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VOL. LVII No. 64_NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1955 Per Copy—15*
Four Dionne Girls
Come of Age - And
A Million Dollars
NORTH BAY, Ont., <* — The
four surviving Dionne quintup
lets came of age Saturday—elig
ible to share a trust fund worth
nearly one million dollars.
Twenty-one years ago Mrs.
Oliva Dionne gave birth to the
five girls, who were to become
world famous, in a farmhouse
near the little community of Cor
beil, about eight miles southeast
of here.
They were Emilie, Yvonne,
Cecile, Annette, and Marie. Thru
the years their progress was fol
lowed by newspaper readers in
many lands.
Tragedy struck nine months ago
when Emilie died of suffocation
• during an epileptic seizure in a
Quebec convent.
• On becoming 21, the surviving
quintuplets receive one - fifth
shares in the Dionne Quintuplet
Trust Fund. The fund totals just
under one million dollars,
'amounting to about $197,000
each, plus a share in Emilie’s
portion, which is to be divided
among 14 members of the family.
The four girls joined their par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne,
at home Saturday for a family
reunion.
Marie has been at home and
the three others arrived from
Montreal where Yvonne and Ce
cile are training to be nurses and
Annette is studying to be a piano
teacher.
The main gift the parents gave
the girls today was a high-fidel
ity record player.
Indian Commissioner
Emmons To Make Alaska
Inspection Trip In June
WASHINGTON, UP — Indian
Commissioner Glen Emmons said
Saturday he tentatively plans to
fly to Alaska on an inspection
trip late in June.
“It will be more to look and
see what we have there and not
for any decisions I may have to
make concerning Alaska,” he told
a newsman. “This will be my
first trip to the territory.”
Emmons said his plans now
call for leaving Washington June
27 and arriving in Alaska the
next day. He will stay until June
15 or 17, he said. He declined to
give out any specific schedule or
to name spots he would visit,
saying his itinerary was being
made up by the Indian Bureau’s
regional office in Alaska.
He said he would be accom
panied by his wife and a special
assistant, Carl Beck.
Demo National Chairman
Paul Butler To Visit
Alaska In Mid-August
WASHINGTON, UR — Demo
cratic National Committee chair
man Paul Butler will make three
and possibly five Jefferson-Jack
son Day speeches when he goes
to Alaska in mid-August, Dele
gate Bartlett said today.
Bartlett said Butler would
speak in Juneau, Anchorage and
Fairbanks, and possibly in
Ketchikan and Kodiak.
He said the Democratic chair
man expects to be in the terri
tory about 10 days. In addition
to speaking and meeting with
Democratic leaders, Bartlett said,
Butler hopes to get in a day or
two of fishing.
Three Men Run
4-Minute Mile
In Same Race
LONDON, UPi—Laszlo Tabori of
Hungary, and Chris Chataway
and Brian Hewson of Britain all
ran the mile under four minutes
Saturday. Tabori won in 3:59. ,
Chatam, a London brewer, and
Hewson, of the Royal Air Force,
both were clocked in 3:59.9.
The race was an invitation in
ternational mile event held as
part of the British games at White
City Stadium. A crowd of 25,000
was in the stands despite a raw,
overcast day.
The race marked the first time
in foot-racing history three men
ever ran under the four-minute
mark in one race. Only once
before, in fact have two men
been under the coveted time in
one race.
That was the duel between
Roger Bannister, first man to
achieve the long - sought four
minute mile, and John Landy,
the current world record holder,
in the British Empire games last
August.
Bannister won that race in
3:58.8, with Landy trailing in
3:59.6.
Tabori finished five yards
ahead of Chataway and Hewson,
the later being just far enough
behind Chataway to be shunted
to third place.
Dr. Bannister was in the stands
and saw the race. He was the
first to congratulate the three
new four-minute milers.
The extraordinary event was
even more remarkable than the
Vancouver race in that the favor
ite Sandor Iharos of Hungary
withdrew from the race because
he was airsick flying to London.
PNA Given Authority
To Serve Ketchikan In
Competition To Pan Am
WASHINGTON, UP) — Pacific
Northern Airlines was given an
important new stop, at Ketchi
kan, in the Civil Aeronautics
Board order issued Friday on
Alaskan air service.
The line’s Portland - Seattle -
Tacoma - Anchorage route was
modified to include that city and
Juneau, Yakutat and Corova.
PNA will not be allowed, how
ever, to carry local traffic be
tween Ketchikan and Juneau.
PNA president Arthur Wood
ley said at Seattle the line would
be prepared to begin service at
Ketchikan within a few days after
it receives a CAA operating cer
tificate.
Pacific Northern now flies over
Ketchikan on its route between
Seattle and Juneau but is not
allowed to land there. The CAB
said both Juneau and Ketchikan
should have the benefit of the
competing services of both Pacif
ic Northern and Pan American.
MARTHA WRIGHT MARRIES
RESTAURANT OWNER
NEWBURGH, N. Y., (JV-Stage
star Martha Wright was married
Friday night to restaurant owner
George J. Manuche Jr., at the
home of the groom’s family.
The 29 - year - old Miss Wright
appeared in 1,047 performances
of the Broadway musical “South
Pacific” after succeeding Mary
Martin in the lead role. Miss
Wright also is well known on
radio and TV.
Manuche, 34, a former Holy
Cross football star and Air Force
officer, operates a restaurant in
New York City.
Southern Soldier
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Lies Buried In
Northern Cemetery
GRAY, Maine, Uft — The tomb
stone on the grave of an unknown
Confederate soldier is marked
“Stranger.” But the Southerner
lies in a northern grave among
friends.
The people of Gray have dec
orated his grave for 'Memorial
Day, just as they have since the
body was shipped to Maine by
mistake in the fall of 1862.
“It’s one of the strangest, un
told stories of the Civil War,”
says Gray historian George T.
Hill.
On top of the Southerner’s grave
is a pot of flowering geraniums.
Over it flutters the Stars and
Stripes. The same honor is paid
to veterans of the Grand Army
of the Republic who sleep nearby.
There is a difference in the
iron markers. On the Southerner’s
star is inscribed “Veteran 1861
65.” On those of the Northern
soldiers is marked GAR Post 78.
The Confederate soldier’s body
arrived in Gray as that of Lt.
Charles H. Colley, Co. B, 10th
Maine Volunteers.
“The lieutenant was the son of
Amos and Sarah Nash Colley,
farm people here,” Hill recalled.
“He was wounded at Cedar
Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, and died
the following Sept. 20 at Alex
andria, Va. He was 29.
“In those days, the family had
to pay the government for em
balming and transportation. The
Colley’s had done this. When the
body arrived, they opened the
casket in farewell. Instead of
their son, they found a fully uni
formed Confederate soldier.
“You cah imagine what the
consternation and grief must have
been like. However, as both com
munications and travel were slow
at the time, it was decided to
bury the unknown soldier in Gray
cemetery.”
A tombstone was raised over
the grave. It was inscribed:
“Stranger—a soldier of the late
war. Died 1862. Erected by the
ladies of Gray.”
Lt. Colley’s body arrived a
week later. It is buried 100 feet
away.
“Glacier” U.S.’s Most
Powerful Icebreaker,
Is Commissioned
‘PASCAGOULA, Miss., OP) —
America’s most powerful ice
breaker, the U.S.S. Glacier, was
turned over to the Navy in com
missioning ceremonies Saturday.
Capt. E. L. Ketchum, repre
senting the chief of naval opera
tions, described the ship as “the
most modern expression of Am
erica’s long experience in ship
design for polar ice operations.”
The 310-foot ship is the strong
est hulled and finest equipped
icebreaker ever constructed for
its use and the largest ever built
outside of Russia.
Ketchum told the officers and
men of her crew:
“You will be taking an import
ant part in expedition Deep
Freeze as a unit of Task Force
43 to the Antarctic.”
The vessel will be Adm. Rich
ard E. Byrd’s flagship on the
exploratory cruise.
The 8,300-ton ship is designed
to smash through ice 15 feet
thick.
She has a special fantail to
carry two helicopters.
'Memorial Day Across The Nation
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By the Associated Press
Americans who live free be
cause others died streamed back
tonight from a weekend of vaca
tions and memorials.
Somewhere, in many places
across the land, sometimes, in
many ways, they paused in an
nual salute to their hedoes.
Men, women, and their children
marched today, Memorial Day. In
Newark, N.J., they honored Al
bert Woolson, 108-year-old sur
vivor of the Grand Army of the
Republic. Wollson plans to spend
a quiet day at home in Duluth,
Minn.
Some sang. In the spectacular
Hollywood bowl, 700 musicians
and vocalists joined in a premiere
of “The Requiem,” by Hector
Berioz, in a three-faith service.
Most prayed—en masse in
churches, in family groups, beside
a grave, or in the quiet privacy of
a room once occupied by a boy.
They will pray that the last sol
dier has died.
In the Arlington National Cem
etery near the nation’s capital,
Vice President Nixon placed a
'wreath on the marble tomb of the
Unknown Soldier this morning,
then delivered an address.
The scene was mirrored across
the nation—in the Little Arling
ton National Cemetery in Keokuk,
Iowa, in the National Cemetery at
Ft. Bragg, N.C.—where heroes lie.
President Eisenhower spent the
weekend at his farm at Gettys
burg, Pa., scene of a battle in the
U.S. Ambassador Sets
Precedent Presenting His
Credentials To Dinh Diem
SAIGON, South Viet Nam, UP)
—U.S. Ambassador G. Frederick
Reinhardt presented his creden
tials to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem
Saturday devoid of any specific
reference to absentee chief of
state Bao Dai.
In carefully phrased language,
the new envoy presented himself
to the chief of state of South
Viet Nam. But he omitted the
customary reference to “his maj
esty” Bao Dai, the former Anna
mese emperor whom Diem’s sup
porters are trying to oust.
Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau,
present at the presentation cere
mony in the premier’s palace, de
scribed the change in language as
very important.
Observers said it could be the
encouragement needed for Diem
to proclaim South Viet Nam a
republic as the National Revolu
tionary Committee has been urg
ing to do.
Bao, who was named Viet Nam
chief of state by the French in
1949, has been on the French
Riviera for more than a year. The
recent civil strife in Viet Nam
and Diem’s victory over his op
ponents, prompted him to rush to
Paris to plead for continued
French support.
MAVERICK 10-TON VAN
KILLS 7 IN SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, \3— Police
tried to learn why the brakes
failed on a 10-ton trailer moving
van that plunged 5V£ blocks
down precipitous Nob Hill and
smashed 10 cars and two China
town stores.
The driver and six pedestrians
were killed. The van crashed in
flames at an estimated speed of
between 80 and 100 miles an
hour. Three persons were in
jured.
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war from which the Memorial
Day holiday stems. '
Enemy dead shared in prayers
at the post cemetery at Ft. Dev
ens, Mass. There rest the bodies
of 11 Confederate POWs, who
died in Boston’s Ft. Warren pris
on during the Civil War, and sev
en Germans who died in prisoner
camps of World War II.
Neither were those who died at
sea forgotten. A boat put out from
Wildwood, N.J., to strew wreaths
on the Atlantic, while a continent
away a procession of Coast Guard
and other vessels sailed from De
poe Hay, on Oregon’s central
coast, in the Pacific’s 10th annual
“Fleet of Flowers.”
For the 35th year, Brig. Gen. C.
David Berg, a Spanish-American
War veteran, took his place as
chief marshal of paraders in Mal
den, Mass.
With jet planes forming a cross
as an aerial backdrop, a “God of
Mountain Pageant” was staged in
the San Bernadino Mountains,
near Redlands, Calif.
In the harbor at Long Beach,
Calif., the cruiser USS Toledo
welcomed aboard those who de
sired to participate in a Memorial
Day service sponsored by the local
Legion post.
Margaret Truman
Interviews Parents
On Nationwide TV
NEW YORK, W) — Margaret
Truman shared with the public
Friday night a folksy visit with -
her parents, former President and
Mrs. Harry S. Truman.
Miss Truman was in a New
York CBS-TV studio, substituting
for Edward R. Murrow on his
program “Person to Person.”
Mr. and Mrs. Truman sat re
laxed on the side porch of their
rambling home in Independence,
Mo.
The half hour was short on pol
itics, considering a former chief
executive was being “interview
ed,” but packed with the infor
mality of a family gathering.
On international affairs and
politics, Mr. Truman had this to
say:
He thinks the recent signing of
the Austrian peace treaty means
the world is “approaching a peace
settlement and the end of the
cold war.”
He has “nothing in particular”
up his sleeve politically except to
help beat all the Republicans he
can.
The “toughest” decision he had
to make while President was to
send armed forces to the aid of
South Korea.
From their porch the elder Tru
mans wandered through their
89-year-old house — the dining
room, the living room, parlor,
and Mr. Truman’s den.
Miss Truman would preface her
questions with “Daddy,” or “Mo
ther” or “Mommy.”
On the porch her parents oc
cupied metal chairs which
squeaked as they rocked while
answering questions.
When his daughter asked what
kind of manual work he did
around the house, her father re
plied: “I do an immense amount
of it from a rocking chair.”
Mrs. Truman told about find
ing a lady picking her prize tu
lips and about the throngs of
sightseers who appear almost
daily.