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Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Center Drive Success Seen

Con munity Center financial campaigners were nearing their goal Of $600O, it was reported last night A complete tabula- tion is expe cted to be ready for the directors at their meeting Tuest ay night.
 A $500 contribution from the Kodiak Chapter of the American Red Cross brought the amount accounted for to more than $40JO with still a large percentage of the business district and some residential districts to be heard from
 Persons not yet contacted or who have not made their pledges can help the success of ths drive by mailing them.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Priest Due Soon At Russian Church

A priest for the Russian Or. thodox Church here is expected before November l Joseph Heit' man, president, said yesterday
 A wire from Bishop John Flo. bin, whose headquarters are in Sitka, informed the church that Father Alexander Popoff will re. port here shortly.
 Bishop ZIobin, now in New York City gave no information as 10 where the priest will come from. He is married and has four child.en. but his family will join him later.
 The church has been without a priest since Father Gregory Gleboff left two ye4rs ago,
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Exhibition Games To Aid Fund

Two Kodiak bask etball teams will participate in exhibition g4mes Tuesday night at NOE, the proceeds to 50 to the com. munity chest fund. It J. R. Taulbee said yesterday.
 Kodiak high will play NOE high and the center team will meet the civil service club team
 Admission to the games will be ore dollar.
 Another game between tive service teams will also be play ed. The first game will start at 6 pm, second at 7:30 and third 9 pm.
 The NOE band will parade through town Friday to adver. tiss the community chest carniv. al next Friday and Saturday
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Hughes Reelected School Head

John c. Hughes was re.elect ed president of the Kodiak In dependent School District for the coming year Tuesday night at a regular meeting of the board members
 Dr A. Holmes Johnson was elected treasurer and William Stone, now on 8 trip to the states, was elected secretary.
 Robert Hall was sworn Tn as a new board member and will serve as secretary until Stone returns
 Three floor plans for 8 new school building, which were drawn by Arid Johnson, school architect from Everett, Wa-h were examined by the board, Johnson recently came here to confer with the board members on building 8 new school build ihg
 The power was off for l5 min. ates las night when a switch at the KEA plant .'kicked off". The power was on again at N9:3l
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Christmas Seal Campaign Poor

Receipts fro n the sale of Christmas Seals have been slow in coming in, The Rev R N Wilkinson, chairman Of the T B Committee. said yesterday
 Approximately 600 envelopes, each containing two dollar, worth of seals were mailel la t Friday in the local post office.
 As of late yesterday, receipts have totaled only $l0O. Rev Wilkinson said.
 However, 8 follow.up will be made in 8 few weeks to encour. age a total response to the sales, he added.
 Members of the local Rotary Club have subscribed to addi tion purchases of the seals Ad- ditional clubs and groups will be encouraged to do likewise The seals can also be purchased at Knudsen's Fountain.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Local Fishermen A six Abolition Of Traps

Elimination of fish traps iR Alaska will conserve salmon and. will also make possible 8 strong CT economy for the territory, members of a Congressional merchant marine and fisheries committee heard here Thursday,
 A special subcommittee com posed of three members of the House of Representatives held the first of a series of hearings to take place this month in the territory, Thursday at the com- munity center
 Delegate E l.. Bob" Bartlett was a member of the visiting party, which arrived Thursday mol ming. attended luncheon at the base at noon, and Cham Der of Commerce dinner in the evening.
 In a prepared statement, Karl Brunstad, member of the Tern torial Fisheries Board, asked for prompt legis' ation regarding the removal of fish traps from Alas kan wa,ers,
 Outlaw the traps and you will promote better harm ony be- tween the Fish and WIldlile Service and the fshermeD," Brunstad said. He also had an editorial regarding fish traps from the Anchorage Times, made a part of the record Brun' stad testified for II hours
 Ali Madsen urged the removal of traps as soon as possible and said there should also be a limit t. the catch of all gill rets and mobile gear.
 Martin Jensen, illustrating bis testimony with a drawing of & trap, told the ongIessmen that traps discriminated against fish, ermen in two ways: they fish 24 hours day and go as far into the ocean as they want. while a gill net IS limited in length. Howard Wakefield. herring plant owner and member of the territorial Fisheries Board, said he felt some means of coRserva- tion is necessary and added that as a member of the board, he underst ood the peoples mandate was to abolish traps.
 Abolition of all traps at once would have no detrimental effect on the salmon industry, Wake field said. He added that in his opluion individual fishermen with mobile gear could handle all the fish that could be taken and canned.
 Mayor Lee Bettinger, testify ing be'o,e the committee with the most convincing argument it heard" according to one of it's members pointed out that it is in the interest of Kodiak's eeoD- omy, and that of the territory.
 Continued on page 9
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29

New officers of the Kod ak Parent Teachers Association will be e ected Thursday evening when the group a. sembles at the school building.
 The meeting will start at 7:3O pm All persons interested Tn ob- taining a new school building for the city are urged to attend.
Kodiak mirror., 1949-10-29
Validity Of Gold Strike
 Now Being Questioned
(Eal Her story page B

FalrDanks (R)-EldoradO or dud, 8 bonanza or a bust, all of Alaska is wondering what Is actually going on at Fishwheel, new tent city on the Yukon Rlv CT. where 20th century 49'ers are heating up the subzero tempera lures over whether they have something or not.
 Fishwheel is located on wide seot of the Yukon river 165 miles northeast of Fail banks East Saturday, Clifton Carol reported he had found "pea sized nuggets" frozen to his fish wheel when he pulled it from the river The news started a stampede of gold seekers into the frozen area
 Wednesday, prospectors of the fr'gid tent city demanded Shat the first specimen nuggets be sent to the University of Alaska for as ay.
 Thursday, Geology Professor Richard Ragle examined them and declared three of the mug gets are gold the other is brass "
 Jack Daum, staff writer for the Fairbanks News Miner who flew to the strike area staked himself 8 claim while covering the story Yesterday he radioed that arguments and fist fights Hared along the Yukon.
 Meanwhile, B D Stewart, Ter Fitorial Commissioner of Mines, expressed grave concern over ''the unjustified excitement that IS being manifest in Alaska as well as in the states over the finding of a small amount of placer gold"
 He pointed out that well-in- formed and experienced placer miners of the territory are re. training from joining the unfor tsrnate stampede"
 He said the discovery of a small amount may be accept. ed as authentic but that the natural occurrence of gold in the soxm of even small nuggets. in terrain such as that where it is reported, must be established bsf0re the discovery can be ac. eepted as valid indication of g large deposit of gold in the area
 Stewart concluded that "pla. seR mining men regard the find as a freak occurrence, best ex plaised by action of floating ice in transporting the gold from some unidentified source
 The characteristics of tho lighter buoy 20 (L. l.. No. 25lS. at Women's Bay Entrance have been changed to a quick flashing rcd hght, about 75 flashes peI minute, the Coast Guard an nouDces
 No other change has been mad in U. s. Coast and Geodetic Sur yey Chart numbers S545, 854 mS os0A
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
FISH IMPORT TARIFFS WILL DROP, BANNERS
 SAY AT CONVENTION

CORONADO. Nov. 18.-R-Charl- es Carry, Director of the Division of Fish Products of the National Gamers Association, believes im- port tariffs on canned salmon and sardines will be reduced as a re- suit of a fisheries conference to be called next summer.
 Garry, who spoke at the closing session of the annual convention of the Association of Pacific Fish cries here yesterday, said the con- ference, to be called by the State Department, will be attended by representatives Of go maritime na- tions.
 He said that in the Japanese Peace Treaty, expected to be drawn up early in 1850, every effort is going to be made in the treaty it. self, or in current treaties, to pre- vent the Japanese from violating conservation agreements, as they did before the war"
 E. M. Brennan of Seattle, was elected President of the organiza- ton. Other officers, all from Seat tie are: Vance F. Sutter, J. A.. Green, E. w. Thompson and A. R. Barthold, Vice Presidents, and E. D. Clark, Secretary Treasurer
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
GUAM STRUGGLES THROUGH TYpH00N:
 DAMAGE 'ExTEN5IvE'

GUAM, Nov. 18-tR-This huge lU. S. base today emerged battered and bruised from typhoon with 115-mile winds or more which
 wrought damage possibly high in the millions.
 No deaths were reported. There were few serious injuries. The all-clear came at g am. after a night of bowling winds, and the
 repair of the damage began. Both civilian and military property was hard hit. Communications have been partly restored.
 Rear Adm. Edward c. Even commander in the Marianas, said
 that damage was "yery extensive. . l Ewen's headquarters was badly | hit, as were warehouses and quon- set housing. A stockpiIe of paii.r | at the Marines Fifth Service De-
 pot burned at the height of the
 storm.
 ] Reports of heavy damage came
 from the Naval Supply Center. and
 Camp Witeck, home of the fleet
 Marine force.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
4SO COMBAT PLANES. OUT
 IN NAVY CUT

ASHINGTON, Nov. 18AR-The Navy today ordered about 20 per- cent of it's combat planes taken out of service during the next four months and is considering whether others must be withdrawn.
 The move signals insistence from Defense Secretary Johnson on ec- onomy cuts, bitterly protested by Navy officials, which figured in recent Congressional hearings on inter-service rows.
 The Navy announced that total of 35 squadrons-28 Navy and seven Marine-will be decommissioned. The sea service now has about g. 250 first line combat planes, he- sides support and service aircra1 :.
 The 35 squadrons to be decom- missioned contain about 480 conn., bat craft
 The Navy Department announced some time ago that a 25 percent cut in air strength would be re- quired under the overall economy program order by Secretary John- son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
CAB WANTS LINES TO WORK OUT OWN
 PROBLEMS -- JONES

Harold A. Jones, Civil Aeronautics Beard member in Juneau confer ring with intra-Alaska airline off cials, wants to see airlines in the north work out their own prob lems so better service may be given" rather than have the CAB step in to make plans for them from a point 4,cC0 miles away"
 Jones is here on the first leg O. ten-day trip of insnec.cn ane conferences wh'ch will take him tc Anchorage and Fairbanks, His visit here was deferred several months IS he had wished to make a month ong tour during the summer but was prevented from doing so by illness.
 Conferences will not take in 1lon- scheduled States flights, or any airline problems other than those immediately in the Territory, he said.
 
 STAFF WILL ARRIVE
 He said group of top staff men connected with the CAB will ar rive here later this winter to com pile data and study conditions, SC more detailed information may te at the flve-man boards bidding
 Next summer he said he hopes to come to Alaska for Hong look at transportation in the north such as he was prevented from ioing this year He didn't know if he or another board member would make the trip.
 He was busy all day meeting with officials in the offices of Alaska Coastal Airlines. He said ii was too early to have reached any conclusion concerning air service put that he spent the morning ex- blaming to officials the need o1 more integrated, economical service
 The question of mail subsidies has not yet been touched upon, he said. All companies have applied fol more money on their mail contracts
 "The board realizes" Jones said that Alaska flying is different from anything else of the same nature in the States 1t is youi primary mode of transportation put it shouldn't be your only one.
 EXPENSIVE HAULING
 Air transportation, he pointed out, is nece ssarily the most ex- pensive way to get anywhere there is. And therefore it should not be used exclusively for services that could be rendered ty some other form of haul He admitted ne
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
B-29 CRASHES
 Al START OF B-29 SEARCH
Five of Nine Known Crew. men Aboard Are
 Reported Killed

! TAMPA, Fla, Nov. 18-tR--A B-29 startng out to hunt for the B-29 missing near Bermuda crashed tsre seconds after takeoff here today.
 Five of the nine known crew men aboard were killed. The otter four were thrown clear of the plane ard were only slightly hurt.
 The plane was from MacDill Air Pase and was one of nearly 100 Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard planes which had been searching for the bomber which ran out of fuel and crash landed in the sea Wednesday
 The crash of the MacDill bomber occurred shortly before am.
 Seconds after 1t took off from the field which borders Tampa Bay, its number four engine began smoking. As it turned to land, the engine broke loose and the plane crashed.
 The tide was out at the time and the ship plunged into mud and slime.
 The muck prevented crash boat from reaching the wreckage and greatly hampered firemen from reach ng the scene with hose.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
GIRL SLAYER 1870 RECEIVE
 QUICK TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, Nov 18-IR- Muttering T don't deserve to live , rasty-faced Fred Strobe. 66-year- old aker, braced himself in a county jail cell today for swift grand jury action in the sex staying o. six-year-old Linda Joyce Giu- cof,.
 Stroble, the grandfather of one of Linda's favorite playmates, poured out his sordid story to Dis trict Attorney William Simpson as a 48-hour fugitive search through out the west and into Mexico wound up yesterday on a stool in a down. town Los Angeles bar-about five blocks from Central Police Sta ton and across the street from a downtown park.
 Simpson sad Strobe, formally charged with murder, admitted that he strangled and bludgeonsd the pudgy little girl to death when she resisted his improper advances. Arraignment is scheduled at 9:30 m. today in municipal court.
 T had been drinking all day wine. wouldn't have done it if I hadn't been drunk" Strobe was quoted. Simpson said |, the ashen, gray-haired grandpa-who liked to buy kids ice cream and candy then told of enticing Linda into a bedroom of the home where he lived with his daughter, her hus- band and their two children.
 At his arraignment today, Judge Leroy Dawson set his preliminary hearing for next. Monday.
 We will ask the death penalty" said Deputy District Attorney Ad- olph Alexander.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
 PLOT; 100
 ARRESTED

BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov 18-lR -Colombias Conservative govern ment, ruling this country under a state of siege, said today it has foiled a vast terrorist plot" with the arrest of more than 100 per- sons.
 The government said big stores of explosives were seized at Ar menia in Western Colombia. The press secretary to Conservative President Mariana Ospina Perez said Liberals and Communists were involved, along with Europeans of undetermined nationality"
 Armenia, a city of 50,c00 in the Quidino coffee region. was to be wiped out by dynamite explosions and fire, the press secretary said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
MAJESTIC LUCKY
 HUMBER FiSHING'
 NEAR NEAH BAY

SEATTLE, Nov 18-tR-The fish ing vessel Majestic reported yes terday it had found the fishing pretty good off Neah Baylor lum- Der.
 When rough weather prevented normal operations. the Majestic fished for lumber and brought back 15,oOO board feet from the wreck ed freighter Andalucia. The vessel ran ashore during an engine room fire Nov 4.
 Hundreds of small craft have been wing for the foundered freighter's cargo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
BARU(H HAS pLAN5AB0UT
 HIS FORTUNE

NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-lR-Elder statesman Bernard M. Baruch plans to leave his fortune to promote his pet project-physical medicine.
 Its a field very close to my heart" he told an interviewer yes terday. T can't think of anything better to do with my money"
 But he added that it's nobody's business how much money he nss to bequeath He added with smile :.
 "Its much smaller than you think. I've spent lot"
 The 79-year-old philantrcpist made millions in his day ss g wal street speculator and mine ee- veloper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
TEN GUILTY IN RAPE
 CA5E;FA(E $150,00O
 SUIT BY HUSBAND

TACOMA. Nov 3.-R-Convict- cd. of the mass rape of mentally unsound young mother, 10 Tacoma youths today still faced S150.00l Civil Court damage actions brough. by the woman's husband.
 The Superior Court jury took only one ballot in finding nine of the youths guilty of rape and the tenth of attempted rape. The defendants range in age from 19 to g years. They were convicted of taking part in an all-night sex orgy May 27 with Mrs. Marie Charlton. 2l, and later turning her loose in the nude some miles from her home.
 The young woman died in August at Western State Hospital, Stella coon, Wash.. where she had been recommitted because of her mental condition.
 Attorneys for the youths said the convictions would be appealed ii g new trial is denied
 Court officials said the jury's verdict could bring terms up tc 20 years or to life. The three de- fendants over 21 years all face minimum fiye-year terms.
 No date of hearing has been sci on the personal damage actions brought by the attack victims hus- band, Pete Charlton. His separate suits, totaling s150.00O. allege that the youths actions deprived hin Of his wife.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
Wife Killer Carried
 "Lasi MiIe''; Pleas
 By Mother Refused

k WALLA WALLA. Wash, Nov. 18 LIZA mothers vain mile-con- suming efforts to keep her sop walking the Hast mile" failed last night and early today Wayne L. Williams was hanged for the slay- ing of hi5 wife.
 He was pronounced dead at 12:ls am. after being carried to the gallows strapped to a board. He had refused to walk and resisted as the black mask was placed over his face.
 Ire snap of the trap-door drought to an end the desperate bid of Williams mother, Mrs. Nora Williams of Everett, to stay the execution. Contending that her son had Leen insane for some time be- fore moving to Washington from Tulsa, Okla, she appealed to the State Supreme Court in Olympia and then to lower courts at Walla Walla, Pasco and Yakima by ap- plicaticn for a writ of habeas cor pus. All were denied.
 Williams, 32, was convicted of tludgeoning his wife. Hallie Lucille. 27, with rock. then pushing her tody over a steep cliff overlooking Puget Sound near Mukilteo or June IT, 1948.
 His four-year-old daughter, Mary Rernice, also was. beaten ano pushed over the precipice but sur vived.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
REAL PUNCH
 LOOMS, TRIAL
 OF BRIDGES
Government Promises Im- DOrtant Witness as
 Case Is Started

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. iG--tii1--
 Government attorneys promised they will call a witness today in
 the Harry Bridges perjury trial
 who will carry real punch"
 The broad outlines of the coming court battle took form yesterday
 as both prosecution end defense
 made opening statements to the
 middle-aged jury of eight men and four women.
 First witness called for today
 when defense chief Vincent Halli- nan finished his opening statement,
 was Lloyd Garner examiner before
 whom Bridges appeared for natu-
 ralization. F. Joseph Donohue, chief prosecuting attorney, de- clined to name his next witness, but members ot his staff said his testimony would carry a real punch"
 The government, charging that the West Coast Longshore leader perjured himself when he said he was not Communist in his 1945 naturalization hearing, will attempt
 to prove he was actually secret member of the Communist Partys powerful central committee The defense will attempt to prove that the present trial is part of
 conspiracy to get the Australian
 born Bridges out of the country.
 Federal Judge George B. Harris called a conference of the attorneys
 at the end Of yesterdays session.
 however, and told the defense he
 will limit the issue to the question
 of perjury and conspiracy. He said
 that anything happening at prior
 government hearings to deport
 Bridges is outside the present case.
 Bridges and two fellow union
 officials, J. R. Robertson and Henry
 Schmidt, are charged with con-
 spiracy to defraud the government
 through their testimony at the
 naturalization hearing. Tn addition,
 Bridges is charged with perjury. COURT ABRUPTLY RECESSES SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18-tR-- Federal Judge George B. Harris abruptly recessed court in the Harry Bridges case today as de- sense attorney tried to argue with him about an opening statement. Judge Harris scolded defense att torney Vincent Hallinan repeatedly as the lawyer continued hitter narrative about "the enemies of Harry Bridges
 T have never heard such matters
 eefcre in an opening argument
 the Judge declared. There is no
 place here for those yitur aratiye
 remarks. The court will have to step in N M The government. which has the first turn at introducing testimony. had said 1t was ready to put on witness whose words would carry a real Sunday runcn."
 Hallinan argued that Bridges
 enemies have conspired to break
 him"
 He tried to enumerate these enemies In his opening state-
 ment. Each was the subject of hot objections.
 He referred to Harry Lundeberg, head of the AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific. He called him "a Jack London character. a bucko, man who has been arrested for assault in half the ports -of the world; who has burned the ballots of his union." The government objected
 and Judge Harris warned Hallinan again.
 But moment later he was tack on the same theme
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
SEARCH CRITICAL AREA

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. l8.- R-An armada of planes aided by ships searched today in worsen- 'i,eg weather the critical area off Bermuda where U. S. Air Force B-29 crash-landed Wednesday with 20 men aboard
 Faint radio signals and the sight ing of two red flares reported last night spurred efforts of the res cuers searching an area of ab 1ut 100 miles square, 345 miles north- east of these islands.
 Officials said four planes are now combing the pin-pointed spot where the signals originated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
Eseaped lonviti Found When Spoiled by Prison Farm Manager in Town

WALLA WALLA, Wash. Nov. 18- tR-" Sometimes you mset the darn dest people. ;" thought Robert Willis Echard, 25, today.
 Eckard escaped from the State Penitentiary prison farm yester-s day. Twelve hours later. while walking down a Walla Walla busi- ness street, he was spotted by Low Il Evans. priscn dairy farm man. ager.
 Evans escorted Eckard back to the prison where he was serving five- year sentence from Pierce County on second degree burglary con- viction,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-11-18
East West Issue; Taken Up Between
 British and Russia
(Bv Associated Press)

Following a LIN. General Assem- tly plenary session yesterday Rus sia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky had a 15-minute talk with Britain's Min ister of State Hector McNeil. The results of the talks were not d's- closed but observers said Britain is taking the lead in efforts to see whether Russia is willing to compromise on some of the dead locked East West issues,