Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, April 27, 1949
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
and continued cold tonight and
Thursday. Gentle northerly wind.
Lowest temperature tonight —5,
tiighest temperature Thursday 15.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation none. (Total this
month 0.71 inchesh
Temperatures: highest 16, low
est 0.
Maximum wind 16 miles an
hour from the N.N.W.
Sunrise at 3:45 a.m., sunset at
51:14 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 29, lowest 23.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: highest 60 in 1940,
lowest —10 in 1924.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —15 Clear
Point Hope 9 Snow
Kotzebue —2 Cloudy
Shishmaref 8 Cloudy
Wales 8 Cloudy
Gambell 18 Cloudy
Nome 7 Cloudy
Unalakleet 10 Clear
Bethel 8 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 21 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage 34 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 30 Cloudy
Whitehorse 30 Cloudy
Whitehorse 38 Cloudy
Edmonton 64 Cloudy
Juneau 46 Rain
Ketchikan 45 Rain
San Francisco 57 Cloudy
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lomen, Jr.,
are the parents of a daughter born
in Seattle last Monday. The little
girl has been named for her pater
nal great-grandmother, Julie Ann.
AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Monday Pilot Jacobs took Teddy
Johansen from Kotzebue to Can
dle for the Havenstrite Mining Co.
Yesterday pilots Goodwin and
English took Dr. T. J. Pyle, M. C.
Hanseth and Robert Murphy from
Nome to Fairbanks.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Roy Roberts, Sacramento, Calif.
Dr. T. J. Pyle, Juneau.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Admitted for medical care were
June Williams and John Rapp.
Air Force Serious
About Sky Saucers
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DAYTON, (>P)—The air force is
taking seriously the reports of fly
i ing saucers, the Dayton Journal
Herald reported today.
The morning newspaper attrib
uted its story to a report in the
files of the technical intelligence
1 section of the air materiel com
mand at#nearby Wright Field.
The Journal Herald reported
the air force based its conclusion
on some 240 domestic and foreign
reports of the flying discs. Intelli
gence section officers were quoted
as saying 30 per cent of the re
ports dealt with conventional aeri
al objects such as weather and
j cosmic ray research balloons.
| Commonplace answers are to be
I found in another 30 per cent.
! while 40 per cent of the reports
are in the mystery column.
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Dr. T. J. Pyle, dentist for the
Veteran’s Bureau is in Nome on
official business from headquar
! tcrs in Juneau.
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Tammany Hall, founded in New
York in 1739. was named for the
j Indian chief who signed the fa
mous treaty with William Penn.
Two-Y ear-Old
Flees Shanghai
(By William Jordan)
TOKYO, (/P)—A wide-eyed two
year-old known only as “Buster”
was among the 80 Americans ar
riving by plane from Shanghai
last night.
The child was in the custody of
Maj. Richard J. Wade of District
Heights, Maryland.
He refused tq divulge her name
because, he said, her parents were
still in Shanghai and he thought
it best to cloak her identity.
Major Wade bore a letter of in
troduction to Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Grosse, of Seattle. The Grosses
will get the letter and "Buster” at
the same time.
j The major said he did not know
I whether the Grosses were rela- j
tives or friends of the little girl, j
Meanwhile, “Buster” was .thor-!
oughly enjoying herself, smiling I
shyly at the other passengers who j
fled communist threatened Shang- j
hai.
SPORTSMEN'S CLUB HOLDS
FIRST MEETING OF SEASON
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The Sportsmen's Club of Nome
is holding its first meeting of the
seaon tomorrow evening at the
Arctic Sheet Metal Shop to make
plans for the coming season and
have election of officers.
Outg oing officers are Ben
Hyndman, president; Gus Stein
wandel, secy.-treas.; and A1 Doyle,
field manager.
In addition to the summer sched
ule for trap shooting, plans will be
discussed for fishing and hunting
during the summer months as
well as the possibility of a small
bore rifle range.
Announcement for new mem
I bers will also be made.
Reuben Bowman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gunnar Bowman is here
from his home in Kirkland and
plans to work for the summer. He
is enjoying visiting with former
school friends. He stated his father
j was also coming in for the sum
1 mer.
CLOSING OUT
ALL SOAP
Nationally Advertised Brands
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STOCK UP FOR THE SUMMER
NOME HARDWARE
“Nome’s Complete Hardware Store”
attention masons
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION
THURSDAY. APRIL 28. 1949
Work in Master Degree. Your at
tendance requested.
EARLE S. COULTHARD,
Master
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NOTICE
ARCTIC NATIVE BROTHER
HOOD DANCE
SATURDAY. APRIL 30th
DOOR PRIZE
NOTICE
Nome Sportsmen's Association
meeting Thursday evening at eight
o'clock at the Arctic Sheet Metal
Shop.
NOTICE
PAA CHANGES SCHEDULE
Effective May First Pan Amer
ican Airways will change its
schedule of flights into Nome to
Sunday and Wednesday. Arrival
and departure times will remain
the same—in at 9:00 a.m., and out
at 10:00 a.m. Passengers bound
for Southeastern Alaska will now
have only a one-night stop in Fair
banks.
NOTICE
Walrus Club Meeting Thursday
Evening. 8 p.m.. City Hall. •
Wes Welch. Pres.
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Master of “Hex” to
Die May 27
TACOMA (A»)—The hex is dead,
and the man who invoked it for
five deaths will be on his way to
the death house May 27.
The fabulous Jake Bird, 47
year-old North Carolina Negro
who once confessed implication in
44 assorted murders, defiantly saw
superior judge Hugh Rosselini
sign his death warrant yesterday.
Courtroom attaches wondered
whether Jake would call down the
wrath of his hex on the judge.
But in a cell interview after
ward, Bird said, “I don’t believe
in the hex any more.”
Atmosphere was taut as Bird
brought into the courtroom, less
than a half hour after he’d been
brought from the state prison at
Walla Walla. A half-hour later he
was on the way back to the state
penitentiary death house on what
authorities said they hoped was
his “last ride.”
He is the confessed axe slayer
of Mrs. Bertha Kludt Oct. 30, 1947.
At his subseqpent trial he claim
ed he’d put the hex on all parties
who had a hand in his conviction.
In order, these men succumbed
suddenly from heart attacks:
Superior court Judge F.. D.
Hodge, who heard the case.
Clerk of the court Ray Scott,
who handled the original appeal
papers.
Undersheriff Joseph Karpach,
who obtained the original confes
sion by Bird to “eight or nine”
murders. Bird later had authori
ties convinced he’d been impli
cated in 44 of them.
Detective Lieut. Sherman Lyons
of Tacoma.
J. W. Selden. Bird’s defense
lawyer, for whom Bird still holds
the most consuming hatred.
“If I believed in the hex. of all
the people I’d have liked to have
hexed would be Selden,” he said
1 heatedly in his cell.
Selden. in addressing the jury
at Bird’s trial, had said:
“Let your conscience be your
I gide, because Bird is a dark, black
I criminal and 1 am defending him
i simply because I must.”
Selden had been appointed by
. the court.
Charles O'Leary made a trip to
his mining camp near Teller on
Monday in his weasel in the ex
ceotionally good time of four and
a half hours. He states the snow
and ice conditions were evcellent
j for travel.
L. E. Osl is in town for a few
days from his home in Council
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and is enjoying a visit with his
three daughters and their families.
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
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