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Sealskin Prices 20 Percent
Lower Than Last Year
ST. LOUIS, —Sealskins sold
at prices about 20 percent lower
than last year at the spring auc
tion here Monday.
Officials of the Fouke Fur Co.
said market fluctuations “caused
by the changing Korean War situ
ation” were the cause of the price
drop.
A total of 35,558 furs were of
fered for sale for accounts of the
United States, the Union of South
Africa, Uruguay and individual
shippers..
AMOROUS PINCH
COSTS MASSEUR $125
CHICAGO, (A*>—A masseur who
was accused of pinching a police
woman customer and was pinched
by her in return, was fined $125
in municipal court yesterday.
The fine was levied by Judge
Oscar Caplan against William A.
Xritinar, 31, operator of a massage
parlor. He was arrested last Feb.
25 by policewoman Rita Meany
who testified she went to the par
lor for a massage and to investi
gate charges that Kritimar’s mas
sages were excessively amorous.
She told Judge Caplan the charges
were true in her case. He was
fined for committing a lewd act
and disorderly conduct.
Inventory Blanks at Nome Nugget
Theater Ceiling Collapse
Kills Eleven Japanese
NAGOYA, Japan, W\ — Eleven
persons were killed and 89 in
jured, 24 of them seriously, yes
terday when a ceiling collapsed in
a theater at Inazawa, near this
southern Japan city.
About 340 spectators were
packed in the concrete and steel
theater when the ceiling crashed
down. The mishap occurred just
before noon. Many children were
among the spectators waiting for
the start of a show sponsored by
a nursery to raise funds.
Former GI Pleads Guilty
To Spying on U.S. Defense
WASHINGTON, UP) — Kurt L.
Ponger, an Austrian-born former
GI, pleaded guilty Tuesday to- con
spiring to spy on U.S. defense
secrets for Communist Russia.
Ponger, 39, entered his plea 24
hours after Otto Verber, his co
defendent and brother-in-law, had
pleaded guilty to the spy conspir
acy.
Ponger pleaded guilty to- a
charge which government law
yers said carried a possible death
penalty. But the prosecutors, in
effect, waived any possibility of
the extreme penalty for Ponger.
As a result, Ponger faces a max
imum sentence of 20 years, twice
the time Verber could receive.
Crippled Air Transport
Vanishes with 23 Aboard
Enroute to Seattle
SEATTLE, UP—A crippled twin
engine air transport, believed to
be carrying 22 soldiers and a crew
of three, vanished after 2:22 a.m.
yesterday on a flight across the
Cascade mountains. The non
scheduled Miami Airline, Inc.,
was flying to Seattle.
The Coast Guard and Charles S.
Chester, Washington State aero
nautics director, both said the
plane was believed to have cleared
the towering Cascades. A large
scale aerial search was being con
centrated in an area west of Stam
pede Pass, which is about 60 miles
east of Seattle.
SANTA CLAUS IN BUSINESS
FAIRBANKS, UP — Robert Lee
Chesse asked the federal court
Tuesday to change his legal name
to Santa Claus.
He is a resident of North Pole,
Alaska, a community 14 miles
south of Fairbanks.
In his petition filed in federal
court he said he wanted his name
changed for “business and pecu
niary reasons.”
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Thursday Luncheon
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George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
HAGEN
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Phone Main 40
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No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.1C. *
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
^Dewey Goodrich, President
POLAR CURIO SHOP
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Office: Wallace Apartment No. 2
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Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208