THE NOME NUGGET
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AFTER HIM THEY COME FIRST
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Librarian Gets
Jail and Fine for
Contempt Congress
WASHINGTON MV-Mrs. Mary
Knowles, a librarian of Plymouth
Meeting, Pa., today was sentenced
to 120 days in jail and fined $500
for contempt of Congress.
U.S. District Judge Ross Rizley
said in passing sentence:
“I just can’t bring myself to
say to her that she should not
serve some time. I wish I could
but I can’t”
The maximum penalty under a
conviction for contempt of Con
gress is a year in jail and a fine
of $1,000.
Mrs. Knowles, 46, was convict
ed by Judge Rizley a week ago on j
52 of 58 counts of indictment,
charging she unlawfully refused
to answer questions before the
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee July 29 and Sept. 15, 1955.
She refused to say, among other
things, whether she had been a
Communist in the past.
The judge denied an appeal
that the sentence be suspended |
and that Mrs. Knowles be placed j
on probation. He did, however,1
allow her to remain free on bond
pending the outcome of an ap
peal which her attorney said will:
be filed.
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WEATHER FORECAST j
Cloudy with occasional snow
tonight becoming snow flurries
Saturday. Southwesterly winds
•with occasional gusts tonight,
with winds tomorrow 10-15 mph. I
Nome data last 24 hours as of |
7 a.m. today: highest tempera- j
ture 23, lowest 4. Max. wind 6 j
mph from the southeast. Sunrise |
at 9:26 ajn., sunset at 3:05 p.m.!
Extremes this date since 1907:
highest 36 in 1931, lowest -32 in:
1934.
HERB JENKS ATTENDS
U.S. COMMISSIONERS
MEETING IN ANCHORAGE
U.S. Commissioner Herb Jenks
has announced that his office will
be closed next week while he at
tends a meeting of U.S. Commis
sioners in Anchorage. The com
missioners attending the session
will come from all over the terri
tory. The session is scheduled for
Jan. 21, 22, and 23.
All phases of the work of this
office will be discussed with
Judge Forbes of the 3rd Division
taking part in the planned pro
gram.
Commissioner Jenks will speak
on recording and filing proced
ures on the program.
Six Persons Killed
In Powder Plant Blast;
Several Buildings Razed
OLYMPIA, Wash., (ff)—Six per
sons were reported killed today
in an explosion at a powder com
pany plant near the town of Ten-!
ino, south of here.
Thurston County Sheriff Clar
ence Van Allen said he has been
advised the men died in an ex
plosion which destroyed several
buildings at the Pacific Powder
Co. plant.
The plant produces nitroglyc
erin explosives. It is located in an
isolated area between Tenino
and Olympia.
The blast, heard for miles, oc
curred at 8:30 a.m.
Freda Moio, wife of Taylor Moto
Sr., left for hospitalization and is
expected to be gone two months j
or more.
Minnie Fagersirom has gone to
Seattle for a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Rose Olson, and
her son Jerry- She will visit in
Anchorage on her way to the
states.
Humphrey W arns
On Dangers of
Great Depression
WASHINGTON, The secre
tary of the Treasury, in complain
ing that President Eisenhower’s
budget is too big, doesn’t.talk like
a man quarreling with the boss.
He talks like a man whose boss
agrees with him.
George M. Humphrey startled
90 reporters at a news conference,
held in connection with Wednes
day’s record peacetime budget
proposals, by announcing rising
government spending “should be
promptly stopped.”
“I think there are a lot of plac
es in the budget that can be cut,”
said the secretary.
“Name three,” said a reporter,
and Humphrey demurred.
“I don’t believe it is up to me
to start now to point the finger at
people to make cuts, but I think
a lot of people will make some
cuts. I think we will do so in the
| Treasury.”
But he added soberly that if
“terrific” spending and taxing are
not halted “I will predict that you
will have a depression that will
curl your hair.” The government
is taking out of the economy too
much money that is needed to
produce jobs, he said.
Told that he sounded like an
official who had been overruled
in trying to economize, he denied
it. The budget, tho $7,200,080,000
bigger than the first one Eisen
hower sent up three years ago, is
the best that could be written, at
this moment, he said.
“There is no division or diffi
culty in the administration at
all,” he said.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Kotzebue to Anchorage: Con
rad Lee and Daniel Wright.
To Anchorage: Minnie Fager
strom, Irene Esch, Freda Mo to,
Chaplain Bartholomew, Elliott
Funkhouser* Sally Stettinger, C.
Hubbs, Frank Clayton, Rev. Carl
Olson, Anthony Lumbus, Phillip
Morgan.
To McGrath: Stan Breuner, H.
Burton.
To Kotzebue: Wm. Zuback, L.
Shirah, Ernest McCullough, T.
Punguruk, Aileen Stone, Peter
Brown, Myrtis Shagunurook, R.
Grant, Dora Hadley, Dorothy
Thomas.
From McGrath: Paul Brown,
Billy Bennett, K. Spence, K. Sad
dler, Sophie and Wanda Radako
vick, Cora Green.
From Anchorage: Capt. H. Mar
tin, W/O J. Faircloth, Robt. Wil
son, Robt. Daniels, Phillip Mor
gan, Herman, Robert, Carol and
Joseph Oumak, Myrtle James,
Marie Lewis, Frank Long, Ronald
Senungetuk, Lt. Robt. Steele,
Glenn Vancil, Tony Lumbus.
IN DISTRICT COURT .
T/Sgt. Leonard Lane was sen
tenced toy Judge Walter Hodge
this morning for making checks
without funds in Fairbanks, Alas
ka. On the first count Lane was
sentenced to two years in a feder
al jail, and one year for each of
the second and third counts with
sentences to run concurrently.
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Jonathan Davis was sentenced
to two years in a federal jail for
breaking and entering with intent
to commit larceny.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
Foreign Diplomats Say Russians Fear
Eisenhower’s Middle East Proposal
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW, (/P>—Foreign diplo
mats say the Kremlin genuinely
fears President Eisenhower’s Mid
dle East program and is trying
desperately to find an effective
counterattack.
The diplomats have talked with
Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov
and other * Russian leaders. They
say the Soviet reaction sums up
to this:
1. The Russians see the Eisen
Jiower doctrine as another step
toward Western encirclement of
the Soviet Union.
2. Their opposition is npt just
anti-West propaganda.
3. The Kremlin knows it has to
come up with something concrete,
not just propaganda, to defeat the
new U.S. move.
The foreign diplomats point
Movie of West Alaska
Tonight at Covenant
There will be a showing of the
film “The Call of the Arctic” Sat
urday at 7 p.m. in the Covenant
Church.
This full-length sound-color mo
tion picture was filmed by Mr.
Robert Honette of Chicago and
shows the native life and work of
the Covenant Mission in Western
Alaska. This will be the first time
“The Call of the Arctic” has been
shown in Nome.
ANNOUNCEMENT
An announcement from Dele
gate E. L. Bartlett in Washington,
D.C., states that his office address
is now: 1013 New House Office
Bldg., Washington 25, D.C. The
telephone number is: National
8-3120. Extensions 617 and 1937.
WIEN AIRLINES
To Fairbanks: Charles Jones,
Gordon Osborne, Alfred L. West,
Cal Yaggy, Dick Ludwig, F. D.
Gleason, Dr. R. Murane.
To Kotzebue: Nellie Foster, T.
Cleveland, Frank Long, Ronald
Senungetuk, Paul Brown, Billy
Bennett, Kenneth Spence, Ken
neth Saddler, Sophie and Wanda
Radakovick, Cora Green.
From Kotzebue: F. Gregg.
From Fairbanks: Emma Out
water.
From Kotzebue: Alfred Fran
cis, Robert Grant.
out, however, that the satellites
are draining the Russian economy
so heavily the Soviet Union can’t
hope to match U.S. dollars.
Several diplomats in Moscow,
including some friendly to the
West, also say emphasis on the
military side of the Eisenhower
program, on the heels of the Brit
ish-French invasion of Egypt, was
a mistake.
“If the military aspects had
been dropped or minimized, the
program would have been hard to
beat,” one commented.
One diplomat, after discussing
the Eisenhower proposals with
Soviet leaders, said he believes
the plan “still has the Soviet
bosses off balance. They fear it
and are seeking effective means
of combatting it.”
Gordon Osborne, deputy tax
commission for the Second Divi
sion, left today for Juneau where
he will receive instruction in the
management of his office to
| which he was just recently ap
pointed.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Thursday: Mr. Stew
art, Mr. Moenick, Mrs. Lancaster,
Cal Yaggy.
Departing were: K. W. McCol
lum, Frank Wilson, J.R. Chiota,
R.J. Wansick, P.L. . Smith, J.A.
Cambrum.
Edmund O'Brien and Ruth Ro
man appearing in "The Shang
hai Siory." showing at The
Theater Sunday and Monday.