Gen. Meyers Gets
Jail Term
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Maj. Gen.
* Bennett E. Meyers today was sen
tenced to 20 months to five years
in prison.
A federal jury convicted him
last Friday on three counts of in
ducing a former business associate
to lie under oath to a Seiate com
mittee.
Judge Alexander Holtzoff, when
— imposing sentence, said the 52
year-old retired general was guil
ty of a “very grave and serious of
fense.” The maximum sentence he
could have imposed was 30 years.
Meyers stood erect and appar
ently unmoved, as Judge Holtzoff
told him:
“Bennett E. Meyers, it is the
judgment of this court that you be
imprisoned in an institution to be
# designated by the attorney general
of the United States for a term of
not less than 20 months and not
more than 5 years.’’
Meyers was immediately led
from the court room by federal
marshals. After the jury’s* verdict
last week, attorneys for the war
time airforces deputy purchasing
chief had announced they w ,uld
appeal the verdict. Holtzoff at that
time said he would not allow bond
while the case was being appeal
ed.
Just before Holtzoff passed sen
tence, Robert T. Bushell, attorney
for Meyers, pleaded that the court
consider Meyers’ “outstanding
war record.
Czar Lewis Calls
Soft Coal Strike
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to persuade the “millionaire coal
operators” to break a deadlock
over how the $30,000,000 welfare
fund is to be used.
Money for the fund is raised by
% a 10 cent royalty on each ton of
coal produced.
Operators say Lewis wants a
$100 monthly pension for every
miner over 60 who has been in the
* pits at least 20 years. That, they
argue would raise coal prices 40
cents a ton.
PITTSBURG, </P) — Republic
was one of the ateel corporations
affected, with three Pennsylvania
mines down. The output of steel
• company-owned pits is used in
making fuel for steel mills.
Commercial mines, too, whose
production is sold on the open
markets, began t© shut. The giant
Pittsburgh Coal company reported
at least nine of its mines closed.
Orders :of some independent mines
expected the movement to spread.
Walkouts started in other lead
ing coal states—West Virginia,
Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois.
Lewis sent word to union locals
Friday that operators had “dishon
ored” the 1947 wage agreement by
not agreeing to pay pensions ont
of the union’s welfare fund. He
asked the locals to meet and in
form him of their reaction to his
stand.
Henry Pearson, manager of
Alaska States Mart returned today
from a business trip.
CONES OF SOME SPECIES OF
pine trees require the heat of a
forest fire to open them, releasing
their seeds. Therefore, according
to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
vast amounts of food seed are ac
^ cumulated through the years
which automatically re-seed burn
ed-over areas after a forest fire
causes the cones to open.
Northern Lights
Startle Seattle
I SEATTLE, (#*) — A spectacular
display of aurora borealis was
seen in the Pacific Northwest last
night and early this morning,
j The weather bureau received
calls from many perosns who de
scribed the light as brilliant shad
ings of purple, pink, red and white,
sometimes rotating like search
' lights and at other times shimmer
ing like curtains in a breeze.
Weather reports from Ephrata
and Ellensburg, and from The
Dalles, Ore., also told of the au
rora borealis.
Best Marknell of Des Moines
said he had seen the aurora many
times in Alaska and thought Inst
night’s display was almost as
dazzling.
The aurora is supposed to be ot
j electrical origin.
I Truman Plays Up
|To The Irish
NEW YORK, UP) — President
Truman will review the St. Pat
i rick’s Day parade here Wednes
day.
Sponsors of the Fifth Avenue
march say it will be the first time
in the long history of the parade
that a President has been in the
reviewing stand.
Mr. Truman also will speak at
the dinner of the Friendly Sons of
St. Patrick in the city of New Yi". k
Wednesday night at the Hotel
Astor.
Another in the reviewing stand
at 5th Avenue and 64th street w-’l
be Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, candi
date for the Republican Presiden
tial nomination. Dewey was in
vited to the dinner, but said tie
would not be able to attend.
Battle Raging
In Palestine
JERUSALEM, UP)—'The fiercest
battle yet waged in the sands of
southern Palestine was reported
in its third day today with Jewish
and Arab fatalities already 36.
Mired by mud and slowed by
driving rains, Jewish forces were
said by a Haganah informant to
have driven a wedge to the aid of
the beleaguered settlement of
Gath.
The death toll in the battle so
far, according to a Haganah ver
sion quoted by he Palestine Post,
is 28 Arabs and eight Jews.
Haganah is the militia of the
Jewish Agency. The Palestine Post
' is an English-language daily pub
I lished by a Jewish firm.
BARNEY ROLANDO DIES
IN RENO. NEVADA 4
Word has been received that
Barney Rolando passed away Sat- »
urday in Reno, Nevada, where he
was visiting with his business as
sociate Lloyd Root, with whom he
was interested in the mining pro
perty at American River, near
Shelton.
Barney came to Nome during
the rush of 1900 and has been a
mining man all these years. Dur
ing the early days he helped de
velop the Venetia Creek mining
property and has prospected alV
over the immediate vicinity of
Nome.
He leaves three children, a
daughter Clotilde and two sons
Anthony and “Babe” whose home
is in Tacoma, Wash. Funeral serv
ices will be held Wednesday in
Reno.
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