Seek Slayer Of Two
Near Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, — A federal
posse, including 25 armed soldiers
from Ladd Field, scoured the rug
ged wilderness country along the
Alaska Highway from both ground
and air today in search of an
armed man wanted for the crazed
ax slaying of two men after an
Indian camp drinking party.
The victims, whose bodies were
found beside cabins of the Indian
encampment, were identified as
Donald R. Harris, 33, a construc
tion employee at the army’s Big
Delta project 100 miles south of
Fairbanks, and Carl Ahnstrom, 68,
long-time prospector and trapper
in the Little Gerstle River area
where the killings occurred.
U. S. Marshal Stanley J. Nich
ols, who termed the slayings as a
“grewsome axe murder,” said the
bodies were found by an Indian,
Frank Felix, after he saw one
leap into a panel delivery truck
and a second run into the nearby
woods.
Felix, held as a material wit
ness, said the driver was bald and
had blood stains on his clothing.
He could not describe the man he
said fled into the forest.
Harris, the suspected killer and
a third man drove to the camp
and tried to get Indian women to
join a heavy drinking party. A
fight broke out and the third man
drove away. Then, they said, the
suspected killer picked up an ax
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NOMEITES ENTHUSIASTIC
OVER SKINBOAT TRIP
| Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Baker and
j Father Anable made a trip to
King Island over the week-end by
skin boat with some of the Island
ers and are enthusiastic about the
trip as one that is well worth
while.
I Mr. and Mrs. John Fults were
guests of Albert Heinrich, teacher
of Diomede Island, on a skin boat
trip to Sledge Island on Sunday
and enjoyed the trip immensely.
TED COMARA FLIES NEW
PLANE INTO NOME %
Ted Comara, flying his super
crusier made his initial flight into
Nome yesterday. He now operates
the Unalakleet Air Trading Serv
ice operating out of Unalakleet,
Golovin and St. Michaels. He
states that his in the only plane
operating exclusively in that area.
and struck Harris several times.
Seeing Ahnstrom in front of his
cabin about 100 feet away he then
went over and struck him down.
The Indians said the killer col
lected supplies from various cab
ins, picked up a .22 caliber rifle,
shot four sled dogs at their stakes
and disappeared into the brush.
The bodies of Harris and Ahn
, strom were brought to Fairbanks
i today.
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Northwest Airlines
On Return Flight
SEOUL, (/P)—Three prominent
Koreans and one United States
war department employee are
passengers on the inaugural flight
of Northwest Airlines from Seoul
to the United States. Tty? plane
left here last night for New York,
via Tokyo, Shemya, Anchorage,
Seattle, Minneapolis and Chicago.
The three Koreans are Dr. Moon
Chang Wook, director of foreign
affairs of the South Korea provi
sional government: Yong Jeum
Kim, president of the Korean Af
fairs Institute, and the Rev. An
drew Chai Kvung Whang.
The war department employee
is Marilea Hanson, of the United
States political advisory group to
the United States-Soviet joint
commission, returning home to
Marysville, Calif., on emergency
leave.
Wook and Kim will seek aid for
Koreans in the United States.
Whang will attend the world
council of Sunday School mis
sions in London next month under
the sponsorship of the foreign
missions board of New York City.
Wood engraving was procticed
by the Chinese as early as the 10th
1 century.
Skagway Bids For
Sourdough Meet
SEATTLE, —Like Robert W.,
Service’s legendary miner “fresh
from the creeks,” C. A. tPat» Car
roll, bewhiskered mayor of Skag
way, Alaska, was here yesterday
with buckskin shirt, mukluks and
an 1875-model Springfield, ready
for business.
His “business” was the three-dav
Sourdough International reunion
starting Thursday. He will try to
persuade everyone there that next
year’s sessions should be held in
Skagway as part of the annual
“Days of ’98” celebration.
“It’s the most logical place.” he
insisted, “after all Skagway was
the landing place for most of the
20,000 gold-seekers who flocked
to the Klondike in '98. We’re fix-j
ing up the town so it will be* ex
actly the same.
“Dan McGrew will be shot up
every day—sometimes twice a
day. Some days, even maybe
more.”
Dangling from his weskit as he
talked was a watch chain made
up of “gold nuggets” the size of
walnuts.
“Dried prunes,” he said with a
i wink. “Dipped in gold gilt.”
Governors Thrill
As Guns Are Fired
Aboard the Battleship Iowa en
route to Hawaii. l/P)—This mighty
battleship paused long enough to
day to fire with her small guns at
an “enemy”—much to the delight
of nine state governors, a lieuten
ant governor and the Territorial
governors of Alaska and Puerto
Rico.
The object was identified as a
floating mine, encountered at mid
way between the West Coast and
Hawaii.
Naval gunners trained 20 and
40 millimeter guns on the bobbing
object and fired bursts. The ma
rine corps’ rifle champion. Tech.
St. Maxim Beebe, who learned
sharpshooting as a boy around
Enumclaw, Wash., scored repeat
ed hits with a 30 caliber M-l but
was unable to detonate the mine.
Beebe’s spotter recorded seven
hits from ranges between 500 and
250 yards.
While most of the governors
watched from the bridge, the ob
ject finally disappeared in a burst
of fire from marine and navy
guns.
The Iowa was delayed 30 min
utes.
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