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Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
POTATO GROWERS
 YELL FOR HELP AS FREEzE-UP WEARS

Valley potato farmers were flooding the Coop offices early this week with requests for help to get their crops out of the fields before freeze-up.
 After nearly a week of rain had kept potato digging at a virtual standstill, the skies cleared over this weekend, bringing the Val ley its first warning freeze of the season Monday morning.
 Potato pickers this year are getting $2 an hour and their din- ners, but Coop acting manager, Carl Rasmussen said Monday that he would have to go to the news papers and radios for help in what he described as a near crisis. The Coop has huge potato con- tract obligations to fill for the AL aska military command. For Co., Op producers alone, Rasmussen
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Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27

taries from Seattle to Anchorage. Among the passengers will be Bishop O'Hara of Kansas City, and very probably Archduke Ot- to, Hapsburg pretender to the throne of Austria.
 A caravan of the guests attend ing the ceremonies Wednesday will make a tour of the Matanus- ka valley the following day. MT. and Mrs. Bill Bouwens will be hosts at game dinner for the group in their home Thursday evening.
 Bishop-elect O'Flanagan will be installed in the Cathedral of the Nativity in Juneau shortly after the conservation. Date for the in- stallation will be announced lat CT. The newly created diocese of Juneau includes Palmer as we'll as the cities of Anchorage, Ko- diak, Cordova, Ketchikan, Sitka, Skagway, Wrangel and Seward. The rest of the Territory remains
Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
STAN LAIRD IS
 NEW COMMANDER OF AMERICAN LEGION

Installation of the new Legion commander, Stanley Laird, will take place at Carpenters hall next Thursday. Other officers to be in- stalled include Richard Demming, 1st vice commander; Marvin Slaughter, End vice commander; ,; gene Kirsch chaplin; B. Niemann, John Weisenberger, adjutant; Eu- finance officer, and Chester Egg gleston, sergeant-at-arms.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
Senate Confirms HunfIey Appointment As U. :. MorshoI

According to press releases from Washington, the U. s. senate confirmed Tuesday mite, President Truman's appoint ment of Walter Huntley as U. s. marshal for Alaska's third division.
 Although Huntley himself has still received no official confirmation of his appoint ment he is expecting wire soon. He is making arrange nents for posting his bond and getting ready to assume his new duties.
 Huntley will continue 10 maintain his home in Palmer. He will spend week-ends with his family at their new home in the Sherrod subdivision. His local contracting business will be taken over by his son Duane.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
Hurley Elected
 Lf. Gov. of Kiwonis. AIusko-Yukon Division

According to word received this morning, James Hurley was elected lieutenant gover- nor of the Alaska Yukon divi- sion of Kiwanis International at the 34th annual convention of the Pacific Northwest dis trict of Kiwanis International held at Vancouver, British Co., lumbia, this week.
 Hurley will assume his new duties on January 1, 1852. He succeeds William s. Wilson, acting director of the Geo. physical Institute, head of the department and professor of chemistry at the University of Alaska.
 Hurley is a charter member of Palmer Kiwanis, which was organized in September, 1949, and served as it's second presi- dent. He has also served as president and district officer of another service club in the states.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
School Bonding Issue to be Voted on Tuesday
{. (. Erik Presents City Council With Deed for 7I2-Acre Park Site

At a meeting of the city coun- Gil last night, C. C. Erik gave the city of Palmer the deed to the property he offered as a city park a few months ago.
 The 2 1I2-acre property includ- ed in lot 3, section 34 is located just. east of the Matanuska river bridge. It includes the end of the bridge and also constitutes the entrance to Wolverine lake.
 Al Hagen's motion that the council accept the deed for the park site, to be named Erik Park, was passed unanimously by coun- Gil members. A formal resolution Is to be drawn up accepting the deed.
 MT. Erik, who is planning to go Outside soon, also offered the city a site overlooking the city and Knik glacier as a hospital site. The site is located just east of the road leading up Lazy mountain from the Anchorage-Palmer high way. Hagen suggested that the offer be worded flor a hospital or other civic purpose or for the hospitals benefit.
 Erik also mentioned that his off, fer of 20 acres for a capitol site for the Territory of Alaska as made three years ago still stands
 Phone Committee Reports
 More routine business taken up by the city council at last nights meeting included a report by the telephone committee consisting of Lloyd Severns, Frank Brown and Steve Ward. The committee re- ported that certain specifications had been drawn up in the closed council session held Tuesday eve- ming. These were specifications that council members would like to have included in any proposal by a private company seeking a franchise to operate in the city of Palmer. It was the opinion of the committee that further study would be needed before these specifications were made public and that more advice from disin- terested experts in telephone / Continued on Page ID
Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
PALMER C of C PLAYS
 HOST TO ANCHORAGE CHAMBER WEDNESDAY

Members of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce will be luncheon guests of the Palmer Chamber at the regular luncheon meeting Wednesday, October 3rd.
 President Jack Anderson of the Anchorage Chamber accepted the local invitation this morning.
Valley frontiersman., 1951-09-27
Registered Voters Decide Oct. } On $1 Million School Bond Issue

Qualified electors will go to the Palmer school district polls in the school gymnasium Tuesday, Oc- tober 2 to vote "Yes" or No" 70 the proposition: SHALL THE PALMER NDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT INCUR AN INDEBTEDNESS OF $1,OOO,000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF CON- STRUCTING A HIGH SCHOOL WITH GYMNASIUM-AUDITO IUM AND SHOPS?
 Qualified electors in this case are persons whose names appear on the 1851 tax assessment roll of the Palmer independent school district, and who have registered for the election in the tax collec- tor-assessor's office in the Neal Wright building prior to 1 pm. Saturday, September 29, 1851.
 The polls will be open from 8 am. to pm. on the date of the election Tuesday, October 2, 1851. Judges for the election will be Mrs. William Curtis, Mrs. Emil Larsh and Mrs. Charles Wilson.
 No Vote on Tax
 Increase in property taxes IS not an issue in the election. The school board has indicated that it might be necessary, failing other sources of income, to increase the school tax by two mills in order to meet the amortization cost of the districts one-half share of total construction costs. The pres ent tax on property is 10 mills, or 10 dollars for every thousand dol lars of assessed valuation. Two mills would add 2 dollars to this amount. The school board has the power to raise the tax to total of 30 mills provided the city of Palmer has no property tax.
 Two Percent Interest Rate
 Several people have expressed concern over possible high inter est rates if bonds have to be is sued. School board members point out that if the government takes the bonds, the interest rate as set by law on school district bonds held as security for loans made under the Alaska Public
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Evening star., 1951-09-02
UniVersaIists Urge
Church Realty Taxes
By the Associated Pres,

PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. L.
Churches should pay taxes or
their real estate holdings, the
Universalist Church of America
declared today in a stand spokes-
men termed unprecedented.
The resolution was passed by q
3-to-1 margin at the concluding
business session of the Univer-
salist Church'S General Assembly
which has indorsed a merger with
the Unitarian Church.
Sponsors of the resolve said I'VE
argue for separation of church
and state but in accepting tax
immunity, we are violating our
own position and placing ourselves
in the position of accepting sub
sides from the Government"
Another resolution attacked
parts of the Smith and McCarran
(Security) Acts as dangerous to
civil liberties in this time of ten
sion." The resolution said the
Nation must not allow its con-
Germ for internal security to in
terfere with basic American free
doms.
Dr.. Brainard F. Gibbons of
Wausau, Wis, was elected assem-
bly, president.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
BY the Assoeioied Pres.

SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. l.
Striking copper workers tonight
voted to accept the Kennecott
Copper Corp. wage offer and re-
turn to work. but their acceptance
contained three tough provisos
which could wreck what progress
has been made in negotiations.
The provisions asked by two
thirds ot the striking workers
were;
/. That the Kennecott offer be
applied to Nevada and New Mexico
Kennecott properties as well as
those IN Utah. and that the 20
per cent hourly package be ac-
cepted on an industry wide basis.
That would mean acceptance by
Kennecott, Anaconda, Phelps
Dodge and American Smelling &
Refining.
(Anaconda and Phelps Dodge
earlier today registered a protest
with a presidential K1quiry COM
|mittee that Kennecott's offer to
the strikers was far above the
Nations wage ceilings. and that
they could not accept the offer
lin negotiations with their work
Iers.)
Q. That the offer by Kennecott
not be trimmed by the Wage Sta
bilization Board.
8. That local issues be settled
agreeably.
Several Unions Involved.
The strikers at Kennecott are
members of several unions. The
largest is the International Union
Iof Mine. Mill and Smelter Work
ers (IndD. This union has called
an industry wide strike. Other
Evening star., 1951-09-02
VoIto OfficioI, Wife Killed
On Way to Mothers Rites

Charles A. Bradford, AZ. mem
Der of the executive board Of tNe
Volta Bureau for the Deaf, 1887
IThirty-fifth street NV, was
killed yesterday in a three-cal
collision near Bridgewater. NY.
while enroute to his mother;
funeral.
His wife and another married
couple also were killed in the
three-car crash on a four-lane
highway.
Mr.. Bradford was superintend-
ent of the New York School fol
the Deaf at White Plains, N. Y
He had been serving on the execu-
tive board here for a number oi
years.
He and his wife were en- route
to attend his mothers funeral al
Central Square, near Syracuse
when the accident occurred. Theil
12-year- r-old son, William, was hos
pitalized in Utica with critical
injuries.
The other couple, the Associated
Press reported, were Jerome K
Cheney, So, and his wife, Mar
jorie, At, of Fayetteville, N. Y.
who had set out for a holiday
week end at Cape Cod.
The Cheney's daughter. Martha
10, was reported in good condi-
tion in the Utica hospital.
Occupants of the third car, Mr.
and Mrs, Ralph Kramer o.
Rochester, and their son, Ralph
ir., escaped injury.
The accident occurred on heav.
lily travelled route 20, three mile!
west of Bridgewater and 20 mile
south of Utica.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
ItWasn' the Humidity
But Heat That Made
August That. Way

Washington weather worriers
said goodbye to August without
regrets and look hopefully to Sep
tember.
No doubt about tit was hot
and dry enough to boost the mer-
curry over the 90-degree mark
seven times and record only Its
inches of rain-2.26 inches below
normal.
E. NJ. Rampey, a Weather Bu-
reau forecaSter, discovered that
the months average temperature
was 1853 degrees, 1.8 degrees above
normal. In all there were So extra
degrees of heat crammed into the
month
Well Below Average.
Going into August, the District
was only .46 of an inch below it's
expected rainfall. Now the year
shows a 2.72-inch deficit on its
total fall of 27.67 inches.
Umbrellas and raincoats practi-
cally went into mothballs. Only
five days had measurable precipi-
tation. Usually we can expect
about II wet days in August.
The relatively light rainfall
meant less humidity than usually
is experienced here in August.
surprising as that may seem to
amateur observers.
The month averaged about So
per cent, three points below July's
average and five points under
normal for August.
"a Degrees Twice.
Twice. on the 21St and the 30th,
the temperature hit "a degrees.
But a glance at 1918, when the
mercury bubbled to 106 degrees,
might make things seem better in
retrospect.
The coolest temperature was 81
on August "a. In 1890 and again
in 1884 August had a chilly Al.
There were 13 clear days, 10
partly cloudy and cloudy.
For a measure of comfort. the
Weather Bureau pointed to some
southern points such as Fort
Worth. which had II days of 100
plus, including four of LOT de-
grees. Much the same kind of
scorching heat was recorded in
Louisiana. Alabama and other
Southern States.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Copper Settlement Snogged
BY 8 kennecott Reservations

lKennecott workers belong to af-
filiates of the AFL.
C. r. Van, Wrinkle of Salt Lake
City, chairman of a joint strike
committee of all the unions at
Bingham Canyon, announced the
workers vote.
Some 500 members Of the
IIUMMSW at Garfield and Magma.
voting separately agreed to re-
turn to work tomorrow morning
with no provisions attached to
their agreement. These men work
in the refinery plants.
Hopeful on Return.
A member Of the Magma Gar
field group said he hadn't had
chance to talk with Mr.. Van
Winkle or Hack Hleichman, acting
chairman of the overall Kennecott
Joint Negotiating Committee. But
he expressed the belief that all
the men would return tomorrow
morning on the 7:30 am. (MST)'
shift.
The strikers in Bingham Canyon
are those who dig ore and move
lit to the nearby Magma Garfield
smelling plant.
| There was obvious deviation in
the vote by the two groups. Mr..
Van Wrinkle said the men put the
provisions in their vote in Bing-
ham Canyon after they we're no.
titled of the attitude by Phelps
Dodge and Anaconda. The men in
Magma Garfield had not heard Of
this questioning of the Kennecott
offer. They voted outright to &C.
cept the offer and return to worx.
1t remained to be seen if COM
promise would be made between
the two union segments. or
whether both groups would act in
concert.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
One Killed, 30 Hurt
As Train Smashes
Into Truck in Kansas
By the Assoeiaisd Pres,

Newton, KanS., Sept. 1.-The
Oklahoma Rocket. a southbouno
Rock Island passenger train, was
derailed today after hitting a truck
near Elbing, Kans., killing one
person and injuring at least sc
others.
Dead was Mrs. Patricia Lana
han Schweiter. 26. of Salina
Kans., wife of 1t. Col. Leo s.
Schweiter. in service in Korea
She died in an ambulance on the
way to a hospital.
The accident occurred shortly
after noon at grade crossing a
quarter of mile south of Elbing
IL miles east of here.
The truck was a semi-trailer
affair. loaded with a bulldozer.
The trains deisel engine. dining
car and one chair car were turned
on theinssides.
Large holes were ripped in one
side of the diner. This is where
most Of the seriously injured were
found.
The last two chair cars on the
Kansas City to Houston, Texas,
train left the rails, but remained
upright.
1--WE were going SOUTH said
Paul Mcdonald, the fireman from
Herington. KaS. "the truck was
headed west. 1t looked like he
was trying to beat the engine
across the track. We just kept
going and We kept laying on the
horn. His cab was almost across
the tracks before we hit him"
The truck driver, whose last
name was given as Hutchinson
was taken to Newton hospital.
Neither Fireman Mcdonald nol
Engineer Charles Arnold, also oi
Herington, Kans. was injured.
Miss Florence MCGOWAN oi
Omaha. Nebr., who was on the
diner at the time, gave thi,
description:
The train started to bump. We
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Driver Killed, 4 Spectators
Injured at Iowa Auto Crash
BY the Associated Pres,

DES MONIES, Sept. lone
race driver was killed and another
driver and four spectators were
injured when two racers collided
and crashed into a concrete re-
tanning wall at the Iowa State
Fairgrounds Track today.
Dead is Richard L. Creamer
90, of Monahan, Tex. The in
jured were Jack Fisher, Belleville,
H., driver of the second car; Mrs.
Evelyn Dogett, 80, and her son,
Lanny, IL. Centerville. Iowa, and
Mrs. Wanda Haynie and her
daughter, Patty, Des Moines.
Speedway officials said Cream
er's car collided with Fishers. on
a turn and the two machines then
careened into the retaining wall
Creamef's car was thrown high
against a wire screen.
Fisher was described as in good
condition with a broken collar
bone.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Plaintiff DiscIaims
'Go-Between' Role in
$50 Million Wedding
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Sept. IA New
York real-eState man suing C.
Blevins Davis. a friend of Presi-
dent Truman. for 1854 300. today
disclaimed having served as a
marriage, broker" for Mr.. Davis
wedding to Mrs. Margaret Hill,
ipossessor of an $50 million for
tune.
Joseph w. Collins. the plaintiff,
said through his attorney, Louis
IG. Turen, that he introduced Mr..
Davis to Mrs. Hill but that this
was not the primary basis for
the suit.
Mr.. Turen said that some news
reports indicated collins cold
bloodedly arranged for Davis To
marry Mrs. Hill" so Mr.. Collins
could share in her fortune, and
that such reports were erroneous.
IntrOductions Alleged.
He and Mr.. Collins introduced
Mr.. Davis to number of theatre
cal and social people to help him
generally at a time when Mr.. Davis
was interested in producing shows
and that Mrs. Hill was only one of
numerous persons he met this way.
Mr.. Collins asked in his suit
filed yesterday in New York Su-
Ipreme Court to be reimbursed by
Mr.. Davis for services rendered,
for breach of contract and for two
alleged assaults.
Its fantastic: It's ridiculous.
Its the most outrageous. most
.barbaric and uncivilized accusation
I've ever heard" Mr.. Davis said at
his Colorado Springs, Colo, sum-
.mer home. THE man not only had
nothing to do with my marriage,
ne was never even acquainted
with my wife"
After his wife's death, Mr.. Davis
fell heir to an estate just outside
Independence, Mo-. President Tru-
mans home town.
He has played host to the
Trumans there. has been a fire.
quent escort of Margaret Truman
and in return has been a White
House visitor.
Grounds For Action.
Mr.. Turen said today the
grounds for the suit were these:
First, Mr.. Collins made the in
Productions and helped him WIN
such matters as opening charge
accounts at a time when Mr.
Davis was struggling young
man." For the time spent on these
services, Mr.. Collins asks
$4,000.
Second. Mr.. Collins says that in
return for the help he gave Mr.
Davis, the latter promised at var
ious times to get him a job in
moving pictures. To use his con-
INJECTIONS to get him a political job
and to give him a ranch, but that
he reneged on all
He asks $250,00 on this count,
charging breach of contract. Mr.,
Collins also asked 100000 for two
Ialleged assaults. the circumstances
lof which were not described.
The former Mrs. Hill, daugh-
Iter-in-law of James j. Hill. the
railroad magnate, died in 1948 and
left the bulk of her fortune to
Davis.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Miss Washington Leaves
For Atlantic City tomorrow

June Beverly Klein, Miss Wash
ington of 1851. will leave tomorrow
for Atlantic City to compete
against SO other contestants fol
the title of Miss America.
Preliminary eliminationS will be-
gin Tuesday, and finals will be
held Saturday night. Miss Klein
q mezzo- soprano, will sing my
Sweet Voice" in the big contest
Judging will be on the basis OF
charm and personality, talent
beauty of face and beauty OF
figure.
Miss Washington will be ac-
companied by her mother. Mrs
Murray Klein of 1885 Sheridan
street NV.
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Accidents
CONTINUED From First PAGE.


an all time high for the three
day holiday.
Two men were badly injured
last night in an accident at
Thirty eighth and Huntington
street NV.
Driver Critically Hurt.
Taken to Georgetown Hospital
in critical condition was Arthur
Cobb. 25, of 5000 Huntington
street NV, driver of a car going
north on Thirty-eighth street. He
received head injuries and multi
pie cuts about the body.
The driver of the other car,
Hewell D. Johnson, "a, of Webster
City, Ohio, was in serious condi-
ton at the same hospital with a
head injury. Mrs. johnson was
shaken up
Two passengers in the Cobb car
were released after treatment.
Maryland police said the traffic
Friday night and Saturday was
almost unprecedented on such ar
Evening star., 1951-09-02
Boat
Continued From First Page0

NNOlIIILuCu ClULu AoL EdsC.P
were placed on the floor of little
fishing market where temporary
morgue was set Up.
Hundreds CT persons, many OF
them frantic relatives, converged
on the scene.
Two Catholic priests met the
incoming boats and administered
last rites.
All available ambulances were
ordered to the Montauk town dock
to take survivors to Southampton
Hospital several miles away.
Montauk, a lonely, wind-swept
finger of land stretching into the
Atlantic, began filling with people
as news of the disaster spread.
Fishing Was Poor.
Usually it is a haven for fisher
man who know it as some of the
best tuna water along the entire
East Coast.
The survivor Griffin, celebrating
on his account of the tragedy. said
the party was southwest of the
Montauk Lighthouse shortly be-
fore disaster struck.
I'VE were out on the Frisble
grounds, he reported. Fishing
was bad We weren't catching
anything, so we asked the captain
to move. He started the boat but
only one engine would start.
HE headed toward Montauk
Point. and about a mile east OF
the light, the boat started digging
in and didn't make any headway
the sea was SO rough.
For more than an hour we
watched the light. and it never
seemed to move. At one point
wave hit the boat and it went UP
by the bow at almost 55-degree
angle. I reached for life jacket
and there was some kidding
among the other passengers about
needing them. But l kept mine
anyway 1t was about half an
hour later, second wave hit the
boat, and was followed by another
big wave, few seconds after.
THE boat rolled completely
over the side"
Many Feared Trapped.
At 10 pm. (EST), about eight
hours after the accident, most
fishing boats quit the search fol-
bodies.
They said they believed most of
the remaining victims still were
on board the Pelican, trapped in
the cabin.
The Coast Guard cutter. the
Tamaroa, had the Pelican in tow
at that hour and was heading for
the breakwater at Montauk Inlet
evidently intending to beach her
there.
Shortly after 10 pm. (EDT)
the Tamaroa7s towline parted
twice after Che Pelican had been
towed to a point just outside the
Montauk haEborN jetty..
The Pelican was one of more
than score of boats operating
for hire out of Montauk, taking
aboar> various small parties OF
fishermen for the off shore
angling.
Though she set out today de-
spite the small craft warnings
the Coast Guard said there was
mo violation involved. They at
tributed the disaster to engine
failure, not the weather.
Technically the Pelican coulo
be classified as a small craft, the
Coast Guard said. but the Weather
Bureaus warnings were primarily
intended for small vessels with
out mechanical power.