Bulletin:
Spring Break-Up
Spring break-up is now an ac
tual fact and due to heavy run off
there is considerable danger of
washouts.
The public and the Army are
requested to limit the use of all lo
cal roads until the danger is past
at which timq notification will be
given.
The following information is for
your consideration:
Travel on Nome-Solomon Road
is limited to emergency use only
because of extensive repairs be
ing made by the sea wall contrac
tor and high water on road at
Mile 10t£, Hastings Creek.
Dexter Road is open only as far
as Ditch Camp at Mile 4, and for
light traffic only. Travel beyond
this point is prohibited due to soft
condition of road and possible
washouts.
Osborne Road is closed entirely
due to soft condition and washout
at Dry Creek, Mile 1.
Sunset Road is open only as far
as Mile 3, travel beyond is dan
gerous due to high water.
Snake River Road is usable for
the first 2 miles only.
The Bessie Road is open and in
good condition, but public is re
quested to use the Bourbon Creek
Road and Center Creek Road if
they desire to go to the Satellite
Field area or Anvil Mountain. The
reason for this is because of de
tour at U.S.S.R, & M. company
dredge operations, Mile 3.
With the run off as serious as it
is, your continued cooperation is
requested and notification will be
given as soon as this danger is
passed and the roads are consid
ered safe for travel.
J. D. Hudert,
District Engineer.
GROUCHO MARX GROUCHY
ABOUT HOUSEWORK
LON ANGELES, OP)—Groucho
Marx doesn’t like housework and
his young wife, Kay, didn’t like
his friends, the comedian testified '
Friday in obtaining a divorce on
ground of mental cruelty.
The 59-year-old radio and
movie wisecracker testified he '
had to manage the household,
keep the servants in line, order
the meals and perform other du
ties after a hard day on the radio.
The comic and his wife, 29, the
"Axis Sally" Must
Serve Prison Term
ASHINGTON, f/P)—'The U. S.
circuit, court o fappeals ruled to
day that Mildred E. <Axis Sally
G ilia i s must serve 10 to 30 years
in prison for broadcasting Nazi
propaganda during World War II.
The white-haired 49-year-old
former actress was convicted
more than a year ago in federal
district court here. The verdict
was handed down by a jury which
deliberated 17 hours and 20 min
utes.
In addition to the sentence of
from 10 to 30 years, she also was
fined $10,000. She would be eli
gible for parole after serving 10
years in prison.
The three judges who heard her
appeal were unanimous in uphold
ing her treason conviction and
sentence.
“We find no reversible error
and the judgment accordingly is
, affirmed,” the court’s 12,000-word
i opinion said.
The case was argued May 9 be
fore Justices Rennet Champ Clark,
Wilbur K. Miller and Charles
Fahy. The opinion was written by
Judge Fahy.
Point-bv-point, the court denied
1 all of her contentions that she
was not given a fair trial, that she
was forced to broadcast for the
Nazis and that the district court
had erred in conducting the trial.
Today’s development marked
another scene in one of the post
war period’s longest treason dra
mas_ Miss Gillards first was ar
rested nearly five years ago when
American troops entered Berlin.
Before the downfall of the Na
zis, her smooth-voiced radio
shows became known to millions
of GI’s. She was the supposedly
glamorous radio siren who taught
the haunting strains of “Lili Mar
lene” which became the world
war marching-fighting song of the
American infantry.
Since federal judge Edward M.
Curran pronounced sentence on
March 25, 1949, Miss Gillars has
been held in the District of Colum
bia jail.
former Kay Gorcey, were wed in
1945, und have a three-year-old
daughter, Melinda, whose custody
Mrs. Marx will have 10 months of
the year. Groucho will pay Mrs.
Marx $134,215 over a period of
lOPfe years.
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[“Alaska Statehood
j Chances Loom
Brighter”—Bartlett
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000 Eklutna power project which
would produce ’0,000 kilowatts of
power for the Anchorage area.
He said the Territory is being
well treated by Congress this year,
that in addition to appropriations
specifically marked for Alaska the
general appropriation bill con
tains close to $100,000,000 for fed
eral activities in Alaska.
He listed these specific items as
approved by the House as includ
ing: $31,000,000 for the Alaska
Railroad, $28,400,000 in cash and
contract authority for road con
struction, $2,600,000 for road
maintnance; $12,122,000 for the
Indian Bureau; $1,122,000 for the
Indian revolving fund, $1,873,581
for the fish and wildlife service,
$4,000,000 for the Alaska Com
munication System, $11,000,000
for continuing exploration of the
Naval Petroleum Reserve ad $9,
000,000 for public works. $815,000
for the Bureau of Land Manage
ment, $250,000 for water investi
' gations by the Lands Management
Bureau, $3,200,000 for airports at
Fairbanks and Anchorage, $1,259,
000 for investigation and control
of disease and $260,000 for agri
cultural research.
In addition President Truman
recently asked an appropriation of
$71,109,458 for army and airforce
public works construction in the
Territory. Au authorization bill to
permit appropriation of $98,611,
811 for that work is pending in
the House.
In addition authorization for the
Anchorage and Fairbanks airports
was increased from $13,000,000 to
$17,000,000.
The Delegate said the Alaska
Housing Authority has been grant
ed loans for planning 275 low
rental housing units in the Terri
tory, with 150 to be in Anchorage,
71 in Fairbanks-and 10 in Juneau.
He said 17 community public
works projects have been approv
ed under the Alaske Public Works
program. He said this approval
will bring about construction of
such projects at Wrangell, the
University of Alc'frka, Juneau,
Spenard, Mountain View, Park
View, Anchorage, Ketchikan,
Skagway, Douglas, Naknek, Dil
lingham, Chugiak, Homer, Ninil
i chick, Fairbanks and Petersburg.
The House wrote into the $9,
i 000,000 appropriation to continue
the Public Works program a re
striction that no project should
be approved unless certified by
the Secretary of Defense as being
in interest of national defense.
Bartlett sai he would appear be
fore the Senate appropriations
committee next month to ask that
the restriction be removed.
Legal Planks at The Nugget office
DREAM
THEATER
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2 Shows, Fri., 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
"TOPEKA TERROR"
Allan Lane
—•—
1 Show Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
"DEEP WATERS"
Dana Andrews - Ceasar Romero
Jean Porter
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2 Shows, Sun., 7:15 and 9:00 p.m.
"COUNTERFEITERS"
John Sutton - Doris Merick
Lon Chaney
(McCarthy Wants
Acheson, Jessup,
Lattimore Fired
_
ATLANTIC, N. J.. (/P)—Senator
McCarthy (R.-Wis.) Monday ac
cused secretary of state Acheson
of betraying the United States in
Asia. He asked that President
Truman fire Acheson.
Contending American policies
played into the hands of the com
munists in China, McCarthy said
that Acheson had “bought” a plan
for the Far East devised by Owen
Lattimore which is “gigantic in
its fraud and complete in its de
ceit.”
He said that Philip Jessup, U.
S. roving ambassador, was a
“third member of the Lattimore
Acheson Axis” and asked that Mr. !
Truman fire Jessup, too.
McCarthy hit out at Acheson,
Jessup and Lattimore in an ad- |
dress prepared for the diamond
jubilee convention of the Sons of
the American Revolution.
Lattimore is a Johns Hopkins ,
university professor and specialist
on the Far East who has been an
occasional consultant to the state
department.
McCarthy has concentr a t e d
much of his fire on Lattimore in
contending that the state depart
ment harbors communists and
Red sympathizers.
Lattimore has denied he is a
communist o ra sympathizer.
Acheson and other living secre
taries of state have declared also
that Lattimore was not the author
of American policies in the Far
East.
McCarthy said in his prepared
speech that the strategy of the
Acheson-Lattimore axis in Asia is
that “of hitting communists at the
front door with a silk handker
chief while they beat the brains1
Sixteen Die In
Fhuning B-29
PONTA DELGADA, Azores, (/P)
A B-29 bomber crashed off the
runway at Lagens Field Wednes
day night and burst into flames,
killing all 16 persons aboard.
Unofficial reports said the U. S.
Air Force plane hit an automobile
parked off the field. The plane
c a u ght fire immediately and
burned in a few minutes. Four
teen men were burned beyond
recognition.
The plane, carrying a crew of 11
and five passengers, believed to be
military personnel was en route
from Bermuda to England.
Its home was Barksdale Air
Force Base at Shreveport, La.
Capt. Salvadore Pelle, public in
formation officer at Barksdale,
said the plane had been diverted
to Lagens Field when it developed
engine trouble. He said no high
ranking officers were aboard. The
bomber was en route to England
as part of the air force rotational
plant to provide overseas training
for regular air force groups.
Teen Age Dance
Saturday, May 20
9:00 P.M.
Arctic Club
out of your friends at the back
door.”
Ghost towns in the west some
times come to life through now
ore discoveries, tourist trade or
winter sports.
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