Prosecution
Rests Its Case
Against Girard
MAEBASHI, Japan, (JV-The
prosecution rested its case against
GI William S. Girard yesterday
and asked a Japanese court to
sentence him to prison for five
years.
Girard’s lawyers will make
their final plea Nov. 5. A verdict
is expected by Nov. 20.
Girard is on trial for the fatal
shooting of Mrs. Naka Sakai, a
Japanese scavenging for scrap
brass, on a military firing range
last Jan. 30. He is charged with
the equivalent of manslaughter,
the maximum penalty for which
is 15 years.
There has been considerable
speculation that the judge, if he
convicted the soldier, would sus
pend sentence and allow him to
return to the United States with
the Japanese girl he married last
. summer.
Suspension of sentences of up to
three years is usual in Japan for
first offenders or where the pros
ecution case is weak.
Summing up, the prosecution
conceded Girard did not intend
to kill Mrs. Sakai but claimed the
GI has never repented the killing,
an important factor in Oriental
justice regardless of blame.
Girard has said many times he
is sorry Mrs. Sakai was killed.
Alberta Citizens Vote
For More Places to Drink;
Government Must Decide
EDMONTON, Alberta, (JV—Al
bertans voted heavily Wednesday
in favor of a greater variety of
places in which they can drink
liquor. But it’s up to the provin
cial government to decide if cock
tail bars are to open.
The government made plain be
fore the plebiscite that it would
consider the outcome a nonbind
ing expression of opinion.
About half the province’s 550,
000 voters turned out to vote on
additional outlets for the sale of
beer, wine and liquor subject to
local option. The vote was 163,434
to 0-1,388.
At present liquor and -beer by
the bottle are sold at government
liquor stores; beer by the glass
and bottle at beer parlors, and
liquor by the glass in licensed
Someone defined teen age as a
time when girls begin to powder
and the boys begin to puff. - '" ' '
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Mt. Edgecumbe
Student Shoots
Himself in Hecrt
SITKA UP—A 19-year-old soph
omore student at Mt. Edgecumbe
School fired a patal shot thru his
heart last Friday evening before
a group of fellow students at the
boys’ dorm of the school.
Dead was Gabriel Okitkon, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Okitkon
Sr. of Nome.
A coroner’s inquest brought in
a verdict of death bv gunshot
wound, self-inflicted and premed
itated, after fellow students testi
fied he had threatened on several
occasions to kill himself.
Young Okitkon had spent a
year in the sanitarium at Mt.
Edgecumbe Hospital in 1955.
Geophysical Year
Scientist Dies
On Alaska Glacier
FAIRBANKS, UP—Dr. Richard
C. Hubley of Washington, D.C., a
leader in the U.S. Geophysical
Year program, has died in Alaska,
apparently o' exposure after he
went out alone for night observa
tions on remote McCall Glacier.
The death of Hubley, 31, oc
curred Monday night. With three
others, Hubley was at a camp on
the glacier on Romanzof Moun
tain in the Brooks Range in far
northern Alaska.
Hubley was coordinator of the
entire United States IGY glacio
logical program for the Northern
Hemisphere.
He had conducted many glacio
logical studies in the Pacific
Northwest and planned the Blue
Glacier project on Mount Olym
pus where a party of University
of Washington scientists are
spending the winter.
Hubley graduated from high
school in Tacoma, and took his
BS, MS, and PhD degrees at the
University of Washington.
Mrs. Atwood Traveled
3,500 Miles Out of Way
Because of SAS Route
COPENHAGEN UP)—Mrs. Evan
geline Atwood, wife of editor and
publisher Robert 'Atwood of the
Anchorage Daily Times, says she
could have saved a trip of 3,5'0
. 5 ;o come here—-if she were
allowed to by U.S. authorities.
To come to Copenhagen, she
had to fly from Anchorage to Los
Angeles and then take the SAS
■ isnsarctic plane to Denmark.
If she were allowed to go on
ho SAS plane at Anchorage, the
trip would have amounted to only
about 4,500 miles instead of 8,000
miles, she said.
Under its flight contract, SAS
refuels in Anchorage, cannot pick
up passengers there.
Presley’s Shoes Were
‘Bolted to the Floor’
In Toned-Down Show
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—Elvis Pres
ley declined comment on the ton
ing down of his second perfor
mance here Tuesday, but an aide
said “it looked like his shoes were
bolted to the floor.”
Police sent a vice squad to view
his second show after the first one
the previous night brought com
plaints from parents that Elvis’
gyrations bordered on the obscene.
A capacity crowd of young ad
mirers shrieked approval on both
nights.
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[Defender of McCarthy,
! Herman Welker, Dies
WASHINGTON, Merman
Welker, 50, an Idaho Republican
[ who served one six-year term in
the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday.
A consistent spokesman for the
conservative wing of his party,
Welker attracted national atten
i ticn in 1054 \as the principal de
i fender of the late Sen. McCarthy
I in debate preceding the Senate
| condemnation of McCarthy.
I His death followed an opera
; tion to remove a brain tumor.
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ASTRONOMY NOTES
By OLAF HALVERSON
Meteors are commonly seen
j shooting across the evening sky
; during the month of November.
Meteors are thought to have
j their origin in disintegrated com
I ets. They are moving around the
| sun in orbits of their own. Rela
| tively very few of them collide
| with the earth.
| The energy of their motion is
j suddenly changed into heat on
impact with our atmosphere. The
meteors are quickly vaporized,
leaving a visible thain in the sky.
Few meteors appear at greater
heights than 100 miles and few
i below 30 miles. If the meteor
I passes completely thru the atmo
sphere and reaches the surface of
the earth it is called a meteorite.
Many thousands of pounds of
such interplanetary material have
been collected from all parts of
the world. The specimens are pre
served in museums in London,
Paris, Vienna, and New York.
Hitchcock To Be
1958 Candidate in
New Alaska Party
PALMER—Formation of an in
dependent Alaskan Party, origin
ating in the Matnnuska Valley,
has been announced by Ben
Hitchcock of Caribou Creek, who
i also announces he will be a can
didate for the Territorial Legisla
ture on, the Alaska Party ticket in
1958.
The general program of the
Alaskan Party has been drawn up
in a series of informal meetings
in the Third and Fourth Divisions
in the last few months. It embod
ies the same principles on which
Hitchcock campaigned for the
Legislature in the 1956 campaign.
The Alaskan Party will concern
itself primarily with Alaskan af
fairs, and with only those nation
al issues that directly affect the
territory.
-“Our purpose in forming is to
provide representation for an es
sentially Alaskan viewpoint which
is now neglected,” Hitchcock
states. “We believe that vital, cre
ative new thinking is imperative
in modern politics.”
The party will openly support
candidates and policies of other
parties or of independents whose
aims coincide.
Among the new party’s prin
ciples are public control of gov
ernment with a direct vote on is
sues thru initiative and referen
dum; simplicity in government,
with tax revision; encouragement
of small, independent enterprise.
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