Gregory Ayac Tells
Story Of Fatal Ride
On Ice Floes
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us they passed each other, follow
ing a sled trail off the ice and into
a shelter cabin where he states he
carefully lit a match, only after
he was sure it had dried suffi
ciently by placing it next to his
body, and made tea.
Here he was found by Arnold
Olanna.
Gregory, who is a fine ivory
carver, is the sole support of his
mother and three sisters, his
father having died here of tuber
culosis last year, said that when it
started to get dark each night they
would look for the biggest iceberg
in sight and after reaching it,
built themselves a shelter for the
night, huddling together for
warmth, and sleep, or move
around if they got too cold.
Raphael is the sou of Mrs.
George Washington, who lives
near Nome.
Gregory is a good Catholic, hav
ing received his religious training
from King Islnad’s beloved priest,
Father La Fortune, who died last
year, and Gregory attributes his
rescue to the prayers of his com
panions who urged him to go on to
the mainland.
k James Brooks, weather bureau
man at Wales who purchased
Frank Whaley’s plane last fall,
upon being informed of Gregory’s
condition at Ikpick, picked up the
young Eskimo and brought him to
Nome. Mr. Brooks is a veteran of
World War II, having served as a
B-24 pilot with the 460th Bomb
Group, 1st Wing, 15th Air Force in
Italy.
He sent word to the command^
ing officer at Marks Field from
where the search for these men
Truman Asks For
Disaster Funds
WASHINGTON, (TP)—President
Truman yesterday asked Congress
for a new $1,000,000 emergency
disaster appropriation. He an
nounced the request at a news con
ference.
One reason for asking it, he
said, is the need for federal money
to match state funds to relieve dis
tress in the western blizzard area.
Part of the additional money
will be used in connection with
the western disaster, he said, but
he did not indicate how much.
What Mr. Truman asks is tha
the money be made available for
his use in disaster relief. He could
allocate as much of it as he de
cided was needed to aid the west
ern states now laboring to recover
from a blizzard.
Mr. Truman Monday made
$100,000 available for disaster re
lief in the western states.
Asking Congress for additional
money, he said that a $500,000
i fund voted him by Congress last
year has been reduced to $50,000.
MANY GOT CLOSE-UP VIEW
OF USS BURTON ISLAND
Ken Rank, owner of the U. S.
! Mercantile Store, set up a tele
scope in front of his establishment
Wednesday foi; the conveniences of
the public so that they might get a
closer view of the ice breaker USS
Burton Island, completely sur
rounded by ice in the roadstead.
Near the telescope was a jar for
contributions for the Alaska Crip
pled Children’s Assn., where vol
untary contributions were given
freely. ,
had been directed and a message
to Father Tom Cunningham at
King Island.
International News
At A Glance —
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ser ed foreign secretary Bevin by
abstaining.
Votes for the Israeli constituent
assembly showed Premier David
Ben-Gurion’s labor party with 35
percent of the vote and certain of
continued control. Communists
polled 3.5 per cent.
Foreign minis ers of the Brus
sels Alliance of Britain, France,
and the low countries met in Lon
don. They were believed talking
of the North Atlantic Pact, unifi
, cation of Europe, military coopera
i tion and economic affairs. ♦
Russia hiked the trade totals for
| the five puppet states she herded
| into the economic council of mu
' tual assistance—the Kremlin’s ver
1 sion of the Marshall Plan. Poland,
one of the participants, said trade
discrimination by the U. S. had
forced a drop of half of Poland’s
exports.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. mili
tary governor in Germany, said
that despite conciliatory utter
: ances of communists in Italy and
France, he sees no evidence that
Russia is softening its cold war
' drive against the western powers,
i Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. wartime
! chief of air staff, said Russia has
a huge war potential and a fifth
column in this country that is the
biggest and most powerful of any
1 place in the world.
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Friday, January 28, 1949
Acting president Li Tsung-Jen
of China appealed today to the
communists to name the place and
negotiators for peace talks.
Meanwhile chaos, a condition
I favored by communism, spread
through the sprawling country.
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Premier Sun Fo and foreign
minister VVu Te-Chen, regarded as
the main advocates for figh ing
on, were strangely missing and
perhaps in conference with Chi
ang Kai-Shek. Friends said they
feared Li migiit hand them over
to the communists as war 4"imin
als. One report was that a move
was afoot to establish a fugitive
government in revolt against Li,
with Chiang probably again at the
head.
A regiment of nationalist troops
revolted at Peiping when ordered
into Red territory. Their com
mander, Gen. Shih Chuch; had op
posed bitterly giving up Peiping
with hardly a battle. The ci y ap
parently is to be taken over by a
joint committee of four commun
ists and three nationalists.
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Armistice talks bewteen Egypt
and Israel seemed about to fail.
The Jews refused to give up gains
in the Negev desert of southren
Palestine although some were in
territory allotted the Arabs under
partition.
American planes hunted wide
areas ol. Europe, Africa and the
Atlantic for a B-29 superfor'ress
lost between Dakar and England
I with 15 aboard.
A moderately strong earthquake
i shook Iloilo, the capital of the Fili
pino island of Panay.
Burma rebels, many of whom
are communists, won a firm grip
on the Rangoon-Mandalay raliroad
in an apparent effort to seal Ran
goon off from the rest of the coun
! try. They captured the rail towns
i of Toungoo and Pyu.
j The communist guerrillas of
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Effective February 1 Pan Amer
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Nome on Monday and Thursday.
The change from the Sunday and
Wednesday flights is made with
the idea that better service can be
accorded this area.
Though the days of the flights
into Nome have been changed the
arrival and departure times re
main the same. Twelve-hour serv
ice between Seattle and Nome is
still the policy.
Connections for the flight leav
ing Seattle for Honolulu are easily
made. Only one day notice is
necessary.
Greece offered to talk peace if
communist conditions are accept
ed. One of these is that American
aid be cut off. The government
pu out strong hints it was not in
terested.
Rumors continued that Russian
vice foreign minister A-ndrei Vi
hinsky is in Czechoslovakia, pos
sibly trouble shooting for the
thing called the economic council
of mutual aid—Russia’s counter
part of the Marshall plan.
The foreign ministers wof Swe
den, Norway and Denmark
i reached Oslo to resume talks of a
Scandinavian defense alliance.
The views of Sweden and Norway
! seemed too far apart for agree
ment. Norway wants an alliance
and weapons from the western na
I tions, meaning the United States.
Sweden wants only neutrality and
1 no 'ties to the proposed North At
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