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Woman Doctor
Delivers Her Own
Baby in Car
NEW YORK, UP—A young
woman doctor calmly delivered
her own baby on the front seat of
her car yesterday while her jit
' tery husband was driving her to
a hospital.
Asked if she had been con
cerned about delivering the baby
unassisted in such cramped quar
ters, Dr. Helen Stein, 25, said:
“Gosh, no. Women today make
too much of giving birth. The
natural way is the best. This was
by far my easiest delivery. And
my other two boys, Erin, 2, and
Marvin, 1, were bom in the hos
pital.”
Mrs. Stein, an intern at Long
Island College Hospital in Brook
lyn, had gone on a jolting ambu
lance ride earlier on an emer
gency case.
She helped deliver the wortian’s
baby and then went liome. A
short while later she told her hus
band, Martin, she thought her
own time had come.
Mrs. Stein and her new , five-^
pound son were reported in good
condition at Long Island College
Hospital.
Marilyn Monroe
Would Like Role
Of Lady MaeBetli
LONDON, IjR—Marilyn Monroe,
who is about to co-star with one
of Britain’s foremost Shakespear
ean actors, says she would like to
■portray Lady MacBeth—“some
time.”
Seated beside Sir Laurence
Olivier, with whom she will make
a film here, Marilyn told some
300 reporters last night she would
rather play that tragic role than
any other in the world.
“Please get me right,” she said,
“I didn’t mean I’d like to play
her right now, but sometime."
“I hate to say this.” she added,
shifting slightly in her form-fix
ting black dress, “because when I
said I wanted to play Grushenka
in Dostoevski’s “Brothers Kamar
azov,’ people laughed.”
Asked if Britain’s cool nights
had changed her views about
sleeping in Chanel No. 5 and
nothing else, Marilyn pondered a
moment.
“Let’s say that now that I’m in
England I like sleeping in just
Yardley’s , lavender,” she smiling
ly replied.
Marilyn’s new husband, play
wright Arthur Miller, who was
present, was asked “How do you
see Miss Monroe?"
“Throiigh two eyes,” he said,
adding, “She’s the most unique
person I ever met.”
Eight nationally distributed
morning papers ran 22 pictures of
the blonde star today.
FAMILY AFFAIR
BOISE, Idaho, (**—A motorist
saw smoke rising from behind a
garage here Saturday night and
promptly called the fire depart
ment. Firemen arrived jto find a
family cooking dinner on their
backyard ^charcoal broiler.
Nehru and Adenauer ,
Ask World Disarmament
Wi|h Inspection Provision
BONN, Germany, Wt—Chancel
lor Adenauer of West Germany
and Prime Minister Nehru of In
dia called today for a world dis
armament agreement including
proper provisions for control and
inspection.
They said a disarmament agree
ment was of “great importance”
to world peace and prosperity,
and voiced the hope that present
developments could lead to an
easing of world tensions.
Their views were set out in a
joint communique issued after
Nehru’s three-day visit to Bonn.
The communique omitted any
mention of agreement of German
unification, the foremost objec
tive of Adenauer's policy.
Adenauer maintains that his
policy of aligning West Germany
militarily with the West is the
best means of achieving unifica
tion.
Methodist Conference
Votes Renewed Support
For Anchorage College
COLORADO SPRINGS (*—Re
newed support for the projected
Alaska Methodist College at An
chorage was voted by the Metho
dist College at Anchorage was
voted by the Methodist Western
Jurisdictional Conference, which
ended its sessions here last night.
The conference commended the
college to the 552,000 members of
the 1,600 churches in the confer
ence for financial support. The
Rev. Fred McGinnis, Alaska mis
sion superintendent, told dele
gates that about $3 million has
been paid or pledged by the entire
church for the college.
The conference also praised
residents of Anchorage and other
Alaskan cities for their backing of
the college.
Eisenhower
Back to Work
At White House
WASHINGTON, Wl—President
Eisenhower went back to work at
the White House today.
He reported at his office at 8:20
a.m. for the first time since he
was stricken with an intestinal
ailment June 8.
He met with staff members,
conferred with Lewis W. Strauss,
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission, and scheduled a
meeting with Secretary of State
Dulles.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told reporters
the meeting with Dulles would
include a discussion of matters to
be taken up at the Panama City
meeting of American Presidents
which Eisenhower will attend
next weekend.
Hagerty also disclosed Eisen
hower will take part Friday in
an “expanded” meeting of the
National , Security Council to
mark his participation in the be
ginning of Operation Alert, the
federal Civil Defense exercise.
Babe Zaharias Improving
After Operation
GALVESTON, Tex., tP— Babe
Zaharias continued to show im
provement today from an opera
tion designed to remove the pain
attendant to cancer. She' was able
to admire some new dresses and
start talking about getting out on
a golf course again.
The famous woman athlete,
who has been fighting the dread
disease since 1953, "Is doing bet
ter than anticipated,” said a re
port from John *Sealy Hospital.
She was reported quite cheerful
and yesterday had her first solid
food since the operation Friday.
California Scientist Conies North
To Study Mysterious Life in Death
Of Alaska Squirrel’s Hibernation
SEATTLE, UfV— Dr. William V.
Mayer is enroute to Alaska and
the arctic tundra to continue his
six-year research into one of the
most fascinating phenonema in
nature.
This associate professor of biol
ogy and his associate, Ormund G.
Mitchell, who are from the Uni
versity of Southern California,
are on their way to study a re
markable rodent, the arctic
ground squirrel.
This animal has only four
months of active, warm-blooded
life during the year. For the re
maining eight months it becomes
in effect a cold-blooded createure,
like the fish and the reptiles,
lying in almost death-like stupor
in its burrow, a “true hibernator.”
During its four active months
the animal is typical of warm
blooded animals. But amazing
changes take place during hiber
nation.
The body temperature drops
from 98 or 99 degrees, roughly
that of a human, to 32 degrees
Fahranheit, freezing.
The heartbeat, normally 150
per minute, slows to 11 beats a
minute or even less. Respiration
slows. The blood j-hickens and
barely creeps through the circu
latory system. Dr. Mayer said:
“One of these squirrels in hi
bernation actually seems to be
dead. The heartbeat cannot be
detected with a stethoscope. The
heart, instead of beating, con
tracts and expands ever so slowly.
You can move legs, bend the
body, or do what you will, but
the squirrel will not waken.
Dr. Mayer wants to find out
why freezing does not harm parts
—say a leg or tail. He said:
“I’ve seen a squirrel whose tail
was frozen solid. Wheri it came
out of hibernation the tail was
perfectly normal. The tissues
were undamaged.”
Although he was extremely
cautious and emphasized that this
is only conjecture, Dr. Mayer
agreed that if enough can be
learhed about the remarkable
slowing down of the arctic ground
squirrel's metabolism during hi
bernation, the principle might
some day be applied to humans.
San Diego Woman
Wins $20,887 on $2 Bet
At Caliente Race Track
AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, UP)
—The winner of a record $20,887
on a $2 horse racing bet was go
ing to work as usual today as
manager of a women’s dress shop,
unless she has changed her mind.
Mrs. Virginia Peace, a gray
haired widow from San Diego,
Calif., said that was her plan as
she collected yesterday.
She had picked five or six win
ners in the fifth through tenth
races and won the entire Caliente
Sunday 5-10 900I, less the track’s
ten percent.
Reds Repeat
Request to Halt
Nuclear Tests
Seen as Propaganda
Move in Deadlock
MOSCOW, UP)—The Soviet Uni
on today called on the United
States and Britain to agree that
all three countries will stop test
ing nuclear weapons.
Dmitri Shepilov, making his
first public address here since
taking over from V. M. Molotov
as foreign minister, told 1,300 del
egates to the fJupreme Soviet this
aim could be achieved in any one
of three ways. He listed these as:
1. Within the framework of the
United Nations.
2. A tripartite agreement among
the three powers concerned,
which other countries could join
later.
3. Separate official statements
from each government declaring
they were abandoning nuclear
tests.
(In Washington, American offi
cials said they were opposed to
any such ban unless it is part of
a controled disarmament pro
gram. Shepilov’s proposal, they
said, is not new and, in effect, is
similar to an Indian plan rejected
by the U.S., Britain, Australia
and Canada at the U.N. last week.
(The Soviet foreign minister’s
move in reiterating the Russian
stand appeared to these officials
as an effort to reap propaganda
advantage from the current dead
lock by advancing a proposal that
the Western powers have already
turned down.)
Miss Vermont Has No
High Regard for Mink—
Her Family Owns 500
LONG BEACH, Calif., MV-Miss
Vermont is surrounded by mink,
live ones, in her normal daily life
but she doesn’t have too high a
regard for the valuable animals.
She is Dolores Wettack, 21,
Westminster, Vt., who is a con
testant in the Miss Universe con
test, preliminary judging for
which begins tomorrow night.
There are 500 mink on the Wet
tack family ranch and Miss Wet
tack shys:
“Mink can be unpleasant little
beasts, inclined to eat their own
young. My job is to water them
five times a day and grind up the
horse meat; they thrive on horse
meat.
“I don’t have a mink coat. We
sell all the fur.’’
Three Freighters
Will Call At Nome
During the Month
Walter Sipprell, local agent for
the Alaska Steamship Co., has
received word that there was
more freight for the July 12th
sailing than the M. V. Galena
could handle so the routing of
the M.V. Palisana has been ex
tended to include Nome.
The Palisana sailed on July 9
from Seattle and is expected here
July 21 and upon completing dis
charging Nome cargo will return
to the Bristol Bay area to load
salmon.
The M.V. Galena was delayed
in its loading and sailed from
Seattle July 14 and is expected
here on July 24. From Nome it
will proceed to Kotzebue and St.
Michael.
The S.S. Fortuna sailed from
Seattle on July 3 and should ar
rive Nome about July 30. She
has mainly freight for defense
construction sites.
The first shipments of south
bound freight from Nome to
Seattle will be loaded on the For
tuna, which will sail about five
days after its arrival here.
Alaska Indian Girl
Sees 1st Polar Bear
In San Diego Zoo
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (41—A little
Indian girl from Alaska named
Morning Star saw her first polar
bear in southern California today.
She wanted to be friends but
the bears in the San Diego Zoo
were too dangerous of eight-year
old Morning Star to go near.
So she cuddled an African lion
cub instead.
This was one of the adventures
Morning Star remembered as she
continued her visit here. At the
zOo she saw many strange crea
tures and some that, while ordin
ary to children in most of the
United States, were new to her.
She has also seen her first cow
and horse. She would like to ride
a horse back to her parents’ home
on a river bank near Fairbanks.
She was brought to San Diego
by her government school teach
er, Mrs. Marie Kobler.
Morning Star’s Christian name
is Marie, too. She is named after
her teacher. She is a member of
the Athabaskan tribe but her par
ents are now known as Mr. and
Mrs. Ludebecker.
While her teacher is going to
summer school at San Diego State
College, Morning Star goes to a
YMCA camp called “Pow Wow.”
There the white children play
they are Apaches. Morning Star
play? she is an Apache with them.
She has become an expert on
roller skates.
OUT OF THE RUNNING
LITTLETON, Colo., l4V-George
A. Hinshaw won’t be a candidate
for the Republican nomination
for state representative, after all,
After announcing for the post
Saturday, Hinshaw quickly with
drew. He’d forgotten to register
as a Republican.