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VOL. LV No. 65 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1953 Per Copy—15^
Men From Many
Walks of Life Pay
Tribute to Dimond
<3y the Associated Press’
Tributes to Judge Anthony J.
Dimond came from men in many
walks of life over the weekend—
from cities as far apart as Nome
and Washington, D.C.
The long - prominent Federal
judge and former congressional
delegate died at age 72 in An
chorage Thursday night.
“Alaska has suffered a great
loss,” said Gov. Frank Heintzle
man at Juneau. “I have known
‘Tony’ Dimond for many years
as a territorial legislator, a dele
gate in Congress and a Federal
judge, and all through the years
he has given unstintingly of his
time and energy toward building
of a better Alaska.”
Bishop Dermot O'Flanagan com
mented at Juneau: “The death of
Tony Dimond marks the passing
of one more of that now too
small band of outstanding men
who are products of the great
open spaces of the mines and the
trail. Tony Dimond knew Alaska'
as well as any man living; he was
part of the working force that
has given it life. At the root of all
his splendid integrity was his
deep religious conviction. He
lived his religion in private and
in public. ‘True to himself, he
could not be false to any man’.”
Bishop O’Flanagan was called
to Anchorage from Juneau to pre
side at the funeral mass at 9 a.m.
In Washington, E. L. Bartlett,
who succeeded Dimond as con
gressional delegate said his death
“removes from the Alaskan scene
one who will always occupy a
distinguished place in the history
of the north.”
The delegate spoke of his per
sonal relationship with Dimond':
“For me there is a deep sense
of personal grief in his passing,
shared in by' Mrs. Bartlett. Judge
and Mrs. Dimond were our wed
ding attendants. I served as his
secretary when he first came to
Washington.
“No man ever lived for whom
I had more respect and affection.”
At Nome, U.S. District Judge
Cooper said: “I feel Alaska has
lost its No'. 1 citizen and the entire
territory will keenly feel his pass
ing. He had friends everywhere.
Dimond was humane and just
and an astute student of law. He
was honored and respected by the
entire profession.”
Judge Cooper is leaving Nome
today to attend the funeral at An
chorage.
Thirty-six Injured As
Streamliner Derails
SUPERIOR, Mont., (£>—An elec
trified streamliner left the rails
in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains,
yesterday and 36 persons were in
jured as five cars spilled down a
bank. Sparks from broken power
wires set two other afire.
Most of thb 163 passengers were
asleep as the Milwaukee Road’s
10-car Olympia-Hiawathan, bound
from Seattle to Chicago, cracked
up rolling through a valley some
60 miles northwest of Missoula,
Mont. A broken rail was blamed
for the wreck.
Coronation, To Take Place Tomorrow
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Elizabeth II, Queen of England
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Great Excitement Despite
Cool Weather Prediction
For Coronation Tomorrow
LONDON, UPi — Britain’s price
less crown jewels were moved
secretly into Westminster Abbey
today for the coronation. All
along London’s glittering corona
tion route thousands of excited
people staked out claims to stand
ing room—a full 24 hours ahead
of Queen Elizabeth’s historic
crowning and procession.
Only a single car of detectives
guarded the historic relics — in
cluding St. Edward’s crown and
the jewel-studded imperial state
crown—on the journey from the
crown jeweler’^ to the Abbey,
where the coronation will take
place.
This great city bubbled with
excitement in anticipation of the
great day. The spirit of festivity
swept into Buckingham Palace,
where Elizabeth’s son, young
Prince Charles, played peek-a-boo
with the crowds gathered outside.
The four-year-old kept popping
his head up in a palace window,
to- the crowd’s shouted delight.
The weatherman predicted for
tomorrow a cool day marked by
occasional showers, possible hail
and thunder. Chill winds blew
today but they failed to check
the carnival enthusiasm of the
throngs outside both the palace
and Westminster Abbey.
Queen Elizabeth carried on her
official duties. With the Duke of
Edinburgh she received 80 dele
gates from commonwealth nations
in the white and gold throne room
at the palace. She had lunch wi^i
Prime Minister Churchill and 10
commonwealth prime ministers.
Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess
Margaret and other members of
the royal family also attended.
The 27-year-old queen, the sec
ond Elizabeth to rule, wore a
cream silk dress with a small
black dot pattern and a diamond
spray brooch on the left shoulder.
The only woman presented to
Elizabeth was the Begum Liaquat
Ali Khan of Pakistan, attired in
eastern dress.
Wilfred Stump, Ketchikan
Attorney Disbarred
For 60 Days
JUNEAU, Iff) — Federal Judge
George W. Folta last Friday or
dered Wilfred C. Stump, Ketchi
kan attorney, disbarred from Al
aska practice for 60 days for acts
tending to bring reproach upon
the professional and injure it in
the favorable opinion of the pubJ
lie.
The suspension will be effective
when the judgment is entered.
In passing his ruling, Judge
Folta said:
“The general public already has
a rather low opinion of the legal
profession, due in part, at least,
to its reluctance or failure to do
much more than pay lip service
to high-sounding ideals.”
JUNEAU WOMAN DROWNS
JUNEAU, Iff)—Believed to have
fallen in Gold Creek shortly be
fore noon Thursday, the body of
Mrs. Otto K. Smithberg was found
Friday night floating in the Ju
neau small boat harbor.
Police said the woman appar
ently suffered a fainting spell
while crossing a small bridge over
the creek and toppled into the
water.
Muriel Hagberg, Miss
Alaska of 1953, Visits Here
Muriel Hagberg, Miss Alaska of
1953, paid an unexpected visit to
Nome, arriving yesterday and
leaving today.
Although elected Miss Alaska
from Fairbanks, where she has
lived for the past 10 years, Miss
Hagberg was bom in this area,
at the village of Haycock, where
she lived until she was eight years
old.
She is now a graduate of Fair
banks High School and employed
at the N.C. Store there.
She is looking forward with
anticipation to the trip to Cali
fornia where she will represent
Alaska in the Miss Universe con
test at Long Beach. She said that
she will be carrying a real Al
askan billiken with her to the
mayor of Long Beach.
Yesterday it was reported that
while at Kotzebue she was photo
graphed on an ice cake in a
bathing suit decorated with fur.
She is accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Laura Wright, an£
both enjoyed visiting friends and
relatives while here.
A luncheon honoring the queen
was held this noon at the Bering
Sea Club with representatives of
business houses and local organi
zations present. They included:
Phyllis Freericks and Lois Swan
berg of Wien Airlines, Mary
Louise Lyle of the N. C. Co., Boyd
Harwood, Rotarian; Mrs. Boyd
Harwood, Home Arts Club; Carol
Jones, Beta Sigma Phi; A. Polet,
Chamber of Commerce; George
Go'shaw, Nome Visitors Associa
tion; City Clerk Carrie McLain,
Mrs. Mildred Hermann of Juneau,
Mrs. Joe Wallace; and A. Castell,
at whose home Miss Hagberg and
her mother are guests.
Rhee Proposes Four-Point
Pact with US In Exchange
For OK of Truce Terms
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Syngman Rhee reportedly has
proposed that President Eisen
hower sign a four-point agree
ment pledging a mutual defense
pact and future military and fin
ancial help to South Korea if the
Seoul government is to drop its
opposition to the United Notions
truce terms.
Rhee’s attitude — and what
reply should be made to his pro
position—presumably was up for
discussion at a special meeting of
the National Security Council call
ed at the White House.
An authoritative informant said
the South Korean president sub
mited his program in a message
sent to Eisenhower through Am
erican ambassador Ellis Briggs in
Seoul.
JUNEAU MAN ASSAULTED,
ROBBED OF PLANE TICKET
SEATTLE, Iff)—A Juneau man
was beaten and robbed of $25, his
shoes, eye-glasses and a plane
ticket home Friday night by two
men on a Seattle street.
The victim, Ralph Brown, 33,
told police two Negroes leaped on
him from a doorway.
Brown was treated at Harbor
| view County hospital for face
i cuts and bruises.
Humphrey Backs
Eisenhower On
Excess Profits Tax
WASHINGTON, —Secretary
of the Treasury Humphrey told a
dubious House committee today
that failure to extend the excess
profits tax on business would be
an unsafe “gamble with national
economic security.”
Humphrey went to bat for Presi
dent Eisenhower’s tax proposal
before the House Ways and Means
Committee. The President has
urged a six-months extension of
the business profits tax beyond
June 30, its present expiration
date.
The commitee has voiced strong
opposition in the past to the ex
tension, and Humphrey picked
common gfound to declare at the
start that “I dislike the excess
profits tax and I think it is a bad
•tax.”
But, he said, “The danger of an
atomic Pearl Harbor is real . . .
the country must be kept safe
from aggression from abroad. And
further inflation must be stopped
and the dollar must be kept sound
to provide a solid base for a
healthy economy.
“Military security and economic
security are the chief responsi
bilities of the nation. They must
take precedence over everything
else.”
Humphrey struck hard on a
theme that is expected to appeal
to many lawmakers: that under
present laws individuals will not
get income tax relief until next
year. A 10 per cent personal in
come tax cut becomes effective
automatically Jan. 1.
“In the present situation,” Hum
phrey said, “It does not seem fair
to let the first reduction benefit
only a relatively small group of
corporations at least six months
ahead of any relief for any other
taxpayers.”
U.S. and Canadian Ships
To Resupply Weather
Groups In Arctic
WASHINGTON, (fl— U.S. and
Canadian ships, with aircraft to
aid them, will fight their way thru
ice fields this summer to take
supplies to isolated weather sta
tions on the frozen rim of the
Canadian Arctic.
The Navy announced today that
five U.S. ships, including three
icebreakers, would leave in mid
July on the annual expedition to
resupply the stations operated
jointly by Canada and the United
States.
Planes of the RCAF and USAF
will help guide the ships through
ice fields and carry mail and high
priority repair parts for the ex
pedition.
The three weather stations are
among the farthest north of any
spot where men live the year
around—Alert and Eurke on El
lesmere Island, west of Green
land, and Resolute, on Cornwallis
Island. Even with the use of pow
erful icebreakers, the stations can
be reached by sea only during a
few weeks of each year. At other
times, emergency resupply is done
by air.