Deaths Of Two
Men Presents
Mystery To F. B. I.
ANCHORAGE, (/P> — Discovery
of the unmarked bodies of two
Alaska men, apparently killed to
gether in a home in the isolated
Bristol Bay settlement of Dilling
ham, confronted authorities with
what appeared to be a clueless
mystery.
The victims were Harold W
(Tubby) Griffin, 45, former pro
fessional football player and busi
nessman, and Martin Ernestus, 42,
fisherman and cannery worker.
Mrs. Griffin, found in the Er
nestus home with the two dead
men, was reported in a critical
condition at Kanakanak. A visitor
from Dillingham reported she has
a fractured wrist and possible
skull fracture.
Bodies of the two men were
flown here by the federal bureau
of investigation agents Wednes
day.
Neither man had been knifed
or shot, the FBI said, and a four
hour autopsy failed to disclose the
cause of death. Their organs will
be sent to the FBI laboratory in
Washington, D. C.
Griffin, well known in the Seat
tle area, was a football center at
the university of Iowa in the mid
1920’s and on graduation organ
ized and played on the Portsmouth
Ohio, Lions, one of the early pro
football teams. He later came west
and was graduated from the uni
versity of Washington law school.
Subsequently he went north to
the Bristol Bay area to manage
the Lowe Trading Co. post owned
Seattle SS. Lines .
Compete For
Tourist Trade
SEATTLE, (i^P)—Brisk competi
tion between Seattle ship lines for
the heavy Alaska tourist trade
loomed here as Alaska Transpor
tation company announced pur
chase of a 250-passenger ex-cruise
vessel.
S. J. Swanson, vice president of
the line, said negotiations are
completed with the maritime com
mission for purchase of the SS.
George Washington, former New
York-Bermuda cruise ship.
The 390-foot vessel, now in New
York, will be “extensively altered
and improved” and is expected to
be ready by May 1 for service be
tween Seattle and Southeastern
Alaska ports.
The company will invite bids
for the alteration work from ship
yards on both coasts.
Swanson said the vessel will be
operated primarily as a passenger
carrier. Cargo will be limited to
express freight.
JOINT INSTALLATION OF
PIONEER MEN AND WOMEN
A gala party is planned for the
joint installation of the Pioneer
men and women Saturday eve
ning at the Pioneer Hall with the
Pioneer Women and other invited
friends the guests of Pioneer Ig
loo No. 1. The party is scheduled
for eight o’clock and will be fol
lowed by a card game.
by his sister, Mrs. Marguerite
Bradford, Bellevue, Wash. He also
managed the Bristol Bay chamber
of commerce.
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Arabs Arm Jaffa
Gate Against Jews
JERUSALEM, f/P) — Five more
persons died in scattered violence
throughout Palestine yesterday
and in Jerusalem the Jaffa Gate
bristled with Arab armament. Ru
mors spread that a new Jewish at
tack would be launcred against
the gate.
Seven Jews liberated from a
hospital one of their c >mrades
who was wounded and captured
Wednesday after Jews made an
armored car attack on the Jaffa
Gate which cost the lives of 17
Arabs and three Jews.
Arabs began arming the gate af
ter the rumor spread that four
British armored cars had been
stolen, possibly for a new on
slaught on the old walled city. An
Arab said several hundred armed
Arabs were massed at the gate,
“ready to repel attacks.” Road
blocks were augmented and sten
guns and rifles were made ready
upon the walls.
Satellies Will
Recognize New
Greek Government
LONDON, (/P) — Eastern Eu
rope’s Soviet satellites are pre
paring to recognize the Commun
ist Greek “government” of Mar
kos Vafiades despite western
warnings that the move will bring
about a major international cri
sis, high diplomatic authorities
representing those countries said
here today.
These informants, who said that
1 the ultimate objective of the Com
munists was to capture Athens it
self, predicted that recognition of
the Vafiades regime was at most
a question of months.
Only yesterday Britain and the
United States advised Yugoslavia
and Bulgaria of the "serious im
plications” of such a step, which
they said would be contrary to the
principles of the United Nations
charter.
Reinforcing this warning was a
disclosure that Britain has de
ferred indefinitely a scheduled
evacuation of her 5,000 troops in
Greece.
Gen. Kuter To Be
C.A.B. Chairman
WASHINGTON, </P)—-President
Truman yesterday selected Maj.
Gen. Laurence S. Kuter for chair
manship of the Civil Aeronautics
Board, succeeding James M. Lan
dis.
In order to clear the way for
Kuter’s nomination, Mr. Truman
asked Congressional action on a
bill to enable him to serve as u
member of the board without dis
turbing his military status.
Kuter is the United States rcp
esenlative of the council of the
International Civil Aviation or
ganization.
Landis was dropped as CAB
chairman, at the en 1 of last year.
Mr. T. liman gave no explanation
of his decision not to reappoint
the former new dealer to the pod.
Kuter is 42, a native of Rock
ford, ynd a graduate of the mili
tary academy.
BETWEEN THE AGES OF 2
and 5 years, according to the En
cyclopaedia B/ilannica, a child
forms mental habits of concentra
tion, self-control and self-reliance,
or their opposites. These habits,
good or bad, are likely to be little
changed in later years.
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Partition Commis
sion eGts To Work
(Continued from Page One)
Lie, secretary-general of the
United Nations, expressed confi
dence today that the security
council would exercise “every
necessary power” to see that par
titioning of strife-ridden Palestine
is carried out by next' Oct. 1
without fail.
Lie did not mention the crea
tion of an international military
force as a specific partition en
forcement measure, but this was
implied in his statement, since the
' council has the power to set up
such a force. *
Police Seize
Palestine-Bound
Explosives
ASBUEY Park, N. J. {JP) — A
police search set off by an anony
mus tip from a farmer netted a
new cache today of 57 tons of sur
plus army explosives which Mon
mouth county prosecutor J. Vic
tor Carton said was “tied up
with’’ the Palestine-bound ship
ment of tons of TNT seized
last Saturday on the Jersey City
waterfront.
Forty tons of the explosive were
discovered in a raid on a farm
house in nearby Wall Township
and the other 17 tons were taken
in a large truck-trailer found out
side an Asbury Park garaage. A
state police alarm was broadcast
for two other trucks reported
headed here from the Seneca gov
ernment war surplus depot at
Romulus, N. Y., listed by the au
thorities as the source of the 57
tons already taken here.
Nine men were arrested by state
police and Monmouth county de
tectives as a result of the new dis
covery of explosives in the farm
house and the big truck-trailer.
GEORGE BUTLER OF HAMIL
TON LEAVES FOR SEATTLE.
George Butler, manager of the
N. C. store at Hamilton, Kwiguk
and elsewhere on the Yukon del
ta. left Hamilton Wednesday via
Unalakleet for Seattle, where he
will join his family until April.
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