Housewife Kidnaper Will
Go to Institution Instead
Of Standing Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, WV--House
wife Betty Jean Benedicto will go
to a state mental institution in
stead of standing trial for the kid
naping of a two-day-old boy from
a hospital here.
The 27-year-old woman from
Stockton was declared insane yes
terday by Judge B. Molinari after
four psychiatrists testified she was
insane.
Mrs. Benedicto had confessed
she took the infant Sept. 19. Nine
days later she telephoned the
father, Dr. Sanford Marcus, to
come to Stockton and recover his
son.
Judge Molinari said Mrs. Bene
dicto would have to stand trial for
kidnaping if she regains her san
ity.
HOUSEWIFE GETS $3,000 FOR
MATTRESS SPRING INJURY
LOS ANGELES, l/P)—A pretty
housewife will get $3,000 because,
she says, she was impaled on a
mattress spring.
A jury awarded Mrs. Virginia
Maecherlein, 29, that sum in dam
ages after she testified yesterday
the spring cut her back, necessi
tating surgery. She had 'sued the
mattress company for $10,000.
William Egan Elected
Convention President;
Petrovich Vice President
COLLEGE, UP)—William Egan of
Valdez was named president of
the Alaska Constitutional Conven
tion Wednesday at a spirited elec
tion that followed an address by
former Gov. Gruening.
Egan, a territorial senator, was
elected on the third ballot, polling
28 votes to 15 for Victor Rivers of
Anchorage and 7 for E. B. Collins
of Fairbanks.
Frank Petrovich of Klawock
was elected first vice president.
He won over James Nolan of
Wrangell, Mike Walsh of Nome,
and Mildred Hermann of Juneau
on the third ballot. Rivers beat
Nolan for second vice president
32 to 22.
PLEA BRINGS HIGHER FINE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., U*)—M i s s
Martha H. Major, 36, was fined
$200 for drunken driving Wed
nesday. She was tried in criminal
court on appeal from police court
—where she had been fined $100.
The Pacific is the largest and
deepest of the oceans, and with
dependent seas has an area of
about 55,000,000 miles—equal to
the entire land surface of the
globe.
BRINK'S TRUCK STOLEN BUT
ROBBERS GET ONLY A RIDE
BOSTON (tf)—A Brink’s money
carrying truck was stolen from
the theatrical district last night—
but all the robbers got was a short
ride.
The guards had emptied the
truck of several thousand dollars
to pay off the cast of the stage
show “Pipe Dream.”
The truck was found abandoned
two hours later some two miles
away.
In January, 1950, several ban
dits entered the Brink’s Boston
headquarters and escaped with
$1,219,000. They were never cap
tured.
SURPLUS PROPERTY GIVEN
BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON (jPL-S u r p 1 u s
property which cost the federal
government $56 million was given
to local government agencies and
nonprofit institutions in July,
August and September for educa
tional and public health purposes.
The value of the distribution in
Alaska was listed yesterday by
the Welfare Dept, as $18,091.
The American origin of the
world lynch is traced to Charles
Lynch, a Virginia planter Who
fook the law into his own hands
in punishing colonist - neighbors
| who sympathized with George III.
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STEVENSON ANNOUNCEMENT
EXPECTED NEXT TUESDAY
CHICAGO, Lf)—The long-ex
pected announcement that Adlai
Stevenson will seek the Democrat
ic presidential nomination next
year apparently will come next
Tuesday.
His aide said Wednesday that
Stevenson will make a statement
on “the Democratic presidential
nomination” to newsmen at noon
that day.
BOLD THIEF MAKES HAUL
WITH SHERIFF IN BUILDING
IRVINE, Ky., —An exception
ally bold thief got away Wednes
day with $1,300 in cash and an un
determined amount of checks.
His haul was made from the
safe of Sheriff Fred Brandenburg,
who was elsewhere in the court
house watching the tabulation of
election returns.
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Landowners Can
Avoid Penalty by
Filing This Year
ANCHORAGE — A substantial
number of Alaskans will face pen
alties and possible loss of their
property after Jan. 1, 1956, unless
they comply with the require
ments of the Revised 1953 Land
Registration Act, ac<x>rding to W.
A. Chipperfield, territorial com
missioner of lands.
The act provides that all owners
of real estate located outside the
boundaries of incorporated towns,
independent school districts and
public utility districts must file
statements of ownership in the
Office of the Recorder (U.S. Com
missioner) of the recording pre
cinct in which such property is
situated. Owners who have al
ready filed such statements under
the 1945 act or the 1953 act do not
need to file again.
The Territorial Dept, of Lands,
Mr. Chipperfield says, has been
compiling a complete record of all
privately owned lands covered by
this act in the territory, both min
eral and non-mineral. From a
check of this record it has been
discovered that a large percentage
of owners still have not filed their
s.atements of ownership with
their precinct recorders.
Owners of property covered by
the Land Registration Act are
urged to get their filings in with
out further delay, said Mr. Chip
perfield. Compliance with the law
without further procrastination
and delay will protect the proper
ty owners from possible penalty
and even the loss of the property
itself. It is extremely important
that owners take time now rather
than waiting until the last minute
as happened in 1953, causing a
great deal of confusion and the as
sessment of hundreds of penalties.
Forms and complete instruc
tions are available in all the U.S.
Commissioners’ offices.
'FAREWELL TO ARMS'
TO BE REMADE AS MOVIE
HOLLYWOOD UP>—“A Farewell
to Arms,” Ernest Hemingway’s
novel of love in Italy, will be re
made as a movie.
Producer David O. Selznick said
he has acquired screen rights and
will film the picture in a big
screen process. Helen Hayes and
Gary Cooper starred in the origin
al version in 1932.
Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
George Bayer, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
DR. FRED M. LANGSAM, Pres.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st & 3d Monday of each month.
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Secretary
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Metis Tat and *d Thursday each month.