Word: trapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Montana-born "Gus" De Steffany served in the U.S. Army in World War I, went north in 1920 to be a barren-lands trapper. He had plenty of northern know-how, plenty of luck. One season he and his brother came out with $50,000 worth of white fox furs. He began prospecting in the mid-'30s, after gold was discovered near Great Slave Lake...
Wolfers. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lieut. George Benstock, back from a tour of duty in Canada's northland, told of a wolf trapper who lost two front teeth of his store set, substituted two wolves' teeth stuck in with glue...
...Buffalo Bill," starring Maureen O'Hara, Joel McCrea, and Linda Darnell is the feature this week. It traces the life of "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a frontiersman, trapper, and Indian scout, and depicts his final rise to fame as the Buffalo Bill of the wild west show. There will be shows today at 1800 for the Naval Training Schools and at 2030 for the staff; also tomorrow and Sunday at 1800 and 2030 for the Naval Training Schools. The movies are not continuous...
Last week, near their cabin on Deadman's Creek, the bodies of two trapper-partners, Eugene Messmer, 33, and Hans Pfeuffer, 43, were found, lying in slushy surface ice. Both had been shot in the back. Guns, supplies and an estimated $4,000 worth of furs were missing...
...Draft. In Chicago, Dishwasher John Atkinson, picked up for being without a draft card, told the judge that he used to be a trapper, had once caught a skunk in one of his traps, had to burn his draft card as well as his clothes. In Detroit, Perry James Carter explained to the judge that he had ignored his induction notice because he felt it no longer concerned him, since he was "a different man" after receiving...