ROME, OflP) — Fewer Italians
were married and fewer buried in
1948 compared with 1947, the Cen
tral Institute of Statistics says.
Last year, the institute reported,
376,529 marriages were celebrated,
50,518 less than the previous year.
The number of marriages per
1000 persons last year was 8.2.
Deaths last year totalled 482,054
down 34,450 from 1947. The insti
^ tute says Italy’s mortality rate in
1948 was 10.5 per 1,000 compared
to 11.4 in 1947.
A large number of Italian
deaths, however, are not regularly
recorded. The United States’ mor
tality rate in 1946, for example,
was 10 per 1.000 inhabitants—the
best on record.
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Mt. Vancouver |
Despite “Too Old”
SEATTLE, (/P) — Although he
describes himself as ‘‘too old to
climb like that,” 53-year-old W.
R. Hainsworth of Scarsdale, N. Y.
was back in the States today after
being in the first group ever to
climb 15,825-foot Mr. Vancouver
in Southeastern Alaska.
He said he and three other
members of a scientific expedi
tion sponsored by the Arctic In
stitute of North America, made
the ascent July 5.
It required six days to reach
the peak from base camp on Sew
ard Glacier, where an expedition
has been studying glacier move
ments and other mountain sub
jects.
Making the climb with Hains
wort were Noel Odell, geology
i professor at the University of Bri
' tish Columbia; Alen Bruce-Rob
ertson, University of Toronto
medical student, and Robert Mc
Carty, Stanford University stu
dent.
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The mountain is in the Mount
St. Elias range near Yakutat,
Alaska.
Heroic Engineer
Near Death
MONTEBELLO, Calif. (>P) — A
heroic engineer who brought his
streamliner train through a seeth
ing wall of flames is near death
today.
The driver of the gasoline truck
hit by the train died last night. He
was Harry G. Heaton, of Bell, Cal.
The engineer, H. E. Byers, 55.
Las Vegas, Nev., was credited by
officers with saving some 150 pas
sengers by staying at the controls
and rolling the Union Pacific’s
“City of Los Angeles" through the
flames, which roared several hun
dred feet high as the 73.000-gallon
truck exploded.
Byers was burned critically on
his arms and upper body. A sec
ond engineer, Edward M. Dennis,
45. Las Vegas, was burned less
seriously.
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Vaughan May
Testify In Five
Percenters Inquiry
WASHINGTON, (IP)—President
Truman said yesterday that his
army aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan has permission to testify
if he is railed before the Senate
committee inquiring into opera
tions of “five percenters.”
The President declined to com
ment at a news conference, on a
story that he had decorated Vau
ghan in a mock ceremony after
the general’s recent brush with
newmen in Washington on the
five percenters question.
Asked if he had given, Vaughan
a medal on that occasion, he said
a simple no comment.
At the same time, the President
said he has always favored inquir
ies to see that outsiders are not
used to obtain government con
tracts and that that is part of his
continuing policy.
The President said he does not
believe Gen. Vaughan was mixed
j up in the operations which
! brought about the Congressional
inquiry and thd suspension of two
two-star generals.
He said he had read suggestions
I of that sort in the papers about
Vaughan but he did not believe
them.
A reporter said Vaughan was re
ported to have said he believed
300 five percenter's were operating
in Washington.
Mr. Truman said he doesn’t
know anything about it if such
operations are going on.
A newsman said that reporters
trying to get information had been
checkmated in official circles.
Mr. Truman laughed and said
he had not tried to checkmate
them, that he gave them all the
information he has.
And he quipped that there are
no secrets around the Blair House.
Senator Hoey <D.-N. C.» said
there is a possibility Vaughan may
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
SECOND DIVISION.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN TIIE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE of HERBERT SPENCER,
Deceased.
No. 786
Nolice Of Hearing On Final
Report Of Administrator And
Determination Of Heirs
Notice is hereby given that the
| Final Report and Account of the
1 administrator of this estate has
been filed, and that on the fPth day
of Septemoer, 1949, at the hour of
ten o’clock A.M., a Hearing on the
said Report and Account will be
had; and also at %such time the
Court will determine who the
heirs and distributees of this es
tate are:
Objections to the said Report
I and Account, and proof of heir
I ship, will be heard at the time
aforesaid.
Dated this 6th day of July, 1949.
C. C. TANNER,
Administrator de bonis no.i
Publish July 8, 15. 22, 29. 1949
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE
Pursuant to an Order ot Court
entered on the 5th day of July,
A. D. 1949, Notice is hereby given
that a Gene al Term of the Dis
trict Court, Second Division, Ter
ritory of Alaska, will be held in
the Court Hoii-c at Nome in said
Division and Territory, commenc
ing at the hour of 10 o’clock A. M.
on Wednesday, August 10. 1949
and to continue thereafter accord-;
ing to furthc orders of the Court.'
Given under my hand and with
the Court’s seal affixed ths 5th
day of July, A. D. 1949.
NORVIN W. LEWIS,
Clerk of the Unted States D:s-|
trict Court ft r the Territory of
Alaska. Second Division.
Publ sh July 8, 15. 22. 29. 1949.
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John Thomsie, Anchorage. Rob
ert K. Baker, Kotzebue. Stanley
K. Patrick, Kotzebue. H. Winfield,
Howell, Mich. Dr. Grace Line,
Howell, Mich. J. F. Ward, Mid
land, Texas. W. M. Kerr, Midland, ,
Texas. L. E. Rice, Teller. Mrs. L.
E. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Martin L.
Greiner, Moses Point. Mr. and
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Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
be asked to testify in the Senate
inquiry.
Hoey is chairman of a Senate
expenditures sub-committee which
I is completing plans for a public
inquiry into allegations of the use
of influence in the awarding -of
government contracts.
The term "five percenters" has
i been applied to persons who help
manufacturers get government
contracts for a fee. There have
been charges that some of those
, persons have claimed influence
1 with government officials.
The subcommittee’s preliminary
investigation already has resulted
in the suspension of Maj. Gen. Al
1 den H. Waitt, chief of the army’s
! chemical corps, and Maj. Gen.
1 Herman Feldman, the quarter
master general.
London Dockers
To Retnrn to Work
LONDON, (/P)— Striking dock
ers who have crippled the Port of
London for 25 days voted today to
return to their jobs Monday.
The vote came at a huge mass
meeting in Victoria Park, where
the committee leading the walk
out recommended that the men
call it off.
A member of the strike commi'
tee told the men of the decision.
An average of 13,000 dock
workers have been on strike since
the stoppage began June 27 in
sympathy with the striking Cana
dian seamen’s union. By the time
the strikers get back to wor <
Monday they will have lo-t nboir
400,000 pounds '$1,600,000' in
wages. As the decision to retui n
to work was made, some 15.000
odd dockers were idle.
The stoppage tied up vital Br -
tish export cargoes, hampering
Britain’s drive to overcome her
severe dollar crisis. Troops, con
centrating on unloading 1 o o f
ships, have prevented any seveie
shortages in British food supplie .
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find the smoke coming trom t’re
stove, where Nichols wa- drying
his rain soaked newspaper.
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