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Russian Ballet
Star Charged
With Shoplifting
BRUSSELS, Belguim, UP) — The
star of the Russian Bolshoi Bal
let at the Brussels World Fair
has been caught shoplifting in
a Brussels department store,
police said Saturday.
Olga Lepeshinskaya, once Stal
in’s favorite ballerina, was stopped
by a store detective as she was
about to leave.
Police said she admitted tak
ing an umbrella, two pairs of
gloves, cuff links and some tape.
The fiftyish ballerina begged
in French and broken English
not to be taken to police head
quart rs. She said she was due
at a ballet rehearsal.
She did not appear at Friday
night’3 perfoixnance at the fair,
although she was released after
ques oning at police headquar
ters aid the Palace of Justice.
A spokesman for the depart
ment store, ‘L’lnnovation,” said
no decision has been made about
prosecuting Miss Lepeshinskaya.
He added, however, legal action
is rarely taken against first of
fenders.
Thus an international incident
such as the case of the Soviet
discus thrower may be avoided.
Two years ago Nina Ponomar
eva, Soviet Olympic discus throw
er, was charged with shoplifting
five cheap hats in London. The
Russians called off an athletic
meet with the British and Miss
Ponomareva hid out in the
Soviet embassy.
The case finally was settled
when Miss Ponomareva appeared
unexpected in court and entered
a denial. She was convicted but
released after the Soviet embas
sy paid court costs.
A spokesman for the Brussels
department store said a customer
became suspicious of Miss Lepe
shinsV.ay’s actions and called the
store detective.
Umpire Beaten By
Parents of Babe Ruth
League Players
PORTLAND, Ore., UP) — The
umpire of a Babe Ruth baseball
game Saturday was nursing an
eye iniury and scratches suf
fered Thursday night when he
was attacked by a group of parents
who objected to one of his de
cisions.
The umpire, John Jacoby, said
the incident involved a handful
of people. He said one of the
fathers of the young players hit
him in thfe eye and one of the
mothers slashed him on the arms
with her fingernails.
Ken Westover, commissioner of
the Oregon Umpire Assn., said
this was not the first incident of
its kind. “We’ve had cases of
persons throwing firecrackers at
the umpires. And they’ve water
bagged the umpire after the
game.”
Such incidents have got to be
stopped or they will become a j
terror before the year is out,
he said.
He said he had asked league
officials “to insure safe conduct
of umpires to their cars after
the games.”
Fine Job Printing At The Nugget.
Committee Clamps Down
On Ex-Publisher Fox
In Adams-Goldfine Probe
WASHINGTON, Iff). — Ex
pubisher John Fox swore today
that Sherman Adams had tried
to hush up Bernard Goldfine and
prevent him from boasting that
Adams had never let him down.
Fox thus contradicted a denial
by Adams, President Eisenhower’s
principal assistant, that Goldfine
made such a statement in his
presence.
This came after the House sub
committee hearing testimony by
Fox for the third day clamped
down on Fox, refusing to let
him read a new statement in the
probe of the Adams-Goldfine
case. *
The subcommittee granted
Goldfine a one day postponement
—until Wednesday—his first test
imony before the group. He had
been scheduled to take the wit
ness stand tomorrow but his
lawyers had asked for the delay
to permit more time for a study
of Fox’s testimony.
Ringside Viewers To
Pay $30 Per Seat At
Pattei;son-Harris Fight
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Ring
siders will pay $30 to see the
Aug. 18 heavyweight title bout
between champion Floyd Patter
son and Roy Harris.
The previous high here was $25
for the Ray Robinson-Bobo Ol
son middleweight championship
match and the Hogan Bassey
Ricardo Moreno bout.
Promoter Bill Rosensohn said
yesterday tickets will be scaled
from $30 for ringside through
$20 and $10 to $5 for general
admission. He hopes for a half
million-dollar gate.
Meanwhile, matchmaker George
Parnassus said the Carmen Ba
silio-Art Aragon fight will go on
as planned at Wrigley Field
Aug. 28.^ The California Ath
letic Commission had urged the
fight be set back to September
to avoid conflict with the heavy
weight bout, also to be held at
Wrigley.
SUNDAY BALL SCORES
National League
Milwaukee 10, Los Angeles 6
San Francisco 2, Cincinnati 0
Pittsburgh 4-3, Chicago 3-8
Philadelphia 5-3, St. Louis 4-4
American League
Kansas City 12, New York 8
Boston 10, Detroit 7
Baltimore 11-5, Cleveland 6-2
Washington 12-11, Chiago 0-12
Pacific Coast League
Sacramento 6-0, Seattle 2-1
Vancouver 4-1, San Diego 2-4
Phoenix 8-7, Spokane 5-9
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j the active opposition, centered
i largely among southern senators,
! might seek to stall the final vote
until later in the week in hopes
of forcing an amendment or
question might arise under a pro
casting a cloud over the bill’s
validity.
Validity Question
They contend the validity
vision stating that the President,
not later than July 3, shall notify
Alaska’s governor of the bill’s
enactment. That date is only
i three days away.
! Government attorneys, how
ever, have given their opinion
that the date is meaningless in
itself—it is intended merely to
set in motion the necessary elec
tions in Alaska.
As a result, leading backers of
the bill have said they will re
sist any change in the date even
if debate lasts past Thursday.
From the beginning, state
hood strategists have successfully
opposed any alteration of the
House-passed bill to avoid par
liamentary troubles which might
occur if the bill had to go back
j to the House for action on Sen
ate amendments.
Two such efforts were rejected
Friday when the Senate voted
50-29 against a proposal to sub
stitute commonwealth status for
statehood and beat back 53-28 the
first of Eastland’s three consti
tutional challenge.
With President Eisenhower’s
approval considered certain, Sen
ate acceptance of the House bill
without change would leave only
ratification of the bill’s term by
Alaskans before the northern ter
ritory could take its place as
the 49th state.
Largest Stale
Terms of the bill would grant
statehood to all of the present
territory, - making Alaska the
largest of states—roughly 2Vi
times the size of Texas.
To satisfy defense require
ments, however, thje bill contains
a provision which would permit
the President at will to withdraw
lands from public use in lightly
settled northern and western sec
tions of Alaska for military pur
poses.
It was this provision—which
could be exercised without exis
tence of an emergency on declar
ation of martial law—which
formed the basis for the East
land challenge rejected Friday.
Woman Rams Car Info Plane
FORT WORTH, Tex., UP)—Mrs.
Iiucille Capher of Dallas, wait
ing out side Carter Field Airport
for her husband last night, de
cided to turn the family automo
bie around.
In the process, she ran into
the nosewheel of a parked Bran
iff airliner, smashing in the front
of her car.
The plane apparently was un
damaged but was grounded for
inspection.
Mrs. Capher said she didn’t
kndw how she did it.
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Alaska’s Flag Designer
Hopes Childhood Prophesy
cf Statehood Comes True
KODIAK, (fft — The man who
designed Alaska’s flag 31 years
ago rejoiced at statehood pros
pects Saturday and said he would
not change a thing in the gold
starred blue emblem he worked
out at the agq of 13.
The design by Benny Benson,
now of Kodiak became Alaska's
flag May 2, 1927.
The- blue is for Alaskan sky
and the forget-me-not, an Alaskan
flower. The North Star is for
the future state of Alaska, the
most northerly of the union. The
dipper is for the Great Bear sym
bolizing strength.”
The original now is in a mu
seum at Juneau.
“I think it is fitting for Alas
ka,” said Benson when asked if
he’d change it now.
Benson, who hopes his child
hood prophesy of the “future
state of Alaska” will be realized,
was honored at the signing of
the Alaska constitution at Fair
banks in 1956, where he got a
standing ovation.
One of his prized possessions
is a gold watch with the Alaska
flag engraved on the back, which
he received from the Legion.
He also won $1,000 which was
used to cover cost of a course in
diesel mechanics.
Benson has lived in Kodiak
since 1949. He is a procurement!
supervisor at Bob Hall’s Kodiak
Airways.
Jim Walsh Family
Find Little Rain
Around Ketchikan
Jim Walsh writes from Ketch
ikan that his family is still
househunting but enjoying pic
nics as the weather Has been won
derfully.
“If Ketchikan is going to keep
up with its average rainfall, some
of the months ahead are certainly
going to be wet ones.” said Jim.
The Walsh family, he reports
are fascinated with the “big
ships that tie up to the dock
about a hundred feet away from
the office. The Prince George
was in yesterday and every week
Chuck West’s cruise ships stop
in going and coming on their
trips to Glacier Bay.—These peo
ple certainly keep their little
ships neat and clean and polished
and painted.”
Because of light rain, he re
ports, fish are having a hard time
getting upstream to spawn.
The family sends greetings to
their friends here.
OLIVE NELSON VISITS SON
Mrs. Olive Nelson is enjoying
a visit here with her son
Grant Nelson and family, and
will leave for Deering with them
soon. The Nelsons will be mining
there this summer. Kathleen
McKinnon of Juneau travelled
with her grandmother to Nome.
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