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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
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FBI Refuses to Give
Lie Detector Test
To Check Bribe Denial
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
FBI last week refused to give
Mayor Terry D. Schrunk of Port
land, Ore., a Me detector test to
check his denial that he accepted
a $500 bribe to call off a gambling
raid.
Robert F. Kennedy, counsel of
the Senate Rackets Investigating
Committee, announced the refus
al, and said he will seek to ar
range to have the Secret Service
give the test. Kennedy declined
to say why the FBI would not give
the test, which Schrunk had re
quested and which the committee
had agreed to arrange.
Schrunk was not immediately
available for comment.
CHINA COMMUNISTS 'MAN' j
JETS WITH WOMEN PILOTS
HONG KONG, UP — The Hong j
Kong Communist newspaper Wen 1
Wei Pao said today Communist
China has a squadron of jet air
craft manned entirely by 55 wo
men pilots.
Ladies Make Home in
Railroad Station for ‘Fun
Of Seeing New Faces!’
NEW YORK, UP — Seven la
dies have been advised they dif
initely have been on the wrong
track by making their home in
the Pennsylvania Station rest
room.
The women, age 45 to 72, were
rounded up yesterday in the la
dies’ lounge and brought before
Magistrate Jack J. Nicoll. They
all toted their belongings in a bag.
Said Nicoll: “This is the most
unusual thing I’ve ever seen —
seven women hoboing in Penn
sylvania Station.”
Mrs. Dora Peck, 72, who had
$224 cash on her, tried to explain.
The lounge was a rather pleasant
place to live, she said, and there
was the fun of seeing new faces
all the time.
Th ladies had a routine, she
said, that went mostly like this:
sleeping, midnight to 6 a. m.;
breakfast, window shopping, per
haps a try at getting a job, a
nap in the lounge if the weather
was bad.
“What about your bathing?”
asked the magistrate.
“We have to go to a public bath
or to a hotel for a day or two,”
said Mrs. Peck.
' Nicoll turned Mrs. Peck over
to the City Welfare Department.
She said she received a pension
of $100 a month.
The magistrate suspended
charges of loitering against Mrs.
Peck and four of the other ladies.
Judged innocent of the loiter
ing charge was a Mrs. St. John,
60, and Mrs. Lena Onorato, 59.
Mrs. St. John told the court
she formerly worked at Father
Divine’s Peace Mission in New
ark, N. J., and would like to go
back there. Nicoll gave her a dol
lar for carfare.
Mrs. Onorato promised she
would rent a room in the future.
“I’ve only Mved there two
weeks,” she said, producing two
bank books showing a total of!
$1,410.
Nicoll, who meanwhile had sent
out for coffee and doughnuts for
the ladies, commented:
“You have more money in the
bank than the court has.”
GIcbemaster Wreckage
Will Be Abandoned
SEOUL, UP—U. S. Army spokes
men said Saturday efforts have
been abandoned to recover wreck
age of a C-124 Globemaster that
crashed into the Han River Feb.
22, killing 22 of 159 persons
aboard.
Five bodies still have not been
found. The spokesmen said the
Army was satisfied every attempt
had been made to recover the
victims. They added that helicop
ters would comb the banks of
the Han daily for another week
in an attempt to locate any bodies
that might wash up from he river.
‘SCARLET COAT,’ FILM
OF COLONIAL ACTION
TO END RUN TONIGHT
Manager Willie Brown of the
Theater stated this morning that
the “Scarlet Coat,” whi~h will be
shown tonight for the last time,
is one of those pictures which in
terferes with the operator’s work.
He said, “It is such a wonderful
picture that I had a hard time
last evening tending to business
and not watching the entire show.”
“The Scarlet Coat,” in Techni
I color, is a combination of sus
pense, history and dramatic ac
i tion, with powerfully written dia
; logue woven around the exposure
! of Benedict Arnold, the traitor
who almost turned over West
Point to the British during the
Revolutionary War.
Opiion Ends April 15
Clergy Social Security
Clergymen who want social pro
tection, but have not filed waivers
of their social security tax exemp
tion, should file the waivers by
April 15, 1957, it was announced
by District Director William E.
Frank of the Internal Revenue
Service and by Dan Mather Jr.,
manager of the Social Security
Administration’s district office.
By filing waivers last year
many ministers, members of re
ligious orders, and Christian
Science practitioners elected to
have their earnings in 1955 and
subsequent years count toward
old-age, survivors, and disability
insurance. Those waivers remain
in effect and need not be renewed.
Other clergymen who have not
yet elected to be covered must file
waivers by April 15 if they wish
to have their earnings in 1956 and
subsequent years count toward
social security. The election is
made by filing Form 2031 with
the District Director of Internal
Revenue. Form 2031 may be ob
tained from the iDstrict Director
or from amy Social Security Ad
ministration office.
After April 15, 1957, a clergy
man who has not filed a waiver
is barred by law from electing
social security coverage if in each
of the years 1955 and 1956 he
received $400 or more net earn
ings from self-employment, in
cluding any salary, fees, or honor
aria as a minister, member of a
religious Order, or Christian
Science practitioner.
A clergyman who elects social
security coverage pays his tax as
a self-employed person. His
church is not liable for the tax.
The tax rate for 1956 is three per
cent of self-employment income
up to $4,200.
Reservations Are
Part of New
Statehood Plan
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24.000 includes 15,000 natives and
5.000 persons either in or em
ployed by the military service.
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska)
said the statement "sounds all
to the good." Bartlett said the
"big thing to remember is —
this is not partition."
He added that if a careful exam
ination confirms his impression
of the statement, “I know of no
reason why Alaskans should de
cline to accept the Administra
tion’s proposal, particularly if
there is really spelled out . . . the
reason or the reasons for these
military withdrawals.’’
“Now, if the administration will
pass the word along to its Con
gressional leadership, we can
achieve statehood in this Con
gress.”
He believes the proposed de
markation line would be “purely
technical” and that “every citi
zen of the present Territory of
Alaska would become a citizen
of the State of Alaska.”
Sen. William Egan of Valdez,
one of a three-member unofficial
delegation elected by Alaskans
last October to press for state
hood, said Seaton’s statement
gave him “added confidence that
an adequate and acceptable enab
ling act for admitting Alaska to
the Union will become a reality
during this Congress.
He said he believes the pro
posed dei • rcation line would be
“purely technical,” and that “every
citizen of the present Territory
of Alaska would become a citizen
of the State of Alaska.”
The Alaska hearing, opening to
day, is to run through Thursday.
A similar hearing on Hawaii’s
statehood aspirations has been
set for April 8-9.
Port of Whittier
Officially Turned
Over to Army
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Alaska’s most modern port fa
cilities, the new $400,000,000 per
manent fireproof dock at the Port
of Whittier, were officially turned
over to the U. S. Army Alaska
on March 1 by the Alaska District
Corps of Engineers.
The modem steel and reinforced
concrete docking facilities at the
vital Army port have been under
construction since 1954 by the
firm of Patti-MacDonald, under
supervision of the Alaska Dis
trict. Total cost of the facilities is
an estimated $4,250,000.
Port of Whittier is the major
military port in Alaska, and is
the only exclusively military port
the United States operates any
where in the world. Through it
comes the bulk of military sup
plies for the Territory. All per
manent facilities at the port, in
cluding the $6,500,000 Buckner
Composite Building, and the re
cently-completed $4,500,000 14
story Hodge apartment building
for military families, were built
under supervision of toe Alaska
District.
MOOSE 'ESCORT' GETS
THE HORSE-LAUGH
BUTTE, Mon., (£> — The sight
of two sheriff’s deputies escorting
a moose out of town yesterday
prompted a great deal of interest,
and overstimulated at least one
person’s imagination.
A short tune after directing
their forest “guest” back to the
Delmo Lake region, deputies
James O’Rourke and James Ko
nen were called on to handle an
other moose in a different sec
tion of town.
They hurried to the scene, but
returned empty-handed. Kanen
explained:
“That other moose was a
horse.”
U. S. Makes 18th Announcement
Of Russian Atomic Explosion
WASHINGTON, UR—The gov
ernment announced Saturday that
Russia conducted another test
on Friday of an atomic weapon.
Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of
the Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC), who announced the test,
did not say whether it was a hy
drogen or a conventional nuclear
weapon.
He did say, however, that the
•blast “was in the range of size
of their recent explosions.”
The AEC had last announced
such a Russian test on Jan. 20,
saying that it was one in a ser
ies which the Soviets began last
August.
A still earlier announcement by
the AEC had said that a test de
tected by this country in August
was of a device “with a yield of
dess than one megaton.” A meg
aton is the equivalent of the ex
Bartlett Asks for
Alaska Inclusion
In Relief Bill
WASHINGTON, OR — Delegate
Bartlett (D-Alaska) asked last
week that Alaska be included in
a bill authorizing 200 million dol
lars for loans for industrial and
commercial facilities in econom
ically depressed areas and 75
.million for community facility
loans.
The bill introduced by Sen.
Douglas (D-Ill), also would pro
vide for federal grants for com
munity facilities and technical as
sistance.
Bartlett told a Senate Banking
subcommittee, considering the
Douglas bill, that the plight of
some areas in Alaska was becom
ing of increasing concern and
urged that Alaska be included in
the measure. Douglas said any
omission was a technical one.
Sen. Murray (D-Mont.), a co
sponsor of the Douglas bill, said
more needs to be done for Indian
tribes through a land program.
Many have proved able industrial
workers, and want to work near
their home, he said, mentioning
landless Indians living in a suburb
of Great Falls.
Sen. Capehart (D-Ind.) ex
pressed sympathy with the pur
pose of the bill but said Congress
must be “very careful.” He said
he feared that if something of the
sort were started there would be
no end to it.
SCHOOL HOT LUNCH
| MENUS FOR THE WEEK
j The School Hot Lunch Program
! lists these menus for the week:
Monday: Chili and beans, carrot
j and celery sticks, bread and but
j :er, fruit Jello, milk.
Tuesday: Cheeseburgers on
| bread, canned corn, canned plums
and milk.
Wednesday: Chop suey with
pork, rice, bread and butter, fruit
Jello, milk.
Thursday: Moose Swiss steak,
carrot - cabbage - pineapple Jello,
steamed rice, canned peas, bread
and butter, milk.
Friday: Fish cakes, buttered
peas, bread and butter, apple
sauce with red-hots, milk.
JUNEAU, UPi — The House sent
the so-called Alaska Land Act
to the Senate by an 18-5 vote. It
would create a Department of
Lands, under a division of a land
board to handle all public lands
in the territory.
plosive force of one million tons
of TNT. As hydrogen bombs go,
that is a relatively low explosive
force.
The announcement last week
was the 18th made by the United
States, of Soviet atomic explo
sions. It was the fifth since Aug.
26, when the AEC reported the
start of a Russian test series two
days earlier.
President Eisenhower has said
the Russian proving ground is
somewhere in southwest Siberia.
Strauss has said the United
States does not announce all the
Soviet tests it detects, making a
public disclosure only when they
are of special interest “because
of their size, their special charac
ter or some other unusual fact.”
There was nothing to indicate
what unusual character prompted
the current announcement.
Military Consumes More
Than Three-Fourths
Of Alaska Food Produce
Last year the military services
in Alaska spent $3,603,143 for lo
cally produced foods. This figure
represented nearly one-and-a
quarter million dollars more than
was spent during 1955.
Lt. Col. William T. Moore, Jr.,
deputy United States Army, Alas
ka, quartermaster, gave these facts
and many others at a meeting of
the Alaska Farm Forum, March
1st, iin Palmer, Alaska.
Lt. Col. Moore said “The mili
tary purchases and consumes
more than three-fourths of all
foods grown or produced in Alas
ka, with the exception of fresh
milk.
“Although the services, Army
and Air Force, purchased a con
siderably greater quantity of Alas
kan foodstuff during the past year
than in any previous year, it is
believed .that even larger quanti
ties of Alaskain-grown produce
could be utilized if the items were
available.”
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