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VOL. XLVIII. No. 146. ~ NOME, ALASKA. FR'DAY, DECEMBER 6, 1946 PER COPY— 15~
NEWS IN BRIEF
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NEW YORK, (/P) — The condi
tion of Babe Ruth, famed “Sultan
of Swat” who was admitted to
French hospital nine days ago for
treatment of a sinus infection was
reported today as “just fair, not
much improvement.”
PHILADELPHIA, (/P) — State
athletic commission officials, in
disclosing that lightweight Wes
Mouzon must undergo an opera
#on to restore full vision in his
right eye, reported that the 19
year-old Philadelphia Negro went
into his title fight with Bom Mont
gomery with his vision impaired.
Commission chairman Leon L
Rains said he learned of Mouzon’i
true pre-fight condition only aftei
Last week’s convention hall figh
m which Montgomery retained his
title by flattening Mouzon in thi
eighth round. The operation wil
be performed Monday.
SEATTLE, (/P)—Pacific North
west rail lines operated today un
der government’s embargo orders
with onyl a light disruption of
service anticipated. Several lines
announced consolidation of trains
bkxt all said clarification of inter
change with eastern railroads at
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
elsewhere remained to be worked
out.
NEW YORK, (/P) — Michael S.
(Mike) Jacobs, the boxing pro
moter, was reported off the criti
cal list at St. Claer’s hospital today
Wfor the first ime since he was
stricken Tuesday with a cerebral
hemorrhage. Physicians said Ja
cobs, 66 was “doing very nicely.”
VANCOUVER, B. C. (/P)—Nearly
600 Chinese were to leave here by
train today for San Francisco on
the first leg of a journey back to
their homeland. Most of the par
ticipants are returning to find the
families they left in China years
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SEATTLE, (/P) — The transport
Thistle was arriving today from
Alaska with 144 troops aboard.
THE HAGUE, (/P) — A bomb
wrapped as a Christmas gift ex
ploded in the living room of a
Hague family last night, killing
48-year-old Frans Boer and seri
ally injuring his wife. Three
Jtffjer persons were slightly hurt.
Police said they had no definite
clues upon which to work.
BOULDER, Colo. {£>)—By dog
sled, Jeep and ambulance, a dead
University of Colorado co-ed and
her two seriously injured men stu
dent companions were brought to
day from treacherous Isobel gla
cier near the continental divide.
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4* ^Community Calendar
Drama Club Presents.Dec. 7
School Program .Dec. 13
20-40 Club Party.Dec. 14
Community Xmas .Dec. 20
Pioneer Roof Garden.Dec. 21
SIX-MASTED SCHOONE R—The Portuguese vessel, Cidade do Porto, biggest Unpow
_jered windjammer now in service, stripned of her sails by gales, enters Table Bay, South Africa.
To “Demand”
Alaska Supply
T ransportalion
FAIRBANKS, (JP) — An aerial
expedition direct to Washington,
D. C., to “demand” that President
Truman authorize government
operated shipping to re-establish
Alaska’s supply lines, was being
organized today by the Fairbanks
Chamber of Commerce. Date of
the expedition, in which all Alaska
cities have been invited to join
was set for Dec. 14. The flight was
proposed after Stanley Tatom,
Fairbanks equipment dealer, re
turned from Seattle with the re
port that the strike question “is
too big for Seattle to cope with.”
S. S. Companies
“Stall” On Strike
SEATTLE, (/P) — Ed Coester,
chairman of the AFL marine
trades council, today renewed
charges that the Washington wa
terfront employers association was
seeking to prolong the Puget
Sound tieup by stalling methods.
Coester’s charges followed the
employers submission of a new re
quest to striking AFL checker?
union in lieu of a scheduled con
ciliation meeting.
Spokesman said the request
asked federal conciliators to ob
tain from the union instances of
alleged lost work oportunities
through the disputed hiring sys
tem.
Coester declined to say whether
the employers’ demand would be
complied with.
SMUGGLER IN JUG
GREENOCK. Scotland, (/P)—A
Chinese seaman was sentenced to
four months in prison for import
ing into Britain nine pounds of
opium, enough in the judge’s
opinion, “to stock a good den.”
NOME DRAMA CLUB
TO GIVE PREVIEW
TO SCHOOL CHILDREN
The Nome Drama Club is pre
senting a preview tonignt, Friday,
in the Nome High School, of their
three plays on which they have
been diligently working for the
past several weeks. The special
performance is lor the children.
The plays are scheduled to be
gin at 7:30 p.m., and will be pre
sented in the following order:
FOURTEEN; Intermission num
bers; THE VALIANT; Intermis
sion numbers; and 68-70 BERKE
LEY PLACE.
The performance on Saturday
night will begin at 8:00 p.m. Doors
will open at 7:30 p.m.
The first play, “Fourteen,” is a
dining room scene in the Pringle
Home, about seven o’clock in the
evening, and this well-to-do-fam
ily is expecting guests for dinner.
The second play, “The Valiant,”
takes place in the Warden’s office
in the State Penitentiary at Weth
ersfield, Conn.
The third play takes place in
adjacent dining rooms of twin
houses and the scene is a summer
breakfast, almost anywhere.
According to our' scouts who
have sneaked in on a few of the
practices, these plays are being
handled in true professional style,
and they recommend that you
make every effort to attend.
Remember the date, tomorrow,
Saturday at eight.
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6,
(/P)—John L. Lewis and
his United Mine Workers
today posted bond to meet
the $3,510,000 in fines lev
ied against them for con
tempt of court stemming
from the coal strike.
U. S. Appeals
To Russia On
Atomic Plan
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (/P)—
The United States made a direct
appeal to Russia last night fo
support of the American plan to
control the atomic bomb and
urged that the United Nations
j atomic energy commission approve
the plan before the end of the year.
Bernard M. Baruch, taking
speedy advantage of a change in
Soviet attitude as set forth earlier
this week by Rusian Foreign Min
ister V. M. Molotov, looked
straight at Soviet delegate Andrei
A, Gromyko in last night’s com
mission session and declared:
“We seek especially the partici
pation of the Soviet Union. We
welcome the recent authoritative
statements of its highest repre
sentatives. From these, we are ,iu>
tified in concluding that it no
longer regards the original Amer
ican proposals unacceptable, as a
whole or in their separate parts,
as its member of this body stated
at an earlier meeting.”
Gromyko’s only immediate com
ment was that the commission
needed time to study the proposal.
Baruch made it clear the United
States would accept nothing less
than agreement on its own plan.
“We welcome cooperation but
we stand upon our basic princi
ples even if we stand alone,” he
said. “We aim at an effective plan
of control and will not accept
anything less.”
Baruch said these three ele
ments were inherent in any treaty
that would be written:
1. The erection of an interna
tional authority which shall ef
fectively prevent the manufacture
and use of atomic bombs for war
purposes, and which shall develop
the use of atomic energy for so
cial gain.
2. The right of free and full in
Peace Treaties
Almost Completed
Bv Ministers
(By John M. Hightower)
NEW YORK, (/P)—After more
than a year of conferences sharp
ened by many bitter disputes be
tween Russia and the western
powers, the council of foreign min
isters today counted the European
satellite peace treaties virtually
completed due mainly to sweeping
last-minuies concessions by Sov
iet foreign minister V. M. Molotov.
Final agreement on outstanding
issues was not reached, however,
until Secretary of State James F.
Brynes had reluctantly accepted a
proposal that Italy pay a total of
$360,000,000 in reparations—$35,
000,000 more than the Paris peace
conference had recommended.
Today in a session scheduled for
4 p.m. the Big Four was due to
clean up a number of relatively
j minor unsettled points of conflict
i on a report from their naval com
mittee, presumably concerning the
distribution of the Italian fleet
among Italy and the victorious al
lied powers.
It was a big four session last
night which finally swept away
the last points of dispute of any
consequence and made it possible
for diplomats participating in the
council’s work to predict that the
treaties for Italy, Romania Bul
garia, Hungary and Finland would
be finally completed not later than
Saturday afternoon. The council
then is expected to move on to a
preliminary discussion of a Ger
man settlement Monday.
Here are the outstanding deci
sions made last night:
1. Reparations—Italy is to pay
a total of $360,000,000—$125,000,
000 to Yugoslavia, $105,000,000 to
Greece, $100,000,000 to Russia,
$25,000,000 to Ethiopa and $5,000,
000 to Albania.
Bulgaria is to pay a total of
$70,000,000 covering $25,000,000
to Yugoslavia and $45,000,000 to
Greece, so that Greece and Yugo
slavia each will receive $150,000,
000.
Byrnes was the last of the four
to accept this distribution of rep
arations payments because of the
additional financial burden on
Italy.
2. Compensation for allied pro
perty destroyed in Italy—Italy is
to pay allied citizens at the rate of
fifi and two-thirds percent of the
vhlue.
Danube navigation — Molotov,
yielding a point which he had con
tested for rtionths, agreed to in
clude in the Balkan treaties a
guarantee of free use of the Dan
ube River.
ternational inspection in support
of these purposes (now accepted
by Russia*.
3. The definite agreement that
once a treaty becomes effective
providing for deterrent against of
fenders and punishments for pf
fenders, there can be no veto of
the international authority.