aTHE HOME NTTCCET Wednesday, November 16. 1955
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FIGHT TB WITH CHRISTMAS SEALS
For the twenty-first year, the Alaska Tuberculosis
Association is making Christmas Seals available, so
that your contribution may help in the fight against
tuberculosis, the most dangerous menace to the health
and prosperity of Alaskans.
We urge you to buy and use Christmas Seals—
a penny each, a dollar a sheet. All but 6% remains in
the territory to help Alaskan patients.
Again this year, students of Nome High School
are handling the Seal drive. They are making direct
solicitations to the business houses and have set up a
booth by the Post Office in the Federal Building.
If you wish to pay by check, make it payable to
the Alaska Tuberculosis Association, 119 Seward St.,
Juneau, Alaska.
Buy Christmas Seals and be a part of the American
way of life.^ Hundreds who are being restored to health
will bless you.
Convention Kills Proposal to Leave
Committee Work Open to Amendment
FAIRBANKS, W—After six*
days of tiring detail work, dele- i
gates to the Alaska Constitutional!
Convention Tuesday were sched-1
uled to get down to the task of
actually framing the constitution
for the proposed State of Alaska.
•The first issue dealing with the
constitution itself was brought to
the floor Monday afternoon by
Delegate R. E. Robertson of Ju
neau. He moved that the intent of
the convention be that that it be a
document of fundamental princi
ples of basic law and contain only
the framework for state govern
ment with all details to be or
dained at the discretion of future
legislatures.
During the discussion over the
motion, Delegate Victor Rivers
said the intent was good to con
fine the constitution to fundamen
tals, but he feared such an action
at this time might prove too limit
ing later on the powers of the
convention.
The motion was referred to the
Resolutions Committee.
Delegate W. O. Smith of Ketch
ikan proposed that “every provi
sion of the constitution shall be
open to amendment in substance
until such time as the convention
shall have agreed upon the final
form of the constitution, provided
that any amendment provision
shall be referred to the committee
on style and drafting for proper
wording.”
Smith and his supporters felt
the delegates should have the
right, by simple majority vote, to
change any section of the docu
ment after the whole document
has been framed.
Opponents said a constitution
could never be framed if amend
ments could be made in such a
manner.
“This amendment would be tan
tamount to putting the entire doc
ument in second reading,” Ralph
Rivers objected.
Delegate Yule Kilcher of Homer
declared he wanted the 50 percent
majority right to change the docu
ment at any time.
“Shall we assume the commit
tees are infallible?” asked Kilcher.
Delegate George Sundborg told
the convention, “When a proposal
is resolved, it should not be open
to jeopardy. Maybe some logroll
ing would occur in the intervening
time.
“Under such conditions we
would never get finished with this
convention.”
By a voice vote the convention
killed Smith’s amendment.
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Transpolar Route
One Year Old
LOS.ANGELES, WV-The first
transpolar commercial route from
Los Angeles to Copenhagen is one
year old today and Scandinavian
Airlines System says its baby is
quite a sturdy infant now.
The pioneer operation, thanks
to an estimated 6,616 passengers
in the first year, is in the black
financially, SAS Vice President
Warren E. Kraemer announced
Monday.
Six tons of cargo a month over
the route contributed to a gross
cargo revenue »of $1,800,000, he
added.
The transpolar DC-6B planes
completed every flight on a sched
ule that began with two flights a
week and is now up to three a
week each way. By next summer
SAS plans daily service each way.
Kraemer said some 30 million
passenger miles were flown with
out any trouble and with more
than 90 percent of arrivals on
time.
Cargo flown over the top of the
world includes Hollywood and
European films, aircraft and autoj
parts, electronic machinery, pet
cats, and tropical fish.
Flight time averages 24 hours
eastbound and 25 hours westward.
Stops are made at Winnepeg and
and Sondre Stromj ford, in Green
land.
West Turns Down
Soviet Proposals to Cut
German Troop Strength
GENEVA, —The Western
powers late Tuesday turned down
Soviet proposals to slash foreign
troops strength in Germany and
to make a non-aggression treaty
between the East and West mili
tary alliances in Europe.
In a fast moving debate con
firming the failure of the Big
Four to agree here on the solution
of any major problems, Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov
accused the Western powers of
having put up a number of propo
sitions because they did not want
“to achieve an agreement.”
“I wouldn’t like to offend any
one,” Molotov said sharply, “but
facts are facts.”
In an earlier session Tuesday,
the four had failed to agree on any
specific steps for improving East
West relations by relaxing re
striction on travel, trade or the
exchange of ideas.
BARBARA STANWYCK
She had a secret!
Saboteur Who Caused Airliner Crash
Tells How He Rigged Time Bomb
DENVER, UR—In dispassionate'*
tones, John Gilbert (Jack) Graham
related Monday night how he
rigged a dynamite time bomb to
explode aboard an airliner carry
ing his mother and 43 other per
sons.
All 44 were killed Nov. 1 when
the big United Air Lines DC-6B
exploded in flight near Longmont,
Colo., and crashed into a sugar
beet field 11 minutes after it had
left Denver.
Graham said in his signed state
ment, it was learned, that he had
set the mechanism to detonate the
bomb 90 minutes after he placed
it in his mother’s suitcase at 5:53
p.m. the night of the crash.
The plane was delayed 35 min
utes in takeoff from Denver the
night of the crash, which occurred
about 7:03 p.m. Had the plane left
on schedule, officials said, the ex
plosion probably would not have
come until the liner was over
mountain country in Wyoming.
Another UAL plane crashed I
against a mountain Oct. 6, killing I
66 persons in the worst disaster in
the nation’s commercial airline
history. / 1
William A. Patterson, president
of UAL, told reporters that com
pany investigators knew “within
10 hours” after the Nov. 1 crash
that an internal explosion in flight
caused the tragedy.
He said investigators kept find
ing a film of “gray stuff” on parts
of the plane that “indicated dyna
mite.”
Graham did not reply when
asked whether he felt remorse
over the deaths. He said he used
25 sticks of dynamite in the lethal
weapon.
The 23-year-old forger had plot- ;
ted construction of the bomb and
the resultant blast for nearly two
weeks. It was set to explode in 90
minutes. !
U.S. Atty. Donald E. Kelley said
the young Denver construction
and restaurant worker signed a
“written admission” earlier that
he killed his mother, Mrs. Dasie
E. King, 54, to collect her $37,500
air flight insurance.
Ironically, the insurance was in
valid because his mother had
failed to sign it before she left
Denver’s Stapleton Airfield for
Spenard, Alaska, and a visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Helen Ruth
Hablutzel. The policies were taken •
out at the airport by Graham.
Ole Martinson of Teller
Found Dead in Cabin
Funeral and graveside services
for Ole Martinson were conducted
at Gold Run (Sullivan City) by
Rev. Norval Hegland of the Lu
theran Mission of Teller Nov. 11.
J. Dickman of Teller was about
to deliver Martinson’s freight to
him at Gold Run when he discov
ered him dead in his cabin on
Nov. 7. * Dickman reported the
death to Harry Bourn, U.S. com
missioner of Teller. Boiim, Dick
man, Hegland, Norman Tweet and
Wilbur Tweet went out to Gold
Run to investigate the cause of
death and administer burial. The
investigation revealed that death
was due to natural causes.
Martinson was bom Aug. 22,
1871, in Telemarken, Norway. He
came from San Francisco to Sulli
van City in 1912. He went outside
in 1917 and visited with friends
in Nome in 1937, which was the
last time he left Gold Run. During
his years at Gold Run he worked
as an independent placer gold
miner.
The group from Teller were
guests of Henning Johnson during
their three-day st&y at Gold Run.
Johnson had been at Teller on
business when the death occurred.
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