Daily
Home-Owned Newspaper
VOLUME XVI _
and The ARROWHEAD PRESS
Member of The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 7, 1955
10c o Copy
NUMBER 252
2 American soldiers grabbed
by East German police today
Fair turned over to
Soviet military
authorities
SiBRiLIiN (/P) East Berlin coon
amunisits, exercising new Soviet
granr.ed sovereignty, announced
today they have arrested two
American soldiers.
The two were not identified,
«nd the U. iS. army could not
immediately confirm the an
nouncement broadcast by (the
East Berlin radio.
®ut it raised speculation the
communists would use the two
soldiers as an example, put
them on trial before one of
their courts, and thus demon
strate that East Berlin, as the
Russians declared last week, is
po longer occupied territory.
The communist East Berlin
newspaper, Bz Am Abend, said
however East Berlin police had
turned the Americans over to
Soviet military authorities.
The Bz also did not name the
soldiers, but released a picture
of a uniformed American hold
ing his hand over his face, with
the caption: “One of the Gang
stars.”
The radio said the two were
arrested after beating a male
catoeref performer unconscious.
The performer was identified
as Werner Lienck.
The radito asnauneement was
later confirmed (by the official
East German news agency. Adn
Adn said the two soldiers at
tempted to flee toy jumping in
to a taxi and ordering the driv
er to take them to the East
West sector boundary. The driv
er agreed, and drove them un
til he found two communist
policemen.
Adn said the incident occur
red at 2:45 a. m. as Lierck and
V eafchcombing
H At noon today, we were in
formed, there was 10 inches of
SNOW in Juneau and it was
still falling. That’s one way to
ffii&ke a city look clean.
$ There is only one place I
know of where there is “Good
News.” The correct terms for
what appear in your newspap
er is — Surprisirtg — Terrible
— Bad — Pleasant — Crime—
Glad — and a host of others.
®ut Good News can be found
i*nly in one place.
• Basketball is really under
way and from now on — as if
you didn’t have enough to do—
you can plan on a couple of
nights a week yelling your
heads off.
• Could you answer?
* OAULiAlS (/P) “What day is
today? What significance does
this day have?”
Reporters of the Dallas Times
Herald asked these quest* ions
as they circulated among heavy
crowds of Christmas shoppers.
Only three out of every ten
persons interviewed rememb
ered this is the anniversary of
JPearl Harbor. ^ ^
his wife were leaving a ibar in
East Berlin.
The soldiers had also been in
the bar, Adn said.
The East Berlin radio said
the two soldiers made ‘‘provo
cative” remarks to Lierck as
they were leaving /the bar.
Lierck reported that they were
on “territory” of the East Ger
man “republic” and he forbade
I such talk.
This anlgered one of the sold
iers, and he beat Lierck into tin
consciousness.
Tax collections to
date exceed 1954
for all-time high
JUNEAU (/P) Territorial tax
collection for the first 11
I months of 1955 have already
i exceeded the all-time high for
a full year’s receipts, accord-;
; ing to the latest figures releas- i
ed by tax commissioner Karl (
Dewey.
A total of $15,836,775 has
been collected through Novem
her, Dewey said, and ret/urns
normally received in Decem
ber should run the total for
the. year well over $16 million.
Biggest year in tax depart
ment history prior to this year
was in 1953 when receipts a
mounted ito $15,630,000. He
pointed out that collections for
the first 11 months this year
exceed the 1953 total by over
$200,000 and that by the end
: of the year it might exceed
the 1953 figure by half a mil
lion dollars.
j Even .more substantial in
creases were chalked up over
■ the .1954 total collection figure
of $14,591,550.
Dewey pegged the higher
collection figures on three fac
tors: new methods of collec
tion, stricter enforcement and
a raise in several tax categor
ies by the last legislature.
New methods of collection
are primarily responsible for
bigger receipts in motor ve
hicle drivers’ license taxes
while a stricter enforcement
policy has accounted for con
siderable gains in collections
of raw fish and tobacco /taxes,
i Dewey pointed out.
Memorial raised at
Pearl Harbor on
14th anniversary
PEARL HARBOR (JP) A 10
foot memorial of lava rock, rais
ed to the memory of 3,303 Am
ericans killed in /the Pearl Har
bor attack 14 years ago, was de
dicated today with these sol
emn words:
“We know the cost of not be
ing preparted.”
The words were sipoken by
Charles R. Topp, Davenport,
Iowa, national commander of
the Navy Chib of -the United
States, sponsor of the memor
ial.
Fourteen years ago, almost
to the hour when Topp spoke,
his cousin, Capt. Lynn Valyen
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Local resident finds
$1,000 in bills -
then finds owner
When is a man an honest
man, asks the Sitka Police De
partment? Then they answer
their own question by stating:
‘'When he finds a roll of bills
containing $1,000, with absol
utely no identification on them
and advertises until he has
found the owner and returned
the money.
Sunday afternoon, Vincent
Kosak rebooted to the police he
had found a large amount of
money and asked assistance in
helping to find the owner. La
ter in the day a local resident
| reported the loss of $1,000 in
$20 bills wrapped in some rub
ber bands. After proper identi
fication, Mr. Kosak returned
the money to the owner.
“We believe that we know a
lot of people who would have
acted the same under the same
circumstances, but it makes us
feel kind of good to actually
know a man who acted as Mr.
Kosak did,” said chief of pol
ice Burton Doucette.
Kosack, unemployed for
some time and the father of
four children ranging in age
from 4 to 13, works as a labor
er and longshoreman. He is at
present temporarily employed
as a laborer.
Prominent pioneer
Alaska teacher
passes at 78
ANCHORAGE UP) Mrs. Jes
samine E. Nagley, memlber of
a prominent pioneer mining
and hotel family, died yester
day of a stroke at a Palo Alto,
California hospital. She was
78 years old.
She is survived iby her hus
band, Norace W. Nagley, and
a son, Willard, who were with
her at the (time of her death.
Mrs. Nagley was born Jessa
mine Millikan, March 23, 1877
After her graduation from
Purdue University, she spent
a year teaching in a Igovern
ment school in Puerto Rico be
fore cominlg to Alaska in 1989,.
Her early years as a teach-1
er in Alaska took her from
such isolated communities as
Hoonah and Chignik to Susit
na Station, some 80 miles up
the Susitna River from Cook
Inlet.
It was in the booming Cache
Cr^ek mining area served by
the Station ithat she met her
husband, pioneer merchant
and postmaster.
Funeral arrangements are
still pending but are expected
to be held in Anchorage.
Quick thinking
LAS VEGAS, Nev. </P) Har
assed by a pesky gopher, farm
er Paul Thomas dropped a con
cussion bomfb into the var
ment’s hole.
But, he said, the gopher
pushed the bomb. with fuse
burning, back out. Thomas
quickly picked i>t up and burl
ed it away. The bomb exploded
igniting a hay pile.
Firemen saved the house and
barn yesterday 'but 12 tons of
hay was destroyed. Thomas
claims the gopher still peers
out the hole.
Recommend dropping voting
oge in new state to 20 years
Present sufferoge
qualifications
should apply
FAIRBANKS {/P) The Alas
ka constitutional convenition
commi.tee on suiflfraige and el
ections is pretty well satisfied
with the way things are now,
thank you.
The commi.tee reported to
day:
“The present suffrage qual
ifications of the 50-year-old
act of congress should apply
to the state of Alaska with
the following exception — the
voting age shall ibe reduced to
20 and the literacy qualifica
tions determined by tlhe legis
lature.
It said the present Alaska
“tried and tested voting law
should be proposed.”
The committee report was
the first to Ibe produced in the
month-lonjg deliberations of
the conven ion. It was signed
by John Hellenthal, Anchor
age, the committee chairman.
It is unlikely the recommen
dations will be acted upon be
fore the delegates have a
chance to feel the pulse of /the
‘‘peepul”. The 14 committee
Japan's fishing
grounds sharply
cut since war
TOKYO (/P) The Japan-South j
Korea fishery crisis points up
Japan’s concern over the way j
her (favorite fishing hole — the |
Pacific Ocean — has been slic- |
ed up (by or.her nations.
Her fleets once plowed wat
ers from pole to pole and as far
as the coast of Mexico. Now
they are fenced in by an unpre
cedented series of postwar
claims and treaties.
“We have been badly crip
pled,” says Noriaki Oka, chief
of the statistics sections, govern
ment fisheries agency.
“ Our fishermen are impov
erished, our people, most of
whom depend upon fish as
their principal source of 'pro
tein, are receivinjg only 66 per
cent of the nutrition they
need.”
Here is what has happened
since the shooting stopped in
1945, resulting in a 30 per cent
drop in Japanese catches:
1. South Korea has staked
out territorial waters extend
ing 60 to 200 miles off the
coast, cutting across some of
the ibest fishing grounds in the
Pacific.
2. Australia has laid claim
■to all waiters covering her con
tinental shell, up to 200 miles
off shore, and including the
pearl-rich Aarafura Sea.
3. Russia has blocked access
to some areas north of Hofekai
do. Japan’s northern island,
through her acquisition of the
Kuriles, Sakhalin, Habomai
and Shikm£an islands.
4. The United States, Cana
da and Japan signed the north
Pacific fisheries agreement
during the occupation, prohib
(continued on page four)
chairman said today they hope
to get approval of a suggestion
that no proposal be advanced
beyond second reading until af
ter the late December recess.
Under normal parliament
ary procedure, bills are read
three times before being vot
ed upon for final passage.
The suggestion, if adapted,
will give the delegates a
chance to change their minds
after going home for the 15
day recess and hearing itheir
constituents.
Hearings will be held by
some committees during the
recess and Victor Rivers, An
chorage delegate and chairman
of the executive committee,
says he thinks I'lhe proposal
will permit changes which
might be found necessary.
(Once in third reading, it
would take a two-thirds vote
to bring a section or proposal
back to second reading for a
change.)
The committee chairman al
so said the recess should not
! be considered a holiday but a
period for gaining perspective
staging public hearings and
learning more about the peo-»
pie’s wants.
It also was learned that the
committee on bill of rights
voted to kill a proposal which
would have prohibited a clos
t ed union shop.
The action was taken yes
terday after it was introduced
by R. E. Robertson, Juneau.
Robertson 9aid he may take
his case to it he convention
floor after the committee sub
mits its ideas on a (bill of
rights.
Robertson’s (proposal said ev
erv person was entitled to “the
enjoyment1 of the right to
work” and every two or more
persons the “enjoyment of the
right to collective, labor bar
gaining.”
No member of the commit
tee was favorable to the pro
posal, said Miss Dorothv Awes
chairman. Aroart from the idea
behind it, she said, the mem
bers also felt such a matter
was not the business of the
constitution.
As the committee thinking
now stands, Miss Awes said,
all such matters will be left to
the legislature.
(continued on na«e three)
A
Marine forecast from Wed
nesday to Thursday.
STORM WARNING
A strong pressure gradient
will continue to cause 35 to 50
raph winds over narrow chan
nels ousside waters Sitka to Ya
kutat.
End of warning.
Outside waters Sitka to Ya
kutat east to northeast winds
25 to 35 mph except 50 mph
with strong gusts opposite moun
tain passes.
Snow, with occasional blow
ing snow.
Outside waters Sitka to Dix
' on Entrance southeasterly wind
20 to 30 mph with occasional
| strong gusts today decreasing
! to 15 to 20 mph late tonight.
‘ Cloudy with occasional irai»,