Fire Destroys
Montana Hotel
EUREKA, Mont, (fl*)—Authori
ties Monday blamed an oil burner
explosion for a fire which swept
through the Montana Hotel, kill
ing five persons.
Dead in the pre-dawn fire were
John Powell and Delano Gray
son, members of the Browning
High School basketball team;
Charles Cameron, about 74, Eure
ka farmer; William Peterson of
Eureka, Great Northern Railway
employee, and Ed La France,
about 64, hotel clerk.
The fire completely destroyed
the 25-room frame hotel, which
also housed the post office, a bar,
five apartments, and this north
western Montana town’s only tel
ephone.
NOME HIGH ENJOYS
TWELFTH STRAIGHT WIN
The Nome High Basketball team
in their twelfth straight win, beat
the 632nd squad last evening at
the Post gymnasium with a score
of 50-37.
The high school team will play
another game Friday evening at
the school at 7:45. Their oppon
ents will be the Nome Beverage
team.
The team needs all the support
they can get between now and
the time they take off for Anchor
age as their rooting section down
there will be pretty slim. They
should leave with the feeling that
the whole town is behind them
and interested in their progress
in the all Alaska meet.
Inventory blanks at Nome Nugget.
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Seek To Reduce
Size Of Katmai
Nat’l Monument
The Katmai National Monu
ment should be reappraised in
light of present day circumstanc
es, Delegate Bartlett declared this
week in urging secretary of the
interior Chapman to have a study
made to ascertain if the Monu
ment could be reduced in size.
The request for a study of the
problem, which Delegate Bartlett
has long advocated, was made by
Helen C. Tibbets, member of the
executive committeeof the Nak
nek Civil Club in a letter to the
Delegate seeking restoration of
the Monument to the public do
main so that its resources could
be utilized by the residents of the
area for trapping and fishing and
other pursuits.
“I am confident,” the Delegate
stated to Secretary Chapman in
urging an up-to-date appraisal,
“that any fair-minded group
would be amenable to the sugges
tion that the area of the Monu
ment be decreased very substan
tially, indeed. After all, it was es
tablished only because of the dis
covery of the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes. Those natural
wonders have largely disappeared
with the passage of time. Addi
tionally; the federal government
j has failed signally in doing any
j thing at all in making the Monu
ment available to tourists. So far
I
j as I am aware, not a dollar has
| been spent in that direction. In
j view of the fact that Katmai’s
boundaries include over 2,000,000
i acres of land it would seem en
tirely appropriate for the Interior
Department to cause a study to be
made based on the realities of to
day. If this is done, I have every
reason to hope that you will agree
with me that the improvement of
living conditions for the hard
pressed people of Naknek and
that entire area is much more vi
tal than the continuing of Katmai
National Monument in its present
size.”
Acquit Girl In
Mercy Slaying
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., (/P) —
Carol Ann Paight, acquitted in
the mercy slaying of her cancer
doomed father, planned today to
return to college as soon as she
rests up from the ordeal of her
trial.
The 21-year-old blonde, who
pleaded temporary insanity, was
freed last night by a jury of 12
parents
She spent her first night at
home in nearby Stamford since
she shot her father, Police Ser
geant Carl Paight, last Sept. 23
as he slept in Stamford hospital.
“Oh God,” the attractive six
foot girl sobbed as she broke
down at the verdict. She was near
collapse.
Her attorney, David Goldstein,
termed the verdict “just and fair,”
but added:
“This is no precedent for a
killing, in my opinion.”
He said the cr\se was tried sole
ly on the issue of whether Carol
was insane at the time of the
shooting.
The jury deliberated four hours
and 51 minutes before foreman
Judith Memhard, 52, announced
the verdict. The trial lasted two
weeks.
Carol was charged with second
degree murder in Connecticut’s
first mercy slaying trial. She
would have gone to prison for
life if convicted.
News of the World
At A Glance - • -
(Continued from Page One)
and nine other cities were warn
ed of impending mass raids.
Shanghai was struck from the
air for the second day in a row.
The communist radio said Mon
day’s raid on Shanghai killed
1,000 persons and disrupted power
and water supplies.
The communist news agency
said famine is sweeping East Chi
na north of the Yangtze River.
Sixteen million people are feeling
the pinch and some 2,790,000 are
facing starvation. Drought, floods
and disruptions in the aftermath
of civil war are blamed by the
communists for the famine.
The communists charged the
Portuguese colony of Macao on
the South China coast with help
ing Nationalist warships escape
communist capture. The Reds
warned such action “will not be
tolerated.” Macao is virtually
surrounded by Chinese commun
i ist forces and could be taken at
! will.
In Prague, the U. S. embassy
announced that two American
! missionaries of the Mormon
, ch u rch “disappeared" in the
! Czech province of Moravia in
January. Reliable sources said the
two men had been arrested and
were being held on unspecified
charges. The Mormon Church has
been meeting with difficulties
| from the Czech communist gov
'ernment in recent months.
In Paris, delegates of Marshall
plan countries said Western Eu
rope looks to private American
investors to fill the gap when U.
i S. aid tapers off in 1952. They re
ported thees countries would need
about $5,000,000,000 during the
Butler Wants To
(Curtail Power Of
Interior Dept.
^Continued from Page One)
status of equality with the
whites.”
Butler said the nation should
i move toward a policy of gradual
ly abolishing reservations.
“In Alaska we should leave
them free to go and come as they
please, just as they can today,"
he sa^d.
He added: “As a first step I be
lieve the interior department
should discontinue its plans to es
tablish other reservations in
Alaska. In my judgment the pres
ent law was never intended to
give the secretary of interior au
thority to establish such reserva
tions.”
Butler said the next step should
be to enact a bill he and Senator
! Cain <R.-Wash.) introduced to
i to “make it very clear the secre
amend the Wheeler-Howard Act
tarv has no such authority.”
Butler, ranking Republican on
j the Senate interior committee for
merly was its chairman and in the
80th Congress introduced legisla
tion to repeal the interior depart
ment's authority to create Alaska
reservations and to cancel those
established since 1936.
Tho legislation was passed by
the Senate but died in the House.
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The Gibraltar colony of Britain
has an area of only one and seven
eighths square miles.
final two-year period of the
Marshall plan and then they
would need private capital to
keep their economies steady after
152.
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