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Svulbard Called Strategic Spot In
Air Routes
A liny group of far northern Is
lands, almoat unhrard front for 30
yeara except brlelly during World
war II, ts coming Into new focus
aa East-West tension mounts.
The Islands are the Bvalbard
Itroup. formerly knows as Spitsber
gen. They are ownrd by Norway
and lie aomo 600 miles due norUi
'Woman Dies
As Chute Fails
BUDD LAKE, N. J. t.ft A
pretty mother, her parachute fall
ing to open, plunged J. 500 feet to
her death (Sunday In an Initiation
for a parachutwg club formed by
her husband.
It was a scent of contusion and
near-hysteria as 24-ycnr-old Mrs.
Dorothy Berard of Ilurrlnon tum
bled from the small plane, clawed
desperately at Uie parachute and
finally fed In a cabbage patch,
"I killed her, I killed her."
sobbed her grlef-.itrlcken husband,
Josrpli, who organized the Bay
Divers Club, a parachutlng-for-fun
(roup. He collapsed when aha fell.
About 700 spectators at the Ini
tiation exercises at Budd Lake air
port ahrlcked and shouted for the
woman to null the rlpcord as she
hurtled to the ground. Many wom
en fainted.
Just before Mrs. Berard, mother
of a four-month-old daughter, went
tip, her husband considered refus
ing to let her make the Jump be
cause of a aerlea of minor mishaps
, earlier.
' But she reassured him by say
lng, "don't worry, honey, I'll be all
right."
v Berard Is an ex-paratroopcr with
14 Jumps to his credit,
He made the first Jump of the
day and suffered bruises about the
. head.
A few minutes later, a small
1 plane used by other club members
, crashed, but no one was hurt,
i Then Mrs. Sarah Haselett of
1 Union Jumped and was knocked
unconscious when she hit her head
' while landing. Mrs, Berard's fatal
plunge climaxed the series of
accidents.
I Bald one of the members: "this
1 ends the club forever."
POW Deadlock
Still Holds
! MUN8AN, Korea Ml United Na
tions and Communist staff officers
discussed minor wording dlffer
, ences in the Korean armistice docu
iment Monday but did nothing to
J solve the deadlock on prisoner
exchange.
Prisoner exchange has bogged
i the plenary sessions, now recessed
'until Aug. JV
Tho staff officers were In almost
complete agreement on the first 60
paragraphs of the proposed armis
tice agreement.
i The staff officers will meet again
Tuesday at Panmunjom,
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Over The Arctic Ocean
of Norway In the Arctic Ocean.
Bvalbard held little Interest for
anyone until around 1870, when Nor
way, Bwedert and Russia began to
put forth claims to It. There was
several International conferences
aimed at aetlllng ownership, but
nothing was accomplished until af
ter World War 1. Then title was
bestowed on Norway.
An odd feature of the treaty was
that subjects of all the powers sinn
ing 11 were given equal rights with
Norwegians In the Islands. The sig
natory powers were Great Britain
and Its dominions, France, Italy,
the U.S.. Japan, the Netherlands,
Denmark, Norway and Sweden
Germany and Russia signed later.
So far the Russians are the only
ones to exercise the rights grant
ed them under Uie treaty.
Dr. Lawrence M. -8ommers, as
sistant professor of geogruphy at
Michigan Slstc College, In an ar
ticle In the msgaune Scleutltlc
Monthly ssys there are two rea
sons lor Russian Interest.
One Soviet Interest, says Dr.,
Sonimcrn, Is coal, which ts also
mined by the Norwegians. The
Russians ship 100. 000 to 135,0110 tons
a year back to Russia according
to Norwegian reports.
This seems trifling In view of
Russia'a domestic coal production
of 300 to 3-5 million tons a year.
Dr. Sommera suggests a tar more
Important Interest In Svalbard'a lo
cation on the Arctic air route from
east to west.
"Soviet Interest In the area," he
writes In Scientific Monthly, "Is
evidenced by several unsuccessful
attempts to slun a Joint defense
pact Willi Norway. Bases on Bval
bard would lessen the Arctic air
route distance between Sverdlovsk
In the Ural mounalns and Chicago,
for example, by one fourth."
Government aviation experts In
Washington say they know of no
place In the mountainous Islands
suitable for air bases. There Is not
so much as a landing strip there
now. There Is air mall service, but
the mall la dropped by parachute.
Dr. SomnWs says, however, that
there are limited but sufficient flat
areas on the west and north coast
of Uie group. He says these plains
are generally marshy but believes
this difficulty can be solved by
modern engineering methods.
Specifically, Dr. Sommera says,
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there ts space around the town of
Ny-Aalesund. where one of the Nor
wegian coal mine Is located, and
on the flat valley Doors around
Longyearbyen. another Norwegian
mine site, other possibilities, he
says, are Hopen Island, to the
Southeast of the main group and
Molten Island, off the northern
shore of Vest Spitsbergen, the Prin
cipal island ot uie group.
The International treaty cover
ing Bvalbard prohibits anv kind
military Installation. Both Russia
and Norway now operate radio sta
tions there, and Norway has twi
weather stations.
Coal production on Bvalbard shut
down during the war, when the
Germans occupied the Islands. The
Germans made little known effort
to get coal back home but burned
niOAt of the mining and shipping
installations and many other build-
Uigs. .
By IMA the Russians had
turned nearly 3.500 persons
to
Svulbard. about twice as many
as the Norwegians. Tnere Is a Rus
sian consul at Pyramioen. Dr. Bom
mera says relations between
the
are
Russians and Norwegians
friendly.
Norway gels about 400,000 tons
of coal a year from Svalbard, about
which are Imported. There is little
m mttriM n( Ha rniiirAn,Mni, oil ni
activity other than mining on any
of the islandssome hunting and
trapping, a little whaling, no tim
bering or farming. Pishing varies
with conditions In the ocean, good
some years, bad others. Some oth
er minerals, gypsum, asbestos snd
Iron ore particularly, have -been
found but not In important quan
tities. The climate Is -Ugorous.
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WEDNESDAY'S Paper
Michener
BT jami;h a. mk iiknk.r
WITH U. S. KIHHT MARINE
DIVIHION IN KOREA I Every
once In a while you meet a mn
whoea extraordinary bravery atuna
you. Bui hluti on anybody'! Il.it
would have to be an amazing
Marine called the Kandy Bar Kid.
Twenly-three-year old Lyie uu
ol Tacoma, Waah., la phenomenal.
even for the Marine. Ha appar-
Young
Husband Murders
Wife and
BRIDGEPORT, Waah. 11 Tour
nmall children and their young
mother ware alaln aa they pre
pared to leave for church services
early Bunday and police arrested
the father, wno cnief Liyie r-ro-
thero aald admitted killing hla
family becauaa "the minister aald
Ood la a square ahooter.
Bclna- held In connection with
the multiple alaylng Uial left the
modeat family home on tlie out
skirts of Ihla North Central Waah-
naton community a bloody aham-
blea waa Malthlaa Bwearson, 21,
laborer.
Dead were hla 25-year-old wife,
Joyce, and the couple'a four child
ren, Kay, 4, Peggy. 3. Karen. J.
and Mallhlaa. lx montha. Some
had been ahot. the others' throats
had been alashed.
Prothero quoted Bwearson as
saying:
The Lord told me to take their
liven and that I would Join them
later."
Bwearson. bloody from self-in
flicted wounda and naked to the
waiKl. was arrested aa he drove
toward town In the family station
Woman Falls
From Plane
mo DE JANEIRO Wl The
door of a Pan American Airlines
Stratocrulscr blew open in fllgnt
Sunday and the sudden draft
sucked an American-born woman
out of her seat and to her death
in the Atlantic ocean 12.000 teei
below.
The victim was lacniniea as
Mrs. Marie Elizabeth Weslbrook
Capellaro, daughter of Mrs. Bessie
Mscnris OI Los Angeies, bam., ami
wife of Emlllo Capellaro, a banker
of Rome. Italv.
She was accompanying capellaro
on a business trip.
I In Los Angeles, a spokesman
for the woman's family said her
mother knew she had planned to
marry Capellaro but did not know
the ceremony had taken place. He
said the woman talked by tele
phone with her mother on Satur
day and "did not say anything at
that time arjout Deing marnea. i
am sure she would have told her
mother 'If nhe were."
He Identified the victim as the
widow ot U. 8. Air Force Col.
Robert B. Westbrook. who was shot
down during World War II.)
The Diane door blew off shortly
after the takeoff from Rio De Jan
eiro, when the aircraft was 27
miles out on a flight to Montevideo,
Uruguay.
Passengers and crew members
ssld they did not see the woman
disappear. Capellaro, sitting next
to her, said ne was smoxing ana
not looking in ner direction.
The woman's seat, next to
window and Just forward of the
door, was twisted and part ot tne
cloth lining the celling of the cabin
waa ripped off-
The plane returned to Rio and
three Brazilian Air Force planes
were sent to search the area of
the disappearance.
VOTE SCHEDULED
PORTLAND Ifl Striking CIO
united Automobile workers were
to vote here Monday on a proposed
settlement ot tneir contract dispute
with the International Harvester
Co.
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MIRRORS
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C. Mala.
9 MINUTES !
id m'
Tells Exploits of
enlly has no nerves, no fear, and
no need of sleep. More than 40
times In the last two months he
has penetrated Communist line to
depth of more than two miles, has
scouted their positions for periods
of up to 40 consecutive hours, snd
haa wandered back to hla own linea
to report on what the enemy was
up to.
He has been ambushed by the
Fdur 'Children
wagon. He told arresting officers
he was going to church.
Frank C. Page, a neighbor and
fellow worker on the Chief Joseph
Dam construction project on the
Columbia river near here, said the
slaylnga occurred about 1:30 p.m.
Page said he heard shooting and
screams and looking toward ma
Bwearson home, aaw Bwearson,
naked to the waist throw into the
yard what he thought was a large
doll.
A few moments later. Page aald.
the carpenter threw a second ob
ject Into the yard, then ran to the
yard and killed the family dog
with a butcher knife.
The bodies of two of the children
were found nearby.
Page and Jim King, another
neighbor, called the sheriff. They
said Bwearson emerged from the
house a short time later, climbed.
Into his car and started for Bridge
port, three miles up the Columbia
River.
Prothero. alerted by the sheriff,
stopped the Bwearson car- about a
mile south of town. Bwearson sub
mitted to arrest without a struggle,
crawled Into the police car and
was taken first to the Bridgeport
hospital and then to the city Jail.
Prothero said Bwearson was
treated at the hospital for a bullet
wound in the head, a knife wound
In the chest and a knife wound in
the throat.
The chief said Swearson told him
he had tried to shoot himself with
the last shell In the gun and when
that didn't work "I tried to cut my
throat. Then I put the knife against
my chest and tried to fall on it on
the floor. Then I decided to go to
church.
The 8 wear sons came here 18
months ago from Towner, N. D,
Wenger Admits
Killing Charge
ASTORIA Ifl Sheriff Paul
Kearney said Sunday that Ward
Wenger, 20. bad admitted the slay
ing of his foster mother, Mrs.
Marie Wenger, 47, here last July
10.
Kearney and Joseph Cooney,
Juvenile officer, arrived in Astoria
with Wenger, and the sheriff dic
tated a statement he said Wenger
made on the trip from Paris, Tex.
The statement was turned over to
the district attorney s oitice.
In It, Kearney, said . Wenger,
charged with first degree murder,
told him he waited behind a door
for his foster mother to come
home, then attacked her with a
hammer. Kearney said the youth
was "all mixed up" and could give
no clear motive lor nis actions.
Kearney Quoted Wenger as say
ing he took from his foster mother's
purse $20 he had paid her in room
rent. The remainder of the 55 he
had when he left Astoria in his
foster mother's car he had earned
at a flour mill, he said.
Wenger was arrested in Clarks
vllle. Tex., after an automobile ac
cident. He telephoned Astoria to
ask his insurance agent to pay the
repair bill. The agent notified po
lice and Wenger was arrested.
He was Jailed at Paris. Kearney
drove the wenger car oaca.
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LOUIS R. MANN
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Chinese five times, has engaged
them In pointblank night battlea
eight or nine times, has lived
through several artillery barrages
of enormous concentration, haa
been wounded onca and went back
behind enemy lines three days
after the shrapnel waa removed
from hla leg.
Lewis looks the part. Six-foot-
two, slouch-hipped, blue-eyed, he
la oulte thin and looks like a last-
shooting cowboy In a B-movle. He
naa a snaggy crop Of rea nair mat
looks aa if mice nested in It and
an Incredible moustache that wan
ders all over his face like a lost
forest.
He has developed auch great
skill In penetrating enemy mine
fields, cutting barbed wire, prob
ing entrenched positions and lying
low among enemy elements that
he haa revolutionized marine pro
cedures In hla sector.
I saw him the other night as he
started a probe which would take
him more than two miles into the
heart of what his commanding of
ficer termed "unusually neavny
fortified positions." Lewis was
dressed In dirty fatigues, helmet
and armor-proof vest. Hla face waa
smeared with black paint and he
carried hand grenades and a sub-
macmne gun. ne was a leuiai
character, headed for one of the
toughest Jobs a man could get.
He would penetrate enemy mine
fields, climb to the top of a Com
munist-held hill well Inside enemy
lines and personally blow up a
troublesome machine-gun bunker.
He grinned through ni camou
flage and aald. "I feel better about
this Job since tne rain sianea. i
can move quieter." He set out I
through an Asiatic cloudburst ana!
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ahead. To escape,
let them receive
Christ Into their
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only Lord and
Savior. At that
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record of their
sins snd gives
them Eternal Life.
Then comes pow-
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against him. But the blood of
Jesus Christ washes clean the page
smeared with sin. God's wrath
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ftOAO OF THI$t ITMAMUNIM
"Kandy
within 10 yards the paint
streaming down his face,
ankles were slogging In mud.
was
his
and
he disappeared Jnto the darkness.
His buddies call him the one-man
army.
Therefore his nickname, the
Kandy Bar Kid, cornea as a sur
prise. This deadly fighter haa a
special trick he uses when It la ab
solutely vital that he get up-to-date
Information. He leaves bla
own linea at dusk, goes deep in
side the enemy positions, finds
some natural camouflage and huga
the earth as day breaks. There he
lies, in the blazing sun, all through
the daylight hours watching enemy
dispositions.
Aa the second night begins he
usually moves forward in an at
tempt to take a prisoner or wreck
some installation. Thlrty-aix hours
later he straggles back to his own
line. On such trips he takes with
him one cup of water and three
candy bars.
A friend says, "give Lewis three
candy bara and a sub-machine gun
and he'll Invade Hell." His com
mander, Lt. Col. Gerald Russell
of Ceorglaville, R. I., reports,
"the only limit to Lewis' courage
Is my order that he cant go more
than three miles Inland. He's In
credible." Lewis is no dead-end killer. He
comes from a good family. Is mar
ried and haa three kids. He speaks
softly but enjoys a good bust with
the boys. When you get to know
him he has a rich Irish humor.
"When I started those raids a
lot of men volunteered to go along j
and we had luck at first. But
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AT 4:00 P.M. DAILY
Pacific Standard Tim
I
Bar Kid
when we got ahot up a couple at
umes ana came nome carrying
Chinese lead some of the heroes
got real shook."
One of the men who now aoaa
out with him says, "you've heard
of Oung Ho, Marine for real tough
guy. Well, Lewis Is both Colonel
Oung and Major Ho."
Five nights out of six ha pent
trates enemy territory. When ha
comes back at 4 o'clock In the
morning dawn, he atanda hia nor.
mai watch along the line. Ha aleepa
for about six hours and In the af
ternoon takes his place in the or
dinary routine of digging trenches
and doing heavy work around his
company. He puts In an l-bour
day. 10 of them under the most
extreme danger. In civilian Ufa
be held a union card.
In the 67 davs Lewis haa haan
doing this work he has never had
a not meal, has had one bath,
I saw him this morning when ha
returned from his mission against
the machine-gun bunker. He waa
dripping aweat, covered with mud,
his face an ugly amear. Hla mous
tache looked as It he had borrowed
It from a wounded walrus. "Oot the
bunker," he said briefly and slog
ged off to bed.
Later In the day he was digging
a trench and then he goes out
again, for a 1-hour stretch In th
mud by night and the cruel, bias
lng sun by day. With htm goes
what he considers a normal ration
for such work: Three candy bara.
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