m NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVII. No. 141 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 194 5 PER COPY— 15^
WSA Shipping Cost
Not Peacetime
'Criterion
CORDOVA, Nov. 23—(/P)—1The
Cordova Chamber of Commerce
in a two-hour discussion declared
the forthcoming hearings on Alas
ka freight rates “unwarranted and
unjustified.”
The Chamber says they will pre
sent the following arguments at
the hearings: One—The War Ship
ping Administration is stepping
out of bounds in applying for rate
1 hearings for the shipping lines.
WSA has said they will soon be
returned to private ownership af
ter four years of war operation.
Two—Hearings are unjustified
because neither the WSA or any
other agency, or experts can pos
sibly determine what the cost will
be to the shipping lines under pri
vate ownership.
Three—The cost of operation of
the lines under WSA in wartime
conditions, cannot be considered
an accurate index of what the
costs will be under private man
agement in peacetime. WSA,
Chamber officials asserted, has
said the lines cost millions to op
erate in wartime and private own
ership must have high rates to
stay in business.
Four—To base rate changes on
cost of operation figures of the
WSA in the last four years would
be preposterous, officials said.
WSA operated the vessels of the
Alaska lines all over the Pacific,
and in one instance even to the
Mediterranean under adverse la
bor conditions and in strange
shipping lanes and the premium
costs were all added to WSA ex
penditures, therefore they should
*not be considered in fixing peace
time rates, the Chamber asserted.
Chamber members admitted that
costs to private ownership prob
ably would exceed those of pre
war days, but asserted the people
of Alaska should not be penalized
by an increase in rates which they
contended already were the high
est in the world for similar serv
ice.
The Chamber suggested that a
government subsidy should be
given peacetime operation by pri
vate owners if it should prove
operation unfeasible and unprof
itable under current rates.
Copy of a telegram received by
the NWA Chamber of Commerce:
. “Anchorage Chamber urging lo
cal firms wire Seattle Wholesal
ers, requesting they attend mari
tfthe commission hearing Tuesday
for purpose of registering protests
^'•*»*■ « i i mi wa iwn o^.v.ww—aoo—c-:«o»tooowqcoo<p»ywwoawooc-> laooi&v———■———<« ^oc
WAR-INTERNED PLANE S—At Duebendorf airport, Switzerland, some of the 130
Allied aircraft forced or shot down during the war are prepared for removal or use as scrap.
Japs Break Into
Army Warehouse
•/
TOKYO, Nov. 23 — (/P) — An
Ameican Army warehouse has
been broken into by rioting hun
gry Japs at Senadi, while the war
lords whose dreams of conquest
brought incipient famine, surren
dered one by one to Allied jailers.
Two hundred Jap laborers, in
cluding women ransacked the
Army warehouse, taking food and
other items Sendai police report
ed. The police arrested one hun
dred eighty, including ninety-four
women.
There was no indication that
there were any Americans guard
ing, or near, the warehouse at the
time.
Gen. Koisi, successor to Pearl
Harbor Premier Tojo, surrendered
at Sugma prison. He is the third
of eleven warlords newly listed
by General MacArthur, to sur
render on war crimes charges. He
protested “we believe in our inno
cence."
Between 1898 and 1901 Russia
led the world irr oil production.
and great concern. Would appre
ciate your doing same should you
deem fit. Chamber also requesting
Alaska Development Board un
dertake preparation and presenta
tion Alaska’s case.
ARTHUR WALDRON, Pres.
Present Surprise
Documents At War
Crimes Trial
NUERNBERG, Nov. 23— (/P) —
Punishment of twenty of Hitler’s
top aides is demanded by United
States in charges of spreading
the “atrocious doctrine” of ag
gressive warfare in a plot to mur
der millions throughout the world.
American prosecutors told the
international war crimes tribunal
that the main case against the
Nazi leaders would rest on “ten
documents never before revealed.”
Attempts to introduce the sur
prise documents brought on a
storm of protest however from the
German defense counsel.
The session was adjourned for
the day to permit a study by law
yers of the accused Nazis.
Printer Strikers
To Negotiate
l
SEATTLE, Nov. 23—(JP)—Offi
cials of the Typographical union,
whose strike suspended publica
tion of the city’s three papers
have announced that Mayor Devin
has invited them to meet with
him and discuss efforts to reopen
negotiations with the publishers.
The invitation was accepted.
Rioting Spreads
In Calcutta
CALCUTTA, Nov. 23 — UP) —
i Anti-British demonstrations were
touched off by the trial of Indian
officers who sided with the Japs,
and spread to Bombay and Delhi.
Twenty thousand municipal work
ers struck, and a mob formed in
Calcutta crying “down with Brit-1
ish imperialism.”
Students clashed repeatedly
with police in Bombay. Rioting!
already has taken fifteen lives and
injured one hundred fifty others,
including twelve American sol
diers. Brig. Gen. Robert Neyland,
commander of the U. S. Base sec
tion headquarters placed the city
out of bounds to all American
troops except those on essential
duties.
Gen. Eisenhower
Enters Hospital
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—(/Pi
General Ensenhower, newly des
ignated Chief of Staff, entered
Ashford General hospital at White
Sulphur Springs in West Virginia
on the advice of his physician to
prevent development of complica
tions from a severe cold. Mrs. Ei
senhower is ill with pneumonia in
Boone, Iowa, but is reported as
improving satisfactorily.
\\ ash ington
Expected War
W ith Japan
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—<>Pt—
Cordell Hull told Congressional
investigators he expected war with
Japan prior to the Pearl Harbor
attack. He and Roosevelt maneu
vered desperately to gain time.
The ailing former secretary of
state gave his account of the diplo
matic negotiations on the eve of
hostilities in a statement to the
Senate and House committee in
vestigating the disaster. He said
President Roosevelt sought to
avoid a “showdown” with the Japs
and he never gave Japan any ulti
matum.
Because of Hull’s health the
committee permitted committee
counsel Gerhard Cesel to read
Hull’s memorandum. Senator Lu
case told reporters that former
postmaster general Walker prob
ably would be called to tell his
part in the diplomatic talks with
Japan before the Nips struck
Pearl Harbor.
British Ach ance
In Soeraba ja
BATAVIA, Nov. 23—(JP)—Em
ploying Sherman tanks for the
first time in the Soerabaja offen
sive, Rritish Indian troops pushed
two thousand yards southward in
that naval base, and by nightfall
held two-thirds of the city.
In Semarang, Jap troops are be
ing used by the British to drive
the Indonesians from the subur
ban areas in the eastern side of
Poro City. A British spokesman,
described the Japs as “good troops
who fight well.”
Iranians Seize
Twenty Officers
TEHRAN, Nov. 23—OP)— An
Iranian general reported by radio
from troubled Azerbaijan prov
ince that twenty officials of La
Downers have been seized by reb
els and shot. Fighting is still in
progress in the railway town of
Mianeh, two hundred fifty miles
northwest of Tehran.
The general said in his report,
that he had reestablished military
radio communications between
Tabriz and the capital. The gov
ernment attributed the disoders
to separatists.
There is one dentist for each.
850 American soldiers overseas.