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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

York's Gov. Hartman. whose
chances of winning the nomina-
ton looked slim when this poll
was completed. before Mr.. Tru-
mans announcement of support,
Before Senator Kefauver with
drew. this is how the Democratic
ranked in popularity
Here is a list Of men who
are in the running as candi-
dates for President on the
Democratic ticket. Which
one of the men on this list
do you think would make
the best President"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

Senator Symington. Gov. Lsuschs and
lyndon Johnson each received So Of
the. total: TOYS. Williams of Michigan
and Meyner OF New jersey received 2ee
and less than Ne. respectively
In the country as whole,
Mr.. Stevenson Is without
question the leading Demo-
cratic candidate. His lead
is even stronger among
Democrats. Kefauver, on the
other hand, shows his great
est popularity with Republic
cans.
The regions strongest for Mr..
Stevenson are the Northeast and
the Far West. Senator Kefauver.
on the other hand. is strongest in
the Midwest. This, plus his
appeal to Republicans, supple
ments Mr.. Stevenson's strength
and makes it likely that Senator
Kefauver will be one of those
considered for the vice presi-
dental nomination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
Research Center Due

WALTHAM, Mass.-A 81 mil
lion center devoted to basic bio
chemical research. with special
emphasis on glandular disorders,
will be established here soon at
lBrandeiS University.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

later Senator Symington himself
last night.
Mr.. Heintzelman said Senator
Symington gave the impression
very definitely" that he is a
serious candidate for the nomi-
nation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
Newsmen Draw Blank
In CrystoI Ball Hunt
BY WILLIAM HINES

STAR CONVENTION BUREAU, CHICAGO Aug 1s.-on
Saturday it the crystal ballroom that
the convention On Sunday the crystal
Hundreds of reporters busy in trying
what here hudded corridors Blackstone and
Conrad Hilton Hotels and interviewed another main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

mum. Coolest period about FRI
day. Showers or thunderstorms
likely Thursday, otherwise gen.
orally fair weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
THE PUBLIC PULSE
THE PUBLIC PULSE
Candidates Ranked
Before Kefouver Quit
BY ELMO ROPER
Elmo Roper and AsSocia ties

The Democratic which for while spring looked
like wideopen contest in which of number of dark
horses might benefit from deadlock between
of Illinois Estes Kefauver of
about With Senator Kefauvers withdrawal the
July 81 the last remaining challenger
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
Truman Starts About
Fight to Stop Stevenson

CHICAGO. Aug. 10 QP.-Hary s. Truman pulled out all
knuckle fight Democratic presidential nom
inaton from Adlai Stevenson.
The former President set another a-day schedule for
seeing DELEGATES directing his eutenans and figuring out new
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
on Vacation

Joseph Young is on vaca-
ton. The Federal Spotlight
column will be resumed on
his return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST-scattered showers are
forecast for tonight east of the Mississippi River as we'll as
in the Central Plains Wyoming. Colorado Nevada Utah
and New Mexico The East will remain with empera-
lures climbing In Texas the lower Ohio Valley Georgia and
South Carolina II will be cooler in Washington stateAP
Wirephoto Map
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13
Record Temperature, Thi, Yea,

:, RECORD Temperatures This Year
Highest a5 on June ~
February 90
Hish and Low Of Last r. Hours
Hieh, 50, at 2:35 D m
Low. 20. at am. today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

tFrom Q S. Engineers
Potomac River cloudy at Harpers Fei
ana cloudy A. Great Falls; Shenandoa
CLOUDY al Harpers Ferry.
Temperatures toT Yesterday
tHeadinss WASHINGTON National Airport
Mfdrfob, -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-13

Furnished By the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
Duchess Didn't Look When She
Leaped Into Romance With King

to my new circumstances" the
Duchess writes. II stood quite
alone and defenseless in the eye
of the storm Mistakes were made
by me and by others whom I
might have influenced but for the
lack of communication and under
standing.
Had l had my way, when at
the eleventh hour full under
standing finally came to me, this
story would have had a different
ending, if indeed there had been
occasion to write it at ALL
A sidelight in the first chapter
is the duchess admission that she
rarely looked before she leaped.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22

NEW YORK, R-The Duchess
of Windsor says she was "unpre-
pared and unarmed" for the storm
stirred up by her romance with
former King Edward VIII more
than 10 years ago.
In the first installment of her
autobiography published in the
current McCall's Magazine, the
former Wallis Warfield writes:
Rather late in life 1 found my
self not only in love but loved as
few modern women could ever
expect to be loved with a great
throne at stake, a vast empire
seething, and with the most OBJ
scure details of my previously I'M
noticed existence reverberating in
the four corners of the earth
when these extraordinary hap
penings overlook me, slowly al
first, then with the rush of an
avalanche, I was unprepared and
unarmed."
Edward abdicated the British
throne Dec. II, 1886, for 1.-The
woman I love-" His romance with
the Baltimore Divorce had pro-
duced a crisis throughout the
British Empire.
Nothing that l had known be-
fore or learned seemed to apply
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
Del. Bartlett Assures Senate Group
Mental Health Bill Is No Red Plot

WASHINGTON, PA Senate
subcommittee has been told that
Alaska's proposed mental health
program ''is no Marxist plot, no
reasonable plan, and no Commu-
nistic endeavor to undermine the
United States"
The assurance was given by
Delegate Bartlett D-Alaska) yes
terday after members of the Sen
ate Territories subcommittee had
heard the bill described as an
entering wedge whereby Ameri-
can citizens could lose their prop
erty rights
The bill before the committee
which is in recess today-Would
transfer administration of Alas
ka's mental health program to the
territory from the federal govern
ment.
Still to be heard by the commit
tee at an indefinite time are oper-
atoms of the Morningside Hospit-
al at Portland, Ore, which now
treats Alaska's mentally i'll under
contract with the government.
An appeal for retention of the
proposed patients right to jury
hearing came from George C.
Finn and his twin, Charles, of
Hollywood The brothers gained
national publicity when they
fought government efforts to re
claim a surplus airplane they had
purchased and, as George told the
committee, wound up in men
tai hospital" at Springfield, Mo.
George Finn said that he was
shocked" to hear government
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
Publisher Jailed
Result of Editorial
On Vice Payoffs

FORT WORTH, Texas, R-Af-
ter spending the night in the Tar
rant County Jail for contempt of
court, newspaper publisher Will
liam Prescott Allen today was to
tell the grand jury what he knew
about crime conditions in Fort
Worth
The gray-haired, 60-year-old
publisher of the Laredo Times
and the Daily Alaska Empire was
fined $500 and sent to Jail by Dis
trict Judge Dave MCGEE yester-
day after he refused to testify be-
fore the grand jury on grounds II
violated his Constitutional rights
and might incriminate him.
Later in the day, Allen an
.nounced he would testify but the
Judge refused to release him from
jail, saying he could purge him.
self of contempt only by testify
ing and that he would have to re-
main in custody until he did so.
Allen entered the grand jury
room at 9:15 am. today.
Allen was subpoenaed by the
grand jury after several front
page editorials in the Laredo
newspaper, 425 miles from here,
had lambasted this city for per-
hitting vice and payoffs. He
charged that one politician here
takes a cut Of vice-payoff money
because he wants to run for lieu
tenant governor.
After being sentenced to jail,
Allen said lin order to expose
some of the crookedness, its
worth the price"
The publisher was fingerprinted
and made to exchange his natty
business attire, including match
ing silk tie and pocket handker-
chief. for a prisoners striped COW
erals.
Although he had nothing to eat
since breakfast, Allen refused to
eat the evening meal served IN
Jail: boloney, cheese, pork and
beans, bread and iced tea.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
Methodist Officials
Visit Nome Church
For Special Services

The Community Methodist
Church announced that Rev. Rob-
ert Laidig of the Methods,
Church of Minneapolis, Mimi,
will conduct services all week
from Feb. 26 to March 4. His
theme will be "Some Hows of
Christian Living"
Also coming to Nome during
that week will be Rev. Leslie
Ross of the General Board of
Evangelism from Nashville, Tenn.
The public is invited to any and
all the special meetings, stated
Rev. Willard Mecklenburg.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22

witnesses earlier urge elimination
of the jury provision as an unde-
sireable method of determining
mental illness.
"They may be right" he said,
"but it's the only method for de-
termining incarceration.
In defending the mental health
proposal, Bartlett said every eff
fort has been made to write safe
guards into it, but said that if
additional precautions are felt
necessary Alaskans would have
no objections to their inclusion.
Emphasizing the need for revi-
sion of Alaska's present proce-
dures, Bartlett said that "only re-
Gently 17-day-old baby was put
in jail, found guilty of being in
sane and sent to Morningside."
Sen. Neuberger described Alas
ka's present program as wholly
unfair" and said that revision was
"long overdue"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
JAPAN'S ECONOMY SCARS
AT EXPENSE OF WORKERS

TOKYO, R-Japan is moving
again toward economic dominance
of Asia-but at the expense of
underpaid workers, that nations
top labor leader contends.
Akira Iwai, "a, boss of Japan's
big General Council of Trade
Unions, says industrial determin-
alton to exploit workers is the
reason the government opposes
the unions unfolding campaign
for wage increases.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
350-Pound Puma Pet
Eats 10 Pounds of Meat
Daily and Watches TV

THOUSAND OAKS, Calf, Up
Most Housewives would flee in
terror, with their husbands keep
ing pace at the sight of Mrs. Mel
vim Koontz' kitchen pet.
The 350-pound puma sits on a
drain board while Mrs. Koontz
washes her dishes. He follows her
about the house and is as dones-
ticated as a kitten-well, almost,
although Mrs. Koontz has a few
scratches.
She acquired the Puma, named
Kimbo, five years ago as baby.
She bottle-fed him and reared
him as a pet. Now he eats 10
pounds of horse meat and a gal
lon of milk daily, and watches
teleViSion when time hangs
heavy.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22
Rightest Group in Greece
RenOunces Alliance With
Communist Line Parties

ATHENS, Greece, Alright
wing election opponents of Pre-
mier Constantine Karamanlis yes
terday renounced their alliance
with Communist line parties and
said they would support the Pre-
mier's foreign policy
In Sundays election, Karaman-
lis party won at least 155 of the
National Parliament's 300 seats.
The National Democratic Union
coalition which opposed him, an
alliance of rightests and extreme
leftists took 142 seats, according
to incomplete returns.
The Communist front parties
demanded during the election
campaign that Greece withdraw
from the North Atlantic Treaty
Alliance NATO).
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-22

Each of the four jet engines of
new us. jet transport develops
as much equivalent horsepower as
So Cadillacs, "Planes" reports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03

though. It can produce straw
like effects. When summing
keep a sun hat on. Since your
head perspires more during
hot weather shampoo your
hair twice as often.
TOMS White Rain Lotion
starts on the summer shampoo
treatment. Then use q fragrant
creme rinse to tame your I'M
ruly tresses. Follow through
with . steam treatment that
you can do at home by pouring
the rinse solution through
your damp curls and wrapping
. towel rung out in hot water
around your head. Do this
three or four times.
Don't forget each evening to
give those SO brush strokes to
your hair. It'll help circulation
and also bring back the CLEAN.
At Hecht's.
\ 4
INSURANCE PLUS--Helene
Curtis has just come out with
q refillable aerosol, purse sized
hair spray dispenser. The
purse-spray and spray net re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03

along during an evening out,
before or after an auto ride.
at the beach or pool. and for
use during the day to keep q
neat couture. It's hardly larger
than a lipstick and makes a
wonderful purse accessory
geared to good grooming. At
Lansburgh's
~
ABSOLUTELY DIFFER
ENT Revlon's new summer
lipstick and nail enamel color
Snow Peach" Is q delicious
paradox. It's light but bril-
liant. Rosy but not pink.
Peachy but not pastel. It's q
color meant for blonds, bru-
nettes, or redheads. It's q color
you'll be seeing not only in lip
stick and nail polish but In
summerweieht cashm eres,
beads. bracelets and earrings,
and ID silk sandals. Wonderful
with summer tans. white cot
tons, and beautiful with black.
At Jellen's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03
BEAUTY ROUNDUP
Summer Sun Ideds
Destined to Succeed

Take that sun bath on the
roof but not without really
being on the beam and taking
with you Reylon's "sun Bath"
tanning lotion, a creamy ivory
liquid. There's Lanolite in it
to keep your skins natural
moisture from drying out and
to help screen out burning
rays.
The new sun bath, tanning
lotion Is also water-resistant,
leaves an invisible protective
film on your body which re-
sists perspiration. swimming
water. the sand and hot winds.
It comes in q convenient
bronze plastic squeeze-bottle
at Woodward q Lothrop.
For really representative
skin there's another version
called sun bath protective
lotion. 1t, too. comes in a
plastic squeeze presentation
and contains TWICE as much
Of the important sun-screen-
ing ingredients.
\ &&
JUNE SALE TIME - Mary
Chess Is seeing to it that you
can play summer stock. too.
During the month Of June
the Rainbow" soap package
is on sale allowing you to
stock up on your supply of
high grade soaps scented with
the famous Chess fragrances
Of White Lilac. Tapestry.
Strategy. Carnation, Gardenia.
and Yram. The soaps come in
colors like peach yellow. tur-
quoise. green, blue and beige
to happily complement your
bathroom color scheme at the
same time. Available at de.
partment stores carrying the
Chess line and at the Mary
Chess shop on Connecticut
avenue.
Special sale packaging. too.
of six hand-size cakes Of Mary
Chess soap is available along
with the Rainbow Soap" set
that has one large scented
cake Of bath soap. banked on
. one side by three hand-size
cakes, and six guest sized
cakes. This usually goes for
IS but during June is $3.50.
START AT THE TOP
Want to really feel cool on q
summers day? Then make
sure your hair is always
freshly shainpooed. Summer
time is additionally a time for
hatlessness. Beware of the sun,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03

filler are being offered together
in a special introductory oner
now. A new Ultra formula. q
non-lacquer spray net suitable
for all types Of hair is used.
The purse-size spray sprays
exactly like the spray net you
may have at home. You can.
refill it and take it with you
anywhere. It's perfect TO have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-03
Rich Peach Turnovers

Here's something different
and delicious. rich little cot
tage cheese and peach turn
overs. Combine u cup each
creamed cottage cheese and
shortening, / cup sifted -four
and n teaspoon salt. Chill
dough about 3 hours. then roll
to A-inch thickness and cut
into small squares. Place l or
2 well-drained canned cling
peach slices on dough. Fold
over. seal edges and bake on
cooky sheet in hot oven about
is minutes.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
Avalanche Doesn't Stop
Business of the Lord

OURAY, Colo, R-An ava
lanche near this town high in the
southwestern Colorado Rockies
failed to stop the business of the
Lord.
The Rev. J. H. Halloran, Catho-
lie priest at Ouray, set out over
11,000-foot Red Mountain Pass
Friday for his parish at Silverton
and found the highway blocked.
But there, on the other side of
the mass Of snow, was the Rev.
Marvin Hudson, a Protestant min
lister, headed the other way.
They snapped cars.
Later, missions accomplished,
they met and returned cars.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
Marilyn Monroe Returns
To Hollywood to Work
Again With 10th Century

HOLLYWOOD, R-M arily n
Monroe is back in town.
Feeling "a bit tired the shape
ly actress arrived by air from New
York Saturday to do BUS Stop,
her first film for goth Century
Fox since she and the studio
called off a year-long feud.
Hundreds of workers and pas
sengers crowded the airport for a
glimpse of the blonde beauty, who
was modestly attired in a brown
suit and high-necked blouse.
When a newsman asked if this
indicated a change in personality
she replied:
Same Marilyn-new suit"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
Democrats Take Issue With Dulles on
Ability of us. Program to Stop Russia

game" he confidently declared.
In the course of the 3a4 -hour
session, Sens. Mansfield O-Mont).
Berkeley O-Ky), and Humphrey
D-Minn) took issue with Dulles
assertions of confidence, and Sen.
Morse D-Ore) said as the hearing
concluded that 81 don't share that
optimism at ALL"
Humphrey and Sen. Sparkman
DALAI called for a change in us.
policies to meet the Soviet maneu-
yer. Sparkman called it tragic"
that, as he put it, 1--WE haven't
shown sufficient change to meet
these developments"
On the COP side, Sen. Aiken
R-VD said the Democrats tried
without success "to find weak
ness in Dulles policies and in
Dulles" And Sen. Saltonstall R-
Mass said Dulles testimony
made sense"
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27

WASHINGTON, R-Secretary
of State Dulles appeared conf
dent Saturday the United States
and its allies can defeat Russia S
new united front" strategy of
World conquest with little change
in their own activities. Others dis
agreed.
Dulles told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Friday Rus
sia's post-Stalin leaders are scrap
ping 80 years of Soviet policy
based on violence and intolerance
in trying to devise new plans be-
cause their old programs "haVe
failed"
He declared they have made
every little progress" in their at
tempts to take over the world and
he said their new efforts to en-
ploy economic aid and similar
measures to penetrate foreign
countries mean they are playing
our game"
1--WE can beat them at that
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
THIEVES READY TO EAT

DENVER, R-Denver police
suspect the same thieves were in
volved in two burglaries. Annun-
citation grade school reported the
theft of six plastic plates and six
drinking glasses. A short time lat
er Mary's Home Bakery, three
blocks from the school, said six
pies had been stolen.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
HANDSPRING PRANKSTER

DALLAS, R-Police and Mrs.
j. R. Harris are looking for a
prankster with a yen for land
scaping.
Mrs Harris complained to off
GERS Friday that a tall stranger
pulled up a gardenia bush from
her patio. He then walked around
her home, planted the twO-foot
bush in a flower bed and saun-
tered away.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
WEATHER FORECAS':
COMPLIED by the

Compiled by the
Us Dept of Commerce Weather Burea'
Fair and continued cold. Low
temperature expected tonight -25.
High tomorrow 3.
Nome data last "a hours as OF
am. today: highest temperature
Is, lowest %. Max. wind "a mph
from the west. Sunrise at El7
am, sunset at 5:13 pm.
A year ago today: high 10, low
10. Extremes this date since 1907
highest 35 in 1928, lowest 20 IN
1926.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27

The second annual report of the
Department of Territorial Police
has been released. 1t describes the
activities of the as commissioned
and "a noncommissioned person
mel during 1856:
The Department of Territorial
Police was originally created with
the intention that, in time, it
should be able to assume full re-
SponSibility for law enforcement
in the rural and unincorporated
areas of the Territory of Alaska
The development of an efficient,
modern police department is an
evolutionary process.
The statistical information rela-
tive to the incidence of crime in
Alaska is generally applicable
only to the rural and unincorpor-
ated areas. In those instances
WILL 10 OCIlNOO l1Olll
reports received in common by
the Territorial Police and munich
pal agencies, this distinction is
made.
Crime Trends
It is not possible to make an ac
curate determination of crime
trends for Alaska as a whole. On
the basis of the information avail
able, the following congratulations
may be made.
l. The number of major crimes
reported during the year de-
creased by 2 percent as whole.
2. There was decrease of APP
proximately At percent in the to-
tai value of property exclusive of
automobiles reported stolen dur
ing 1855.
ROBBERY
Thirty-six robberieS were COM
mitted in the rural and unincor-
porated areas of Alaska in 1855.
Aggravated Assault
Sparsely populated rural areas
very frequently experience an I'M
usually high incidence of agra
waited assault. In 1855 there were
So reported. This is an increase of
"a percent over 1854. Twenty
seven persons were arrested and
charged with this offense, as COM
pared with 33 arrests in 1854.
Burglary
There was a 81 percent increase
in the number of burglaries re-
ported in 1855 over 1854
A considerable proportion Of
the increase in the incidence of
this crime is reflected in the fire.
quency with which outlying cab
ms are broken into and rifled
during the summer and fall. In
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1956-02-27
l00-YEAR-OLD BACHELOR

DELTA, Colo, REThomas S.
Gum celebrated his Tooth birth
day Saturday and attributed his
longevity to "never getting mar
ried.