De Gaulle Becomes
French President
PARIS, — General Charles !
De Gaulle Thursday became the j
first President of the Fifth French
Republic and appointed Michel
Debre as Premier.
In taking the oath of office, De \
Gaulle declared that during his I
seven year term he would, if need !
be, impose what the public good
demands.
Debre is an ardent Nationalist,
a longtime Gaullist, and chief ar
chitect of the new constitution es
tablishing the Fifth Republic.
Debre, a lawyer and adminis
trative specialist, will share exec
utive duties with De Gaulle. The
new constitution gives most ef
fective power to the president.
The constitution provides that
the president name the premier.
There is no provision, as previous'
ly, for the National Assembly to
confirm him in office.
Cries of “Viva De Gaulle,” came
from thousands lining the broad
Champs Elysees as he drove up
the avenue in an open car after
taking office. The 68-year-old war
time Free French leader stood
stiff and erect despite a brisk
wind and nippy 42-degree tern- |
pcratures.
At the Arch of Triumph De
Gaulle and retiring President
Rene Coty symbolically rekindled
the eternal flame that marks the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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Norway Coastal Storm
Takes Heavy Toll
OSLO ,(.-?> — Officials yesterday
counted at least 6 dead and 40
fishing boats sunk or damaged af
ter a two-day storm along Nor
way’s far north Finmark coast.
One fishing boat was still
missing.
The gale ended Wednesday but
continuing snow cut visibility to
100 yards. j
ALASKA IS IN THE 12TH
FEDERAL RESERVE DISTRICT
SEATTLE, (iF — The new State
of Alaska has been added to the
12 th Federal Reserve District,
governors of the Federal Reserve
System announced Monday. Alas
ka will be included in the zone of |
the Seattle branch of the Federall
Reserve Bank of San Francisco, I
J. M. Leisner, vice president and
manager of the Seattle branch,
reported.
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Java Floods
Cause Much Damage
JAKARTA, (?P) — Floods over
vast ares of central Java have
driven more than 100,000 persons
from their homes in the past 10
days.
No casualties have been reported
but preliminary estimates put the
damage at nearly $200,000.
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BALTIMORE POLICE LEARN :
TICKETING ETIQUETTE |
BALTIMORE, Md., Jp> — Ten
hours of courses in public rela
tions are required of recruits in
the 10-week course at Baltimore’s
police academy. Capt. Norman J.
Schleigh, academy director, said
recruits are told to avoid such
forms of address as “Bud,” “Jun
ior,” “Mac,” "Babe,” and “Gal.”
Why? Because they may provoke
hostility.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 558
Boat Bites Car’ . . .
ANCHORAGE, UPl — Warrant |
Officer Mort Schechter of the Air j
Force had no trouble identifying
the flying object that struck his |
auto during a violent wond storm j
last night.
It was a boat.
Becoming airborne on a gust
of wind that hit 60 m.p.h., the 14
foot aluminum boat sailed nearly
half a block before it smacked
into the windshield of Schechter’s
car near Elmendorf Air Force
Base.
Damage to the car was estimated
at $300. The unharmed Schechter
commented:
“I’m covered by insurance, but j
who is going to 'believe me?”
Hunting Father
Finds Family
Dead In Fire
BOSWELL, Gkia., UP) — Fifteen
children and an adult died Thurs
day in a roaring fire in a four
room wooden home.
All the bodies except that of
one child were piled on and around
a bed in a rear room which had
no outside door.
Apparently someone pushed the
one child out a window but the i
child was dead.
The victims were Sara Gardner,
38; her 10 children; three orphaned
nieces, and two visiting nephews
from Oklahoma City.
All the victims were Negroes, i
Booker Gardner, the father, had !
been away hunting.
Almost in shock and his face
haggard, Gardner, a Negro, walked
about aimlessly, apparently un
able to comprehend immediately
the disaster which struck his
family.
He said that when he started
home from his hunting trip be
fore dawn that morning, “I felt
sorta funny.”
Gardner said when he left for
his hunting trip, two stoves, burn- |
ing wood, were in use. Constable !
Richburg said he believed the dis
aster was caused by the stoves. He
said the family apparently pan
icked when the fire was discovered
and ran into one room.
RAG DOLL FINERY
PHOENIX, Ariz., OP) — Rupert
Loza picked up a piece of what
he thought was costume jewelry
in the mud near a hotel and gave
it to his young daughter, who care
lessly tied it to her favorite rag
doll — until the bracelet was iden
tified in the lost and found ads as
platinum with 21 diamonds, val
ued at $4,000. The Lozas returned
it.
What's All The Shooting About?
SEATTLE, OP) — Two youths
drove up to a service station in
suburban Renton and pulled a
pistol on attendant Roy Wendt. “I
haven’t any money,” Wendt said.
“Okay,” answered one would-be
robber. “Fill up the tank, then.”
Wendt did: $3.35 worth. The rob
bers drove off — out not until
they received their change for a
$5 bill one of them hand.d Wendt.
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Relief Checks
Financed Slock
Market Deals
NEW YORK, UP) — Harry
Schweitzer, 75, is something of a
financial genius, but he accepted
relief checks for the past 20 years
to make $21,000 playing the stock
market.
Since 1938 Schweitzer, a shab
bily dressed bachelor, has been re
ceiving $71.10 monthly welfare
checks. He has collected about
$17,000 over the years.
In addition, the retired hospital
orderly received welfare allow
ances for clothing, furniture, rent
and medical care.
With most, of the $71.10 to play
with, the frugal-living Schweit
zer plunged into Wall Street. He
became known as a tnan who
would lay down as much as $4,000
in cash on a broker’s desk in a
single transaction.
District Attorney Frank Hogan
said Schweitzer, when confronted
by the probers, turned over his
$1,525 bank account to the welfare
agency and gave the department
power of attorney to sell his $21,
000 in securities to make repay
ment.
Immediately after doing this,
Schweitzer said he was destitute
and went right back on relief.
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair and continued cold today
and Saturday. Lowest tempera
ture expected tonight -12, the
high tomorrow -5.
In the last 24 hours: highest
temperature 6, lowest -10. Sunrise
at 9:47 a.m., sunset at 2:32 p.m.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
To Fairbanks — A/2c R. L.
Johnson, S/Sgt. Forney, Pete
Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. B. Holtrop,
Melissa Holtrop, R. Herman, Dr.
H. Anderson.
From Fairbanks — M. Apok,
Mrs. Holtrop, Melissa Holtrop,
Ronald Wulsak, Gearld Smith,
Mary Honsburger.
HIS IMAGINARY BROTHER
CARTHAGE, Mo., (41 — Neoma
German answered a knock at her
door and found 7-year-old Everett
Stark looking for help.
Everett said he had lost his
little brother.
Lt. Carroll Maxwell answered
Mrs. German’s call to police. He
took Everett home, four blocks
away, to report the disappearance
j of little brother to the parents
i before starting the search,
i But the boy’s father, Ellis
' Stark, wouldn’t hear of a search
being made.
Everett doesn’t have a little
brother.
Texas Towns Keep Wires
Hot In Cold Wave
BEAUMONT, Tex., UP> — Cham
bers of Commerce of two Texas
cities exchanged tart telegrams
this week.
Beaumont, in southeast Texas
where it rarely gets very cold, j
and Amarillo, in the high Texas
panhandle, were the principals in
the hot wire swap.
Said Beaumont to Amarillo
when heating equipment failed
in the Beaumont chamber’s office:
“We’ve had enough. Suggest put
windbreaks on barbed wire
fence.”
The story in Texas is that only
a barbed wire fence separates
Amarillo from the North Pole.
Amarillo wired back: “Suggest
you set fans pointing this direc
tion. We need the hot air.”
ASTHMATIC FIRE CHIEF
ST. LOUIS, UP> — Earl T. Hud
son, whose doctor advised him
to stay out of smoky places be
cause of asthma, has been named
fire marshal and assistant fire
chief of suburban Wellston.
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Installation of New
i School Seats Held
Up By Labor Tiff
NEWARK, N. J., UP) — Students
at the West 'Kinney Junior High
School, a brand new seat c^f learn
| ing here, returned to classes yes
! terday assured of seats to learn
I from.
When the school bell rang Mon
day, the 1,025 students who filed
in were met by only 262 chairs.
The rest had been held up be
cause of a dispute over the use of
nonunion delivery men.
Business and management sat
down to hurried negotiations and
resumed the flow of chairs and
desks.
MOSCOW, UP) — Civilization is
moving into the Soviet Union’s
western Arctic regions with grow
ing speed, government census
takers reported yesterday.
They gave no population fig
ures on these areas where census
j taking started early to overcome
j communication difficulties. An
j eight-day census of the rest of
' the Soviet Union will begin next
| Thursday.
WINTER SCHEDULE
Douglas DC-3 and Super C-46
Fairbanks to Nome (via Kotzebue)
Each Monday, Wednesday & Friday — Fit. 311
Leave Fairbanks 9:00 a.m. Arrive Hughes
Leave Hughes Arrive Kolzebue 10:35 a.m.
Leave Kotzebue 11:15 a.m. Arrive Nome 12:25 p.m.
Nome to Fairbanks (Direct)
Each Monday, Wednesday & Friday — Fit. 312
Leave Nome 1:25 p.m. Arrive Galena
Leave Galena Arrive Tanana
Leave Tanana Arrive Fairbanks 5:25 p.m.
Fairbanks to Nome (Direct)
Each Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday — Fit. 311
Leave Fairbanks 9:00 a.m. Arrive Tanana
Leave Tanana Arrive Galena
Leave Galena Arrive Nome 11:00 a.m.
Nome to Fairbanks (via Kotzebue)
Each Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday — Fit. 312
Leave Nome 12:00 p.m. Arrive Kolzebue 1:10 p.m.
Leave Kolzebue 1:50 p.m. Arrive Hughes
Leave Hughes Arrive Fairbanks 5:25 p.m.
All Times are Alaska Standard and Bering Standard Time
Phone: Wien Alaska Airlines s«,«<>■> Mgt.
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LOMEN COMMERCIAL COMPANY
NOME. ALASKA
WHEN IN THE MARKET FOR EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS
IT WILL PAY YOU TO INVESTIGATE THE MANY LINES WE REPRESENT
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. Tractors, Pumps
Belt Drives, Electrical Equipment
Baker Manufacturing Co.Dozers and Plows
DeLaval Steam Turbine Co. Pumps
Detroit Diesel Engine Die. Diesel Engines
Gar Wood Industries . ’Dozers
Gates Rubber Company . Belts
Hobart Manufacturing Company . Welders
Hydraulic Supply Mfg. Company . Pipe
Jaeger Pumps, Compressors, Concrete Mixers
A. Leschen & Sons Rope Co. Wire Rope
Lincoln Engineering Co. Greasing Equipment
Mallory . Blocks
Onan . Light 'Plants
Owalonna Tool Co. Hand Tools
Power Machinery Co. Power Saws
S K F Industries . Bearings
Smith Welding Equip. Corp. Welding Tools
Thew - Lorain Shovel Co. Cranes & Shovels
Thor .Pneumatic Tools, Electric Saws
Timken Roller Bearing Co. Bearings
Willard Batteries . Batteries
Wisconsin Motors . Motors
ALSO DEALERS IN LUMBER, STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS,
LIGHTERAGE AND 'COASTWISE WATER TRANSPORTATION