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Alaska Airlines
Control Shifts
To Mgmt. Group
SEATTLE, UPl — Charles F.
Willis Jr., Alaska Airlines presi
dent, disclosed Monday that he
and associates are in the process
of buying working control of the
company.
The group is committed to buy,
and is in the process of buying,
200,000 shares of Alaska Airlines’
common stock. Willis said, from
Raymond W. Marshall, Green
wich, Conn.
The pin-chase was said to give
working control of the airline to
a small group of people who have
faith in the future of the company
and_ are associated in direct man
agement of it. Willis said he per
sonally has bought 32,000 shares
a” - will buy more.
Price of the stock exchanging
hands was said to have been set
at $7 a share.
V.hen the deal is completed,
probably about the end of this
' ear, the Willis group will be the
largest individual stockholders.
There are 615,000 shares of Alas
ka Airlines common stock out
standing, Willis said.
Marshall, retaining 45,000 shares
of common stock, will be the sec
ond largest stockholder. He is a
. company director.
Willis was said to be negotia
ting with several Seattle people
to help bring control of the airline
to the west, due to close Seattle
interest in affairs of the 49th
State, which AA serves.
Willis said third quarter earn
ings this year increased $264,691
for a total of $1,779,303. Net profit
after taxes amounted to $126,131,
or 20 cents a share. This con
trasts with a 13 cents per share
loss during the same period of
1957.
Passenger traffic on AA’s Port
, land and Seattle to Fairbanks
route during the third quarter,
Willis said, was three times great
er .than a year ago.
MOSCOW ARMISTICE DAY
MOSCOW, UP — Representatives
of eight non-Communist nations
•held a brief Armistice Day observ
ance yesterday at a cemetery in
the heart of Moscow.
•Participants were France, the
United States, Britain, Italy, Bel
gium, Canada, India and Japan.
French, German and other for
eign dead from past wars are
buried in the cemetery.
POLICE WANT WHISKY MONEY
BOWLING GREEN, Ky|, UP —
The police department wants some
whisky money, but Chief Murrell
Waddle explains it’s not for grog
rations.
He wants the city to provide
the money so officers can make
buys in efforts to catch local boot
leggers. Waddle said the officers
hve been getting the money out of
their own personal funds.
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Lyndon Johnson Named
To U.N. Delegation In
Bi-Partisan Move
By SPENCER DAVIS
SEATTLE, UP) — The Adminis
tration’s appointment of Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson
to the U. S. Delegation at the
United Nations marks the start of
a new and strongly bipartisan ef
fort to ban military weapons from
outer space.
Secretary of State Dulles took
•time out from the Colombo Plan
Ministerial Conference to an
nounce Johnson’s acceptance of
the post.
With President Eisenhower’s
approval, Dulles said he had asked
the Texas Senator who heads the
Senate Space and Aeronautics
Committee to make a statement
to the U. N. General Assembly to
gether with Henry Cabot Lodge.
Dulles said Johnson was asked
to serve in this role “in order to
| make clear to the world how much
all Americans agree on the im
portance of this subject.”
j The Soviet Union also has a res
olution before the U. N. on outer
space but insists that it cannot
give up control unless the United
States abandons its foreign bases
where long range missiles can be
used against them.
Authoritative sources pointed
out that the SoViet Union also has
missile bases which threaten
Britain, France and West Germany
as well as the United States.
OLD BARNEY IS DEAD
PITTSBURGH, UF>—Old Barney,
a 165-pound stag, has made his
last challenge. He was done in by
a woman motorist.
When he wasn’t teasing frus
trated hunters by showing the
white of his tail after straying off
his protested range in Allegheny
County’s North Park, Old Bar
ney made sport of motorists.
Up to his usual tricks, the big
animal leaped onto a park road,
lowered his 10-point rack, and
challenged the lights of an on
coming auto.
Mrs. Lena Dunkle of Mars, Pa.,
was the first motorist in 10 years
unable to stop in time.
U. S., Canada Asked
To Protect Bears
NEW YORK, UPl — A naturalist
asked the U. S. and Canadian gov
ernments yesterday to come to the
aid of the grizzly and polar bears.
Otherwise, the great beasts
will become extinct, said John A.
Livingston, executive director of
the Audubon Society of Canada.
He told the New York Historical
Society that the encroachments of
civilization in Northern Canada
and Alaska and the increased effi
ciency of hunters are threatening
to wipe out the bears.
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Dave Beck Used
Non - Taxable
Union Funds
TACOMA, Wash., (tf) — Dave
Beck’s defense in his income tax
evasion trial will be that he took
non-taxable union funds “in a ra
ther peculiar way” and became
rich, his lawyers disclosed Mon
day.
Willaim Dwyer, of Beck’s team
of defense attorneys, said' in an
opening statement to a federal,
court jury that the ex-boss of the
Teamsters union got into trouble
through “sloppy” handling of
union money.
“But he did no wrong where
his taxes were concerned.” Dwyer
said.
Beck’s long-awaited trial opened
yesterday in U. S. District Court
and a jury of eight men and four
women wag seated with unex
pected speed.
The one-time Seattle laundry'
truck driver, who rose to one of
the nation’s most powerful labor
posts, is charged with defrauding
the government out of $240,000
in income taxes for the years
1950-53.
Dwyer told the jury that when
Beck takes the stand he will
show he took $380,000 in Team
sters funds over a period of years,
invested the money and eventu
ally repaid it — becoming wealthy
in the process.
He said the 64-year-old Beck
treated the union money as a loan,
but the defense lawyer did not
directly call it a loan.
“Beck took the money in a ra
ther peculiar way ... an informal
way, and it was this informality
that got him into this difficulty.
. . . These were the dealings of a
self-confident, self-educated man.
This is what brought about the
well-known downfall of Mr.
Beck,” Dwyer said.
The $380,000 figured promin
ently in questioning of Beck at
Senate Rackets Investigating Com
mittee hearings. The committee
later accused Beck of hving stolen
the money. The portly labor lead
er invoked the Fifth Amendment
before the committee but said in
a televised interview here prior
to his committee appearance that
'he borrowed the money and paid
it back.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Jack
Obenour, directing the govern
ment’s case, read a 21-page state
ment ^o the jury in which he ^aid
the source of Beck’s money is not
at issue, only his taxes.
Obenour said the government
will use the net-worth method to
prove Beck cheated on his tax
returns showing that he became
steadily richer over the years but
his tax returns failed to reflect it.
Beck, reputed to be a million
aire. acquired much of his wealth
by investing in Seattle real estate.
His $50,000 annul salary as presi
dent of the Teamsters Union was
continued fter his retirement last
year. >
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Assassination Plot
Foiled In Ghana
ACCRA, Ghana, GP) — The gov
ernment accused 43 persons of
plotting to kill Prime Minister
Kwame Nkrumah and two of his
ministers. Twenty were arrested
and police hunted the other 23
yesterday.
An official announcement Mon
day .night said the group formed
an underground movement known
as “Zenith Seven.” Its aim was
said to be the violent overthrow
of the regime following assassi
nation of Nkrumah.
Leaders of the opposition united
party attended a hastily summoned
meeting to discuss the arrests.
CORNBREAD DIVORCE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, UP) — Ar
thur Lemons, 73, was granted a
divorce on grounds including the
refusal of his wife, 68, to cook
him biscuits and cornbread.
Who Wants
Tourists?
The Alaska Visitors Association,
as virtually every newspaper in
Alaska has acknowledged, has al
ready made a great record in pro
moting a valuable tourist business
for Alaska.
Under the AVA, the value to
Alaska of the tourist trade has
grown to where it now is bringing
about $50 millions of outside
money into Alaska every year.
Ernest Gruening, who was then
governor, advocated the establish
ment of the Visitors Association.
Bill Egan introduced the bill in
the Alaska Legislature. Mike Step
ovieh, then a member of the
House, voted AGAINST it. See
page 580, official House Journal
of 1951.
(Paid Political Advertisement by
Gruening for U. S. Senate Committee,
Box 2231, Fairbanks;
Vic Richardson, Chairman.)
| James M. Curley,
j Last of Political
Bosses, Is Dead
BOSTON, OR — James Michel
Curley, last of the big city poli
tical bosses, died at City Hospital.
He would have been 85 Novem
ber 20.
Curley was a Democratic leader
for more than half a century,
serving four terms as Mayor of
Boston, one term as Governor of
Massachusetts and four as a Con
gressman.
Slowly failing health had
marked Curley’s last years and
he was long under treatment for
diabetes.
Death came a few hours after a
team of seven doctors performed
a 55-minute emergency operation.
He underwent surgery Novem
ber 4 — election day — for an in
testinal blockage and apparently
was making satisfactory progress
until Tuesday night. Earlier Tues
day he had walked the hospital
corrider and had posed for news
paper photographers.
Tuesday night, Mrs. Curley and
Curley’s two sons, the Rev. Fran
cis X. Curley, S.J., of Holy Cross
College, and George J. Curley of
Stoneham, were summoned. Fa
ther Curley gave his father the
last rites of the Roman Catholic
Church.
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