Pyromaniac Confesses
Setting Anchorage Fires i
That Cost $300,000
ANCHORAGE, Itf)—An Anchor-;
age youth whose “strong urge to ’
set fires” cost the area close to j
$300,000 in fire damage was
scheduled to be sent to a fed
eral institution for mental obser
vation.
Judge J. L. McCarrey ordered
Edwin “Wimpy” Meier, 20, in
stitutionalized for an indefinite
period after hearing testimony by
the Alaska Department of Health
psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Ander
son.
Meier had confessed to startipg
fires at the Anchorage high
school auditorium, the Alaska Na
tional Guard armory here and a
series of smaller blazes over a
period of several months.
He was a volunteer fireman and
aroused the suspicion of other
members of the crew when he
was almost always the first ar
rival at a fire.
Russians Report Discovery of
Underwater Mountain Chain
LONDON, UP> — Moscow radio
said yesterday a Russian survey
has discovered a previously un
known underwater “mountain
chain” in the northwest Pacific.
It said the chain extends from
the Hawaiian Ridge, previously
thought to end at the 45th paral
lel, to Kamchatka on the Soviet
Union’s eastern shore. One peak
in the ridge rises three miles, it
said.
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Embarrassed Police
Find What Was Matter
With “Drunk” Motorist
Sometimes there’s more to a
story than meets the eye.
That’s what embarrassed police
in Norwich, N.Y., have found out.
They arrested Roswell Woods
for drunken driving—although
Woods insisted he was perfectly
sober.
But police said Woods had all
the symptoms. His eyes 'were j
glassy, his speech thick, his walk i
unsteady, and he couldn’t pass a !
“drunk-o-meter” test by blowing!
up a balloon.
Then Woods explained.
The glassy stare was caused by
a glass eye. Asked about his
speech, Woods explained that he
had a partial paralysis of the
throat.
He couldn’t walk steadily be
cause part of a bone in one leg
had been used to replace the
shattered bone in his other leg.
As for the failure to blow up
the balloon . . . Wods lost half of
his lungs in the war. Those were
among the 27 injuries he suffered
in a South Pacific battle during
the second world war.
Woods was acquitted.
In the northeast and far west
sections of the United States more
than 98 per cent of babies are
born in hospitals.
WEATHER FORECAST I
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Cloudy with occasional snow
tonight. Partly cloudy and colder
Tuesday. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight 25, high Tues. 28.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
31, low 26. Max. wind 26 mph.
from the east. Sunrise 9:09 a.m.,
sunset 3:20 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 7, low -4. Extremes this date
since 1907: high 37 in 1940, low
-40 in 1923.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow • -4 Cloudy
Kotzebue 25 Cloudy
Wales 31 Snow
Nome 31 Snow
Unalakleet 30 Part cloudy
Bethel 28 Cloudy
McGrath 7 Cloudy
Anchorage 28 Cloudy
Fairbanks 0 Part cloudy
Whitehorse 18 Part cloudy
Juneau 43 Rain
Ketchikan 44 Rain
Seattle 44 Rain
THIEVES STEAL JEWELS
OF FRAUD SQUAD CHIEF
LONDON, Li?) — Thieves in a
midday raid Friday stole several
hundred pounds worth of jewel
ry from the home of chief super
intendent Robert Stevens, head of
Scotland Yard’s fraud squad. No
! one was home at the time.
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Alaska Housewife
Wins Carneg ie
Hero Fund Award •
PITTSBURGH, UP—A 33-year
old Alaska housewife, who dove
into the ice-covered Kenai River
in four-helow-zero weather last
February and pulled a small boy
up onto the broken ice, was
named winner of a Carnegie Hero
Fund award Saturday.
Mrs. Catherine L. Coppock, of
Cooper Landing, will receive a
bronze medal, the commission
said. Despite her heroism, the boy,
three-year-old Sherman C. Smith,
died.
Similar awards were also given
for heroic feats in 10 states and
Scotland.
The citation for Mrs. Coppock
said the Smith boy and two- little
girls were playing on the Kenai
River ice Jast Feb. 17. Thin ice
broke under him, dropping him
into water eight feet deep.
As he drifted downstream, his
face barely above water, the girls’
screams attracted Mrs. Coppock’s
attention.
She ran down a flight of steps
and 330 feet to the opening in the
ice. Then, as she lay prone and
crawled on the ice to where she
might meet him, the ice broke be
neath her.
She swam eight feet to him, and
returned and lifted him up onto
the ice. It then broke repeatedly
under her before she was able to
pull herself out.
With her clenched hands stiff
with cold, she carried him to the
banks of the river as her water
logged clothes rapidly froze. An
other woman helped her get him
indoors. His frozen clothing was
removed and he was given artifi
cial respiration but he could not
be revived.
As for herself, she was badly
numbed and suffered from shock,
but recovered.
GIRL SCOUT NEWS
We have to start bringing a
dime each meeting now. We have
our Girl Scout Handbook, too. It
costs a dollar. We are studying it
now.
We have a new member. Her
name is Carolyn Johnson. She
and her sister are in our troop.
We are planning on a hike. We
will talk about it Wednesday. We
got our catalogs, too.
—Carol Carlson, Scribe
iNome Directory
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 3rd Monday of each month.
:N ^ Beverly Morgan
>sNC Worthy Matron
«-c’v VXh Helen Dunbar
V Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West. Nome. Alaska
10 to 12 ajn. 1 to 5 p.m.
Phone Main 82 — F.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Charles F. Lewis, W.M,
Norvln W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets 1st and 3n* Thursday each month.
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