Chinese Reds Shot
Plane Down; Two
Captive 14 Months
LONG BEACH. Calif. (/Pi-Two
^ Americans held by Chinese com
munists for 14 months were shot
down, says the wife of one.
Mrs. Ruby Smith disclosed she
has received a letter from Ken
neth Watson, Bellingham, Wash.,
missionary, saying he was in
Tsingtao at the time. Earlier re
ports said the plane was forced
down.
Aboard, with navy chief elec
trician William C. Smith, of Long
Beach was marine masetr sgt. El
mer C. Bender of Cincinnati.
Watson wrote that Smith and
Bender were well-treated by the
communists and said he was writ
ing missionary friends in China,
urging them to try for the pair’s
release.
Mrs. Smith protested recently
against state department inability
to get the men freed, and said she
and Mrs. Bender plan a sit-down
in Washington is nothing is done.
She was visited yesterday by Sen.
William F. Knowland <R.-Calif.*
who recently returned from the
Orient. Knowland told her he fa
vored blockading Chinese com
munist ports in an effort to force
release of all Americans held un
willingly.
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CITY COUNCIL
Nome City Council met in regu
lar session last Monday evening at
the City Hall.
It was reported that the ANS ,
school building has had its heating
plant renovated and segregated so
that it is now ready for an office
building, possibly for Territorial |
offices now scattered in various
places.
The city was awarded 32 knock
ed down wooden tanks on a bid
through the U. S. surplus. The
lumber will be used for sidewalk
repair.
The first and second reading j
was made of the Sales Tax Or- i
dinance and announcement made
of a special meeting for the- third ,
reading of the ordinace to be held
o Dec. 16th at 8:30 p.m.
Thirteen liquor licenses were
approved by the council and an
other license pending.
Dan Jones, of the U. S. Bureau
; of Mines asked for city action on
a suitable lot for the construction
| of an assay office for this division.
He was assured that immediate
action would be taken to procure
a lot east of the M. and M. Bank
! soon.
A letter was received from the
; director of the Public Works com
rrrttee with planning forms and
application forms for the Nome
Planning Council.
The delinquent tax mil was
read.
Steve Anderson reported that
the panic bars, requested by the
Volunteer Fire Department for the
J school had been purchased some
time ago but arrived incomplete
and will be installed as soon as
the rest of the parts can be pro
cured.
Russia Prepares
For A retie War
V il h \ luitecl States
CHICAGO, <JP) — The Chicago
Tribune, in a dispatch from its
Paris correspondent, said Soviet
Russia is making “intensive ef
forts to prepart its Arctic regions
for a possible U. S. war.
The correspondent, Henry
Wales, wrote he had obtained his
, information from two escapees
from forced labor projects in the
area.
The principal points of Wales’
account were:
The two main military bases
are newlv-created cities, Vorkou
tsk and Tiksi, at the mouths of the
Potshura and Lena Rivers. Other
ports have been developed at the
mouths of the Dvina. Ob, Yenessei,
Ingirka. and Amur rivers.
A strategic railway is being
constructed from Lake Baikal to
the Bering Sea opposite Alaska,
but the Red army is utilizing
frozen rivers as its chief high
ways.
Some 300 meteorological sta
tions have been established in the
Arctic regions.
Wales wrote: “This information
and a detailed description of the
operations were obtained from an
eye witness who was sentenced to
forced labor on Nova Zembla, but
became ill and was evacuated to
Vorkoutsk whence he escaped
through the iron curtain to France.
“Other information was given
bv a political prisoner employed
on the project who fled from the '
concentration camp."
He added, “from bases in Franz
Josef Land, Dickson Island, and i
Spitzbergen, the Red army plans
operations via northern Green- j
land to northern Canada within •
easy range of the United States.”
BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
STARTS THURSDAY NIGHT
The first in a series of basket
ball games to be played in the
Nome High School gym is sched
uled to be held Thursday evening
for the benefit of the Nome High
School team, starting a fund to
send the team to Anchorage later
in the year to compete in the all
Alaska tournament, as has been
done fo rthe past two years.
This year’s team has shown re
markable progress in the series of
games held with Marks Air Force
Base teams and promises to be
outstanding in a school tourna
ment.
Thursday’s game will be played
at 7:30 p.m., between the Nome
High and the Nome Beverage
teams.
WAR'S OVER FOR ROOMERS
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The Dis
trict of Columbia zoning commis
sion has decided the war is over.
It has rescinded a wartime order
permitting homeowners outside
designated rooming house areas to
take in more than two roomers to
help relieve the housing pinch.
Convict Summers
< )f Couple’s Murder
TACOMA. Wash. i/P>—John Ed
ward Summers. 33-year-old ex
convict and confessed slayer of an
elderly suburban Tacoma couple,
must spend the rest of h;s life in
prison.
A superior court jury found him
guilty of first degree murder in
the slaying of Howard Easley, 62.
It recommended, however, against
the death penalty.
The jury of nine women and
three men deliberated nearly a
full day after receiving the testi
mony before reaching a verdict.
Summers received the verdict
calmly. He smiled briefly at Al
bert Torrison, one of his counsel,
and talked at length with accom
panying deputy sheriffs.
Mr. and Mrs. Easley were slain
in their Summit home July 16.
Their bodies weer found in a Cas
cade Mountain timber area live
days later. Summers subsequent
ly was arrested in a San Francisco
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(laniicry At Kake
SEATTLE, lSP>—Officials of the
. Alaska Native Service have open
ed negotiations for the purchase
of the P. E. Harris company can
nery at Kake, Alaska.
The service is attempting to buy
Ihc cannery for the 350 natives of
Kake Village, on Kupreanoff Is
land, 50 miles west of Petersburg,
Don C. Foster, head of the service,
1 said.
Foster and Charles Mountjoy,
I director of native resources, are
j in Seattle to conduct the negotia
tions and confer with William
Zimmerman, of Washington. D. C.,
assistant commissioner of Indian
Affairs.
The service has granted a 10
year loan to the natives of Kake
for the purchase as a part of its
program to improve the native
economy in Southeastern Alaska.
Foster said.
rooming house where he had
taken employment.
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