Incident Involving Detention of Two
U. S. Embassy Wives In Moscow
Provokes Tense Situation
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Legislative Council
Releases Handbook For
New Alaska Legislators
JUNEAU — The Legislative
Council released last week a
Handbook for Territorial Legis
lators. Designed primarily for
new legislators, the handbook
summarizes the organization of
the legislature, the legislative
procedures, the steps in passing a
bill from introduction to final
publication, and the legislative
aids and services that are avail
able to legislators.
Few legislators can keep up
with all the activities of a legis
lative session. This is particularly
true o'f the new members who
may not be familiar with the
complicated legislative machin
ery and methods. The handbook
was designed to provide a handy
reference guide to enable each
legislator to accomplish his in
dividual legislative goals.
Mrs. Margaret Grisham, who
served for many years as Chief
Clerk of the Alaska House of Rep
resentatives, performed the major
task of writing the handbook un
der the direction of the Director,
while on a special appointment to
the staff of the Legislative Coun
cil.
The address of the Alaska Leg
islative Council is Box 51, Juneau,
Alaska.
Says Copper River Dam
Would Destroy Livelihood
In Indians In The Region
SEATTLE, W>—The building of
a hydroelectric dam on Alaska’s
Copper River would destroy the
livelihood and change the way of
living of one of the northland’s
finest native populations, Dr.
Catherine McClellan, university
of Washington anthropologist,
says.
Dr. McClellan recently com
pleted a preliminary ethnographic
survey of the Copper River In
dians. They depend almost en
tirely on the river’s salmon runs,
she explained.
Although they live west of the
continental divide, the Copper
River people are probably of pre
historic interior origin, and their
ancestors apparently moved into
the Copper River country from
Banff, she added.
“Their language is distinctly
Athabascan, no't one of the coast
al languages,” she said.
Until recently, there were no
wheeled vehicles in Tibet.
* MOSCOW, UP>—U.S. ambassa
dor Charles E. Bohlen called on
Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov at the Kremlin Thurs
day to discuss the tense situation
arising out of the incident in
volving two American embassy
wives and their cameras.
Informants said Bohlen stressed
the seriousness with which the
United States regards the Soviet
action in the case of Mrs. Karl E.
Sommerlatte, wife of the second
secretary of the embassy, and
Mrs. Houston Stiff, wife of the
assistant naval attache.
The Soviet foreign ministry
has declared Mrs. Sommerlatte
personally unacceptable in Rus
sia, which amounts to a request
that she leave the country.
Mrs. Sommerlatte was accused
of “hooliganism,” the Soviet term
for rowdyism, during an incident
last Monday stemming from at
tempts by her and Mrs. Stiff to'
take some pictures of Soviet chil
dren. The United States says the
Russians have the facts all wrong.
The Soviet press took up the
case with stories campaigning vig
orously against what it said was
the “unworthy behavior of the
wife of an American diplomat.”
Most of the newspapers’ indig
nation was directed against Mrs.
Sommerlatte, who in the Russian
version of the incident is accused
of striking a Soviet workman. The
newspapers demanded she leave
the country.
But Mrs. Stiff says it was she
who struck a blow in an effort
to free Mrs. Sommerlatte, who
was being forcibly held at the
door of a workers’ club.
The women were directed to
the club when objections were
, made to photographing the Soviet
children. Both Mrs. Sommerlatte
and Mrs. Stiff said they did not
want to see anything of the club,
and had quite a scuffle trying to
get out.
Finally Sommerlatte arrived at
the club in response to a phone
call from Mrs. Stiff. The women
drove off with Sommerlatte after
about an hour and a half at the
workers’ club.
JAPAN'S PIN-BALL CRAZE
HITS THE DIVORCE COURTS
TOKYO, UPI — Japan’s pin-ball
craze—it’s called “Pachinko” here
—has hit the divorce courts.
The game has been named “co
respondent” in eight divorce
cases this year by Japanese hus
bands and wives who complained
their mates spent too much time—
and money—at it.
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Admiral Mountbatten
Named Britain’s
First Sea Lord
LONDON, OP) — Adm. Earl
Mountbatten, commander in chief
of Allied forces in the Mediter
ranean, today was named Brit
ain’s First Sea Lord.
The appointment, the highest in
the British navy, gave the hand
some 54-year-old admiral the post
his German-born father, Prince
Louis of Battenberg, was forced
to give up under public pressure
in the first World War.
A great grandson of Queen Vic
toria, Lord Mountbatten is a cous
in of Queen Elizabeth II. Her
husband, the Duke of Edinburgh,
is his nephew.
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commercial speed record of five
hours and seven minutes yester
day for the non-stop Chicago
Los Angeles flight. The company
said the time was 13 minutes
under the previous record set by
a United DC-6 last July 11.
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