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Kodiak mirror. [volume] (Kodiak, Alaska) 1940-1976, 1955-12-24
IN THE UNITED STATES COM
MTSSIONER'S eek OFFICIO
PROBATE) COURT FOR

MISSIONER'S eek OFFICIO
PROBATE) COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF
ALASKA, KODIAK
COMMISSIONERS PRECINCT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
IN THE MATTER OF THE
ESTATE OF
EUGENE L. LIGHTFOOT
PROBATE FILE NO. 528
Deceased
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned, Margaret o.
Lightfoot, was on the 29th day of
November, 1855, by an order of
the above entitled Court, appoint
ed Administrative of the estate of
Eugene L. Lightfoot, deceased; and
that she there-upon qualified as
such Administrative in the man
ner required by law, and all credi-
tors, and persons having claims
against said decendent are hereby
required to present their claims,
with the necessary vouchers, with
in six months from the date here
of, to the undersigned Admins
tratrix at the office of her Attor-
aey, John S. Mansuy, Jr., Kodiak,
Alaska which office the undersign-
ed hereby designates as her place
of business in all matters connect
ed with the said estate.
DATED this 5th day of Decem-
Der 1855.
(s) Margaret o. Lightfoot
Administrative of the Estate
of Eugene L. Lightfoot
Date First Pub. Dec. 10, 1855
Date Last Pub. Jan. z, 1856
I'M THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
THIRD DIVISION
AT ANCHORAGE
IN THE MATTER OF THE AP-
PLICATION AND PETITION OF
GEORGE YOSHEDA FOR
CHANGE OF NAME
File No. A-10,348
Notice is hereby given that
George Yosheda has petitioned
the District Court for the District
of Alaska, at Anchorage, for a
change of name to the name of
George WoIkoff. All persons hav-
ing any reasons to offer and show
cause, il any they have, why said
petition should not be granted,
should file notice of such objec-
fions within Thirty 600 days from
the date hereof.
Dated at Kodiak, Alaska, this
nth day of Decenber, 1855.
2xzkr & MSnszzx II
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Evening star., 1955-01-07
Mrs. Albert A. Grorud,
Wife Of Senate Aide

Mrs. Albert A. Grorud, 70. wife
of a specialist with the Interior
and Insular Affairs Committee
of the Senate, died yesterday in
Casualty Hospital. She lived at
Maryland Court Apartments.
The former Julia Olson. Mrs.
Grorud was born in Osseo, Wis.
She had been an active mem
ber of Luther Place Memorial
Church for more than Is years.
She was a member of the goth
Century Club, the Political Study
Club. the Norwegian Ladies Aid
and the Eastern Star.
She formerly attended George
Washington University and, for
many years. lived in Butte and
Helena, Mont. Her husband was
assistant Attorney General in
Montana from 1916 to 1920. They
had been married for So years.
Besides her husband. she is
survived by two sisters, Miss
Betty Olson and Mrs. Clarence
Seffens, both of Osseo. Wis.
Services will be held at 1 pm.
tomorrow in Luther Place Me-
mortal Church. Vermont avenue
and N street N. w. Burial will
be in Osseo.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Arbenz Is Recognized
Officially as Swiss Citizen
By the Assoeio,sd Pres,

al -
ANDELFINGEN, Switzerland,
Jan. 7.--Jaeobo Arbenz Guzman,
former pro-Communist Presi.
dent of Guatemala. was of
ffcially recognized today as en-
titled to Swiss citizenship.
The issuance of a Swiss pass
port remained a formality. He
now needs only to present docu-
mentary proof of his birth and
origin.
Recognition of Arbenz' Swiss
citizenship makes him liable to
immediate call-up for training
In Switzerland's national army,
despite his IS years. The for
mer President ranked as a
colonel in Guatemala.
The communal council of the
village of Andelfingen, in North
ern Switzerland, announced that
a search Of the records had dis
closed that Arbenz' grandfather,
Johann Jakob, was a citizen Of
Andelfingen and that this sciti-
zenship was considered AUTO
matically passed on to the fOr-
mer President.
Arbenz' father emigrated to
Guatemala in 1904 and -
was born in 1909. Under Swiss
law. Swiss citizenship passes
from father to son for unlimited
generations without any mem.
Der of the family ever setting
foot on Swiss territory provided
the citizenship is never formally
renounced.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
BY The Assoeio,sd Press

CHICAGO, Jan. Women
not only have a six-year longer
life span than men but appar-
emily live more hale and hardy
lives.
A Nationwide survey released
today showed men patients out
numbered women patients by
n, ,720 late in l953--642.l56 men
to 564, ,436 women.
This was despite the fact that
an average of one-sixth Of all
persons admitted to hospitals are
pregnant women.
The women outclassed the men
healthwise in every age bracket.
Even in the child bearing ages
of Is to A years there was an
excess of 1928 males in the
$3.50 registered hospitals covered
in the survey.
Results Are Big Surprise.
The results Of the survey,
made by the Bureau of Medical
Economic Research Of the Amer
ican Medical Association. came
as big surprise.
Voluntary health insurance
plans show more females than
males utilize this service.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
National Survey Spikes Idea
That Women Are Weaker Sex

DR.. Frank @. Dickinson.
bureau director, said it was be-
lieved when the survey started
that no more than 40 to As per
cent Of the patients would be
males.
The evidence Of higher hos
pital incidence or morhidity
rates Of males strongly implies
that they are the sicklier and
more hospitaiized SEX" he said.
Other Age Benefits.
The breakdown in other are
brackets showed there was an
excess of 1883 males in the
age group Of IA and under; an
excess Of 51.l85 males In the
45-64 age group, and an excess
Of 1,949 males in the 65 and over
group.
Females made up slightly
more than half the Nations
population--50.3 per cent. How
ever. the survey showed that
males made up 53.2 Of the hos
pital patients.
All types OF hospitals general,
nervous and mental, tuberculosis
and Government--were covered
in the study, limited to condi-
tiors on a single day.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Orthodox Services
For Christmas End
Pageant Of Peace

Washington's first Pageant Of
Peace will close a three-wtIk k
celebration with a Russian Or
thodox Christmas service at 6
o'clock tonight on the Ellipse.
The Very Rev. Archimandrite
Nicholas Of st. John the Baptist
Russian Orthodox Church will
be the celebrant. The sermon
will be in Russian.
Today, two weeks after
Christmas in this part of the
world, millions of Eastern Or
thodox Christians are celebrat-
ing the birth of Christ. The dis
crepancy in dates arises from a
difference in calendar reckon
ing.
At 7:30 pm. the choir of st.
Nicholas Russian Orthodox
Church will sing a concert of
sacred Russian Christmas music.
To Broadcast Services.
The services will be broadcast
behind the Iron Curtain by the
Voice of America.
Yesterday. 1900 persons at
tended programs on the Ellipse
or took a final look at the dis
! plays. The reindeer left for
North Pole. N. Y. last night.
The other displays will stay up
through tonight.
Mccormick Is Celebrant.
Yesterdays programs began
with a mass at noon, celebrated
by the Rev. John P. Mccormick,
IIector of the theological college
at Catholic University. In the
afternoon, thes ninth grade
chorus OF Paul Junior High
School sang.
Highllcht Of the evening was
a musical salute by the D. C.
Keys barbershop quartet to the
States and territories which con-
tributed Christmas trees to the
pageant. The quartet sang State
anthems and familiar songs.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Mrs. Luce and President
Discuss SceIba Visit

Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, Amer
ican Ambassador to Italy, today
discussed with President Eisen-
hover tentative plans for visit
here this spring by italian Prime
Minister Mario Scelba.
Mrs. Luce told reporters as
she left the White House that
she reported to Gen. Eisenhower
on the general situation in Italy,
which seems TO be improving. T"
She mentioned the Italian
governments stand against COM
munism and the remarkable
evidence" Of Western solidarity
in the Italian Parliament's re-
cent vote in favor Of rearming
West Germany.
Mrs. Luce said March looks
like an excellent target date"
for a visit here by Prime Min
lister Scelba, although the ques-
ton remains Of fitting the visit
into the schedules Of busy men.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Going Like Sixty
Program Slated.

The first in a new series of
"Going Like Sixty" programs will
be held at 2 pm. tomorrow in
the Southeast Branch Library.
Seventh and d streets Sc
The series, for persons so years
old or older. is sponsored joint
ly by the education subcommit-
tee Of the United Community
Services Committee on Aging and
the District Public Library Mrs.
Albert w. Atwood, chairman Of
the UCS Committee on Aging,
said the program tomorrow will
include a discussion of "rea
Through the Ages" by John H.
Hines, a retired employe of the
United States Naval Gun Fac
tory,
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Saskatchewan Crash
Killing Eight Is Probed
BY The Assoe,aied Press

PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatche-
wan, Jan. 7.--Saskatchewan
officials are investigating the
crash in the provinces far north
yesterday of a converted two
engine military transport In
which all eight persons aboard
five of them children died in
flames.
The plane, owned by Saskatch-
evan Government Airways. over
turned on landing at Buffalo
Narrows. lS5 miles northwest OF
here, and caught FIRE. It was
the lines first fatal accident
since it started operations in
l947 to open up the pfovince's
northlands.
Those killed were the pilot,
Stuart Millar, 40, Of Prince
Albert: Stanley Woodland. mar-
ager of the Hudson's Bay Co.
post at La Locfe; Mr.. Woodard's
wife and their two children,
Marilyn and Robert. and three
Indian children. Cecil Lemaigre
and Florence and John Baptiste
Piche. The Indian children were
en- route to their school at
Buffalo NarroWs.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Harry Webber. Dean
OF Maine Newsmen
BY the Associated Pres.

BATH, Maine, Jan. Harry
Clark Webber, dean Of Maine
newspapermen who had recorded
shipbuilding here through the
transition from deep-water sail
ing to steam powered vessels,
died today. The editor of the
Bath Daily Times was SO.
Mr.. Webber was at his desk
regularly until the day before
Thanksgiving. He had been a
major influence in the city's his
tory nearly so years.
Valedictorian of the class of
1889 at the old Bath High
School, he stepped inside the
doors of the Weekly Independent
on his graduation day, as a So
a week reporter.
Soon he was earning an extra
$5 weekly writing for marine
magazines about the then -four
ishing wooden shipbuilding in
dustry on the Kennebec. He
became editor of the Daily Times
and Weekly Independent in
1918.
In 1891, he covered the launch
ing of the SIN a IL gunboat
Machias. first vessel built by
Gen. Tom Hyde's New Bath Iron
Works, and had been the firms
daily biographer since.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Miss Julia P. Roman,
Retired U. 5. Employe

Miss Julia B. Roman. retired
employe of the Panama Canal
Commission, died Unexpectedly
Wednesday while visiting friends
in Atlanta, Ga. She lived at
2703 Woodley road NV.
Miss Roman was born in Co
lumbus, Ga, and came to Wash
ington as girl with. her parents.
She retired from the commission
about 10 years ago.
She was a member Of Calvary
Methodist Church and Capt.
Wendell Wolf Chapter of the
Daughters of American Revolu-
ton.
She had lived for the last 35
years with Miss Ella Luckett at
the Woodley road address.
The funeral will be held at l
pm. tomorrow at the S. H. Hines
funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial will be in
Congressional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Mrs. zaidee Gaff, %,
Active in District
Charitable Groups

Mrs. zaidee F. Gaff, SO, of
Washington and Bermuda. died
yesterday in Bermuda after a
brief illness.
She was the widow of Thomas
T. Gaff of Washington and for
merly lived at 1920 Twentieth
street NV. in what is now the
Colombian Embassy.
Mrs. Gaff was at one time ac-
tive in several charitable organ
izations in Washington and had
served on the board of Emer-
'gency Hospital.
Among survivors is her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Cary D. Langhorne of
1900 @ street NV. and st,
Brides Farm, Delaplane, Va.
Mrs. Langhorne is the widow of
a cousin of Lady Astor.
Funeral arrangements viii be
made next week at st. Johns
Church, Lafayette Square. Burial
will be in Rock Creek Cemetery
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Auuriling

GARF1RKLE, WILLIAM. An unyeil.
ing will be held on Sunday, January
late WILLIAM OARFTNKLE Services
will be held at the District Of CO.
inmbis Lodge Cemetery. 18th pl. and
Alabama ave. Sc. In case OF rain.
services viii be held the following
Sunday.
KATZ. LOUIS. There viii be an un-
yelling Of . monument in memory Of
the late LOUIS KATZ. which will be
held on Sunday, January q, 1865, at
10 noon, at the Beth 5holom National
Hebrew Cemetery at 49th st, and
Benning I'd. Sc. Relatives and friends
are Invited In event of tnciement
weather unveiling will be held on Sun
day. January 10. at IL noon.
dENDELsOHN. RAY. An unyeiIine Of
q stone on Sunday. January 9, 1855,
At 2:30 pm, at King David Memorial
Cemetery for the late RAY MEEDEL-
6OHN, mother, Of Alfred Mendelsohn
and Lindy Sislen.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Ivan n. Fuqua Dies;
Insurance Company
Organizer for Unions

Ivan N. Fuqua, IS, insurance
company organizer and execu-
tive. died after a heart attack
Wednesday night while attend
ing an insurance association
meeting.
MFR. Fuqua was known in
Washington for his work in set
ting up insurance companies for
labor unions. He was owner and
operator Of the Fuqua Insurance
Agency, with Offices in his home,
is K street NV, and president
Of the French Insurance Agency,
Richmond, Va.
He held health and accident
insurance contracts with the
American Patent Law Associa-
tion. Sigma Delta Chi Journal
ism Fraternity and the Mont
gomery County, Arlington
County, Alexandra and Virginia
Bar Associations.
Acted for Electrical Union.
He was trained actuary
and helped set UP an insurance
company for the International
Brotherhood Of Electrical Work
ers, serving as an official of the
company. He also. organized the
Union Labor Life Insurance Co.,
and most recently set up and
was administrator of the welfare
fund of Local 26 of the IBEW.
Mr.. Fuqua was born in Crewe,
Va. and educated in Petersburg,
Va. He was in insurance most
of his life, beginning with the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
and later working as salesman,
manager and agency superin-
tendent for the Prudential Life
Insurance Co. in Washington.
In 1910 he organized and was
first president of the Accident
and Health Insurance Under
writer's Association of WASH
ington.
He was member of the EpiS-
| copal Church and belonged to
the Elks, Odd Fellows and the
University Club.
Widow Survives.
He is survived by his widow,
Evelyn; a daughter, Mrs. Mary
E. Lawrence, Manassas. Va, and
three sons. Robert j. Fuqua,
Lakeland, Fla; Ivan N. Fuqua,
jr., Raleigh, N. c., and Frank
T. Fuqua. a University of Mary
land student who lives in Hyatts-
vile. Frank is a basketball star
at the university.
Funeral services will be held
| at 2 pm. tomorrow at the s. H.
Hines Funeral Home, 2901 Four
| teenth street NV. Burial will
be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Eastern Railroads
And Truckers Form
Joint Policy Board
BY tho i,soeiussd Press

NEw yORK Ian THE Ma.
taonss major Eastern railroaos
md, 3bir frl,ckinr Arms ooeratinp
east OF the Mississippi have
1870 8 lolns pouss noa.u4 y. ae- :
sls!ieu - il,a'San a.s peaes - 'ite
= .a'ioli iiiuue'
Formation OF the new group.
70 De known as the Councii OF
eastern Ran ana Truck COM
mon carriers. was announced
yesterday az q news conference.
Co-chairmen of the council
are Walter J. Tuohy, president
of the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
road. and D. L. Sutherland.
chairman OF the Middle Atlantic
Transportation Co.
Mr.. Tuohy said the council.
composed OF seven Eastern rail-
road presidents and seven big
trucking company officials, will
try to reconcile any issues be-
tween the railroads and highway
carriers which might impede the
best public service by each one."
Other Officials Named
II aaa;t,on - ,rr T,,..
other raiiroad haods AZ -, 0os' .r,
council are Paul w. Johnston,
OF the Erie: Patrick B. McGin-
ms. New YORK, New Haven d
hartIoro; Alfred Z. Perlman.
New YORK Central; Howard E.
simpson. Baltimore q Ohio; T.
u. Sughrue, Boston d Maine;
ana James Nd. Symes, Pennsyl-
vanla.
Besides Mr.. Sutherland on the
trucking group are Robert
Cooper. jr., president of Cooper
Jarrett. Inc; Simon Fisher.
Spector Motor Service; Harry L.
Gormley KeyStone-Lawrenc
Transfer d Storage Co.; James
=. Mclean. Mclean Trucking
Co.; Carroll ]. Roush, Roadway
Express, Inc; and Louis
Schram, Allied Van Lines. Inc.
Mr.. Tuohy said the councils
first business meeting will be
held in New York February Z.
Nav Aw.o. Y...,,.
"
Mr' Iuohy avoided direct
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Paul WuIIworth, "a,
Rice-Forming Pioneer
BY the Associated Press

STUTTGART, Ark. Jan. T.
Paul Wallworth, "a, known for
his pioneer work in the develop
ment of modern rice farming
methods, died yesterday after
an extended illness.
Mr.. Wallworth, a native of
Warren, Wis, moved to his rice
farm here in 1920. He developed
methods of dry combining
rice and was considered a
pioneer in the development OF
other modern agricultural prac-
tices in rice farming.
He is survived by his widow
and three daughters, all of
Stuttgart.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Prof. 3. W. Brown, 81

PROVIDENCE, RI, Jan. z
(R.-Benjamin w. Brown. 81,
professor Of English and direc-
tor of dramatic productions at
Brown University. died today Of
a cerebral hemorrhage. He was
unmarried and leaves no irnrne-
diate relatives.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
DR.. Arthur v. Bishop,
Retired Educator
BY fhe Assoeiaied Press

CARLISLE, Pa, Jan. 7.-Dr.
Arthur ". Bishop. 70. chairman
of the Dickinson College classical
language department 25 years
before his retirement in June.
died yesterday at Carlisle Hospi-
tai.
A native Of Riner, Va. he was
admitted to the hospital yester-
day for an emergency operation.
He was graduate of Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and taught
at Hollins College in Virginia,
Georgetown College in Kentucky
and the University of Virginia
before coming to Dickinson.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Sir Arthur Keith, 88.
Noted AnthropoIogist
BY shs As.esiossd pro.s


DoWNE, England. Jan. IT,
Sir Arthur Berridale Keith. SO.
anthropologist and scientific
leader, died at his home here
today.
He was master Of the Buckston
Browne Research Farm in this
Kentish village which was the
home Of Charles Darwin, his
mentor in biological matters.
Sir Arthur's belief that wars
may be useful aroused contro-
versy. Mature keeps her or
chard healthy by pruning. and
war is her pruning hook" he
wrote.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
Samuel Livingston,
Mining Engineer
By ihs A..oeio,sd press

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. g.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow for Samuel w. Livings-
ton. u. internationally known
mining engineer and a native of
st. Paul. MINI. Mr.. Livingston
died yesterday in q local hospi-
tai.
AS q young man he discovered
one Of the richest silver mines
under the waters Of q lake at
Cobalt. Ontario.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
British Unemployment
Lowest Since l945

LONDON. Jan. 7.1Unemploy-
ment in Britain dropped last
month to the lowest December
levels since the end Of World
War II. the Ministry of Labor
reported today. The number Of
jobless throughout the country
was 256.000 on December 6. q
decrease of 1000 from Noyem-
Der.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
J. A. Forsyth, Headed
Rail Refrigerator Line
BY The Assoeinied Pres.

CHICAGO, Jan. 7. - James
Alexander Forsyth, 80, former
president and general manager
of the Chicago. New York and
Boston Refrigerator Line, died
Wednesday in his room in the
Palmer House.
Mr.. Forsyth. a bachelor, died
in his sleep. He had been resi-
dent Of the hotel for many years.
The only survivors are nephews
in Bermuda and Washington,
D. C.
Evening star., 1955-01-07
British Government
And Railway Union
Agree on Pay Rates

LONDON, Jan. 7.-Railway
union leaders, their orders for
q crippling nationwide strike
cancelled at the last minute.
reached substantial agreement
today with the British Transport
Commission on demands for
higher pay.
Gen. Sir Brian Robertson.
chairman of the commission
which runs Britain's govern
ment nt-owned railroads. said some
pay increases will become effec-
tive next Monday.
James big Jim Campbell,
general secretary of the 100000
strong National Union of Rail-
waymen, sent out an order last
night suspending the railroad
strike set for Sunday midnight.
The suspension followed a gov
ernment call for new wage
negotiations.
Most Rates Adjusted.
After a -hour session this
morning. it was announced that
minimum pay rates for every
one except firemen and en-
gineers and a few other cate
gories had been fixed to the
satisfaction of both sides. These
rates were not disclosed.
Maximum rates for various
Jobs still we're to be fixed, and
the pay of engineers is to be
taken up at special negotiations.
the announcement said.
Mr.. Campbell had warned that
a new strike call would go out
if further wage talks were not
satisfactory.
A union statement said assur-
ances by the commission create
satisfactory basis for negotia-
ton and speedy settlement" of
the dispute.
Adjustment Seen.
Union officials said the trans
port chiefs agreed that wage
rates would be adjusted" and
that there would be no hag-
Cling"
A transport com mission
spokesman refused immediate
comment on the union state
ment but indicated the COM
mission might have something
to say later today.
The Government called the
union-management talks after a
three-man inquiry board held
there was no legal barrier to
wage increases on the railroads.
The transport commission pre-
viously argued it was unable to
grant pay increases because they
could not be met out of cur
rent revenues and the law fore
bade the railroads to operate in
the red.
To Abide by Report.
Although the finding Of such
independent inquiry boards are
not legally binding on either
side, Prime Minister Churchill
let it be known that the govern
nnent was willing to abide by the
boards report. Sir Winston
postponed his usual weekend
departure for his country home
to wait at No. 10 Downing street,
his official residence, for the
outcome of the meetings.
The pay scale for British rail-
waymen now ranges from the
equivalent of $17.06 to $24.36
a week. The men received a
small increase last year and
were promised further negotia-
tions on their demand for a
full Is per cent increase over
1853 wages.
Although some 100000 Brit
ish railroad workers belong to
other unions. it was generally
conceded that a strike of MUIR
members would tie up virtually
every train in Britain. A walk
out also would stop London's
subway network.