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VOL. XLVIII. No. 5 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1946_PER COPY_15c
NEWS IN BRIEF |
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11_(/P)_
President Truman has chosen
Rear Admiral Earl iW. Mills to
succeed Vice Admiral Land, as
Chairman of the U. S. Maritime
Commission. The Whitehouse also
said that Adm. Mills would also
be nominated for promotion to!
Vice Admiral. 1
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 11
—(/P)—Two international records
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for helicopters were broken in,
Vsials here of the Army Sikorsky
K-5. The helicopter soared to an
altitude of 21,000 feet and reached
a speed of 114.6 miles per hour.j
The new altitude record was at- j
tained with Chief Pilot C. A. Moel
ler at the controls. It smashed the
record of 11,243 feet set in Ger
many by Karl Rode in a Folke
Wulf helicopter in 1939.
NEW YORK, Jan. ll,(iP)—Harry
Von Tilzer, 73, composer of doz
ens of songs, including “Wait Un
til the Sun Shines Nellie,” died
Thursday in his hotel room.
Among his best known works were ;
“Down on the Farm,” “Sweet Jen-1
nie Lee,” “I Want A Girl Just Like
the Girl Who Married Dear Old
Dad.”
OTTAWA, Jan. ll—(/P)_Gen
eral Eisenhower has been honored 1
by having one of the most famous |
peaks in the Canadian Rockies'
named for him. He appealed for a
continuance in peace time of the
cooperation shown by the Allies in
the war. The Chief of Staff of the:
United States Army heard Prime
^Minister MacKenzie announce at
the Canadian Club banquet, at- j
tended by six hundred people, that ;
the 9,390 foot Castle Mountain at;
Banff, Alberta, had been renamed 1
Mt. Eisenhower, as a “lasting ex-1
pression of admiration and affec-j
tion,” of the Canadian people.
WASHINGTON, Jan 11—(£>)—
Gunners of American warships in
Pearl Harbor, jittery after the
Japanese attack on the morning
of December 7, 1941, shot down
{£ome American planes that night.
The incident was disclosed by pub
lication of the testimony of Ad
miral Kimmel, 1941 Pacific Fleet
commander, to the investigating
committee four years ago. The
number of. planes shot down was
not developed in the examination.
Newly born young whales are
astonishingly large in comparison
with their mothers; a blue whale
- at birth is from 23 to 26 feet in
^ length, approximately one-quarter
the length of an adult.
STRIKE VIOLENC E—Police battle pickets at Warner Brothers studio in California during
_®ne of the early post-war strikes. Other disputes crippled Detroit’s auto industry.
Ask Eisenhower
For Statement
On Demobilization
Demands for a direct statement
on demobilization from General
Eisenhower,'Army Chief of Staff,
arose at home and abroad. In
Washington Congressmen talked of
holding a joint Senate and House
session, possibly Tuesday, to hear
him across the Atlantic.
At Frankfurt, Germany, soldiers
gathered in another “I wanta go
home” meeting, and chanted ‘‘We
want Ike.” Mixed with these cries
were boos for General McNarney,
General Eisenhower’s successor as
commander of the U. S. forces in
Europe.
The high command concern
over soldier demonstrations, which
Senator Johnson, Colorado Demo
crat called “near mutiny,” are re
flected by Undersecretary of War
Royall in an address at Roanoke,
Va. He deplored the “hysteria to
get the boys home,” and expressed
the fear lest it wreck “our whole
occupation policy.”
The uproar started over the
War Department order for a slow
down in redeployment, because it
said there weren’t enough replace
ments for soldiers leaving occu
pied areas. Since then General
Eisenhower has ordered overseas
commanders to pare their needs to
Jap Cabinet In
Turmoil Over
Purge Directive
TOKYO, Jan. 11— (/P) —Aged
and convalescent Premier Shide
hara will remain in office while
his cabinet attempts to solve its
political crisis by reorganization.
The Ministers decided, after a
day-long meeting.
Some Ministers submitted resig
nations during the session in con
formance with General MacAr
thur’s January fourth political
purge directive. Sources close to
I the government said the general
elections originally scheduled for
this month will be delayed prob
ably two months, by the Cabinet
crisis.
ALASKA AIRLINES STATION
SUPERINTENDENT HERE
Mr. W. O’Shea, superintendent
of station for the Alaska Airlines
is a visitor in town this week from
Anchorage.
the bone and send home all men
not needed.
Lt. Gen. Geiger banned demon
strations by Marines in the Pacif
ic. He said Marines traditionally
take their troubles to their superi
or officers “no occasion for meet
ings which are not military for
mation that can be controlled.”
“Forty-Ninth Star**
New Anchorage
Weekly Paper
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 11— PR) —
Forty-Ninth Star, weekly newspa
per, formerly known as Anchor
age Weekly Times, will make its
appearance this month after an
absence of almost three years. It
suspended publication May. 1942,
after 24 years of continuous pub
lication. It will be of tabloid size
and will have colored comics.
Edward J. Fortier will be edi
tor of the new publication. He
spent three years in the Territory
in military service.
TED THORENDAHL
MARRIED IN JUNEAU
Arvid T. Thorendahl, book
keeper of the R. J. Sommers Con
struction Co., here for the past two
years, surprised his friends last
month when he was married to
Mrs. Aletha Mae Kneader, orches
tra leader of Juneau, Alaska. They
were married at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Burr Johnson and left
for the States where they will
visit in Seattle and Minneapolis
before returning to Juneau.
The skeleton of the dome of the
capitol at Washington is made of
iron.
Seattle Walks:
Doesn't Falk
Or Head
SEATTLE, Jan. 11— (/p> —The
big black eight ball loomed large
and darkly to Seattle citizens this
morning when they awoke to find
no city transportation service, no
telephone service except dial in
struments, as long as they hold
out mechanically, and no news
papers to tell them about it.
Some eleven hundred transit
system bus drivers rolled their
machines into the garage early
this morning and went home. The
average daily haul is about half a
million fares.
The union are demanding an
hourly wage of a dollar thirty
seven cents and a forty hour week.
The present wages are a dollar
fifteen cents and a forty-eight
hour week.
The commission’s top offer is
a dollar twenty-two cents with a
one hundred thirty-eight dollar
bonus, based on a forty hour week
Late last night members of the
transit commission and union rep
resentatives went into session with
U.S. conciliator Harry Lewis, but
the union business agent Allen
Noel, said company representa
tives “walked out of the meeting
and spurned the assistance of U.S.
conciliation service.”
In a statement the transit com
mission replied “the union, when
asked if the strike would cease
while further negotiations were
carried on, said it would not be
possible.”
Harried Seattleites wondered
how long dial telephones would
hold up mechanically as pickets
appeared at main phone company
exchanges in Seattle and other
cities.
Strike Paralyzes
Long Distanee
Communications
Pickets marched before nearly
every American Telephone and
Telegraph company exchange
building in the nation, shutting off
most long distance calls.
A Labor Department official
said that government seizure of
the industry might be recom
mended if a countrywide tieup
of phone service results.
President Weaver of the associa
tion of communications equipment
workers union, ordered picket
lines established today, reversing
instructions of last night to post
pone picketing until Monday.
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