24 Persons Die
In N.Y. Garment
District Fire
NEW YORK, UP)-Twenty-four
persons—18 of them women gar
ment workers—died in a down
town loft building fire ‘Wednes
day.
Delay in sounding an alarm
was blamed in large part for the
tragedy.
The fire “conceivably was
going like hell for 10 minutes”
before the fire department could
get to fight it.
A man and woman lived thru
the two-hour blaze.
A medical examiner said most
of the victims were asphyxiated
before the flames reached them.
Fifteen persons were injured.
Fire Commissioner Edward F.
Cavanagh said there was no evi
dence of fire law violations on
the premises, adding.
“It would seem that panic play
ed a most important role in this
blaze. Some bodies were piled one
on top of the other—evidence of
mass hysteria. At least three
jumped from windows where
there was no evidence of smoke
or flame.”
The blaze broke out when an
oven exploded on the third-floor
textile factory in the five-story
structure., A bolt of fabric was
being treated in the oven when
the blast came. The three em
ployes on the third floor escaped
unhurt, as did persons on all
other floors but the fourth.
Wien Airlines
To Fairbanks: Jim Locke, Jane
Attatayuk, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Fagerstrorrt, Robera Snyder, Ella
Tanner, John McNess, Wilson O.
Tell, John Kakaruk, Theodore
Statuk, Wm. Oquilluk, Alice Ka
karuk, Mary Statuk, Ruby Oklea
sik, Paul Green, Chas. Moore,
Melvin Derry, Robt. Stevenson,
Albert Mueller, James Kane, D.
Cloud, H. Avery, F. Haile, Dave
Lupton, Murphy Guillory, Larry
Shull.
NOTICE OF
MUNICIPAL ELECTION
Notice Is Hereby Given that the
Annual Municipal’ and School
Board Election will be held Tues
day, April 1, 1958 at the City
Hall, Nome, Alaska, for the pur
pose of electing the following of
ficers, to-wit:
MAYOR
ONE MEMBER OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR 1
YEAR TERM
THREE MEMBERS OF NOME
COMMON COUNCIL FOR 2
YEAR TERM
CITY CLERK
CITY TREASURER
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR 1 YEAR TERM
one member of School
BOARD FOR 3 YEAR TERM
ONE MEMBER OF SCHOOL
BOARD FOR 5 YEAR TERM
•ONE MEMBER OF UTILITY
BOARD FOR 5 YEAR TERM
A qualified voter must be
twenty-one (21) years of age; a
citizen of the United Stales; a
resident of Alaska for one year,
and of the City of Nome for
thirty (30) days prior to date of
election.
Polls will be open at 8:00
o'clock a.m. and close at 6:00
o'clock p.m.
Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
Phone Main 1
P.O. Box 558
Tunisian President Makes Eloquent
Plea That French Withdraw From His
Country, But Does Not Break with West
TUNIS, W>—Tunisian President
Habib Bourguiba Thursday reaf
firmed his desire to keep his
North African republic on the
sidle of the West and promised
French troops would be pulled out
of his country with the help of
the U-S.-British good offices mis
sion.
Although he roundly denounc
ed France for keeping Tunisia an
“occupied” country, Bourguiba
did not follow through on his
threat to break with the West.
“We have to prefer cooperation
with the West in order to shut
the gates of hell . . . once again
we must reason and remain lu
cid,” the president said in a
speech broadcast from the Na
tional Assembly.
Bourguiba asked Tunisians to
understand the tense situation in
their little nations and take care
“passion should not take the
place of reason.”
He advised France to give up
its 3 V£-year-old effort to subdue
rebels in neighboring Algeria,
its plans to create a no-man’s land
in Algeria to seal it off from
Tunisia “and all these futilities.”
France “should take up the task
of saving that which can be
saved,” Bourguiba said. “This
concerns the fate of all North Af
rica,” of France, the Western
countries and the free world. This
cannot escape the attention of
Western leaders.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
Farmhouse Scene of
Wisconsin Murders
Mysteriously Burns
PLAINFIELD, Wis., UP* — The
farmhouse where Edward Gein
butchered his murder victims and
hid the bodies he looted from
graves was destroyed by fire
early Thursday.
Vacant since the arrest of Gein,
51-year-old bachelor recluse, last
fall, the house had figured re
cently in a local controversy.
Several area clergymen, among
others, had protested plans for an
auction of the Gein property on
Palm Sunday. Authorities are in
vestigating cause of the blaze.
Gein has been committed to
the Central State Hospital for the
criminal insane.
He admitted slaying Mrs. Wor
den in her Main Street hardware
store last fall and also the death
of Mary Hogan, a rural tavern
keeper in 1954. He also admitted
several grave robberies in the
area.
Marine Pfc Robert Apok
Is An MP In San Francisco
OAKLAND — Marine Pfc.
Robt. Apok, Jr., son of Mrs. and
Mrs. Robert Apok Sr., of Nome,
visited Paul Manchester, a hemo
philia victim, in the Children’s
in Oakland.
is serving as a Military
Policeman with the Guard de
tachment at the Naval Shipyard
in San Francisco.
Before enlisting in January
1956, he attended Mt. Edgecumbe
High School and was employed
by the U.S. Tin Corp. at Lost
River.
ORDINANCE NoT382
An Ordinance of the City of
Nome, Territory of Alaska, fixing
the salaries of the City Clerk and
City Treasurer to be elected in
the Municipal Election on April
1, 1958.
Be It Ordained and Enacted by
the Common Council of the City
of Nome, Alaska;
That the salaries of the City
Clerk and City Treasurer to be
elected at the annual city elec
tion, April 1, 1958, shall be as
follows:
City Clerk, assessor, tax col
lector and magistrate — $650,015
per month.
City Treasurer — $1.00 per
year.
Passed and approved by the
Nome Common Council of the
City of Nome, Alaska in special
session assembled, March 14,
1958.
(Seal) s/ Steffen Andersen,
Mayor
Attest s/ Robert F. Scott,
35 City Clerk
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any of these securities. The offering, is made only by the prospectus. These
securities are being offered for sale only in the Territory of Alaska and only to
bona fide residents of the Territory of Alaska.
March 10, 1958
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and
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