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The Offic,nl Record

However, here is part of the or ficial, though confidential record regarding the partnership of White House friend Bill Helis, Frankie Costello, and Dandy Phill" Kastel.
 Nov. 8, 1937-A note for S225. .000 to Irving Haim at the Whitney National Bank in New Orleans was endorsed by Phil Kastel, Will liam Helis and Frank Costello.
 Tn 1938-Kastel owed c. D. Jen- nings of Chicago S45,000 for slot machines. So note for the debt was signed by Kastel and Robert Friedberg with alliance distributors stock certificates put up as collat- oral Alliance Distributors is the name under which Costello, Kastel and Helis operate. To meet the note Alliance Distributors arrang- cd to sell 2,000 cases of whiskey ana turn the proceeds over to c. D. Jennings.
 Aug. 23, 1938-Bill Helis paid IT, ving Haim's note for s225,00O at the Whitney National Bank with his personal check for that amount.
 Sept. l5, 1938-An agreement was executed between Irving Haim and William Helis giving Helis an in- terest in J. G. Turney and Sons, Ltd, the holding company for Kings Ransom and House Of Lords whiskies.
 Sept. 16, l938-A receipt was sign cd by Helis for 10000 ordinary shares and 35,0O0 preferred shares Of stock.
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conscience, does not readily break the law which says it is murder to take life willfully unless n lf-defense Mercy also is compelling force in man affairs. although not often as powerful fear of punishment or respect for the law.
 Are there times when a person Of good will and high ethics will respond to the urging of mercy, in defiance of the law? There evidently The law was written as comprehensive rule for the general good It was not written to prolong the anguish of woman suffering from cancer although she was in cluded in its projections
 The Vermont surgeon had good deal of courage to take life, as an act of mercy, knowing it murder He also had the further courage to set down in writing and sign the record of his act which in the mores of society and in the law is crime
 The infexibility of the law against murder un- doubtedy is necessary and wise To have it otherwise, to concede any oophole for taking life as an act of mercy is to invite a succession of abuses Even so, society should respect the individual who breaks the law when he acts without malice and in conformity with sensitive conscience. It should respect him for his integrity and courage though it must, for its own protection administer the punishment the law provides
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STRANGER THAN FICTION"

All readers of Associated Press dispatches have been informed of the doctor who executed mercy death. Various newspapers of the nation have com mented on the incident but the Cincinnati Enquirer has given remarkable editorial follows on this subject:
 Fertile as they are, the minds of fiction writers cannot match the strangeness of actual life itself 4 skillfun and respected surgeon of Manchester, Vermont young enough to have most of his career ahead of him. took the life of patient suffer- ing from cancer. He did this as act of mercy, without malice. He might have evaded the penalty for murder but chose instead to file a medical report detailing what he had done. Int report, encountered by chance led to his arrest charged with murder
 The law weighs heavily all of us. Given a
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one source of revenue is his part nership with Dandy Phil Kastel, Bill Helis and Irving Haim, as sales agents for House Of Lords and Kings Ransom whiskies. When Re- publican senators stumbled into this connection last summer, Helis immediately issued a vigorous de- nial. He said that at no time had he ever been associated with Cos tello in connection with the White ley Company, owners of House of Lords and Kings Ransom.
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: applies to those who by birth fraterna relationship 
 OFTEN MIsPRONOUNCED Zoology zo-o-oi, first as in SO and not zoo-ol-o-j, a sometimes heard
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: Morality; L. Morally; two Ls
 SYNONYMS Questionable disputab debatabe doubtful dubious 
 WORD STUDY use and it yours Let us word each day Todays Woro anything of its highest point Tt is the elimination of many centuries of progress"
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Who told the Lie?

Sept. l, 1939-Lloyd Cobb, Helis' man in New Orleans, wrote A. G. Reynolds, Helis' man in London, enclosing clipping from tie Washington Merry Go-Round, link ing Helis to Frank Costello.
 Jan. 13, 194l-An interoffice me- mo from A. G. Reynolds indicated that Phil Gastel's S100,00O note and Haim's S225,000 note hadn't been paid. The memo referred to a let ter agreement between Helis and Haim whereby both notes would be repaid by Haim.
 July 27, 1943-George Uffner came to New York from New Or leans to see Costello. Costello, calling Uffner on the phone said :: You and Bill Helis meet me in the lobby tonight at seven o'clock. If Alfange wants to see me that will be all right" CDean Alfange is Helis' lawyer, who also issued a denial last summer that Helis was ever connected with Costello.
 Feb. l947-Helis, when interview ed -by the New York State Liquor Authority, stated that Hahn had paid all money owed him, and that he and Haim now owned equal shares in J. c. Turney and Son.
 August 1949-William Helis de- nied to the press that he had ever been associated with Frank Cost clio in connection with the White ley Company, the wholly owned subsidiary of J. c. Turney and Son.
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NOT TOO EARLY TO PLAN
Seattle Times

tSeattle Tlmesl
 With advisable forethought, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is making early preparations for its annual goodwill tour to Alaska The party will go north in May That gives time for large and repre- sentative group to plan to join this excursion-one of Seatte's most effective activities in cementng close ties of friendship between this community and the northern territory.
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and the gang leaders he repre- sents have succeeded to an amaz- ing degree not only in making crime pay but in making it res- rectable. That is not lesson that We want taught our youth.
 Furthermore, when any one group in our society sets itself up as more powerful than another, Dem ocracy breaks down.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE ROBERTA Sy LEE

O. calls unexpectedly, and she has engagement?
 immediately but that you have an engagement that really wish
 o. What should guests do while the host is carving?
 A. Keep up the conversation comment o
 o. a doctor, she addressed as Mrs Evans?
 A Evans" always.
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Weather at
 Alaska Points

Weather conditions and temper atures at various Alaska points also on the Pacific Coast, at 4:30 am, 120th Meridian Time, and released by the Weather Bureau at Juneau. follow:
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Costello Could Be Deported

Hitherto Costello's chief influ- encc has been in the big cities New York, Miami and Los Angeles But now he appears to be able to reach inside the Federal Govern ment.
 The amazing fact is that Costello could be deported from the United States and sent hack to Italy to- morrow if the Justice Department wanted to. For, when Costello swore out his American citizenship papers in 1925, he perjured himself re- garding his criminal record. Count less other immigrants have been deported for doing exactly the same thing, but they have lacked something which Costello has-in- fluence.
 At this very moment, another immigrant, Harry Bridges, is on trial in San Francisco on exactly the same charge-perjury in con- nection with his citizenship papers.
 This column holds no brief for BIidges. But everyone should be tloated equally. And it's an ironic fact that "Jiggs" Donohue, a pri- Vate attorney who has had con- tacts with the Maragon- Costello crowd, is now retained by the Jus tice Department to prosecute Bridg- es.
 Costell0's Partners
 President Truman, I am con- vinced, knows nothing about Cos tello influence inside the govern men and would not stand for it if he did Nevertheless, Costello ap- pears to have a powerful friend inside the Bureau of Internal Rev enue, and this column has pre- viously published the details on the fixing of a federal tax-fraud case involving Los Angeles gamb Iers.
 Last summer, Sen. Clyde Hoey's Investigating committee also stum- bled onto the fact that ex-White House friend John Maragon, now under indictment, had been en- ployed by Costellos partner, Dan dy Phil' Kastel and that Bill Helis, the Golden Greek" an- other partner of Costello's, had been a contributor to the Truman campaign.
 Maragon was found to have a se- cret banking account in Fl Paso, Texas, which over a period of time contained as much as S135,00 "a lot of money for man who complained that his salary averaged around S4,0O0 annually. Further more, most of Maragon's trans actions were in cash-the coin of the underworld.
 Maragon and General Vaughan also had enough power inside the Truman Administration to over rule a housing order against the remodeling of California's Tanfor- an race track after being intro- duced to the tracks owners by Costellos partner, Helis.
 Though Costello probably makes most of his money in gambling,
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Doing nothing is a highly satisfactory way of passing the time until one gets tired of it and wishes he could do less than nothing
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woman in a currently styled evening dress an intensely interesting study in the delicate balancing of concealrnent and revelation.
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Perhaps vaudeville, too, has nine lives. It has been killed by the stage the screen and by radio and now it is being murdered by television
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MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 1A SECOND and FOURTH a ::: : :::| ;' : ,: ,: ]. 5: 5: :: = ;: Worshipful Master;
 JAMES w. LEVERS, Secretary
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MARTIN yICTOR'S FCRS

For ten days only, 1o% down, balance l0% monthly. adv. 396-7t
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The Washington M.evry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON

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IOO LATE HEN You cannot rush to your insurance agent while your home is in flames to ask him for more insur- ance.
 The only time you can get more insurance is ... BEFORE you have a fire. Ask this Hartford agen- cy to check over your policies.
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The day before Edward Lee Jackson and Annie Williams married by Commissioner Arthur w. Fox who also ocated at the marriage of Sam C. Paddock of
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Edith married Fox bridegroom police had been prominent Alaska holding weigh championship of the Territory
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.B-29S POUND
 REDS; DEFENSE ST|FFENING C
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least temporarily-on Kimpo air field just after two American bombers blasted the Communist. out of the field. To the southeast Seoul, South Korea's capital, ap- peared for the present firmly in Reo hands, with street fighting virtually at an end.
 B29's Enter
 American bombing and supply op- erations were stepped up with the entrance of the B-29 Superforts into the mounting offensive. Other B-29s bombed targets near Inchon and Seoul and along the 38th parallel. Behind the assault the resurgent defenders drove back into Kimpo field and to the north, engaged the Reds at captured Iujongbu, F miles north of Seoul.
 MacArthur, Commander-in-Ch Chief of US. Pacific Forces, who is lead ing the United Nations in deter mined measures to stop the Red invasion, drove by automobile to the edge of Seoul and saw the toughening resistance behind Amer ican air strength. After Is hours at the front, he returned to Tokyo. Communist planes dogged him and one which tried to attack his un- armed transport was driven off by an American fighter escort.
 U. $. BlackOut
 An American airbase in Southern Japan underwent a 45-minute blackout tonight when nine uniden- tified planes showed up on radar, but the planes disappeared before American craft could make con- tact.
 The Communist radio in Pyong- yang, capital of Russian backed North Korea, said Northern troops landed on Poengtongdo Island Tues day and captured the key enemy naval base" It is 20 miles west ot Ongjin Peninsula, just south of the 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea. The broadcast said Communist forces advanced up to 65 miles south of the 38th parallel in four days.
 The Americans have confirmed the Communists loss of II combat planes. There have been American air losses in crashes and ground strafing, but none have been shot down.
 In Washington the US. Army said it had no request yet from Macarthur for authority to use American combat troops in Korea.
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SKINNER CHARGES
 INDICTMENT IS
 "pER5ECUTI0N''
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Alaska Steamship Company out ot the trade in 1948." he said. T can assure you that it was not compe- tition-it was legislation"
 He spoke of the failure of Con- gress to extend the Interim Plan, which permitted the companies to charter government-owned ships at S1 per year with the hull insurance paid. The plan, he said, had acted as a rate subsidy by cutting com pany expense and so making pos sible a 35 percent increase in rates instead of an 88 percent increase.
 He charged that Governor Gruen- ing fought the extension of the h. terim Plan with all the means at his disposal :" but at the last moment withdrew his opposition to the bill and publicly stated ne favored it."
 Skinner blamed Governor Gruen- ing's arguments that Alaska rates were excessive and that the op~ orators were getting rich without government aid for the Maritime Commissions refusal to allow the extension of the Interim Plan.
 Without the benefit of the h. terim Plan, three steamship com panies found it impossible to con- tinue operations, he said.
 He said the indictment is Gov ernor Gruening's latest attempt to harass and embarass the Alaska Steamship Company and to make way for socialized government op~ eration of steamship service to the Territory"
 Other visitors at the meeting to- day were Herb Ream, Alaska Steamship Company auditor; U. w.. Killingsworth, vice. president of the Ketchikan Wharf Company; John Cushing of the Sitka Telephone Company; w. J. Jolly of Libby, Me-
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Truman for
 Statehood

WASHINGTON, June 29 - R = President Truman said today he hoped Congress would pass legis lation at this session granting statehood to Alaska and Hawaii.
 He told a news conference that he was strong for both measures.
 A reporter wanted to know if he bought there was time to act be- fore the adjournment of Congress, tentatively set for July 31
 Why not? MT Truman asked He added it would take only ten minutes to pass the measures.
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AF C-4E SkI-pLANE
 JOINS NAVY RAD
 FOR JIRP FLIGHTS

Tn a combined operation" tC supply the Juneau Icefield Re- search Project (JIRP) for its scientific and practical studies, a ski-plane from the 10th Rescue Squadron arrived last night fol parallel work with the Navy R-4L which came in Monday from the Naval Air Base at Kodiak.
 With today's 'yes-it-is, no-it- isn't' weather, pilots of the ski equipped CAT were poking holes at the Ice Cap today, to land some 15,000 pounds of equipment. This includes lots of pipe, and drilling apparatus for the new camp l0-B) to be set up a little more than mile from the main base, as well as food
 The plan is for the Air Force CAT to land heavy equipment for the new base, the Navy RID to make all drops on the Ice Cap, both-free-fall and by parachute. Famed Col. Bernt Balchen, 10rn Rescue Squadron commander, who made landings on the Ice Cap last year. was not aboard the aircraft that came from Elmendorf Air Base. He is expected in about a month to make a midsummer land ng-circumstances permitting.
 Mai Robert A. Ackerly is pilot of the ski CAT; It. Victor w. Rudd. Jr., co-pilot, and crew members include M-Sgt John c. Blazier, engineer; S-Sgt. Guy w. Caton, radio, and Sgts. Cal E. Anderson and R. A. Tumlinson.
 Sergeant Anderson will remain with the expedition all summer as weatherman, representing the USAF as observer and meteorologist. He is attached to the AZ Arctic Wea- ther Center at Anchorage.
 The first JIRP personnel to walk in and out of the Ice Cap this season returned to Juneau this morning.
 Richard Merit, an alum" of the 1949 expedition, who is in charge of surveying and mapping, returned with Arthur Gilkey, geologist, after being gone since Saturday.
 They reoccupied a series of sur vey stations and set UP instruments at three new points. The pair made a loop from Hole-in-the Wall Glacier, across Columbia Basin to Organ Pipe Range (where they picked up equipment dropped for them), then came down the east side of West Twin Glacier to Twin Glacier Lake. Moreover, they were rained in Sunday and Tuesday, in their temporary camps.
 After overnighting at Taku Lodge, Merit and Gilkey were flown in there today.
 Merritt expected to make the first ski-plane trip back, to stay for the rest of the season. Gilkey will work on equipment until about July I, then go in to stay
 Merritt says that snowfall ap- parently was very light-some places, he reported, look about the same as when the JIRP party left last August.
 JIRP expeditions are civilian operations, sponsored in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force and other agencies.
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NO RUSSIAN PILOTS ON pLANES, NORTH
 KOREAN FORCES

TOKYO. June 29-tP-Lt. Gen. George E. Strat temeyer, commander of the Far East Air Forces, said today no North Korean planes were being flown by Russians.
 He issued the statement in denial of reports published in the United States that many of the northern planes had Russian pilots. These reports were not carried by the Associated Press.
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Neill and Libby's salmon divisioni Sam Broadbent of the US. Bureau of Budget; and G. s. Dmyea, gen. eral freight and passenger agent for the Alaska Steamship Com pany.
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DAUGHTER FOR REIsCHLs

MT. and Mrs. David Reischl of Juneau became the parents Of a daughter yesterday morning. The child, born at 11:38 am. at St. Ann's hospital, weighed seven pounds seven ounces.
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ROBERTSON uoNoRED

Attorney Ralph E. Robertson has been honored again by the Ameri- can Bar Association. He has been reelected for a three year term as representative from Alaska.
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The boat Gordon D., skippered by Olaf Aase, landed 5000 pounds ot halibut at the Juneau Cold Storage Company wharf today.
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Due to the unexpected crowd. Shirley Casperson rally will be held in the CIO Hall at 500 tonight.
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Sewing machines Tor rent at Tne White Sewing Machine Center. 52-ri
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FOOD SALE

Saturday, July 1, II am. at Sears Order Office. By Emblem Club.
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Still time to save at l. GoIdstein's
 All items greatly reduced!
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FOOD SALE

Saturday, July l, II am. at Sears Order Office. By Emblem Club
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Evening star., 1950-12-08
by the Associated Press

LONDON, Dec. 8.-The gentle
St. Francis of Assist. who loved
all animals and called them BROTH
er, might have been the proper
judge for a 15-year-old boy who
stood irf a juvenile court. and
stammered and couldn't defend
himself.
According to the statutes. what
the boy had done was stealing
and that in a rather big way. Over
the course Of months he had
crept by night into the London
Zoo. With pliers he cut wires
and took live hirds-Egyptian
geese, a peregrine falcon. jackdaws
and owls.
But he didn't sell them, or trade
them for something a 15-year-old
boys finds useful. He carried the
creatures a long way across the
| big town, and freed them in St.
James Park, some to swim in the
dark lagoon, which is very close
to the Kings Buckingham Palace.
After a time the boy was caught.
| In court yesterday he couldn't
find the words to explain any
thing. So it was said for him
that, like st. Francis, he loves
all living creatures, and can't bear
to see them deprived Of liberty
behind the wires of zoo.
It was testified that the birds
were worth f202. which is $565.60.
That makes the offense. II 1t is
indeed a crime, grand larceny and
the court had to take a serious
view. The boy was questioned
alphabetically.
In school he likes to draw
animals and birds, but he doesn't
do 1t very we'll. He gave up the
Job as apprentice to q taxidermist
because he likes animals alive.
He was a failure as a helper in a
pet shop because he likes animals
free. Teachers called him a rather
dull boy, but with some strange
fire burning deep within.
The court could find no ready
answer. The chairman. Mrs.
Madelaine Robinson, said softly:
I'VE must know something
more about you. We will remand
you on bail for II days"
Which means that for a few
days the boy is as free as the birds
he liberated. And at St. James's
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Boy Who Loves Birds Is Tried
For Taking Them to Free Them

Park frustrated keepers are try
ing to coax IS swimming birds to
shore so they may be taken back
to the zoo cages.
Evening star., 1950-12-08
Philadelphia Is Hiding
Documents in Poconos
BY The Assoeiofsd Press

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. g.
Philadelphia has taken steps to
safeguard It's important docu-
ments in the event of an atomic
attack.
Microfilm copies of thousands
and thousands of wills filed here
from 1882 to 1900 were taken yes
terday to a bomb-proof vault
somewhere in the Pocono Noun
tains.
A total of 130 rolls of film were
used to copy the wills, including
those of such famous persons as
Benjamin Franklin. Stephen De-
catur. Stephen Girard, Francis
Hopkinson and Anthony Wayne.
Evening star., 1950-12-08
Huqerstown Zoninq Writ

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Dec. 8 (P).
Circuit Judge Joseph D. Mish
yesterday gave the Hagerstown
Mayor and council until January
II to show why they should not be
restrained from carrying out a
rezoning plan to convert part Of
the exclusive north end residential
section into a shopping center.
, 1950-10-07
Lurge Crowd Heurs
FurrellY. Rohlsen
In First Speech

a large crowd gathered on
the Csted Wharf last night, to
hear Stanley Farrelly make
his first campaign speech in
ms bid for a seat in the NUM-
cipal Council from the Chris
tlansted Town, also Henry E.
Rohlsen in his bid for the seat
as Member-at-Large.
Mr. Farrelly made it known
that he plans to conduct !
clean campaign. dealing only
with issues. He replied to a
number of accusations that he
favored certain groups or indi-
dualS. All Of which he denied.
and asked that he be given 4
chance.
Mr.. Rohlsen the next speak
er, gave a brief history of his
life, for the benefit of those
who did not know him, after
which he told Of his activities
over the past several years. He
asked the voters to give him a
chance to serve in the seat of
Member-at-Large.
He promised to put up a bit
ter fight; to ask no quarter
and give none.
, 1950-10-07
Officiql Coming to
Examine Plan 10 Send
Putients TO Curville

In response to the Admins
tration's request, Governor de
Castro has been advised that
the United States Public
Health Service will probably
send a representative to Saint
Croix at an early date to re-
examine the question Of send
ing to Carville, Louisiana,
those patients in the Lepro7
sarium who are eligible for
and DESTROYS of,transfer.
This news will be welcomed
by the majority Of those in
mates who have been urging
the government to send them
to Carville.