Nurse Passes Out
Motorboating
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—An Alas
ka nurse regained consciousness
long enough Monday to tell offi
cers how she happened to be lying
unconscious in an uncontrolled
racing speedboat in the Cataline
Channel.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Sid Jolivette said
Mrs. Dorothea Rice Pelka, wife of
Dr. Earl Pelka of Anchorage,
Alaska, told him she came here
last week to visit relatives, and:
“Saturday I went to Catalina
Island. Sunday I rented a boat Can
18-footed with an inboard motor),
got into a bathing suit for a sun
tan and started for a ride. I got
too far out of Catalina harbor and
the seas got rough and choppy.
“I became panic stricken. Then
I spotted a sail boat and stood up
to wave and yell and try to at
tract their attention. About that
time a really big wave hit my
boat and I fell off the seat to the
bottom of the boat.
“When I woke up I was here in
the hospital with people talking to
me. Never again will I go out
alone in a small boat. I don’t
know enough about them. And
will my husband be mad at me.”
Mrs. Pelka’s boat was only two
miles off Los Angeles harbor—
some 23 miles from her starting
place—when a Sea Scout, Don
Hall, jumped from the Scout ship
Manta into her craft. The speed
boat overturned, however, after
hitting the Scout craft, and both
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WASHINGTON, f/P)—Secretary
of the Interior Chapman said
Monday that if Congress amends
the Alaska Statehood bill so as to
give the proposed new State half
of the public lands in the Terri
tory he will accept the amend
ment rather than recommend that
President Truman veto the mea
sure.
Chapman was testifying before
the Senate Interior Committee on
the Hawaii Statehood bill.
He was asked by Senator But
ler (R.-Neb.) what he thought
about giving Alaska every other
section of land. The Alaska State
hood bill would give the proposed
new State four sections of land in
every township. Butler has offer
ed an amendment to give it every
other section. |
“I don’t agree that every other
section should go to Alaska,”
! Chapman said. "I think we (the
Interior Department* can do bet
ter in its management but if that
will win your vote for Statehood
I would be willing to accept it on
that basis.
“I still think it is wrong but if
Congress thinks it is right I’ll not
recommend veto because I am
concerned with the rights of the
people to vote.”
Mrs. Pelka — still unconscious—
Hall were pulled from the sea.
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2 Polar Hear Cubs
To Go To Detroit
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Red tape
and more independence at the din
ner table are keeping a couple of
Barter Island polar bear cubs
from starting off for the Detroit,
Mich., zoo for a couple of weeks
yet. *
Benny Akootchook, the Eskimo
owner of the cubs, said today he
has not yet received the export
permit from the Fish and Wildlife
Service, although the permit has
been issued.
Don Berg, Barter Island school- ,
teacher who holds Benny’s power
of attorney, said the bears still
are too young to travel and will be
held at Barter Island—off Alas
ka’s northern coast—until they
can feed themselves.
One, named Jo Jo by the Eski
mos, now weighs eight pounds and I
the other, Jerry, weighs 10 pounds.
Berg says the cubs are now off
the bottle and consuming their
weight in food daily from an open
dish. They should be able to travel
in about two weeks.
A military plane will fly them
to Fairbanks, whence Northern
Consolidated Airlines will fly
them to Anchorage. There, North
west Airlines will take them to
Detroit.
The Home Arts Club met at the
home of Mrs. Robert Long Tues
day evening and enjoyed a paper
on “Atomic Energy” presented by
Mrs. Elmo Miller.
Plans were discussed for the
annual plant sale in June and
plans for the Children’s Playfield
which they sponsor.
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At Attack On Wife j
WASHINGTON, (/P)—In an an
gry outburst, Owen Lattimore
told Senators today that “a new
low” in American politics had
been struck by “an attempt to at
tack me through my wife.”
Lattimore spoke out at the out- ,
set of his second consecutive day
of testimony before a Senate for
eign relations sub-committee in
vestigating charges by Senator
McCarthy that the State Depart- j
ment is infested by communists
and Red sympathizers.
His reference was to a question
from Senator Hickenlooper <R.- j
Iowa) late yesterday as to whe
ther Mrs. Lattimore addressed in
1943 a San Francisco labor school,
listed as communist by the Calif- !
ornia un-American activities com- *
mittee.
Lattimore said he didn’t know.
Mrs. Lattimorefi sitting with her
husband, said she didn’t recall.
Today, Hickenlooper brought it
up again. He inquired whether
Lattimore and his wife had re
freshed their recollection over
night as to whether Mrs. Latti
more had lectured at the Tom
Mooney School. .
Lattimore said his wife recalls
that she spoke at what she was
told was a trade union school, as
she did at various other places to
various organizations.
Then, in sharp tones, Lattimore
said:
“With all due respect I think
this attempt on me has set many
lows in American political life,
and this attempt to attack me
through my wife . . . strikes a new
low.”
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