THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING GO.
NOME, ALASKA
£ P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
CLINTON GRAY . Production Manager
Telephone: Main 125 $1.50 PER MONTH
P.O. Box 618 $16.00 A YEAR
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943 at the
postoffice at Nome. Alaska, .inder Act of March 3. 1879
OH, HAPPY DAY !
Many Killed as
Trains Collide
In Snowstorm
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass. (#>—A 4
car Boston and Maine commuter
train ploughed into a second train,
halted outside the station yard
here Tuesday, with a heavy toll
of dead and injured.
The collision came in a blinding
snowstorm.
The rear car of the halted train
was splintered and turned over.
The lead car of the four-car
train of diesal-propelled Budd
Highliners was torn open “like a
watermelon,” in the words of one
witness.
A passenger in the train,
Warren S. Martin of Danvers,
said the trairt was more than 20
minutes late when it left Salem,
and came to a stop about a quar
ter of a mile from the Swamp
scott station.
“I heard the short blasts of a
whistle from another train, and
the next thing w'e knew we were
rammed,” Martin said.
The halted train was enroute
from Portsmouth, N.H. to Boston,
and had stopped at a “home sig
nal” outside the Swampscott sta
tion yard.
The trains carried a high pro
portion of college students, many
of them bound for Boston institu
tions. Books, brief cases and lunch
boxes were scattered for a half
mile along the tracks.
« • •
The Boston & Maine. Railroad
today blamed “human failure”
for the rear end collision which
killed 13 and injured 100 Tuesday.
The B & M said its preliminary
investigation showed a Budd train
passed two warning signals and
a flagman before ramming into
the rear of the other train.
A statement by the railroad
said the engineer of the second
train, who was killed in the crash,
violated operating rules.
Gen. Atkinson Assumes
Temporary Command of
Alaskan Air Command
Lt. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson,
commander in chief, Alaskan
Command, will assume command
of the Alaskan Air Command as
an additional duty, the Air Force
headquarters have announced.
The Alaskan Air Command,
along with U.S. Army, Alaska, and
the Alaska Sea Frontier, is a
component of the Alaskan Com
mand.
The action is a temporary one
and will be in effect only until a
permanent commander is desig
nated by Air Force headquarters
for the Alaskan Air Command.
The additional assignment given
Gen. Atkinson will permit Brig.
Gen. T. Alan Bpnnett, who has
been acting commander of the
Air Command since the departure
of Maj. Gen. George R. Acheson,
to return to his regular post as
i commanding general of the 11th
Air Division at Ladd AFB.
Chili, Tamales, Beans Sent
To Transplanted Texans
DALLAS, IP—Five hundred
pounds of chili, tamales, beans
and tortillas are on their way to
Karachi, Pakistan, to help a col
ony oi transplanted Texans cele
brate Texas Independence Day,
March 2.
William H. Brooks, a former
Texan now foreign investment
and trade advisor to the Interna
tional Cooperative Administration
in Karachi, said he needed the
huge quantities of ingredients for
the chili supper because “over
here I find almost everyone is
either a native married to a Texan
or aspiring to be a Texan."
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Miss McDonald Tells PTA
Meeting About Infectious
Children's Diseases
There weren’t many seats left
unoccupied at the PTA meeting
last night in the high school
assembly room. About 60 persons
attended the regular monthly get
together of PTA and heard Mar
garet McDonald, public health
nurse, tell about contagious or
infectious diseases among school
children. Miss McDonald said it
was no sin for a child to get
impetigo but it was a sin not
to treat it properly.
She discussed impetigo, small
pox, chicken pox, measles, whoop
ing cough, and hepatitis. She
said that the hepatitis epidemic
now going the rounds here is of
the virus type and is not as viru
lent as the blood type which
caused some deaths in the armed
forces during the last war, and
that not too much is known about
the disease. The main points in
treating hepatitis is to see that
the patient gets plenty of rest,
a light, bland diet and plenty of
liquid nourishment.
Miss McDonald explained to
parents the meaning of the D.P.T.
shots given school children this
winter. The shots are: D — for
diphtheria; P — for whooping
cough; and T—for tetanus (lock
jaw). She also said the health
department has been giving 1st,
4th and 7th grade children tuber
culin tests. These tests do not
show that a child has tuberculosis
but whether or not they have a
susceptibility to the disease or
whether they have been exposed
to it at some time. It is merely
a means of determining which
children should be given x-ray
examinations.
The brass quartet from the
school band, under the direction
of Robert Heath, played several
selections.
The 1st grade room of Mrs.
Coons .won the attendance plaque
with 16 parents present.
Following the meeting coffee
and cakes were served.
■-7-*
Soviet President Confers
With French Socialist
MOSCOW 0*P)—The President of
Soviet Russia today conferred
with a former president of France
as the Kremlin stepped up its
campaign to establish united so
cialist-Communist fronts through
out the world.
Vincent Auriol, a socialist, and
his wife arrived in Moscow last
night on a visit as Klementi Vor
oshilov's personal guests.
I--i
Ike Will Run ...
(Continued irorr Page One)
That recalled his doctor’s report
on Feb. 15 saying he appeared
physically fit to serve “another
5 to 10 years” in a job like the
presidency.
At one point he said that maybe
helf a dd2en persons were in
formed of his decision last even
ing after he had reached it. He
did not name any of them.
Another question was whether
he had made a decision regarding
a second term before his Septem
ber heart attack. With a chuckle,
Eisenhower replied that is a se
cret he thinks he never will dis
close, except possibly in his offi
cial papers after he has left the
White House.
One reporter wanted to know
what was Mrs. Eisenhower’s re
action to his decision to run. He
replied his wife and other mem
bers of his family had said right
along it was his decision to make,
and they would not interfere with
him in making it.
PAN AMERICAN
Arriving yesterday: May Bale,
Fred Johnson and family, Mr. and
Mrs. N. B. Tweet, Norman Tweet,
Dr. R. Murane and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Frieze, Mr. and Mrs.
Pete Reader, Mrs. Eric Kamm,
Mrs. Starnes and two children,
Mr. Schwartz, Airman Brossard.
Departing: Victor Therriault.
Adlai Stevenson Hopes
Administration Is Not
‘As Rattled As It Appears’
NEW YORK, UP—Adlai E. Stev
enson said Tuesday he hopes the
Eisenhower Administration “isn’t
as rattled and confused as it ap
pears to be” in its foreign policy.
He made the comment to re
porters in the midst of a busy
New York visit, during which he
earlier proposed President Eisen
hower call a meeting of white
and Negro leaders in Washington.
The purpose of such a meeting
would be to try to ease racial ten
sions.
On the administration’s foreign
policy, Stevenson asserted:
“Last Friday the secretary of
State said the new Russian eco
nomic and political challenge was
a sign of weakness, which amazed
the whole world.
“On Sunday he appears to have
reversed himself and said it was
a threat for which we needed
more money.
“Last week we had the off
again on-again incidents of tanks
for Arabia.
RED SHIP HITS ICEBERG
MOSCOW, liP—Moscow radio
said Tuesday a ship of the Soviet
Union’s big “Slava” whaling fleet
No. 8, hunting in antarctic waters,
had struck an iceberg.
The broadcast said repairs were
made at sea and no one was hurt.
Subscribe io the Nome Nucrael
If You Want To Rent
A House or Apartmen*
The Man To See Is
George Hite—Main 123
GUARANTEED
FIRS I
C LASS
W A T E It
★ REGULAR
* DEPENDABLE
★ SERVICE
8 Buckets for $1
Bronson Water
Delivery
A VERSE FROM EACH BIBLE BOOK jf
a
"He raiselh the poor oul of the dusi, and lifteih up the beggar
from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to
make them inherit the throne of glory."
I SAMUEL 2:8a
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Why Worry ? — Call us and Relax ! - I
Residence Office
Main 52 Black 76
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
EXCURSION FARE
NOME - FAIRBANKS
And Return
Effective March 1 to 15
During Fairbanks Winter Carnival
$A^70
W jB PLUS TAX