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V OL. XL VI I I. No. 55 NOME, ALASKA* WED N ES D~A Y , MAY 8. 1 946 PER COPY —
Latest Returns
From 8 Precincts
Kotzebue
Democrats had a big vote in ,
Kotzebue;
Bartlett 57, Olson 54, Johnson 37, i
Sharpe 18, Cross 56, Lyng 41, ;
Whaley 26, Anderson 57, Madsen
41, McDonald 47, Porter 52, and
Wallace 24.
Grigsby 4, Peterson 2, Cole 4,
Soholt 2, Benson 7, Jones 4, Mit
rovitch 5, Munz 4, Anderson 5,
Laws 6, Milligan 7, and Ost 6.
Deering
Bartlett 36, Olson 39, Johnson 10,
Sharpe 1, Cross 50, Lyng 34,
Whaley 0, Anderson 40, Madsen
10, McDonald 6, Porter 36, Wal
lace 6.
The only Republicen votes cast
were for Jones 4, Munz 1, And
erson 1 and Ost 4.
Candle
Bartlett 33, Olson 32, Johnson 15,
Sharpe 18, Cross 15, Lyng 33,
Whaley 19, Anderson 26, Madsen
26, McDonald 10, Porter 31, and
Wallace 21.
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Grigsby 2, Peterson 3, Cole 3,
Soholt 2, Benson 2, Jones 4, Mit
rovitch 1, Munz 5, Anderson 5,
Laws 4, Milligan 4, Ost 6.
Totals recorded from 8 pre
cincts are; Bartlett 436, Olson
384, Johnson 151, Sharpe 231,
Cross 261, Lyng 329, Whaley 241,
Anderson 328, Madsen 313, Mc
Donald 334, Porter 359, Wallace
191.
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Grigsby 79, Peterson 105, Cole
128, Soholt 51, Benson 150, Jones
135, Mitorvitch 102, Munz 154.
Anderson 159, Laws 178, Milligan
146, Ost 173.
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G.I.8 To Get
Terminal Pay
And Rights
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WASHINGTON, May 8, -(/Pi
Revising its previous stand, the
House military committee ap
proved legislation giving enlisted
personnel the same terminal pay
rights as officers now have.
The legislation will allow a
maximum of 120 days pay to ar
my and navy personnel at time
of discharge, provided they have
accrued but unused furlough time
when mustered out.
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U. S. Invites
Nations To
Atomic Tests
WASHINGTON. May 8, —(£’>—
Acting Secretary of State. Dean
Acheson announced that the Un
ited States would invite all nat
ions having membership in the
United Nations Atomic Energy
Commission to send governmental
press observers to the atomic
bomb tests in the Pacific. .
Acheson said the invitations
were being extended by authority
of President Truman. They will
go to Russia, Britain, France,
China, Canada, Australia, Brazil,
Egypt, Mexico. Netherlands and
Poland.
DRIFTERS CLUB WILL HAVE
DANCE SATURDAY NIGHT
The Drifters Club, a local or
ganization of teen-agers, which
suspended operations during the
war, is resuming its activities.
The club has opened their for
mer clubhouse, which had been
used for a mess hall during the
war, by the Sommers Construct
ion Co., and arebusy working on
it.
The club members are busy
planning a dance for this coming
Saturday, May 11th., to be held
in the High School Gymnasium.
The committee, Bo Mozee, Lois
Overbaugh, and Barrow Morgan
have reported, a program is being
planned.
U. S. Soldiers
Sabotage Japanese
Warship Sakawa
PEARL HARBOR, May 8,—f/P)—
Angry American soldiers, plagued
by troubles at sea, sabotaged the
Japanese cruiser Sakawa. while
the former enemy warship was
enroute from Tokyo to Bikini,
for the atom bomb tests, naval
officers said.
The sabotage is alleged to have
endangered the" lives of crewmen
as the ship lay at anchor at Em
wetok, last month where it had
been towed after drifting at sea
for several days alongside the
Japanese battleship Nagato.
Commander L. W. McConnau
ghy. Director of Discipline for the
14th Naval District said that
charges were being drawn against
five men who are expected to be
courtmartialed in a few days.
Lt. David Merrill of Hartford.
Conn., said he wrote while at
Eniwetok, some members of the
crew removed pressure lines to
overspeed the trip valves, thus
demobilizing the ship’s fuel sys
tem. There was sand in the oil
and water pumps, someone smash
ed gauges and tachometers, and
some took hacksaws to cut high
pressure steam lines and the fuel
oil manifold valves were smashed.
If we had gotten up steam, any
one who walked in front of that
steam leak could have been cut
in two.”
i McConnaughy said the men
I hoped to put the Sakawa out of
Plan Disclosed
Trans-Alaska
Rail Project
SEATTLE, Wash. May 8.—(/!’)—
Seattle District U. S. Army En
gineers disclosed today that a
survey had been made during the
war. for a railway line betweer
Prince George, B. C. and Teller,
Alaska, which would make it pos
sible for the shipment of goods
to a port within sight of the
Russian Siberian coastline ac
ross the Bering Straits.
The report made previously
told of the survey of 1440 mi'e
section between Prince George
and Fairbanks, Alaska, but the
engineers stateef, this was the
first announcement of the 730
mile survey from Fairbanks to
Teller.
The engineers also disclosed
that the army had purchased
nearly nineteen million board j
feet of lumber from Russia in
1943. The lumber was unloaded
at Seward, Cold Bay and Adak,
Alaska.
When the Japanese abandoned
the fight for the Aleutians, the
American strategy was changed
and the plans for the railway
were dropped, the report said.
commission so it would have
been taken in tow and they would
be relieved from duty aboard the
filthy stinking warship, whose
voyage to Bikine was beset with
bad luck all the way.
Coal Strike
fParalyzes
The Nation
WASHINGTON, May 8, — </P)—
The number of idle today be
cause of the 38-day soft coal
strike zoomed past the 800,000
mark as the nation’s industries
railroads, and utilities strangled
for lack of fuel. Snowballing ef
fects of the prolonged stoppage
leveled a blow at the nation’s
reconversion program, and the
combined effects of both the re
cent steel and automotive strikes
has serious repercussions.
These are the main develop
ments, -Automobiles,- Ford an
nounced it was suspending “vir
tually all operations” indefinitely
tonight because of “the coal strike
and the shortage of parts and
rail transportation”. The company
officials announced that 10,000
workers were affected.
General Motors closed its large
plant at LaGrande, 111.
Chrysler reported their assem
bly line and body plant operat
ions might suspend next week.
Railroads - The Association of
American railroads estimated that
51.000 railroad men were laid off
because of the strike and another
100.000 will be laid off after May
15. Industries served by rail
roads will have laid off an estim
ated 250,000, the association an
nounced.
Utilities and Civilian product
ion Administration set up an em
ergency office in an effort to keep
all gas, power and water compan
ies in operation.
Gromyko Has
Nothin" More
To Report
NEW YORK. May 8,—(/H—Sov
iet delegate Gromyko in the Uni
ted Security Council, said he did
n’t “think” he would attend the
afternoon session as he knew of
no Russian report on the Iranian
case.
Gromyko thus indicated that
he would stand by his previous
assertion to the council members
that he would not discuss the
Iranian case further.
The Iranian Ambassador stated
that he had nothing further to
say on information from his gov
ernment at Teheran, beyond his
statement Monday night, to the
effect that Russia had withdrawn
from four provinces but that the
situation in the fifth province of
Azerbaijan couldn’t be clarified.