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News of oAmenca s Last Frontier
VCV 13 NO 35
NOVEMBER 7. 1953
KODIAK. ALASKA
PRICE 10 CENTS
Lou Chenier Clips ASC
For Mearly 10 Grand
Former Kodiak Man
Held In Calif.
I. L. Chenier’ former Ko
diak agent for the Alaska
SteamshiD Company, was in
federal jail at San Francisco
this week charged with violat
ing the stolen property act.
Chenier is accused of trans
porting $9,378 in stolen funds
from Kodiak to Long Beach,
California.
Me was arrested at Mon
terey, California, last Satur
day and is being held in $10,
000 bond pending his return
to Anchorage to face prosecu
tion, Ray Faisst, agent-in
charge of the Anchorage FBI
office announced.
Chenier left Kodiak sud
denly on September 2. Faisst
said a subsequent check of the
firm’s books revealed the
shortage.
The FBI agent explained
that his agency assumes juris
diction when stolea or fradu
lently obtained funds trans
posed in interstate or foreign
commerce total more than
$6,000. He added that Chenier
might still be subject to prose
cution under territorial laws.
Penalty on conviction for
'violation of the federal statute
vs a maximum of 10 years im
iprisonment or $10,000 fine or
both.
According to the FBI, Che
nier was born at Darrington.
Washington, October 7, 1922.
ASC officials said he worked
for the company for about a
year and a half.
He was in Kodiak for only a
few months.
I
i Piano and aceordian stu
dents of Dorothy S. Anderson
-Will give a recital on Thurs
day, November 12, at 8 pm at
tye Ui S. O. The public is in
vited to attend.
Mrs. Anderson said a varied
program will be presented and
will include an aceordian band
and piano duet.
Students appearing will be
Marcia Lund, Barbara Moffitt,
Svea Breckberg, Dianne Dup.
ler, Carl Smith, Frances
Lindsley, Milton Souter, Ken
neth Nekeferoff, Lenalou De
veau, Charles McLinn, Bar
bara Tegstrom and Varya
Anderson.
Loren Whittington, local
rancher, returned this week
from Idaho where he has been
since May. Whittington has a
lease for Near Island, where
he currently has eight angora
goats.
I
Mayor 11 i nek cl
Provides Today
Mayor Jack Hinckel will
preside at a luncheon meeting
today of the League of Alaska
Cities. The t^pic of discussion
will be the role of municipali
ties under state constitutions.
Lee F. Bettinger, son of the
former Kodiak mayor, is also
attending the three day meet
of the LAC. Member cities in
the LAG are Anchorage, Fair
banks, Seward, Cordova, Pal.
mer and Kodiak.
in addition to representa
tives from the member cities,
representatives of various tep
ritorial agencies are attending
the meeting. Robert Sharp,
newly hired city manager for
Kodiak, is also at the meeting.
In 1951 the annual meeting
of the LAC was held in Ko
diak. Mayor Maynard Taylor
of Anchorage is president of
the LAC this year. Last year
former Kodiak mayor Lee C.
Bettinger was president.
Legislative proposals to be
presented at this year’s con
vention include: 1. request for
the extension and fulj authori
zation in appropriations for
the Alaska Public Works. 2.
Request for construction and
maintenance of highways
through cities by the Alaska
Road Commission and the
Bureau of land Management.
3. Provisions for a territorial
weights and measures act. 4.
Increased motor fuel tax.
compulsory motor vehicle in
spection and a uniform motor
vehicle code.
Late Bulletins
By Associated Press
Washington — Delegate E.
L. Bartlett wants the . federal
government to look into the
Alaska cost of living. He has
asked the, Departments of
Labor, Defense and Interior
to get together and ask the
Bureau of the Budget to in
clude funds for such a study
in next year’s budget.
The Alaskan representative
reminded the three depart
ments that there are nearly
15,000 federal employees in
the territory and suggested
that the “usual congressional
wrangles” over living allow
ances for civilian workers
were bound to pop up con
tinaully and that some statis
tics would be helpful.
A regular meeting of the
city council will be held Mon
day evening at the city hall.
(
0„ D. Dailey Dies
Thursday
O. D. “Doe” Dailey, 58j
died around 12:10 am Thurs-j
day at Jake Foley’s ranch at
Antone Larsen Bay. His death
was reported to Foley and the
U. S. Marshal’s office Thurs
day morning by Mike Williams
who also lived at the ranch.
Dailey has been employed
by Foley at the ranch for
several months. He served as j
caretaker of the property and j
looked after the catlte.
According to local records
Omer Dewitt Dailey was born, j
August 10, 1895 in McRae,’
Arkausas. He lived in Alaska
for several years. He is report
ed to have brothers and sis-!
ters living in the states. Yes-1
terday the U, S. Commissioner!
was making arrangements toj
contact his relatives. I
Dailey’s body was brought
to Kodiak Mortuary to be pre
pared for burial by Walter
Muller and Foley on Thurs
day- Funeral arrangement are
dependent on the commission
er receiving word from
Dailey’s next of kin.
Two bear were reported kil
led at Jake Foley’s ranch at
Antone Larsen Bay this week.
The report said they are mo
lesting Foley’s cattle.
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In Custody
Mrs. Cecil Wells, 31, [left] whose wealthy husband
was slain Oct. 17 at Fairbanks, Alaska, was brought U. S.
Commis«ionpe in Seattle- Washington, Nov. 4 on telegraphed
warrant charging first degree murder. With her outside is
Wallace Aiken, [right] Seattle attorney. Woman in back, j
ground not identified. [.Pwirephoto] |
IVIrs. Wells, Musican Held
For First Degree SVlurder
t reed On $5,COO
Bond for Fairbanks
Apperance
Seattle (-T) — Mrs. Diane
Wells was released Thursday
3n $5,000 bond to return to
Fairbanks where she and a
jazz drummer face charges of
slaying her wealthy husband.
U. S. Commissioner John
Burns ordered the release of!
the 31-year-old blonde on an
order from Alaska District
CoHrt which provides she
must appear in Fairbanks on
or before November 23.
The musician charged with
her in the premeditated mur-j
der three weeks ago is Johnny !
Warren, 33. He was arrested j
in Oakland and admitted be- j
ing in the apartment building1
the night Wells wasslain. j
Difficult hunting because of
leep snow was experienced by
nostof the elk hunters this
sveek. The 15 day special hunt
jpened Nov. 1 with 40 special1
oermits being issued.
Hunting parties of three and
four went to Afognak Island
»y fishing boat early the past
week. Some hunters reported
luck hunting good oa Afognak
?ven if they experienced dif
lcuhy in finding elk.
I
Widow Arrested
In Seattle ,
Mrs Diane Wells, 31, and
John Warren, 33 year old
musician have been arrested
on charges of first-degree
murder in connection with the
slaying of her husband, Cecil
Wells in Fairbanks,
Mrs. Wells is being held in
King County jail in Seattle,
accused of shooting her 51
year old husband, president of
the All-Alaska Chamber of
; Commerce, in their Fairbanks
apartment on October 17. She
was informed of the charge
when taken before U. S. Com
missioner John Burns in Se
attle Wednesday.
Warren was picked up in
San Francisco a few hours
after the arrest of Mrs. Wells
on the same charge.
The territory’s most sen
sational murder case in the
past ten years has been given
prominent newspaper cover
age since Wells was found
dead in his bed with a .880
caliber bullet through his
head. His wife reported the
incident to police and was
found to have been brutally
beaten about the head.
warren will be immediately
extradited to Fairbanks t©
face prosecution. He reported
ly played the drums in a Fair
banks night club and left
Fairbanks on the morning of
the murder. He admitted to
stateside officers to being in
the lobby of Well’s apartment
building the night of the
murder.
Mrs. Wells was arrested Tues
day night at the Seattle-Ta
eoma Airport after she step
ped from a Pan-American Air
ways plane. The plane arrived
there from Fairbanks,
Warren reportedly arrived
in Seattle by way of the. Ab
can Highway and stayed fhw?
two days before going tP
California city.
Mrs. Wells was the fif*h
wife of the slain Fairbanks
businessman. She was picked
up at the airport on a tele
graphic warrant.
According to the Anchorage
News, Mrs. Wells is known by
Seattle police files as Diana
Walker, Diane Aspel, Diane
Clark, Diane Monk and Shelia
Diane Comma, T h ' was bori»
in Portland, Orc..,o.i, January
15, 1922.
While living in Seattle in
1948 she was married to Aspel
r Aspee. The latter listed his
ccupation as a marine engi
neer.