Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Mache
ianz have been showing their lat
est film “Seegooruk” (Eskimo
Winter) in Juneau. The film shows
the home life at Unalakleet from
the freeze-up in the fall until the
break-up in the spring and has
been proclaimed an outstanding
documentary job of presenting a
true picture of Eskimo life.
A woman who had been having
trouble with public laundries
shrinking here unmentionables
found a large railroad spike and
tied a rag to it with this inscrip
tion. “Try and shrink this!”
When the laundry was returned
she opened it and found a carpet
tack with a tag tied to it saying:
“We did.”
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EDUCATION FOR
SHOPLIFTING
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (/P)
Police booked a woman on sus
picion of grand theft who they
said was teaching her nine-year
old daughter the fine points of
shoplifting.
Capt. Vernon Shiflett said the
mother would stuff a shopping
bag full of unpaid for merchan
dise then hand it to her little girl
to carry from the store. He said
the girl admitted she and her
mother were a team.
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ISRAEL BIRTH RATE,
INFANT DEATHS UP
JERUSALEM, (^P)—Infant mor
tality is on the increase in Israel.
The government’s stat i s t i c a 1
monthly reported a rate of 52.7
per 1,000 births during the first
quarter of 1950. The figure was
47 in the corresponding period of
1949.
The birth rate is rising. It was
35.5 per 1,000 population from
January through April 1, 1950.
compared with 27 per 1,000 in
that period of 1949.
“Dad, what are ancestors?”
“Why, son, I’m one of your an
cestors and your grandfather is
another.”
“Then why do people brag
about them?”
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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three-weeks’ tour.
HASTINGS, Mich. </P) — When
Cleave Strow, 66, had trouble
starting his car yesterday, neigh
bor Leonard L. Wiley was glad
to help out with a push.
In fact, he pushed Strow’s car
right over an embankment, and
his own went tumbling after it.
Both vehicles overturned, but
neither driver was hurt.
Said the dazed Strow: “What do
we need atomic power for?”
MOSCOW, (/P) — Pravda said
Monday that the American elec
tion campaign is “assuming an
ever more scandalous character.”
“This is especially true,” the
communist organ said, “in the
State of New York.”
AYOT, ST. LAWRENCE, Eng.
(/P)—George Gernard Shaw was
reported much weaker yesterday.
He had been making a good re
covery after fracturing a thigh
Sept. 9.
“He had a fairly good night but
his general condition is much
weaker,” said a spokesman at the
home of the 94-year-old play
wright.
Shaw was hurt in a fall in his
garden. Surgeons pinned the
broken bone together and later
operated on him again for a kid
ney complication. He developed a
temperature Sunday but was re
ported better Monday.
YAKIMA, Wash. OP)—-Authori
ties prepared for an on-the-spot
investigation into the fatal shoot
ing of a Seattle hunter. The vic
time was Thomas H. Sanford, 33,
who died en route to a hospital
after being shot in the hip.
Held in the technical custody of
the state game department pend
ing the investigation was another
hunter, Charles Buhl of Tukwila.
Kittitas County sheriff’s deputy
Louis Voshall said Buhl signed a
statement giving his account of an
accidental slaying.
Sanford was production mana
ger for the Bethlehem Steel Cor
poration in Seattle.
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—The Bank
of Alaska, Anchorage’s oldest, be
comes the National Bank of Alas
ka today.
The action was taken under a
federal government charter ad
mitting the bank to the National
Association, president Elmer Ras
mussen reported.
The bank opened here in 1916
as a branch of the Skagway bank.
It outgrew both its tin shack and
the parent bank. Now the parent
bank it a branch of the Anchor
age office.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JP) — Five
western states, Hawaii and Alas
ka have been alloted $8,547,829 in
federal funds for public health
services, hospital survey and
planing, water pollution control
studies and hospital construction
during fiscal 1951, the federal se
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LONDON, (/P)—A Paris-to-Lon
don air trip ended in death last
night for 28 persons, including
three residents of the United
States.
They were killed in a fog
shouded British European Air
ways plane which overshot a run
way at London airport, crashed
into apile of pipe and exploded.
Of the 26 passengers and crew
of four aboard, two Londoners
survived the crash with serious,
but not critical injuries.
Two weeks ago a BEA two-en
gine Dakota crashed in the same
area, killing 28 of the 29 aboard.
TROY, N. Y. (/P) — Gail Sey
mour, 11, huffed and puffed
mightily on her Hallowe’en horn
and wound up in the hospital.
Gail, who lives in nearby West
Sand Lake, swallowed the noise
maker in her horn as she tooted j
at a costume parade here. She was
admitted to St. Mary’s hospital. *
U. S. Puts France
In Her Place
WASHINGTON, (/P)—‘The U. S.
has put its foot do*wn and appar
ently let France know she must
make some concessions in her un
yielding attitude toward German
re-armament before there can be
agreement on a supreme com
mand for forces in Europe.
The defense ministers of the 12
nation North Atlantic Treaty or
ganization deadlocked over the
German question and believing
that it involved major political as
well as military questions, last
night turned the complex problem
ove »rto two planning committees.
They had given up after three
days of meetings.
Today the Council of Deputies
of the Atlantic Pact organization,
a working group of the top lovel
Council of Foreign Ministers, and
the military comittee, composed
of the military Chiefs of Staff, set
about devising some plan accept
able to all. The task off the two
committees was to coordinate the
military and political angles.
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