TWO INTERESTING BASKET
BALL GAMES SATURDAY
Saturday evening two Interest
ing basketball games were played
in the Nome high school gymna- ;
sium. The first game of the eve
ning was between the seventh and
eighth grades with the eighth
grade keeping ahead throughout
the game. At the half the score
was 30-11 and the final score was
48 to 17 in favor of the 8th grade.
The second game, between the
Officers of Marks Field and the
High School kept everybody on
their toes, especially in the last
quarter when the score was tied
and three minutes extra was play
ed, with the game going to the
high school by a margin of one
point.
The score by quarters was 1st
quarter, School 6, Army 12; 2nd
quarter School 15, Army 21; 3rd
quarter School 20, Army 27; 4th
quarter 30 points each. The final
score was 33 to 32, favoring the
Nome high school.
Players on the Nome team were
Harold Bell, Robert Rose, Joe Fel
der, Gary Longley, Aarnout Cas
tel, Vincent Ahkolik. Ed O’Con
nor, Clarence Willoya.
Officers participating in the
game were Livingston, Schacher
bauer, Fahrney, Lewis, Booher,
Peterson, Smith, McMurray and
Liska.
HOSPITAL NEWS
♦ New patients at the hospital are
Mrs. Olive Swanson of Nome and
Blanche Sarren of Unalakleet.
“People In Cold '
Countries Have 1
Warm Hearts”
(Continued from f-age one)
have doomed the globe-girdling
flight to failure.
But her hopes for its completion,
perhaps in the spring, were re
vived by these developments:
Air force main enance crews
prepared to leave for the scene to
return the wrecked plane, Thurs
day’s child, over 235 miles^jf high
way to Fairbanks.
Here, Jim Dodson, veteran bush
flyer and now head of Consolidat
ed Airlines, will disassemble the
plane and load it on a truck for a
2,000 mile haul to Edmonton. Dod
son said he and the truck owner, ;
Alfred Ghezzi, Jr., will take care
of those de'ails at no cost “out of
love for an adventurous spirit.”
The air force also put Mrs. Mar- ;
row-Tait and Townsend aboard a
B-17 for a flight to Edmonton.
From there Townsend plans to
fly ot Toronto and attempt to make
arrangements for new wings and
landing gear, washed ou‘ in the
crash landing. The Percival plant, '
which made their former RAF
plane, is located there.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Morrow-Tait
made plans to accept the offer of
Keith Capper to sing in his An
chorage. Alaska, night club to re
plenish her funds.
She said she is determined to
complete the flight but said it may
be as long as next spring before
her plane is fiyable again.
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Electrical Appliances Washing Mnoh np<
Wiring Material
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NEWS IN BRIEF
• Continued from I’age One>
ernment has agreed to halt all spud
exports December 1 except those
sent to this country for seed pur
poses.
In recent weeks American grow
ers and Congress members have
protested that the Canadians were
underselling home grown potatoes
at a time when the U. S. govern
ment was spending $100,000,000 to
take 63.500,000 surplus bushels off
the market.
VATICAN, CITY, <A>)—The Vat
can was told today a Cnri* mas
truce is being sought of Jews and
Arabs to permit the annual pro
cession from Jerusalem to Bethle
hem.
Greek and Armenian church
men of the Latin Rite in Jerusa
lem have asked the United Nations
commission to use i‘s good offices
to obtain an absolute cease fier to
assure “full security” over the hol
idays.
ATHENS, l/P)—Two women and
three men convicted of crimes
connected with the communist re
bellion were executed by a firing
squad here htis morning.
MEXICO CITY, iff) — Twenty
seven persons were believed to
have been killed yes erday w.ien a
hardware stare bull ling, weak
ened by lire and explosions, top
pled into a narrow downtown
street.
Police who released the death
toll said ten bodies were recovered
f om the debris. Digging continued
through the night. The victims in
cluded 12 firemen who, with po
lice, Red Cross workers and vol
un'eers, were trapped when the
flaming budding collapsed.
ENDICOTT, (A3) — George F.
Johnson, co-founder of the Endi
cott-Johnson Shoe corporation,
died at his home last night. He was
91. He had been ill for several
weeks. Death was attributed to a
U xie condiiton.
NANTES, France, (/P)—Jean Pi
part, 41, a pacifist, lost his war
agains* an army of lead soldiers.
Today he’s in jail.
Pipart, outranged at Christmas
store window displays of toy arm
ies, charged the lead soldiers with
an armful of paving stones. The
police called it breaking and en
tering.
INDIO, Salif. (>P) —Dick Riedel
and Bill Barris were past the 200
hour mark today in their third a‘
tempt to better the world’s endur
ance flight record.
The mark is 726 hit by Wes Far
roll and Clyde Schlieper of Long
Beach, Calif. R del and Barris
h,'vo been aloft since Nov. 20 on
this attempt. They hope ‘o stay up
Helen Frost. Lutheran mission
ary nurse for the pa->t eighteen
years and better known in the Ig
loo and Teller districts as “Sister
Helen”, visited Nome yesterday to
be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Frye, who planned a special be
lated Thanksgiving dinner in her
honor. She also manages the Igloo
Commercial Co., in the absence of
its owners, Tex Zeigler and Orrin
Scoville.
until Jan. 1, which would be 1,008
hours.
1 SEATTLE —Funeral services
for Mrs. Andrea Anderson, 74,
long time resident of Ketchikan,
will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday
at the Bonney-Watson mortuary.
Mrs. Anderson died Saturday at
the home of her son, Edgar Andrr
1 son, where she was visi ing. The
son is a Seattle druggist. She was
•the widow of Andy Anderson, re
tired Ketchikan government work
er, who died four years ago.
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SEATTLE. </P> — The Honolulu
to Seattle Pan American World
Airways inaugural flight touched
down here at 3 p.m. yesterday. A
group of northwest represen atives
were guests on the 5,400-mile
roundtrip.
The Pan American DC-4 left
here last Wednesday night. Among
the guests was Mary Ann Amaroh,
an Eskimo girl from Nome.
NEW TAXI COMPANY
TO OPEN
Clyde Kammerer ha.' an <• *i.<
ed the opening of a new t-*v < »*<•«•
pany as of December 1st, ' ! : ••
Wednesday. He states thu* o ill
have taxi stands in both tne
lace and the Nome Hotels. a«-<j i >•
purchased new Plymouth h . ft*
for the service.
Clyde Kammerer, who it ;-*•»*»*
elated with the A. and A. G«
has been in Nome since It*-*1*
cept for the time spent In ht’ <«
durin g'.he war, and has tn’/t-' n
active part in the America:. •
gio.n here.
REV. DANIEL K. OST
TO VISIT IN NOME
Word has been received tt.ai:
Rev. Daniel K. Ost of Scaf *, 1'
planning to arrive in Nome n*:«d
Sunday. While here he will hi Id
a series >f meetings in the L.evm‘
in Wallace Young Mission cbunh
Denny is well known in th" ■
muivty. having grown up i;
cil. It is hoped that m-rhi-r
Mrs. L. E. Ost, and h.s wife
went to Council last week, . ’
able to join him in Nome.
Since its founding in 11!*" tn«.
Coast Guard has saved more tltnr
200.000 lives on the high ser1 aiid
in one prewar year, 1333. /'p**
2.000 rescues.
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PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
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ALBERT ANDERSON
For General Hauling, Tractor Work
MAIN 94 or MAIN 70
ISAAC EBEN
Saw Filer and Tool-dresser
CARPENTER TOOLS HOLLOW GROUND
ALSO KITCHEN TOOLS
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