Wife of Well-Known
Anchorage Artist Kills
Self With Revolver
ANCHORAGE, Mrs. Betty
C. Brennan, 28-year-old wife of
a well-known Anchorage and
West Coast artist, was found shot
to death in her home Friday and
police said she apparently took
her own life.
A neighbor found the body of
the petite brunette wife of Dean
Brennan lying on the floor of her
bedroom shortly before noon.
Mrs. Wilma Day, who occupies
an upstairs apartment in the
same home, said she found Mrs.
Brennan on investigating a gun
shot she heard while washing
clothes in a common washroom.
The three-month-old son of the
Brennan couple, Mark, lay in his
crib in a room adjoining the bed
room. Brennan was not at home.
The coroner said the single
bullet from a .357 caliber revolver
struck Mrs. Brennan in the heart.
A neighbor reported that Mrs.
Brennan had appeared depressed
recently.
Even without treatment about
85 per cent of people bitten by
poisonous snakes survive.
OFFICIALS HALT
POLIO VACCINATION
IN CALIFORNIA
BERKELEY, Calif., (£>—All po
lio vaccination halted officially
in California Saturday pending a
final decision by U. S. Public
Health authorities and virus ex
J perts as to the safety of the in
J jection materials being used.
The decision was made by a
1 special advisory committee to the
State Board of Health Friday as
specialists in Washington investi
gated the appearance of infantile
paralysis among some vaccinated
children.
A halt in the immunization
program for at least a week was
decided upon. This will prevent
several communities from going
ahead with plans to innoculate
children with vaccine from drug
houses other than Cutter Labora
tories of Berkeley.
As of 5 p.m. Friday the ‘State
Health Board had records of 13
children in California and one in
Chicago who had developed polio
had not been defenitely diagnosed
on these. Five cases also were re
' ported in children who received
i Cutter vaccine in Idaho.
John Hollister Chosen
To Head New Agency on
Foreign Aid Activities
WASHINGTON, W—President
Eisenhower Saturday selected
John B. Hollister, Cincinnati Re
publican lawyer, to head the new
agency which will take over most
foreign aid activities on July 1.
The White House said the Pres
ident will nominate Hollister as
chief of the International Cooper
ation Administration when the
present Foreign Operations Ad
ministration goes out of existence.
That is scheduled for July 1.
The President also will issue an
order making the formal transfer
to the State Department of FOA
'.operations some time around that
date.
The new organization will be
come a semi-autonomous unit
within the State Dept. It will
supervise the economic phase of
foreign assistance programs.
The Defense Dept, will retain
its supervision of military aid
operations.
Harold E. Stassen, present di
rector of FOA, will continue for
the time being in that post while
holding his new assignment as
special assistant to the President
on disarmament plans.
Cub Scout Credited With Spurring
On Father and Pilot on Long Trek
EDMONTON, Alberta, UP)—The.
light-hearted encouragement of a
9-year-old schoolboy was credited
today with spurring his father
and an American helocopter pilot
in a 40 - hour trek through a
snow-covered Alberta wilderness.*
Terry Goalder, who won a heli
copter trip as a gift for earning a
Cub Scout badge, joked that rest
ing was a sin while he plodded
through three feet of snow with
his father, James, of Edmonton,
and Pilot Roland Maier of Casper,
Wyoming.
At times, there were tears in
Terry’s eyes, his father said after
j arriving home yesterday. “But he
stood up like a great little guy.”
The trio had four squares of
i chocolate, a sandwich and a cup
! of milk for food when their heli
copter was forced by a sudden
squall to land Tuesday night on
the shore of an isolated lake 100
j miles southwest of here.
They were without a radio, and
an axe was their only emergency
equipment. After two nights in a
pine-bough lean-to, they started
walking through a snowstorm.
! Goalder carried his son on his
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back for the first six hours of the
gruelling hike. They soon stum
bled across an exploration crew’s
trail and followed it all day.
Each time they stopped to rest,
Goalder said, T^rry would say,
“Come on, let’s hit the trail.” He
once told the two . men “never
look back.”
“At the end of the day we be
came so tired we had to quit,”
said Maier. “We didn’t have
enough energy to build another
shelter for the night. We built a
fire under the boughs of a large
pine tree.”
Friday morning, they started
walking again, and finally spot
ted an Indian boy on horseback
who offered to take them to the
Sunchild Indian Mission, a com
munity of a few shacks, a church
and a school. Another helocopter
picked them up there late Friday.
SUNDAY BASEBALL
National League
Brooklyn 5. Milwaukee 4
New York 2, Cincinnati 1*
Chicago 8-4, Philadelphia 7-2
St. Louis 4-0, Pittsburgh 3-7
New York 6, Detroit 1
American League
Cleveland 2-2, Boston 0-1
Kansas City 16, Washington 10
Baltimore 9-8, Chicago 8-6
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 4-6, San Diego 3-5
Oakland 3-0, San Francisco 2-1
Los Angeles 7-5, Hollywood 5-0
Portland 9-3, Sacramento 8-0
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SATURDAY BASEBALL
American League
Chicago 3, Boston 1
Cleveland 5, Baltimore 2
Detroit 11, \Vashington 7
National League
Brooklyn 7, Chicago 5
St. Louis 6, New York 2
Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia .2
Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 4
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 6, San Diego 3
Oakland 11, San Francisco 3
Portland 4, Sacramento 3
Leonardo da Vinci drew plans
for flame throwers, grenades,
tanks and a flying machine.
. Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ben Young, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
I
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
DR. FRED M. LANGS AM, Pres.
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ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 3rd Monday of each month.
□ Beverly Morgan
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West. Nome. Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
C. F. O’DELL
Bookkeeping & Secretarial Service
5Q1 FOURTH AVE.
P. O. BOX 201
NOME, ALASKA
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Charles F. Lewis, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3d Thursday each month.