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Mourns Passing of
Christian Dior ,
MONTECATINI, Italy, Un
christian Dior, 52-year-old king
of the post-war fashion world,
died early yesterday of a heart
attack while on holiday in this
north Italian resort 25 miles west
of Florence.
Dior’s death plunged the fash
ion houses of Paris and Rome into
mourning. Even the rival Italian
designers acknowledged him after
death as fashion’s pacesetter—
something they didn’t do publicly
while he lived.
The quiet, balding and slightly
paunchy creator of the revolu
tionary “New Look” had come to
Montecatini a week ago with four
friends.
He dined Wednesday night with
Mrs. Raymonde Zennacker, his
chief assistant, and after dinner
retired to his hotel room. At 11
p.m. he called for a doctor. Sub
sequently a priest was summoned.
Dior was the second of French
fashion’s major postwar designers
to die after a brief but meteoric
career. Jacques Fath succumbed
three years ago, at the age of 42,
to leukemia.
Dior was virtually unknown
until 1947 when he burst to the
forefront of the bitterly competi
tive fashion trade with the revo
lutionary longer, full skirts of his
New Look. In that one season he
became the dictator of high style,
and never since had anyone come
near toppling him from his pin
nacle.
A woman went to a medium
and got into contact with her
dead hubsand.
“James,” she asked, “Are you
happy now?”
“I am very happy.”
“Are you happier than you
were with me on earth?”
“Yes, far happier,” came the
sepulchral voice.
“Tell me, James, what is it
like in Heaven?”
“Heaven!” the voice said,
“who’s in Heaven?”
Mike Kelly sends greetings to
his friends in Nome from Galena,
where he is now stationed with
the U.S. Engineers.
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| Kougarokers Tell of Skirmish With
Bear and Hidden Silver Treasure
The Kougarok is a mining area
close to Nome where year after
year prospectors and gold miners
spend the summer digging for
gold. From time to time strange
tales are told, indicating that life
there, though rugged, is not mo
notonous.
George Bodis, who has been
mining in the Dick Creek area
frequently spends the summers
alone. He tells how he left his
cook house one evening last sum
mer and saw a little black bear
cub. He paused to watch the cub
while opening the door to his
storeroom, when all of a sudden
a mountain of a bear swatted him
from behind so hard that it
knocked him flat on his*face.
When he picked himself up,
both bears were gone, he noted,
as he headed for camp in haste.
The strange thing about the tale
is that not a single scratch was
left by the mother bear when she
knocked him down.
Silver in the Kougarok?
George Waldheim of Dahl Creek
couldn’t be outdone by his friend
and he, too, has a story to tell.
Although he is a gold miner,
next summer he will be looking
for silver, too. Some place along a
certain train in the Dahl Creek
area tractor treads picked up an
old American coin dating back to
1877. George thinks that there
may be some more there, buried
by some former resident, just
where, he hasn’t yet discovered.
He has the coin to prove his
story.
Dryest Dry Season
A total of four days rain in the
Kougarok sets a new low in dry
seasons for the area, said Wald
heim, who is staying in for the
winter and returning to the hlls
in the spring.
LOUIS CHASSE. MARGARET
FLEENER MARRIED
Lewis J. Chase and Margaret
Fleener were married yesterday
by U.S. Commission Herb Jenks.
The couple were attended by
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tobuk.
Mr. Chase is employed by Lo
men Commercial Co.
RUSSIANS CLAIM TO HAVE
ATOM-POWERED ICEBREAKER
By THOMAS P. WHITNEY
AP Foreign News Analyst
The Russians are claiming
another scientific - technological
“first”—not so dramatic as Sput
nik but more practical.
It is the first nuclear-powered
surface ship, an icebreaker which
may revolutionize arctic naviga
tion.
This biggest icebreaker in the
world will pack a punch calculat
ed to put into areas ships never
have reached.
It has been under construction
in a Leningrad shipyard for two
years, and the Soviet news agency
Tass says the engines are being
installed now.
Its displacement of 16,000 tons
makes it 4,000 tons larger than
any icebreaker on record. Atomic
reactors will give it 44,000 horse
power, more than twice the power
of any other icebreaker.
Modem icebreakers clear paths
by raising their prows above the
ice and then crushing it beneath
them. Their engines not only pro
pel the ship but also pump water
back and forth in ballast tanks to
shift weight.
The additional weight of the
new nuclear icebreaker as com
pared with conventional types
and its high ratio of horsepower
to weight promise enormously in
creased icebreaking capabilities.
The use of nuclear power is
reckoned to enable the ship to
operate for a year without refuel
ing and make it independent of
conventional fuels.
The new icebreaker will be put
into service to the north of Siber
ia. Along this route ships pass
from ports in European Russia,
along northern Siberia and into
the Pacific thru the Bering Strait.
The northern sea route has had
relatively limited use because it
was open for only a short part of
the year.
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