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club on home ice last night and
held enough of it for a 4-3 win.
A slim crowd of 1035 turned out
for what was the fastest and
roughest game of the season here.
At one time the penalty box had
five guests and New Westminster
goalie Jerry Cotnoir spent three
and a half minutes in the first aid
room for head repairs.
SEATTLE, (/P) — The fishing
vessel Majestic reported yesterday
it had found the fishing pretty
good off Neah Bay—for lumber.
When rough weather prevented
normal operations, the Majestic
fished for lumber and bi'ought
back 15,000 board feet from the
wrecked freighter Andalucia. The
vessel ran ashore during an en
gine room fire Nov. 4.
Hundreds of small ci'aft have
been vying for the foundered
freighter's cargo
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Mother’s Efforts
Fail To Save
Wife Murderer
WALLA WALLA, Wash., (#»)—
A mother’s vain mile-consuming
efforts to keep her son walking
the “last mile” failed last night
and early today Wayne L. Wil
liams was hanged for the slaying
of his wife.
He was pronounced dead at
12:16 am. after being carried to
the gallows strapped to a board.
He had refused to walk and resist
ed as the black mask was placed
over his face
The snap of the trap-door
brought to an end the desperate
bid of Williams’ mother, Mrs.
Nora Williams of Everett, to stay
the execution. Contending that
her son had been insane for some
time before moving to Washington
from Tulsa, Okla., she appealed to
the State Supreme Court in Olym
pia and then to lower courts at;
Walla Walla, Pasco and Yakima j
by application for a writ of habeas
corpus. All were denied.
Williams, 32, was convicted of
bludgeoning his wife, Hallie Lu
cile, 27, with a rock, then pushing
her body over a steep cliff over
looking Puget Sound near Mukil
teo on June 17, 1948
His four-year-old daugh ter,
Mary Bernice, also was beaten
and pushed over the precipice but
survived.
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Troops In Alaska
To Get Increased
Living Allowance
(By Charles D. Watkins)
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WASHINGTON, </P) — Troops
stationed in Alaska are going to
get an increase in their living al
lowance, Delegate Bartlett of
Alaska said yesterday. But he
added he does not know how
much.
The increase was authorized in
the new armed services pay in
crease law passed by the last Con
gress. It can apply to members of
the uniformed services on duty
outside the Continental United
States or in Alaska in the form
of a per diem "considering all ele
ments of cost of living to members
and their dependents.”
Bartlett said he called the al
lowances to the attention of Secre
tary Gordon Gray of the army
and asked what is being done
about the increase.
"I would like to express the
hope,” Bartlett wrote, “that you
will authorize a per diem increase
for those members serving in the
Territory in view of the increased
cost of living.”
Gray referred the letter to a
joint conference of army officers.
Bartlett yesterday made public
a reply from Eugene M. Zuckert,
assistant secretary of air saying
that appropriate action has been
taken by the air force to imple
ment” the provisions of the law
“whereby per diem allowances
shall be prescribed as an allow
ance payable to military personnel
stationed outside of the Continen
tal United States and in Alaska.
“The benefits therefrom shall
become available immediately
upon publication of regulations
defining rates and entitlement.”
Bartlett said that with the air
force putting the section into ef
fect, he felt certain the army and
navy would follow suit.
The per diem allowances, he
said, will be particularly welcome
to officers and men serving in
Alaska, where they are compelled
to pay high rents for any sort of
quarters.
So little is known about the
amount of water under the earth
that estimates of the depth to
which it would flood the land if it
were all to gush forth at once
vary from 29 to 914 feet.
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