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PROPOSAL TO EASE UNEMPLOYMENT
Catskill (N.Y.) Mail (Ind. Dem.) /
President Eisenhower has announced his support
of a policy of channeling government defense contracts
into parts of the country where widespread unemploy
ment has existed for some time. The policy is not a
new one. It operated during the Truman administra
tion when unemployment rose in cerain areas. The
move, however, has been criticized by Southern sena
tors who maintain that this grants New England an
edge in the competition to attract new industries . . .
Had the President failed to take the action he did
he would have been subjected to the criticism that
he was doing nothing to solve the unemployment prob
lem . It is impossible for a President to please every
one. This helps to explain why public opinion polls
show such great fluctuation in presidential popularity
from time to time. The best any President can hope to
do is to serve the interest of the nation as a whole as
well as he is able. In the long run this is how he is
judged.
SUFFRAGE FOR 18 YEAR OLDS
Wareham (Mass.-) Courier • Rep.''
We are inclined to agree with President Eisen
hower that complete suffrage should be accorded people
over the age of 18.
Our contention is that if a man is old enough to
fight to protect his country at the age of 18 he is old
enough at that age to take an active part in the opera
tion of his government.
Our young people of 18 and over are called on
without hesitation to take their place on the battle lines
and while they are in school and college they are asked
to pay their whole share in the operation of their gov
ernment.
By all means give them full suffrage.
Perhaps we might find our country in as capable
hands as it has been in years past.
$27,000 Sought for Alaska
Flood Control, Navigation
' WASHINGTON, UFt—Army en
gineers want to spend $80,000 in
Oregon, Washington and Alaska
on navigation and flood control
studies during the 12 months be
ginning July 1.
Engineer witnesses gave the
breakdown in testimony made
public Tuesday, before a House
Appropriations subcommittee.
There was no discussion of in
dividual projects.
Bulk of the sum would be allo
cated to general studies in Alaska
where $17,000 is sought for navi
gation studies and $20,000 for
flood control.
Avalanche Toll in Austria
VIENNA, Austria, —Another
skier was dead and a second miss
ing Tuesday after an avalanche
buried seven German vacationers
on the Manlitzkogel Mountain
near Sallbach, central Austria.
WIEN AIRLINES
Arriving from Fairbanks: Mrs.
Richard Roell, Abraham Stein,
Annie Kugrook, Harry Kugruk.
Departing for Fairbanks: Cpl. C.
Hamilton, Chas. Ashley, Mr.
Adams and Mr. Berone.
"4 on" Duplicate Receipt Books
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‘Buzzie Dali' Roosevelt’s
Wife Asks Divorce, on
Grounds of Mental Cruelty
■ JUAREZ, Mexico, UP)—M r s .
Robin Roosevelt, wife of a grand
son of the late President Franklin
D. Roosevelt, is expected to be
granted a Mexican divorce this
week.
Judge Oscar Martinez indicated
he would grant the divorce to the
wife of Curtis (Buzzie Dali) Roose
velt on grounds of mental cruelty.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she and her
husband have been separated a
year.
Roosevelt, son of Anna Roose
velt, was known to millions of
Americans during his youth as
“Buzzie Dali.” He and his sister,
Sistie, lived for a time at the
White House with the late presi
dent and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
GRANDDAUGHTER OF 1900
NOME PIONEER WEDS
Miss Georgianna Guist, daugh
ter of A1 Guist and the late Mrs.
Charlotte Millar Caron, was mar
ried January 15 to Deonicious
Chelemedos in Seattle.
The bride is the granddaughter
of the late George D. Millar, a
1900 pioneer of Nome.
Fred Chelemedos, brother of the
groom from Berkeley, Calif., was
best man. The groom’s parents
live in Albany, California.
Naguib Resumes
All Former Duties
CAIRO, UP)—Maj. Gen.’ Moham
med Naguib took all his old jobs
back Tuesday in Egypt’s military
government. The man who de
posed him 12 days ago, Lt. Col.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, stepped back
to the vice premiership he held
originally.
Guidance Minister Salah Salem
Tenselh announced Naguib’s rein
statement as Premier and chair
man of the ruling Revolutionary
Council. Naguib already had tak
en back the presidency after being
ousted from all three posts and
placed under guard at home on
Feb. 25 on charges he sought to
become a “dictator.”
Nasser, who had been President
during the three days of Naguib’s
eclipse and Premier and council
chairman since, said in an inter
view Tuesday the full restoration
of Naguib was made to end all
quarrel before resumption of ne
gotiations for withdrawal of Brit
ish troops from the Suez Canal
Zone.
G.M. Earnings For 1953
Set New High Record
NEW YORK, UP) — Ten billion
dollars in sales, more than 1%
billion in taxes, 598 millions in
profits—that’s the record of Gen
eral Motors Corp. for 1953.
The sales of $10,027,985,482
were the highest in history for
any private corporation and eclip
sed by a wide margin the $7,549,
154,419 in 1952, previous record
for GM or any other firm.
Net income of S598,119,478 was
only the third highest for the
| giant auto manufacturer but kept
| its position as biggest money
maker in American industry, top
ping 1953 earnings of 553 million
by Standard Oil Co. <N.J.) and 491
million for the Bell Telephone
System.
Direct taxes of $1,237,000,0000
pus $661,000,000 collected by GM
in sales and excise taxes came to
$1,898,000,000, equivalent to $21.77
a share of common stock, com
pared with net income of $6.71 a
share.
104 U.S. Servicemen
From 34 Countries
Naturalized as Citizens
FRANKFURT, Germany, UP)—
A group of 104 U.S. servicemen
from 34 countries, including the
Soviet Ukraine, were naturalized
as American citizens here Tues
day.
Before they were sworn in at a
mass ceremony in a "‘Frankfurt
military theater, they were told
by Argyle R. MacKey, commis
sioner of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Washing
ton, D.C., that:
“Any person who is good enough
to wear the uniform of our fighting
, forces is also good enough to wear
the proud mantle of American
citizenship.”
By an act of Congress, aliens in
the U.S. Armed Forces may be
come citizens if they serve at least
90 days between June 24, 1950,
and July 1, 1955.
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Wife of Murdered Fairbanks Man
Kills Self With 39 Sleeping Pills
HOLLYWOOD, UP)—Pretty Diane'
Wells, 31, accused of killing her
husband in Fairbanks, Alaska,
committed suicide Tuesday in the
Hollywood Plaza Hotel, police re
ported.
Detective B. C. Armstrong said
the woman checked into Room 711
Monday night. Her body was dis
covered Tuesday morning. There
was an empty sleeping pill bottle
on a table.
Armstrong said a note read:
“Bill, I have taken 30 of them.”
The rest of the writing was il
legible, the detective said, as the
woman apparently dozed off.
Armstrong said the identifica
tion was. made by William Colun
bany of Los Angeles, a friend of
the Wells in Fairbanks and appar
ently the “Bill” to whom the note
was written.
Columbany formerly operated a
dance studio in Fairbanks.
Mrs. Wells and Negro jazz drum
mer Johnny Warren were charged
with the first degree murder of
Cecil Wells in Fairbanks. She was
due for trial in Fairbanks April 5 !
and has been free on $10,000 bail.
Warren said they had a love
affair, but she denied it.
She claimed two men invaded
the Wells apartment early the
Bartlett’s Nose For News
Saved His Skin When
Shots Rang Out In House
JUNEAU,—\Vbere was Moses
when the lights went out?
And where was Bartlett whep
the shots rang out?
Alaska’s Delegate to Congress
was just starting through the door
into the House Chamber at Wash
ington, D.C., on Monday, March 1,
when the shots were fired by
Puerto Rican nationalist sympath
izers.
“I knew it wasn’t firecrackers,”
Bartlett said, “so I hopped behind
the biggest and broadest column
I could find.”
The printer’s ink which got into
the delegate’s blood when he
served many years as a reporter
and editor on Alaska newspapers
may be credited with keeping him
away from the bullets. He had
stopped, like any good newsman,
to look over a wire service tele
type in the House anteroom before
entering the chamber that after
noon.
FATHER OF WIEN
BROTHERS DIES
John B. Wien, father of Noel,
Fritz, and Sigurd Wien, Pioneer
Alaskan flyers, died in Cook, Min
nesota, last Tuesday morning at
the age of 85 years.
Wien, who came to America
from his birthplace in northern
Norway when a lad of 18 years,
settled a homestead in St. Louis
County in northern Minnesota.
Other survivors are younger
brother, Harold, and a sister, Mrs.
Enid Helstrom, both in Cook,
Minn.
morning of Oct. 17, beat her into
unconsciousness when she at
tempted to run for help and shot
her husband.
She came to the United States
saying she needed medical help
to “get over the effects of the
beating I suffered when my hus
band was killed.”
Armstrong said the woman’s
body was discovered by hotel em
ployes about 9:30 this morning.
She was dressed in a green.sweat
er and a black and green skirt and
had been dead an estimated six or
seven hours.
Columbany appeared at police
headquarters with an attractive
blond, Joan Mansfield.
Police said Mrs. Wells came
here Dec. 11 to stay with Miss
Mansfield. On Feb. 14 Mrs. Wells
moved into the Hollywood Drake
Hotel.
Miss Mansfield told officers she
had noticed that Mrs. Wells in
recent days had become “more
and more despondent, fearing a
conspiracy was afoot to railroad
her into a murder conviction.”
Monday night she called the
Drake to ask the manager to keep
an eye on her, Miss Mansfield
said. But Mrs. Wells moved to the
Plaza and registered as Doris May
of Denver.
The Wells murder case was one
of the most sensational in Alaska’s
history.
Wells was the president of the
All-Alaska Chamber of Commerce
and a well-to-do automobile deal
er in Fairbanks. His estate was
estimated at about half a million
dollars.
Mrs. Wells was his fifth wife.
Wells was shot in his bed. Mrs.
Wells, with facial bruises and
blackened eyes, was hospitalized
briefty after the slaying.
She was arrested several weeks
later as she stepped from an air
plane in Seattle. The grand jury
had returned an indictment
against her and Warren after she
left Fairbanks.
Warren, the Negro drummer
and singer, was arrested in Oak
land, Calif., where he told police
he had been attracted to the come
ly blonde as she danced at a Fair
banks club because “her eyes led
me to believe she might appreci
ate attention.”
Warren has been free on $5,000
bail in Fairbanks. He had been
working in a grocery store and
playing in a band.
Mrs. Well’s attorney sought in
Alaska to win a separate trial for
her, but the district court denied
the petition. Warren’s attorney
argued against separate trials for
the pair.
Mrs. Wells is survived by a
three-year-old son.
An attorney for the wells estate
said the boy, Marquan, will re
ceive an estimated $200,000 from
the Wells estate. Much of the es
tate, under Well’s will, goes to
children by previous marriages.
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