THE NOME NUGGET
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ALL HE SEEMS TO HAVE DONE IS SHRINK HIS BELT
Supreme Court
Turns Gerard Over
To The Japanese
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She was shot with an empty
cartridge case fired from a rifle
grenade launcher. The Japanese
contend Mrs. Sakai, who was
scavenging metal scrap, was en
ticed to the area where she was
shot.
International Incident #
Girard has denied any entice
ment and contends the shooting
was an accident.
The case has grown into an in
ternational incident, with Japan
ese leftists and nationalist politi
cians demanding jurisdiction.
In Congress the case has led to
demands for devision of the sta
tus of forces Agreements which
the U.S. has with some 50 friend
ly countries.
Japanese Ambassador Koichiro
Asakai was quick to hail the de
cision as “good news.”
MRS. BLODGETT OF
TELLER IS VISITOR
Mrs. Robert Blodgett of the
Teller Commercial Co. is in town
on a short business trip. She
said the Tonsina has completed
unloading at Teller and that the
tug Lucille and barge from Nome ;
left Teller last night on the re- i
turn trip.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair and warmer.
Low temperature expected to
night 50, high tomorrow 60.
Nome data last 24 hours as of i
7 a.m. today: highest tempera- j
ture 66, lowest 49. Max. wind 18
mph from the east. Sunrise at
2:02 a.m., sunset at 10:13 p.m.
A year ago today: high 53, low
45. Extremes this date since 1907:
highest 68 in 1919, lowest 31 in
1928.
New Law Gives Alaska
Greater Lease Revenues
WASHINGTON UP)—President
Eisenhower Wednesday signed in
to law a bill giving Alaska 90
percent of revenues’derived from
federal leases of coal, oil and gas
lands in the territory.
Alaska now receives 52V2 per
cent of the revenues from oil and
gas land leases, but nothing from
coal leases.
Visiting Hours at
MMM Hospital
Announced
Visiting hours at the MMM
Hospital will be from 4 to 5 p.m.
and from 7 to 8 p.m., stated Mrs.
Opal Catlin, administrator.
Exceptions will be made as fol
lows: v
1. Ministers will be notified by
phone when a member of their
church is admitted to the hospital
and a visit will be arranged at an
hour most convenient for the
minister and the patient.
2. Minister will be admitted at
3:30 to 4:00 p.m. for routine
calls on their members, allowing
them this time for quiet visiting
with the patient before general
visiting hour. The ministers may
also call at 6:30 p.m.
The hospital is serviced by a
hospital chaplain who will be
called for patients with no de
clared faith when they request
or need a minister, and should
they later declare a denomina
tional leaning or preference, the
minister of that faith will be no
tified by him.
Visitors are asked to observe
“No Visiting” signs. They exist
for the protection of both the pa
tient and the visitor.
You can bet the only safe gam
ble on earth is taking a chance
on yourself.
knows Alaska best*
; Khrushchev Labels Eisenhowers
j Talk of Clean H-Bomb as ‘Stupid’;
: U.S. Strikes Back With Answer
PRAGUE. UP!—Nikita Khrush
| ehev yesterday labeled President
j Eisenhower’s talk about a clean
H-bomb “a stupid thing.”
At the same time, speaking to
workers at the Stalingrad metal
urgioal plant here, he gave broad
approval for the development of
Communism according to “na
tional peculiarities” and indicated
he would hold an early meeting
with President Tito in an effort
to heal finally the Kremlin’s rift
with Yugoslavia.
“President Eisenhower is a tal
ented man of great principles,”
said Khrushchev. “But look at
what a stupid thing he says when
he says there is a clean hydrogen
bomb. How can you have a clean
bomb to do a dirty thing? It
means the destruction of children
and women. What a contradiction.
They call dirty things clean.”
Presidnet Eisenhower told a
news conference on June 26 sci
entists had told him that, given
four or five years more of exper-'
indentation, they can turn out a
hydrogen bomb “absolutely clean”
of radioactive fallout—meaning
one that can be used to knock
out a military target without en
dangering innocent bystanders
far away.
The Soviet Communists’ boss’s
comments on Eisenhower came at
the end of an hour-long talk on
Communism to cheering workers.
With Premier Bulganin he was
j being taken on a tour.
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A ROCKY BUSINESS
KITIMAT, B. C.. UP—It’s a
rocky business, this being a mu
nicipal manager, said C. M. Hen
derson today as he contemplated
the potholes in Kechika Street.
The residents along the street
in this aluminum plant boom town
which was built in the northern
wilds, Henderson said, first com
plained because the street was
too roush.
| “We filled in the holes.”
Now the residents have dug the j
| gravel out of the potholes for use
! in their own paths and drivewavs.
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WASHINGTON, UP)—'The White
House, hitting back at Nikita
Khrushchev, said yesterday the
United States intends to continue
its efforts to avoid “mass human
destruction” by atomic weapons.
The statement, issued with “the
full knowledge” of President Ei
senhower and Secretary of State
Dulles, was put out after Khrush
chev had labeled Eisenhower’s
talk about a “clean” H-bomb a
“stupid thing.”
The White House at first de
clined comment on the remark by
Khrushchev. But Press Secretary
James Hagerty later called news
men to his office and dictated
this statement:
“It is rather amazing that Mr.
Khrushchev would think efforts
by American scientists to elimin
ate dangerous fallout from atomic
explosions ‘a stupid thing.’
“The avoidance of mass human
destruction in an atomic war is
and has been a prime objective
of President Eisenhower and his
administration, no less than the
aim of eliminating the possibility
of war itself.
“Such efforts to which the
United States is dedicated are and
will be continued.”
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Southern Senator
Promises to Fight
Statehood Bill
WASHINGTON, Ufi—Alaskan
statehood advocates have been
promised both a “hearing and a
fight” before the House Rules
Committee, Rep. O’Brien (D-NY)
said Thursday.
O’Brien, chairman of the House
Territories subcommittee, said the
promise came from Rep. Smith
ID-Va), Rules Committee chair
man, in response to O’Brien’s re
quest for a hearing on the Alaska
statehood bill.
“I’ll give you a hearing but
then I’ll fight you,” O’Brien quot
ed Smith as saying.
No date has been set for the
hearing altho it appears it may
still be several weeks away.
O’Brien said Smith told him the
Alaska bill would have to await
disposition by the Rules Commit
tee of the school construction bill
and the proposal to restrict- status
of* forces agreements.