Russians Snafued
Formal Transfer
Of Alaska io U.S.
The formal transfer of Alaska
from Russia to the United States
took place m Sitka on October 18,
1867, in the trading post founded
in 1799 by Alexander Bananof,
sent to Alaska by the Czat to
conquer the Pacific outpo§t.
The final ceremony of transfer
was marred by an odd incident
reported officially to President
Andrew Johnson, It occurred at
the post’s 90-foot flagpole while
troops from the two nations stood
by and gins boomed in salute.
The Russian flag became en
tangled in its rjbpes and a Russian
soldier was raised in a bosun’s
chair to free it. The soldier didn’t
hear his commander’s shout to
“bring it down” and he dropped
it. The flag was impaled on the
bayonets of the Russian soldiers
as it fell.
Then, Captain Pestchouroff, the
Russian commander, stepped for
ward and said to Brig. Gen. Lov
ell H. Rousseau, the American
commissioner:
“General Rousseau, by author
ity from His Majesty, the Em
peror of Russia, I transfer to the
United States the Territory of
Alaska.”
It was as simple as that.
WEATHER FORECAST
Foggy tonight and tomorrow.
Lowest temperature expected to
night 15, the high tomorrow 25.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
35, lowest 21. Max. wind 21 mph
from the north. Sunrise at 7:03
a.m., sunset at 4:30 p.m. Month
total precipitation 3:08 inches.
Vern Stephens Named
Assistant Director of
Office of Territories
WASHINGTON, Ufi—'Vern Ste
phens, 34, Portland, Ore., was ap
pointed Wednesday to the newly
created job of assistant director
of the Interior Department’s Of
fice of Territories.
The appointment was the first
public notice of a reorganization
of the Office of Territories, in
cluding abolition of the position
of deputy director.
Under the old setup, the deputy
director was second in command.
There were two assistant direc
tors—one for Alaskan affairs and
one for insular affairs.
Kirkley S. Coulter, formerly
the deputy director, is now in the
new job of legislative adviser.
The two assistant directors
have been retained with new
titles. Philip W. Morgan is chief
of the Alaska Affairs Division;
William A. Arnold is chief of the
Insular Affairs Division.
David Schine Marries
Miss Universe of 1955
NEW YORK, t/P)—G. David
Schipe, a central figure in the
Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954,
yesterday obtained a marriage
license to marry Hillevi Rombin,
“Miss Universe of 1955.”
It is a first marriage for both
Schine, 30, and Miss Rombin, 24.
Schine, son of hotel and theater
magnate J. Walter Schine, first
gained public attention for inves
tigations he conducted of the
Voice of America and of alleged
Communist infiltration in the
United Nations.
Subsequently he was inducted
into the Army and served in
Alaska.
Britons Blase' to
Bare-Breasted
Ballet Belles
LONDON tP>—Three dusky girls,
nude from the waist up, danced
before British television viewers
Wednesday night.
One girl situated herself on the
floor in front of the TV cameras
and stayed there several minutes
writhing and wriggling in a close
up shot.
The show was on commercial
television, and the dancers were
from the African ballet currently
appearing in London.
“We decided to let them dance
I exactly as they do normally,”
said a TV official.
“We have had 'only two calls
from viewers. One was disgusted
and the other thought *it was all
very nice.”
The nation’s Lord Chamberlain,
i who censors stage shows, said:
“Ballet is not entertainment of j
! the stage within Section 23 of the
Theaters Act."
Undef Section 23 he can ban
plays, or sequences from them.
New Science Fiction
Books at KK Library
Available soon at the KK Public j
Library will be a group of out- j
standing science fiction books
contributed by Mrs. Joseph Mac- :
Lean of Juneau.
Among the titles are: Satellite,
Bergaust; The Isotope Man,
Maine; The Exploration of Space,
Arthur Clarke; Earth Is Room
Enough, Asinov; The 27th Day,
Mantley; Empire of the Atoms,
Oliver; The Time For the Stars,
Heinlein; Fantasy and Science
Fiction, Boucher; Report on Un
identified Flying Objects, Rup
pelt.
Globemaster
Limps Back
From Antarctica
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand
—A heavily loaded US. Air
Force Globemaster struggled 900
miles back to Christchurch yes
terday after one engine quit and
another acted up on a trip to the
antarctic.
After a long six hours over
water, the huge plane was just
two miles from the U.S. opera
tions base at Christchurch when
the second engine gave up. The
pilot, Capt. Vincent De Cesare,
brought the plane in safely on the
two remaining motors.
The crew and seven servicemen
passengers had 3,000 pounds of I
loose cargo ready to jettison so
the lightened plane would fly
better, But with a rescue Globe
master flying alongside for the
last part of the return, De Cesare
was able to get home with all the
baggage.
PVT. INGRAM MELTON
IS OUTSTANDING TRAINEE
Private Ingram Melton of Co. j
D, 1st Battle Group of the 1st |
Brigate in RFA training whose
home is Deering, Alaska, was i
selected as the Outstanding:
Trainee from among the person- j
nel of the Brigade Guard at Fort:
Ord.
The honor was based on his i
superior appearance, complete j
understanding of General Orders j
and other military knowledge.
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about your will?”
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ing she marries again within the;
year. I want somebody to be sorry j
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6Yearling’ Reprint
At Nomerama Is
Memorable Film
Every once in a while there
comes out of Hollywood a motion
picture so eloquently conceived,
so beautifully true to life as to
remain forever etched on one’s
memory.
Such a picture is “The Year
ling,” filmization of the Pulitzer
| Prize-winning novel by Marjorie
Rawlings, showing Friday and
I Saturday at the Nomerama as an
M-G-M masterpiece reprint.
With Gregory Peck and Jane
j Wyman cast as Penny and Ma
Baxter, and with Claude Jarman
;Jr. as the lovable Jody, the film
' faithfully transcribes in Techni
color motion picture terms the
story of this courageous, hard
working family which encounters
both happiness and tragedy in
their struggle to eke out a living
from their small plot in Florida’s
dense scrub country.
All the high points of the Rawl
ings novel are here—the hunt for
the marauding bear, Slewfoot, the
pulsating episode in which Penny
is bitten by a deadly rattlesnake,
the free-for-all village brawl of
the roistering Forresters, Jody's
adoption of his little fawn, the
tragic results which ensue when
the gamboling deer eats the young
1 corn shoots and tramples down
| the tobacco crop, rising to the
climax of an embittered Jody
running away from home only to
return later to take his place as
a man in the family..
Letter-size and legal file folders
available al The Nome Nugget
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon
JIM WALSH, President
ALASKA CHAPTER HO. I
Order of Eastern Star
[Lillie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meetings: 1st and 3rd Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Itobt. K. Lewis. WJL
Norvin W. Lewis, See.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Joe Kroninger
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon