No Clues Yet
To $1,500,000
Stoien In Boston
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and seized 1,000 rounds of ammu
nition and a pistol.
The weapon might have been
of the type used by the robber?,
police said.
But the seven men scooped
overnight in the police dragnet—
including three ex-convicts —
were questioned without result
and police forecast their early re
lease.
Police superintendent Edward
Vi. Fallon frankly admitted top
notch investigators directing the
multi-pronged probe lacked a
single definite lead after running
down scores of phony tips.
He clung to hope, however, that j
science may spring a trap on the
seven commando-like raiders who
seized a million and a half dollars
*—a million in cash—at the vault
ed garage of Brink’s, Inc., arm
ored transportation company,
Tuesday night. The robbery was
the largest cash haul in American
history.
j
A visored, chauffeur-type cap—
possibly dropped by one of the
gunmen—was being examined by 1
FBI chemists for particles of hair |
that might produce a lead.
Lammers Dies
In Spokane
SPOKANE, </P)—Roy C. Lam
mers, a Spokane business man
who died January 5, left an estate
valued at $350,000, probate pa
pers showed today.
The papers also mentioned a
joint interest in Alaska mining
property, the value of which has
not been determined. Lammers
had been an official of a Spokane
lumber company. He and his son
were also connected with the
Lammers Development Co. in
northwestern Alaska.
Lammers left his entire estate
to his widow, Julia, except for
$2,500 bequests to a son in Spo
kane and a daughter, Mrs. Vir
ginia L. Eddleman, Seattle.
Cape Town, site of a Dutch vic
tualling station in the 17th cen
tury, is still called the “tavern of
the seas.”
H-Bomb Discussed
In Washington
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ally go into production.
The government’s present poli
cy on the H-bomb, estimated up
to 1,000 times as powerful as ura
nium bombs now being made,
calls for assembling of all possible
facts. On the basis of these facts
the final decision probably will be
made in a few weeks.
Gen. Omar Bradley, head of the
joint chiefs of staff, will discuss
H-bomb problems from the mili
tary point of view in a phvate
session of the senate-house atomic
committee tomorrow.
Northwest Rains
Bring Floods
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tleground, between Spokane and
Walla Walla, throughout Skagit
and Snohomish counties and on
the Olympic peninsula.
Two new deaths were added to
the storm toll, bringing the total
since last Friday’s blizzard to 17.
Herman Husen, about 60, a far
mer near Eugene, Ore., was
crushed fatally when the roof of a
shed collapsed beneath the weight
of sodden snow.
A second victim was tentatively
identified as Loyel Johnson of the
Grants Pass, Ore., area. He appar
ently collapsed in the snow-block
ed Oregon Caves Highway.
Most flying service was either
curtailed or shut down.
A rescue crew reported it had
reached the snowbound Cape
Horn country 25 miles east of
Vancouver in southwest Washing
ton. The party, which had to ski
in after a snow weasel broke
down, said none of the 50 families
in the area were in distress al
though one had been running low
on supplies.
AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
A flight was made from An
chorage on Thursday with Cece
lia Maloney.
Elmo Miller was a passenger
from Unalakleet.
Sunspots have intense magnetic
fields.
Hospital News
Little Joe Currin of Solomon
had a tonsilectomy and has been
discharged.
Ralph Carlson has been a pa
tient and was discharged today.
Harold Dimmick is a patient in
the hospital.
Louis Olson, Katherine Ezuke
meow and infant were discharged
from the hospital.
NOTICE
I will not be responsible for any
debts contracted for by any other
person except as authorised by
myself from this day forward.
L. A. Stevens
Jan. 20. 23. 25. 27. 30. Feh.1
NOTICE
ATTENTION DEMOCRATS
A meeting of the Nome Demo
cratic Club shall be held in the
City Hall January 20. 1950 at
8:00 o'clock p.m. All Democrats
are urged to attend.
Carrie M. McLain
Secretary 7-2
NOTICE
The Arctic Native Brotherhood
will meet Monday, Jan. 23, at 7:30
p.m. in the A.N.B. Hall.
We'll have a showing of Alaska
pictures by Col. Marsten at 9 p.m.
Bert Bell. Secretary
WARNING
Anyone caught damaging the
chairs or other property of the
Dream Theater will be prosecuted
to the full extent of the law.
Dream Theater Management
NOTICE
Traffic Violators will be issued
Citation. If bail is not posted with
in 48 hours warrants will be is
sued for the Violator.
CHIEF OF POLICE,
City of Nome.
WANT ADS
MALE HELP WANTED — Reli
able man wanted to call on
friends and neighbors. Wonderful
opportunity. $15 to $20 in a day.
No experience or capital required.
Permanent. Write today. McNESS
COMPANY, Dept. B, 2423 Magno
lia St., Oakland 7. Calif. 8, 11-p
FOUND — Single key. Call at
Nugget.
FOUND — Keys. 3 on ring. Call
at Nugget.
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For Further Information
. Call
Phone MAIN 46
Pioneer Trapper
Rescued By
Merle Smith
CORDOVA, (i^P)—Mike Laddy,
an old-time pugilist and rugged
individualist, is having a hard
time of it on his Copper river
valley trapline. They’re going to
try to fly him out this weekend.
Laddy, pushing 70 years of age,
took a small store of food and the
necessary traps to his trapline re
cently.
This week, word came from
other trappers in the area that
the old-timer had an injured foot
and was short of grub.
Merle “Mudhole” Smith, Cor
dova bush pilot, flew over Mike’s
cabin and said he saw Laddy
i stagger out, wave and fall. Unable
to land at the spot, Smith re
turned to Cordova and arranged
with a trapper to move Laddy to
a clearing where a plane could
sit down.
Saturday, pilot Smith will again
try to reach Mike and bring him
out for hospital treatment.
Friends say they’ve tried to talk
Laddy out of hitting the trapline
i in favor of taking it easy, but that
| he told them he was intent on
slugging out a living and to bla
zes with old age security.
NELS SWANBERG
CELEBRATES 80th BIRTHDAY
Nels Swanberg Sr. was 80
years young this week and had a
gay birthday party with all his
children and grandchildren pres
ent for the event.
Nels Swanberg is one of the
few Nomeites left who came over
the historic Chilcoot Pass way
back in ’98, and then came to
Nome via the Yukon river on a
Petersburg canoe. Next year Mr.
and Mrs. Swanberg, who were
married in Nome, will celebrate
their golden anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Swanberg have
two children, Nels Swanberg, Jr.,
and Mrs. Axel Edman, and four
grandchildren, all of whom live
in Nome, a one hundred percent
Alaskan family.
NOTICE
The deadline for 19F.0 automo
bile slickers is Jan. 23rd.
N. Robinson
Chief of Police
Gas And Oil Scow
Burns In
Petersburg Harbor
PETERSBURG, (/P)—A burning
scow, loaded with exploding
drums of crude and diesel oil, gas
oline and acetylene gas, drifted
aimlessly in Petersburg harbor
| early today before being beached
| three miles south.
Don Bell, operations superin
tendent here for the Puget sound
Bridge and Dredge Co., said there
were no casualties.
Bell said the fire broke out
when sparks from an acetylene
torch, being used to thaw a fro
zen pump, ignited gasoline.
The billowing flames from the
exploding drums attracted virtu
ally the entire town to highways
lining the harbor where the scow*
1 drifted helplessly. Once it came
dangerously close to the specialty
processors cannery.
SEATTLE, (/P)— Jim McCurdy,
manager of the Puget Sound
Bridge and Dredging Company’s
Alaska operations, said today that
the burning of one of their scows
at Petersburg Wednesday will
have no effect whatsoever on the
firms’s work there.
The loss from the fire will not
exceed a couple thousand dollars
McCurdy said, and will not affect
the Wrangell narrows dredge job
for which the company vas low
bidder.
Gas Seepage Fatal
For Couple
SEATTLE, (^P)— Gas seepage
from a broken line outside their
home snuffed out the lives of a
sleeping couple here during the
night. They did not have gas fic
tures in their home and the leak
age was from about 40 feet away.
The victims were John J. Cot
ton, 42, and his wife, Julia. 40. He
was an accountant.
Coroner John Brill’s office said
gas company employes reported
the line break about 40 feet from
the Cotton house.
A “snub line” ran to their base
ment. Coroner’s deputies said the
gas from the main line break ap
parently followed along this un
used line under the frozen earth.
The snub line was one laid from
the main in case the house occu
pants ever wanted to have gas
service.
pioneer water delivery
For BETTER EFFICIENT
WATER SERVICE
TAM. MAIN 24 or MAIN 7(1
JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
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Phone—Shop: Black 76 — Residence: Main 52
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
Ben Young