NEWS IN BRIEF
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our organization last year supplied
food and clothing to 17,000 tran
sients and 300 residents.”
FAIRBANKS, <#*)—A Ladd air
force base soldier was killed late
Wednesday beneath the weight of
a tug-tractor he was driving along
a warehouse ramp.
It toppled over the edge, pinning
him beneath it. His name was
withheld pending notification of
next of kin.
FAIRBANKS, UP) — One week
remains for filing for the office
of mayor.
- Number of candidates thus far:
^none,
JUNEAU, UP)—John E. Pegues,
61. former well-known Alaska
newspaperman, died in the hospi
tal here last night.
Survivors include his widow,
Dorothy, editor-manager of the
Alaska Sunday Press, and nine
sons, seven of the boys live here,
one in 'Los Angeles and another is
with the San Francisco Chronicle.
FAIRBANKS, </P) — Three na
tives burned to death at Betties,
300 miles northeast of here, yes
terday when fire destroyed their
log cabin horn.
U. S. Commissioner Clinton
Stewart identified the dead as
Johnny Edwards and his two sons.
Mrs. Edwards, critically burned,
was flown to a Fairbanks hospital
for treatment.
FAIRBANKS <7P>—A recreation
fund drive for a youth program
has reached the half-way mark,
with more than $0,200 raised by
Fairbanks donations.
A paid director will conduct the
program in the step to develop the
civilian branch of the Y.M.C.A.
here. A permanent building is
planned when funds are available.
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SEATTE </P)—The long-delayed
marriage of Harry Ludbrook and
Eleanor Mary Wilming. both of
Kodiak, is about to take place. It
Call Parliament
To Consider
Devaluation
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A government source confirmed
the cabinet’s decision to recall par
liament for an emergency session.
Neither house normally would re
convene until Oct. 18.
Conservative Winston Churchill,
liberal leader Clement Davies and
the communist party all had de
manded an earlier meeting to con
sider devaluation.
Meanwhile the list of nations
slashing the value of the money
rose to 25. Hashemite Jordan cut
its pound in line with the British
devaluation yesterday. Luxem
bourg and Portugal did the same
j thing Wednesday.
, In Paris, a high American offi
i cial predicted that France. Italy
adn Belgium will soon make a
compact to exchange their curren
cies freely with each other as a
move to meet British trade compe
titon.
Meanwhile government sources
“leaked” the word that it was Att
lee himself and not Sir Stafford
Cripps, chancellor of the exche
quer, who had decided on deval
uation.
Attlee, if he shoulders the re
sponsibility for an unpopular pro
gram of rising living costs, can
have a far better chance than
Cripps of selling the people on a
still deeper step into austerity.
While Britain faced growing un
rest, France too was threatened
with strikes growing out of deval
uation.
Albei t Bouzanquet, secretary of
the non-communist force (workers
force* said ’’insurrectional strikes”
may break out within a month un
less the government approves pay
raises.
was interrupted when Miss Wil
ming was injured in the takeoff
crash of a non-scheduled airliner
here July 19. They applied for
their marriage license here yester
day. They plan to be married early
next week.
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Many Ex-Nomeites
Attend Convention
At Los Angeles
The Alaska Weekly has com
piled a list of former Nomeites
who attended the big convention
in Los Angeles in September, who
will be remembered by many of
Nome’s pioneers;
Former Nomeites at the Picnic
were Mrs. Peter Esch, 1904; Mercy
R. Munay, 1902; Elsie Rawel Po
teet; Mr. and Mrs. W. W. McVeit
ty, Tommy Watson. Millard Mu- j
rune, Mrs. Paul H. Fitzgerald, Dan i
B. Camp, 1900; Judge E. Coke Hill
and wife. Temple M. McIntyre,
1905. W. M. Morrow, 1905; Fred
and Lillian Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Riley <2649 21st Ave., Sacra
mento, Calif.); Edna May Camer
on, 1906-16; Bill Gallop < 1900-12*;
j W. H. “Billy” Brown, Jack Lof
I strom, Council 1902-12; Shel Wet
tach, W. W. “Billy” Sale (Dawson
to Nome in ’99 by dog team down
the Yukon); Hazel Murray. De
Mello, Lakespur, Calif.; Pearl Van
Sickle, Mr. -and Mrs. Joe T. Sul
livan, Fritz Mebes. 1900; Joe Bur
sik, (husband of Barbara Stipek,
unable to attend*; Ina Lyle Peter
son and Fred (1904-1920*; Milton
B. Roger, Harry Bloomfield. Paul
W. Schwartz, Hugh Peirson and
wife (Council); Fay Delzene, 1900;
Hazey Price, 1908. Rowena Lewis
Kilroy, 1908, and Herbert Green
berg.
Dan B. Camp, who worked for
the tLomen Commercial Co., now
lives at 7377 La Masita Place. La
Mesa, Calif. He would like to have
all old friends from the Seward
Peninsula roaming around Califor
nia include his address on their
list of “must” calls.
Of interest to Nome School grad- i
uates of the 1911 class is the news I
j that Claude O. Kell, appointed to
the Naval Academy an 1 a gradu
ate of the class of 1915, ts still*
with Navy Real Admiral at Davis
Taylor Model Ba-un, C< ns*ruction
Yard. Washington, D. C\ Hi.s bro
ther. Eugene L. Kell, who gradu
ated from the Naval Academy in
19 J 9. is now in the steel business,
living at 766 Sutter St.. San Fran
cisco. He and Jas. H. “Jimmie”
Doolittle were both newsboys for
the Nome Nugget.
“Spaghetti” Dan Alvich sends
best regards to old friend.-. He will
undergo an eye opera’ion in De
cember for cataracts.
Having the time of her life at
the convention was Hazel M. Kell
of 742 Market St.. San Franci. eo.
She is secretary-treasurer repre
senting Alaskarado Mines. Follow- *
ing the convention she went to
Tiujuana, Mexico. Mrs. Kell is a
past president, Auxiliary No. 1.
Pioneers of Alaska at Nome.
China Asks Ai<l
Against Chinese
Communists
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party, has an instrument and a
lever with which to undermine the
independence and integrity of
China and the peace of the Far
East.”
Dr. Tsiang represented the sec
find of the big five powers—each
with veto power in the security
council—to present a statement on
policy. U. S. secretary of state
Dean Acheson did not mention
China when he presented the
United States views in the debate.
There was more than usual in
terest in what Andrei Vishinsky,
foreign minister of the Soviet Un
ion. would tell what Soviet Russia
thinks about today’s world prob
Catholic Information
He carried a rosary; yet he never went to church
You have heard that our jails
are crowded with Catholics—that
gangsters and racketeers often cal'
for a priest when death draws1
near and so are buried with Cath
olic rites. Strange, isn’t it? And
what ammunition it affords the
professional anti-Catholic!
Pius Lanzetti was shot to death
on the las-t day of 1936, in reprisal,
’tis surmised, for the murder of a
rival gangster. Pius!—the name of
twelve saintly popes. And the pa
pers reported that “he carried a
rosary; yet he never w*ent to
church.” Yes, Pius Lanzetti was
probably a Catholic.
Baptism leaves an indelible
mark on the soul. Baptized a Cath
olic, always a Catholic—yet only
too often a Catholic by Baptism
only.
What good to carry a rosary and
never go to church—to wear a
medal and know not what it
means—to live in ignorance of all
Catholic teaching and ofttimes di
rectly opposed to it? “Catholics”
of that sort are Catholics in name
only. “Catholics” of that sort are
they who swell the ranks of gang
sters, racketeers, murders. “Cath
olics” of that sort are not the prod- 1
ucts of the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church glories in
its saints but, like Christ, it con
sorts with sinners. Its priests go
forth into the dives of the under- |
world, into the jails and death
houses — preaching, imploring '
praying. And when a sinner—no
matter what his crime against God
or man—repents, he is taken back
into the arms of Mother Church,
he is absolved from his sins, he re
ceives God Himself in Holy Com
munion. and finally over his re
mains a Requiem Mass is sung.
Surely then, “there shall be joy in
heaven upon one sinner that doth
penance, more than upon ninety
nine just who need not penance'*
‘Luke 15:7*.
A few years ago a New York
racketeer was shot to death in
gangster warfare; but before he
died he confessed to a priest. If
that confession was sincere, his
salvation is assured, although his
punishment in Purgatory is prob
ably very severe.
Pius Lanzetti, on the other hand,
was slain instantly and without
chance for repentance as far as
the world can judge. His inter
ment -was without services. Yet
who can say that in the last second
of his consciousness he did not,
like the Good Thief, turn to God?
God is just. God ic merciful. And
there is not a Christian who may
properly feel himself sinless
enough to cast the first stone on
condemnation at any of his broth
ers in Jesus Christ.
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