Red China Asks
High Level Talks
On Far East
WASHINGTON, Uf)—Secretary
of State Dulles said Tuesday that
Communist China has formally
raised the question of a high level
meeting with the United States to
discuss outstanding problems in
the Far East.
He told a news conference Red
China’s representative at Geneva
brought up this question along
with Red objections to the West
ern trade blockade.
Dulles made it clear he opposes
any such high level meeting until
the present lower level talks are
exhausted. He said the possibili
ties at Geneva have not yet been
so exhausted.
Dulles disclosed the Chinese
Communist and American special
ambassadors, who have been dis
cussing repatriation of civilians
since Aug. 1, have now turned to
“other practical matters” on their
agenda.
It is in discussion of this second
broader item, he said, that Chi
nese Ambassador Wing Ping-nan
has raised the question of a higher
level meeting, presumably at the
foreign ministers level and also at
Geneva.
16 Persons Signed Up for
Extension Mining Course
The extension mining course
will meet tonight for its third les
son in the series of lectures and
laboratory work on Alaska min
erals.
Now registered for the full two
week course are Andrew Louesch,
Charles Samuels, Ed Walker, Jim
Kealiher, David Henchen, Ralph
DeLong, James Rogers, Louise
Voigtlander, S. Viverios, Linda
Kennedy, Dorothy Emmons, Carl
Liebig, Edith Munz, Wilson Rus
sell, Dan Berretini, and Harry An
derson.
Vanguard of Whooping
Cranes Near Winter Home
AUSTWELL, Tex,, (X) — three
whooping cranes, vanguard of an
expected flock, were sighted on
Aranas National Wildlife Refuge
yesterday by refuge manager
Julian Howard.
Howard said he saw the birds,
two adults and a youngster, from
a refuge patrol boat. He said the
young whooper was hatched last
June near Great Slave Lake in
northwestern Canada.
Last fall, he said, 21 adults that
had flown north in the spring
came back with no young. It was
the first time since the big white
cranes, America’s tallest water
fowl and scarcest species, have
been under U.S. wildlife protec
tion, that no chicks had returned
with the little colony.
Canadian wildlife officials spot
ted six young on the nesting
range this summer.
Actor John Hodiak
Dies Of Heart Attack
TARZA'NA, Calif., UP) — Movie
actor John Hodiak collapsed at
home today shortly after getting
up to go to work and died of a
heart attack.
The handsome 41-year-old actor
was in the midst of making th^
picture “Threshold of Space.” He
is divorced from actress Anne
Baxter.
Hodiak has starred in such
films as “Bell For Adano” and
was discovered in the picture
“Life Boat” by director Alfred
Hitchcock.
One of his most recent films
was “The Caine Mutiny.”
Plane Piloted by Wealthy Playboy
Crashes Into Apartment House: 3 Dead
north Hollywood, calif.,
—A small plane piloted by
wealthy playboy Joel W. Thome
crashed into a two-story apart
ment house Monday night, bring
ing faming death to himself and
two others—one a newly chris
tened baby.
Nine persons were injured, in
cluding the infant’s celebrating
parents. Two other children were
critically burned.
Thorne’s plane plummeted out
of the overcast less than 12 min
utes after taking off from Lock
heed Air Terminal in nearby Bur
bank. An eyewitness said a wing
dropped off before the craft
plunged into the building.
The 40-year-old sportsman and
former auto racer was returning
alone to his home in Las Vegas,
Nev. Police investigators com
pleted their identification of
Thorne from hi§ rings, a belt
buckle, a gun, and his will, found
in the wreckage.
The other dead were identiled
as Mrs. Betty Jean Wolf, 18, resi
dent in the upstairs apartment
where the plane crashed, and two
month-old Sheryll Preston, who
had just been baptized two hours
before.
The baby’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Michael Preston, who lived
in the downstairs apartment, were
holding a christening party. They,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marchica of
Los Angeles, and Miss Anna Pres
inzano of Lyndhurst, N.J., were
seriously burned or hurt.
In critical condition were the
Marchica’s two children, John, 7,
and Patricia, 10.
Preston, 31, is manager of the
Gay Nineties night club, in Holly
wood. His wife is a TV singer
known as Shirley Powell. Mrs.
Marchica and Miss Presinzano are
Preston’s sisters.
I only heard a plane,” Mrs.
Preston said. “The building shook
and then there was a bag blast.
“I ran to the bedrom to get my
baby. Then there was another
blast and I ran to the street. There
was to much smoke we couldn’t
breathe. My husband, Mike, went
back after the baby.”
It was then, observers said, that
Preston came running out of the
apartment, his flesh in tatters,
screaming, “Oh, my baby! my
baby!”
— Pioneers' Attention — ;
MEETING TONIGHT
Pioneer Igloo
8:00 P.M.
Fred Bookman, Pres.
The famed Swedish botanist
Linnaeus built a flower clock that
told time by the opening and
closing of the flowers.
North Star
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NOW OPEN
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and the wonderful response yester
day to our new bakery's reopening.
We hope to fulfill your expecta
tions and give better service with
our new equipment than before the
fire, not only to Nome but to the
outlying areas.
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