Arrest Greek
Naval Men
ATHENS, (/P)—More than 60 of
ficers and sailors have been ar
rested on charges .of trying to sa
botage the Royal Greek navy, an
authoritative source said today.
Some of the men were on active
duty; others had been dismissed.
The informant, who declined to be
identified by name, said those
seized were members of “a Com
munist organization” compos e d
mainly of sailors dismissed after
a Middle East mutiny in 1943.
He said enough explosives to
blow up the destroyer Miaoulis.
were found aboard the craft last
March while she was anchored at
Patrai. Failure to connect deton
ating wires prevented the blast.
Elsewhere in Greece, Athens
newspapers said today government
forces have chased guerrillas from
16 villages near the Albanian bor
der.
Miss Helen Cass, Red Cross rep
resentative with headquarters at
Fort Richardson, is in town on
business relative to the appoint
ment of a representative of that
worthy organization for Nome, due
to the resignation of Rev. M. Day.
Raid “Big Money”
Gamblers
BURNS, Ore. (/P) — A drive
against gambling — described by
Burns’ residents as “big money”
play with table^stakes of thousands
of dollars—was reported by the
district attorney Saturday.
Officials raided five establish
ments Tuesday night,/arrested 11
man, and hauled off three truck
loads of tables, chairs, Poker chips
and cards, said District Attorney
Leland Duncan.
Duncan, who said the raids were
not a crusade, but merely a mat
ter of enforcing the law, reported
he had “been working toward this
for two years, ever since I’ve been
in office.” The arrested men were
held to the grand jury.
Residents of this town said one
man had lost $26,000 and his ranch
in a big-stake game.
Mrs. C. F. Yenney has been
called to the States due to the ill
ness of her father who is ninety
years old and has been hospital
ized with double pneumonia, and
not expected to live. She plans to
leave tomorrow and fly right
through to Walla Walla, Wash.
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Employee Weds
Russian Singer
(By Eddy Gilmore)
MOSCOW, UP)—U. S. Ambassa
dor Walter Be lell Smith says Miss
Annabelle Bucar, one of his staff,
who resigned Friday, was remiss
in not notifying him that she mar
ried a Russian baritone 13 months
ago.
Under state department regula
tions, Smith said, Miss Bucar, a
tall blonde, should have notified
the embassy of her marriage and
immediately resigned.
Miss Bucar, who is 33 and from
Clairton, Va., said she met her
h u s b and, Konstantin Lapshin,
about 36, almost two years ago
when she came to the Soviet
Union to work in the U. S. Infor
mation Service. Lapshin sings
with the Moscow operetta theater.
She resigned Friday saying she
felt further work with the embas
sy would be “incompatible with
my present views.”
In her letter of resignation Miss
Bucar said she had acquired a real
understanding of the .Russians
i She said the policy of the U. S.
! embassy “is directed against these
people.”
In the U. S. Information Serv
ice Miss Bucar did some work on
a Russian-language magazine ti
tled “Amerika.”
PITTSBURGH, (JP)—1The father
of Annabelle Irene Bucar, ex-uni
versity of Pittsburgh co-ed who
i announced her marriage to a Rus
! sian singer and quit her U. S. em
! bassy job, said today: “I won’t let
; her come home.”
“I cannot understand her leav
ing the best country in the world,”
declared Ivan Bucar, 51, a farmer
of nearby Jefferson township. ‘‘I
don’t approve of her becoming
Russian and I don’t approve of
Russia.”
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Jap Thanks God
For Chance To
Atone For Sins
! -
TOKYO, </P)—A shaven-skulled
Japanese prisoner says the Amer
ican he beheaded has asked God to
rescue his blackened soul,
j Chief petty officer Tamotsu
Takezoe wrote of that belief to
the prosecutor who sent him to
prison for life. He thanked God
for the chance to atone for his sins.
Takezoe and three others were
convicted last month of what may
have been the first Japanese
atrocity after Pearl Harbor. They
i testified they carried out orders to
behead five Americans from Wake
Island aboard the prison transport
Nitta Maru.
“The spirit of the American
brother I victimized by my hands
prayed God to guide me,” wrote
Takezoe. “I weep for his peace in
Heaven.”
Takezoe killed one of the five
American victims selected at ran
dom from the ship’s 1,200 war
prisoners. They were executed in
revenge for the Japanese who
died at Wake. It isn’t certain
which of the five fell beneath Ta
kezoe’s blade. But he was one of
these men: Seaman 2/c Theodore
D. Franklin, Hayward, Calif.; Ray
Gonzales, San Diego and John W.
Lambert, Ogden Utah; M/Sgt.
Earl Raymond Hannum or T/Sgt.
Vincent William Bailey, addresses
unknown.
" " —T*"1
You can always count on some
people to do their best to do their
I worst.
Vancouver Reports
Earth Tremor
VANCOUVER, B.% C.. UP)—The
Daminion public weather station
here said Saturday it had received
a report from the radio range sta
tion in the Queen Charlotte Is
lands of an earth tremor at 5:58
p.m. Friday.
The tremor lasted for about 30
seconds and caused trees to sway
gently and formed large ripples on
ponds.
The Queen Charlotte Islands are
about 500 miles northwest of Van
couver.
The weather office said nothing
was felt here.
Seismographs at Washington, I).
C., and Weston, Mass., recorded a
strong earthquake Friday at about
6:05 p.m. Pacific time.
Rhode To Fill
Vaeant Regent Seat
ANCHORAGE, f/P)—Territorial
Gov. Fi nest Gruening announced
Saturday the appointment of Leo
F'runklin Rhode of Juneau to the
University of Alaska’s board of re
gents.
Rhode, the second university
graduate to be named to the board
in recent weeks, will fill the unex
pired term of O. D. Cochran of
Nome, who died Jan. 30. Cochran's
term extends to 1955.
The new regent has been a resi
dent of Alaska since 1932 and was
a member of the class of 1940 at
the university.
Gruening was in Anchorage Sat
urday after addressing the Terri
torial federation of labor conven
tion at Me. Kinley Park.
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