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Alcoholics Anonymous Members
Gather at Familiar Watering-Hole
By BERNARD GAVZER
NEW YORK, UP) — More than
2,000 of the admittedly worst
drinkers in America, untempted
by the handy watering holes of
a mid-Manhattan hotel, paid tri
bute Monday night to a man who
hasn’t had a drink for 25 years.
Full of good spirit — definitely
not bottled — they wildly greeted
Bill W., co-founder of Alcoholics
Anonymous, at a huge banquet.
Bill is the man who started out
to play golf on Staten Island on
Armistice Day, 1934, ended up
in a bar and went on a monu
mental bender that took him from
his stockbroker business forever.
Now 64, Bill said he sobered
up when he was 39 and ever since
“It’s been a gay and wonderful
time for me.”
Idea of Fellowship
When he sobered up he was in
the company of an Akron, Ohio,
surgeon. From their meeting came
the idea of a fellowship of men
and women who “share their
strength, hope and understanding
to solve alcoholism.”
In the crowded grand ballroom
of the Hotel Astor, a table-hopper
could eavesdrop on many conver
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sations and find the alcoholics
talking about their favorite sub
ject: alcoholism.
Before the speeches there was
an intermission and many of the
alcoholics found themselves
standing near a bar in the foyer
that would have gotten plenty of
action in the old days. Now it
| was shuttered.
The absence of booze brought
some gloom to the men’s room at
i tendant.
“Other parties, you know,
! there’s drinking and dancing and
this place is always busy. These
guys at this banquet tip okay,
! only not enough of them come in
| here. It’s a bad night.”
Bartlett Conducts
Hearing on Alaska
fiawaii Air Route
HONOLULU, UP) — Senator Bob
Bartlett opened a hearing Mon
day on proposed regulations for
air and sea links between the na
I tion’s two newest states.
A three-man government board
has been proposed to regulate
' Hawaii-Alaska traffic routes and
rates. It would consist of. repre
sentatives of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, the Federal
Maritime Board and the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
Eartlett is a member of the
Senate Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce.
First to testify at the hearing
at Iolani Palace, seat of Hawaii
government, was State Represen
tative Frank W. C. Loo. He pro
posed that public hearings on pro
posed freight rate increases be
made mandatory rather than op
tional. He also suggested that at
least 30 days be allowed for a
public hearing and board deci
sion after a rate increase request
is filed.
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Louisiana Supreme Court
Justice Hooked For
Income Tax Evasion
NEW ORLEANS, W — Judge
James D. Simon, 62, an Associate
Justice of the Louisiana Supreme
Court, faces a four-count federal
charge of failing to file income
tax returns from 1954 to 1957. %
A federal grand jury indicted
Simon Friday. U. S. District
Judge Herbert Christenberry set
bond at $500 and released the
justice under his own recogni
zance.
In the indictment Simon is ac
cused of not filing returns on more
than $36,000 of gross income dur
ing the period.
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SEATTLE, itf) — Leo Seiden
verg, 79, retired Alaska mer
chant whose run-in with the Rus
sian government years ago made
news, died Sunday.
Only this past summer, nearly '
40 years after trading posts he |
operated on the Siberian coast |
were seized, did he get his first'
reparation payment.
He was born in Odessa, Russia, |
came to this country in 1900 and \
established a general store in |
Nome that year. He operated it j
42 years and between 1917 and j
1922 had the trading stations.!
They were confiscated by the then j
Russian government and Seiden- j
verg, attempting to make a settle- i
ment, waited in Moscow three
weeks for an audience with Lenin.
Funds released to the U. S.
State Department became avail
able for such settlements and he
received his first payment four or
five months ago. His son, Edward
M., Seattle businessman, said
Monday.
The father went to Anchorage
in 1942 and bought a clothing
store while the son remained in
Nome and continued the business
until it burned in 1946. The father
retired 15 years ago and came
here.
He was a member of the Pion
eers of Alaska, the Temple De
Hirsch and the Nile Temple
Shrine Lodge here, funeral serv
ices were held Tuesday.
His widow, Ethel, and a sister
also survive.
Ike Goes Over NASA
Program with Space Chief
AUGUSTA, Ga., — President
Eisenhower put in 70 minutes yes
terday going over space problems
and the budget for space explor
ation with Dr. T. Keith Glennan.
Glennan is administrator of
NASA, the National Aeronautics
and Space Agency. He flew down
from Washington to back up
NASA requests for additional
funds for the 1961 fiscal year,
starting next July 1.
Five Youths Perish in
Highway Mishap
LONGVIEW, Wash., (#1 — A car
carrying six teen-age boys, all
neighborhood chums, out on a
drive, plummeted off a 25-foot
embankment and overturned into
a swampland slough Monday
night. Five of the six drowned.
The dead included two pairs
of brothers.
The suiwivor, Francis Hughes,
16, told officers he did not know
how the accident occured.
Hughes was sitting in the
front seat between two other boys
when the car missed a turn at an
intersection four miles west of
here. The machine landed upside
down in about 20 feet of water.
“I was grabbing for the door
handle,” Hughes said. “I don’t re
member much.”
He made it to shore, struggled
up the bank and flagged down
a passing truck.
Rescue operations began imme
diately. Skin divers operating in
the murky slough, which runs
along the road for nearly a mile,
had to feel their way to the car.
Two bodies were found in the
machine. The three others later
were recovered in dragging op
erations.
The dead were identified as
Doug Randolph, 17, driver of the
car; Jeipry Walston, 15, and his
brother, Floyd, 13; Bill Webster,
16, and his brother, Dick, 13.
Scotland Yard Scoffs at
Report Charles in Danger
LONDON, UR — A British
newspaper yesterday said Irish
nationalists are plotting to kid
nap Prince Chales but Scotland
Yard laughed the story off.
The Daily Herald claimed that
fear of a swoop by Irish gunmen
is the real reason for increased
guards around the Cheam School
in Berkshire, where the 11-year
old heir to the British throne
gets his education.
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