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The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Malenkov Continues Purge Of LIP. Beria Associates
 Ry Richard Kasischke

MOSCOW, R-A former min ister of state security and three other old associates of purged police boss Lavrenti P. Beria have died before Soviet firing squads. Two lesser officials have been sentenced to long prison terms.
 A government communique an- nounced last night the fate of ex- minister Viktor Semenovich Aba kumov and five of his one-time aides in the state security minis try. All were charged with trea- son and political sabotage.
 The communique was printed in the government newspaper Iz- vestia on the first anniversary of the official disclosure of Beria's S execution by a firing squad.
 tn London, a source well in formed on Soviet affairs said the purge indicates a struggle still is going on among powerful figures within the Soviet Union and Pre- mier Malenkov himself may be seriously involved The inform ant identified Abakumov as a one time private secretary to Malenkov.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Benson Proposes Plan For Rehabilitation Of Alaska Rural Areas

FAIRBANKS, R-Labor Com missioner Henry Benson told a civic group here that the 1855 legislature will be asked to pro- vide a five million dollar fund, in the hope of federal matching, for a long range development program in Alaska's village areas.
 He said the rapid growth of the Anchorage and Fairbanks areas has drawn people from the will lages while the latter have suf- fered steady deterioration. He said the rural Setbacks are caused mainly by the failure of the fish cries, curtailed mining activity and drop-off in the fur market.
 Persons who have left the will lages and have been unable to find employment in the cities are a drain on welfare, health and police funds, he said.
 He suggested work projects in these fields: water supply, sew age and sanitation, road and trail building, construction of com- munity buildings.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
French Refuse Approve German Rearnament

PARIS, tR = For the second time in four months, the French Assembly refused to approve Ger man rearmament. But Premier Mendes-France quickly announc- ed he would call a second vote and stake his governments life on final okay.
 The deputies stunned Mendes- France by rejecting 280- 259 a treaty calling for West German rearmament within projected seven-nation West European Union. Most observers had pre- dicted the pact would get at least a small majority.
 The Premier had been so con- fident of ratification that he did not make the vote confidence issue. The pact had been given preliminary vote of approval by the Assembly last October.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Ideal Weather For Santa Reported By Weather Bureau At North Pole

NORTH POLE Via Washing ton, D.C0, R-Santa will have ideal take off weather for his world -girdling flight tonight.
 It was showing here at the North Pole, and the thermometer this morning registered mild 6 degrees below zero-pretty chilly down south, but warm for the top of the world.
 The US. Weather Bureaus ice floe reporting station advised headquarters in Washington ev- erything looked fine for Santa.
 There will be enough snow to get his heavily-loaded sleigh into the air and off on it's trip south ward. While the snow probably will cut visibility at the take off, it will be clear over much of the United States so that chimney-to- chimney navigation will present no problem.
 Santa will face headWinds much of the way in the form of currents of warm air flowing northWard.
 However, no delay in his esti- mated arrival time is anticipated.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Liberace Takes Vacation
 From Piano Till February

HOLLYWOOD, tR-Liberace is taking vacation from his piano until next Feb. 1 because of heart strain.
 The musicians physician, Dr. Joseph l. Marx, said after making an exhaustive checkup that Liber- aces condition is neither critical nor serious," but has a mild and temporary heart strain He ad- vised him to continue his vacation through January.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
,99,849 Acres of Kenai Peninsula Land Filed On For Oil Leases

ANCHORAGE, R-Applications for 45 leases on Kenai Peninsula land covering 99,849 acres have been filed on behalf of the Shell Oil Co.,, here by Charles Barnes, the company's land officer.
 The applications, accompanied by checks totaling $25,410 to cover rentals and filing fees, were made at the Territorial Land Off, flee.
 They were in the names of seven Los Angeles and North Hollywood residents, some of whom already hold or have ap- piled for Alaska acreage, a Land Office spokesman said. Barnes said he flew north from Los An geles to file the applications.
 All of the requested land lies in the Moose reserve around Tus- tuema Lake.
 It was also announced yesterday that 30,000 acres along Turnagain Arm have been blocked out in the name of San Francisco resi- dent, believed to be acting for one of the major oil companies.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
CAB Decides
 Alaska Traffic Does Not Warrant Service By 4 Lines
CAB Decides

ANCHORAGE, R-A major ity of the five-man Civil Aero nautics Board favors granting States Alaska operating certifi- cate to a third carrier, but only if it is one resulting from merger of Pacific Northern and Alaska Airlines, the Anchorage Times Washington, D. C. correspondent reported Thursday.
 This is at the heart of the CABS recent tentative decision not to renew the two lines present routes between Anchorage, Fair banks and Seattle and Portland, the correspondent said he was in formed on the highest CAB au- thority.
 The Times account outlined the situation in more detail as fol- lows:
 The decision was reached by the five commissioners after much disagreement in which only one point of view won unanimous sup port - that States-Alaska traffic does not warrant continued ser vice by four airlines.
 The board members, were in sharp conflict over which carrier should be eliminated. However, they agreed that new company resulting from. Pacific Northern Alaska Airlines merger would be acceptable.
 Yet since the two lines failed last fall in an attempt to find grounds for a merger the CAB could not grant a certificate to such merged carrier and it was decided tentatively to reject the applications for both companies acting independently.
 There is also some evidence, the Times said it learned, that Pacific Northern is confident it can per suade the White House to change the CAB decision so that Presi- dent Eisenhower will add Pacific Northern to the two carriers it has approved
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Hungary Announces
 The Fields Are Given Political Asylum ? ? :?

BUDAPEST, Hungary, lR - Hungary announced today Noel and Herta Field have won politi- cal asylum in this Communist country, which imprisoned them for five years as spies.
 The latest development in the fate of the American couple - central figures in one of the cold wars greatest international mysteries - was disclosed in a communique from the official Hungarian news service.
 q really cannot comment - what could I say?" said spokes- man for the American legation.
 Field, a former US. State De- partment official, and his Ger man-born wife were released Nov. IF after serving five years in Hungarian prisons on spy charges.
 American diplomats in Buda- pest have seen them only once "A hours after the Hungarian gov ernment announced they were freed and all charges against them dropped.
 The two Americans then enter ed a Budapest hospital for treat ment. They asked to remain in complete privacy.
 A Budapest broadcast heard in Vienna provided the first word of the new development in the Fields case. It confirmed speculation by Western diplomats in the Austrian capital that the couple would never return to the United States.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Texas Cattlemen Are Impressed By Alaska's Winter Range Possibilities

ANCHORAGE, R - T hre e Texas cattlemen, who came north to size up the range possibilities, are reported to have been i'm pressed after a 10-day tour of Kodiak Island and other islands in the area.
 Cline Koonz, the Fairbanks businessman who is trying to in terest cattlemen in Alaska's po- tentialities, said they were inn pressed by the conditions for win ter ranging.
 Koonz said his hopes were raised by the Texans announced intention of returning in the spring to see how cattle fared through the winter. Koonz said he would like to have a processing plant in Fairbanks for Alaska raised cattle.
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24

MANILA, tR-Christmas trees are being blackmarketed in the Philippines this year. The govern ment has restricted cutting of trees to protect the forests
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24
Suicides Rather Than Face Xmas

LONDON, R Postman Alfred David Leslie Jones committed sui cide--py taking gas, the coroner ruled yesterday after Jones' land lady told an inquest:
 "He seemed to dread Christmas with it's overWork."
The Nome nugget., 1954-12-24

CANTON, Ohio, R-The Steb- bins Business Machine Co.,, which sold a check-wrhing machine to man 20 days ago, today re- ported the check he gave in pay ment was returned marked: "No such bank"
Evening star., 1954-12-23
star stan Photo.

square and the cook, Mrs. Al
berta Dust of Niagara Falls. said
she used 80 pounds of butter in
the cake.
The cake was sent here after
Republican Mayor Ernest w.
Wilmington Of Niagara Falls. re-
ceived a telegram from Gen.
Eisenhower's personal secretary.
Ann C. Whitman, telling him:
"The President will be de-
lighted to have you send to him.
by express If possible, the cake
that the Young Mems Republi-
can Club wishes to send. I as
sure you that he is most appre-
ciative"
The presentation of the Wash
ington portraits came shortly
before the President and Mrs.
Eisenhower left for Augusta, Ca,
to spend the Christmas and New
Year holidays. They are not ex-
pected to return to the White
House until about January 30.
Working from photographs Of
one <of the Stuart portraits of
George Washington. Gen. Eisen-
hover painted his portrait Of
the first President while on a
vacation fishing trip near Fraser,
Colo. last September.
Last year, his Christmas gifts
to White House stan members
were copies of his painting Of
Abraham Lincoln from an
Alexander Gardner portrait Of
Lincoln.
Evening star., 1954-12-23
7 Ohio Fires Claim
Children, Woman
BY the A..oeiossd Press

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. 23.-
A mother and four of her five
children were dead today-two
days before Christmas-after fire
ravaged their home yesterday in
Urbana. Ohio. They were among
eight, including three other chill
dren, who met their death after
stoves started fires yesterday In
two adjoining Ohio counties.
In Springfield, Is miles south
Of Urbana, Bruce Huffman. 8
and his sisters, Valerie, 2. and
Sherry, II months, children OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Huff
man, died.
Dead as a result of the Urbana
fire are Mrs. Norman SWEETS, 80;
Norman, jr.. 2: Villa Dean
Adams, 6. and Simon Adams. Z
The two Adams girls and the
Adams boy were children Of Mrs
Sivets by a former marriage.
Mrs. Sivets and Simon died
In the hospital after the fire,
while the others perished in the
flames.
Mr.. Sivets saved his 10-month-
old son, Kenneth, from the
house. Both were in good" con-
dition last night at Mercy Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Gregory Peck Brother Fools
Big Dallas Department Store

Of valuable stoles and gowns
that caught his eye. Purchases
piled up until he had between
$1,000 ana $4,000 worth of mer-
chandise to deliver to California
before Christmas.
The 28-year-old man gave q
Hollywood address and explained
he was visiting in Dallas and
desired to do his Christmas shop
ping.
At $50 pm. Paul Bentley. q
policema working of duty hours
at the store. was shown the
visiting celebrity. He recognized
the man as q part-time used
furniture salesman with a minor
Swindle record.
He. carried out the spree just
to pretend for awhile he was
rich, the man explained. Police
jailed him for investigation Of
lunacy. but later released him.
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Fother Awaits Best Christmas:
Children Coming From Crete

Athens resolving the question Of
whether the children would
choose To stay with their sick
mother or take advantage or
elaborate plans to come now.
The Greek, youngsters, ranging
In age from 8 to II. win leave
Athens on Transworld Airlines
tomorrow afternoon and arrive
in Salt Lake City early Sunday
morning via United Airlines.
The State Department took
care of the red tape yesterday.
announcing passports were ready
whenever the youngsters wanted
to leave.
For years Mike has been
trying to get his children and
his wife to the United States
from the Greek island of Crete.
In l947 he managed to bring
three Of the children back after
a trip to his old home.
"A United States citizen Of
Greek birth. Mike is q janitor
at a Navy supply depot near
Ogden.
But he never could raise the
money to get his wife and the
other six children to Utah.
His fellow workers recently
chipped in to raise enough money
to bring the whole. Katsenevas
family together again. But some-
thing always happened to pre-
vent the trip. 49,
Evening star., 1954-12-23

Labor Department employees
are assuring a merry Christmas
for four needy families here,
with Is children among them.
Evening star., 1954-12-23
YuIetide Festivities
Boys Clubs to Give Parties
throughout District Tonight
YuIetide Festivities

The Metropolitan Police Boys
Clubs win hold their biggest
celebration il history" IN parties
throughout the city tonight and
tomorrow.
On Christmas morning. men-
bers Of the lO0-piece Boys Club
band, directed By Col. Leon Bru-
silon. win meet at 5:45 am. for
| n 1S-stop tOr1r az the city. be-
ginning at the New Municipal
Center and ending at 1l:25 am.
/ III front Of the Willard Hotel.
The parties win include clowns
Evening star., 1954-12-23
President Presents His Aides
With Portraits of Washington

/ President Eisenhower today
gave White House stan members
and employees unique Christmas
presents copies of a Dwight D.
Eisenhower portrait of George
Washington.
Gen. Eisenhower painted the
portrait of the first President
from a Gilbert Stuart painting
Signed with the initials 'DE," "
and inclosed in a folder bearing
his full signature and the nota-
tion Christmas, 1854" the
lithograph full-color copies of
his painting were handed by the
President to some TOO office as
sociates. Secret Service Agents,
White House policemen and
domestic employees Of the White
House.
The paintings were distributed
as the President and Mrs. Eisen-
hover wished merry Christmas
and a happy New Year to the
White House at a gathering in
the East Room of the Executive
Mansion this morning.
But Gen. Eisenhower himself
was the recipient of a gift-a big
one, too.
A 100-pound cake for the
President came from the Young
Mems Republican Club of Mia
CARA Falls. N. Y.
The gigantic astronomical
delight is shaped like a Christ
mas tree and stands 51a feet
tall. It's 80 inches by 80 inches
Evening star., 1954-12-23
BY fhs As,eeioted Pres.

DALLAS, Tex. Dec. 23.-The
models at one of Dallas largest
stores were hopping mad yester-
day and officials were red-faced
because a man pretending to be
the brother Of Movie Star Greg
ory Peck enjoyed their special
attentions on a spurious $4,000
shopping spree.
For the full afternoon Tues
day the lanky, good-looking vis-
itor lazily eyed trim mannequins
as they brushed past in thin
gowns and lingerie, putting on
q full-fledged style show for an
audience of one.
Attentive officials stood by to
furnish a cigarette and q light
for the guests enjoyment. Store
brass whisked him to lunch at
a private club.
And the guest was no pocket
book piker. He nodded approval
Evening star., 1954-12-23
y .hs A.sssie.sd Prs..

It took q lot Of doing and
seven years of effort. but Mike
Katsenevas will have all his nine
children around him this holiday
season.
The word came today that six
Of the children viii leave Athens.
Greece. BY plane tomorrow to be
reunited with their father and
the other children in Salt Lake
City the day after Christmas.
Mrs. KatsenevaS viii have to
wait a while before she can join
her family in Utah. She is suf-
fering from a stomach ailment
that viii delay her departure,
possibly for a month.
The Office of Senator Watkins,
Republican, Of Utah. who was en-
listed to help Mr.. Katsenevas.
said the State Department has
received q cable from United
States Consular OtficialS in
Evening star., 1954-12-23

ceremony, to be conducted By
Mark Evans. of WTOP radio
TV. win include 4 piano con-
cert by Adolf TorOvsky. of
the Church OF the Epiphany.
The Naval Air Station. An
acoStia, Fire Station Personnel
has presented q truck-load Of
.like-new toys to the District
Training School. at Laurel. Md.
Ofiicers and men Of the station
spent their free time during the
year repairing and painting the
discarded toys.
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Four new televiSion sets were
presented to the Industrial Home
School at Blue Plains yesterday
by the Creative Graphic Services
Association.
The District CIO Council
played Santa this week for the
children of st. Anne,s Infant
Home. Besides an ice cream
and cake party. the council pre-
sented the home with an electric
dishwasher and a jungle gym.
= y
Thirty children from the Dis
trict's Junior Village were honor
guests at q party last week Of
the 435th Highway Transport
Division, a District Army reserve
unit.
Mrs. Perle MeSta will be
Evening star., 1954-12-23
John Barrymore, Jr..
Faces Traffic choree
BY the Assoeiated Press

LAS VEGAS, New, Dec. 49,
John Barrymore, jr.. interrupts
celebration of his second wedding
anniversary for a Municipal
Court appearance today on q
reckless driving charge.
Mr.. Barrymore. %, was arrest
ed yesterday by officers who said
he was lane-changing danger
ously in heavy traffic. He was
jailed for about three hours un-
til he obtained $500 bail. He and
his wife. the former Cara VIII
liams, said they are in Las Vegas
for the anniversary of their mar
riage here two years ago today.
Evening star., 1954-12-23

For four weeks. stacks Of toys.
candy. food and clothing have
grown in the Offices. Cash con-
tributions have grown. too. to
$500 at the end of the third
week. The "neediest" families
have been featured during the
past four weeks in the depart
ment's Staff Memo. a weekly
publication distributed to all
employees.
Evening star., 1954-12-23
Prophet Of Disaster
Faced With Fight
To Prove His Sanity
By shs Assoeiofed Press

LANSING, Mich, Dec. 23.-Dr.
Charles Laughed. the ousted
Michigan State College physician
who received national attention
as a prophet Of disaster. faced q
fight today to prove his sanity.
A petition filed by his sister
seeks to have DR.. Laughead and
his wife Lillian committed to Q
Michigan mental institution.
II DIR. and Mrs. Laughed are
committed, they also win lose
custody Of their three children.
The petitions, were filed in the
Ingham County Probate Court
at Lansing Tuesday by Miss
Margaret ". Laughed Of Des
Moines, Ia. the doctors sister.
Heads for Lansing.
DR.. Laughed, reached yester-
day in Oak Park. H.. said he
was leaving Immediately for
Lansing by car. He had no COM
ment on the petition.
The petitions ask that DR..
Laughed and wife rbe admitted
to the Kalamazoo State Hospital
or Traverse City State Hospital
(both mental institutions) as
mentally ill.,"
During the past few years. I"
the sister said in her petition,
my brother has become a reli-
gious fanatic. He believes that he
Is to create a new age and that
the standing world viii be sub
merged and that he will be
picked UP by a flying saucer"
DR.. Laughed had predicted
that half of the American conti-
nent would be wiped away on
Tuesday and that the city of
Chicago would be overwhelmed
by tidal waves.
Fired From Job.
He was fired from his 10000
a-year job as staff physician at
the Michigan State College Hos
pital after the college president,
DR.. John A. Hannah, told ad-
ministrative officials he was
"upsetting" students with his
predictions of "the end Of the
world"
DR.. Laughed described him
self as a reporter" for Mrs.
Dorothy Martin, Oak Park
housewife, who declared she re-
ceived messages from beings In
outer space.
Probate Judge John Mcclellan
said that If warrants can be
served on the husband and wife
q sanity hearing viii be held
Monday. He said the warrants
could not be served until the
couple returned to Michigan.
Dr.. and Mrs. Laughead have
three children, Charlyn, 18, an
MISC freshman coed; Charles.
jr., II, and Marilyn, 9.
Judge Mcclellan said that II
the couple were committed, !,
guardians would be named for
the two older children and the
youngest one would become q
ward Of the court.
Evening star., 1954-12-23

hostess ct 3 party sponsored BY
the American Veterans Commit
tee FOR IL girls Of the st. VIM
cents Home and School at 4
o'clock today. The party. similar
To the ones the Amvets are giv-
ing this year III 81 States. win be-
held ii the Sheraton Park Hotel
Twenty-Five children from
families III need win be given
toys. clothing and baskets Of
food at = party at 3 o'clock to-
night sponsored BY the Henry
c. Spengler Post No. u Of the
American Legion.
The post. with the aid Of its
auxiliary, win give the party atl
the Post Home, 433 Third street
N. WI. with funds donated by
the members at the last meet
ing.
Gifts tOtaling $500 and two
television sets win be presented
today to the children of Junior
Village. $500 Loughboro road
NV. by employees Of the Army
Departmsnt's statistical and ac-
counting branch.
H&A
Alice Deal Junior High School
pupils contributed 4.O63 pounds
of clothing to the District Con-
greSs of Parents and Teachers
for distribution to needy pupils
this Christmas.
The clothing was collected un-
der auspices Of the student
council.
k*&
Labor Department employees
are assuring merry Christmas
for four needy families here,
with Is children among them.
Evening star., 1954-01-14
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