Del. Bartlett Assures Senate Group
Mental Health Bill Is No Red Plot
WASHINGTON, UP>—A Senate
subcommittee has been told that
Alaska’s proposed mental health
program “is no Marxist plot, no
treasonable plan, and no Commu
nistic endeavor to undermine the
United States.”
The assurance .was given by
Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska» yes
terday after members of the Sen
ate Territories subcommittee had
heard the bill described as an
“entering wedge whereby Ameri
can citizens could lose their prop
erty rights.”
The bill before the committee—
which is in recess today—would
transfer administration of Alas
ka’s mental health program to the
territory from the federal govern
ment.
Still to be heard by the commit
tee at an indefinite time are oper
ations of the Morningside Hospit
al at Portland, Ore., which now
treats Alaska’s mentally ill under
contract with the government.
An appeal for retention of the
proposed patient’s right to a jury
hearing came from George C.
Finn and his twin, Charles, of
Hollywood. The brothers gained
national publicity when they
fought government efforts to re
claim a surplus airplane they had
purchased and, as George told the
committee, “wound up in a men
tal hospital” at Springfield, Mo.
George Finn said that he was
“shocked” to hear government
witnesses earlier urge elimination
of the jury provision as an unde
sireable method of determining
mental- illness.
“They may be right,” he said,
“but it’s the only method for de
termining incarceration.”
In defending the mental health
proposal, Bartlett said “every ef
fort has been made to write safe
guards" into it, but said that if
additional precautions are felt
necessary Alaskans would have
no objections to their inclusion.
Emphasizing the need for revi
sion of Alaska’s present proce
dures, Bartlett said that “only re
cently a 17-day-old baby was put
in jail, found guilty of being in
sane and sent to Morningside.”
Sen. Neuberger described Alas
ka’s present program as “wholly
unfair” and said that revision was
“long overdue.”
Rightest Group in Greece
Renounces Alliance With
Communist Line Parties
ATHENS, Greece, (if'—Right
wing election opponents of Pre
mier Constantine Karamanlis yes
terday renounced their alliance
with Communist line parties and
said they would support the Pre
mier’s foreign policy.
In Sunday's election, Karaman
lis’ party won at least 155 of the
National Parliament's 300 seats.
The National Democratic Union
coalition which opposed him, an
alliance of rightests and extreme
leftists took 142 seats, according
to incomplete returns.
The Communist front parties
demanded during the election
campaign that Greece withdraw
from the North Atlantic Treaty
Alliance (NATO).
Each of the four jet engines of
a new U.S. jet transport develops
as much equivalent horsepower as
58 Cadillacs, “Planes” reports.
Publisher Jailed
Result of Editorial
On Vice Payoffs
FORT WORTH, Texas, (£1—Af
ter spending the night in the Tar
rant County Jail for contempt of
court, newspaper publisher Wil
liam Prescott Allen today was to
tell the grand jury what he knew
about crime conditions in Fort
Worth.
The gray-haired, 60-year-old
publisher of the Laredo Times
and the Daily Alaska Empire was
fined $100 and sent to jail by Dis
trict Judge Dave McGee yester
day after he refused to testify be
fore the grand jury on grounds it
violated his Constitutional rights
and might incriminate him.
Later in the day, Allen an
nounced he would testify but the
judge refused to release him Irom
jail, saying he could purge him
self of contempt only by testify
ing and that he would have to i e
main in custody until he did so.
Allen entered the grand jury
room at 9:15 a.m. today.
Allen was subpoenaed by the
grand jury after several front
page editorials in the Laredo
newspaper, 425 miles from here,
had lambasted this city for per
mitting vice and payoffs. He
charged that one politician here
takes *a cut of vice-payoff money
because he wants to run for lieu
tenant governor.
After being sentenced to jail,
Allen said “in order to expose
some of the crookedness, it’s
worth the price.”
The publisher was fingerprinted
and made to exchange his natty
.business attire, including match
ing silk tic and pocket handker
chief, for a prisoner’s striped cov
eralls.
Although he had nothing to eat
since breakfast, Allen refused to
eat the evening meal served in
jail: boloney, cheese, pork and
beans, bread and iced tea.
350-Pound Puma Pet
Eats 10 Pounds of Meat
Daily and Watches TV
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., OP—
Most houswives would flee in
terror, with their husbands keep
ing pace at the sight of Mrs. Mel
vin Koontz’ kitchen pet.
The 350-pound puma sits on a
drain board while Mrs. Koontz
washes her dishes. He follows her
about the house and is as domes
ticated as a kitten—well, almost,
although Mrs. Koontz has a few
scratches.
She acquired the Puma, named
Kimbo, five years ago as a baby.
She bottle-fed him and reared
him as a pet. Now he eats 10
pounds of horse meat and a gal
lon of milk daily, and watches
television when time hangs
heavy.
JAPAN’S ECONOMY SOARS
AT EXPENSE OF WORKERS
TOKYO, (4*!—Japan is moving
again toward economic dominance
of Asia—but at the expense of
underpaid workers, that nation’s
top labor leader contends.
Akira Iwai, 34, boss of Japan’s
big General Council of Trade
Unions, says industrial determin
ation to exploit workers is the
reason the government opposes
the union’s unfolding campaign
for wage increases.
Methodist Officials
Visit Nome Church
For Special Services
The Community Methodist
Church announced that Rev. Rob
ert Laidig of the Methodist
Church of Minneapolis, Minn.,
will conduct services all week
from Feb. 26 to March 4. His
theme will be “Some Hows of
Christian Living.”
Also coming to Nome during
that week will be Rev. Leslie
Ross of the General Board of
Evangelism from Nashville, Tenn.
The public is invited to any and
all the special meetings, stated
Rev. Willard Mecklenburg.
Duchess Didn’t Look When She
Leaped Into Romance With King
NEW YORK, UP>—'The Duchess
of Windsor says she was “unpre
pared and unarmed" for the storm
stirred up by her romance with
former King Edward VIII more
than 19 years ago.
In the first installment of her
autobiography published in the
current McCall’s Magazine, the
former Wallis Warfield writes:
“Rather late in life I found my
self not only in love but loved as
few modern women could ever
expect to be loved with a great
throne at stake, a vast empire
seething, and with the most ob
scure details of my previously un
noticed existence reverberating in
the four corners of the earth—
when these extraordinary hap
penings overtook me, slowly at
first, then with the rush of an
avalanche, I was unprepared and
unarmed.”
Edward abdicated the British i
throne Dec. 11, 1936, for “the |
woman I love.” His romance with
the Baltimore divorcee had pro
duced a crisis throughout the
British Empire.
“Nothing that I had known be
fore or learned seemed to apply
to my new circumstances,” the
Duchess writes. ‘‘I stood quite
alone and defenseless in the eye
of the storm. Mistakes were made
by me and by others whom I
might have influenced but for the
lack of communication and under
standing.
"Had I had mv way, when at
the eleventh hour full under
standing finally came to me, this
story would have had a different
ending, if indeed there had been
occasion to write it at all.”
A sidelight in the first chapter
is the duchess’ admission that she
rarely looked before she leaped.
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