To Hold McLean
Diamonds In Trust
WASHINGTON, <#*)—Mrs. Evu
lyn Walsh McLean made sure of
keeping the famous Hope diamond
and its traditional ill fortune away
I om her seven grandchildren for
at least the next 20 years. She died
Wednesday.
Undo terms of the wealthy so
ciety matron’s will the hard-luck
'wet, along with the Star of the
rast and other gems in her fabu
Ous collection, will be held in trust
until 1967.
When the fifth youngest ot the
g-andchildren reaches the .age or
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, .11. .•even will be u.'ked to it;re"
i a ;» operty division plan lor
splitting up the gems. If they can
not agree, the jewels will be sold
and the cash distributed equally
among the seven.
Meanwhile the collection is to be
“kept in safe custody” by tom
trustees named in the will. They
are Supreme Court Justice Frank
Murphy and the former govern
ment anti-tust lawyer Thurman
Arnold and two Catholic clergy
men, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen
and the Rev. Edmund J. Walsh.
No value was given for the es
:ate hv the lawyers.
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Do* Ls In Java
BATAVIA, Java. OP)—'The Rot
terdam Lloyd docks at Tandjoeng
Priok, harbor for Batavia, were
damaged today in a $500,000 fire
which the fire chief described as
probably the worst in Netherlands
East Indies history. Hundreds of
tons of rubber and canned food
were destroyed.
The rubber was from the confis
cated cargo of the American liber
1 ty ship Matin Behrman. Dutch of
ficials had seized the Behrman
i cargo because it was loaded at an
Indonesian port without Dutch
permission.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho. </P) —
Farmer Oscar Johnson, who farms
near here tells how he threshed his
wheat and barley this past season.
Winter caught him with 27 acres
of wheat and barley cut but un
threshed. So, whenever a favorable
day arrived, he called out the
threshing crew and hauled away a
4'ow hundred bushel.
Fourteen Horses In
Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —A field
of 14 three-year-olds—the 13 ex
pected and the annual unheard-of
•‘long shot sleeper”— was entered
at Churchill Downs today for to
morrow’s 73rd running of the
Kentucky Deby.
The dark-horse from the Blue
Grass, automobile-body builder
Charlie Fisher’s Star Reward, was
the first to enter, even before the
Downs’ secretay’s office opened for
business, hnd the California plum-1
ber’s horse, Earl Stice’s On Trust,
was the last. But the two to beat
still were the Virginia galloper,
Phalanx, and Warren Wright’s
Faultless.
C. C. TANNER GETS
V/ELFARE DEPT. FURNITURE
C. C. Tanner was awarded the
furniture from the Territorial Wel
fac Office which was offered on
hi i last week. His bid was for the
sum of $450.00.
President Signs
Appropriation ({ill
WASHINGTON, i/P»—President
Truman signed an appropriations
bill last night which carried $1,
800,000,000 for the Veterans Ad
ministration, permitting resump
tion of monthly unemployment and
educational payments to 2,780,000
war veterans.
The checks were delayed one
day while the bill cleared Congress
and received the President’s signa
ture.
In addition to the veterans funds
the $2,835,161,509 measure pro
vided $135,000,000 for social se
curity grants to the States, $300,
000,000 for relief by the army in
occupied countries. $6,000,000 for
tiie school lunch program and
nearly $500,000,000 for army pay
raises.
The appropriations are to run
various agencies until the end of
the fiscal year June 30.
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