THE NOME NUGGET'
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IT WON'T COOL OFF
The six senators tagged by Vice President Nixon
to investigate Senator Ralph Flanders’ motion to cen
sure Senator Joe McCarthy are to sweat out their as
signment in Washington while their fellow solons
adjourn and go home.
The selfless patriots who accepted the duty, Re
publican Senators Watkins, Carlson and Case, and
Democratic Senators Johnson, Stennis and Ervin will
have the task of evaluating some 40 specific charges
against Senator Joe.
At least the committee went to work with fulsome
praise ringing in its ears, from fellow Senators who
managed to duck the assignment, from Senator Flan
ders, who seemed especially pleased, from Majority
Leader William F. Knowland and the Vice President.
The plan is for the Senate to reconvene when the
group has decided whether it thinks the McCarthy
conduct “unbecoming a member of the U.S. Senate.”
But we wonder how the others can do any compaign
ing until they know whether Joe is a hero or a heel.
Or they could kick this hot potato around until
after election!
DON’T COMMIT SUICIDE
It’s always nice to let someone else tell the story
of the power of newspaper advertising. The latest to
do so is Orville J. Johler, vice-president in charge of
advertising of the Independent Grocers Alliance, who
supervises one of the biggest retail food advertising
programs.
“Advertising, effective service and low prices are
the lifeblood of our business,” Mr. Johler told 1,100
delegates at the I.G.A. convention. “To reduce the
efficiency of any of these main arteries is the best way
that I know of to commit business suicide.”
Johler stated that advertising has meant an in
crease of 20 per cent in business for his group of stores
so far this year in the face of hard conditions. He gave
the credit to the weekly full page schedule of adver
tising he places in 2,810 daily newspapers—a mountain
of advertising that produces mountainous results.
Whiskey cannot cure the common cold, according
to medical science . . . but then neither can medical
science.
Pacific Coast Halibut
Catch Breaks Records
SEATTLE, UP) — The Interna
tional Pacific Halibut Commission
said yesterday that all records foT
halibut catches on the Pacific
Coast are being broken this year.
Landings this year already
have reached 68 million pounds,
or about 8 million more than
landed in all of 1953.
The commission said it expect
ed the catch by Nov. 5, closing
halibut date, should exceed 69,
500,000 pounds.
The commission ’ credited its
part in controlling the amount of
fishing with improving the stocks
and making fishing more profit
able.
It said that at the present dock
side prices to fishermen, the gain
this year will be worth about
$4,250,000, or “three times the en
tire amount of money appropri
ated to the commission by both
countries — Canada and the U.S.
—from the time of its creation in
1923.”
Dictionary Lists Capital
Of B.C. as Vancouver,
To Anguish of Victoria
VICTORIA, UP)— It’s happened
again.
The latest edition of a popular
dictionary lists Vancouver, not
Victoria, as capital of British Col
umbia.
Howls of anguish from this city
which calls itself “a little bit of
old England,” have greeted at
least seven similar mistakes re
cently, most of them in travel
folders.
But the dictionary mistake has
stopped even voluble George I.
Warren, publicity commissioner
for Victoria, who wrote the pub
lication a studiously restrained
letter ending with “May we hear
from you please?”
Navy Crew Adopts Baby
Born on Transport
SEATTLE, —When the Navy
transport James O’Hara left Yo
kohama Aug. 12, it had 829 pas
sengers aboard.
It docked Tuesday with 830
aboard. The 830th was also heeled
with $300 not in possession at the
voyage’s outset.
The 830th was James Richard
Davis. The child was born two
months prematurely to the Jap
anese wife of Pvt. Ikie J. Davis,
23, of Woodland, Calif., two days
out of Yokohama.
Crew members immediately
adopted the 4 pound, 14V£ ounce
lad and led a drive at Adak, Al
aska, in the Aleutians which net
ted three $100 savings bonds for
him.
FEDERAL WORKERS PROTEST
5% PAY RAISE VETO
BOSTON, (A*> — A large, glass
enclosed portrait of President
Eisenhower was splattered with
overripe tomatoes in the Federal
Building yesterday in what police
said appeared to be a protest of
his veto of a 5 per cent pay raise
for government workers.
The Federal Building houses
the main Post Office and a num
ber of federal offices.
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Brazil’s President Shoots Himself
After Officers Force Resignation
RIO DE JANEIRO, UR—Brazil’s*
old iron man, Getulio Vargas,
sent a bullet through his heart
and died in his palace Tuesday
after 58 generals forced him to
quit as President.
“To the wrath of my enemies I
leave the legacy of my death,”
said a note left by the 71-year-old
chief of the world’s fourth largest
country.
“I take the sorrow of not being
able to give to' the humble all that
I wished.”
Vargas stepped down from the
presidency at dawn and shot him
self at 8:41 a.m. in his quarters at
Catete Palace, the Brazilian White
House. Gen. Caido da Castro,
chief of his military staff, was
with him. Police said Vargas sud
denly whipped a pistol from his
pocket and shot, dying almost
immediately.
He thus fulfilled a promise he
had made Sunday night—that he
would leave office only under j
arrest or dead. That was after 26
general officers of the air force
asked him to resign to calm a
tense political and military situa
tion. Tuesday 32 general officers
of the army joined in the demand
for Vargas’ ouster.
The army officers’ petition was
presented to Vargas on Tuesday
morning at Catete Palace. It was
announced the President, who
came to power in 1930 and ruled
all but five years since then, had
agreed to ask congress for a leave
of absence. Four hours later he
was dead.
The crisis that brought Vargas’
ouster and death began Aug. 5
with the slaying of an air force
major, Ruben Vaz, during an at
tempt to assassinate Carlos La
cerda, an anti-Vargas editor. The
slaying aroused widespread indig
nation in tooth the military and
the press.
This grew when it was discov
ered that members of Vargas’ per
sonal body guard were involved.
Vargas dissolved the guard.
The crisis broke into rioting
Aug. 11 following a Mass for Maj. |
Vaz. Two persons were injured ■'
and campaign posters for Vargas’ j
Brazilian labor party were torn
down.
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PLAN UPS PRICES IN KOREA
SEOUL, UR—Announcement of ;
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six U. S. divisions in Korea
brought quick price increases and
a government warning to hoard- !
ers and profiteers. The price of J
American cigarettes has jumped
20 percent since last week.
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