Favor Sitka For
Constitutional
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there.
A memorial favoring that Bar
anof Island city will hav<* the
backing of several northern Divi
sion Senators as well as Sens.
Frank Peratrovich of Klawock
and R. M. MacKenzie of Ketchi
kan, both Democrats, the newspa
per said.
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The article said that like support
has been given by Paul Solka, edi
tor of Jessen’s Weekly at Fair
banks, and associa'e editor Geo<*g
Meyers of the Fairbanks News
Miner.
The Chronicle added that the
idea of holding a Constitutional
convention to speed Alaska’s
statehood first was suggested two
years ago by Judge Anthony J.
(Tony) Dimond of Anchorage, for
mer Delegate to Congress.
Dimond, writing for the state
hood edition of the Chronicle in
March, 1947, pointed out that 14
other Territories took such action
and later were recogn:zed by Co
gress and the President.
Following Dimond’s suggestion,
Appeals Court
Upholds May’s
Bribery Conviction
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The U. S.
Court of Appeals today upheld
he convictions of former Rep. An
drew J. May of Kentucky and
Henry and Murray Garsson of
charges of bribery and conspiracy
defraud the government during
the war.
The appellate court * decision
was by a two to one vote. Judges
E. Barrett Prett.vman and Henry
White Edgerton voted ‘o uphold
the district court verdict. Chief
Judge Harold M. Stephens dissent
ed.
May chairman of the Hous^
Mayor Pat Carroll of Skagway
and his “Days of ’98” committee
invi'ed the convention there but
leaders of the statehood movement
delayed action because they felt
Congress would make Alaska a
state last year.
The newspaper said it had
learned Hawaii is considering a
similar plan, and the Hawaii leg
islature already has before it a
proposal for a State Consti utional
convention.
military affairs committee in war
time, and the Garsson brothers,
operator of a $78,000,000 muni
tions combine, were convicted by
a federal jury July 3, 1947.
Each was sentenced to serve
eight months to two years. They
have been free on $2,000 bonds
each pending action of their ap
peal.
Charles J. Margiotti, counsel for
the Garssons, said in Lewisburg,
Pa. that he would appeal today’s
decision to the U. S. Supreme
Court,.
The trial jury found May guilty
of taking $53,634.07 in bribes from '
the Garsson brothers as payment
for using his Congressional influ
ence to get favors for the Garsson
shell-making enterprises.
The Garssons were convicted of
1 conspiring to defraud the United
j Sta es of May’s services through
bribery.
The government contended that
i the Garssons set May up in the
i lumber business, as head of the
Cumberland Lumber company in ]
Kentucky, using that as a “blind”
to conceal bribery payments.
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smoker to have fresh tobacco at all
times.
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Inlernation l News
At A Glance —
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piled upon victory, were in con
trol of virtually all China north of
the Yangtze river. Peiping sur
rendered Saturday.
The communist radio, mean
while assailed what it called the
“hypocritical peace offensive” of
the nationalists unde Li. It urged
a coalition “united under the lead
ership of the communist party”
and emulating “our friend and
neighbor, the Soviet Union.”
China’s former premier, T. V.
Soong, who just announced his re
tirement as governor of Kwantung
providence, arrived by plane in
Hong Kong and asked for police
protection. He is high on the Chi
nese communist list of “war crim
inals.”
Isreali-Egyptian armistice nego
tiations at Rhodes were reported
by a usually reliable source to
have broken down, apparently
over the boundaries of the Negev
desert area of southren Palestine.
The United Nations mediator, Dr.
Ralph J. Bunche, had asked the
Egyptian delegation in a final ap
peal to modify their position.
Rhodes dispatches reported the
Israelis balked at the evacuation
of Egyptian troops trapped in the
Faluja pocket of the Negev as
Jews and Egyptians clung stub
bornly to iheir positions in the
boundary argument.
Italian and French communists
continued to talk of peace. Such
talk has been interprented as the
beginning of a new communist
propaganda line to convince the
world it can get along with Russia.
Prague police intimated they
planned new arrests in an investi
gation of 60 Slovaks accused of
working with American intelli
%
gence units and plotting against
the communist government of
Czechoslovakia.
Greece reported new skirmishes
with communist rebels in the Pel
oponnesus.
1 id Indonesian Republic’s con
flict wi h the Dutch may be
brought before the next session of
the United Nations assembly as
asked by the Asian conference at
New Delhi. Security council de
bate on Indonesia is scheduled for
tomorrow.
The Asian nations want Indone
sia freed from Dutch rule by next
January. Moscow, through the
newspaper Pravda, said the Aslan
conference, by speaking softly,
gave the Netherlands to right to
drag out discussions and sabotage
the recommendations.
In Japan, electors gave Prime
Minister Shigeru Yoshida’s ultra
conservative Democratic Liberay
party 263 Diet seats, a gain of
more than 100, on the basis of
complete returns from yesterday’s
Nineteenth Session
Of Alaska
Legislature Opens
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chorage, Democratic leader, 1
:oday no such action is conterr
pla ed.
He said that the Demcorats pro
ceeded throughout the special ses
sion on the firm conviction that jt
was entirely legal and they are
ready to “stand firm” on the has 1
of concurring legal opinions.
Three of the first revenue mea
sures before the regular ses-ion
are certain to be the general pr< -
perty and fish trap quadrupkng
tax bills, which passed the House
but died in the Senate in the spe
cial session, and the catch-all dusj
ness license tax which failed t<
pass either House.
Signing the income tax bill.
Governor Gruening commented
"This is the first basic tax bill en
acted by an Alaska Legislature
since the establishment of Ter- -
i torial government 3f> years ago.
> “It constitutes a great acn.evt
ment. It is the first step toward
establishment of financial an I
economic stability for the govern
ment of Alaska.”
An unavailing effort was marie
late Saturday to get another mea
sure—the fish trap bill—on! > the
Senate floor before the special ses
sion adjourned.
Led by Democratic Senators
MacKanzie of Ketchikan and Barr
•of Fairbanks, Democrats got Re
publicans Engebreth and Ga.nu
to vote with them to suspend the
rules to revive the bill, but the
ten- o-six vote was one short <
the necessary two-thirds.
FAIRBANKS, I/P) — A salvage
crew was en rou e today to a sp*
two miles west of Minto, where ;
helicopter has reported sighting
the wreckage of an air force F-h >
jet fighter missing since Wednes
day.
Crewmen of the 10th rescue
sou-d on helicopter rep Tied see
ing pieces of the plane around a
deep hole in the Tenana River ice
cap.
If the pilot’s body is not found
in he cockpit, a search will be
pressed in the event he jumped t
safety.
Minto is about 25 m iles north of
Nenana and 50 miles west of Fair
banks.
The pliot’s name has not been
disclosed.
elections. This gave Yoshida a
clear parliamentary working ma
jority to advance a program ci
, lessened economic controls. Tht
I communists rolled up a popular
! vote of more than a million and
I took 35 seats, emerging as a stron;
political faction.
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