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MUSIC HATH CHARMS• UP TO A POINT
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AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK
Throughout the nation teachers, parents and in
terested citizens are observing American Education
Week from November 8 to 14.
The theme for this year is “Good Schools Are
Your Responsibility.”
The people of Nome have shown their interest in
obtaining the best facilities possible for the school
children with their overwhelming support for the con
struction of adequate classrooms for the school.
This is not enough, however. More parents should
take an active interest in what the children are learn
ing in school and cooperate with the teaching staff,
not only with the progress of their children in school
but with the extracurricular activities which are par
ticularly important in a community such as Nome
where outdoor athletics cannot be engaged in during
most of the school year.
If you have not visited school and talked to your
child’s teacher, we urge you to do so.
King Ibn Saud of Saudi
Arabia, World’s Richest
Man, Dies at Age of 73
BAHREIN, Persian Gulf, UP> —
King Ibn Saud, the world’s rich
est and biggest monarch, stricken
with a heart ailment on Oct. 9,
died at 10 a.m. today in his oil
r;ch desert land — Saudi Arabia.
Ibn Saud was a fabulous, one
eyed giant — a figure straight
from the Arabian nights.
As a bold young warrier, he
wrested control and dominion
over Saudi Arabia for himself in
a series of desert wars. Hater,
American know - how tapped the
vast oil resources beneath the
sands and made him the world’s
wealthiest man with an income of
200 million dollars a year.
Ibn Saud was a six-foot-four
inch giant of a man who during
his lifetime of about 73 years had
married 135 times, fathered 40
sens and more than 100 daughters.
But he lived in strict accord with
Moslem law, never taking more
tx.i.n four wives at a time. He did
not drink or sfnoke.
CAB Cracks Down On
Airline Ticket Company
For Deceptive Practices
WASHINGTON, UR — The Civil
Aeronautics Board Friday direct
ed Airline Reservations Inc., to
stop certain practices which an
examiner found to be “unfair and
deceptive.”
In upholding the decision of
examiner F. Merritt Ruhlen, the
board ordered the company to
“cease and desist from (a) repre
senting itself as an air carrier
rather than a ticket agent; (b)
making false representations as to
the type and character of insur
ance provided or available for
passengers, and (c) representing
that documents it sells are tickets
for air transportation when in fact
they are invalid tickets, or ex
change orders which are to be ex
changed for tickets.”
The commission said the com
pany does business as North Star
Aircoach Agency, Air America
Agency, and the Flying Irishman
Agency. The first two operate in
the northwest.
Diane Wells Insists
She’s Innocent Of
Husband’s Murder
FAIRBANKS, (*l—Diane Wells,
charged with the slaying that
made her a widow, insists she is
innocent of that or any improper
relations with the Negro drum
mer who has been named with her
in a first degree murder indict
ment.
Mrs. Wells, slim and pretty 31
year-old bjonde, returned here
early Friday and immediately
went into seclusion. A few hours
later she issued a signed state
ment through her attorney say
ing she had returned “to clear
my name and my son’s name.”
She said she did not know the
reasons for Johnny Warren, also
named as her husband’s killer and
under arrest in Oakland, Calif.,
saying he had met with her on a
number of occasions in Fairbanks
at another musician’s apartment.
“Certainly any implications are
unfounded,” she said.
The statement was given re
porters by her attorney, Walter
Sczudlo, who said Mrs. Wells was
“fighting mad.” It said she flew
to Seattle at Sczudlo’s suggestion
to rest after the strenuous days
of investigations and hearings
which followed her husband’s
death by gunshot.
Mrs. Wells has insisted her hus
band was killed by two male in
truders who also administered a
severe beating to her.
In Seattle, a relative of Warren
said the Negro drummer spent
several days there enroute from
t Fairbanks to Oakland last month,
I and “did not seem worried about
anything”, at the time.
The relative, who asked to re
main unidentified, said Warren
left behind in Fairbanks a white
wife who is expecting a child. •
Both Mrs. Wells and Warren
formerly lived in Seattle. The
musician’s relatives said he per
formed in several night spots in
recent years, mostly as a singer
instead of drummer.
Mrs. Wells was married to a
marine engineer in Seattle in 1948
less than a year before she met
and married Wells. She is the
former Diane Baker, a native of
Portland.
SEWARD MAN KILLED IN
HUNTING ACCIDENT MADE
DIOMEDE TRIP LAST YEAR
A recent news item from Sew
ard told of the death of Marcus
Cook who lost his life when he
lost his footing and fell over a
100-foot drop off and then rolled
for a total of about 1,000 feet over
rough terrain at Box Canyon.
Cook will be remembered he^p
as a member of the Mogg excur
sion to Diomede Island last spring
who' took many pictures in the
area with his movie camera and
was known to the native people
as “Cooky.” According to the re
lease, he was on a hunting trip.
Three children survive him.
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Caudle Pleaded With Superiors To '
Stop Confirmation To High Post Of
Man FBI Had Said Was Soviet Spy
Miners Returning to Nome
Meet Beauty on Bush Plane
The crew of the Casa De Paga
Mining Co. at Utica, near Deer
ing, which has closed down oper
ations for the winter, were picked
up and brought to Nome last Sat
urday ..by Wien Airlines. They
were pleasantly surprised to find
an attractive stewardess aboard
the bush plane, who in turn was
equally surprised to find that spe
cial cargo included not only real
miners but a large clean-up in two
heavy gold pokes, containing
thousands of dollars.
The attractive young lady was
Alice Ellquist, TVA stewardess
from Los Angeles, who' was taking
a busman’s holiday by flying to
the Arctic and seeing Nome, a
spot which she had always wanted
to visit.
Basketball Play To Start
Tomorrow Night at 7 p.m.
The 1953-54 basketball season
opens tomorrow evening at the
high school gym as the Nome
Merchants meet the 23rd Detach
ment at 7 p.m. At 8:15 the newest
edition of the Nome Nanooks take
the floor against the Air Force
Five. Lomen Commercials draw a
bye and will play on Friday night.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Unalakleet: Daniel Sopie,
Lillian Ivanoff.
To Anchorage: Lind Kennedy,
Norman Tweet, Harold Tweet, C.
Brakhamer, C. Dickson, R. Kishe,
E. Jacobs, Lt. A. L. Kirts, W.
Seeley, Howard Burkher, Alfred
Bennett, K.J. Marquiss, Ray Ellis
and Alice Ellquist.
From Unalakleet: Maurice Kel
liher, Ted Landlord, H. W. Moore.
Jack Whaley of Wien Airlines
is in town on a business trip
from his office in Fairbanks and
is covering the bush rounds in
preparation for arranging the win
ter schedules after a very busy
summer.
Few rubies are found in nature
outside of India.
FREE HEALTH MOVIES
The Lavinia Wallace Young
Communiiy Center and Health
Center will show a movie on tu
berculosis and slides of Alaska at
the LWY Community Center on
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
Adults and children are invited.
No admission charge. 133
DES MOINES, Iowa, (JO—In a
copyrighted interview the Des
Moines Register Saturday quoted
T. Lamar Caudle, former high
Justice Department official, as
saying he “begged and pleaded”
with his superiors to stop confirm
ation of the late Harry Dexter
White in a major government
post.
Atty. General Brownell charged
Friday that former President Tru
man named White as TJ.S. repre
sentative on the International
Monetary Fund after the FBI had
twice told the White House that
White was a Russian spy.
Truman has called Brownell’s
accusation a GOP “headline play”
and said “As soon as we found
Out that White was wrong we
fired him.” Truman denied he
got any spy report on White prior
to the high appointment.
Richard Wilson, chief of the
Register’s Washington bureau,
said Caudle, former head of the
Justice Department Criminal Di
vision, told him he gave adverse
reports on White to the then At
torney General Tom Clark for <•
transmittal to the White House.
By telephone from his law of
fice in. Wadesboro, N.C., Caudle
told Wilson in Washington:
“That (FBI) report came to me
as head of the Criminal ^Division
and was marked to show that it
was for the White House. It was
a sweeheart. I jumped when I
read that thing.
“Tom Clark, attorney general,
was at Johns Hopkins Hospital for
a checkup. I got hold of him and
gave him the report. And I said
‘For God’s sake, Tom, don t let
that appointment go through. It
will come out some day and ruin
us.’
“Tom said he sure would try to
stop it, and I am sure that he did
try to stop it.
“I did as much as I could. When •
it went to the White House it was
not on my level. It would have
been presumptuous of me to go to
the White House. All I could do
was deal with my superiors and
I sure did. I begged with Tom to .
stop it. I gave him the report
personally.”
Clark, now an associate justice
of the Supreme Court, is quoted
by Wilson as saying he had no re
collection of the White reports
from the FBI and only vaguely
remembered that White had died.
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