Pauley Paid Salary
Of Legislators
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, (/P)—
A Los Angeles advertising man
testified that Edwin Pauley’s pe
trol corporation paid the salaries
of two California state legislators
he employed fiv^ months in 1940.
Chet Crank, the witness told the
Senate naval committee he was
reimbursed by Pauley’s company
for two hundred dollars monthly
to be paid each man. He identi
fied the two as John Evans and
Cecil King, the latter a Democrat,
now a member of Congress from
California.
Crank said the legislators were
active in obtaining permits for
driveway changes and other con
struction in Connection with the
petrol corporation’s efforts to per
suade filling stations to sell its
products.
The committee is considering
Pauley’s nomination for under
secretary of navy appointment,
which has been under attack, but
Pauley declared yesterday: “I'm
convinced I’m going to win. The
only way I would consider with
drawing would to be frozen out
ARCTIC CLUB TO HAVE
MASQUE BALL SATURDAY
The Arctic Club, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Larry Gal
vin, is planning a gala affair at
the Territorial School next Satur
day evening, March 9. The party
is to be in the form of a masquer
ade with prizes for the most com
ical costume, best costumed lady,
best costumed man, best matched
couple, best costumed group, best
costume representing actors or
characters seen in the movies.
There will also be a door prize.
The party is limited to members
and their guests, and reservations
are being made at the Federal
bldg., with Mrs. Herk Edwards
and Mrs. Gordon Osborne.
Everyone on the floor must be
masked except service men. Those
members and invited friends not
desiring to mask may sit in the
balcony until eleven o’clock, the
time set for the unmasking, after
which all may join in the dancing.
The party sounds like it will be
a lot of fun.
The only things that comes to
him who waits—is whiskers.
by the committee, and I’m con
vinced that’s not going to happen.
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Fifteen Lost In
Dombass Wreck
SEATTLE, Mar. 1, (/P)—At least
fifteen persons apparently were
lost when the Russian tanker
Donbass broke in two in a storm
300 miles southeast of Adak on
February 17, the Navy’s Alaska
sea frontier hedaquarters radioed
the commander of the naval
operating base at Kodiak.
The message reported that fur
ther search had been abandoned
after the discovery of a capsized
lifeboat, life rafts and other life!
saving equipment. The American
tanker Puente Hills, with 47 per
sons taken off the aft section of j
the ship, is towing it on the way
south.
Flashes of Life
JEALOUS
LARAMIE. V.yo., Mar. 1,
Creel Watkins and his sister's dog
had their differences of opinion,
which were ignored until recent
ly. His wife drove him to work
and he leaned to kiss her good
bye. the dog bit him on the nose,
infection developed, hospitalizing
Watkins.
SNOWBOUND
FERGUS FALLS, Mont.. Mar. 1
i/P)—Two tame ducks on a near
by farm were out of forced hiber
ation in a snowbank where they
had been trapped by a blizzard
two weeks ago.
El win Friedrich, A 4-H club
girl, discovered her missing ducks
in their cold storage prison after
she heard faint quacks from a
snowbank. She dug through more
than a foot of snow* to rescue
them.
LEFTOVERS
CHICAGO, Mar. 1, f/P)— Police
expressed the belief that the bur
glars who broke into the Golden
berg Furniture company store
were clumsy and also hungry.
They gained entrance by sawing
their way through a second floor
window in the rear. After looting
a box in the safe of $1,400, they
made a ground floor exit by saw
ing their way through a rear door.
But they were so busy cleanijyf1'
out a refrigerator of food "'they
overlooked $7,000 in an inner
compartment in the sale.
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