^its due them by the VA
will be reimbursed provid
ing they prove that they
remained loval to the Uni
ted States.
Decentralization of Na
tional Service Life Insur
ance from New York to the
13 branch offices of the Vet
erans Administration ex
tended to the Northwest as
branch No. 11 in Seattle an
nounced receipt of some
500,000 NSLI records of
World War II veterans liv
ing in the four Northwest
states and Alaska.
“All matters pertaining
to NSLI policies of veter
ans in Oregon, Idaho, Alas
ka, Montana and Washing
ton will now be conducted
tfrom the Northwest Branch
office of the VA in Seattle,”
Mr. Nicholas Zavinskv.VA
contact representative in
this area stated. “Veter
ans can jiow expect pres
ent delays on insurance
matters to be practically
or completely eliminated
within the next three
month.”
Veterans in the North
west are being advised of
the insurance decentraliz
ation by postcard notices
of the change. The former
NSLI headquarters in New
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ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
DONALD J. LYLE, W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS, Secy.
* NOME LODGE
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Meets Second Friday
S. DAVID MAZEN, N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN, Secy.
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JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Mein 40
oTd. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome, Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
| York has mailed August
notices of premiums for the
last time, giving Seattle as
the return address.
The Northwest branch
of the VA now becomes the
permanent record office for
all NSLI policies. The
VA contact Office in Fair
banks will continue how
ever to provide r . '/vice to
veterans on matters of re
instatement. conversi o n
and other queries. Mail
inquiries may also be made
to the regional office in
Juneau, he explained.
P a y m e n t s should be
made direct to the Vete
ans Administration, Branch
No. 11. Collections Divis
ion, Exchange Building, Se
attle. 4, Washington.
Veterans are being cau
tioned that when mailing
premium payments person
! al checks or money orders,
properly identified with
the sender's name, address
and policy number, should
be used. Cash payments
should never be sent thru
the mails.
Backlogs of thousands of
unposted premium pay
ments which assumulated
while the NSLI oolicies
JL
were handled in New York
and during the decentral
ization period t must now
be whittled down bv the
staff of the insurance ser
vice before the promised
24 to 36-hour service can
be given.
GREEDY THIEF
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10,— JPi
—The man who came to dinner in
Arno Katz’ hotel ro m w.f- not
only uninvited—but unapprecia
ted.
Katz, manager of the Commo
dore Hotel here, picked up his
suit at the cleaners, returned to
his room and ordered his meal
sent up. In the meantime he
went downstairs to attend t some
guests.
When he returned he found
osmeone had entered his room,
eaten his meal, and taken his new
ly-pressed suit.
Fights For Life
MILWAUKEE, WIS. — William
Double, 3, (above) was given a
fighting chance to win his battlj
against double pneumonia and em
pyema after he had received 250,
000 units of the newest ‘‘miracle
drug”, streptomycin. The boy, sor
of former State Assemblyman Wil»
liam F. Double, a Milwaukee attor
ney, received the streptomycil
through the efforts of the Milwau
kee Sentinel and other Hearsi
Newspapers, which obtained a re
lease from the civilian Productiol
Administration. The drug was la
cated at the Abbott laboratories if
Chicago.
Phone Local News to Main 125
BLIND VETERAN NOW A PIANO TUNER-if all of the ••*<*»
notes emitting from pianos is a true criterion, Francis Chambers (right), New York
should enjoy a lucrative business after completing training as a piano tuner. A
Technical Sergeant with the 79th Division at the time he was wounded, Chambers—
a clerk before the war—is training under Public Low L6, which provides for the
vocational rehabilitation of disabled veterans.
SPEEDY SERVICE
DENVER, Col< Aiifc. -The
owner of a stolen truck • des
cribing it to patrolman Ralph
Obert at the police switchboard
Saturday. Obert looked out of
the window and saw the tru: :.
Recovery time: Four minutes.
MONTY FERGUSON LEAVES
FOR SHORT VACATION
M city Ferguson, part owner of
hie Nome Grill, left today on the
Alaska Airlines plane for Anch
orage, and Fairbanks, where he
will spend a few days and get
some medical attention.
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