is a fiction. As a nation, India
isn’t yet “dry behind the ears.” It
^ is wholly inexperienced in inter
national affairs. That the United
States should oppose election of
^ the Ukraine which would give
Russia two votes in the council, is
understandable. Rut why should it
back India
Many Fires Raging
In Parched Dry
Maine Forests
4
GOOSE ROCKS, Me. (^—Civ
ilian and Coast Guard crews fight
ing a terrifying forest fire which
destroyed almost 200 buildings
along a five-mile stretch of Maine
coastline, said today that the vil
^ lage of Kennebunkport would be
safe unless wind again became an
ally of the flames.
The wind, which reached gale
force of 40 miles an hour yester
day, diminished during the night
and the U. S. weather bureau pre
^ dieted only ‘‘gentle’’ breezes for
today.
The fire, the most serious of 40
burning in Maine, was still ad
vancing along a 15-mile front,
about half a mile southwest of
this picturesque village of 2.000
residents.
Effective back-firing halted the
fire’s advance toward Kennebunk
port village but road commission
er Clifford Maling said “if the
^ wind comes up again it will be
bad.”
Most of the razed structures
were summer cottages, but there
were scores of homeless families
in the Goose Rocks, Cape Por
poise and Wildes districts of Ken
nebunkport.
Maling said the fire was being
“confined” in most sections but as
a precautionary measure about 50
persons were evacuated from the
* Turbot’s Creek and Fortune’s
Rock sections of the town.
Seven other huge fires consum
ing parched forestlands were re- !
Ask Permission To
Land In Kuriles
TOKYO, (/P)—A request by two
Americans on a global flight for
permission to make emergency ;
landings if necessary in the Sov-1
iet-occupied Kurile Islands has
been transmitted to the Russi m!
member of the Allied council for
Japan, informed sources said to
| day.
George Truman of Los Angeles
j and Clifford Evans of Washing
ton, D. C., on their way around the
: world in light planes, will fly,
near the Kuriles on their next hop
! from Hokkaido, northern Japan j
home island, to Shemva in the;
Aleutians.
Truman and Evans plan to take
off tomorrow from Haneda air
field near Tokyo for Chitose army
airfield on Hokkaido. They will t
then fly to Nemoro, on the eastern
tip of Hokkaido, for the hop to J
Shemya 1,500 miles away.
"20-40" HALLOWE'EN
PA.RTY TO BE HELD
Arrangements are being made
for the forthcoming “20-40” Hal
lowe’en party to be held in the
Pioneer Hall on the night of
Thursday, October 30. The event
promises to be a gay one with a
potluck supper and dancing to
make an enjoyable evening. It is
to be a costume party which al
ways adds fun. Remember, you
too, are welcome, whether you be
20 or 40. or a combination of the
two!
ported under control today but
still dangerous.
Organized patrols guarded the
fire lanes of the blaze whicli swept
the Cape Porpoise section of Ken
nebunkport. Leading them was
Lt. Col. C. E. Choate, of Falmouth
a retired army engineer.
Tank trucks loading at Bidde
ford, about four miles distant,
rolled in a steady stream to the
fire scene to furnish fuel for coast
guard and civilian pumps.
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Farrington And
Omening Plead
For Statehood
NEW YORK, (/P) — Joseph R.
Farrington, Delegate to Congress
from Hawaii, Monday night called
on Congrss to grant stathood to
Hawaii, declaring such action
“would greatly enhance the influ
ence of. the United States in the
Pacific and among all dependent
peoples.”
“To compel the people of this
Territory to continue in their pres
ent status,” he told the 16th an
nual New York Herald Tribune
forum, “would be not only the
violation of a promise, but con
trary to the wish of the people
themselves, who voted for state
hood in a plebescite in 1940.”
Ernest H. Gruening, Governor
of Alaska, urged that Congress
grant statehood to the Territory,
and said the present political stat
us and economic conditions of
Alaskans “are more closely akin
to serfdom than to sovereignty.”
“It is my conviction,” he told
tlie forum, “shared by the major
ity of Alaskans, that Territoriality
is the major factor in retarding
growth and development.
“ . . . for half a century the
economy of Alaska has rested
chiefly on two industries, salmon
fisheries and gold mines, both at
present languishing, partly as a
result of federal policies.
“Alaska’s other vast potentiali
ties have remained undeveloped
chiefly owing to inappropriate
laws imposed by Congress, con
servation measures which have
often not conserved but often have
paralyzed, and an economy dom
inated by absentees whose chief
purpose was to extract wealth of
Alaska rapidly, take it away with
them and leave little or nothing
within the Territory.”
Farrington said there was “lit
tle question that if Alaska had
been a sovereign state at the time
of the outbreak of World War II,
“the Aleutian campaign would
never have taken place and Amer
ican lives would have been saved.”
“Today,” he added, “Alaska is
£ven more important strategically
than during the second world
war.”
Wife Seeks To
Restrain Husband
From Seeing Child
NEW YORK, </P) — Mrs. Julie
Strnad, 31, has begun a legal bat
tle to prevent her estranged hus
band from visiting her four-year
old daughter, Antoinette, who she
claims is a “test tube baby,” born
as the result of artificial insemina-,
tion .attorneys in the case dis
! closed Monday.
The mother is seeking to amend
a state supreme court separation
decree, granted her Oct. 8, which
gives her husband, Antoine, a
chauffeur, the right to visit the
child on Sundays.
Mrs. Strnad contends that the
husband is not Antoinette’s father.
“The daughter of the parties is
a test tube baby,” she said in a
statement issued by her attorney,
Jerome Horowitz, “I submitted to
artificial insemination at the re
quest of my husband, and he paid
the physician.”
Mrs. Strnad’s motion for a re
hearing on the decree was denied
on technical grounds but her at
torney said a new petition was be
ing prepared.
You don’t have to go far to find
fault.
Veteran Welcomes Brood
I
Mrs. Joseph Ferguson of Kewa. Wash.. <left> and nine children
are greeted aboard ship on their arrival at Yokohama. Japan, by
her husband, S Sgt. Ferguson, <right>. The family is largest yet to
arrive in Japan. The children are Arlene, 10; Donald. 12; Freder
ick, 6; Robert, 11; Joann, 7; Clarence, 1; Albert, 2: Gerald, 14;
and Helen. 4. «(.P» Wirephoio>.
Stassen Asks
Socialists to Unite
\\ ill) (Capitalists
NEW YORK, f/P) — Harold E.
Stassen, only avowed Republican
Presidential aspirant, last night
called upon all “sincere social
ists” to unite with American cap
italism in the “modernization and
rebuilding of economic freedom.”
Speaking at the fourth annual
Nobel dinner of the American
Scandinavian foundation, the for
mer Minnesota governor also de
clared Russia would “turn toward
economic freedom” if the United
States and European nations dem
onstrate “rapidly mounting pro
duction” while the Soviet’s econo
mic system “continues to yield a
very low production.” •
Trygve Lie, secretary-general
of the United Nations, told the
gathering that small countries
learned during the recent war
“that no amount of cleverness and
no amount of common sense, and
no amount of geographical posi
tion could save us from becoming
Farmer Admits
\\ ifes Murder
CHARLESTON. 111. </P)—Jesse
I
Oliver Swango, 53 year old far
mer, was held in jail on a charge
of murder today after admitting,
Sheriff Carl Graham said, he had
I knocked his wife unconscious with
a wrench in the basement of their
| home and then set fire to the
: home.
The charred body of his wife,
Loral, 32, mother of two children,
was found yesterday and a post
mortem examination showed she
had been beaten on the head. A
coroner’s jury recommended that
Swango be held for the grand
jury.
Graham said Swango told him
he struck his wife twice with the
wrench after she had followed
him into the basement and taunt
ed him about “other women.”
Then, he told the sheriff, he pour
ed gasoline over the basement
floor and fired the building.
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outside world.”
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