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The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
Alaska Plywood Corp.
 Workers Win Wage Boost, Promise Year-rOund Work

JUNEAU, R-A contract dis pute which had idled the Alaska Plywood Corp. plant here since last Sunday was settled yesterday and company officials said the plant would be at top production today.
 The agreement provides an hourly pay boost, guarantee of a 48-hour week until October and steady work throughout the win ter month, depending on weather conditions.
 T. A. Morgan, president of the firm, said if present plans to winterize the plywood plant are successful it will possibly mean a regular work schedule will be maintained all during the winter
 The agreement brings the av- craze wage paid at the plant to $2.85 an hour.
 The employees struck last Sun day to back demands for a 30- cent hourly wage increase.
 A spokesman for the union said one of the chief needs of the workers is the assurance of year around work.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
17-Year-Old Charged For Murder After Dispute Over Bottle of Whiskey

KETCHIKEN, R-A 17-year- old youth was charged with first degree murder Friday for the fatal shooting of Coast Guards man from Hawaii in what officers described as dispute over a bottle of Whiskey.
 The victim was identified as Raymond Arai, 19, of Honolulu. He was one of four Japanese American Coast Guardsmen on an outing at nearby Ward Lake.
 The accused youth is Kenneth Madsen, a fishermans son. US. Commissioner O. M. Lien set his bond at $2O,000.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
Navy Officer Flies .i'' l Through Two Wars Under False Name

SAN DIEGO, Salif., R-A dec | orated Navy officer was free byI court martial verdict here Satur-| day of any official misconduct in l flying through two wars and putt ting in IA years service under another mans name.
 The mother of the man whoseI name he used said she was glad.
 It. Cmdr. Edwin Stanley Cod nant, veteran of Gen. Chennault's| Flying Tigers in China, of Navyl service in World War II and oil Korean combat, was acquitted atl the end of a one-day trial Friday.
 He said he planned to continue| his Navy service under the name| of Conant-borrowed from for-| mer college friend-but that his two children probably would re- sume using the name of Perry.
 They are living with their grandfather, William R. Perry, who testified his son was John] Francis Perry, born in 1912 in San Francisco.
 The son had used the identifi- cation of Edwin Stanley Conant, born in 1915 in San Diego County, !, in entering the Navy as an air cadet in 1940. He had been dropped from an Air Force flying school and needed new papers to enter the Navy training.
 Mrs. Stanley F. Conant said at the family's Lakeside home that the two were very good friends while attending San Diego State College.
 Perry borrowed her sons name and birth information, she said. Both men are now interested in law, a fact which led to the court martial when the California State Bar noted identical names ana | other information on applications for registration as students.
 The court martial accepted le- gal opinion that there was nothing wrong in using an assumed name with no intent to defraud.
 It. Cmdr. C. J. Collom, defend- ing the flier at the trial, said:
 rThere is such a thing as fin gerprints. We must assume that the Navy knew of MT. Conants use of the name and winked at it. :" Letter Size File Folders for 1
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
MUNZ AIRWAYS

To Teller: L. Newman, c. w. Perrin.
 From Wales: Sgt. Lauder.
 From Lost River: Joe Regula, Carl Hayes.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09

Letter Size File Folders for sale al The Nugget Office.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09

Inventory Blanks al Nome Nugget
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Dorothy Thompson-
McCorthyisno as q Symptom
Changes in American Foreign Policy From sootionsm
To Internotonoism, Help Change Public Temper

The young Italo-American
who. returning to his Vermont
village home from killing
Communists in Korea. found q
known Communist - he had
once run for Governor Of
Maryland on the Communist
Party ticket - shopping in
Main street and. fortified by
several glasses of beer.
smashed up his jeep, was act
ing with simple logic.
In peace every citizen is adj
judged innocent unless or I'M
til proved guilty. In war mere
suspicion of being a danger
Gus element" is sufficient to
incur hostile measures, as our
wartime treatment of the Nisei
proved.
Cold war implies the posi-
bility of hot war, and the
latter implies not only mill
tary but psychological prep
aration and conditioning. War
is not an individual but a COL
lective enterprise, demanding
the submission of the individ-
ual to the collective will.
This problem does not con-
Germ collectivist societies like
the Russian. 1t does concern
societies of free men, to whom
a condition of permanent war
for underlined aims presents q
real, not imaginary, dilemma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Decisions Of Military New Look
Americans CounseIed to Stop Doydreomng and Prepare
For q Long Haul of Continued Emergency Sacrifices

move us from the world, an
understandable desire amid
the Illustrations we encounter
as leader of the free world, but
hardly possible. We are, in
fact. in the very middle of
events and must be able to
move quickly and adjust
quickly.
Maneuverability and adapt
ability are the key words. They
describe the new look" which,
while 1t might mean the i'm
mediate mass retaliatory &C
ton of an atomic sort of which
Secretary Dulles spoke some
weeks ago. might also mean
the simpler operations by in
fantry and air and conven-
tional weapons on a tiny Sec
tor somewhere as in the Ko-
rean war. We are prepared
for both. With development
Of atomic weapons we can rely
more heavily progressively
upon them. and could substi-
tute them in some situations
in larger degree. The new
look" Is a long-range defense,
so constructed as to cost some
less and for the reason that
we must envisage it as Of
indefinite duration. Mean
while. we must maintain q
sound economy and remain
solvent.
Now is the time Of all times
that we cannot afford to re-
lax or let down our guard.
Nor can we permit ourselves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19

How greatly is the Red mill
tary might to be feared in the
event its leaders in the Krem-
lin order it to move against
the remaining free nations in
Europe or Asia?
This is a matter of continual
discussion in all world capitals.
The statistics offered in such
discussions tend to show the
overwhelming force Of the Red
bloc.
On paper, say most Of our
top military leaders, the Soviet
power, supported by the Red
Chinese hordes and by we'll
tTained European satellite
armies, is the largest the world
has ever seen. But our mill
tary leaders are not concerned
over the final outcome in the
event of a showdown.
Men, guns and planes In
large numbers do not alone
assure a military victory even
in these days when the destruc-
tive power Of new weapons
exceeds by far that of all other
wars. 1t takes a something
else" which we have shown
particularly in Korea. which
will be the decisive factor in
the next contest. That some
thing else" is the individual
capability of the fighting man
and his conviction that he is
risking his life for something
worth while. Slaves are driven
in combat and fight to avoid
being killed. Free men die to
prevent the loss of freedom
without which life is not worth
living.
The Soviet armies were
fully trained and equipped
when the Nazis attacked them
in the summer of 1941. The
Soviet high command had been
warned since early in Febru-
airy Of the impending attack.
Regardless of how much the
Kremlin wished to discount
the information from Wash
ington and Chungking. the
Soviet general staff must have
read the intentions of their
ALLY" when they saw the
spring order of battle of the
NaZi forces-the increase of
the numbers of PanZer and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
On SiIencing q Point Of View
CoInist Says Sale of Tinnes-HeroId Brings Sadness
To Those Who Saw 1t as Their Champion
Doyid Lowrence

People living outside Of
Washington can have little
idea of the excitement which
the National Capital has ex-
perienced in the last 48 hours
as it read the announcement
that Col. Robert r. Mccormick
of the Chicago. Tribune had
sold his Washington news
paper-the Times-Herald--to
the only morning competitor.
the Washington Post.
Maybe if there had not been
such a vigorous campaign car
ried on by the Washington
Times-Herald against Com
munists in the Government
and if the Washington Post
had not as a rule taken the
other side of the argument so
vigorously, the merger would
have passed of with little no
tice. But now demands have
arisen from many Times
Herald readers for another
morning newspaper. and there
are rumors in the air that
millionaires from Texas and
elsewhere are being importuned
to put up the 10 to Is million
dollars which would be re-
quired to finance such a prof.
ect.
Starting a new newspaper
in Washington would be quite
a problem for any one. even
with a big bank roll, since the
Times-Herald has been losing
an estimated 81 million a year
possibly because there are
too many papers dividing the
market. But it is fair to say
that today there is sadness
among those in and outside
the Government who have re-
garded the Times Herald as a
champion Of their point of
view. A feeling prevails that
the anti-C Communist crusade
has lost its most articulate ex-
ponent in the National Capital.
Just why Col. Mccormick
decided to sell has not been
revealed. but it is generally
accepted that his health has
not been good. He is 70 years
old, ano Mrs. MCCORMICK has
been urging him to shed some
of his responsibilities. espe-
cially in Washington.
The Washington Post is
owned by Eugene Meyer, now
70 years old, formerly chair
man Of the Federal Reserve
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Fletcher Knebei-
Potomac Fever

The House rejects the Democratic plan to boost income
exemptions Democrats had argued the country in such
bad shape only fair the Government should be
Ike conferS with Gen. Douglas Macarthur Mac isn't
at Ike He admits Ike down in history
modern Americas best President-and general
Foreign Aid Boss Stassen indicates for Senator
in Minnesota The fact that might lose the chief
reasonsnce counteaanced by the fact that he might
not win.
Ada Stevenson predicts Democrats will
this fall Well that will be relief. Usually the
they take the people.
House committee debates outlawing Party
Most congressman this They at least
Communist in each district to against.
Monroe Johnson South Carolina Democrat resists White
House efforts to him ICC chairman johnson claims
he's the cornerstone of the ICCand lot of folks that
he there before the building :
Defense Boss Wilson Mccarthy hasn't turned up
Reds services? Wilson getting weary McCahys
Investigations They distract him from his main job Of keeping
the rest of Congress off neck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19

infantry divisions on the
Soviet front.
Despite the preparations
made by the Soviet army
group commanders to meet
the Nazi onslaught. they were
overwhelmed by the better
German military machine
though numerically the Soviet
forces exceeded those of the
Nazis. Russia was saved by
the timely rushing Of Ameri-
can and British military equip
ment. But the final victory
the Soviets won on the eastern
front was due to the war weari-
ness of the Germans caused by
our offensive in the West and
the destructive pounding Of
their cities by Western avia-
ton.
Many Americans and West
ern Europeans are impressed
by the statistics Of the present
strength of the Soviet avia-
ton which is estimated at more
than 10000 modern combat
!, planes, including the latest
type Of jets. But what are
machines in combat when the
men at the controls or ham
ding the guns are not up to
mark?
Throughout the last war.
despite the fact that we were
sending our then ally the
latest and best of American
aircraft, the Russian air force
was no match for the German.
While the Red soldiers dis
tinguished themselves by their
readiness to die-and they
were sacrificed in unbelievable
numbers-the Soviet air force
has had a most undis-
tinguished record. In Korea
the Red air force manned by
Chinese, Russians and some
Of their European satellites did
no better. The MICS and
other jet planes were of excel
lent quality and in some in
stances superior to ours. Yet
the box score published by
the Pentagon last August
showed that in actual air
combat we lost some 81 planes
against more than ten times
that number lost by the
enemy.
The Korean war was con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Pope BIesses $4,000 Persons
From Window in Vatican

the whitehead. 78-year-old pom
tiff appeared in the window.
A great shout went up from
the throng. swelled by nuns and
priests, including a group from
the North American Pontifical
College.
viva II Papa" they shouted
over and over.
The pontiff's motions indi-
Gated he was as excited and
pleased as were the people in
the square.
He raised his arms, again and
again, in greeting-even In
quicker tempo than he usually
did in the past.
Then he brought his hands
together in prayer and the
throng. taking its cue. knelt.
The Pope stood an instant
with his arms at his side. listen
ing to the continuing cheers.
Then he stepped down and
disappeared.
~ the bills of st. Peters
Basilica then rang in a wild
IL aI,y tor a full Is minutes.
1t was. in effect. the Pope's
first audience since late in Janu-
ary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19

Two other newspapers re-.
main In the field here-The
Evening Star. owned by and
operated now In the main by
the fourth generation Of the
Noyes Kaufman A d a m S
family, which founded the
property 101 years ago--and
the Washington Daily News,
owned by the Scripps-H Howard
chain. They do not publish
morning editions. though The.
Star has a Sunday issue. It Is.
reliably reported that neither
The Star nor the Daily News
intends to publish a morning
edition. People in the Ma
tional Capital, of course. read
New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore newspapers. which
come in here in large numbers
but do not have the wide
distribution through home de-
livery that a local newspaper
would maintain.
The Evening Star, according
TO the latest figures of the
Audit Bureau of Circulation.
has an average of 234, 600 daily
and 264,437 on Sundays. The
Times Herald I'd 253,532
daily and 287 200 on Sundays.
The Washington Daily, News
has 138.778.
The comparable Washington
Post figures are s201,6 daily
and 200,163 on Sundays. 1t is
not expected that the Post
will be able to retain all the
Times Herald circulation, as
much Of this will go to The
Star. especially on Sundays
when the public will hcye two
Sunday papers to choose from
the Post and The Star.
Many readers of the Times
Herald are telling their friends
they are canceling their sub
scriptions to the merged paper,
and The Star is finding itself
with an abnormally large
number of new subscriptions
flowing in. This probably will
also be the experience of the
Washington Daily News. Agen-
cies in advertising centers were
being told. it is reported. that
the Post expects to average
100000 daily and 100000 on
Sundays. officials of The
Star and the Washington
Daily News were not prepared
as yet to estimate their ex-
pected increases.
Reproduction Rights Reserved.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Fight Shaping Y p in Minnesota
Val Bjornson Although We'll Known in His Stote VIII Need
Lots of Help to Unseot Popular Senator Humphrey

set just for the general and
the doctor and the Senate bait
placed on it. DR.. Mayo still
refused to enter the new field
after a lifetime in medicine.
Mr.. BjornSon will have the
help Of the big campaign con-
tributorS in q State baSically
conservative except where
agriculture is involved. But
Senator Humphrey will be
hard to beat.
He is for one thing no
longer just the smart. articu-
late young man who Zoomed
from nowhere to the Mime
apolis city hall and the Sem
ate with an acid civil rights
triumph over the Southern
Democrats at the 1913 Demo-
cratic convention to his credit.
The South then took a very
dim view of him indeed.
Today the most influential
Southerner in the Senate.
George of Georgia, leads the
applause for him.
Senator Humphrey is a
worthy Senator and he will
have the cordial good wishes
and help of all his colleagues
on our side of the aisle"
George promised. Without
abandoning principle he has
learned there are two sides to
every question. He is a credit
to the Senate and the country.
We are sure he will be kept
in office"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19

I cannot get out Of my mind
the conviction that the strug-
gle over what has come to be
called "McCarthyism" is a sur
face symptom of the profound
change that has occurred in
American foreign policy.
The American dream of civil
liberty. the right to dissent,
free of the pressure of fear,
hate and conformity, dates
from the beginning of the Re
public, which could not even
become a nation until it's
founders amended the Consti-
tuition by the Bill of Rights.
At the same time. and until
the Second World War, the
United States pursued a for
eign policy of no permanent
alliances with other powers, no
permanent antipathies or IA
voritisms toward other ma
tions. no intervention in the
internal affairs of other ma
tons, and no commitments to
their defense. The Constitu-
ton also placed the war-mak-
ing powers in the hands of the
country's elected representa-
tiveS.
This policy, which has been
called "isolationism," retained
for the United States COM
plete freedom of external ac-
ton. It did not prohibit mill
tary alliances for specific and
limited purposes. It did pro-
hibit unlimited commitments
of unlimited duration, and un-
ceasing theological wars.
American internal freedom
civil liberty-was concomi-
tant with this external free
dom from permanent commit
ments. Anybody could speak
his mind on any subject, in
GLIDING the most crucial of
all subjects. that of war or
peace.
It is a truiSm that the first
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19

enemy of civil liberty is war.
When a nation becomes en-
gagged in mortal combat, free
dom of dissent is suspended by
popular demand. and fear,
hate and conformity are cul-
tivated. This is especially true
Of modern wars which are
fought by drafted, not profess
sional, armies. by the entire
productive apparatus, and by
psychological means which
have been developed into a
science. The mere phrase,
Don't you know there's a war
on?" is sufficient to subdue all
criticism that might be divi-
sive.
The United States, in the
name of collective security,
has now committed itself
and polls show by popular ma
jority consent-to wage per-
manent war in the name of
ultimate. eternal peace. BY
series Of treaties, it has taken
the war-making powers away
from Congress and given them
to the President, as confirmed
this week by Secretary Dulles.
This means, in effect, that
war-making powers have been
transferred from the people
to the general staff, who alone
can consider the calculated
risk Of instant retaliation.
I am not here arguing this
policy. tAlmost nobody is
arguing the policy. not even
the champions of the Bricker
amendment.) What I am ar
guing is that this policy inevi-
tably affects traditional Amer
lean civil liberties. No matter
how Adlai Stevenson and
others may try to divorce the
Communist menace at home
from the Communist menace
abroad. the task is impossible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Thomas L. Stokes

We've been hearing a lot
around here in the last lew
days about the new look" in
military policy. We've been
hearing speculation also as to
how quickly the President
could act in case of sudden
aggression and under what
circumstances without prior
approval by Congress.
The discussion has gone on
at news conferences of Presi-
dent Eisenhower and Secretary
Of State Dulles and Secretary
Of Defense Wilson, and in tes-
timony before congressional
committees by the top military
command. All in all it has
served a good purpose.
1t has cleared away some
misconceptions and shown up
wishful thinking by some poll
ticians and perhaps by many
Of our people. Not all ques.
tons were answered finally
and in detail. They cannot
be because of the swift tempo
Of this atomic, jet-propelled
age. That often necessitates
changes in tactics and 30 pre-
vents exact analyses or fore
casts.
Seemingly the new look"
in military policy, with its
emphasis on atomic weapons,
has led some of our people,
and also some political lead
erS. to think that somehow
we could take refuge behind
some sort of an atomic wall,
just as once some of us thought
we could hide behind our two
oceans. There was additional
comfort also in indications that
the new look" which may be
slightly less expensive, might
mean that now Congress could
shufne Cd much Of our tax
burden.
We delude ourselves on both
counts. Of course. We might
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-19
Constontine Brown
MoscoWs Overroted Power
Russian Army and Air Force Look Good on Paper,
But 1t Is QuoIity. and Not Quantity. Thot Counts

sidered by the Kremlin az
much a laboratory for the
third world war as the civil
war in Spain was considered
between 1885 and 1889 as the
laboratory for the Second
World War by the Italians,
Germans and Russians. Al
though the fears of some Of
our United Nations allies de-
MED us victory in Korea, the
military men in the U. s. 8. r.
must reckon with the actual
facts which developed in that
campaign. Besides the poor
showing Of the aviation, the
Chinese military forces fight
ing in Korea outnumbered our
own and the ROKs by about
five to one. The Reds were
supplied with ample fire power
and excellent strategists from
Moscow. Yet, according to
Gen. James Van Fleet and
other officers who were in
Korea in June, 1851, we were
ready to launch a decisive Of
fensive then and "beat them
on a dime" The timely sug-
gestion of Russia's Jacob Malik
for a cease-fire saved the
enemy from disaster.
The quality of the Russian
soldier. by and large, is no bet
ter than that of the Chinese
and North Koreans. The Si-
berian divisions, mostly Mon
gols, saved the day at Stalin-
grad. There is no question that
the Russian fights and dies
well in defense of his own
homeland. But he has lacked
offensive qualities when he
fought outside Russian soil.
These are considerations which
cause our top military leaders
to look with considerable con-
f1dence to the future-par-
ticularly if the defenses in Eu-
rope are strengthened by the
creation of a new West Ger
man army. Even in these days
when destructive weapons
have been so vastly improved.
the quality of the fighting men
has a definite advantage over
quantity. The fear of the
Muscovites' invincible power
as shown in statistics Ia
mostly the result of a we'll
planned and necessarily
pounded propaganda.