22 NOME NUGGET
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64th Year No. 79
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1963
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Two West Coast Senators
Express Concern on Latin
America Fish Controversy
WASHINGTON (JFi — Two West
Coast senators have urged the State
Department not to relax an effort
to settle the fishing rights of U.S.
fishermen in waters off Latin
America.
Sen. Harry Jackson, (D-Wn.),
chairman of the Senate Interior
Committee, and Sen. Clair Engle,
<D-Cal.), expressed concern that
the fishermen might get impatient
and try further direct action.
In a letter to Frederick Dutton,
Asst. Secretary of State, the sen
ators commended governmental
representations made after the seiz
ure in May of two San Diego
based fishing vessels, the Ranger
and the White Star, in waters off
Ecuador.
But they said that, if the U.S.
tuna fishermen are to believe that
governmental, not private, action
is the best way to secure their
rights, “the State Department will
be obliged to follow up on this
matter with great diligence and
to obtain some concrete results in
the not too distant future.”
Sen. Bartlett Will Be
Guest Speaker Here
It looks like a rainy and cold
4th of July celebration, but Mayor
Don Hoover states that unless it
; is too wet the children’s races will
be held in the morning as sched
uled.
The patriotic exercises sched
uled for 1 p.m. on the bandstand
will be moved into the ANG Ar
mory if the weather continues to
be unfavorable.
Sen. E. L. Bartlett arrived this
morning and will be the main
speaker and Rear Adm. F. E. Ba
kutis, USN, is scheduled to arrive
from Kodiak and also participate
in the celebration.
Evers Slayer Indicted
JACKSON, Miss. UP^The Hinds
County grand jury indicted Byron
de la Beckwith Tuesday for the
murder of civil rights leader Med
gar Evers.
Beckwith was informed of the
indictment as he sat in his jail
| cell in Jackson.
S Evers, Negro field secretary for
the National Assn, for the Ad
vancement of Colored People, was
shot in the back three weeks ago.
CELEBRATION 1963
Welcome to USS Savage
10:00 A.M. — CHILDREN'S SPORTS, American Legion Post 19
25-yard Dash (Girls 5 to 7) .$3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Boys 5 to 7) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Dash (Girls 8 to 9> . 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Boys 8 to 9> . 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Dash (Girls 10 to 11) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Dash (Boys 10 to 11) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
30-yard Dash (Married Men Only) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
(Over 35 years of age — Have your I.D. Cards ready Gents)
25-yard 3-Legged Race 'Boys 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race 'Girls 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Girls 7 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard 3-Legged Race (Boys 7 to 9> . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Girls 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Sack Race (Boys 10 to 12) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
15-yard Tricycle Race (For 3-year-olds) . 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Boys 4 to 5» . 2.00 1.00
20-yard Tricycle Race (Girls 4 to 5) . 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race 'Boys 6 to 7' . 3.00 2.00 1.00
50-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 6 to 7) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-vard Bicycle Race (Boys 8 to 9> . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race (Girls 8 to 9) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
75-yard Bicycle Race 'Boys-Girls 10 to 12) 3.00 2.00 1.00
Shoe Scramble (13 years and under) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-yard Egg Race (Married Women) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
25-3’’ard Egg Race (Single Women) . 3.00 2.00 1.00
FREE ICE CREAM FOR THE CHILDREN
Dispensed by Volunteer Fire Dept., Bob Lewis, Chairman
1:00 P.M. — FLAG CEREMONY
1:15 p.m.—ADDRESSES BY SEN. BARTLETT and ADM. BAKUTIS
In case of rain speeches will be held in Ihe A. N. G. Armory
1:45 P.M. — Scooter and Small Scooter Race
(Surprise Course ). 5.00 3.00 2.00
2:15 P.M. — Pie Eating Contest . 3.00 2.00 1.00
2:30 P.M. — ESKIMO GAMES PLUS OTHER EVENTS
High Kicking (Men) . 5.00 2.00
High Kicking (Women) . 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing (Men) . 5.00 2.00
Blanket Tossing (Women) . 5.00 2.00
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE
Mayor Don Hoover Bob Scott Bob Harwood
Jim Blanning Maurice Kelliher Frank Couch
Dan Karmun Maj. Bob Steele
USS SAVAGE
HOLDS OPEN HOUSE
The U.S. Navy destroyer escort
USS Savage arrived yesterday for
its three-day visit here over the
4th of July.
Open house is being held daily
from 1 to 4 p.m. conducted by
crew members for adults and young
people. Children under 12 years of
age must be accompanied by an
adult or part of an organized
group.
Several organizations have avail
ed themselves of the privilege of
special group tours which are being
held each day from 9 to 11 a.m.
and arranged by Maj. Bob Steele
of the ANG.
laesiroyers, in tne i\avy tradi
tion have been called the “work
horses” of the fleet. Due to their
mobility, versatility and maneu
verability, they are equally suited
for search and rescue, anti-sub
marine warfare, or gunfire sup
port against enemy beaches and
aircraft.
The USS Savage was commis
sioned in October 1943 and saw
action against enemy forces dur
ing World War II convoy escort
duty in the Atlantic and Mediter
ranean combat zones. In 1945 she
was transferred to the Pacific for
escort duty out of Alaska until
early in 1946. Since that time the
ship has operated throughout the
Pacific and now is a radar picket
ship on Mid-Pacific barrier patrol.
Cmdr. Bradford is an experi
enced naval officer, with extensive
service in destroyer-type vessels.
Before assuming command of the
USS Savage in June of this year,
he completed a course of study
in engineering science at the U.S.
Navy Postgraduate School in Mon
terey, Calif.
Special tours were cancelled
this morning to the ship due to
rough seas and was a disappoint
ment to Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts.
Rear Adm. F. Bakutis
Here for 4th Celebration
Honoring Hear Adm. F. E.
Bakutis from Kodiak, who is ar
riving the morning of the 4th of
July, the officers of the USS
Savage have planned a luncheon
at the North Star Seaview Room
at noon, preceding the patriotic
exercises to which he has been
invited to speak to the people of
Nome. Adm. Bakutis, who is com- i
ing from Kodiak by U.S. Navy
plane, is on his first trip here
and will be accompanied by Lt.
Jerry Keery.
Red Chinese Party
Delayed by Customs
MOSCOW UP) — Soviet authori
ties held up a nine-man Red
Chinese delegation for 90 minutes
at customs today after landing here
from Peking. It could not be de
termined if the Chinese were mem
bers of the group which will take
part in the Kremlin ideological
discussions opening Friday.
Other passengers on the plane
went through customs — filling
aut declarations and having pass
ports checked — in 20 minutes.
The delegation was met by the
press attache of the Chinese em
bassy, who replied to all news
men’s questions with one of his
basic English phrases: “You see
wath your own eyes.’’
There was no explanation for the
customs delay.
It was the third indignity the
Chinese have suffered in Mosqow
in recent days.
U.S. Rejects Plea
To Release Two
Russ for Spying
WASHINGTON W—'The United
States received and immediately
rejected today a Soviet demand for
release of a Russian U.N. employe
and his wife arrested on spy
charges yesterday.
The Soviet Union demanded re
lease of the two today, contending
they were “unlawfully arrested,”
and had diplomatic immunity.
A State Department spokesman
said this country rejected the re
quest with a reply that immunity
of such U.N. employes does not ex
tend to activities such as espion
age not connected with United
Nations activities.
The two Russians are Ivan
Egrov, a United Nations secre
tariat personnel officer, and his
wife. They were picked up at their
New York City apartment. Also
arrested was a couple in Washing
ton, D.C., identified only as “Mr.
and Mrs. John Doe.” The FBI says
they were using names of innocent
Americans who were unware their
identities had been appropriated.
One of the Americans whose
name was used by the Washing
ton pair is a Catholic priest, the
Rev. Robert Baltch of Amsterdam,
New York. The woman whose
name was used is Mrs. Robert
Seskin of Norwalk, Conn., the for
mer Joy Ann Garber. Both say
they have no idea of why their
names were chosen.
Provides Hint . . .
WASHINGTON UP — Atty. Gen.
Robert Kennedy provided a hint
today that a couple arrested in
Washington and charged with con
spiring to spy for the Soviet Un
ion were based in Russia and about
to return there when seized.
Asked by newsmen why the
FBI chose last night to capture
the couple — going under the as
sumed names of Robert Baltch and
Joy Ann Baltch or Joy Ann Gar
ber — Kennedy said. “We had
information the lady and gentle
man were about to leave the
country.”
Asked where they were going
he said it appeared they were
being “recalled” to the Soviet
Union.
“I can’t comment any further
on that,” he said when asked if
by “recalled’ he meant the couple
is Russian.
Iraq Government Crushes
Communist Rebellion
DAMASCUS, Syria G*P> — Iraq's
government announced its troops
and police crushed an attempted
Communist coup at the A1 .Rashid
army camp near Baghdad today.
The insurgent Communists and
their hired agents were ‘’annihi
lated in 30 minutes of fighting,”
the National Revolutionary Coun
cil declared in a statement broad
cast by radio Baghdad.
The broadcast gave no figures
on the size of the rebel band or
the casualties, but said some were
under arrest. It said the prison
ers were under investigation by
a board of inquiry. The Communist
party is outlawed in Iraq.
The uprising was the second
major conspiracy reported smash
ed by the council since it over
threw and executed Dictator Abdel
Karim Kassem last Feb. 8 in a
revolt triggered from A1 Rashid,
the most important military base
in Iraq.
Japanese Whaling
Ship Intercepted at
Cape Edgecumbe
JUNEAU CW — A Coast Guard
cutter intercepted a 224-foot Japan
ese whaling ship off Cape Edge
cumbe Tuesday night after an
American boat reported sighting
the Japanese ship fishing within
one and one half miles off shore.
The Japanese whaler Toshi
Maru was first sighted by the U.S.
fishing boat White Light. When the
White Light approached the
whaler, the Coast Guard said, the
Toshi Maru got under way and
moved to approximately three
miles off shore.
The White Light told the Coast
Guard the Toshi Maru's crew was
fishing with lines, apparently on
the bottom.
The Coast Guard cutter Sorrel,
a buoy tender stationed at Sitka,
and an amphibian from Annette
Island were dispatched to the area
to determine the Japanese ship’s
position and to find out what she
was doing in the area.
The Coast Guard said that when
the Sorrel first sighted the Japan
ese ship, the Toshi Maru was
“very close to the three-mile limit,
within a couple of hundred yards
either way.”
The Toshi Maru, on sighting the
Sorrel, started edging seaward and
before the Sorrel could come
alongside the two ships were some
seven miles at sea.
“The master of the Toshi Maru
invited the Sorrel to send a visit
ing party aboard,” the Coast Guard
said, "but before this could be
done, the Toshi Maru got under
way on a southbound course, at a
speed some five knots more than
a buoy tender can make.”
The Coast Guard said it had
taken sworn statements from
crewmen of the White Light on
the Toshi Maru’s original position
and would file a report of the in
cident with Coast Guard headquar
ters, Washington, D.C.
Cape Edgecumbe is on Kruzof
Island, approximately 20 miles
west of Sitka.
Severe Weather Changes
Blamed for Plane Crash
ROCHESTER, N.Y. UP — Ex
tremely rapid and severe weather
changes within a 10-minute period
provided investigators today with
a major clue to the cause of an air
liner crash that took seven lives
and injured 36 persons during an
electrical storm.
A twin-engine Mohawk plane
with 40 passengers and a crew
of 3 crashed seconds after take
off Tuesday in the storm, which
was accompanied by high winds
and hail.
“It was like flying into the
dead of the night,” one survivor
said from his hospital bed.
The Martin 404, carrying 40 pas
sengers and a crew of 3. was head
ed for Newark, N.J., via White
Plains, N.Y. It fell into mud about
80 yards off a runway at Roches
ter-Monroe County Airport, sev
eral miles southwest of Rochester.
One wingtip apparently struck
the ground, a witness said. The
plane bounced, broke in two like
a matchstick and caught fire.
Decides to Come Home
NEEDHAM, Mass. uP — A for
mer U.S. Air Force major who for
sook the United States four year#
ago to live in the Soviet Union has
returned home.
Libero Ricciardelli, 46, would
not comment Monday night on his
life in Russia. Neither woul<| he
say why he decided to return®
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