NEWS IN BRIEF
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land were married here last night
in an informal, single ring cere
mony in the garden of La Valencia
hotel.
Gregory Peck was best man and
Barbara Ford, daughter of movie
director John Ford, was maid of
honor.
Miss Dru is the ex-wife of sing
er Dick Maymes, now the husband
of Nora Eddington. Miss Edding
ton was formerly married to Errol
Flynn.
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The agri
culture department today fore
cast this year’s cotton crop at 14,
805.000 bales of 500 pounds gross
weight each as of Aug. 1.
This estimate compares with
14.868.000 bales produced last
l^year, and with a ten-year <1938
47' average of 11,300,000 bales.
SEATTLE, OP) — Mrs. Marne
Charon Baldwin died Saturday
night in a hospital. She had lived
in Seattle since 1943, but for the
preceding 20 years was an Alaska
resident. Prior to her retirement,
she operated a grocery store in
Anchorage. She was a native of
Ludington, Mich. Her sister, Mrs.
Blanche Scllen, Seattle, survives.
Hospital News
New Patient at the hospital to
day is Carrie Powell, of the Wea
ther Bureau of Nome.
News of the World
At A Glance —
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of staff; Adm. Louis Denfeld,
chief of naval operattions, and
Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, air force
chief, inspected the U. S. army of
occupation in Germany and Aus
tria and conferred with military
chiefs of Western Europe during
the tour.
At each stopover on their trip,
the American chiefs emphasized
that no decisions were being
made. But Denfeld, speaking for
the group in Paris, said the talks
had resulted in “great unanimity
of opinion on almost all ques
tions.”
The American chiefs will return
to Washington today crammed
with facts about Western Europe’s
defenses and her military organ
ization. Their report is expected to
influence the course of President
Truman’s $1,450,000,000 arms for
Europe program now before Con
! gress.
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Mr. James Wooten, president of
I the Alaska Airlines, accompanied
by his wife made the round trip
i flight Saturday to Kotzebue. The
route was recently established by
the company. On the same flight
were the well known Alaskans Mr.
Elmer Rascusson, president of the
First National Bank of Anchorage,
! and his wife.
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Georgia Mayor and
Friends Shoot It
Out with Klansmen
IRON CITY, Ga. (/P) — A one
armed Georgia mayor and some of
his friends renewed a shooting
war against robed, night-riding
Ku Klux Klansmen yesterday.
To top it off, the mayor chased
a Klan officials into Alabama at a
100-mile-an-hour pace and had
him jailed.
The shooting spree started, said
Mayor C. L. Drake of Iron City,
when 12 or 15 carloads of robed
Klansmen rolled into this little
southwest Georgia hamlet in the
dark, early Sunday morning
hours. One unidentified Klans
man received a flesh wound.
Drake reported none of his fight
ers was hurt.
The mayor, a Klan foe of long
standing, declared "some of the
bullets whizzed by within five
! feet of me” while he hastily
i scribbled down the robed figures’
I auto tag numbers.
I Several hours elapsed between
■ the shooting and the daredevil
i automobile chase to Dothan. Ala.,
38 miles aiway.
i The Klan official, booked as Bill
| Hendrix of Tallahassee, Fla., said
he is an organizer for a new
hooded order, the Southern Ku
Klux Klan.” The mayor had him
jailed on a warrant charging as
sault with intent to murder.
Iron City, on the mayor’s in
sistence, has banned wearing of
masks in public. Klan leader Hen
drix said none of his men wore
masks.
Paul Dryden, Second Division
Tax' Assessor left yesterday for
; Juneau for a conference with the
1 heads of the Territorial Tax De
! partment.
Ford Workers
Block Traffic
Voting On Strike
DETROIT, (A3) — Ford workers
jammed polling areas and tempor
arily blocked traffic near the
Dearborn Rouge plant as a state
conducted strike vote began to
day.
Officials of the state labor me
diation board estimated 4,000 out
of 60,000 Rouge employees voted
within the first two hours.
Ford local 600 ran a shuttle
service from the Rouge plant to
the polls, using six buses.
Voters will decide whether they
will authorize their officers in the
CIO united auto workers to call a
strike. Authorization does not
necessarily mean a strike will oc
cur.
Michigan’s Bonine-Tripp labor
law requires the balloting, which
state labor mediation board chair
man Noel P. Fox said would take
three days.
PLAYFIELD CLOSES
THIS WEEK
Supervised play for the chil
dren at the playfield closes this
week, according to playfield chair
man, Mrs. Ben Hyndman.
Mrs. Sam Widner who has been
supervisor this summer under the
I annual sponsorship of the Home
Arts Club has had children of all
! ages, some barely about to walk,
under her care on all days that it
was possible to maintain outdoor
activities. On rainy days the chil
dren have trooped to the Boy
Scouts headquarters where enter
tainment was provided.
This season’s playfield supervi
J sion make the tenth year that the
Home Arts Club has provided this
j privilege for the youngsters of the
community.
Knows Answers;
Wins A Fortune
UNION CITY, N. J. </P)—Holly
wood called last night, and Ann
Notre of Union City is $31,000
richer today.
Miss Notre, 20, gave the right
answers when called on the tele
phone by a radio quiz program,
and now she has at her command
such prizes as a trip to Paris, a
Russian ermine jacket and many
others.
The quiz was the “Hollywood
Calling” program. She correctly
identified a set of music and word
clues, named Red Skelton as the
movie star and “Jealousy” as the
motion picture.
Almost as soon as she put down
the telephone, however, other less
welcome calls started coming.
“A lot of crackpots have called
me up telling me what to do with
all the prizes, but they are all go
ing to be used here at home.” she
said.
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Norman Moore, Regional archi
tect for the Public Health Service,
arrived yesterday from his office
in San Francisco in relation to the
department's final acceptance of
its share in the Memorial Hospi
tal. Also here for the same depart
ment is Miss Gertrude Wetzel,
who has been here for some time
from her office in Anchorage, for
the same purpose. The Public
Health Service has its offices, and
clinic space on the lower floor of
the new hospital.
John Harvard, after whom
Harvard College was named, left
half of his estate and a library of
more than 400 volumes to the col
lege.
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