Flier Dies From
New Year Affray
ANCHORAGE, Wllmer P.
Holben, 25-year-old Eighth Air
Force veteran who flew 34 mis
sions over Europe in his B-24
bomber, died yesterday of wounds
received in a New Year’s Eve ho
tel lobby shooting.
District attorney Ary Plummer
said he was preparing charges
against George Thomas Whitacre.
46, on probation from the federal
prison at McNeil Island, Wash.
Whitacre was arrested for investi
gate scon after the fatal shoot
ing.
Holben is survived by his wi
dow, Marjorie Ann; a son, James,
lVi years of age; and his parents,
■Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur T. Holben
of Pittsburgh, Pa., who arriced
here last week.
DURING 1946 THE UNITED
States mints made more than 500,
000,000 coins for the governments
of Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ethi
opia, the Netherlands Indies, Phil
ippines, Saudi Arabia and Vene
zuela, according to the Encyclo
paedia Britannica 1947 Book of
the Year. In addition, the U. S.
mints coined more than $87,000,000
COP Against
Meat Rationing
WASHINGTON, (A*)—Sounding
a key note of Republican opppsi
tion to meat rationing, Senator
Taft (Ohio) predicted yesterday
it would revive black markets and
lead to even higher prices.
The Ohioan told a reporter that
while he is not completely barring
rationing or price controls, he does
not believe that meat rationing
would work.
“You have to set up just as big
an organization to ration one item
as to ration everything,” Taft said.
“Besides, meat is the one thing
most susceptible to black market
operations. I am afraid that we
would have a repetition of the
time when cattle were killed wide
ly on the farms instead of at the
slaughtering houses, with the
hides and other by-products being
lost.
“Certainly the people who got
beef through the black markets
would have to pay even higher
prices for it than tney are now
and a great many people would
get practically none at all.”
worth of change for the United
S t a,t es—including 1,505,445,000
pennies.
Marines Not To Be
Sent To Palestine
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PHILADELPHIA (/P) — The
commandant of the U. S. marine
corps labeled as “untrue” a re
port that leathernecks would be
sent to protct the American con
sulate in Palestine.
Gen. Clifton B. Cates, in an in
terview yesterday before a rally
opening marine corps reserve
week here, said the Palestine sit
uation is “none of our official
business.”
Cates and fleet admiral William
F. Halsey, Jr., were among the
top-ranking officers attending the
rally in Philadelphia convention
hall. More than 17,000 persons,
many of them marine corps veter
ans, packed the hall while another
9.000 were unable to enter.
General Cates told a reporter
that the announced dispatch of
1.000 marines to the Mediterrane
an was “perfectly normal” and
that the contingent “will merely
replace those that are already
there.
“We’re not looking for trouble,”
General Cates said, “and if we
did, we wouldn’t be sending a
scrub team to take the place of the
varsity.”
Admiral Halsey reminded the
wildly cheering gathering that
“American history is not all be
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Pioneer Alaskan
Dies In Seattle
—
SEATTLE, </P) — Mrs. Alberta j
Edlund, 64, a resident of Wash
i ington and Alaska for 57 years
and who lived at Dawson during
i the colorful gold rush days, died
I here Sunday following a long ill
ness.
A native of Niles Valley, Penna.,
Mrs. Edlund came with her par-!
ents to Washington when they
homesteaded in the Mayle Valley
! in 1890.
In 1900 the family moved to
Dawson where her father, Vernon
Eugene Ferry who had gone over
Chilkoot Pass in 1898 had estab
lished mining claims on Dominion!
Creek.
After living there and at Indian
River Roadhouse, the first station1
out of Dawson, Mrs. Edlund be
came a legal stenographer at Daw
son, and later worked as a court
house reporter at Fairbanks.
Surviving are a brother, Theo
dore (Ted) Ferry of Fairbanks,
and a sister Miss Leah M. Ferry,
of Hollywood, Calif.
hind us.*’
“New pages,” he said, “will be
written this year and in the com
ing decade. I have no doubt that
the most interesting footnotes will
' be written by the marines.”
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Survivors Safe
NEW YORK, OP)—All 46 sur
vivors who abandoned the army's
flame-swept funeral transporl
Joseph V. Connolly were safe yes
terday aboard two other vessel*
after a dramatic rescue from life
boats in which they had tossed for
11 hours in raging north Atlantic
seas.
Rescue of the 46 — the Connol
ly’s 45 crewmen and its lone pas
senger—was completed Monday
night after an all-day air and sea
search for the survivors who
abandoned their blazing ship in a
northeast gale some 900 miles east
of New York.
The half-frozen men were pick
ed up by the tramy transport Gen.
R. E. Callan and the Black Dia
mond line’s Union Victory which
sped to the scene after intercept
ing the stricken Connolly’s calls
for help earlier in the day. Long
range air force planes from Kind
ley Field in Bermuda aided in the
rescue.
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