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Cloudy tonight and tomorrow
with occasional light snow. South
east winds 15-25 mph tonight di
minishing Tuesday. Low tempera
ture expected tonight in the up
per 30s. High Tuesday in low 30s.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .01 in.
(Month total .85 in.) Highest tem
perature 30, lowest 26. Max. wind
21 mph. from the east. Sunrise at
4:24 a.m., sunset at 7:37 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 27, low 10. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 54 in 1940,
low -24 in 1924.
Other Stations, 7 a.m. Today
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 4 Part cloudy
Kotzebue 20 Cloudy
Wales 29 Snow
Nome 27 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 27 Part cloudy
Bethel 32 Part cloudy
McGrath 23 Clear
Anchorage 40 Part cloudy
Fairbanks 31 Cloudy
Whitehorse 34 Cloudy
Edmonton 42 Part cloudy
Juneau 43 Cloudy!
Ketchikan 44 Light rain j
Seattle 50 Part cloudy i
San Francisco 55 Part cloudy!
Nenana 38 Part cloudy j
BETA SIGMA PHI
SORORITY NEWS
The Beta Sigma Phi met Thurs
day evening in the home of Nancy
Goodrich with President Beverly
Morgan presiding.
For a service project under Di
rector Omie McCarthy during the
course of the year, the girls made
a coin plate representing various
holidays which they presented for
the cancer fund.
In furthering the study on
“Alaska” Ellen Waldheim spoke
on the history of story-telling
which she gave from “Legends,”
by Lela Oman of Nome, and “Ig
loo Tales” by George Ahgupuk of j
Shishmaref.
For the guest speaker, June;
Jefferies introduced arts and j
crafts specialist Ronald Senunge-!
tuk of Wales, who spoke on Arts
and Crafts for the territory, thus
pointing out the locations for the
crafts and the progress in the var
ious villages. He then displayed
exquisite jewelry made of cari
bou hoofs from the village of Kiv
alina and jade from Shungnak
which he has been teaching these
people to make. He has hed spe
cial training for the type of work
he is doing. Under his supervision
the economy of the natives of this
area is expected increase.
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Swedish Official
Charged With
Espionage
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UP)—A
high official of Sweden’s Atomic
Energy Commission has been ar
rested on charges of spying for
Russia.
A police spokesman said 29
year-old Robert F. Damstedt, the
commission’s assistant secretary,
is being held for trial on charges
of atomic espionage.
Also held is Gosta T. Jakobsson,
35, a former draftsman for the
Swedish navy. The case was said
also to involve sale to the Soviet
Union of blueprints of Sweden’s
newest submarines.
The disclosure added another
round to the stormy exchange of
spy charges and countercharges
between Russia and Sweden since
World War II.
Last month Sweden delivered a
formal pretest to the Kremlin
against Soviet espionage in this
traditionally neutral country. That
protest was coupled with rejec
tion of a Soviet complaint that 14
spies for Sweden had been arrest
ed and sentenced in Russia.
News of the arrest came at a
time when Swedish military lead
ers are publicly urging the gov
ernment to begin manufacturing
Swedish tactical atomic weapons
or buy them from the West.
Sweden is in the forefront of
small nations in the atomic en
ergy field. Top nuclear physicists
here claim the country has both
the scientific and technical knowl
edge as well as the economic re
sources to make her own atomic
weapons.
PNA Receives
Safety Award
SEATTLE UP>—Pacific Northern
Airlines received the National
Safety Council 25-year awards
Friday at the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce Alaska Day luncheon.
On April 10 the airline com
pleted a quarter of a century op1
eration without a passenger or
crew fatality.
A. G. Woodley, founder and
president of the airline, received
the award from William A. Feath
ers, managing director of the Se
attle-King County Safety Council.
Jury Finds Strongheart
Guilty of Homicide
George Strongheart was found
guilty of negligent homicide last
Friday night. The jury brought in
the verdict at about midnight.
Strongheart must now stand
trial cm a charge of assault with
a dangerous weapon. The jury in
this action is being examined
today.
Sen. Church Calls
On President
For Statehood
WASHINGTON Iff)—Senator
Church (D-Idaho) today called on
President Eisenhower to support
statehood for Hawaii and Alaska
“with the full potential of your
high office.”
Church said im remarks pre
pared for the Senate that he is
fearful statehood for both terri
tories will fail to receive congres
sional approval without “deter
mined and persistent support”
from the Chief Executive.
Church released the text of his
letter, delivered to ,the White
House Friday, in which he point
ed out that both the Democratic
and Republican ptarties have long
supported statehood for the two
territories and that the President
endorsement.
has given the cause his personal
“Yet, for reasons quite apart
from the merits of the case, I am
fearful that statehood for both
Hawaii and Alaska will once
again fail of enactment in the
Congress, unless you actively
undertake to support your en
dorsement with the full potential
of your high office,” Church
wrote.
Church said the evidence pre
sented at the Senate Territories
Subcommittee hearings on the
Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills
“makes the case for statehood so
compelling that our continued
failure to grant it soon will be re
i garded as a denial of the very tra
dition that has made our country
strong and great.”
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$18,000 Fine for
Alaska Telephone
Stock Fraud
NEW YORK, (£)—Jersey City
stock broker Walter F. Tellier,
55, was sentenced to years in
prison and fined $18,000 in Brook
lyn federal court Friday for mail
and stock frauds.
Judge Mortimer W. Byers gave
suspended sentences to two Seat
tle businessmen, Albert J. Proc
tor, 43, and Elton B. Jines, 48, and
placed them on probation for a
year.
The three were convicted on
March 13 on charges of swindling
1,400 investors of nearly $900,000
through the sale of worthless
Alaska Telephone Corp. deben
tures.
Proctor was president of the
corporation and Jones was secre
tary-treasurer.
Tellier still is to be tried on two
other indictments charging mail
and securities fraud in connection
with the sale of $20 million of
penny uranium stocks.
Judge Byers said Tellier prof
ited in excess of $100,000 from
the sale of the bonds. The court
| said Tellier knew the transactions
would result in financial disaster
to the people to whom he sold
the bonds.
The court said Proctor and
j Jones did not profit directly from
I the sale of the debentures, altho
they furnished information used
i by Tellier in his promotion.
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