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NEWS IN BRIEF !
HONOLULU, Dec. 17—Demob
ilization in the Pacific is a mail
man’s nightmare. At Saipan, for
1 example, thirty-five percent of
some two thousand sacks of mail
received at the naval base post
office must be returned to the
United States because the addres
sees have gone home.
« WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—The
Russian government has bestowed
honors on one hundred ninety
United States naval heroes for
"outstanding military activities”
in transporting war goods to Rus
sia’s northern port on the famed
"Murmansk run.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—(/P>—
The House Territories committee
approved the bill by Delegate
Bartlett to authorize municipali
ties and public utility districts in
the Territory to issue revenue
bonds upon a majority vote of
qualified voters. The present law
requires permission of Congress
before such bonds could be issued.
LONDON, Dec. 19— (ff) —John
Amery, 33, son of a former Brit
ish Cabinet member was hanged
^ in Wadsworth prison for high
treason to his King and country.
The one time playboy was convict
ed of broadcasting Nazi propa
ganda from Europe during the
war. He went to the gallows at
nine a.m. and was led from a cell
next to that of William “Lord
Haw Haw” Joyce, awaiting death
for the same offense. The high
born traitor was executed under
a clear sky after a night of driz
" zling rain. He was the fifth Brit
ish civilian to die of treason com
mitted in World War II.
LONDON, Dec. 19—(/P)—Legis
lation put Britain’s coal industry
under public ownership. It was
one of the key points of the Labor
Government’s program introduced
in Commons.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19—(/P)
9 82,000 home-bound Pacific sol
diers may be stranded in west
coast ports Christmas, unless the
jam in rail facilities are cleared,
the army predicts. Many navy
men due for discharge or leave,
likewise may have to spend a for
lorn holiday away from home,
the Navy said.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 19—(/P)—'United
Airlines is carrying a shipment of
six hundred fifty pounds of fire
fighting equipment and oxygen
masks to Spokane to be trans
shipped to the Coeur d’Alene
mining area in north Idaho for use
in fighting a blaze in the Sunshine
mine.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—(>T*)—
The Government directed western
railroads to speed troop move
ments by operating troop trains
1‘just as fast as regular passenger
train schedule.’*
Strikes Continue
To Demoralize
U. S. Produetion
Another nationwide walkout of
union workers in support of de
mands for higher wages, involv
ing forty-eight thousand AFL em
ployees of Western Union is on the
calendar of scheduled strikes in
accordance with a strike vote taken
December first.
The General Committee of AFL
I Western Union Commercial Tele
j graphers union order the strike
to begin January seventh at eight
a.m. The Federal conciliation
; service failed to settle the dispute
between the union and the com
pany on thirteen issues, including
union demands for a twenty-five
per cent wage rate boost.
Other nationwide walkouts be
cause of wage disputes scheduled
for next month include a strike
; call for seven hundred thousand
: CIO United Steelworkers on Jan
1 uary fourteenth. The union de
mand a two dollar a day wage
hike.
The CIO United Electrical radio
machine workers union also an
nounced a strike set for some time
after January first for its estimat
ed two hundred thousand workers
in seventy-five plants of General
Electric, Westinghouse and Gen
eral Motors. They also are de
manding a two dollar a day hike.
Union leaders and top officials
of General Motors are in Wash
ington for the first hearing of
President Truman’s fact finding
board on the month-old strike of
about one hundred seventy-five
thousand General Motors em
ployees in support of their de
mands for a thirty percent wage
boost.
Propose Gold
Miners Be
Reimbursed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—(>P)—
A proposal to reimburse gold mine
owners for losses caused by the
government’s shutdown of their
properties during the war, was
before the House committee. Dr.
Wilbur Nelson, former chief of
the mining division of WPB, told
the committee he didn’t favor the
shutdown and didn’t feel justified,
but “higher-ups”, he said insisted
on the action.
Nelson said that Somervell and
Patterson favored the order on the
theory that the gold mines could
turn between eight and ten thou
sand miners into copper produc
tion. Instead, Nelson said, only
about three hundred miners and
muckers went from gold to copper
mines. “They didn’t. stay very
long.* The committee is under
consideration of the bill of Repre
sentative Engle to reimburse the
gold miners for losses sustained as
a result of the shutdown.
HIGH JUMPE R—Alan Oliver, “boy wonder” rider, takes a
tricky hurdle during the popular sport of horse jumping at the
White City stadium, bringing Londoners the thrills usually re
served for the provinces.
COMMUNITY XMAS
FRIDAY EVENING
The Community Christmas pro
! gram will be held in the Nome
High School gymnasium Friday
evening, December 21, at 8:00
o’clock. All the committees are
working at top speed in order that
everything will be ready for the
most important event of the sea
son, the Community Tree for the
children.
The program has been well
prepared and is the only one of
the year which represents the
united efforts of every denomina
tion and nationality in the com
munity.
The program follows:
The Nativity.A Pageant
Grades One through Eight
Russian Vesper Hymn
J. Stevenson
Today There Is Ringing
Christianson
High School A Cappella Chorus
Native Dance
Silent Night
Joy to the World
Lavina Wallace Mission Choir
Gloria.Old French Carol
The First Noel
Comunity Chorus
(Emma J. Grill, Director)
SEATTLE PRINTERS
STILL NEGOTIATING
SEATTLE, Dec. 19—(/P)—The
strike committee of the Seattle
printers who walked off their jobs
in Seattle’s three daily newspapers
a month ago, said the negotiation
meeting had adjourned until to
morrow afternoon. The talks with
the publishers were proceeding
satisfactorily.
Army Releases
Half Billion Supply
;()f Civilian Goods
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—T h e
army is releasing four hundred,
three million seven hundred twen
ty-one thousand, three hundred
j seventy dollars worth of surplus
“civilian type” goods.
The war department spokesman
told the Senate war investigating
committee that among the items
for immediate release were:
11,937 trucks, 2,842 tractors,
1,043,000 pairs of men’s army type
boots and shoes, 1,493,000 pairs of
wool socks, 223,000 knit army
shirts, 500,000 yards of lining for
clothes, 1,289 pocket watches, 48
portable laundries, $9,485,650
worth of radio and other com
munications equipment, and large
quantities of steel pipe and rail
road equipment.
j Snow, Sleet, Rain,
Sub-Zero Blankets
| United States
i _
Snow, rain, sleet and subzero
temperatures dampened and chill
ed a large part of the country, and
the immediate outlook for better
weather wasn’t promising. The
prolonged cold wave is directly
responsible for at least thirty-four
deaths. Fresh falls of snow moved
into the Atlantic seaboard from
the midwest and southwest. Falls
to the depth of eight to twelve
inches were forecast. Rain and
sleet pelted down across many
southern states, after falls of
1 snow were reported as far south
j as Macon, Georgia.
Truman Urges
5 nifieation ()f
Uommaml
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—l/Pl—*
President Truman called for a
merger of the Army and Navy in
a single department for national
defense, and air forces fully equal
to the land and sea arms. Stepping
squarely into the middle of the
long and bitter struggle between
the army and navy top commands,
Truman followed, in virtually ev
ery detail the official war depart
ment plan for unification.
He dashed one prime navy hope
by declaring in a special message
to Congress that “further studies
of the general problem serve no
useful purpose.” Declaring “I
urge this as the best means of
keeping peace.”
President Truman proposed a
new defense department, headed
by a single cabinet member, oper
ating one under-secretary and
several assistant secretaries, all
civilians, thereby the department
al chief of staff and commander
of each of the three component
branches of the army and navy
and either the President or thr
secretary of defense could take
up directly with separate com
manders matters of basic military
strategy policy.
Key staff positions in the de
i partment, Truman said, should be
filled with officers drawn from all
services “so the thinking of the
department wouldn’t be dominat
ed by any one or two of the serv
ices.”
Permanent Home
Of United Nations
In United States
LONDON. Dec. 19—The United
States has been selected as the
permanent home of the United
Nations organization by the tech
nical committee of preparatory
commission, which is laying the
groundwork for the first meeting
of the full UNO assembly in' Lon
don next month.
The preparatory commission it
self and the full assembly must
approve the location, but that was
considered a mere formality, as
the two leading opponents to U. S.
—Great Britain and Canada—im
mediately proposed that the com
mittee vote be made unanimous.
Several large U. S. cities have
bid for the selection as the site of
the permanent home of the UNO.
including San Francisco, Philadel
phia, Boston, Denver, Atlantic
City, and Chicago. The prepara
tory commission will pick the site
Monday, and was reported favor
ing either Boston or San Fran
cisco.
A total of 155,148 governmental
units levy taxes and render pub
lic services in the United States.