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2 THE NOME NUGGET Wednesday. May 19. 1954
THE NOME NUGGET
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SOCIALISM IS SOCIALISM
In a column printed in the New York World-Tele
gram, Lawrence Fertig said: “Socialism is socialism
no matter how it is dressed up to appear different.”
The occasion for that apt observation is the debate
in and out of Congress as to whether a $400,000,000
hydroelectric project on the Niagra River shall be
undertaken by the federal government, the State of
New York, or a group of five tax-paying, publicly
regulated utility companies which are ready to go
ahead with the job.
At the end of his discussion, Mr. Fertig emphasized
the main principle when he wrote:
“In the case of Niagara there is no question of
navigation, flood control or any other factor except
the development and sale of power. The power indus
try, as everyone knows, is an outstanding example of
an efficient industry that has met its public respon
sibilities well. Advocates of government control of
various projects—whether state or federal—generally
try to trump up a case based on some delinquency or
apparent failing in the industry they want to take
over. But in the case of power, they haven’t got a leg
to stand on. There is no sound reason why private
enterprise should be further restricted by the entrance
of government-dominated monopolies in this or in any
similar field.”
Yes—socialism is socialism, no matter what kind
of government is responsible. And socialism, as mod
ern history so grimly proves, inevitably leads to com
munism and the destruction of all liberty—civil as
well as economic, individual as well as corporate.
That’s why every citizen has a personal stake in
what happens at Niagara—and everywhere else where
socialism is being urged.
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WHO NEEDS ANOTHER STAR?
Three hundred scientists, meeting at the third
annual symposium on space travel at New York’s
Hayden Planetarium, were told that Russia can now
put a “red star” in the sky—a one-ton satellite that
would pass over us every few hours at a height of
200 miles. But if we hurry, we might beat them to it,
and shoot a 100 pound job up there by 1957 at a cost
of a mere billion dollars.
But, looking around us, it would seem that we
still have a few chores to do down here on the ground
first.
SMALL FACTOR
Do you ever wonder just how much of each dollar
you spend at retail remains in the hands of the mer
chant in the form of profit? Various surveys indicate
that many consumers think that 25 percent or even
more does just that.
If you’re one of them, a report of the financial
experience of the nation’s department stores last year
will come as something of a surprise. Their profit,
after taxes, averaged 2.4 percent of their sales. In
1952 the figure was the same.
Some kinds of stores, dealing in staples, earn even
less. For example, leading food chains often show
profits of but one cent or a trifle more on each
dollar that crosses their counters. Retail profits are
a microscopic factor in establishing the cost of living.
“Where people are concerned, be human, and
where you deal with their money, their economy, their
government, be conservative, and don’t be afraid to
use the word.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower
Funeral Services Held for
Tin Heiress Who Wed Son
Of British Hotel Owner
PARIS, UP—Funeral services
were held at St. Honore d’Eylau
Church Tuesday for Isabela Pat
ino Goldsmith, Bolivian tin heir
ess whose runaway marriage last
January to the scion of a wealthy
British hotel owner made head
lines throughout the world.
About 1,000 persons, including
representatives of France’s aris
tocracy and the ambassadors of
Cuba, Spain and Brazil, attended
the funeral mass in the church
near the Arch of Triumph. A
crowd estimated at 3,000 waited
outside.
The 18-year-old daughter of a
tin millionaire died Friday, re
portedly of a cerebral hemor
rhage. Shortly before her death,
she gave birth to a five-pound
daughter by caesarean section.
The baby, christened Isabela,
was immediately placed in an in
cubator.
The young bride’s 20-year-old
husband, James Goldsmith, and
her father led the mourning pro
cession in the church. Patino had
tried vainly to halt the young
couple’s elopement in Scotland.
Isabela had scored several noble
suitors of her father’s choice to
wed Goldsmith after a seven
month romance. With the help of
Scottish friends, the young couple
was finally married by a town
registry clerk in Kelso, Scotland.
Patino and his son-in-law had
a reconciliation after the wedding.
Capehart Group
May Be Asked to
Take Alaska Probe
WASHINGTON, UP!—Sen. Cape
hart, Indiana Republican, said
Tuesday a Senate-House commit
tee he heads will take over an
investigation of alleged graft in
government spending in Alaska if
Sen. McCarthy asks it to do so.
McCarthy got permission from
his Senate Investigations Sub
committee last week to hand the
inquiry to some other appropriate
congressional group. The subcom
mittee had voted to handle no
other inquiries while it is looking
into the row between McCarthy
and Pentagon officials.
A top aide to McCarthy, declin
ing to be named, said he expects
the senator will delay a decision
“for a little while” before official
ly handing the inquiry to Cape
hart’s Defense Production Com
mittee.
Capehart told reporters he has
been advised only that the in
quiry involves “a smelly situa
tion” in connection with federal
aid to some tin mining interests in
Alaska.
Capehart -said the Senate-House
committee, set up as a watchdog
over the Defense Production Pro
gram, has jurisdiction to conduct
the inquiry.' He added, however,
that “it will be a couple of weeks”
before he could find time to start
hearings on any information the
McCarthy group might turn over
to him.
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Vietminh Charge
French Sabotaged
Evacuation Plan
GENEVA, (A*)—Indochina’s Viet
minh rebels charged Tuesday the
French sabotaged an agreement to
get French Union wounded troops
out of fallen Dien Bien Phu. They
said French bombers Killed 15
French prisoners of war the reb
els were leading away from the
fortress.
The charges were made at. a
news conference by Hoang Van
Hoan, Vietminh ambassador to
Red China. He said the French
alone were responsible for the
breakdown of the plan to evacu
ate the seriously wounded from
the northwest Indochina bastion
which fell to the Communist-led
rebels May 7.
(Dispatches from Hanoi, how
ever, said the Vietminh released
18 more wounded from Dien Bien
Phu Tuesday. At the same time,
the dispatches said American
supplied bombers had resumed
powerful attacks on rebel troops
streaming along a main highway
from the fortress toward the
French-dominated Red River del
ta surrounding Hanoi. The high
way had been neutralized to per
mit the Vietminh to remove their
own wounded, but the French
charged the rebels also were mov
ing heavy military equipment for
a possible attack on Hanoi,)
Hoang said a group of prisoners
taken at Dien Bien Phu, including
Nurse Genevieve de Galard Terr
aube—the lone woman stranded
in the fortress during the siege—
had written to rebel leader Ho
Chi Minh to express gratitude for
their “humanitarian treatment.”
HANOI, iff)—A French air as
sault smashed at Vietminh troop
and truck convoys moving along
the 70-mile-long Highway No. 41
between Dien Bien Phu and Son
La, the main route toward the
delta. Other planes also ham
mered Vietminh forces in key
sectors of the delta area.
The French had warned the
MEMORIAL DAY WREATHS
— AT CAVOTA'S
Retrial With Open
Hearings Ordered
For Playboy Jelke
NEW YORK, OD—The convic
tion of Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke on
charges of compulsory prostitu
tion was reversed by the appellate
division Tuesday and his retrial
ordered.
The court held that Jelke, heir
to a manufacturing fortune, was
deprived of a “fair and impartial
trial” because certain portions of
the hearings were closed to the
public. The decision was by a 3-2
vote.
Jelke, 24, had been sentenced
to serve three to six years on each
of two counts off compulsory pros
titution. His trial in New York
general sessions court was closed
to press and public during pre
sentation of the state’s case.
Judge Francis L. Valente at the
time said he felt that lurid testi
mony of admitted call girls might
endanger public morals, and de
clared he felt that he had the
legal authority to order this step.
New York newspapers and press
•services protested vigorously.
In reversing Jelke’s conviction,
the majority of the appellate court
ruled:
“It becomes apparent that to
place in the hands of any court
the power in a criminal trial to
close the doors of a courtroom
during the presentation of the
case for one party and open it
when the other party undertakes
to present his case creates a situ
ation that should not be toler
ated.”
Jelke was pictured by the pros
ecution as a free-living young man
who couldn’t live within his al
lowance but led girls into prosti
tution to' increase his income.
Property Transfer
Thomas Martin has sold to Kay
Handeland, Lot 27, Block 29, with
house and contents.
Vietminh the air strikes on the
highway would begin again unless
the rebels agreed to the French
evacuation plan, which included a
French offer to treat and return
gravely wounded Vietminh troops.
The deadline for acceptance was
midnight Monday.
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