Prospects For
Statehood Brighter
Than Ever Now
WASHINGTON, UP>— Secretary
of the Interior Seaton said Wed
nesday he thinks “prospects for
statehood for Alaska and. Hawaii
are brighter than they ever have
been.”
Seaton told a news conference
he based that view on personal
knowledge dating back to 1952,
when he came here as a member
of the Senate. . t
“It is purely my personal view,
but I hope Congress will see fit
to keep the bills separate,” Sea
ton said.
Asked why he thought the
statehood chances of the two ter
ritories were now at their bright
est, Seaton said:
“The President has repeatedly
urged it and both have gained
strength as people —* including
many senators ‘and representa
tives'—gained more knowledge of
the facts of life.”
Cub Scouts All Over the
Nation To Study Alaska
For February Project
Cub Scouts and their parents
had an interesting meeting Sat
urday evening with Rev. Meck
lenburg showing them slides of
their own Achievement Show.
Ricky Young was awarded his
Lion Badge and a Gold and Sil
ver Arrow. Two Bobcats intro
duced to Scouting were Lonnie
O’Connor and Doug Doyle.
Next month’s theme will be
“Exploring Alaska” and Cub
Scouts all over America will be
studying Alaska. The local group
has already begun to receive mail
from dens in other parts of Amer
ica for literature and information
on this part of Alaska.
Den meetings thru the month
will be devoted to studying points
along the Alaska Highway, and
handicraft will include the mak
ing of gold pokes and Eskimo
snow glasses.
Plans are also underway for
the Blue and Gold Banquet to be
held in February.
Carl Liebig will be in charge of
the program for the Pack meeting
in February and he will show
slides to took on the Alaska High
way last fall.
YES. DEAR!
DETROIT, Wi — There was a
loud crash as the two cars came
together. The drivers bolted out
of their vehicles, looked at each
other and cut short what might
have been twin torrents of harsh
words.
“Mike!” exclaimed Mrs. Helen
O’Mel].
“Helen!” Shouted her husband
Michael.
The O’Mells were on their way
to jobs in different parts of the
city.
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19-Year-Old Slayer of 10 Persons
Captured In Wyoming Badlands
By JOE McGOWAN
DOUGLAS, Wyo., Wh—A young
gunman sought in a wave of 10
savage killings was run to earth
Wednesday in the badlands of
eastern Wyoming.
Charles Starkweather, 19, and
his brunette girl friend, Caril
Fugate, 14, were captured after
nine persons in Nebraska and one
in Wyoming had been slain in a
three-day period.
The girl told officers she fear
ed Starkweather, red-haired and
wearing rimless glasses, would
kill her.
Automobile glass shattered by
bullets in the wild chase that led
to Starkweather’s capture nicked
the gunman’s ear.
Sheriff Earl Heflin said: “It
was his own blood that got him.
He thought he was shot deader’n
hell when he saw that blood.”
“He thought he was bleeding to
death,” the sheriff added. “That’s
the kind of yellow s.o.b. he is.”
At Lincoln, Neb., Guy Stark
weathef, the killer’s father said:
“He is to lose his sight within a
year,” because of being hit on
he head by a piece of lumber.
The father said he believed “ev
erything just built up inside
Charlie until he went berserk.”
Sheriff Heflin served papers on
Starkweather in his cell charging
him with the Wyoming slaying of
a Montana shoe saleman. The
sheriff said he had a hand
written statement from Stark
weather, a statement “about as
long as a rope.”
The bandy - legged little gun
toter complained mostly of a
small nick in his ear suffered
when a sheriff’s bullet shattered
glass in his stolen sedan.
He appeared unconcerned about
the girl. She was put under seda
tion after she had fled his car
in hysterics shortly before his
capture.
Starkweather told officers he
had forced the Fugate girl to go
along with him on the wild ride
that ended in Wyoming cattle
country.
First degree murder charges
already have been filed against
the pair in Nebraska.
Benjamin Franklin, among his
other accomplishments, invented
the harmonica.
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, DEATH LIST
DOUGLAS, Wyo., Iff)—Here is
the death toll charged to Charles
Starkweather, 19, by authorities:
Marion Bartlett, 57, his wife
Velcfa, 37, mother of Caril Fu
gate, and their daughter, Betty
Jean, not quite 3 years old, all of
Lincoln, Neb. Mr. and Mrs. Bart
lett were shot in the head. The
gird died of a fractured skull.
August Meyer, 70, Bennet,
Neb., bachelor farmer who died
of a shotgun blast in the head.
Carol King, 16, and Robert Jen
sen, 17, Bennet, high school
sweethearts whose bodies were
foundrin a storm celler at an
abandoned school house near
Bennet. They had been shot in
the head.
C. Lauer Ward, 48, Lincoln
businessman, and his wife, Clara,
about 46, and Lillian Fencel,
about 60, their housekeeper. All
shot in the Ward home.
Merle Collison, 37, Great Falls,
Mont., shoe salesman. Collison
was shot nine times with a .22
rifle.
In addition to the 10 deaths in
two days, police want to question
t Starkweather about the death of
21-year-old Robert C. Colvert of
Lincoln, found shot in the head
last Dec. 1.
J. Earl Cooper Files For
Senate In 3rd Division
ANCHORAGE — Sen. J. Earl
Cooper made it a four-way race
for two Democratic nominations
for the territorial senate when he
filed for re-election.
Cooper is a former 2nd Division
federal judge and U.S. Attorney
for the 3rd Division.
Other Democrats in tbfe Sen
ate race for two nominations are
Rep. Irene Ryan of Anchorage,
Leroy Duncan of Cordova, and
Sen. A1 Owen of Kodiak.
Cooper is seeking his second
straight four-year Senate term.
So is Owen. Mrs. Ryan has served
in two sessions of the House. Dun
can is a newcomer to the legisla- -
tive campaign.
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION, TERRITORY OF ALASKA
Notice of Hearing of Final Report
and Account of Administrator and
Determination of Inheritance
No. 1060
In The Matter of The Estate of WALTER
GIERMAN, deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska,
Nome, Alaska, an Alaskan banking cor
poration, by and through its Executive
Vice President, J. G. Manning, Admin
istrator of the above entitled estate, has
filed its final report and Account with
this Court, and that the 2nd day of
April, 1958, at the hour of ten o’clock
a.m. of said day, at the office of the
above named Court at Nome, Alaska,
has by Court Order been fixed as the
time and place for a hearing on said
Report and Account; and also at such
time and place the Court will determine
and adjudicate the heirs and beneficiar
ies of this estate.
Objections, if any there be* to said
Final Report and Account, and proof of
heirship will be heard at said time.
Dated this 30th day of January. 1958.
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska,
An Alaskan banking corportion,
Administrator,
By J. G. Manning,
Executive Vice President
James A. von der Heydt
Attorney at Law
Nome. Alaska
Publish Jan. 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 1958
Some People Have All The Luck
; CLARKSVILLE, Ark., IB—Two
years ago Bob Brazil lost a bill
fold containing $19 when his boat
rapsized in Horsehead Lake near
here.
Brazil said that while driving
along the lake yesterday he not
iced a vaguely familiar object ly
ing on the shore line. It was his
billfold, still holding the $19.
The level of the lake was low
ered recently, Brazil said, and the
billfold was in the exact spot
where his boat capsized.
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