Eskimo Girl Gets
Year For Katon
gan Shooting
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torney Buell Nesbett, acting for
•her defense counsel Stanley Mc
Cutcheon.
“There was a drinking party,”
he said. “Lena, her uncle and a
man named Anderson were there.
Everyone became quite inebri
ated. Her uncle, an Eskimo as she
is, often remarked when he was
drunk and feeling tough, Til take
that gun and go out and get some
one'.”
Knowing this, Nesbett said
Lena took the 30-30 rifle that was
hanging cm the wall and began
unloading it. In the process it
went off and her uncle was shot.
“The poor girl was trying to |
prevent a violent crime,*" Nesbett
said.
Since she had already spent
seven months in jail, he asked
that her sentence be suspended
saying “She’s just an Eskimo girl
away from the village and she
should be home with her mother
and father.”
“Home” is at Elim, near Nome.
There the girl had married a bush
pilot who was killed in an acci
dent two years ago. She also has
two children, aged eight and three
Two months from now when
she returns to the village she will
carry Judge Dimond’s admonition
“May I impress upon you if I can
that you should never take a drink
as long as you live. That’s what
caused your trouble in the first
place.”
Joe Firenze, Deering resident
for over thirty years, and an Alas- j
kan for almost fifty years, was
made a member of the Pioneers
of Alaska at the regular metting
of the organization last Wednes
day evening.
NEWS IN BRIEF
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plained:
“It helps the city—and makes
my income tax that much less.”
LONDON, {/¥)—A British diet
ary expert said some married
men get fat because their wives
overfeed them on purpose.
“A “comfortably* obese male,”
wrote Dr. A. H. Douthwaite in the
British Medical Journal, “is al
leged to be easier to live with and
less likely to stray from the path
of virtue.**
Dr. Douthwaite said such men,
because of the added strain on
their hearts, are also less likely to
live to a ripe old age.
A man who totes a bay window,
the doctor warned, overworks his
heart just as much as one who lugs
a heavy suit case around all day.
LONDON (/F)—By an eight-vote
margin, the labor government last
night defeated still another Con
servative attempt to turn Prime
Minister’s cabinet out of office.
The House of Commons voted
306 to 298, rejecting a Conserva
tive motion to censure the regime
for its administration of Britain’s
scanty meat supply.
JUNEAU^ (/P) — The Lytle &
Green Construction Co., of Des
Moines, la., submitted the low bid
of $1,236,207 yesterday for clear
ing, grading and drainage work
on a 17-mile stretch of the An
chorage-Seward highway.
The bureau of publi croads, to
which the bids were submitted,
said it would recommend that the
contract be awarded to the Des1
Moines firm.
Other bids were: Peter Kiewit
& Sons, Longview, Wash., $1,366,
09.20; Stock & Grove, Inc., An
chorage, $1,327,880.
Plan Dependents
Evacuation Test
FAIRBANKS, (jP) — Winter
highway drills to test cold wea
ther evacuation plans will be held
at military installations near
Fairbanks and Anchorage Satur
day, Brig. Gen. David Baker said
Wednesday.
Baker, commander of Ladd Air
Force Base, said private automo
biles will carry women and chil
dren from military installations in
the Fairbanks area down the Alas
ka Highway to designated points
where they will be formed into
convoys.
The test will be held in sub
zero weather in some areas and
the “evacuees” will wear heavy
i cold weather gear. Cars will carry
special equipment.
Women and children at Ladd,
Eielson and Elmendorf Air Force
Bases and Fort Richardson will
take part in the tests. They will,
return to their bases once the
convoys are formed.
The simulated exacuation will
i
be in line with a previously an
nounced military plan to remove
dependents of military and civil
ian personnel and women em
ployees at Alaska bases in the
event of an emergency.
Alaska civilian personnel will
not be affected.
MANY STAKING
TIN CLAIMS
Bush pilots report considerable
activity in staking of placer and
lode tin mining claims in recent
weeks.
Dan Jones of the Territorial As
say Office reports that as of Jan.
30th, the price of tin has reached
the allltime high of $1.82. j
Mining men from several parts
of the Second Division have been
flown into the tin area to stake
their claims.
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Peace Information
Center Indicted
WASHINGTON, (IP)—A federal
grand jury today indicted the
| “Peace Information Center” in
New York City on a charge of
! failing to register as a foreign
agent
The center, with headquarters
at 799 Broadway, has been the
chief sponsor in this country of
the '“Stockholm Peace Petition”
which this government has de
scribed as a communist-inspired
“trick”. , •
The indictment charged tjhe
center itself and five of its offi
cers with violating the 1938 law
which requires that all persons or
organizations acting in this coun
try for a foreign principal must
register with the Justice Depart
ment.
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Failure to register is punishable
by up to $10,000 fine and five
years imprisonment.
The indictment accuses the cen
ter of acting in the United States
“for the committte of the com
mittee of the world congress of
the defenders of peace, the inter
national organifiaticm established
by the Cominform to publicize the
so-called Stockholm 'Peace Ap
peal.”
Secretary of State Acheson last
year described the Stockholm
Peace Petition, sponsored by the
center, as “a propaganda trick in
the spurious “peace offensive of
the Soviet Union.”
U.S. Demands Reds
Settle Overdue
Lend-Lease Bill
WASHINGTON, (jP) — The
United States has formally de
manded that Russia immediately
return 672 lend-lease naval and
merchant ships loaned her during
World War II.
The state department disclosed
that the demand was made in a
note handed yesterday to Soviet
Ambassador Alexander S. Pan
yuskin. Panyuskin is representing
his country in the latest of a se
ries of so-far fruitless lend-lease
talks.
The U. S. is asking Russia to
| pay $800,000,000 in settlement erf
a wartime account of $10,800,000,
000 (striking off ten billion dollars
| of the account), Russia has report
edly made a “final offer” of $240,
| 000,000.
Officials said Russian represen
tatives have refused to discuss re
turn of the ships, insisting their
government wants to buy the ves
sels. They include 87 merchant
ships.
The U. S. refuses to sell them
unless the Russians settle their
over-all lend-lease account.
These developments were made
public here after the Russian
newspaper Pravda accused the U.
S. of trying ter sabotage the talks.
The paper said Britain was given
a better deal than that offered
Russia.
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