Plane - Grabbing
Brazil Air Force
Officers Light Out
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, UPI.
— Brailian Air Force officers
seized at least three planes in
Rio yesterday and flew off in a
northerly direction, apparently
in a revolt against President
Jusceline Kuzitschek.
The Ministry , of War went on a
state of alert and War Minister '
Henrique Teixeira Lott with gov
ernment figures. Kubutschek
placed Lott in charge of the na
tion’s defense.
Government sources compared
the flight to the “picket revolu
tion” in 1950, shortly after Kubits
chek took office, when an Air
Force major, captain and sergeant
seized an emergency air strip in
the Amazon basin and took con
trol of the town of Santarem.
They held out for 18 days before
capitulating, and were granted
amnesty.
There was one report that four
planes were involved. Both ver
sions said the planes were C-47s.
One source said all the planes
were loaded with Air Force
officers.
METHODIST BUILDING
COMMITTEE MEETING
There will be a meeting of th'e
Building Committee of the Com
munity Methodist Church tomor
row at the North Star Dining
Room. Floor plans for the new I
Methodist Church will be studied
at that time.
W.S.C.S. will have its annual
Christmas party at the Nurses
quarters of the MMM Hospital
this evening at 8 o’clock.
Those attending will bring gifts
for little boys.
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WATCH
to the
Nome Drug Store
for
EXPERT REPAIRS
Mickey Cohen
Witnesses Fatal
Dinner Shooting
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., UPl —
A man police call the biggest
bookie in the San Fernando Val
ley was shot dead in a restaurant
Wednesday night only six feet
from a table occupied by former
bigtime bookie Mickey Cohen.
Cohen said he didn’t do it and
he doesn’t know who did.
Police say Jack F. Whalen, 59,
alias Jack O’Hara, of nearby En
cino, strode into the restaurant,
walked up to the table next to
Cohen’s and punched a man in
the nose. The man drew a postol,
shot Whalen in the head, and
walked out.
Whalen had a police record ex
tending back to 1938. He had
been convicted of swindling,
bookmaking, assault and battery.
He was free on $5,000 bail while
appealing a recent extortion con
viction.
Police Chief William Parker
himself, plus his top aides, sped
to the scene — Rondelli’s Restaur
ant on Ventura Boulevard. Offi
cers began picking up known
hoodlums by the score for ques
tioning.
Cohen told police that a man
he doesn’t know was seated at a
table six feet away when Whalen,
whom he said he also did not
know, walked in. He said he saw
the blow, struck without a word.
He said he thought the man fired
two or three times. Police said
there was only one shot.
“When the fireworks started,”
Cohen said, “I thought someone
was shooting at me so I ducked.”
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FCC Orders
Broadcasters
Report Payola
WASHINGTON, — The Fed
eral Communications Commission
yesterday ordered every broad
casting station in the country to
report promptly whether any pay
ola practice has figured in its op
erations during the past year.
The directive went out to 5,236
stations. It covers both commer
cial and educational outlets in the
standard radio, FM radio and tel
evision fields.
The FCC order requires that
the stations file sworn statements
not later than January 4, cov
ering station operating since No
vember 1, 1958.
Payola is a term covering pay
ments for promoting records.
Officials said the object of yes
terday’s order is to trace down the
handling of “sneaky commercials”
— plugs on the air which are paid
for but not so identified.
The officials noted that the fed
eral communications act specific
ally requires that all matter put
in the air for which a remunera
tion has been paid to anyone must
be identified as a commercial.
Penalties for violations could
range from a commission repri
mand to a license revocation pro
ceeding. In addition, the commu
nications act provides for criminal
penalties up to $10,000 fine or one
year imprisonment, or both, for
“willful” violations of any of its
sections.
The new FCC action growing
out of investigations into rigged
TV quiz shows, payments to disc
jockeys to plug records, and hon
esty in TV advertising, precedes
hearings the FCC will begin Mon
day on its powers to regulate the
content of broadcast programs.
Another agency, the Federal
Trade Commission, is making an
extensive investigation of alleged
payoffs by recording companies
to disc jockeys to promote their
records.
NO PARKING
SNOW REMOVAL NOTICE
All cars parked on Front
Street from the East End to B
Street; out B Street to the Hos
pital and the Airport Road, will
be impounded and fines imposed
if parked in these areas between
the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 a.m.
during the snow removal months.
— Nome Police Department.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Alaska School Tax For 1959
NOW DUE AND PAYABLE
Tax is due and payable after January 1 of each year and becomes delinquent after December 31, 1959
SCHOOL TAX -- $10.00
A PENALTY OF $2.00 ATTACHES IF NOT PAID ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31. 1959.
WHO MUST PAY SCHOOL TAX?
ALL MALE AND FEMALE PERSONS OVER 21 AND UNDER 61 YEARS OF AGE ON
JANUARY 1. 1959.
EXEMPTIONS:
UNEMPLOYED DEPENDENT FEMALES
ACTIVE MILITARY OR NAVAL PERSONNEL
INSANE PERSONS
PERMANENTLY INJURED — UNABLE TO EARN A LIVING
Employers are responsible for collection of tax from their employees!
Civilian employees of the Federal Government must make school lax payments individually
as this tax is not withheld from their wages.
Failure or neglect to pay the School Tax is a misdemeanor and subject to arrest and fine of
not more than $100 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days.
PAYMENT SHOULD BE MADE TO THE LOCAL TAX OFFICE AT:
Box 250, Nome, Alaska
Or Alaska Department of Revenue, Juneau, Alaska
Canadian Divers
Set ‘Wet-Suit’ Mark
Off Taku Glacier
VICTORIA, B. C., iff) — Ten
Royal Canadian Navy divers re
turned here Tuesday after mak
ing what was believed to have
been a world-record mass dive
175 feet below icy Alaskan waters.
The dive took place November
24 more than 800 miles north
west of here but was kept secret
by the Navy until the divers re
turned to port.
The divers, ranging in rank
from lieutenant-commander to
able seaman, were said by their
commander, Lt.-Cmdr. Ben Ack
erman, to have set a world recox'd
for naval personnel wearing self
contained “wet suit” equipment.
Purpose of the dive was to
prove practicability of “w e t
suits” in extreme depths and ex
treme cold.
Temperature of the water off
Taku Glacier where the dive took
place was 30 degrees, two de
grees colder than the freezing
point of fresh water, and a half
degree more than the lowest re
corded temperature of salt water.
Only two other divers are be
lieved to have dived deeper.
They are two San Diego scien
tists who dived 180 feet in “wet
suits” in the Bering Sea.
The men slid down the anchor
cable of HMCS Fortune, one of
four Pacific Command mine
sweepers which had previously
been engaged in joint maneuvers
with the United States Navy in
northern waters.
Suits for the dive were made
of 14-in foam neoprene and indi
vidually tailored to each diver.
They are called “wet sxoits” be
cause water actually penetrates
the porous synthetic rubber gar
ment and comes in contact with
the skin of the diver. Advantage
of the suits over those made of
non-porous material is that they
provide greater freedom of move
ment and, in some cases, more
warmth.
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SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P. O. Box 460
Benson Reported Okay
After Gall Bladder Surgery
WASHINGTON, UR — Secre
tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft
Benson underwent surgery for re
moval of the gall bladder today
at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
His condition afterward was re
ported good.
The hospital said the hour-and
a-half operation was performed
by the Army’s Surgeon General,
Lt. Gen. Leonard D. Heaton.
Troop 666 Keeps Busy
With Varied Winter Plans
By Scribe RICHARD YOUNG
Troop 666, Nome Boy Scouts,
changed its meeting night to
Wednesday, at the last meeting.
Second Class Scouts and those
with higher rank worked on a
model gas engine during the meet
ing, while others worked on re
quirements.
Names were drawn for the
Christmas Party gifts. The party
will be held on December 18, and
an all - night get - together is
planned for that date.
Plans for a winter survival pro
gram at Fort Richardson had to
be canceled, as too few boys
could be transported. Scout Troop
666 offers its vote of thanks to
Dusty Rhodes for trying to make
arrangements for this project.
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