Freight Train Burns on Desert
Cargo of untold value goes un in smoke as a 30-car Western Pacific train burns after detailmcnt, 31 miles
east of Well, Ncv. Cars piled un in a heap less than a city block long and were described as total loss
to the cargo of sugar, lumber, tires and canned goods. Firemen responded from Elko, 70 miles to the
west. No one was injured. l/P) Wire photo.
RARE P A I R—Father David deer, gilt of Duke of Bedford, are recent additions to new Brook
R field Zoo, Chicago. They have horns of deer, feet of sow. camel-like necks and mult tails.
BUTCH LENDS AN EY E—Bob Pollock (left) fnd
Tommy Erons are aided by their pet, Butch, on a “sidewalk super
intendent'*” job overseeing a Harlingen, Tex., construction project.
DIVORCE GRANTED
Jacqueline A. Buonamassa was
granted a divorce from Peter Buo
namassa and awarded custody of
their three-year-old son, after Vie
hearing before Judge George W.
Polta this morning In District Court.
Grounds were non-support, incom
patibility and cruelty. The couple’s
marriage was in Seattle in 1946.
Norman Banfield was Mrs. Buo
namassa's attorney.
FROM SITKA ,
Sitka visitors registered at the
Gastineau Hotel are Albert Brook
man and Mrs. C. A. King.
Rail Rickets
Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen are shown set
ting up a picket line on a 22-mile subsidiary of the Republic Steel
Corp., the River Terminal Railway. The steel firm has shut down
its local furnaces. This was one of three Midwest “token” strikes
which began (Aug. 21) in a union dispute with management. W
Wirephoto.
Mistake Was Obvious
“What do you know,” laughs six-month-old Lewis Dean McKellips,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl McKellips of CoffeyviUe, Kas., as he waves
a draft board questionnaire he received from Montgomery County
Board No. 47. The letter, obviously misdirected, bore a registra
tion number. It sought information on Lewis’ dependency status and
related data regarding his family connetcions. Iffl Wirephoto.
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Sally Weds
P——■;
Sally Rand, 46, of bubble dance fame, kisses her manager, Harry
Finkelstein, 40, in the Toledo, O., marriage license bureau just before
they were married by Justice of the Peace John Budd. This is Miss
Rand’s second marriage, and Finkelstein’s third. (#1 Wirephoto.
Unhappy Red
A wounded North Korean soldier, captured during U. S. Marines’
drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as
he heads towards rear under ecort of Pvt. Marvin A. Penny (left) of
Houston Tex., and Pfc. Donald E, West of Pond Creek, Okla. IP)
Wireplioto.
| Upsets Legend
Princess Margaret Rose, who is
20 years old, appears here in a
birthday portrait made recently
at Buckingham palace. She crack
ed the legend (hat any girl born
in Glamis castle in Scotland will
marry before she is 20. The Prin
cess is not yet engaged despite
many rumors of romantic attach
ments. (0) Wirrphoto.
Accepted
| .)wgi i
! Althea Gibson (above),'22. became
* the first Negro girl in history to
; bfe accepted into the National
| lawn tennis championships when
j the U. S. Lawn Tennis Assoc ia
1 tion listed her among the 52 Wom
j en who will compete at Forest
Ililli, N. Y. Miss Gibson a Florida
! A and M student, was rannd'iiip
j in the national indoor play this
! year. OP) Wirephoto.
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j DON McMORRAN HERB
5 Don McMorran, Pan American
Airways Regional Traffic Super
intendent for Alaska, arrived in
Juneau yesterday to join Joe Tessio
sales manager on an Ala&kan ins
pection trip. They are leaving for
Fairbanks today.
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BIG BERTH AT SOUTHAMPTO N—The Queen Elisabeth Is moored at the ocean
dock In new. Southampton, England, terminal wblch^accommodates 2,000 passengers and the trains.
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READY RIFERENC E-p^c..* • - <f Korea erected bp a Fr..ikfuit, GenuaU*.
nev.-sba? to Give readers of iiis uauerj an in.UeMislo c.iccli on (}»Hy developments in the Wlr.
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! Dances for King i
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Sarnia (Jamal, 26-year-old expert
in the Egyptian hootchy-kootchy,
whirls through the “Dance of the
Nile” for King Farouk nf Egypt
j at a party In the King's honor at
the casino in Deauville, France,
'the King had the dancer brack
off her engagement In Moiite W
to to cothe io Deauville at hip ex
pense. IP IVlrephoto.
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‘*qu fltT OFfR^Y i *
—jLiolaie Kehcnlrk. of Spokiue,
Wash.V 23-year-old mother of
four children, wu selected
"Mueen of'Trays" tuosl^pdpu
\\r u ii'.t, >j, in u.f NoiUiucet.
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V'. “ -T- J n.iijiim
Florence Chadwick, who broke the women’s English Channel swins
record, leaves plane with her dad, Richard W. Chadwick, who’s afah
j hpr coach, on arrival at LaGaardla Airport, New York. The 31-yeOfMriK
San Diego,, Calif, secretary swam the channel in 13 boars and jW
minutes, cracking Gertrude Ederie’s 1926 record by more than aa hoar.
(A Wirephoto. ,
faylor, furniss Return
from forest Checkup to
Interior of Alaska
R. L. Furniss, entomologist from
the Forest Insect Office, Bureau j of
Entomology and Plant Quarantine,
Portland, accompanied by Ray Tay
lor, iorester-in-charge of the For
est Research Center, arrived back
In town yesterday afternoon from
a two weeks trip to the Interior
checking on damage done by beet
les to the white spruce stands.
“There are no active outbreaks
reported on the Tongass National
Forest," said Furniss.
The trip included traveling over
the Glenn Highway from Anchor
age to Palmer and Investigation in
the Kenai burn where there has
been very much damage by the
spruce beetle. The old outbreak of
beetles around Chitna has subsided,
Furniss said.
No active outbreaks could be
found in the Interior.
The return trip was made over
the Alaska Highway to Haines
where the two men took, the Al
aska' Coastal Airlines flight yester
day afternoon for Juneau.
Furniss expects to return to
Portland this weekend.
Dr.
noted
hospital
attaf wllh^tte
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