Deserter Trapped
Himself In Paris
PARIS, UPi — The honor of
Mont D’Origny has been saved.
None of the villagers gave away
Wayne Powers to the Gendarmes.
It was an accident, in more ways
than one.
When the ex-GI from Chilli
cothe, Mo., was arrested last
week on charges of deserting
from the U. S. Army during
World War II, everyone won
dered how he had been caught.
Everyone in the village had
known he had been hidden of 13
years with dark-haired Yvette
Belouse and their increasing fam
ily—now five healthy children
who speak French and English
with a Midwestern twang. But
no one told on the man news
papers say “deserted the Army
but was loyal to a woman.”
A Paris reporter finally re
vealed that Powers trapped him
self. Watching the street one
day from a curtained window, he
was the only eyewitness *to an
accident. He gave investigating
police short and furtive answers
about it.
Later, officers began to wonder
about this mysterious man. They
checked the records and today
Powers is in a U. S. Army stock
• ade at Verdun awaiting court
martial.
The one time Transportation
Corps Private said he deserted
when he became separated from
his unit. He wanted to report
back, Powers said, and “I hoped
that something would happen that
would make me do it. But it
didn’t.”
Powers said he Mopes to go
back to Mont D’Origny, “the vil
lage where I found happiness,
and live there with Yvette and
the kids.” He has no comment
on his American wife, who di
vorced him in Chillicothe in 1951
for nonsupport.
Leller-size and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
I Request Delay of
Beck’s Trial For
Income Tax Evasion
SEATTLE, lift — Contending a
recent Senate committee report
provoked hostility and prejudice
against Dave Beck Sr., the at
torney for the former Teamsters
Union president asked yesterday
that Beck’s federal income tax
evasion trial be delayed six
months.
Beck is scheduled to go on trial
in Federal district court in Ta
coma May 5 on charges he evaded
$240,000 in income taxes for the
years 1950-53.
Beck’s attorney, said prejudice
against Beck had been stirred up
bya Senate Rackets Committee re
port issued March 25 which said
Beck had stolen at least $370,000
from the Teamsters Union.
Beck contends the money was a
loan and has since been repaid.
Three Rare Whooping
Cranes Leave Texas
Refuge for the North
AUSTIN, Tex., UP»—'Three of
26 rare whooping cranes left
their Texas nesting grounds yes
terday on their 2,500-mile annual
journey to their summer home in
Canada.
Claude Lard, manager of the
Aransas National Refuge near
Austwell, Tex., said the cranes’
departure was eight days earlier
than last year.
The 26 white whoopers—with
jet black wing tips, red head
crowns and long protruding legs
—winter at Gulf Coast Refuge.
Four others are in captivity.
Two adults and a year-old
whooper started the trip for the
! Wood Hole National Park area in
I Canada, Lard said.
Two Juneau Students
Receive Elks Awards
Two Juneau-Douglas high
school students, Christine Hudert
and Gene Moody were awarded
the Juneau Elks youth leadership
award in a ceremony at the BPO
Elks No. 240 regular meeting
Wednesday evening in Elks Hall.
Christina, a senior, is the dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hu
dert and Gene, a junior, is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Moody,
all of Juneau. The parents of the
two young people were present to
witness the presentation of the
awards, a $100 U. S. defense bond
to each by Exalted Ruler Richard
Freer.
Both Christine and Gene are
active in high school affairs.
Christine is active in G.A.A.,
chorus and pep club and was one
of J-Hi’s cheerleaders in both
her sophomore and junior years.
Gene has been elected presi
dent of the class of ’59 and is a
member of the student council.
WEATHER FORECAST
Continued fair through Sat
urday. Northeast winds 15 to
20 today. Low tonight 25-30.
High tomorrow 35-40.
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Pan Am Tops
World Airline
Industry For 1957
NEW YORK, ft — Pan Ameri
can World Airways topped the
world’s airline industry last year
by flying 96,595,000 ton-miles of
cargo, Willis G. Lipscombe, vice
president for traffic and sales,
reported.
This, he said, is equivalent to
flying the 225-ton statue of lib
erty around the world 20 times,
or the average U. S. family auto
mobile to the moon and back 111
times.
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