Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The Worki
The Mystery Of The $11 Banknotes
Washington
The Bureau of Printing and Engraving "this week. disclosed that there were about 18 $11 notes in circula- tion with a $10 denomination
on the front and $1 on the back.
The chances of an error Uke
this are rougly one in 150,000,-
000. The last time it happened
a few years ago, the bills had
$5 fronts and $10 backs.
A New York
who
new
woman of the found the first batch said she has been offered as much as $500 for it.
The Bureau is investigaling to find out how the slip occur. red.
All dollar currency is printed at the Bureau's big plant at Washington.
Millions A Day Banknotes are produced at a rale of more than eight million per day, in sheets of 18, but it takes several days to produce The backs are print. each one.
ed the first day, then the sheet is stored overnight in humidor. The fronts the second day, and later the seals, serial ¦ ̧ numbers and signatures.
The Bureau's belief is that a rumpled or printer received damaged sheet of 18 when he drew a stack from storage while preparing to print $10 fronts on shoots which already had their $10 backs.
have taken the He may damnged sheet back to ex- change it for a good one, and may have been issued one with $1 backs insicad of $10. He possibly then placed it on his the $10 ple, sent it through frent machine. This is one theory, being examined,
All banknotes are carefully checked but the system is not i fool-proof and errors have cc- curred before-United Press.
He Has The Longest Title
Ottawa
The US Navy recently boasted its Vice-Admiral Arthur D. Struble had the longest title "ever held by an admiral."
Not
90, retorted the Royal Canadian Navy. The champion must be. Rear- Admiral Harry George De- Wolf, CBE, DSO, BSC. CD.
Admiral Struble's title:
United States Navy representative of the joint chiefs of staff on the military staff com- mitice of the security council of the United Nations,
Admiral DeWolf's title:
Principal military ad- viser to the Canadian ambassador in Washing- tun, chairman Canadian joint representative of the military representatives committee of the North Atlantic Treaty ganisation and Canadien Ilaison representative to SACLANT. - United Press,
staff Canadian
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SATURDAY, JUNE | 25,5 1955.
The French Throne Goes On View
Russian and American From Vancouver: Plans From Alaska: Weatherin "Rub
Shoulders.
How A Now Famous From Paris: From Rome: Doctor Sank A Battleship
In World War I.
"80-year-old Another Trip To The Arctic.
The Last Royal Throne Of France Goes on View.
RUSSIANS AND AMERICANS "RUB SHOULDERS”
Weather-watching in the Arctic
Fairbanks, Alaska.
Russian scientists adrift on an ice floe and U.S." air force pilots of Alaska's 58th weather reconnais- sance squadron are vir- tually rubbing shoulders in the vast barren regions of the Polar ice cap.
The ice on which the Rus- sians have established an extensive weather ob- servation station has slowly drifted eastward until it has reached a point about 650 miles! north-west of Point Bar- Here it is row, -Alaska.
almost directly on a route!
which is flown daily by B-29 weather planes from!
SIDE GLANCES
Eielson air force base near Fairbanks.
Every day I reconnaissance plane flies north from Eielson almost to the North Pole, then westward to the 180th meri. dian and south-eastward back to Alaska. Air force pilots
bave found it easiest to spot the Russian camp on the ice of in the perpetual darkness the Polar winter when the twinkling lights are an amaz- ing sight in a world of dark, icy desolation.
The air force planes parachute
down radio devices which
transmit weather data from lower altitudes back to the mother plane. Since these devices
Morse transmit in code, plets are certain that the Russians pick up reports,
That is the only contact between the two nations on the Arctic lee, However, the Russians do transmit weather data
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"It's a mistake being engaged to Roland for so long- the homey way he acts makes me feel like an old married woman like you!"!
The Pope's Doctor Sank A Battleship
Rome.
Millions of people throughout the world know Professor Raffaele Paolucci as the doctor who
which they collect on an internation
band wave which can be received by Alaska stations.
the
his
Low clouds obscured
Russian base but the plane's radio operator was picking up Russian conversation on Wave banda, Sometimes the squadron
counters
of jamming
Paris
The last royal throne of France has been installed in the Louvre, but the King it was made for never sat on fit, and it is unlikely that
any King ever will
༄
The throne, a huge gilt and velves chair with the Fleur de LET embroidered on its back, was intended for the Count of Chambord, who claimed the French crown as "Henry Y after the fall of Napoleon III in 1870.
It WAS
Art:
purchased recently Austria Chilean in
by patron Arturo Lopez and pre- seated to the Museum of "De
in the
Louvre. corative Arts But it will probably be moved cn- eventually to the Chateau of its Chambord where other relics of
radio communications, CS- the
fected.
pecially when flying its mis- pretender have been col- The Count of Chambord came. sions out along the Aleutians and northward up the Bering within an ace of restoring the Sea. These missions which are Bourbon dynasty to France in
when the also flow daily are known 1873
monarchist as "Loon Esho" flights. How- party held- a majority of the ever,
crewmen believe this Chamber of Deputies.
But
"the obstinate.
and un- Jamming cornes from Siberia. the
to "We don't expect to have any yielding pretender refused
the
most important trouble with the Russians in accept
The Russian camp is well equip. ped, with extensive shelters, mall observation planes and even helicopters. It is ap- parently supplied by transport planes on shuttle runs from
the Siberia which land on drifting Polar ice at the camp.
reconnais Recently, the 58th
sance squadron Rew its 1,500th mission over the Polar ice cap to gather weather data in the region which is known as weather factory of the con- tinent. To mark this fight the squadron flew Jack Ryan, the editor of Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Walt Welch, manager of television station XTVF-Fairbanks, Polar Right known Route."
to
a century the
the Polar region," said Lt- symbol of France's struggle and
com- progress of Col. Fort W. Lipe,
ter tricolour Bag..... weather mander
the of squadron, "Our job is gather weather data that is of the Over
They his beneft to all nations, track which is
should appreciate our work." thePlarmigau
-United Press.
More News About The Frozen North
80-YEAR-OLD
PLANS HIS NINTH ARCTIC TRIP
Vancouver.
An energetic, 80-year-old sailor is in Vancouver busily planning to lead another expedition into the Arctic. Rear-Admiral Donald Baxter Macmillan of Boston, veteran of the Robert Peary dash to the North Pole in 1909, will navigate his sturdy schooner "Bowdoin" to- wards the Pole soon. He will be accompanied by his wife and 11 scientists and students,
Since the Peary expedition, the genial Macmilian has returned seven times to the Pelar ice-cap. He was once lost for four years there between 1913 and 1917 and six times he has remained within 300 miles of the Pole for 15 months at a time.
He millions of tons of coal and oil cover. the far northern
says ocean floor, with one seam of coal 35 feet thick only nine degrees from the North Pole itself,
Recent claims that Commodore Peary did not quite get to the Pole disturb the Admiral Two of the men who reached it with Peary are still alive, he points out. One is Matthew Hendson, Peary's Negro sled driver, and another the Eskimo, Ootaq. More- over, he adds, every geographical society in the world recognises Peary as the first man to reach it.
His Wife Is Going Too
Macraillan's wife, Miriam is one of his favourite topics. She is an author on the frozen north, has travelled 80,000 miles in the Arctic, and holds the world record as the woman who has ventured closest the Pole. Adding to this list of achievements, Miriam Macmillan also does a fine job as first mate on her husband's northern-going schooner
Macmillan says their courtship was rather unique. To begin, with,
Miriam
iam was just four years old when he returned from the Peary expedition: used to bounce her on his knee, telling her tales of icebergs and polar bears. They were married in 1935 when he returned from yet another Arctic voyage.
Macmillan's schooner "Bowdoin" is, strongly constructed of double timber and planks so that it can't be crushed by icebergs.. The ship is frozen into the Arctic wastes for 11 months at a time, banked with snow and topped with snow houses. It usually winters at Kane Basin off Greenland.
The crew of 11 comprises scientists and students in botany, zoology and anthropology in the north.
nursed Pope Pius XII through his near-fatal ill To Search Not A Turkey
ness of last December. But few know he was a World War I hero who personally sank an Austrian battleship.
Because of his giudica he was
each one.
with
For More Not A Chicken
Fish
Gosport.
The 500-ton former plea- sure yacht Manihine, now converted into a floating laboratory, sails from Gos and left port soon on a four-year
Thite the ship
Des Jack Dordlek and Edward with a special gadget by means Battleship Evacuated study marine life from the
the
But A Churkin
Chatham.
A hatchery proprietor has cross- ed a furkey with a chicken and come up with a successful "Chuckin"
According to Bob Brooks, of Chatham, the churkin com- bhes the best features of the chicken and the turkey, both in exs production act as table
The
birds average about eigh: pounds dressed weight with much
the added of weight in the broad breast. :- Mr Brocks, who runs the Sun- Ehice Hatchery, is now this
third
This
year,
year of experimenting. for the first
time
ho
he was
was arccessful in produe
ing
the
Called to the colours shortly Outside the port, the two after Italy entered the first men abandoned the motorboat World War
cold choppy on the side of the slipped into the A new drug may
allies, Paolucel, who had just water and swam towards the "four to five times more anished his studies, was enrolled fagship of the Austrian navy,
the battleship "Viribus Unitis. pateat❞ than compounds in the Italiau Navy.
Swimming underwater now used to relieve pain and other symptoms of rheu-assigned to the military hospital two of the dovelies strapped on
DI Ancona in the Adriatic their backs, the two officers suc matic diseases, it was re- coastline, Leeging to go on active ceeded in attaching them on the ported recently.
service, Paolucci spent all his keel of the battleship
a time bomb or scientific expedition to find Preliminary trial of the new, spare time working on a seret after setting
more fish in the Indian drug-called Prednisone was weapon."" --
current described in the
"As they swam off, they were It consisted of a fcating
scientists, who join journal of the American Medical platform carrying two torpedoes spotted by the searchlight of a Ocean and South China Seas. will loaded with high explosives and amall corvette
at SingaporË,
Gluck, both of Beth Israel Hos of which it could, be hooked on Captured and taken abcard Fablis of fish who take Aying pital, New York, said the new the keel of a ship.
tas "Yaibua Veitis'
two leaps to avoid neis, to the life hormone compound may haveWhen he presented his inver-officers were questioned for history of the prawn, distinct advantages in treating
The ship will cover something! enemy like 300,000 miles. patients with joint pains, tender- tion to the Navy headquarters hours. What hailed the Aus ness, stiffness, and inflammation Ancona, he was referred to trians was what two
Fish, the staple diet of the from rheumatoid arthritis, and a "madman". Human torpe navy offers were doing swim- patients with rheumatic heart does and frogmen were to be- ming inside a naval base, About people of Malaya, Borneo and
come popular 26 years later.
three hours later, Paolucci told a Sarawak, is becoming scarcer stunned Austrian admiral that as populations increase, physicians treated 15
So They Tried It the belticship would blow up in The expedition hopes to patients. All had previously re-
20 minutes. It was ustless that introduce to native other treatment with A Navy commander, Raffaele so many men should be killed more
"efficient... methods of slight relief, and 12 were
Rossetti, hawever, thought the rheumatold, arthritis sufferers.
The arthritis patients reported device had possibilities and suc-ordered the ship to be evacuated.
ceeded in, getting the Emctly co pedule the Cx-increase, the population of "Over three ght-mode to try it out
plosion rocked the navy base Singapore will have doubled was 70 per cent of that of a sening of stiffners within
On a cold, moonley night, the and the pride of the Austrian within 15 years that is the day of taking prednisone,
says 1918, Navy slowly suck into the blue sort of problem we face" Brooker, said Muscle pain and stiftness als last day of October,
Captain David best favoured in
Poalucel and Bosvelti made off Adriatic waterside per 40-year-old several days,
armoured motorboat King Victor Emmanured III Davies, an ex-trawler skipper Lastod could walk, dress, and
khud of feed themselves."
towards the heavily guarded bestowed the file of Count of from Milford Haven, who will What
young command the Manthine chunkin maker? The symptoms returned after part of Pola, where the powerful Valmaggiore on the prednisone therapy stopped Austro-Hungarian navy lay at Paolud He was barely 26 The expedition is
anchor.
United Prest United Fresa,
1sored by the Colonial,
disease or gout.
The
ceived
ape
fishermen
The amizal believed him and fishing.
the rate
strange birds in usable quantities with 50 to 100 per week ecoming
from the hatch-
ing trays.ama
The churlein has a turkey neck, utterly devout of my covering. Adut birds have a head with
defrite chicken characteris ties, and the body and leg structure of the Chics | an
tion
similar number of
Cardenald
They are
to
They Said 'No' This refusal, in addition
insistance on the divine God- right of kings and his given
mandate to rule, could not be stomached by even the royalists of the day.
bis
So the Count retired to an Austrian castle and spent remaining years he died in 1983 publishing letters on political affairs.
The Cout dled without issue, and the claim to the throne of France subsequently fell to the Count of Paris, who Orleanist. The OT- have, furnished.
pre- tenders to this day."
Wils
Jeanists
The throne itself is in pure econd Empire style. Its back terminates in gilded figures supporting a crown, its sive arms end in greyhounds heads, and Its huge legs are heavily garlanded in gold.
to
The current pretender, Henri, Count of Paris, is allowed live in France and frequently French publishes his views on and International politics: But there are no serious reasons for believing he will ever sit on the throne.-United Press.
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