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Heart Attack Proves Fatal
To Comedian Joan Davis
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. UP! —
Joan Davis, whose wacky cracked
voiced comedy boosted her from
vaudeville to stardom in movies,
radio and television, died yes
terday of a heart attack. She was
48.
She was stricken Monday at
her home in this desert resort,
where she had lived in retire
ment in recent years. She died at
a hospital.
Tall, blonde Joan, whose zany
antics tended to divert attention
from what was a pretty face and
shapely figure, was last seen in
a successful TV situation comedy,
“I Married Joan.” Her co-star
was Jim Backus.
She had a long career in movies
turning to television, and had her
own radio show, “Leave It to
Joan.”
She was the second star to die
in 10 days, the other being Gary
Cooper. In addition, such per
sonalities as Jeff Chandler, Chico
Marx and June Allyson have been
hospitalized for various ailments,
and Elizabeth Taylor still is re
cuperating from a bout with
pneumonia.
At her side when she died was
her mother, Mrs. Nina Davis, and
a Catholic priest.
Miss Davis’ long career in
radio, TV and movies started at
the age of six when she was
taken from an amateur night ap
pearance and signed for the Pant
ages Vaudeville Circuit. Her act,
a comedy single, was billed as
“toy comedienne.”
2nd Running Monday of
700-Mile Outboard Race,
Fort Yukon to Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS UP) — The second
running of the Arctic Circle mar
athon Boat Race from Circle City,
down the Yukon River to Fair
banks wall start Monday noon.
Twenty-four boats have entered
the race which is expected to
take around 24 hours. There are
three crewmen in each of the
boats in the grueling endurance
test of men and equipment.
One official stop will be made
at Tanana where the Yukon and
Tanana Rivers meet. From there
the racers will come up river on
the Tanana and then up the Chena
River 14 miles to the finish line
in Fairbanks.
The racers cross the Arctic
Circle twice in the vicinity of
Fort Yukon.
The estimated distance of the
race is 700 miles and is the longest
of its type in existence.
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I CIA Spent
$45 Million for
Cuban Fiasco
WASHINGTON W — Senators
have been told the Central In
telligence Agency (CIA) spent $45
million training and equipping a
1.500-man guerrilla force never
geared for a full-scale Cuban in
vasion.
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, is reported to have testi
fied before a Senate Foreign Re
lations subcommittee that he
gave informal approval of military
arrangements for an attempt to
land the 1,500 at a point where
they could join guerrillas operat
ing in the mountains.
Lemnitzer was said by the com
mittee members to have made it
clear that he specified the attempt
would be successful only if cer
tain conditions were met.
These reputedly included the
destruction of Fidel Castro’s
meager air force, plus realization
of the CIA’s prediction that anti
Castro groups would rally to help
the invaders escape to the moun
tains when they came ashore.
The objective, it was reported,
was to avoid contact with Castro’s
army, if possible, and to consoli
date forces that could harass him
and provide cover for possible
further landings.
Instead, almost everything went
wrong. The invaders’ old B-26
bombers did not bomb the air
fields. In fact, the bombers ar
rived in Cuba in broad daylight
when Castro’s armed T-33 train
ers already were in the air.
Castro knew in advance of the
landing site and had massed his
forces, equipped with tanks and
artillery, to greet the incoming
guerrillas. His more modern
planes shot down several of the
World War II bombers, leaving
the anti-Castro troops without air
cover.
The final disaster was the
sinking of an old Liberty ship
carrying most of their communi
cations equipment and ammuni
tion.
This explanation apparently has
convinced most subcommittee
members — except Sen. Albert
Gore — that the Joint Chiefs are
not primarily to blame for the
fiasco.
Gore, who called previously for
replacement of the Joint Chiefs,
renewed in the Senate Monday
his contention that those “charged
with official responsibilty should
be held responsible for the part
they played.”
Rescue Workers Give
Up Efforts to Recover
Body of Buried Farmer
NAMPA, Idaho (J1) — Efforts to
recover the body of a 55-year-old
farmer buried last Wednesday in
a cave-in 160 feet down a water
well shaft have been abandoned.
The family of Herbert A. Tiegs
of Nampa said last night it did
not wish to endanger the lives
of anybody else.
Rescue workers, after slow,
dangerous digging, found Tiegs
last night at the 175-foot level.
The cave-in pushed him that far
down the 22-inch wide shaft.
Special 20-inch steel casing had
to be used by rescuers to protect
them from further cave-ins.
Tiegs had gone down to con
tinue plastering sides of the shaft
when the sides caved in.
12 "FREEDOM RIDERS"
ARRESTED IN MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON, Miss. UP) — City
j police arrested 12 “Freedom
j Riders” today as they arrived at
i Jackson Trailways bus station
and walked into the white wait
ing room.
The group included nine Negro
' men, one white man and two
Negro women.
They were charged with breach
of peace, disobeying an officer
and attempting to incite a riot.
Gen. Curtis Lemay
To Take Over as
AF Chief of Staff
(Editor’s Note—Gen. Curtis
Lemay, who will take over as
Air Force Chief of Staff July
1, is a veteran bomber pilot
and the first Chief of the
Strategic Air Command. He
believes in the B-70 bomber.
His appointment, writes Fred
S. Hoffman, an Associated
Press Military Affairs report
er, may signal a new effort
to get the speedy plane in the
air soon.)
By Fred S. Hoffman
WASHINGTON Iff) — Gen.
Curtis E. Lemay’s advent as Air
Force Chief of Staff may signal
a new effort to win an adminis
tration go-ahead for the 2,000
mile-an-hour B-70 bomber.
Lemay, a veteran bomber pilot
and First Chief of the Strategic
Air Command, is an exponent of
the B-70 and a believer in the
concept of a mixed bomber-mis
sle force as a main deterrent to
enemy attack for some years to
come.
An associate of the incoming
staff chief said Lemay believes
the B-70 is needed and that the
general doesn’t want to see it
cancelled or delayed.
This Lemay associate contended
that B-70 project has not been
abandoned; that the Kennedy Ad
ministration has reached no final i
decision. He spoke in terms of
presenting a case for the B-70 “in
court,” apparently meaning the
highest levels of the administra
tion.
Generally, the source familiar
with Lemay’s thinking said he ex
pected “no radical changes” when
the bluff, vigorous, 54-year-old
general takes over from retiring
Gen. Thomas D. White July 1.
Lemay has been vice chief
under White for four years, the
source noted, and thus has worked
1 with White in developing the
! oolicies and practices now in ef
; feet.
But where White was an ap- !
pointee of former President Ei- !
| senhower, Lemay is President
Kennedy’s choice — and thus may ,
have more influence at the top'
of the current administration
i than White could expect.
Presumably, Lemay could ex
ert that influence in the direction
of gaining support for the B-70,
which Kennedy has proposed cut
ting back — at least for the
present.
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Johnson Told Asians
‘U.S. will Risk Any Danger
In Defense of Freedom’
WASHINGTON UR — Vice Pre
sident Lyndon Johnson said to
day he had made clear to the
leaders of Asia, at President Ken
nedy’s request, that the United
States will “make any sacrifice
and risk any danger” that may be
necessary in the defense of free
nations against Communism.
He said this at a news confer
ence after reporting to Kennedy
on the 29,000-mile, world circling
trip from which he returned this
morning. He had conferred at
length during his journey with
half a dozen Asian leaders.
“I was disturbed.” he told the
news conference, “that so many
Asian leaders should express
doubt as to United States inten
tions. Some are afraid that the
danger of atomic attack has pro
duced a stalemate in which the
system that is most unscrupulous,
or willing to stage the biggest
bluff, will triumph.”
As a result of his trip, John
son said the Asian leaders to
whom he talked have been “re
assured that we shall honor our
commitments.” He added:
“While I made it clear, at the
President’s request, that we shall
make any sacrifice and risk any
danger that the protection of lib
erty may call for, nowhere in
Asia was there a request for
American troops.”
THE WEATHER
Fair tonight. Increasing cloudi
ness tomorrow with little rain or
drizzle. Little change in tempera
ture. In the last 24 hours: High
of 50, low of 39. Sunrise at 2:13
a. m., sunset at 9:46 p. m. Tem
peratures a year ago: High of 40,
low of 31. Extremes on this date
since 1907: High of 65 in 1954,.
low of 14 in 1920.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Walsh re
turned from several months of
traveling yesterday and were
greeted by their sons and families
as well as life-long friends. The
highlight of their trip was when
they attended the inauguration of
President John F. Kennedy in
January after which they visited
with their several children
throughout the states as well as
former Nome friends.
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids will be accepted by
the Nome School Board up to 5
p. m. May 31 to furnish the Nome
School with the following:
Sanitary Service
Bids to be opened at the Board
Meeting on May 31. The Board
reserves the right to reject any or
all bids.
Nome School Board.
By Conrad Potter.
Superintendent
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