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INTERPRETER NEEDED
On the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Soviet
army and navy, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, newly
appointed defense minister of the new Khrushchev
Bulganin regime, and the man with whom General
Eisenhower once said he could “do business,” warned
the Russian forces against U.S. aggression.
In an order of the day, Zhukov charged “the ag
gressive forces of the imperialistic countrise, headed by
U.S. monopolists” with “openly preparing a new war
against the Soviet Union.” He assured his vast com
mand that “all necessary measures to secure the stead
fast security of the motherland” were being taken by
the Communist party and the government, and warned
his fighters that they must “always be ready” to de
fend their country.
Obviously, such an anniversary in Russia calls for
a rousing, sabre-rattling message, with a speech in the
same vein. But the recent upheaval in the Kremlin
makes it equally obvious that this could be more than
Russian window-dressing. The economy of the USSR
is plainly out-of-joint. The people are getting hungry,
and there isn’t enough food in sight. Georgi Malenkov’s
confession that he made a mess of things appears well
founded. And before now, dictators have plunged their
countries into war to prevent internal collapse.
There is also room for speculation as to whether
Zhukhov may not be more interested in defending his
country than supporting the Party . . . even to the
possibility of defending his country from the Com
munist Party!
Or perhaps it is merely that the recent praise of
President Eisenhower has been embarrassing—to the
point of placing him under suspicion.
Among our happiest people are fat middle-aged
women with few responsibilities who are thoroughly
relaxed because they don’t worry about anything —
not even about their age and weight.
Our country is becoming increasingly popular.
Last year more people than ever before chose it as a j
place in which to be born, and percentagewise fewer;
people than ever before departed from it for the Great;
Unknown.
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Ex-Convict Killed
After 16 Hour
Crime Spree
GREEN RIVER, Wyo., (A»i—An
ex-convict who killed two meh
and wounded two others was shot
to death Friday night in a house
where he menaced a woman and
her two children.
A charge from a sawed-off
shotgun ended the life and the
16-hour crime spree of Melvin H.
Gray, 27. Just before he staggered
and fell dead Gray yelled: “I’m
dead, dammit—come and get me.”
W. G. Sherman, a special agent
for the Union Pacific Railroad,
who was in the cordon of armed
officers surrounding the House,
fired the blast through a window.
The killings by Gray touched
off one of the most intensive man
hunts in southwestern Wyoming
in years. During his flight from
officers, Gray held a 17-vear-old
boy as a hostage but later let him
go unharmed.
Coming to this railroad town of
3,187, Gray took refuge in the
home of Mrs. Guy Kalivas after a
running gunfight through the rail
yards and nearby streets.
While the desperado menaced
Mrs. Kalivas and two children,
one of a score of officers encircl
ing the house called and distract
ed his attention. Sherman seized
the opportunity to sneak unseen
to a front window and fire.
The blast caught the killer in
the chest. He stumbled into an
adjoining bedroom and officers
found him dead seconds later.
One of Gray’s pursuers, Deputy
Sheriff Ed Phillips of nearby
Rock Springs, died of his wounds
Friday. Frank Kulinsky, Kem
merer town marshal, was wound
ed seriously after Gray disarmed
him and two companions at Fron
tier, Wyo. In that same fight, a
Kemmerer garage owner was
killed and another man wounded.
GEN. OMAR BRADLEY'S
DAUGHTER ENGAGED
LOS ANGELES, (AV—Gen. and
Mrs. Omar N. Bradley announced
today the engagement of their
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley
Beukema, to Benjamin Henry
Dorsey Jr., son of Rear Adm.
Benjamin H. Dorsey, USN ret.,
and Mrs. Dorsey of Washington,
D.C.
Mrs. Buekema is the widow of
Major Henry Shaw Beukema, Air
Force flyer killed in a jet plane
crash in Virginia last year.
WEATHER FORECAST
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Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with occasional light
snow and warmer tonight and
Tuesday. Easterly winds 5-10 mph
becoming southeasterly 10-15 mph
tonight and 20-30 mph Tuesday.
Lowest temperature expected to
night -9, high tomorrow 12.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest temperature
3, lowest -18. Max. wind 21 mph
from the WNW. Sunrise at 6:49
a.m., sunset at 5:38 p.m.
A year ago today: highest tem
perature 22, low 10. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 36
in 1949, lowest -31 in 1937.
Station Temp. Weather
Kotzebue -22 Cloudy
Wales -8 Cloudy
Nome -8 Cloudy
Unalakleet -9 Cloudy
Bethel -4 Cloudy
McGrath 13 Cloudy
Anchorage 36 Part cloudy
Fairbanks 25 Snow Shrs
Juneau 35 Rain
Ketchikan 41 Rain
Seattle 40 Part cloudy
San Francisco 34 Clear
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS
Copies of the proposed Dog Or
dinance are at your disposal in
City Clerk's office. Submit your
opinions or any changes, in writ
ing, to the City.
Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Publish March 4, 9, 11, 1955. ‘
Bills Signed by Gov. Heintzleman ;
JUNEAU UP)—Alaskans—and
election followers in the States
who wonder how Alaska, and pos
sibly the nation, are going to go—
aren’t going to have to wait so
long in the future for results
from the polls.
Gov. Heintzlpman notified the
legislature Friday he had signed
into law the bill to increase the
ballot-counting crew in big elec
tion precincts. It provides three
extra counters will be added on
election night to take over the
job of tallying in precincts with
over 200 voters. The act states
that its purpose is to get the fast
est election returns possible.
It was introduced to eliminate
the locking up of ballots on elec
tion night by weary day workers
at the polls. The bill was intro
duced by the House Territorial
Affairs Committee.
Other bills signed by the gov
ernor included:
Nome, Coldest in
Alaska, Outdone in
Pacific Northwest
SEATTLE, (4*)—If any of those
persons who stumbled out into
the early morning cold in Oregon
and Washington thought it could
n’t be colder even in Alaska—
well, they were right.
Alaska points which report to
the United States Weather Bu
reau generally were warmer than
most Pacific Northwest points. As
an example, the coldest reported
point in Alaska was Nome, that
wind-swept town on the Bering
Sea, where the high Friday was
18 degrees and the low was 4
below.
But that wasn’t as cold as El
lensburg, which had a low of 7
degrees below zero, the coldest
reported point in either of the
two states.
Even normally warm Seattle
was colder than either Anchor
age, Fairbanks, Juneau or Kodiak
in Alaska. Washington’s largest
city had a high of 29 degrees and
a low of 14. Fairbanks, which is
accustomed to lows of 40 to 50
below zero, had a low of only 25
degrees above and it warmed up
to an unseasonally high 32 de
grees.
Other cold points in the Pacific
Northwest were Baker with 4 !
degrees below zero, and Spokane
with a 2 degrees above.
New York Times Editor Dies !
NEW YORK, Uft—Frederick T. i
Birchall, 34, acting managing edi- i
tor of the New York Times from !
1920 to 1931, died today at Daw- I
son Memorial Hospital, Bridge
water, Nova Scotia.
In recent years he had been liv
ing in retirement at his home at
Petite Riviere, 18 miles from
Bridgewater.
An act to create a territorial
library board which will name a
territorial librarian with an aim
of providing library facilities for
outlying communities;
An act to exempt double ser
vice veterans from repaying the
bonus they got for World War II
service if they seek veterans’ loans
on the basis of their later Korean
War service;
An act to provide for flying the
United States and Alaska flags at
every territorial institution and
for displaying U.S. flags at
schools and at the polls;
An act to provide that cities
can adopt nationally recognized
codes, in such fields as electrical
I and plumbing, by reference only.
An act to provide for an in
crease of the Territorial Textbook
Commission to six members, in
cluding both teachers and admin
istrators, who will meet every
I two years instead of every four.
144 Miles Up!
LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO
— Bound for the ionosphere the
Navy’s Viking Rocket #12 I ' sts
off the flooi of the New Mm- n
desert at White Sands piov.ng
ground near here. A blast of steam*
is created when the rocket engir =
exhaust hit a deep cemer* i t
(partially filled with water) n...r
the launching stand. This Viking .
soared 144 miles during a primary
experiment conducted to inv ,i
gate the thermal barrier, whi:h
has succeeded the sound bam r
as a major problem in supers .ic
flight.
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