THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, August 10, 1951
Govt. Eases Restrictions
On Export of Cotton
WASHINGTON, (&)—'The gov
ernment has eased restrictions on
the export of cotton. The action
Avas made possible by forecasts
of a bumper crop of 16,266,000
"jails.
Secretary of Agriculture Bran
nan announced that rigid export
quotas will be replaced by an ex
port licensing system under which
friendly countries can get all the
cotton they need while the gov
ernment can ban shipments to un
friendly areas.
Cotton was placed under ex
port controls last fall when last
year’s poor crop and increased de
fense demands raised threats erf a
shortage.
Polio Strikes Six of Eight
Children of L. A. Family
LOS ANGELES, (JP) Dread
' polio has laid low six of the eight
children in the family of brick
worker Donald F. DeMars.
All six of the youngsters are
in Los Angeles General Hospital
today. Two of them—3-year-old
Richard and his oldest brother,
Donald, 10—are in respirators.
The other stricken children are
Davis, 10 months, Shirley, five
years; Adrey, seven, and Patricia,
12.
The National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis said it was the
hardest swipe the disease has
taken at a single family since
1946 when nine persons in a
Minnesota family were stricken.
Northwestern Alaska Fair
PRESENTS
E S K 1 M O D A N C E S
FRIDAY EVENING — 8:00 P.M.
1. Polloak
Invitation dance with participants being
the village dancers and their visitors from
neighboring villages.
2. Special Dance of Welcome
By three of the best dancers of the villages.
3. Kovuk Dance
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A comedy dance — usually performed for
the children of the village.
4. Talliktoak
A dance — sometimes called the Diomede
sitting dance — performed by Eskimo
women sitting in a row pantomiming an
Autumn festival.
5. Ellanah and Knzinnk
This dance is a family dance and represents
by pantomime the forefather s ability as
a wonderful hunter.
6. Ceremonial Dance - by Group
This dance depicts two men who have been
turned into thunder clouds. When they
collide they return to their natural state
as humans again.
7. A Family Story
Passed down from generation to generation
which relates a certain polar bear hunt
which was so remarkable and unusual that
the entire family is elevated to high promi
nence in the village.
8. Whale Dance
This dance is an invitation to the whole
village to join in celebration of the success
ful whale hunt and terminates with the
thanksgiving of the villages to the supreme
deity for his bountiful blessing in pro
viding them with an abundance of food.
Admission: Adults $1.00 — Children 25^
Pilgrim Statue
On Display St.
Joseph's (Jiurch
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The arrival of Rev. Patrick J.
Moore of the Scarboro Foreign
Mission Society, Scarboro Bluffs,
| Ontario, Canada, with the Pilgrim
: Statue had been expected on the
PA A plane Wednesday, but due to
delay in getting out of Nulato he
did not arrive until Friday. He
was met in the rain by Father
Murphy and Judge Kehoe.
The skies cleared enough before
7 p.m. and the sun broke thru to
permit the little girls to walk in
procession decked out in their
white dresses. The statue was car
ried from the parish house on the
shoulders of four men, the Chief
:
of the King Islanders, Judge Ke
hoe, Paul Mandeville and James
Walsh. The beautiful crown was
carried by Alice Glavinovich on a
; prepared white cushion; the white
rosary was borne by Monica Lou
Boucher. The four flower girls
were Janet Miller, Helen Reader,
Madeline Mogg and Diane
Boucher.
While the procession moved up
| the middle aisle of the well-filled
church, the choir sang the hymn
“Mother Dearest, Mother Fairest”.!
The statue was then placed in the |
beautifully prepared shrine which
was bedecked with lovely gladi
olas ordered by the Holy Name
men from Fairbanks.
Father Murphy, the pastor, was
pleased to have been able to ar
rive home in time for this impor
tant visit after his absence be
cause of his mother’s death in
Butte, Montana.
After a few words of welcome
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he crowned the statue in the name
of his people, which symbolizes
the crowning of Mary, the Mother
of Jesus in heaven. The rosary
was then prayed for world peace.
Father Moore in his remarks
told the people how pleased he
was to be here and explained that
this image of the Mother of Christ
had been carved from Brazilian
cedar wood in Portugal. The sculp
tor tried to bring out as closely as
possible the impression of the ap
parition as explained by the three
children of Fatima, especially the !
one Lucy, who is still living and |
is a Carmelite nun in Coriubra,
Portugal. These six apparitions in
Fatima, Portugal, which took place i
on the 13th of each month from |
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May to October, 1917, were simi- |
lar to the apparitions of “Mary”
to Bernadette in Lourdes nearly
100 years ago, the exception being
that She warned the world of the
closest of graver troubles if men
did not turn to Almighty God by
keeping His laws and bring prayer
into their daily lives, especially \
the prayer of the rosary. She men- ,
tioned by name our country when
She said: “If men do not cease of
fending my Divine Son, then there
will soon be another war and
there will soon be another war
and the “errors of Russia” will
spread throughout the world.
There are three of these statues
which have left the spot of the
apparitions in the past four years
to move from country ta country
to try to rally all people of good
will to bring God’s Mercy and
peace upon our world through
amendment of life and prayer.
This statue now is at St. Jo
seph’s Church at Nome and has
travelled nearly 37,000 miles by
air alone since May 13th, 1948.
Anyone is welcome to see it or to
attend the service at 7 p. m. to
night. Father Moore leaves Satur
day for Andreafski via McGrath.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Asserts Reds Knew
Japanese Plan To
WASHINGTON, UP) — Japan’s
top investigating officer testified
today the Russians knew a month
before Pearl* Harbor of the Japa
nese plan to strike at the United
States and Britain in the Pacific.
The House UnAmerican ’activi
ties committee drew this testi
mony from Mitsusada Yoshikawa,
chief of the special investigating
bureau of the Japanese Attorney
General’s office.
The House group and a Senate
subcommittee were simultaneous
ly holding separate hearings re
volving about activities of a So
viet spy ring, headed by Richard
Sorge, which operated in Japan
before and during World War II.
Before the senators, Maj. Gen.
Charles Willoughby, former mili
tary intelligence chief under Gen.
MacArthur, testified he sought in
1949 to “unmask” the activities
of members of this spy ring but
was overruled by military au
thorities in Washington.
Yoshikawa testified that Sorge’s
spy apparatus sent a message to
Moscow early in October, 1941,
while U.S.-Japanese peace - talks
were going on in Washington. He
quoted it as advising that “if
America refuses to compromise by
the middle of October, Japan will
attack America, .the Malay coun
tries, Singapore and Sumatra.”
GEN. BAKER TRANSFERRED
TO NEW POST IN OHIO
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
Brig. Gen. David H. Bak*er, com
manding general of the 5001st
composite wing and Ladd Air
Force base, received official noti
fication this week transferring
him to Wright-Patterson Air
Force base, in Dayton, Ohio. Gen
eral Baker will depart abput Sep
tember 7 to take over his newly
assigned duties as comptroller for
the air materiel command. He will
relieve Ma.L Gen. Wm. D. Eckert
whose subsequent assignment has
not yet been announced.
Ladd’s commanding general has
had one of the most important
and one of the most difficult roles
in the air force during his tour
in the north. He has been charged
with the air defense of Alaska
north of the Alaskan Range dur
ing this period of tremendoois ex
pansion within the air force and
in this particular locality.
Albert Bernharl, well known
oldster of Teller, who spent his
first winter in the States and
other parts of the territory, for
over 50 years, returned yesterday
enroute home.
Mr. Bernhart is famed for his
specialty which is smoked salmon
and which no one has been able
to prepare as well as he.
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New Agency
Would Handle
Forei £11 Aid
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WASHINGTON, (/P>—A House
j committee reportedly has agreed
: tentatively to lop a billion dol
lars from President Truman’s
I $3,500,000,000 foreign aid program
and place the entire program un
der -a new high-level official.
The decision—subject to pos
sible reversal later—was reported
Wednesday night by members of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee.
The committee plan would
place both economic and military
aid under a new administration,
appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate. He
would be responsible only to the
President but would work closely
with the State -and Defense De
partments.
Such a plan could be expected
to gain support from Republican
forces which have been pressing
for removal of foreign aid direc
tion from Secretary of State
Acheson.
Committee members said the
proposed money cuts would hit
both military and economic aid.
So far, most of the talk in Con
gress has centered on reductions
in the economic side of the pro
gram.
Self-Styled Civil War Vet
Lands In Tacoma Jail
• TACOMA, <7P)—An elderly man
posing as a Civil War veteran in
getting free treatment in hospitals
around the country is going to* get
free lodging in the Pierce County
jail for 60 days.
He was identified in police
court as Walter Urwiler, 67. He
had passed himself off as Lt.
John Boyer, 104.
Testimony indicated that Ur
wiler could simulate heart attacks
and had received treatment in
numerous hospitals.
“It’s clear we can’t let you go
on wandering around the country
at your age, although I have no
quarrel with a man who can get
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