Juneau Engbezzler, Who
Skipped BaiI, Jk r
Arrested In Portland
^KETCHIKAN, UB—The United
States Marshal’s, office reported
Friday the arrest at Portland,
Qre., of Ralph Marshall, Ketchi
kan accountant sought since last
January, to face embezzlement
charges.
Before his disappearance he was
arraigned on charges of embezzl
ing over $1,000 from the Water
front Employers of Alaska, for
whom he worked. He was at lib
erty on $5,000 bond.
He has waived extradition, the
marshal’s office said, and will be
returned here to face trial during
the fall conrt term.
In a second charge brought here
by Josephine Hall, Marshall also
was accused to embezzling nearly
$3,000 from the Arctic Bar, of |
Ketchikan. Ho will be arraigned ;
on that charge on his return north !
tihe marshal’s office said. Bond j
has been set at $1,500.
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Bermuda limits auto speeds to
a maximum of 20 miles an hour
and no family is permitted to own
more than one automobile.
WEATIflSR FORECAST
pom pi led by the
U.S. DQ0t» cfc Commerce Weather'Bureau ;
Partly cloudy with winds most
ly northerly fo to 15 mph. Low
temperature expected tonight 28,
high tomorrow 47.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: highest tempera
ture 52, lowest 31. Maxinjum
wind 16 mph from the East. Sun
rise 6:20 a.m., sunset 5:19 p.m.
A year ago today: high temper
ature 45, low 26. Extremes this
date since 1907: highest 53 in
1950, lowest 12 in 1919.
Station Temp. Weather
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Barrow 31 Clear
Kotzebue 32 Cloudy
Wales 33 Cloudy
Nome 37 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 33 Clear
Bethel 36 Clear
McGrath 29 Clear
Anchorage 38 Clear
Fairbanks 28 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 26 Clear
Juneau 38 Clear
Ketchikan 47 Clear
Seattle 51 Cloudy
San Francisco 58 Part cloudy
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Otto Whiele, Bade From
Mining Operations Oh
The Kougarok River1:; •
Kougaroker Otto Whiele is
back in town from his'group of
17 placer mining claims along the
Kougarok River, just above the
recently built 4,000-foot Quartz
Creek field, 65 miles- porth of
Nome.
Mr. Whiele has been prospect
ing his holdings since April, and
leaves soon for Kolmar, Sweden,
where he will visit a sister and
the scenes of his boyhhood.
Otto will resume prospecting in
the spring . . . says he wants to
be ready to open up the ground
at the time of the expected com
pletion, in 1956, of the long
awaited connecting ro'ad link with
Nome.
He also brought to town some
massive vegetables, some turnips
weighing up to 4 pounds, grown
in his Kougarok garden.
Vest Pocket War Simmers Down
TAIPEH, Formosa, UP)—Nation
alist planes and warships contin
ued to patrol the China coast op
posite Formosa Monday while the i
“vest pocket war” over Quemoy
simmered down to a few artillery
bursts, the Defense Ministry said.
Paul,J$B$sn«u$ Leaves #K r<
For States After Summer
At Dahf Creek Operations
Old |im^- Rassmus -o^ipe
in from his Dahl Creek mining^
camp, 70 miles north of Nome
last Wednesday and departed for
Seattle ott "Pan American Aiir
ways’ Thursday flight.
Mr. Rassmus landed on the
Nome beach in July, 1900, short
ly after his discharge from tho
United States Navy in which he
enlisted during the Spanish-Am
erican war, and took part in the
famous battle of Manila Bay.
After 40 straight years mining
and trapping in the Kougarok dis
trict of Seward Peninsula, Mr.
Rassmus removed his winter resi
dence to Oakland, Calif., return
ing north each spring.
He is now 82 years of age, in
excellent health, and still reads
without glasses.
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MASONS ATTENTION
First regular communication of
winter for Anvil Lodge No. 140
F & A M will be held Thursday,
October 7, 1954 at 8 p.m.
By order of John M. Cooley,
Master
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BE TROUBLE
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Red Loudspeakers Say '*
Quemoy Will Be. Jn Red
Hands By Oct. 15th
' ^TAlPEH, Formosa,-fay— Com
munist* loudspeakers on the China
coast are broadcasting warnings
to Nationalist defenders of Que
moy that the offshore island base
will be in Red hands by Oct. 15,
an official spokesman said Satur
day.
“We never take their word ser
iously,” said Lt. Gen. Chang Yi
Ting, Nationalist army spokes
man.
He told a news conference that
immediately after the fighting
around Quemoy began Sept. 3 the
Communists boasted the island
would be theirs by Sept. II.
“I think that after Oct. 15 they
will set another- date,”' Chang
added.
Sporadic artillery fire was re
ported Saturday between Nation
alist batteries on Quemoy and
Communist guns on Amoy, seven
miles to the west,, and on other
mainland bases.
Soviet General Says Russians
Must Hot Withdraw From Austria
MOSCOW, UP)—A Soviet gen
eral said today Russia must not
withdraw its troops from Austria
because the United States would
establish a bomber base at Vienna
for possible attacks on the Soviet
Union. He is Maj. Gen. B. Fomin
of the reserve.
About two-thirds of the fatal
accidental falls in the United
States each year occur in or about
the home.
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Sale At The Nome Nugget Office.
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Nome Directory
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Ben Young, Pres.
Joe Kroninger, Secy.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Comerce
MEETS EVERY TUESDAY NOON
BOYD HARWOOD, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the 8rd Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West, Nome, Alaska
10 to 12 a.m. 1 to 5 pjn.
Phone Main 02 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvln W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st end 3rd Thursday each month.