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siou Meel With
Bureau Officials
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had.
He explained that the bill is
very elastic and although it spe-;
cifically states that the money is
to be spent for schools, hospitals,
sewerage, roads, recreational fa-1
cilities, water supply, libraries,
etc., actually many other import
ant public works are included.
Mr. Argetsinger, upon being!
questioned as to the financing of
the various projects stated that
the law allows an allocation of
25% to 75% of the funds, al
though the committee feels that
an even 50% should be applied.
He stated that it is mandatory
that 50% be returned to the gov
ernment, and can be done so for
a period as long as 20 years at the
very low rate of interest of 2%. 1
I
Among the projects mentioned
for Nome were improved or en
larged school as this is the only
high school in the entire division,
and a separation of the auditori-!
um from the school for public
use; fire mains, sewerage disposal
drain and surfacing of streets.
It was suggested that an expe
rienced engineer be obtained by
the city to lay out each project
to be presented to the committee
in Juneau where offices are main
tained. Mr. Argetsinger also ex
plained that the cost of the plan-.
ning and engineering of each pro
ject are part of the program and
no interest will be charged on
money advanced for same.
It is planned that actual con
struction, whereever possible will!
be by bid with Alaskan firms be
ing given preference. Wherever
possible, it was stated, it is hoped
to keep the various projects di
rectly in the hands of the local'
Commission as the “community is
responsible for maintenance and
operation.
It was expressed that the com
mittee is aware that Nome had a
severe set-back during the war
and greatly needs this aid to get
back on its feet.
Mr. Arge singer stated in refer
U. S. Soldier Put
Out Of Lend-Lease
Plane bv Russians
V
SEATTLE, </P)—A former sol
dier says he was ordered out of a
Russian lend-lease plane by a
tommygun-carrying guard when
he sought to inspect the plane’s
interior.
George F. Roberts, 33, now a
printer at the Seattle Post-Intel
ligencer, told interviewers the in
cident occurred at Namao airport,
19 miles north of Edmonton, Alta.,
in 1945.
“When I first arrived at Na
mao,” Roberts said, “I looked into
a C-47 and started to inspect its
interior. Two plainclothes men
who looked like Russians aimed a
tommygun at me and shoved he
out.”
Roberts said he saw “huge
crates” in the planes but did not
know what they contained. He
added it “seemed illogical to me
to have tommygun guards on
American planes going to Russia.”
Roberts, who was stationed at
Namao airport during the war to
brief pilots on the northern route,
told the story in connection with
Washington charges that Russian
couriers carried atomic secrets out
of the United States via lend-lease
planes.
ence to the financing, planning,
etc., that his office will have fi
nance specialists, engineers, law
yers, etc., to assist in all ways.
Application forms were left
with the Nome Planing Commis
sion and further instruction was
given them at a special meeting
following the open meeting at the
City Hall.
Today Mr. Argetsinger and Mr.
Flakne were scheduled to visit the
school and hospital and make
*hr!r departure.
A list of Nome’s’ urgent needs
presented to them by the Nome
Planning Commission include the
following:
Fire Mains, fire alarms system,
resurfacing of streets, street
drains, school, resurvey of city,
sewerage, community center.
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before dawn for air transport to
Formosa, island fortress 100 miles
off the south central China coast.
The Nationalists have chartered
planes belonging to retired U. S.
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault for
the airlift, the report said.
Red troops, meanwhile, rolled j
on toward Chengtu after taking i
Chungking, the provisional capi
tal only last Wednesday. Chengtu
became the Nationalist capital
then.
The new moves came a few
hours after Generalissimo Chiang
Kai-Shek. Nationalist leader, said
the government would fight!
against the communists, despite I
defeat on all sides.
Czechoslovakia’s Roman Catho
lic bishops—in a new gesture of
defiance against the communist
government’s church control laws
—warned a religious fight may
result if the state does not modify
its stand.
The bishops •announced they
could not submit to laws which
they declare violate the laws of
; God and destroy religious free
dom.
The warning was made in a
2,200 word letter, dated Nov. 17
and made public yesterday. The
bishops called on the government
to reconsider the new church law
of Nov. 1 and decrees issued un
der it “and to revise them so as to
be in agreement with the constitu
tion of the church.”
They also warned the state
would be responsible for any re
ligious fight that might arise.
There are 9.000,000 Catholics
I among Czechoslovakia’s 13,000.
000 population.
In New York, the United Na
tions entered the final week of its
fourth session, looking for men to
fill three important posts. They
are:
A U. N. high commissioner to
administer Libya until that former
Italian colony becomes an inde
pendent nation two years hence.
A director lor the U. N. public
works program in the Near East.
There also may he a high com
missioner post vacant for Jerusa
lem. Unless Israel is successful
this week in fighting off a plan to
put the Holy City under national
control.
A three-year fight to give the
picturesque little eastern colony i
of Sarawak back to its white Ha-'
jahs exploded over the week-end ■
in an attempted assassination of
the Crown Possession’s British
governor.
Governor Duncan Stewart, at
1 tacked by two young Malays Sat
urday, was reported still “serious-1
ly iir’from a knife wound in the,
, abdomen. I
Tragedy And Near
Tragedy Sunday
In Snake River
(Continued from Page One1
and happy person, well liked by
all that knew her leaves her hus
band Jack Ozenna, well known
ivory carver and several sons and
daughters; Olaf Piscoya, Freder
ick Ozenna, Louis Ozenna, Raw
leigh Ozenna, Wm. Ozenna, Mary
Ozenna. Gilbert Ozenna. She was
also raising several grandchildren
who are Charles, Tommy, Robert
Ozenna and Marvin Wheeler
Funeral services have been an
nounced for Sunday afternoon,
for Dec. 11th, at the Lavinia Wal
lace Young Mission.
A second tragedy was averted
Sunday morning on Snake River
by the quick thinking of two boys.
It is reported that Georgie Kost
was skating on the ice which the
day before had been solid, when
he broke through. Percy Blatch
ford, Jr., realizing the boy's dan
ger and being unable to reach
him, jumped in after h m and
both boys were then pulled to saf
ety by Reggy Jules who reached
out to Percy from the shore.
Henry Ford startled the world
in 1926 when he announced a five
day work week lor employees.
Mt. Kina In
lhtl\ In Krii|>tion
CATANIA, Sicily, </V> — Fiery
lava from erupting Mt. Etna Safc
( urday threatened the little Sicilian
town of Maletto but an official
source at noon said the burning
flow had “showed down" consid
erably several kilometers from
the town of 3,600 inhabitants.
The police chief at Gatania.
who reported on this most ad
vanced of several flows from Mt.
Etna, said the pressure of the
truption appeared to have de
creased because new crater* were
acting as “safety valves.”
He estimated the “pent-up ’ lava
now was flowing from at least ten
openings in the mountain's side.
Varying reports said from three
to nine new craters had appeared
in the mountain’s side.
A youth who saw the dawn
eruption of the main crater said
it looked like a “monstrous pyre
technic spectacle.”
“Geysers of flames and sparks
soared out of the main crater,” hr*
said. “There was a great roar,
i then silence. It was like h-oking
at a color movie without -and.
The youth said at an ah e <
4,000 feet, on the erupting side <>•
I the volcano, the air wa.- ‘ c*av'
1 uni almost unbreathable.
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