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NEWS IN BRIEF j
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LONIXJN, (A*) — The S o v i e 11
agency Tass reported Saturday
fcth"t a Russian woman had born.;
quintuplets, three "boys and two
girls. It said all five were devel
oping normally and the young
mother, Khonda Tsyrenzhapova,
was in good health.
Tass added the mother was *‘oi i
a Buriat Mongolian collective
farm.” The Buriats are Mongo's
in south central Siberia, near Lake
Baikal.
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SEATTLE, (/P) — Auctioning of
1.500,000,000 cubic feet of national
forest timber near Petersburg,
Alaska, has been postponed until
2 p.m., Feb. 18, 1948, it was an
nounced Saturday by the depart
ment of agriculture forest service.
Also extended until Jan. > was
the period in which interested per
sons can qualify for bidding. Thev
must submit statements to Lyle
F. Watts, chief of the department’s
forest service.
NEW YORK. I/P)—The weather
man today predicted scattered
showers and considerable cloudi
ness for New York City and vicin
ity tomorrow-opening date of the
1947 World Series.
WASHINGTON, (JP)—'The army
k announced Friday that the van
guard of ti'oops assigned to “Ex
ercise Yukon” have arrived at Big
Delta, Alaska.
The advance detachments are
principally technicians from the
second infantry division at Fort
Lewis, Wash.
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Grand
mother and granddaughter were
honeymooning Saturday.
In a double ceremony, Mrs.
Mabel M. Hutchinson, 61, Sitka,
Alaska, was married to Viktor W.
Heino of the same city, and Flor
ence M. Ostrander, 21, exchanged
vows with John P. Norris, 20. Mr.
and Mrs: Heino plan a trip to
Mexico before returning to Alas
ka. Mr. and Mrs. Norris will hon
eymoon in southern California.
EUGENE. Ore. (JP) — Howard
Hobson, a veteran of nearly a
dozen Pacific Coast conference
campaigns as head basketball and
baseball coach of the University
of Oregon, has tendered his resig
nation, effective immediately, to
accept a post as head basketball
coach at Yale University.
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SEATTLE, (JP)—Emil H. Rich
ter, 57, prominent Skagway, Alas
ka, jeweler, died yesterday after
a brief illness for which he had
been receiving treatment here
during the past month. He was
born in Tacoma and went to Alas
ka 46 years ago.
r Survivors include his father,
Herman Richter, a brother, Er
nest, and a sister, Mrs. Elsie
Haarstead, all of Tacoma.
SANTA ROSA, Calif. <4>) —
Home from Italy where he served
as gunner on a B-24 bomber, Ser
geant Willie Wong, Chinese
American, says not to go to Italy
for “real, Italian spaghetti be
cause it doesn’t hold a candle to
what you can get in California.” |
Mine Wrecks
U. S. Destroyer
Near Trieste
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The navy
said a mine exploded under the
U. S. destroyer Douglas H. Fox,
near Trieste at 3:20 a m. <PST> to
day, killing one man and injuring
seven.
The blast wrecked the steering
gear of the late type warship,
flooding all the after compart
ments and leaving her dead in the
water, dispatches reaching the
navy department said.
A sister destroyer, the James
C. Owens, and two tugs have
gone to the aid of the Fox which
has two doctors and five hospital
corpsmen aboard.
Navy officials said the mine
may have been an old one, broken
loose from an area not yet swept
clear of them since the war. The
explosion occurred six miles off
Trieste, dispatches from that Adri
atic said.
The names of the victims were
not made public at once. Ong of
the men was reported critically
injured and the other wounded
were in serious condition.
The Fox, which was on her way
from Venice, Italy, to Trieste, is
one of the most heavily armed of
American destroyers^ Her main
battery carries six five-inch guns
plus 10 torpedo tubes. She joined
the U. S. warships in the Mediter
ranean after leaving Norfolk, Va.,
July 21.
The Fox’s skipper is Command
er Charles W. Travis, Annapolis,
Md. A Sumner class destroyer, the
Fox was built in Seattle in 1944,
displaces 2,200 tons and has a
wartime complement of 315 men.
• The full extent of the damage
is not known, but all compart
ments aft of the after deck house
were flooded, the official dis
patches said.
The steering gear was wrecked,
both propellor shafts rendered
“inoperative and both screws
damaged.
The flooding of all the after
compartments indicated that the
mine was extremely powerful and
must have gone off very close un
der the stern, experts believed.
Five Anglers Drive
New Derby Autos
SEATTLE, f/P) — Five Seattle
Anglers, who survived seven
months of qualifying rounds and
then topped 1,076 finalists in yes
terday’s championships, had new
cars today attesting to their top
ranking in the annual Seattle
Times salmon derby.
The top fish, 37 pounds 14
ounces, was taken in Elliott Bay
by Kaz Kimura. Other car win
ners were Ray Donavan, 26
pounds 2 ounces; Harry B. Wil
liams, 23 pounds 4 ounces; Ralph
Green, 21 pounds 14 ounces; and
Mrs. Mary McCarty, women’s di
vision leader, 12 pounds 15
ounces.
An estimated 50,000 fishermen
competed in the quali f y i n g
rounds.
Tl>. Survey Clinic
Opened Today
The Mass Tuberculosis Survey
Clinic opened in the Federal build
i ing this morning at nine o’clock
with Mayor Luther Dunbar hav
ing the honor of being the first
patient. He was followed by W. A.
Boucher, publisher of the Nome
Nugget, Mrs. Joseph Kehoe, cha:r
man for volunteer clinic assistant
and M. J. Walsh.
During the first clinic session
i this morning between 9 a.m. to
noon, there were 268 x-rays taken.
The equipment which arrived
from Nenana on Friday has been
installed in the ANS clinic. Those
' traveling with the equipment are
Dr. Joseph T. Marshall, tubercu
! losis control consultant, F. L.
Kerr, x-ray technician, Kathleen
Jordan, clinic nurse and Margaret
Fish, clerk for the Territorial De
partment of Health.
The school children were taken
by grades this morning with their
teachers.
Volunteers assisting at the clinic
,
are as follows:
Native Ladies—Monday morn
1 ing 9:00 to 11:30: Mrs. C. C. Tan
ner, Mrs. Gus Bjornstad. Mrs. Joe
Amarok, Mrs. H. Longley, Mrs.
Roy Snyder. Mrs. Lester Bronsuo
Roberta Snyder, Mrs. J. Trigg.
Monday evening Pioneer Women
7:00 to 9:00 o’clock: Ann Walsh,
Mrs. Pearse Walsh, Mrs. Fred
Rohn, Mrs. Henry Ullrich, Mrs.
Norvin Lewis, Mrs. Helen Boch
man, Mrs. Christine Waldheim,
and Mrs. Helen Nordlind.
Tuesday morning 9:00 to 11:00:
Order of Eastern Star: Mrs. Emma
Lyle, Mrs. Joe Wallace. Mrs. A.
' Steinwandel, Mrs. Stanley Mor
gan, Mrs. E. H. Mahan. Mrs. C. F.
Yenney, Mrs. H e r k Edwards,
| Mrs. Robert Baldwin.
Tuesday afternoon, 1:00 to 3:00:
, Midnight Sun Rebekah Lodge:
: Mrs. E. Mahan, Mrs. D. Mazen.
j Mrs. H. Harper, Mrs. C. Yenney,
I Mrs. A. Nordlind, Mrs. Christine
■ Waldheim, Mrs. Axel Edman,
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Mrs. Roosevelt Just
Can’t Understand
Acts Of Russians
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LAKE SUCCESS, (/P) — Mrs.
Franklin Roosevelt says it is im
possible to understand why the
Russians act as they do.
Mrs. Roosevelt told a reporter
Friday that at times the difficul
ties of dealing with Soviet dele
gates to the United Nations appear
almost insuperable.
“Try as you may, you cannot
understand why they act as they
do, even when you project your
self into the position their nation
occupies.”
Mrs. Roosevelt, a United States
delegate to the U. N., said the Rus
sians ‘‘appear, to be waiting for
another depression here to create
pools of unemployed people who
might be tempted to Communism.
But do they think what the conse
quences to the world wouul be if
the western hemisphere was in
such chaos that it could no longer
export food?” |
Jewish liomh Kills
Nine: Injures Many
In Haifa
JERUSALEM, «/P) — Nine per
sons were killed and approximate
ly 50 wounded today when a dis
trict police headquarters in Haifa
was wrecked by a shattering
bomb explosion which Jewish un
derground agents boasted they had
set off as reprisal for the deporta
tion of uncertified Jewish immi
grants.
The dead included three British
constables, four Arab policemen, a
16-year-old Arab girl and an Arab
coffee vendor. Injured were 29
British constables—of whom 13
were critically hurt. 14 Jewish
civilians and 11 Arab civilians.
Most of the injured civilians
i
were passengers on an intercity
bus from Jerusalem which was
: passing the police headquarters
i when the explosion occurred.
Police said the bomb—a tar
; barrel loaded with high explosives
I —was dumped from a truck
i which backed up to the wire barri
cade surrounding the police sta
tion and dropped an improvised
1 ramp over the barrier. Rolling
I down the ramp and crashing into
, the building, the barrel exploded
i moments later with a roar which
! shook the whole harbor area.
: The truck, which pulled away
! just before the blast, later was
i found abandoned in a nearby
i square.
Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish un
derground organization, immedi
| atelv issued a communique declar
1 that its agents had carried out the
attack in retaliation for trans
ment to Hamburg of the Exodus
1947 Jews and the deportation to
Cyprus of refugees who reached
Palestine Saturday aboard to Af
alpi.
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Five Die When
B. C. Freight Train
Hits Rock Slide
KAMLOOPS, R. C., —Dis-|
covery of the bodies of three
hooky-playing Indian youths
raised to five today the toll of Sat
urday’s crash of a Canadian Na
tional Railway locomotive and 59
freight cars which plowed into a
rock slide Saturday 37 miles west
of here.
The dead: ,
Engineer Frank A. Brookell and '
brakeman George W. Shirley, both
of Kamloops: Ambrose and Fran
cis Alex of Shalath, B C.; and!
Leonard Major, Pavilion, B. C. I
George Hallmark, fireman, was
hospitalized in “serious” condition
after being scalded by escaping
steam.
The fast freight crashed into the
slide as it rounded a bend in a
narrow cut. The locomotive and
12 cars were derailed. Five of the
derailed contained new automo
biles and were destroyed, officials
said. Five other cars which con
tained eggs were said to have sur
vived the crash practically intact.
An inquest into the deaths and
the crash was scheduled for to
day.
Russia l ights U. S.
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As "W arniongrr**
As Split \\ idens
LAKK SUCCESS, (/Pi—Fighting
from a tough minority posiiton.
Russia showed every evidence of
forcing its “warmonger" attack on
the United States to a cornp etc
showdown in the United Nations
while staving off as long as possi
ble defeat on such American
backed issues as Greece and ‘he
veto.
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, Russia’s
deputy foreign minister, repeated
and expanded at a new,; confer
ence Friday the “warmonger’
I charges lie made before the as
sembly Sept. 18.
M< reover, there were indica
tions that a firm Soviet position
on Palestine may now be emerg
ing which would be critical of
British policies but not necessar
ily in disagreement with the final
decisions of the United States on
this issue, which is being handled
by secretary of state George C.
Marshall with extreme caution at
the moment.
As the assembly’s secure! week
I drew to a close one thing had be
I come clear: two weeks of deb ate
and scores of speeches had pro
duced no grounds for compromise
on any of the major issues. The
split between east and west was
wider than ever. Among some del
egates there was considerable un
certainty as to whether the United
Nations could be made to work ef
fectively on the principle of uni
! versality—inclusion of all “oeace
loving nations.” *
Vishinsky made clear at his news
! conference Friday that Russia in
! tends to press its “warmonger”
' case to the limit.
! In a 3,000-word statement, Vi
, shinskv asserted that John Foster
Dulles, a close adviser of Marshall,
S “greatly influences” the foreign
policy of the United States and
| that the policies of Dulles would
lead to war with Russia. All “in
stigators” of war, Vishinsky ar
gued, ought to be “enchained.”
Two-Year Old Is
Veteran Flier
SEATTLE, (TP) — Two-year-old
Claire Wittanen, Juneau. Alaska,
has flown 30.000 miles du.inj her
brief life and on her 15\n trip to
tne States last week was able to
say happily: "Baby stand!”
Born with a bone socke‘ too
small for her hip bone, her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wit
tanen, have sent her on the fre
quent trips to the Orthopedic frac
ture clinic here.
Physicians tried to correct her
ailment without surgery. First she
was placed in a heavy casi. later a
hard brace was substituted.
On this last trip, surgeons re
moved the braces last week and
she stood alone, clutching the seat
of a chair. Her doctors th'nk that
by Christmas, when she comes
south again, she will be walking.
Stewardesses of Pan American
World Airways have vote! her
their “most beloved child passen
ger.”