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Chinese Ref ugees
Head for U.S.
WASHINGTON — The first
refugees from Communist China to
head for the United States under
President Kennedy’s new emer
gency admission program took off
from Hong Kong today and are
scheduled to land in Chicago to
night.
They are Eng-Suey, 45, his wife,
and their three children — a son,
Leung-Hing, 10, and daughters,
Mee-Har, 15, and Me-Wan, 13.
“We warmly welcome this fam
ily,” said Atty. Gen. Robert Ken
nedy, “as we welcome the many
to follow to a land where they can
find both freedom from want and
freedom from persecution.”
Kennedy, whose Justice Depart
ment administers immigration laws,
said others are expected to fol
low soon, including “a substantial
number” of refugee Chinese or
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They will go toward making up
“several thousand” the President
announced on May 23 would be ad
mitted under a waiver of normal
annual admission quotas of 105.
All have been in Hong Kong
some time and are not part of the
recent wave of refugees that de
scended upon the British crown
colony from their hungry home
land.
Eng, who is anxious to become
a citizen, was given priority part
ly because he is racing to the bed
side of his dying fattier, Frank
Jing Eng, in Park Ridge, 111.—a
man he has never seen. The elder
Eng immigrated to the United
States in 1916 before his son was
born and became a restaurant
owner.
The swift journey is being made
via the great circle route.
SOUTHPAW DENTISTS
BALTIMORE, UP) — Here they
come, world. Just what you’ve
always wanted. Seven left-handed
dentists.
They are among the 82 dentistry
students being graduated next
week by the Baltimore College of
Dental Surgery, Dental School,
University of Maryland.
Left-handed dentists previously
have been scarce. There is a good
reason. Dental equipment until re
lycently was manufactured exclu
sively for right-handers. This
meant left-handers had to straddle
the spitting bowl to get at his
patient. Other instruments turned
the wrong way, too.
Prof. Gardner Foley of the
Dentistry School has no explana
tion for the high ration of left
handers at his school. It is about
twice the national average.
“Coincidence, I guess,” he says.
Casey Stengel, manager of the
New York Mets baseball club, has
been the most famous aspirant for
left-handed dentistry. And he quit
in mid-season to become a pro
fessional baseball player.
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Celebrate 25th
Anniversary at Sea
NEW YORK M» — At a small
shipboard champagne dinner party
Sunday the only king ever volun
tarily to abdicate the throne of j
Britain and the woman for whom
he did it will celebrate their silver
wedding anniversary.
“We made it last,” the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor responded,
almost in unison, just before em
barking Friday on the liner United
States for Europe. They had been
asked whether they recalled pre
dictions that their marriage would
be short-lived.
On June 3, 1937, in a friend’s
chateau in France, the man who
had ruled Britain for 324 days as
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
were married.
He gave up the crown and an
income of more than $3 million a
year to marry the twice-divorced
American commoner. His love
brought him a life of wandering
from one fashionable location to
another — Paris, the Riviera and
New York—punctuated only rare
ly by an unofficial visit to London.
“Are we happy?” he repeated a
reporter’s question. “We certainly
are. Just look at us. We look
happy, don’t we?”
Both were smiling.
They did not discuss the events
of their romance, which shocked
a nation Dec. 2, 1936. The British
press had imposed self-censorship
on reporting the courtship, and
only when it had reached the
crisis—give up the throne or Mrs.
Simpson—did the British people
learn what the rest of the world’s
newspaper readers had known for
some time.
The luxury liner will be about
midway on its voyage from New
York to LeHavre when the Duke
and Duchess sit down for the din
ner party at the table customarily
reserved for them on their fre
quent crossings.
They are traveling to Paris,
where they own a town mansion
and a country estate. Later this
month each will celebrate a birth
day, her 66th June 19 and his
68th four days later.
“The success of a marriage de
pends on temperament,” the
Duchess said before sailing. “We
share our worries and discuss them.
There are many stumbling blocks,
and you have to surmount them.
“You need a great deal of pa
tience and understanding of each
other’s weaknesses.”
Oldtimers Give Doctors
Something to Think About
ROME UPt — Twenty-seven of
Italy’s oldest men and women —
all near or over 100 years of age—
gathered in Rome Saturday and
gave Italy’s medical authorities
some things to ponder.
AH the men said they still
smoke, and had done so all their
lives.
Almost half the women smoke,
although some only a few times a
day.
Both the men and women all
drink wine in substantial quantities.
And they all profess too be
heavy eaters, even now.
The 17 women and 10 men came
here tor a convention organized
by the Italian Center for Biologic
Research.
For many, it was the first visit
to Rome in their long lives. Most
came from rural areas or small
towns.
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EAST GERMAN POLICE
KIDNAP ONE TEEN-AGE
GIRL, SHOOT ANOTHER
BERLIN UP) — Lured by a friend
ly voice, two teen-aged West Ber
lin girls walked into a Communist
trap Friday night. East German
border guards kidnaped one, shot
the other.
It was the third serious shooting
incident along West Berlin’s un
easy border in 10 days.
West Berlin police said the two
girls, both 17 and indentified only
as Ursula and Karin, had ap
proached the border separating
Communist East Germany from
the American sector borough of
Lichterfelde.
Presumably the girls intended
to wave to or speak to friends in
the Red sector. Friendly East Ger
man guards often aid such meet
ings, either actively or at least
by turning the other way. This
seemed to be the case Friday night.
“Come up to the wire,” an East
German guard called out to Ursula
and Karin. “Your girl friend is
waiting for you.”
The two girls walked forward,
crossing into Communist territory
as they approached the barbed
wire fense, set back a distance
from the actual demarkation line.
When they reached the wire, the
East German guards grabbed
Karin and dragged her through
the fence. As Ursula turned and
fled toward the West, the guards
opened fire with machine guns.
Bleeding from a wound in the hip,
she reached the border again and
staggered to a police post.
American military police rushed
to the border but could find no
trace of Karin.
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firm have been awarded contracts
amounting to $663,000 for radar
tower construction at Kotzebue,
Bethel and Unalakleet Air Force
Stations.
Nordin Construction, Inc., Fair
banks was awarded a $198,489
contract for the Kotzebue project
and a $241,511 contract for con
struction at Bethel.
Alta Construction Co. of An
chorage was awarded a $193,000
contract for construction at Una
lakleet Air Force Station.
The firms were lowest of ten
submitting bids on the projects
CInv. 62-41) which were publicly
opened on May 15 by the U.S.
Army Engineer District.
TONSINA ENROUTE,
DUE HERE JUNE 14
Word from the Associated Press
today was that the Alaska Steam
ship Co. vessel Tonsina sailed from
Seattle on Saturday, June 2.
The vessel is expected to arrive
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13 or 14.
The Tonsina is the first ship
of the season sailing with cargo
for Bering Sea points.
A second sailing is scheduled
a day or two after June 29, with
Nome, St. Michael, Teller, and
Kotzebue as points of call.
Lomen Commercial Co. have
scheduled a barge trip to Unala
kleet, sailing on June 6.
DR. OTTO GEIST
TAKES TRIP ABROAD
COLLEGE — Dr. Otto Wm.
Geist left Fairbanks recently on
an extended trip abroad.
The emeritus research associate
in vertebrate paleontology at the
University of Alaska carried
aboard the airplane a set of tickets
that looked like three extended ac
cordions.
Dr. Geist’s friends learned that
shortly before his departure he
received word that he was elected
a member of the Institute Italiano
Di Palenotologia Umana in Rome,
Italy. Dr. Geist made plans to
visit this paleontological institute
while in Rome. He has been invited
to lecture at educational institu
tions and museums in various
countries.
He also revealed plans to visit
members of his family in Germany
and remain for a time at his birth
place, Kirch-Eiselfing, Bavaria.
5»000 Peace Corps Volunteers
MANHATTAN, Kan. iff*—Nearly
5.000 Peace Corps volunteers will
be serving in 38 countries by th<
end of the year, says Sargen
Shriver, Director the Corps.
Addressing 10,000 persons at th<
Kansas State University com
mencement Sunday, Shriver said
there are 1,400 volunteers in 15
countries.
All 15 countries have asked us
to double, triple and even quad
ruple the number of volunteers,”
he said.
Bob Oliver Home
Police and Fire Chief Bob Oliver
returned last week from a' trip
at which he attended meetings of
police and fire associations.
High Explosives
Found Near JFK’s
Father’s Home
PALM BEACH, Fla. W — A
mysterious barrel lying on the
beach 15 yards from the mansion
of President Kennedy’s father was
found to contain enough explosives
to flatten everything within 50
Navy demolition experts said
the object was a 55-gallon drum of
metallic sodium which, if rain
water had beaten into its open
top, would have exploded. A brisk
shower fell IVz hours after the
Navy men had arrived.
The Naval ordnance team re
placed the lid, took the drum out
to sea and exploded it with a time
device. As the sodium and the
sea mixed together, a continuous
rumbling explosion ensued for
about three minutes.
Investigators said the drug was in
a commercial container that might
have fallen off a ship and drifted
ashore. A similar drum full of
sodium was found Tuesday at Key
Largo, south of Miami, and was
exploded safely.
The Kennedy estate currently is
occupied by only a caretaker.
Metallic sodium is used indus
trially in the production of gaso
line and detergents.
The White House said it was
a type used in hand grenades.
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