Plane Landed Safely But
Heiress Concludes Men
Have No Imagination
MONTREAL, —Dime store
heiress Barbara Hutton alighted
•from a transatlantic plane here
pale and • ;shaken. But her sixth
• fcusband, 'Baron Gottfried Von
Cranun, wasn’t ruffled in the
least. Miss Hutton said it was be
■ cause husbands have no imagi
nations. . >
The airliner, with 49 passengers
aboard, circled the airport for an
(hour Friday while the crew were
seeking a remedy for a defect in
the landing gear indicator.
Fire trucks and crash . wagons
stood ready when it finally; land
ed safely.*r:
They told us of the trouble and
. I spent the next hour thinking of
'the way I was going to die,” the
baroness related in the airport
lounge. VI. confess I was very
frightened;: : . ■>-. .
*■ > “My husband told me I was be
ing very ( foolish to imagine we
were in any serious trouble and I
told him he was the lucky one of
the family—he has no imagina
tion. ■. . .
“So few husbands do have any
imagination.”
Surplus U.S. Farm Goods
Available to Poland
Under New Policy
WASHINGTON, (A>>—'The gov
ernment Saturday cleared the
way for Communist Poland to
buy surplus U.S. farm goods and
hinted it would give similar priv
ileges to other satellite countries
loosening their ties with Russia.
Secretary of Commerce Weeks
announced his department will
consider applications for licenses
to ship surplus farm commodities
to Poland for U. S. dollars at
world market prices.
American policy heretofore has
•been to prohibit exports of gov
I emment-held surplus agricultur
al products to aH iron curtain
countries.
Oregon Town Had Dry
Year—Only 12 Ft. of Rain
VALSETZ, Ore., \N\—This Ore
gon town had a relatively dry
1956, with only 12.35 feet—148.23
inches—of precipitation, observer
Teddy Goodell said Saturday.
This was far below the record
166.88 inches which fell in 1937.
The wettest day of 1956 was
Jan. 4, when 5.15 inches was re
i ported at this mountain town.
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1957 Newsprint Supply
Will Be Adequate,
Says House Committee
WASHINGTON, W--A House
Commerce Committee report says
Commerce Department figures in
dicate there will be “adequate
supplies” of newsprint for U.S.
users in 1957,
About 74 percent of the total
anticipated supply this would
come from Canada, with domestic
production amounting to about 24
percent. The remaining 2 percent
would come from overseas.
A major Canadian producer
announced last week its news
print prices would be boosted $4
a ton on March 1.
*
Concerning advertising, the re
port said:
“During the latter part of 1S'56,
statistics on newspaper advertis
ing show a leveling off in adver
tising volume. However, it is ex
pected that during 1957 there will
again be an upturn in advertising,
especially in newspapers, in an
effort to dispose of goods and
services resulting from the con
tinued expansion in industrial ca
pacity generally.
“Therefore, competition for the
consumer’s dollar may likely be
keener in 1957 than in the past
few years.”
Legion Chief
Asks Deportation
Of Harry Bridges
PALO ALTO, UP)—W. C. Daniel,
the American Legion’s national
commander, urged Friday night
that longshore leader Harry
Bridges be deported.
He said Congress should “take
every possible step” to enable
such a deportation. He contended
that Bridges’ International Long
shoremen’s and Warehousemen’s
Union was a threat to the security
of our nation.
Daniel, a textile executive from
Danville, Va., spoke at a Legion
sponsored dinner.
He contended the ILWU “pre
sents the greatest threat to the
statehood of both Hawaii and
Alaska” and added he was con
vinced a Senate investigation of
ILWU influence in Hawaii would
strengthening anti - Communist
laws.
The government tried unsuc
cessfully for 10 years to deport
Bridges, a native of Australia.
In 1955, federal district court at
San Francisco ruled the govern
ment had not proved Bridges was
ever a Communist.
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Marie McDonald
Found on Desert
Road in Nightgown
By DIAL TORGESON
INDIO, Calif., UPi—-Bedraggled,
hysterical and slightly injured,
missing actress Marie (The Body)
McDonald was found in her night
clpthing on a desert highway near
this southeastern California city
Friday night.
Sheriff’s deputies said she told
them two kidnapers had pushed
her out of a car after a high
speed ride from Los Angeles.
The voluptuous Hollywood fig
ure was picked up by the lights
of an oncoming truck as sh6
stum/bled across the highway east
of here, some 150 miles from her
home.
“I had a hell of a time" stopping
the truck,” said the truck driver.
“She was so hysterical I didn’t
know what was going on.”
Miss McDonald vanished from
her elaborate residence in the
Los Angeles suburb of Encino
early Friday morning. Three
limes Friday she telephoned to
| friends saying that she had
I been kidnaped and was being
I held captive by two men.
1 She reportedly described her
captives in one of the phone calls
as a Negro and a Mexican.
Miss McDonald was brought to
a hospital here and placed under
sedation. No one was permitted
| to talk to her:
I Her two front teeth were
I cracked and her upper lip was
swollen. She had no bruises.
She had a small abrasion on the
instep of the right foot."
Police said they had no leads,
no descriptions.
Her apparel—a housecout, a
nightgown and slippers—were all
taken to the sheriff’s office for
examination.
Credit Where Due
DENVER, —For 40 years,
Mrs. Nila Burge, 58, drove her
car without an accident. Then
in two months her car was in
volved in three crashes.
After the last one, in which a
mile motorist ran a red light and
smashed the right front fender of
her car, Mrs. Burge painted a big
black sign across the damaged
fender: “A man did this.”
“I got tired of people looking
at the smashed fender and laugh
ing,” Mrs. Burge said. “I could
just see them thinking, ‘woman
driver.’ I decided to do something
about it.”
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NOME ROTARY CLUB
Dewey Goodrich
President
W. Mecklenburg
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
STAN MORGAN, President
ALASKA CBAfTH T ~>. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meet* 1st & 3rd Monday of each month
□ Belly Edwards
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar