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Melvin Hewitt, "Dead’* 15 Minutes
Recovering Health But !\ot Mind
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — Melvin
Hewitt, 27, revived after his
heart and breathing stopped for
15 minutes last Oct. 4, is recover
ing his health but doctors say he
has a child-like mind.
However, his physician, Dr.
Sidney Cohen at Brentwood Vet
erans Hospital said today: “He
surprised the medical profession
before, maybe he’ll do it again.”
The first surprise came when
Hewitt was brought back to life
after being pronounced dead fol
lowing a fall. Fifteen minutes is
believed to be the longest period
in medical history that a person
has been without life and then
revive.
Doctors cut into his chest and
massaged his heart. Its action and
his breathing resumed. But Hew
itt was in a coma for a month.
The next surprise was when he
regained consciousness. But trag
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ically, his reasoning powers were
gone, doctors said. Lack of oxy
gen while he was “dead” appar
ently had damaged or destroyed
many brain cells.
At Brentwood, Hewitt is being
taught the fundamentals of liv
ing. He is given toys and handles
them well. There are reading les
sons. He can read some.
He receives medicines to im
prove the circulation in his brain
and to improve his metabolism.
He has gained 20 pounds in two
months.
Dr. Cohn believes that Hewitt
will show further improvement.
The patient has come a long way
already.
Hewitt is able to recall much
of his earlier life, but not much
that has happened to him recent
ly. Tell him where a room is and
the chances are he won’t remem
ber long enough to get there.
Allied Air Losses
479 Compared To
Communist’s 850
SEOUL, Korea, (JF> — Allied
airmen shot down 31 Red jets in
January and lost 52 of their crwn
planes, Far East Air Forces re
ported today.
The Allied loss was the great
est in any month of the 20-month
Korean war.
Increasingly accurate commun
ist anti-aircraft fire destroyed 23
United Nations jets and 21 pro
peller planes.
FEAF said during the entire
war the Allies have lost 479
planes compared to 850 Red air
craft destroyed or damaged, In
cluding 611 MIGs.
Far East Naval headquarters
said carrier-based planes cut
railway lines in 2,782 places in
the past 33 days.
The Navy said the north-south
line between Wonsan and Kowan
was so badly battered the Reds
have not been able to move a
train over it for two weeks, “de
spite vast expenditures of man
power and materials.”
One division on the central
front* reported a temperature of
11 degrees below zero Thursday.
Eklutna Project Survives
Recommended Budget Cut
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Alaska’s
Eklutna hydro - electric project
survived Reclamation Bureau
budget cuts recommended by
President Truman in his message
to Congress this week.
A bureau spokesman said Fri
day more than 100 million dollars
was slashed from the proposed
Reclamation budget, but a $13,
000,000 item for Eklutna was left
unchanged.
Singer Paul Robeson
Denied Permission Cross
Border Into Canada
SEATTLE, {JP) — Singer Paul
Robeson and one of labor leader
Harry Bridge’s lawyers won’t be
able to keep a speaking engage
ment in Vancouver, B.C., today—
they can’t get across the border.
Robeson and Vincent William
Hallinan, traveling separately,
were told Thursday by U.S. im
migration officials they could not
cross the border into Canada.
Both were enroute to a meet
ing of a mine workers union to
day.
Passports normally are not re
quired for entry into Canada and
there usually is but a moment’s
delay at the border station at
Blaine, 100 miles north of here.
Both men turned back, Robe
son by automobile and Hallinan
on a train, when advised violation
of the order would make them
subject to five years imprison
ment and $10,000 fines.
STATE PRIMARIES EYEWASH,
SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMAN
(/P)— President Truman said
Thursday he will not let his name
stay in the presidential preferen
tial primary in New Hampshire.
But, he told questioners, this
does not preclude his running for
reelection. He thus left his 1952
political intentions as obscure as
ever.
If he decides to run, Truman
told his news conference, he could
get the Democratic nomination
without being a candid-ate in any
of the state primaries. All these
primaries are eyewash, he said.
SEATTLE, -Notice of inten
tion to wed was filed here Wed
nesday by Harry W. Gottschalk,
47. Kodiak, Alaska, and Elinor P.
Leonard, 38.
Film Company
Enrou te North
To Make Picture
Ewing Scott, well-known Alas
kan movie producer, is back again
to film another Arctic picture.
This picture is called “Arctic
Flight” and is taken from a story
written by Ewing Scott called
“Shadow of the Curtain”.
With Scott are actors Wayne
Morris, Allan Hall, Jr., and Peg
gie Castle. More of the cast are
due later in the month.
Headquarters will be at Kotze
bue with filming to be done at
Wales, Diomede and Shishmaref.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Scott made the first Alaskan film
in 1931, “Igloo”. He also produced
“Harpoon” in 1947 and “Arctic
Manhunt” for Universal in 1948.
He stated that “Red Snow” by
Columbia will soon be ready.
The picture now being filmed
is for Lindsley Parson’s Produc
tions.
Mr. Scott and party left today
for Kotzebue with Wien Airlines.
Runaway Russians
See Inevitable
War With U.S.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A group
of runaway Russians say the So
viet is a virtual prison nation,
moving almost inevitably toward
war with the United States, seeth
ing with discontent under the
surface and burning in part at
least with hatred of Stalin.
The State Department, without
guaranteeing this is a true picture
of life behind the iron curtain,
said today these are the high
lights of stories told by 10 men
who fled into the American Zone
of Germany during the past few
months.
The anonymous official who
analyzed the information from
the ten refugees sprinkled their
writing with words of caution
that fnuch of it could not be
checked and that people in such
circumstances might be inclined
to slant their views to what they
thought their American interroga
tors wanted to hear.
Nevertheless the conclusion was
reached that there appeared to be
ample evidence for believing in
specific testimony of widespread
unrest, political discontent and
the thesis that Stalin is not as
universally beloved in the Soviet
Union as the Kremlin propagan
dists would have the world be
lieve.
Candle Pioneer Dies
SEATTLE, </P)—Lars A. Sund
quist, 82, retired Alaskan miner,
left an estate estimated at $40,000
to his son, Richard N. Sundquist,
Seattle, probate proceedings dis
closed. He died last Friday.
Mr. Sundquist was a pioneer
in the Candle and Keewalik dis
tricts.
Korea War Saturday Surpasses
584 Days Of First World War
A
TOKYO, (/P)—Saturday, Ameri-'*
cans will have been at war in
Korea as long os they were in
World War I.
So historians at Far East Naval
Headquarters prepared to move
the Korean conflict into second
place in the list of war fought by
the U.S. in this century.
A spokesman said World War I
covered 584 days between April
6, 1917, and Nov. 11, 1918. Tomor
row will be the 584th day since
the U.S., on June 28, 1950, of
ficially entered the Korean con
flict, which had begun three days
earlier.
American casualties in the first
World War totaled 364,000, more
than treble the 105,000 U. S. cas
ualties for the same period in
Korea.
N^vy air started World War I
with 24 planes and suffered only
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19 casualties throughout the en
tire war. Modern carrier still were
a dream of the future. Pilots flew
with their caps turned backwards,
goggles over their eyes and with
gauntlets and leather leggin’s.
They were called aeronauts. Many
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carried shotguns and rocks on
their combat missions.
Today naval pilots can drop
more than 4,000 tons of explosives
on the communists every month.
World War I Navy fliers dropped
100 tons on the Germans during
all of World War I.
Ships and planes of the Navy
are even breaking World War II
records. Last December the De
stroyer U.S.S. Marshall fired
5,600 five-inch shells at the com
munists. That is more than she
fired in 30 engagements with the
Japanese in a year and a half of
World War II.
Shy 3-Year-Old African
Boy Present Bouquet
To Princess Elizabeth
NAIROBI, Kanya, (/P)—A three
year-old African boy bashfully
turned h i s back on Princess
Elizabeth today and grabbed the
spotlight at this British East Af
rican colony’s welcoipe to its fu
ture ruler.
The child—named Prince be
cause he was born the same day
as Elizabeth’s son Prince Charles
—was delegated to hand her a
booiquet when she visited the new
African maternity hospital soon
after her airport arrival.
Wide-eyed and solemn in white
shirt and short blue trousers,
Prince turned his hack on * the
Princess and shyly backhanded
the flowers.
Elizabeth gently pulled him
around and took the bouquet, to
the delight erf the large crowd of
Africans on hand.
Allies Reject Red
“Good Faith”
MUNSAN, Korea, UP) — Red
negotiators proposed today that
the fate of 600,000 displaced Ko
rean civilians be left to the “good
faith” of the Allies and com
munists.
Rear Adm. R.E. Libby said “We
told them good faith was not
enough” guarantee that displaced
civilians would be allowed to live
where they choose.
He said “Everything was very
amicable except they didn’t
agree.”
The IJ.N. proposed that neutral
teams interview displaced persons
after the Reds again rejected a
proposal to give the job to the
International Committee of the
Red Cross.
The communists said they
wanted no part of the Red Cross
because it is not neutral.
McCarthy Calls
On President To
Answer Questions
WASHINGTON, (ff) — Senator
McCarthy (R-Wis), called patho
logical and a character assassin
by President Truman yesterday,
says the President should answer
a few questions about one of his
aides instead of sidestepping the
issue by “name calling.”
McCarthy said recently that
Phileo Nash, a White House spe
cial assistant on minority prob
lems, had close associations with
communists in the 1940s. He said
FBI reports to a loyalty board
linked Nash with active com
munist workers. Nash denied Mc
Carthy’s charges.
Asked about this at his news
conference, Mr. Truman referred
to the Wisconsin senator as the
pathological Mr. McCarthy, called
him a character assassin, and said
the attack on Nash was the type
McCarthy makes on all govern
ment men he does not like.
“Instead of name calling, the
President should answer several
questions,” McCarthy said in
reply. The questions:
“Bid I properly quote from the
loyalty board records (regarding
Nash) if not, where did I mis
quote? If he admits I properly
quoted from the loyalty board
hearings, why is he willing to
keep Nash on as an adviser?”
POLICE SEIZE FIVE ILLEGAL
GAMBLING MACHINES OF
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
SEATTLE, ftf5)—Five slot mach
ines were seized Wednesday atr—
of all places—the Alcoholics .An
onymous clubrooms.
The steward, John Lawrence
Ross, 62, said the club had used
profits from the illegal machines
to buy coffee for members and to
maintain its rehabilitation shop.
YOUTH FOR everybody welcome Saturday, Feb. 2
i AT NEW COVENANT CHURCH ^ '
CHRIST . REV. PAUL CARLSON, Speaker 8:00 P.M.