2000 Government Workers
Fired After Aptitude Tests
WASHINGTON, UP — Dismissal
letters have gone out to more than
2,000 employes of the Foreign Op
erations Administration and U.S.
Information Agency.
They were told budget cuts and
reorganizations required that their
jobs be eliminated.
About 250 FOA employes were
dropped Monday and 100 more
are to go this week. The agency
said aptitude tests and other fac
tors determined which were dis
missed.
USIA sent out messages to 700
Americans and 1,300 foreigners
already fired or soon to be dis
missed.
AIR FORCE ALBATROSS
RESCUES SMALL PLANE
FROM CHOPPY WATERS
ANCHORAGE, UP — An Air
Force Albatross made a daring
amphibious landing in choppy
Cook Inlet Monday to rescue Pilot
Walter Zimmer after his small
plane made a forced landing be
tween the mainland\ and Fire Is
land, 15 miles south of here.
The Piper’s engine quit and the
tide began carrying it out to sea.
The plane from the 10th Rescue
Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force
base landed in the face of an on
coming wind and rain squalls.
Capt. James Nagel, ..the pilot,
and Maj. Rupert Fudge, co-pilot,
threw Zimmer a line and got him
aboard.
North Korean Officials
Travel to Moscow
TOKYO, UP — The Communist
Pyongyang radio said six top
North Korean officials, including
Premier Kim II Sung and Foreign
Minister Nam II, left by train
yesterday for Moscow.
The broadcast heard here said
the trip was made “at the invita
tion of Moscow” but it gave no
indication why.
POLIO CASE IN ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, UP—A 29-year
old man became the seventh polio
case this year in Anchorage Mon
day.
Nearly two-thirds of American
farms keep dairy cows.
U.S. EMPLOYMENT
HITS RECORD HIGH
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The Com
merce Department reported Tues
day that employment climbed to
a record high level in August and
unemployment dropped to a post
war low of 1,240,000.
With 63,408,000 persons holding
jobs, the number of unemployed
dropped by 308,000 last month and
to a level wljich officials consid
ered close to a bare minimum.
By comparison, July employ
ment was 63,120,000 and the num
ber of unemployed then was 1,
548,000.
Printer Fired for Hiding
Behind Fifth Amendment
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Gov
ernment Printing Office Monday
suspended a type setter who has
refused to tell Sen. Ilc-Carthy’s
<R-Wis> investigations sv^commit
tee whether he operated a gam
bling ring at the big government
plant.
He is Carl J. Lundmark, wrho on
Saturday declined to answer on
gi’ounds of possible self-incrimi
nation when McCarthy asked if
he runs a horse betting book at
GPO.
! Ex-Sailor Forges $10,000
i In Treasury Checks
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)— A 27
year-old ex-sailor who has joined
the Army three times since May 1
is in the Presidio stockade Tues
day, charged with forging more
than $10,000 in Treasury Depart
ment checks.
Army and secret service agents
said Ralph Jackson of Gore, Okla.,
stole discharge and separation
forms and 145 blank Treasury
checks—some of which he had
forged.
He was turned over to federal
authorities for civil prosecution.
VANCOUVER QUADS DIE
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP) — Mrs.
Arthur Schroeder, 24, gave birth
to quadruplets late last night, but
the four—all boys—died within
hours.
It was the first such birth in
Vancouver in more than 20 years.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
U.N. High Tribunal
Restores Jobs to Four
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP) —
A United Nations high tribunal
ordered the U.N. Tuesday to re
store jobs to four employes and
pay damages totaling $122,500 to1
seven others.
All of them American citizens,
they were fired because they re
fused to answer U.S. government
questions about alleged Commu
nist ties. But the tribunal upheld
the firing of nine others—seven
involved in Communist inquiries
and two for non-political reasons
—because they were “temporary
indefinite” employees whom the
U.N. secretary ^general could dis
miss if he though such action was
in the interests of the internation
al organizations.
The high tribunal is headed by
Mrs. Paul Bastid of France. Other
members are Lord Crook, Britain;
Stur Petren, Sweden, and, as an
alternate, Omar Loutfi, Egypt.
Hearings Start Nov. 1
On Reds in Trade Unions
WASHINGTON, UR—Sen. John
Marshall Butler (R - Md) an
nounced Tuesday that open hear
ings in a Senate investigation of
“Communist penetration of our
trade unions” will begin about
Nov. 1.
Butler said in a statement that
three national labor unions in the
telegraph, electrical and metal
mining industries now are regard
ed by congressional committees as
Communist-dominated.
DEATH FOR TWO IN
HOMER ROAD ACCIDENT
ANCHORAGE, (J*) — John Had
den, 24, and Lola Lecree Barnard,
44, were killed in a weekend ac
cident when their truck went out
of control on the , Homer road,
rolled over and crushed them.
Sixth Daughter Born To Mclvors
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Mclvor
welcomed their sixth daughter,
born this morning at the hospital
and weighing 9 pounds 15 ounces.
PANMUNJOM, UR—The Korean
War prisoner exchange moved in
to its fifth and possibly last week
yesterday with 100 more Ameri
cans returning to freedom from
North Korean prison camps.
West German Candidates,
In Political Home Stretch
For Elections Sunday
BONN, Germany, Ufi—Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer and 4,039
other West German candidates
roared full steam into the political
home stretch today as the govern
ment readied top secret plans
against Red terror attacks on next
Sunday’s crucial elections.
Both Adenauer and his chief
opponent, Socialist Erich Ollen
houer, headed their campaigns for
the key Ruhr industrial section.
Its vote could decide whether the
West - allied Chancellor’s three
party government coalition beats
back the strong threat of the iso
lationist socialists to control Par
liament’s new lower house.
$253,320 CLAIMS FILED FOR
COLLISION OF PRINCESS
KATHLEEN & PRINCE RUPERT
VANCOUVER, B.C., UD—Claims
totalling $253,320 have been filed
in admiralty court in connection
with a collision August 30, 1951,
in Alaska waters between the
steamships Princess Kathleen and
Prince Rupert.
The CPR is claiming $161,682
from the Prince Rupert for dam
age to the Princess Kathleen, and
the Prince Rupert Ltd., owners of
the Prince Rupert, is asking $91,
638 from the Princess Kathleen.
ALASKA AIRLINES'
To Anchorage: Morgan Aukon
gak, Henry Wuhrman, Alfred
Bennett, Tony Olson, Vernon Ol
son, Nelson Poe, L. Meredith.
From Anchorage: Tom Jenson,
Beatrice Brandon, Elmer Long, G.
Moss, Fred Lelacheur, Edythe
Long, Dorothy Long, Mr. and Mrs.
H. Salisbury, B. A. Nickelson, Tim
Jackson, Capt. H. McSweet.
From Unalakleet: Emma Ivan
off, Art S. Johnson.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Harry Daniels, Lois
Mclvor, Maggie Garnie, and Rich
ard Norbert.
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with rain today and
Thursday. Southerly winds 15 to
20 mph tonight becoming south
westerly 10 to 15 mph Thursday.
Low temperature expected to
night 45, high tomorrow 53.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: high tempera
ture 48, low 45. Maximum wind
20 mph from the SSW. Sunrise at
3:08 a.m. sunset at 7:06 p.m.
A year ago today: high temper
ture 49, low 36. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 60 in 1923, low
25 in 1930.
DIESEL TRAIN HORNS
CONFUSE MALE MOOSE
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP—Regu
lations prescribing the volume
and tone of diesel horns on Can
adian railways reportedly are
playing havoc with the sex life
of some moose.
The National Railway’s presi
dent, Donald Gordon, told a board
of trade luncheon he had had
reports “from some animal lovers
that during the mating season the
bull moose has mistaken the sound
of a diesel klaxon for the vocal
response of an amorous moose
cow—with results that have been
disastrous to the male animal.”
TUESDAY SCORES
(By the Associated Press*
American League
New York 3, 0hicago 2
Cleveland 13, Boston 3
Detroit 7, Philadelphia 5
National League
Brooklyn 12, St. Louis 7
New York 10, Chicago 9
Coast League
Los Angeles 7, Oakland 5
San Francisco 4, Hollywood 1
Portland 3-7, Sacramento 2-1
San Diego 7, Seattle 5
MONDAY SCORES
National League
New York 13, Chicago 4
Cincinnati 12-7, Philadelphia 6-5
Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 3
American League
Washington 4, St. Louis 3
Boston 6, Cleveland 3
Detroit 9-5, Philadelphia 7-10
Coast League
Portland 11, San Diego 8
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretarv
Meets the third Monday of each month.
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
— 486 FIRST AVE. WEST —
Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
• Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
S C 0 RCHY SMITH
THAT MEANS.., SCOKCHV'S
SHIP HAS TAKEN THE
SECRET SPACE BASE AND
ROUTED THE ENEMV 1
OH, DIANA!