AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving on schedule Monday
evening the Pan American plane
brought the following passengers
from Seattle: Virgil Baker, Mar
tha Offenbacker, S. Y. Wong,
Irene Jackson, Mary Didby and
daughter Joan, Judith Melon.
From Moses Point were Roy
Bradley, Lena Charles, Oswald
Moses and Ed Kimoktoaf.
Departing passengers were
Charlotte Patterson and daughter
Frances, Joe Eley, Don Wilson,
William King and Carl A. John
son.
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No flying for Alaska Airlines
nor Wien Airlines.
THREE TEXAS BOXERS
ON ARMY SQUAD
WEST POINT, N. Y. — <>P) —
Texas has more representatives
on Army’s 23-man boxing squad
than any other state. Three U. S.
Military Academy boxers hail
from the Lone Star state.
Hal Fitzpatrick, six-one light
heavyweight weighing 175 pounds,
is from Austin; Bill McGlothin.
155-pounder, from Corsicana, and
Robert Daniel, 127-pounder, from
Longvemo.
L. E. OST VISITING
DAUGHTERS IN NOME
L. E. Ost, well known Council
ite is visiitng in town with his
daughters, Mrs. Earl Towner and
Mrs. Mclvor, and is getting better I
acquainted with his several
grandchildren. i
Washington To
Receive DeGaulle
In Prewar Style
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—r/P>—
The Capital prepared to put on a
prewar style reception for the vis
iting chief of state of the DeGaulle
provisional government.
The President of France, ac-!
companied by nearly a score of
aides is scheduled to arrive by
place at one p.m. PWT to get ac- '
quainted with President Truman
to start the crammed schedule
which is expected to keep him in
United States at least a week.
The general will be a guest at a
White House reception thirty min- !
utes after his arrival tonight and i
will hold the place of honor at the
Presidential state dinner. He plans
a side trip to Hyde Park to visit
President Roosevelt’s grave. He
also hopes to visit American in-,
I dustrial plants in New York and •
j Chicago.
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Surrender Plane
| Runs Off Runway
Into Ditch I
MANILA, Aug. 21—One of the
two Jap surrender planes ran off
the runway into the ditch on Ie (
Shima while preparing to takeoff j
on its return to Tokyo. No one
was injured. Lt. Gen. Kawabe ar- j
rived in Tokyo on the second
plane. The first plane was ground- \
ed at Ie Shima overnight and pro
ceeded to Tokyo the next morn
ing. I
TYPICAL — Anna Buzon, a
native of Scranton, Pa., selected
as the nation’s typical war work
er, stands beside her machine in
the Casco plant at Bridgeport,
Conn., where she turns out fuses
for mortars and oil bombs for
the Pacific war. j
“Why did you ever leave your
last post?”
“Illness.”
‘What sort of illness?”
“My CO got sick of me.”
WEATHER MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE
WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING BY
MODERN INSTRUMENT EQUIPPED
DOUGLAS AND LODESTAR STARLINERS
Phone Main 66
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ALASKA AIRLINES
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Coast Guard On
Peacetime Basis
In Ten Months
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—<^P)—
The Coast Guard has announced
it has begun its discharge pro
gram of returning the service to
a peacetime basis within ten
months.
3,500.000 Radio
Sets This Year
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22—(/P)— !
The War Production Board has
announced that it estimates three
and a half million new radio sets
may reach the markets by the
year’s end.
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Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
Russian Troops
On Kuriles
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LONDON, Aug. 22— (/PI —A
Russian communique tonight said
Russian troops had landed on
Shumushu, northernmost island
in the Kuriles. Soviet airborne
troops also landed at Port Arthur
and Dairen on the southern tip
of Manchuria.
SANDY MAZEN INJURED
BY TEAR GAS BOMB
Sandy Mazen, oldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. S. David Mazen who has
been employed by the U.S.E.D.
was accidentally injured when a
tear gas bomb exploded. He is in
the Army hospital with a blistered
face. It has not been determined
whether any injury has been done
to his eyes. ,
ARCTIC AIR SERVICE
CANDLE, ALASKA
Nome Headquarters — Wallace Hotel
— Contact —
JOE WALLACE, MAURICE KING or GENE JACK
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Frequent trips with passengers and freight between
Nome and Fairbanks via Deering. Candle, Kotzebue,
Kiana, Shungnak, Kobuk and Hughes.
CONTACT US FOR CHARTER SERVICE
SMALL AND LARGE SHIPS TO SUIT YOUR MEEDS
NEVADA BAR
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