Forecast And !
Weather Report
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
and occasional light rain today.
NE winds 15 to 20 mph. Clearing
Thursday. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 32, highest tomor
row 45.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation, trace.
Month total, .11 in. Temperatures:
highest 43, lowest 37. Maximum
wind 20 mph. from the NNE. Sun
rise at 2:39 am, sunset at 9:20 pm.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
51, lowest 34. Extreme tempera
tures bn this date since 1907: high
est 57 in 1912, lowest 9 in 1918.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 0 Snow
Point Hope 20 Part Cloudy
Kotzebue 33 Cloudy
Wales 21 Cloudy
Gambell 26 Snow
Nome 42 Cloudy
Bethel 50 Rain
McGrath 49 Cloudy
Anchorage 50 Part Cloudy
Fairbanks 53 Part Cloudy
Whitehorse 50 Part Cloudy
Edmonton 65 Part Cloudy
Juneau 46 Rain
Ketchikan 49 Rain j
Seattle 67 Part Cloudy j
San Francisco 56 Cloudy
For Good Printing Call Main 125
Asks House Un-American
Committee To Investigate
Portsmouth Navy Yard
WASHINGTON, (A>) — Senator
Bridges (R-NH) said today he has
asked the House Un-American
Activities Committee to investi
gate charges that a Communist
cell has been set up in the Ports
mouth, N. H., Navy Yard. ' -
A spokesman for Bridges said
the charges have been investi
gated by various federal agencies
since 1947, but so far os he knows
none of them has ever made av
public report of its findings.
He said the inquiries were made
by the Federal Bureau o*f Investi
gation, >the Senate Armed Services
Committee and the Navy Depart
I f
| meat.
Bridges’ request to the House
committee was made in response
to demands by the New Hamp
shire and Maine American Legion
departments for a new inquiry.
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Ex-Paratrooper
Falls 6 Stories, Is
Slightly Injured
4' FAIRBANKS, (/P) — Falling
through the air is no novelty to
ex^paraitrooper Richard Beckman.
But Beckman had no parachute
yesterday when he tumbled six
stories from an apartment build
ing project, landed on a concrete
sidewalk—and lived to (talk about
it.
Beckman, 25, suffered only
bruises and a possible small frac
ture of one rib, said an aston
ished physician, Dr. J. I. Weston.
“A strong shoulder and lots of
luck,” were credited by Dr. Wes
ton with what he called a “mirac
• t, .
ulous escape from death.”
•• “He apparently landed on his
shoulder, 'and his butflung arm
cushioned his head from the ce
ment,” the doctor said. “But I
don’t see how he could escape al
most uninjured.”
Meanwhile Beckman told of his
sensations when the ropes gave
way on the scaffolding on- which
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he' was working six stories up and
plummeted him downward. Rest
ing in a hospital bed today he
said:
“Palling from a building must
; be the easiest death on earth. *
“I saw the ropes give and I real
ized in a flash that I would prob
ably be killed. But on that six
story drop I never had any fear
nor any bad sensation.
“I just fell and then I hit. I
wasn’t knocked unconscious.”
The sidewalk around the build
ing on which Beckman landed is
concrete five inches thick.
“It wasn’t my first drop but it
was my fastest,” Beckman said.
He served with the 101st Air
borne Division during World War
II. He lists Seattle as his home
town.
Former Deputy Tax
Collector At Anchorage
Charged Embezzlement
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Archie L.
Brown, former deputy tax collect
or for the territorial tax office at
Anchorage, was arraigned yester
day in Third District Court on a
charge of embezzlement.
Brown was accused of misap
propriating $4,350 in territorial
funds between March 12 and
August 28 erf 1948. The charges
were contained in an indictment
returned by a grand jury Feb. 27.
The indictment was kept secret
until Brown was arrested and re
turned here for prosecution. A
warrant was served on him in At
lanta, Ga. He was returned here
over the week-end from Seattle
in custody of Deputy Marshal Er
win Metcalf of Seward.
Brown is scheduled to appear
in District Court May 21 to enter
a plea. His bond, originally $5,000
was reduced to $2,500.
Brown was deputy (tax collector
here about three years before re
signing in May of 1949 under fire.
Attorney General J. Gerald Wil
liams claimed at the time Brown
admitted borrowing territorial
funds and that the borrowing re
sulted in a $559 shortage of ac
counts.
A grand jury vindicated Brown
in October of 1949 after conduct
ing an investigation of alleged ir
regularities in the tax office.
Williams said the tax commis
sioner had found what appeared
to be an additional shortage of
$4,350 on Brown’s book. The
territory expects to collect the
money from the company that
bonded Brown, the attorney gen
eral said.
Hirst Chicagof Gold Mine
Near Juneau Closed Down
JUNEAU, (/P) — Manager Paul
Sorensen Saturday announced the
closing of the Hirst Chicagof Gold
Mine near here, because “there is
no hope in sight for gold mining
for a long time.”
Sorensen is the new superin- j
tendent o*f the United States Tin
Corporation which will mine lodo
and placer tin near Teller on the j
Seward Peninsula.
The tin company has received a
loan of $350,000 from the Defense
Minerals Adminsitration. Kenneth
Kadow, former chairman of the
Alaska Field Committee, is vice
president and manager of U. S. j
Tin. |
14-Year-Old Locked In
| Portland Church Safe
: PORTLAND, UP) — First, the
church treasurer tried to crack
the safe. Then the ushers, and
finally a number of church-goers
tried to break in.
Someone called the cops, and j
! darned if Patrolman George Lev-!
ens didn’t begin fiddling with the
safe’s dial, too.
What’s more, he cracked the
combination, and that’s how 14-1
year-old Fred Schwab was res-;
cued from the Rose City Park ■
Methodist Church safe Sunday.
|
A tearful playmate confessed j
shoving young Schwab into the!
walk-in vault, and spinning the j
dial just before church began. j
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25,200 TULIPS FLOWN TO
HAWAII FOR MOTHER'S DAY
The largest shipment of flow- j
ers Pan American World Airways
has' ever flown to the Hawaiian
Islands were taken from Seattle!
for Mother’s Day.
The flowers, rushed to Hono
lulu consisted of nothing but tu
lips, 25,200 of them. They weighed
1400 pounds.
According to Tony J. Lipoma,
the shipper, of the L. & L. Ever
green Company, Seattle, they were
all novelty tulips, such as the
Cordell Hull, the red parrot, the
bonanza, and many other types.
They were grown by the John
Onderwater bulb farm in Mt. Ver
non, Washington.
Practically every type of flower
is grown in the islands in great
quantities, except daffodils and
tulips, which they depend upon
the State of Washington to supply.
“What beautiful scallops you
have made on the pies, Mandy!
How do you do it?”
“Ah’s glad you like dem, Mam.
Ah just used mah false teeth to
make de impresses.”
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sonal telephone conversa
tions during office hours*
ROAD BULLETIN
NOME-COUNCIL ROAD —Open
to Mile 8. A serious washout
beyond (that point is impassable
until repaired.
NOME-BESSIE ROAD—Open to
Red Hangar. Melting snow be
yond that point has softened the
road and until the surface is
dry the road is closed.
DEXTER ROAD — Closed to all
♦
traffic.
SUNSET ROAD — Passable to
Mile 6.
CENTER CREEK and LITTLE
CREEK ROADS—Open and in
good condition.
These roads are for your con
venience and you can greatly
assist in their maintenance by
limiting your driving to the above
mentioned roads.
. District Engineer
DEFENDANT IS A MONKEY
COLUBUS, Ohio, {&), The Ohio
Supreme Court will try tor un
ravel a case about a monkey who *
grabbed a $10 bill from a lady
customer in a pet shop.
When Miss Katherine Busch
tried to retrieve the money, the
monkey bit her. She* sued the :
Cleveland pet shop operators, and:
a lower court awarded her a $1,
a lower court awarded her a
$1,700 verdict.
The pet shop operators, in their'
appeal, maintain Miss Busch
should not have assumed she
could get the $10 back from the
monkey.
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ANCHORAGE—Fourth Ave. Theater Bldg.
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