Geneva Offshore Limits
Compromise May Set
New Boundary at 6 Miles
SEATTLE, UPl — A compromise,
which could cost Puget Sound
fishermen valuable fishing
grounds off the Canadian coast,
may have to be affected at the
Law of the Seas Conference in
Geneva this spring.
!U. S. State Department and
Navy officials told members of the
fishing industry Saturday the
compromise may be necessary to
prevent adoption of the 12-mile
territorial limit many nations
urged at last year’s meeting.
William C. Herrington, special
assistant to the Undersecretary of
State, said if it appears the con
ference is going to vote for aban
donment of the traditional three
mile limit, the United States will
fight for a limit of six miles or
less.
Canada has been a strong sup
porter of the 12-mile limit which
would prevent Americans from
fishing the rich waters off Brit
ish Columbia. Herrington said he
doubted any arrangement could
be made with Canada prior to the
Geneva meeting.
SON BORN TO BLANNINGS
Sgt. and Mrs. Jim Blanning are
the parents of a son born this
morning at the hospital. Sgt.
Blanning heads the ACS here and
has three other children, a daugh
ter and two sons. Maternal grand
parents living here are Mr. and
Mrs. Stan Morgan.
Sam Mogg, who has been work
ing on Anvil Mountain for the
Federal Electric Co., has been
transferred to Bear Creek near
Tanana.
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Attorney Suicide
Had Fear of Being
Killed In Plane
NEW YORK, Ufl — Authorities
are piecing together the tangled
background of Julian Andrew
Frank, the heavily insured young
lawyer suspected of setting off a
suicide bomb in a plane that
crashed with 34 persons aboard.
The Manhattan District Attor
ney’s office Friday pictured
Frank as a man enmeshed in fi
nancial dealings that could have
wrecked his promising career.
Friends saw him as a tall, lean
man with a pretty wife and two
handsome children who lived in
an expensive suburban home, a
man who could be as happy-go
lucky as he could be darkly
brooding, and a man with a hor
ror of planes and a strange pre
delection of death.
The District Attorney said
Frank, 32, was facing investiga
tions of two complaints alleging
embezzlement — one involving a
Manhattan real estate transac
tion and the other regarding a
| loan for a hospital,
j Insurance man Edward Boyd
! Jr., a friend in Frank’s home
town of Westport, Conn., de
scribed. the young lawyer as “a
young man in a hurry,” with a
dynamic personality. He said
Frank often had expressed a fear
of flying.
| “Look, I’m going to get killed
in an airplane,’ Boyd quoted
Frank as saying.
Boyd said he eventually talked
Frank into buying a half-million
dollar insurance policy in No
vember. Frank also had a $100,
000 accident policy taken out last
April, another $100,000 accident
policy taken out in t November,
and three accident policies of
$62,000 each taken out in De
cember.
' The beneficiaries were his
wife, former model Janet Wag
ner, and their children.
At her Westport home, Mrs.
Frank sobbed: “I will never be
lieve the insinuations they are
making about him. I will never
believe them.”
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Writers Strike Will
Stall Production of
Television Films
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., UP)—The
Writers Guild of America struck
Hollywood television production
companies Saturday.
The strike, if prolonged, could
practically halt prodcction of TV
films here.
The Guild struck against the
Alliance of Television Film Pro
ducers and against movie studios
which produce TV shows.
There were reports that some
producers had prefilmed many
episodes of TV series to provide
a backlog and that they have per
sonal service contracts with some
writers. But a spokesman of the
Writers Guild said the Guild con
tract overrides any personal ser
vice agreement.
The Guild’s contract with the
TV Alliance expired Friday night.
The writers’ contract with
movie studios expired Nov. 17.
One of the chief unsettled issues
in this dispute is the Guild’s de
mand for a share of proceeds
from sales of post-1948 movies to
television.
Frank’s Refusal Of
Double-Pay Insurance
Confuses Bomb Probe
WESTPORT, Conn., UTI—Julian
Frank, who met death in the pos
sible suicide-bombing of an air
liner, declined ar» option for
double indemnity in a half-mil
lion-dollar life insurance policy.
This was described Sunday
night by Edward Boyd Jr., who
sold the $500,000 policy to Frank.
Boyd has said Frank inquired
about an insurance policy in the
| neighborhood of $100,000, but
that he himself showed the at
; torney “how to own substantially
1 more” insurance. It led to the
( $500,000 policy, Boyd said.
Franks declining the double in
demnity option added to the mys
tery surrounding his death and
| the January 6 crash of the New
York-to-Miami airliner in North
J Carolina. Frank and 33 others
: lost their lives in the crash, ap
parently caused by a bomb blast.
Since the tragedy, numerous
financial and legal difficulties
that beset Frank have come to
light. Some authorities * leaned
toward the theory that Frank car
I ried a bomb aboard the flight.
Ford, which has sold more station wagons than any other
company, today announced the new Falcon station wagon as
the latest addition to the economy car field. The two- and
four-door station wagons, like the sedans, are powered with
the 90-horsepower Falcon engine that gives^0 per cent better
mileage than six-cylinder engines ip standard sized cars. The
Falcon station wagon has the longest cargo space and greatest
load floor area in its class, as well as the lowest tailgate floor
loading height in the industry.
Coast Guard Warns
Adventurers ‘Make
Ship Seaworthy’
WESTPORT, Wash., W) — The
Coast Guard lowered the boom
Friday on a group of adventurers
bound for the Galapagos Islands
in a 30-year-old converted re
frigerator ship.
.Make your vessel seaworthy or
face arrest, was the gist of a
statement delivered to Don
Harrsch, leader of the expedition,
■by three Coast Guard officers.
The ultimatum came from Rear
Admiral Allen Winbeck, comman
der of the 13 th Coast Guard
District.
“We’re not worried,’ said
Harrsch. “There is nothing of
any consequence wrong with this
boat.”
He referred to the 100-foot ves
sel Alert, which had to be es
corted into this port by the Coast
Guard early Friday when water
seeped through the hull and into
the engine room.
Once a vessel has asked for and
received Coast Guard assistance,
it is subject to safety measures
dictated by the Coast Guard, an
oficer explained. The vessel was
to have been inspected Saturday.
The Alert and her 19 passen
gers were headed for San Pedro,
Calif, Friday to pick up 13 more
persons. The adventurers hope to
establish a self-supporting col
ony on San Christobol Island on
the equator 5,000 miles away.
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