| Summary: | 70-Mile Gale Delays Two U.S. Ships in Alaska 70-Mile Gale Delays Two U. S. Ships in Alaska KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Tuesday, Dec. 15.—(AP)—Forced by a seventy-mile gale to seek a haven in Scow Bay near Wrangell, yesterday, the steamship Arctic and United States motorship North Star prepared today to resume their voyages. The Arctic, chartered by the government from the Alaska Packers' Association, sailed from Seattle last week to relieve food shortages caused by the maritime strike. The vessel was bound for Petersburg when yesterday's storm blew out of the southeast. The North Star, her propellor and rudder damaged in a Bering Sea storm, was returning from Barrow, where she carried food to near-starving Eskimos. The little ship, oiginally posted to arrive in Seattle today, will dock there not before December 20 because of storms in the Gulf of Alaska. She will go to Wrangell before heading for Seattle. Her rudder and propellor were repaired temporarily, but the North Star can make only eight knots in good weather.
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