ENGLISH SEAMEN DESERT
SHIP BOUND FOR CHINA
VANCOUVER, B. C. W — An
English freighter, loaded with grain
for Communist China, left Satur
day without four of her deckhands.
The seamen walked off the ship
for a second time, defying the
order of a city magistrate, and said
they would not sail to Red China
again because of Chinese police
harassment on an earlier trip.
The men waved goodbye to the
ship as she sailed, and said they
would turn themselves over to
immigration authorities.
Agents for the vessel, the North
Devon, said they would be classed
as deserters, and liable for jail
terms and deportation to England,
i Nine seamen, all from England,
walked off the ship Thursday, pro
testing that on their last trip to
Red China, they had to line up on
the deck while immigration offi
cials, some of them armed, probed
through their cabins and private
letters.
Two returned to ship voluntarily.
The others were arrested and j
charged with desertion. They re
turned to the ship under the order
of Magistrate Bernard Isman, who
said they had chosen the wrong
way to express their protest.
Then four of them walked off
the ship again, delaying the de
parture of the North Devon. The
ship signed on two Canadians to
help fill out the crew.
The North Devon is under
charter to the Red Chinese gov
ernment to take a cargo of Cana
dian grain to the Chinese mainland.
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HONOR ROLL STUDENTS
A Honor Roll
Seniors: Beverly Bohrer.
Sophomores: Alice Arnold.
B Honor Roll
Seniors: Curtis Chunn, Daphne
Rylander, Robert Schmidt, Robert
Baldwin, Ann Chambers, Gail
Croell, David Grant.
Juniors: Tom Boucher, Ivan
Sundstrom, Richard Arnold, Pamela
Mulvihill, Jeanette Amundsen.
Sophomores: Linda Doyle, Jo Ann
Croell, Pauline Tocktoo, June
Oman, Bobby Lee, Richard Foster,
Oscar Swanson.
Freshmen: Alice Atuk, Diana
Leight, Linda Lenert, James Gillis,
Louella Parson to Be Released
HOLLYWOOD UD — Hollywood
Columnist Louella Parsons, under
treatment for shingles and pneu
monia will be released from the
hospital by the end of the week,
her physicians report.
The 81-year-old columnist en
tered Cedars Lebanon Hospital last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Jennie Frasier sends greet
ings to her many friends from the
Northgate General Hospital, with
the information that she is now out
of isolation and will soon be an
swering the many cards set to her.
Keith M. Lesh of Anchorage
Elected Treasurer of NSBA
ST. LOUIS, Mo. m — Keith M.
Lesh, Anchorage, was elected treas
urer of the Delegate Assembly of
the National School Boards Assn.
Friday.
Belle Finally
Has Her Baby
PORTLAND, Ore. UR — Belle,
the elephant, finally had her baby
Saturday, three months after it
first was expected and 44 years
since the last one was born in this
country
Both the three-ton mother and
the baby, estimated to weigh be
tween 150 and 175 pounds, were
reported doing fine at the Port
land Zoo.
Attendants had been fluttering
around the placid 10-year-old Belle
since early January, but when the
birth came, it was easy and with
out human help.
Three other pregnant elephants
in the same enclosure with Belle
watched with apparent interest and
helped Belle stand guard over
the infant for 10 minutes until the
baby struggled to its feet.
Then the baby, a male, wobbled
stiff-legged around the enclosure,
awkward but lively.
To the disappointment of several
thousand children who went to
the zoo for an Easter egg roll Sat
urday morning, Belle and the baby
were put into a private enclosure,
away from public view. Officials
said it probably would be a day or
two before the public would be ad
mitted.
The last reported elephant birth
in the United States was in Salt
Lake City in 1918. That baby did
not live a year.
For some time there has been
speculation on the length of an
elephant’s gestation period. Belle’s
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Moon at
North Star lining Room
Pete Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. I
Order of Eastern Star
Pearl Bohrer
Worthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
Anvil Lodge
No. 140
Carl Mickelson, W. M.
Norvin W. Lewis, See.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Herb Jenks
President
Marc Beauchamp
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
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