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Sygnman Rhee
Gives Up Wish to
Go Home and Die
HONOLULU — Dr. Svngman
Rhee, a weakened shadow of the
iron-willed “Tiger of Korea,” may
have given up on his greatest wish
—to go home to die. ,
Three years after he was de
posed as president of South Korea
in bloody student rioting, Rhee
lies quietly in a Honolulu hospita'
whispering Christian hymns oi
listening to his Austrian wife reac
aloud.
“He never mentions going hom(
any more,” his nurse, Elaine John
son, said. “He seems to be resign
ed.” Until six months ago, she
said, Rhee would ask, “which waj
is north?” and talk of going home
“Now he talks only of what hi
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life has been, not of the future.
Rhee tried to go home 13 months
ago. That trip was called off by
objections from the military gov- -
ernment that now rules South e
Korea. It is apparent the Korean j
government still doesn’t want Rhee ^
back.
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Anyway, Rhee isn’t strong
enough to try again. t
Rhee was 88 last month. He has j
spent most of his three years in (
Hawaii in hospitals. He still spends <
live or six hours daily out on a
patio in a wheelchair. Otherwise
he is bedridden. His wife, Fran
cesca, keeps all but close friends
away.
“He has good days and days
when he’s a little confused,” Mrs.
Johnson said.
Korean friends apparently pay
his bills. “I don’t think the Rhees
have anything left,” Mrs. John
son said.
Mrs. Rhee lives in a small four
room house on the hospital
grounds. Mrs. Johnson said she
once asked Mrs. Rhee if the
Korean strong man had any re
grets about his life.
“None at all,” Mrs. Rhee was
quoted. “He’d do the same things
again. Only he’d do more.”
'"Loyally Day"
JUNEAU — Gov. Wm. Egan
yesterday designated May 1 as
"Loyalty Day” in Alaska.
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amed by an adult,” chairman Bill
lay of the ABC said.
Under the proposed regulation,
licensee has the right to refuse
ntry to a licensed premise to any
>erson under 21, regardless of
whether he is accompanied by an
dult.
The new regulation, in addition
o the other two adopted by the
>oard, will become effective 30
lays after being filed with the
secretary of State’s Office. -
Hay estimated the new regula
tions will go into effect about
nid-May.
The board also adopted a regu
lation giving the holder of a cater
er’s permit the right to sell alco
holic beverages at conventions
picnics, social gatherings, sport
ing events or similar affairs where
the premises are not licensed.
The board has been permittinf
such sales for the past two year:
on an experimental basis.
The third new regulation adopt
ed by the board would prohibi
the sale of whiskey in one-tentl
of one-sixth of a gallon containers
except for those liquors sold ii
such containers prior to Aug. IE
1962.
Winnie Ends Two Week Vacation
NICE, France <Jf) — Sir Winstoj
Churchill ended a two-week vaca
tion on the Riviera yesterday an<
flew home to London.
Minors Could
Be Fined for
| Entering Bars
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JUNEAU — The Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board Thursday
adopted a regulation which would
make it a misdemeanor for a per
son under 21 to even enter a bar
unless accompanied by a parent,
spouse or guardian over 21.
Under the provisions of the new
. regulation, one of the three adopted
• by the board, a person in viola
1 tion could be fined as much as
$500 and be sentenced to a jail
« term of up to one year.
“This is the first realistic step
in placing a share of the respon
• sibility on the minor, in that when
r he steps from the street into a
. licensed premise he is guilty of a
> misdemeanor if he is not accom
Mysterious Pole
Used Blackmail
To Make Spies
By Arthur Gavshon
LONDON W — In Moscow, Sig
mund Mikhailski was a mysterious
Pole who professed to hate Rus
sians.
Thursday, in an official British
report, he emerged as a maker
of spies, a fixer who turned loyal
men into traitors.
Sigmund’s formula: Blackmail.
His tools: Sex, money, charm
of a kind, even tickets to the Bol
shoi Ballet.
The Mikhailski story was told by
the British tribunal which investi
gated the affair of William Vassall,
a homosexual Briton jailed as a
Russian spy.
Ten years ago, Mikhailski was
hired by the British Embassy in
Moscow as an interpreter. He was
supplied by the Employment Agen
cy attached to the Soviet Foreign
Ministry.
Sigmund swiftly made himself
as nearly indispensable as possible
to members of the embassy staff.
He bought food for them, got
their theater tickets, attended their
parties, and visited them at their
homes.
lne lonelier ones won ms special
attention and favors.
Most of them were suspicious—
almost all local staff were auto
matically assumed to be agents.
A few took him at face value.
Vassal came to Moscow in 1954
as a clerk in the office of the
British Naval Attache.
Sigmund befriended him quick
ly. He took the quiet-spoken Brit
isher out, talked with him long
and earnestly.
Soon, Vassall’s own admission,
a homosexual act took place be
tween them.
He found himself trapped. So
viet authorities prevailed upon
him to spy for them — or face
exposure. He was too weak to
make a clean breast of it to his
colleagues.
Mikhailski had pulled off a feat
of espionage and Vassall was to
work for Moscow until his arrest
last fall.
But Sigmund was far from fin
ished.
He was working on at least five
other British Embassy officials
Between 1954 and 1956 he in
duced at least three of them to
engage in blackmarketing. They
were caught by the Russians, who
then tried to blackmail them into
spying. This did not work. Each
reported back to the embassy.
They were hastily sent home.
Late in 1955 a British steno
grapher to whom Sigmund had
been nice recognized what was
happening. She told her chief.
Mikhailski was under suspicion,
the entire staff was alerted. It
took nearly a year, though, before
the Pole was fired.
Tax Office In New Location
Steve Andersen announced to
day that the State Dept, of Rev
enue Office will be in its new
location Monday, just east of the
Bering Sea Club.
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Egan's Resolution to
Review Alaska's Defense
Bypassed of Governors
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. W — Gov.
Wm. Egan’s suggestion that the
President and Secretary of Defense
be asked to review Alaska de
fenses was by passed at the West
ern Governors Conference Wed
nesday.
This was one of three proposals
rejected for general consideration
by the Resolutions Committee,
headed by Republican Mark Hat
field of Oregon.
Egan, a Democrat, has termed
Alaska defenses inadequate.
The other suggestions turned
down by the Resolutions Commit
tee without going before the con
ference were:
A proposal by Republican Gov.
Tim Babcock of Montana advocat
ing a 10 per cent rebate of federal
income taxes to the states.
A series of proposals from the
Conference Mining Advisory Com
mittee recommending import con
trols and subsidies for the mining
industry.
DENVER LEGION POST IS
READY IN EVENT OF WAR
DENVER Uf) — An American
Legion post in Denver is ready
in event of war — it’s moving to
Glenwood Springs, 170 miles west.
A hotel room has been turned
over to Leyden-Chiles-Wicker
sham Post No. 1 where duplicate
records, food and drugs will be
kept.
Richard Witherall, Commander
of Denver’s biggest Legion post,
claiming 8,000 members, said he’ll
accept the key to the room in a
ceremony Saturday.
“We can’t sit back with the
idea that we’ll be immune from
enemy attack or other catastro
phies,’’ Witherall said.
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Public Hearings to Be
Held for Prospector’s Aid
JUNEAU — Public hearings
have been scheduled at Fairbanks
and Anchorage next month of pro
posed regulations to implement the
Prospectors Aid Act of 1963, the
Division of Mines and Minerals
said Thursday.
The Fairbanks hearing will start
at 9:30 a.m. May 20 in the Cham
ber of Commerce building. The
Anchorage hearing will start at
the same time on the following
day, May 21, in the Loussac Li
brary.
The new law would permit the
state to assist qualified prospectors
in approved prospecting ventures.
The state could pay up to $2,000
a year to a single prospector or
up to $4,000 a year to partnerships.
The last legislature appropriated
$50,000 for the program in fiscal
1964, starting july 1.
Director James Williams of the
Mines and Minerals Division said
the state agency has already re
ceived more than 30 applications
for assistance under the new law.
He said copies of the proposed
regulations will be mailed on re
quest from the division’s Juneau
office and can be obtained in per
son at division offices in Ketchi
kan, Anchorage, Fairbanks and
Nome.
Larry Galvin, owner of the U.S.
Merc and Nome Hardware, is back
in town from his home Suquamish,
Wn., preparing for spring and
summer business.
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