Guam Gives Right
To Trial By Jury
AGANA, Guam, (ff) — A bill
giving Guamanians the right to
trial by jury was passed by the
Guam legislature last night.
The right previously was con-1
fined to felony cases and civil!
litigation involving $2,000 or
more.
The vote was 15-0, with 2 ab
stentions.
One who abstained, Joaquin C.
Arriola, said the jury trial sys
tem was “time consuming, cum
bersome and expensive.”
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Alaska Harbor Projects Approved
WASHINGTON, Iff)—House-Sen
ate conferees today accepted Sen
ate approval of four additional
harbor projects for Alaska con
tained in the Public Works appro
priations bill.
The projects are Metlakatla
Harbor $383,0000, Petersburg
Harbor $274,000, Wrangell Har
bor $220,000, and Seward Harbor
of Refuge, amount unspecified but
less than $150,000.
Chessman Waits Supreme
Court Decision Following
Sixth Reprieve from Death
SAN QUENTIN, Calif.. Ut) —
Rapist-kidnaper Caryl Chessman
first learned of his latest escape
from the gas chamber through a
newscast Wednesday.
It was the book-writing rapist
kidnaper’s sixth reprieve from a
death sentence in the seven years
he has been in the San Quentin
Prison death row.
Chessman was reprieved by
Justice Tom Clark until the Sup
reme Court can review his case.
It doesn’t meet until October.
Chessman was convicted at Los
Angeles on May 22, 1948 of 17
charges: 4 of kidnaping, 2 of
sex perversion on his kidnap vic
tims, 8 of robbery and 1 each of
attempted robbery, attempted
criminal assault and auto theft.
Margaret, a queen of Scotland
in 1288, ordered fines for eligible
men who refused marriage pro
posals from eligible women in
leap years.
Commissioner Emmons
Of Bureau Indian Affairs
Feted Here Thursday
A large crowd of townspeople
attended the no-host dinner at the
Bering Sea Club Thursday eve
ning in honor of Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Glenn Emmons
and party. In the group traveling
with Mr. Emmons are: Mrs. Em
mons, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beck,
Leo Murphy, and Wm. Olson. Mr.
Beck is a special field represen
tative of the Indian Bureau, Mr.
Murphy is president of ANICA
and Mr. Olson is area director
of the Alaska Native Service.
After the dinner, Mayor Stef
fen Anderson welcomed the vis
itors to Nome and called on
Jack Jenkins of the local ANS
office to introduce the members
ot the party to the assembled
guests.
Commissioner Emmons made a
short talk outlining his depart
ment’s program for the Indians.
Mr. Emmons said the Indian
Bureau has a three-point pro
gram started for the Indians,
health, education, and economic
development, and that satisfy
ing progress is being made on all
three.
He said the Bureau of Indian
Affairs is in reality a govern
ment within a government, deal
ing with the American Indians
and is the greatest trust com
pany in the world, holding in
trust for the Indians all their
vast lands and resources.
After returning to Nome yes
terday from St. Lawrence Island
aboard the M.S. North Star, the
Emmons party made a flying trip
to White Mountain village. To
day the party left for Fairbanks
after meeting the Eskimos from
King Island who arrived at Nome
by skinboat last night.
Approximately 100,000 gallons
of water per minute—as much
water as is used by the entire city
of Washington D.C.—are required
to cool motors used in a new Air
Force wind tunnel.
Test Pilot Blasts London
Out of Sound Sleep as
He Breaks Sound Barrier
LONDON, (#1—A test pilot who
startled Londoners out of their
sleep with an unscheduled burst
through the sound barrier apolo
gized Wednesday for the mystery
stir he had caused.
The fuss began early Tuesday
when Dickie Martin, pilot for the
Gloster Aircraft Co., was test
flying a twin-jet delta-wing Jave
lin over London at a routine 700
miles an hour.
Suddenly Martin’s oxygen tube
got tangled in his parachute har
ness. When he tried to free it,
the plane swerved, gathered
speed and rocketed through the
sound barrier.
Frightened Londoners phoned
police that a bomb had gone off.
Sailors on the River Thames pre
pared to abandon their ships,
convinced the boilers had burst.
Scotland Yard made extensive in
quiries but could find no explan
ation.
The Gloster Company finally
got in touch with the Air Minis
try to explain what had happened
and relay Martin’s apologies.
U.S. Will Fly Planes to
Antarctica 10 Months
Ahead of Schedule
NEW YORK, UP> — The New
York Times said today the United
States plans to fly Navy planes
from New Zealand to Antarctica
this December—10 months ahead
of schedule—in a history-making
flight to link the South Polar con
tinent with other land areas.
The Times dispatch from Paris,
where the United States and other
nations were reported conferring
on plans for South Polar expedi
tions marking the International
Geophysical Year, said the Navy
would dispatch a flight of six or
eight planes to McMurdo Sound.
The White House previously
had announced that the flight—
part of a Little America naval ex
pedition to be headed by Rear
Adm. Richard E. Byrd — would
not take off until October, 1956.
That first announcement said the
Navy would launch the three
year expedition Nov. 1, when five
ships will sail under Byrd.
Legal Blanks at The Nome Nugget
Couple Complete
Rubber Boat Trip
Down Yukon R.
FAIRBANKS <M— Erhard Wink
ler, professor of Geology at Notre
Dame University, and his wife
Isolde are heading home to Indi
ana after a 20-day voyage down
the Yukon River in a rubber fold
boat.
The Winklers equipped their
boat with a rudder and set out
three weeks ago from Whitehorse,
where they had left their car af
ter driving up the Alaska High
way.
It rained for two days. Then the
mosquitoes were so thick the
couple did not dare open their
mouths. The water was extremely
rough and there were many bends.
This continued for 40 miles, with
the Winklers progressing just a
few miles an hour.
Not much guiding was required
for the craft. Most of the time
they watched the slowly passing
scenery. They carried concentrat
ed food, a few items of clothing
and no sleeping bags.
The couple averaged 50 miles a
day after the first bad streak was
over. They had 15 days of sun and
little trouble with snags. They
carried no life preservers, be
cause, said Winkler, “the fold
boat does not tip over.”
Their voyage ended at Circle,
Alaska, at the north end of the
Steese Highway. Aside from the
communities of Whitehorse, Car
macks and Dawson, in the Yukon
Territory, they saw few people.
“The traces are there. There
are cabins and even little settle
ments, but no people,” said Wink
ler. “We walked through Eagle at
11:30 in the morning and we saw
no one.” (Eagle, former Alaskan
port of entry on the Yukon River,
downstream from Dawson, has an
estimated population of 18>.
The couple hitched a ride from
Circle to Fairbanks and will see
other parts of Alaska before re
turning to Whitehorse to pick up
their car.
Some cars have fluid drives—
others just have a drip at the
wheel.
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