American Spends Five
Days In Canadian Jail
Without Charge or Trial
VANCOUVER, B. C., UPt — A
Baltimore man was held in city
jail here for five days without
being charged or brought before
a court, it was learned Wednesday
night.
The case was similar to one in
volving United States deportee
William Heikkila, held here last
weekend whie being deported to
Finland because of an allegedly
Communist background.
Digging into records here re
vealed that Robert Thomas Till
man, 31, of Baltimore was arrested
March 31 by Constable Irving
B. Bailey on suspicion of illegal
entry into Canada.
Bailey said he knew Tillman on
sight, knew he had been deported
before and “as a deportee he
couldn’t reenter Canada legahy
without special authorization.”
“We took him in to be held
for Canadian immigration,” the
constable said.
However, police records on Till
man’s arrest said he was held
for U. S. immigration on in
struction from William Wiese of
the Seattle office of the U. S.
Immigration Service.
John Boyd, head of the Seattle
office, said in a telephone inter
view that neither Wiese nor any
one else in his department had
requested that Tillman be held
for them.
Beta Sigma Phi
Elect Officers
The regular meeting of Beta
Sigma Phi was held at Ruth Mc
Lean’s Thursday evening with the
installation of the new officers.
They are Barbara Martin, presi
dent; Dorothy Grant, vice pres.; J
Rusty Golden, recording sec’y; j
Beverly Morgan, correspondent j
sec’y; June Jefferies, treasury;'
Omie McCarthy, advisor and Mil- j
dred Harwood as sponsor.
The program was on Sculpture
' and was presented by Lou Oli
ver and Omie McCarthy. A guest
of Mrs. Oliver, Elaine Peterson
also attended the meeting and all
enjoyed refreshments served by
hostess Mary Honsberger.
WEATHER FORECAST j
Cloudy with rain tonight and j
Saturday. South Easterly • wind
20-25 miles per hour diminish
ing tonight. Low tonight 32,
high tomorrow 35.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today: Precipitation .55
inch. Month total .99 inches.
Temperatures: highest 35, lowest
32. Maximum wind 29 miles an
hour from the south.
Sunrise at 3:52 a.m., sunset at
8:09 p.m. f
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 41, low 29. Extremes this
date since 1907: highest 60 in
1940, lowest -15 in 1924.
Temperature at Nenana is 51,
low last night was 35.
North Carolina Ballots
, Changed From Red To Green
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., UP) —
For many years, the Republican
ballot used in North Carolina
primary elections has been print
ed on paper varying in hue from
a subdued red to a sickly pink.
This year it will be green, and
the sample GOP primary ballot
to be distributed next month
will be on blue paper.
Republican leaders had com-1
plained that the red paper sug-1
gests Communism to many people.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Ufl — Ducks'
Unlimited’s 65-member board of j
trustees today will allocate an i
estimated $500,000 for water- j
fowl habitat restoration work in j
Canada.
The board, at the three-day
meeting of the organization here,
will also hear recommendations.
to stage special events to help
increase DiU’s membership.
That was the main concern of
the group’s 19 state chairmen in
yesterday’s opening session.
Knowland's Union
Legislation Faces
! Possible Coalition
| WASHINGTON, _ Sen.j
Knowland (R-Calif) conceded that!
what he called a coalition of
Democrats and CIO-AFL leaders j
may be able to block his efforts j
to get Senate action on broad la- j
bor legislation at this time.
“But this is just the opening |
newsmen. “The Senate will have
newsmen. ’’The Senate will have |
to face up to this issue several i
times this session.”
Knowland has offered a series
of general labor amendments to
a bill for federal regulation of
employee pension and welfare
funds.
His statement to reporters,
Inade as the Senate was taking
up the bill, amounted to a com
mitment that, if licked this time,
he would keep offering his amend
ments at every opportunity
throughout the remainder of the
session.
Knowland, the Senate Repub
lican leader, said he will give his
colleagues a chance to “show
whether they want to do some
thing about the abuses within
the labor unions with which the
country now is familiar.”
Knowland’s proposals, includ
ing requirements for secret bal
lots are designed to give union
members more control within
their unions. They are generally
opposed by labor leaders.
His announced plan to offer
them as amendments to a less
controversial bill for regulation
of employee welfare and pension
funds caused a deay in consider
ation of that measure. But the
Senate decided to go into early
and-late sessions to resolve the
issue.
Knowland faced consolidated
opposition from the Democratic
leadership and Republicans who
like to class themselves as lib
erals.
Piano Students
Present Recital
Sunday Afternoon
Constance Erickson is present
ing a group of piano students in
recital Sunday afternoon at three
o’clock at the Covenant Church.
The program will open with
a duet arrangement 6y Kay Ms
Ivor and Alice Arnold followed
by a solo “Onward Christian
Soldier” played by Gloria Carlson
who will also play “The High
School March” later in the pro
gram. tJohn Towner will play
“Fairy Hare and Woodpecker
Song,” Alice Arnold the “Jen- '
ny Lind Polka” and John
Amundsen the “Boy Scout
March.”
Kay Mclvor and Pearl Johnson
will present two duets “Country
Gardens” and “Merry Farmer.” J
Earl Towner Jr. will play “The
Holy City” on his baritone in
strument. He will be accom
panied by Roy Carlson.
Vicki Oliver and Susan and
Mclvor will sing “Jesus Loves
Me” with Kay Mclvor as the ac
companist. They will also do
the “Cuckoo” and “Easter Eggs”.
“Beautiful Sea” will be played by
Kay and Janey Mclvor followed
by a solo by Janey Mclver called
“Monkey Business’, and “Stream
line Express”.
Pearl Johnson will solo with
“Summer Days” and Pauline Lar
son with “Lullaby”.
John Towner and John Amund-1
sen will perform a duet with;
“Home on the Range” and
“Beautiful Heaven.”
The program closes with a
duet by Gloria arlson and Alice
Arnold “Traumeri”.
Friends and relatives are in
vited to the recital.
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Sweden’s Socialist
Government Ousted
STOCKHOLM UP> — Prime Min
ister Tage Erlander’s Socialist
government was ousted today.
Parliament voted 117 to 111
against the Cabinet’s plan for
an extension of the old age pent
sion system.
The Prime Minister immediately
went to the royal palace to ask
King Gustaf Adolf to order dis
solution of Parliament and to
suggest new elections be held
June 1.
„ This would be the first dis
solution of the Swedish Parlia
ment since the beginning of
World War I. Erlanded has
been Prime Minister since 1945.
He became ill during the mara
thon debate and turned up today
pale and with a high fever to
participate in the decisive vote.
The issue was a highly contro
versial bill for supplementary
pensions Which would give
Swedes 65 per cent of thefr av
erage earnings at a retirement
age of 67.
Alaska Airlines
Gefs Delivery Of
Second DC-6C Airliner
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines
took delivery today of the second
DC-6C airliner recently acquired
by the airline. The airliner was
flown to the company’s Paine
Field maintenance base near
Everett, Washington, for final
modifications and servicing be
fore being placed on regular
flights.
Richard W. Gilbert, senior
vice president of the airline,
stated the new equipment will
provide daily 5-hour, 50-minute
direct service from Seattle to
Fairbanks, and will depart from
Portland two days a week. The
new plane Will also furnish trav
elers between Fairbanks and
Anchorage with the first pressur
ized service on a scheduled basis.
TOKYO, UP> — The United
States has paroled seven more
Japanese war criminals from
Sugamo Prison. They were serv
ing sentences ranging from 30
years to life.
Their release reduced the num
ber of Japanese still held in Su
gamo to 24.
Investigation Demanded
In Heikkila Deportation
SAN FRANCISCO, UPI — A Ca
nadian magistrate and an Ameri
can Congressman have demanded
an investigation of methods used
in deporting William Heikkila,
who was hustled from San Fran
cisco to Finland as an alien for
mer Communist.
The U. S. Immigration Ser
vice decided to bring back Heik
kila after a Federal Court Judge
said the service used gestapo
like tactics.
Lloyd McMurray, attorney for
the draftsman, says he will de
njand contempt of court cita
tions for immigration officials
who picked up Heikkila on a San
Francisco street while that ap
peal was pending, rushed him to
Canada and then on to Finland.
At Vancouver, B. C., police supt.
John Fisk said U. S. authorities
asked police to jail Heikkila
there and keep him from making
any outside contact.
Oscar Orr, senior city magis
trate in Vancouver, who demand
ed the investigation from Mayor
Fred Hume, said Canadian law
allows any prisoner ,to telephone
his lawyer or nearest relative. It
also grants a prisoner the right
to appear at the most immediately
available court with jurisdiction,
in this case a police court Satur
day morning, Orr added.
In Washington Rep. John F.
Shelley (D-Calif) told the House
of Representatives that an of
ficial investigation must be held
to pinpoint blame for the “stu
pid gestapo methods” used to de
port Heikkila.
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Impersonater,
Thief, and Faker
FORT 6T. JOHN, B. C., UP> —
John Morris, who police said
posed as a United States Army
captain and claimed he was map
ping out a railway to Alaska,;
was sentenced to 18 months in |
jail here yesterday for stealing l
a $3,000 diamond.
Morris, whose hometown was I
not known, admitted taking the j
diamond from the wife of a
Fort St. John merchant at a din- |
ner party. He had removed it I
from its platinum ringsetting and I
mailed it with instructions for j
sale to a woman in New West-!
minster, B. C.
Police said Morris-* claimed [
falsely that he was attached to |
the Chicago engineer branch of |
the Army’s Sixth Division and'
was in possession of maps of a;
proposed railway when arrested.,
Police said the maps were a
fake.
MMM HOSPITAL.
Admitted—Oscar Wall, Pauline ,
Attatayak, Herman Attatayak,
Ellen Jackson.
Out—Helen Dunbar, Isabelle 1
Kiyutellac, James Elook, Flora j
Moses, Jackie and Linda Push- i
ruk, Cecelia and John Kokuluk,
James Towner. ,
Transferred to Kotzebue—War- j
ren Kiyutellac, Lloyd Komak,
Gordon Moto.
QUEEN ELIZABETH HAS COLD
WINDSOR, England, UK — The ,
common cold invaded Windsor,
Castle Thursday and forced
Queen Elizabeth into bed on doc
tor’s orders.
Verne Westby, photographer
who has been in Nome a couple
of years ago is here today en
route to Pt. Hope for a series of
movies on wild life. He hopes
to get pictures of the whale hunt,
in that area, polar bear hunting
at Barrow and walrus hunting
at St. Lawrence Island.
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“Born Yesterday”
—A Hilarious Comedy—
BY
University Of Alaska Drama Workshop
SPONSORED BY
NOME ROTARY CLUB - HOME ARTS CLUB
April 29, -- 8:00 p.m. -- School Auditorium
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