Bishop Frowns on
Equality of Sexes
BLACKPOOL, England, l#*—A
Church of England bishop, who
says he does not believe in the
equality of the sexes, blames
much of today’s moral delinquen
cy on women trying to be some
thing they’re never meant to be.
Speaking Friday night to a local
organization which looks after
young girls, the Rt. Rev. Allee
Hoskyns-Abrahall, bishop of Lan
caster, said that to put men and
women on an equal basis “when
they are psychologically and
physically so entirely different
can lead to some awful trouble.”
“I do not believe in equality of
the sexes and, please God, I never
will,” the 51-year-old bishop add
ed. “What do most bright things
today mean by equality?—the
freedom to behave as a man be
haves.
“They try to add to their natur
al vices and then feel they have
reached man’s status. They have
n’t. They have sunk below it.”
• But the bishop, who is married
and has three children, said that
women are the stronger sex.
“They have proved that time
and time again by their courage,”
he said, “by the way - they bear
pain and by the sacrifices they
make for their homes and their
families.”
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Territory of Alaska )
City of Nome ) SS>
I, Leslie A. Stevens, being employed by the Mayor of the City
of Nome, to audit the General Fund Records for the Council Year
ending April 15, 1955; do hereby certify that the audit has been
completed and the records found to be correct. The Receipts, Dis
bursements, and Cash Balance of the General Fund were found
to be as follows:
RECEIPTS
Property Taxes, Real and Personal
Current . $ 38,603.23
Delinquent . . 1,097.19
Penalties and Interest on Delinquent Taxes . 94.34
Municipal Fines and Forfeits .'.. 5,428.50
Licenses and Fees:
Pound Fees and Dog Licenses . 181.50
Drivers and Chauffeurs Licenses . 266.00
Motor Vehicle Stickers ... 3,810.00
Building Moving Permits . 250.00
Refunds:
Liquor Licenses . 8,650.00
Mercantile Business Licenses . 6,314.04
Punch Board and Amusement Devices . L897.75
City Sales Tax . 51.418.55
Nome Harbor . 2,500.00
Miscellaneous:
Interest on Sea Wall Fund .v. 500.00
Interest on Other Certificates of Deposit . 13.26
Sale of City Property . 899.05
Rentals on City Property . 937.00
Refund Gasoline Taxes {Federal Excise) . 34.90
Reimbursement of Expenses previously expended
for Nome Light & Power Utility Survey . 3,771.66
Community Xmas Tree Fund . 182.85
Total . $126,849.82
DISBUR SEMEN TS
Fire Department . 17,077.64
Police Department . 21,837.96
Street Department . 12,390.30
Health Department . 3,524.39
City Clerk . 4,500.00
City Hall-Clerk’s Office . 1,819.66
Miscellaneous:
Bond Redemption, Int. and Bank Charges . 4,246.93
Nome School Board . 43,093.75
Insurance . 1,903.77
Nome Harbor Maintenance . 2,500.00
Alaska Industrial Board (Certificate of Deposit) 693.73
Pay Roll Taxes and Handling Charges . 598.31
Professional Services:
Legal .*... 1,925.00
Auditing . 79.75
Election (Fees, Meals and Ballots) . 327.19
Other, Miscellaneous . 1,482.92
Total . $118,001.30
General Fund Increase For Year . 8,848.52
BANK RECONCILIATION OF GENERAL FUND
Treasurer’s Book Balance, April 15, 1954 . 25,535.10
General Fund Increase for Year . 8,848.52
Treasurer’s Book Balance, April 15, 1955 . 34,383.62
Outstanding Warrants, April 15, 1955 . 1,316.59
Balance per Bank Statement, April 15, 1955 . 35,700.21
Respectfully submitted
Leslie A. Stevens,
. Licensed Public Accountant
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of April, 1955.
Carrie M. McLain,
Notary Public for Alaska.
i My commission expires June 18, 1958
Electrician Confesses He Murdered
Attorney So Wife Could Get Insurance
PORTLAND, Ore., W—A Port-'
lgtnd electrician told police Friday
he and Mrs. Marjorie Smith had
plotted the bomb death of her
attorney husband.
Victor L. Wolf, 45, signed a j
confession that he wired the fatal j
bomb in the car of Oliver K.'
Smith, 35, so the wife could col
lect $20,000 insurance, Dist. Atty.
William. Langley reported.
Wolf and Mrs. Smith were both
charged with first degree murder.
Mrs. Smith, a trim, 35-year-old
brunette, has denied any part in
the slaying and has refused to
discuss the case, Langley said.
Wolf said he met Mrs. Smith in
October of last year while she
was divorced from her husband.
Langley reported Wolf told him
that he and Mrs. Smith decided
she should remarry her husband
and l^ill him for the insurance.
The Smiths were remarried last
February and in March Wolf
tried to slay Smith in his garage
by beating him with a bottle
when Smith returned home late
one night, Langley said.
Smith recovered from this at
tack. Wolf wired 10 sticks of dyn
amite into Smith’s car Wednes
day afternoon, the confession said.
On Thursday night Smith drove
to a stag party at the Columbia
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Edgewater Country Club here.
While he was inside, Wolf wired
the bomb to the starter, Langley
quoted the confession as saying.
Smith was killed when he tried
to start the car.
Wolf was picked up as a sus
pect because Smith had reported
Wolf’s license number to police
after the March 10 ambush. Smith
said then he did not want an ar
rest made. Wires found in Wolf’s
car were similar to wire used in
the bombing of the Smith car,
Langley said.
Wolf is the father of a seven
year-old son who lived with him.
The Smiths had a daughter, 3.
Tornadoes and Hailstorms
Batter Parts of The U.S.
By the Associated Press
Showers and thunderstorms
continued today in Eastern and
Southern United States—sections
where some localities had a tor
nado, a 70 miles an hour wind
storm, and hailstones bigger than
baseballs, Sunday.
The eastward movement of the
storm center, however, was ex
pected to clear the skies in the
Midwest but only to make way
for eastward moving weather now
dampening the northern Rocky
Mountains and Pacific North
west.
A tornado ripped through three
small communities in a northern
Alabama farming section, Sun
day, killing an elderly couple and
two children, a 3-year-old boy
and his 10-year-old sister, and
causing property damage esti
mated at $750,000.
The twister injured 25 persons,
including the mother of the two
child victims, and three other of
her children; destroyed 40 houses
and two churches.
A smaller twister struck the
campus of Eastern State College
at Richmond, Ky., causing sev
eral thousand dollars damage.
Thunderstorms pelted the Caro
linas with hailstones up to two
inches in dameter at Charlotte,
baseball size at Laurens and
York, S.C., and four inches in
diameter at Rock Hills, S.C.
Colombany Convicted of
Trying to Get False
Testimony in Wells Case
FAIRBANKS, (^—William Col
ombany, a Los Angeles dancing
school instructor, was convicted
by a federal court jury yesterday
of trying to obtain false testimony
in the Cecil Wells murder case
here Oct. 17. 1953.
The jury took only two hours to
reach a verdict after hearing a
local musician, Robert Cafee, tes
tify that Colombany asked him to
give false information to officers
investigating the slaying of Wells,
a prominent businessman.
Caffee said he was asked to
give information which would
“take the heat off Diane Wells,”
the slain man’s wife, and impli
cate Johnny Warren, a nightclub
employe, more deeply.
Mrs. Wells and Warren were
both indicted for the murder, The
woman later committed suicide
in Los Angeles and Warren has
never been brought to trial.
Colombany faces a sentence of
up to three years in prison.
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