Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
McLean Passes On
WASHINGTON, <>Pi—Mrs. Eva
lyn Walsh McLean, who in life
loved parties and large gatherings
will be buried secretly Tuesday to
avoid crowds.
Only survivors and closest
friends will be told the time and
place of funeral services for the
central character of “father struck
it rich,’ owner of the ill-reputed but
magnificent Hope diamond and,
almost to the end, hostess to the
world’s most famous names.
Her death Saturday, at the age
of 60, during a recurrence of pneu
monia, ended an era of Americana.
Mrs. McLean, on most of the oc
casions she entertained, wore the
famous Hope diamond, a 44V£
carat stone with strange and beau
tiful blue lights.
Said to have been stolen from
the forehead of a Hindu idol, leg
end has it that the gem brought
violent death or misfortune to at
least six of its owners, among
them Mme. Montespan, Louise
XIV and Lord Francis Pelham
Clinton.
It was her favorite jewel, but
she would never permit her chil
dren to touch it, especially after
her son, Vinson, was killed in a
traffic accident at the age of 10.
Exactly what is to become of the
diamond will not be known until
her will has been read.
Mrs. McLean reputedly paid
$180,000 for the diamond, but is
said to have refused offers up to
$2,000,000 for it.
BABY SHOWER FOR
MRS. YAKUBOVSKY
Mrs. Andrew Nordlind enter
tained with a baby shower for
Mrs. "Yak" Yakubovsky of the *U.
S. Weather Bureau last week.
Many lovely gifts were given by a
group of sixteen friends invited to
the party.
Buys Junk;
Gets Fortune
SEATTLE, PP>—9 “story book”
incident left Mrs. Lillian Irene
Nelson, rooming house operator,
richer by $7,800 today but the
“story” isn't finished—she must go
court to hold onto it.
In a $1.90 auction house pur
chase of odds and ends, she found
e money stuffed into cans, jam
ne 1 in so tightly she had to pry
.. out with a fork.
The cans and other goods were
old at disposal of the estate of
George Lee Baber, 55, who lived
r'one in a trailer. He signed a will
on his deathbed, leaving all his
property to a crippled brother,
Grover C. Baber, Richmond, Va.,
n 1 the attorney for the executor
of the estate, learned of Mrs. Nel
on’s “find,” promptly started liti
;at:on to recover.
“But I think it’s rightfully
mine,” she said. “I expect to keep
it, what I haven’t already gotten
rid of.”
The executor, meanwhile, has
started a search for an additional
$10,000 which he believes Baber
hid somewhere after selling some
property recently for $18,000 cash.
Sportsmen's Cruise
Inaugurated
SEATTLE, uR)—A new service j
for anglers—a 15-day all-expense
outing in Alaska—has been inau
gurated by Fred K. Ross, Seattle
newspaperman.
He has leased the “ghost” town
of Loring, 25 miles north of Ketch
ikan, and will open a sportsman’s
camp there on May 15. Ross has
chartered several Seattle yachts
and will offer trips from Seattle
every five days during the summer 1
for parties of ten. This outing will
include a ten-day cruise through
i'n inside passage and five days of
fishing at Loring.
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RALPH LOMEN TAKES OPTION
ON SHAMROCK MINES
Shamrock Mines, quartz mine,
owned by K. VV. Silver lor many
years in the Solomon area across
from the well known Big Hurrah,
has been optioned to Ralph Lomen
and a group*of interested investors
for the season.
Mr. Silver who arrived from the
States last week is now in Solomon
getting the equipment ready Tor
operations and putting the mill in
condition. Additional material and
equipment will arrive on the first
boat.
Mr. Lomen states that he wants
this to be a Nome project and
would welcome any Nomeite inter
ested on a equal basis with the or
iginal investors.
For complete details interested 1
parties may contact Antonio Polet
at Polet’s Store.
MRS. RICHARD LEE. SR.
ENROUTE TO SOLOMON
Mrs. Richard Lee, Sr., who has
been visiting in California during
the winter returned on the Pan
American last Friday enroute to
her home at Solomon.
Lumber Workers
\ ote To Strike |
SEATTLE. i/P)—First returns on
a strike vote being taken by the
AFL-1umber and sawmill workers
union in this area came from Ta
coma and showed 2,161 votes au
thorizing a strike, with 253 against,
the union reported today.
Negotiations with the industry
are still being carried on, however
and the strike will be only a “last
resort,” Earl Hartley, president of
the Puget Sound district council
said.
“We don’t want to strike just to
be striking,” Hartley said. “But the
price of lumber has gone up 250
pei- cent since 1940 and wages only
75 per cent, and we feel entitled to
a fairer share of the profits the
lumber industry is making ”
Approximately 16,000 workers!
would be involved.
Napoleon was only 53 when he
died.
Machinists Strike;
Akron, Ohio, Walks
AKRON, O. iJP) — All public
transportation with the exception
of taxicabs was tied up in this rub
ber capital of 245,000 today by a
strike of 142 AFL mechanics at the
Akron Transportation Co.
The mechanics, members of the
international association of ma
chinists, threw picket lines around
ATC shops at 4 a.m. after reject
ing a company-offered wage in
crease of more than seven cents on
hour. Members of the machinists’
union have demanded a 16-cent
hourly pay increase and ‘'other
concessions.”
FEDERATED COMMUNITY
DINNER TOMORROW NIGHT
The Federated Church will hold
another Community Pot-Luck din
ner tomorrow, Tuesday, evening
at 0:30 p m. Everyone is cordially
requested to attend. Interesting en
tertainment will follow the dinner.
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