THE NOME NUGGET
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YOUR BIGGEST DEBT
Manufacturers Record points out that most Ameri-'
ican families have a good idea of how much money they
owe on home mortgages and other obligations. The
average is around $2,900. But there’s another debt we
tend to overlook. That is our share of the $274,500,000,
000 national debt. It amounts to more than $6,000
per family!
Grass Roots Opinion
Brownsville, Pa., Telegraph: “Democratic govern
ment can deteriorate in two general directions. Power
can gravitate toward the executive branch, finally
producing those dictatorships that have marked—and
marred—the history of government in this century.
Or power can gravitate toward the legislative branch,
producing the parliamentary paralysis of a law-making
body without a head. Hitlerian Germany emerging
out of the decay of the Weimer Republic is the classic
example of the first direction. Contemporary France
is a good example of the second.”
LINE LOGIC
Correct your faults by observing those found in
others.
No man needs both money and brains—if he has
money the brains will soon look him up.
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HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION
"For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ."
Matthew 14:30b, 31a. PatdAdv.
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Mrs. Diane Wells ‘Had Aborted’ Says
Coroner’s Physician; Best Future
Sought for 5-Vear-Old Orphan Son
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HOLLYWOOD, UP) — Relatives '
and legal advisors pondered yes
terday over the best future for
5-year-old Marquam Wells, who
was orphaned by the- Hollywood
hotel suicide of his mother, Mrs. !
Diane Wells.
At the same time evidence was j
reported that the woman who had :
faced a first degree murder charge 1
in Alaska for the Oct. 17 slaying !
of her prominent husband, Cecil I
Wells, recently “had aborted.” '
Chief Dep. Coroner V. L. Wal
lace said that Dr. Victor Cefalu,
the coroner’s autopsy physician,
reported “the woman had abor
ted.” Wallace said the surgeon
meant she had suffered either a
miscarriage or a self-induced |
abortion. Cefalu did not say how
recently the abortion had taken
place.
The coroner’s office now has
ordered a full toxicological and
microscopic examination of the
woman’s internal organs, Wallace
said. This could take as long as
three weeks. Meanwhile, the cor
oner is not giving any official!
cause of death, although it is pre
sumed that sleeping capsules were
responsible.
Mrs. Edna Westbrook, aunt of 5
year-old Marquam Wells, arrived
Wednesday by plane from Fair
banks. She was named in a 1951
will of the boy’s mother, Mrs.
Diane Wells, 31, as his guardian.
Flying in from Seattle Wednes
day was Reuben Tarte, trustee of
the Wells estate. Police said a
note left by Mrs. Wells asked
Mrs. Tarte to “please raise Mack
as your own.”
The boy stands to inherit a
trust fund paying $2,000 a month.
Tarte and Mrs. Westbrook were
met at the Hollywood police sta
tion by Attj7. Oscar Wiseman, who
came by plane from San Francisco
to represent Mrs. Wells’ mother,
Mrs. Yvonne Ward.
Ladies Show The Men
How To Do It During
Year In Chamber
FALLBROOK, Calif., UPV—'The
ladies are giving the Fallbrook
Chamber of Commerce back to
the men after a year in which:
They backed planting of trees
on Main Street, acquisition of a
city mechanical street sweeper, a
bigger and better Pioneer Day
parade, better fire protection, and
many other projects.
“And it will all be paid for,
too,” said Mrs. Vivienne Hecock,
being succeeded by Clark Smith
as chamber president. “We wo
men know how to balance the
budget.”
Mrs. Hecock was aided in her
year of office by Mrs. Winnie
Hodapp as secretary, and Mrs.
Evelyn Mapes and Mrs. Dorothy
Clemens as directors.
Eight Americans Missing
NICE, France, l#)—Danger of
new avalanches has suspended
attempts to reccrver the bodies of
eight Americans still missing from
the wreckage of a U.S. Air Force
C-47 transport.
NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forth-coming
Municipal and School Board elec
tion shall close March 27, 1954.
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Publ. Mar. 12, 19, 26, 1954.
Also attending the hour-long1
conference at the police station
was Clayton Wells, 31< Los Angel
es, son of the slain Wells by a
former marriage and half-brother
of Marquam.
Atty. Wiseman said after the
meeting: “We want to reach an
agreement on what is best for
the child. We intend to make a
search for any wills which Mrs.
Wells might have written after
her 1951 document.”
Meanwhile, he said the boy will
remain with Mr. and Mr£. Allen
Mansfield, at who’se home Mrs.
Wells stayed until three weeks
before her suicide.
Johnny Warren May
Never Be Tried For
Slaying of Cecil Wells
FAIRBANKS, (#>—A move to
delay the trial of Johnny Warren
was announced Wednesday by
District Atty. Ted Stevens, who
indicated in a statement that the
Negro' jazz drummer may never
be tried for the slaying of Cecil
Wells.
Stevens’ statement was issued
a day after Warren’s co-defendent,
Diane Wells, committed suicide in
Hollywood. The two were to have
been tried in Fairbanks starting
April 5 for the slaying of Mrs.
Wells’ husband.
The government attorney said
the “unfortunate and tragic death”
of Mrs. Wells “has made it neces
sary from the point of view o'f the
prosecution to take the murder
trial off the trial calendar.” Ste
vens said he hoped to obtain con
sent of Warren’s attorney, Everett
Hepps, to postpone the trial and
would ask District Judge Harry E.
Pratt to take the case off the cal
endar.
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Monday, March 22
Haiti Backs U.S.
In Plan to Combat
Red Infiltration
CARACAS, Venezula, UP)—Haiti
Thursday endorsed the United
States plan to combat Communist
infiltration in the Americas, vir
tually assuring its approval at the
10th inter-American conference.
Ten of the 19 Latin American
nations attending the parley have
no'w gone on record in favor of
the U.S. plan, which calls for
joint action should Communists
seize control of any Western Hemi
sphere nation, and for measures
to check activities of Communist
agents.
Haitian Foreign Minister Pierre
Laitraud told th© conference’s
Political Committee: “The U.S.
proposal is not only acceptable,
but desirable. Our heritage of
freedom in America is too precious
to allow us to risk its loss to Com
munism.”
Wounded Senator Gets
Emergency Operation
WASHINGTON, (UP)—Rep. Alvin
Bentley (R-Mich), wounded seri
ously by Puerto Rican fanatics in
the House March 1, underwent
surgery again Wednesday night.
The emergency operation was
close to a wound in the abdominal
wall that had com© apart, the Con
gressman’s aide, Elwoo'd Brake,
said Thursday.
Brake quoted Dr. Joseph Young,
casualty hospital chief of staff as
saying that Bentley’s condition
suffered a slight setback al a re
sult of the operation.
Bentley, 35, has been in a seri
ous condition since the shooting,
His liver was shattered by a bul
let which also pierced a lung and
his stomach.
U.S.-Japan Defense Pact
TOKYO, (/P—The U.S.-Japan
mutual defense pact went to the
Japanese Diet Thursday .or ratifi
cation.