Leftist Writer From
Iceland Wins Nobel
Literature Prize
STOCKHOLM, UP) — The 1955
Nobel Prize for literature was
won Thursday by an Icelandic
novelist, Hallort Kiljan Laxness.
A leftist, he is active in the
Communist - sponsored Interna
tional Peace Movement, which
previously awarded him a literary
prize. He has called the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization “a
society of war lunatics.”
Laxness, 53, has been a candi
date several years for the prize.
Apparently the Jtoyal Swedish
Academy this year overcame the
dislike of his political leanings
that at least some of its members
had felt. He will receive $36,720
at the presentation of Nobel
awards Dec. 10.
Laxness writes about the every
day life of the 150,000 persons of
his home island in the North At
lantic. His “Independent People”
sold heavily in the United States.
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Russian Planes Land In
India On Trailbiasing Flight
NEW DELHI, India, UP) — Two
Russian airliners have landed in
India’s capital on an unannounced
trail blazing flight from the So
viet Union.
The ijlanes, which are a modi
fication of a the twin-engine Rus
sian Iliyushin 14 and similar to
the US. Convair transport, ar
rived here after a nonstop flight
from Tashkent in southern Russia.
CASHIER DROPS DEAD
IN JUNEAU BANK
JUNEAU, UPt—Hafler H. Brunn,
67, former paying and receiving
teller for the Seattle-First Na
tional Bank, dropped dead while
working as a cashier at the B.M.
Behrends Bank here Wednesday.
Brunn first came to Alaska 40
years ago and worked briefly for
the Behrends Bank. Then he
moved to Seattle and retired from
the bank there in 1953 after 37
years service. He returned to
Juneau in 1954.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
From Anchorage: E. J. Kuhn,
Col. Lamee, D. Tarpenning, Lee
Owens, S. Barnes, R. Burke, P.
Ringsmith, J. Suarez, F.W. Hinds,
R. D. Lane, Charles Mize, Ivan
Spencer, Lloyd Fesler, C. Free
stone, Ernest Coulter, Wendel
Todd, Marvin Dragseth, Thomas
Johnson Bill Munz, Glynn C.
ean, M. A. Getz, R.D. Halverson,
Jack Day, T. T. Key Jr.
To Anchorage: Shirley Has, E.
Gruenwald, Jean Poser, Thomas
Craig, Curtis Baker, Lloyd Burgy,
Don Nelson, Hans Arp, Sgt. Erick
amm, Sgt. McLuke, Pfc. Norman
Atuk, Sgt. Thomas Willoya, Sgt.
Fred Kingik, Pfc. Charlie Moses,
Pfc. Amos Alexander, Pfc. G. Ah
nangnatoguk, Cpl. Darryl Trigg,
Lt. Col. Wm. LaMee, W/O Edwin
Kuhn, Capt. Hinds, Albert Miller,
Susan Paneok, Joan Denny and
son, Leslie Callan, Leonard Now
pakehak, J.R. Boyer, Maj. Mad
docks, W.O. O’Hara, Albert Kirk,
Eva Horner, Rena Kingeak, Es
ther Norton, Charlie Mitchell,
Annie Alowa, Lucy Baldwin, R.
Deremus, Flora Tocktoo, Fletcher
Wesley.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Sarah Warnke,
Robert Herman, Lt. Rex Hum
baugh, A/3C Joseph Harrell, Sgt.
R. Miller, Lt. E. Milauckas, Joel
Campbell, Clyde Beers.
To Fairbanks: Peter Gatz, Lt.
Harold Herbig, Glenn Sheafer, B.
G. Baker, Richard Hopkins, Ar
nold Russell, Eugene Schnall, Ned
Frankslin, Wm. Zuback, Harry |
Bowers Jr., Sterling Allred, R. G.
McGarvey, Russell Johnson, S/Sgt
Carl Martin,.
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To Kotzebue: Wm. Lennon, Wil
bur Richards, Francis Hess, Clyde
Beers, Joel Campbell, Mary Koch
ruk.
From Kotzebue: James H. Craig,
Helen Craig, Kay ail'd Mike Craig,
Wilbur Richards, Hazel Nusook.
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3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday
Children up to 6ih grade only.
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Rotary Collects $691
For Boy Scout Fund
At Thursday’s Rotary luncheon
guests were Allen Sanders of the
Fairbanks office of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue, and Rev. T.
Knudson of the Nome Lutheran
Church.
James Walsh, chairman of the
Boy Scout fund drive reported a
total of $666.45 collected in the
drive. The team headed by Steve
Anderson led with $256.45 and
the highest individual collector
>yas Rev. Willard Mecklenberg
with $91.
A film, courtesy of the Alaska
National Guard, was shown, and
it depicted the battle for San
Pietro in southern Italy during
World War II.
Bethel Couples, Marooned
On Wedding “March” Are
Rescued By Air Force
ANCHORAGE, Uh — The Air
Force finished the 100-mile wed
ding “march” of two Bethel
couples Wednesday, rescuing
them and two other persons from
the stormy beach upon which they
had been marooned for a week.
The two couples were identified
in meager dispatches from Bethel
as Owen Beaver, David O. David,
Patti Snow and Marguerite
Strauss. They started out Oct. 19
in boats for Kwigillingok, a vil
lage 100 miles downstream from
Bethel at the mouth of the Kus
kokwim river, to be married.
Sixty miles southwest of Bethel
wind-whipped snow and rain
forced them ashore on the ice
locked rivermouth banks. Two
other persons also were forced
ashore at the same point and it
is believed they were in the wed
ding party.
Since going on the beach, the
six had huddled about fires built
from an ample stock of driftwood.
Food and sleeping bags were
dropped to them by a private
pilot but the rescue had to await
repair of a disabled helicopter
which finally reached them on the
eighth day.
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Pfc. Joseph Hebert Jr.
To Be Sent to Europe
With 10th Division
FORT RILEY, Kan.—Pfc. Jo
seph Hebert Jr., whose father lives
in Nome, Alaska, is scheduled to
be sent to Europe from here in
November as part of Operation
Gyroscope, the Army’s new unit
rotation plan.
Private First Class Hebert’s
unit, the 10th Infantry Division, is
the first division to move under
the Gyroscope plan. It will re
place the 1st Infantry Division,
which is returning to the U.S.
Hebert is a driver with Com
pany B of the division’s 62nd Tank
Battalion. He entered the Army
last February and completed basic
training at Fort Ord, Calif.
Arrested Motorist Finds Cop's
Speedometer 10 Miles Too Fast
OKLAHOMA CITY, (£>—A jub
ilant Oklahoma City motorist was
cleared of speeding after the ar
resting officer blushingly admit
ted in court that his speedometer
registered 10 miles too fast.
Motorcycle Officer A.G. Odom
Jr. arrested Willard Harold Par
cham, 43, on a charge of speed
ing 45 miles an hour in a 35 mph
zone. Parcham protested the ar
rest so strongly that the officer
agreed to check his equipment.
“I hate to confess it, but it was
my speedometer that was wrong,”
Odom admitted before Traffic
Judge James Epolos.
RARE CASE OF TRUCK
DRIVER WINNING DAMAGES
FROM A PEDESTRIAN
LOUISVILLE, Ky., UO—A truck
driver won $1,634 damages in a
traffic accident case Wednesday—
from a pedestrian.
Charles B. Maynard, 29, a bread
routeman, had charged that Mrs.
Katherine W. Nitzken, moved
around a bus toward the path of
his truck. He said he swerved to
avoid striking her and crashed
into a utility pole suffering head
and arm injuries.
Judge Ben F. Ewing agreed the
victory of a driver over a pedes
trian was rare, something like “a
tortoise running over a hare.”
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