NEWS IN BRIEF
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to Juneau, Alaska, for planning
a $1,260,00 three-story and base
ment Territorial office building.
CORDOVA, (/P)—Local doctors
and the Alaska Health depart
ment will join here this week to
administer typhoid antitoxin to
persons without charge.
The mass immunization is be
ing given as a result of the tp
phoid outbreak at Anchorage. It
is a precautionary measure. No
cases have been reported here
yet.
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—The U.
S. circuit court of appeals af
firmed yesterday a judgment of
$2,540 awarded Arthur J. Oszman
in Alaska federal court against
Alaska Airlines.
Oszman was awarded $1,840
which he claimed for services
rendered as district traffic man
ager at Juneau and Seattle be
tween May 1, 1944 and March 31,
1947—plus court costs and inter
est.
FAIRBANKS, (/P)—With a clat
ter and a rustle, the lid came
down on gambling and prostitu
tion in Fairbanks last night.
City police started their drive
at 6 p.cn., within the city. Federal
authorities concentrated on the
outlying vicinity, U. S. marshal
Stanley Nichols said.
FAIRBANKS, </P>—A building
being hauled on a sled nudged
another building yesterday.
GIRL SCOUTS NET $289.82
AT BENEFIT PARTY
The Girl Scouts made a profit
of $289.82 at their recent Girl
Scout Benefit Party.
They wish to thank everyone
for their patronage and particu
larly want to thank these people
for their kind assistance in mak
ing it successful: Mr. C. F. Yen
| ney, Pfc. 1/c Ken O’Dowell, Mr.
Don Lyle, Mr. Luther Dunbar,
; for handling the games, Marks Air
Force Base for the use of the
game set.
The Nome Nugget, Mr. George
! Beacom and Marks Air Force
j Base Radio for giving the pro
I gram such good publicity.
I Lt. Pat Sano, Mrs. Terry Fisher,
: Mr. Jack Estes for their direction
! and assistance with the tap
i dances.
Mrs. Ruth Gottschalk for con
i tributing the ice cubes and Mr.
I
' George Bayer for getting the ice.
The Scouts also wish to thank,
their leaders, Mrs. Dorothy Galla
i gher, Mrs. Marguerite Glavino
; vich, Mrs. Joy Galloway, Mrs.
Arlene Urick and Ilene Harwood;
also the Girl Scout committee,
Mrs. Helen Dunbar, Mrs. Ellen
Tanner. Mrs. Elma Glavinovich,
' Mrs. Julia Hudert, Mrs. Marie
Fricke, Mrs. Xenia Swanberg, for
their many services in planning
and executing the program.
Wedged, unseen, between the
two buildings, Tom Halverson, 55,
a laborer, was crushed to death.
He was working on a project to
clear land and build a Catholic
| school at nearby Slaterville.
I Kimball
Commissioner
Labor
To perpetuate fair dealings between worker and.
j 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- j
partment of Labor.
A past of action and a future of trust.
■
Ross Kimball will establish public trust in the
Department of Labor.
Paid Political Adv.
MARY OQUILLUK PASSES
ON TO ETERNAL REST
One of the best known and best
loved Eskimo women on Seward
Peninsula was called to rest at her
home in Teller last Saturday.
Mary Oquilluk was born near
St. Michael and when still a
young woman married and moved
to, what is now, Mary’s Igloo.
She was kind and generous. Al
ways had enough to eat and a
place for any traveler to stay. It
became a by-word with any of the
old-timers when they were caught
on the trail or inthat vicinity to
say “Let’s head for Mary’s Igloo.”
Soon not only Mary’s Igloo, but
the whole village was known by
this name, and carries the name
today.
No one knows exactly how old
Mary was. She has cared for
many people and any child left
alone was assured of a foster;
mother in Mary.
She was always contented and
cheerful and leaves a host o£
friends who will long remember
her.
The body is to be taken back to
Mary’s Igloo where she will be
laid by the side of her husband.
Czechs Order U. S.
Information Head
To Leave Country
LONDON, (/P)—Czechoslovakia
today ordered the expulsion of
Joseph C. Kolarek, director of the
U. S. Information Services, and
i demanded an immediate halt to
the U. S. I. S. activities in the
country.
At the same time dispatches
from Prague said six Czecho
I Slovaks, one of them a woman,
I went on trial, in Pankrac
1 state court in Prague, charged
' with belonging to a spy ring di
I rected by the U. E. embassy. The
| Czech news agency said the chief
defendant, former army major
Jaromir Nechansky, confessed to
charges of high treason and spy
t ing.
In a telephone call to Berlin,
Kolarek, press attache of the cm
J bassy in Prague, said the Czech
government a c cuse d him of
, “grossly abusing” his diplomatic
office by using Czech nationals
for spying and propaganda work
against their government. Kolarek
denied the charges.
The Czech government last Oc
tober had announced it had
smashed a spy ring directed by
six former U. S. embassy officials.
U. S. secretary of state Dean
Achcson said in Washington at
the time that these charges obvi
ously had been “trumped up."
“They (the Czech communist
government* are really turning on
the heat against us now,” a
Prague embassy spokesman com
mented in the Berlin telephone
conversation.
The U. S. I. S. library had long
been under Czech secret police
pressure. Czechs who patronized
the library frequently was stop- ;
ped and warned not to return;
there.
In another development, J. Zas- ,
tera, 20 years old, was sentenced
to 18 years in prison on his con
viction on charges of high trea
son by spying.
Kolarek, 34, who comes from
Baltimore, Md., has been in
Prague since 1945 and is the sec
ond oldest embassy employee in
terms of length of service. The in
formation service he has directed
distributed news broadcast by the
state department, operated li
braries and circulated films and
recordings.
U. S. ARMS AID
DIRECTOR RESIGNS ,
WASHINGTON, (£>) — James
Bruce, director of the billion dol
lar arms aid program, has sub
mitted his resignation to Presi
dent Truman.
This became known yesterday,
along with his reason: the busi
nessman-diplomat wants to re
turn to private life.
At the same time, the President
is reported to want Bruce to take
on the job of ambassador to Bri
tain when Lewis Douglas quits.
Douglas has been American envoy
to Britain for the past three years
but has been in ill health recent
ly.
Alfred Frances, postmaster at
Kotzebue is visitng in Nome for a
few days.
Chinese Reds
Start Invasion of
Hainan Island
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ten troop-laden junks were seen
moving south from the island yes
terday.
• The Lintin action is believed to
be the start of an all-out cam
paign against the Mansan group
of about 30 islands between Hong
Kong and Bacao, Portuguese col
ony. Nationalist launches and
gunboats based on these islands
have blockaded tightly the Pearl
River approach to Canton and
slowed junk trade between Hong
Kong and Macao. Lintin, largest
of the group, is nearest Hong
Kong and was the chief National
ist blockade base.)
CHAS. D. JONES
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(Candidate for Nomination
I
for SENATOR
on the REPUBLICAN TICKET
j
at the Primary Election, April 25
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I will work and vote for legislation which I
believe to be for the best interests of ALL OF
US without fear nor favor.
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