Eagleston Must
Serve Term
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Z. E.
Eagleston Friday lost his 28-month
fight to remain out of prison.
Federal Judge Anthony Dimond
refused to suspend a three-year
sentence imposed on the Anchor
age businessman for assault with
a dangerous weapon.
Convicted July 30, 1946, of as
saulting and critically injuring
Frank Rowley, Eagleston was sen
tenced Jan. 10, 1947.
He carried the case to the U. S.
Supreme Court, but the high ti
bunal refused to review it.
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His attorneys recently present
ed affidavits signed by 37 Alaska
and U. S. businessmen requesting
that the sentence be suspended.
The mandate for judgment will
be signed today and Eagleston
will be turned over to the U. S.
marshal for transfer to the McNeil
Island federal penitentiary, Wash.
Eagleston paid Rowley $41,000
in a civil suit after the ninth dis
trict court had denied an appeal.
Senate Will Try To
Repeal T-H Act
WASHINGTON. (A*) — Senator
Elbert Thomas (D.-Utah) Saturday
turned down a Presidential as
signment abroad—a fresh indica
tion that the Senate will take the
next turn in attempts to repeal
the Taft-Hartley labor law.
Thomas, who heads the Senate
labor committee and is chief au
thor of the administration’s sub
stitute for the T-H act, said he de
cided not to attend the interna
tional labor organization confer
ence in Geneva as an American
representative.
‘‘I told the president that I be
lieve the labor bill, health, wage
and hour and other legislation
made my going to Geneva un
wise,” Thomas told a reporter.
House leaders apparently are
disposed to let the Senate try for
the T-H repeal, since House ef
forts ended in a stalemate all
•around.
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CITY COUNCIL
The Nome Common Council, at
their regular meeting tonight, new
ordinances pertaining to garbage
disposal and a city sales tax mea
sure.
Members of the council are in
favor of both measures and will
propose a special election to be
held in June for public ratifica
tion.
QUINNA CLUB
CLOSED BY D. A.
The Quianna Club, a bottle
club, which was to have opened
Saturday night, at its location on
the Bessie Road about three-quar
ters of a mile from town, was re
strained from opening by an or-!
der from thd office of District At
torney Frank C. Bingham.
Bob Renshaw, manager of the
club, stated he was in hopes to
get the legal entanglements set
tled before next Saturday.
Dist. Atty. Bingham put on the
restraining order until a ruling
from the Attorney General can be
obtained.
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James V. Forrestal;
Former Navy Secy.1
Dies; A Suicide j
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lines of the doleful poem.
The court of inquiry in the case
was ordered by Rear Admiral M.
D. Willcutts, commandant of the
naval medical center. Just exact
ly what it might examine was not
certain in advance. From state
ments of officials at the hospital,
this story was reconstructed:
In the weeks that followed For
restal’s entry for treatment, he
seemed to be on the road to com
plete recovery. He received visi
tors, among them Persident Tru
man, made phone calls, read the ’
paper.
But when the patient’s bedtime
came Saturday night he declined *
to take the usual sedative. Choos-!
ing a time when attendants were j
elsewhere on his 16th floor, For- ,
restal left his room (carefully
avoiding going through another
room of his suite in which a doc
tor was located*, walked diagon-1
| ally across a corridor to a diet kit
chen. There the window unlike
i that of his own room, had no
■tightly secured wire screen.
A nurse on the seventh floor
heard the thud of his body as it
; struck an offset of the building
above the third floor. He was
i dead when attendants rushed to
the spot. Curiously, his wristwatch
was still running. He wore his pa
i jamas and his bathrobe. The
j robe’s bell cord was twisted tight
! ly around his neck.
! Admiral Willcutts told report
ers: “That type of suicide is im
possible to prevent. You can’t take I
a man of that brilliance and put a
guard over him all the time.There
i were fewer and fewer restrictions
j as his condition improved.”
Plans for the funeral—includ
| ing whether there will be a mili
j tary burial for the World War I
i veteran and former cabinet mem
bers—were left to Mrs. Forrestal.
She flew in from Paris today
| aboard the Presidential plane, the
Independence, with her son Mich
ael, an employee of the economic i
coop eration administration in
Paris. In the belief that her hus
band was recovering satisfactor
ily, she had gone to France to
find a place for him to convalesce.
NOME HIGH GRADUATION
SCHEDULED THURSDAY
The Class of ’49, of the Nome
High School will be awarded their
diplomas in the high school audi
torium, at 8:00 p.m.. Thursday,
May 26, 1949.
Members of the class are: Mar
garet Bjornstad, Aarnout Castel,
Jr., Gary Longley, Edward O’Con
nor, Lois Overbough, Robert Rose,
Jennie Sayers, and Clara Seiffert.
Clara Seiffert will give the salu
tatory and Margaret Bjornstad the
valedictory addresses of the class.
The speaker of the evening,
giving the graduation address,
will be Col. Frederick H. Black,
Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, Alas
ka.
John D. Hudert, superintendent
of the Alaska Ro-ad Commission
for the Second Division, will pre
sent the diplomas .
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JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM
VERY NICE PARTY
The Junior Class of the Nome
High School entertained the Sen
ior class at the annual Junior
Senior Prom Saturday night.
The party was held in the gym
nasium of the school and all who
attended had a most enjoyable
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“Big Four” Start
Meeting Today
Here are the "Big Four Foreign
Ministers" who will make another
attempt to defrost the cold war in
their meeting in Paris, starting
today.
ACHESON of the U. S. A.
BEVIN of Great Britain
SCHUMAN of France
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