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Milford chronicle., 1963-11-15
Obituaries
WILEY

Mrs. Ola E. Wiley, age rs
years, widow of James w. Will
ley, died at her home in Mil
ford, Wednesday, November s.
Funeral services were held
from the Berry Funeral Home
Milford, on Sunday at p.m.,
with Rev. Charles I. Carpenter,
pa stor of Avenue Methodist
Church, officiating. Interment
was made in Odd Fellows Gene
terry, Milford.
She is survived by one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles B. Stevenson,
Jr., Of Georgetown; four sons,
Joshua j. Of Lincoln, Mark A.
Of Harrington, Harold I. and
James p, both Of Milford; I
grandchildren; 2 great-grand-
children; one sister, Mrs. Clar-
ence Abbott Of Snow Hill, Md.
JONES
Charles Coard Jones, age 81,
husband Of Delema S. Jones,
died Saturday, November 8, In
Milford Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services we're held
from the Berry Funeral Home.
Interment was In Belts Ceme-
terry, Milton.
Besides his wife, he is sur
Nved by one son Calvin c. Jones
Of Seaford; five daughters, Mrs.
Ruth Calhoun, Mrs. Pearl Lee,
all Of Milford, and Miss Doris
Jones, at home; nine grand
children; one brother, Franklin
Jones Of Georgetown; one sis
tier, Mrs. Lillian Morgan Of Red
d4n.
Milford chronicle., 1963-11-15
Alden SUnshin e
Society

The regular meeting Of the
Alden Sunshine Society was held
November 8 at the Century Club.
The committee for refreshments
which preceded the meeting, was
composed Of Mrs. Charles Ban
ming, assisted by Mrs. Walter
Conaway, Mrs. Roscoe Hitch and
Mrs. Simeon Richardson.
Devotions we're led by Mrs.
Roscoe Hitch followed by a me-
mortal service for Mrs. Will
bert Joseph, Miss Elizabeth
Hammond and Mrs. Ola Wiley
all members, and for the nus
band of the vice president, Mrs.
Harvey Wilson.
Committee reports from Mrs.
George Macklin and Mrs. VIII
lard Dufendach, chairmen res
pectively, Of cards and welfare
plus member participation in
cluded 80 birthday cards, Is
nome calls, III noSpltal calls,
46 get we'll cards, IA meals, 8
pieces Of furniture, % sympathy
cards and 2l0 pieces Of clothing
distributed.
Money has been given to the
society for the purchase Of a
memorial gift to the Presbyter-
ian Church in memory Of Mrs.
wilbert Jefferson. This will soon
be selected by Mrs. Joseph
Pearce, Mrs. Harold Salmons
and Mrs. James Lappen.
Money was allotted to Mrs.
willard Dufendach for food bas-
lkets and new clothing and a
large amount of used clothing
was brought for distribution by
Mrs. Dufendach.
The president read two
articles from the Sunshine Bull
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID

SEALED BIDS in duplicate will be received by the Commissioner, Alaska Department of Public Works, until 10:00 am., PSF August 8. 1863. at which time and place they will be publicly opened for furnishing all labor and materials and performing all work for the con- struction of landing strip gravel en- bankment at the Noatak Airport.
 The construction consists of approxi- mately 15,000 cubic yards of gravel embankment.
 Plans, specifications. and project docu- ments may be reviewed at the Depart ment of Public Works, Juneau; Division of Aviation Anchorage; and Associated General Contractors, Anchorage, Fair banks, and Seattle.
 Plans, specifications, and project docu- ments may be obtained from the Division of Aviation, 523 Eighth Avenue, Anchor age.
 Guarantee will be required in an amount not less than ten per cent of the total bid. Bids must be submitted in accordance with the Invitation for Bids and the Instructions to Bidders.
 Department of Public Works.
 Richard A. Downing, Commissioner,
 By Lars L. Johnson, Director,
 Division of Aviation
 Pub: July 19, 24, 31, 1863.
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
Speakers are Hard to Find for This Years 'Fleshy Frolic' Convention

FRESNO, Calf. tR - Normally, Mayor Arthur Selland of Fresno welcomes a chance to speak before a convention. This time he demurs.
 'I'm not prude," says the mayor, but I honestly don't think I could do it. Anyway, that's in the coun- try. Why don't they try the su- pervisors?"
 Well" said Sloan Mccormick, chairman of the Board of Super visors, "Td have to say 1 have no plans to attend. Anyway, that's Supervisor Norman Forley's dis trict. Why don't they try him?"
 Could I welcome them in ab sentia?" asked Forley.
 Chairman of the convention, Howard Lane, commented: We have run into this kind of prob lem before. Civic leaders are just to sensitive. It appears the con- vention will have to go on with out them"
 But as Lane pointed out, the an- nual meeting of the Western Sun bathing Assn. never has been hon. ored by the presence of civic lead CTS.
 Lane said: 'It seems they're never completely capable of get ting into the swing of things. You know, always telling you to keep your shirt on."
 This years fleshy frolic will open Friday at the Calyptus Grove Nudist Camp, north of Clovis. More than 1000 delegates from Califor- nia, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico will attend.
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
RUSSIAN TRAWLERS SIGHTED OFF KENAI PENINSULA

JUNEAU R - The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries reported yes- terday that one of its exploratory fishing vessels had sighted a six ship Russian trawling fleet near the east coast of Alaska's Kenai Peninsula Saturday.
 Warren Rathjen, chief of BCF's exploratory fishing program in Alaska, said the exploratory yes sel "Yaquina," under charter to BEG, saw the Soviet trawlers 10 miles off Pye Island.
 Harry Rietze, regional director for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, said the Russian traWl- CTS apparently were old-type, 13O-foot side traWlers used in bot tom fishing operations.
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
JAPANESE BUSINESS LEADERS ARRIVE IN ANCHORAGE

ANCHORAGE R - A party of top Japanese business leaders ar rived here today to begin seven- day tour of the state.
 Arriving by Northwest Orient Airlines, the party was scheduled to visit the Kenai oil and gas fa- cilities and the MatanuSka Valley while in the Anchorage area.
 The party was scheduled to con- tinue to Juneau Thursday to meet with state officials there. Stops are scheduled at Ketchikan, Peters burg and Wrangell.
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
"A Lot of Bulls

MELUN, France R Andre Pochet was fishing from a river bank when a bull from a nearby meadow charged at him. Pochet dropped his pole in hurry and swan to the other side But there two bulls chased him right back in the river. He climbed a half submerged tree in the midstream, and waited until all three went away.
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
Biological Dynamite"

WASHINGTON R - A govern ment research specialist has told a Senate subcommittee that some pesticides sold on the open market can and do cause cancer and death.
 Dr. w. C. Hueper, chief of the Environmental Section of the Ma tional Cancer Institute, called them biological dynamite
The Nome nugget., 1963-07-24
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT Fairbanks Land Office

Fairbanks Land Office
 20. Box 1150
 Fairbanks Alaska 99701
 July IS, 1863
 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Notice is hereby given that Edward Ii. Hager of 131 University Avenue, Palo Alto, California. together with his wit nesses Emma w. Loremzini and Eldon Gilbert, both of Palo Alto. California, has filed application to purchase for his Headquarters Settlement Claim, Fair banks Serial Number 020775, for lands described as:
 Lot II, US. Survey No. 377l, Alaska, situated on the left bank of the Kuskokwim River at the village of Red Devil containing 500 acres. During the period of publication or within 30 days thereafter any person, corporation, or association having or asserting any adverse interest in or claim to the tract of land or any part thereof may file in the Fairbanks Land Office, under oath an adverse claim setting forth the nature and extent thereof; and such adverse claimant shall, within 60 days after the filing of such adverse claim, begin action to quiet title in court of competent jurisdiction in Alaska, and thereafter patent shall be issued in conformity with the final decree of the court.
 Robert F. Hilton,
 Chief, Lands Section Pub: July 24, 31. Aug. 2, IA, 2l, 28, Sept 4, II, 18, 1863.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-23
Why This
Approach?

Why this underhanded, I'M
fair and hypocritical approach
which has eliminated in a false
trial and practically in a judi
cial murder that will forever
remain a blot on the good name
of British justice? There are
two possible reasons.
For one thing, an indictment
and trial of Ward under the
Official Secrets Act would al
most certainly have involved a
number of high-placed persons
who so far have been pains
takingly kept out of the scam
dial, though their names are
common knowledge in Fleet
street.
And, on the other hand. the
Government may have feared
the adverse publicity that was
bound to result from such a
trial, especially in America.
They we're hopeful of getting"
the culprit on the trumped-up
vice charges without any public
disclosure OF the underlying
grave breach of security.
But the slick and clever Ward
was not to be had that easily.
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document, taking the lid off
one corner of the London I'M
derWorld the vice, dope,
marijuana, blackmail, counter
blackmail, crime and petty
crime, together with the ref
erences to the Secretary of
State (Profumo) and the So
Wet attache.
Quite frankly I thought
when I read it that If it was
published as a fiction paper
back in America members
would have thrown it away not
only for what 1t contained but
as being overdrawn beyond be-
lief even as fiction"
Just what Ward told Col.
Wigg on this occasion is not
known; the contents of this
memo have been kept vigorously
secret. But there is reason to
believe that Ward, knowing Col.
Wigg to be a foe of Mr.. Pro-
fumo, laid on the line all he
knew about the latter and that
was plenty.
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Christine
Moves Out

In March 1862. Miss Keeler
out of Wards place
on Wimpole News and, together
with her friend, Marilyn
Mandy Rice-Davies, took a
flat at Dolphin Square. One
reason for this change of resi-
dence was a desire to get rid
Of Gordon. who had been pes
tering Christine relentlesSly
while she was staying at
Wards.
The lovelorn Jamaican, how
ever, was not to be shaken off
that easily. He quickly found
out about Christine's new
hideout and for several nights
in a row in June 1862 he
was camping on a pile of news
papers he had laid out on the
fire escape near the girls
apartment.
When Christine found out
about that, she got so mad
she completely lost her head.
She screamed at Gordon that
she had friends in high places,
including a Cabinet Minister,
and that the latter would take
care of him Gordon.
Lucky" understandable
didn't buy that. How could a
girl like Chris, the darling of
convictS, dope peddlers and
pimps like himself and his
friend Qater enemy Johnny
Edgecombe, be at the same
time the mistress Of a Cabinet
Minister? No. he said to him
self, she must be kidding.
But then one night, from his
usual observation post on the
fire escape, he saw a man of
elegant dress and distinguished
appearance enter Christine's
apartment which he did not
leave until an hour later. A
few days later, Gordon's saw
by chance a newspaper pic
ture of War Minister Profumo.
That man he had seen sneak
at night into the Dolphin
Square flat was a Cabinet
Minister!
Gordon was not the kind of
person to keep a big secret to
himself. He started blabbing
and from that moment on the
knew that Chris
tine Keeler was popular on all
levels of society. That's when
several shrewd members of the
Soho set began to figure that
putting the thumbscrewS on
Christine might become a very
profitable business. And quite
a few of them did.
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Public Meets
Christine

Those shots were heard
around London. They pro-
duced widespread and far
reaching effects.
In the first place they put
ChriStine's name and, more
Importantly, her attractive face
and figure, in the papers for
the first time in her life.
Secondly. they caused the
Soviet government hurriedly
to recall Invanov to Moscow;
he left London early in Janu-
airy, 1868.
Ward deserted his home and
clinic and was not seen for
days. And Christine fled to a
new apartment on Great Cum
berland Place Zone she had
rented before-at Mr.. Eddowes'
SUGGESTION.
From there, she phoned Mr..
Eddowes the same night and
he came over to advise her on
her next moves. In the course
of that conversation, Mr.. Ed
doves heard from ChriStine's
own lips that she recently had
carried on affairs with both
Profumo and Ivanov and that
Eugene used to go out one
door while Jackie came in the
other" Eventually she told her
visitor, az don't think l will
be seeing Jackie again." That.
I repeat, was in December
1862, not 1861, as Mr.. Profumo
later was to say in his per-
sonal statement.
On this occasion, too, the
prying Mr.. Eddowes learned
from Christine that she had
once been asked by a friend
to try to obtain from Mr.. Pro-
fumo the date of delivery of
nuclear warheads to West Ger
many. She never did ask that
question, but of course the
mere fact that an approach of
this sort had been made to
her laid bare the tremendous
security risk involved in her
liaiSon with the War Minister.
Mr.. Eddowes has subsequent
ly declared in a widely dis
tributed newspaper series that
it had been Ivanov who tried
to involve Christine in espion-
age in this manner. Thereupon
Miss Keeler's solicitors put out
a statement confirming the es-
sence of this conversation but
adding that Mr.. Eddowes had
got the name of the person
completely wrong. He had, in
deed.
About the same time. Chris
tine revealed in News of the
World" that the person in ques-
ton had urged her, do as I
tell you, baby. There is a lot
of money in this for you" But
she wouldn't name him in pub
! lie either.
Prime Minister Macmillan
did, though. In his speech to
the House of Commons, on
June II, 1868, he said Il am
quoting this from the London
Times OF June l8):
Miss Keeler made a state
ment on January rs. when seen
by police that on one
occasion when she was going to
meet Mr.. Profumo, DR.. Ward
had asked her to discover from
him the date when certain
weapons could be supplied. 1t
was at the time Of the Cuban
crisis. :"
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When he became aware that
he was being Swallowed, that
all of his female acquaintance
were being questioned, and es-
pecially what kind of a case
was being built against him by
the police, he boldly decided to
take the bull by the horns.
Twice he took the offensive
in a desperate attempt to avert
impending disaster-and twice
he was defeated.
First he tackled Col. Wigg,
in whom he sensed a resource
full and implacable fore. Col.
Wigg had been one of three
Labor MP's who on March 81,
1868, had brought out into the
open, in a Parliamentary de-
bate, the giSt of the rumors
that had been rife in Fleet
street for months.
This, in turn, had provoked
the March % personal state
ment" by Profumo, after an
all-night session of high party
and government leaders in
which he finally had managed
to convince his friends of his
innocence.
Col. Wigg, however, was not
satisfied. In a televiSion inter-
view on March 25, he said flatly
that he considered both Ivanov
and Ward security risks. Ward
was so needed by this remark
- it was the first time his
name had been publicly men,
toned in a derogatory manner
that he Immediately phoned
Col. Wigg and asked for ex-
plantations. Col. Wigg blandly
told him to drop by and talk
things overland Ward stepped
right into the trap.
For the upshot of this con-
versation was a memorandum
composed by Col. Wigg which
his party leader, Harold Wilson
In the Commons debate OF
June II de- cribed in these
terms: 1T is a nauseating
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tive Significantly, Mr.. Eddowes
has later revealed in his series
that he, too, had got his first
tipoff about the Profumo-
Keeler-Ivanov triangle, IN No
vember 1862, from a "Mr. ky
Col. Wigg, who had been
laboring for months trying to
get substantial confirmation of
this tip, naturally displayed
keen interest in the material
Christine had left behind at the
offices of the Sunday Pictor-
ial."
This included an admission
that she had been approached
with the suggestion that she
should pry atomic secrets from
her high-placed lover. And in
this story she had squarely
pointed the finger at the right
man: her longtime friend and
mentor, Stephen Ward.
Either through Col. Wigg, or
directly through the Mirror
Group, Scotland Yard also was
promptly informed of the dyna-
mite in the archives of the
Sunday Pictorial" That was
how Miss Keller came to be
questioned by the Special
Branch as early as January 26,
1868, as stated by Prime Minis
ter Macmillan.
The latter added, in the same
speech on June II, 1868:
"On March 25, some two
months later, the security serv-
ices received a report that
someone else Git may have been
Eddowes-J.JD had said that
Miss Keeler said that Mr.. Ward
had asked her to ask Mr.. Pro-
fumo when the Germans were
likely-and I quote the phrase
TO get the bomb Finally, In
a statement made to the police
on April 4, Miss Keeler said
that Mr.. Ward had asked her
to get information about the
Americans giving the bomb to
the Germans"
Thus, according to the high
est authority in the land, the
Prime Minister, Christine Keel
er on three different occasions
early this year had pointed the
finger at Ward as a potentia,
security risk of the first order
and, indeed, a would-be spy
; master.
Normally, this information
should have been enough tt
, lead to the immediate arrest
of Ward under the Officia
Secrets Act. But the Profumc
: Affair is not, and has never
been, a normal case. And so Il
: was decided on the highest leve
/ below that of the Prime Min.
lister himself, for Mr.. Macmil.
! Ian has maintained steadfastly
that he had no personal knowl.
. edge of all this until May 80
1869 to get" Ward at al
costs, yet without using spy
: charges. Conviction on vice
charges would do nicely.
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1T transpired that Mr.. Ward
wisl to complain about the
inquiries the police were making
at this time, which we now
know led to his arrest" Mr..
Macmillan told the House and
added: He was properly told
that the police were not
under any political direction
or control. In the course of his
complaints Mr.. Ward also let
off the remark that Mr.. Pro
+fumo had not told the truth.
1t is clear that he was hop
ing that the police activities
would be discontinued. :"
Wards scheme did not work.
And so in an angry mood, he
wrote letters to the press and
to the leader of the Opposition
exposing Profumo's untruthful-
ness. Even so, most papers
would not have dared to print
the story, for fear of libel, but
the Sunday Mirror" which
had returned the original Of the
Darling" letter to Profumo's
solicitors, but kept a photostat,
prepared to do so.
When he learned about this,
Mr.. Profumo's resistance COL
laped and on June 4 he con-
fessed that he had lied about
Christine. A few days later
Ward was arrested. His trial on
vice charges and what was al
legged against him is a matter
of public knowledge. Since then
two of the female witnesses for
the prosecution have admitted
perjury. And now the key wit
ness, Christine Keller, faces
perjury charges.
Ward was framed, and he
knew it. But he was not an
innocent man, and he knew
that. too. That was why he
took his own life-a wrongly
convicted ponce and an un-
convicted spy.
tNewsday Special 9 1869
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Time for
A Vacation

When Christine got wind of
this, she strongly felt she
needed a vacation. On July 2-3.
1862. she and Mandy obtained
visitors visas for the United
States and shortly afterwards
they jointly took off for New
York where they stayed for
about two weeks.
Back in England at the end
of July, Miss Keeler decided
that a girls best protection
against the unwanted, yet per-
sistent attention of a dam
gerous West Indian would be
the loving care Of another
dangerous West Indian. An d
so she moved in with Johnny
Edgecombe at his apartment
| in Isleworth.
One of those who we're not
happy about Miss Keeler's NOV
ing from the fashionable
haunts of Mayfair to the slums
was a 60-year-old solicitor
from Kensington, Michael Ed
doves, who was a patient OF
Wards and like most of his
patients had seen a good deal
of Christine.
This Eddowes has played a
very important - and curious
part in many phases of the
intricate affair. He has ex-
Iplored its background and
ramifications thoroughly, In
the manner Of a trained Sc
cret agent. And he was assisted
in these endeavors, through
out, by a private investigator
Michael Marler, head Of a Lon
don detective agency.
1t may be that Messrs. Ed
doves and Marler were operat-
ing on their own and for rea-
sons Of their own (Eddowes
kept insisting on his concern
for national security. 1t seems
unlikely that they we're Mis-
agents, for they had some
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How Long
Did 1t Last?

The British public, and world
opinion, have been duped, DELHI
erately and successfully, about
a point Of cardinal Importance
in the Profumo affair: the
question, how long the War
Minister'S liaison with Christine
Keller lasted.
1t started a few days after
the two first met at the Give
den estate. But, when did it
end?
Profumo, In his untruthful
personal statement" to the
House of Commons on March
%, 1868, in which he declared
that there was no improperly
whatsoever in my acquaintance
ship with Miss Keeler," said he
had not seen the girl since
December, 1861.
Strange as 1t may seem in
the light Of Profumo's subse-
quent admission that he had
lied to the House, this part
Of his statement apparently
was accepted at face value by
all concerned. even Prime Min
lister Macmillan. The reasoning
presumably was that a tri-
angular affair involving on
one hand Her MajeSty's Minis
ter of War and on the other
a high-ranking Soviet intelli.
gence official that lasted for
six months was bad enough
and therefore: goodbye and
good radiance, as soon as pos
sible.
1t wasn't that way at all,
though. Christine and her
Jackie" Gas she called HIM
had quarreled. 1t is true, and
she had left him once, slam
ming the car door in his face,
but then they had made up
again. A year later the affair
was still going strong. At least
three persons in the know have
attested to this fact, and II
you don't want to take the
word Of the first two, you'll
surely have to believe the third
Aloysius CLuckyO Gordon
one OF Christine's various
West Indian lovers and dope
supp ). whom she tried to