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VOL. LII, No, 39 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1950 Per Copy—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
HONG KONG, (A*)—'The Tam
brothers, Kuen and Chi-Ping, Sat
urday were rewarded for their in
dustry with prison sentences of
seven and three years respective
ly*
The Hong Kong supreme court
sentenced them after finding the
two Chinese guilty of manufactur
ing 638,500 counterfeit U. S. dol
lars.
REDLANDS, Calif., (/P) — Mar
sha Gumpert, six, had a quarter
for lunch—literally.
Given the two-bit piece to buy
her lunch at school, Marshal
amused herself by tossing it into
the air and catching it in her
mouth. She caught it all right, but
the quarter slid down her throat.
Marsha’s mother, recalling that
the girl’s brother Glenn once
swallowed a nickel, said the quar
ter episode was just another ex
ample of inflation.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of agriculture Brannan said Fri
day night that the downward
trend in farm income must be
halted before “it has engulfed us
in an other depression.”
Brannan made the statement
only a few hours after President
Truman signed a bill to expand
cotton and peanut production and
slamp future rigid controls on po
tato growers. Brannan reportedly
had asked the President to veto
the measure.
NEWPORT, R. I., (/P)—Bernard
Baruch called today for a “ready
to go” mobilization plan to place
the nation on an all-out war-foot
ing the instant another war is de
clared.
The noted financier said the
“time gap” needed to convert pro
duction from peace to war con
stitutes the “gravest source of
peril” to the United States.
He spoke before staff members I
and students of the naval war
college Friday.
NEW YORK, t/P)—Rocky Gra- ;
ziatio still is the magic boxoffice !
name in boxing even though some
of the dynamite may have gone!
out of Golden Boy’s right hand ;
bombs.
The former middleweight cham
pion unlimbered his mighty right
time and again at handsome Tony
Janiro Friday night, but not once
could he bring down the game,
comeback kid from Youngstown,
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At the end of ten rounds of'
brawling in Madison Square Gar
den, Rocky, a 5 to 12 favorite, had
to settle for* a draw with his 22
year old rival. Janiro took the
first half of the fight and Rocky
captured most of the round in i
the final half.
Rocky outweighed Janiro seven
pounds—159^4 to 152>3/5.
SEATTLE, </P)—Capt. Lars A.
Storvik, 71, died Friday. A na
tive of Norway, he came to the
United States 45 years ago. He
worked for three years on Great
Lakes ships before coming to
Seattle.
He was a member of the mas
Anchorage Jail j
Labeled “Fabulous
Obscenity"
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ANCHORAGE, f/P)—A 350-bed
mental hospital for Anchorage
and a blast at the federal jail here ,
as a “fabulous obscenity” are
items included in an interior de
partment investigating committee
report. ,
The hospital was recommended
to serve this area as a component
of a major medical center.
It was given top priority in a
mental health program mapped
for the Territory in a 25-page re
port which finally reached here'
Saturday by boat mail. It had.
been dated Feb. 10 and released ,
in Washington, D. C., March 17.
The committee, headed by Dr. i
Winfred Overholser, superitend- 1
ent of St. Elizabeth's hospital in
Washington, D. C., labelled the
Anchorage federal jail a “fabulous
obscenity.”
“Our committee was astounded i
to discover that sick persons, es-1
pecially those who are charges of
; the government, are in this age
j placed in fire trap quarters as un- j
safe, unsanitary and generally de
moralizing as the present building
maintained as a federal jail in
Anchorage, the largest city in
Alaska.
“Use of this fabulous obscenity
as a place to house mental pa-1
tients is nothing short of barbaric,;
despite efforts of the United
States marshal’s staff to render
decently humane treatment. It
must be said that this facility is
fully as unsuitable for prisoners
as for the mentally ill.”
The experts who prepared the
report spent three weeks studying
Alaska mental health last sum- !
j
mcr.
They also recommended estab
lishment of a 50-bed treatment
center at Mt. Edgecumbe health
education center at Sitka, for
cases from Southeastern Alaska
on a short term basis, and that an
agreement bo worked out with I
the Territorial government to take j
over and operate both facilities af- I
ter they are completed.
In urging Anchorage as a lo
cation for an Alaskan center for
long term mental care, the com
mittee said the mental hospital
would become a coordinated part
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WHITE MOUNTAIN
BIDS EXCESSIVE
WASHINGTON, (A*)— An offi
cial in the office of Indian affairs
said Saturday that the bids for
the White Mountain school have
been opened and that all were
found to exceed the amount ap
propriated for construction.
Details of the bids are not yet
available. The official indicated j
no decision had been reached as
yet whether the bids would be re-'
advertised.
ters, mates and pilots’ association
and served for many years on
vessels of the Alaska Steamship
Company.
Surviving are his widow Ragna,
a son, Lawrence; and two daugh
ters, Mrs. Karen Peterson, Port
land, and Eleanor, Faribanks. i
Leo Tony Shoots
Mary Schenck
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Leo Tony, native admitted the
killing of Mary Schenck when
questioned in the U. S. Commis
sioner’s Court Saturday afternoon.
Remorseful and sobbing the
man told how much he had al- i
ways though of Mary Schenck and
that she would have nothing to do
with him, ignoring him and even
having him jailed, it is reported,
for annoying her.
On Friday night, it was stated,;
he had gone to her room on the
River side of First Ave., W. and
been refused admittance. He re
turned later with his gun, accord
ing to the report, forced his way
in by breaking down the door and
shot the woman.
Mary Schenck was for several
years a reliable worker in Native
crafts but in the past year, accord
ing to reports has been drinking
heavily.
Leo Tony has been bound over
to the Grand Jury.
Urges Seattle To
Support Non
Seliedules’ Fight
SEATTLE, (/P) — Seattle, the
“stepping stone to Alaska,” was
warned Friday to “get on the
beam" or Portland is going to take
away a large segment of Alaska
business.
The warning was sounded by
Charles E. Evans of Fairbanks,
president of the Independent Gol
den North Airways. He addressed
the Seattle Executives’ Associa
tion.
In a 16-page speech bristling
with charges of favoritism by the
Civil Aeronautics Board for the
scheduled air carriers, Evans told
of the non-certificated carriers’
fight against CAB tactics and
added:
“Many businesses of Seattle op
erate under the illusion that Seat
tle is the capital of Alaska. Seat
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Bather fluhhurd
Denies He Favors
Alaska Statehood
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SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Father
Bernard Hubbard, the famed
“glacier priest,” said Friday night
he is against immediate statehood
for Alaska despite a recently
published report saying he favor
ed it. The latter was reported to
have been inserted recently in the
Congressional Record.
He told an interviewer he
thought the best present policy for
Alaska, in view of stormy inter
national weather, would be estab
lishment of an Alaskan military
government.
“I have spent 24 years, off and
on in Alaska,” Hubbard said. “I
love Alaska and the people there
and I like to see them get every
advantage. But I’m afraid they
would regret it if they were pre
cipitated into statehood now, be
cause statehood would be more
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Legalize Scooping
Of Gravel From
Navigable Streams
HR*) Special Washington Service)*
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The inte
rior department has “legalized”
the scooping of gravel by federal
agencies from the navigable
streams of Alaska.
It has admitted, however, that
this practice must end upon the
admission of Alaska as a State.
The department’s solicitor, Mas
tin G. White, has concluded that
the secretary of the interior may
“exercise the President’s implied
power respecting the use of gov
ernment-owned lands” in issuing
the necessary permits.
Director Marion Clawson of the
department’s land management
bureau asked for the ruling.
Clawson wanted to know !f it
was all right to give permits to
the Alaska Road Commission and
other federal agencies to remove
gravel from the beds of A’aska s
navigable streams, in building
roads or other federal projects.
Federal agencies long have
done this without asking permis
sion. However, Interior has under
way a program to bring order out
of the laws and practices apply
ing to the Territory.
White said the United States is
holding the beds of Alaska’s nav
igable inland waters in trust for
the people of any state which may
be created there.
That fact does not preclude the
removal and use of gravel for
governmental purposes, he said.
Construction activities of the
navy, army, civil aeronautics ad
ministration and the various in
terior department bureaus are
primarily affected by the ruling.
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Census Takers
W ill Know All
About \ on
WASHINGTON, </P)—An army
of census takers started the vast
job Saturday of counting the peo
ple of the United States.
Even before the returns are in
from the 17th—the biggest—nose-1
count in the nation’s history, offi
cials have a pretty good idea what i
it will show for the total popula
tion: about 151,000,000, plus an
other 4,000,000 or so in the Ter
ritories and possessions.
But the 145,000 census takers j
are seeking other information as
well, in their once-every-ten-years
door-to-door quiz. Your name, ad
dress, age, sex, race, marital sta
tus, occupation, income, whether 1
you own your own home . . . about.
60 basic questions in all.
The question about income— j
which will be put to one out of
every five persons — has stirred
considerable Republican wrath,
but census bureau officials say
similar questions have been in
cluded in the census for 100 years.
President Truman, in a census
proclamation issued two years
ago, declared that “no person can
be harmed in any way by furnish
ing the information required,”
adding that it won’t be used for
News of the \\ or i<i
At A Glance —
Saturday. April 1, 1950
• By The Associated Press'
The Truman administration’s
three billion dollar foreign aid
bill, which cleared the House after
a week of battering, faced more
rought handling today from both
sides of Capitol Hill
The measure got through the
House last night by a 287 to 86
vote after a week of onslaughts
by Republicans and Southern
Democrats. It now heads for the
Senate.
The overall purpose of the bill,
which continues the Marshall
Plan, is to provide economic aid
to nations resisting communism
and to hike their living standards
so their citizens won't succumb to
Red propaganda.
The measure contained the con
troversial “Point Four” program
intended to help ba c k w a r d
friendly nations get on their feet
through technical assistance from
the United States. However, funds
for the program were cut almost
in half. House leaders say they
are sure the Senate will include
the Point Four project in the bill.
Two of 10 high-ranking Roman
Catholic clergymen charged with
high treason pleaded guilty yes
terday in Czechoslovakia’s first
mass trial of churchmen. Two
more pleaded guilty today
The official Czech news agency
said three others pleaded innocent
and one admitted “partial guilt.”
The rest haven't testified.
The news agency said “foreign
and domestic news correspondents
attended the trial.” However, rep
representatives of western news
agencies were refused admittance,
because, they were told, no more
tickets were available.
The defendants, according to
the Czech news agency, were ac
cused of working with the, United
States in espionage. Czechoslova
kia's first mass trial of priests
comes after more than two years
of conflict between the commun
ist-led government, and the Ro
man Catholic hierarchy.
The fight by the church has
been led by Archbishop Josef Be
nin, who has lived in the seclusion
of his Prague palace for the past
10 months, since communist heck
lers drove him from the pulpit of
his church.
U. S. defense secretary Louis
Johnson. Attending talks with At
lantic Pact leaders in Holland, to
day set three objectives for the
12-nation defense program.
“First, we seek to deter aggres
sion; second to defend ourselves,
and finally, to defeat the aggres
sor if he forces war upon us."
In Formosa Premier Chen
Cheng declared Nationalist China
is planning total war against the
communists and will build up
Formosa as a base for a counter
offensive against the Red main
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such things as taxation, investi
gation, or law enforcement.
By law, the answers to the
questions can be used only for sta
tistical purposes, and must oe
kept strictly confidential other
wise.