NOME NUGGET
‘FARTHEST WEST NEWSPAPER IN THE 50 STATES’
64th Year No. 103
NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1963
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Soviet Fishing
Operations in Gulf
Of Alaska Increase
JUNEAU W — The Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries said today
that Russian trawler fishing opera
tions in the Gulf of Alaska in
creased to more than 150 vessels
this year.
In a report on high seas patrol
efforts by the BCF and the Coast
Guard during the 1963 fishing sea
son, Harry Rietze, area director
of the Commercial Fisheries Bu
reau, said:
“All observations by Bureau of
Fisheries personnel indicate the
Soviets are harvesting primarily
Pacific Ocean perch with very
little take of halibut or other in
cidental species.”
Rietze said the Russians operated
three king crab fleets in the Ber
ing Sea from March until June,
when they shifted operations of
the two fleets into the Gulf of
Alaska about 100 miles southeast
off Kodiak Island.
“After fishing here briefly with
excellent success,” Rietze said, the
fleets returned to Siberia.
Rietze said four Russian whaling
fleets operated intermittently dur
ing the summer off Alaskan shores
and swift Soviet whale killer ves
sels were reported in ‘violation of
Alaska territorial waters several
times in pursuit of whales.”
The Japanese fishing effort in
the Eastern North Pacific Ocean
was reduced somewhat this year,
Rietze said. This year, Rietze said,
there was only one factory ship
and 30 trawlers in the area.
Japanese king crab operations
in the Eastern Bering Sea were
also trimmed this year, with the
fleet consisting of two factory ships
and four trawl-type tangle net set
ting vessels.
The Japanese, Rietze said, had
three whaling fleets in waters off
Alaska this year. Each fleet con
sisted of a factory ship and seven
killer boats.
“Like the Russians, he said, “the
Japanese whale killers have been
overly aggressive and are known
to have violated the three-mile ter
ritorial sea limit on a number of
instances.”
Christian Leaders from
Abroad View Civil Rights
Demonstrations in D.C.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Chris
tian leaders from abroad today
eyed the civil rights demonstration
in Washington, and some notables
said it posed a summons to all men
to fuller justice.
The Most Rev. Arthur Rambsey,
Archbishop of Canterbury, and
Primate of the world-wide Anglican
Communion., said “We who are
guests from other countries are
very much moved by what is hap
pening” in Washington.
It is not just thq matter of watch
ing bystanders, he said, but of
taking the message of the event
to heart in examining “our own
consciences.” He added:
“Are we doing in our own coun
tries, our own churches and our
own cities all that we should be
doing.”
The council includes most major
Protestant, Anglican and Ortho
dox Church bodies around the
world.
At a Tuesday night reception,
W. Averell Harriman, in the pre
pared text of an address, had in
cluded some sharp words about
“Communist aggression, discipline,
conformity and rigid control” over
every aspect ot life.
Threat of Railroad
Strike Has Been Lifted
WASHINGTON UP) — The House
sent to President Kennedy today
legislation ordering binding arbi
tration of key issues in a rail
union dispute, and the railroads
canceled new work rules which
had threatened to lead to a strike
just after midnight.
Even before Kennedy got a
chance to sign the new legislation,
Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz
announced he had been officially
advised that the carriers had with
drawn an order which would have
made new job cutting work rules
effective as of 12:01 a.m. Thurs
day.
The unions had announced they
would strike as soon as the new
rules became effective.
The House passed the legisla
tion by a 286-66 standing vote, a
day after the Senate had passed
the same measure by a vote of
90 to 2.
Three Miners Pulled
To Safety in Utah
MOAB, Utah OP — Three trapped
miners, haggard and near col
lapse, were pulled out of a 2,700
foot mine shaft near here at 11:55
a.m. today to safety.
Rescue was on the way for at
least sixe more miners known to
be alive somewhere below the
2,700-foot level of the potash
mine.
Twenty-five members in all were
trapped by an explosion at the bot
tom of the mine shaft late yester
day afternoon.
The fate of the other 16 still was
not known.
Nine miners were contacted by
voice this morning, and rescue was
dispatched immediately.
Diem’s Regime Calls It
“Erroneous Information’’
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (*>—
President Ngo Dinh Diem’s re
gime charged today the U.S. State
Department has shown “a pro
foundly unjust doubt in the gov
ernment of South Viet Nam, based
totally on erroneous information.”
A government note referred to
a State Department declaration of
Aug. 21 which deplored methods
used by the Vietnamese security
forces against Buddhists. Pa
godas throughout the nation were
raided and thousands of Buddhist
monks and nuns were beaten, shot
or arrested.
‘‘The government of Viet Nam
reaffirms its determination to con
tinue its policy of conciliation to
ward the Buddhists,” the latest
note said, “but it is also resolved
to unmask all political saboteurs
hiding under various disguises.”
The State Department declara
tion was called "prejudicial to the
honor and prestige of Viet Nam,
which has never broken its word
to whomever it made promises.”
Mobile squads roamed Saigon
today and troop concentrations in
creased to guard against new de
monstrations or suicides, but other
signs pointed to a relaxation of
martial law.
8TH TEST SUCCESS
WASHINGTON UP* — The Army
has claimed the eighth test suc
cess for its Nike-Zues anti
missile.
The Army announced Monday
that a three-stage Nike-Zeus,
launched from Kwajalein Island
in the Central Pacific, intercepted
a Titan 1 Intercontinental Ballis
tic Missile fired from 5,000 miles
away at Vandenburg Air Force
Base, Calif. Neither carried war
heads.
Massed Freedom
March Is Most
Orderly on Record
WASHINGTON Mh — Softly
chanting freedom songs, a multi
tude of Negroes and white sympa
thizers estimated at more than
100,000 moved on Abraham Lin
coln’s shrine today in a great civil
rights march.
A small army of police. National
Guardsmen and police reservists
had little to do because — up to
noon at least—the massive gather
ing was one the most orderly on
record.
The police estimated the turn
out at 110,000 persons at noon.
The march of less than a mile,
from the Monument to the Lincoln
Memorial, actually got underway
in impromptu fashion nearly half
an hour before the 11:30 sched
uled time.
Some of the placards read:
“Before we’ll be a slave, we’ll
be buried in our grave.”
“Segregation disunites the Unit
ed States.”
“No U.S. dough to help Jim
Crow.”
“In freedom we were born, in
freedom we must live.”
The demonstration was a giant
demand that racial discrimination
be abolished, root and branch,
throughout America.
Just about everybody, Negro
and white, was polite, and evi
dently intent on proving false some
advance predictions that there
might be an explosion of disorder.
The religious tone was reflected
in signs which proclaimed ‘‘God
of Justice. God of power, can
America deny freedom this hour?”
Shortly after noon a group of
Hollywood stars including Marlon
Brando, Harry Belafonte and Sam
my Davis Jr., arrived on the steps
of the Lincoln Memorial. They
were welcomed by the Rev. Martin
Luther King.
Jackie Robinson, who was the
first Negro to play big league base
ball, told the crowd:
“I know all of us are going to
go away feeling . . . we cannot
turn back.”
Negro songstress Lena Horne,
wearing the yellow Legionnaire
cap of the marchers, shouted:
“Freedom!” into the microphone
and got a roar of “freedom!” back
from the crowd.
The march leaders met with
Democratic and Republican leaders
of the Senate and the House. Sen
ate Democratic leader Mike Mans
field said no commitments were
asked or given in the session with
him.
In the late afternoon, the march
leaders had an engagement to see
President Kennedy.
Not Aimed at Barry
NEW YORK UP> — Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller's sharp assault on the
“radical right” was not aimed at
Sen. Barry Goldwater, says the
Empire States Republican national
committeeman.
“There was nothing personal in
the statements that the governor
made,” George Hinmarr said Tues
day. "He continues to regard Sen.
Goldwater as a personal friend
and a great American.”
The Arizona Republican com
plained recently he thought Rocke
feller was his friend until the GOP
governor’s biting attack at ele
ments of the radical right which
he said were trying to take over
the Republican party and might be
coming close to making Goldwater
their captive.
Justice Dept. Considers
Legal Action Against
U.S. Student Visit to Cuba
WASHINGTON OP — The Justice
Department is reportedly consid
ering the possibility of legal action
against the leaders of a U.S. stu
dent group that visited Cuba
against the wishes of the State De
partment.
The State Department earlier
announced plans to void the pass
ports of the students when they
return to this country and Presi
dent Kennedy has said more dras
tic steps might be taken against
“a few who are not students but
Communists.”
Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy is
believed reluctant to press charges
against every member of the
group, which originally numbered
59. He is believed disposed to con
sider action against the leaders,
including some who helped arrange
the trip to Cuba but didn’t go
along.
Fifty-four of the group are now
in Madrid, Spain, tentatively plan
ning to fly to New York Thursday.
Three others remained in Cuba,
one has returned to Boston and an
other died in Cuba.
A1 Hulen to Make
Farewell Visit Here
AI Hulen, Director of the Alaska
Region of FA A, who has been
transferred to the newly created
European District as assistant di
rector, based at London, England,
will be making a farewell trip
through Alaska this month and is
scheduled to arrive here on Sept.
5, accompanied by his wife and
his successor in Alaska, James
Rogers, with his wife.
Also in the party will be Mr.
Mac Emerson, Regional Adminis
trator of the U.S. Weather Bureau
who will be accompanied by his
wife also.
A no-host dinner has been plan
ned by the FAA here in their hon
or at the North Star Seaview Room
starting with cocktails and follow
ed by a smorgasbord at 7 o’clock
that evening to which the many
friends of Al Hulen are invited.
Although reservations are not
mandatory, Mr. Roy Caudle, sta
tion manager here, states it would
be well for those planning to par
ticipate to indicate they are at
tending to be assured space for
their party.
New Judge Appointment
Scheduled in November
Judge H. Gilbert can be reas
signed to Nome, if the need arises,
until another appointment is made,
stated Buell Nesbitt, to the Cham
ber of Commerce in answer to
their letter of concern over the
vacancy here in the office of Sec
ond Division Superior Court Judge.
Mr. Nesbitt stated that it would
probably be around Nov. 1 before
another judge will be appointed.
The City Council sent a letter
to Gov. Wm. Egan requesting
speedier action in the appointment
of a judge as this district is left
so often dangling without the
needed officials to carry on its
work when transfers are made,
such as that of Judge Gilbert to
Anchorage.
WEATHER OUTLOOK
Increasing cloudiness this after
noon. Light rain tonight and to
morrow. Low tonight 38, high to
morrow 47.
In the last 24 hours: High of 46,
low of 34. Sunrise at 4:30 a.m.,
sunset at 7:33 p.m
Temps, a year ago today: High
of 51, low of 48.
| Solar Flare Research
Station Slated for Arctic
SANTA MONICA, Calif. uP —
Opening of a solar flare research
station in the Arctic — a twin of
a similar outpost in the Antarctic
—to help scientists schedule inter
planetary flights was announced
yesterday by Douglas Aircraft Co.
Douglas operates both the Can
adian site at Shepherd Bay and the
Antarctic site at McMurdo Sound
for the National Science Founda
tion.
The stations are being readied
for U.S. participation in the 1964
65 international study of the sun.
Douglas scientists said better
information about solar flares —
gaseous eruptions on the sun which
shower the earth with high-energy
radiation — eventually will help
schedule space flights during peri
ods or least radiation. This would
reduce the amount of shielding re
quired to protect astronauts.
Detectives Gun Down
Police Killer in New York
NEW YORK — Frank Falco,
one of two men charged with shoot
ing two policemen to death in New
Jersey — was killed by police
bullets in his hotel hideout early
today.
Falco screamed and fought with
detectives who caught him asleep
Hit by seven bullets, he kept on
cursing and snarling as he lay
dying.
Falco, 25, Astoria, Queens, New
I York City, was indicted Tuesday
on murder charges in Bergen
County, N.J.
Indicted with him was Thomas
Rabbi Tom Trantino, 27, of Brook
lyn who is still at large.
Bergen County prosecutor Guy
Calissi identifited the two men as
the killers of the policemen in
the Angel Lounge, a taven in Lodi,
N.J., Monday.
Sgt. Peter Voto, 40-year-old
father of three, and Gary Tedesco,
23, a police appointee about to be
sworn in, had gone to the tavern
to investigate a report of shots
being fired.
Housemaid Tries to Kill
Actor Geo. Montgomery
VAN NUYS, Calif. — A for
mer housemaid was arrested for
attempted murder after actor
George Montgomery said she took
a shot at him.
Police said a note in the wom
an’s purse said she was going to
kill Montgomery and herself be
cause she didn’t want him running
around “with those stupid looking
glamour girls.”
Ruth Wenzel, 37, worked for
Montgomery and his divorced
wife, Dinah Shore, five years ago.
Montgomery, 46, said he spotted
Miss Wenzel when he walked into
his house Tuesday with airline
stewardess Jo Ponce. The maid
rushed into a bedroom, pulled a .38
caliber revolver from under a pil
low and pointed it at Montgomery,
he said. When he grabbed it, it
discharged. The shot left powder
burns on the actor’s face.
Police quoted Miss Wenzel as
saying she broke into Montgom
ery’s house Sunday and remained
there until the actor returned from
New York.
Beats Father to Death
STRATFORD, England .4* — A
16-year-old boy was accused in
Juvenile Court today of beating
his father to death with a cricket
bat.
The boy, whose name was with
held because of his youth, was
ordered held in custody pending a
court appearance in one week.