Chained in Her Room !
CONNEAUTVILLE, PA.—Mary Mehalko, 20, is shown as she was
found by the police, chained to a chair in her bedroom. The girl’s
father, Charles Mehalko,.45, who was arrested on charges of cruelty
to a minor, chained the girl to prevent her from eloping with Raymond
Smith, of nearby Kerrtown. Mary furnished bail for her father short
ly after he was jailed.
35 Vacationers
Killed In Canadian j
Train Collision
DUGALD, Man., (/P)—At least
35 persons were killed Monday
night in a collision of a vacation
ers’ special train and a standing
passenger express at the Dugald
station, 20 miles east of W&nipeg.
Rescue crews clawed through
' the burned, twisted wreckage of
the two trains in an effort to extri
cate the dead and injured. The
west-bound vacation train smash
ed head-on into the express as the
latter was discharging passengers, j
Rescue workers toiling at the
scene said yesterday morning they
had recovered 17 bodies from the
charred wreckage of the special
train, two cars of which burst into
flame immediately after the colli
sion.
Gaye Lewis, 64, of Transcona,
Man., engineer of the Canadian
National Railways special which
IRA ORTON LEAVES
FOR SEATTLE OFFICE
Ira Orton, lawyer, departed for
Seattle last Friday where he has
offices in the Lowman building.
SMALL BLAZE AT N. C.
WAREHOUSE MONDAY
The fire department was called
out on Labor Day to answer an
alarm from the N. C. warehouse,
where a loose wire swinging in
the wind had started a fire near
the front door. The fire was re
ported by a passerby, U. Monico.
Slight damage was done.
was bringing Labor Day hoildav
ers home from the Lake of *he
Woods resort, and Mrs. Albert
Simpson of Winnipeg died en
route to the hospital.
How many more bodies might
be burned in the charred wreck
age of the coaches no one knew,
but some of the estimates ran
high. All the victims thus far
were said to have been aboard the
special.
NS
U. S. Should Not 1
Have Participated
In World War II
_
WASHINGTON </P»—The Amer
ican Magazine yesterday quoted
former President Herbert Hoover
as saying that this country should
have stayed out of World War II
and “we never would have been,
attacked by the Japanese if we had
not given them provocation.”
In an article for the September
issue, writer Sidney Shallett said
the 73-year-old Republican states
man also told him Premier Stalin
of Russia will make international
agreement “with the full knowl- j
edge that they aren’t worth a;
damn if they do not work out to
his advantage.”
Shallett wrote that Hoover de- j
dared in an interview it Would!
have been in the best interests of
world peace il' this country had
held aloof from the recent fighting j
with the explanation:
' My theory is that, if we had |
kept out of the immediate conflict,
we could have put our sword on
the table with our economic re
sources intact and made a decent
peace when the time for peace
making came.
“I never believed the British
were in danger of defeat. When
Germany attacked Russia, it made
British victory possible.”
Shalett said the former Presi
dent does not feel that either Com
munist world domination or an
other world war is inevitable, and
holds the opinion that economic
weapons of the United States will
prevail in the end despite a “whole
series of Communist revolutions
now under way.”
Hoover made a post-war world
survey as a special representative
of President Truman. Recently he
was appointed by the Republican
controlled House to serve on a 12
man commission which will con
sider ways of streamlining the
structure of the federal govern
ment.
Baby of Four Years
Kills Sister, Eight,
With Shotgun
WAUKEGAN. 111. </P)—An eight;
year old girl was slain by a blast
from a 12-gauge sawed-off shot
gun. which police said was fired
by her four year old brother be
cause. they reported the boy as
saying, “She hit me.”
State’s attorney Harry Hall of
Lake county said there would bo
no official disciplinary action
against the boy. Billy Taylor, as
the law does not charge a child of'
four with responsibility for his
acts.
The shooting of Billy’s sister,
Betty, occurred in the Taylor’s
small apartment after their mother.
Mrs. Viola Taylor, 26, had left Bet
ty in charge of Billy and a baby <
sister, Patricia, 16 months, while
she had gone to a real estate of-1
fice. The childrens’ father, Albert,
was at work as a painter.
Mrs. Taylor told police that
when she returned home Betty
was staggering about the living
room, her hands clasped over her
abdomen and crying “Billy shot
me.” I
Mrs. Jettie Dykes, the childrens’
grandmother, told Police Lt. Law
rence Kelly that Billy had told
.her he had taken the shotgun from
behind a davenport where it was
kept, obtained a shell from a
dresser drawer, inserted the shell
in the gun, pointed it at Betty, r.nd
pulled the tr'gger.
Brooklyn Dodgers !
Will Win National
League Pen nan!
(By Jack Hewins)
EVERETT, Wash. (A*) — The
Brooklyn Dodgers will win the
national league pennant.
What’s more—and we’re quoting ,
Dotty Ebbets all the wav—“the
Dodgers will win the world series,
and I’ll be there!”
Ordinarily she’s Mrs. Mitchell
Dollmeyer, dignified mother of
two chubby youngsters, a Cub
Scout and Bluebird leader, but
when series time draws near and
those beloved bums are up there
in the running she’s just Dotty Eb
bets again, granddaughter of the
grand old man of Brooklyn base
ball and the tomboy who grew up.
in the shadow of Ebbets Field.
Mrs. D. owns a chunk of the
Dodgers but professes not to know
how much. She talks of “my” team
in the rabidly possessive tone of
the Brooklyn fan, rather than the
calculating voice of a shecklr •
minded owner. She counts her div
idends in base hits.
| But old habits are strong. When
Dotty Ebbets goes to a ball game
she always gets a seat back of
first base and alwavs makes a
i
quick count of the customers—a
holdover from the lean days when
a few extra fans in the grandstand
might mean steak for. dinner out
at the Ebbets’ house.
I _
Iceland To Use
Alaska Seed For
Reforestation
SEATTLE, </P) — Two Iceland
conservationists flew to Alaska
yesterday on a reforestation pro
gram which they said would call
for shipping 200,000.000 Alaska
spruce and hemlock seeds yearly
to their homeland.
The men—Vicfus Jakobson. a
former University of Washington
forestry student, and Pall Sveine
son—are from the Icelandic forest
and soil conservation service. They
also will collect grass seeds for
soil conservation projects.
Jakobson said the tree plan
sprung from experimental plant
ings “which thrived wonderfully”
after three field trips he made to
Alaska between 1945 and 1946.
They said they would collect the
seeds between Yakutat and Prince
William Sound, in south central
Alaska. They said the millions of
seeds actually would weigh only
about 100 pounds.
“Alaska’s coast, with a climate
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT,
TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
SECOND DIVISION
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF ROBERT PETER
SON, Deceased.
No. 748
NOTICE OF THE TIME AND
AND PLACE FIXED FOR THE
HEARING AND SETTLEMENT
OF FINAL ACCOUNT OF EX
ECUTOR AND THE ADJUDI
CATION AS TO WHO ARE
THE HEIRS AND DISTRIBU
TEES OF DECEASED’S ES
TATE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to
all persons that Luther Dunbar,
Executor of the estate of deceased
above named, has filed his Final
Account and Report of his admin
istration of said estate, and that
this Court has by its Order made
and entered on August 25. 1947,
fixed the 20th day of December,
1947, at ten o’clock A.M., and the
Court Room of this Court in Nome,
Alaska, as the time and place for
the hearing and settlement there
of; and
NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN
that at said time and place this
Court will determine and adjudi
cate who are the heirs and dis
tributees of said deceased and his
estate, and in what amount and
proportion they are entitled to re
ceive and share in the estate of
said deceased.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, August
25th, 1947.
JAMES ADAMS.
'SEAL* Probate Judge
Cape Nome Precinct.
Pub. Aug. 27. Sept. 3, 10. 17, 1947.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT OF
FINAL ACCOUNT AND ADJUDI
CATION OF HEIRS
Notice is hereby given that Eu
gene Tetinek, ADMINISTRATOR
of the ESTATE OF JAMES
DOUGLAS, Sr., Deceased, has
filed with the PROBATE COURT
of the WADE HAMPTON PRE
CINCT, SECOND DIVISION.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, his
final ACCOUNT in said ESTATE
and that October 1st, 1947, at the
hour of ten < 10» o'clock a.m. in the
COURT ROOM of said court, has
been fixed as the time and place
for a hearing and settlement of
said FINAL ACCOUNT for the
ADJUDICATION and decree as to
who the heirs of said decedent are,
and for the distribution of said ES
TATE. accordingly at which time
and place, any persons interested
therein, may appear and file ob
jections, thereto and contest the
same. Dated at Fortuna Ledge.
Alaska, this 1st day of September.
1947.
EUGENE TETINEK.
Administrator.
Publish Sept. 3, 10. 17, 24. 1947.
The wise man is guided by his
judgment—the fool, by his emo
tions.
similar to our own, has trees and
grasses ideally suited to our cli
mate.” Jakobson said. “Most of
Iceland's birches, our only native
tree, have been cut and destroy
ed.”
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