THE NOME NUGGET
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“BACK TO GOD”
After a year in the world’s toughest job, which
he undertook with a prayer—the prayer that preceded
his inaugural address, and which all America heard
—President Eisenhower will again address the “Back
to God” Service of the American Legion on February 7.
A year ago the President said to the great convo
cation in New York’s Center Theater, and to the
millions more all over America who attended via radio
and television: “As your prayers (for Divine guidance
for the Chief Executive) came from your hearts, so
there comes from mine a very earnest one—that all
of us by our combined dedication and devotion may
merit the great blessings that the Almighty has brought
to this land of ours.”
What he may tell his nationwide audience on the
first Sunday in February, we do not know. But we
may be sure the President will approach this occasion
in full awareness of the Power that has sustained him
through the most trying months of his eventful life
. . . and that the Legion’s call to prayer comes at a
time when the peoples of the world are bewildered,
sick at heart over killing, and oppression and deceit,
fearful of even greater horrors to come and aware
that deliverance is only at the will of God.
None realize better than battle-tried veterans this
need for Strength we do not have, for Leadership
above the mortal level. And none realize better that
this nation was born of sacrifice, its freedom sustained
by sacrifice—and that sacrifice is made through faith.
Thus, it is fitting that the American Legion should
conduct these services, and that our temporal com
mander-in-chief should lead us—all of us— in this
inspiring pilgrimage “Back to God.”
Newly Appointed Judge
Of Second Division
“Pleased And Honored*’
CORDOVA, Alaska, UP—T h e
newly appointed federal judge of
Alaska’s Second Division, Walter
H. Hodge of Cordova, said Wed
nesday he was “pleased and hon
ored at receiving the appoint
ment.”
Hodge, a lawyer here for 19
years, said he would move to
Nome “as soon as I can find a
replacement for my law business
here and my wife can be replaced
as public health nurse.”
Hodge was born in Indiana but
was a graduate of the University
of Washington in 1919. He has two
dr ughters, Mrs. Lavern Johnson
of McCarthy, Alaska, and Mar
garet Hodge, a high schol student
at Snohomish, Wash.
Pope Pius Weakening
VATICAN CITY, UP — Pope
Frus’ difficulty in taking food has
continued to weaken him, said the
first official bulletin issued on his
condition Friday by his private
physician.
The bulletin, issued by Prof.
Riccardo Gale-azzi-Lisi, said it is
hoped “as soon as possible to re
peat particular x - ray examina
tions to determine the condition
bo h of the (Pope’s) gastric area
as well as of other organs in
thr t area.”
The bulletin said previous x-ray
examinations had shown the
Pc go’s gastric area and organs in
that area to be normal. It did not
say, however, when these exam
inations had been made.
Herbert Hoover Forms
Task Force” to Study
U.S. Subsistence Services
NEW YORK, Lfi—Former Presi
dent Herbert Hoover has announ
ced formation of a “task force” of
leading businessmen to study fed
eral government operations direct
ly or indirectly providing the na
tion with such necessities as food,
clothing and shelter.
Hoover, chairman of the com
mission on organization of the ex
ecutive branch of the government,
yesterday announced the makeup
of the study group—consisting of
13 leaders in food, marketing, and
transportation industries.
Hoover said, “The purpose of
this task force is to study the
oi'ganization of all federal agen
cies engaged in providing subsist
ence services within the contin
ental United States.
. “The magnitude of the project
is great. It has been conservative
ly estimated that the cost of fed
eral subsistence items as. defined
herein approximates six billion
dollars annually.”
Agencies whose operations will
be surveyed include the Veter
j ans’ Administration; the Depart
i merit of Health, Education and
I Welfare; the Department of De
j fense; and the Bureau of Prisons
I and Indian Affairs.
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
?Turse Killed In
$100,000 Hospital
Fire In Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, GP)—-Damage was
estimated at $100,000 Thursday in
Wednesday’s hospital fire which
killed a 36-year-old Air Force
nurse and drove 21 other nurse's
from their quarters clad in night
clothes.
The blaze destroyed nurses’
quarters and the officers’ club at
the 5005th Air Force Hospital.
Firemen evacuated 186 patients,
including a number of small chil
dren and eight women expecting
babies.
One baby was born during the
height of the fire and another was
delivered latef after the mother
had been transferred with the
other patients to the Alaska Na
tive Service hospital at Anchorage.
The nurses who escaped fled
through the lone exit in their
quarters not blocked by flames.
Officials said the nurse who
died apparently became panicky
in the rush to leave the quarters.
A strong southerly wind whipped
the flames as 135 firefighters at
tempted to quell the blaze in be
low-freezing temperatures. The
lire was discovered about 4:50 a.m. I
Cordova Will Honor
Pioneer ‘‘Doe Chase” For
Lifelong Public Service
CORDOVA, Alaska, LP)—'This
community will honor “Mister
Cordova” Feb. 7-13, a week pro
claimed “Doc Chase Week” by the
city council.
Eighty-year-old Will Chase will
receive recognition from Alaska
pioneers and the Community for
his lifelong public service in the
territory. He has been civil leader,
author, museum, field worker and
a friend and guide of many fa
mous persons.
Among these was Rex Beach,
whom Chase guided during the
writing of “The Iron Trail,” one
of Beach’s famous novels.
President Harding and Herbert
Hoover—when he was secretary
of Commerce—were others known
personally by Chase.
He is the founder of Alaska
Petroleum, Inc., of Washington,
D.C., now developing leases at the
Katalla-Yakataga area. And he is
serving his 20th term as Mayor.
Chase is an acknowledged auth
ority on the Alaska brown bear
and the wolverine and has col
lected many animal specimens for
museums.
Cordova’s favorite citizen attrib
utes his remarkable physical and
mental condition to rugged out
door living. “I have never boozed,”
he said Thursday, “but I did take
up smoking three years ago.”
Yugoslavia And Romania
Suffer In Europe’s Coldest
Winter In Seven Years
LONDON, GP1—Europe’s coldest
wave in seven years showed signs
of thawing out Thursday but
death and misery stalked the fro
zen plains and snowbound moun
tains of Yugoslavia and Romania.
Fierce blizzards, the worst in
24 years, killed at least 14 per
sons in Yugoslavia’s central pro
vince of Serbia. Most victims were |
buried in snowdrifts.
The Yugoslav victims raised
unofficial estimates of Europe’s
cold weather toll to more than
300 deaths.
Communist Romania ordered
emergency measures to meet the
transport, power and communica
tion breakdowns. Bucharest radio
reported acute shortages of coal,
food and water in many places,
including the capital.
Semi-Formal
VALENTINE DANCE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1954 — 9:00 P.M.
NOME HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
V
Music by Helen Stevens’ Orchestra
Admission — Single $1.00 — Couple $1.50
Postal Dept. Discharge
16G Employes As Bad
Security Risks
WASHINGTON, (#1 — Post
master General Summerfield has
told Congress that 166 postal em
ployes have been discharged as
bad “security risks” with “many
hundreds” still under investiga
tion. The Postal Service has about
500,000 employes.
Summerfield’s testimony was
given to a House appropriations
subcommittee last December, and
made public today.
President Eisenhower said in
his state of the union message to
Congress last month that 2,200
persons had been separated from
the federal payroll under his ad
ministration’s new security pro
gram. The administration has
thus far refused to make public
any breakdown which would in
dicate how many of the 2,200 were
found to be disloyal and how
many were dropped for such other
reasons as talking or drinking too
much. Eisenhower has said some
of the 2,200 probably resigned
without knowing they were under
investigation.
Dulles Says Molotov Not
Seriously Seeking Unity
I BERLIN, ()PI — Secretary of
State Dulles, denouncing the Rus
j sian plan for German unification,
i told the Berlin conference today
Soviet foreign minister V. M.
Molotov is trying to extend the
Kremlin’s power to the Rhine.
Dulles said Molotov had reject
ed a western plan for unification
of Germany through free elec
tions because he is afraid that the
18 million Germans in the Com
munist zone “would overwhelm
ingly reject” its present Red reg
ime.
He said the Molotov program
which the Russian minister put
before the conference yesterday
shows that “he has no intention
of seriously seeking German unity
with freedom.”
To make certain that Western
ideas would not influence the
elections, Molotov proposed that
all foreign troops be withdrawn
from Germany. And the Com
munist-controlled quarter (17 mil
lion population) would have a
weighted vote equalling all the
rest of the country (47 millions)
in shaping a future Reich.
AT THE THEATER
Lust, Greed, Passion, Desire, and Sin
starring
James Mason Danielle Darrieux
Michael Rennie
IMQ
The true story of the most fabulous spy of all time
Please Do Not Reveal The Strange Ending!