Trapper Defies
Police With Bullet
And Proclamation
KELOWNA, British Columbia,
(3—A bullet-puncuated proclama
tion of death hung on a tree in
the hills near here Friday, as a
crazed trapper’s symbol of open
definance of law and order.
The 50-year-old trapper and
prospector, identified by police as
George S. Bowen, has declared
“open season” on the Royal Can
adian Mounted Police and mem
bers of three neighboring families.
Bowen took to the hills back of
his cabin at Bear Creek, five miles
west of here after firing two shorts
at an R-C-M-P patrol car Wednes
day night. Both shots struck the
fender of the car from a distance
of 250 yards.
A posse of seven constables sent
out after him was called back
after only a few hours. An R-C
M-P official said it is now hoped
to capture Bowen “without blood
shed.” An intermediary may be
used, he said.
Bowen is an expert marksman
and knows the woods in this area
“like the back of his hand.”
In his proclamation Bowen
charged that police had refused tcf
arrest a man who had threatened
to murder him.
“Last night marks the 16th at
tempt to murder me since New
Year’s Eve. These attempts are
instigated by marijuana peddlers
. . . [whose] purpose is to make a
reefer addict of every Canadian
school child . . .” the proclamation
said in part.
Police said members o*f one of
the families threatened were in
volved in a New Year’s Eve fight
in which Bowen suffered severe
head injuries.
The proclamation concluded:
“As the R-C-M-P have openly
declared themselves on the side
of the murderers and dope ped
dlers, I make the proclamation in
the name of Her Majesty the
Queen. Any person tearing down
this notice or defacing it will be
summarily shot. George S. Bowen.” '
Senate Condemns Russian
Prosecution of Jews 79-0
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate’s 79-0 vote for a resolution
condemning Russian persecution
of Jewish and other minorities
points toward similar overwhelm- I
ing support for President Eisen
hower’s denunciation of the Sovi
et’s “subjugation of free peoples.”
The Senate was as unanimous
as it ever gets in formally criticiz
ing “the vicious and inhuman”
persecutions by Russia and its
satellites of ethnic and religious
groups.
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Mobs Backing Shah Drive
Mossadegh from Home
TEHRAN, Iran, Iff)—Raging mobs
bent on keeping Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi in power drove
Prime Minister Mohammed Mos
sadegh out of his home today and
forced him to take refuge in a
U. S. Point Four headquarters
next door.
The mobs, apparently support
ers of Ayatullah Seyed Abolghas
sem Kashani, Iran’s high Moslem
priest and speaker of Parliament,
drove a jeep through Mossadegh’s
front gates. His house guards fired
and four to 12 persons were re
ported injured.
Later, pro-Massadegh mobs ap
peared on the streets and the
struggle for power between the
aged prime minister and the
youthful shah appeared to a touch
and-go affair.
J. R. Watkins Co. Charged
With Trying to Evade Tax
WASHINGTON, UR— A world
wide patent medicine manufac
turer, named in a congressional
blast at alleged cut rate settle
ments of alcohGl tax delinquincies,
has been charged with conspiracy
to evade taxes.
In the Senate Friday, Sen. Wil
liams (R-Del) cited the J. R. Wat
kins Company’s affairs as a case
in point when he accused the In
ternal Revenue Burea of settling
more than $5 million worth of
alcohol tax claims for about 10
cents on the dollar.
Williams said the Watkins Co.
settled a $3 million dollar claim
for half a million plus withdrawal
of a claim of $433,774.97 in tax
refunds. He declared “the amaz
ing part” was that “the criminal
phase was completely ignored and
the compromise agreement was
reached by the Treasury Depart
ment apparently without any con
sultation with the Department of
Justice.”
Propose Raise School
Tax to $15 From $5
JUNEAU, l/P!—Two major tax
increase bills and a measure to
eliminate the Commissioner of
Labor as an elective territorial
officer were introduced in Alas
ka’s House of Representatives
Saturday.
A House Education Committee
bill proposes to raise the terri
torial “head” tax to $15 from the
present $5.
Rep. Alden Wilbur (R-Fair
banks) introduced a bill to add
two cents per gallon to the fuel
tax far motor vehicles and one
cent a gallon to the aviation fuel
tax.
They were the first tax increase
measures introduced during the
session.
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U.S. Ice Island May
Drift To Russian
Side of the Pole
• WASHINGTON, OP) — The U.S.
Air Force’s floating ice island is
making a slow-motion trip around
the top of the world and, in time,
may be on the Rucsian side of
the North Pole.
Already, the Air Force said
Saturday, “Fletcher’s Ice Island”
has moved out of the area of the
Alaska Air Command into the
area of the Northeast Air Com
mand, which includes Greenland.
The natural aircraft carrier,
four miles wide and nine miles
long, has a crew of eight Air
Force technicians who gather
weather and communications
data. They are supplied by air
from Thule, Greenland.
Since 1952, when the research
began, the big ice cube has drifted
at a rate of 2Vfc miles a day in
a gentle arc around the pole from
north of Alaska to north of Green
land. Nudged by tides and gen
erally counter-clockwise winds, it
appears to be swinging from the
Western Hemisphere to the East
ern Hemisphere.
However, the waters of the
Arctic Sea around the pole are
international, so there would be
no Russian claims of territorial
violation when and if the island
changes hemispheres.
The island, also designated as
T-3, has been closer to the pole.
The Air Force gives its present
position as “less than 300 miles.”
At one time last year it was
approximately 100 miles from the
pole.
The men formerly on the island
came from the Alaskan Air Com
mand. Thyey were replaced Sun
day by others from the Northeast
Air Command.
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of Fairbanks
will be working on the Federal
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this year. We will be able to take
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if -we are notified in time so as to
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