Predicts Eruption
Of Old Volcano
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Aug. 23—14*)
—Oil company geologists, pre
dicting a huge eruption from a
long-dormant volcano near the
Iran frontier as a result of recent
earthquakes, recommended today
the evacuation of all residents liv
ing within 75 miles of the crater.
The quakes which have been
steadily increasing in intensity,
leveled the Iraq village of Penj
win, causing six deaths.
Thick smoke started pouring
yesterday from the volcano, which
is east of Sulaimaniva. Approxi
mately 150,000 persons on both
sides of the frontier, live within
the 75-mile danger zone.
W ild Animals On
Capitol Hill, Rats
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—t/P)—
An expert from the Fish and Wild
life Service has completed a cen
sus of wild animals on (easy, now'
Capitol Hill.
His finding: The Senate and i
House office buildings, the Cap
Rep. May Will
Get Well Says
His Doctors
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PRESTONBURG, Ky„ Aug. 23—
j (£*)—Rep. A. J. May, Chairman of
the House Military Committee, is
“improving and is going to get
' well,” Dr. John Archer, one of
his physicians, reported today.
Dr. Archer said May still was
confined to his bed at his home
here and that “as far as I know
he has not yet sat up.” The phy
sician, who with his brother—Dr.
George Archer—has been treat
ing the congressman—said he had
been seeing May “almost every
; day.”
Dr. Archer declined to estimate'
how long it would be before May
would be completely recovered
from what the physician termed
previously a “general collapse.”
The congressman is suffering
itol itself and connecting tunnels
harbor 2,000,000 rats.
The census taker was John Jones
Rodent Control Technician. He
has called a council of war with
David Lynn, the Capitol Archi
tect.
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I Flashes of Life
HOLDING THE BAG
HAYES. Kas., Aug. 23—(/P)— Mrs.
Van Hartman was mystified when
she reached into her ice-box for
a sack of eggs and bulled out a
bag of silver coins and pennies.
Just then her father, Ft. G. Max
well, telephoned to ask anxiously
if she had carried home the church !
collection the night before by mis
take.
She returned the cash for the
eggs.
NOT FOR ART MENKE
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Ang. 23
—(j^P)—Patrolman Art Menke push-;
ed through a beach crowd of
men, aged 6 to 76, to find a shapely
red-haired girl posing in the nude
for a photographer.
"This is for art,” the photograph
er told him.
"Nope.” Menke decided, “I’m
Art and it’s not for me,” and
took the pair to the police station
where they were booked on charg
es of indecent exposure.
SEARS. ROEBUCK
REPRESENTATIVE HERE
Jessie McCrary, representative
of the Sears, Roebuck Company,
is now at the Wallace Hotel. She
is covering the main cities in Al
aska and plans to be here sever- \
al days.
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NEW FIRE MAINS FOR
FIRST AVE WEST
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The street and intersection at
B Street and First Avenue are
partially blocked off because the
Fire Department is installing new
fire mains from that corner west
ward along First Ave. West to re
place condemned mains.
WARNING
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the pigs in the HOOP PENS
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