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Subcommittee To
Hold Hearings On
Alaska Statehood
WASHINGTON, (£)—The House
Territories Subcommittee will
hold a hearing on Alaska state
hood legislation March 4-5.
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska)
made this announcement today
after conferring with chairman
Eingle (D-Calif.) of the House In
sular Affairs Committee and Rep.
O’Brien (D-N. Y.), chairman of
its Territories Subcommittee.
Bartlett said Secretary of the
Interior Seaton will be the first
witness. Seaton returned this
week from a 10-<lay visit to Alas
ka. Also testifying will be Alas
ka’s unofficial Congressional Del
egation — “Sens.” William A.
Egan and Ernest Gruening and
,rRep.” Ralph . Rivers.
IMPORTANT BITE
LOS ANGELES, WP>—Pilferers
took only one item when they
ransacked Walter J. King’s auto
mobile in west Los Angeles, but
it was highly important to King
and he made a report forthwith
to the police.
He told officers yesterday his
false teeth are missing.
Former Romm ell Chief of
Staff Named Commander
Of Central Europe NATO
PARIS, tP)—West German Lt.
Gen. Hans peidel has finally
been named commander of NATO
land forces in Central Europe.
He assumes his new duties April
1, the first German to hold a top
post in the North Atlantic Com
mand.
U. S. Gen. Lauras Norstad, su
preme commander of Allied
Powers in Western Europe, an
nounced the appointment. It had
been expected for weeks, some
objections in France and Britain
to giving the important post to
the former chief of staff to Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Utah State Prison Convicts Controlled
After 12 Hour Riot... Hostages Freed
By FRANK WETZEL
an JOHN HURST
POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN,
Utah, Iff) — Rioting convicts
knuckled under early yesterday
after ruling Utah State Prison in
nearly 12 hours of uncontrolled
revolt that was a strange mixture
of violent destruction and almost
tender concern for hostages.
Some prisoners went on a wild
alcohol-and-power binge; others
sat around nonchalantly watch
ing television and looking out for
the captives they had seized.
They yielded to Gov. George
D. Clyde’s firm insistence that
he would not even consider their
demands until they turned loose
their hostages and gave up their
weapons. i
The wild party ended at 5:55
a. m. (MST). The last 18 of the
hostages filed out of the convict
controlled section of the modem
prison some 20 miles south of
Salt Lake City. With them came
convict spokesmen who surren
dered their arms.
Gov. Clyde said he would now
WEATHER FORECAST
Complied by the
U.S Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Increasing cloudiness tonight
with snow beginning tonight and
continuing through Saturday.
Warmer tonight and Saturday;
temperature rising to 15 to 20
degrees Saturday.
Daughter Bom to Great-..
Grandfather, Wife, 21
PEORIA, 111., (tf>—A 72-year
old great grandfather and his 21
year-old wife are the parents of
a 7 Vi pound daughter ait St.
Francis Hospital.
The girl was born yesterday
to Mrs. Margaret Bricker, whose
husband, Thomas A., .also is the
father of a 50-year-old daughter,
Mrs. Ellen Bratum of Saginaw,
Mich.
Bricker, a retired farmer, has
two grandchildren and three
groat grandchildren. His wife is
the mother of a 3-year-old son
by a former marriage. She and
Bricker were married last May.
It was Bricker’s fifth marriage.
All of his former wives are dead.
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consider the 43 “suggestions” of
the prisoners. But first he left
the prison and went home to rest
after the light-long tension of
facing them down.
One guard was stabbed and
one prisoner beaten during the
melee. The prisoner was reported
in satisfactory condition and the
guard in fair condition.
The riot of about 500 prisoners
started .about 6:30 p. m. during
yesterday’s evening dinner hour,
apparently in an argument be
tween a convict and a guard. It
spread quickly through the con
vict section of *the prison. Author
ities sealed off the administra
tive section.
The convicts grabbed 27 hos
tages, including 13 members of a
church basketball team which
was playing a prison team and
four teachers who came from the
outside to give lessons. Nine were
rlasd at intervals during the
night as the convicts dickered
before finally giving up and re
leasing the remaining 18.
“There has been a little talk
about the colored boys’ thinking
they should have the privilege of
living anywhere in the building,
and that’s all I can thing of off
hand,” he said.
“But that has never come to an
actual issue,” he added.
The prison warden said racial
agitation was his only guess as to
the cause of the uprising.
The warden said Negroes and
whites are segregated as to eat
ing and sleeping, but not other
wise.
The racial issue was one of the
43 complaints made by the pris
oners.
Other “suggestions” included
“better” food, .a prison newspa
per, shorter prison sentences and
a new corrections board.
Legislature Pays Respects
To Late Mrs. Engstrom
JUNEAU, 13—Both Houses of
the Legislature paid their re
spects yesterday to Mrs. Thelma
Engstrom, wife of Sen. Elton Eng
strom of Juneau.
Mrs. Engstrom, 51-year-old
member of the Territorial House,
died yesterday at Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minn., after emer
gency surgery for a brain tumor.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st & 3rd Monday of each month
Lillie Lewis
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Robt. K. Lewis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon