Mother of Judy Garland
Dies On Parking Lot Of
Firm Where She Worked
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Iff)—
Actress Judy Garland and her
husband, Sid Luft, were due here
Tuesday to make funeral arrange
ments for her mother, Mrs. Ethel
Milne Gilmore, who died Mon
day near the aircraft factory
where she worked, apparently of
a heart attack.
The body of Mrs. Gilmore, 56,
was found between two cars on
the parking lot of Douglas Air
craft Company. She had been a
$60-a-wee'k clerk at the factory
for a year, copy-reading purchase
orders.
In recent years Mrs. Gilmore
and the daughter she helped be
come a famous actress and singer
reportedly have been estranged.
Light Plane Reported
Missing, Lands Safely
On Lesser Slave Lake
EDMONTON, Alta., OP) — E. W.
Seiler of Kizig Salmon, Alaska,
pilot of a light plane repozrted
missing Monday, has landed safe
ly near the settlement of Faust,
Alta., on the south shore of Less
er Slave Lake, about 30 miles east
of Gi'ande Pz-airie.
The Royal Canadian Air Force
said Monday Seiler had tele
phoned Grande Prairie that he
and his passengers were safe.
The RCAF said Seiler brought
his light, wheeled plane down in
a field and made his way to Faust
where he notified authorities. The
two passengez's aboard his plane
were members of his family.
Earlier, the Air Force said the
plane was missing on the 240
mile flight from Grande Prairie
to Edmonton.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Anchorage Bakery Cuts
Price Bread 5 Centra Loaf
ANCHORAGE, UP) — Does a
five - cent - a - loaf cut in bread
prices sound good to you?
It’s the cut announced by a
bakery here on large loaves.
There’s only one catch to it.
For persons not accustomed to
this land of high prices, the drop
leaves the price at 35 cents a
loaf.
Roy Gilman, head of the bakery
announcing the cut, said it is due
to new modern machinery and
better “know how.”
Relatives and Friends
Watch British Airliner
Crash at Irish Airport
BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
Twenty - seven persons including
two Kansas school teachers and a
year-old baby, died Monday night
in the flaming wreckage of a Brit
ish airliner that crashed as it
came in to land at Belfast’s air
port. Seven other passengers were
injured.
A horrified crowd of relatives
and friends, gathered to greet the
passengers, saw the tw'in-engined
British European Airway plane
hit a beacon tower, careen against
the airport’s radio control build
ing and crumple in flames on the
main runway.
Only one of the 35 persons
aboard the ill-fated craft—Stew
ard Jack Young, 26, of Belfast—
escaped unhurt. He was flung
from the tail section into a muddy
ditch when the plane broke up.
A screaming, panic - stricken
girl ran from the wreckage with
her clothing afire. Rescuers
chased her 300 yards before they
were able to catch her and take
her to a hospital.
Actress Recovers From Polio,
Becomes Mother of Baby Boy
HOLLYWOOD, OP —Complete
ly recovered from an attack of
polio- last August, Actress Phyllis
Thaxter has given birth to a boy.
The youngster, born Monday,
tipped the scales at 6 pounds 12
ounces. Mother and son are doing
fine. Doctors had told her the
infant would not be affected by
her illness.
The actress is the wife of
James T. Aubrey, Jr., television
executive. They have a daughter,
Susan, 7.
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Meat Dealer Flys Into
Northern B.C. To Pick
His Wandering Son
EDMONTON, Alta., UR — An
thony Guarascio, San Jose, Calif.,
meat dealer, left Edmonton by
plane Tuesday for a northern
British 'Columbia settlement to
pick up his 15-year-old “wander
lust” son and take h i m 'back
home.
John Guarascio left San Jose
in the family car Dec. 23 and
drove to Canada without his par
ents’ knowledge. They finally
heard from him via a collect tele
phone call Saturday night from
Lower Post, B.C., 700 miles north
west of Edmonton and a few
miles south of the Yukon border
on the Alaska Highway^ Guaras
, cio said his son told him the car
i had broken down and he was
without money.
“We thought maybe. he’d gone
off to see the Rose Bowl game at
Pasadena, -about 500 miles away,”
Guarascio said. “He was quite a
football fan. I believe he was
maybe enroute to Alaska when
the car broke down.”
The father said his son collect
ed his Christmas presents and
had drawn $200 from his savings
account before leaving. Guarascio
arrived in Edmonton Sunday.
Explosion Wrecks Texas
Synthetic Gas Plant
SHERIDAN, Tex., UR—A fiery
explosion turned a giant synthetic
gas plant into a roaring inferno,
Wednesday, killing four men and
injuring three.
Two smaller explosions follow
ed the first thunderous blast, and
the threat of more from the vola
tile products of the Shell recycl
ing plant—butane, propane and
gasoline — hung ominously over
fire fighters. Flames engulfed the
sprawling, five - million dollar
plant. Great, black clouds of
smoke boiled over flat, southeast
Texas oil and gas-laden farms.
However, Sheriff J. O. Walker
said that two hours after the in
itial blast the fire appeared to
be under control.
BUFFALO, N.Y., UR — If you
park overtime, members of a
local church will tag your auto
mobile—with a summons to Sun
day services.
Photographs made by the Na
aonal Geographic Society during
and after a 1952 eclipse show that
star light is bent by gravity.
An ostrich egg weighs about
3 pounds and holds about as much
as 18 hen eggs.
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Report of the Financial Condition
of the
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska
Located at Nome, Territory of Alaska, at the close of business on the
31st day of December, 1952.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts . 519 420.89
Loans on real estate .. 101 312.94
United States bonds and securities .; 556,371.00
Other bonds and warrants . 99,391.24
Banking house, furniture and fixtures .k. 29,658.93
Other real estate Owned ... 7,051.87
Due from other banks . 267,502.98
Checks on other banks and other cash items . 9,655.99
Cash on hand . 128,024.37
Gold Bullion on hand . 555.86
Prepaid insurance . 2,568.86
Other Assets .....'.... 51,307.34
Total .... $1,772,831.27
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in . 100,000.00 5
Surplus fund . 25,000.00
Undivided profits less expenses paid . 111,283.95
Demand deposits .-.... 1,215,983.91
Time deposits ...:. 320,563.41
Total .$1,772,831.27
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA )
TERRITORY OF ALASKA ) SS
SECOND JUDICIAL DIVISION )
I, Alva A. Daue, Cashier of the above-named bank dcT solemnly
swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief. ALVA A. DAUE, Cashier
(CORRECT ATTEST)
G. R. JACKSON
WILLIAM T. HALEY
(NOTARIAL SEAL) Directors
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
5th day of January, 1953.
BEVERLY A. MORGAN
Notary Public in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My commission expires Novem ber 10, 1956.
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