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Photo: Courtesy Canadian National Railways
Among the many interesting diversions to be found in Montreal is the
opportunity afforded by St. Helen’s Island to watch the ocean-going
ships on their journey up the St. Lawrence. This American visitor is
fascinated by the sight of a merchantman sailing gracefully beneath
the great span of the Jacques Cartier bridge prior to making landfall
in the Port of Montreal —1,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. FNS
Cuban Rebels
I
Gaining Force
HAVANA, Cuba, UP) — Civilians
w«re warned to keep clear of:
rebel positions as the government1
proclaimed an all-out drive to.
wipe out the insurgents.
Army planes are reported to al- j
ready have bombed the outskirts >
of Placetos on the main highway
east of Santa Clara, where the
rebels are tightening a ring around
the capital of Las Villas Province.
The two-year rebellion faces
its bloodiest turn as government
forces struck at heavily popu
lated concentrated districts which
until now have been kept out of
the range of gunfire.
A shortage of weapons and am
munition was hampering the gov
ernment of President Fulgencio
Batista in countering attacks by
the rebel forces of Fidel Castro.
The rebels control highways
connecting Havana and Santa
Clara, and travel is risky.
While Castro’s forces appeared
gaining strength on arms smuggled
from the United States, there
was grumbling in government
circles at the attitude taken by
Washington.
The United States was accused
by many of helping the rebels, in
effect, by maintaining an embar
go on shipments of weapons to
the Batista government.
The insurgents, in a more con
fident mood now, are able for the
first time to occupy populated
places instead of waging stab at
tacks and hasty retreats to hide
ov " in the countryside.
The rebels are reported creat
ine loc~l civil governments in'-an
ticipation of taking over complete
towns.
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: CHICAGO, iff) — A coroner’s
jury has recommended a father
; who fancied himself as a fast man
! with a gun face a grand jury in
the shooting death of his son.
The son, 14-month-old Wyatt
Erp Bender, was killed Christmas
! Eve as he walked into the line
of fire from his father’s long-bar
relled revolver.
The jury yesterday asked that
Jack Bender, 29, be bound to the
grand jury on an involuntary man
slaughter charge.
Jurors were told by police that
they found about 75 bullet holes
in the Bender home. Bender told
police he was practicing fast
drawing in the living room. Police
also quoted Bender as saying he
drank three of four quarts of beer
before his shooting practice.
Bender is the father of five
children. His wife, Elaine, 29, is
expecting a sixth child.
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
DEAD IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, (if) — Freder
ick C. Othman, 5, Washington
columnist for the United Feature
Syndicate, died Saturday of a
heart ailment. He had been with
the United Press for 22 years be
fore joining the United Features
Syndicate. He was born in St.
Louis.
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CHICAGO — With a little ima
gination — and a lot of stamina
— you can ring in the New Year
with more than one celebration.
In fact, you can keep on cele
bratine all through the year, just
toy switching calendars.
The World Book Encyclopedia
says most of the Christian world
wipes the slate clean on January
1st.
But by trading in the Gregorian
Calendar for the Julian calendar,
you can have another New Year’s
on January 14th.
Take a few months to recover,
and you can join the Iranian cele
bration on March 21st. If that
doesn’t wear you out, you can
turn over a new leaf in autumn,
when the Jews welcome the New
Year. _
If you want to cut down on
travel time, you can confine your
partydiopping to India. The Hin
dus are divided into many dif
ferent religious groups, and each
group marks the beginning of the
year on a different date.
Rand Corp. Predicts
Soviet Stockpiling
Of Ballistic Missiles
WASHINGTON, UP) — An esti
mate that the Soviet Union will
have 300 intercontinental ballistic
missiles within 18 months and
that at least half of them will
| work, has been given to the Eisen
hower Administration.
The prediction was made toy the
Rand Corp., which does research
work for the Pentagon. It was
made public over the weekend at
a session of the American Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Science.
In the current issue of Foreign
Affairs, an article toy Albert Wohl
stetter said the “delicate balance
of terror” on which American pol
icy is based is not automatic and
that while feasible, “it will toe
much harder to achieve in the
1960s than is generally believed.”
STUDENT BODY
CO-OPERATION
BERKELEY, Calif., UP) — Hand
in-glove cooperation between the
president and vice president of the
University of California student
body may be expected when
classes resume after the holidays
— They will toe man and wife.
William Albert Stricklin, the
president, and Suzanne Trees were
married here at the start of the
holidays.
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Mother-In-Law Indicted For Jealousy
Hireling - Murder Of Son’s Wife
VENTURA, Calif., UP) — “She
didn’t want another woman to
have her boy.”
District Attorney Roy Gustaf
son was talking about Mrs. Eliza
beth Duncan, 54, who was indicted
last week on a charge of murder,
along with the two men she is
accused of hiring to kill her
daughter-in-law.
Talking to reporters following
the return of the indictments, Gus
tafson said it was a dramatic mid
night confession by one of the ac
cused hired killers that led to
the county grand jury’s swift
action.
The jurors deliberated only 15
minutes before indicting Mrs.
Duncan, Duis Moya, 22, and Aug
ustine Baldonado, 25, for the mur
der of Olga Duncan, 30, pregnant
wife of Mrs. Duncan’s son, Frank.
Moya, a drifter with an eight
McGrath Station Crew
Wins Alaska Airlines’
Golden Nugget Award
McGRATH — Pete Karelia,
Alaska Airlines station manager
at McGrath, was notified last week
that his station crew had won the
airlines’ “Golden Nugget Award”
in a revenue competition between
all stations in AA’s system.
LeRoy Peterson, vice president
of traffic and sales, announced
that McGrath had surpassed its
station quota by 111 per cent.
Company stations at Bethel and
Unalakleet placed second, and
third respectively in the convpeti
i tion. Fairbanks had held the
j award for revenue records estab
lished in October.
Russian Submarines
j Suspected Prowling At
i Missile Test Sites
LONDON, tR — Soviet subma
rines may be secretly cruising in
waters where Allied guided mis
sile tests are under way, it was
reported today.
Naval sources said Soviet scien
tists are anxious to get a look at
warheads from allied missiles.
Most of these are constructed to
float after falling into the sea.
There have been reports of un
identified submarines in South
Atlantic waters.
year record of arrests, had main
tained a sullen silence since the
body of the Canadian nurse was
found in a hastily dug grave near
here last Sunday. But as midnight
tolled on Christmas night he
called in his jailers.
“I have confessed to God and
asked forgiveness,” he told them,
and gave a statement the District
Attorney said corroborated in
every detail one made earlier by
Baldonado.
The two men say Mrs. Duncan
promised them $6,000 to kill the
woman her son had married last
June. They carried out the mur
der plot last November 17, they
said, luring the bride into their car
asd choking and heating her to
death.
A fierce jealousy lay behind
Mrs. Duncan’s plotting, Gustaf
son said. She did everything she
could to prevent her son’s mar
riage and to break it up after the
ceremony. Duncan had separated
from his bride after two weeks
and gone back to live with his
mother.
Mrs. Duncan did not testify. Her
son did, however, and it was a
shaken, dejected man who walked
from the jury room.
Duncan, 30, a bushy-haired man
with heavy, dark-rimmed glasses,
told reporters he had been asked
mostly about his mother and her
many marriages, four of them in
eight years to men much younger
than she. They ended in annul
ment or divorce.
The Chinese and Japanese lit
erally wipe the slate clean for
the New Year. They pay their
debts and settle accounts before
a new year begins.
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and styling flavor of the Thunderbird than any other Ford model. Compared here, the
Galaxie Town Victoria m the foreground bears a strong resemblance to the 1959
ThUuiderbir? r !Spe^ially in the roof area’ yet i1; is priced to sell only
$48 above comparable models in the Ford Fair lane 500 series. The new luxury series
includes six different body styles