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Unidentified Sub
Sighted At Kodiak
• Kodiak, tJP)—A cloak of official
secrecy today shrouded reports
that an unidentified submarine
was sighted Sunday lurking with
in a half mile of one of the navy's
• far northern bases.
The report was made by five
civil aeronautics administration
cre(wmen who said they saw the
sub^ from Woody island, one of
five a short distance off snore.
All were interviewed by high
. ranking naval officers and said
later they had been instructed to
divulge no details.
Admiral F. D. Wagner, com
mandant of the 17th naval distrit,
gave newsmen a terse ‘ no com
ment.”
Planes were sent out to search
the area bpt lesult of the search
vas not disclosed.
Official sources did not lin* the
submarine’s appearance with na
vy winter maneuvers now being
conducted in north Pacific waters,
News of the World
At A Glance - - -
The month-old Indonesian gov
ernment is dealing with its first
outright revolt.
An Indonesian military chief
blamed deserters from the Dutch
army for an attack on Bandoeng,
big mountain city 120 miles from
Jakarta <Batavia) in Java. The
guerrilla raiders withdrew yes
terday after seizing key points of
the city. Sixty Indonesian repub
lican army soldiers including
three high ranking officers were
reported killed in the raid.
The raiders were led by R. P.
Sp. (Turk) Westerling, a former
Dutch army captain who was dis
charged in 1948.
The incident has caused a new
rift between Dutch and* Indones
ians.
Dispatches from Taipei, capital
of Formosa, said Formosans con
scripted into the Chinese nation
alist army are showing signs of
unrest. A hunger strike has been
staged in one area. A number of
Formosans have been arrested,
charged with stirring up trouble.
Washington reports said senator
Vandenberg <R-Mich.> has raised
the possibility of U. N. action to
give Formosans a choice in the
kind of government they will
have. The island was ceded to
Japan by China in 1895. It was
returned to China in Sept., 1945.
It is now Chaing Kai-Shek’s
stronghold against the Chinese
communists.
The U. S. high commissioner
for Germany, John. J. McCloy,
who is on a flying visit to Wash
ington, said, “There’s always a
crisis in Germany.” He said his
present visit is not due to any
particular emergency. He de
clared he was ready to crack
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Local Icing Causes
Great Damage
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The unusual icing conditions of
the past three days have caused
communications lines and power
considerable damage for both
lines, as well as grounding all
airplanes.
The Northern Light and Power
| Company reports about 150 tele
1 phones out of commission, sever
| al telephone poles down. The
community has been without
| streetlights since Monday.
Some power lines wei'e reported
down but were immediately put
into commission by repair crews
of the Northern Light and Power.
Children have been cautioned
not to touch any loose wires on
the streets. The only casualty
known is that of one dog which
was electrocuted by a fallen wire.
Various living quarters as well
i as offices at Marks air force base
were without power and light oix
Monday, but repairs were made
on Tuesday .
Nome Ch. of Com.
Has Busy Meeting
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The Chamber of Commerce met
at Scotty’s lunch room Tuesday
for another busy session.
The committe of the Bering Sea
Survey, consisting of Grant Jack
son, A. Polet and Carl Lomen,
submitted a resolution which was
directed to the Fish and Wildlife
service asking them to continue
the survey on the Bering sea, re
porting the fact that so far the
service has held spring and fall
| surveys and the results from these
two surveys fully demonstrates
: the necessity of conducting anoth
er this summer during July and
August.
The Tourist Committee chair
1 man, A. Polet, reported that his
j c o m m i 11 ees on correspondence
j have been very busy in prepara
tion of letters to all newspapers
and chambers o f commerce of
Alaska, and that letters are also
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Hiss Sentenced
To Five Years;
Will Appeal
NEW YORK, (/P)—Alger Hiss
was sentenced today to five years
in a federal penitentiary.
Sentence was pronounced by
j federal judge Henry W. Goddard
j in the courtroom where Hiss was
convicted on two perjury counts
last Saturday by a jury of eight
women and four men. He was not
fined.
The former state department
i official had denied slipping secret
state papers to a prewar Soviet
spy ring.
After the sentence was pro
nounced defense counsel filed a
; notice of appeal with the clerk of
! the court and submitted a defense
motion that Hiss be continued is
i bail pending decision of the high
i er court of appeal.
The next step for appeal be
yond the circuit court would be to
the United States supreme court.
Should it go to the highest tribu
nal, at least three justices are ex
pected to disqualify themselves.
They are Felix Frankfurter,
Stanley Reed and Tom C. Clark.
■ The first two testified as charac
ter witnesses for Hiss as the first
trial last June. Justice Clark was
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Excise Tuxes
May Be Cut
WASHINGTON, (£>)—Congress
showed signs today of writing its
own tax ticket, ignoring presi
dent Truman’s advance notice
that he will veto any bill that
cuts taxes without making up the
revenue elsewhere.
There was much talk of redu
j c i n g excises—sometimes called
; sales or nuisance taxes—but re
' jecting part or all of Mr. Tru
man’s proposed $1,000,000,000 tax
boost on other things.
The president yesterday asked
congress to enact a tax law that
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Nome Iiiiili School \\ ins Firsl Half
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Of Ka»ik<‘ll>all Tournament
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On Monday. January 23rd, the
local high^chool basketball team
! was officially declaied the winner
' of the scheduled first half of the
i Army Basketball League. With
nine straight wins and no losses,
the local high team showed great
er strength as each week went by.
Next Thursday evening the All
Star Army team will play the
high school. This army team will
be composed of chosen outstand
ing players from all the army
teams in the league, and the game
will be played .in the school gym
at 7:30 p.m.
Next Saturday evening the high
school has a big game coming up
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at the school gym when they are
| scheduled to play the Stateside
j Commandos, a group of G.I.’s who
formerly were all-state selections
before entering the army.
The Arctic Native Brotherhood
presented the high school basket
ball team with a check for $40.00
towards helping defray expenses
to Anchorage to enter the All
Alaska High School Meet.
The high school team is very
appreciative of the gift and the
fine spirit shown with their sup
port.
Next Saturday’s game with the
Commandos will be held in the
school gym at 7:30.
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Clues Running low
In Boston Robbery
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BOSTON, (£*)— Sharp detec
tives dug deep into the under
world today in efforts to crack
the week-old $1,500,000 Brink’s
armored truck Co. robbery.
They prepared to return to state
prison to question Samuel S.
Granito, 42, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Granito is serving a 10- to 15
year sentence in connection with
the $110,000 B. F. Sturtevant rob
bery in 1947.
That raid was the biggest in the
city until Tuesday’s history-ma
king sweep on Brink’s vaults by
eight heavily armed desperadoes
Police believe the gang that
engineered the Sturtevant rob
bery may have master-minded the
Brink holdup. Granito was the
only one convicted in the Sturte
vant raid..
Detectives said that “so far we
have been met only with rebuffs”
in efforts to get information from
Granito.
Several other ex-convicts were
j grilled overnight by local and
state police.
Meanwhile, special squads
toured “hot” spots in search of
clues which were running low as
tion approached
j the second week of the investiga
I tion approached.
The state’s chief prosecutor,
atty. gen. Francis E. Kelly, issued
a flat statement last night that
“some one connected with Brink’s
may be connected with the job.”
Examiner For
Grounding Of
iMeKinlev Airways
WASHINGTON, (^(—Examin
er Richard A. Walsh recommen
1 ded today that the civil aeronau
1 tics board order Mt. McKinley
1 Airways, Inc., out of the air.
1 Walsh said in his report to the
j board that Mt. McKinley had vio
I lated the rules for irregular car
| riers by operating frequent and
regular flights between Seattle,
Washington, and Anchorage, and
other points in Alaska. He pro
posed that its permit for non
scheduled service be revoked and
that the board order it to cease
any form of air transportation.
Mt. McKinley, which has prin
cipal offices in Anchorage, is for
bidden now to operate between
any two points with such frequen
cy as to form a pattern of regular
ity.
Walsh based his findings on
operations between April 6 and
June 30, 1949. He said the carrier
had advertised to the public that
it operated regular service be
tween Seattle and Alaskan points.
Final decision will be made bv
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the board after hearing argu
ments by attorneys for Mt. Mc
Kinley and the CAB enforcement
section.
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(House Approves
j Resolution For
Statehood Law
WASHINGTON, (/p)—An early
house vote on Alaska and Hawaii
statehood was assured today.
| The house late yesterday ap
proved special resolutions making
the statehood legislation in order
! for house action.
Majority leader McCormack
<D-Mass.> announced that the bills
will be programmed for future
consideration but he said it will
not be this week. He did not indi
cate when they will be called up.
When the house session opened
the majority of the members ex
pected to vote on the controver
s i a 1 fair employment practices
bill, a part of the president’s civil
rights program.
Speaker Rayburn » D - T e x.
however, recognized chairman
Peterson <D-Fla.» of the house
public lands committee, who of
fered a resolution calling up the
Alaska statehood bill, and later
■ one for the Hawaii bill.
Rep. Coudert <R-N.Y.> told the
house the failure to call up the
FEPC legislation and the taking
up of the Alaska and Hawaii bills
“was a travesty on parliamentary
I procedure.”
He protested that the statehood
i questions were “flung in our
teeth” without any advance know
ledge that they would be the sub
ject for debate.
“It is brought up,” he said, “just
to keep off another bill that
should be considered.”
He protested that granting
! statehood to Alaska and Hawaii
would add four more senators
who would be exercising power
and influence beyond that of the
entire delegations from large
states.
Such action, he said, would
open the door to making states of
the Virgin Islands, Pacific islands
] such as Guam, and other posses
sions.
i He recalled that he was pending
a constitutional amendment
which would permit congress to
; reduce the number of senators in
| a new state to one.
Coudert argued that the chief
reason the bills were called up
was that the two territories havo
“attractive, genial and persuasive
delegates who can wrap the mem
bership of this house around their
fingers.”
The delegates, Bartlett, demo
crat of Alaska, and Farrington,
I republican of Hawaii, each urged
approval of the rule permitting*
the bills to be considered.
McCormack laughingly told
' Coudert and rep. Halleck <R-Ind.)
i that he had promised Farmington
that the Alaska and Hawaii bills
would be considered in that order.
“Alaska," McCormack said, “is:
a good democratic community and
Hawaii is a good republican com
munity. I am going to keep my
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