m
THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY .!. Production Manager
Telephone: Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 618 $16.00 A YEAR
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under Act of March 3, 1879
Subscribers not receiving tneir papers by 5:30 p.m. call
Main 125 for special delivery. After 5:30 call Black 102
HURRICANE SEASON
»- v*
BEATING AROUND THE BUSH
It begins to look as though there might be an
election campaign in the U.S. this year.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon will stump eight
midwest states and is again urging his party to “run
scared.” He has said that the disconcerting defeat of
Maine’s Republican Governor Burton M. Cross was
“probably good for Republican organizations all over
the country.” Mr. Nixon also says that the Democrats
“lack the big issue.”
Speaker of the House Joseph W. Martin, who will
cover 14 states from coast to coast, began his barn
storming tour with a New Jersey speech dutifully
urging support for former Rep. Clifford P. Case, who
is now running for the Senate. Branding the Democrats
as “prophets of doom,” Mr. Martin lashed out at New
Deal and Fair Deal policies that have in the past had
Mr. Case’s consistent support. The November election,
said Speaker Martin, would be “the most crucial non
Presidential balloting of our time.” A Republican
majority is essential, he said, for the American people
to continue “their march along the road leading from
* socialist regimentation back to a prosperous free econ
omy based on individual freedom.”
There will be much of this business of “the pot
calling the kettle black” before November 2nd, for
both parties are split down the middle. Each has a
right and a left wing, and neither can come up with an
issue that will unite its warring halves. And until a
realignment separates those who want the security of
paternalism from those who prefer to stand on their
own feet, we question the terrible significance of
whether there are a handful more Republicans than
Democrats—or vice-versa—in the Congress.
WE NOW LEARN from scientists in Bonn, West
Germany, that the Russians have mined enough
uranium since the war—in territory held by the U.S.
Army on V-E Day and later turned over to Red
occupation forces—to make a supply of atom bombs
that could destroy every major city of the U.S. or
Western Europe.
And since we gave them the know-how, too, we
are at least consistent.
Kamchatka Quake
Took Huge Toll,
Says Red Scientist
ROME, (J’l—Western scientists
finally learned Thursday that the
Kamchatka earthquake of Nov. 4,
1942, battered the Siberian coast
with tidal waves and took “a very
large” toll of life.
This information on the quake,
which sent out walls of water
that lashed the Aleutians, Mid
way and Hawaii, developed at a
session of the- International Geo
physics conference in which So
viet scientist S. B. Gorschkov
presented a report.
Afterward American scientists
asked him eagerly whether there
was large scale earth faulting on
the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Gorschkov, who speaks English,
replied in Russian through an in
terpreter: “No, no faulting on
Kamchatka. The epicenter was
was not on Kamchatka. It was out
here, at sea.”
He pointed on a big map to a
spot about 200 miles east of the
coast, toward the Aleutian Islands.
“Was there much loss of life?”
he was asked.
“Yes, very much.”
“If there was no faulting, what
caused the deaths?”
“The tidal waves,” he replied. I
Hen Has A Yen To Travel
BALTIMORE, Md., (4>l—George
Washington Jr.’s old hen is a
good mother. She just likes to
travel once in a while.
The Rhode Island red got a
yen again yesterday and forgot
all about her brood. She was
picked up here after riding 180
miles from her Sweet Hill, Va.,
home on the third axle of Wash
ington’s tractor trailer. She did
the- same thing last week.
She’s really a good layer,” the
Negro truck driver said. As long
as she finds time to take care of
her young. Washington said he’s
willing to forgive and forget.
SHOWING
AT THE
T H E A I E R
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Starting 7:15 and 9:15 p.m.
//J y'teo/cif... |j||k
I RITA
HAYWORTH
STEWART
GRANGER
1SALOAAE
Co-Starring
CHARLES LAUGHTON j
I JUOETH-ANDERSON-SI CSDWC HARD VOS
V / X, BASIL SYDNEY- MAURI SCHVARTZ
^ &rl ARNOLD MOSS-ALAN IADS.
S/ecAn/co^
Earle Hunter, Candidate
For Treasurer of Alaska
Has Short Stay in Nome
Earle- Hunter, Republican can
didate for territorial treasurer, ac
companied by his wife, arrived
yesterday via Kotzebue, having
driven up to Fairbanks from
Haines, Alaska.
Hunter, who arrived in time to
attend the Rotary luncheon yes
terday, is enthusiastic about this
part of Alaska as he has never
been here before although he is
Alaska born.
He stated that this is his first
political jo'b, having been in the
banking business in Juneau for
the past 27 years.
His contacts with the way the
finances of the territory are han
dled is one of his reasons for
running for this office, he states,
as he can see many ways ofrnod
ernizing the work of the office of
territorial treasurer and increas
its efficiency.
Hunter contacted many local
residents while here and regret
ted he could not stay longer.
Kotzebue First Town
To Pledge Support to
Alaska Visitors Assn.
JUNEAU—Kotzebue, Alaska, the
small arctic coast community on
the Seward Peninsula, was the
first town in the territory to
pledge its support to the Alaska
Visitors Association by meeting
its prescribed quota on the first
day of the territorial-wide mem
bership drive.
Six new memberships were
subscribed in the AVA, according
to word received by O. F. Ben
ecke, finance chairman.
Edith Bullock, secretary of the
Kotzebue Chamber, in a report to
Benecke, stated that Eph Wheeler,
agent for Wien Alaska Airlines,
conducted the- fund-raising drive.
Firms who joined the associa
tion include: Wien Alaska Air
lines Kotzebue branch; Rotman
Stores; N. G. Hanson Trading Co.;
Eckhardt Curio Shop; and B & R
Tug and Barge Co.
Russians Explode
Hydroken Bomb
590 Mi. From Nome
■
(Continued from Page 1)
2. Four hours after these statics *
impulses, abnormal atmospheric
pressure (wave) caused by a great
explosion was registered on a
manometer (air pressure gauge).
As explosion-propelled atmo- ,
spheric waves travel about 1,000
feet a second, the explosion was
estimated 2,500 miles away from
Tokyo'. This data placed the ex
plosion on the Siberian island of
Wrangel.
3. Radio active rainfall has show
ered northern Japan almost daily
since Saturday. It was borne by
air currents originating on the
Siberian mainland. The “hot rain”
gave off geiger counts of 2,000 to
as high as 60,000 or abo'ut what
the “Bikini rains” gave off in
Japan. Ordinary rain gives off not
more than 60.
4. Intelligence reports have in
dicated the Russians have been
using Wrangel Island as a base j
for guided missiles and other mil
itary tests.
This report comes at a time
when the most seriously affected
of 23 Japanese fishermen dusted
by the U.S. Bikini H-bomb test
March 1 has been reported dead
from complications resulting from
exposure to radioactive particles.
A wave of anti-American feel
ing here was touched off when
the fisherman, Aikichi Kuboyama,
fell into a coma last month.
Japanese clamored for outright
ban of nuclear weapons and tests.
Asahi, which was the only paper
to carry the report Thursday of
the Russian test, made this as
sertion:
“If the meteorologists’ claim
proves correct, Japan faces the
grave danger of being sandwiched
by radioactivity from the north
iRussiai and the south (United
States*.”
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Wayne Russell, Lucy
Amarok.
ANNOUNCING ... t§
BERING SEA CLUB j
C O F F F E S II O P S
Will Be Closed Every Monday g|
Beginning September 27th. j||
Open From 7 A.M. to 11 P.M. ^
the rest of the week. Ji?
Pan American present's ...
1954-1955 WINTER SCHEDULE
FLIGHT 901—
Lv. Seattle ,Thursday 7:30 a.m.
Ar. FairbanksThursday 11:45 a.m.
Lv. FairbanksThursday 1:15 p.m.
Ar. Nome Thursday 2:2^ p.m.
FLIGHT 904 —
Lv._NomeThursday 5:30 p.m.
Ar. FairbanksThursday 8:40 p.m.
Lv. FairbanksThursday 10:00 p.m. (
Ar. Seattle Friday 5:45 a.m.
All limes shown are local standard for each city as indicated [
—FIRST TRIP OF NEW SCHEDULE: SEPTEMBER 30—