Rita And Aly Wed
Midst Lobster
And Champagne
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out official word that those for-1
malities had been waived. In fact,
they had been waived, but official!
word had not filtered down
through government channels.
Government offices were closed
yesterday for Ascension Day.
This meant that official notice
& couldn’t possibly arrive until an
hour or two before 2:30 a.m.<PST>
today—the scheduled time for the
wedding.
The mayor, anticipating crowds,
had police reinforcements to
maintain order in the little village
three miles from the chateau.
It was a town hall ceremony
spangled with some of Holly
wood’s tinsel and the riches of the
east.
The ceremony climaxed a 10
month courtship—some called it
a roadshow romance—for Rita, 31,
and the 38-year-old heir to mil
lions. She has been a Roman
Catholic; he is a Moslem.
Cheered by 500 villagers, the
couple drove slowly away in a
grey Cadillac convertible. A re
ception heavy with 190 pounds of
lobster and 1,200 bottles of cham
pagne awaited at the Chateau de
1’Horizon—the prince’s hou s e ,
where he wanted to hold the wed
ding. (The French government
said “No.”).
The simple civil ceremony—the
WILL INVESTIGATES
ANCIENT ESKIMO RUINS
WASHINGTON, <£»)—If you’ve
thought all along that an Eskimo
ruin was just a melted igloo, you
are wrong, says the Smithsonian
Institution.
Hundreds of years ago Eskimos
lived in villages with crude homes
made of stone and whalebone.
And scientists from the Smithson
ian and the National Museum of
Canada plan to look for them this
summer.
The expedition will be headed
by Dr. Henry B. Collins, of Smith- (
sonian and J. P. Michael of the
Museum. It will head for the Ca
nadian Arctic archipelago where
ruins on Cornwallis Island were
first seen 100 years ago.
The houses probably were built
by prehistoric Eskimos of the
Thule culture more than 500
years ago. Collins said.
couple answered “oui” to ques
tions—was over only eight min
utes after the couple arrived, Rita
in the big convertible and Aly by
a back door.
They left the town hall at 11:32
a.m. It was a double ring cere
mony: they put on their rings af
ter Derigon pronounced themj
man and wife. Then they got their i
wedding certificate, and emerged j
into a shower of rice. Rita was
carrying two bunches of flowers.
She had taken orange blossoms
into the town hall and the mayor
presented her a bouquet of white
roses.
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Shanghai Runs Up
White Flag
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It seemed to be only a matter
of hours before this tough knot of
resistance, which has delayed
communist occupation of North
Shanghai, would be wiped out
completely.
The trick was turned when the
Reds got a flanking column be
hind the bridge defenders and
made a simultaneous attack in
front.
At 5 p.m. resistance from the
Embankment building’s lower
floor was continuing but tenants,
including some 500 foreigners,
were trying to get the nationalists
there to quit fighting.
Three persons in the Broadway
Mansions said they saw a nation
alist machine gunner firing from
the Red Cross marked entrance to
the Shanghai general hospital on
the north bank of the creek at the
Honan bridge.
After the white flag was raised
at the postol'fice occupants tried
unsuccessfully to call the atten
tion of the gunner to the flag.
The whole city breathed a sigh
of relief for the thousands of Chi
nese civilians on the bund and
north of Soochow Creek who had
been trapped since early Wednes
day. They had endured all sorts
of fire.
SHANGHAI i/P}—The red blan
ket of communism quietly envel
oped all of Shanghai today.
The gunfire ceased. The last na
tionalist holdouts surrendered.
Veteran troopers peacefully car
ried Red rule into the northern
part of the world’s fourth largest
city.
The communist occupation was
complete three days after it be
gan. Red political officers began
taking over the government of
the greatest Asian commercial
center and its 6.000,000 people.
The nationalist garrison of
Woosung fortress folded up. The
government evacuation fleet pull
ed out. down the Yangtze and
int(« the East China Sea.
The ships left behind the na
tionalist troops who had failed to
make the 10-mile northward
march down the Whangpoo river
escape corridor from Shanghai to
Woosung. How many only the
Reds would know after they had
rounded them up.
The sharp—but minor—fighting
for Shanghai really was over last
night. But not until today did the
handful of nationalist rearguards
who made the final, mad stand in
the heart of the city make up
their minds to quit.
The nationalists stayed as long
as they did because they were
afraid to quit.
It was the foreigners trapped
in the buildings with them who
finally persuaded the last of
them to give up.
Communist troops came and
got them this morning. And the
thousands of suddenly freed civil
ian*—Chinese and foreign—burst
out into what had been a no-man’s
land for 50 dangerous hours.
LAWTON, Okla. (JP)—Students
who have been taught by Miss
Lily Stafford—and ridden in her
old jallopy—for the past 29 years
are going to show their apprecia
tion. A “Lily Stafford Apprecia
tion Fund” has been started to,
purchase the Lawton high school
science teacher a new car. Miss
Stafford now is driving “Joan,”
her 1930 car which has 71,000
miles. She said the car was named
after Joan d’Arc because “she has
r'ren to the occasion many times.” ,
Nome High Grads
Receive Diplomas
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world of ours today, more than
ever before, to re-build our na
tion, and the world. To make j
America the best in moral integ-,
rity and the new problems need
new solution,” he said.
“The cure for moral dullness in J
the world today is the putting
into practice the ideology in good
moral training,” said Col. Black.
He concluded with the Chinese
proverb, “Duty is a mountain, j
Death is a feather.”
John D. Hudcrt, president of j
the Nome School Board, presented |
the diplomas and other awards to
the graduating classes, and to the,
eighth grade class into high school, j
Superintendent \V. L. Angel!
presented the class; Rev. Lewis T.j
Hudgins gave the invocation and
benediction; the High School Girls j
Glee Club sang “Play Gypsies, i
Dance Gypsies,” and Juanita Fa
gerstrom furnished music for the j
processional, a p;ano solo: “Ber
ceuse,” by Godard, and the post
lude.
The many beautiful roses and
! carnations decorating the stage
! were sent for the occasion by Mrs.
i E. L. Kell, formerly of Nome:
j now residing in San Francisco.
The Eighth Grade graduating
I class receiving diplomas were:
! Pauline S. Ailak. George E. Bell,
! George E. Beltz, Gloria Bliatch
ford. Betty Bourdon, Clara M.
Brown, Ruth Fagerstrom, Hilda
Greene, Herbert Kagoona, Louis
Kost, Peter Kowchee, Peter Lar
sen, Jr., Joan C. Longley, Donna
J. Miller, Clyde Nershak, Vernon
Olson. Gilbert Ozenna. Richard
D. Piscoya, Alice M. Reed, Alfred
S. Suhlin, F. Frank D. Sheldon, |
Jr.
Many other students received
awards of perfect attendance for
the year.
Two scholarships, one to the
University of Alaska, and the
other the Washington State Col
i
Poor Richarda
Needs $300 To
Continue Flight
CHICAGO, UP)—Mrs. Richarda
Morrow-Tail* British round-the
world flier, says she is broke but
plans to reach Buffalo yesterday
anyway.
She blamed money troubles tor
being stranded here since Tues
day.
The 25-year-old aviatrix said
she counted on radio to help her
out. “I thought I would appear on
some radio programs and earn
enough to pay our expenses for
the rest of the way. But you know
they don’t pay you for being in
terviewed.”
Mrs. Morrow-Tait figures she
needs about $300 to finish her
globe-girdling junket and return
to her home in Cambridge, Eng
land.
She was offered a free tankful
of gasoline, meals and a hotel
room after appearing on a morn
ing radio program, she related.
Listeners offered the aid.
Mrs. Morrow-Tait and her nav
igator, former RAF flier Jack Ei
lis of Seattle, landed their con
verted Vultee BT-13 at municipal
| airport Wednesday.
She left England about nine
1 months ago, ostensibly to fly
1 around the world in six weeks.
She wants to be the first woman
to make the trip in a light plane
but trouble has pursued her. She
had one crackup in Marseille
ancf one in Alaska.
Late yesterday s-he postpone'
her take-off for Buffalo as she
originally had planned.
lege at Pullman, Washington,
were offered to the two honor stu
dents of the graduating class.
Misses Margaret Bjornstad and
Clara Seiffert.
Col. Black was complimented
highly by many present on his in
structive and timely address to
the graduating class.
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