Hope Diamond
To Be Nucleus
Of Gem Collection
WASHINGTON, UP) — The Hope
Diamond, a beautiful gem with a
dark past, belonged to the U. S.
government today.
Officials of the Smithsonian In
stitution hoped to build a national
jewel collection, with the 44Yz
carat stone as a nucleus.
A sift of New York gem mer- j
chant Harry Winston, the diamond !
arrived here by registered mail, I
insured for one million dollars. I
After the dark blue diamond
was delivered to the Smithson
ian toy a postman under guard, it
was formally presented by Mrs.
Winston. The fabled Hope was ac
cepted by Dr. Leonard Carmi
chael. secretary of the Institution.
The Hope was smuggled out of
India about 300 years ago. Since
then, it has passed through many
hands. A number of its owners
died violently, and it acquired a
reputation of bringing ill fortune.
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Maneuvers Should Be
Held In Safer Areas
Says U. S. Admiral
SAN SIMEON, Calif, tT) — Fu
ture large scale Army landing
maneuvers might better be held
on the Kidiak Peninsula, Alaska,
the Olympic Peninsula, Wash, or
on the lower California coast,
Rear Admiral C. K. Duncan, am
phibious commander of Operation
Rocky Shoals, said today.
Admiral Duncan made the com
ment in a critique winding up the i
past several days’ mock maneu
vers involving 13,000 Army com
bat troops and 40 Navy vessels
near here.
Three fatalities occurred. A sol
dier was crushed under a bull
dozer yesterday while . loading
equipment preparatory to shipping
troops back to their bases. A small
signal unit plane crshed, killing
two men.
Admiral Duncan was somewhat
critical of the San Simeon area.
He said an area is needed for such
operations where participating
forces need not worry so much
about possible damage to private
property. One landing beach 'was
right at this town of San Simeon.
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Reds Charge U.S. j
Plans Aggression j
From the Moon
By MAX HARRELSON
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., UP) — |
the Soviet Union charged today!
the United States has “nightmar
ish” plans to set up military bases
on the moon to -launch massive
attacks on Soviet cities.
The Soviet charge came from
Deputy 'Foreign Minister Valerian
A. Zorin as the U. N.’s 81-nation
political committee opened de
bate on the problem of space
control. %
Zorin told the committee the
Soviet Union could not agree to
any international program for the
peaceful uses of outer space un
less the United States pledged it
self to liquidate all its foreign
military bases.
He repeated previous Soviet de
mands for a ban on the use of
intercontinental ballistic missiles
and other space weapons as an
other condition to any coopera
tion in space experiments such as
the United States is urging.
The key to the whole problem,
he said, is to adopt measures
which will take into account the
security of all sides on 'an equal
basis.
Zorin quoted Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson (D-Tex), Senate Majority
Leader, as saying, “Control over
cosmic space means control over
the whole world.”
Chief U. S. Delegate Henry Ca
bot Lodge said the U. S. position
would be set forth in detail later,
but he accused Zorin of distorting
the U. S. position. He charged he
was deliberately trying to mis
lead the committee.
“I believe the Soviet Union un
derstands full well that our bases
exist only for defense,” Lodge
declared.
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
KALAMAZOO, Mich., UP) — Ver
non Baile, 22, Kalamazoo, gave
his life for his dog.
Baile was hunting at nearby
Comstock Monday when the dog
ran onto a railway track with a
train coming.
Bailey ran in pursuit and got
the dog off the tracks, but was
himself struck and killed by the
train.
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WWI “Deserter”
Is Honored On
Veterans’ Day
SAN DIEGO, Tex., UP) — Forty
years ago Gabriel Garcia ran 'out
into no-man’s land in France to
save a wounded comrade. Tuesday
the Army, which had carried him 1
as a deserter since 1919, honored
him for his courage.
Garcia, 68, a farm laborer who
speaks only Spanish, was the hon
or guest at San Antonio’s Veterans
Day celebration. A military plane
flew him to San Antonio and back
to his home here. A general pinned
medals on his chest and spoke of
•his valor. He sat on a reviewing
stand with the brass and watched
troops march by.
Wihen it was over, Garcia said
through an interpreter: “What
else is there to say but to thank
my country and my government
from the bottom of my heart?”
Garcia was wounded by heavy
enemy fire near St. Juvin, France,
October 16, 1918, while rescuing
a comrade. He was hospitalized
•at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio,
from July to September, 1919,
then told he could leave. Some
one gave him some papers and
Garcia assumed he was dis
charged. Later he lost the papers.
Last March he asked medical
treatment at the Veterans Admin
istration office here. There he
learned he was carried as a de
serter.
His record was straightened out
and Tuesday Lt. Gen. G. S. Meloy
Jr., 4th Army commander, pinned
on Garcia’s chest the Distinguished
Service Cross, the Purple Heart,
and the World War I Victory Me
dal with three battle clusters.
MOTORIZED LAUNDRY
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., UP) —
Whoever stole Charles Shockle’s
car didn’t speed away in it.
The black and red auto, meas
uring eight feet long and three
feet wide, is powered by a wash
ing machine motor.
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Cubans Surprised
In Loading Guns
On Florida Coast
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., UP*
— Federal agents surprised nearly
two dozen Cuban rebel sympa
thizers in' the act of loading muni
tions aboard a plane and charged
22 persons with violating the neu
trality act.
Two women are among the
group seized with an arms-laden
B18 bomber-on abandoned Pros
pect Air Field Monday night.
Border Patrol agents blasted a
fleeing auto’s tire with machine
gun bullets, preventing the geta
way of five of their prisoners.
The airplane pilot, who identified
himself as Rodger Steadman, 41,
of Miami, a native of Huron, S. D.,
vanished in a truck but was ar
rested later at a Fort Lauderdale
bus station.
Agents said a big assortment of
rifles, machine guns, ammunition,
medical supplies, boots and field
equipment were placed aboard
the plane as they watched from
concealment.
Some of the material was in
packages marked “Fidel.” Fidel
Castro is the head of the rebel
army which dominates much of
Oriente Province.
There was no immediate word
on where the plane came from
or who owned it. Agents said the
last owner of available record was
the Bank of Anchorage, Alaska.
The two-engined plane landed
about dusk on the former airfield
which is being developed as an
industrial site by Fort Lauderdale.
Sharpeyed residents of nearby
homes telephoned Broward Coun
ty authorities. Deputy sheriffs and
state and local police reinforced
federal officers and helped round
up those arrested.
Police said the plane was almost
loaded with freight taken from
cars and from weeds around the
field's edge when the raiders went
into action:
William Wetherington, one of
the agents, hastily drove an auto
mobile in front of the plane to
block its path when it looked as if
the plane was about to take off.
One of the group loading the
plane gunned the engines but gave
up when officers approached him.
South Florida has been the
scene of numerous daring attempts
to supply Castro’s forces.
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Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Milared Harwood
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbai
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
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Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
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Jim Blanning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
ROSCOE WILKIE, President
MARY DIEDE, Secretary.
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