Group Predicts World
Catastrophe on Feb. 4
CLEATQR, Ariz. W — Predict
ing a world catastrophe on Feb.
4, a group which calls itself Un
derstanding Inc., has taken a 10
year lease on this Bradshaw
Mountain mining camp 50 miles
northwest of Phoenix.
Cleator, they say, is one of 12
locations that will be unaffected
by havoc created at the conjunc
tion of seven planets.
Mrs. Tahahlita iMantzurani, a
spokesman for the 22 adults in
the group, says an astrologer fore
cast a disaster that would be
“hell in nature — with storms,
tidal waves, earthquakes. . .”
Henry Giclas, an astronomer at
Lowell Observatory, said the
planetary conjunction Feb. 4 is
unusual only because the planets
will be in the same part of the
sky.
“It will exert only a barely per
ceptible force upon the earth,"
he said.
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Chief Justice Warren’s
Son Turns Democrat
WASHINGTON UP—Democratic
National Chairman John Bailey
said today the statement by Earl
Warren Jr. that he plans to
change his political registration
from (Republican to Democrat is
| welcome news to the Democratic
party.
Warren, son of the Chief Jus
tice of the United States, told the
Sacramento Bee yesterday: “I
think that with my political phil
osophy I will be more comfort
able in the Democratic party than
in the Republican party. The de
cision in no way repudiates my
father’s policies or philosophy. I
just think the Republican party
today is drifting away from ra
ther than toward Dad’s brand of
Republicanism.”
ARRIVALS fc DEPARTURES
From Fairbanks: Boyd Harwood,
Virgil Sever ns, Dale Sanner, Bob
Scott, Bryan Davis, P. R. Lan
caster, Don Outwater.
To Fairbanks: Abraham Wash
ington, Ronald Tingook, Reuben
Mixsooke, Ruth Larson, Mr. and
Mrs. Lynn Takak and family,
Mary Lou Barney, Perry Dedrich,
Raymond Punguk, Janet Pierce,
Tad Neil, Karl- Greeley, Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Amarok and family,
and Darrell McCMferty.
To Kotzebue: Arnold Thomas
and Mrs. Ethel Karmun and chil
dren.
Charles Van Doren
Given Suspended Sentence
NEW YORK UP) — Charles Van
Doren, big-winning contestant on
a rigged television quiz show,
pleaded guilty today to second
degree perjury and was given a
suspended sentence.
His plea, admitting that he lied
in testimony before a grand jury
also amounted to an admission
that he had been given answers
to questions on the now defunct
TV program, “Twenty-One.”
He won $129,000 on the show.
Special Sessions Justice Edward
Breslin gave a suspended sen
tence to the 35-year-old former.
Columbia University instructor.
Van Doren, son of - the noted
poet and writer, Mark Van Doren,
was among 10 other TV quiz con
testants whose cases were on the
court calendar for today.
CHASED BY DUCKS . . .
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. Ufr—
Was T. J. Bailey harassing • the
ducks on Lake Overholser or was
it the other way around?
It took a justice of the peace
court jury just 45 seconds to de
cide after- heafing this testimony:
Clay Boyd, State Game and
Wildlife officer, and Ace Marrs,
a Municipal Lake patrolman, said
they saw Bailey drive his motor
boat recklessly into a flock of
ducks. *
Bailey said the ducks were
chasing him.
The jury found him innocent.
{French Liner Liberte
To Become Floating
Hotel at Seattle’s C21
NEW YORK Ub — A Seattle
businessman says a contract will
be completed under which the
retired French luxury liner
Liberte will be taken to Seattle
for use as a floating hotel during
the World’s Fair.
Irving Levine of Seattle, who
has taken part in negotiations for
the vessel, said it will be leased
for “more than $1 million” for
the duration of the fair.
Final negotiations will start in
Paris tomorrow, he said, but the
parties involved already have
agreed and only need to smooth
out the language of the contract.
Khrushchev Wanls Old-Age
Pensioners to Hold Night Jobs
LONDON W) — Soviet Premier
Khrushchev, a busy 67-year-old,
wants old age pensioners to work
at night clerical jobs rather than
idle their time away.
In a speech at Minsk reported
Tuesday by Moscow radio, tine So
viet leader said that keeping the
elderly busy in this way would
make them happier and would
free younger people for work in
the fields and factories.
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you longer to do a job than the
other fellow. 'Leonardo da Vinci
spent four years painting “The
Last Supper” — but his master
piece has endured 4V4 centuries.
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U.S. troops Airlifted
To Europe in a Hurry
FRANKFURT, Germany UP) —
The first elements of an Army
force of 6,000 vmen arrived here
from the United States Tuesday
to test American ability to air
lift troops abroad in a hurry.
A C-135T transport carrying 72
officers and men of the 4th In
fantry Division touched down at
sprawling Rhine-Main'Base after
a non-stop Polar flight from'iMc
Chord Base in Washington.
The operation has been nick
named “Long Thrust II.”
It is a major test of U.S. capa
bility to rftsh troops to- Europe
in an emergency — such as could
arise from the Berlin crisis.
“Long Thrust” involves three
reinforced battle groups of the
4th Infantry comprising 6,000
men. The troops will take part
in a four-day NATO field exer
cise in eastern Bavaria.
A total of 87 transports — 10
of them C-135 Stratolifter jets—
will be involved in the airlift, fly
ing four different routes. Some
will make several trips.
Manned Orbit Shot
Postponed One Day
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. UR —
The attempt to launch astronaut
John. H. Glenn Jr., into orbit
about the earth has been post
poned one day until Jhn. 24, it
was learned Tuesday.
Informed sources reported the
delay was caused by a faulty valve
in a cooling unit in the Mercury
capsule. This unit feeds coolant
into the astronaut’s pressurized
space suit while he is in the cap
sule atop the Atlas booster await
ing the launching.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration has never
made an announcement on the
launching date, so it had no com
ment. NASA has said only that
it will inform newsmen of the
date in ample time to make cover
age arrangements.
One habit of Benjamin Frank
lin scandalized his neighbors—he
took three baths a week. Even
doctors of that day thought such
a practice was dangerous to
health.
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