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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at the
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Alaskan Defense Needs Bolstes$isg|r ]
NOME WILL BE honored tomorrow by a visit from
Lt. Gen. George W. Mundy, USAF, who arrived
in Alaska last month to assume command of all Armed
Forces in this 49th State.
Five years ago Gen. Mundy succeeded Gen. Arm
strong as Commander of the Strategic Air Command’s
Second Air Force at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana.
It is gratifying to the people of this area that Gen.
Mundy includes Nome and Northwestern Alaska on
his first tour of the state and sees for himself the lack
of defense on Alaska’s vast coastline.
Twenty helicopters and 96 pilots and maintenance
men and their families are enroute to Alaska to bolster
Alaskan defenses. This, too, is gratfying and meets a
need long felt in Alaska. It is hoped that many of these
helicopters will soon be seen based on the Coast
of Alaska where the need is the greatest.
A couple of months ago if anyone had suggested
that American* passenger planes would be hijacked
it would have sounded ludicrous. But it has happened1
and it can happen here. When an unidentified boat
neared Hawaii recently, the military was immediately
alerted and the ship investigated. When a large ship
was near St. Lawrence Island and had helicopters
with it the matter was shrugged off as of little im
portance. The belittling of this event indicates the
military is aware of the weakness in the defense here
and in its embarrassment felt the less said about the
matter .the better.
Until the time arrives that Alaska once again has
open trade routes with its Eastern neighbors, the bade
door of America should be well guarded as the front
door.
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Senate Racket
Probers View
Gaming Devices
WASHINGTON (iff — A Chicago
manufacturer Tuesday showed
Senate rackets probers the para
phernalia of crooked gambling he
says his firm sells widely.
Paul Kamov, president of the
H. E. Mason Co., also known as
the K. C. Card Co., of Chicago,
displayed special ruby red con
tact glasses and spectacles, used
to “read the backs” of marked
cards, and trick mirrors which
unseen kibitzers can use to see
the poker hands of unsuspecting
players sitting at a table. There
were little radio sets the kibitzer
uses to convey information to a
confederate in the game.
Kamov testified his firm does
nearly a $400,000-a-year business
selling “legitimate dice,”trick dice
and other items he piled on the
witness table for demonstration
to the Senate Investigations Sub
committee.
He identified the company’s
catalogue, and estimated that 36
of its 80 pages were devoted to
“entirely legitimate gaming sup
plies.”
Kamov and Hardy Gray, his
business partner, put on a demon
stration of how some of the things
are used, including two little
radio sets, each about the size of
a deck of cards with which gamb
lers can swap information secret
ly in a card game.
He said it sends dots and dashes
in Morse Code, but soundlessly.
The receiver feels a light electric
shock and he demonstrated it on
Robert Sunne, a subcommittee
aide, who jumped when the cur
rent proved to be turned on too
strongly.
The receiving set is strapped or
taped to the arm or leg of a
player in a card game. The sender
conceals his set as circumstances
dictate, but sometimes stands in
side a closet peering through a
trick mirror to read the hands
of unsuspecting players and re
laying the information to a con
federate.
Outside the closet, the mirror
looks like any other, but from
the inside it seems to be clear
glass.
Fish Strangles Man . . .
SOMERS POINT, N. J. i* —
A man choked to death Monday
when a fish he caught landed in
his mouth as he swung it in tri
umph, Police said.
George C. Shaffer, 30, of Glou
cester City, was dead on arrival
at Shore Memorial Hospital. The
hospital said death was from
strangulation.
Shaffer was fishing from a row
boat in Great Egg Harbor Bay
with friends. They told police that
Shaffer caught a small Black
Bass and swung it around his
head with joy. The fish landed
in Shaffer’s mouth and couldn’t
be dislodged.
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Reapportionment Advisory Board
Trying to Reach Conclusive Decisions
ANCHORAGE UFl — Redistrict
ing of the Cordova and the Val
dez House of Representatives Dis
tricts into one — to be called the
Prince William Sound Districts—
is “pretty cut and dried,” Doug
las Gray of Juneau. Chairrnan of
the Reapportionment Advisory
Board said here Monday.
Gray also said a problem facing
the group is “whether the Goose
Bay area should be taken out
of the Anchorage District and put
into the Palmer District.”
The board will “try to reach
conclusive decisions on all prob
lems” and start preparing its re
port to Gov. Egan, Gray said.
The report is expected to be
submitted to Egan by Sept. 19,
Gray added.
The five member board was ap
pointed by Egan to recommend
reapportionment in the state low
er House as required by the State
Constitution after each decennial
census.
Under the new population fig
ures each of the House Districts
must represent at least 2,419 per
sons.
Gray said the present Cordova
McCarthy District has a popula
tion of only 1,557. The Valdez
Chitina-Whittier District has only
2.379.
Thus the districts “apparently”
will be combined with a total
population of 3,937, Gray said.
Queries from citizens on both
sides of the question of joining
the Goose Bay area, across Knik
Arm from Anchorage, to the Pal
mer - Wasilla - Talkeetna District
brought the problem to the at
tenion of the board, Gray said.
Due to the papulation increase,
the Anchorage District stands to
gain perhaps six seats in the
House, it was pointed out.
Fairbanks stands to gain two
new seats to the Legislature,
while a total of nine outlying
districts face whole or partial
combination.
Gray refused to give his per
sonal opinion of possible splitting
of the Anchorage District to re
duce its possible 14 seats. But in
answer to criticism that the gain
would result in a long unwieldy
election ballot. Gray pointed out
that the Denver, (Colo.) District
has eight senators and 17 lower
House members to elect.
Considering the board’s task.
Gray said "there is no question of
our powers of reapportionment
based on population changes.” But
some have questioned the board’s
authority to recommend redis
tricting, he said.
State Atty. Gen. Moody has ren
dered an opinion that the group
has such power, and it is proceed
ing under this assumpition.
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