Axis Sally Gets
30-Year Sentence
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Mildred
E. (Axis Sally) Gillars Friday was
sentenced to 10 to 30 years in pri
l son for treason.
Federal Judge Edward M. Cur
ran also fined her $10,000. Loss of
citizenship is automatic on con
viction of treason.
Miss Gillars, 48-year-old Maine
born woman, was convicted March
10. Sentence was delayed until her
attorneys could argue motions for
a new trial.
Just before passing sentence,
Judge Curran denied these mo
tions.
Miss Gillars broadcast the “Axis
Sally” programs for the Nazi ra
dio during the war. Her treason
conviction was based on the
broadcast of one propaganda
drama called “Vision of Invasion.”
Before passing sentence, Judge
Curran remarked that the trial
evidence showed that Miss Gillars
did not take part in high level
Nazi propaganda policy confer
ences as was the case of Douglas
Chandler and Robert Henry Best.
Chandler and Best were other
Americans who gave propaganda
aid to the Germans. They were
tried for treason at Boston arid
sentenced to life.
The “Vision or Invasion” was
broadcast by the Nazis a month
before the Allies landed in Nor
way.
Miss Gillars portrayed Evelyn,
an Ohio mother who dreamed her
son was killed in the invasion.
The government charged the
broadcast was beamed to Ameri
cans at home and abroad as part
of Nazi propaganda and as an in
strument of psychological warfare.
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Sales Tax Makes
Jail Term Less
VANCOUVER, B. C., I^Mack
Blair, 34, is doing three months in
jail, instead of a sentence of years,
because he remembered the Pro
vince’s three per cent sales tax.
Charged with theft of a sum
exceeding $25, Blair complained to
Magistrate Oscar Orr, he should
have been charged with taking
less than $25. (Theft of more than
$25 may be tried in a higher
court where a maximum penalty
of seven years may be imposed.
Six months is the maximum for
sums less than $25).
“They’re counting the sales
tax!” Blair protested.
Blair pointed out he was charg
ed with taking 10 pocket knives,
priced — without tax — at $2.49
each.
“Comes to $24.90,” said the de
fendant.
The court, forced to agree, sen
tenced the tax-watcher to three
months.
WAVERLY, Tenn. (/P) — Two
persons were killed when fire
swept through the Dixieland hotel
here early yesterday. One man
was killed in a leap from the sec
ond floor of the two-story frame
strucure, and the other was found
dead in his room from smoke and
fumes. Some 20 persons escaped
from the blazing structure without
injury.
CIRCLEVILLE, O. oP)—A fam
ily of five burned to death early
yesterday when fire destroyed
their tenant house on a farm. 12
miles northwest of here.
A neighbor discovered the fire
abou 5 a.m. and called the fire de
partment. The neighbor said she
observed no activity about the
house until the firemen arrived.
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Rent Increases
Stumbling Block
In Rent Control
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I WASHINGTON, f/P) — Senate
House conferees Saturday agreed
on a flat 15-month extension of
federal rent controls.
The compromise rent bill pro
vides for “home rule” decontrol
at any time, however.
The conference comm i 11 e e
agreed Friday night on a provi
sion which lets states, cities, towns
and villages get rid of rent curbs
if the state governor approves.
The conferees are seeking to iron
out differences between rent con
: trol bills passed by the House and
Senate. They have not yet reached
an agreement on what to do about
rent increases. Senator Sparkman
j (D.-Ala.) called that “the toughest
nut of all” to crack.
The present rent law expires
Thursday, March 31. The House
passed a bill to continue controls
15 months, through January 30,
1950. The Senate measure called
for a 12-to-15 month continuance.
Senator Maybank 'D.-S. C\> said
the Senate conferees agreed to
adopt the House provision because
the House group yielded Friday
and took the Senate’s version of
“home rule” decontrol.
Maybank said he expected the
conferees either will knock out
the rent increase provisions of
both the House and Senate bills,
or decide to put them both in the
, final version.
i Johnson Becomes
Secy. Of Defense
In Bi" Ceremony
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WASHINGTON, UP) — Louis
Johnson was sworn in today as
secretary of defense in the most
elaborate installation of a cabinet
officer the capital has ever seen.
Johnson, 58-year-old Clarks
burg, W .Va., attorney, succeeded
James V. Forrestal, a New York
banker. Forrestal had held the of
fice since it was created by pas
sage of the armed services unifi
cation act in June, 1947.
The swearing-in ceremony, col
orful with military pomp. was
held in the open five-acre center
court of the pentagon.
The oath of office was adminis
tered by chief justice Fred W. Vin
son before a crowd estimated at
about 15,000.
Mrs. Jahnson sat in the front
row of spectators, appearing very
proud and smiling. She was clad
in a blue suit, fur neckpiece and a
pre-Easter bonnet of blue straw.
She wore a single yellow orchid.
In the audience were members
of the cabinet.
LOGAN. (JP)—Three small girls
burned to death yesterday when
their home at nearby Long Fork
caught fire after an explosion.
Their mother and sister escaped
death when the blast catapulted
them into the yard. They were
seriously injured.
In the hospital with second and
third degree burns are Mrs. Whitt
and five-year-old Wanda Lou.
Their condition was “fair.”
The father, a coal company em
ployee, heard *the explosion and
saw his house burst into flames as
he was returning from a neigh
bor’s house.
The Val d’ Aran, upper valley
of France’s Garonne River, is a
geographical accident, formed by
an overlapping twist of the main
Pyrenees ridge in the shadow of
the highest summit of the ra^ge.
CHAMBER DINNER
WELL RECEIVED
On Friday evening last, the
members of the NWA Chamber of
i Commerce Board of Directors
made a complete report of activi
ties relative to legislature, the
Nome breakwater, Red Cross, and
recent taxation, effecting Alas
kans.
The guest speaker of the even
| ing was Wesley Welch, president
of the Walrus Club, who spoke on
the activities and purpose of his
group.
. He stated in short that the group
was a cross-section of the popula
tion of Nome and that the purpose
was purely for the benefit of a
better community.
Welch spoke elatedly over the
success to date of his club with
| the sponsoring of the milk fund
1 for supplying milk to the Nome
school children and told of plans
: for future activities to benefit
Nome.
It was moved to have a dinner
meeting in the near future to hear
all about the legislature from the
| returning Senators and Represen
I tatives of our Division.
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Holiday Ends;
Miners At W ork
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PITTSBURGH, </P» — Hard and
sol't coal miners east of the Missis
sippi trooped back to work today
to send coal flowing to the tipples
(in volume for the first time in two
weeks.
The end of UMW president
John L. Lewis’ memorial-protest
mine shutdown found most of the
i diggers happy to be back on the
!job earning pay again.
Beginning at midnight when
some pits scheduled early shifts.
; the return to work movement pro
ceeded without interruption in the
I big western Pennsylvania fields
and elsewhere.
• By the end of the day, all 463.
000 miners idle in the U. S. were
expected to be producing coal
again. The Pennsylvania pits all
have been given a special state
ordered safety inspection.
Will Try To Give
Alaska Only One
U. S. Senator
WASHINGTON, <>P)—Rep. Cou
dert <R.-N. Y.> said yesterday
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska
would give them a “wholly dis
proportionate” voice in govern
ment.
He contended it would further
distort popular representation in
the Senate.
Coudert said he will introduce
a proposal today to amend the
constitution limiting a new state’s
Senate to one or none.
Bills granting statehood to Ha
waii and Alaska have been ap
proved by the House public lands
committee.
“Surely,” Coudert said in a
statement, “the peoples of New
York and other large cities should
not blindly acquiesce in the fur
ther dilution of their already un
der-representation in the Senate
by the admission of additional
Senators of very small communi
ties.”
He observed that small states,
having 19 per cent of the U. S.
population, elect 50 Senators and
so control the Senate—as against
81 per cent of the population hav
ing 46 Senators.
New York, with a population of
14,000,000, has only two Senators,
Coudert noted, adding:
“Yet we are asked to give two
Senators to the less than 500.000
population in Hawaii and two Sen
ators to the population of less than
100,000 in Alaska.”
House representation for new
states, under the Coudert proposal,
would be on the usual basis.
TWO TOURNEYS
AUBURN, Ala. bP>—Two lead
ing tournaments will be entered
by Auburn’s 1949-50 basketball
squad. Coach Danny Doyle’s Tig
ers will seek honors in the Okla
homa City tourney and participate
in the annual Southeastern Con
ference carnival in Louisville.
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