Missionaries Free
But Suffering
From Malnutrition
HONG KONG, LiP)—Dr. and Mrs.
Homer V. Bradshaw, American
medical missionaries in China for
nearly 20 years and prisoners of
the Communists for nearly five,,
crossed the Hong Kong border to
freedom Tuesday.
Mrs. Bradshaw appeared to be
suffering from acute malnutrition
and a mental breakdown.
“She doesn’t realize even now
that she is in free territory,” the
Presbyterian doctor told newsmen
half an hour' after an ambulance
brought him and his wife to St.
Teresa’s Hospital from the fron-1
tier bridge on the mainland.
Dr. Bradshaw said he himself
had been subjected to slow starva
tion and suffered a complete phys-,
ical breakdown last May but Red1
Cross food parcels he began re-,
ceiving the next month helped hirm
to recover partially.
He added that he plans to take
his wife as soon as possible to her
father’s farm near Pittsburgh, Pa.
“If we can get this fear out of
her,” he said, she’ll start to eat
again and slowly get her physical
strength back.”
Newsmen were shocked by Mrs.
Bradshaw’s pitiable condition as
she turned a blank stare to their
questions. One reporter remarked
she looked “worse than Bishop
(Alphonse) Ferroni,” an Italian
Roman Catholic bishop who had
to be carried across the border
bridge on Sept. 17.
Dr. Bradshaw had been in pris
on—first in Kwantung and then
in Canton—since their ari'est in
March 1951, but his wife was
transferred to house arrest in Can
ton when she became ill in 1953.
The Chinese never made public
any charges against them but the
doctor said he was told last Octo
ber they were accused of spying.
Orders for mailing the Christ
mas edition of the Nome Nugget
should be left at the Nugget not
Liter than Friday noon.
HONOR SYSTEM FAILS
MARIETTA, Ga., WV-The first
Methodist Church reports that its
honor system parking lot, under
which motorists deposit what they
want to in a box on the sidewalk,
is not working so well.
Yesterday someone drove off
with the cash, box and all.
JOHN RANONA. 84, DIES
SEATTLE, UP)—Funeral services
were held here today for John
Ronana, 84, who mined for gold
in Alaska many years. He came to
Seattle eight years ago.
Those going to the Olympic
games at Sydney, Australia next
year should start learning some
of their “slang” for someone is
apt to say, “He’s flat out like a
lizzard drinking.” If you should
stop over in New Zealand, you
should know that “Come along,
I’ll shout you,” means the fellow
wants to pay for the drinks!
Letter-size and legal file folders
available at The Nome Nugget
NOTICE
Pursuant to an order of court
entered on the 12th day of Novem
ber, A.D. 1955, notice is hereby
given that a general term of the
District Court, Second Division,
District of Alaska, will be held
in the Court House at Nome in
said District and Division, com
mencing at the hour of 10 o'clock
a.m. on Thursday, January 3, 1956.
and to continue thereafter accord
ing to the further orders of the
court.
Given under my hand and with
ihe Court's Seal affixed this 12th
day of November, A.D. 1955.
Norvin W. Lewis,
Clerk of the United States
District Court for ihe
• District of Alaska, Sec
ond Division.
Publish Dec. 9, 16, 21, 30, 1955
Merchants Down
ACS Signaliers
Hornets Win 2nd
The Nome Merchants took com
mand of a fast-moving basketball
game last night and won over the
much - improved ACS Signaliers
50 to 34. Both teams are reor
ganized and are on the comeback
trail.
Pete Larsen was the Merchant'
gunner and hit the hoop for 20
points, Arne Castel was next with
10. Captain Bob Ellis was top man
for the ACS with 17, Jim Mahlen
dropped in 8 counters.
The second game was a close
contest into the final quarter. The
red-hot Hornets had their hands
full with a hopped-up Air Force
team sparked by hustling Jim
Hinson who racked up 22 tallies.
Chuck Parris hit for 8.
The Hornets lost their chief
gunner, Tony Willoya, in the third
quarter but big Dave Bell took
over and hooped in 16 while Bob
Herman added 15. Final score—
Hornets 56, Air Force 43.
Both games were fast and full
of excitment. Next Tuesday night,
Dec. 27, the Merchants meet the
Air Force in what should be a
real battle, and the Hornets tangle
with the second-place Nome High
Nanooks in the second game.
The standings to date:
Won Lost
Hornets . 6 0
Nome Nanooks . 3 2
Air Force . 2 3
Nome Merchants . 2 4
ACS Signaliers . 1 5
Scandinavian Air Lines
Orders Seven DC-8 Jets
For International Runs
OSLO, (if**—Seven DC-8 jet air
liners are on order for the Scan
dinavian Air Lines System, the
company announced today.
The planes are to be delivered
during the first half of 1960. They
are intended for the Scandinavia
New York run over the North At
lantic, the Copenhagen-Los Ange
les run across Greenland and Can
ada, and the planned northern
Norway-Tokyo service across th^
North Pole.
With spare parts, the planes will
cost about $50 million.
Norwegian director Nils Lang
helle said no airfield in western
Europe is large enough to take
these huge planes.
The jets are expected to shorten
the Los Angeles flight from 27 to
14 hours and the New York run
from 19 to 8 hours. The flight to
Tokyo will take about 16-17 hours.
The DC-8s will fly at an alti
tude of 36.000 feet with as many
as 134 passengers.
Son Born io Peter Adsuna's
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Adsuna are
the parents of a son born to
day, December 21, the shortest
day of the year. He has been
named Jerry David.
See James K. Moses
Eskimo Artist
For hand drawn Alaskan
Christmas cards, also
regular Eskimo life drawings.
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