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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-04-03

luncheon on April o at the
Officers Club. Fort McNair.
Mrs. Emerson C. Itschner.
honorary president of the
Wives Club will receive with
the honor guests and Mrs.
Walter K. Wilson, jr.. Club
president and Mrs. Alfred
Eschbach luncheon chairman.
Assisting the luncheon
chairman are Mrs. Milton M.
Miletich. Mrs. Ivan c. Rum
sey. Mrs. Harley w. Laid.
Mrs. C. c. Holbrook, Mrs.
Robert L. Fitzpatrick, Mrs.
Jack c. Jeffrey, Mrs. Henry
D. Weston and Mrs. Jack w.
FickeSSen.
Air Force
Miss Jessica Dawes, Editor
in-Chief of Vogue is flying
down from New York to be
the guest speaker Of the Air
Force Officers Wives Club at
their regular monthly lunch
con on April 10, at the Army
Navy Country Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Weather Delays
World Solo Flight

TORBAY. Mid. Sept. 4 tAP)
"A 34-year-old American air.
plane salesman trying to solo
around the world in eight days
landed here last night because
he learned there was bad
weather over the Atlantic.
A spokesman at the Torbay
Royal Canadian Air Force base
said George Preston williams.
bound nonstop to Rome from
New York. flew past Torbay but
turned back over the Atlantic
when another plane ahead of
him reported cold weather.
The RCAF official said Mr..
williams, flying a four passen-
ger plane could not continue on
the 4,312-mile trip to Rome
until the Transport Department
in Ottawa gives him clearance.
He would not have needed the
Canadian governments per-
mission to make the flight If 1t
had been uninterrupted.
Mr.. Williams is a former
United States Navy pilot. His
wife and five children are in
Mexico City. where he sells
aircraft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Staying Probe
Finds Knife

NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (AP) /.
Preliminary tests indicate
human blood stains are on a
knife found 1000 feet from the
Staten Island home where a
doctor and his wife we're slain
by a housebreaker.
The knife. with a five-inch
blade, was turned over to DR.,
Alexander Weiner of the med
ical examiners Office for fur
ther examination today.
Results Of the preliminary
tests we're announced at q
post-midnight news conference
by acting Chief of Detectives
Edward Byrnes.
Mr.. Byrnes said there APP
parently we're no fingerprints
on the knife.
Police theorized that the
knife may have been the weap-
on used TO kill DR.. Melvin MINI
err and his wife. Lore Jean, both
81. about 2 am. Tuesday,
The knife-best clue turned
UP so far by the scores Of detec-
tives working on the case--was
found last night Under a hedge.
The spot is diagonally across
the street from the United
States Public Health Service
Hospital where DR.. Miner was
on the staff.
Patients and employees Of the
hospital are among the hun
dreds Of persons questioned so
far by police.
The Miners were stabbed to
death as they rushed to the aid
of their screaming 8-year-old
son, Melvin, jr., whom the
white-masked slayer was trying
to choke In his bed.
No harm was done to Melvin
or to his brother or sister
Gregory, 2 years old, and Jen-
infer. 5 months. The younger
children slept during the slay-
ings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
London Passes Night
Without Race Violence

Irpinia had Just brought home
2s4 Jamaicans. most of whom
said they returned because Of
bad conditions in Britain.
I'VE were packed together
like goats in apartments which
lacked proper sanitary condi-
tions and hundreds were job
less" said Alexander Boothe
who had sold his jamaican
farm to follow the lure of bet
ter living.
Norman Manley. Jamaica's
chief minister. and Carl La
eorbiniere. deputy prime min
lister of the West Indies Fedora
ton. were flying to London to-
day to look into the situation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
BY ALTON BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer

GENEVA, Sept. 4.-Atomic
reaetors are advancing the
thirsty world nearer to the goal
of drawing fresh water from the
sea. a prominent American SCI
enlist told the atoms-for-peace
conference today.
One new development cuts
electrical costs of processing
salt water by two thirds, said
DR.. Willard r. Libby Of the
United States Atomic Energy
Commission.
Many areas of the world, in
Guiding the Middle East and the
American West, have serious
water shortages now or in the
near future. This has stimu-
lated intensive research to
achieve economical methods of
desalting tremendous amounts
Of sea or brackish waters.
One method Of getting rid of
the salt uses special plastic
membranes and electric cur
rent.
A far superior membrane has
been produced by exposure Of
plastic film to X-ray radiation
produced by atoms splitting in
atomic reactors. Mr.. Libby re-
ported.
use Of these new mem
branes to desalt sea water re-
quires only one-thipi the elec-
trio power Of currently avail
able membranes" he said.
Electric power costs are one
big item in the desalting
process. Thus this is one step
toward reducing costs to the
point where thirsty areas can
afford to buy water for in
dustrial, agricultural and hui
man use.
Here is how the desalting
process works:
Salt in solution breaks up
into electrically charged atoms
or ions. Some are positively
charged, others negatively.
When an electric current Is
passed through water, positive
ions move in one direction,
negative in the other.
Negatively charged mem
branes allow only negative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
College Head Chosen

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 4
(AP) DIR. John Edward Horn
er, SO. assistant to the presi-
dent of the University Of
Omaha. was elected president
of Hanover College at Madison,
Ind, yesterday. He will take
office December /, succeeding
DR.. Albert O. Parker, who died
in March after 20 years as pres
ident Of the Presbyterian-sup-
ported college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
U. S. Population
Near Us Million
By the Associated Press

Looking for a sure bet?
Then wager that the popula-
ton. of the United States will
pass the ITS million mark next
month.
According to Census Bureau
estimates you're certain to win.
Despite a slight dip in the birth
rate and a slight increase In
the death rate. the bureau
voiced confidence yesterday
that October will bring q popu-
lation of ITS million.
II doesn't have far to go. As
of shortly after midnight today
the population stood at an esti-
mated 174,638,324. And in the
last year, the Nation has been
growing at an estimated rate
of $4,000 a month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
7 Roads Seek
New Fare Rise

The Pennsylvania and New
York Central Railroads said
today they plan to seek fare
increases OF up TO is per cent,
the Associated Press reported.
If the Interstate Commerce
Commission approves. first class
rates would jump is per cent
and coach fare. S per cent.
Commuter rates would remain
the same.
The rate proposals will be
fled with the ice at the end Of
this month. If approved. they
win 60 into effect November l,
the A. p. said.
A Pennsylvania spokesman
said continuing huge losses in
its passenger service and in
creased costs necessitate the
fare hike. the A. p. said.
In its 1857 report. the Penn
sylvania claimed q $57.5 million
loss IN its passenger service.
New York Central said 1t lost
$50 million.
Four other lines. Erie, Grand
Trunk, Lehigh Valley and
Reading, are reported con-
sidering a fare increase. the
A. P. said.
The Pennsylvania and New
York Central were granted S
per cent increases for both
passenger and coach service in
December. 1956-increases later
extended to other Eastern rail-
roads. First-class fares were
increased is per cent in April,
1857. and coach fares rose 5
per cent last January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Swedish Princess
Tukes Teaching Job

STOCKHOLM. Sept. 4 (AP)
"A Swedish princess has begun
earning her own living as a
teacher in calisthenics.
School supt. Mrs. Anna
Dam-Broms, head Of a high
society private school in Stock
holm said yesterday that
Princess Birgitta, 81. had taken
on a $s56-a-year job as teacher
in gymnastics at her school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Atomic Reoctors Help
In DesoIting Sea Water

ions to pass through to one
side. Positive membranes let
positive ions 80 to the other
side Of the vessel. The water
in between two-membrane
walls loses some Of its salt.
Repeating the process produced
salt-free water.
Atomic reactors are also one
bet to supply electricity for
heating and evaporation Of
salt-free water. Reports on
this use Of reactors are expected
later in the conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04

LONDON. Sept. 4 (AP) =
Racial disturbances tapered of
last night as heavy rain helped
reinforced police partols keep
the situation quiet in London's
Noting Hill area.
The first night since last FRI
day without fighting between
white youths and non-whites
followed a warning from Prime
Minister Macmillan's cabinet
that utmost strictness' will be
used by officials to end racial
trouble.
immigration Curb Hinted
The government also limited
1t might curb the presently UNI
restricted immigration from
commonwealth and colonial
countries. saying'the policy was
under study. Most of the
colored residents attacked by
white teen-agers came to Brit
ain from the West Indies.
Nigeria and other common
wealth countries to seek better
jobs.
The courts around Noting
Hill dealt with SIS riot cases
Yesterdays white men, 10
colored men and two white
women. This brought the weeks
total to more than 100 arrests.
Such conf1scated weapons as
knives. iron bars. bottles and
bicycle chains were presented
as evidence.
More Jamaicans Due
About 200 extra police with
Alasatian dogs were on hand
when the rain cooled off the
trouble area. Police broke up a
group Of six youths who jeered
at a colored couple in one Of
the few minor incidents.
Earlier in the day youths
hurled stones and milk bottles
through windows of some nom
white residences in suburbs
about 5 miles from Noting Hill.
Despite the trouble. a ship
load Of 362 JamaicanS set out
from Kingston yesterday for
London to seek jobs. Their ship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-09-04
Wild Runs Hospitals?

cHIcAGo.-of all the hospi-
tai beds in the United States
about II per cent are Govern
ment- operated-44 per cent by
States. II by the United States
and Is by city-county.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
Jap Fishing Will Cut Bristol Bay To Two Days

WASHINGTON, R Rep Thomas M. Pelly R-Wash) said yesterday the State Department has informed him it's fishery con- servation talks with Japan failed to produce sufficient results to relieve the strain on the Alaskan red salmon run this year. "
 Therefore, he said, it has be- come necessary for the Interior Department to impose additional restrictions on American fisher men to safeguard the runs of Alaskan salmon.
 Pelly said also he is urging quick adoption of his bill to ban the import of salmon, almost entirely from Japan, which are caught under conditions not available to American fishermen.
 Additional restrictions on U. s. fishermen, Pelly said, would re- duce red salmon fishing activities in the Bristol Bay area of Alaska to no more than two days a week and this might be subject to additional reductions. Original ly a 212 day fishing week was prescribed for U. s. fishermen.
 Pelly said Japanese fishermen are not bound by the restric- tions and are permitted to fish seven days a week, A hours a day.
 George Johansen, head of the Alaska Fishery Union and an ad- wiser to Pelly, said U. s. gov ernment figures show that last year Japan caught 6,0O0,0O0 red salmon out of the Bristol Bay area and that 100000 of these were immature. This compared with an American catch of 5,200,000 legal-size fish.
 ''In effect" Pelly said, "Ameri- can conservation is working for the benefit of the Japanese fish ermen so long as Japan does not recognize the principle of abStention."
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
SeatOn Predicts
 Alaska Bill Will Pass On lst Vote

SEATTLE, LR - Secretary of the Interior Seaton, en route to Alaska, said yesterday he be- lieved that the U. s. House of Representatives would approve statehood for the northern terri tory on it's first vote.
 Seaton told newsmen he felt the Houses action in voting to bring the Alaska statehood meas ure to the floor without waiting for the Rules Committee to send it on probably cost statehood proponents about Is or 20 votes.
 Whether we can regain part or all of that lost voting power remains to be seen," Seaton told a press conference.
 Commenting on House Speaker Sam Rayburn's prediction that only a razor's edge marked the vote for and against Alaska statehood, Seaton said:
 "Our own count shows much stronger majority for statehood, If we can win by only one vote we will take that but of course we would prefer a much larger majority"
 Asked why, since the admin iStration was committed to state hood, some 100 Republicans had voted against bringing the meas ure out of the House Rules Com mittee, Seaton said:
 "We don't herd the Republi- cans around"
 Seaton is en route to College to speak at commencement exer- cises at the University of Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
Coast Guard 'Copter ReScueS Man Mired In N. J. Mud Flats

BAYONNE, N. u, R - The Coast Guard, which has a proud history of sea rescue, saved a mans life on land today.
 A 61-year-old clam digger, An drew Lukac of Bayonne, became mired in the mud of New Jer- sey's tidal flats. Rescuers tried to free him but the mud was too soft to get a footing. He sank deeper.
 When the mud got to his waist, officers at the naval supply depot nearby called the Coast Guard. A helicopter from Floyd Bennett Field across the bay in Brooklyn whirled to the rescue. With Lukac down to his armpits and still sinking, the helfcopter how cred at 10 feet, lowered a sling and slowly hauled him out.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
Cuardsrnen To Take Training In The States

A spate of activity by the 1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska National Guard was announced today by Major Wm. Crawford
 A group of 20 men from the battalion are leaving today for Ft. Ord, Calif., to take six month course in basic infantry training. It. Bob Steele will take the group down. From Nome there will be Clinton Trigg, Vernon Kugzruk, Allen Smith, and Patrick Adsuna. There will be one each from Savoonga, Moor vik and Wainwright, two from Kotzebue, three from Ft. Yu- kon, and eight men from Barrow.
 Next Monday Maj. Crawford will go to Juneau to attend a con- ference of battalion commanders.
 Sgt. Art Jessup will be leav- ing Saturday for Ft. Monmouth, N. J., where he will take a six month course in Radio and Sig nal Repair.
 And on June three men will go to Ft. Benning, Ga, to at tend Officer Candidate School. These three will be Robert Her man from Nome, John Shaeffer from Kotzebue, and Alfred Hop son from Barrow.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
Alaska Scouts To Lead Jaycee Parade In l.. A. June IS

A singular honor was be- slowed on the 1st Scout Battal- ion of the Alaska National Guard, when the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce in vited a detachment to lead their parade in Los Angeles on June IS. The occasion is the Jaycees' national convention.
 Major Vim. Crawford, Com mander of the 1st Scouts, said today that 18 members of the battalion from Gambell have been chosen for the detail. Sgt John Bell of Nome will be in charge of them.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
Dodgers Still
 Having Trouble Finding Stadium

LOS ANGELES, LR III A threat by the National League president to shift the Dodgers from Los Angeles unless voters approve a stadium site next month brought this reaction:
 A bluff, say some critics of the Dodgers land deal with the city.
 Straight talk, say others favor ing the Chavez Ravine site.
 Straddling the fence was Dod- ger president Walter O'Malley, who said:
 We have our hands full now with many problems-on and off the field. This presents an- other"
 The ultimatum was delivered Thursday in Cincinnati by presi- dent Warren c. Giles, of the National League. He told sports writers that if Los Angeles voters turn down the Dodger contract June 3 'it will be my personal recommendation to our league that we take immediate steps to study ways and means of relo- eating the franchise in another city"
 The Dodgers moved this year from Brooklyn after the Los Angeles City Council approved a contract providing acreage for a stadium in Chavez Ravine.
 City Councilman John Holland, who led the fight to submit the contract to the voters, termed Giles statement:
 "The last desperate threat of frightened group of greedy men,"
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
8 Missiles Explode In Accident That Couldn't Happen

MIDDLETOWN, N. J., R - In- vestigators combed a Nike base near here today in an effort to learn what caused eight fully armed missiles to blow up in a furious mushroom of fire and death.
 The explosion yesterday killed 10 persons and scattered explQ- sive warheads across a wide area of the countryside.
 The disaster. described by a general as an accident that "could not happen but did," was set off by single missile that exploded.
 A split-second chain reaction turned the entire area into a flaming pit of destruction that one eyewitness called '.horrible beyond belief"
 Mangled bodies and human fragments lay strewn about where moment before men had stood. The disintegration of the victims made it difficult to es- tablish the death toll of 10.
 Three others were injured, one seriously.
 The dead included six soldiers and four civilians.
 The missiles, known as the Ajax type, exploded while a team of experts was working on them. They were to be replaced next year by Hercules missiles capa- ble of carrying atomic warheads.
 Each of the Ajax missiles car ried three conventional warheads of explosives and shrapnel Most of the explosive devices were accounted for, but some had still not been located today.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
IF Children Perish In Fire Which Razes B. C. Indian Hospital

WILLIAMS LAKE, B. c. R- Twelve small children perished and a number of persons were injured last night when flames leveled an Indian reservation hospital.
 The fire was touched off by two unexplained explosion. Res cuers were virtually helpless from lack of firefighting equip ment in the vicinity.
 The hospital was located on the Anahim Indian Reserve in British Columbia's wild Caraboo country.
 An undetermined number of persons, including the supervisor of the Roman Catholic hospital, were injured in the blaze, which flashed through the frame build ing at about 5:30., PDT.
 The supervisor, Sister Mary of the Cross, 25, was burned se- verely on the hands and face when she tried to force her way into the burning building in a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to rescue the. doomed children.
 Only one child was rescued.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
Alaska Steam President, D. E. Skinner, Named Seattle Man of the Year

SEATTLE, Rl - The president of the Alaska Steamship Co.,, D. E. Ned Skinner, was selec- ted as Puget Sounds eighth an- nual maritime man of the year last night.
 Skinner received the Fred W Geibel Memorial Award from Don Venables, president of the Maritime Press Assn, at the An nual Maritime Day Man of the Year Banquet sponsored by the Puget Sound Maritime Press Assn.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
TWO FROM ANCHORAGE PERISH IN PLANE CRASH

ANCHORAGE, R - An An chorage civilian and an Elmen- dorf Air Force Base Technical Sergeant were killed when their small private plane crashed on a Yentna River sandbar 80 miles northwest of here.
 Killed were George Terry of Anchorage, the pilot, and T. Sgt. Jesse D. Walls, attached to a supply squadron at Elmendorf AFB.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
World Champion Blanket Tossing
 Slated For Sept. l

The blanket-toSSing champion ship of the world appears to be in the offing for Nome this fall at least it's in the planning stage. The idea is the brain child of the Tourist Committee of the NWA Chamber of Com merce.
 The plan is to ask the various northern villages-Barrow, Vain wright, Pt. Hope, Kivalina, Kot- zebue, Gambell and Savoonga- to hold elimination contests and have the winners compete here on Labor Day, September 1. A novel feature of the plan, and to conform to the world champ ionship qualification, is to in vite Greenland and Siberian Es- kirnos to the contest.
 John McNees, tour director for Wien Airlines, left Wednesday for Fairbanks and Barrow to familiarize himself with Wien's other tours and he will notify the Arctic slope villages of the con- test.
 A blanket-tossing contest of this kind calls for "reaP' big blanket, on the order of the Pt. Hope skin. This is usually four walrus hides stitched to- gether, and is usually so large and heavy that a ring of men cannot handle it. Instead it is strung from a ring of posts set in the ground and the blanket is manipulated by gangs of men on the guy ropes.
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
House Vote On Alaska Statehood Bill
 Put Off By Agreement Til Wednesday

quorum shut off House debate today on Alaska statehood.
 After 20 minutes of consid- eration, point of no quorum was raised by Rep. Clare E. Hoff- man R-Mich).
 Rep. Leo O'Brien D-NY), acting under terms of an agree ment promptly moved to close off consideration of the state hood bill to prevent a quorum call which would have identified absent members.
 Rep. Craig Hosmer R-CaliD, statehood opponent, entered the debate today. He questioned Alaska's ability to support state hood.
 A study of world conditions, he said, shows that areas in eco homie distress " are breeding grounds for trouble.'
 Hosmer said it isn't easy for him to oppose statehood for Alaska inasmuch as a poll in his congressional district showed SUD- port for admission of the terri tory as a state.
 Rep. John R. Billion R-NY) another statehood opponent, in terrupted Hosmer to note that only 28,266 Alaskans voted in a recent election. He said that in dicated a potential vote of from 10000 to 10000. O'Brien compared Alaskan cleo tions under territorial status to a contest in which voters can elect only voteless delegate to Congress.
 Gambling and Divorce
 Hosmer said Alaska might have to resort to. gambling and easy divorce laws to support statehood.
 Sixty-f to seventy per cent of its gross business, he said, now depends on government spending.
 Employment in private in dustry, Hosmer said, ranges from approximately 10000 in the sum- mer down to 10000 in the win ter with some 10000 workers leaving the territory each fall for lack of work.
 Debate on the Alaska bill opened today under terms of an agreement in which the time remaining for talk will be allot- ted to Reps O'Brien and A. L. Miller R-Neb)
 O'Brien told the House time would be divided among both proponents and opponents of the bill.
 Agreement among House lead CTS yesterday delayed the vote, probably until Wednesday.
 The agreement, accepted with out dissent, called for ending gen. eral debate on the bill at l pm. Monday.
 This development was believed to have strengthened the hand of statehood advocates. Large num- bers of congressman, many of them supporters of the bill, were expected to be out of the city today and possibly Monday.
 An end to general debate Mon
 Continued on Page Two)
The Nome nugget., 1958-05-23
THURSDAY BALL SCORES

National League Milwaukee g, San Francisco 3 Chicago ', Philadelphia 4
 American League New York 5, Detroit Chicago 5, Baltimore 1 Cleveland 3, Washington l Boston 8, Kansas City 5
 Pacific Coast League Vancouver ', Spokane l Seattle IS, Phoenix 12 San Diego 3, Portland 2