Adlai Stevenson, Touring Territory,
Lashes GOP Disunity and Strife;
Praises Demos’ Record in Alaska
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Man Who Killed
Wife’s Lover Gets
Acquittal—Insanity
ALLEGAN, Mich., W)—The love
triangle murder case against Dr.
Kenneth B. Small, Detroit dentist
who killed his pretty wife’s ad
mirer, ended in a dramatic verdict
of acquittal by reason of insanity
early Saturday.
An Allegan County circuit court
jury of 11 men and one woman
returned its verdict at 1:40 a.m.
after five hours and four minutes
of deliberation.
Women spectators screamed.
Others applauded. Some women
kissed Dr. Small.
The verdict, in effect, held that
Dr. Small, 31, society dentist, was
not mentally responsible when he
shot and killed Jules M. Lack, 45,
New York playboy-industrialist,
at a swank summer cottage near
here last Memorial Day weekend.
At the time, Small’s brunette
wife, Edith, 30, mother of three
boys, was a guest with Lack at a
house party. The husband had
trailed her to the cottage after
becoming suspicious of her story
she was with a woman friend in
Chicago.
Mrs. Small was not in the court
room at the time of the verdict.
She had secluded herself before
hand.
Michigan law requires that Dr.
Small be kept in a state hospital
until the state decides that he is
sane, or insane. This means he
could be released at an early date
—or never.
Canadian and U.S.
Scientists Leave
To Explore Arctic
VICTORIA, B.C., UP)—A party
of Canadian and American scien
tists left here Saturday for Ko
diak, Alaska, the last stop before
penetrating to the uncharted areas
around the entrance to the North
west Passage.
The scientists, seven Canadians
and 10 Americans, left on the
United States icebreakers USS
Burton Island and Coast Guard
V.essel Northwind.
Dr. William Cameron, associate
professor of oceanography at the
University of British Columbia,
who made preparations for the
trip at the Pacific Naval Labora
tory here, is in charge of the Can
adians. Dr. W. K. Lyon of the U.S.
Electronic Laboratory at San Di
ego', heads the Americans.
For the next two months the
scientists will probe and explore
the shores and waters of McClure
Strait at the entrance to the
Northwest Passage, 1,500 miles
north of Edmonton.
Using every opportunity, they
will study ice and water move
ment and correct positions on ex
isting charts.
Dr. Cameron said Friday night
he expected the ships would be
forced out of the area by the
weather some time in September.
Kodiak will be the last major
stop of the two ships before pro
ceeding through the Bering Sea
and into the Pacific. Last-minute
plans will be made there with
U.S. armed forces aircraft which
will fly ahead o'f the breakers and
report on ice flows.
> JUNEAU, W)—Democrat Adlai
Stevenson terms the Eisenhower
Administration as “a government
that can’t govern itself, can’t gov
ern a country, let alone lead the
world.”
Bitterly raking the GOP over
the political coals in a speech be
fore a standing-room-only rally
banquet Saturday night, the 1952
Democratic presidential candidate
rapped Republicans for not giving
full loyal support to President
Eisenhower.
Stevenson, on the first day of
an Alaskan vacation, said the
President evidently does not have
political control over his party.
And the saddest thing, Stevenson
said, is that Eisenhower apparent
ly has no control over foreign
affairs.
“We see time after time again
contradictions between Secretary
of State Dulles, Senate Republi
can Leader Knowland and Vice
President Nixon.
“It is the first time in the his
tory of this nation that foreign af
fairs have ever been operated by
the platoon system.”
Warming to his speech, Steven
son called the recently-concluded
McCarthy-Stevens hearings a
“squalid controversy that gave
comfort to our enemies and dis
comfort to our allies.”
“The results of Democratic ad
ministrations the past 20 years, in
contrast to recent times,” Steven
son said, “ has made the Demo
crats optimistic and the Republi
cans worried. You would be too if
you had as many promisory notes
out as they have.”
Stevenson lauded the efforts of
the Democratic Party in the de
velopment of the resources of the
territory.
“The more I’ve though over
what our party has done here the
more bewildered I am there are
any Republicans here,” he said.
Stevenson said he had always
felt, however, that the develop
ment of Alaskan resources should
not be a partisan matter.
He and his party went sight
seeing yesterday and met Gov. B.
Frank Heintzleman at the gov
ernor’s house. Last night he was
the guests of former Gov. Ernest
Gruening at Gruening’s Eagle
River home.
Two Alaska Churches
“Swap” Missions at
Wales and Yukatat
JUNEAU—A “swap” of churches
in two Alaska villages has been
agreed to by the Evangelical Mis
sion Covenant and the Presbyter
ian Church in the U.S.A., the Rev.
Rolland R. Armstrong of the Pres
byterian board of missions an
j nounced here last week,
i The Evangelical Mission Cove
nant, a Swedish group, will trade
its mission at Yakutat for one
which the Presbyterian Church
has operated at Wales since 1919.
The exchange is mutually bene
ficial, the Reverend Armstrong
I said, because Yakutat is isolated
from other missions of the Evan
gelical Covenant group, while
Wales has been a little off the
beaten path for the Presbyterians.
Alaska Steamship Co.
Discontinues Passenger
Service to Alaska
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continuing on the use of new type
facilities to develop still further
improvements in Alaska’s major
transportation system.”
Efforts have been made, he said,
to continue operation of the pass
enger service, but they failed to
produce the necessary revenue.
He listed them as including: in
creasing summer fares over the
“off season” fares; eliminating
unprofitable ports; allowing spe
cial rates for passengers’ automo
biles; and during the summer
tourist season restricting advance
reservations for “short haul” pas
sengers.
“It was felt that the movement
of military dependents controlled
by the Military Sea Transport
Service could be of major assis
tance, and contracts with the
MSTS were in effect at two dif
ferent times.
“But it has been determined
that if MSTS had used every
vacant berth, both northbound
and southbound throughout 1953
at MSTS contract fares, the addi
tional revenue would have been
insufficient to overcome the 1953
deficit of $420,000.”
Skinner also said attempts to
find employment for the passen
ger vessels in other trades during
the off-season had been without
success.
“Of interest in this connection,”
he continued, is a report released
by the Alaska Development Board
which shows of the 244,451 pas
sengers traveling to and from
Alaska in 1953, 59.7 percent used
air transportation, 26.5 percent
highway transportation, and only
13.7 percent traveled by ship.”
The Alaska Steamship Co. and
its predecessor companies have
been serving the territory with
passenger service for 58 years.
The Alaska Steamship Co. itself
was formally organized in 1908.
Noisy Denials at Start of
McCarthy Hearings on
Defense Plant Subversives
WASHINGTON, CPI—Sen. Mc
Carthy began public hearings to
day on his repeated charges of
130-odd subversives in defense
plants and ran into a stormy clash
with a man named as one of them.
It wound up with McCarthy hav
ing the man removed from the
hearings room.
Yelling about informers and
stool pigeons, Charles Wojchow
ski was hauled out by a capital
policeman acting on McCarthy’s
orders.
Wojchowski had been identi
fied as a Red by James W. Glatis
of Boston, who testified he him
self had joined the Communist
Party as 'an FBI undercover man.
Wojchowski shouted: “I’d like
to know what the charges are and
who the accusers are. I'd like to
have time to prepare.”
He said a telegram practically
convicting him had been sent to
his employer and had just about
cost him his job.
It was the' first hearing at
which McCarthy has presided
since March 17 when his public
pursuit of Communists was put
aside for the MeCarthy-Army
hearings.
McCarthy launched the hear
ings despite: 1. Opposition from a
majority of his seven-member
subcommittee on grounds there
should be a staff “house-clean
ing” before any new offical activ
ity; 2. A pending move by Sen.
Flanders to censure him for the
way he has conducted hearings in
the past.
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