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Starkweather Dies
Without Statement
LINCOLN, Neb., UFl — Mass
killer Charles Starkweather, calm
and self-controlled to the end,
paid with his life yesterday for
a brutal blood letting 17 months
ago.
One ironic hitch marked the
electric chair execution: The pri
son physican who was to have
pronounced Starkweather dead,
himself suffered a heart attack
and died.
Dr. B. A. Finkel, 75, was strick
en just a half hour before the
midnight execution.
The finale to the story of the
ne’er-do-well garbage _ hauler
blamed for 11 knife and gun kill
ings came at 12:05 a.m. in the
white painted basement execution
chamber at the Nebraska State
Penitentiary.
The 20-year-old killer had no
last words.
At 12:01 a.m. he walked unas
sisted into the chamber, glanced
at some 33 assembled witnesses,
managed a kind of smile and am
bled up to the bulky, wooden
execution chair.
His head was shaven of its red
hair and a trouser leg had been
cut off to accommodate the elec
trical contacts.
The execution followed a day
of frantic effort by Starkweather’s
family and Washington attorneys
to stave off the appointment with
death.
Many Brush Fires
Raging In State
JUNEAU, LP) — About 115 sep
arate fires were reported burning
Wednesday in timber and brush
country in widespread sections of
Interior and Western Alaska.
A total of more than 20,000
acres had been seared by the
flames, according to unoffical
compilations of the spreading
fires.
The Bureau of Land Manage
ment said more than 600 men
were in action on the various fire
fronts. The fire fighters include
aerial smoke jumpers — para
chute fire troops participating for
the first time this year in the an
nual battle against forest blazes
in Alaska.
The BLM said the fire areas
extend from Fort Yukon, north of
Fairbanks, to the Seward Penin
sula near the Bering Sea, and into
the southern Kuskokwim area in
far Western Alaska.
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Satchmo Suffers
Heart Attack
By STAN CARTER
SPOLETO, Italy, UR — Louis
(Satchmo) Armstrong, who trum
peted his way to the top ranks
of jazz, lay gravely ill in a coma
here yesterday.
Italian doctors said the leather
lunged musician had suffered
heart disturbances which serious
ly complicated an attack of pneu
monia. He fell ill with pneumonia.
But Satchmo’s American phy
sician, Dr. Alexander Shiff, who
accompanied him to this little cen
tral town for a musical festival
insisted, “He never had any kind
of heart attack. He just blew him
self out, that’s all. Any musician
who blows on a wind instrument
for years suffers some weakening
of the heart. That’s inevitable.”
And Satchmo — the satchel
mouthed music man from New
Orleans — has been making magic
on his sweet-toned horn since the
birth of jazz.
In dramatic evidence of his rise
from the old tin pan alley days of
New Orleans music, Armstrong
lay ill in a town dedicated to
Italian classic opera.
He was invited here to play for
the “Two Worlds Festival” of
European and American music in
the Spoleto Theater, dedicated to
promoting Italian opera.
Armstrong looked improved
Wednesday. He sat up, ate well
and talked a lot. But he suffered
a sharp setback at nightfull. • His
fever rose, and he weakened.
Numbered Duplicate Stub Tickets
For Sale at The Nugget
NOTICE OF HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the
Common Council of the City of
Nome, Alaska, has, at its regular
meeting of June 22, 1959, fixed
the time and place for a hearing
upon the Petition of the Nome
Telephone Company for a change
in rates.
Such time and place are as
follows:
Thursday, July 9, 1959, Council
Chambers, Nome City Hall, 8 P.M.,
or as soon thereafter as the matter
may be properly heard.
All persons wishing to be heard
may appear at the time and place
aforesaid.
Publish June 24, 26, 29; July 1,
3, 6,. 8, 1959.
Nome Directorv
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norvji V*. Lewis. Sec.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Jim Blannlng
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheor
Parent-Teachers Assn.
Meets last Tuesday of every
month at School.
WERNER BOHRER. President
VESTA SUNDSTROM. Seely.
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