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U.S. PLANE WRECKAGE
FOUND OFF RED CHINA
TOKYO, UPI—Search planes and
ships today found wreckage and
two empty life rafts presumed to
be from a U.S. Navy patrol plane
which disappeared after radioing
it was being attacked off the Red
China coast.
First reports of the finding said
there was no indication of what
happened to the 16 American air
men aboard the missing plane, a
four-engine P-4M Mercator the
Navy said was on a routine patrol
and training mission from Japan.
Navy officials refused to specu
late on the possibility that Com
munist boats had picked up at
least some of the men. The State
Department has asked Britain,
which has diplomatic .relations
with the Peiping regime, to find
out if the Reds have any informa
tion about the plane and its crew.
Navy spokesmen at the Yoko
suka Navy base said the first
wreckage and rafts were found
floating a few miles south of a
Communist held island about 100
miles southeast of Shanghai.
That put the wreckage nearly
200 miles north of the position
given by the P-4M Mercator when
it radioed at 1:25 a.m. Thursday
it was being attacked by uniden
tified aircraft.
However, the wreckage was
found in approximately the same
area, South of the Saddle Islands
off the huge bay of Hangchow, at
which Peiping radio said Chinese
Communist aircraft intercepted
and damaged a “Chiang Kai-shek
plane” early Thursday.
Chiang’s Nationalist air force
on Formosa said it had no planes
in the area at the time and none
of its planes were missing.
The Peiping broadcast said the
plane had intruded over Chinese
islands and made off after the
encounter toward the southeast—
the direction of Formosa.
The missing plane’s last brief
message reported it was 32 miles
off Red China’s shore and 160
miles north of Formosa.
Scientist Studies Otter
That Doesn’t Like Fish
LANSING, Mich., UP—Here’s an
odd otter.
Fishermen generally dislike ot
ters because of their reputation as
fish-killers.
But the state conservation de
partment reports it has an otter
with a positive dislike for fish.
The five-month-old lady otter
turns up her nose at mackerel,
salmon, sardines, smelt and other
varieties. Her favorite dish is
hamburger but she will settle for
bread and milk rather than fish.
The otter, caught on a farm, is
under study by Dr. S. C. Whit
lock, assistant chief of the game
division.
New Engine For Power
Plant To Be On Last Boat
Nome’s new diesel engine for
the light plant arrived in Seat
tle yesterday and will be aboard
the last boat which sails Sept. 20.
This news was received today by
Luther Dunbar, manager of Nome
The new Cooper-Bessemer JS
6T engine has 6 cylinder, four
cycle, develops 860 h.p. and will
be directly connected to a 600
kilowatt A.C. generator. The new
engine will bring the power plant
output to 1,050 kilowatts
The forms for the concrete
base for the engine have been
made and they will be poured
next week to be ready when the
engine is unloaded.
Body of Weinberger Baby Found
Where Kidnaper Said He Left It
MINEOLA UR—The decomposed
body of kidnapped Peter Wein
berger was found today in road
side shrubbery 51 days after he
was taken from the patio of his
Westbury, Long Island, home.
It was found where FBI agents
said Angelo J. Lamarca, a cab
driver, told them he had aban
doned the month-old child July 5,
the day after he took the baby.
Kidnaper Is Father of Two
Lamarca, 31-year-old father of
a boy, 9, and a girl, 6, was arrest
ed yesterday by FBI agents and
Nassau County police and charged
with kidnaping. Financial diffi
culties apparently caused his act.
He had asked $2,000 ran«>m.
More than 50 Nassau XTounty
police and FBI agents moved on
the abandonment spot at 9:15 a.m.
It was situated on a cut-off road
from a parkway leading to Plain
view where Lamarca lives. It is
only eight miles east of the Wein
berger home.
It was not known whether the j
child had died or was killed be-1
fore he was abandoned.
Frightened by Newsmen
Authorities said Lamarea^ ad
mitted abandoning the child after
being frightened away by the
presence of police and newsmen
when he showed up at an ap
pointed spot to pick up $2,000
ransom money.
$1,800 in Debt
Lamarea, stocky, dark haired,
and wearing a small moustache,
was picked up at his home early
yesterday by an FBI agent and a
Nassau County policeman.
Police said Lamarea cited about
$1,800 in debts—including back
payments on a refrigerator and
storm windows—as motivating
the kidnaping.
Neighbors of Lamarea said he,
his wife and two children were
quiet, but friendly people and that
the children were polite and well
mannered.
Police said members of Lamar -
ca’s family were not involved in
the case.
Juvenile Probe
Continues; Four
Arrests Made
Due to the increase in juvenile
delinquency in Nome, a thorough
investigation is now under way
with all agencies, City Police, the
military and federal officials co
operating.
According to U. S. District
Attorney Russell Hermann four
arrests have been made already
and four cases have been turned
over to military authorities.
Hermann said that not only are
the contributing adults punished
but the offending juveniles are
being held in the juvenile deten
tion quarters of the City jail.
Other offenses reported are
under investigation.
Hermann said today he believes
that most of the juvenile problem
in Nome stems from parental neg
lect and disinterest in the re
creational pursuits of the chil
dren. He declared that the terri
tory needs an institution with
trained personnel to administer
corrective measures to alleviate
the juvenile problem. He cited
the lack of supervision among the
young people as cause for com
munity alarm. This condition, he
said, Is prevalent here among the
younger teen-age group and ex
tends even to the 8-year-olds.
Banker Pleads Guilty,
Gets Three Years for
Misapplication of Funds
CHICAGO UP)—Edward A. Hintz,
Chicago banker involved in the
Hodge state check scandal, today
was sentenced to prison for three
years by Judge John P. Barnes of
U.S. district court.
Hintz pleaded guilty to 39 of 54
counts of a federal indictment
charging him with misapplication
of $872,000 of federally insured
state funds. The other counts of
the indictment were dropped by
the government.
In addition to the three-year
sentence, Judge Barnes ordered
Hintz placed on probation for five
years after he completed his term
in prison.
The plea was a reversal of an
earlier plea of innocence. Today
was the last day for changing the
plea.
Hintz is a resigned president of
the Southmoor Bank & Trust Co.,
thru which Orville Hodge, im
prisoned former state auditor,
manipulated the cashing of fake
state checks.
i Engineer To Survey
City For Drains, Sewers
And Water Main System
Bids for laying the extension
on the fire main east of the M and
M Bank were opened at the Nome
Council meeting Thursday eve
ning with Pete Reader bidding
the lowest.
The council also voted to hire
a competent engineer for the sur
vey of drains, sewers and run
ning water as proposed by the
Territorial Department of Health
and presented to the council.
The survey is being made so
that application for an APW loan
can be made very soon.
GRADES 1 THRU 8 WILL BE
ON SHIFT SCHEDULES WHEN
school Doors open sept. 4
When the Nome Public School
opens this fall, it is expected to
have an enrollment of over 550
pupils and a teaching staff of 26,
William’L. Angell, superintendent,
announced yesterday.
Opening date is Tuesday, Sept.
4th, the day after Labor Day.
All grades—1 thru 8—will be
on a shift schedule until the new
building is ready, Mr. Angell said.
The elementary school is expect
ed to have an enrollment of over
450 and the high school about 100.
Two New Subjects
For the first time in six years
courses in home economics and
shop will be offered to the high
school students.
Mr. Olaf Halverson will teach
the various subjects in the shop
course and also a class in geom
etry. Mrs. Pruitte will teach
the home economics classes and
another class in her minor field.
Commercial subjects will be
taught by John W. Rauch. Henry
Ullrich will teach all the science
and one class in advanced math.
The high school principal will
be Mr. Owen and he will teach
several classes in English. Mrs.
Emma S. Cameron will teach
English and Latin and will be
the school’s librarian. Miss Star
ling will have the girls’ physical
education classes and will teach
either in the high school or will
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Otto John Accused
Of Treason After
8-Month Investigation
KARLSRUHE, Germany, WV
Otto John, former chief of the
West German intelligence service
who crossed into the Soviet zone
in 1954 and returned last year,
was formally accused today of
treason.
The charge followed an eight
month investigation into the case,
still a mystery of the cold war
period.
I take a grade. Mr. Gorman will
teach music thru the grades and
high school and will put special
emphasis on the band.
Tentative Teachers for Grades
The listing of grade school
teachers is somewhat tentative
but with few exceptions it will
be as follows:
Mrs. Coons, Mrs. A. Nerland
and Mrs. Langhus for the three
first grades. Mrs. Olsen, Mrs.
Gillis and Miss Ross the three
second grades. Mrs. P. Walsh will
teach the first section of the third
grade and Mrs. Owen the second
section.
Mrs. C. Glavinovich and Mrs.
Samuelson (tjie former Barbara
Carlsson) will have the two sec
tions of the fourth grade. Miss
Wilson and Miss Erickson will
teach the two sections of the fifth
grade. Mrs. Dunbar and Mrs.
Hughes, the two sections of the
sixth grade. Mrs. Witner and Mrs.
Gardner, the two sections of the
seventh grade. Mr. Stenbeck and
Mr. Gardner the two sections of
the eighth grade.
First Grade Registration
Parents of children attending
the first grade for the first time
may -bring their children at eight
o’clock Tuesday morning, Sept.
4th. It is requested birth certifi
cates be brought for all children
attending the first grade for the
first time.
No child whose birthdate is
after Nov. 1st and who is not at
least six years of age may attend
any territorial school.
All other grade children who
are attending Nome School for the
first time are asked to bring their
report cards from the school they
attended previously.
Registration for grades school
pupils (except first) and high
school pupils will be at nine
o’clock the same day.
There will be a faculty meeting
of all teachers at 2 p.m. Sept. 3.
Four U.S. Soldiers Get Life
Terms, Three Get 40 Years
For Rape of German School Girl
WUERZBURG, Germany, 'JR—
Four American soldiers were sen
tenced today to life imprisonment
and three others to 40 years each
for the rape of a 15-year-old Ger
man schoolgirl.
The seven, all Negroes, were
convicted by a U.S. Army court
martial yesterday of the mass at
tack on the girl in the woods of
nearby Bamberg last July 9. The
trial started Aug. 7.
The blonde girl, whose name
has been withheld because of her
age, collapsed twice on the wit
ness stand in describing how the
soldiers raped her while her com
panion, Wilfried Pillokac, 22, a
student, was restrained.
Her testimony was broken off
and the nine-officer court ruled
she could make a deposition from
her bedside. Since she was not
able to continue her testimony in
person, the possibility of a death
sentence was eliminated. The Ar
my announced that the death sen
tence—maximum punishment for
rape—would not be returned un
der military law.
The four sentenced to life were
Army privates, their ages 21, 21,
23 and 24. Three 18-year privates^
drew 40-year terms.
The sentences, which include
dishonorable discharges and total
forfeiture of all pay and allow
ances^ are subject to review by
higher military authorities.
The mass rape case sparked a
nationwide wave of German crit
icism of misbehaving allied sol
diers. The criticism was directed
particularly against Americans.