Million in Gifts
Pile Up For
Meg’s Wedding
By EDDY GILMORE
LONDON, — More than a
million dollars worth of fabulous
wedding presents for Princess
Margaret piled up at St. James’
Palace. A court source said:
“Some of the gifts are so rare
and unusual, that it’s impossible
to put a price on them.”
■He referred to such presents as
a 17th Century pearl necklace
from India that has been sent by
Portugal’s Count of Nbva Goa.
More than 900 presents have
arrived at the ancient palace
which stands next door to Clar
ence House, Princess Margaret’s
London home.
The gifts are being kept at the
palape because Clarence House
wouldn’t hold them all. Also —
they’re safer at the palace.
Scotland Yard took no chances,
for smash-and-grab bandits — as
they call them -here — have made
several downtown raids in Lon
don lately.
In addition to a special guard
inside the palace, extra men were
on duty in the neighborhood.
-Uniformed guardsmen tradi
tionally patrol the sidewalks
around the palace, which is smack
in downtown London.
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MURANE HERE TO START
BLUFF MINING OPERATION
Ralph Murane, Bluff mining
man, will be putting into opera
tion this summer some new equip
ment, invented and built by him
self, for beach mining.
For the past three seasons Mur
ane has been coming to Nome,
building and setting up the camp,
and waiting for the right weather
conditions to put the equipment
into operation.
He will have a camp of six men
and a cook this summer, when
production gets under way. If
this method of mining proves suc
cessful, it should open the way
for many such operations in this
area.
Wallet Stops Assassin's Bullet
PARIS, UP) — A billfold over his
heart saved Robert Abdesselam,
an Algerian member of the Na
tional Assembly, from death to
day at the hands of rebel gunmen
from his homeland.
The gunmen shot the deputy as
he left his apartment.
One bullet broke his jaw, but
his billfold over his heart stopped
another slug. He was operated on
at the American Hospital, and
officials said his condition was
not serious.
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Alaska, Hawaii Shippers
Offered New Deal In 1
House-Passed Rate Bill
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Sen
ate yesterday passed a bill that
would allow shippers in the Ha
waiian and Alaskan trade to set
single through rates. It now goes
to the House.
■ The bill would also create a
board to oversee rates and sched
ules.
An arrangement of through
service and joint rates and
charges would allow a number of
carriers to provide service from
origin to destination on one bill of
lading quoting a single transpor
tation charge.
T«E NAKED TRUThI
BUENOS AiIiRES, Argentina. UP)
— Customers nearly wrecked a
downtown theater when a revue
titled “Naked Before God” turned
out not to have any nudes. The
management finally obtained or
der after promising to reopen
with a revised show.
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JAYCEE BANQUET SATURDAY
The Jaycee Charter Banquet is
to be held at the Seaiew Room
starting at 8 o’clock Saturday eve
ning. George Yeager, president of
the Alaska chapter of Jaycees,
was to have come for the affair
but had to cancel out today.
Duane Oliphant, international
director, is to be the guest speak
er, and Mayor Steffen Andersen
will deliver the address of the
evening.
3 ATTEND GOP CONVENTION
Three Republicans left yester
day, as delegates to the Alaska
GOP convention -in Anchorage.
The three from Nome to the 3-day
meeting are Charles D. Jones, W.
W. Laws, and Chuck Frazier.
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Aussies Haze U.S.
Fleet ‘Down Under’
SYDNEY, Australia, Iff) — Uni
vesrity students bombarded the
U. S. atomic submarine Halibut
with firecrackers Tuesday and
held two American sailors in a
dog house for ransom.
The Halibut is here with the
U. S. Cruiser Canberra for the
annual anniversary observance of
the Battle of the Coral Sea. Two
years ago students boarded the
U. S. Carrier Bennington, here on
the same mission, and brought the
crew to action stations by setting
off the general alarm.
Tuesday, the youths rigged a
catapult of bicycle tubes over
looking the Halibut’s > berth, and
started to bombard at long range
with five-cent firecrackers.
All the shots fell short, nobody v
was hurt, and the students fled
with local police in pursuit.
Then a telegram arrived at the
Canberra demanding one shilling
(11 cents) from each of the 85
officers and 1.850 enlisted men
aboard to ransom two kidnaped
American sailors, Dick Jamieson
of Michigan and Rex Leard from
Texas.
University students are collect
ing money today to help finance
the Ausralian Olympic team’s trip
to Rome.
Two good-looking girls had “ac
cidentally” met Jamieson and
Leard in the city and invited them
to look over the university. On the
campus male students pounced on
the sailors, locked them in an out
sized dog kennel in the veterinary
school and called in newspaper
photographers.
After sending the telegram to
the cruiser, the kidnapers took
their captives off to a party.
Leard and Jamieson were back
on the Canberra before their leave
passes expired at 11 p.m. The
cruiser’s duty officer refused to
say if the ransom had been paid.
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Bering Sea Club 36 8 .818
Misers 28 8 .778
B. P. R. 22 14 .611
Linamenls 24 16 .600
Polar 23 17 .575
F. A. A. 20 20 .500
Morgan's 19 21 .475
N. C. Co. 17 23 .425
All Girls 15 25 .375
Airlines 12 28 .300
Fed. Electric 13 31 .295
Independents 11 29 .275
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Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President.
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Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed .
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
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Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
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of Each Month
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VESTA SUNDSTROM. Sscty.
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