Nude Doukhobors
Riot in Nelson, B.C.
NELSON, B. C., (/P) — Police
guards patrolled the streets of iso
lated Krestova, 23 miles from
here, today in the aftermath of
a two-day outbreak in which ram
panging nude Doukhobors fired
the ramshackle homes of seven
sect members.
Five women and three men
were arrested ‘yesterday as 200
nude, hymn-chanting adults were
thwarted in efforts to burn down
their village, headquarters of the
Sons of Freedom sect.
Four mud-plastered huts were
set in flames before police arriv
ed. Three others were destroyed
Wednesday.
Authorities, who set up a bar
ricade across the rock-strewn
orad which connects the 1,000 res
idents with the outside world,
said at least one of the homes was
fired by small boys.
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the Sand Point naval air station
in Seattle. It was 77 at Hoquiam,
73 at Yakima, 71 at Walla Walla.
Bellingham recorded a 69-degree
reading and Spokane 65. (Nome
weather station reported a high of
a mild 39.8 degrees).
TAIPEI, Formosa, (A*)—Chinese
Nat ionalists rushed reinforce
ments yesterday to their embat
j tied forces on Hainan Island.
Red troops of Gen. Hsueh
Yueh, the “Little Tiger,” were
locked in bitter fighting for the
fourth straight day.
Both sides agreed this was the
Reds’ big attempt to take the key
South China island 10 miles from
Luichow Peninsula.
Some Nationalists said their
hopes for survival and an event
ual comeback against the Chinese
communists hinge largely on the
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Reports here said well-equipped
Nationalist troops were on the
way to Hainan.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The Sen
ate approved a House bill Wed
nesday requiring settlers in Alas
ka to record notice of their settle
ment claims in the land office of
the district in which the lands are
located.
Under present practices land
claims are registered with U. S.
commissioners but not in land of
fices.
The bill now goes to the White
House.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—Miner Ben
Joela fell down a mine shaft at
Pedro Dome Creek, about 20 miles
from here.
Before reaching a hospital here
the following types of transporta
tion were used:
He was pulled from the mine
shaft with a windlass bucket.
Then he was driven several
miles by jeep. Then by sled. And
finally by toboggan, before an
ambulance picked him up.
His condition was reported sat
isfactory.
SEATTLE, (A3)—'The first two
weeks of the decennial census
a count of 3,057,99 persons in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana and Alaska. Nearly half of
them were in Washington.
Gene H. Harris, census super
visor for the entire Pacific North -
west-Alaska district, said he
thought the figures represented
“between 55 and 60 per cent” of
I the district's population.
The two-week breakdown in
cluded: Alaska—37,921.
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Officials Urge
Additional Third
Division Judge
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city of Anchorage, the judicial
seat of the Third Division, has
grown from a population of 3,400
to around 25,000 in the last 10
years.
He also expressed the hope that
favorably action on the bill would
not be delayed in expectation that
Alaska would become a State and
thus establish a state judiciary
system of its own.
He said that even if the state
hood bill were enacted into law
promptly it would be two years
at least before the new state gov
ernment could begin to function.
In the meantime, he said, the peo
ple of the Division are entitled to
adequate judicial service.
The 27 new federal judgeships
created by Congress last year
have relieved the federal court
case load but more help is needed,
the sub-committee was told.
By personal appearance or
through statements mailed to the
judiciary committee, numerous
members' of Congress, district and
circuit court judges and a repre
sentative of the judicial confer
ence of the United States urged
enactment of eight bills to create
new district court seats or make
permanent others that are now
temporary.
The testimony was similar to
that presented last year: That the
case load, especially in private
civil cases, is more than the
judges can handle.
Last year’s bill created 21 dis
trict and six circuit court seats.
Bills under consideration in
clude:
By Delegate Bartlett <D.-Alas
ka*, one additional judge for Alas
ka.
Soviets Insist
Downed Plane
Was A B-29
LONDON, f/P)—Russia insisted
today that a U. S. plane which it
claims exchanged shots with Sov
iet fighters over Latvia April 8
was a B-29 superfortress.
In a note handed to U. S. am
bassador Alan G. Kirk at Mos
cow, the Soviet Union rejected a
U. S. statement that the only
American plane anywhere near
the scene at the time was an un
armed Navy Privateer.
The Privateer, missing with its
crew of ten since the day fixed
by the Russians as the day of the
exchange of fire, has been given
up for lost.
The Soviet note today, broad
cast by Moscow radio and picked
up by the Soviet Monitor in Lon
don, replied to the U. S. protest
note of April 18.
Text of the Soviet reply:
‘‘In reply to the United States
government’s note of April 18,
1950, the U. S. S. R. government
considers it necessary to state the
.JUNEAU, (/P) — In the largest
vote ever cast here on a single
question ballot, residents voted
1072-29 yesterday to sell the City
Hall property to the Territorial
Government as a building site.
Purchase price will be $60,000.
The proposal also provided for
donation to the Territory of pro
perty belonging to the Arctic
Brotherhood.
following:
“As already reported in the
note of the Soviet government of
April 11, the American aircraft
which violated south of Lepaya,
Latvia, the Soviet frontier, ac
cording to verified data was a
four-engined military aircraft
B-29 Flying Fortress <sict, which
not only failed to obey the de
mand of Soviet fighter planes to
follow them and land at an aero
drome but opened fire on the Sov
iet planes.
“After the leading Soviet fight
er aircraft had been compelled to
fire in reply, the American air
craft turned in the direction of
the sea and disappeared.
“These are the facts establish
ed by proper verification.”
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box (>25 Nome, Alaska
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To perpetuate fair dealings between worker and
management. He will surround himself with ap
propriate advisors and not political proteges.
To establish public relations and inform all of the
Territory of the activities engaged in by the De
partment of Labor.
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A past of action and a future of trust.
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Ross Kimball will establish public trust in the
Department of Labor.
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