Observers Disagree With
Herter That Cuba Is Wary
Of Red Promise of Help
HAVANA, 1/P>—European diplo- i
mats and others who know Cuba
disagree with Secretary of State
Christian Herter’s claim that
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s re
gime is not happy over the Soviet
promise to defend this island if
the United States attacks.
There is no evidence to support
the view expressed by Herter at
a news conference, one European
diplomat said.
“If there is anyone in the Cu
ban government wary of the em
brace of the Russian bear, he
hasn’t made his view known and
would be smart not to,” the diplo
mat said.
Herter expressed the belief that
the Soviet military pledge was
spontaneous and therefore unsol
icited. Observers here noted there
had been repeated Cuban refer
nces to the Kremlin’s act as spon
taneous, but they considered it
most welcome nonetheless.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Sets Out on Trail of
Abominable Snowman
LONDON, (A»>—Sir Edmund Hil- ,
lary, co-conquerer of Mt, Everest,
set off Saturday on the trail of
the legendary Abominable Snow
man.
The tall New Zealander left
London for Calcutta to arrange
with Indian customs officers for
importing equipment needed by
his scientific expedition.
The group will attempt to climb
Mt. Makalu in the Himalayas as
well as probe the mystery of the
Snowman, or Yeti.
“We are going to try to find
the cause of the huge tracks
which Everest climbers have seen
in the snow,” said Hillary. “The
tracks are definitely there — I
have not seen them myself but
J several of my friends have.
I “If we find an animal ,we shall
examine it and then let it go to
carry on living in its natural habi
tat.”
Mental Patient Invents'Joy Tonic'j
BATON ROUGE, La., MV—Gov.
Jimmie Davis says he has a re- j
port that a man at a state mental
hospital has invented a joy tonic
that makes elderly patients “act
like kids.”
Davis said a woman had writ
ten him the tonic’s effect remind
ed her of the song “I could have
danced all night,” except, as she
put it, “I could have danced all
month.”
With straight face, Davis said:
“If we can find that man, he’s in
for some fast business.”
NEW APPROACH
DENVER, Colo., W1)—For three
hours, a man interviewed social
ite Mrs. John C. Davis Jr. about
a trip she took to Europe, ex
plaining he was a reporter. Then
he handed, her a note which said,
“This is a holdup. I’m desperate.”
He bound Mrs. Davis and a
maid with nylon stockings, shoved
them into a closet and departed
with a diamond platinum ring
and a diamond-studded brooch
which the owner valued at $1,800.
He also got $20 in cash.
Four Persons Drown
Inside Capsized Hull
Of Fishing Vessel
VANCOUVER, B.C., UP — With
three doomed men and a woman
hammering frantically inside the
capsized hull, the 57-foot fishing
boat Unimak sank slowly in
Georgia Strait early Saturday.
Another crewman, thrown clear
when the vessel struck a tow
cable connecting a tug and barge,
was rescued.
“It was terrible, just terrible,”
said one man aboard one of the
rescue vessels attempting rescue.
The Unimak pulled free of res
cue lines and sank in 330 feet of
water 10 miles northwest of here.
“We were so close and they
were alive until the last min
UtB” _
JUDGE GILBERT RETURNS
Judge Hubert Gilbert arrived
from Fairbanks yesterday. He has
been in the interior assisting in
the 4th District Superior Court
due to the illness of Judge Arend.
He will handle some court mat
I ters this week, it is reported.
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TRENT, Italy, UPi—Woodsmen
near this alpine town are still
talking about the wildest bear
dance since Salome shed the sev
enth veil.
It had every right to be a wing
ding — the two performing bears
lapped up the better part of 250
quarts of wine between them.
Anyway you want to look at
bears or wine, that’s a skin-full.
Prof. Peter Krott, custodian of
the animals has been here for
some time keeping tab on their
habits, all for the sake of science.
But the two bears sneaked out
on the professor a couple of
' nights ago — and woodsmen of
| Lares in the valley of Genoa,
! near Trent, tell the rest of the
I tale:
| The two prowlers raided a
j temporarily abandoned alpine
camp and ate their full of sausage
and other stored supplies.
They found, upturned and op
ened, five 50-quart demijohns of
north Italian wine and got a snoot
full.
The two bears reared up on
their hind legs and tried every
thing from the Charleston to
rock’n’roll.
“Man,” the amazed woodsmen
' told townsfolk afterward. “There
never was anything like it.”
DC3 Captain Killed
While Taxiing
HOUSTON, Tex., I/P)—Because
he was not in his regular seat an
airline captain was killed here
I Friday.
J Capt. S. B. Blanchard, 39, of
i Mouston, died as the wing of a
I Delta DC7 sliced into the cockpit
of his Trans-Texas DC-3 here.
Nobody else was injured as the
taxiing DC3 hit the parked DC7.
Blanchard was on the right
sile of the cockpit where the first
officer usually sits. First Officer
C. E. Turk, who could not be
reached for comment, was re
j ported to have been getting “in
flight training in the pilot’s seat.”
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Pearse Walsh, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Ruth Reed
Worthy Matron
Verna Mickelson
V Secretary
Meets first and third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
BYRON G. REED, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Monlh
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Robert Grant
President
> © Dusty Rhode
0$* Secretary
Wednesday puncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
monlh at School.
MINA BACHELDER, President
JANE FOSTER, Secretary
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