AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving of the Alaska Airlines
plane Friday were Martha White.
M. S. Scott, Wm. Major.
Passengers departing for An
chorage on the returning plane
were Jean Stebbins, Myrtle Meyer
Tony Reed, Rose Bronson. Stella
Klementson was a passenger for
Unalakleet.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Saturday a freight and mail run
was made to Koyuk. Another
flight was made to Gambel taking
mail and freight.
Sam Mogg was brought in from
the B-29 by Frank Whaley on Fri
day.
Yesterday Jack Whaley brought
in Dolly Mendenhall and Stanley
Hillman from Kotzebue. Bert A.
Ken and Martha White returned
to Kotzebue. Another flight from
Kotzebue by Frank S t i n t o n
brought Robert Lee, Peter
Charles and Lorena Gray to
Nome.
Archie Ferguson and Billie Levi
were passengers from Fairbanks
to Kotzebue yesterday and Ron
ald Gillis was taken from Nome
to Candle.
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving with the Pan Ameri
can yesterday were Everett Wood,
Martha Perzian and infant, Esther
Miller and two children, and Al
vin Polet. 3,600 pounds of mail
were also brought in.
Departing were Mrs. Ruth Gott
•chalk, Ruth Sjivey and child.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
E. E. Halliday, Harold Stiff,
Cecil Tiegendaun, S. B. Hillman,
Anchorage. John Fosland, Candle.
Bill Major. Fairbanks. E. P. Wood.
Seattle.
Boiling to death was made a cap
ital punishment in England in 1531.
“Just Want World
Peace”—T ruman
PAWTUCKET, R. I., (/P)—U. S.
Senator Howard McGrath of
Rhode Island, chairman of the
Democratic national committee,
said last night that President Tru
man told him ‘‘I don’t care whe
ther I am President of the United
States again” as long as there is
world peace.
McGrath told 400 cheering per
sons at a testimonial for Mayor
Ambrose P. McCoy of Pawtucket
that the President made the state
ment in a talk with him.
FRANK P. JONES
ENJOYS LOCAL NEWS
An interesting letter from Frank
Jones, now teaching at Valdez,
formerly a teacher at the local
public school, brought a message
of good cheer to the Nugget staff:
. . We enjoy the Nuggets a
great deal, especially as there is
no local newspaper at the present
time. They arrive on each south
bound boat, which comes every
two weeks. We are following the
local news with interest, and
when we get back to Nome, which
we hope will be soon, we won’t
have missed out on a thing. . . . ”
Frank P. Jones.
ARCHIE FERGUSON
RETURNS FROM THE STATES
Archie Ferguson who has been
in the States on business returned
to Kotzebue heaquarters yester
ay with Wien Airlines.
DAYTIME NOISE ON THE
average busy street of an Ameri
can city is loud enough to make
the normal person one-fourth to
one-third deaf, according to the
Encyclopaedia Britannlca. There
is no dependable evidence, how
ever, that life or work in noisy
places decreases the acuteness of
hearing except during the first
few minutes after the noise stops.
PIONEERS HELD JOINT
INSTALLATION SATURDAY
Last Saturday evening the Pi
oneers of Alaska and Pioneer Wo
men held a joint installation at
the Pioneer Hall followed by cards
and a chicken dinner.
Those who took office were
Fred Rohn, president; Henry Ull
rich and Gus Bjomstad, vice
presidents; Robert Baldwin, sec
retary; Oscar Lay, treasurer; Pete
Olson, chaplain; Charles D. Jones,
historian; Arnot Castel, sergeant
at arms; doorkeeper, L. Olson and
Andy Wournen trustee. Officers
for the women were Ann Walsh,
president; Mrs. Pearse Walsh, vice
president; Mrs. Helen Bochman,
secretary; Mrs. M. J. Walsh, treas
urer; Mrs. Carrie McLain, histori
an; Mrs. Fred Rohn, chaplain;
Mrs. Charles Pennycook, marshal
and Mrs. J. J. O’Leary, inside
guard.
Installing officers were Charles
Jones, Mrs. M. J. Walsh, James
Walsh, B. B. Mozee, Emma Lyle,
M. J. Walsh and Antonio Polet,
past grand president.
Mrs. Harry Hagen, outgoing sec
retary, who has been in that of
fice for 25 years was highly
praised for her work and present
ed with a gift from the members.
Mrs. Andy Nordlind was presented
with a past president’s pin. Both
presentations were made by Mrs.
B. B. Mozee.
Winners of the card games were
Mrs. W. Boucher, Mrs. Henry Ull
rich and Anne Walsh. Winners of
the men’s prizes were A. Castel,
Pete Brandt and Jake Overbaugh.
The supper of fried chicken and
all the fixings was prepared in
the Pioneer kitchen by George
Gemalis and was enjoyed by all.
GRANDDAUGHTER BORN TO
MR. AND MRS. HARRY HAGEN
Mr. and Mrs. -Harry Hagen are
the proud grandparents of a new
granddaughter born at Cook, Min
nesota to their daughter Loreen
Wien, last Thursday. This is the
second child for the Harold Wien
family.
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WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
AIRPLANE
We Service the Seward Peninsula, Fairbanks,
And Have Connections
i
To and From The States
COME IN AND SEE US ABOUT OUR LOW RATES
AND OUR CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
Two Local Men j
Give Up Search for
Missing Fliers
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of the furrow ha dbeen covered.
It is impossible to tell whether the
body was dragged on across the
flats or into a creek bed and cov
ered with snow.
‘O’Leary and Mogg carried ai
handsaw with them and cut snow
blocks, building a snow house
around a portion of the wrecked
plane where they weathered out j
the search. ,
, Winds are reported as>-h;gh asi
50 miles an hour and it was in-.
tensely cold with a ground snow
storm blowing.
Tracks located earlier in .the1
search, originally hoped to be those
of one of the missing men, turned
out to be, when thoroughly check
ed, tracks of the paratrooper Sgt
Santhell London, whose body they
found the day after they arrived
there. His body was found within
plain sight of the wreckage but
due to the ground storm and the
fact that darkness had fallen he
was unable to locate the wreck.
His tracks showed where he had
climbed the hill searching for the
plane and how he had gone down
the hill searching for his com
panions only to return to the spot
from which he had started sub
sequently freezing to death.
There are several native teams
still aiding the Army in the search
and Pvt. Frank Kealook, an Eski
mo, is stationed at the base camp.
The native teams which have
been mentioned before which left
Shishmaref immediately upon re
ceipt of the news of the wreck
were those of Alex Weyiounna,
Floyd Walluk and Lawrence Nay
okopuk. They searched for three
days going eastward to Devil’s
Mountain and they were forced to
return to Shishmaref for food and
gasoline for their camp stoves.
Another group then set out com
posed of David Walluk, William
Sinnok Arthur Toctoo and Dal
bert Eningowuk, they were wea
ther-bound for sometime twenty
miles from Shishmaref and had to
take shelter from the freezing
winds and later searched inland
towards and around Devil Moun
tain. On February third the army
dropped them K rations and dried
fish for their dogs.
I Five of the seven men from
Shishmaref were well acquainted
with the Devil Mountain area as
they had done much trapping
there as well as reindeer herding,
1 yet they were unable to locate the
' wrecked plane where they plan
ned to meet although three of
them were within five to eight
miles of it. ,
Sgt. Leonard Lane, an Eskimo,
well qualified to assist Mr. Gale,
because of his experience with
dog teams and outdoor living left
this morning from the Nome Air
Base to work at the base camp.
ALVIN POLET VISITING
RELATIVES IN NOME
Alvin Polet, Fairbanks manager
f r the Pan American arrived yes
terday to spend a few days with
his father Antonio Polet.
He states that Fairbanks is busy
working on plans for the big win
ter carnival which is scheduled to
be held this winter.
Herb Hilscher who is general
chairman for the annual event
which is attracting national atten
tion is busy organizing committees
trom the various active groups in
Fairbanks.
Mr. Polet also states that the
nr.v schedule of Pan American
requires no stop-over in Fair
ben’s nn.1 is now operated entire
ly by DC-4’s.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, January 12, 1947
Forecast Nome: Mostly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday with occa
sional snow. Lowest temperature
tonight zero, highest temperature
Tuesday 10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none..
Total precipitation this month
trace.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 11, lowest —12.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 36
miles per hour from the N.N.E.
Sunrise at 9:37 a.m., sunset at
2:39 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
—5. lowest —27.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —27 in
1947, highest 34 in 1944.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —28 Clear
Point Hope —5 Clear
Kotzebue —14 Clear
Shishmaref —22 Clear
Wales —17 Clear
Gambell 0 Clear
Nome 8 Cloudy
Unalakleet 6 Cloudy
Bethel 4 Snow
McGrath —11 Cloudy
Anchorage 17 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks —8 Cloudy
Juneau 27 Cloudy
Whitehorse 7 Cloudy
Ketchikan 39 Rain
Edmonton 6 Cloudy
Seattle 32 Cloudy
San Francisco 63 Clear
Stay Of Execution
Sought For Negro
Axe Slayer
WALLA WALLA. Wash. (A*)—
An effort to assure Jake Bird “his
day in court” will be started, his
Walla Walla attorney said, with
filing of a petition appealing his
case to the state supreme court
and a restraining order to halt his
scheduled execution Jan. 16.
Atty. Tuttle, assigned to aid the
convicted Negro axe-slayer in his
fight for an appeal, said the re
straining order would seek to de
lay Bird’s hanging until his ap
peal is heard.
The 45-year-old transient from
Greenwood and Shreveport, La.,
sentenced to die for the murder of
Mrs. Bertha Kludt in Tacoma,
Wash., last Oct. 30, made his elo
quent plea for a supreme court
hearing at a news conference ar
ranged Friday afternoon by state
prison warden Tom Smith.
In a lengthy monologue, Bird
contended he had been cheated of
the right to appeal to the supreme
court, had been beaten and threat
ened into his confession of the
Kludt murders, and it was not he,
but an accomplice who killed Mrs.
Kludt and her daughter.
MRS. LESTER BRONSON
TO VISIT IN STATES
Mrs. Lester Bronson left by
plane for the States Friday to be
with her father, Dave Gray who
has been in the hospital for an op
eration, but is now at home. She
will also visit with her brother
Clinton Gray, formerly of the
Nugget staff.
nnscal when 19 in 1650, in nt
ed a calculating machine.