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Flood Deaths And
Disaster in Wake of
Far East Typhoon
(By the Associated Press'
Perhaps 1,100 persons were
dead Saturday and hundreds of
thousands homeless in the wake
of typhoons which lashed central
Indochina and southern Japan.
The screaming wind and rain
storms wrought untold property
damage and destroyed food sup
plies vital to the teeming populace
of the two East Asian areas. One
American soldier drowned in
southern Japan during the storm.
Governor Pham Van Giao of
central Viet Nam reported nearly
1,000 known dead and said the toll
may reach 2,000 as a result of a
typhoon which Friday flooded the
entire region around Hue, on In
dochina’s South China sea cdast.
Famine and typhoid epidemics
were feared in the central Viet
Nam state of Annam, where con
tinued rain hampered relief.
Strategic / bases of the Red-led
Vietminh were reported damaged.
A roaring typhoon began break
ing up in the North Pacific after
side-swiping the teeming Tokyo
area and leaving at least 115 dead
and millions in property damage.
Japanese national police also
reported 288 missing and 259 in
jured with hundreds of thousands
homeless, and shipping and com
munications snarled.
American bases in Japan suf
fered damage estimated officially
at millions of dollars.
Of those people' in the United
States who marry between the
ages of 45 and 59, four-fifths have
been married before.
Estranged Husband Kills
Bellevue Businessman
In Tryst With Spouse
SEATTLE, UP\—Detective Capt.
A. W. Lyskoski said a Lake Sam
mamish resort operator gave him
self up to sheriff’s deputies Sun
day and told them he fired the
shots that killed a Bellevue busi
nessmen after he found the latter
in bed with his estranged wife.
Milton Price 42, owner of the
Concrete Products Mfgs., Co., was
the victim. He died of bullet
wounds in the back and chest.
Lyskoski said Thomas Reeder,
54, owner of the Timber Lake re
sort at Lake Sammamish, volun
tarily surrendered and admitted
he shot Price with a .38 caliber
revolver.
Reeder’s wife, Beulah, 44, was
treated for a head cut received,
she said, when struck on the head
by a revolver wielded by her
husband.
Mrs. Reeder said she had gone
ta Price’s quarters at his plant at
Bellevue about 11 p.m. Saturday
night. Just prior to the shooting,
she said, she heard a voice outside
Price’s bedroom window shout: “I
told you I would kill you.” She
said she head the window break
and about six shots followed.
Mrs. Reeder said she persuaded
her husband to call the sheriff’s
office after the shooting. He was
taken into custody at his home.
The Reeders were separated in
December 1952 and Reeder had
filed suit for divorce.
Your contribution of vegetable
seeds will help the people of the
Philippines in their fight against
Communism. Send a packet of
seeds now to Seeds for Democ
racy, San Francisco, California.
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Acheson Praises
Ground Observer
Corp Members
ELMENDORF AFB, Alaska —
Several members of the Ground
Observer Corps have proved
themselves outstanding in passing
reports of aircraft sighted to the
air defense system, Maj. Gen.
George R. Acheson, commander
of the Alaskan Air Command an
nounced recently.
Names of observers concerned
are Mr. Charles Quinn, Father N.
Donohue and Mr. Swede Johnson
of Bethel, Father William M. Mc
Intyre, S.J., of Holy Cross Mission,
Holy Cross, and CAA station per
sonnel at Bethel and Summit.
The Ground Observer Corps is
a going business in Alaska. The
corps is organized and operated
under the joint sponsorship of the
Territorial Dept, of Civil Defense
and Alaskan Air Command and
plays a vital role in the air de
fense of Alaska. Federal, territor
ial and civil agencies are volun
tarily supporting the cause.
The Ground Observer Corps is
designed to augment radar sur
veillance performed by(air defense
units of Alaskan Air Command by
visual and sound detection of air
craft flying over Alaska.
IMROVING THE BREED
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark.,
(A*) — A North Little Rock worm
dealer is trying to double his busi
ness without increasing his over
head.
Alderman Ed Skinner is at
tempting to breed two - tailed
worms. So far, he has developed
two worms with twin fuselages.
“If I can start some specimens
like this breeding I believe it will
create a big demand among fish
ermen. With two tails wriggling
in the water, fish are bound to
be attracted and rise quicker to
the bait.” "
He said the double - threat
worms “may revolutionize the in
dustry.”
Even in summer the tempera
ture near the South Pole rarely
rises above zero.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
James Walsh, Pres.
George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
486 First Ave. West
Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, WJ4.
\/ ' Karl F. Dewey, See.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month