LITERARY CRITIC BEN
REDMAN COMMITS SUICIDE
HOLLYWOOD UP — The cor
oner’s office says literary critic j
and writer Ben Rav Redman, 65,
committed suicide by taking an
“overdoes of alcohol and barbi
turates.”
Redman died Wednesday, his
wife, Frieda, a stage and screen
actress known as Frieda Ines
cort, said he told her earlier he
had taken 12 sedative pills. He
died before she could summon
help.
Investigators were told Red
man had been despondent in re
cent weeks over the state of in
ternational affairs. He left no
note.
Reported Soviet Trawler
Near Impact Area —
Wasn't Soviet After all
WASHINGTON l# — That
trawler which reportedly watched
the landing this country’s second
spaceman last month apparently
wasn’t Russian after all. Govern
ment sources said Wednesday it
probably was an American re
search ship.
Those sources said two Com
munist vessels were in the Atlantic
! at the time, but at a considerable
greater distance from the scene
of the scene of the landing.
A Soviet trawler, apparently
equipped with technological re
cording instruments, was in the
area of Bermuda, about 500 miles
from the point where Capt. Virgil
I. Grissom’s Mercury capsule
landed.
A Yugoslav ship, which may or
may not have carried instrumen
tation, was headed toward Ha
vana at the time and at one point
stopped in her course, however,
this ship was about 150 miles
away from the impact area, it was
said.
Many complain at the high cost
of postage rates today, but in
1861 it cost $5 a hall-ounce to
! send mail by the Pony Express.
Penalty for Hijacking . . .
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ident of the Air Line Pilots Assn.,
said “there seems to be an or
ganized conspiracy to forcibly
take control of a large number
of our commercial airliners.”
Government officials tended to
discount any idea that the Castro
regime, whose backers have pre
viously seized two other U. S. j
airliners, had anything directly
to do with that affair.
But outside the committee hear- ]
ing Sen. Everett Dirksen, the Sen
ate Republican Leader, took an- I
other view.
Dirksen said he does not accept
the idea that a “two-bit petty
. criminal” would hijack a $5
' million plane simply on “a great
urge to go to Cuba.”
Questioning the view that the
holdup “with Havana as the hi
jacker’s destination” had no con
nection with the two previous
hijackings, Dirksen asked: “Is it
reasonable to believe these three
hijackings were unrelated and
indicated no conspiracy?”
Science has learned how to
make food from wood and, in ef
fect, you can eat a tree. An elible
cellulose made from wood fibres,
filling but nonfattening, has been
recognized by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration as fit for
human consumption.
Gagarin's Next Assigment
. . . Flight to the Moon
NEW YORK OP — Soviet space
man Yuri Gagarin was quoted
Thursday as saying his next as
signment is a flight to the Moon.
Gagarin was interviewed in
Willemstad. Netherlands West
Indies by Gerald A. Bartell, pres
ident of MacFadden Publications,
Inc.
Bartell said the interview on
July 28 was the first private
one with Gagarin by a repre
sentative of the American press.
The Soviet spaceman reported
that he felt he has a “very good
chance” of reaching the Moon,
Bartell said, but gave no details
of when the flight might be at
tempted.
REPUBLICANS TO HOLD
! CONVENTION IN McGRATH
j McGrath has been selected for
the Republican Central District
Convention, being held tomor
row, with Ted Stevens as key
note speaker. At this convention
the delegates will be elected to
attend the State Republican Con
vention in October, which is
being held in Fairbanks.
This will be a one-day conven
tion. Delegates will arrive by
chartered plane in the morning
and will leave in the evening.
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More Ships and
Planes Assigned to
Patrol Bering Sc*a
JUNEAU — Headquarters of
the 17th Coast Guard District
said yesterday more ships and
planes had been assigned to patrol
work in the Bering Sea off Alas
ka’s western coast.
The announcement followed by
one day a request by Gov. Egan
that the Coast Guard and Navy
increase their efforts to prevent
encroachment on Alaska’s terri
torial waters by Russian and Ja
panese fishermen.
Egan wired his request to Sec
retary of State Dean Rusk Tues
day, saying Russian and Japanese
whalers had been observed with
in Alaska’s three-mile territorial
limits twice during the month of
July.
The Coast Guard said its beefed
up patrols would work closely
with the U. S. Bureau of Com
mercial Fisheries, which report
ed sighting the Soviet and Nip
ponese whalers.
Two whalers, believed to be Ja
panese, were sighted July 3 off
Amchitka Island and a Russian
whaler was spotted July 16 less
than two miles south of Unalga
Island, in the Aleutians.
The Coast Guard said it actually
had stepped up its Bering Sea
patrol activity at the start of the
year.
District headquarters said that
while last year the cutters Storis
and Northwind were used alter
nately on patrols in the Bering
Sea, they were being used at the
same time this year.
The Coast Guard said air pa
trol flight time in the Bering Sea
area this year was running 20
to 30 per cent ahead of I960 pa
J trol flight time.
Letter-size and legal file folders
at The Nugget
Nome Directory
Nome
Shrine Club
Werner Bohrer, Pres.
H. M. Crinklaw. Sec.
Meets First Thursday of Eacn Month
Masonic Hall
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
| Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Don Hoover, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
BEastern Star
arbara Martin
Vorthy Matron
Bev Morgan
Secretary
i Third Mondays
invil Lodge
No. 140
S. BOHRER, W. M.
/in W. Lewis, Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
Of Each Month
Nome Rotary Club
Herb Jenks
President
Wednesday Luncheon
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets Last Tuesday of Every
Month at School
Ralph Fondell, President
Lavonne Small. Secretary
—VISITORS WELCOME—
Pioneer Igloo No. 1
Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays
Wm. H. Cameron, Pres.
Chas. D. Jones, Secty.
Civil Air Patrol
..-p- Northwestern Group
Nome Cadet Squadron
1st Lt. Jesse Jones, Cmdr.
Main 118 or 334
Meetings - Each Thursday 7:00 p.m.