600 Safe As Cruise
Ship Quebec Burns
TADOUSSAC, Quebec, (/P) —
The 7,000-ton cruise ship Quebec
burned to the waterline Monday
night after racing aflame in the
St. Lawrence River to land safely
some 600 persons aboard.
Three Montreal residents were
unaccounted for yesterday.
The 22-year-old vessel was
owned and operated by the Can
ada Steamship Lines, whose cruise
ship Noronic burned at her borth
in Toronto last Sept. 17, taking a
toll of 119 lives. j
Operators of the Quebec said!
she was a “complete loss.”
A considerable amount of bag
gage was destroyed as the ship
burned to the water’s edge about
four hours after she docked at j
this resort town at the mouth of;
the Skaguenav River.
Still unexplained was the cause
of the fire, discovered late Mon
day afternoon as the passengers:
crowded the Quebec’s decks
watching. the grandeur of the
Saguenay cliffs. The ship sailed
from Montreal Sunday night.
BUD RICHTERS LEAVE
FOR STATES I
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Richter
and two children departed for the
States this morning enroute to Mr.1
Richter’s home in Texas.
Nome’s photography team plan
to study this winter on additional
phases of photography to round
out their experience in this field.
During their absence Lou Oli-1
ver will develop pictures for Rich-1
ter Photos. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver |
will also live in the Richter resi-1
dence.
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Eunice Logan, formerly a teach-.
er in the ANS school in Nome is'
enroute to Kotzebue to resume
work this fall. She stated this
morning that there is “never a
dull moment” in that active little
* community and the school is over
crowded to the limit with more
than the four teachers can handle
efficiently.
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No Change In
Plumbers’ Strike
At Anchorage
SEATTLE, (/P)—Federal media
tors still faced a blank wall here!
last night at the close of their j
first-day attempts to settle the
crucial Anchorage plumbers’
strike.
Federal mediation director Cy- j
rus Ching called the hearing last!
week after secretary of defense;
Johnson had assailed the strike as
endangering more than 200 mil
lion dollars worth of defense pro- j
jects in the Anchorage area.
Sixteen persons representing
Alaska and Stateside plumbing
contractors answered Ching’s call
yesterday morning, along with
two representatives of Anchorage
Local 367, plumbers and steam
fitters’ union.
Federal mediators Albin Peter
son, Leo Kotin, and William G.
Hosie met with the negotiators.
However, Peterson reported “no
significant change’’ in employers’
or union stands when the session
adjourned.
Harry H. Lewis, regional direct
or of the federal mediation and
conciliation service, was sched
uled to return to Seattle after con
ferences with Ching in Washing
ton, D. C.
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EX-NOMEITE OLD-TIMER, 86>
PASSES ON IN SEATTLE
A. G. Brown, who came to Alas
ka in 1886, pioneering in the Jun
eau area and who came to Nome
during the rush in 1900, died a few
months ago in Seattle at the age
of 86.
He willed the people of Juneau
$24,000 “for something that Juneau
needs” and suggested a swimming
pool or ice skating center.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Reader are in
town for a few days from North
Fork where Mr. Reader operates
a dredge. He stated that the Kou
garok is dry, very dry, and water
is needed badly for fall opera
tions.
Lqgal Planks at The Nugget office
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Shishmaref, Deering, Keewalik, Kotzebue, Solomon, Golovin,
St. Michael, Unalakleet.
A Vessel, September 28 for — Unalaska, St. Michael
Nome
J. J. DILLON. Agent Phone Main 68 Nome, Alaska
CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE
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The Northwestern Chamber of
Commerce met yesterday noon at
the Polaris Grill with president A.
Saario presiding.
Progress was reported on the
Chamber Tourist Booklet by sec
retary of the tourist committee, A.
Polet, who stated that there were
over 100 businessmen in Nome
and Second Division to be con
tacted. The booklet is planned for
5,000 or 10,000 copies and at pres
ent the size to be around forty
pages of the regulation size to fit
display cases of all travel agen
cies.
Elsie Guenther, representative
of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority,
which was instituted here this
week, wa sa special guest of the
Chamber and presented several
interesting facts in relation to
tourist industry development. She
stated that while in Hawaii the
Chamber of Commerce praised
her work with the organization
she represents and also used her
expense account to the various
islands as a basis of expense for
tourists. She offered the same in
formation on Alaska to the Cham
ber, stating that she has found
both food and hotels cheaper in
Nome than in any other part of
the Territory. She praised the Po
laris for her fine modern accom
modations.
She suggested that corsages of
wild cotton be a token of wel
come to tourists in Nome and sug
gested that one of the local groups
sell local berry jellies.
She praised the people of Nome
for exemplifying the spirit of
friendliness for which it is far
famed.
Ted Duffield of the Legislative
Committee reported that most of
the candidates have volunteered
to discuss their stand on various
important subjects to come before
the legislature and suggested a
special dinner to meet with them.
A public meeting was suggested
for the reception of Geo. Armitage
on the development of a Territo
rial Association for tourist indus
try upon his arrival here with
George Sundborg of the Alaska
Development Board.
MRS. MARY REAT, 88
EX-NOMEITE, PASSES ON
Word was received by Ralf Reat
that his mother, Mrs. Mary M.
Reat, had passed away in Seattle
on Aug. 14th. Mrs. Reat, who had
spent several years in Nome at
three different times, suffered a
broken leg May 27, and had been
in bed until the time of her death.
She is survived by another son
Ivan Reat who lives in Lamed,
Kansas, and a daughter Ruth Reat
who is also very well known here.
Mrs. Reat was 88 years of age last
April 23.
While in Nome Mary Reat
made her home with her daughter
Ruth Reat, and made many
friends who will mourn her pass
ing. Although old in years, she
was a most alert person with hob
bies and activities that kept her
remarkably young and up to date,
always an example of happiness.
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"DOWN MEXICO WAY"
Gene Autry
Transfer Niemi To
Juneau Office
Mr. William J. Niemi, district
engineer, Alaska Road Commis
sion, Anchorage, Alaska, will be
transferred to the Headquarters
office of the Alaska Road Com
mission, Juneau, as Chief of the
Oopeartions Division effective No
vember 1, 1950.
Mr. Niemi has spent the major
portion of his life in Alaska and
has a long record of experience
with the Alaska Road Commis
sion.
He came to Alaska in 1910; and
lived in the Gastineau Channel
area from 1910 to 1918, attending
grade school in Douglas. In 1918,
he moved to Anchorage where he
attended high school.
In 1921, Mr. Niemi left Alaska
to attend college at the Colorado
School of Mines, Golden, Colora
do, where he received the degree
of Engineer of Mines in 1926.
Mr. Niemi’s service with the
Alaska Road Commission began
in 1930 when he was made assist
ant engineer in the Chitina Dis
trict. In 1932 and 1933, he was re
sponsible for the construction of
Eyak Lake Airfield near Cordova.
He was assigned to the Anchorage
District in 1935 and worked on
the Anchorage-Palmer Highway
as assistant superintendent. He re
mained with the Anchorage Dis
trict until 1941 when he was call
ed to active duty as a member of
the Alaska National Guard as a
Captain.
Summer School at St. Joseph’s
Church is continuing with 104’
students reported enrolled for the
several classes during the day and
classes for the older students in
the evening, under the direction
of two Catholic Sisters from Holy
Cross.
FIND TWO-YEAR-OLD TOT
SAFE AFTER 16 HOUR SEARCH
ABERDEEN, Wash., <#)—Two
year-old Shirley Lonborg, missing *
16 hours in the rain-drenched
woods near Montesano, was found
alive and in “generally condition”
early yesterday morning.
She was found by Leroy Hardy
and Cliff Ramsey, volunteer
searchers from Aberdeen, about
three miles from her home. They
said she was crying when they
came upon her in the heavily4*
wooded area into which she wan
dered at about 5 o’clock yesterday.
Taken to the Elma Hospital, her
condition was reported good al
though she was suffering from ex
posure.
The little girl, two years old
June 16, wandered away from the |
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ’
Lloyd Lonborg, of Oakville, ap
proximately 75 miles southwest of
Seattle.
Daisy Keene, ANS traveling
nurse in this area, accompanied
by Maude Taft, left for vacation
in the States and plan to go to
California. Miss Keene reported
that she will not be making the
transfer to Barrow as originally
planned but will return to Nome,
with Mrs. Taft.
Hospital News
Thomas Pushruk and Alice May
Miller were discharged from the
hospital.
George Luke, who was brought
to the hospital with an injured leg
from Teller last week caused by
being caught in the towline of a
barge between the barge and tug
boat of the Lomen Commercial
Co,, which was working in that
area, has lost his leg it is reported
from the accident.
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