Increase in Radioactivity
Over Stockholm Reported
STOCKHOLM, UP)—Temporary
increases in radioactivity over
Stockholm have been registered
for some time following the hy
drogen bomb explosions in the
Pacific.
Dr. Torsten Magnuson of the
Swedish Defense Research Insti
tute said the increases were in
significant and harmless.
German Subway Crash
HAMBURG, Germany, UP)—
Twenty-eight persons were in
jured Saturday when three sub
way trains, jammed with people,
collided in a Hamburg station at
the height of the morning rush
hour.
500 Homeless in Flood
BONNERS FERRY. Idaho, UP)—
The Kooenay River started level
ing off Saturday and it appeared
the tide had turned in favor of
flood fighters protecting the town
and what’s left of the Kootenai
Valley.
The river stood at 34.8 feet Sat
urday.
The losses have been heavy.
Some 8,000 acres of rich farm
land in the valley is under water
up to 12 feet deep. Homes have
been ruined. More than 500 per
sons have evacuated.
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Korean Paper Criticizes
U.S. Rehabilitation WorJr
SEOUL, (A**—The Korean Re- 1
public, a government-subsidized
English language daily newspa- ,
per, Saturday editorially rapped
“Americans and the reconstruc
tion program that have promised
so much—but have delivered so
little.”
The editorial was accompanied
by a three-column cartoon enti
tled, “How not to rehabilitate
Korea.” It depicted a large
amount of paper work being done
by men resembling “Uncle Sam.”
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Helga Engstrom and
Helen Joe.
Discharged: G. Dimmick Jr.
40 Horses Die in Fire
DETROIT, (J*)—A disastrous fire
late Friday night destroyed 40 to
45 horses stabled in a wooden
barn at the Detroit Race Course
track in suburban Livonia.
The fire, of unknown origin,
was discovered at 11:47 p.m. and
within minutes it raced through
the 250-foot-long 60-stall barn lo
cated on the western side of the
track.
No Apples In Germany?
KOENIG SLAJTTER, Germany,
iff)-—A glass of schnapps a day
keeps the doctor away. That’s the
advice of Mrs. Karoline Matkow
ski, Germany’s oldest resident,
who celebrated her 104th birth
day anniversary today.
Mrs. Matkowski settled in this
small village near Brunswick
after she fled from her native
Romania ten years ago.
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Shemya I. to Be
Closed as Refueling
Stop to Orient
WASHINGTON, iff)—Hopes that
Shemya Island in the North Pac
ific could be retained as an air
base for commercial flights from
Seattle to the Orient apparently
wer£ dashed by a Civil Aeronau
tics Administration ruling last
week.
Washington State’s Congressman
Pelly said he had a letter from
F. B. Lee, administrator of Civil
Aeronautics, which read:
“This administration has defin
itely decided that it cannot justify
the continuation of any of the
facilities on Shemya for civil op
erations after the withdrawal of
military personnel.
“Ways and means of arranging
for rehabilitation and operation of
enough facilities at Cold Bay to
permit its use as a refueling stop
in lieu of Shemya are currently
being explored.”
Final closure of Shemya Airport
has been slated for July 1. Cold
Bay is on the Alaskan Peninsula.
The use of Cold Bay instead of
Shemya will force a reduction in
the minimum payload of North
west Orient Airlines’ Boeing
Stratocruisers of one fourth, or
I from 16,000 to 12,040 pounds, Lee
estimated.
“There will be no payload pen
alty in a Cold Bay-Tokyo opera
tion when the several 1049-E con
stellations now on order by North-#
ern are available for this route,
possibly by mid-1955,” Lee added.
Congressman Pelly made a
speech in the House last April 15
on “Don’t Throw Shemya Away.”
He concluded in that address that
the only answer lies in maintain
ing a skeleton housekeeping crew
of Air Force personnel on Shem
ya. “It doesn’t make sense, mili
tarily or economically, to throw
this vital base away,” Congress
man Pelly concluded.
The psychiatrist was consoling
the wife over her husband’s delu
sion that he thought he was a re
frigerator. After some delibera
tion the wife replied, “I guess he’ll
get over it all right, doctor, if you
say so . . . but at night he sleeps
with mouth open and the little
light keeps me awake.”
Cole Told It’s His “Public
Duty” to Tell Who Won
Unwarranted Profits
WASHINGTON, UP>—Sen. Byrd
fD-Va) told Federal Housing Chief
Albert M. Cole Saturday it is
Cole’s “public duty” to make
known at once the identity of
those who have reaped “uncon
scionable and unwarranted” prof
its out of government-insured
apartment construction loans.
Byrd made public a letter in
which he criticized what he
termed Cole’s admission that the
Federal Housing Administration
(FHA) has no record of actual
project costs in a postwar “middle
income” housing program that
died in 1950.
Byrd’s joint congressional com
mittee on reduction of non-essen
tial federal expenditures and the
Senate Banking Committee have
been holding separate investiga
tions into charges that apartment
house promoters made as much as
a half billion dollars in excessive
profits by obtaining FHA-insured
loans bigger than their construc
tion costs. Also under investiga
tion are alleged abuses in FHA’s
home repair program.
Byrd wrote Cole:
“You have been housing and
home finance administrator with
responsibility to act since March
9, 1953. You have had knowledge
of the situation ... in view of
your agreement that the fact
should be made public, it is un
comprehensible to me that, at this
late date, you should say the
Bureau of Internal Revenue is
still the principal source of your
information.”
Betty Hutton Divorce
LOS ANGELES, UP)—Actress
Betty Hutton charged extreme
mental cruelty in a divorce suit
filed Friday against dance direct
or Charles O’Curran, 39.
The 33-year-old star asked re
turn of her maiden name and said
there is no community property.
The couple married March 18,
1952, in Las Vegas, Nev., and sep
arated last April 20.
Miss Hutton divorced Ted Bir
skin, Chicago camera manufactur
er, in April 1950 and again, after
a reconciliation, in January 1951.
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