Young Govt. Girl
Found Shot In Her
Fashionable Apt.
WASHINGTON, IIP) — A pretty
23-year-old government girl was
found shot to death Monday night
at a fashionable apartment house
across the Potomac River in Ar
lington, Va. Strewn around the
chain-locked room were piles of
Christmas packages.
The victim was identified as
Sally Wood, formerly of Medfield,
Mass. She worked at a secret
government installation in Ar
lington and there were uncon
firmed reports government agents
searched the room today for
papers she may have had «in her
possession.
At the Pentagon, officials de
scribed her as a $4,200-a-year
analyst, and a University of
Michigan graduate. «
Dr. W. C. Welburn, Arlington
medical examiner, said it appear
ed to him Miss Wood was the
victim of a freak accident involv
ing a 12 gauge shotgun she ap
parently had purchased as a
Christmas present.
“As far as I can see,” Welburn
said, “it was an accident. I don’t
see how it can be a homicide or
a. suicide."
The windows of the third floor
apartment were closed and the
front door was chain locked. “It’s
one for Sherlock Holmes,” said
Welburn.
May Be A Good Idea
OSAKA, Japan, lA’i — Police
assigned a patrol car to collect
citizens who imbibe too freely
during the holiday season. It will
be manned by jujitsu experts.
Fairbanks Couple
Win Fight Adopt
Little Indian Girl
FAIRBANKS, MV-'The specter
of fear that they would lose their
little foster child after a 2-year
battle was erased today from the
home of Mr. and Mrs. O. Pederson.
Pawn in the long battle was
Vicki, 2Vi year-old native child
who was abandoned by her mo
ther shortly after her birth in
a Yukon River settlement. The
Pedersons were given temporary
care of the youngster which soon
won their hearts.
They sought to adopt Vicki but
the Welfare Dept, refused to give
consent, although it gave no rea
son. Some persons felt it was be
cause the child was an Indian and
the Pedersons white. Others said
it was because Pederson is the
owner of a bar.
At any event, after much hag
gling, the Welfare Dept, notified
the Pedersons to give up the child
by Dec. 10 or the department
would sent law officers to seize
the child.
When the deadline arrived last
Friday, Mrs. Pederson took Vicki
and left the city for an undis
closed refuge.
Yesterday, Warren Taylor, at
torney for the couple, announced
a letter had been received from
the Walfare Dept, headquarters in
Juneau saying the department
was withdrawing from the case
and would leave Vicki with the
Pedersons permanently.
The letter, from Henry A. Har
mon, director of the department,
said the decision was made be
cause “publicity in the case has
made it impossible for us to plan
the future of the child.”
Vast Expansion Noted Of Russian
Embassy Jn The Netherlands
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, UR—
The Netherlands foreign ministry
has drawn the attention of Soviet
ambassador S. P. Kirasanov to a
“vast expansion” of Russia’s em- !
bassy staff here, a memorandum
to parliament said today.
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