Shipwrecked Pair
Kill Skipper, Steal
Rescuers’ Boat
NASSAU, Bahamas, UPI — Two
shipwrecked Americans plundered
their rescuers, shot a charter boat
skipper to death and made off
with his boat in a piratical exploit
at a lonely Bahama island Sunday.
The pair fled into Cuban waters i
while an unarmed U. S. Coast
Guard plane hovered overhead,
powerless to interfere.
Another Coast Guard plane res
cued the wife of one fugitive, a
crewman of the stolen cabin cruis
er Muriel III, and four Pennsyl
vania sport fishermen who told
of being terrorized by the desper
adoes’ debate whether to kill all
witnesss to the slaying of Capt.
Angus Beatwright, 55.
The woman gave her name as
Barbara Table, 18, and- said she
was shipwrecked with her hus
band, Alvin, 23, and William Sees,
23, Tuesday in a boat the three
took from Key West, Fla.
The Muriel III was off Elbow
Cay, 106 miles south of Miami,
when Boatwright spied mirror
signals and saw the wreckage of
a boat.
“The skipper was pretty leery
of going in close,” said Kent Ho
kanson, 21, mate of the Muriel III.
“We thought they might be gun
smugglers or Cubans.”
“Then this guy Sees swam out to
us. We let him aboard and he
wanted us to go in closer and
pick up another man and a girl.
There was an argument. He pulled
a revolver from his pants.
“Captain Boatwright got a shark
rifle and Sees shot him twice,
once between the eyes and once
in the chest.
“The other man, Table, swam
out next. They threatened to kill
us, but decided not to.
Hokanson said Boatwright was
floated ashore on life jackets but
died in a few minutes. The des
peradoes sped away in the Muriel
III toward Cuba, 30 miles to the
south. The Coast Guard cutter
Ariadne, ordered to intercept it,
was too far away to do so.
DEMOCRATIC CLUB
MEETING
APRIL 28th
CITY HALL 8 P. M.
U.S. Vehicle Production
Has Passed 180 Millions
DETROIT, UO—The Automotive
News Almanac, to be published
Monday, says car and truck pro
duction in the United States now j
has passed 180 million vehicles, of
which more than 70 million still
are in use. .
The almanac is an annual pub
lication of the trade paper Auto
motive News.
It is estimated wholesale value
of the 147,948,000 cars and 32,
777,000 trucks at more than 200
billion dollars.
Among other facts and figures
in the publication is a note that
in the United States taxes of all
kinds on vehicles totaled $9,328,
000,000 in 1959, a rise of almost a
billion dollars from 1958.
President and Directors of M & M
Bank Visit Here Over Weekend
Ed Rusing, president of the
Miners and Merchants Bank, ac
companied by two Fairbanks di
rectors, Leslie Nerland and Nick
Nussbaumer, were here over the
weekend for a special meeting of
the Board of Directors of the
M & M Bank.
Mr. Nerland was accompanied
by his father-in-law of Vancou
ver, B.C., who was on his first
trip to Nome. Mr. Kildoll is a re
tired sea captain who has seen
much of the coast of Alaska dur
ing his active years at sea.
SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE
STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
MARY JANE JEFFORD. Deceased.
No. 60-7- P
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Mrs.
J. H. Alexander has been duly appointed
the Executrix of the estate of Mary Jane
Jefford. deceased, by order of the Judge
of the above-named Court.
All persons having claims against said
estate shall present them, in proper
legal form, with vouchers attached, to
the said Executrix at Nome, Alaska,
within a period of six (6) months from
the date of this notice.
DATED this 1st day of April. 1960.
MRS. J. H. ALEXANDER.
Executrix.
Virgil D. Vochoska.
Attorney for Executrix.
Publish April 4, 11, 18, 25.
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• HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES •
Archers Given
Green Light to
Hunt Alaska Bear
JUNEAU, UPi — Bow and arrow
hunters last week won the right
to go after Alaska’s biggest game
animals — brown, grizzly and
polar bear.
The State Fish and Game
Board, on a 6-1 vote with one
member abstaining, approved a
motion by Board Chairman Rich
ard Janson of Cordova to author
ize the archery weapons for bear
in all except Game Units No. 1
through No. 5.
That leaves the area from the
Yakutat District south through the
brown bear panhandle country
closed to such hunting by bow and
arrow. But bear will be fair game
for the archers elsewhere.
The bow and arrow is legal for
other game throughout the state,
but the 1960 regulations prepared
by the board last fall banned its
use for the bigger bears only.
The board, on a 3-3 tie vote
with two abstentions, failed to
pass another motion by Janson
which would have required resi
dent bow hunters to be accom
panied by legally licensed hunt
ers carrying legal firearms.
More than two dozen amend
ments to the state’s commercial
fishing regulations were approved,
most of them technical in nature
and relating to rules within vari
ous commercial fishing districts.
The board rejected a proposal
calling for a ban on the use of
multiple-engine aircraft on polar
bear hunts by restricting such ac
tivities to single motor planes.
But it approved a closure to feral
reindeer in Game Units 18, 22 and
23.
A proposal advanced by the
Ketchikan, Seward and Fairbanks
advisory committees, to permit
the shooting of wolves without a
trapping license, was approved.
The board also voted to add to
regulations a prohibition against
sale of Alaska big game skull,
antlers or horns.
American Aviation
Pioneer is Suicide
PHILADELPHIA, UPt — Harold
Pitcairn, 62, a pioneer in American
aviation, shot1 and killed himself
in his fashionable suburban home
Saturday, only a few hours after
making a humorous speech at a
giant 75th birthday party for his
brother.
Dr. John Simpson, Montgomery
County coroner, ruled suicide in
the death of the industrialist who
helped pioneer air mail service
and introduced the autogiro to the
United States.
Police said Pitcairn’s wife,
Clara, told them she had -heard a
shot about 2 a.m. She ran to the
study of their big medieval-style
stone mansion and found her hus
band slumped in his desk chair. A
seven-shot automatic was on the
desk, two shots fired.
NOTICE or
INVITATION TO BID
Sealed bids will be accepted
until 5 p.m.. May 10, 19(0, at the
Superintendent's Office, None
Public Schools for the following:
Project No. 1
Carpenter work required to ef
fect alterations in two classroom
in Old School Building.
Project No. 3
Painting of exterior of Oid
School Building, including Gillis
addition.
Project No. 3
Painting of exterior of Annex.
Separate bids must be sub
mitted for each of the above pro
jects. Combined bids will be re
jected without consideration. Bids
will be opened at the regular
meeting of the Nome School
Board, May 10. at 8:30 p.m. The
Board reserves the right to reject
any or all bids. Copies of specifi
cations and details are available
at the Superintendent's Office,
Nome Public Schools.
Homes On The Half Shell
NEW HOMES SHIPPED IN TWO PIECES is prefabricating
twist that a Leesburg, Fla., construction firm has recently de
veloped. Idea allows buyers to occupy their new two-bedroom
dwellings a mere 12 manhours after its halves arrive by Inter
national truck at building site. Even cabinets and wiring already
are in place. All that remains to be done is bolt halves to each
other and to foundation.
JACKED-UP HALF is lowered
onto foundation footings laid
earlier. Homes have 680 square
feet of living space, sell for
$6,990 each within a 500-mile
radius of Leesburg plant. Price
includes hauling of six-ton halves
and cost of foundation.
CARPORT AND COVERED PA
TIO extend exterior lines, plac
ing 1,502 square feet under roof.
To paraphrase an old saying,
"Home is where trucks park it.”
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