FURSIDE OUTSIDE STATESIDE
NELSON DAVID will have a warm spot in his heart for FRANK
RYAN. Reason ... a beautiful parka made by Alaska natives
of seal, wolverine, wolf, beaver, and calf skins. Ryan, Alaska
Airlines agent at Unalakleet, flew south to attend a meeting of
station managers from the company's entire system. A three-day
conference was held in anticipation of an enlarged volume of
traffic this year. Ryan came bearing the special gift for Nelson
David, airline president, who now wonders how soon he can get
to the midnight sun to appreciate all the warmth. JANE
PERKINS, company representative in Nome, approves of the
whole transaction.
“Voice” Official Accuses
Sen. McCarthy of
Unfair Investigation
WASHINGTON, UP) — Reed
Harris, a State Department of
ficial, accused Sen. McCarthy yes
terday of running an unfair in
vestigation of the Voice of Am
erica, and told him:
“It is my public neck you are
very skillfully trying to wring.”
McCarthy heads the Senate in
vestigations subcommittee which
is looking into the activities of
the State Department’s overseas
information program, including
radio broadcasts by the Voice.
Harris is acting chief of the In
ternational Information Adminis
ti'ation, the department agency
concerned.*
Harris protested bitterly at the
public airing of his suspension
from Columbia University in
1932, and the committee attitude
on a book he wrote at about the
same time defending socialists
and what he termed “Communists
with a small C.”
He defined a Communist with
a small c as a Marxist not then
recognizable as under Soviet dom
ination.
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WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly coludy tonight and to
morrow. Winds light and vari
able. Lowest temperature expec
ted tonight -15, high tomorrow 5.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
-2, low -21. Max. wind 7 mph
from the north. Sunrise at 7 a.m.,
sunset at 5:29 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 5, low -13. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 33 in 1949, low
-32 in 1922.
Other stations. 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -22 Clear
Kotzebue -19 Clear
Wales -5 Cloudy
Gambell 2 Cloudy
Nome -15 Cloudy
Unalakleet -19 Clear
Bethel -4 Cloudy
McGrath -8 Light snow
Anchorage 12 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -5 Light snow
Whitehorse 5 Light snow
Edmonton 1 Light snow
Juneau 34 Cloudy
Ketchikan 42 Part cloudy
Seattle 48 Cloudy
San Francisco 53 Clear
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone BLACK 76 (Shop) or MAIN 52 (Residence)
VVE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
Ben Young
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
WE CARRY A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
Matanuska Banker
Sentenced 4 Years
For Embezzlement
ANCHORAGE, OT — Jack E.
Maze, former manager of the
Matanuska Valley Bank at Pal
mer, Monday pleaded guilty to
charges of embezzlement and
forgery and was sentenced to
serve four years in jail.
The sentence was handed down
by Judge Goorge W. Folta at the
recommendation of U.S. Attorney
Seaborn Buckalew, who told the
court that accountants still don’t
know how short the bank is as
a result of the irregularities.
The indictments were returned
against Maze last fall by the
grand jury. One accused him of
embezzling approximately $100,
000 in bank funds between April
1949 and December 7, 1951. The
second indictment charged him
with forging the signature of two
Palmer men on a $12,000 note.
Defense Attorney Ralph Moody
blamed Maze’s difficulties on the
fact that “he was just a good fel
low, too good for his own good.”
He said neither Maze nor his fam
ily received one cent of the em
bezzled funds.
Maze’s troubles began, Moody
said, when two Palmer enter
prises, already financed to the
limit, overdrew their accounts
while Maze was “outside.” Instead
of putting a clamp on them when
they asked more time to cover
the withdrawals, Maze helped
them out by forging notes on
either fictitious or real people.
Moody said the 39-year-old de
fendant, his wife and six-year-old
youngster have no money. After
his arrest on New Year’s Eve a
year ago the family turned over
to the bank their entire equity
of $47,000 in a house, a farm and
the Butte Roadhouse.
Buckalew said Maze had been
gi'vjen a position of public trust
and failed. He added that' as a
result of the irregularities the
bank had been forced to change
hands.
! Five Person Perish In N.Y.
Furniture Factory Flash Fire
NEW tORK, (£>—At least six
persons — five of them women —
perished in a lightning-quick fire
that flashed through a Bronx fur
niture factory Tuesday. Firemen
said “there may be more loss of
life.”
The six bodies were brought
out by gasmasked firemen, who
braved flames and dense smoke
! to- rush inside the two-story struc
; ture at River Avenue and 150th
! Street.
j Scores of panicky workers fled
I from the building when the blaze
broke out.
The furniture company, the
Utility Airlite Manufacturing Co.,
was situated on the ground floor
and employed 120 men and
women.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving from Anchorage: Ver
non Olsen, Rev. Reeves Havens,
Mrs. Andrew Nerland; from Mc
Grath: Charlie Floyd; from Una
lakleet: Mrs. Gertrude Kost.
Departing for Anchorage: Col.
Albee, Lt. Griffen, W. J. Miller,
Lt. Falconer, Eugene Lemastic,
Underwood, Wendell R. Burns,
H. J. Rowe; for Moses Point:
Frank Evans; for Kotzebue: Al
bert Miller, Steve Stephensen;
for McGrath: D. W. Dean.
U.S. coal mines have no shafts
deeper than 1,000 feet, but in
Britain’s mines, the average depth
is 1,000 feet.
V. F. W. FIGHTS
March 7 — 8:00 p.m. — School Gym
1st Bout 2nd Bout
Bruce Russell. 108 lbs. Clyde Nershak, 145 lbs.
vs. vs.
Jack Muller, 110 lbs. Louis Kost, 150 lbs.
3rd Bout 4th Bout
Ray Cole, 150 lbs. Beard, U.S.A.F., 160 lbs.
vs. vs.
Guy Ryan, 140 lbs. Billy Neilson, 155 lbs.
*
5th Bout 6th Bout
Lezar, 160 lbs. C. D. Sindelar, A.C.S., 185 lbs.
vs. vs.
Wilson, 170 lbs. Larry Minix, 210 lbs.
Wrestling Match
Killer Kangas of Nome
vs.
Grappler Remis of N. Y.
Referee — Les Bronson
Judges Timekeepers
Chubby Douglas Art Paulos
Quincy Benton Bob Rodgers
Luther Dunbar M.C.—‘Hap’ Lancaster
Fight Manager — Denton Howard
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