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VOL. XLVIII. No. 135. NOME. ALASKA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1946.PER COPY—15c
«NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, (A1)—An inten
sified U. S. savings bond sales
campaign got underway today,
with officials expressing hope re
turns would top $1,600,000,000.
Although no cash goal was set
for the drive, from Armistice Day
to Pearl Harbor Day, Vernon L.
Clark national director of the
treasury’s savings bonds division,
said that amount would carry
sales for 1946 over the $8,000,000,-*
000 mark.
• TULSA, Okla. (JP)—A 29-year
old pilot, pretending he was un
able to fly as part of an air show
skit, failed to bring his light plane
out of a low altitude spin yester
day and crashed to his death.
The skit at the Tulsa police air
patrol show called for Wesley W.
Cunningham, portraying the role
#i' a woman spectator, to be hoist
ed into a plane, protesting she did
not know how to fly it, wearing a
woman’s wig and being chased
through the crowd and placed in
the plane. He took off and began
a series of spins before the 5,000
spectators. Suddenly the plane
crashed to the ground. Cunning
ham, a licensed pilot and former
army air forces instructor, died in
a hospital 30 minutes later.
WASHINGTON, </P) — Harold
L. Ickes, commenting on last Tues
day’s elections, said today the 80th
Congress “Can’t be worse than the
79th.” Ickes. who resigned as sec
retary of the interior in a contro
versy with President Truman said
“The Republicans controlled the
^ . 9th Congress, at least the lower
house, by working with the south
ern poll taxers.”
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NEW YORK, l/P) — One man
died and five adults and a boy
were injured seriously today when
fire swept an East 119th street
building. Those who were injured
jumped from third story windows.
The baby was dropped to the
ground.
^ OLYMPIA. (/P)—Twelve thou
sand Fort Lewis army troops and
combat equipment steamed south
today on 60 naval vessels to “lib
erate southern California residents
from a theoretical enemy which
has “landed and occupied” the
area between Los Angeles and San
Diego.
The operation will open at Cor
onado Nov. 16-88 with prelimin
ary landing exercises. The assault
forces will strike San Clemente is
land under live fire from navy
combat ships and 500 army, navy
and marine corps planes Nov. 20.
The final phase will be landing at
Aliso canyon north of Oceanside,
Calif. Nov. 26 under simulated
battle conditions.
SEATTLE. (/P) — Former NBA
world’s middleweight boxing'
^Champion A1 Hostak, will seek the
third knockout victory of his I
comeback string here tomorrow
Jifht in a 10-round match with
Sam Hughes of Detroit. In his last
two outings, Hostak dropped Ro-1
man Starr in four rounds and
George Evans in one.
REFUGE AMONG RUINS — A destitute Chinese family takes refuse amid the ruins of
Liuchow after Chinese troops retook the city, once a U. S. air base, from the Japs.
Communists Are
Strongest* In
French Election
PARIS. </P) — The Communists:
emerged today as the strongest
party in France's new fourth r -
public, but the outcome of yester
day's national election seemed un
likely to bring a strictly i;\ t-v. .o .
government.
On the ibasis of incomplete re
turns from balloting for a national
asembly, some new coalition ap
peared probable in place of the
combine of the communists and
the current provisional govern
ment.
Prior to the election the com
munist party and the MRP each
promised if elected to shut out the
other from any new cabinet, but
the election results seemed to have
made this impossible.
The communists ousted Presi
dent Georges Bidault’s MRP from
the legislative lead, winning back
the place they took in the first
constituent assembly elected Oct.
21, 1945, and lost in the second
elected last June 2.
Much Sugar Saved
In New Orleans Fire
NEW ORLEANS, (/^—Approx
imately 18,000,000 pounds of
scarce raw sugar was safe today
because of the combined efforts of
the New Orleans fire department
and six fire tugs.
Fanned by a high wind, the fire
spread along the American Sugar
company's docks and caused dam
age estimated by plant manager
H. B. Scott at $3,000,000. Scott
said that about 500,000 pounds of
raw sugar were destroyed and that
only quick work by firemen saved
the 18,000,000 pounds in a nearby
warehouse.
Plane Crashes
At Anchorage
. .NCHORAGE, (/P)—An Arnold
Ai • Service twin-engined trans
port crashed here Saturday night
on a takeoff from Merrill field but
none of the 15 to 20 passengers and
crew members aboard the plane
were injured.
The fully-loaded craft, leaving
on a flight to Seattle hit a ridge o.
snow just as it left the ground,
pancaked and skidded to a halt
without catching fire.
Airline officials said the right
engine was torn loose, and right
wing and fuselage badly damaged.
An investigation of the crash is
under way.
DREAM THEATER
RE-OPENS TONIGHT
The Dream Theater, which has,
been closed since the storm wreck
ed the back of the theater build,,
ing, damaging the living quarters
and wrecking the heating system,
will open tonight with “Duffy’s
Tavern,” featuring an all star cast.
Duke Mitrovitch has been busy
the past week replacing and re
pairing the electrical equipment
and getting the heating plant in
operation for the reopening to
nigh.t
Rob Hotel Manager
Third Time |
NEW YORK, </P)—It was a blue |
Monday again today for Warren
Nichols, night manager ofaBrook
yln hotel. For the third consecu
tive Monday at the same hour—
4:45 a.m.—he was held up and
robbed by the same youth.
Police said the thief, who held
up Nichols at pistol point, scooped
$100 from a cash register at the
Franklin Arms Hotel today. On
Two Killed In
United Airlines
IMane Crash
CLEVELAND, l/E) — A United
Airlines plane crashed into trees
and high tension wires just north
of Cleveland airport early today,
killing the pilot and co-pilot and
injuring 17 passengers and the
stewardess.
The plane, bound from Chicago
to Boston, crashed as it came in
for a landing during a rainstorm.
The plane had cleared Chicago at
12:35 a.m.
The victims: Pilot F. L. Brown.
44, Chicago. Co-pilot Robert L.
Arnold, 25, Hammond, Ind.
The plane was demolished as it
spun into the ground, the engines
being torn from the wings and the
fusilage breaking in half.
Fred Pasko, a truck driver and 1
one of the few witnesses, said he
noticed the plane about 2,000 feet
north of the airport, flying low.
He said the plane’s landing lights
were on and the landing gear was
down.
“There was a flash as the plane
hit some wires and the street
lights went out,” Paska said.
“Then the plane crashed into some
trees, spun around and hit the
ground.”
Stewardess on the plane was
Miss Betty Dobson, 25, of Chicago.
The passengers and stewardess
were rushed to three Cleveland
hospitals but half of them were
released almost immediately after
treatment for small cuts and
bruises.
Oct. 30 he took $239 and on Oct. 7,
$200.
The only difference in today’s
robbery was that Nichols was not ,
locked in the ladies room this time
police reported.
Nichols said he was asking for
Mondays off in the future.
Truman Advocates
Labor-Management
Armistice
(By Marvin L. Arrowsmiih)
WASHINGTON, (^—President.
Truman today advocated an arm
istice between labor and manage
ment in his first public statement
since he junked wage and price
controls.
Wartime curbs on the two
groups were lifted after five years
when Mr. Truman swept ceilings
off all items except rents, sugar
and rice. Rent increases appeared
"inevitable” to some government
officials.
The subject of a labor-manage
ment truce came up at the Pres
ident’s Armistice Day news con
ference when a reporter asked
whether he had noted such pro
posals.
Mr. Truman replied tnat he had
not heard of the suggestions, but
said it is just what he has been
urging since August, 1945, when
the war ended.
The chief executive killed off
the price and wage controls in a
week-end order, declaring: “I am
convinced that their further con
tinuance would do the nation’s
economy more harm than good.”
At the same time the chief ex
ecutive placed “squarely upon
management and labor” the “re
sponsibility” for econom c stabil
ity.
His decontrol edict brought im
mediate promises from industry
and business leaders that prices
will be held at reasonable levels—
after a period of readjustment.
But some of these leaders tem
pered their pledges with a big “if”
—if wage demands don’t upset the
applecart.
From labor unions, many of
which already are seeking higher
pay to offset living cost increases,
there was nothing but silence on
the President’s action.
Robert R. VVason, president of
the national association of manu
facturers, declared that prices af
ter a temporary rise, “will be ad
justed downward under restored
competitive conditions” unless in
dustry costs are forced up “by an
other round of wage demands.”
Mr. Truman's order wiped price
ceilings off building materials as
well as scores of other items, in
cluding clothing, automobiles,
furniture, paper, steel and other
metals.
Officials of the national housing
agency which fought elimination
of building material controls, ex
pressed doubt that the $10,000
sales lid on new homes can be held
for long, although NHA chief Wil
son W. Wyatt has voiced deter
mination to do so.
Privately, aides of Wyatt said it
may be necesary to boost the ceil
ing to $12,000. And the $80 rental
lid may have to be raised.
NEW PATIENTS
AT THE HOSPITAL
New patients at the hospital are
Dick McLain and the small son of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Coulthard.