Dark Star Wins 79th
Running Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, UP) — Dark Star
won the 79th Kentucky Derby, de
feating previously unbeaten Na
tive Dancer by a half length.
Dark Star, owned by Harry F.
•Guggenheim’s Cain Hoy stable,
set all the pace and beat off the
challenge of fast - closing Native
Dancer, winner of 11 straight
races before Saturday’s mile and
a quarter classic. The time was
two minutfes and two seconds. .
Invigorator, owned by the Sax
on stable was third and fasti
closing Royal Bay Gem fourth in
the field of 11 three-year-olds.
Geneologists have traced the an
cestry of Queen Elizabeth II of
England to Woden, Fourth Cen
tury Germanic triba? king, later
deified as Odin for whom Wed
nesday is named.
40 MILLION AMERICANS
MAY NOT HAVE TO FILE
INCOME TAX RETURNS
WASHINGTON, UP) — The na
tion’s tax-collecting boss today
said there’s a chance in the next
year or two of doing away with
income tax returns for 30 or £0
million Americans.
Instead, said Commissioner of
Internal Revenue T. Coleman
Andrews, a system may be
adopted by which these people
who have no income besides their
salaries or wages just get a bill
or a refund from the Revenue
Bureau. Their income taxes would
be paid, as now, through deduc
tions from their pay checks.
President McKinley was the
first U.S. President to ridd in a
motor car when he was rushed to
the hospital in a motor ambulance
after being fatally wounded by an
assassin.
Agriculture Secty. Asked
For Assurances He Is Not
Down'On Small Farmers
%
WASHINGTON, UP) — Senator
Humphrey (D-Minn) asked Sec
retary of Agriculture Benson Sat
urday for assurances his depart
ment was not endorsing a “starve
’em out” philosophy that would
let small farmers be forced out'
of business.
In a letter to' the secretary
made public Saturday, Humphrey
said that Undersecretary True D.
Morse and John H. Davis, presi
dent of the Commodity Credit
Corporation, had been quoted as
telling visiting farm editors it
might be better to let inefficient
■producers get out of farming.
The senator said he understood
also the officials “very bluntly
informed farm editors that there
are too many farmers.”
Humphrey wrote:
“If these officials mean to
imply an impending ‘starve ’em
out’ philosophy of forcing small
American family farmers out of
business for the benefit of the
big commercial producers better
able to survive such an economic
‘shakedown,’ it is time for all
farmers to be alarmed.”
Pet Skunk Gives Birth To
Seven Odiferous Little Problems
DENVER, UP)—P-h-e-w, boy, did
the Sam Arnolds ever get skunked
Friday!
The skunk Arnold and his wife
captured in the mountains six
weeks ago as a companion for
the bulldog and cat unexpected
ly gave birth to seven descend
ants.
That’s not scentsational because
they won’t be a full-blown prob
lem for some six weeks, veterin
arians said. But the Arnolds live
in a rented house and th^y fig
ure the landlord’s reaction will
be a problem of a different stripe.
PERON CRACKS DOWN ON
EXPLOSIVES SMUGGLERS,
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, UP)
—The government seized control
Monday of 13 airplane clubs sus
pected of using amateur fliers to
smuggle explosives into the coun
try from neighboring Uruguay.
This came on the heels of the
arrest of 29 members, of the op
position Radical, Socialist and
Communist parties Sunday on
charges of rumor peddling and
distributing literature against the
president, Juan D. Peron.
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Washington News-Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to E. L. Bartlett,
Delegate to Congress from Alaska
POST OFFICES
Eleven Alaska post offices are
affected by the recent decision of
the new administration to scrap
existing civil service eligible reg
isters for first, second and third
class postmaster positions and to
cancel all pending examinations
for such positions where registers
have not been established.
The list of Presidential postmas
ter vacancies reported- to the Civil
Service Commission recently by
the Post Office Department in
cludes the second class offices of
College, Mountain View and Spe
nard, and the third class offices of
Annette, Barrow, Galena, Kla
wock, McKinley Park, Platinum,
Unalaska and Yakutat.
ALASKA CENSUS
Marriage in Alaska is on a ris
ing trend, according to the com
plete 1950 population census for
the territory issued recently by
the Bureau of Census.
Among numerous other statis
tics relating to general popuation,
economics and other information
based on the census taken three
years ago, the compilation indi
cates that 43.5 percent of Alaska
men were single in 1950, 48.4 per
cent were married and 8.1 percent
were widowed or divorced.
This compared with 1939 fig
ures of 46.6 percent single, 44.2
percent married and 9.2 percent
widowed or divorced. Th& same
trend is reflected in the marital
statistics given for women with
the 1950 figure showing 16.8 per
cent of females in Alaska over 14
years of age in the single class,
73.5 percent married and 9.7 per
cent widowed or divorced, as
compared with 1939 figures of
21.6 percent single, 67.7 percent
married and 10.8 percent divorced
or widowed.
NAIROBI, Kenya, UP—The anti
white Mau Mau terrorists so
ciety sent some 300 ''men swoop
ing on a remote Kikuyu Home
Guard outpost Monday and burn
ed and hacked to death 19 mem
bers of the pro-British unit.
Only one member of the Kikuyu
Home Guard escaped to tell the
story. The others were captured
and died among the burned ruins
of their huts after their last round
of ammunition had been ex
hausted.
Lattimore To Be Tried On
Perjury Charges, Not
Communist Sympathies
WASHINGTON, UR—A federal
judge Saturday threw out charges
that Owen Lattimore lied about
alleged Communist sympathies
but ordered him to trial here
Oct. 6 on three lesser counts of
perjury.
District Judge Luther Young
dahl struck out four of seven
counts on which Lattimore, Far
Eastern specialist, had been in
dicted last Dec. 16. He was in
dicted on charges of lying to the
Senate Internal Security subcom
mittee.
Lattimore has denied all the
charges brought against him, in
cluding what he called the “pure
moonshine” statement by Sen.
McCarthy that he was the top
Soviet espionage agent in this
country.
Judge Youngdahl threw out the
first and basic count alleging that
Lattimore lied in denying that he
was a sympathizer or promoter
of Communist interest.
“This connt must fall,” Young
dahl’s opinion said, “because it
is violative of both the first and
the sixth amendments.” These
protect freedom of speech and
freedom of belief, and the right
of an accused citizen to be in
formed of the nature and cause
of the accusation against him.
CORRECTION
W. W. Higgins’ marriage to Rose
Ann Higgins was annulled last
week in the U.S. District Court. *
Higgins was awarded custody of
the child.
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Worthy Matron
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Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
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