Jacob Carter Drives
Truck Into Quonset Hut
About five o’clock yesterday
morning Jacob Carter, driving a
pickup truck, ran into a quonset
hut belonging to Ben Young. The
resulting damage was estimated
at about $300 to the hut and
$250 to the car.
Carter was arrested on a drunk
and disorderly charge and also
for giving liquor to a minor who
was in the car with him at the
time of the accident. He was fined
$100 in City Court and sentenced
ito serve 30 days in jail.
George Bayer's Father Visits
Mr. and Mrs. George Bayer
and their children have been en
joying a visit from “Grandpa”
Bayer for the past week. From
here, Mr. Bayer will go to Juneau
to visit with his daughter, Mrs.
Calvin Poole, formerly of Nome.
FRESH TROUT at U.S. MERC
Nome Market To Be
Under New Management
The announcement has been
made that the Nome Market will
be closed until Friday for in
ventory and then it will re-open
under new management.
Teddy Reed's Daughter, Alice,
Makes Surprise Visit Home
Mrs. Alice DeHues surprised
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Teddy
Reed, by arriving for a short visit
this week. %
Alice and her husband, Arnold
DeHues, and their four children
live at College, Alaska, where he
is employed by the University of
Alaska.
Fire At City Power Plant
There was a temporary power
shut-off at 8 o’clock this morning
caused by a fire in the switch
board at the power plant. The
Fire Department responded but
there was no damage.
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60 YEARS SERVING ALASKA
LAST FREIGHTER
FOR NORTON SOUND AREA
SAILS FROM SEATTLE
SEPTEMBER 20
Will call al St. Michael and Nome
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Freighter Sailings from Seattle
EVERY TUESDAY
Calling at Seward and Valdes
And every Friday for Seward
Gen. Atkinson of The
Alaskan Air Command
Is Visitor In Nome Today
Lt. Gen. Joesph Atkinson, com
mander of the Alaskan Air Com
mand, accompanied by his wife
and son, was a visitor in Nome
today. Gen. Atkinson, who has
been the top military officer in
Alaska as commander of the
Alaska Command, relinquished
that post recently to Maj. Gen.
Frank Armstong of the Army.
He, however, retains the Air
Command.
Covenant Missionaries From
White Mountain Go On Furlough
Mr. and Mrs. A.V. Brodin and
two children who have been at
White Mountain for the past five
years with the Covenant Church,
are taking a well-earned fur
lough. They left yesterday for
their former home in Thief River
Falls, Minn.
L.E. 0*1 Arrive* For Visit
With Children In Nome
L. E. Ost arrived for a visit
here with his three daughters and
their famlies which include 19
grandchildren. The three daugh
ters .are: Mrs. Betty Doyle, Mrs.
Lois Mclver and Mrs. Ruth
Towner.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Mary Ellen Klement
son.
Discharged: John Kakaruk, W.
Mumford, Tolbert Scott, Margaret
Segonna and female infant, Alma
Tungwenuk and infant.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Tuesday were: Mrs. R.
Amundsen and two children, Mrs.
DeWold, Miss Constance Erick
son, Mrs. Gunnar Langus, W. W.
Laws, Mr. Dawes, Mr. Stenback.
Departing for Fairbanks were:
Lt. Brooks, Sgt. Brooks, Mary
Lou Amarok, Helen Glavinovich,
Vic Richardson, Tom Jensen,
Wallace Karston, Herman Gustof
son. For Seattle: Mr. and Mrs.
A.V. Brodin and two children.
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MEETING TQNIGHT—8:00 P.M.
AT THE CITY HALL
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The Man To See Is
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WANTED TO RENT—By couple,
furnished house for the winter.
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FRIDAY, SATURDAY,
MARJORIE MAIN
and
PERCY KILBRIDE
in
Ma and Pa Kettle
At Home
Harris Longfellow, 93,
Former Nome Resident,
Dies in Seattle
SEATTLE Wt—Funeral services
will be held here tomorrow for
Harris D. Longfellow, 93, an early
day U.S. deputy marshal at Nome,
who died Saturday. Longfellow
was bom in Machias, Maine, and
came to Seattle prior to 1889. He
later moved to Alaska and spent
many years both at Nome and at
Dawson, Y.T., before returning
to Seattle.
IN COMMISSIONER'S COURT
Frank Liles was bound over to
the Grand Jury for contributing
to the delinquency of a minor.
Commissioner Returns
With Skeleton Found
In Sawtooth Range
U.S. Commissioner Herb Jenks
and party returned from a trip
in the Sawtooth Range where
they picked up the bones of a
human skeleton which will be
sent to a laboratory in the States
for classification as to age, size,
and to try to determine how long
it had been dead.
They report that berries were
in abundance everywhere they
went. The blueberries are so
large, Jenks said, that May Bale
and two companions picked 11
gallons in three hours. Caribou
l were also reported in the area.
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GUT-UP
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