BOTH OF SUE'S ^
BOY FRIENDS HAVE
GONE AWAY
FOR THE
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS;
/oh, THINGS AREN'T UJjl
SO DESPERATE, SUE ....111
THEY'LL BE BACK
after Christmas/
STEVE, YOU'LL
KNOW MOTHER stopped m
TALKING LONG ENOUGH TO HELP
ME WRAP MY CHRISTMAS
~_u.
WELL, I FINALLY FINISHED
ALL MY CHRISTMAS y
SHOPPING, MOM/
I
AND DON'T FORGET
TO LEAVE A GLASS
OF MILK AND SOME.
^cookies for Santa/
Thwarted Gunman Kills i
Grocery Store Manager
HARVARD, 111., U!)—A gunman,1
thwarted in his attempt to force
a grocery manager to open his
store, abducted the grocer, fatally
shot him and dumped his body
in a field last night.
A man, carrying a blood-stained
revolver and whose clothes were
spotted with blood, later was
seized by police and they said he
admitted the slaying.
He was identified as Robert
Phillips, about 28, a father of two
small children, of Rockford, 111.
The gunman was balked in his
attempt to have the store man
ager, Lyle Larson, 45, reopen the
store when an unidentified man
walked by and asked Larson,
“What’s going on?” The witness,
who said the gunman warned him
not to interfere and drove away
with Larson, notified the sheriff’s
office.
Phillips told the sheriff he had
forced Larson from the car into
the field where he pistol-whipped
him and shot him in the head.
Sounds Reasonable
SPENCER, la., GP)—The agents
of Santa Claus here received this
| letter today from David Jones, 4:
“Dear Santa—My little brother
; is Allan. He is 10 months old. He
• wants his teeth for Christmas.”
Convict Spends
39th Christmas '
In Segregated Cell
SAN FRANCISCO, (^r—Robert
Stroud, Alcatraz convict, this year
will be alone with his Christmas
irt a segregation cell for the 39th
time in his 65 years of life.
Stroud has been confined in a
segregation building since Presi
dent Wilson in 1916 commuted his
death sentence in the slaying of a
Leavenworth federal prison of
ficer.
Stroud originally was sentenced
to a life term in 1909, when he
was 19, for a murder in an Alaska
bar. He claimed then that he
fought Charles Darner, the Alaska
slaying victim, because Darner
was abusing a night club girl.
Paul J. Madigan, Alcatraz war
den, said Stroud has been confined
in segregation since 1916 by De
partment of Justice order. In seg
regation, a convict is confined
alone, but is allowed reading,
writing materials and regular
prison meals. Solitary confine
ment restricts diet and denies all
communication and correspon
dence.
Madigan said -Stroud was trans
ferred from McNeil Island, Wash.,
after an assault on a prisoner
there. He came to Alcatraz from
Leavenworth D^c. 19, 1942.
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| ‘Tough’ Police Killer
I Faints When He Is
I Strapped in Electric Chair
EDDYVILLE, Ky., UP>—Chester
Merrifield, a tough outlaw in a
life devoted to cime, fainted in
the electric chair and was put to
death early today without regain
ing consciousness.
He died for killing Louisville
Policeman Alvin Keown.
The 37-year-old Louisville gun
man, crippled in a gun fight with
Keown in a night club parking
lot in 1953, hobbled to the execu
tion chamber on crutches.
Warden M. W. Thomas said
Merrifield fainted as he was being
buckled into the chair. He made
no statment in the d^ath house.
However, he gave the warden a
written statement for release af
terward in which he denied kill
ing the patrolman.
Merrifield played out the “tough
boy” role until fre took his seat
on the death chair. He refused his
last meal and ordered a pot of
hot coffee instead. Then he de
clined religious services, saying
he would prefer to sleep.
Graham, Plane Saboteur,
Will Have Lonely Xmas
Dinner In Psycho Ward
DENVER, W — It will be a
lonely Christmas dinner for the
occupant of Room 307 at Colorado
i Psychopathic Hospital.
Hospital officials said yester
day that John Gilbert Graham, 23,
accused saboteur of a United Air
Lines plane in which 44 persons
perished, will eat turkey and
trimmings alone in his 9 by 11
cubicle.
He is expected to have two visi
tors—his minister, the Rev. Lloyd
C. Kellams, and his wife, Gloria.
There will be no gifts for Gra
ham, however.
He is charged with murdering
his mother, Mrs. Daisie E. King,
54. She died in the Nov. 1 crash
of the big four-engine plane in
a northern Colorado beet field.
Graham is under observation at
the hospital. He has pleaded in
nocent by reason of insanity.
Pan Am Held Up on
Honolulu Run by Winds
: SAN FRANCISCO UD—Pan Am
i erican World Airways Wednesday
! night resumed westbound passen- »
ger flights to Honolulu ; iter head
winds of up to 100 miles an hour
abated.
Head winds of between 50 and
CO miles an hour still were blow
ing over the Pacific course and
wes.bound flights of 13!£ hours
were estimated, compared with a
normal 9 hours 45 minutes.'
Nome Directory
J
NOME ROTARY CLUB
George Bayer, Pres..
Joe Kroninger, Sec.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Tuesday Noon
DR. FRED M. LANGSAM, Pres.
ALASKA CHAPTER VO i
Order of Eastern Star
Meets 1st & Sd Monday of each month.
Beverly Morgan
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
I ANVIL LOHGE
* • % f No. 140
jr'y\ Harry A. Lewis, W.M.
' Norvin W. Lewis Secy.
Met* 1st and 3d Thursday each month.
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