Russia Building
Huge Airborne
Army Is Report
(By Elton C. Fay)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Russia is
believed to have an airborne army
in being or in training far sur
passing that of any other power.
Information filtering out of Rus
sia indicates, it was learned to
day, that the Soviet Union’s
strength in troops trained for
lightning strikes from the air may
number as high as 100,000 men.
This force compares with the
single airborne division which the
United States possesses. That di
vision—the 82nd at Fort Bragg, N.
C.—has an authorized strength of
13,000 men but presumably is be
low that figure.
Efforts to bring the 82nd nearer
authorized strength have beer,
complicated by the use of trained
airborne soldiers as elements oi
occupation forces in Germany ana
Japan.
Some strategists note that the re
ported 100,000-man strength of the
Russian airborne force may be mis
leading because of a possible Sov
iet deficiency in the important
matter of air. transportation.
Russia’s primary aviation inter
est during the war was in fighter
type planes. She virtually ignored
heavy bomber aircraft and, either
because of policy or production
difficulties, did little transport
plane building. What her strength
in transport is today is uncertain.
Lend-lease reports show that
during the war the United States
turned over to Russia about 700
transport airplanes among the 25,
000 delivered.
How many of these 700 trans
ports plus any she may have ob
tained from Britain and built her
self still are operable is unknown.
However, American experts have
estimated that it requires about
1,500 transports of existing designs
to move one division of about 12,
000 men with their equipment.
During World War II, Russia’s
Pullman Car Joy
Ride Kills One
GALLITZIN, Pa. (/P)—Careen
ing wildly down mountainside
tracks while the remainder of the
train continued on its jorney, the
last car of the Pennsylvania Rail
road’s New York to Texas "Sun
shine Special’’ carried a pullman
porter to his death and injured 20
passengers and one crewman to
day.
The car, tearing loose from the
train at the crest of the Allegany
mountains while one of its two en
gines was being cut off, took off
on a three and one-half mile solo
run backwards.
Gathering speed as it went, it
zipped past Bennington curve
where 11 days ago the wreck of
the "Red Arrow" claimed 24 lives
and injured nearly 150 others.
The dead porter was identified
by the railroad as L. Keys, work
ing out of Houston, Texas. Passen
gers on the car said he was stand
ing on the rear platform in a vain
effort to stop the flight and was
crushed as the car hit the hillside.
TEAM SELLS DONATED
CAKES. FOR CHARITY
Wednesday some cakes and pies
were sent down to the Nome High
School Basketball team by several
individuals and an extra special
cake by the North Pole Bakery.
Since the boys are in training and i
cannot indulge in such things they!
decided to sell the goodies and will!
turn to money over to the Alaska
Crippled Children’s fund. The
cakes were sent with the Alaska
Airlines.
standard airborne unit was a bri-1
gade of slightly more than 4,000,
men used either as parachutists or
carried in transports. While de
tails are not known, it is believed
that the iRed Army may have or
ganized its postwar airborne force
somewhat along the lines of the
United States, into divisions prob- j
ably about the standard 12,000 j
strength.
' ANNOUNCING!!
The Annual Arctic Club Carnival
will be held
March 29,1947
New Games - New Prizes
Food - Dancing
Crowning of Miss Nome of 1947
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New Washing Machine Given Away
The Annual Queen Contest
Starts Mar. 8 and ends at 11 P.M. Mar. 29, 1947
Valuable Awards
TO ALL CONTESTANTS
Special $100 Clothing Award
to the Queen
Queen Contest Tickets sell for $1.00
And give you 100 Votes for Your Favorite
Queen and 1 chance on a
NEW WASHING MACHINE
CHURCHES
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass—9:00 a.m.
Weekday Mass—7:30 a.m.
Thursday Evening—7:45 p.m. Re
ligion discussion group.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastor - H. R. Amundsen
Deaconess - Dorothy M. Russell
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Child
ren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
3:45 p.m. Young People’s Sing
FEDERATED CHURCH
Murlin W. Day. Minister
Church School, 10 a.m.
Worship 7:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Choir rehearsal, 8 p.m.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins. Pastor !
“Earth has no sorrow that
Heaven cannot heal.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and
special music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Corner Front and Steadman
Geo. H. Loveless. Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Thursday:
3:30 p.m. “Vit-Em-In Childrens’
Bible Club.”
Friday:
7:30 p.m. “Know Your Bible
Class” Bible study in the book
of Exodus.
You are invited — Everyone is
welcome.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday
Sunday School.10!30 a.m. |
Evening service .7:45 p.m. j
Tuesday
Bible Study .7:45 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
FAIR NOTES
Newcomers and old timers alike
will be glad to hear of the two
reindeer camps planned to be set j
up during Fair Week. TraineJ |
sled deer are being b"ought to
Nome with all the trappings and
colorful atmosphere of a complete
camp setup.
Picture taking possibilities will
be unlimited with the races, con
tests, and demonstrations planned.
It has been a long t’me sine'* mo t
of us have seen any reindeer and
for a lot more of us it will be the
first time.
. The reindeer camps are only one
of the many interesting sidelights
planned to make the forthcoming
Fair one of the most talked about
l events of the year!
Truman For
Hawaii Statehood
HONOLULU, (/P)—Cecretary of
Interior Krug told Hawaii’s legis
lature today that President Tru
man "was firmly behind Hawaiian
statehood and would do everything
he could to obtain it.”
The assurances, the secretary
added in a speech prepared for de
livery were given by the President
m Washington just before Krug
set out recently on. his tour ot the
Pacific.
"Can we, with 1 clear conscience
tell others how to insure freedom
and self government,” Krug asked,
"if we withhold and deny it to
hundreds of thousands of cur cit
izenry?
"We are now using our utmost
endeavors to encourage and foster
democratic self government in the |
nations which ring the Pacific—
The Philippines, China, Korea anc.
Japan.
"Yet every argument, every eco
nomic aid, every democratic hope
is confronted by an example of our
own non-selfgoverning territory,
which is a stepping stone to that
some Orient.”
Krug, now on his way home
from the Pacific tour, declared
that “Hawaiians of the United
States want political equality
within their own nation just as do
Texans, or Californians or Ver
monters.”
"To deny them statehood,” he
added, "is to deny them political
equality just as surely as the im
perialistic Japanese government
denied equal political status to
Koreans and Formosans.”
Krug observed that the majority
of 500,000 Americans living in Ha-1
waii were born under the Ameri
can flag.
Krug declared that statehood
Record Non-Stop
Honolulu To U. S.
NEW YORK, (/P)—The Betty Jo,
army P-82 fighter, complex! a
4,978-mile non-stop flight from
Honolulu at 11:06 a.m. «EST> to
day in approximately 14 hours and
31 seconds.
Just two minutes and 44 second
after the twin-engine fighter roar
ed out of a blue sky over LaGuar
dia Field, it made a perfect land
ing—at 11:08:44 a.m. It took off
from Hickam Field, Honolulu, at
8:35 p.m. (EST> last night.
Emergency equipment lined the
runway of the big airport as the
Betty Jo zoomed in, prepared for
an emergency landing.
The pilot, Lt. Col. Robert E.
Thacker of El Centro, Calif., and
co-pilot, Lt. John M. Ard of Ingle
wood, Calif., won a daring bid
against 65-mile headwinds over
Pennsylvania and dangerously
low fuel tanks to reach their New
York objective.
"We’re going to take a shot at
New York,” they said by radio
over western Pennsylvania.
An hour later ' they hit their
mark.
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JOHN FULTS RESIGNS
FROM NATIVE SERVICE
John Fults who has been with
the ANS here for the past two
years, after having spent some
time in Teller has resigned and
taken over the position of Mr. R.
Reddiway at the C.A.A. here. Mr.
Reddiway is leaving the C.A.A.
and will leave this month for the
States.
would strengthen the United Stales
in the Pacific where it “is now and
must continue to be a power.”
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