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Stanley Amarok
Enroute to ANICA
Meeting in Seattle
Stanley Amarok, president of
ANICA, arrived from White
Mountain and is visiting here for
a few days before going to Seattle
for a meeting of the executive
board of the organization.
■ Amarok is the son of Joe Am
arok of this city and graduated
from Nome High in 1939.
Enroute to Seattle with him are
Alfred Mazonna of Wales, Simon
Beokoluk of Shaktoolik, Tommy
Sage of Kivalina, Fred Demit of
Tetland, and E. Nicoli of Kweth
luk.
This will be the first stateside
trip for Alfred, Simon and Tom
my, it is reported.
Amarok stated that the group
will meet with area director Wil
liam Olson, ANICA Manager Leo
Murphy; Albert Huber, df the
Credit Department of the Depart
ment of Interior, Washington, D.
C.; Charles Mountjoy, Resources,
Juneau; and George Wilson, Cred-j
it Dept., ANS, Juneau.
Amarok stated it is hoped by
this and subsequent meetings to
achieve a closer cooperation and
better understanding among the
36 members of this cooperative
store group which now comprises
store group.
Taxation Without
Representation Objector
On Trial Second Time
FAIRBANKS, —The income
tax evasion charge against Jack
Marler is being heard in federal
court here.
Marler, proprietor of the Tok
Junction Lodge, has been charged
with wilfully failing to make an
income tax return in 1951 and
1952. He was tried last month but
the jury failed to reach a verdict
after hearing Marler’s pleas that
he was opposed to “taxation with
out representation.”
The government opened a sec
ond attempt yesterday to convict
Marler on the income tax charge.
At the outset, Federal Judge
Vernon D. Forbes denied a motion
to dismiss the case.
Marler’s attorney, Edgar Boy
ko of Anchorage, asked that it be
dismissed on grounds that federal
income tax laws are not applic
able to the Territory of Alaska.
He said such laws violate the
Fifth Amendment of the United
States Constitution.
Thousands in Jerusalem
Retrace Way of Cross
Despite War Jitters
JERUSALEM, Jordan Sector, (^P
—Thousands of persons gathered
today in the old city of Jerusalem
to retrace the “way of the cross”
in the annual Good Friday pil
grimage.
The winding route of the mass
ive procession follows the path
from the place of Christ’s trial to
his tomb. It was another major
event in the pre-Eastern obser
vance which began Palm Sunday.
Casting ominous overtones over
the celebration were the Israeli
Arab tensions starkly represented
by the division of this old holy
city.
Guns along the frontier divid
ing the city between Israel and
Jordan were stilled. But some
Holy Week observances were cur
tailed, and residents of Arab Jer
usalem complained that war jit
ters had kept visitors away.
The chief Easter sites are on
the Arab side of the line.
East German Security
Minister Admits Errors
In Law Enforcement
BERLIN, Communist East Ger
many's security minister, Ernst
Wollweber, confessed today to
errors in law enforcement by his
secret police. He said they were
only occasional errors, but police
methods will be eased.
“Not everyone who objects is
an agent or an enemy,” he told
the East German Communist Par
ty conference. “Certain measures,
which were formerly necessary,
are no longer needed to *he same
degree.”
Earlier this week, Prime Min
ister Otto Grotewohl criticized
his woman justice minister, Red
Hilde Benjamin, for permitting
“illegal arrests.”
Who Will U.S. Send to
Rainier-Kelly Wedding?
WASHINGTON, tf*—'Who is go
ing to represent Uncle Sam when
film actress Grace Kelly marries
the Prince of Monaco next month?
The question was prompted by
reports from Paris that Prince
Rainier III is miffed because no
member of the British royal fam
ily plans to attend his wedding to
Miss Kelly.
In reply to a query, the State
Department said today the Mo
nacan representative in Paris had
invited this government to send a
representative to the wedding,
“and the White House will desig
nate someone.”
As far as can be learned, the
White House hasn’t—or at least
hasn’t announced it.
CANDIDATES FOR
CITY OFFICES IN
TUESDAY ELECTION
The City of Nome will hold its
annual municipal election next
Tuesday starting at 8 a.m. at the
City Hall.
The only contests will be for
the three Councilman positions,
for which there are five candi
dates, and for utilities board for
which two filed.
Filings were:
For mayor, Steffen Andersen;
for city clerk, Carrie McLain;
for city treasurer, James McLean;
for school board, Lorena Gray;
for utilities board, Allan Doyle,
and Pearse Walsh; and for the
council, Wilbur Arnold, Lester
Bronson, Fred Cavota, Chuck
Frazier, and Bob Lewis.
Huge Explosion
Blasts Hole in
Oil Tanker
BAYTOWN, Texas, —A spec
tacular explosion last night and
fire blasted a gaping hole in the
side of a 10,000-ton oil tanker, the
Esso Paterson, and sent two crew
men to the hospital.
The explosion rocked this city
on the industry-lined Houston
Ship Canal and was felt in sub
urban Houston, 25 miles to the
west.
The blast and orange colored
flames 300 to 400 feet high caused
near panic in this explosion potent
oil and chemical city—only 20
miles from Texas City, where a
ship explosion killed at least 510
persons in 1947.
The tanker was taking on kero
sene at a dock from the huge
Humbe Refinery—one of the larg
est in the world—when the blast
ripped a hole 12 feet wide and 30
feet deep, extending from the
water line to the deck, on the star
board side of the tanker.
Uncle Bud Ward
Sings at His Own Funeral
ALEXANDRIA, Va., UP*—Claud
ius H. <Uncle Bud‘ Ward sang at
his own funeral.
Ward, local radio personality
who conducted the old “National
Children’s Frolic" which origin
ated here in the late 1930s, died
of cancer Monday. He was 55.
As death approached, he and
his wife tape-recorded three of his
favorite hymns. They were re
played at his funeral yesterday in
the downtown Baptist Church.
ICELAND TELLS U.S. TO TAKE
DEFENSE FORCES FROM ISLAND
Congress Takes
10-Day Holiday
With Little Done
WASHINGTON, UPt—Congress
was off on a 10-day Easter holiday
today, with little major legislation
to show for three months of ses
sions this year and plenty to do
when it returns on April 9.
Plenty of potentially explosive
election year issues lie ahead, in
cluding farm, social security, for
eign aid, education, highways,
housing and possibly civil rights
and tax reduction legislation.
The recess will give Republican
members an opportunity to check
at home in their generally pro
fessed belief that President Eisen
hower’s decision to run again as
sured the GOP of another four
years in the White House and a
chance to recapture control of
Congress.
Democrats, contending that dis
satisfaction among farmers gives
them a good opportunity for vic
tory, were preparing to make the
most of that issue while back
home.
The current recess is the first
and probably will be the last long
holiday for the legislators, most
of whom are anxious to get home
early in the summer for political
campaigning. The target date for
a final adjournment still is July 1,
well over a month ahead of the
national political conventions.
Prince Kills Self
Accidentally
ESTORIL, Portugal UP—Fifteen
year-old Prince Alfonso of Bour
bon, younger son of the pretender
to the Spanish throne, was killed
last night when a pistol he was
cleaning discharged accidentally.
An announcement from the
Royal House of Bourbon said the
bullet struck the young prince in
the forehead and he died within
minutes.
Alfonso’s older brother, Prince
Juan Carlos, has the support of
Gen. Francisco Franco in a move
to return a monarch to the Span
ish throne.
The accident occurred at the
residence here of Alfonso’s father,
Don Juan, son of the late King
Alfonso XIII and head of the
Spanish Bourbon House. The
prince and his family had re
turned only a short time before
from Holy Thursday services.
> REYKJAVIK, Iceland, OPV-Ice
land’s Parliament has called on
U.S. forces to quit this North At
lantic defense post. The move
would leave the strategic island—
a NATO member almost midway
between Moscow and New York—
with no military force.
The Communist-supported res
olution was adopted 31-18 Wed
nesday night over Conservative
opposition. It asked all NATO
forces be pulled out “in view of
the altered situation” since 1951.
At that time the United States and
Iceland agreed on the stationing
of U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force
units here under NATO command.
The demand is not expected to
get beyond the talking stage un
less the Communists gain enough
strength in parliamentary elec
tions June 24 to back demands for
further action.
The move sparked open concern
in Washington and gleeful support
in Moscow.
Political Maneuver
But informed sources here said
it was all part of a political ma
neuver designed to cut the ground
from under the Reds.
They said the Farmers Party
and others joined the Communists
in supporting the resolution in
order to steal thunder from the
left.
The Reds reportedly hope to
gain strength in the parliamen
tary elections with demands that
foreign troops get out of Iceland.
The idea appeared to be that if
the Reds did not score major gains
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Report Says Marciano
Has Decided to Retire
NEW YORK UP>—'The New York
Joumal-American said today that
heavyweight champion Rocky
Marciano has decided to retire.
An article written by Max Kase,
Journal-American 9ports editor,
said the information came from
intimate friends of Marciano in
Boston. They said the decision
was reached weeks ago, before the
champion left for a tour of South
America, but was kept quiet at
the insistence of manager A1
Weill.
In New York Weill disclaimed
any knowledge of Marciano’s in
tention to retire.
“It’s all news to me,” he told
Kase.
In his last seven fights, Marci
ano has earned more than $1,500,
000.
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