Japanese Babies
Poisoned by
Milk Powder
TOKYO, Ut)—Many Japanese
babies went without milk Satur
day as the nationwide toll of poi
soned powdered milk victims rose
to 39 dead and 4,448 sick.
Alarmed families were reported
feeding their children thin rice
gruel instead of suspect dry milk
in the numerous areas where fresh
milk is unavailable. Newspapers
and radio broadcasts alerted par
ents to the danger.
“A considerable amount of ar
senic” in one brand of powdered
milk was blamed for the poison
ing in a preliminary report of the
National* Hygienic Laboratory.
The Osaka University medical
department said it had detected
radioactivity in the same brand.
A member of parliament angri
ly declared that letting arsenic
get into babies’ milk is “worse
than the H-bomb dust which fell
on crew members of the Lucky
Dragon.”
Health authorities reported the
arsenic definitely did not come
from enriching calcium which
was produced in a lime plant near
an arsenic mine.
Indians’ First Baseman
Contracts Polio But
Spread Seen Unlikely
CLEVELAND, (/PL-Polio strick
en Vic Wertz was in “good” con
dition in an isolation ward today,
and the Cleveland Indians’ physi
cian reassured the other players
about possible contagion.
Dr. Don Kelly told the tribe in
the clubhouse before the Friday
night game with the Yankees that
exposure does not necessarily
mean other players will get the
disease. •
“Don’t worry about carrying it
home to your children,” he said.
. “It is extremely unlikely.”
The Indians will miss the 30
year-old first baseman and out
fielder for his batting punch.
I
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
No. 1050
Notice To Creditors
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
W. E. H. CREMER, also known as
“Rube” Cremer, deceased.
. NOTICE rS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska,
Nome, Alaska, an Alaskan banking cor
poration, has been duly appointed the
Administrator With Will Annexed of
the above-named deceased.
All persons having claims against the
said estate should present them with
proper vouchers attached, to the said
Administrator within six (6) months of
the date of this notice.
Dated this 19th day of August, 1955.
MINERS AND MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
By G. R. Jackson, President
James A. von der Heydt,
Attorney at Law,
Attorney for Administrator
Publish Aug. 22, 29. Sept. 7, 12, 1955
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT. SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
No. 1051
Notice To Creditors
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
JOHN M. POWELL, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Miners and Merchants Bank of ^Vlaska,
Nome, Alaska, an Alaskan banking cor
poration, has been duly appointed the
Administrator With Will Annexed of
the above-named deceased.
All persons having claims against the
said estate should present them with
proper vouchers attached, to the said
Administrator within six (6) months of
the date of this notice.
Dated this 19th day of August, 1955.
MINERS AND MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
By G. R. Jackson, President
James A. von der Heydt
Attorney at Law
Attorney for Administrator
Publish Aug. 22, 29, Sept. 7, 12, 1955
Quarles Overrules Air Force to Let
Airman Remain in Air Force Reserve
WASHINGTON, UP—Secretary<
of Air Donald A. Quarles over
ruled an Air Force decision Satur
day and announced Airman 3/c
Stephen Branzovich of Farrell,
Pa., may remain in the Air Force
Reserve although his father was
alleged to have been a Communist
sympathizer or party member.
Charles Branzovich, the father,
has denied he ever was a Commu
nist.
Quarles said he had personally
considered the case and deter
mined that Branzovich’ continued
membership in the reserve “is
consistent with the interests of the
national security.”
Quarles said his decision can
cels a special hearing that had
been scheduled Tuesday.
The case came to public atten
>
tion Aug. 22 when Branzovich
said he had been given a choice of
facing a loyalty hearing or sign
ing a prepared application for an
undesirable discharge. He de
manded a hearing, saying in a
letter to the Air Force, “I am only
accused of being the son of my
father.”
Branzovich had enlisted the aid
of a number of leaders and organ
izations in his community to help
him in his fight and the Mercer
County, Pa., Bar Assn, had as
signed a civilian attorney to assist
him.
An Air Force statement of rea
sons supporting the proposed un
desirable discharge said “you
have maintained a close continu
ing association with your father
. . . who is reported to have been
in 1943, and for an unspecified
time thereafter, a member or
close affiliate of the Communist
Party.”
KODIAK MAN GETTING
HIS FILL OF FAIRS FINALLY
DES MOINES, (A*)—An interest
ing visitor at the Iowa State Fair,
which officially^ opened Friday, is
Alex McNeil, 62, Kodiak, Alaska,
who recently retired as a machin
ist.
“I have a weakness for fairs,”
McNeil explained.
“I go to every one I hear of.”
McNeil said he was born in La
moni but was so busy raising six
children he never got around to
seeing .the Iowa Fair before leav
ing the state several years ago.
A widower, McNeil said he
plans to return to Alaska.
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GALATIANS 6: 1, 7-10
Strict Tests Through Every Process
Assure Safety of Salk Polio Vaccine
For the first time in history, a
vaccine is protecting millions of
human beings from paralytic
polio. While the Salk vaccine
will not work in every case,
American children are being
safeguarded against the dread
disease, with no more risk than
they would take in a vaccination
against smallpox or a typhoid
shot. The Salk vaccine must pass
elaborate tests under the watch
ful eye of a government inspec
tor at every stage of production.
Then the final packaged vaccine
is approved by the U.S. Public
Health Service for distribution.
Here are shown a few of the steps
that assure American parents
their children are being given a
safe vaccine.
This technician is filtering dead ceils and all
other foreign matter from polio virus after it
has grown on animal tissue in glass containers.
Virus is “cooked” in tank with formaidetvyde
(from bottle) until it is rendered harmless,
after which it must pass exacting safety tests.
Animal tissue in tubes is inoculated with vac
cine and let stand. If any live virus remains,
^t will multiply here, hence can be detected.
This expert is examining tissue
after contact with vaccine, to
determine absence of live virus.
It’s all over and it didn’t hurt a bit! Salk vac
cine makes this little girl safer now from par
alytic polio. And her parents feel better too!