Bridges Goes On
Trial For Perjury
November 14
SAN FRANCISCO, — Harry
Bridges’ trial on charges of per
jury and conspiracy to defraud
the government will start on No
vember 14, barring some unfore
seen delay.
Federal district judge George B.
Harris Wednesday denied a series
of motions by which counsel for
Bridges and two aides attacked
the indictments on various consti
tutional and gelag grounds.
The Australian-born Bridges,
stormy labor figure and head of
the CIO ongshoremen’s union, was
charged wuth perjury in testifying
at his 1945 naturalization hearing
that he was not and never had
been a communist.
Union vice president J. R. Rob
ertson and Henry Schmidt, union
international representative, were
accused of aiding and abetting an
attempt to defraud the government
by their statements at the hearing.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Twelve Die When
B-50 Explodes *
In England
*
ISLEHAM, Eng. (/F)— A U. S.
air force B-50 bomber with a load
of live bombs dived into a wheat
I field yesterday and exploded with
a roar heard 12 miles away. All 12
crew members were killed.
The plane, designed os the atom
bomb carrying version of the B-29,
was on a 180-mile practice mis
sion to the North Sea island of
Helgoland with twelve 500-pound
bombs.
Villagers said the plane appear
ed to burst into flames just before
it dropped through a light ground
fog and struck the field. Flaming
bits of the four-engined craft were
blown hundreds of yards in all di
rections.
Burning gasoline set fire to a
ring of farm buildings and to 60
tons of sacked wheat.
Both British and American air
craft regularly use Helgoland for
live bombing practice.
The Third Air Division said
this was the first accident involv
FRONTIER NIGHT AT SCOTTY'S
BAR SATURDAY NIGHT
A novel form of entertainment
is planned for the grand opening
of the recreation room of Scotty’s
tomorrow evening where games of
the early days will be played for
high stakes. All guests will receive
a thousand dollars or so to have
fun with at the game tables in a
grand frontier day fashion.
The management states that
they plan to play roulettes, wheel
of fortune, and several card games
such as black jack, etc.
The recreation room is at the
rear of the building occupied by
Scotty’s Bar and Scotty’s Liquor
Store.
ing a B-50 since the 43rd group of
these craft arrived Aug. 18 from
their Tucson, Ariz., base.
A B-50 bomber crashed near
Fairbanks, Alaska, last Dec. 22,
killing all ten men aboard.
The Third Air Division withheld
the names of yesterday’s dead un
til next of kin are notified.
The B-50’s are among the new
est types of planes in the U. S. air
force and one of them, the “Lucky
Lady,” flew non-tsop around the
world earlier this year.
U. S. Planes Flew
Over Soviet Atom
Installations
PARIS, <>P)—Samedi Soir, Paris
tabloid weekly newspaper, said to
day “supersonic American air
planes have flown over Soviet
atom installations.”
Quoting a Major Silov, identi
fied us chief of staff of a Russian
artillery division during the war,
Samedi Soir said the planes were
probably carrying gieger counters.
Silov was quoted last July in the
same papers as saying the Rus
sians had exploded an atomic
bomb.
The paper said the planes flew
over the region at Tashkent in
Russian Turkistan.
Silov said the planes were be
lieved to have come from the
Iranian border and possibly from
the American bases on Barhein Is
land in the Persian Gulf.
Yesterday the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Kasznoc of King
Island Village, passed away. Baby
Robert is survived by two older
brothers.
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Fire Destroys CAA
Building At Homer
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Civil Aero
nautics Authority officials dis
closed today that the CAA com
munications building at Homes
was destroyed Tuesday night by a
$40,000 fire.
A temporary setup to be used
this winter is expected to be com
pleted by tomorrow.
The destroyed building con
tained automatic relay equipment
and functioned unattended. It
was used as a very high frequency
point-to-point repeater station and
was part of a direct line circuit be
tween Anchorage and Homer, and
Homer and Kodiak.
Communications were resumed
within an hour Tuesday night, us
ing standby equipment.
Engineers here already have
started plans for a new building.
NOTICE
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
The Employment Security Com
mission of Alaska (formerly the
Unemployment Compen s a t i o n
Commission will meet in Anchor
age, Alaska, in the last week of
October at the Territorial Em
ployment Office located in the
Glover Bldg., at 5th and E Streets.
The meeting will start Tuesday,
October 25, 1949, 10:00 A.M.
Any and all persons having busi
ness before the Commission may
appear and will be given an op
portunity to be heard.
R. E. Sheldon,
Executive Director
Pub. Sept. 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 1949
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