$11,000,000 Asked
For Home Building
Plan For Natives
Fred Geeslin, ANS head, pre
sented a very interesting program
to the Chamber of Commerce yes
terday noon, announcing that a
joint justification for an $11,000,
000 appropriation has been re
quested by the Alaska Housing,
the U.S. Public Health, the Alaska
Department of Health and the
ANS for the purpose of construc
ting or providing materials for
4,000 small homes for natives in
129 villages and towns including
Nome.
He stated, “It is the combined
belief of interested agencies that
the home rehabilitation needs of
the natives throughout Alaska is
equally important as the medical
program itself. It is hoped that
funds will be appropriated for
this acute need which, if acquired,
will expedite the lessening of
tuberculosis and other diseases of
the natives by removing the ex
isting deplorable native housing
situation throughout Alaska.”
Geeslin pointed out that letters
to Washington D.C. by the Cham
ber would help show the need and
interest and will help to have
Nome be one of the first places
to receive the needed assistance.
Another interesting guest and
speaker at the luncheon was Mrs.
Ruth Brady, Girl Scout represen
tative, who spoke on men and
girl scouting and urged the con
tinued support for the Girl Scout
program which has had a healthy
growth in the community and is
still branching out to reach more
girls. I
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Mrs. Brady,
Bill Wright, Wm. Sims.
To Kotzebue: Floyd Harmon,
John Rose, Roger Nelson, Claude
Bagley, Harry Waterfield, Frank
Buske, Roy' Syren, J. Harmon.
To Fairbanks: Val Blackburn.
8 Feet of Snow on Roof
Collapses Shack, Kills 14
KARUIZAWA, Japan (JV—Eight
feet of snow on the roof yesterday
collapsed a miners’ sleeping
shack, killing 14 and seriously
injuring five more. Eleven were
pulled unharmed from the debris.
SHORT STORY
ISOLA, Miss., OP*—A master
piece of brevity and action was
composed the other day by a first
grader called upon to tell a short
story about his pet.
The story, recorded op the spot
by the teacher, Mrs. E. Tinning:
“My calf—he bull. He butts.”
Man Dies Who Built
Airplane Engine Used in
Wright Bros.’ 1st Flight
SAN FERNANDO, Calif., UP—
The man who designed and built
the airplane engine used toy the
Wright brothers in their Kitty
Hawk flight is dead. Charles Ed
ward Taylor, 87, died in Foothill
Sanitarium Monday night during
an asthma attack.
Early last month Taylor, desti
tute, was in Los Angeles General !
Hospital suffering from asthma |
and the infirmities of age. It was
learned he had been existing on
an $800-a-year pension from the
will of Orville Wright. Yet, he
was considered by aviation men
everywhere to have been, literal
ly, the “heart of the industry.”
Taylor went to work in 1901
for the Wright brothers in their
Dayton, Ohio, cycle factory and
in 1902 they. commissioned him
to design the lightweight, four
cylinder engine for the first air
plane.
The Aircraft Industries Assn.,
which set up a fund to care for
Taylor for the rest of his life,
after his plight was learned, said
he will be buried in Valhalla Me
morial Park in Los Angeles near
such aviation figures as Bert !
Acosta and Walter Brookins.
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LARRY GALVIN
Front Street, Nome, Alaska