THE NOME NUGGET
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Memorial Day, May 30
We honor all gallant American figfiting men of
all our wars on Memorial Day.
We salute those who have given their lives so
that we might live in freedom.
As American Legionnaires we decorate all veter
ans’ graves and scatter flowers upon the water in
memory of the sailor dead.
In many of our home towns the American Legion
joins with civic and service groups in a Memorial Day
parade. We honor the veteran dead with such ceremony
and fly the flag at half mast until noon—at full staff
from noon until sunset.
In Nome, all Legion members will meet at the
Federal Building at 11:00 Monday morning. They form
a parade to Belmont Point Cemetery for services and
then march back to town.
—Bob Emmons, Commander Post 19.
Navy’s Old Hands
Get Big Surprise at
Naming of Burke
NORFOLK, Va. U*—The Navy’s
•old hands received a whopping
surprise with the nomination of
Rear Adm. Arleigh A. Burke to be
chief of naval operations—but
nobody was more stunned than
Burke himself.
“I am still in a state of shock,”
he told a news conference after
the Wednesday’s announcement
that President Eisenhower had
passed over 92 higher-ranking
officers to pick the 53-year-old
Coloradoan.
Burke, on Aug. 16, will succeed
Robert B. Carney, who could have
been reappointed to another term
had the President so wished.
The new naval chief said he had
“no idea” why Eisenhower had j
reached far down the list to pick j
him and jokingly added that he |
had never played golf with the j
President.
Burke, whose present job is I
commander of the Atlantic fleet
destroyer force, said he was noti
fied several days ago that he had
been chosen to succeed Carney.
As for the Navy’s future, he
said he expects all types of war
ships to be atom-powered eventu
ally.
Eisenhower Will Make
Address at West Point
NEW YORK, L/P)—President Eis
enhower —West Point Class of
1915—will be the first United
States military academy graduate
to make the commencement ad
dress there as chief executive.
The National Broadcasting Co.
said Wednesday the June 7 speech
will be televised from the West
Point field house in a 30-minute
program.
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Soviet Accepts
Invitation to
Big Four Talks
MOSCOW ,(#>—The Soviet Union
formally accepted Thursday an
invitation to take part in a Big
Four parley at the summit. At the
same time it charged the United
States was setting up pre-condi
tions “which will doom the con
ference to failure.”
“There is only one explanation,”
the Soviet Union said in notes to
the United States, Britain and
France, “namely that the govern
ment of the U.S.A., contrary to its
declaration, does not desire to set
tle acute international problems.”
The note specifically referred
to statements made in Washing
ton concerning relations with the
Communist countries in eastern
Europe.
It declared that any attempt to
discuss the situation in those
countries would be completely in
admissable.
It also said the United States
planned to enter the proposed
conference with a policy based on
“positions of strength.”
The note said “all that is being
done despite the fact that the fu
tility of such attempts in negotiat
ing with the Soviet Union has
been shown in the past.”
In an unprecedented step, the
! Soviet Union included separate
j sections of its notes to Britain
| and France which did not appear
i in the note to the U.S. These sec
j tions were scarely veiled appeals
| for France and Britain to support
I the views of the Soviet Union
against those of the United States,
s “The Soviet government be
lieves France and Great Britain
hardly agree that the above men
tioned declarations of leading of
ficials of the United States con
tribute to an appropriate atmo
sphere for a conference of four
powers,” it said.
AT ROTARY LUNCHEON
At Rotary luncheon Thursday
a film was shown, produced by
the armed services, and present
ing a very practical discussion of
the situation in Germany today.
Fairbanks Night Club
Owner Found Guilty
Of Manslaughter
FAIRBANKS, UPV—Leon Urban,
Fairbanks night club owner, was
found guilty yesterday of man
slaughter in the beating-death of
Myrtle Patricia Cathey last Jan
uary.
Urban, known locally as
“Curly” and once a night club
operator in Anchorage, had been
charged with first degree murder.
On motion of District Attorney
Ted Stevens just before the jury
took the case, the first degree
charges were dismissed.
The jury then was instructed
to consider only the possibility of
second degree murder, manslau
ghter or innocence. Seven hours
later it returned with the man
slaughter verdict.
Miss Cathey died January 31.
| She had been beaten in a back
room of Urban’s bar the night of
January 22 and left there several
days before being removed tc> a
hospital for treatment.
Sentence will be passed later.
ALASKA AIRLINES
j From Anchorage: John Mulli
gan, E. Ongtowsiuk, Dr. J. Sax
ton, Don Collidge, Dr. Reinhardt,
Mrs. Louis Kost.
To Anchorage: «Rev. Lowell
Campbell and infant, Mrs. Lowell
Campbell and infant, Wm. Shank,
Sgt. Eugene Carter, Ray Soule,
i Jay Gilmore.
j To Moses Point: Nathan and
Oscar Murray.
To Unalakieet: Sam Parkinson,
Louisa Blanch, Minnie Tom.
From Unalakieet: Oscar Kaut
chak, Howie Jenkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Tripp
leave for Minnesota where they
will spend the summer and visit
with their two daughters part of
the time. Nancy, who graduated
from Nome High School last year,
will be working at Yellowstone
National Park this summer.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday with little change in tem
perature. Winds light and vari
able. Low temperature expected i
tonight 30, high Saturday 40.
Letter-Size File Folders For
Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
ROLLER SKATING
Every Tuesday and Friday
Starts May 31 School Auditorium
Children under 13, 7-9 p.m.—30c
Children Over 13, 9-11 p.m.—60c
NOME J.P. RIFLE CLUB
The regular monthly meeting of
the Nome Junior Police Rifle
Club will be at 8 o'clock. Satur
day evening. All members are
requested to be present and on
time.
G. R. Goshaw, Director
NOTICE
On or about June 10, 1955. the
C. F. O'DELL
Bookkeeping and Secretarial
Service
will be moved into its new office
at Lot 2, Block B, Front Street,
(Between Munz and Fashionette)
Nome, Alaska,
and the telephone number will
then be Main 14. For the better
convenience of clients the office
hours will be 2:00 to 10:00 p.m.
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Soviet Union Ratifies
8-Nation ‘Red NATO’
MOSCOW, —The Soviet Union
has ratified the Warsaw agree
ment setting up a unified eastern
European military command.
The anticipated action by the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
makes Russia the fourth Commu
nist ally to approve the eight
nation “Red NATO.”
To Show Slides of Norway
Mrs. Andrew Nerland will show
colored slides Sunday evening at
the Methodist Church, starting at
7 o’clock. The slides will be of
her recent trip to Norway. All
people are welcome.
Law Wins Motorboat Race
WARWICK, R. I., UB—For more
than an hour Wednesday two
boats equipped with outboard mo
tors raced at high speed around
Narragansett Bay. »
After 25 miles, one boat ran out
of gas and the other caught up
with it.
The second boat was manned
by state conservation officers, the
first by William D. Caswell Jr.,
25, of Bristol, a Quahauk fisher
man, who was arrested for fishing .
illegally.
He pleaded guilty later and was
fined $50.
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