Pilot With Broken
Neck Rescues
Passengers
—
JUNEAU, </P)—Pilot Nike Fen
ster didn’t know he hud a broken
neck. Nor does he recall his heroic
efforts in behalf of the five sur
viving passengers of the Alaska
Coastal Airlines flying boat which
he crash-landed on the Stikine
Flats last Friday.
Hospital x-rays here have dis
closed the broken neck.
Passengers told how Fenster. af
ter the crash, pulled Jhose aboard
from, the plane, then walked a
mile through the mud to a ranch
er’s cabin to obtain aid.
The plane lost an engine and
the left wing in the crash.
Fenster said yesterday he had
no recollection of what he did af
ter the crash.
The body of Margaret Annis,
about 40, ony victim of the trag
edy, was sent south aboard the
Baranof Monday for burial in
Puyallup, Wash.
Rex Beach. Noted
Novelist, 72, Dead
—
SEBRING, Fla. f/P)—Rex Beach.
72, nationally known novelist, was
found dead of a pistol wound in
the head at his home near here
this morning.
His death was pronounced sui
cide by county judge J. Howard
Livingston and sheriff Broward
Coker.
Beach had been suffering from
a throat ailment for three years.
His body was found by a nurse
who brought him breakfast, the
sheriff said.
His nurse, Miss Tania Simonian,
found the writer in his pajamas
on the floor of his second story
bedroom. The body lay by the bed
i in which he had slept through the
night.
Robert Fox, his secretary for 33
years, said funeral arrangements
! would be arranged later.
This summer, Beach’s life was
, despaired of for a while at Miami
I where he had gone for treatment
' for his throat.
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Uranium Reds Got
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out about wartime atomic deals
with the Russians and whether j
they were influenced by former
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
and the late Harry Hopkins, close
friend and advisor to President
Roosevelt.
On the point of Soviet espion
age, Groves sai dthe approach al
ways was made “through by sub
ordinates.”
Groves said the spying efforts
lie knew about were here in Wash
ington and not at Oak Ridge.
Tenn., one of the main centers of
the big atomic project.
Wallace has denied that he
aided the Russians in getting any
atomic materials. Friends of Hop
kins also have declared they feel
certain he did not.
The hearing got underway near
ly 45 minutes late with only two
committeemen present, Reps. Wal
ter «D.-Pa.) and Harrison <D.-Va.>.
The committee junked all its
rules against movies, still pictures
I and radio coverage of its hearings.
So the chamber was a hub-bub
of cameramen, spectators and
working reporters.
People were hanging every
where but on the chandeliers.
Groves, now retired from the
army, was wearing a powder blue
suit.
He told at the outset of taking
charge of the Manhattan (atom
bomb' project in September, 1942,
and running it until January 1,
1947, when it was turned over to
the atomic energy commission.
Groves said there was a “great
deal of influence” and pressure
put on lend-lease administration
to give the “Soviets everything
they sought.”
But he said he didn’t know who
applied the pressure.
Hopkins was the lend-lease ad
ministrator.
Groves said the only shipment
of atomic material about which he
knows was made in the late win
ter or early spring of 1943.
He said he was unable to stop
it or didn’t do so because at the
time it might have attracted “un
due attention.”
At that time, even the fact that
the United States was working on
atomic fission was a deep secret.
The committee has received
testimony from its own investiga
tors that there were at least three
war time shipments of atomic ma
terials to the Soviets.
As to the spying, the general
said the espionage efforts were
directed by the Russian embassy
toward American laboratories.
Efforts were made to get the
atomic secret, he said, at Berkeley,
Calif., Chicago and New York
City.
“We had enough evidence of es
pionage,” Groves said, “to con
vince any prudent man that espi
onage was going on, that it was
directed by the Russian embassy.”
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NEW YORK. </Pl — Vic Erclas,
Trieste-born chef, has been help
ing New Yorkers pay and collect
election bets for 10 years. Winners
get a “Gourmet Special’’ at his
Cabin Grill. Losers watch them
eat it, but get only scanty fare
themselves.
The special dinners cost the los
ers $25. They start with 1905 bur
gundy and go on through a four
inch steak. After 15 other courses j
they wind up with deep dish
roasted banana pie.
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head the FBI’s Alabama and
North Florida district.
FAIRBANKS, i/P)—Wien Alas
ka Airlines has been awarded a
mail certificate effective Friday
for the route between Fairbanks
and Kotzebue, north of Nome.
Sigurd Wein, president, sent
word of the contract award from
Washington, D. ('. He is there con
ferring with the civil aeronautics
board and postoffice authorities.
FAIRBANKS, liP)—Those bars
of music wafting through the
streets come from behind the bars
of Fairbanks. The bars of the*
Fairbanks federal jail, that is.
Prisoners are disc jockeys. They
operate the turntables to rebroad
cast transcriptions of chimes and
Christmas carols.
HONOLULU, (/P)—The United
States must live up to its “profes
sion of democracy” by admitting
Hawaii and Alaska as States, Gov.
Ernest Gruening of Alaska de
clared yesterday.
The governor spoke at a Uni
versity of Hawaii student convo
cation. He took particular excep
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tarn to Alaska’s Organic Act of
1912.
“Alaskans,” he said, “can make
no laws governing control of land,
fish and game, or appointment of
judges. Hawaii deserves statehood
more, but Alaska needs it more.”
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