Wedding Preparations
Held Responsible for
Death of 80 Miners
NEW DELHI, India, I#)—Union
officials said 80 men died Satur
day in an Indian coal mine disas
ter and blamed it on the super
visory staff’s preoccupation with
ithe forthcoming marriage of the
mine manager’s daughter.
The mine is 100 miles north of
Nagpur. Police said both water
and gas seeped into the pit where
-122 men had been working. The
80 men were trapped by collaps
ing mine w<>lls.
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Teachers and Skunks
Just Don’t Mix
OCCOQUAN, Va„ l/F — Any
shortage of teachers in Prince Wil
liam County High School today
can be blamed on a skunk, or
skunks. «
One or more of them made a
weekend visit at a rooming house
where five teachers live. As a
result, at least four of them ex
pected to remain home today.
“We’ve sent our clothes to the
cleaners,” Richard McMaster, one
of the four explained. He said the
fifth, Joseph Patterson, may ven
ture out—if high school pupils are |
agreeable.
McMaster said the skunk—or
skunks—got under the house and
ieft his olfactory calling cards. In
some quarters one would get a
whiff of suspicion that high school
pupils might have had something
to do with the odoriferous affair.
Scientists now believe that
gravity results from the fact that
space is warped in the vicinity of
a massive object in some dimen
sion higher than the familiar
three.
Federal Workers Get
Gift From Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, W—President
Eisenhower has come up with a
holiday gift for federal employ
ees—a full day oft' the day before
Christmas and a half day on Dec.
31 in advance of New Year’s Day.
The President sgined an execu
tive order providing for the time
off for workers in the District of
Columbia and in federal agencies
elsewhere in the country.
BIG DOCK SECTION
TOWED TO SEATTLE
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., t/Pi—'The
job of towing the mdidle and larg
est section of the Canadian Na
tional Railways floating dock
from here to Seattle began Satur
day.
The dock, built- by the Canadian
government between 1912 and
1915, was closed recently.
Puget Sound Brdige & Dredge
Co. of Seattle plans to tow the
dock to Seattle in three secoins
and reassemble it.
“FAITH FOR OUR DAY”
BIBLE READING
December
13 . John 10
Gen. Van Fleet Breaks
With McCarthy Over
Attack on Eisenhower
AUBURNDALE, Fla., W—Gen.
James A. Van Fleet has broken
with Sen. Joseph McCarthy over
the Wisconsin senator’s statement
against President Eisenhower.
Van Fleet, who was a member
of the committee which went after
10 million signatures of persons
backing McCarthy in his fight
against censure by the Senate,
j sent McCarthy a telegram Friday
l renouncing his support.
The telegram said:
| “I am shocked by your bitter
j attack against the President of the
| United States, a full copy of which
I I have read today on arrival home,
i- “In the past, I have supported
you in your fight against interna
tional Communism but never have
agreed with your methods. This
last attack on our great President
causes me to withdraw all sup
port.”
A turtle with two heads, kept
| as a curiousity by the Fish and
! Wildlife Service often stages
j fights between the two heads for
! food.
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John Chilberg, 87,
Pioneer Northwest
Developer, Dies
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif., I/P)—
Death Friday claimed John Ed
ward Chilberg. 87, pioneer north
west developer who was president
of the Alaska Yukon Pacific Ex
position in 1909. He had been ill
about a year.
Chilberg, born in Iowa, was
graduated from the University of
Washington and entered the
wholesale and retail business in
Seattle. He entered the import
export business, expanded to Cen
tral America and then to South
America.
He was listed as one of the dead
in the shipwreck of the Colima in
1895 but managed to swim to
safety.
Chilberg next entered the min
ing business in Alaska and carried
his business ventures into Nome
and Ketchikan.
He was president of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce and built
that city’s first 14-story steel
building. He had been in southern
California for 13 years, coming
first to Pasadena.
When President William How
ard Taft came to Seattle the year
of the A-Y-P Exposition, Chilberg
saw to it that the President was
initiated into the Arctic Brother
hood of Alaska.
Survivors are his wife, Anna
Mary and a son, Hugh R. Chil
berg, Los Angeles; a sister, Mabel
Chilberg, Des Moines; three
grandchildrert, and five great
grandchildren.
The body will be cremated and
services wlil be held Monday at
the Melrose Abbey in Orange,
Calif.
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
OKLAHOMA CITY, Iff)—Albert
Henry Jordan, 59, summoned two
detectives and told them his bill
fold was missing.
After hearing his story, the
policemen lifted his mattress and
found the missing billfold contain
ing SI,100. Jordan reasoned:
“Guess I put it there and forgot
about it.”
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Ben Young, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
BOYD HARWOOD, President
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ALASKA CHAPTER NO. X
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday 6pf each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron v
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 Flrat Ave. West. Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. 1 to S p-m.
Phono Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
i John Cooley, WJM.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month.