VOL. LIII No. 35_ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1951_Per Copy—15^
NEWS IN BRIEF
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WASHINGTON, (/P)— Oscar
CollazG today lost his plea for a
new trial and will be sentenced to
death April 6 for his part in the
Nov. 1 shooting in front of Presi
dent Truman's Blair House resi
dence.
In denying a defense motion for
a new trial, U.S. District Judge
T. Alan Goldsborough banged on
the bench with his hand for em
phasis and said “If ever a human
being on the face of the earth
had a fair trial, this defendant
did.*’
WASHINGTON, (/P)—James J.
Carroll, acknowledged “expert”
on some phases of horse race bet
ting, told Senate crime investiga
tors Thursday they are wrong if
they think big gookies use “come
back” men to force down .track
odds on long shots.
The St. Louis odds maker, who
once refused to testify in his home
city because TV cameras were
trained on the witness chair,
talked today after losing another
argument over broadcasts.
It was Carroll’s chance to es
cape a threatened contempt charge
which carries a possible prison
sentence of a year.
ANCHORAGE, (/P)—A surplus
Navy trainer plane crashed just
after the take-off from City Air
port yesterday. The plane was de
molished but the occupants, Mr.
and Mrs. F. J. Stephens, escaped
serious injury.
Stephens said the motor quit
when the plane was about 100
feet in the air.
Stephens was treated for face
cuts, his wife for shock.
JUNEAU, (iP)— The Alaska
House of Representatives passed
a memorial Wednesday night
thanking D. E. Skinner, Seattle,
general manager of the Alaska
Steamship Company, for his gift
of the Wilbur Julian Erskine li
brary to the University of Alaska.
The House also passed a memo
rial by Rep. Doris Barnes (R
Wrangell, urging officials not to
relax long-standing regulations
against shipping logs from Alaska
for processing outside the Terri
tory.
MANILA, (/P)—Scores of flag
ellants, seeking atonement for
their sins, beat each other’s backs
into a bloody pulp in their annual
Good Friday religious ceremony.
Thousands of spectators watched
the rites at Navotas, a Manila
suburb.
Participants, wearing crowns of
thorns, threw themselves face
down in the dust. Others lashed
their bare backs with whips.
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Bartlett Urges An
ual Gold Assessing
Be Suspended
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By Frank W. Vaille
AP Special Washington Service
WASHINGTON—Legislation to
suspend the required annual as
sessment work on gold mining
claims and set up a consolidated
system of recording all mineral
claims has been introduced by
Delegate Bartlett.
Several bills, including one by
! Bartlett, have been introduced to
I suspend assessment work on all
mining claims, but this is the first
to apply only to gold claims.
Bartlett told a reporter the new
proposal was introduced to meet
the objections of the Atomic En
ergy Commission and others who
felt the blanket suspension would
halt development of sites con
taining strategic and needed min
erals.
The suspension would be effec
tive until July 1 of the first year
after the end of the national emer
gency declared by President Tru
man Dec. 16, 1950.
The bill also would require fil
ing within 180 days after its en
actment *of a record of all claims
in the nearest district office of
the Bureau of Land Management.
Future claims would have to be
filled within 90 days of location.
The time limit in both instances
would be doubled for Alaska.
A record of assessment work
also would be filed each year.
The bill, however, would permit
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2 Cents More Tax
On Cigarets
JUNEAU, (/P>—Alaska’s House
of Representatives completed leg
islative approval late yesterday
of a two-cent-a-pack increase in
the cigaret tax. Members voted
19-5 for a five-cent tax bill pre
viously approved by the Senate.
It was the first major revenue
producing measure to pass both
Houses and go to the governor.
The increased cigaret tax is
earmarked for school construction.
It is expected to yield an addi
tional $400,000 to $500,000 lor the
biennium.
Whether it means a higher price
to cigaret buyers was a question.
Some argued that retailers
raised the price a nickel when
the three-cent tax was enacted in
1949, and that the Territory now
would pick up that extra two
cents.
Merchants i n the legislature
contended the wholesale price o1
tobacco has taken two jumps since
then, which the retailers absorbed,
so they must pass along the tax.
20,000 Reds Flee
U. S. Paratroopers
By the Associated Press)
American paratroopers, bol
stered by tough rangers, jumped
today behind Communist lines
north of Seoul and shocked some
20,000 Red troops into hasty flight.
The paratroopers filled the sky
with their brigrtly - hued para
chutes like a massive Easter bou
quet.
But the Communists rallied la
ter and were fighting desperately
to surround and wipe out the
3, 3 0 0 outnumbered American
jumpers.
An armored column spearhead
ing a fresh Allied drive by three
divisions north of Seoul linked
up with the paratroops near the
drop area south of Munsan.
Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway
landed in a light plane only 29
; minutes after the first paratroop
er jumped. A field dispatch said
I he was in the thick of one fire
1 fight.
In central Korea, an American
armored patrol pushed within two
and one-quarter miles of Parallel
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Pilgrims Throng Holy City
On Good Friday
Despite Drought
JERUSALEM, (jP)— Thousands
of devout Christians made a Good
Friday pilgrimage through crook
ed streets of old walled Jerusa
lem today as a drought described
as the worst in 80 years plagued
the Holy Land.
Holy Week devotions neared
the joyous Easter Sunday climax
after weeks of sunny, clear weath
er*
Pilgrim s— hundreds from
abroad—today followed the stor
ied route taken by Christ as he
carried His cross to Calvary.
Some groups, retracing Christ’s
steps, as usual carried with them
large wooden crosses through the
winding and narrow cobblestoned
streets.
The 14th and last Station of the
“Via Dolorosa” is the tomb inside
the holy sepulchre where Christ’s
body was believed taken after his
death on nearby Calvary.
U. S. TRANSPORT MISS
ING NEAR IRELAND
LONDON, (£>)— A giant Air
-Force transport plane disappeared
in bad weather today on a trans
Atlantic flight from the United
States to England. The British
Press Association said 52 persons
were aboard.
The missing plane, a C-124 or
Globemaster II, lost reported its
position in a routine radio check
about 1 a.m. as 800 miles south
west of Ireland.
Alaska 20th Legislature Holds Last
Session — $19 Million Appropriated
! JUNEAU, (/P)—Alaska’s 20th Legislature wound
| up its work at 5:30 a.m. today after passing record ap
j propriations totaling $19,544,130 and approving gov
i e nmental reorganization bill.
Heads of budget framing committees estimated
the deficit at the end of the 1951-53 biennium would be
slightly above $2,000,000.
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Civilian Defense
I Gets $400,000
i JUNEAU, (#>)— The principal
| final night contest came over civ
ilian defense and the reorganiza
tion bill. After the House cut the
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civilian defense appropriation to
$300,000, Sen. Frank Barr told
the Senate “apparently a lot of
people don’t realize there’s a war
on.”
A conference committee later
compromised midway between the
Senate and House versions at
$400,000.
Of the total $150,000 will be
for administration and civilian
training and $250,000 for federal
matching.
Administration Bill Passes
Several hours before Senate fi
nale over naming Senate members
of the Board of Administration,
the House approved the Senate
amendments to the recffgttDdntion
bill unanimously.
Even critics said the Senate had
improved the bill by amendments,
but Republicans spoke vehement
ly in behalf of their earlier insist
ance on delayed action.
Rep. James MacKinnon, Juneau
Republican, said it had been “rail
roaded” through the House pre
viously, and that the Senate had
to amend many flaws. Rep. Mike
Stepovich (R-Fairbanks) alleged
the bill originally had been “like
a choo-choo going through that
door.” |
In the closing hour Senator Lyng
challenged validity of the whole
procedure. He cited a bill passed
by the Legislature midway in the
session forbidding legislators to
serve on boards, and warned:
“I assure you that one day after
we leave it will be in the courts.”
Engstrom, who is Alaska Re
publican Central Committee Chair
man, angrily charged the reorgan
ization measure was “crammed
down our throats.”
Dog License Fees Fixed
Another final day action was
House approval of a Senate bill
for licensing of roaming dogs. It
fixes licenses of $2 for male snd
$3 for female dags and provides
that unlicensed roving dogs may
be destroyed after being held five
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> The two legislators, Sen. John
Butrovich, Fairbanks Republican,
and Rep. Glen Franklin, Bound
ary Democrat, said however that
the expected deficit might be re
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duced by a large salmon pack or
a likely increase in income tax
collections.
Actually, expenditures outlined
for the biennium are in. balance
with expected revenpe, but $2,
662,000 in frozen funds remaining
from the current biennium holdj
the threat of red ink over the two
year period.
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The threat of a major new taj
bill at the 11th hour failed to de
velop. The only major new reve
nue measures passed at this ses
sion were a 50% increase in th<
salmon pack tax and a boost ii
the cigaret tax from three to flv
cents a pack.
In the final hours, the two Horn
ses agreed on a general appropria
tion bill of $17,973,654 which in
eludes 8 % salary increases fc
teachers and territorial employ*
earning under $5,0 0 0 a yeai
agreed on a compromise civilia
defense appropriation of $400,00(
and whooped the reorganizatio
bill through the House by unan
mous vote after the Senate ha
amended it to make the propose
powerful Commissioner of F
nance responsible directly to
revised board of administratic
instead of the governor.
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NOME HI TRIMS '
NOME ALL-STARS 49-43 .
Last night the fast-moving P
lar Bears of Nome Hi gave tl
All-Stars of Nome a trimming.
The game started out fast wi
the speedy little Polar Bears ta
ing the lead in the first quart
by a score of 14-6 mainly due
the sharp shooting of A1 Sahli
Polar Bear Center.
High point men on the Pol
Bear team were Sahlin, with
points, Okpealuk and Willo;
with 9 points each.
Bill Shepherd of the All-Sts
took the scoring honors for t
night with 26 points to his cred
The teams want to tha
Wayne and Sam Mogg for a fi
job of refereeing.
In the preliminary game, t
Alumni Girls took the measure
the High School Girls 29-21
win the girls* championship.
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