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Thompson Picked
For Ambassador
To Russia
AUGUSTA, Ga., OP)—President
Eisenhower Saturday chose Llew
ellyn E. Thompson, now ambas
sador to Austria, to be the new
ambassador to Russia.
Thompson, succeeds Charles E
(Chip) Bohlen, who has been re
assigned as envoy to the Philip
pines.
Eisenhower’s choice of Thomp
son, 52, for the highly important
Moscow post * had been forecast
for weeks. Thompson speaks Rus
sian fluently* and served as an ad
viser to the President and as an
interpreter at the 1955 Geneva
summit conference.
A career diplomat, Thompson
has been in the Foreign Service
since 1929. He has been ambassa
dor to Austria since 1952. From
1940 to 1943 he was second secre
tary and consul at the U.S. em
bassy in Moscow.
In 1949 Thompson was deputy
assistant secretary of State for
European affairs.
18 Egyptians Perish
As Fire Sweeps Village
CAIRO, OP)—Eighteen persons
were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed 325 mud and
straw houses of A1 Ahraz, a vil
lage eight miles north of here,
Egyptian press reports said Sat
urday. About 1,000 persons were
made homeless.
The report said the blaze was
set off by sparks from a hearth
fire on which a woman was bak
ing cakes for Bairam, the Moslem
feast starting May 1 to mark the
end of the month-long Moslem j
fasting period. A high wind swept I
the fire racing thru the village, j
[ Two Italians Arrive
i In New York After
Long Voyage in Cutter
NEW YORK Of)—Two suntanned
Italians sailed into port in a small
boat Friday after a long, lazy voy
age from home.
Francho Rocchi, 37, and Vin
cenzo Iacopucci, 38, left Italy on
June 2, 1954, for a carefree cruise
in a homemade cutter.
From Italy, they sailed their
24-foot boat to France, Spain,
Portugal, North Africa, the Ca
nary Islands and on to Brazil.
They stopped over for a year in
South America and then headed
north for a nine-month visit in
the Caribbean. .
Rocchi, a government clerk, and
Iacopucci, an architect, said they
will spend a month sightseeing
here and then set sail for home
by way of Newfoundland and
Portugal.
Texas Governor Calls
Federal Government Most
Overloaded Organization
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, (AT—
Gov. Price Daniel Friday said the
federal government is the “most
overloaded organization in the
world,” owning 24 percent of the
nation’s land and taking 78 per
cent of the tax money.
Daniel, speaking before the
third annual convention of the
American Assn, of Petroleum
Landmen, said “stronger, more
efficient government at the grass
roots” is the answer to federal
encroachment of states’ rights.
If You Want To Rent
A House or Apartment
The Man to See Is . . .
George Hite—Main 123
P.O. Box 123, Nome, Alaska
Girl Scouts Win
Awards At Court
Friday Evening
The Girl Scout Court of Awards
was held last Friday evening at
the Nome School where a very
interesting and colorful program
was presented.
Troops 67, 68 and 69 presented
skits and songs. v
The Brownies divided into
first-year, second-year and third
year groups and presented songs,
a play and a very interesting
puppet show with the aid of their
leaders.
Awards included the following:
Curved Bar: Myrtle Chambers,
Edna Johnsen, Dorothy Russell,
Mary Jean Longley.
Star: Ann Chambers, Clarice
Hardy and Lola Sheldon.
Second Class awards were
made to: Grace Aukon, Jo Ann
Aukon, Nancy Bernhardt, Gladys
Cannon, Vicky Castel, Pamela
Mulvihill, Marjorie Olsen, June
Oman, Diane Wilke, Sally Ailak,
Edna Ahmasuk, Alice Arnold,
Jo Chambers, Judy Coplin, Paul
ine Larsen, Barbara Mclver, Mar
garet Nagozruk, Marcia Webb,
Joy Weyer.
Girl Scout leaders are: Mrs.
Geo. Weyer, Mrs. Roscoe Wilke,
Mrs. June Jeffries, Mrs. Robert
Scott, Mrs. Mildred Harwood.
Brownie leaders are: Mrs. J.
Walsh, Mrs. M. Kelliher, Mrs.
Wm. Ullrich, Miss Roberta Ross.
It was announced that girls in
the Nome area may attend the
encampment at Harding Lake,
near Fairbanks, if they desire.
The fee is $35 and any Scout may
get the necessary forms and
other information from Mildred
Harwood or Judy Morris.
It was also announced a sum
mer encampment will be held at
the Dexter Scout Camp, the date
to be announced later.
M-K and Patti-MacDonald
Awarded Certificates of
Merit For Safety Records
ANCHORAGE—Two construc
tion firms have been awarded
special certificates of merit for
safety by the Alaska District
Corps of Engineers.
The Morrison - Knudson Com
pany received the award for re
cognition in the field of accident
prevention for work on fourteen
construction contracts in the
Alaska District.
M-K worked a total of 1,032,058
manhours on contracts with an
accident frequency rate of 2.91
and a severity rate of 0.16.
Patti - MacDonald received its
award for work located at six
sites, including Unalakleet. The
firm worked a total of 469,196
manhours with a frequency rate
of 2.13 and a severity rate of 0.03.
By comparison, the national
accident frequency rate in the
construction industry for 1955
was 19.33. The overall Corps of
Engineers figures for contractor
personnel was 5.72 frequency rate
and 1.63 severity rate.
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The TRADING POST
Revealed That 40 Russians Died
In Attempt to Scale Mount Everest
By JAMES F. KING
LONDON, UP)—A weird story
reached here Saturday that 40
Russian mountaineers perished in
an attempt to beat the British in
scaling Mount Everest in 1952.
Sir John Hunt, who led the suc
cessful British ascent of the
world’s highest mountain in 1953,
commented: “I think there is
some truth in the story.”
The Warsaw newspaper Szan
dar Mlodych carried the report
about the Soviet expedition, say
ing it was under direct orders
from Stalin.
A Polish climber named Pawl
olski was quoted as saying the
Soviet mission was to plant the
“flag of peace” on top of Everest
as a dramatic gesture in Stalin’s
| peace offensive at that time.
The Soviet expedition report
edly reached 26,400 feet—within
2,600 feet of the top of Everest.
In December 1952 the Russians
radioed confidently they hoped to
scale the peak within two days.
That was the last heard from
them and presumably the expedi
tion was wiped out by an ava
lanche, by the paper’s account.
Sir John Hunt says he remem
bers a mystery plane circling Ev
erest while the British expedition
was training in April 1953.
“We vaguely wondered at the
time whether it was a Russian
plane,” he said.
“We had always thought that
any attempt on Everest from the
north was asking for disaster. The
Swiss knew that, and their expe
dition tried from the south.”
Psychiatrist Hires
Gunman to End
Life But Fails
DETROIT, UR—A Detroit psy
chiatrist told police Saturday he
hired a gunman to kill him be
cause he was despondent but he
changed his mind and failed to
keep the rendezvous.
Chief Asst. Prosecutor Ralph
Garber said the shooting would
not have come off anyway: The
man Dr. C. L. R. Pearman hired
to do the job was an undercover
patrolman assigned to the case.
“I was despondent,” the 56
year-old psychiatrist was quoted
as saying. “I felt I had nothing to
live for. I changed my mind. So I
kept away from my office.”
Police who kept the bizarre ap
pointment Friday at Dr. Pear
man’s downtown Detroit office
found a note hanging on the door:
“Back Monday.”
Garber said he would recom
mand a warrant charging Pear
man with attempted conspiracy
to commit murder. Conviction on
the charge could mean a five-year
prison term.
He staid it began Tuesday when
Pearman, who is single, asked a
Detroit night club porter to find
him a killer. “He must be an ex
convict, a Negro, and must know
his business,” Pearman specified.
Pearman is white.
The porter tipped police. Pear
man gave a plainclothesman $50
and promised him $450 more
when the job was done.
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I Child Hater
i Fined for Sending
^Offensive’ Letters
| SEVEN OAKS, England, iIf)—
A wealthy retired businessman
who hates children was fined 40
pounds ($112) Friday for sending
anonymous letters to bereaved
mothers telling them the deaths
of their “brats” were a blessing
to the country.
Frederick Henry Bessemer
Clark, 76, grandson of British
steel magnate Sir Henry Besse
mer, was charged with mailing
“grossly offensive” letters.
A judge told Clark writing the
letters was “the vilest and most
contemptible crime anyone can
commit.”
It required 3V£ years to trace
the letter writer. Penmanship of
three generations ago finally led
to Clark, whose own son was
killed in a railway accident and
whose wife died several years ago.
To a woman whose 5-year-old
son had drowned, Clark wrote:
“It was a very sad experience
for you—but there is one consola
tion and that is tht advantage to
our country. Great Britain has
been overpopulated for some
years ... If more brats died there
would be more room in which to
live and move about the country.”
To a woman who had just given
birth to triplets, he wrote: “You
should be ashamed of your foolish
and unpatriotic action. It would
be a good thing for the country if
the three brats did not survive.” I
Clark promised the judge “I
won’t write any more.” The judge j
promised Clark he would go to
jail if he did. I
We are pleased to announce that—
As a part of our plan to assist you in building Nome and
the Seward Peninsula we are reducing the exchange rate on
all out-of-town checks from 1% to 14%, effective'May 1, 1957.
Government and Territorial Treasury checks, Money Orders ,
and Traveller’s Checks are exempt from exchange.
We hope by this move to compete satisfactorily with the
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Don’t forget our new Savings Account system that pays
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