Missing Jewels
Case Of Dizzy
Family Intrigue
(By Lynn Heinzehling)
BERLIN, (/P>—U. S. investiga- j
tors yesterday tabbed the case of j
the missing royal jewels of Princ-j
ess Hermine, late widow of Kaiser i
Wilhelm II, as a “dizzy merry-go
round of family intrigue” and said
the U. S army was dropping the
matter into the lap of German po
lice.
“We have definitely determined
that no American is involved in
the disappearance of the jewels,”
said O. R. Carlucci. head of the1
army’s criminal investigating divi
sion, “and therefore we have no
responsibility for pursuing the
case any further.’
American authorities also drop
ped technical charges under which
they were holding Fraulein vera
Herbst, 39, attractive friend of
Hermines son, Prince Ferdinand
Ferdinand touched off the melo
dramatic investigation when he
told authorities that 29 pieces of
jewelry were missing from a price
less collection which Fraulein
Herbst brought him from Her
mine’s home in the Soviet opcupa
tion zone last June.
A search for the missing gems
produced a glittering array of jew
elry concealed in the apartments
of Ferdinand’s friends and family,
but failed to unearth any of the
missing treasure.
At one point Fraulein Herbst
led investigators to the suite above
her apartment where a friend, at
her request, exhibited a jeweled
tiara of Hermine’s and five other
valuable pieces.
Later Princess Caroline, sister
of Ferdinand, turned over about
30 pieces of royal jewelry which
she had concealed in her apart
ment.
BESSIE SMITH LEAVES
FOR SELDOVIA
Bessie Smith, who was teacher
at the Alaska Native Service
School last year leaves today for
Seldovia where she will teach in
the Territorial School with Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Thompson, for
merly of Nome.
Committee Ends
Tour Of Alaska
McCHORD FIELD. Wash. (/F)—
Eeven members of a House Do
mestic and Foreign Commerce
Sub-committee, four aides and two
other members of their party have
have arrived here after a tour of
Alaska.
No newspaper interviews were
granted, however. Rep. Evan
Howell iR.-Ill.', chairman, said the
group’s findings would not be
made public until their return to
Washington, D. C.
Leaving the national capital
only a week ago. the committee
inspected a proposed site for an
international airport at Anchorage,
investigated the Territory’s ship-1
ping situation and visited several
other Alakan cities.
I
The party left here in an army
C-54 at 8 a m. yesterday for Losj
Angeles, and after a brief stop
there continued on to Washington.!
Both Sides Claim
Success In War
In Paraguay
, BUENOS AIRES, (.-P) — Argen
tine sources said yesterday Presi
dent Higinio Moringo of Paraguay
had fled the rebel-threatened cap
ital of Asuncion, but the Asuncion
radio said his government was
pledged to “win or die’ in defense
of the city.
Loyalist lines arouhd Asuncion
are unbroken, declared the Asun
cion broadcast last night, reported
by the Brazilian news agency Asa
press.
“This constitutes a new triumph
for the Moringo government'
which, together with the Colora
dos (members of the conservative
national Republican party attack
ing the administration), promises
to win or die in defense of Para
guays capital, which is defended
by a belt of iron,” the station de
clared.
The Argentine informants said
Moringo pulled out of Asuncion
Monday afternoon for Pilar, near
the Argentine border 130 miles
south of the capital.
Heavens Kept
Astronomers
Busy Last Year
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Important events in the heavens
kept the astronomers busy last
year.
Climaxing a year marked by
four partial eclipses of the sun
and two total eclipses of the moon,
the largest sunspot group ever ob
served appeared in 1946, accord
ing to the Encyclopaedia Britan
nica Book of the Year.
Newton Lacy Pierce, associate
professor of astronomy at Prince
ton University and author of the
article in the Britannica Book of
the Year, reported that one of the
sunspots had an area of 4,440,000,
000 square miles, which is more
than twenty-two and one half
times the surface area of the
earth. This largest sunspot ever
noted was one of a group that ap
peared in January.
The leading sunspot in the se
ries appeared around the east
limb of the sun on the morning of
January 29. The group was so
large however, that two days were
required for the sun’s rotation to
bring the entire group into view.
The area of the entire sunspot
group was 6,300,000,000 square
miles.
Intense flares were observed on
February 6, and about 16 hours
later, a magnetic storm arose. By
February 8/ the storm was so
great that it caused interference
in short-wave communications tp
South America and Europe.
Dutch Bulbs Coming
Back On The Market
TORONTO, (>P) —Dutch bulbs
will be plentiful in Canada and the
United States by next September,
says Anthony Roozen, who has
come to this continent to make ar
rangements for resumption of the
bulb trade.
Roozen who was food controller
for northern Holland from 1942
to 1945, said the bulb fields were
never flooded but some were dam
aged by the explosion of abortive
V-2 rockets fired by the Germans.
Toronto residents saw an ad
vance showing of postwar Holland
tulips this spring in Queen’s park
—the bulk of a shipment of 100,000
bulbs sent the Canadians by the
Dutch as a liberation gift.
A Two-Fold Job
i i •. i
The latest boon to Spring clean -
1 ing, is a colorless liquid coating
I that, when brushed on screens,
| kills mosquitoes, flies and other in*
! sects on contact and, at the same
time, puts a resin covering on the
mesh to protect screens from wea
ther exposure. The coating, called
Pestroy, contains 6% DDT and can
be applied before or after screens
are installed.
Reunion of Tokyo Raiders
_’____
MIAMI —- (Soundphoto) — Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, who was
grounded in his own plane in New Jersey, completed his flight to
Miami on a non-stop DC-4 from New York. He joined his fellow
members in the second reunion of the men who made the first bomb
ing raid on Tokyo. He is being greeted at airport by Col. C. R.
Greening, (left) and Col. John A. Hilger, (center), who are early ar
rivals for the reunion.
Hot Weather
Threatens All
Midwestern Crops
(Bv The Associated Press*
The current heat wave, wither
ing thirsting crops throughout
most of the midwest, showed no
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signs of abatement Tuesday.
Except for “rather cool” tern-1
peratures in the Dakotas, western j
Nebraska and the northern Rocky'
Mountain states, The weather out
look Tuesday was “continued
warm, similar to that of Monday,”
the weather bureau reported.
The corn crop in southern Illin
ois and Iowa was reported in pret- j
ty bad condition,” the bureau said,
adding that moisture now is need
ed generally in all the area from
the Appalachians to eastern Ne
braska and southward through
Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
The hot dry weather was de
scribed by agriculture deperament
officials in Washington as a “seri
ous threat” to all midwestern
crops.
Although temperatures Monda:
were below the 100-plus readings
of last week’s searing blast, a few
midwestern points reported highs
of 100 or above with most ranging
upward from 90.
In sharp contrast, Idaho Falls,
Idaho, reported a low Monday of
30 degrees and a trace of frost but
general rainfall prevented crop
damage from the cold. However,
some grain was lost in three
Change In Alaska
Navy Command
Rear Admiral F. A. Daubin,
USN, Commandant of the Seven
teenth Naval District will be re
lieved of his command in the near
future by Rear Admiral A. E.
Montgomery, USN, present Com
mander of the First Task Fleet.
Rear Admiral Daubin, who took
command of the Seventeenth Na
val District April 3, 1946, will re
port to the Commander, Western
Sea Frontier for his new assign
ment.
Born in Lamar, Missouri Rear
Admiral Daubin attended Lamar
High School and the University
of Missouri before his appoint
ment to the U. S. Naval Academy
in 1905.
Old-Fashioned Yegg
Makes Modern Haul
NEW YORK. i/P)—'The safe and
lock squad of detectives found spe
cial interest in the way a grocery
market safe had been blown with
nitroglycerin. It was the first time
in 12 years that the “soup” had
been used on a job in New YorK.
The robbers got hway with $5o!)
from the safe.
counties struck by hailstorms.
Temperatures were slightly be
low normal on the west coast Mon
day but on the eastern seaboard it
was “moderately warm and hu
mid” despite some cloudiness.
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