Income Tax Returns
Instructions Simplified
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Forty
two million taxpayers are getting
a streamlined booklet designed to
simplify filing 1952 federal re
turns and save the government
money. •
Instructions, tax schedules and
forms which in the past were
(folded and stuffed separately into
an envelope now come in a com
pact booklet which reduces the
man hours of labor in the mail
ing process, the Internal Revenue
Bureau says.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued clear and cold to
night and Tuesday. Northeasterly
winds 10-15 mph. Lowest tem
perature expected tonight -10,
high tomorrow 5.
Nome data... last 24 hours as of
7 am. today: Temperatures: high
17, low 9. Max. wind 14 mph.
from the WNW. Sunrise at 9:43
a.m., sunset 2:03 pm.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 8, low -13. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 40 in 1934,
low -24 in 1918.
! Czech Radio Reports
New Purges Underway
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, (P)—
Belgrade radio Monday reported
a major new purge of Commun
ist leaders underlay in Czecho
slovakia.
A. terse report quoted the of
ficial Yugoslav news agency Tan
jug as its source but gave no
indication of how the information
was received.
Indications that new purges
were imminent in Czechoslovakia
and other Soviet-satellite nations
have been current since the big
treason trial in Prague when one
time Czech Communist boss Ru
dolf Slansky and 10 other former
high Reds were hanged last week.
Gruening Declines Comment
On Reports He Will Resign
Governorship Before April
PHOENIX, Ariz., {&)—Ernest
Gruening declined comment to
day on published reports that he
will resign as Governor of Alaska
before his term expires in April.
Some columnists have written
that Gruening is expected to quit
his post which he has held under
the Democratic administration.
Gruening is here to attend a
meeting of governors.
Billfold with $1,508
Floats Off In Atlantic
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga., (jP)
A Virginia produce trucker who
can’t swim, dropped his billfold
containing $1,508 into the Atlan
tic Ocean yesterday and was left
with 14 cents.
W. E. Conner, 47, of Roanoke,
Va., spent the night on the beach
with his tearful wife and 10-year
old son in the vain hope that the
billfold would wash back up on
the beach. It dropped from his
shirt pocket into the ocean and
Conner watched it float away
while his son raced for a life
guard. '
One swimmer got within 20
feet of the billfold before cramps
forced him to return to shore. A
Coast Guard boat sped to the
scene, but the billfold had dis
appeared.
Conner, who hopefully gave his
address at Rt. 1, Box 326-B, Roa
noke, said the finder could take
out whatever he chose as a re
ward.
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New Mexico Convicts
Hold Guards As Hostages
For Safe Get-Away
SANTA FE, N. M„ OP)—Eight
or nine rebellious prisoners grab
bed two New Mexico State Peni
tentiary guards late yesterday
and still held them as pawns in
bargaining for freedom with pri
son officials early today.
More than 100 armed guards,
state police, member of the Santa
Fe Coynty sherif’s posse and
security guardsmen from the at
omic city of Los Alamos, sur
rounded the prison early today—
to keep the prisoners in and the
curious public out.
The prisoners, running loose in
cell block No. 2, demand they be
given a car and be allowed safely
to escape through the prison
gates in return for release of the
guards.
BURNABY, Canada. (/P)—Seem
ing evidence that giants once in
habited British Columbia has
been found by W. E. and E. M.
Norman, a father and son geology
team here. In a 30-year search of
their two-acre plot they found
weapons only supermen ccruld use
— 200- to 300-pcrund granite axes,
huge belt axes, knife handles and
spears.
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SS Baranof Gets
Clearance to Sail
From Seattle Dec. 4
SEATTLE, i(iP) — Clearance for
the passenger ship Baranof to sail
from Seattle’s strike-closed port
for Alaska Dec. 12 was announced
Friday.
The Alaska Steamship Co. said
it will .sail for Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Petersburg, Juneau and Sew
ard.
Maxie Weisbarth, spokesman for
the AFL maritime trades depart
ment, said the union leaders con
sented to a clearance of “a ship
with no strings attached.”
He said, however* the foremen
are to be hired through the AFL
International Longshoremen’s As
sociation hall.
“That,” he declared, “is accord
ing to the existing agreement and
past practice.”
The Seattle port’s commercial
shipping has been tied up by AFL
picketing over the hiring of fore
men. Most of the foremen with
drew recently from the AFL union
and set up their own independent
organization.
Weisbarth said the union clear
ance was granted on the basis of
three appeals: from the Juneau
Chamber of Commerce; from A1
Shyman, chairman of the Alaska
department of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce; and from Burke
Riley, secretary of Alaska and
acting governor.
He said Riley wired, in re
sponse to an AFL assurance of
emergency shipping clearance,
“The need is acute and growing.”
“Our promise to the people of
Alaska was that we would re
lease ships for Alaska as emer
gency need for them arose,” Weis
barth asserted, “so we have to
live up to that promise.”
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
Alaska Chapter No. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets 1st and 3rd Mondays each month.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
•Will M. Gillis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.
Northwestern Alaska t
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Larry Galvin, President
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