Theft of $20,000 Leads To
Suicide By Prominent Dr.
LYNN, Mass., (/P) — A suicide
verdict has been made in the
death of Dr. Albert H. Covner,
the Nahant heart specialist found
dead 10 days after three baby
sifters stole $20,000 from h i s
home for a spending spree in New
York City.
The body of the 53-year-old
doctor was found a week ago in
a reading woods, a small bottle of
nitro-glycerin at his side.
The suicide verdict was given
by medical examiner Thomas P.
Devlin after a Harvard Univer
sity pathological examination
showed Dr. Covner was a “suicide
by morphine poisoning during a
state of depression.’’
The three girls, who admittted
taking the money, are being held
in New York following their ar
rest during their spending spree.
Yoicks, Cockney Fashion
LONDON, (JP)—A red fox wan
dered into London’s working class
district Friday, but the cockney
residents, little versed in the hunt
so dear to England’s gentry,
thought it was just another dog.
Someone finally recognized the
bush-tailed country visitor as it
sauntered into a butcher store.
Police killed the fox, -after
fruitlessly trying to capture it.
WIEN AIRLINES
Arriving in Nome were Arthur
McLain, Capt. Fields, Lt. Smith,
Jack Sage, and Warren Weber.
Arriving from Kotzebue were
Alfred Cortez, F. Anderson, Bill
Penn, Edwin Booth, Alta Gooden,
John Foster, Jacob Johnson, Tom
George, Ken Foote, and Ralph
Simpson.
Departing lor Fairbanks were
C. M. Robinson, Harold Weise,
R. Devisscher, John Steck, Carl
Kortlever, Dominic Farino, Duane
Bloomer, and Bernard TJlman.
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Arriving from Anchorage were
Robert Petersen, Joe Maloney, Ed
Maloney, Franklin, Kook, Alfred
Bennett, Fred Crane, and Squires.
Departing for Anchorage were
K. Lizer, W. Taunt, B. A. Casey,
A. D. Wallace, Sam Baker, Fred
M. Johnson, Don Pickerel, James
Wall, W. Chase and Ray Burk
Laura May Nashaolook and
Mary Anne Nanoak were passen
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er and Jim McCollum were pas
sengers to McGrath.
Twins occur once in 88 births.
Triplets occur once in 7,600 births
and quadruplets occur once in
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China's Premier
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Blood Purges
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P) —
China’s premier Chou En-Lai has
warned that more blood purges
are coming in his troubled home
1 a n d, which he bluntly calls
“economically backward.”
At the same time, he has
pledged “strict economy” in gov
ernment and unrelenting cam
paign to “resist American aggres
sion and aid Korea.”
Peiping radio Friday broadcast
the long and detailed speech by
Chou, which it said was made
Oct. 23 at the national committee
meeting of the Political Consulta
tive Conference in Peiping.
Apparently the Red leaders of
China pondered awhile before re
leasing to the world a speech that
told of a year of trouble behind
| the bamboo curtain.
The speech as monitored here
by the Associated Press referred
repeatedly to the troubles the
Peiping regime was having with
its “land reform” program.
Land reform was a popular
feature of the communist pro
gram in the early days. It called
for the wide distribution of land
seized from the wealthy landlords
and the more opulent among the
peasants.
Reports seeping out of China,
however, have said that the dis
possed have been joined in their
resistance by many beneficiaries
of the program, who found that
high taxes made their lot as bad
as before.
Rhode Island Stages
Realistic State-Wide
A-Bomb Defense Drill
PROVIDENCE, R.I., iff) — Sev
eral buildings were purposely set
afire in parts of Rhode Island
yesterday to give a touch of real
ity to the country’s first state
wide civil defense drill since
World War II.
Some 20,000 persons demon
strated to the satisfaction of of
ficial observers thot they know
their parts should Rhode Island
undergo an A-bomb attack.
Several condemned buildings
were burned.
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U.S. Loses Five Ships
In Korean Waters
WASHINGTON, </P)—Five U.S.
ships have been sunk and 29 dam
aged by enemy mines, gunfire or
bombs during the Korean cam
paign, the Navy said Friday.
The casualties reported from
these actions included 102 killed,
31 missing in action and 282
wounded.
Four of the ships sunk were
mine sweepers, the fifth an Army
tug. All sank after hitting enemy
mines. Communist gunfire ac
counted fcfr damage to 24 ships,
including the cruisers Helena and
St. Paul. The cruiser Rochester
suffered very slight damage from
a near miss by an aerial bomb
during the Inchon landing, the
report said.
Ralph Edward of Truth or
Consequences Under New
Five-Year Contract
HOLLYWOOD, (/P)—Ralph Ed
wards, 37, originator of the
“Truth or Consequences” radio
show, has a new five-year con
tract with the National Broad
casting Co., which pays h i m
$1,300,000 a year.
Edwards will start a half-hour
daily telecast in January. His two
radio programs, “Truth or Con
sequences” and “This Is Your
Life,” may be telecast sometime
in the fall of 1952.
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