Airliner Carrying
Homeward Bound
Gfs Crash Lands
PITTSBURGH, Itfl—An airliner
carrying 28 men—23 of them GIs
homeward bound for Christmas—
crash landed into the icy Monon
galielu River Wednesday night.
Ten . men are still missing.
Eighteen—four of them crewmen
—were saved, some rescued by a
human chain. The plane’s wreck
age, hoisted by a crane and towed
to a sandbar, failed to reveal any
bodies.
Walter Ketchel, superintendent
of Allegheny (Pittsburgh) Coun
ty Police said both escape hatches
of the plane were open but the
main exit was locked.
The twin-engined DC-3 char
tered airliner was enroute- from
Newark (N.J.) Airport to a Color
ado and two West Coast forts. It
pancaked into the river 15 miles
south of here shortly before mid
night.
A tower operator at Allegheny
County Airport—some two miles
from the crash scene—said the
pilot reported he was out of gas
and was “going to ditch.”
Pilot Harold Joe, 33, of Seattle,
one of the missing, skillfully guid
ed the big ship to a crash landing
near the shore. It floated for some
15 minutes, while the men scram
bled to the wings. Some went
back into the ship for their gear.
Then the ship slipped back into
midstream—some 300 feet from
shore. It was an icy swim to shore
in the 18 degree chill and some
of the men apparently couldn't
make it.
The liner sank in about 12 feet
of oily water.
Help came fast from shore. Res
cuers formed human chains to
snatch the oil-soaked men up the
slippery river banks.
Motorists on the river bank
turned their lights on the scene.
NOTICE TO
REAL AND PERSONAL
PROPERTY OWNERS
The lax rale on 1954 Real and
Personal properly assessments of
the City of Nome, has been set
at 1% (one per cent) by the Board
of Equalization. City properly
taxes are now collectible.
Carrie M. McLain.
City Cily Clerk
Pub. Dec. 20, 22, 24, 1954
We Wish Yow
EVERY
CHRISTMAS
HAPPINESS
Q CAB
Indian Chief’s Grandson
Predicts Month of Snow
For Western Canada
VICTORIA, B.C., Iffi—A seer
with a seismographic toe has pre
dicted snow for next month in
Canada’s westernmost regions.
He is Jimmy Fraser, grandson
of Chief Cheachlatcht of the Son
ghee Indian tribe who says the
weather will be the result of a hot
war being raged in the heavens.
“The clouds are fighting with
the moon and with each other,”
he said. “One day I see great fire
in the heavens. The spirits were
waging great battles.”
Jimmy said last month if an
earthquake was felt here it would
be a sign of snow and cold weath
er. Tuesday’s Eureka, Calif.,
quake was recorded at the Do
minion Astrophysical Observatory
near here.
The shock was also, Jimmy
says, picked up by his sensitive
big toe.
“Tell the people to hunt and fish
quickly and to work hard,” he
said. “Tell them to pile wood all
around their houses. Cold will
come soon.”
Weatherman William MacKie
reported Wednesday two storms
are forming in the North Pacific
and Victoria should expect some
wind.
Italian Chamber Okays
Paris Accords for .
W. German Rearmament
ROME, UP)—The Italian Cham
ber of Deputies approved the
Paris accords for West German
rearmament last night by a vote
of 335 to 219.
The bill for ratification now
goes to the Senate. It probably
will come up for a vote there
before the end of January.
The Italian Chamber was the
fourth parliamentary body to act
on the agreements which would
rearm West Germany within a
western European union. Iceland,
Norway and the British House of
Commons previously approved the
accords. Parliamentary approval
is not needed in Portugal. The
pacts are under debate in the
French National Assembly.
Only the Communists and Mos
cow-oriented socialists voted
against the government.
PUSSYFOOTING INTRUDER
SETS OFF BANK SIREN
MILAN, Italy, IP)— the wail of
sirens from the new electric warn
ing system in Milan’s National
Bank of Labor brough police and
firemen running the other night.
They found a black kitten stalk
ing mice near the vaults.
Conrad Yenney writes from
Walla Walla, Wash., stating he
has enjoyed seeing and hearing
'Walla Walla’s five school bands
participating in civic programs,
which reminds him of the Nome
School Band.
Notice To Property Owners
It is the duty of Real Property
owners to keep their sidewalks
clear of snow and ice and made
passable for pedestrians. This is
not a City obligation.
City of Nome
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
Pub. Dec. 22, 24, 27, 1954
Having Stove or Oil Problems?
See Tom Tungwenuk
Call While 128
SMOKE STACKS CLEANED
New Book Just Out
Is Written By Pioneer
Alaska Gold Miner
NEW YORK, N.Y., —“The Fa
vorites of Fate,” a realistic and
moving novel of two young miners
torn by their love for the same
woman, was published Dec. 22 by
Exposition Press, book publishers
of New York. (Price: $3.00.> The
novel, written by Malcolm Mac
Donald of Longview, Wash., is
set in the action-filled, boom
busting period of the early 1900s
in the gold-hunting regions of
Alaska.
Malcolm MacDonald was born
on a farm in Grande Anse, Nova
Scotia, where he received his high
school education, and taught for
a couple of years.
In his first mining venture in
Alaska he cleared $27,000 within
the year. Three years later, min
ing “No. 5 Below Flat Creek,” he
went broke and $4,000 in the hole.
Tough luck dogged his efforts at
hydraulic mining on Marvel Creek
until, in his own words, “I took
in the stampede to Fortuna Ledge
on the lower Yukon and made a
get-away-stake on Willow Creek
in 1917."
WEATHER FORECAST
Clear to partly cloudy today.
Northerly winds 5 to 10 mph.
Colder tonight and Saturday. Low
temperature expected tonight -23,
high Saturday -5.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature -2,
low -13. Max. wind 8 mph. from
the east. Sunrise 10:03 a.m., sun
set 1:59 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 33, low 17. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 37 in 1935,
low -27 in 1923.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -26 Clear
Kotzebue -27 Clear
Wales -21 Clear
Nome -12 Clear
Unalakleet -35 Part cloudy
Bethel 15 Snow
McGrath -22 Snow
Anchorage -5 Part cloudy
Fairbanks -30 Fog
Whitehorse -3 Part cloudy
Edmonton 25 Snow
Juneau 21 Cloudy
Ketchikan 33 Cloudy
Seattle 41 Cloudy
San iFrancisco 48 Part cloudy
... IT’S
time we took a few
minutes to wish
you the best of
everything at this
glad Season of the
year. So . . .
here's a
(DfRRy CHfllSTfTlflS
LES STEVENS
Democrats Plan Sweeping
Investigation of GOP
Patronage Moves
WASHINGTON, UPI—Sen. Mon
roney (D-Oklai said Thursday
Democrats plan to make a sweep
ing investigation of Republican
patronage moves.
He bracketed in this field Presi
dent Eisenhower’s order to chan
nel job applicants through the
GOP National Committee.
Monroney, who may head a
Senate civil service subcommittee
looking into patronage matters,
said in an interview he believes
Republican actions in handling
federal employment matters ‘‘will
not stand inspection."
“They are rolling postmasters
out of office, for instance, on the
slightest pretext,” he said. “It’s
got to the point where charges can
be brought against a Democratic
postmaster if the pens aren’t kept
clean in his office.
“Unless these people, who are
covered by civil service, are vet
erans, they have no effective ap
peal because they can appeal only
to the Republican-controlled Post
Office Department.”
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Joy and peace be
yours at this Holy
Christinas season.
MODERN
LAUNDRY
& Dry Cleaners
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GREfTIn G S
NOME SANITARY SERVICE
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"You merry folk, he of good cheer,
For Christmas comes hut once a year
From open door you ’ll take no harm
By winter ij your hearts are warm
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