Search For Pervert
Murderer of Six
Year Old Girl
LOS ANGELES, </P)—Her head
crushed by an axe, six-year-old
Linda Joyce Glucoft was found
slain yesterday a few blocks from |
her home. Police broadcast a
pick-up order for a 67-year-old
man.
The girl had been missing from
the home of her parents, Jules and
Lillian Glucoft, since Monday af
ternoon.
Officers identified the man they
sought as a known pervert, ques
tioned only last April in a child
molestation case, but released.
The chubby body was found by
homicide detectives—who entered
the ease when a night-long search i
by neighbors and officers failed— |
jammed into a box covered with j
rubbish, debris adn old boxes. It
was in the backyard of a modest
dwelling near her own home.
“It is unbelievable,” screamed
her mother, told of the discovery.
The child’s father is a commer
cial artist.
The mother told police that the j
child was prompt in coming to
dinner but when she didn’t show |
up by 5:45 p.m. Monday night, the ;
mother called police.
It was in that vicinity that mur
ders of Nina Martin and her sis
ter Mae occurred in 1924—a case
that led to the conviction of Scott
C. Stone, a night watchman.
Raymond Kays, who assisted in
the construction of the M-M and M
hospital, as well as the new hospi
tal at Sitka returned to Nome from
the States and plans to spend the
winter here, it is reported.
George Goshaw, well known
business man of Shishmaref and
owner of the fox farm there which
is well known for its beautiful
Platina fox arrived in Nome Mon
day for the first meeting of the
Board of Assessment and Equaliza
tion of the Department of Taxa
tion, of which he is chairman.
The Board held .its first meet
ing yesterday at the offices of the
department in the Polaris Hotel.
Jones, Ax Slayer,
Convicted of
Manslaughter
FAIRBANKS, UP) — A jury of
nine men -and three women re
turned a verdict of manslaughter
in one slaying and acquittal in an
other in the retrial of Leon Jones,
formerly of Vancouver, Wash.,
yesterday.
Jones was accused of the axe
slaying of Donald R. Harris and
Carl Ahnstrom at Little Gerstle
July 20, 1947 .
The jury found Jones innocent
of Harris’ death and convicted
him for Ahnstrom’s death, after IT
hours and 15 minutes of delibera
tion.
At an earlier trial, Jones was
convicted of first degree murder j
in both cases and sentenced to lif«
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
This find was reversed by the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in
San Francisco, which ordered a re
trial.
Judge Harry E. Pratt, who pre
sided over both trials, will sen
tence Jones on the manslaughter
charge later.
Testimony at both the trials
told of heavy drinking and quar
reling before the double killings.
Jones and Harris had gone to
gether from a construction camp
to Little Gerstle. Ahstrom, an el
derly prospector, was a resident of
Little Gerstle.
BIG TB STUDY
PLANNED IN EUROPE
COPENHAGEN, (/P)—The Dan
ish Red Cross will examine about
forty million children and youths
in European countries for tubercu
losis during the next two years.
Expenses wil be covered by the
United Nations Salvage Fund with
$2,000,000, by Denmark’s govern
ment with $400,000 and by a na
tionwide collection in Denmark,
«
which is supposed to produce $1.
000,000 to $1,250,000.
The examinations will be made
mostly in Finland. Austria, Bul
garia and Rumania. Up to now
1.700.000 persons in Europe h*ive
been examined by the Danish Rod
C ross.
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Main 52
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WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS, BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
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Air Command Calls
For Dwelling
Construction Bids
ANCHORAGE, f/P)—'The Alas
kan Air Command called for bids
Monday on 3,531 multiple type
family dwellings at a cost not to
exceed $38,134,800—an average of
$10,800 for each unit.
The dwellings will be for mili
tary personnel and civilian em
ployees of the war department in
the Territory. The announcement
indicated that construction prob
ably will be started next spring
and be completed by fall.
The largest number of units,
2,030, will be located at Fort Rich
ardson. Anchorage. Ladd air force
base, at Fairbanks will have 877
adn Eielson air force base, near
Fairbanks, 624.
Bids will be received by the
commanding general of the Alaska
Air Command until noon Qec. 20,
be evaluated here and forwarded
to Washington for final award.
Specifications provide that the
units at Fort Richardson shall
have an average net usable floor
area of not less than 750 square
! feet. Those at Ladd and Eielson
must have a minimum of 700
square feet.
The dwelling will be built on
government land in accordance
with provisions of the Wherry Act.
Twenty per cent will contain one
bedroom, 60 per cent two bed
rooms and the other 20 per cent
three bedrooms.
Roads, walks, parking areas,
water distribution systems, sew
ers, heating plants and electrical
generating and distribution sys
tems also will be built, probably
with financial assistance from the
RFC and REA.
Bidders must provide an out
line of rental schedules for pro
jects at each base.
— ■
WASHINGTON, f/Pi — Defense
secretary Johnson swore in three
members of the new defense de
paftment housing commission to
day and told them:
“You’ll have a hard job—don’t
let people seeking favors take up
your time.”
The three are: chairman Bert
ram E. Giesecke of Austin, Texas,
Frank E. McKinney, president of
the Fideli y Trust Company of In
dianapolis, and Clarence H. Low
oi New York.
The defense chief asked the
commissioners to bring about uni
f irmity in military housing. He
also Commented that he saw no
reason why military housing in
Alaska should cost more than
dwelling units for civilians.
ALASKA STEAM SCHEDULES
NOV.-DEC. SAILINGS
SEATTLE, (A5)—Five passenger
ships and four freighter sailings
have been scheduled by the Alas
ka Steamship company from Seat
tle for Alaska during the period
from Friday until December 10.
The passenger ship sailings will
be made by the steamships Denali
and Baranof, which will go to
ports in Southeastern and South
western Alaska, departing on al
ternate Saturdays.
The freighter sailings will in
clude the Square Knot for South
eastern Alaska Friday; the Coast
al Monarch for Southeastern Alas
ka and Southwestern Alaska, Cook
Inlet and Kodiak Island, Novem
ber 23; The Square Knot for
Southeastern Alaska, December 2.
and the Terminal Knot for Ketchi
kan, Juneau, Seward and Valdez.
December 9.
Detroit and Chicago are built on
he beds of subs:ding lakes.
Hubby Bails Out
Wife Who Would
Have Hint Killed
BREMERTON, Wash., </P) — It
was ‘just like coming home from
a vacation” for Mrs. Wilford Piatt
today.
Mrs. Piatt rejoined her husband
and their two children after Piatt
raised her $1,000 bond on a for
gery charge growing out of what
she said was an attempt to “liqu
idate” her over-amorous husband.
Today is the eighth birthday
anniversary for Jimmy, the young-;
est, and Mrs. Piatt baked him a
birthday cake while daughter
Sherry, 14, looked on.
Mrs. Piatt, 31, is out on bond
pending arraignment on a charge
of forgery. She is accused of sign-*
ing her husband’s name in the
$1,200 sale of the family automo
bile.
She had made the $324 down
payment to one of two men who
were to kill her husband, she told
authorities. The plot was discard
ed and it was agreed she would
sell the auto and finance Hollis D.
Scott, 23. former private detective,
and herself in going east.
I But when she was left on the
, dock in Seattle with only $20 of
' auto proceeds, and no Scott, she
telephoned her husband and told
Piatt all about it in expiation.
Police were called in, and Scott
and Wallis Mottern, 22, were
; charged with grand larceny by
embezzlement.
Lake Geneva is an expansion of
! the Rhone River.
Wage And Hour
Will Affect Alaska
Very Little
(By Charles D. Watkins1
WASHINGTON, (JP) — Leonard
Evans, labor department repre
sentative in Alaska, said yester
day the new law raising the min
imum wage from 40 cents to 75
cents an hour will not affect Alas
ka much.
“Most employers in the Terri
tory,” Evans said, “already pay as
much or more than 75 cents an
hour. The few that do not will not
be much affected by the increase.”
Evans said that changes in pro
visions on child labor probably
will confuse employers until they
get adjusted to the new regula
tions.
This, he said, is because the
new law extends restrictions to
employers engaged in commerce
while the old law applied only to
those engaged in industry.
The minimum age for child
work is 16 years in most occupa
tions and 18 years in hazardous
jobs.
The exemptions from minimum
wage and overtime payments,
Evans told a reporter, will not
provide exemption from the age
regulations and this will affect
small logging camps. Logging, he
I said, is a hazardous occupation
and the minimum age in that
I work will be 18 years.
Evans is here with labor de
partment representatives from
Hawaii and Puerto Rico for an an
I nual conference. He said he ex
! pects to be here another ten days.
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