Young Pole To Be
Deported Finds
Many Friends
SEATTLE, !fP)— A young Pole
who was taken into custody at
Valdez, after jumping his ship,
has found that he has a host of
sympathizers who are willing to
help him in his fight against re
turn to a land which he says
“has no freedom.”
Boleslaw (Bennie) Glowczyn
ski, 28, who has no relatives, is
in custody of United States Im
migration authorities. He jumped
ship from the Norwegian freight
er Nordnes. He has no passport
and claims he has beeh trying to
legally enter the U.S. since 1947.
Bennie left the ship in Alaska
and was arrested in Valdez. In
a few days, he will be put back
aboard the Nordnes which will
sail for the Orient, then back to
Norway and eventually Poland.
After Seatle newspapers car
ried reports of the Pole’s plight,
Immigration Director John P.
Boyd said, “the reaction was the
greatest I ever have seen “over
a single case.”
Boyd received several tele
phone calls from Seattle resi
dents offering to adopt Bennie.
Others wanted to sponsor his
citizenship. Three telegrams from
Valdez said the whole town was
“for” Bennie and urged action in
his behalf.
“Unless a senator or congress
man becomes interested and will
sponsor a bill admitting Bennie
to this country, there isn’t any
thing we can do under the regu
lation,” Boyd explained. “Our
hands are tied.”
Reds Claim Sabotage
VIENNA, Austria, —Warsaw
.Radio said Thursday that a large
number of Polish coal miners—
possibly as many as 100—had
been killed in a major mine ex
plosion at Chorzow, in Silesia.
The broadcast charged sabo
tage
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Astronomy Notes
By OLAF HALVERSON
The equinoxes travel westward
about 50 seconds annually and
this movement is called the pre
cession of the equinoxes. It is
caused by the sun’s attraction on
the equatorial region of the earth,
which is inclined 231At° to the
ecliptic.
In 13,000 years, the vernal
equinox will have slipped around
to the position formerly occupied
by the autumnal equinox. In 25,
900 years precession completes
an entire cycle, boih equinoxes
returning to their positions at the
beginning.
Precession of the equinoxes
was first found out by Hipparchus
in B.C. 150. About B.C. 2200 the
vernal equinox was near the Plei
ades or the Seven Little Sisters.
No wonder the ancients wor
shiped the Pleiades and built pa
gan temples to them—it was the
beginning of spring a.id a new
year.
Since that time the vernal equi
nox has moved westward about
60°, through Aries, until now it
is in the western part of Pisces.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued fair tonight and Sat
urday with easterly winds 10-15
mph and little change in tem
perature. Low temperature ex
pected tonight 25, high tomorrow
37.
In last 24 hours as of 7 a.m.
today: high temperature 34, low
24. Maximum wind 25 mph from
the east. Sunrise at 5:41 a.m, sun
set at 6:36 p.m.
A year ago today: high tem
perature 6, low -15. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 36 in 1926,
lowest -29 in 1920.
Other Stations, 7 a.m. Today
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 20 Part cloudy
Kotzebue 20 Clear
Wales 36 Clear
Nome 28 Clear
Unalakleet 33 Clear
Bethel 22 Clear j
McGrath 17 Clear ■
Anchorage 24 Part cloudy j
Fairbanks 20 Part cloudy!
Whitehorse 13 Part cloudy ;
Edmonton 10 Snow j
Juneau 36 Clear
Ketchikan 40 Clear1
Seattle 43 Showers!
San Francisco 55 Clear
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