Jewel Thefts
Keep Police Busy
At Miami, Fla.
MIAMI, Fla., GW — Two jewel
robberies adding up to a total
haul of nearly a million dollars
kept police busy seeing clues to
day.
Latest was Monday’s holdup of
the A1 Levinson Company, a
downtown jewelry importing firm
which reported gems valued at
$5,000,000 retail were taken.
A man posing as a customer en
tered the office but aroused no
suspicion until an armed confed
erate came in and ordered work
ers and a visitor to lie down.
Levinson said the stolen jewels
were insured for 70 or 80 per cent
of their value. Several thousand
dollars in cash also was taken.
Police would not speculate on
the possibility of a connection be
tween the Levinson robbery and
the theft Sunday from a hotel
suite of $400,000 worth of jewels
belonging to Leon C. Greenbaum,
board chairman of ,the Hertz Car
Rental Corporation.
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Legislature Rules
Committees Attempt
Making Permanent Laws
JUNEAU, — Members of the
Rules Committees of both houses
of the Legislature struggled all
afternoon Monday in an effort to
draw up joint rules.
Both chambers have been oper
ating for more than two weeks
on temporary rules drawn up be
fore the Legislature convened and
Minority Leader Bruce Kendall of
Valdez has questioned the consti
tutionality of the procedure.
Kendall says the minutes show
the Senate never technically
adopted the temporary rules.
“Who knows?” he said. “We
might have to start all over
again.”
When the joint committees have
finished their work, the rules will
be submitted to a joint session of
the Legislature for approval.
Various religious bodies in the
nation have made available to
their boys in Scouting distinctive
awards in recognition of their
growth in knowledge, experience
and service in their church, syna
gogue or other religious asso
ciation.
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U. S. Planes Being
Lured Into Trap
By Soviet Signals
By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower today voiced belief
that some American planes have
been lured across Iron Curtain
country borders by false radio sig
nals.
Eisenhower told a news confer
ence that American pilots have
strict orders not to play a fox and
hound game by flying along Soviet
borders in order to gain intelli
gence information.
The President was asked wheth
er there had been occasions in
which U. S. planes such as the
unarmed transport reported shot
down by the Soviets last Septem
ber had been trying to draw Soviet
fighters into the air.
The President replied firmly he
I had issued very strict orders some
time ago against any such tactics.
He went on to say that Amer
ican planes sometimes crossed the
border due to navigational errors.
And, he added, he believes false
radio signals once in a while have
drawn U. S. planes over Soviet
or satellite territory.
But for American planes to do
anything to cause Soviet fighters
to scramble in defense is strictly
against orders, he said.
It was Eisenhower’s 150th news
conference since he took office
six years ago.
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Gay Nineties Songfest
To be Oregon Feb. Event
FOREST GROVE, Ore., (Spe
cial* — Alaska is being urged to
join the All-Northwest Barber
Shop Ballad contest by sending
quartets to the famed Gay Nine
ties Songfest being conducted Feb
ruary 27 and 28.
Special invitations are going to
the newest Northwest State. Con
test literature and news stories
are being funneled to the big
northern neighbor in hopes of
stirring up interest in the Gay
Nineties Festival. This means that
the Forest Grove event now
stretches to the North Pole.
Alaskans are being asked to de
fend their honor in barbershop
quartet harmony, and also to help
celebrate Oregon’s Centennial.
“After all, Alaska was the heart
land of barbershop singing during
the Klondike Gold Rush in the
Nineties,” observes Marvin Emer
son, songfest general chairman.
“Quartets entertained many a
homesick miner during the long
winters.”
The Northwest championship,
1,000 silver dollars and a big tro
phy, are at stake during the song
fest. Quartets and sponsoring
groups may secure information
from the Entries Chairman, P. O.
Box 13, Forest Grove, Oregon.
Lincoln’s Birthday
Being Celebrated At
Nation’s Capitol
WASHINGTON, [Bf> — The na
tion he reunited is paying reverent
tribute to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln 150 years after his birth.
President Eisenhower, who has
proclaimed 1959 as Lincoln Sus
quicentennial Year, will join about
1,000 others at a memorial ban
quet Wednesday night, the eve of
Lincoln’s Birthday.
On the anniversary itself, Con
gress will hold a joint session to
hear an address by Carl Sand
burg, a leading biographer of the
Great Emancipator, and a reading
of the Gettysburg Address by Ac
tor Frederic March.
Mayor Willy Brandt of West
Berlin will address an anniversary
dinner in Lincoln’s home town,
Springfield, 111. About 20 foreign
envoys will travel from Washing
ton to attend.
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HALF ACRE CASTLE
House Passes Bill To
Establish Primary Election
JUNEAU, (8) — The only piece
of action completed by either
house of the Legislature Monday
was the passage by the House of
the primary ballot bill.
After considerable debate the
measure passed 35-5.
» The bill, which had been backed
by Warren Taylor, the Speaker of
the House, now goes to the Sen
ate. If the measure becomes law
it would replace the present blan
ket primary system used in Alas
ka since 1946.
As passed by the House, the bill
would not require voters to de
clare their party affiliation when
they cast a ballot, although they
could do so if they wished. The
new ballot, however, would ban
cross voting between candidates
of the two major parties at the
primary election.
Another bill introduced yester
day would change the time of
Alaska’s elections. The normal
spring primary would be moved
to September and the general elec
tion would be held in November
rather than October.
DON'T LIKE CLAM CHOWDER!
KANSAS CITY, Mo.,UP)— After
quieting a noisy, but harmless,
demonstration by 28 prisoners in
the Jackson County Jail here Sun
day, Sheriff Arvid Owsley agreed
to hear their grievances.
He said the prisoners, most of
them young men, didn’t like Fri
day night’s soup. They objected
to its contents, and furthermore
claimed it was too thin.
“It was clam chowder,” Owsley
explained later, “and these guys
didn’t know what it was.”
BILLY GRAHAM RECOVERED
AFTER ISLAND VACATION
HONOLULU, UP) — Sun-tanned
and rested, Billy Graham left by
plane Monday night for religious
meetings in Australia and New
Zealand.
The 40-year-old Evangelist spent
three weeks in Hawaii recuperat
ing from a nervous disorder in his
left eye which doctors ascribed to
overwork and strain.
Graham said that his eye was
much improved.
“It’s about 75 per cent of nor
mal,” he said, “and far better
than I’d hoped for. It gives me
no pain.”
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