Weather Turns
Search Fliers Back
FAIRBANKS (/P)—Bad weather
turned an army helicopter pilot
and two commercial fliers back
yesterday in attempts to reach
plane wreckage, feared to be from
a plane in which four men are
missing, in the Birch Creek area,
65 miles northeast of here.
Ernest Patty, Jr., former army
flier and son of Ernest Patty, Sr.,
former dean of the University of
Alaska school of mines, took off
from Woodchopper, Alaska, Sat
urday. Merle and Lloyd Edmund
son and Jack Warren, employees
in the mining concern headed by
his father, were with 'him.
The message received here at
the time of their departure did not
give their destination. The wreck
age was sighted by pilot George
Thorson, who said he saw no s;gn
of life.
FIRST BADMINTON GAME
TUESDAY AT NOME HI
Last evening a group of bad
minton players turned out for
their first game at the Nome Ter
ritorial school. About a dozen
were in this first group and a big
ger turn-out is expected for next
week.
Communists Make
World Appeal
For Support
MOSCOW, (/P) — The Moscow
Literary Gazette published today
a front page appeal to workers all
over the world to rally to the
Communist party.
“If you want to be confident of
tomorrow, if you want to be a
free citizen of a free country, if
you don’t want to clean the shoes
of rich foreigners, rely on the
Communists,” the editorial said.
“If you want democracy and
peace, if the lives of your children
are dear to you, if you don’t want
' the imperialists to gain by your
tears and your blood, listen to the
voice of the Communists.
“If you don’t want everything
created for centuries by scientists,
poets and architects to be washed
away by the muddy wave of
standard ‘Americanism,’ then fol
low the Communists.”
CARL DEWEY ANDERSON
RETURNS FROM STATES TRIP
Carl Dewey Anderson returned
yesterday from the States where
he has been studying the handling
of all kinds of insurance. He plans
) to open an office very soon here.
Jap Bullet Struck
Admiral Kimmel
At Pearl Harbor
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (JP) — Ad
miral Husband E. Kimmel, for
mer navy commander at Pearl
Harbor, disclosed today he was
struck by a spent bullet when the
Japanese attacked the U. S. base
there Dec. 7, 1941.
Kimmel, in charge of a Knox
ville engineering office, related
the incident to reporters after the
story had been broken for the first
time yesterday at Pasadena Calif.,
by Marine Big. Gen. Omar T.
Pfeiffer.
“I was standing near the win
dow of my headquarters at Pearl
Harbor when a stray Japanese .50
caliber machine gun bullet came
through and hit me,” he declared.
“Fortunately the missile was spent
and did no damage except to leave
a small black and blue spot on
my chest.”
The retired admiral said he had
never related the incident before
because “it wasn’t worth men
tioning."
MRS. ROBERT SCOTT
RECUPERATING
Mrs. Robert Scott who spent the
summer at Iron Creek is recuper
ating from a recent operation and
will be about soon.
High School Girl
Kills Her Sister
With Scissors
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CHICAGO, (#*) — A 16-year-old
high school girl was held in the
juvenile home yesterday pending
an inquest into the fatal scissors*
stabbing of her older sister during
a quarrel over clothing and boy
friends.
Police Capt. Daniel Healy said
Irene Zawistowski, small, brown
haired high school sophomore,
told him she hurled the long blad
ed scissors at her sister, Adeline,
1H, as they quarreled Monday in
their northwest side home.
"I got so mad I just picked up
whatever I could and threw it at
Adeline,” Healy and Lt. Joseph
Mooney said Irene had sobbingly
told them. “I loved my sister.”
”20 40” HALLOWE'EN PARTY
TOMORROW NIGHT
The “20-40” Hallowe’en party
is to be held tomorrow night in
the Pioneer Hall with the supper
at 6:45 p.m. to be followed by
dancing. The committee in charge
proraises an enjoyable evening
for all those attending. You may
1 come as you are or in costume,
and if you can’t make the dinner
drop around later in the evening
and make merry for Hallowe’en.
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Small Plane
Wreckage Sighted
Near Fairbanks
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FAIRBANKS UP)—Wreckage of
a missing Grumann amphibian pi
loted by Ernest Patty, Jr., war
time flier and son of a prominent
Alaska mining man, was believed
sighted Monday at the head of
Birch Creek, 80 miles northeast of
Fairbanks.
A search plane was scheduled to
leave for that area at dawn yes
terday.
Young Patty and three passen
gers have been unreported since
they took off from Woodchopper,
Alaska, Saturday en route here.
With him on the flight were Merle
and Lloyd Edmundson and a third
man named Warren.
Bush pilot George Thorson spot
ted the wreckage yesterday after
noon while flying over the Birch
Creek headwaters, and said he
could detect no signs of life. The
plane was virtually demolished,
he reported.
Patty had been working for his
father, former dean of the Uni
versity of Alaska’s school of mines
and now head of the Alluvial
Golds and Gold Placers, Inc., a
large Woodchopper mining con
cern.
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each month
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Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
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