THE NOME NUGGET
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Cluster of Weekend Holidays
Climaxed by Easter Sunday
This weekend has many holidays and special occa
sions doubling up on each other.
Today is Seward’s Day. one of special significance
to Alaskans, and Good Friday.
Sunday is Easter and also April Fool’s Day.. Easter
falls on an early date this year, as it can be any time
between March 22 and April 25th, depending on the
moon.
Easter carries the message of hope to the Christian
world, and its religious significance should not be over
looked with the gift giving, eggs, bunnies and new hats.
Nome’s churches offer a wide variety of special
services, excellent relgious music and other special
features and they should be filled to overflowing on
Sunday.
Government Sued
$650,000 for Jet
Crash in Fairbanks
SAN FRANCISCO, W— An Air
Force sergeant and his wife sued
the government Wednesday for
$650,000 for damages in connec
tion with a jet fighter crash into
a housing project near Eielson Air
Force Base, Fairbanks, Nov. 29.
The suit was brought by T/Sgt.
William J. Fimple, 27, and his
wife, Ethel, 22, under treatment
at Letterman General Hospital,
presidio of San Francisco, for
bums received in the accident.
Also burned were their two
surviving children, William Jr., 4,
and Tim, 3.
The Fimples’ 11-month-old boy
triplets died from bums.
Fimple and his wife each ask
$150,000. They ask $100,000 each
for injuries to the two surviving
boys and $50,000 for each of the
deaths.
Atty. John F. Ward, who filed
the suit, said that 14 persons were
killed—including the pilot-—and
eight injured in the accident. The
Fimples were at home having
lunch at the time.
The suit claims negligence on
the part of the government.
BEER IN THE WASH. WATER
FOR THE BAR WHEN
PIPES ARE SWITCHED
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, fP>—
Ready to do the family wash, Mrs.
Margaret Swory, who lives over
the Alcatraz Tavern, found she
had plenty of “suds” yesterday.
Out of her hot water tap gushed
gallons of frothy beer. Downstairs
■customers who were being served
hot water on draught began to
grumble.
A customer soon located the
trouble. A beer company service
man had switched pipes as he in
stalled a new barrel of beer. The
trouble corrected, the tavern set
up a free one for the boys and
Mrs. Swory prepared to give her
beer-soaked wash a good airing.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181 »
Does Red China
Do Business With
Nationalist China?
WASHINGTON, UPi—Under sec
retary of State Herbert Hoover Jr.
and Foreign Aid Chief John H.
Hollister appeared in disagree
ment today over whether Nation
alist China trades directly with
Red China.
Hoover told the Senate Investi
gations subcommittee yesterday
“there is no evidence of direct
commercial contact between Na
tionalist China and Communist
China.”
But Hollister, in a Jan. 5 report
to Congress on East-West trade,
listed Formosa, the Nationalist
China seat of government, as “im
porting country” for $1,300,000
worth of imports form Commun
ist China from January through
August 1955.
The big difference seemed to be
that Hoover said categorically
“■This trade took place through
Hong Kong” with no evidence of
direct trade, whereas Hollister’s
report showed Red China and
Formosa as direct traders—one
the importer, the other the export
er.
In Taipei, Nationalist Chinese
spokesmen said any exports from
Formosa that might have got thru
Hong Kong to Red China were
non-strategic. He denied there is
any direct trade. On the few occa
sions when strategic items go to
Hong Kong, the source said, there
is a prior understanding that they
will stay in the British colony.
12 French Jets
Reportedly Being
Sent to Israel
PARIS, LP—Well-informed
sources said today that 12 Mys
teres, the standard French jet in
terceptor plane, are on their way
to Israel.
One source reported some of
them had already passed through
Rome.
Officials refused comment on
the reports. French and American
policy has been to keep the whole
matter as quiet as possible, since
the big three western powers are
trying to curtain shipment of arms
to the Middle East.
The French say the Mysteres,
like the American tanks which
went recently to Saudi Arabia,
were ordered before the embargo
went into effect.
Iceland Tells U.S.
To Remove Forces
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in the election, the go-home de
mand would be allowed to die.
Political circles here contended,
the resolution did not stem from
strained relations between Ice
landers and U.S. servicemen.
The Defense Department in
Washington said the United States
has on the island a “small Army
force of battalion size,” an Air
Force fighter interceptor squad
ron, several “supporting units”
and the joint Iceland defense
force. It refused on security
grounds to specify the number of
men involved.
Iceland Would Take Over
The resolution said the defense
treaty should be revised so that
Icelanders—who have no army or
navy now—would take over their
own defenses.
The declaration added Iceland
would continue to cooperate with
NATO of which she was a found
er, and would maintain friendly
relations with her neighbors.
Iceland’s President Ageir Ag
eirsson has set next parliamentary
elections for June 24 following the
resignation Tuesday of Premier
Olafur Thorsh’s Conservative gov
ernment. Thorsh and his ministers
will continue to serve as a care
taker regime until after the vote.
U.S. Has Spent $151 Million
Just south of the Arctic Circle,
between Greenland and Scotland,
Iceland is a refueling and repair
stop for both commercial and mil
itary aircraft flying between Eur
ope and North America. Under
the 1951 pact, the United States
has spent an estimated $151 mil
lion in military construction and
defense projects on the island.
They include an airfield at Kef
lavik and three radar stations.
Dulles and Canadian
Defense Secretary May
Visit DEW Radar Line
OTTAWA, (A*>—A Canadian offi
cial said Thursday Foreign Secre
tary Lester B. Pearson and U.S.
Secretary of State Dulles may in
spect the DEW radar Line in Can
ada’s arctic.
“Tentative feelers have been
made concerning such a visit,’’ he
said. “Nothing has been finalized,
but there is a possibility such a
trip will be made.”
It was reported to be suggested
by Canadian defense authorities.
Pearson, who has been visiting
in the United States, dined with
Dulles in Washington last night.
The JOHNSONS Are Coming
Nick George Montos,
‘Most Wanted’ Fugitive
Nabbed by FBI IN Motel
MEMPHIS, Term., bP>—Nick
George Montos, the only fugitive
to make the FBI’s “10 most want
ed" list twice, was captured by
FBI agents in a suburban motel
today.
Despite an arsenal of weapons
including a submachinegun, the
38-year-old Montos and a fellow
fugitive, Robert -Lloyd Jones, 30,
surrendered meekly after agents
fired tear gas bombs into their
motel room. Each had more than
$2,000 in cash on them.
C. E. Piper, agent-in-charge of
the Memphis FBI office, said
Montos was one of the nation’s
“top burglars and safe crackers.”
Jones, a convicted murderer,
was serving a life sentence at the
Mississippi State Penitentiary in
Parchman from which he and
Montos escaped last Jan. 10.
Montos first was placed on the
FBI’s most wanted list Sept. 8,
1952. He was captured nearly two
years later.
Rotary Entertained by
Judge Hodge Movies
At Rotary luncheon Thursday
noon, Judge Walter H. Hodge
showed colored slides he had
taken on trips over the highway
between Alaska and the States.
He showed all the highways in
cluding the Richardson, the Glenn
Allen, the Alaska, and the Hart
in British Columbia.
Guests of Rotary were:
John McKissick of the Cooper
Bessener Co.;
Marcell Stern, of the Haven
strite Oil Co., of Candle;
Walter Glavinovich and Nels
Swanberg, Jr., of the U.S.S.R.
& M. Co. of Nome;
Fred Geeslin, of the ANS;
Frank Morris, district engineer
for the Alaska Road Commission;
Calvin Poole, director of Juve
nile Institutions in Alaska, of
Fairbanks. Mr. Poole was former
ly superintendent of Nome School.
He left Nome in 1939.
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A Night in Sitka.Thomas
Our Summer With the Eskimos Helmrick
Cinderella Takes a Holiday . Harrington
Lost Empire.Chevigny
Connie Morgan in the Arctic . . Hendyx
Opportunity in Alaska . . . Sundborg
Doom in the Midnight Sun . . . Boyd
Dog Team Apostles .... Savage
Sourdough Pot.Chase
Reminiscences of Capt. Bille Moore Chase
I Reached for a Star .... Dawes
Arctic Mood.Richards
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Detroit Diesel Engine Die. Diesel Engines
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Gates Rubber Company . Belts
j Hobart Manufacturing Company . Welders
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A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. . Wire Rope
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