Army Completes
21,500-Mile Test
Of Trucks
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ABERDEEN, Md., UP) — A 14
truck army convoy known as “Op
eration Greaseball” pulled into
Aberdeen proving ground yester
day, the end of a 21,500-mile test
journey.
The trucks had been driven
through desert and cold in 20
states and Alaska in order to test
six new types of engine lubricants
and three types of tires. They left
Aberdeen last Aug. 2, piloted by
four officers and 24 enlisted men
whom, the army said, volunteered
for the trip.
Now the army will take the
trucks apart in an effort to deter
mine which of the lubricants and
tires would be most efficient for
use in any part of the world, whe
ther it be desert, the tropics or
the Arctic.
The convoy conducted its first
test at Desert Center, Calif. There
the trucks were driven 3,000 miles
through the sand and intense heat
which reached 115 degrees.
From there, it travelled to Fair
banks, Alaska, where the trucks
were driven over the entire Alas
kan peninsula as far as terrain
permitted. During the three
^ months in Alaska, the convoy
drove an average of 8.000 miles
per vehicle in temperatures as low
as 65 degrees below.
On the Alaskan part of the
jorney, two types of new heaters
weer also tested, one to facilitate
the starting of cold engines and
the other to heat triick cabs.
CITY COUNCIL
PONDERS PROBLEMS
The Nome Common Council met
Monday night in regular session.
After the minutes and other pre
liminary business was taken care j
of, the council discussed the or-!
dinance on the “sticker tax” and
the problems posed by the Chief
of Police and informed the police
department the tax was due and
must be collected from all owners i
of vehicles using the streets of
Nome, on and after January 1st of j
each year.
A health problem was presented
by Otto Wihl, who stated that
many persons were illegally
dumping garbage and refuse near
his house on “D” St. The health
and relief chairman, Fred Cavota,
stated he had looked into the mat
ter and was working with the po
lice to stop the dumping.
An added attraction at the coun
cil meeting on Monday evening
I was the attendance of the group
of Girl Scouts who had taken over
' the reins of the city on Saturday,;
March 12th. One of the girls re
ported that several arrests had
been made for minor infractions
and many dogs had been picked
up.
The best part of the program,
, the gilds agreed, was when Tom
my Martin, of the North Pole
Bakery was fined for not having
his “sticker” fastened to the wind
shield of his car and treated the
girls, 24 of them, to nearly three
gallons of ice cream.
T'-'e offensive odor associated
with cockroaches is due largely to
an oil liquid secreted by scent
glands.
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National Guard To
Waive Eligibility
Reuirements
The National Guard Bureau has
agreed to waive certain eligibility
requirements for enlistment in the
two proposed Scout Battalions of
the Alaska National Guard in or
der to fully utilize the manpower
capabilities of the native popula
tion, according to word received
at Fort Richardson.
Considered highly important to;
the formation of the native units,
the announcement was made by ,
Maj. Gen. Stanley L. Scott, Com
manding U. S. Army, Alaska, who
is charged with training and
equipping the units.
The new maximum age limit
for Eskimos and Aleuts on an or
iginal enlistment will now be 45
years instead of 35, and a native’s
inability to read or write will not
prevent his enlistment and mem-;
bership in the Guard.
The plan to establish the two
Scout Battalions in the smaller
towns in western and northern
parts of Alaska, both along the
coasts and in some of the interior
I communities up the rivers, al
ready has Federal approval. The
Army hopes also for the establish
ment of two infantry battalions in
the larger towns, although enabl
' ing legislation by the Territorial
legislature is a prerequisite of
either type unit.
( General Scott has already point
ed out the value of the National
Guard will have in aiding the de
fense of the Territory. He stated
that steps have been taken to
equip the Scout units immediately
upon their organization, and that
he has asked the Department of
the Army to assign unit instruc
tors at once in order that planning
for training activity may start
soon.
Preliminai-y surveys by Lt. Col.
J. D. Alexander, Officer in Charge
of National Guard Affairs in Alas
ka, have indiacted that there is
sufficient interested personnel in
Alaska to form the Guard units
proposed.
ALASKANS TO FLY TO WASH
INGTON IN PROTEST
i WAS HINGTON, (/P) — Thirty
Alaskans are to fly here in a char
tered plane to oppose the confirm
ation of Gov. Ernest Gruening for
another four-year term.
' Donald MacDonald of Anchor
age, represetning the Territory
Transport Company, said in a tele
gram the Alaskans will remain in
Washington until the Senate acts
on Gruening’s nomination, now
j pending before the Senate interim
committee.
The committee postponed action
on the nomination Monday with
out naming another date to con
sider it.
Challenge Author
To Fight Duel
BUENOS AIRES, (/P)—'The head
of the Buenos Aires stock ex
change challenged to a duel yester
day the author of a financial pub
lication who termed the board a
“mere gambling den.”
Jose Herandez instructed h
seconds to deliver the call to the
field of honor to Rodolfo Katz,
editor of the weekly Financial
( Survey. Katz was out o ftown and
j the challenge probably will be
pending until his return about Fri
day.
Katz, who is German-born, has
been a consistent critic of the gov
ernment’s economic politics since
i Juan Peron became president in
1946. He was beaten up by un
known assailants in 1947.
Mother Keeps Son
Prisoner For
Thirteen Years
(By Fred Brady)
BOSTON, (jP) — Illness today
prevented Mrs. Anna Sullivan, 45,
from telling a court the strange
story” of the son she kept for most
of his 13-year lifetime as her ‘‘se
cret sin” prisoner.
The neglect charge against the
mother was continued to Monday.
Her counsel, attorney Daniel O’
Connell, made the announcement
after a private conference with
with Roxbury district Judge
Frankland W. L. Miles.
The distraught mother has tear
fully pleaded for return of the
‘‘love child,” she is accused of ,
keeping captive a dozen years in
a dungeon-like room. i
“As God is my judge, I love my
boy,” she cried. “I don’t want to
give him up.”
Police said bright-eyed Gerald
Sullivan was held in a barren
room, furnished only with a cot,
until he escaped into the street in
an unguarded moment Sunday
night.
Mrs. Sullivan, suffering from
what physicians described as a
terrible emotional upset, denied in
an interview that she kept the
child locked up in the room.
Weeping bitterly and burying
her head occasionally in pillows,
she sobbed:
“I didn’t mean to do any harm
to the little boy. I wasn’t unkind
to him. I felt that it was our cross,
mine and Gerald’s, and we had to
bear it together.
“I loved him inside, but how
could I show it. It was such a tor
ture, such a shame, such a dis
grace.”
Answering police reports that
the boy couldn’t distinguish the
things common to every child—
even an orange—because he had
never seen them before, Mrs. Sul
livan said:
“Every day we had fruit and
the best of food we could afford.”
The mother pleaded guilty in
district court to a charge of ne
glect. She told of the boy’s con
ception and birth during a separa
tion from her husband.
The child’s father died several
Ex-Senator Gore
Dies Of Stroke
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WASHINGTON, UP) — Thoma?
Pryor Gore, 78, three-term Sena
tor and successful lawyer though
he had been blind since childhood,
died at his home here today. He
suffered a stroke last Sunday.
An Oklahoma Democrat, Gore
was the first blind man ever to
serve in the United States Senate.
He was one of the first two Sena
tors sent to Washington from Ok
lahoma after the state entered the
Union in 1907.
He served two terms, ending in .
1921, and came back for a third
ending Jan. 1, 1937.
The blind Senator and his asso
ciates charged up his two election
defeats to his refusal to compro
mise convictions.
As lawyer and lawmaker he re
lied heavily on a prodigious mem
ory. He never used the raised
character print provided for read
ing by the blind.
He lost one eye at the age of
8 when a stick thrown by another
boy at a cow struck him. The o*her,
eve went with accidental discharge
of a gun when he was 11.
Deaf Mute Sues
Cold Suitor
ATLANTA. (JP) — A deaf mute
has dropped her $50,000 damage
suit against the man she said won
' her promise to wed after a fever
ish, wig-wag courtship.
Miss Leile B. Campos dropped
her suit against Glenson B. Griz
zard, also a deaf mute. Her attor
ney, James H. Dodgsen, said the
couple reached an agreement be
tween themselves. He did not
know what kind of settlement was
made.
/
Miss Campos charged in he”
suit that Grizzard wooed her with
“feverish promises and propos
als.” Then after she agreed to
marry him. Miss Campos contin
ued, he laughed at her and refused
to go through with the wedding.
years later. It was then that Mrs.
Sullivan determined, investigator
reported, to hide the boy from the
world.
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