5 Commies Sentenced to
From Two to Five Years
BALTIMORE, (JP) — Five Com
munists and a party lawyer were
sentenced Friday to prison terms
of two to five years and each
fined $1,000 for conspiring to ad
vocate overthrow of the govern
ment.
Philip Frankfeld, Moscow
trained district party leader, re
ceived the maximum penal sen
tence of five years.
Other sentences were:
Regina Franfeld, Frankfeld’s
wife, two years; George A. Mey
ers, former Cumberland, Md., tex
tile worker and Frankfeld’s suc
cessor as district chairman, four
years; Leroy H. Wood, party chair
man of the District of Columbia,
Maurice L. Braveman and Mrs.
Dorothy Rose Blumberg, three
years each.
The maximum sentence is five
years in prison and $10,000 fine.
Churchill Party Loses in
English County Elections
LONDON, '(ff) — The Labor
Party handed Prime Minister
Churchill’s Conservatives a sharp
setback in the triennial English
County council elections, returns
showed Friday.
Worst drubbing suffered by the
Conservatives in Thursday's vot
ing came in London County,
where the Laborites won 92 out
of the 129 seats and Churchill’s
followers only 37. In the old
council they held 64 apiece.
Conservative leaders described
the vote as an inevitable reaction
from Churchill’s victory in the
national election last October.
During World War II, 82 Ameri
can Red Cross workers died while
serving with the armed forces
overseas.
Steamship Pickets Protest
11^ Wage Difference
SEATTLE, (JP) — Pickets were
thrown around the terminal facili
ties of the Alaska Steamship Co.
Saturday morning by the Marine
Firemen’s Union in an attempt to
stop loading and sailing of the
steamer Sailor’s Splice, union of
ficials said Friday.
Fred Bruette, port agent for the
Independent Union, said the move
was “not a strike, it’s a protest.1
We feel that we are being pushed
around.”
Bruette and officials of the
steamship company said the argu
ment concerned payment of lower
overtime wages to Alaska trade
firemen than to those who work
on offshore shipping, such as to
the Orient.
The Alaska trade overtime rate
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for the marine firemen is $2.24
an hour, 11 cents under the off
shore rate.
BEAVERS TASTE GOOD
HELENA, Mont., (JP) — A cus
tomer asked caterer Fred Jorgen
son to stuff and roast two beavers.
“They smelled like we were
cooking cottonwood trees,” he
said. “But they got nice and
tender like chicken.” Jorgenson
reported the patrons “licked the
platter clean.”
TEXAS GEOGRAPHY LESSON
AUSTIN, Texas, (JP)—'The Uni
versity of Texas Department of
Geography helped settle the ques
tion of how many states have
capitals closer to Amarillo than
the Texas capital at Austin.
Dr. Donald Brand, geography
professor, said the answer is
three. With a big globe and cali
pers, Dr. Brand’s assistants meas
ured these geographic airline dis
tances: Amarillo to Santa Fe,
N.M. — 230 miles; Amarillo to
Oklahoma City, Okla.—240 miles;
Amarillo to Denver, Colo.—355
miles.
Amarillo in the Texas pan
handle is 415 miles from Austin.
All other capitals were farther
away than Austin. Topeka, Kans.,
however, ran a close race at 425
miles distant.
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