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Nome, Alaska, Monday, February 18, 1952
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LANGUAGE PREPARATION
The Air Force recently graduated 92 officers and
airmen at Syracuse University, who comprise the first
group to finish a new intensive eleven month course
in the Russian language. The graduates had arrived on
the campus in February of 1951, with little or no
knowledge of the Russian language.
In addition to learning the Russian language, the
students have devoted time to studying Soviet history,
geography, politics and economics to provide back
ground for their future utilization of the language in
Air Force assignments. These students, and the train
ing program they have just completed, are intended to
overcome a weakness in U.S. military intelligence.
Faced with the possibility of a tremendous aerial
war with Russia, the Air Force is moving to correct its
weak position in this feld. The ninety-three graduates
would become next to invaluable should war between
the Soviet Union and the United States occur. They
could be used to interrogate captured Russians and to
brief American airmen departing on a raid into the
Soviet Union, and, in addition, be used in all sorts of
intelligence and counter-intelligence work.
The assignment of these ninety-three graduates to
various units in the Air Force strengthens our military
preparation in one of the fields which, heretofore, has
been comparatively neglected.
EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Arrangements are being made to send 30 stu
dents from the Manitowoc, Wis., public school to the
Macon, Ga., public schools in exchange for a like num
ber of southern students. The exchange will probab
ly be made this month or in March.
Under the plan, the only cost to the students will
be transportation, for housing and food will be pro
vided by the families involved since the youngsters
are temporarily trading homes, as well as schools.
Trading high schools, homes, and climates is a
novel experiment which should prove beneficial to
the young people of both sections. Adjusting them
selves to a new environment and learning how people
in another section of the United States live is as much
a part of the educational process as learning the ABCs.
Unfortunately, the man who loses his head always
keens his toneme
Elizabeth Must
Bestow Title
On Husband
By ERNEST AGNEW
LONDON, (#>) — Young Queen
Elizabeth II hid lingering grief
for her father behind her home’s
secluding walls before grappling
with a host of duties and taking
the long rest her advisors are
urging upon her.
Within Clarence House she
rested amid the comforting pres
ence of her handsome young hus
band, the Duke of Edinburgh, and
her two children, 3 - year - aid
Crown Prince Charles and his
year-old sister, Princess Anne.
One of these decisions comes
only to a queen, and never to a
king—the choice of rank and title
for her husband.
Palace sources believe he will
receive the title of Prince Consort
and be raised in precedence to
rank ahead of all in the kingdom
except the sovereign. Queen Vic
toria, the great-great grandmother
of both Elizabeth and the Duke
set the precedent by conferring
this title and rank to her husband,
Albert.
The Duke now is outranked by
his son, who, as eldest son of the
sovereign, became Duke of Corn
wall the moment the king died.
Elizabeth must also consider
plans for her coronation. A likely
time for it is early summer, in
asmuch as she decreed mourning
only until June 1, in place of the
customary nine months to a year.
Briton Fined For Insulting
Behavior King s Funeral
LONDON, (/P) — Anthony
George, a 26-vear-old clerk, paid
a $2.80 fine for defiantly slapping
his feet on Fleet street Friday
during two minutes of silence for
King George VI. The specific
charge was “using insulting be
havior.”
Crowds of angry Britons mob
bed him after the incident and
shouted: “Throw him under a
bus.” He fled to the safety of
a policeman’s arms.
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Big Three To Discuss Price
For German Participation
In Euopean Defense Plan
LONDON, (£>)—Foreign Secre
tary Anthony Eden formally in
vited German Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer Saturday to join the
Big Three western foreign min
isters Monday to discuss future
relations between Germany and
the Allies.
. The meeting will allow U. S.
Secretary of State Dean Aeheson,
French foreign minister Robert
Schuman and Eden to talk over
the big price tag Germany has
put on her participation in West
ern defense forces.
The Germans lower house last
week made six conditions for Ad
enauer’s further talks on joining
the six-nation European army and
signing a peace contract with the
Big Three. They included full
equality with the Allies, freedom
for many criminals, and vote in
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization.
Adenauer accepted the bid.
Wife of Captain
Freezes Following
Wreck of Fish Boat
KODIAK, Alaska, (/P) — The
wife of a fishing boat skipper was
found dead on Afognak Island
Friday night after three men,
shipwrecked with her here, were
rescued from a desolate beach.
The frozen body of Mrs. Ed
Nevers was found four miles in
land from the beach where the
fishing boat Kerry was abandoned
Tuesday when its engines failed.
The two crewmen, Capt. Nevers
and his wife, abandoned the
Kerry off Black Cape. The wom
an was left in a lean-to while the
men attempted to walk to a
cabin for matches. The men froze
their feet and were unable to
walk to return for Mrs. Nevers.
The shipwrecked trio was pick
ed up Friday after being spotted
by Navy and Coast Guard flyers
who* conducted a search.
Hospital officials said it may be
necessary to amputate parts of
the feet of the three men. Captain
Neverss’ parents live at Eugene,
Ore.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School Board Elec
tion will be open WEDNESDAY,
February 20. Qualified registrants
must be thirty (30) days in the
precinct and one year in the ter
ritory. Election date, April 1st,
1952. Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Pub. Feb. 15, 22, 29, 1952.
FBI Arrests Ku
Klux Klansmen for
Flogging Couple
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The FBI
arrested 10 former North Carolina
klansmen Saturday on charges of
kidnaping and flogging a man
and a woman in a foray last
October. Both victims were de
scribed as white.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
said the 10—including a deputy
sheriff and a constable — were
taken into custody in a wide
spread raid on farm homes by
FBI agents and local police of
ficers.
The victims were identified as
Miss Dorothy Martin, 27, and Ben
Grainger, 40, both of Fair Bluff,
N.C.
The FBI chief said the two
were spirited from their homes
Oct. 6, 1951, and taken over the
state border into South Carolina.
The klansmen, he said, were
“hooded and robed” and “armed.”
“The victims were driven into
a remote area and Grainger was
made to lean over a front fender
of the automobile and was flogged
with a wide leather strap until
the blood ran. Miss Martin was
flogged in the same fashion, each
blow knocking her to the ground.”
The FBI announcement did not
list a motive for the Ku Klux l
Klan foray, but a spokesman said:
“A group of klansmen appar
ently set themselves up a self
designated moral persuaders.”
Anchorage Has Prospects
$2 Million Federal Grant
For New High School
ANCHORAGE, (TP)—Anchorage
has the strongest prospect of a
$2,257,695 federal grant toward
the cost of a new high school
building. It is subject to final
approval by the U.S. Office of
Education in Washington.
The school board was advised
of it in a letter from Eric L.
Lindman, director of administra
tion for state and local school
systems. He spent several weeks
in Alaska last year.
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The sum is less than half the
$5,000,000 asked by the local
school board to meet the mini
mum need.
The letter said the grant hinges
on whether bids for “minimum
construction” can be obtained
within the amount of the grant.
Only basic classrooms would
come within the offer. Anything
additioal would have to be fin
anced locally.
A three - man committee has r
been named to study the possibil
ities of local financing through a
sales tax.
Pioneer Water Delivery
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and zeolite-softened water at
the same regular price.
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