NEWS IN BRIEF
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(Continued from Pai»e One)
monts to study the subject. W. £.
Warnc, assistant secretary of in
terior is chairman of the govern
men committee. lie called the
conference for Wednesday,
SEROWE, Bechuanaland, (/P)—
Seretse Khama has come back to
this mud hut \ribal capital for a
fivc-da> visit with his white wife
and his fellow African Bamang
wato tribesmen, who want him to
be their chief.
The British government, which ;
has banished the young chief-des- -
ignate from the reservation, al- |
lowed Seretse to return until Fri- ;
day. His London-born wife, the i
former Ruth Williams, is waiting 1
there to have their baby in June.
She refused to leave the tribal ;
reservation where she has lived I
since last December.
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LONDON, (v^P) — The London
Sunday Pictorial reports that
Princess Elizabeth is expecting
her second baby in late July or;
early August.
The newspaper was the first to
publish the news here, although
rumors that the heiress presump
tive to Britain’s throne is preg
nant have circulated for several
months.
Princess Elizabeth is visiting
her husband Prince Philip on the
island of Malta where he is on
duty with the Mediterranean I
fleet.
TOKYO, (TP)—Superbly inebri- ;
ated, Hiroshi Tada slep like a log I
near the railway station where
he works.
He awoke in broad daylight,
minus coat, pants, shirt, necktie, j
shoes, socks and 3,00 yen (about
$9>. The thief overlooked Tada’s
g-string.
Hiroshi zoomed into the nearest
police station, scattering stares, j
Police zoomed out and caught the
rascal, a worker in a nearby fac
tory.
PALM DESERT, Calif. (/P), The
Doolittle Tokyo raiders are rais
ing a fund to “teach those Japan
ese something about humanity.”
At their fifth annual reunion,
ended yesterday, Lt. Gen. James
H. Doolittle and 35 of the 80 men
who first bombed Tokyo gave $5
apiece. The fund will be used to
support the work of Jacob D. De
shaver, bombardier on one of the
16 B-23’s, who has gone back to
Japan as a missionary. Site of
next year’s meeting has not been
chosen.
NEW YORK, iff)—Mrs. Julia
Ruth Flanders, 33, daughter of
Mrs. George Herman Ruth and
the late “home run king,” was ,
married today to Willis Grant j
Melon, Jr.. 29, a divinity student.
Melon, a son of Mr. and Mrs.!
Willias Grant Melon. Sr., of Ports
mouth, N. H., is studying for the
Episcopal priesthood.
Mrs. Flanders’ first husband,
Richard, died in Boston in Janu
ary, 1949.
MANILA, iff)—The health de
partment at Gaguio, Philippines
summer capital, today banned
sale of all fresh milk. Twenty-five
persons became seriously ill, the
department said, from ice cream
made of fresh milk containing
DDT powder.
Graham Lammers, mine opera
tor, who operated on Kleary
Creek last year arrived Sunday
and departed for Ungalik on bus
mess.
Asiatics Call New
(^inference
MANILA, '(/!'*)—President Qui
rino today called a three-day “or
ganizational conference” of south
east Asia and Western Pacific na
tions to start May 26 at Baguio.
Quirino said President Carlos
P. Rornulo of the United Nations
general assembly will return to
Lake Success tomorrow with in
structions to develop an agenda
with interested nations.
The aims of the conference
have undergone several changes
since ot first was proposed by
Quirino one year ago. He sug
gested then a “Southeast Asia Un
ion” to resist communist aggres
sion.
Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of Na
tionalist China, and President
Syngman Rhee of the South Ko
rea Republic urged a military al
lians.
But India and other nations
were cool.
For Good Printing Call !2*
First Cousins Ma\
Marry In Alaska
.JUNEAU — Queries as to whe
ther Alaskan law permits first
cousins to marry in the Territory
brought an opinion in the affirm
ative yesterday from Attorney
General .J. Gerald Williams. The
written opinion was furnished to
U. S. Commissioner Rose Walsh
of Anchorage, and F. E. Kester,
director of the bureau of vital sta
tistics in the Alaska department
of health.
Mr. Kester said he has had
queries from other commissioners
on the question and that “the gen
eral opinion seems to have been
that Alaskan law prohibits the
marriage of cousins.”
Attorney General Williams :
stated that the pertinent portion
of the Act says “The following
marriages are prohibited—when
| the parties thereto are nearer of
i kin to each other than first cou
sins ...”
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office.
Slates’ Resident
For 10 ^ ears. Sued
For Illegal Kntrv
“ *
SEATTLE </P>—Peter Tgel Nel
son, International Woodworkers
of America 'CIO' Union official
from Everett, will . be sentenced
April 2(> for illegal entry into the
United States.
Federal Judge Lloyd L. Black
found Nelson guilty of the charge
last week after the union official
changed his plea from innocent to
nono contendere and threw him
self on the mercy of the court.
Nelson’s change of plea follow
ed a conference in Judge Blacks’
chambers.
Born in Norway in 1900, Nel
son has lived in Washington State
for to years.
The court action stemmed from
his trip last September to an IWA
convention in Canada. He was
halted at the border on his return.
But later crossed without permis
sion and reported to immigration
headquarters here.
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