Italians Discover
Smuggled Note
From Siberia
ROME, UPl—An Italian govern
ment expert was on his way to
day to Comeglians, in the Alps,
to examine a log from Russia
carrying a penciled note written
in Italian.
The note read: “For 15 years I
have been in Siberia. I am an
alpine soldier from the Carnia
region.”
It was scrawled in blue pencil
on a polished portion of a fir tree
trunk included in a Russian ship
ment of timber to a sawmill at
Comeglians.
Italians long have claimed that
Russia still holds some Italian
prisoners of war. The Soviets say
only those who committed crimes
. while under detention are being
held.
Several months ago a party of
hunters claimed to have found a
similar note tied to the leg of a
migratory bird from Siberia. Of
ficials investigated but never said
whether they considered the note
to be authentic.
Manned Rocket
Report Turns Up
As Only Rumor
(By The Associated Press)
Investigation now clearly indi
cates that the Associated Press
erred Monday in using the phrase
“reliable sources” in its report
that the Soviet Union had
launched a manned rocket into
space.
The investigation shows that
while the nonofficial sources
quoted had proved reliable in the
past, they were reporting rumors
in this case. There has been no
formal denial of the rumors from
the Soviet government.
The facts thus far developed
are these:
The Moscow staff says it heard
the manned rocket reports from
east European correspondents and
at least one Western embassy but
did not file the story for another
48 hours, while it continued to
check.
Advised that other agencies
were carrying the story abroad,
Moscow then gave the story by
telephone to London, It was in
this process that misunderstand
ing arose. Two London staffers
who took the call say that they
understood the Moscow staffer to
say that the story could be at
tributed to reliable sources.
Immediately after this, strin
gent Moscow censorship was im
posed on the rocketman story.
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No Mention of
Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON, UP)—President
Eisenhower made no mention of
statehood - for Alaska and Hawaii
in his State of the Union message
[ yesterday.
The President last year altered
the customary pattern and with
[ held mention of the territories’
; statehood aims until his budget
message.
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SAN FRANCISCO, UB—State
hood for Alaska is advocated in a
resolution adopted unanimously
yesterday by the board of direc
tors of the San Francisco Cham
ber of Commerce.
Two Little Boys
Build Tunnel in Snow,
Killed by Rotary Plow
ANCHORAGE, ffl-Two little
boys built a tunnel in a snowbank
yesterday, unaware it would be
come their grave. Both were
killed outright by the blades of
a huge rotary plt>w clearing the
snow away.
They were Ross A. Kramer, 3,
son of Capt. and Mrs. R. A. Kra
mer, and Maxwell E. Dicks Jr., 2,
son of Capt. and Mrs. M. E. Dicks,
all of Ft. Richardson.
Army officials said the mishap
occurred wjiile the plow was re
moving snow from a parking lot
in the rear of the familys’ quar
ters. The driver of the machine
was treated for shock.
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children is now about $140.
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Three More File I
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For Legislature
FAIRBANKS—Three addition-!
al Fourth Division residents have |
filed for seats in the 1959 Terri
torial Legislature, according to
U.S. Clerk of Court John B. Hall.
This brings to five the number
of candidates who have filed. The
deadline is Feb. 1 for the fall elec
tion.
John B. Coghill of Nenana has
filed for a your-year term as ter
ritorial senator on the Republican
ticket. Atty. Warren A. Taylor
had already filed for the same
seat on the Democratic ticket.
There have been no filings for
the short term left vacant by the
appointment of Mike Stepovich
to the governorship. This term
runs to Jan. 1, 1961.
Newly filed for two-year terms
j in the Territorial House of Rep
| resentatives are Charles M. (Jim)
; Binkley of College on the GOP
j ticket; and Robert S. (Bob) Mc
I Combe of Chicken, on the Demo
| cratic ticket. Previously filed was j
i Louis F. Joy of Fairbanks on the J
j GOP ticket. McCombe is a min- j
j ing man. Binkley owns and oper- j
I ates the river boat “Discovery,” t
' which makes excursions on the'
j Chena and Tanana Rivers during I
j the summer months.
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I Engagement Announced
Dr. & Mrs. Terris Moore of
! Cambridge, Massachusetts and N.
: Vassalboro, Maine announce the
engagement of their daughter Ka
I trina to Dr. John Hurst Smathers
j of Loveland, Colorado, son of
Mrs. Ella Smathers and the late !
Mr. Smathers.
'Miss Moore attended the Uni- !
versity of Alaska and was gradu- j
ated from Wellesley College in !
1956; she is a teacher at St. Mary’s!
School in Springfield, South Da- j
kota. Dr. Smathers graduated
from the University of Colorado
and the Washington University
Medical School and is • an intern
at St. Luke’s Hospital, St. Louis,
Missouri. He was for three years
a teacher in the Fairbanks High
School. The wedding is expected
to take place in the early summer, j
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