AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
A flight from Fairbanks yester
day brought in Charlie Sheldon.
Sig Wien has completed freight
ing oil to Council for Nels Swan
berg, and Brown, Morris and Tin
kenj and has departed for Barrow.
Passengers making the trip to Bar
row were Dave Bronaugh and Ca
mille Guimond.
A trip was made Wednesday to
Wales and Teller taking George
Lennon to Wales.
Bob Cannon who is mining at
Agiapuk came to Nome yesterday.
Harvey and Alvin Pootoogatuk
were round trip passengers from
Coffee Creek.
Steven Toctoo and Charlie Okp
woruk were taken home to Shish
maref on Wednesday.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving on the plane
this afternoon were: J. D. Strong,
Virginia Dunn, E. W. Whalen.
Passengers departing for An
chorage on the return flight were:
R. T. Williamson, H. A. Arp, Mr.
and Mrs. Aimer Rydeen.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Incoming passengers on today’s
plane were Father Tom Cunning
ham, Fay Delzene, Mrs. Violet
Dunn, and infant Phil, and Dianne
Dunn, Merlin Huffacker, Luther
Scott, Ama Butz, and Don McMor
ran and Don Mukerji who were
round trippers.
Outgoing passengers were Her
mann Jerstad, Carlos de Goyen
eche, Father E. A. Anable, and M.
A. Cascaden.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Herman Jerstad, Council.
George Lennon, Anchorage. H.
Marlin, Candle. Mr. and Mrs. John
Cross and aPtsy Cross, Deering.
DEMOCRACY WORKS
IN THE ‘WILD’ WEST
HAMILTON, Mont. (>P)—As in
the old days, there was keen in
terest among Bitter Root Valley
ranch folk in a district court trial
of one rancher charged with grand
larceny in the theft of cattle.
The courtroom was crowded
long after midnight while the
jury deliberated seven hours. De
fendant, prosecutor, state’s wit
ness, clerk of court, and Judge C.
E .Comer played pinochle as they
waited.
The jury filed in. The game
broke up and the crowd stopped
its chatter to hear the verdict—in
nocent.
“Democracy,” commented the
judge, as he watched the sleepy
crowd head out on the long roads
home.
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Four Dead As
Plane Plunges Into
Gas Burner
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EVERETT, ^lass. (£*>—A smal
airplane plunged out of a fog- i
shrouded sky early yesterday into
a flaming waste-gas burner of aj
monster oil plant—carrying toj
fiery death the ship’s four social- j
ly prominent occupants as the pi- j
lot apparently thought he was
shooting down into brightly-lit
Boston airport.
The dead were: Thomas Man- J
dell, 46, treasurer of the carrier
—Mandell Air Conditioning Corp.
of Boston and son of the late
George S. Mandell, publisher of
the old Boston Transcript:
Mandell’s two debutante daugh
ters—Anne, 29, and Harriot, 19.
both of Boston.
Pilot Nelson Pell, 32-year-old
veteran flier and member of a so
cially prominent Long Island, N.
Y,. family.
Flying the Mandells back from
Montreal, Pell is believed to have
became lost in the murky early1
morning fog and to have mistaken l
the lights flaring atop huge gaso
line still of the Beacon Oil com
pany for the lights of an airport,
fire officials said.
Witnesses said that the small
Stinson aircraft—its motors silent1
—dropped into the mouth of the,
chimney-like furnace “like a dead
pigeon” after narrowly missing
several towering tanks containing
high explosive petroleum prod
ucts.
The furnace—resembling a huge |
brick silo—rises about 50 feet in
; the middle of the oil plant. The
small plane was completely swal
lowed up as it dropped into thei
20-foot wide “field burner.”
An explosion rocked the area as ,
the plane crashed. The body of one
girl fell between the outer and in- i
ner walls of the great twin-walled
brick and steel cylinder. The other |
three plunged into the red-hot j
flaming interior and were burned
beyond recognition within a few J
minutes.
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WOODEN IMAGES OF GODS.
regarded as sacred, served as dolls
lor American Indian girls, accord
ing to the Encyclopaedia Britan-'
nica. The dolls were used in re
ligious instruction.
Indonesia Asks
For International j
Arbitration
(By Stanley Swinion)
BATAVIA, Java. <&)—'The In
donesian government asked the
United States yesterday to use its
influence with the Netherlands
and the United Nations to have “an
international arbitration commis
sion dispatched without delay to
Indonesia” to mediate Dutch- In
donesian conflicts.
The statement, broadcast in the
name of Republican Premier Amir
Sjarifoeddin over the Jogjakarta
radio, was in reply to a United
States offer of its "good offices” in
mediating the dispute in which an
uneasy truce now prevails. The
Dutch previously accepted the of
fer.
In effect, the Indonesian state
ment amounted to rejection of the
United States as the sole arbiter
of the controversy.
“The Indonesian government
feels,” the statement said, “that in
view of the fact that two years of
mediation and negotiation have
failed to halt hostilities. United
Nations arbitration is the only
means to settle the matter.”
Sjarifoeddin earlier said he
hoped that such a commission j
would be made up of the United
States, Great Britain, Australia,'
India, the Philippines and per
haps Siam.
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Man Charges Wife
Killed His Father
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. .<>!P)—Pros
ecutor Sidney S. McMath said to
day his pretty 26-year-old blonde
wife killed his father, Hal. P. Me-!
Math, 56, at their swank suburban
home early last night while “hys
terical with fright.”
McMath declared he was re
questing circuit judge Clyde E. I
Brown to call a special meeting
of the grand jury to investigate
and also was requesting appoint-1
ment of a special prosecutor to
present the case.
McMath, who spearheaded an
ex-servicemen’s ticket which un
seated a powerful Hot Springs po-,
litical organization last year, said
the circuit judge had indicated he
would comply. Brown and Mc
Math, a wearer of the navy cross
earned with the Marines in thei
Pacific, are law partners.
Police Feared
Money Counterfeit
TACOMA, (£*)—Two city police
officers, who said they would have
turned in $46,500 which they
found in the rear of a wrecked au
tomobile had they been “sure it
wasn’t counterfeit,’ were held to
day under $10,000 bail after being
formally charged with grand lar
ceny.
Prosecutor Patrick Steele and
other officials said both men, Er
nest Hyatt, 29, and Richard Flo
berg, 26, had confessed to taking
Forecast AcJ
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Weather Report
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau. .
Friday, August 8, 1947
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Saturday. Lowest tem
perature tonight 42, highest tem
perature Saturday 55.
Nome data of of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.25
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.28 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 63, lowest 48.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 24
miles per hour from the E.S.E.
Sunrise at 3:30 a.m., sunset at
8:46 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 53, lowest 47.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 32 in 1908,
highest 68 in 1916.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 38 Cloudy
Point Hope 50 Rain
Kotzebue 55 Rain
Shishmaref 50 Rain
Wales 46 Cloudy
Gambell 44 Rain
Nome 49 Cloudy
Unalakleet 54 Rain
Bethel 53 Cloudy
McGrath 55 Rain
Anchorage 61 Cloudy
Fairbanks 55 Clear
Juneau 60 Clear
Whitehorse 49 Rain
Ketchikan 59 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 62 Cloudy
Seattle 68 Partly Cloudy
San Francisco 64 Cloudy
Find Body Of Baby
m/ J
Drowned In Ocean
FALMOUTH, Mass. f>P) — The
body of Nancy Perini, 4, niece of
Lou Perini, millionaire contractor
and part owner of the Boston
Braves baseball club, missing since
yesterday, was recovered today
from the ocean in full view of her
parents watching dragging opera
tions from the family porch.
The body was recovered while
district attorney Frank E. Smith’s
investigators were proceeding on
the theory she had been kidnaped.
Police said there appeared to be
no doubt the drowning was purely
accidental.
The body was hooked by fire
men who began draggirtg opera
tion at 3 a.m. under floodlights.
As it was pulled ashore, Mrs.
Perini cried, “Oh, my baby,” and
collapsed in the arms of her hus
band, Charles, a Braves stock
holder and associate of his brother
Lou, in the contracting business.
He carried her gently into the
family summer home.
the money from the trunk com
partment of a car belonging to
Mike Kostelac, a Gig Harbor
rancher.
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