer. Benjamin F. James, Morgan
Moulder. Carl c. King, Chester
E. Morrow, Walter M. Mumma,
Barrett O'Hara, Brady Gentry,
Prince Preston, Charles Vursell,
Edward j. Bonin, Joseph Holt,
Woodrow Jones, Timothy P.
Sheehan, John E. Lyle, Lester
johnson, Jack B. Brooks and
John G. Watts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22

WITHIN a few blocks of a
W large apartment devel-
opment, in the middle of a
residential section, Arlington
boys and girls are learning the
art Of camping.
The Arlington County Rec
reation Department, with the
facilities of Four Mile Run
Left: Paul and Neil Crowley
wotch the fire they ore building
onxiously os more successful
fire-builders hove one. roorine
in background.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22
Camping Out-In Arlington

wood and build a fire; handi-
crafts occupy attention and
athletics In the cool woods are
always available. The days
activities end at 4::30.
Each day, a different group
holds q cook -out. Simple
menus are suggested by the
counselor, and the group votes
for its favorite. A short walk
to a store provides the food
for which each youngster
spends so cents. Hot dogs
Smothered in cheese and ba-
con, campers stew and chilli
con carne are only a few of
the attractive dishes the coun-
Selors show the children how
to cook over the campfire.
Twice a week, the group
swims. BY bus, the so young
sters and counselors 60 to
Henderson Hall, at the Marine
Barracks, or to Middleburg,
where they can learn or i'm
prove their swimming under
the watchful eyes of the in
Structors.
Started last year. the camp
is a huge success. Parents are
glad to pay the $3.50 the two
week sessions cost for their
youngsters to enjoy outdoor
life and learn camping tech
niques in the suburban wood
land.
I'VE try to give the children
recreation they wouldn't get
in an ordinary playground"
says Bob Lewis, who is in
charge of the camp. I'VE hope
after the two week session our
youngsters viii be able to go
camping with their parents or
older groups and even give
them a few pointers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-22
By Brian Bell. Jr.

Park at its disposal, teaches
60 youngsters from z to IL
years old how to build camp
fires, cook In the open, iden-
tify wildlife and recognize
plants.
At $3.50 am, five days a
week, the boys and girls re-
port to the Recreation Depart
ment, at North Third street
and Park drive. Flag-raising
ceremonies open the day.
Then it's of to the woods.
Walking down a hill from the
headquarters, the children
quickly find themselves in the
forest primeval-with a few
comforting exceptions. A field
with a backstop is available
for sports, and drinking foun-
tains, benches and other con-
veniences are handy.
However, the emphasis is on
outdoor life. The large body
divides into smaller groups of
IS each, supervised by a coun-
selor of college age or older.
The counselors-Paul Ca
jigas, John Slope, Nancy JAG
quette and 10 Fuller-have
had Red Cross life-saving
training and are experienced
in camping. MFR. Shope, a for
mer Eagle Scout, passes on his
training to the younger boys.
Instruction Is given in the
proper way to handle an axe,
knife or fire.
In the following days, a
varied program is presented.
A hike of about two-and-a-
half miles may be on the
schedule; flashing, the tieing
together of limbs, necessary to
build leantos, is taught; the
group Is shown how to cut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
This and That

The old man with the long white
beard who feeds the pigeons at the
Chevy Chase Circle terminal told me
the other day that the children he
fears most are those just able to walk.
They always run after the pigeons"
he said. They chase them every time.
The birds fly back up to the station
roof and wait for the little ones to
go away.
"It isn't the children who worry me,
though" he said. "it is their mothers.
Mothers ought to know better, the kids
are just after something that moves.
"You can't blame the kids" he said.
"It is the mothers; they should stop
them, the pigeons and I think. But do
you think they stop them?"
He smiled benevolently, his beard
wagging in the sunlight.
Mothers today never stop them" he
went on. They never stop them doing
anything. What worries me, what is
going to happen to the poor kids when
they grow up?
They have never been stopped at
anything" the old man said.
$50 far, it has been all right, just
matter Of chasing some fat pigeons
away from their dinner.
What will happen when the time
comes when they want to do something
else?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
BY Charles E. TroceweH

f1rst-hand experience that it was diff
cult to catch bird on the wing"
The old man sighed.
Much worse than that innocent de-
ception," he said, was what my grand
mother used to say about my older
brother.
MY brother was a large boy with
an inquisitive turn Of mind. He had
the first box camera in town, and the
first bicycle.
"He made xylophone, as he called
it, out Of large bottles filled with water
to different heights.
HE twirled Indian clubs. and threw
one through grandmother plate-glass
window.
THAT was where grandmother came
in. She predicted that he would end
up in the penitentiary, and every time
thereafter she would trot that one out,
every time she heard of some new
exploit of his.
THAT boy she would say, shaking
her head, he will end up in the
penitentiaryp
The old man shook his head, and
threw down some more feed for the
pigeons.
How did your brother turn out?" I
asked him. did he go to the penn"
The old fellow smiled.
mo" he said, "he became judge,
and sent others there"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Not MoiImun's Best Friend

The right to roam"-to go anywhere
and do anything at any time-that's
what the Communists want.
Most dog owners in Montgomery
County seem to want these rights for
their dogs.
A neighborhood dog sat at the front
door of our house and growled and
snarled at me as approached to enter
my own home; another dog came into
our front yard and killed a pet belong
ing to our 8-year-old daughter-right
before her eyes, very bad experience
for her.
Another bit her on the ankle as she
rode her bicycle in the street. Another
jumps on her clean clothes, muddy feet
and all, as she passes his home on
her way to school. Yet another crouches
in front of parked cars and dashes
out at passing cars. One of these days
a child will be hit, or there will be a
head-on accident as driver Swerves
to avoid hitting the dog.
Why should have the expense. and
stable one it would be, of fencing
our property to keep our own yard safe
for our own children to play in? 1t
seems to me that those who by their
own choice have dogs should be by
law required to keep those dogs to
themselves.
Ask any mailman, milkman, meter
reader, ETC., what he thinks about dogs
on the loose.
HE won't bite you." or "She wouldn't
hurt flea, just makes lot of noise"
are heard every day by these people.
and yet they do get bitten.
Lawrence B. Wilson,
Mail Carrier.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07

"Then Nom won't stop them, either,
I guess, and you know what happens.
They call it juvenile delinquency"
The old man threw down some more
chicken scratch feed for the granted
birds.
I'm the old days. when I was that
age. some old party was forever giving
young children the salt shaker.
"The ali, what?"
@The salt shaker, one of those big,
old-fashioned kind.
1.-THE child was told to chase the
birds with it. 1t was just dodge to
get him to go away.
1.-THE child was told that If he could
sprinkle salt on the birds tail, he
could catch the bird.
Probably it was the truth. If one
can get near enough to put salt on
birds tail, then one probably can
catch it.
1.-THE joke was that one never could
get close enough. The little child never
got as far as figuring that one out.
~
"He Just went running away with the
big salt shaker. sure in his innocence
that he was going to catch a bird.
ut didn't seem like fooling the child.
exactly.
1T may have been good lesson to
him, because he learned from direct,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07

reporter reaches wholly erroneous
conclusion when he states this pro-
gram certainly seems to have the eff
feet Of adding to the number Of vehi-
cles on the streets and roads and thus
may complicate still further already
complicated traffic conditions"
AS matter of record, any additional
vehicles procured for the department
will be utilized to replace such vehicles
that, due to high operating cost and
obsolescence, are not considered desir-
able. Further, the new vehicles will, in
the majority of cases, replace present
contract vehicles which consist of We
hicles of various types, age, ETC., pres
emily contracted for prices which are
considered excessive.
Actually traffic conditions, instead Of
becoming more complicated, should be
improved, due to the use of smaller
vehicles, modern in every mechanical
respect, which can be parked and ham
died with greater ease under any traffic
conditions.
L. Robe Walter,
Special Assistant to the Postmaster
General.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Letters to The Star

to note the vital fact is that the Bo-
livian people did elect Congress that
the Paz Estenssoro dictatorship never
permitted to convene.
The bare truth is that the confiscated
mining properties did not belong to
1.-THE Patino, Aramayo and Hochschild
families" but to corporations which in
cluded great numbers of individual
stockholders (many of them American)
and were noted for their high degree
of efficiency in the mining field. Those
corporations were the results of efforts
and sacrifices which go far back into
Bolivian history, and they gave the
country and its working population
economic stability and consiStentsstand-
ard of living which have been wiped
out in two years of state management
of the mines. The actual effects of
confiscation, with the fantastic pcrease
in production costs and the steady de-
crease in mining output, are then the
best testimony as to the contribution
that such private companies rendered
to the Bolivian nation.
CASTOR Arduz Eguia.
New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Maryland Speeders

Can't something be done about speed
ing on the Central avenue road to
Annapolis? My mother, roommate and
I were several cars back Of very
serious accident near Seat Pleasant,
Maryland One woman was killed, six
others injured, two seriously. Why?
Where are the policemen who are
supposed to see that the traffic laws
are obeyed? The speed limit is SO miles
per hour but if you do only SO you
get pushed off the highway and people
look at you as if to say, Get going,
Miss" It would be a pleasure to drive
on Maryland's highways if it would
follow Virginia's example and really
clamp down on those who have no
regard for the speed laws of the State,
their lives or others.
Irene Wade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Enforceable Law for u. N.

The recent spectacle of the United
States Government forced to stand on
the Sidelines and watch the foreign
ministers of the U. S. S. r., China.
France and other nations carve out a
snaky armlstlce in Indo-China would
not have occurred if the United Nations
existed today as real instrument of
international law.
II the United Nations Charter had
been revised to enable it to enact and
enforce laws which would make it
criminal offense to commit aggression,
and II the Communist aggressors in
Indo-C China had been brought to trial
under charges of aggression and con-
victed, then no such offensive compro-
mise as represented by Geneva would
have taken place.
There need be no sacrifice of national
sovereignty in matters relating to the
internal affairs of country by giving
the U. N. power to hold firm check
rein on Information affairs only. Be-
fore another disgraceful "out of court"
settlement of information disputes oc-
ours, let us seek to empower the U. N.
to enact and enforce laws which will
prevent further aggression by any
nation against another nation. Let us
see that the U. N. enforces these laws by
means of inspection teams. non military
police and armed forces.
We can take the lead from Thailand
which has, in one Of the few logical
moves of the year, asked that U. N.
police teams keep watch on her borders
to prevent creeping aggression. We
must write a body of U. N. law which
would, among other things, require
Thailand's request to be met. as mat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Viewpoints on BoIiviu

Henry B. Lees July IL article on
"How State Department Saved Bolivia
From Going Communist" is collec-
ton of misstatements about Patino
Mines.
According to Mr.. Lee, "the Patino,
Aramayo and HochSchild families
owned about 70 per cent of the tin
mines. They had rugged the economy
to system of cheap labor and per-
manent fight OF capital. They had
perpetrated a political system that
wavered between anarchy and oil
garchy." He adds "moSt Bolivians be-
lieved their nation could never be eco
nomically or politically independent
while foreigners (the three tin barons
lived abroad) dominated the major
source of national income"
Patino Mines & Enterprises Con-
solidated QncorporateO is an Ameri-
can corporation, owned by some 5000
stockholders. Over 80 per cent of them
are American citizens and they control
over SIS per cent of the capital stock
of the corporation.
From 1910 to 1949, Patino Mines paid
into the I'd Bolivian treasury taxes
amounting to $51,715979. The profits
amounted to $31,844.059, of which &c.
493,515 were frozen or blocked and
could not be used outside Bolivia, leav-
ing yearly balance available for dis
tribution of $2,535, 1854, or $1.87 yearly
per share. For the 20 years under re-
view the yearly return per share
amounted to 81.
Bolivian mine labor was better paid,
better housed and better cared for in
all respects than the great majority
of Bolivian labor outside the industry
and, on unit production basis, the
Bolivian miner was well paid in COM
parison with mine labor elsewhere.
In conclusion, we want to call to your
attention that during the many years
when the "tin barons' worked the
mines, and regardless of what the price
of tin was, Bolivia never had to beg
for charity from the United States of
America in order to live.
Thomas A. Styles,
Treasurer, Patino Mines & Enter
priSes Consolidated. Incorporated,
New York City.
n
AS Bolivian citizen, as cabinet
member in previous Bolivian govern
ment and as a newspaperman, feel
qualified to make some remarks deal
ing with Mr.. Lees article. do not want
to PREJUDICE the origin of said report,
but can emphatically affirm that Mr..
Lee is not acquainted with the back
ground or the true picture of the Bo-
livian situation. Any person familiar
with Bolivian affairs cannot fail to
notice that his information is second
hand.
Mr.. Lee is factually wrong in stating
that 'the people had elected Victor
Paz Estenssoro, leader Of the National
Revolutionary Movement (MNR), as
President" in the general elections Of
1851. Had he taken the trouble of
checking more thoroughly his sources.
he could have easily ascertained that
Paz Estenssoro failed then to secure
the necessary majority, and that
Congress never acted upon the cleo
ton as provided for by the Bolivian
constitution. Moreover, Mr.. Lee omits
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
The Foundations Reply

The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations,
the two largest philanthropic organizations
in the United States, have submitted force
fully worded and convincing briefs to the
special House committee investigating tax
exempt foundations. Deprived by the ar
bitrary decision of Committee Chairman
Reece of the opportunity to answer in pub
lie hearings the bizarre and sweeping in
nuendoes" that were aimed at them in ear
lier open sessions of the inquiry. the two
organizations deny categorically that they
have been engaged in "diabolical conSpir-
acy" ito further the causes of socialism in
the United States, or that they are being
directed by officers who are either dupes or
plotters.
1t is unlikely that many responsible
Americans believed either of these accuSa-
lions. Certainly the testimony taken dur
ing the often disorderly committee sessions
last spring failed to establish the truth of
such charges Nevertheless, as the Ford
statement points out, important segments
of the public may have gained the impress
sion" that the charges have been proved to
the satisfaction of the committee, and the
implications could be deeply damaging not
only for all private philanthropy, but for
all science and education. The two big
foundations have, accordingly, submitted
briefs that go far beyond mere denial Of
the alleged evils or weaknesses. They dis
cuss informatively the vital part which pri-
vate philanthropy plays in a free society
the contributions which it is making con-
tinuously to the Charitable, scientific, edu-
cational, cultural religious, economic and
social".needs of the Nation.
In sponsoring legislation which author
lied the inquiry and in much of his conduct
since them Mr.. Reece has indicated clearly
a prejudgment unfavorable to the founda-
TONS In preventing them from answering
their accuserS in the same open forum, he
has placed the foundations at disadvan-
tage by resorting to device which affronts
American traditions of fair play. The foun-
dations are answering now through sworn
statements. Congress has every right, of
course, to concern itself with the conduct
of organizations having such great influence
as the 1000 taX-exempt trusts and founda-
lions operating in this country. But the
very weight of this influence in our society
makes it the more important that fairness
and objectivity be applied in evaluating the
material which has been set before the
House investigating committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Mutter Of Censuriinq Mccorthy

To at least one observer Of the cur
rent exercises on Capitol Fill, the way
OF the Senate with its most distin-
guished member is very like the way
of the Lilliputians with CULVER, or the
way of Aesops convention Of mice with
the cat they had solemnly resolved
should wear bell. It is fortunate for
the country that in the Senate. as else
where, in the universal scheme *of
things, the ill-directed will can seldom
find way to achieve its destructive
ends.
These are troublous times at home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Acceptance From East Germany

It is interesting, and perhaps signif-
cant, that the Communist regime Of Soviet
occupied East Germany has accepted Pres
ident Eisenhower's offer to send surplus
American food there for people victimized
by the Danubian flood. In view of earlier
indications of probable rejection, the &C
ceptance has come as something Of sur
prise-a gratifying one because it makes at
least a little bit of room for humanitarian
ism in the cold war.
What remains to be seen now is whether
there will also be an affirmative response
from Communists controlled Czechoslovakia
and Hungary The President has offered to
extend the same sort of aid to them as to
East Germany just as he has to West Ger
many, Austria and YugoSlavia. He has done
so not for cynical propaganda purposes
(although the gesture certainly has prop
aganda value), but primarily in order to
help the large numbers of men, women and
children who have been hard hit by the
Danube River on both sides of the Iron
Curtain
The acceptance by the East German
Reds is in marked contrast to their conduct
last year, when they spurned similar offer
from President Eisenhower and heaped
abuse on him. The change may mean that
they fear adverse propaganda effects from
a rejection, or it may merely be calculated
to support the Kremlin's campaign for
peaceful co-exiStence." Whatever it's mo-
tivation, however, 1t gives our country
welcome opportunity to help sorely dis
tressed people who can hardly be blamed
for the nature Of their rulers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-07
Sequel to the John Case

A different light has been thrown on
the Otto John mystery by British intelli-
gence authorities in West Berlin. It now
appears that, instead of being a trusted
allied security chief, DR.. John had been cut
off from British intelligence data some ten
months before he disappeared behind the
East German Iron Curtain. And, according
to reliable reports from West Berlin, Amer
lean and British officials had engaged in a
bitter dispute with Dr. John over his tend
ency to regard NaziiSm as worse threat
to the West than communism
Disclosures by the British throw doubt
on early statements by Bonn authorities
that the former head of the Adenauer gov
ernment'S security bureau had been "kid-
mapped" by Red agents. It now seems that
DR.. John had been increasingly depressed
by indications that he had fallen out Of
favor with allied officials. A British intelli-
gence spokesman said that all secrets were
withheld from the German "CIA" chief
after the British became convinced that he
was unreliable" During World War II his
hate of Naziism led him to participate in the
abortive plot to kill Hitler. Since the war
he is said to have devoted most of his en-
ergies to investigating and fighting Naziism,
which he felt was Germany's major enemy.
U After DR.. Johns disappearance into the
Red sector last month, man claiming to be
the missing German broadcast several times
over the Russian radio that he had left West
Germany because it was dominated by
Nazis. Communist Premier Grotewohl told
the East German Parliament that DR.. John
had asked for and been granted asylum.
Whatever the real facts in this strange case,
the Reds have pulled real coup in getting