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Quadruplets Born
To 19-Year-Old San
Francisco Mother
SAN FRANCISCO, UP)—A 5 foot,
1 inch, 102-pound San Francisco
mother was resting comfortably
today after giving birth to quad
ruplets, one stillborn.
The surviving babies—all boys—
were reported doing fine. They
were placed in an incubator be
cause of their small -size. They
weighed 2 pounds, 3Yz ounces; 2
pounds 4 ounces; and 2 pounds,
one-half ounces. The stillborn
child was a girl.
The births were the first for 19
year-old Gladys McGraw, wife of
Ian McGraw, 22, an employee of
a janitorial service.
Mrs. McGraw entered Mary’s
Help Hospital at 5 p.m. yesterday.
Dr. Norman Wheeler reported he
delivered the girl at 6:46 p.m. and
the 'boys at 6:51, 6:54, and 6:59.
“I’m really surprised,” said Mc
Graw, a native of Scotland. “You
might say I’m in a state of shock.”
A hospital spokesman said:
“He seemed so stunned at first, I
don’t think he really believed us.
He was kind of blank. Then he
camp out of it.”
McGraw said Dr. Wheeler told
his wife she might have twins.
Ike Sees No
Need For Tax
Cut At This Time
WASHINGTON, — President
Eisenhower said today he sees no
need for any emergency anti-re
cession action—such as a tax cut—
at this time.
Commenting on the latest un
employment figures, the Presi
dent told a n^ws conference he
believes there are real grounds to
conclude that one of these days
the economy will be on the up
grade.
The government announced yes
terday that unemployment in
creased by about 25,000 .in the
month which ended in mid-March.
There were much larger increases
during the preceding several
months.
March is normally a month
when employment climbs as the
weather moderates and permits
outdoor work.
The first question put to Eisen
hower at the conference was a
request for his views regarding a !
possible tax cut in the light of
the latest unemployment figures
and other economic conditions.
In reply, Eisenhower first noted
that Secretary of the Treasury An
derson has promised to consult
with Democratic as well as Repub
lican Congressional leaders be
fore the administration takes any
tax action. Then the President
went on to say he sees nothing in
the unemployment figure that
brings the situation to a critical
point and requires a decision on
taxes at the moment.
Harry Wakes 'Em Up At Yale
NEW HAVEN, Conn., UP) — An
unidentified Yale Freshman sleep
ing in the Freshmen library at
Connecticut Hall was awakened by
a hand on his shoulder.
He stared up at the smiling
face of former President Harry
S. Truman.
“That’s the way I like to see
them study,” Truman said.
The Freshman blushed as the
former President continued his
tour of the campus. Truman ar
rived yesterday for a three-day
stay.
Sputnik II, With Dog
Passenger, Expected To
Disintegrate Saturday
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., UP)—Scien
tist say Russia’s Sputnik 11 with
its dead dog is expected to burst
apart when it plunges from outer
space, perhaps Saturday.
The scientist at Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory said
last night the burst, if it occurs,
will be caused by the air tanks
that kept the dog passenger alive
for some time after the satellite
was launched last Nov. 3.
If the final plunge is at night,
they said, the satellite will look
like a flaming meteor. In the
daytime it might leave a plume of
smoke like a high-flying jet.
Dr. John Whits said that even
of only part of the original air
pressure remains in the tanks, it
still would be much greater than
the surrounding atmosphere when
the rocket starts to heat up about
50 miles above the earth.
The Smithsonian said Northern
United States and parts of Canada
might get a last look tonight at the
dog-satellite. It listed one passage
from Alaska to British Columbia,
visible to residents of the North
west, 9:18 PST.
Newspaper Prints
Torrid Love Letters
By Lana Turner
LOS ANGELES, UR — Lana Tur-1
ner was mum today on publication |
of her torrid love letters to Johnny j
Stompanato, handsome underworld j
figure slain by the actress’
daughter.
Six letters, published yesterday
in a copyrighted article in the
Herald-Express, began with such
endearing salutations as “daddy
darling” and “dearest precious
heart.”
Her attorney said it would be
unethical for Miss Turner to is
sue statements of any kind while
her daughter, Cheryl, 14, faces a
juvenile court hearing.
Cheryl stabbed Stompanato to
death last Friday night during a
fiery quarrel between the 38-year
old actress and her curly-haired
boy friend.
A sample of the letters written
last fall and winter while Miss
Turner was on a film assignment
in Europe:
From Copenhagen, Sept 19, 1957
—“My dearest darling love . . .
All I want to write and say is
that I love you! G~! It was so
wonderful to hear your voice again
daddy
From London, Sept. 26,1957—
“Daddy darling— . . . How very
lonely I am—and only for you- I
don’t really give a damn about any
others . . .”
Tranquilizers Used
To Calm Wild
Deer For Study
COLUMBUS, Ohio, UR — How
fleet is a scared deer?
Fleet enough for state veter
inarians, who are studying dis
eases among wild animals, to use
tranquilizers to calm them down.
And the tranquilizers worked,
reports Dr. James R. Hay, state
director of Agriculture. “The wild
deer in captivity calmed down to
the tameness of a domestic ani
mal,” he said.
The Animal Industry Labora
tory of the Ohio Department of
Agriculture was the scene of the
temporary taming of a small herd
of deer so they could be examined.
U. S. May Call Off
Atom Tests After
Summer Series
WASHINGTON, W> — President
Eisenhower said today he would
very seriously consider calling off
further U. S. nuclear tests if this
year’s Pacific series produces all
needed research information.
Eisenhower told a news con
ference if such results are achieved
or largely achieved it would be
perfectly proper for him to de
clare this country’s intentions—not
by some international agreement,
but by independent U. S. action.
But he said as things now stand
the scientists would first have to
tell him exactly what it was nec
essary to find out about the fur
ther development of atomic ex
plosions. Then, he said, they
would have to tell him the degree
to which tests had succeeded in
producing the necessary infor
mation.
Eisenhower also told reporters
he thinks some parts of a new re
port by Dr. *James R. Killian Jr.
on a detection system for policing
an international test ban agree
ment might be made public. Kill
ian is the President’s top science
adviser.
Eisenhower confirmed a state
ment 'by Secretary of State Dulles
yesterday that Killian and his
aides have decided it would be
necessary to have more detection
stations in Russia than had pre
viously been recommended by
Harold Stassen, Eisenhower’s for
mer disarmament adviser.
Caustic Hedonist
Embraces Church
Before Death
NEW YORK, UR — George Jean
Nathan, caustic drama critic who
once described those who believed
in a hereafter as “aboriginal,” died
a member of the Roman Catholic
faith.
A sharp-tongued iconoclast who
prided himself of being a hedonist
most of his life, Nathan was bap
tised a Roman Catholic on Oct. 9,
1957, it was learned shortly after
he died yesterday at 76. He had
been ill two years.
Nathan received the last rites of
the church on Friday from the Rev.
Charles McManus of St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, the priest who had
given him instructions and bap
tized him at his hotel apartment
last Octber.
Nathan’s parents were both part
ly Jewish but his mother was a
practicing Catholic, a close asso
ciate said yesterday.
Gardena, Calif. Votes
Overwhelmingly To Keep
Its Poker Palaces
GARDENA, Calif., UR — Legal
draw poker drew a winning hand
at the polls.
Returns from yesterday’s munic
ipal election showed that a pro
posal to outlaw the city’s poker
palaces was overwhelmingly de
feated.
The vote in 17 of 23 precincts
was 1,554 in favor of the proposal
to ban legal poker and 4,496 op
posed. .
Anti-poker forces had asked
that the National Guard be as
signed to oversee the election to
prevent trouble at the polls. They
had charged that ineligible per
sons were being registered to vote
against the ban. The request
was denied. Police said there
were no incidents.
Bartlett Asks Funds
For Transfer Offshore
Lands To Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP> — Delegate
Bartlett today asked Army en
ginners to seek a supplemental
appropriation to permit an early
start on work to transfer offshore
lands to Alaska.
He made the request after being
advised by the Corps it has no
funds to carry out what it said
would be a three-year $400,000
program.
A 1957 Act passed by Congress
provided that lands offshore from
surveyed communities up to the
seaward limit of manmade facil
ities—or “pierhead” line—should
be transferred to Alaska.
Many Alaskan coastal commun
ities have extensive waterfront
developments built out over the
affected areas. Though title now
is held by the federal government,
it is held in reserve for the future
state and the government has no
authority to permit lease or sale
of the property. Title to the ex
isting industrial developments,
therefore, is clouded.
Bartlett recently wrote Army
Engineers asking what steps had
been taken to carry out purposes
of the act, including the desig
nation by the Corps of the area in
cluded within the “pierhead” line.
In reply, Army Engineers said
they had no funds with .which to
undertake the work nor had they
anticipated need for any in mak
ing up the budget for the year be
ginning July 1.
Rebels Seize
Cuba’s Largest
Radio Station
HAVANA, UP) — Rebels seized
Cuba’s largest radio and TV sta
tions today and broadcast an ap
peal for sympathizers to rise in
arms and fight against the gov
ernment of President Fulgencio
Batista.
The rebels called for an im
mediate general strike. Soon af
terward workers in the telephone
company and other utilities began
leaving their jobs and communi
cations were crippled.
Shooting began at 11:30 a.m. in'
the waterfront district in the old
part of Havana.
Most banks in Havana closed
and in others employees suddenly
quit work.
Most of the heart of the city ap
peared to be calm and there was no
sign of rebel activity around the
Presidential palace or key govern
ment buildings.
In the American-owned First
National City Bank about half
the employees walked out.
Two heavy bomb explosions oc
curred at noon.
Rebels set fire to the headquar
ters of radio station CMQ, one of
the largest in Latin America.
Charier Flight To
Siberia Urged
Tex Noye, prominent Anchor
age business man, made a special
flight to Nome Monday for the
purpose of attending a meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce and
discussing tourism. He presented
an idea that would certainly be
a sensational tour project. This
is to have Nome and Anchorage
charter a flight to Siberia for Alas
kans to make the first flight in
a new tour route to be opened
possibly in the near future.
Seeliger Charges
Discrimination In
Road Allocations
A1 Seeliger, former member of
the Board of Road Commissioners
from the 4th Division talked to
the Chamber Monday noon on the
discrimination against the Second
and Fourth Division in the allo
cation of territorial « and .federal
highway construction funds for
1958.
He suggests that the Second Di
vision and Fourth Division get
together and demand sorhe sort
of explanation.
According to his report the
First Division pays 10.5 per cent
of the fuel tax and is getting 24
per cent • of the road funds allo
cated. The Second Division paid
4.5 per cent and is getting only 2
per cent of the allocations. The
Third Division paid 62 per cent
and gets back practically all of
it with a 61 per cent allocation.
The Fourth Division paid in 23
per cent and is only getting 13 per
cent. In addition to this unfair
division of funds the First and
Third Division get forest highway
funds.
Seeliger summed up his re
marks with the statement that
| Northern Alaska is asking only
I for a fair share of road money.
Chicago Republican
Wins Nomination From
Party-Backed Opponent
CHICAGO, UP> — Warren E,
Wright, running against the Re
publican organization-supported
candidate, handily won the GOP
I nomination in the feature race of
yesterday’s Illinois primary.
The 65-year-old political veteran
—out of favor with the GOP or
ganization the last few years—cap
tured the nomination for State
Treasurer from Louis E. Beckman
by a margin of more than 50,000.
Beckman, 44-year-old State Rep
resentative who had the blessing
and backing of the Republican or
ganization headed by Gov. William
! G. Stratton, had a 2-1 edge in ear
ly returns.
Wright came through with sur
prising strength in the suburbs and
downstate areas, where the party
counted on racking up votes for
Beckman.
Nobody Wants 250-lb.
Tame Bear In Ohio
So He Is Destroyed
LOGAN, Ohio, iffl—A 250-pound
black bear, who no one seemed to
want, was killed yesterday by an
official of the Ohio Division of
Wildlife. It was feared the ani
mal might injure someone. ,
The bear, believed to have been
a pet, was discovered last Thurs
day roaming in wooded hill coun
try near here.
He ate from people’s hands and
did tricks for news photographers.
But several zoos turned down of
fers to take the animal, so Wild
life officials ordered him des
troyed. They said that although
he was tame, he could become vi
cious if teased and they feared the
safety of neighboring farm fam
ilies.
HONORABLE MENTION GIVEN
PALMER. ALASKA, IN LOOK
MAGAZINE CONTEST
NEW YORK, W—Palmer; Alas
ka, received an honorable mention,
yesterday in Look Magazine’s com
i munity Home Achievement con
I test for outstanding progress in im
J proving homes and re.s.d ..nial
areas.