Gandhi Slayers Get
Death Sentence
SIMGA, India, i/P) — An East
• Punjab high court yesterday con
firmed a death sentence against
two Hindu journalists for the
slaying of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
The court confirmed a New Del
hi court’s death penalty against
Narayan V. Godse and Narayan B.
Apte and sentences of life impris
^ onment for Vishnu Karkare and
Nadan Lai, in connection with the
crime.
The Punjab court reversed the
Delhi tribunals’ judgment in the
case of three other defendants in
the case, however. They acquitted
Dattraya Parachure and Kistayya
Shankar, both of whom had been
sentenced to life.
The court recommended clem
ency for Gopal Godse, brother of
r the chief defendant, who had re
ceived life.
WEATHER BUREAU KNOWS
HOW TO PICK GOOD
WEATHER FOR PICNIC
Last Sunday, being the day the
local weather bureau had picked
three weeks in advance for their
picnic, they decided to make it a
beautiful day—sandwiched in be
tween two dismal 'not normal for
Nome) days. They report they had
a very successful picnic out at
Dexter—successful as far as plea
sure, for no fish were caught; but
they of course they did not go to
fish; just to relax. Nevertheless,
a very enjoyable day was had by
all. Jovial John McNees held the
bureau down during the day and
was relieved at six o’clock so he
could join the festivities.
The Order of Eastern Stars had
a party last Monday evening hon
oring the fathers of the order.
In charge of the party were
Mrs. Joe Wallace and Mrs. Sam
Huxley. Mrs. Stanley Morgan
presided at the meeting.
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reports heard in Havana, Cuba, |
said that the rebels have estab- ]
lished a foothold on the north'
coast with the expressed aim of
overthrowing the government of
President Rafael L. Trujillo. The
government claimed the rising
was crushed.
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Wednesday. June 22, 1949
Leaders of the anti-communist
railway workers union in West
Berlin voted today to turn down a
Russian peace offer aimed at end
ing the month-old strike.
The Russians assured the work
ers there would be no reprisals by
the Soviet controlled railway i
management against those who!
merely walked off their jobs. ]
However, they said those who
committed crimes would be pun-1
ished.
Both Russian and American of
ficials prodded the men to get
back to work. The strike has
blockaded Berlin and is costly to
both East and West Germany.
W. T. Babcock, U. S. deputy
.commandant in Berlin said: “It’s
time they started considering what
is best for Berlin, not purely for
their union.” The men want recog
nition of their anti-communist
union. They also want full pay
ment in West marks instead of
East marks which are less valu
able. They have been offered 75
per cent in West marks.
The communist cabinet in
Czechoslovakia has apparently
decided on a quick finish fight
with the Roman Catholic hier
archy. Premier Antonin Zapotockv
in a nation-wide broadcast ac
cused Archbishop Josef Beran of
trying to wreck the national peace
and economy. He threatened to
take legal action against the pre
late.
A typhoon has wrecked a good
part of the Japanese fishing in
dustry and brought a high death
toll. In Tokyo the welfare minis
try said it counted 137 dead and
1.086 missing. The Japanese ma
rine safety board listed 161 fishing
boats sunk and 678 boats missing.
More than 2.000 homes were de
stroyed and 28.000 damaged in the
typhoon which has now swept out
to sea.
Off Dunkerque. France, the Bel
gian English channel vessel Prin
cess Astrid struck a mine last
light and sank four miles off the
French coast. Five Belgian crew
men were trapped in the engine
room and were scalded to death
by steam. Twenty of the 415 pas
sengers were hurt. The ship was
an hour out of Ostend, Belgium on
its trip to Dover, England.
Non-communist union leaders
from different parts of the world i
are arriving in Geneva, Switzer-!
land for a weekend meeting. They j
plan a new world labor organiza-:
tion in opposition to the Russian-:
supported world federation of
trade unions <WFTU>. Western
trade unionists pulled out of
WFTU last January charging it is
dominated completely by com
munists.
Secretary of State Dean Ache
son. back from the Paris foreign
ministers’ conference is expected
to prod the American Senate to
day for speedier action on the
North Atlantic treaty and a re
I lated program to rearm Western
Europe.
A Chinese nationalist plane
dropped a single bomb in the
Shanghai area today. No seriou*
damage was reported. It fell close
West Coast Signs
Ship Repair Pact
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP)~
Management and union represen
tatives have negotiated a new
West Coast master contract on
ship repair work. The pact calls
for no increase in wages.
The new agreement, which
takes effect July 1 upon termina
tion of the existing one, was an
nounced jointly Monday by Tho
mas A. Rotell, executive secretary
of the Pacific Coast district metal
trades council, and James M.
Mitchell of the Todd Shipyards
Corp.. Seattle, management
spokesman.
Delegates have been in session
here several weeks working on the
agreement. All major West Coast
ship repairing and shipbuilding
yards, with one exception, and
most smaller yards are parties to
the master contract with various
AFL metal trades councils.
The new pact continues m ef
fect most of the provisions of the
old one, including the existing
wage scale. Some minor changes
were made.
West Coast conditions parallel
those on the East and Gulf coasts,
spokesmen said, so it was agreed
1 that no contract changes would be
made which would increase costs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daugherty,
formerly teachers at St. Lawrence
Island and Golovin, who have
been at Sunnyside, Washington,
for the past year are leaving soon
for Holbrook, Ariz., where Mr.
Daugherty will be principal of a
boarding school for the Navajo In
dians.
The Vicki C returned last eve
ning from its first trip to the north
and is preparing to load road
commission equipment and men
for Golovin where work will be
started on the survey of the Golo
vin-White Mountain road.
to the British freighter Anchises,
which was damaged yesterday by
nationalist bombs. Shanghai is a
communist-held port. Nationalist
China has announced a blockade
of all such ports in China.
I Navy Starts Its
Annual Trek To
Point Barrow
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navy petroleum reserve station at
Pt. Barrow.
A total of 3,200 men comprise
the expedition, including 250 re
servists. They started from San
Diego, take on most of their sup
plies at the naval station here, and
add more at San Francisco and
Seattle.
They are due at Pt. Barrow
Aug. 3, when night and day un
loading operations will start. The
navy said the unloading will be
done amphibiously by landing
craft.
The supplies of heavy machin
ery and food will last the Pt. Bar
row naval reserve one year. The
unloading operations can be car
ried on only during the four to six
weeks each year because the rest
of the time there is a shore ice
jam.
The navy said The vessels must
be ready to flee if the wind
changes and moves the ice toward
shore.
After the unloading at Pi. Bar
row, the ice-breaker and theLST’s
will steam 300 miles east to Barter
Island in the Beaufort Sea with
' supplies for an army aerological
i and radio station.
The expedition will carry two
helicopters for ice reconnaissance.
The ships will remain here two
weeks before sailing on the navy’s
third annual Arctic re-supply ex
pedition.
SAN FRANCISCO, bP) — The
22,300-ton navy tanker Neches.
which ran aground last night just
inside the Golden Gate, was re
floated today, Tugs pulled her otf
; the shoals at high tide.
Inbound from Kodiak. Alaska.
| the big fleet tanker grounded cn
Sandy shoals about 100 yards off
the Presidio shore, half a mile in
I side the Golden Gate. She was not
damaged, reports indicated.
The Neches, commanded by
Capt. Gifford Scull, encountered a
local fog inside the Golden Gate
as she turned out of the main
channel into a berth inside the
Presidio Shoal.
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