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VOL. LV NO. 150 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1953 Per Copy—15<*
Carl Hall and
Bonnie Heady Die
In Gas Chamber
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, UP> —
Lips reddened by a final kiss but
silent on the missing ransom mys
tery, Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie
Brown Heady died together in
the gas chamber early Friday for
the kidnap slaying of 6—year-old
Bobby Greenlease.
The notorious pair refused a
final request for a statement
which might have shed light on
what happened to half the record
$600,000 collected from the multi
millionaire father of the child
they stole and murdered last
Sept. 28.
Instead they spent their last
minutes in a brief conversation
and farewell embrace, shared a
final cigarette, bid their Missouri
prison guards goodbye and died
side by side amid swirling clouds
of deadly cyanide gas.
As the death chair strap was
being tightened about her chest,
Mrs. Heady, with a little chuckle,
told the guards: “It’s tight—I’m
not going anywhere.”
Then she called out to Hall:
“Are you doing all right,
honey?”
“Yes, mama,” Hall replied.
Hall gulped in the poison fumes
as if eager to end a wasted life.
Mrs. Heady seemed reluctant.
She appeared to hold her breath.
Although she was unconscious
after the first sniff, her lungs
labored for two minutes and 10
seconds after Hall’s body had
slumped motionless.
Seattle Scientist Chosen
As Finalist In 1953’s
Outstanding Young Man
SEATTLE, UP) — A Seattle man
who has won scientific promi
nence for his leadership of the
Juneau Icefield Research Project
has been chosen one of the 40
finalists in the U.S. Junior Cham
ber of Commerce’s search for the
country’s 10 “outstanding young
men” of 1953.
The Seattle Junior Chamber
disclosed Thursday the honor for
Maynard M. Miller, a geologist,
who is now studying for his doc
torate at Cambridge University in
England as a Fulbright fellow.
The 10 national winners will be
flown to Seattle to receive their
honors at a civic banquet Jan. 23.
Nome’s Christmas Tree
Brought From Fairbanks
By Wien Airlines Plane
The big Christmas tree, report
ed to measure over 20 feet, is
here and will be ready for the
Community Christmas Tree cele
bration tonight.
Olaf Halverson, assisted by the
high school students is busy dec
orating the big spruce, which was
brought over from Fairbanks for
the event gratis by Wien Airlines.
The program, which starts at
8 o’clock will be followed by the
arrival of Santa Claus who has a
Christmas stocking for all the be
lievers in the cheery old man and
a listening ear for all good chil
dren.
The management of the theater
have announced that the final
showing of the 3-D picture will be
delayed this evening until 10:00
o’clock so that all those who wish
to see it following the community
entertainment, may have the op
portunity to do so.
Canada Announces Success
Low-Cost Radar Warning
Device “McGill’s Fence”
OTTAWA, UP) — Canada’s de
fense research board said Friday
that the “McGill Fence,” a Can
adian-designed early-warning ra
dar device to detect enemy planes
striking across the Canadian north
has been tested successfully.
The board’s annual review said
the hush - hush barrier, which
eventually will supplement joint
Canadian - American radar chains
in the far north, was the out
standing accomplishment of the
the board in 1953. Its details are
secret. ^
“Summer trials confirmed the
value of the device as a warning
system that can be installed econ
omically in terms of money, ma
terials and manpower, and all
component parts can be manufac
tured in Canada,” the review said.
Internal Revenue Service Accepts
$20,000 Settlement of Tax Claims
Against Boris Magids Estate
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Inter
nal Revenue Service has accepted
an offer of $20,621 in settlement
of income tax claims against the
estate of Boris Magids.
The government had contended
the estate owed $34,061 in unpaid
taxes for the period of June 30,
to Sept. 14, 1944 and for 1945 and
1951.
Army Shows ‘Nike’
Target-Hunting
Guided Missile
WASHINGTON, GWThe Army
took some of the secrecy wraps
off its uncanny, bomber - hunting
guided missile Thursday night and
said the first battery of an even
tual national system of such anti
aircraft weapons is being put in
place.
On the basis of official disclos
ures, an Army motion picture and
other information available, it
may be said the guided missile,
named Nike, can:
1. Streak at an enemy bomber
at a speed of probably 1,500 miles
an hour.
2. Locate and track the plane,
despite evasive action, and de
stroy it in flaming wreckage even
though the missile contacts only
an outer part of a wing.
3. “Knock down a jet powered
aircraft of any known capacity”
in speed or maneuverability.
The first Nike unit is being set
up at Ft. Meade, Md., headquar
ters of the 2nd Army. From there
Nike missiles can provide protec
tion for an area embracing the
nation’s capital, Baltimore’s big
business industries and port facil
ities and a number of military in-'
stallations in the Chesapeake Bay
and Potomac River region.
In its official motion picture,
the Army showed a Nike against
the comparatively slow and easy
target provided by a B-17. That
World War II plane has a top
speed of only about 250 miles an
hour. But Army spokesmen em
phasized the Nike can operate as
efficiently against jet aircraft
with far higher speeds.
The film showing destruction of
the B-17 was uncanny.
At its conclusion, the camera
swept back to the sky and the
bomber droning along. There was
a blurred streak toward the edge
of the left wing, a flash at impact,
a mighty explosion — and the
wreckage of the bomber sifted
down in flame and smoke.
NOT A PURCHASE DEAL
KARACHI, Pakistan, (^—Paki
stan’s prime minister Mohammed
Ali told a news conference Thurs
day any U.S. military aid to
Pakistan would be “as assistance
and not a purchase deal by Paki
stan.
Fairbanks Woman Found
Dead In Seattle Hotel
Is Listed As Suicide
SEATTLE, UP) — The death of a
former Fairbanks, Alaska, woman
whose body was found in a Seat
tle hotel room Tuesday was listed
as a suicide today.
King County Coroner John P.
Brill Jr., said the victim, Mrs.
Patricia Verna Wendell, died as a
result of an overdose of a seda
tive. She was 42.
She told a hotel employe Tues
day she had just arrived from
Alaska. An airplane ticket showed
she had flown from Fairbanks.
Ed. Note: Mrs. Wendell was one
of the almost 2,000 tourists who
visited Nome during the past sum
mer.
Cardinal Spellman To Spend
Sunday In Anchorage
Enrouie To The Far East
SEATTLE, lffP—Francis Cardin
al Spellman, Catholic Archbishop
of New York, was scheduled to
stop briefly at Seattle - Tacoma
Airport Friday evening on his an
nual trip to the Far East for
Christmas.
The Cardinal will spend Satur
day and Sunday at Anchorage. He
will continue his flight Monday
morning arriving in Tokyo Tues
day afternoon after “losing” a day
at the International Date Dine.
“It’s a place I would rather
be than any other place in the
world at Christmas,” the Catholic
prelate commented as he boarded
a Northwest airliner at New
York enroute to Korea.
Cardinal Spellman took with
him a half million cigarettes,
25,000 religious medals, 25,000
holy pictures, four moving picture
prints of Notre Dame football
highlights and two prints of a
“Dragnet” television program
which has a Christmas theme.
Kids Scare Santa's Dog Team
SAN PEDRO, Calif., Iff) — Six
husky dogs hauled Santa Claus’
gift-laden sleight across the grass
at a school at San Pedro, Califor
nia, Thursday.
A horde of children burst out
the door to greet him.
The valiant sled dogs of the far
north couldn’t face it. They bolted,
spilling presents and Santa. Not
until the kids were quieted would
the huskies tow Santa to them
again.
Ketchikan Police
Captain Arrested,
Held Without Bail
KETCHIKAN, UP)—A Ketchikan
police captain was under arrest
Friday and held without bail as
a result of the federal grand jury
session that has produced a series
of sensational developments here.
Close to 100 witnesses have ap
peared before the jury in the three
weeks it has been convened to
inquire into local conditions. It
is expected to wind up its session
before Christmas.
Capt. Erland McKinley was the
police officer under arrest. He was
arrested a second time on a charge
of intimidating a witness after
having been released on $10,000
bail after a first arrest. The grand
jury recommended his arrest last
weekend.
His attorney asked Thursday
for an open heamig but it was re
fused by the U.S. Commissioner
on the grounds the district attor
ney is too busy in connection with
the grand jury session.
Judge George Folta advised au
thorities, from Juneau, that he
would order McKinley’s release
on bail after the grand jury com
pletes its work.
At the same time that it re
commended the police captain’s
arrest, the grand jury recom
mended that U.S. District Attor
ney P. J. Gilmore Jr., be re
moved of responsibility in connec
tion with the grand jury activity.
The jury foreman, in a report
which orignally was confusing,
said the jury felt Gilmore had
taken no action against the al
leged interference with witnesses.
British RR Strike Is Called Oft
LONDON, (51—Britain’s Nation
al Union of Railwaymen told its
400,000 members Thursday to
keep the Christmas trains rolling.
The railmen were ready to
strike Sunday to back wage de
mands. But union bosses met
transport leaders in long - drawn
bargaining talks Wednesday night,
reached a compromise and an
nounced: “The strike is off.”
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town!
Santa Claus Is Coming to the Nome Hardware Store
TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O’CLOCK
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