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~V()L~ XLVII1. No. 41 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. APRIL 5, 1 i) 1 (i PER COPY — 15c
^farArlhur Calls
For Wars Cessation
TOKYO, April 5, f/P)—General
MacArthur called for all nations
to renounce their sovereign right
to wage war. Unless they do. ho
asserted, the United Nations must
fail in its aim for peace. Its inter
national police force will be, at
best, but a temporary expedient.
His appeal was delivered before
the Allied Council for Japan, at
its initial session.
MacArthur told the council its
function would be to advise him
while he retains unchallenged
command. The council promptly
gave him four pieces of advice, all
offered by Russia, whose delegate
warned of “increasing reactionary
forces among the Japanese.” Lt.
Gen Derevyanko, Soviet represen
tative spoke up as soon as MacAr
thur’s address was finished. He
proposed excluding the press; of
examining MacArthur’s decrees
seven days, and Imperial rescripts
ten days in advance of their issu
ance to the Japanese: internation
alizing the council secretariat;
holding new Jap elections if next
Wednesday’s balloting elects “un
suitable" Diet members.
At the suggestion of British rep
resentative Bell, Russia withdrew
its request to bar the press at all
meetings of the council, and
agreed to admit newsmen at “ma
jor meetings.”
Russia And Iran
Sign Agreement
NEW YORK, April 5, (/P)—Dip
lomatic authorities expressed the
belief that Russia probably would
succeed in obtaining oil conces
sions in Iran fairly soon after her
troops evacuated, in accordance
with a promise made in the United
Nations security council.
The signing of a three-point
agreement today between Iran
and Russia provided for the for
mation of a joint Iranian and Sov
iet oil company announced the
Teheran terms of the proposed oil
concessions with Russia would be
submitted to the fifteenth parlia
ment for its approval within seven
months after March 24.”
The Iranian government said
the other points were that the Red
army troops evacuate Iran uncon
ditionally within six weeks from
March 24. Iran’s problem with
Azerbaijan, which proclaimed an
autonomy, be recognized as purely
an internal affair.”
U. S. Turns Alean
Over To Canadians
WHITEHORSE, Y.T., April 5,
(/P)—Canadian army men drove |
away in motorized roadbuilding
equipment which was driven be- j
fore the reviewing stand by U.S.
army engineers Wednesday, sym
bolizing the official transfer to
the Canadian government of the
Canadian section of the Alaska
Highway.
FAIR NOTES
We are again requesting that all
superintendents of the various
divisions be present at a meeting
with the board at 8:00 p.m. this
evening at the City Hall. !t may
be the last opportuniyt that we
may have to get together as a
body before the Fair and a full
attendance is desired.
We are again requesting that
exhibitors of home movies contact
Bud Richter at the U. S. Mercan
tile Co., so as to give us as good an
idea as posible of how much time
we will have to take to run the
various exhibits.
Plans are being made to try and
arrange for serving lunches in the
building during the Fair, so as to
allow the worry of going home to
prepare meals to be sent to the
cleaners for the duration of the
Fair at least.
Be sure and get your tickets on
the car. You are getting something
when you win that car. Some one
has to win. One never knows
when it will ring ten for you.
More and more outside exhibits
are arriving, showing the interest
which is being taken in the Fair.
Even with the hiatus caused by
the war the people remember
what the Fair meant and was, and
want to be a part in and of it.
It’s your fair, it’s my Fair, it’s
OUR FAIR! Let’s make it some
thing to shoot at, for interest, at
tractiveness, FUN AND FROLIC.
A good program is assured, and
three Big Evenings of ENTER
TAINMENT. ENJOYMENT, and
ENLIGHTENMENT. Also some
thing to remember of a Winter in
Nome.
Eisenhower ()rders
“Brutality’*
111 v estimation
WASHINGTON. April 5, (/Pi
General Eisenhower has ordered
an immediate investigation into
charges to the government pros
ecutor of efforts being made to
protect army officers from prose
cution in the Lichfield courtmar
tial in England.
The War Department said the
chief of saff ordered a prompt re
port to the headquarters of Gen.
McNarney, commander of the
American occupation forces in
Europe. Captain Earl Carroll said
he had been relieved of duty as
a member of the legal staff prose
cuting the charges of brutality
against eight enlisted men and
two officers accused of mistreat
ing U. S. Army prisoners in the
Lichfield detention camp.
ENGINEER BROWN
RETURNS TO NOME
Wm. Brown, who has been in
charge of harbor dredging for the
U. S. Engineers for several years,
returned Wednesday evening to
make preparations for the summer
activities.
The National • University of!
Mexico was founded in 1553 1
BASEBALL SCOU T—Edith Houghton, just out of the
WAVES, has been signed as a baseball scout for the Philadelphia
Phillies of the National league. She was a standout shortstop lor
the Philadelphia Bobbies when she was 10 years old.
Foreign Policy
Under Attack
WASHINGTON, April 5, (/P)—
Congressional friends and foes of
Secretary Byrnes heaped fuel on
the foreign policy debate, touched
off by Senator Pepper, whose con
tention that this country was guar
anteeing “British imperialism.”
Charging that the Florida Dem
ocrats assertion that United States
and Britain “ganged up against
Russia,” Senator Hatch told a re
porter he belives Byrnes was fol
lowing a firm course, calculated to
strengthen the United Nations,
where a lesser course would de
stroy it.”
Hatch also took issue with Pep
per’s charge made during the
course of lambasting the British
foreign policies yesterday that
other nations sought to “put Rus
sia in a hole,” in the United Na
tions security council.
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Production For
Civilians Growing
WASHINGTON, April 5, (/P)—
President Truman said production
for civilians was “higher today
than ever before in the nation’s
history, in war or in peace, and
was still going up.’’ Employment,
which slumped after V-J Day,
was building up steadily, and non
agricultural employment was now
above the V-J Day level,” Truman
said in a statement issued to a
news conference.
He declared “unemployment is
around three million, which is
lower than any of us thought pos
sible six months ago.”
Claiming Signs
All Bills Passed
JUNEAU. Arpil 5 — Governor
Gruening announces he has signed
all forty bills passed by the legis
lature. He also has nominated
Henry Roden of Pelican, and
Charles Carter of Juneau, and
John Conway of Sitka, for the re
vised board of trustees for the
Pioneers Home.
‘Dominion Day’ To
Be ‘Canada Dav"
OTTAWA, April 5, {/?)—Cana
dians read with some surprise this
morning in the paper that the
House of Commons had voted to
change the name of the national
i holiday from "Dominion Day” to
"Canada Day,” and strike deep at
the traditional differences between
: French speaking and English
I speaking section of the country.
Supporters of the change, in
cluding most members of the gov
ernment Liberal party argued it
would properly express Canada's
newly accented status as a nation
in its own right.
Opponents, mostly members of
the progressive conservative party
centered in Ontario, said it signi
fied the weakening of Canada’s
ties with Britain. The bill was
adopted 123 to 62 last night.
BABY GIRL BORN TO
GEORGE MADSENS
An eight pound, four ounce
baby girl arrived Thursday morn
ing for Mr. and Mrs. George Mad
sen. She will be welcomed home
by her two brothers, Peter and
Donald.
I . S. (Communists
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WASHINGTON, April a. . Pi—
Louis Francis Budenz. former
Communist editor told House in
vestigators the “Communist party
in United States was a direct arm
of the Soviet foreign department.”
Budenz, who renounced Commun
ism recently to join Notre Dame
University's journalism depart
ment staff, also told the committee
investigating un-American activi
ties, that each American Commun
ist was a “potential spy against
United States.”
Many of them are “unhappy
about this, he said, and added any
good relations with Russia must
be achieved only through "reach
ing the people of that nation, shut
in now behind walls of police cen
sorship.
GROUP DISCUSSES
TOWN CLUB
A group of citizens met with
representatives Wilkinson and
Miller of the American Red Cross
to discuss the discontinuance of
the Red Cross town club by that
organization, and to formulate
plans for carrying on the project
under community organization.
Mr. Wilkinson stated that the
ARC would be out of the buildings
before June 30, and that the main
building would be returned to the
Catholic church.
The main points brought out in
the discussion were the organiza
tion of the citizens of Nome for
the purpose of maintaining some
sort of community center, and the
operation for both military and
civilian alike.
Nothing could be decided, either
for or against as the project is city
wide and will need the views and
cooperation of all the recognized
clubs and groups, who will be re
quested to attend a meeting in the
City Hall on May 1G, Tuesday at.
7:30 p.m., for organization and
discussion.
House Approves
Priee Control
Extension
WASHINGTON, April 5, </P)—
The House banking committee ap
proved a year’s extension of the
price control as recommended by
the President and defeated 13 to 9
the Republican effort to limit
OPA’s new lease on life to nine
months.
However the committee aimed a
blow at OPA pricing policy, vot
ing 15 to 6 to prohibit the agency
from requiring retailers for a pe
riod of six months to absorb the
larger cost of manufactured prod
ucts, such as autos, refrigerators
and radios.
Eating with forks was not
known in England until the reign
of James I.