THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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$18 Million in New
Alaska Defense
Projects This Year
SEATTLE, iff) — New defense
projects to cost about $86,000,000
will be launched in Alaska this
year, Col. P. W. Kieffer, Jr., in
charge of the Alaska District, Ar
my Engineers, has announced.
Kieffer said this year’s defense
contracts include about $20,000,
000 for DEW stations and $17,500,
000 for Nike installations, with the
latter figure likely to toe increased
substantially.
This year’s expenditures will
bring total defense expenditures
in Alaska close to the $1,000,000,
000 mark, Kieffer said.
In future years civil works pro
grams will claim increased atten
tion, Kieffer added. He said pre
liminary investigations indicate
that 15,000,000 kilowatts of hydro
electric energy can be developed
at reasonable costs from Alaska’s
streams. This compares, he noted, |
with 25,000,000 kilowatts now
available in the United States.
Power developments on a scale
comparable with those in the
(Pacific Northwest states “may
soon be seen in Alaska,” Kieffer
said.
DE VALERA WINS VOTES
TO BE IRISH PRIME MINISTER
FOR THIRD TIME
DUBLIN, Ireland, Iff)—Eamon
De Valera, with a working major
ity of 17 to 20 votes in the Irish
Dail (Parliament), is looking for
ward to a stable government.
The Dail will formally elect him
Prime Minister of the Irish Re
public for the third time on
March 20.
The final count in Tuesday’s
elections gave De Valera’s Fianna
Fail (Men of Destiny) Party 78
seats in the 147-member house.
CAB Blames Dead Alaska
Pilot for Crash in ’56
WASHINGTON, Iff) — The Civil
Aeronautics Board (CAB) today
'blamed the pilot for the crash of
a Cordova Airlines plane in Alas
ka last April 9.
The twin-engine plane crashed
into an Alaska mountain slope
near Shilak Lake on a flight be
tween Anchorage and Seward.
The pilot. John Arthur Waide,
and five male passengers were
killed in the accident.
The CAB said in a report that
the gross weight of the plane at
takeoff exceeded the allowable
limit but added that this over
load was not a factor in the ac
cident.
The CAB said weather infor
mation available to the pilot be
fore leaving Anchorage “clearly
• indicated that the flight could only
have been flown under extremely
marginal conditions.”
“The pilot, having available
weather data which indicated that
the flight could not be completed
throughout its entirety under VFR
(visual flight rules) conditions,
before take-off or turned back
should have canceled the flight
imediately under encountering
INFRA (instrument flight) condi
tions,” the board said.
The CAB said that dispatching
of the flight was at the discretion
of the pilot.
Boeing Jet Airliner Will
Have Noise Suppressors
SEATTLE, UP) — The Boeing
Airplane Co. expressed confidence
today that the nation’s first jet
airliner will be quiet enough to
meet requirements of the New
York area airports.
The firm has been working for
many months on sound suppres
sors for the high speed Boeing
707.
The company statement fol
lowed one from the Port of New
York Authority that the jet air
liner will not be permitted to use
he Idlewild, LaGuardia or New
ark Airports until a method of
suppressing its high pitched roar
is aevised.
' “All of the planes now under
production will have sound sup
pressors,” a company spokesman
assured. “They will not only cut
down the noise but will act as
thrust reversers to slow the air
liners in their landings, as re
versing of propellers does for
transports now in service.”
Harbingers of Spring —
S.S. Tatalina Sails from
Seattle for Seward Today
SEATTLE, iff) — The ships that
double for the first robins of
spring in Alaska are poised to go.
The Alaska Steamship Co. will
pull its first freighter out of win
ter layup when the SS Tatalina
sails from Pier 42 today for
Seward. Return of the Tatalina
will help the Alaska line step up
its Seward service to a full two
ships a week.
March 15 the smaller freighter
Coastal Monarch will pull out as
first ship of the year to Sand
Point, Squaw Harbor, King Cove
and False Pass.
MARS HER BEAUTY, BUT SHE
GOES TO JAIL TO SAVE HIM
LONG BEACH, Calif., UR — A
beauty parlor operator complained
to police that her husband beat
her, but she refused to testify
against him, so today she is serv
ing a 5-day jail sentence for con
tempt while the husband went
free.
Judge Lyman B. Sutter imposed
the sentence on Mrs. Dorothea E.
Divers, 39. She told officers at
the time her husband, Robert, an
electrician, was arrested, that he
had beaten her 10 times since last
April, and bad beaten her 25
times since they were married
seven years ago.
But when she refused to testi
fy ysterday she was ordered to
jail and the court threw out the
battery case against her husband.
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Cordova Airways C-46
Badly Damaged in
Local Runway Mishap
The Cordova Airways C-46,
flying direct from Anchorage to
Granite Mountain is reported to
have landed short of the runway
yesterday and was seriously dam
aged, although no one was hurt.
According to one report, the
plane landed short of the runway,
while another report stated that
the plane landed safely on the
runway but for some unknown
reason swerved off.
An Alaska Airlines plane had!
landed shortly before the acci-;
dent, with a D-3. 1
Freed Missionary
Wants to Study
Red Social Changes
HONG KONG, W) — An Amer
ican Lutheran missionary freed
after five years’ imprisonment
and house arrest in Red China
said today he wants to stay there
“to find out what it’s all about.”
The Rev. Paul J. Mackensen,
Jr., 32, a bachelor from Baltimore,
was freed yesterday after serv
ing a term for “acts threatening
the security” of Red China. The
Communists still hold four Amer
icans in prison and five in the
, Shanghai house where the Luther
an had been kept since last,
summer.
The missionary said in a tele
phone conversation from Shang
hai that he had undergone “a cer
tain amount of education” while
confined and “had learned some
thing of the program for social
changes taking place in China.”
He added:
“Now I’d like to study what is
going on. Whether I agree or not
is up to me.”
He said his course depends on
whether he finds “something to
do” and that he had had no suc
cess thus far.
Hq said also that the Commu
nists had not told him yet that
he could remain.
GETS ALIMONY FROM 14TH
HUSBAND; HE'S 'HAD IT!'
LOS ANGELES, (#> — Superior
Judge Elmer D. Doyle arched an
eyebrow and commented “This
| must be the record — 21 mar
riages between two people.”
Before him yesterday were Mrs.
Beverly Avery, 46, and her 13th
ex-husband, Raymond J. O’Mal
ley, 41. Mrs. Avery’s 14th mate,
Gabriel Avery, 46, was with her
when she sought $233 back ali
mony from O’Malley, who in
formed the court she had been
his seventh bride. He said he
would pay up and that he never
would marry again.
“You mean you’ve had it?”
queried the cour .t
“I’ve had it,” O’Malley solemn
ly replied.
Alaska Airlines
To Anchorage — J. D. Sedivick,
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cook.
From Anchorage — Jackson
Mokuvuk, J. W. Perrin, Willy
Dawkins, Joseph Rosmann, Robt.
Schoenfeldt, Edwin Wintermute,
Gus Gogolin.
To McGrath — Freda Milne,
Henry Knutsen.
From Kotzebue: Jack Sedwick,
Don Grinsell, Henry Knutsen.
To Unalakleet — Larry Daw.
BRITISH PAINTER AND
AUTHOR DIES IN LONDON
LONDON, Iff)—Wyndam Lewis,
72, famous British painter and
author, died last night. He went
blind five years ago, and had been
ill for about two weeks.
GRAND JURY REPORT
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ial service is inadequate and that
more attention should b paid to
dusting high overhead lights and
other fixtures.
“We strongly urge that all
United States Commissioners re
ceive a minimum monthly salary
instead of relying upon the pres
ent system of being paid on the j
basis of cases and matters handled.
Office of U.S. District Judge
and U.S. Clerk's Office
“We find the Clerk’s Office ade
quate inasmuch as a new build
ing is being provided and the plans
seem to include all necessary pro
visions.
“We find the. District Judge’s
office does not have sufficient
lighting facilities and recommend
the installation of proper desk
lighting.
“We believe that more and ade
quate chairs should be provided
for courtroom facilities.”
ROMANTIC TRIANGLE—When Michael Wilding (center) intro
duces Cornel Wilde to Anne Francis, he is unaware that they have
met before. The scene is from "The Scarlet Coat," unfolding the
dramatic story of Benedict Arnold's attempt to hand West Point
over to the British during the Revolutionary War. Filmed in
CinemaScope and color, the M-G-M picture also stars George
Sanders in a cast of hundreds. At The Theater Sun. and Mon.
| Girl Rescued from Andrea1
Doria will Marrv He** Hero
SAN JOSE, Calif., (/Pi—New
York waiter John Vali saved a
girl’s life last July when the An
drea Doria sank. Sunday he’ll
marry her.
She is Melanie Ansuini, 19,
who was on her way from Peru
gia, Italy, to make her home here
with her parents and two brothers.
She lost her grip while sliding
down a rope into a lifeboat and
was knocked unconscious. Vali,
28, jumped into the water and
held her up 20 minutes until an
other lifeboat came by.
Vali, who has been to Italy
“looking for a girl to marry,”
asked Melanie to write to him.
She did.
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Astronomy jNotes
By OLAF HALVORSON
Gemini, the constellation of the
Procyon and west of Leo, the
Lion. They cam be found a little
south of the zenith during the
evenings of February and March.
Castor, which is the highest
star, passes the meridian first, but
Pollux, the brighter star, passes
it 11 minutes later. Sailors love
these stars for they are well above ;
the eastern horizon during the!
first part of January. They match !
them and know that if both stars I
are visible at the same time, the j
weather is clearing.
Careful observation has re- j
vealed the fact that Castor cam
be reselved into two brilliant;
stars. The spectroscope discloses {
that a companion whirls around |
the fainter component in three i
days, while the brighter compo- j
nent also has a companion which |
completes its orbit in nine days, j
These four stars, which form the !
star we call Castor, revolve im j
pairs about a common center of |
gravity, completing their period
in about 900 years.
Earthquakes Hit Greece
ATHENS, OP) — Two sharp earth
shocks hit central Greece today.
The Interior Ministry announced
several houses had been dam
aged in Volos, Larisa and Trik
kala, but without casualties.
Trikkala police said about a
dozen houses collapsed there.
U. S. DISTRICT COURT
The following were arraigned in
the U. S. District Court this
morning:
Joe Koenig and Bill Kinnee
veauk on a plea of guilty were
sentenced to 2 years with sen
tences to run concurrently on 3
counts for Koenig and two for!
Kinneeveauk.
Louis Chasse and Margaret
Fleener pleaded guiity to cohabi
tation and were each given a six
month sentence, suspended.
Sun. ‘Scarlet Coat’ Film
Portrays Colonial Drama
The story of one of the most in
famous treacheries in American
history is unfolded on the screen
of The Theater this Sunday and
Monday in M-G-M’s Cinemascope
picture “The Scarlet Coat,” star
ring Cornel Wilde, Michael Wild
ing, George Sanders and Anne
Francis.
Director John Sturges has fused
suspense, historical validity and a
gripping dramatic impact in de
picting a fascinating cross-play of
espionage between the spy organi
zations of the American and Brit
ish forces and the dangerous as
signment on the part of Maj. John
Bolton which led to the unmask
ing of Benedict Arnold as the
traitor who almost succeeded in
turning over West Point to the
enemy.
In the crucial years of 1780 with
the red-coated armies occupying
New York and poised with a pow
erful land and naval force to go
up the Hudson and split the fledg
ling nation, Maj. Bolton (Cornel
Wilde) volunteers to seek out the
mysterious “Gustavus,” who has
been disclosing secret military in
formation to the British.
Soc. Sec. Representative
Will Be in Nome to Advise
On Monday and Tuesday
Everett Cummins, field repre
sentative for the Social Security
Administration will be at the Wal
lace Hotel on Monday and Tues
day of next week to answer ques
tions about Social Security bene
fits and to accept applications.
He states that some of the
changes of interest here will be
the benefits for women starting
at 62 years, including widows;
also that disabled persons may
start their benefits at the age of
50 years.
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SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
If You Want To Rent \
A House or Apartn^n*
The Man to See Is . . .
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P.O. Box 123, Nome, Alaska
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