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Plastic Surgery, Hormone Treatments
Make Former British Fighter Pilot
A Woman With Complete Sex Change
LONDON, UP — Hormone treat- ♦
ments and three years of plastic
surgery are reported by the Press
Association to have transformed a
British World War II fighter pilot
into a woman in what “may well
be the most complete change of
sex in the world’s medical his
tory.”
The British news agency said
last night it has documents to
prove Bob Cowell, 35, a former
Royal Air Force lieutenant, a
father of two children, is now a
female.
Its account, the source of which
was not given, said Cowell—di
vorced by his wife in 1952 on a
charge of desertion—is now living
“somewhere on the continent” as
Roberta Elizabeth. Relatives were
reported caring for the daughters,
10 and 12.
According to the press associ
ation dispatch Cowell came from
a prominent family. His father is
Maj. Gen. Sir Ernest Cowell, an
honorary surgeon to the late King
George VI. During World War II
African campaign, the elder Co
well was President Eisenhower’s
director of medical services.
Young Cowell went in for rug
ged sports—Rugby football and
motorcycle racing. As a Spitfire
pilot, he chalked up a good rec
ord in wartime dog fights. He
spent six months as a war pri
soner after being shot down over
Germany.
In 1948, however, he started
hormone treatment to switch his
sex after noticing a change in his
physical condition and mental
outlook and hearing from a physi
cian that his body showed promi
nent feminine sex characteristics.
The next step was plastic sur
gery. Undergoing operation at a
London hospital by one of Brit
ain’s most eminent surgeons, he
gradually emerged as a female.
Doctors verified to registry of
ficials that he was a woman.
A substitute birth certificate
was issued May 25, 1951, for Ro
berta Elizabeth Marshall Cowell.
She went abroad after living a
while with her parents in Croy
den and with her married bro- j
ther and sister.
Neither of Cowell’s daughters
has been told about the sex
change. Their mothfer has married
again and it was not determined
where she is living.
Top Stevens Aid Resigns,
Protests at Handling of
Stevens-McCarthy Dispute
WASHINGTON, UPU-A top aid
to Secretary of the Army Stevens
has resigned with a protest at the
handling of the Stevens-McCarthy
dispute, but a spokesman for the
secretary said Stevens himself has
no intention of resigning.”
The aide who quit was John F.
Kane, a special assistant who also
worked for former Secretary
Frank Pace.
Kane announced his resignation
from his $10,000 a year job with
a letter deploring what he termed
a lack of “full fighting support”
for Stevens in his troubles with
Sen. McCarthy.
The letter congratulated Stevens
on “the gallant battle you are try
ing to put up for the Army.”
He also said his resignation was
due in part to poor health.
Nome School Name On
Independence Hall Scroll
If $100 Goal Is Reached
Communities throughout the 48
states are endeavoring through the
school children to raise enough
funds to restore Independence
Hall.
Every school raising $100 will
have its name engraved on the
scroll which will be placed in the
historical building.
Through the cooperation of the
Home Arts Club the children at
Nome School have raised approxi
mately $75 to date and are hoping
by a penny a week to raise the
amount to the desired $100 before
the year is out.
King Henry I of England estab
lished the length of the yard as
the distance from the end of his
nose to the tip of his thumb.
SCORCHY SMITH
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attempting
TO REACH
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MAKE HIM
UNDERSTAND
THE DANGER
OF HARNESSING
THE ROTATIONAL
FORCE OF
ASTAR, SCORCHY
STUMBLES UPON
ASTOUNDING
INFORMATION.
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OUR WELCOME AGAIN.
Puerto Rican
Nationalist Party
Chief Seized
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Uft—
Puerto Rican authorities seized
National Party Chief Pedro Al
bizu Campos in a blaze of gunfire
at his apartment early Saturday.
Gov./Duis Munoz Marin prompt
ly announced his government
would “go all the way up to the
limit of the law and constitution
to stamp out the “poisonous
snake” of subversion.
Acting less than a week after
Puerto Rican nationalists wound
ed five U.S. Congressmen in Wash
ington, police moved swiftly to
stamp out the fanatical, pro-inde
pendence Nationalist Party. They
were ordered early Saturday to
arrest 38 of its leaders. Five hours
later, 36 of them, including Albizu
Campos and five women members
had been taken into custody.
Arrested with the 62-year-old
party chief at his home in an ex
change of nearly 150 shots and
exploding of home-made missiles
and tear gas bombs were three
women and two men.
One of the women arrested was
the sister of the woman killed in
Washington when the Nationalists
tried to assassinate President Tru
man in 1950.
Other arrests were made else
where across the island.
14 - Man Police Guard
Assigned Harry Truman
NEW YORK, MP)—A special 14
man police guard was assigned to
former President Harry S. Tru
man Saturday after the recent
shooting of five congressmen by
Puerto Rican nationalists.
He commented that the precau
tion was not necessary.
Three policemen accompanied
him on his traditional morning
stroll and 11 others were stationed
in and around the Waldorf Tow
ers where he has a 35th floor
suite for the weekend.
The Nationalists attempted to
assassinate Truman in 1950 while
he was president.
The former president, walking
22 blocks in 28 minutes, declined
to discuss current politics with
reporters who accompanied him.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the third Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
—4t>6 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska—
10 to *2 A.M. - 1 to 5 P.M.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 288
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ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
John Cooley, W.M. '
Norvln W. Lewis, Secy;
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each Month