RALPH REED FOUND
DEAD IN HIS HOME
Ralph Reed, deputy marshal at
Seward lor 15 years, was found
dead in his home at Moose Pass
on April 20. Mrs. Reed, called to
Anchorage for jury duty, immedi
ately returned home.
Mr. Reed, who was in his seven
ties, is an old-time Alaskan resi
dent. He lived in Nome before he
came to this area. Before serving
in Seward, he worked in the mar
shal’s office in Anchorage.
CALL FOR BIDS
The following item of equipment
is offered for sale by the Alaska
Department of Public Welfare at
Nome, and sealed bids, in dupli
cate, will be received at Box 516,
Miss Frances Schoenig, district
worker, Federal building, Nome.
Alaska, until 11 a.m. Monday, May
5, 1947, and then publicly opened.
1 Typewriter used>; L. C. Smith
Superspeed.
Award ot the purchase of the
equipment to the successful bidder
will be made by the office of the
director at Juneau, Alaska.
Said award will be made on the
basis of the highest bid and must
be removed the day of the award.
W ithin 24 hours following the
award of the bid. the successful
bidder shall deposit with the Dis
trict Worker of the Department of
Public Welfare at Nome, postal
money order or certified cashier’s
check in the amount of the bid.
Inspection of the typewriter may
be arranged for by contacting
Miss Frances Schoenig. Box 516,
Federal Building, Nome, Alaska.
Russel G. Maynard, director,
Alaska Department of
Public Welfare
Pub. April 30, May 2.
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Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Bud Harper, Pres.
Andy Anderson, Sec.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
ft^eets First and Third
Thursday each month
KARL DEWEY. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
NOME LODGE
A-5 {
Meets Second Friday
JOHN R. RAPP, N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN, Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:,
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
Col. Jack Durant
Gets 15 Years
FRANKFURT, Germany, </P> —
Col. Jack W. Durant was sentenced
Wednesday to 15 years at hard la
bor and dismissal from the U. S.
Army for participat on in the bi
zarre theft of $1,500 000 of Hesse
jewels from Kronberg castle.
After deliberating for two days,
the U. S. militay cou: t of eight col
onels convicted the 37-year-old
Chicago air force officer on eight
counts. These included theft, smug
gling jewels into the United Stales
without payment of customs, and
signing another officer’s name
without authority in an attempt to
hasten a discharge from the army.
Durant’s wife, former WAC
Capi. Kathleen B. Nash, a former
country club manager at Phoenix,
Ariz., was sentenced to five years
at hard labor last Sept. 27 for her
part in the embezzlement.
Maj. David S. Watson of Burlin
game, Calif., was sentenced to
three years in the same case at a
trial which ended last October.
New Lumber Co.
Formed At Juneau
JUNEAU, </Pi — The Juneau
Spruce corporation, a newly-organ
ized group of Oregon men, an
nounced the purchase of the Jun
eau Lumber Mills, Inc., pioneer
Territorial lumber firm.
Final negotiations in the trans
action were handled by D. B. Dash
ney of Portland, associated with
Bashney in the corporation are G.
V. Hasting and William Ruhmann,;
both of Portland: and directors H.!
r'. Chaney, president: Thomas W. I
Damt, Portland: J. S. Forrester!
and Freeman Schultz, both of Coos 1
GOP Sure Of Labor
Bill Passage
WASHINGTON, i/P> — Elated
over a preliminary victory. Repub
lican leaders said yesterday that
‘‘toughening” amendments to trie
Senate union-strike curbing bill
are as good as approved.
But they shied away from a
commitment on whether the Sen
ate could override a possible veto
by President Truman. Opponents
of the bill, mainly Democrats, pre
dict a veto and claim it will be up
held for lack of a two-thirds vote.
Senator Wherry <Neb.>, the Re
publican whip, told reporters Wed
nesday's smashing defeat of an ef
fort to send the bill back to com
mittee to be split into four mea
sures, “assured” final passage of
the omnibus legislation, plus pend
ing GOP-sponsored amendments.
Tiie motion to rec immit the bill,
offered by Senator Morse <R.-Ore.'
was defeated on a roll call vote, 59
to 35.
On the vote Wednesday, 43 Re
publican? and 11 southern Demo
crats voted against the four-bill
motion. Favoring it were 33 Demo
crat? and two Republicans—Morse
and Senator Langer <N.D.’
The 59 votes mustered against
the Morse motion were four short
of the two-thirds that would be
necessary to nullify a veto with
the same number voling.
GOP leaders agreed that a final
vote on the bill will not come un
til next week.
Bay; and Jens Jorgenson, Coquille.
The purchase includes the firms
logging operations, its Anchorage
lumber yard, and its sawmill and
lumber yards at Fairbanks.
The mill was started in 1919 by
Roy Rutherford, now retiring.
Mexican Peso To
fie Stabilized
WASHINGTON; President
T ijman and President Aleman oi
Mexico announced to i v-- •
L . ta Sia e- will "approve addi
‘iona! credits” to Mexico anti that
the two nations have agreed "to
.- tabi i/e the rate of exch mge be
tween the peso an * the dollar.”
■« j j.n. conaITiunaue suaU tnc
amount of the credits are not es
timated but will be used "to assist
in financing a number of projects"
presented to the Export-Import
Bank by the Mexican government.
The projects, it continued, "are
designed to make the greatest and
earliest contribution to the econo
my of Mexico.”
FEDERATED LADIES AID
TO MEET TONIGHT
The Lad e.s Aid of the Federated
Church will meet with Mra W. F.
Baldwin at eight o’clocr tonight,
Friday, May 2.
Mine Kxplosion
Kills Ki"ht Miners
TERREHAUTE, Incl. —Eight
*' 11 men working in the Spring
Mill coal mine near here were
k lied by an explosion Wednesday.
’Indies of the dead, all brought to
the juirface during the night, were
identified. Dr. C. L. Puckett, mine
physician, said none of the bodies
showed and signs of burns but that
one’s head was crushed.
Lt. Comdr. C. E. Poe. federal ad
ministrator of mines for Indiana,
said the mine had not been operat
ing for production since the clos
ing order issued by the govern
ment following the March 25 dis
■‘t"” in a Centralia. 111., mine.
""he navy administrator said a
i. nited number" of men had been
v ■ king in the mine under special
g'errnent incomplete a new shaft
a.'.ri or “general cleanup work"
o'-eliminary to a federal inspec
tion.
a. cK a. <;AitAorc
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(Formerly Larry Galvins)
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