53 Dead In Plane
Crash In Colombia
(By Carlos Villar)
BOGOTA, Colombia, (/P) —
Search parties labored in mountain
country to the northwest today to
bring in bodies of 53 person?
k:lled in the worst commercial
airplane crash on record. They re
covered three of the bodies before
darkness stopped their work last
night.
The victims—49 passengers and
a crew of four, including at least
seven persons from the United
States—were on a four-engine
Douglas DC-4 of the Colombia
Av'anca Airlines that plowed into
cloddy El Tablazo cliff 30 miles
northwest of here Saturday on a
flight to Bogota from Barranquilla,
about 500 miles north.
MRS. TOM PETERSON
IN NOME FRIDAY
Mrs. Tom Peterson of the Teller
Commercial Co., passed through
Nome Friday enroute to Anchor
age from where she will go to Jun
eau to attend a meeting of the
Territorial Board of Education of
which she is a member.
Communication
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San Francisco, Cal.
January 25, 1947.
Mrs. Luella Grant,
Nome, Alaska.
Dear Mrs. Grant:
I saw your add in the last issue
of the Alaska Sportsman and hav
ing spent a few years in Alaska
mines I am interested in “Nome’s
Own Cook Book’’ but you will
have to prove to me that ALL
Alaskan Cooks are Good Cooks.
The enclosed P. O. Money Order
in the sum of $2.00 is to cover the
purchase and delivery of a single
copy of your Cook Book. Please
hurry it forward to me as I leave
for the Nevada Mines next month.
THANKS.
Yours truly,
C. M. Barkley, ME.EE.
SLIGHT DAMAGE IN FIRE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
Saturday afternoon the fire de
partment was called out to extin
guish a fire in the home of Gust
Head at the end of B. Street. The |
fire was caused from an overheat
ed stove and only damage was
from the whter, states Fire Chief
Brown.
Photostat your valuable papers.
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NOTICE TO VOTERS
The Poll Book for the registra
tion of voters for the forthcoming
Municipal and School Board elec
tion will be open from Feb. 19th
to March 22d 1947. in thf City
Clerk's office.
Carrie M. McLain.
City Clerk
Publish Feb. 17 and 19.
NOTICE
American Legion Post 19 will
meet Monday night at 8:00 p.m.. in
I the City Hall. Business of import
ance.
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PERISHABLES .12c per lb.
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PIONEER AUXILIARY
MET FRIDAY NIGHT
Pioneer Auxiliary No. 1 me
last Friday for their monthly mee
ing which was followed by a c
game. Mrs. Rydeen displayed the
new curtains which wcr
be hung, and which were admired
by the members. Winners of i
card game were Mrs. H. Hage .
Anne Walsh, and Emma Lyle.
The committee in charge wcr
Mrs. Carrie McLain and Mrs.
Charles Pennycook.
HOUSE GUEST OF MR. AND
MRS. ANDREW NORDLIND
Mrs. Barney Buck, of Candle,
has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Andrew Nordlind this past week.
She is enroute to Galena to visit
there with her daughter, Mrs.
Irma Cook.
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED
FOR ARCTIC CLUB
The Arctic Club newly elected
board of directors have elected the
following officers for the year.
Frank Love, Pres.: Frank Bing
ham, vice president: Karl Dewey,
terasurer, and Agnes Galvin sec
retary.
ALASKA NATIVE SERVICE
OFFICER IN NOME
William Brunskill, special offi
cer for the Alaska Native Service
arrived on the Pan American last
Friday evening.
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Seek To Smash
Union Monopoly
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A repre
sentative of one of the nation’s
largest coal operators and a lawyer
lor several industrial firms joined
today in urging Congress to smash
“union monopoly” by beaking up
b;g unions into little ones.
Kolia D. Campbell of Hunting
ton, W. Va., hammered particul
arly at John L. Lewis’ united mine
woiKers. He represents the Island
Creek Coal Co., and the Pond
Creek Pocahontas Co.
George B. Christensen member
of the Chicago law firm of Win
ston, Strawn apd Shaw, which has
.several industrial clients, singled
out no special unit.
But in statements prepared for
the House labor committee’s hear
ing on general labor legislation,
the two witnesses said it is up to
Congress to take the same steps
against union monopolies that
were used against business monop
olies.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
ELECTS OFFICERS
At a meeting of the boai d of di
j rectors of the Chamber of Corr
merce yesterday, the following of
ficers were elected to serve for
| the ensuing year:
R. Webb, president; Paul Man
deville, vice president; Rev. Mur
; !in Day, secretary; and Boyd
| Harwood, treasurer.
The action of the new board will
be formally announced at the
noon luncheon on Tuesday.
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