THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P.O. Box 618
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E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
NOT WHAT’S COOKING, BUT WHEN?
JUNIOR POLICE DEPARTMENT
The young people of our community are being
organized as a Junior Police Department through the
cooperation of the City Police Department and the
Nome Public School.
Parents of boys between 11 and 15, who sign the
necessary papers for these boys to participate, will be
giving their sons an opportunity to learn good citizen
ship and a study of city government and law enforce
ment.
Their responsibilities will alert them to the right
and wrong ways of having a good time and make them
proud of living the right way. The proof of the pro
gram will be less juvenile delinquency problems in
the community.
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Convicts Recaptured
PITTSBURGH, f/P)—Police to
day captured two of the eight con
victs who broke out of Western
Slate Penitentiary little more than
' 24 hours earlier.
Caught were Cormack F. Mc
Nelis, 39, of nearby Clairton; and
Ralph Mastermonica, 30, Pitts
burgh.
McNelis was caught in the
washroom of the McKeesport res
taurant. He offered no resistence.
Mastermonica was captured on
busy Diamond Street in down
town Pittsburgh after one shot
was fired by police. A companion
of the fugutive escaped. He is
believed to be another escaped
convict.
Two other convicts failed to
get outside the prison walls. One
surrendered meekly in front of
the prison gates. A tenth was
caught on the prison roof.
McNelis and Mastermonica, like
the convicts still at large, were
armed with cell - made knives
when they overpowered four
guards and a deputy warden,
sawed a hole in the prison roof
and let themselves down to the
ground on a 70-foot-long rope.
They made the rope from towels
and sheets.
Japanese Team To Survey
Alaska F ores try Resources
TOKYO, (JP) — A seven-man
Japanese team will leave around
Dec. 10 to survey Alaskan for
estry resources, Kyodo News Ag
ency reported Saturday.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Of Tacoma Crash of
Military Transport Dies
TACOMA, Wash., (JP) — The
number of dead in the crash of
an inbound C-54 near here early
Friday stood at 37 today, with
only two survivors.
The death Saturday of A/3c ;
Bobby R. Wilson, Forth Worth,
Tex., wiped out the seven-man
: crew of the four-engined military
transport based at Great Falls,
Mont. The others died in the crash.
Still in critical condition are
Curtiss Redd, Air Force man from
Fairfax, S.C., and Joseph Iaco
viLti, 8, of Bridgeport, Pa.
Meanwhile, special teams of
Air Force investigators continued !
their check of every phase of the j
ill-fated plane’s flight from Fair
banks.
Col. William L. Turner, com
manding officer of nearby Me- j
Chord Air Force Base, said the j
probe would be completed by mid
week. •
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Vacancies Filled Executive
Committee of the Alaska
Education Association
The election of W. L. Emmert,
principal of Chugiak Territorial
School, and Miss Jen Skule, El
mendorf AFB grade school, to fill
the two vacancies on the Execu
tive Committee of the Alaska Ed
ucation Association was announ
ced last week by Mrs. Pearl E.
Shockley, of Anchorage, president
of the association.
Mr. Emmert has served as presi
dent of the S.W. District of the
Not a Single Clue, Admit
Tired Phoenix Police
PHOENIX, Ariz., (JP) — Winnie
Ruth Judd, red - haired trunk
murderess, has apparently van
ished without leaving a single
major clue.
Tired, bleary-eyed police ad
mitted early Saturday they were
no nearer solving the riddle of
her sixth escape from the Arizona
State Hospital than they were
Thursday night when she slid out
a hole cut in a heavy window
screen and disappeared in the
darkness.
Mrs. Judd was committed to
the state hospital in 1931 after
an 11th hour appeal saved her
from the gallows. She had been ,
convicted of killing Agnes Ann
LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson in
a jealous rage over a mutual
suitor.
She dismembered their bodies
and sent them to Los Angeles in
a trunk and suitcases.
Montana Education Association,
and Director of School Facilities
Survey of the State of Montana.
Miss Skuie has taught One year
in Palmer and four years at El
mendorf. She has had experience
as a teacher of radio theory to
the Brazilian Air Cadets at Sao
Paulo, Brazil.
“There is much interest among
the teachers of Alaska in the
meeting of .the Territorial Legis
lature,” Mrs. Shockley said. “The
Association hopes to contact ev
ery member of this body before
it meets in 1953.”
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