Twenty-Three Die
In Brazilian Crash
RIO DE JANEIRO, iff) — Only
three of 26 persons aboard sur
vived the crash of a Brazilian Air
Force C-47 transport near Belem
an Asapress news agency dispatch
said today.
The plane carried six crew
members and ‘20 passengers, in
cluding two women and six chil
dren. The Asapress dispatch said
the survivors were a sergeant, a
woman and a child.
The plane was en route from Rio
de Janeiro to Cayenne, French
Guiana, when it crashed in the
jungle.
THE QUEEN OF THE NORTH
Oh I know a marvelous malcien,
Whose beauty is wondrous to
see;
She lives away up in the North
land,
On the shores of a wild raving
sea.
Her coffers are full of rich treas
ures,
And she reigns from a pure
golden throne.
One wonders as they look at her >
riches,
If their value will ever be
known.
She calls for real men to woo her, j
Men who are square through1
and through.
Men who will woo her and wed
her,
Who will love her enough to be
true.
For she has a great many children,
This Queen of the North; at her
call;
She is anxious that they share her
bounty,
As her wealth is sufficient for
all.
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She asks, “Do not woo me and
leave me,
As others have done here before,
And take of my own precious
treasures
To spend on some far distant j
shore.”
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“But be fair, keep my wealth near
me,
And develop my land and you’ll
see;
As the days and years pass before
you,
That you’ll never regret loving
me.”
This queen has the most won
drous beauty,
And her heart is as warm as a
hearth.
Did I tell you her name? . . . It’s
Alaska;
She’s the beautiful Queen of the
North.
So to you when she opens her
coffers,
And gives you a pot full of gold.j
Just use it here in her empire,
And to you other wealth will
unfold.
“Dick” Welsh,
Nome, Alaska.
Puget Ferries
Slop Operation
SEATTLE, (/P) — An estimated
100,000 residents of the Olympic
peninsula and Puget Sound islands
were virtually stranded today.
The ferries stopped running at
midnight or shortly thereafter.
Capt. Alex M. Peabody, Puget
Sound Navigation company presi
dent, emerged from a four and
one-half hour meeting with Gov
ernor Wallgren shortly before
midnight last night and said:
“We^pre going to start the or
derly liquidation of the company
at once.”
The lengthy, last-minute meet
ing between Wallgreen and Pea
body broke up after the governor
proposed that the state join with
the company in asking the Thurs
ton county superior court to set
aside its judgments pending a
complete review of the case by the
state’s department of transporta
tion.
‘‘In a bull-headed manner he
(Peabody) said he didn’t want any
more to do with the department,”
Wallgren said.
Wallgren said the offer would
have permitted continued opera
tion under its present 30 per cent
temporary rate increase while the
state department restudied the
case.
SEATTLE, (/P) — A converted,
navy LST carried nearly 3,0001
Bremerton naval shipyard work
ers and military personnel to Bre
merton this morning.
The trip was the first of two
daily round trips, provided with- j
out charge by the navy for ship-!
yard and military personnel, who j
otherwise would have been unable:
to get across the sound because of j
the ferry tieup. ^
The LST was outfitted with J
benches and deck chairs on the
tank deck.
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Four Children
Burn To Death
ROCHESTER, Mich. (/P)—Sor- j
rowing residents of the tiny com- j
munity of Brooklands near, here
paused today in their collection of
funds for the purchase of a new,
fire truck.
Instead, they sought to ease the
pain of the Lawrence Garvey fam
ily which lost four children in an
ironic tragedy late Saturday night.
While Garvey, 40, and his wife,
Irene, 42, were at a fund-raising
bingo party, a fire destroyed their (
home.
Trapped and burned to death in
the blaze were four Garvey chil
dren—Judith Ann, 9; John, 6; Su
san, 4, and William 1.
Thirteen-year-old Lawrence, Jr.
frantically tried to fasten a garden
hose to the family water pump af
ter discovering the blaze.
Brooklands has no water mains.
The volunteer fire department had
staged the bingo party in plans to
raise funds to buy a fire truck.
A sixth child, Barbara, 16, was
at a dance and escaped the blaze.
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Asks Congress Not
To Cut Taxes
WASHINGTON, </P> — Budget
director James E. Webb urged to
day that Congress look at the
“hard facts of international life”
when deciding about cutting in
come taxes.
Those “hard facts,” he said, do
not give much hope for big cuts in
government spending in the next
two years.
Webb testified before the Sen
ate finance committee which is
considering the House-passed bill
to cut income taxes $6,500,000,000
this year.
Before Webb took the commit
tee’s witness chair, secretary of
the treasury Snyder had stiffly op
posed the House bill.
Snyder said that instead of pass
ing it Congress should adopt Prse
ident Truman’s plan for a $40
"cost of living” tax credit for ev
eryone.
PIONEER CARD PARTY
WELL ATTENDED
The Pioneers of Alaska had an
other of their popular card parties
last Saturday evening with a large
crowd in attendance.
Winnere of the games were Mrs.
Herb Jenks, Mrs. Charles O’Leary,
Mrs. Nels Swanberg, Jr., George
Waldheim, Ben Mozee, Hank Mil
ler. Special door prize went to An
tonio Polet.
Leading for trophy prizes for
the series are W. J. Dowd and
Mrs. Charles O.Leary.
Jet Fighter Goes
»>21 Miles per Hour
LOS ANGELES, (/P) — A navy
jet fighter plane has whittled
down the speed record between
Seattle and Los Angeles. The new
mark for a 1,825-mile course is
one hour, 58 minutes, seven sec
onds, an average of 521 miles an
hour.
Comdr. E. P. Aurand. flying a
North American FJ-1, eclipsed the
old mark of army capt. Mack A.
Mitchell, then stationed at March
Field, Calif.—two hours, 14 min
utes. It was made April (5. 1948.
Comdr. Aurand was one of
three navy pilots who left Seattle
yesterday on a speed training mis
sion. Their objective was not to
break records, but they reported
their times to the plane manufac
turers.
Lt. Comdr. Robert Edler flew
7.04.5 miles to S3n Francisco in
one hour, 21 minutes, 7 seconds,
averaging 522.12 m.p.h.
Binks Seiffert has received word
of the serious illness of his mother
former Nomeite of the early days,
| at her home in Seattle. Mr. and
Mrs. Seiffert plan to leave this
week to be with her. During their
absence Hazel’s Shop will be
closed. While Outside they plan to
purchase new merchandise and
will introduce several new lines
upon their return.
Eskimo Show
Promises Good
Entertainment
The big Eskimo Show next Sat
urday, March 6th, with an all na
tive cast is shaping up to be one
of the most unusual shows ever
produced in Nome. The general
committee composed of Bert Bell,
Charlie Fagerstrom, Willie Beltz,
Robert Okpcaluk and Sam Mogg
has been working very hard to
make the event well worth while.
They state that one of the most,
interesting acts, of the evening will
be the cutting up and skinning of
a Iresh seal, showing how each
part of the animal is separated
and used. Mrs. Robert Okpealak
has been chosen for the perform
ance.
James Iapanna who just got in
from Diomede is scheduled to
head a Diomede dance which, they
state promises to be most unusual.
A specialty number, never be
fore seen in Nome is being pre
sented by a group of islanders.
One of the committee stated that
it was hard to describe but that
it was an ancestral dance handed
down from family to family for
generations and will be interpre
ted for the public.
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Gladys Seeds of the Nome Drug
Store arrived home after several
weeks absence on business in the
i States.
You save money at the N. C.
The past few years when prices were advancing we
priced all foods at regular N. C. markups . . . this
was based on our actual cost. At no time did we take
advantage of rising prices. In many instances our
prices were as low or lower than Seattle prices. This
meant a substantial savings to our customers.
The past week prices on a few items have taken a
decline . .. our prices are being adjusted accord
ingly. Some of the declines are very small, others
are more noticeable . .. but regardless of how small
the saving ... it is being passed on to our cus
tomers.
We are merely carrying out the N. C. policy, which
has been in effect, for a half century, throughout
Alaska ... of offering quality merchandise at low
est possible prices.
We do not believe in “hot shots,” we prefer to give
good honest values the year ’round.
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