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living in one-room cabins without Only, in this theater, you don’ divorce.

accurate figures but they'll bet a month's furlough that the Alas‘kan theater leads all others in {broken homes. ; | There have been a couple of {hundred divorces up here in the {last year alone and-—since the latest six month's extension of

‘another 50 to 75 in the works. i M » ” THE MAJORITY of these di|vorces are the.result of scandallous housing situation in this |theater. Usually, you sue—or. are sued— for divorce in Alaska either because the housing is so miserable you won't bring your wife andi children up here or because it's so bad the wife and children— |and you-—can't stand it once {they've been here a while. At Elmendorf Air Forge base here, and at the Army's big Delta base near Fairbanks and in the little outlying stations of the Alaskan theater they call the latter sympton “cabin fever.” It means that after a few months {man and wife get so they can’t

g in Alaska

Boosts Divorce Rate

Families

Lack of Proper Facilities Brings ‘Cabin Fever’; |

Be Had for ‘Mere $110" |

By ANDREW J. TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer |

28—The casualty list is long up

here where hundreds of American soldiers and their families are

toilets or running water. t get the purple heart. You get al

The military’s statistics men—and the chaplains—can’t give you!

Editor's Note: This is the | last In a series of stories about the bad housing of U, 8. service families in Alaska—and its | consequences.

to go to bed. When I did get home—well, you know-—nag, nag, ! nag. So finally we chucked it and she and the kids went home, to the States. We're getting our divorce next week. Maybe we'll get together again if I ever run into her apartment with hot water.” That's how most stories go, with only minor variations. You

bread costs 40 cents a loaf an you can't afford -to tie on because beer is 50 cents a can] and, pretty soon, bloole. Marriage goes bust. It goes bust, too, if you can’t get your wife up here. You write and tell her there's nothing decent to live in up here and she writes back that so-and-so in Hawaii just sent for his wife and children

pay $110 for a couple of roo of sunshine, slanting through a jand the children get Sh window in London's Liver- |

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SILHOUETTE—A strong shaft

pool Street Station, spotlights a cleaner as he tackles his daily | chore. It was one of his lighter moments of the day.

all day, so they sit around the bar,

in the officers’ club drinking and creating all kinds of little incidents, The other day one chap-

Filipinos Tighten

| Reins on Jockeys |

MANILA, P. 1, Feb. 28 (CDN) —It's “Double Trouble” at Philip-

- {pine race tracks,

No, not a sure-thing nag but souped-up penalties for pockeys {who help “fix” races.

Heretofore, jockeys who slowed |

{their mounts faced 5-to-20 days]

suspension, Now they can be | barred for 20 to 40 race days.

Jockeys who threw a double race once were suspended from 20 to 40 race days. Now punish{ments comes in three bitter fla-| {vors—suspension for one year, cancellation of license or—per-| {manent axpulsion. Copyright, 1951, for The Indianapolis Times

‘Up and Down’ Gloves Intriguing to Milady

LONDON, Feb. 28 (CDN)--Women are intrigued by a new kind of “up and down" gloves invented by the queen's shoemaket, | Edward Rayne. They work by drawstrings threaded vertically. A tug on the strings makes shoulder length gloves into wrist

length. Thus they can be worn

long one evening, short the next. They come in royal black and red velvet.

lain, up there on a visit, had to|

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