THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
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METHODIST SUMMER PROGRAM
The Community Methodist Church holds its quar
terly conference this week here under the direction of
Dr. Gordon Gould, head of Methodist work in Alaska.
We are sure that he is well pleased with the work
being accomplished on the modern new parsonage
which is being built and is nearing completion.
The construction of the new home has brought a
group of young religious leaders into the community
who have been active all summer combining their
work with a wide variety of entertainment which they
have sponsored for the young people of Nome, demon
strating that religion and fun are not two distinctly
different things but elements of a wholesome way
of life. Too often religion begins and ends on Sunday
with many families.
This leadership under Rev. Robert Havens has
been appreciated by parents and townspeople, who hope
the service may be continued for the welfare of the
youth of the community.
VISITORS TO NOME
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Christofher
sen, Seattle, Wash., enjoyed an
overnight stay in Nome recently,
having made the Mount McKinley
flight from AnchoTage to Kotze
bue aboard the Alaska Airlines
daily mail flight.
They report a most • interesting
trip, crossing the upper Cook Inlet
region, following the early Rainy
Pass trail into the McGrath-Idit
erod area, crossing the Kuskok
wim and Yukon Rivers and get
ting their first glimpse of Bering
Sea at Unalakleet.
Returning today for Anchorage
they plan other excursions to oth
er scenes in that district.
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Among the many visitors who
arrived Wednesday via Wien-Al
aska Airlines was Miss Anna T.
Jarvis, New York City, who oper
ates a book store near the United
Nations building.
Miss Jarvis’ great interest in
this part of Alaska is due to her
father, Capt. D’. H. Jarvis, early
day history-making skipper of the
Revenue Service (now the Coast
Guardi. Later he was the general
manager of the Northwestern
Commercial and Salmon Packing
Companies, as well as being con
nected with the Northwest Steam
ship Company, which in 1906-7
became the Alaska Steamship
Company, still operating as Alas
ka’s largest handler of freight and
passengers, into and out of Alaska.
Miss Jarvis expresses much en
joyment with all of her trip in
Alaska and more especially her
coming to Nome.
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Other visitors were Camille
Brigham, Coral Gables, Fla.; Mr.
and Mrs. Fred J. Williams, Kan
sas City, Mo.; Julia Lee Stephens,
Stillwater, Okla.; Floyd M. John
ston, San Diego, Calif.; Louise C.
Robinson, Chicago; Denis M. Best,
New York; Mr. and Mrs. George
Foster, Fosteria, Mich.; Mrs. Ev
erett Jones and son John, Boise,
Ida.; Mrs. Kenneth C. Peters,
Fairbanks; J. W. Rich, Woolrich,
Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller,
Seattle, Wash.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
1.000 Perish As ’Quake
And Fire Ravage Islands
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from the shelf surrounding the
island. The biggest settling ap
peared to be on the northwest and
northeastern coasts, he added, and
huge bare spots could be seen
where the land had fallen away
into the water.)
Greek officials said, however,
that reports that all Kefallinia
was “sinking” were greatly exag
gerated. They said their best in
formation was that such reports
were based on excited messages
arising from the crumbling of
quake-displaced cliffs.
PATRAI, Greece, (#) — Eleven
more earth tremors shook the
Ionian islands of Kefallinia, Itha
ca and Zajpnshos Friday. Land
slides, fire and death continued to
stalk the survivors, already strick
en by modern Greece’s worst
earthquake disaster.
But the new tremors were of
subsiding intensity and air-sea aid
and rescue units from many na
tions were reaching the scene.
There still was no accurate ac
count of dead and injured. Ameri
can observers said they believed
a Greek government estimate of
nearly 1,000 killed was too small.
Adm. Lord Mountbatten, Medi
terranean commander of NATO
naval forces, flew over Zakin
thos, the main city on the island
of the same name, and reported
■by radio that he saw “a large part
of a cliff fall in the sea.”
Fires still raged over the city
of 25,000 population, he reported,
and oil and gasoline storage
drums were exploding.
CHIEF LAWS' PHOTO
IN CENTENNIAL EDITION
The Vancouver, Wash., daily
newspaper, the Columbian, re
cently featured a 107-page cen
tennial edition, which included
many pictures of the turn of the
century.
In it is a group of baseball play
ers (“the team was one of the best
of its day”) among whom is none
other than Nome’s Fire Chief
W. W. Laws, then knorwn as
“Chubby” Laws.
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Carpenters Leave
A j, Protesting
C • Merger Talks
CHICAGO, Dickering be
between AFL and CIO for a mer
ger already has produced a major
casualty. The powerful Carpen
ter’s Union has pulled out of the
AFL in protest.
The 822,000-member carpenters
group, a pillar of the AFL and
one of its founding unions, sud
denly severed connections with
the federation Thursday.
Action by other AFL leaders in
okaying an agreement with the
CIO to ban “raids” of rival union
membership was given as the
reason, but Carpenters’ President
Maurice A» Hutcheson conceded:
“It’s the climax of something
that’s been going on for a long
time in the AFL.”
Hutcheson wrote in a letter to
AFL President George Meany re
vealing this union’s secession that
he objected to the AFL agreeing
to ban fights between AFL and
CIO unions when, he wrote, the
AFL hadn’t taken steps to stop
scraps among its own unions.
Hutcheson’s letter complained
that AFL leaders “are more con
cerned with the affairs of the CIO
than they are with those of the
federation.”
Meany fired back that Hutche
son’s reasons for quitting “didn’t
seem to make sense.” He said the
“no raiding” agreement with the
CIO was a necessary first step to
ward achieving an actual AFL
CIO merger — something Meany
said almost everyone agreed
would benefit all labor.
NOME BETA SIGS TO MEET
WITH ALYCE VETTER,
NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Alaska Kappa chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi is planning to meet
with Alyce Vetter, international
representative of the sorority, to
night at the home of Mrs. G. R.
Jackson, in a special discussion of
program planning and organiza
tion.
Miss Vetter met with the three
sorority chapters in Anchorage
last week and plans to be in Al
aska until the middle of Septem
ber visiting all the chapters in
the territory.
During her stay in Nome, she
will be taken on a tour of the
town, make an afternoon trip on
the railroad tomorrow and join an
informal party Saturday evening
for members and guests at the
Dexter home of Mrs. Beverly
Morgan.
This evening will also mark the
third anniversary of the charter
meeting of the Nome chapter.
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We Have Just Received—
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IN ORLON AND WOOL
DOLLY MYRE'S
GINGHAM DRSSSES
and
HOUSECOATS
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Appointmens after 6 p.m.
Will Be Accepted
U. N. Asks Reds
If They Plan to Hold
Convicted Allied POWs
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warned the Communists Tuesday
that the U.N. Command would
not return Red captives convicted
of crimes “until we know the at
titude of the Communists toward
ours.” He said the U.N.C. wanted
all POWs returned.
riowever,—Peiping raidio said
the Geneva Convention provides
that prisoners facing “criminal
proceedings for an indictable of
fense . . . may be detained until
the end of such proceedings, and,
if necessary, until the completion
of the punishment. The same shall
apply to prisoners . . . already
convicted. . .”
Peiping charged Dulles with
“blackmail” in his threat of re
taliation and said that while he
charged that the Reds do not in
tend to return all the POWs,
“Dulles, nevertheless, has to' ad
mit that it is too early yet to know
for sure whether any POWs are
actually being withheld.”
The broadcast said Dulles “thus
. . . unwittingly stamps himself a
liar.” Peiping said flatly there is
no basis in the armistice agree
ment for the United States to de
mand the return of “convicted
POWs.”
U.S. State Department officials
said in Washington Dulles’ state
ment made clear that regardless
of the Geneva Convention the
truce agreement itself specifically
states that all prisoners shall be
returned.
Latest Polio Victim Arrived
Alaska Recently Via Highway
JUNEAU, UP) — Mrs. Royal T.
Brown, 30, who arrived here re
cently via the Alaska Highway,
was listed as a polio case Wed
nesday.
Mrs. Brown and her husband
stopped several days at White
horse, where 128 polio cases and
three deaths have been reported
since last spring. However, no
new polio cases have been listed
at Whitehorse since July 11.
Fourteen cases of the disease
have been recorded in the Juneau
area.
Welding Torch Spark
Sets Off $35 Million Fire
In General Motors Plant
DETROIT, UP)—A broken build
ing was all that was left Thurs
day of a raging $35 million fire
that roared through the General
Motors Corp. transmission and in
strument plant in suburban Livo
nia late Wednesday.
Two men were killed, more
than a score injured.
The ruins still smoldered yes
terday. The west wall of the build
ing was buckled and cracked. In
side it looked like a black metal
jungle of collapsed beams.
One GM official, who estimated
the damage cost, said that pro
duction in the Cadillac, Oldsmo
bile and Pontiac plans would be
hit. An estimated 45,000 workers
may be out of their jobs tempor
arily.
Firefighters said that a spark
from a welding torch set off oil
which spread to the rest of the
building.
Robert Upton Named to
Fill Tobey’s Senate Seat
CONCORD, N.H., UP)—Gov. Hugh
Gregg (R) Friday appointed Rob
ert W. Upton, 69-year-old Con
cord lawyer to the U.S. Senate
seat vacated by the recent death
of veteran Sen. Charles W. Tobey.
Upton, a Republican, will serve
until January, 1955. The remain
ing two years of Tobey’s term
will be filled in the 1954 election.
A full six year term candidate
also will be chosen in that election
as Sen. Styles Bridges’ term ex
pires in January, 1955. It will be
the second time in New Hamp
shire history that the state elec
ted fwo senators in the same elec
tion.
ROLLER SKATING
There will be a roller skating
party next Wednesday evening,
Aug. 19, from 8 to 11 p.m.
It will be sponsored by the LWY
Community Center. Regular ad
mission of 60 cents. All those 13
years of age or older are welcome.
Special prizes, games, contests.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
SUMMER SCHEDULE
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DAILY DC-3 FLIGHTS
Fairbanks — Kotzebue — Nome — Fairbanks
leave Fairbanks 8:00 a.m. arrive Kotzebue 10:30 a.m.
leave Kotzebue 11:15 p.m. arrive Nome 12:50 p.m.
leave Nome 6:00 p.m. arrive Fairbanks 9:30 p.m.