German Girl Will
Wed In Anchorage
After 40-Year Wait
MINNEAPOLIS, UPl — After 40
years, a romance of two German
youngsters before World War I
will finally bloom into marriage
for. them at the altar of an An
chorage, Alaska, church March 6.
The bride - to - be, Charlotte
Staudte, 53, came to Minneapolis
a year ago under sponsorship of
Mrs. Oscar Westland, who oper
ates a boarding house on Lake
Minnetonka.
Fifty-four-year-old Eric To
behn was the moving spirit be
hind Miss Staudte’s arrival in the
U.S.
He boarded with Mrs. West
land and convinced his landlady
that his fiancee was a top cook
after he found himself unable to
buy her one-way passage to the
U.S.
The two became childhood
sweethearts at Bad Lovisick, Ger
many and their long correspond
ence started when Tobehn went
into the German army in World
War 1. After service, instead of
returning home, he went into the
merchant marine and in 1926 set
tled in this country.
A wedding ceremony planned
for last Christmas was postponed
when Tobehn became unemploy
ed.
Now working for the govern
ment in Alaska, Tobehn writes
that he has an apartment ready
in Anchorage for the couple to
start housekeeping. The cere
mony will be spoken in German
in a Lutheran church because the
bride speaks no English.
Miss Staudte will take a white
satin wedding gown with her
when she boards an Alaska-bound
plane at Minneapolis Friday.
Arctic Sanitary Service
Phone RED 181
Stewart, Dietrich
Coming To Nome
In “No ‘Highway”
James Stewart and Marlene
Dietrich are the dazzling stars of
the international and air-minded
new drama of intrigue and dis
covery, “No Highway in the Sky,”
coming Friday to the Theater.
Filmed in England by Twenti
eth Century-Fox, “No Highway in
the Sky” tells of a queer and out
wardly unimpressive scientist who
startles the aviation world with a
theory about the crash likelihood
of a particular aircraft, and then
finds himself aboard such an air
liner at the critical moment.
“No Highway in the Sky” out
lines his battle—and the aid he
wins from two beautiful women
aboard the plane with him—
against bureaucracy, prejudice,
and ridicule.
Henry Koster, who. guided Stew
art’s chai'acterization in “Harvey”
was at the helm again for “No
Highway in the Sky,” produced
by Louis D. Lighton, whose cred
its include “A Tree Grows in
Brooklyn” and “Anna and the
King of Siam,” two vehicles that
have been recently transferred to
1 the Broadway stage.
Supporting roles entail the ex
perienced dramatic talents of Eliz
abeth Allan, Ronald Squire (who
scored in “Trio”)- and Jill Clifford.
“No Highway in the Sky” was
based on a novel by Nevil Shute,
and the screen play written by
R. C. Sherrif, Oscar Millard and
Alee Coppel.
Witness Will Testify In
Nomination Hearings
WASHINGTON, (/PI—A witness
before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee on Earl Warren’s nomina
tion to be chief justice was arres
ted by police today but released
to his attorneys under an agree
ment that he would return to tes
tify further this afternoon.
The dome of the U.S. Capitol is
painted every four years.
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News - Letter
By Mary Lee Council
Secretary to Del. Bob Bartlett
Members of the House Appro
priations Committee heard testi
mony this week from Governor
Heintlzleman of Alaska, O. F.
Benecke of Juneau, Delegate
Bartlett and others in support of
money to carry out authorized
rivers and harbors projects in Al
aska.
The witnesses spoke in behalf
of a number of navigation and
flood control projects for the ter- !
ritory, all of which have been
authorized for at least nine years, I
The Congress over the past sev- ;
eral years has appropriated $5,- j
379,000 for Alaska projects, name- j
ly, for the dredging of Wrangell j
Narrows and the construction of
a seawall at Nome. The remain
ing work authorized would cost
an estimated $6,200,309 based on
June 30, 1952, costs.
Those authorizations cover pro
jects for Craig, Elfin Cove, Gas
tineau Channel, Kodiak, Metla
katla, Meyers Chuck, Nome, Pe
tersburg, Port Alexander, Seldo
via, Sitka, both navigation and
flood control projects at Skag
way, Wrangell Harbor and com
pletion of an anchorage basin in
Wrangell Narrows.
The requests for Alaska funds
were presented in the face of the
fact that the President’s budget
for the 1955 fiscal year contains
no money whatsoever for the Al
aska projects.
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British Making Big Trade
Agreements With Russia
LONDON, LP)—The British gov
ernment has okayed shipment to
Russia of fishing trawlers worth
about six million pounds <$16,
000,000', the House of Commons
was told Tuesday.
Trade Minister Derick Heath
coat-Amory said export licenses
for the trawlers went to one of 33
British businessmen who recently
visited Moscow and together
landed contracts worth about 16
million pounds ($44,800,000'.
The other contracts, worth
about ten million pounds (28 mil
lion dollars) are for machine tools
and diesel engines. Applications
for licenses to fulfill them now I
are pending, the trade minister j
said.
$1,000,000 Cut j
From Arctic Loran;
Asked Restored
WASHINGTON, UR -- The Sen- I
ate Appropriations Committee was
asked Tuesday to restore one mil
lion dollars cut from an allotment
for three radio navigational aid.
stations planned to be built in the
Arctic this summer.
The stations would, among
other things, help Air Force
planes using the big new Thule
base in Greenland.
Rear Adm. Alfred C. Richmond,
assistant commandant of the
Coast Guard, told the Senate
group that the full $8,620,000 or
iginally asked for the three sta
tions should be allowed. The
House Appropriations Committee
cut one million off this amount.
Richmond conceded that the es
timated costs were three times
what it took to build similar sta
tions in Alaska. But he said that
construction difficulties were
much greater in the Arctic.
The testimony indicated one
would be near Thule, the others
about 300 miles away from the
big base.
They, would make up a naviga
tional aid system known as Loran
in which radio beams are used to
guide planes and ships in dark
ness and bad weather.
The House Tuesday approved im
mediate construction of three
loran stations in the arctic to be
operated in connection with the
Air Force base at Thule, Green
land.
Stars To Split In Italy
VENICE, Italy, GP)—Friends of
Shelly Winters and Vittorio Gass
man said Wednesday the film
stars had agreed here on prelim
inary arrangements for their div
orce.
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Merchants Trounce Nome
High Nanooks 73-49 For
16th Straight Hoop Win
' The Nome Merchants turned on
their fast break attack last eve
ning to its highest margin as they
rudely trounced the Nome Nan
ooks 73-49. This was their 16th
straight win of the fading basket
ball season which ends next Tues
day evening. The Nanook record
stands at an even break in 18
games, 9-9.
Opening up with two quick bas
kets at the start against the high
school, ^the Merchants built up a
14-8 lead and increased this mar
gin at the half 35-21. During the
third quarter the ex-high school
boys raced up and down the floor
and dropped in 21 points while
limiting the Nanooks to just 6,
to post a comfortable 56-27 score.
Only in the final period did the
high school manage to outscore
| their opposition, but the lead was
too great to overcome as they
fell for their fourth time to their
arch rivals 73-49
Gary Longley, Harold and Geo.
Bell led the Merchant scoring
with 21, 18 and 16, while Arnie
Castel and Clyde Nershak hit for
j 9 points each.
Buzzy Swanberg was high point
man for the game with 22, Bobbie
Herman and Korky Kost 12 each,
Robert Summers 2 and Chuckie
Fagerstrom 1.
In the fill-in game for the open
er the Air Cadets knocked over
the Ground Observers 23-14.
Scores by the quarters favored
the Cadets 7-6, 13-7 and 23-14.
For the winners, Tommy Drake
8, Skip Senungetuk 6, Amos Alex
ander 5, Sammy Atuk and Wally
Fagerstrom 4 each. For the Ob
servers, Eddie Carlson • 6, Joe
Senunegtuk 5, Steve Glavinovich
and Allan Russell 2 each.
Friday’s pending games at 7,
Lomen Commercials tangle with
the Air Force Five, to be followed
with the ‘last league game of the
season when the 10th Radio meets
the Detachment 23rd.
Next Tuesday, a tentative triple
header is planned when in the
first game, the Alumni Girls play
the Nome Huskies to be followed
by the Liniment Squad against
the Little Guys, concluding with
a final game between the Mer
chants and the Nanooks.
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OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
MEETS
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Meets the third Monday of each month.
Jane Perkins
Worthy Matron
Evelyn Branson
Secretary
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
—4b6 Tirst Ave. West, Nome, Alaska—
10 to *2 A.M. - 1 to 5 P.M.
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208
ANVIL LODGE
- No. 140
John Cooley, W.M.
Norvin W. Lewis, Secy.
Meets -st and 3rd Thursday each Month