“Lazy” Mailman Swims
Mile to Dump Letters
NEW YORK, Iff)—A letter car
rier fades charges of destroying
mail—by swimming out and
dumping it in tho Atlantic Ocean.
Authorities said Joseph P. Mi
chalozic, 31, admitted Wednesday
he put the mail in a shoebox and
swam out about a mile off Gilgo
Beach to dump it.
A lifeguard at Lido Beach, some
miles down the Lo'ng Island shore,
found the box with the letters still
inside and turned it over to postal
authorities.
Then postal inspectors traced a
shoe company label on the box to
Michalozic, through post office
records showing he had received
a package from the company re
cently.
He was quoted as saying his
wife’s suicide after childbirth and
•pain from a war injury had com
bined to make him too “lazy” to
deliver the mail.
U.S. Charges Chinese Reds
With Holding 15 Airmen
As “Political Prisoners”
WASHINGTON, UP) — The
United States today formally
charged the Chinese Communists
are holding 15 American airmen
■as “political prisoners.”
A Defense Department state
ment said the Chinese Commun
ists admitted at the recent con
ference at Geneva that the 15
are alive and that this has been
verified by Americans, former
prisoners of war, who have been
exchanged since the armistice in
Korea.
The Pentagon announcement
said also that the Communists
have been asked to account for a
total of 526 Americans “who' are
either in Communist hands or
concerning whose fate the Com
munists have knowledge as in
dicated in an announcement by
the Far East command in Korea
on Tuesday.
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I World Peace Is Challenge
To Spiritual Pioneers,
Sourdoughs Are Told
VANCOUVER, 141—Sourdoughs
of the Klondike were told Wed
nesday “the achievement of world
peace challenges spiritual pio
neers in all lands today.”
The 1,000-odd members of the
International Sourdough’s Assn,
were addressed by Aubrey Sim
mons, member of Parliament for
Yukon-MacKenzie, at their 23rd
reunion banquet.
“Alaska and the Yukon are an
example of international coopera
tion and good will in a world
familiar with friction and misun
derstanding,” he said. Summers
added:
“I can envision the day when a
railway will be built from Prince
George to the Yukon and Alaska
through the Rocky Mountain
Trench. Such a railway, along the
route surveyed by the Army En
gineers in 1942, cannot fail.”
MARCH OF DIMES
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AI Capone Gangster •
Found Shot to Death hy
Assassins in Chicago
CHICAGO, (41—Charles (Cherry
Nose) Goie, who survived gang
land shootings when he was a
member of Al Capone’s mob, was
found shot to death in an automo
bile Wednesday night.
Assassins pumped five bullets
into his body.
Gioe, 52, and three other Cap
one gangsters were sent to prison
in 1944 after their conviction of
conspiracy for extorting more
than one million dollars from the
motion picture industry. The four
won a parole in 1947 after serving
one-third of a 10-year sentence.
The parole caused a furor and
resulted in a congressional inves
tigation. The inquiry brought out
that Paul Dillon, a St. Louis at
torney and friend of former Presi
dent Harry Truman, and Maury
Hughes of Dallas, Texas, a friend
of former Atty. Gen. Tom Clark,
participated in the parole prelim
inaries.
Eventually the parole board re
voked the paroles. Gioe later was
released on a writ of habeas
corpus.
BANK CASHES CHECK STUB
PASADENA, Calif., UPl — This
city’s new paychecks which have
a stub similar in size and shape
to the check itself caused con
sternation in a local bank.
City Controller O. A. Dietrich
told the city staff session yester
day he had received a hurried
call from the bank. An official
asked him to send an employe
back to the bank.
“We find we have cashed his
stub,” Dietrich quoted the official.
TROY DESTROYED BY FIRE
ON MOVIE SET, THAT IS
ROME, UFi — Fabled Troy was
destroyed again today. Flames
blamed on a cigarette butt swept
across a two-acre reproduction of
the city erected for the multi
million dollar Warner Brothers’
movie “Helen of Troy.”
Only smoking ruins remained
when nearly 100 firemen finally
extinguished the flames after an
hour.
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Skinner Blames ,
Unequal Subsidies
For Service Halt
SEATTLE, UR — D. E. Skinner,
president of Alaska Steamship
Co. yesterday cited political
“shortsightedness” and an un
equal government subsidy pro
gram as high on the list of
reasons why his company will
abandon maritime passenger ser
vice to Alaska this month.
Speaking before the Seattle
Rotary Club, Skinner pointed out
that when Alaska Steam’s Denali
makes the final trip northward
next Tuesday, the Canadian gov
ernment will offer the only reg
ular water passenger service be
tween the United States and
Alaska.
“As of October 1,” he empha
sized, “the average Alaskan must
look to the successor of the Hud
son Bay Co., a foreign company,
to provide him with water trans
portation to the United States.”
Deep cuts have been made in
Seattle - Alaska maritime traffic
by “government subsidized air
lines,” Skinner said.
“Airlines collected 8 million
dollars in direct operating sub
sidies in 1953,” he added, “plus
2 million dollars received as a
direct incentive to carry U. S.
mail.
“Modem airport facilities have
been built throughout Alaska
with government and territorial
dollars . . . but not one penny
has been spent to improve Alas
ka’s commercial port facilities.”
Skinner said Alaska Steam’s
labor costs have rose more than
75 per cent in the past six years
and have contributed much to a
loss Of $1,500,000 suffered by the
company through its passenger
service.
Alaska Gets $75,000 for
Wildlife Development
WASHINGTON, OP)—Undersec
retary of the Interior Ralph
Tudor announced that $75,000 has
been alloted to Alaska to aid re
storation and development of
wildlife resources. The money
comes from an 11 per cent fed
eral tax on sporting arms and
ammunition, levied on manufac
turers.
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