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DENNY OST RETURNS
TO VISIT RELATIVES HERE
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Denny Ost, younger son of the
well known Ost family of Council
arrived Sunday enroute to Council
to visit his family which he has
not seen for the past six years.
Denny who is the youngest of the
Ost clan, has been studying at the
Simpson Bible Institute in Seattle
and is with the Alliance Church.
He is having services every eve
ning at the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission before going to Council to
join his wife and son. who ar
rived a week ago.
Jack Iedswick, postal inspector
departed for Fairbanks yesterday
with Pan American.
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Thousands Drown
In Kxplosion ()f
Chinese Ship
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from Nanking. He said another es
timated 2,000 clambered aboard at
Shanghai. There seemed no way of
determining just how many.
Late Saturday night, as six Chi
nese rescue boats bobbed about
the shattered superstructure ex
tending out of the chill waters,
about 200 bodies were reported re
covered and at least 3.000 were re
ported si ill missing.
Between 100 and 400 have been
reported rescued thus far.
Cause of the blast had not been
determined. The welter of rep >rtk
advanc’d several reasons—com
munist sabotage, an underwater
mine, and an explosion of over
strained boilers.
It was the first major disaster in
the frenzied exodus from Shang
hai and Nanking. Bo'h cities are
menaced by Chinese communist
armies n >w engaged in critical—
possibly decisiv —battles less than
200 miles northwes of Nanking.
The steamship had sailed from
Shanghai en route to Ningpo <N:n
gshsient, about 200 miles south of
here. It was jammed with Shang
hai and Nanking residents at
tempting to reach relative safety
of Chekiang province.
A company spokesman said the
Kiangva’s eapaci'y was 1,186 pas
sengers. He added, however, that
thousands of refugees had swarm
ed aboard on each of the ship’s
trips in recent weeks despite ef
IN DISTRICT COURT
—
Saturday morning at ten o’clock
Mr. and Mrs. S. David Maze a wen
arraigned in the U. S. Dj.stric'
Court on the charge of hav ng filer
false reports as to the hours o.‘
work done by Mrs. Mazen n the
local postoffice. C. C. Tanner hai
been retained as their attorney
and the plea is scheduled to b<
beard next Tuesday afternoon.
An indictment was rear; ; gains
■ he Nome Mercantile and 1 quo:
Co., for selling liquor to a minor,
namely Robert L. Stanley. The
plea was set for Decembe 7th.
forts to hold a safety limd. .
The spokesman said the vesse
had carried at least 4,000 i. assen
gers on each of its previou- trips,
and hat there were at leas* iha
many aboard this time.
Survivors—some of whom, wen
injured — reported that the ship
went down shortly after a tremen
dous explosion. One survivor sai
it might have been sabotage, be
cause he noticed two junks passim
the stern of the -hip a fe min
ute- earlier.
He sadi they might have -use'
a mine. Shipping men we t in
clined to blame overstrain . boil
ers for the blast.
The ship's wireless wa.- anac -
c amiably out of commissi r. an
:‘s plight was not learned .mtil
passing coastal vessel, the Hv.
l'o » sighted the smoking sh o.
The Hwa Foo was bel - ed t
have picked up some surviv s. A
5 p.m. Saturday she still wa
standing by a small portion of th
sunken ships’ superstructure' ex
tending above the water.
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