Group of 11 Men and 1 Woman Sets Out
For North Pole to Get Scientific Data
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CATS' RIGHTS PRESERVED
BY GOVERNOR'S VETO
BALTIMORE, W)—Every dog
has his day, but the cats in Prince
George County will still have
their night—thanks to a veto by
Gov. McKeldin last week.
The bill would have provided
for the “control, regulation and
restraint of cats running at large”
in the county.
“The cat is, by nature, a roamer
and a prowler,” the governor
noted, and, like his distant cous
ins, prefers the gentle cover of
night, both for reason of romance
and pursuit of prey.”
Gen. George Marshall
Turns Down Millions,
Won’t Write Memoirs
NEW YORK, —Gen. George
C. Marshall says he has turned
down offers of “up to a million
dollars” to write his intimate
memoirs.
The former Army chief of staff
said in an article in Look maga
zine today that “unless you tell
everything, tell all the truth in
the context of the time, it would
be of no value historically.”
Marshall, now living in retire
ment at Leesburg, Va., added that
“there are too many still alive
who could be hurt.”
The general said that the most
thrilling moment in his life was
“when I was promoted to first
lieutenant. I waited five years
. for it.”
UNDERSTANDING PRINCIPAL |
WALSENBURG, Colorado, —
School Principal John Mall was -
as understanding as most people
when he learned one of his stu
dents had a chronic disease.
The lad, absent for a day, pro
duced a note from his mother
reading:
“Please excuse my boy’s ab
sence from school. He has spring
fever. He gets it every year at
this time. Thank you.”
Mall did.
Nehru to Send
to Peiping
Formosa Peace
NEW DELHI, India, —Prime
Minister Nehru is sending B. K.
Krishna Menon, his chief foreign
policy adviser, to Peiping in a
few days to spur Formosa peace
talks. Nehru announced Saturday
he is doing this at the request of
Premier Chou En-lai of Red
China.
Nehru disclosed the move in a
report to Parliament on the Asian
African conference at Bandung,
Indonesia, which ended April £4.
The Indian Prime Minister and
Menon, his most active lieuten
ant in the foreign affairs field for
three years, have been working
behind the scenes on Formosa up
to now.
In announcing Menon’s trip, a
step diplomats here said commit
ted India further on the Formosa
situation than it has ever gone
before, Nehru told Parliament:
“We cannot speak for other
governments and can only form
our own impressions and act ac
cording to our judgment of them, j
“We have increasingly felt that
efforts to bridge the gulf were
imperative in view of the gravity
of the crisis and the grim alter
native that faces us if there are
to be no negotiations.’^
The mongoose was introduced
into the West Indies to control
snakes, but has now become a
worst pest than the snakes.
There were about 180,000 Negro
soldiers in the Union armies dur
ing the Civil War in the United
States.
' TETERBORO, N. J., (JV-T h e
American Polar Basin Expedition
took off Friday though rain and
mist from Teterboro Airport for
a scientific exploration of the
North Pole area.
Left behind as the plane head
ed for its first stop at Montreal
was half of the expedition’s gear,
35 sled dogs and the teary-eyed
wives of the male members of
the group.
The plane carried 11 men and
one woman. After reaching Goose
Bay, Labrador, the plane will re
turn to Teterboro to pick up the
remainder of the cargo, the dogs,
and one member of the expedi
tion, Keith Bryar, of Laconia, N.
H., left behind to watch the dogs
and gear.
Peggy Keenan, the lone woman
member of the expedition, plans
to try to make radio broadcasts
directly from the North Pole. She
is the wife of Lt. Col. John F.
Stanwell-Fletcher, of the Air
Force Reserve, leader of the ex
pedition. The red-haired woman,
if the expedition succeeds, will be
the first woman to reach the
North Pole.
The expedition includes ocean
ographers, a cosmic ray specialist
and cryologist, who will take
iaily soundings, chart ice move
ments and study natural phenom
ena.
They plan to collect mud sam
ples from the bottom of the Arc
tic Ocean, by dropping 17,000 feet
of wire to collect specimens.
On the return, the party hopes
to bring with it the first soil
sample and perhaps the first an
:ibiotic from soil to be dredged
from the sea in the North Pole
/icinity.
They also plan to measure ice
;hickness by a device dropped
:rom the plane.
A spokesman for the group said
:he trip has been underwritten by
10 American firms.
Dr. Wilson A. Swanker, New
York physician, plastic surgeon
and explorer, is second in com
mand.
After establishing a base camp
at Alert, on the northernmost tip
of Ellesmefe Island, the group
will be transferred to a ski
equipped plane to go to the North
Pole. A section of the expedition
will use sleds in the polar area.
The cargo includes picnic bas
kets, beer, sleds made in Brook
lyn, and cases of dog food for the
huskies to be used in the 30-day
exploration.
Interior Dept. Approves
Unit Plan to Dev^Jop
Oil on Moose Reserve
ANCHORAGE, Iff)—First pro
posal for unitization of oil and
gas leases in the Moose Reserve
of Kenai Peninsula has won an
approval of the Interior Dept, in
Washington, it was learned here
Friday.
The Richfield Oil Co. disclosed
that the Geological Survey has
approved the Swanson River area
in the northern portion of the
peninsula for a unit plan of de
velopment.
The move was seen as the open
ing of the Moose reserve for oil
exploration. Most of the reserva
tion has already been placed un
der application for leases but
none have been issued.
There has been soTne specula
tion the drilling might get under
way this year, but this is uncon
firmed.
Other Moose Reserve land is
held by Union, Ohio, Shell Sun
ray and General Petroleum Cos.
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SMOKE STACKS CLEANED
District Atty. Hermann
Brings Prisoners To
Nome From Pt. Barrow
Russell Hermann, district at
torney, returned Friday from Pt.
Barrow where he has been ift
vestigating three recent deaths
from poisoning.
He reported that while at Pt.
Barrow,v three criminal cases
were tried and brought to Fair
banks, and three construction
workers were convicted of giv
ing liquor to minors and were
sentenced to 60 days in jail.
He stated that Barrow’s great
est need right now is a deputy
marshal. Also arrested in connec
! tion with the drinking of meth
anol alcohol were Alfred Hobson
and Paul Matuneak for allowing
the liquor to be consumed at the
dance halls they operated.
Wesley Koonalook, aged 20,
was brought to Nome and is being
held to answer to the grand jury
on a larceny charge involving the
theft last summer of five gal
lons of grain alcohol.
James Panigeo was found
guilty of petty larceny and sen
tenced to six months, suspended.
Hermann used the Barrow
school for his courtroom and an
empty apartment was utilized as
a jail, with litters borrowed from
the hospital for beds.
Six Persons Killed in
Headon Auto Collision
OLATHE, Kansas, —Six per
sons, including four who were
returning from a major league
baseball game in Kansas City,
were killed in a headon auto col
lision near here Friday night.
The State Highway Patrol iden
tified the dead as Thomas Con
nors Jr. and Donald Grauberger,
both of Kansas City; Lloyd Mc
Ilvane and wife, Edith Ann Fowl
er and Floyd Rice, all of Emporia,
Kansas.
Rice’s wife, Violet, was hospi- i
talized and reported in fair con- |
dition.
New Victories for
Premier Diem in
South Viet Nam
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, (*
—Reassured of American sup
port, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem
struck anew today at the shrink
ing private army of his foe at
home and ai Chief of State Bao
Dai, who is watching the Viet
namese turmoil from the French
Riviera.
Four battalions of nationalist
army troops stormed over three
bridges leading to areas of the
Chinese suburb of Cho Lon,
where two battalions of the Bien
Xuyen held out in civil warfare
that flared last week. The gov
ernment objective was to mop up
those men and permit five battal
ions which have deserted the
Bien Xuyen, a commercial society
which seeks to oust Diem, to
switch to the army’s side.
A mortar barrage that shook
the city heralded the attack after
48 hours of relative quiet.
A French press agency dispatch
received in Paris said the nation
al army had wiped out the last
nests of Bien Xuyen resistance in
Cho Lon and all fighting in the
area has ceased.
Rabbits are born without fur.
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Swish—Down Went Airman on Ice Slab
On Harrowing Slide Down Mountain
FAIRBANKS (*>—Old-time avi-«
ators, the saying goes, “flew by
the seat of their pants.”
A jet-age airman from Boston
told Saturday how he, too, flew
by the seat of his pants—on a
runaway ice slab 600 feet down
a mountainside and over a 70-foot
cliff.
The harrowing experience, that
occurred Wednesday at a remote
radar station, sent Airman 3C
John M. McKinney to the hospital
with only multiple bruises.
This is the story he told:
On Wednesday, early, he and a
friend left their station to take
pictures on one of the first clear
days of the year in the wind
swept arctic.
As they walked down an un
used road at the 2,000-foot level
of an un-named mountain a patch
of i<*e McKinney stepped on sud
denly gave way.
Down the face of the ravine the
ice slab sped.
“I was sitting on the ice all the
way down,” McKinney said.
“With all those rocks at the bot
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tom I knew once I went off the
cliff I was done for.”
McKinney and the iee slab
parted company at the edge of a '
1,000-foot chasm and McKinney
tumbled 70 feet to a narrow ledge.
He landed on his hip.
“I couldn’t think. I was froze.”
Below him, McKinney said,
were jagged rocks and ice. “I
tried to move,” he said,” but I
slipped 10 feet to the bottom and
that ledge wasn’t very wide.”
His friend, who had sidestepped
the ice slab as it started its wild
plunge down the mountain, went
for help. A rescue team used a
rope to work themselves and a
litter carrying McKinney up the
mountain to a waiting tracked
weasel and an Air Force doctor.
The Boston airman was philo
sophical about the whole experi
ence: “I’m sure glad I was wear
ing heavy flight pants. They real
ly saved me. But I don’t want to
fly in them that way again.”
Presidents of the United States
have used armed forces abroad at
least 76 times without congres
sional sanction.