The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1950, Page 3

SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1950 - Cargo of untold value gc east of Well, Nev. to the cargo of su west. No one was injured. , lumber, tires and canned goods. " Wirephoto. T W T un in smoke as a 30-car Western Pacific train burns after detailment, 31 miles “ars piled un in a heap less than a city block long and were described as total loss Firemen responded from Elko, 70 miles to the Freight Train Burns on Desert RARE field Zoo, Chicago. They have horns of dser. feet of eow, came! Members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen are shown set- ting up a picket line on a 22-mile subsidiary of the Republic Steel Corp., the River Terminal Railway. The steel firm has shut down its local furnaces. This was one of three Midwest “token” strikes which began (Aug. 21) in a union dispute with management. (® Wirephoto. Mistake Was Obvious . son of Mr, and Mrs. Carl McKellips of Coffeyville, Kas., as he waves a draft board questionnaire he received from Montgomery County Board No.'47. The letter, obviously misdirected, bore a registra- tion number. It sought information on Lewis’ dependeney status and related data regarding his family connetcions. (P Wirephoto. - David deer, gifs of Duke of Bedford, are recent additions to new Brooke P4 Baen Dot s J-like mecks and mule tails. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE -JUNEAU, ALASKA BUTCH LENDS AN EYE_Bob Pollock (left) gnd Tomumy Brons are aided by their pet, Buich, on a “sidewalk super= .rlingen, Tex., construction projcct. : ndent's” job overseeing a I DIVORCE GRANTED Jacqueline A. Buonamassa was granted a divorce from Peter Buo-' namassa and awarded custody of | their three-year-old son, after tle hearing before Judge George W. Folta this morning in District Court. | Grounds were non-support, incom- patibility and cruelty, The couple’s marriage was in Seattle in 1946. Norman Banfield was Mrs. Buo- namassa's attorney. | sitka visitors registered at the | Gastineau Hotel are Albert Brook- | man and Mrs. C. A. King. all Weds Sally Rand, 46, of bubble dance fame, kisses her manager, Harry Finkelstein, 40, in the Toledo, O., marriage license bureau just before they were married by Justice of the Peace John Budd. This is Miss Rand’s second marriage, and Finkelstein’s third. (» Wirephoto. | Unhappy Rd A wounded North Korean soldier, captured during U, S. Marines’ drive in Naktong River area, uses tree limb to support himself as he heads towards rear under ecort of Pvt. Marvin A. Penny (left) of Houston Tex., and Pfc. Donald E, West of Pond Creek, Okla. P Wirephoto. ‘ ; Upsets Legend Al '8 FROM SITKA ] l . Hills, N. Y. Miss Gibson'a Florida Princess Ma}garel Rose, who is 20 years old, appears here in a ! birthday portrait made recently | at Buckingham palace. She crack- ed the legend that any girl born in Glamis castle in Scotland will marry before she is 20. The Prin- cess is not yet engaged despite many rumors of romantic attach- ments. (® Wirephoto. : cpl_ed i A i - Althea Gihson {aliove), 22, bécaiié thé first Negro girl in_histery to b accepted intd, the, National lawn tennis champion when the U. 5. Lawn Tenhis '‘Astogia- tion listed her among the 52 wom- i who will compete at Forest A ahd M student, was rynner-ip in the national indoor pIay thils year. (» Wirephoto. ' DON McMORRAN HERE | Don McMorran, Pan American AirWays Regional Traffi¢ -Super- intendent for Alaska, arrived in Junean yesterday to join Joeé Fessio, sa,les manager on an ins- pection trip. They are leaving for Fairbanks today. ¥a.. nli 1G BERTH AT SOUTHAMPTON_The Queen Elizabeth fs moored at the ocran’ k in'new, Southampton, England, terminal which“accommodates 2,000 passengers and the trains, A8 READY RFFERENCE & cxGers of ‘his vavers an Loy, te & F mal, 26-year-old expert the’ Egyptian’ hootchy-kootchy, whirls thréugh the “Dance of the Nile” ‘for' King “Farouk of Egypt at a “The King had fhe dancer ' brask off hier éngagement in Monte Gat- o ‘to ‘contié' Lo Deauville at his ex- pense. Uy Wirephoto. . 2 oldie Kehgutek. of Spowiie, Waslif 23-year-old mother’ of four - children, wus' sdlecied “4queen of Trays” hs most pop- AP waitiess 10 (Be -Norhiwost, n Inihr, Furniss Refurn | From Forest Chetkup fo :{In town yesterday afternoon from ila two weeks trip to the Interior : | Forest,” {the Alaska Highway | [ ReordBreaker o by “Florence Chadwick, whe broke the women's English Chaunel record, leaves plane with her dad, Richard W. Chadwick, whe's's i , her eoach, on arrival at LaGuardia Airport, New York. The 31-yeass San Diego, Calif.. secrétary swam the channel in 13 hours inthutes, cracking Gertrude Ederle’s 1926 record by more than an o (® Wirephoto. {Interior of Alaska R. L. Furniss, entomelogist from | the Forest Insect Office, Bureau 'of{" Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Portland, accompanied by Ray Tay- |’ lor, forester-in-charge of the Fér- est Research Center, arrived back [ checking on damage done by beet- les to the white spruce stands. “There ;are no, active outbreaks reported. on. the Tongass National sald Furniss. The trip included traveling over ll,he Glénn Highway from Anchor- age to Palmer and investigation in the Kenai burn where there has been very much damage by the spruce beetle. The old outbreak of beetles around Chitna has subsided, Furniss said. No active outbreaks could be found. in the Interior. The return trip was made over to Haines where the'two men took the A&l- aska’ Coastal Airlines flight yester- day afternoon for Juneau. Furniss expects to . return: to Portland this weekend. 4o