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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. LV No. 122 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Unidentified Sub
And Plane Observe
A.N.G. Activities
ANCHORAGE, UR — The An
chorage Times reported yesterday
an unidentified submarine and
airplane, believed to be Russian,
observed at clo'se range Alaska
National Guard activities on St.
Lawrence Island recently.
The report has been denied
officially by military authorities
but the Times said it has authori
tative sources. It said both the
plane and submarine were paint
ed black and neither bore any
identification marks.
The submarine came in very
close to the Guard encampment
area, apparently scrutinized the
training in progress, then disap
peared from sight, the Times re
port said.
The plane swooped low over
the training grounds and disap
peared into haze minutes later,
the story said, and appeared to
be on a photographic mission.
The National Guard encamp
ment was Aug. 3-18 at Troutman
Lake on the dry gravel beach of
the Bering Sea Island, 25 miles
from the International Date Line
and less than 50 miles from the
southeastern tip of Siberia.
The unexpected visit came soon
after the Guardsmen started
training with portaable radio
equipment, the Times said, and is
believed to have resulted from
increased radio activity by the
Guardsmen.
During the, training mission the
Guardsmen were instructed not
to take active steps against any
such observation but to report
such acts to proper services.
Canada Bars Karly Larsen
Who Was Acquitted In
Seattle Communist Trial
VANCOUVER, B.C., 0¥) —Can
adian immigration authorities
closed the international border to
Karly Larsen Tuesday and a
short time latej- the onetime Com
munist lost his appeal for rein
statement as a regional officer of
the 130,000-member International
Woodworkers of America Union.
The 400 delegates attending the
IWA’s 19th annual convention
voted unanimously to sustain
their executive board in its order
removing Larsen from his post
as a district vice president.
Canadian immigration officials
stopped him at Blaine, Washing
ton. They said they had orders to
keep him out of Canada “as a
member of prohibited classes.”
Larsen, long active in the Pa
cific northwest labor movement,
was ordered removed from his
IWA office after his arrest with
six others, whom the government
called top Communist party lead
ers in Washington State, on con
spiracy charges.
A federal court jury in Seattle
acquitted Larsen after a 25-week
trial but convicted five other de
fendants. The seventh defendant
took his own life.
Before and during the trial,
Larsen admitted in statements
issued through his attorney he
had been a Communist but said
he left the party in 1946.
Wives Who Qualify As
Joint Owners with ttubbys
May Vote On Oct. 19
In the coming school bond elec
tion on Monday, Oct. 19, under
the law only those persons who
are qualified electors and whose
names appear on the 1952 tax roll
are qualified to vote: However,
it is a technicality when, for ex
ample the wife’s name does not
appear on tax roll, though actual
ly the property is owned by both
man and wife.
Thus, prior to closing of regis
tration, every effort should be
made so that the tax roll may
be brought in line with actual
facts. Qualifications for voting
depends upon getting the name on
the tax roll before registration
closes at noon, October 17. If
failure to list wife’s or husband’s
name, when property upon which
taxes were paid is owned by both
of them, was purely oversight,
such may be corrected upon the
tax roll if the City Clerk or the
Council is satisfied and know of
their own knowledge that the
omission was purely oversight.
Persons who have in fact not
paid taxes and whose names do
not appear on the tax roll cannot
add their names merely to qualify
themselves as electors.
Central Wisconsin Elects
Democrat To Congress
For First Time In History
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., UP)—Rural
west central Wisconsin elected a
Democrat to Congress Tuesday
for the first time in history.
And the Republican who lost
said the results “showed clearly
that the farmer and the laboring
man does not like the present ad
ministration’s policy.”
The man who won the special
election to succeed the late Merlin
F. Hull, a Republican and former
Progressive, was Lester R. John
son, 52, a small town district
attorney and also a former Pro
gressive.
The loser was state Sen. Arthur
L. Padrutt, 36, who has spent 11
years in the Wisconsin legisla
ture and like Hull and Johnson
also was a former Progressive.
Twenty Applicants To
Take Alaska Bar Exam
At Juneau On Oct. 20
JUNEAU, iff) — Atty. Gen. J.
Gerald Williams, chairman of the
Board of Law Examiners, has an
nounced 20 applicants have been
accredited to take the three-day
bar examination which starts here
Oct. 20.
Those authorized to take the
examination are:
Anchorage (11) — Seaborn J.
Buckalew, Clifford Groh, A. D.
Talbot, Lynn Kirkland, Neil Mac
Kary, Gordon Hartlieb, James
Tallman, Albert Maffie and his
wife Kaye Richey; Mrs. Gerald
H. Lyon, Mrs. Patricia Tucker
Jackson.
Fairbanks (3)—T. N. Gore, Jr.,
Eugene Miller, George Yeager.
Nome (1)—Russell R. Hermann,
who recently was appointed U.S.
attorney in the Second Division.
Craig (1)—Charles W. Craig.
Juneau (4) — James M. Fitz-.
gerald, John Mansuy, Lyman
Johnson, Theodore Munson.
Six Teams To Start
In Base-City Hoop
Play In November
By HERB WILLIAMS
Six teams have entered the
Base-City Basketball League for
the coming 1953-54 season. The
teams from town include: the
High School Nanuks, Lomen Com
mercial and the Nome Commer
cials. Representing the base will
be two Army teams and one Air
Force five.
The scheduled opener will be
some time in the first week of
Novembe/ with doubleheaders to
be played on Tuesdays and Fri
days, beginning at 7 and 8:15 p.m.
If there are any other teams
interested in entering, they should
contact the coach at the high
school by Friday afternoon, Oct.
16, or they will have to wait until
the second half schedule is drawn
up in January.
For an added feature this year,
the high school girls will play
several games against the Alumni
girls and the “Little Fellas” will
also see some action when the two
teams are organized.
Heintzleman Asks Interior
To Free 37,000 Sq. Miles
Of Oil and Gas Reserves
WASHINGTON, Ufi — Gov. B.
Frank Heintzleman of Alaska
yesterday asked the Interior De
partment to free 37,000 square
miles of land in the vicinity of
Untiat, now held as an oil and
gas reserve.
The governor, here for confer
ences on Alaskan problems, said
he also will ask the Navy de
partment to release its petroleum
reserve now on the Arctic coast
near Point Barrow.
The governor said he plans to
work with the Alaska Develop
ment Board to encourage private
companies to explore these areas
for gas and oil, once they are
released.
He recommended to Conrad
Wirth, National Park Service di
rector, changes in the boundaries
of Katmai National Monument to
open certain areas to mining and
fur trapping.
He also suggested release of
some of the reserves adjacent to
Alaska’s highway and the trans
fer to the territory of certain
lands for recreation and other
purposes.
RIGHT NAME—WRONG MAN
OWOSSO Mich., (fl — Shiawas
see County authorities breathed a
sigh of relief today that a fellow
arrested in far-off Alaska wasn’t
the one they want for embezzle
ment. They hope to catch their
man closer home.
Two weeks ago Fairbanks wired
Owosso police that Cleland Her
mans, 38, had been arrested here.
Hermans is wanted here on a
charge of embezzling $954 from
the Gibson Business Service Co.,
for which he formerly worked.
While Owosso authorities de
bated whether it was worth the
$900 it would take to get Her
mans back from Alaska, Fair
banks wired again.
Oops, it said, the man it thought
was Hermans wasn’t.
Chamber Directors
Unanimously Endorse
Bonding of The City
At a special meeting of the
Board of Directors orf the Cham
ber of Commerce, held last eve
ning at the residence of President
Dewey Goodrich, the board un
animously and enthusiastically
endorsed the bonding of the city
for the school addition.
Business and professional, men
who make up the organization
and pay a large percentage of the
taxes in the community were
agreed that this project will pro
vide the city with the needed
classrooms and modernization at
the greatest saving to the com
munity.
Several other, matters of im
portance were discussed and
tabled at the meeting.
Northwest Airlines
Announce Trans-Pacific
Tourist Class Air Fares
TOKYO UP! — Northwest Air
lines today announced a new
tourist fare of $568 from Tokyo
to New York.
Gen. Harold R. Harris, presi
dent of the airlines, said the new
tourist fare will go into effect
Nov. 8. He said it contrasted with
a first class air fare of $792 for
the Tokyo to New York flight.
The tourist rate will also apply
to flights from Tokyo to Seattle,
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
New Northwest tourist fares over
these routes will be $450 one way
and $810 round trip, compared
with the first class fare of $650
and $1,170.
Harris said tourist passengers
will fly on the same Boeing
Stratocruisers used for first class
flights but they will be assigned
to the 24 rear seats. Thirty-six
first class seats will remain. Tour
ist class passengers will not be
served free meals nor be allowed
to use the plane’s lounge.
However, Harris said tourist
passengers will be able to pur
chase meals aloft.
The executive said his airline
is the first to offer tourist fares
to the Orient. He said Northwest
was making the step to spur tour
ist trade to this part of the world.
Govt. Employes Will Be
Fired If They Refuse To
Testify Before Committees
WASHINGTON UP!-—President
Eisenhower today made it a fir
ing offense for government em
ployes to refuse to testify before
congressional committees on
ground of possible self incrimina
tion.
The President issued an execu
tive order adding this to the ex
isting grounds for dismissal of a
federal worker for security rea
sons.
The order permits action
against the individual for:
“Refusal by the individual,
upon the grounds of constitutional
privilege against self incrimina
tion to testify before a congres
sional committee regarding charg
es of his alleged disloyalty or
other misconduct,” White House
press secretary James C. Hagerty
said this was an effort to “close
up all possible loopholes” in the
government’s security machinery.
Tension Charged
Talks to Anti-Reds
Start Tomorrow
PANMUNJOM, (ffi—The poten
tially explosive face-to-face meet
ings of Communist explanation
teams with 22,300 former Red sol
diers who renounced Communism
while in Allied captivity begins
tomorrow in an atmosphere
charged with tension.
The Communists notified the
Korean Repatriation Commission
today they would start the long
delayed interviewing of anti-Red
POWs in an effort to coax them
back to their native lands.
The U. N. Command told the
commission it will not begin to
morrow. The Allies presumably
are in no hurry to start meeting
with the 23 Americans, 1 Briton
and 335 South Koreans who re
fuse repatriation, a small number
in comparison to the thousands of
Chinese and North Koreans who
spurned return to their home
lands.
Sturdy Indian troopers were
alerted for possible violence as
word flashed through the com
pounds that the interviews were
ready to start. Although only the
POWs to be interviewed first
were told, the new)s spread
quickly.
Burning torches punctured the
darkness and loud shouts were
heard all night from the com
pounds.
The sight of Communist jeeps
passing near the POW stockades
touched off rock throwing, shout
ing demonstrations.
What will happen when the
Red agents sit face to face with
the prisoners was the big ques
tion.
Orphaned Longshoremen
Cited For Violations Of
Taft-Hartley Injunction
NEW YORK, iffl — The or
phaned International Longshore
men's Assn., and its Brooklyn
chief had government citations
Wednesday for allegedly violating
a Taft-Hartley injunction which
halted a north Atlantic seaboard
dock strike.
Federal Judge Edward Wein
field Tuesday night directed the
union and Anthony Anastasia, its
Brooklyn boss to show cause why
they could not be held in criminal
and civil contempt of his court.
The contempt action against the
ILA and Anastasia stem from
this union’s fight with the AFL
for the control of waterfront
labor. The old ILA recently was
ousted from the AFL for failure
to purge itself of racketeering
elements; the AFL then chartered
its own new dock union.
Government affidavidts in the
case said Anastasia tried to block
AFL longshoremen from going to
work on two Brooklyn piers last
week. The piers were left idle
so AFL seamen retaliated by
walking off freighters at the
wharves.
Anastasia’s action, the govern
ment added, could lead to com
plete paralysis of the New York
harbor, the world’s greatest.