222 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _
62nd Year No. 78 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1961 Per Copy 15^
Ernest Hemingway
Dead from Self
Inflieted Gnn Shot
KETCHUM. Idaho UP — Offi
cials ruled today that 61-year-old
famed author Ernest Hemingway
died of a “self-inflicted gunshot
wound in the head” and they said
there will be no inquest.
A group of law officials went
to the literary giant’s country
home near here today to talk with
his wife Mary. They issued their
statement a few minutes later.
The writer’s wife, who heard
a shot, found him dead about
7:30 a. m. yesterday. He was lying
in his pajamas near the living
room of the secluded home.
There was a double-barrel shot
gun by his side.
“Mr. Hemingway accidentally
killed himself while cleaning a
gun this morning at 7:30 a. m.,” |
she said in a brief statement read j
to reporters by a family friend, j
Coroner Ray McGoldrick said i
it was a “self-inflicted wound” j
that could have been accidental
or otherwise. He said no inquest
is planned unless something new
develops.
Hemingway’s violent death
shocked the literary world. There
were expressions of profound re
gret from President Kennedy to
his neighbors in Idaho.
To Hemingway, this was home
—a quiet retreat far from the
turbulent world of “Farewell to
Arms,” “Across the River Into the
Tree”, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
It was here that he came to
hunt, relax and work. To local
citizens he was as well known
as the artful bearded hunter, as
the Nobel and Pulitzer prize win
ner, the author of the brilliant
“Old Man and the Sea.”
But some of the people he
knew around here thought “papa”
—as friends called him—seemed
a bit distressed and traced it to j
the recent cancer death of actor j
Gary Cooper, his close friend and j
local hunting companion.
“They’re both in the barn now,” j
Mrs. Cooper commented when she I
heard of the death. Heminway
had told Cooper he wasn’t feeling
well, and the late actor replied:
“I bet I’ll beat you to the barn.”
Cooper died in May.
President Kennedy, a Pulitzer
prize winner himself, said of Hem
ingway:
“Few Americans had a greater
impact on the emotions and at
titudes of the American people
than Ernest Hemingway. From his
first emergence as one of the
bright literary stars in Paris dur
ing the 20s —as a chronicler of
the ‘lost generation’ which he was
to immortalize — he almost single
handedly transformed the litera
ture and the ways of thought of
men and women in every country
in the world.”
Hemingway was a rugged out
doorsman even in his youth. After
high school Hemingway became
a cub reporter for the Kansas City
Star, but left soon to become an
ambulance driver on the Italian
front in World War I.
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THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy with gusty north
east winds. Low tonight 40, high
tomorrow 50. In the last 24 hours:
High of 52, low of 40. Sunrise at
1:36 a. m., sunset at 10:36 p. rn.
Temperatures a year ago today:
High of 49, low of 40. Extremes on
this date since 1907: High of 84
in 1936, low of 28 in 1924.
Government Asks T-H
Injunction to End
Maritime Strike
NEW YORK UP) — The federal
government today went into court
seeking a Taft-Hartley law injunc
' tion to end the 18-day maritime
strike.
President Kennedy, opposed in
principle to use the Taft-Hartley
Law, nevertheless called upon its
provisions in the face of a split
between seamen’s union groups
that has hopelessly snarled mari
time negotiations.
On direct orders from Kennedy,
who is vacationing rt Hvannis
Port, Mass., U. S. Atty. Robert
I M. Morgenthau filed a complaint
i under the Taft-Hartley Law in
federal district court here.
If granted, the injunction would
halt the strike of some 80.000
seamen for a period of 90 days.
“The circumstances of this dis
I pute present new evidences for
j the imperative need of improve
• ments in the national emergency
' section of the Taft-Hartley Act,”
j Kennedy said. “I have directed
i the Secretary of Labor promptly
j to prepare for submission to the
I Congress proposals for improv
j ing our mechanism of dealing
| with national emergency strikes.”
—
] Retired AF Chief Says
i“Fair Chance” of War
Over the Berlin Crisis
WASHINGTON UP) — Gen.
I Thomas D. White, retired Air
! Force Chief of Staff, says “there
is a fair chance” of war breaking
out over Berlin.
And as one way of emphasizing
t'he danger of Americans he sug
gested a partial mobilization.
“I don’t think we have had a
very firm expression of the de
termination of the American
people,” said White, who stepped
i down as Air Force Chief just
three days ago. “Mobilization of
some kind might well be such a
method of bringing it home to the
people that we must be solidly
behind the President.”
White, interviewed Sunday on
the NBC-TV program Meet the
Press, said if the Soviets or East
Germans tried to blockade Berlin
again, he would be in favor of
breaking it with a ground attack
rather than going over it with an
] air lift. He added, “maybe we
; ought to do it both ways.”
Asked if he thought a Berlin
war was certain to turn into a
nuclear war, White replied no.
But he said, “I think that if
, the Soviet Union should join in,
it is almost inevitable that it
| would degenerate into a general
war. I don’t see how two great
] nations can strike their entire
i prestige, their national policy
against each other and either one
i back down.”
GEN. MacARTHUR VISITS
i ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE
ENROUTE TO MANILA
ANCHORAGE UP* — Gen. Doug
i las MacArthur, accomapnied by
Philippines Ambassador to the
U. S. Carlos P. Romulo, stopped
here Saturday night enroute to
' the independence celebration in
| the Philippines.
MacArthur, traveling in Presi
i dent Kennedy’s jet transport, ar
j rived here at 1:40 p. m. He left
here yesterday at 8:30 a. m. for
I Manila.
During the stopover the general
I toured Elmendorf Air Force Base,
| Ft. Richardson and Anchorage by
; car. He did not make any stops
i during his one and a half hour
' tour.
\
Record Highway
Death Toll In
Prospect Over 4tli
By The Associated Press
The nation appeared heading to
day for a record highway death
J toll of 500 or more for the four
day Fourth of July weekend.
A heavy traffic death count for
I the first three days of the period
! brought a plea from George C.
Stewart, executive vice president
of the National Safety Council,
that “every driver assume his
, personal responsibility — the
checking of this insane race to a
new record.”
“The toll continues to run well
ahead of the Council estimates and
the 1950 July 4 weekend record
| of 491,” Stewart said,
j “Unless this trend is checked,
j the final toll will exceed 500 —
! the most tragic summer holiday
j in our history.”
Traffic has accounted for more
| than 60 per cent of all accident
i deaths in the nation thus far in
j the holiday.
Udall Says Alaska
Eskimos Must
Observe tlie Law
By Friiiz Witti
Associated Press Special Service
There appears to be no im
! mediate legal way to modify mi
| gratory bird hunting regulations
| to allow Alaska Eskimos to take
1 birds as freely as they have in
| the past.
Rep. Ralph J. Rivers said he
and the state’s senators recently
discussed the matter of enforce
ment of regulations with Stewart
L. Udall. Secretary of the In
terior.
Rivers had asked Udall early
last month if there was any way
| in which regulations could be re
| laxed to allow freer hunting by
Eskimos who need the game for
food.
Under a treaty with Canada,
hunting of ducks and geese and
certain other migratory birds is
prohibited between March 10 and
Sept. d.
Rivers said Udall told the
Alaskans he is aware of the prob
lem of the Eskimos and that he
expressed “sympathy for them in
their predicament which stems
from provisions of the treaty.”
According to Rivers, “the secre
tary said, in effect, he would look
for some underlying ancient os
aborginial right upon which to
promulgate modifying regulations.
“But he thought that the terms
of the treaty prevailed and that
the only valid basis for exempt
ing the Eskimos or giving them
special concessions would be
through negotiated changes in the
treaty.”
Udall was urged to seek action
by the State Department in ar
ranging negotiations toward solu
tion of the problem.
ANOTHER CHARGE . . .
MILAN, Italy UP) — Police of
ficer Mario Oscuri questioned a
suspected thief for six hours, then
ordered him taken to city jail on
a long list of minor counts.
After the suspect left in the
police van, Oscuri discovered a
10,000 lier ($16) bill he had in his
desk was missing.
He phoned the jail just as the
van arrived. Police frisked their
man, found the bill and added
another charge.
cm:’ OF NOME
10:00 A.M. — CHILDREN'S SPORTS
American Legion Post 19, Bob Emmons and Hap Lancaster,
Assisted by Maurice Kelliher and Les Keller
25-yard Dash (Girls 5 to 7) .$3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 5 to 7) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Girls 8 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Boys 8 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Girls 10 to 11) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75yard Dash (Boys 10 to 11) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (Married Men Only) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
(Over 35 years of age—Have your I D. Cards ready, Gents)
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 7 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 7 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
15-yard Tricycle Race (For 3-year-olds) . 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Boys 4 to 5) . 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Girls 4 to 5) . 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 6 to 7) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 6 to 7) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Boys 8 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 8 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
Shoe Scramble (13 years and under) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Married Women) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Single Women) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
Dispensed by Volunteer Fire Dept., Bob Lewis, Chairman
11:00 A.M. — ESKIMO SPORTS, Paul Tiulana, chairman
Arranged by Tourist Committee of Chamber of Commerce
High Kicking (Men) . 6.00 4.00
High Kicking (Women) . 6.00 4.00
Blanket Tossing (Men) . 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing (Women) . 5.00 2.00
2:00 P.M. — PARADE Assemble at the School
Special Prizes for Children’s Bikes & Tricycles
2:30 P.M. — DEDICATION CEREMONY at ANG Armory
7:00 P.M. — NO-HOST DINNER at the Seaview Room
9:00 P.M. — DANCE Sponsored by the A.N.G.
(Door Prize — Transitor Radio donated by Nome Hardware)
— COMMITTEE IN CHARGE —
Mayor Roscoe Wilke—Father Nevue
Mayor Roscoe Wilke—Father Lawrence Nevue
ARMORY DEDICATION PROGRAM
Cutting of Ribbon . Entrance to Armory
Welcome . Don Perkins, Master of Ceremonies
Posting of Colors
National Anthem
Invocation . Chaplain Lawrence Nevue
Introduction of Guests
Address . Mayor Roscoe Wilke
Address . Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Carroll
Special Addresses . SP-4 Andrew Kunayak
State Sen. Lester Bronson
State Sen. John McNees
Col. B. P. Major
Presentation of Keys by Gen. Carroll to Capt. Steele
Announcements
Retiring the Colors
Benediction . Chaplain Nevue
Eskimo Dances . Northern Light Dancers