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NEWS IN BRIEF
M O R P ETH, England, (IP) —
Chimney sweep Anthony Pape
made his own coffin and lived 20
years to admire it.
He made it lovingly from the
branches of an oak tree he used
to climb as a boy.
Then, when it came time to use
the coffin after Pape’s death at
the age of 83, it had to be discard
ed. Pape apparently had neglected
to measure himself for it. It was
too small.
NEW YORK, (/P)—New York’s
Irish Minute Men are now fight
‘ ing a two-front war against the
British.
For the last two weeks they
have been picketing Sir Basil
Brooke, visiting Prime Minister of
Northern Ireland, demanding that
the British get out of Ulster.
But Sir Basil’s picket line was
much smaller Monday night. The
pickets explained:
“We divided up. The others are
over picketing the British auto
show.”
SEATTLE, (/P)—A crewman on
board the troller Deep Sea was
swept overboard daring a gale in
False Pass in Alaska waters Mon
day, the coast guard reported.
A radio message from William
M. Blackford, master of the Deep
Sea, identified the lost seamon
as Andrew Petersen of Seattle.
No other details were available.
CLEVELAND (#»)—'The Metho
dist Council of Bishops’ Alaska
Christian College committee dis
closed yesterday that a sub-com
mittec had been named to discuss
with other denominations forma
tion of a college in Alaska.
Ernest P.* Paterson of Portland,
Ore., chairman of the parent com
mittee, said most of the larger
cities in Alaska had offered free
sites.
ST. PAUL, Minn. I/P) — The
country’s best women bowlers—
many of them carrying averages
many a mere male would love to
boast about—start competition in
the women’s international bowl
ing congress tomorrow night in
St. Paul.
The meet will take on an inter
national atmosphere April 29 and
30 when the Sourdoughs team of
Anchorage, Alaska, take to the
alleys.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—’The civil
aeronautics board yesterday re
voked the operating permit of Mt.
McKinley Airways, Anchorage,
Alaska, for violating the agency’s
rules by running too-frequent,
flights.
The revocation is effective in 30
days and can be appealed.
Mt. McKinley is an irregular
carrier, operating under a letter
of registration.
WASHINGTON, (/p)—The Gen
eral Service Administration an
nounced approval yesterday of
loans totaling $440,880 to finance
planning of local public works to
cost an estimated $16,183,666.
The list includes a $10,000 loan
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Postoffice Dept.
Cuts Postal Service;
Lack Of Funds
i -
WASHINGTON (£>), Most post
masters over the country get or
; ders today for a cut in mail serv
ice, including a limit of one de
livery a day to residential areas.
Further, post office windows
' are to close earlier where possible
' and other economies are in the
works.
The prders were announced last
night by postmaster general Jesse
M. Donaldson. Postmasters were
instructed to begin putting them
into effect as soon as they are re
ceived.
The “immediate” order applies
particularly to delivery restric
tions. A 30-day notice is to be al
lowed on the curtailment of serv
ices that affect business opera
tions, such as receipt of mail at
I the windows and back platforms
of postoffices.
Donaldson explained that cuts
i in service are necessary because
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CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
—
Members present at the meet
ing of the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday
j noon at the Northern Grill, were:
i A. Saario, T. Duffield, G. Beacom,
i G. Osborne, J. McNees. R. Corn
i well, Mr. and Mrs. Harper, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Hunt.
A letter was received from Mr.
Charles Evans, president of Gol
den North Airways, Inc., regard
j ing a meeting held with the Gov
ernor in Fairbanks on keeping the
bush pilots and non-scheduled
flights in operation, and it was
read to the mmebers by Mr. Duf-1
field. In it was stated that the i
Governor felt that we have reach- |
! ed the point where we can no !
longer appeal to the C.A.B. for
| justice but must go over their
head, directly to the President1
with our appeals. Mr. Saario said !
a wire should be sent to the Pres
ident on this.
On the legislative committee,
Mr. Duffield said his legislature j
would be very much like last year
with roads being the main issue.
Regarding the election coming!
up Mr. Osborne suggested we con
tact the legislators and tell them j
what we think we need and see
how the politicians feel about it.
Mr. Saario asked Mr. Osborne to
draw up questions and ask the
legislators how they stand on
them.
Mr. Beacom said plans were go
ing well for the Barn Dance this
Saturday night, April 22, at the (
High School. Everyone should
dress for the occasion. We hope it
will be a repeat performance of
the last successful Barn Dance.
The fire ordinance was brought j
up. Since there is a new council it1
will have to be given to the new
group for approval. Mr. Harper
suggested the age limit, uniform
and securing the chief for longer j
than one year, be some of the re-!
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LI. S. Charges Reds
Shot Down Plane;
Asks Indemnity
W A S H I N GTON, (/P> — The
United States yesterday charged
that Russian fighters shot down
the missing American navy patrol
plane over open waters of the,
Baltic Sea. |
It demanded that Russia punish
those responsible any pay appro
priate indemnity for the lives of
the ten men lost in the plane.
The charge and the demand
were made in a formal reply to
Russia’s protest of April 11 that
an American plane had flown
over Latvia and exchanged gun
fire with Soviet aircraft on April
8.
The American note, delivered
in Moscow by Ambassador AJan
G. Kirk, demanded also that “the
most strict and categorical in
structions” be issued to the Soviet
air force to prevent any new inci
dent “so clearly calculated to
magnify the difficulties of main
taining peaceful and correct in
ternational relationship.”
I A U. S. Navy Privateer en
I route from Weisbaden, Germany
■ to Copenhagen, Denmark, has
been missing with ten men aboard
I since April 8. U. S. military offi
i cials say it was the only American
plane in the Baltic area on that
date. It was unarmed and under
strict order to avoid Soviet terri
tory, American officials said.
A wide spread search for the
missing plane was abandoned
Monday.
Vishinskv said Russian fighters
jumped the American plane 13
miles inside the boundary of Lat
via, the former independent Bal
tic State which Russia occupied
in 1940. The point he named was
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Traveling Mission
ed
ary And Dogs
Interest Nome
--
Everett Bachelder, travel i n g !
missionary attracted much atten- i
tion yesterday when he arrived
with Wien Airlines from Kotze- j
bue with his three husky dogs, all
of whom carry saddle bags full of
tracts which he distributes as he
"Brownie"
travels over the Territory. Mr.
Bachelder is from Wasilla, where
he works at the Valley Christian
Home for Children, at which
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Tries to Plant Time
Bomb In Airliner
To Murder Wife |
LOS ANGELES. i/P>—Love for
a pretty red-haired airline stew
ardess was advanced yesterday
by police as a motive for the ac
tion of a young father who sought
to destroy his family by planting
a time bomb on an airlines carry
ing them and 13 other persons
Police Lt. C. E. Ream said that
Miss Betty Suomela of Hermosa
Beach told him that she was in
love with John Henry Grant, 32,
and that the approximate time
Monday that he placed the bomb
on an United Air Lines DC-3, she
though he was appearing in court
getting a divorce from his wife.
The stewardess, who is not em
ployed by United, told Ream that
Grant led her to believe that he
would marry her after the di
vorce. Ream questioned the stew
ardess after Grant drove her car
to the airport. Ream said he was
convinced that the stewardess
was in no way implicated in the
* case and that she would be re
| leased.
Grant lost his nerve at the last
moment and no one was injured.
Just as the blue and silver
United Airlines DC-3 was about
to leave Los Angeles international
, airport for San Diego Monday,
i Grant ran to the ticket counter
and screamed.
“Don't let that plane take off! I
| just put a bag on it full of gaso
line!”
At the same moment a baggage
handler loading the plane out on
the field dropped a heavy suit
case. It exploded and flames flar
ed up, singeing the man’s eye
brows and hair.
The baggageman, Harold May
er, quickly extinguis h e d the
flames and tossed the suitcase out
on the ground. He opened it and
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Hri<l<*es Files
Large Libel Suit
Against Froseeutor
P
SAN FRANCISCO, (A*)—Hurry
Bridges has filed a $500,000 libel
and slander suit against the pros
ecutor who got him a five-year
prison sentence.
Bridges’ suit, filed yesterday,
said E. Joseph Donohue called j
him a liar and perjurer in a Mon
day luncheon address. Further, he
charges, Donohue said Bridges
“made a contract with commun
ims” and was “playing an impor
tant part in the plan to bring
about a revolution."
Donohue replied that his re
marks were a fair statement of
the evidence which recently con
victed Bridges of perjury and con-1
spiracy.
Bridges, president of the CIO
longshoremen’s union, was con
victed of having lied in swearing
he never was a communist to ob
tain citizenship in 1945. He is
free on bond pending an appeal.
Donohue was the government’s
chief prosecutor at the trial.
Chinese Reds
Start Invasion of
Hainan Island
TAIPEI, Formosa, (>?’)—Chinese
Nationalists said yesterday their
planes killed more than 2,000 Red
invaders of Hainan island on in
vasion craft and beaches.
Air headquarters said the toll
was counted only until evening of
Monday’s fighting.
Nationalist defenders of the vi
tal south China island, fighting
back on the ground, sea and in
the air, continued the buttle yes
terday against more than 7,000
Red invaders who have establish
ed two beachheads.
Nationalist groun cl f o tees
claimed they have contained the
Red invaders who stormed ashore
early Monday. The Nationalists
asserted the communists succeed
ed in landing only about half of a
15,000-man force hurled in the
greatest amphibious operat i o n
against the big stronghold off
South China.
<A Hong Kong dispatch said
the Chinese communists have at
tacked and presumably occupied
tiny Lintoin island five miles
west of Hong Kong and only three
miles outside British territorial
waters.
(A British Royal Navy spokes
I man said the Reds began shelling
the Nationalist blockade base
Monday. The bombardment ceas
ed abruptly in early afternoon. A
destroyer escort, transports and
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Many Russian 11 iu11
Military "‘Pass <
NEW YORK, (/Pi—Moscow has
announced, in the past half year,
the deaths of 15 Russian generals
and admirals — some of them
rather young.
The appearance of such obitu
aries so frequently in the Soviet
press naturally arouses specula
tion in the west over the possibil
ity of a new purge in the Soviet
Union. However, there has been
no hint in the advices which pass
through Moscow censorship that a
purge actually is under way.
Even if the Soviet press has re
ported all the deaths of the top
military brass, a rather high mor
tality rate is indicated, particu
larly when a number of the offi
cers were in their forties.
The Russians also have report
ed the deaths of a considerable
number of civilian, as well as mil
itary, officials. The latest obituary
of this type published by the Sov
iet press was that of N. V. Egorov,
4R-year-old official of the coun
cil of ministers, whose death was
announced yesterday.
Other high-ranking Soviet func
tionaries also have passed away
recently. They include Peter An
urt)v, a counsellor first class in the
Soviet foreign ministry. His age
was not given in the March 5
death notice, but it said the death
was “untimely.” Another such
was Anatoli Kopytov, minister of
cinematography, who died March
10. He was only 43.