Supreme Court
Sustains Bribers’
t Conviction
WASHINGTON, m — The su
preme court today upheld by a 4-4 j
vote the conviction of two men
charged with offering bribes to
New York Giant pro football play-'
ers.
The pair, Harvey Stemmer and i
David Krakower, contended NeA’i
York state illegally used evidence
against them obtained by wire
tapping.
Justice Jackson took no part in
tbe case. By long precedent an
equally divided decision upholds
the lower court.
Stemmer and Krakower were
accused of offering Frankie Fil
chock and Merle Hapes $2,500
each, plus the returns on a $1,000
bet, if they would throw a game
to the Chicago Bears. The game
was an important one in the 1946
national football league race.
Stemmer and Krakower were
sentenced to 5 to 10 years in pri
son each. Filchock and Hapes
were barred from the league.
Stemmer and Krakower appealed
^ to the high tribunal after the New
York Court of Appeals upheld
their convictions.
New York police said they dis
covered the attempted bribery af
ter tapping telephone conversa
tions.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Whitmore
^ returned to Nome Sunday enroute
to the Kougarok where they are
mining this summer.
Giant Seaplane To
Try For Record
SEATTLE, (yp) — The navy’s
Caroline Mars, world’s largest sea
plane, will go after a new record
this week on a flight from San Di
ego, Calif., to Kodiak, Alaska, the
13th naval district announced to
day.
The huge transport will fly here
Tuesday with a payload of 40,000
pounds, including 45 passengers,
then continue on to Kodiak Wed
nesday morning.
The record for a flight of com
parable distance was set by the
Caroline Mars when it carried 39,
500 pounds from Cleveland, O., to
Aalmeda, Calif. Other world
marks held by the seaplane as a
passenger lift of 269 men on a sin
gle flight, cargo lift of 68,282
pounds for a distance of 390 miles,
and a non-stop flight of 4,748
miles from Honolulu to Chicago.
Passengers on the flight to Ko
diak all will be navy personnel be
ing transferred there on tempor
ary assignment.
A sister-ship, the Hawaii Mars,
will make a similar flight from
San Diego to Kodiak, stopping
over in Seattle on Thursday.
Mrs. W. B. McCarthy, teacher
for the first grade in the Nome
Public School who has been ill
for several weeks returned to her
class room today. During her ab
sence Mrs. Andrew Nerland and
Mrs. Carl Glavinovich have been
substituting.
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Plans For First
Unit of Nat’l Guard 1
Completed !
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for federal recognition is given.
The detachment, which is ex- (
pected to be composed eventually t
of 11 officers and 21 enlisted men,
will comprise the "staff” of the ^
Territorial National Guard and
will function under the Territorial
adjutant general, as yet unnamed.
Also expected to be activated
during May and June, according ‘
| to Col. Alexander, are the head
quarters detachments of two scout
| battalions at Bethel and Nome.
Several Alaska agencies are coop
erating with the army to facilitate
early organization of these units.
The civil aeronautics adminis
tration has provided a 'battalion
headquarters building at Bethel
for storage and administration,
and has moved it to a site donated
by the Alaska native service. Fed
I
I eral funds are being used to re
| habilitate the structure, according)
to Headquarters, U. S. Army,!
Alaska.
At Nome, the city has given the
guard a 99-year lease on three city
lots at no cost to the government.
Two buildings have been obtained
! from the Alaskan Air Command
which will be moved from Marks
Air Force Base when weather con
ditions permit.
Meanwhile, training schedules
are being drafted in order that
training may start immediately
upon activation of units, according
to Maj. Milford A. Koehler, as
sistant director of operations and
! training, U. S. Army, Alaska, who
j is in charge of civilian compon- j
I ents in Alaska for the army.
Three National Guard instruc-1
tors have already arrived in Alas- j
ka and are at work on preliminary
| plans, Major Koehler said. They J
| are 1st Lt. L. A. Owens, M/Sgt. |
i W. W. Farrington, and M/Sgt.
Harry I. Lucas. Eventually, two'
officers and six enlisted men will
j be available from the army as in
| struetors.
Supplies for initially equipping
the scout battalions which will be
furnished by the U. S. army, such
as rifles, ammunition, mess gear,
j and military clothing, have al
ready been ear-marked for such
purposes and will be issued as soon ‘
as the units are federally recog
nized and army regulations con
cerning storage and safe-guarding
of equipment are complied with.
Major Koehler pointed out.
Another development was the
announcement that the national
guard bureau in Washington, D.
1 C., has purchased and will make
available shortly to the Alaska na
tional buard, two Cessna ‘*195”
aircraft, complete with skis and1
| floats. One is already delivered a:
Washington and ready for use
here.
The planes will be based at El
mendorf Field at Fort Richardson,
and arrangements have been
made for their maintenance sup
port with Col. Bernt Balchen of
the 10th Rescue Squadron. The
Cessnas, carrying four persons
each, will be used to transport in
structors to remote coastal areas
and will be utilized at no expense
to the Territory in conducting the;
training of the units.
It has also been announced that
definite plans are being worked
out for the organization of two Na
tional Guard infantry battalions
in the more populous areas of An
chorage, Fairbanks and South- j
eastern Alaska. Establishment of
such units has received federal ap- j
proval and the recent Territorial
legislation allows nnv Irv’iV
May-Day Shows
Split In Ranks
Of Labor
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display of speedy jet planes, flash- ;
ed overhead.
Prime minister Alexander Vasi
levsky shouted that “American f
reactionaries are preparing for a
new war.”
Other communist lands put on
small replicas of the Moscow spec
tacle.
Outside the iron curtain the di-1
visions were much more obvious, j
New York Saturday had rival
“Loyalty Day” and left-wing pa- j
rades four blocks apart. “Loyalty” j
marchers outnumbered the others
five to one. On Sunday Vice-Pres
ident Alben W. Barkley told 30,
000 at a Roman Catholic-sponsored
rally that the American “way of
life is the best ever found by the
children of man.”
The system of two parades was
followed in many cities.
| In Berlin and Rome the com
munists got the crowds. Nearly
1330,000 Germans marched under
t Red flags in the Soviet sector of
. the city. Western sector rallies
; were small and quiet.
About 70,000 jammed the com
munist demonstration in Rome.
'Only 15.000 attended an anti-com
munist labor demonstration.
The Pope gave May Day bless
ings to the “entire world of work
ers.”
! wishing a National Guard unit to
have one. providing certain requi
sites are met. A locality must be
able to support the unit desired,
and meet federal requirements of
facilities for storing and securing
federal property and assembling
and training of troops.
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if any—were operating along the
line.)
A traveler from Hangchow said
today that city had been occupied
by nationalist militia. He said
combat troops were not in evidence
but he hud no idea where they
had gone.
In Shanghai there was no un
due amount of military activity
and no sign of any impending Red
attack. Within the city, troop
movements were not especially
evident. Hundreds of Chinese sol
diers, however, boarded Chinese
naval vessels which steamed
down the Whangpoo river toward
the sea.
GREAT BIG DRUNK GOES
UP IN FLAMES
EDINBURGH. Scotland, </F) —
One million gallons of scotch
whiskey, barrelled for export,
■ burned in a fire which swept an
; Edinburgh suburban warehouse
Friday night. A flaming river of
i whiskey flowed into the street out
of the burning casks,
i Of undetermined origin, the fire
! was brought under control short
i ly alter midnight. There was no
j estimate of the monetary loss.
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PORTLAND, (.P)—Vanport, the
nation’s largest wartime housing
project which was shattered by
flood last Memorial Day. is all
gone now. The last buildings from
the once huge city were sold at
I auction Saturday at a small frac
tion of their original cost. Tike
: highest bid for the 14-family
dwellings, which cost thousands of
dollars to build, was S425.
The land that held Vanport will
i be parcelled off for industrial use.
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