Chinese Reds Seize
U. S. Property
At Peiping
WASHINGTON, (/P)—'The state
department announced Saturday
that the Chinese communists are
seizing U. S. government consular
property at Peiping.
It said the United States is re
calling “all American official per
sonnel from communist China.”
Chinese communist police and
civilian officials, the announce
ment said, “invaded that Ameri
can consular compound” against
angry American protests at 9:50
a.m. Jan. 14 China time.
There are 36 American official
personnel in Peiping, including
Consul General O. Edmund Clubb.
Communications with this group
have not been interrupted so far.
The 36 had not been arrested
at the time the announcement was
made.
There the 135 American offi
cials and dependents throughout
communist China — at Peiping,
Tientsin, Shanghai, Tsingtao and
Nanking. In addition there are an
estimated 3,000 non-official Amer
ican citizens in communist China,
and the state department announc
ed:
“Any facilities for evacuation
from China which are arranged
for our official personnel will be
made available for all American
citizens who desire to depart.”
Assistant secretary of state Wal
ton Butterworth said of the recall
order, “no one can keep represen
tatives in a foreign country if the
foreign country does not wish
them to be there.”
He called the communist seiz
ure “a completely unprecedented
action.”
The announcement disclosed
American protests to the Chinese
communist authorities, including
foreign minister general Chou En
Lai.
CORRECTION
Friday's paper carried an item
about Nome School appropriation
being asked by Delegate Bartlett.
The amount for which he asked
should have read $25,000.00
Mrs. J. J. McCurrin, teacher at
the ANS school at Teller Mission
is in town for a few days for medi
cal treatment and plans to return
soon.
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WILLIAM ANGELL RETURNS
FROM JUNEAU CONFERENCE
William Angell, superintendent
of the Nome Territorial School,
who left last Wednesday for a con
ference of superintendents in Jun
leau on Friday and Saturday, ar
rived in Juneau in time for the
Friday afternoon session followed
by a committee session until past
midnight.
Commissioner Ryan requested
the meeting, stated Mr. Angell,
for a round table discussion of
proper and fair allocation of funds
from the Tobacco Tax which ac
cording to the last session of the
legislature was to be used for
schools in the Territory for the
purpose of rebuilding and enlarg
ing and rehabilitation of school
buildings.
Several plans were suggested by
members of the group from which
one plan was adopted after being
placed in committee which got the
unanimous approval of the 30
school representatives.
This plan would make a basic
allotment to the schools qualify
ing of $3,000.00 and the balance
on a formula derived from the
number of students and the num
ber of professioftal workers in the
school applying to the fund and
meeting the approval of the Board
of Education.
Mr. Angell stated that the Nome
school in its present overcrowded
condition would be entitled to
about $13,000.00.
Mr. Angell made the longest
flight to attend the meeting and
was joined by G. Randell of Ne
nana and Mrs. Pilgrim of Fair
banks. Immediately upon adjourn
ment of the group on Saturday
noon he made connections for the
return flight that day by Pan
American.
GEORGE BEACOM RETURNS
FROM STATES TRIP
George Beacom, owner and
manager of Vi’s Apparel Shop re
turned home yesterday, glad to be
home where “he could get warm
again.” George spent Christmas
I with his mother in Sitka and then
I
headed to the well-advertised sun
ny south only to find that many
of the days he was there that it
was warmer in Nome than in the
States.
He went as far south as Los An
geles where he contacted many
Nomeitcs including Jane, Bob and
Norma Scott, Skip Walsh and Kay
Walsh Farley and many others.
He states that he picked ^>ut lots
of new merchandise in both wo
men's and men’s apparrel which
i will soon be on its way north.
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Gen. ;Hap’ Arnold
Dies At 63
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noon.
The body was resting today at
a funeral parlor here. The body
will be taken to nearby Hamilton
field and flown to Washington,
D.C., Tuesday (leaving at 5 p.m.
PST).
The family had not decided
whether to hold services here.
The nation’s military leaders—
from secretary of defense Johnson
down—expressed shock and sor
row at Arnold’s death. They prais
ed him as the man most respons
ible for America’s air strength
and said he was a key figure in
the allied defeat of the axis.
Arnold was taught to fly by the
Wright brothers in 1911. Just four
years out of West Point, he was
one of the first officers assigned
to the infant air force—then a
branch of the signal corps.
From then on, Arnold’s career
wrote many of the highlights in
the military air history of Ameri
ca. He became chief of the air
corps in 1938.
The general six footer’s smiling
face earned him the nickname of
“H a p p y” — later shortened to
“Hap”. But he knew how to get
tough and was noted for getting
things done.
Arnold saw the air force grow
under his guidance from 15,000
planes and 96,000 men in 1938 to
more than 70,000 planes and some
2,200,000 men in 1945.
The general was one of the
strongest advocates of long-range
bombing. During the congression
al battle over the B-36 last Aug
ust, he told the house armed ser
vices committee the big plane was
“the outstanding bomber in the
world.”
In his book, “Global Missions,”
! published last September, the five
star general warned that far
1 reaching bomber strength is the
only thing Russia fears.
He attended a Saturday night
party at the home of Walter Mur
| phv, publisher of the weekly So
noma Index.
Yesterday, as the general arose,
he told his wife, Eleanor; “I feel
pretty good this morning.”
WASHINGTON, (>P)—President
Truman sent his own plane to
California today to pick up the
family of general of the air force
Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, who died
at his California home yesterday.
The President also arranged to
attend funeral services Thursday
at Arlington National Cemetery.
ALASKA RECEIVED $1,464,800
IN 1948 FSA GRANTS
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P> — Re
gional federal security agency
headquarters reported today that
Alaska residents received $1,464,
800 under the F.S.A. program in
the 1948-49 fiscal year.
Regional director F. W. Hunter
described it as the national gov
ernment’s share in health, educa
tion and social welfare programs
under the agency.
He said there were 3,684 men,
women and children recipients of
the agency’s outlay in Alaska. The
direct beneficiaries include chil
dren, old people receiving assist
ance and those receiving federal
social security benefits. The latter
group includes retired workers
and the families of insured work
ers who have died.
The biggest item listed by the
agency in the Alaska total was old
age assistance, $461,000.
Counsel Denham
Blasts N. L. R. B.
WASHINGTON, f/P)—Robert N.
Denham, general counsel of the
National Labor Relations Board,
was under sharp attack from or
ganzed labor today, but the NLRB
members whose policies he had
denounced, remained silent.
CIO president Philip Murray
led labor’s onslaught by demand
ing that Denham be fired for the
New York speech in which he said
that the board is distorting the
Taft-Hartley labor law by hand
ing down pro-union decisions.
The four members of the NLRB
—a fifth position is vacant—met
Friday morning to discuss Den
ham’s blast, which blew into the
open a conflict that had been
quietly simmering for nearly two
and a half years.
While they were said to be fum
ing at the statement of the general
counsel, the board members made
no announcement following the
session.
SPECIAL ATTRACTION FOR
BOY SCOUTS BENEFIT DANCE
Jack Estes, Nome’s prominent
entertainer who made such a hit
with the public as master of cere
monies at the Pioneer Hoof Gar
den. will be pianist for the boy
Scouts Dance next Saturday.
There will be a short stage pro
gram starting promptly at 8:00
p.m. Saturday night before the
dance. Jack Estes, who announced
the opening of his music studio
here last week will also furnish
music for the dance. j
Charles D. Jones. Republican,
filed over the week end as candi
date for re-election to the Terri
torial Senate.
To date this makes only two
candidates to have filed their in
tentions, Charley O’Leary, Demo
crat, for the Senate, having filed
earlier for re-election.
Two Indian tribes of early
America, tht Eries and the Hu
rons, were almost exterminated
by the Iroquois.
ATTENTION REPUBLIC:A NS
THE REPUBLICAN CLUB OF NOME
Will hold a General Meeting Wednesday, Jan. 18
at 8:00 o’clock in the City Hall.
EVERYBODY WELCOME
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