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Welfare Center
Ylay Be Started
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, Committees from a majority of
the organizations in Nome me*
last night in the City Hall to dis
cuss the possibility of organixin >
ai. welfare center to take care of
ihe visiting soldiers, children,
transient and local peoples who
have no decent place to go for
recreation. Many suggestions were
offered and discussed.
M. S. Miller of the Red Cross,
stated that on May first the Red
Cross was closing their center,
which has been in operation for
the past four years, and the build
ing returned to the location desig
nated in their contract with the
Catholic Church.
In order to obtain the support
of the various organizations which
had sent representatives, it was
deemed desirable that these rep
resentatives report back to their
^ groups and to further discuss the
~ merits of the proposal and send an
emmissary to the meeting sched
uled for May 14, to act with au
thority for his organization.
9 In this way the organizations
could state whether it approves
or disapproves of the welfare or
community centre idea, and vvhe
Iher or not it would support the
movement.
It was suggested that this was
the opportune time lor all groups
mo get together and build a large
community building to house all
organizations in the city at much
iess expense and more satisfactory
than each could be housed by it
self.
Mayor Edward Seidenverg acted
as chairman of the meeting at re
^ quest of the Chamber of Com
merce in order to get started as
soon as possible with the discus
sions and to give the meeting the
sanction of the city government.
The meeting was opened for
thorough discussion following the
short explanation by the chair
man, of the purpose of the meet
The citizens are requested to
put considerable thought into (he
subject and to discuss the matter
thoroughly so that all facts in the
organization and operating of the
welfare project can be presented
at the next meeting of the citizens,
to be held May 14, in the City
Hall.
House Votes Down
Motion To Kill
OPA Legislation
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WASHINGTON, April 17, (/P)—
The House rejected by the over
whelming odds of 178 to 34 the
Teller vote motion proposing to
kill off legislation to continue
OPA. The first test vote on the
bill to keep the agency alive one
year beyond June 30, came on the
motion of Rep. Rankin to st. ike
*ut the enacting clause. The House
then proceeded toward action on
various proposals for amendment
of the law.
ATOM CHOST PLANES -—Lined up at Jonesville. Pa., are some of Ihe 56 Naval planes
to be used as pilotless, radio-controlled craft in the Pacific atomic bomb tests.
Emergency Air
Transportation To
Alaska Ordered
WASHINGTON, April 17. 1/P1
Emergency air transportation be
tween Alaska and Seattle to meet
a shortage of food and other essen
tial supplies in the Territory was
authorized by the Civil Aeronau
tics board. Alaska air carriers,
which operate solely within the
Territory are authorized to fly
supplies between Seattle and
Alaska points until Juno first.
The board said it had been ad
vised by the Interior Department
that stocks of meat and some
other supplies would be exhausted
in two weeks, and all foodstuffs
are at the lowest inventory in
years. Existing transportation fa
cilities at present are unable to
replenish the stocks of food and
other supplies the board said.
UNO To Take Up
Franco Problem
NEW YORK, April 17, l/P)—
The United Nations security coun
cil turned from the undecided
Iranian case to the highly con
troversial question posed by Pol
and’s charge that Franco Spain
harbors Nazi war plotters and
menaces world peace. New sup
port for the anti-Franco move
ment indicated a warm debate
when the council meets at noon.
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
AT BELMONT POINT
A sevrice to commemorate the
resurrection of the Lord will be
held Easter Sunday morning at
7:00 o’clock on the brow of Bel
mont Point. All ministers will be!
participating. Chaplain York will'
be the speaker. You are urged to j
attend. All are welcome.
New Mayor
To Take Office
Tomorrow night, Thur s d a y ,
April 18. the new mayor and three
councilmen will be sworn into of
fice as the present mayor and
three councilmen prepare to turn
the keys of the city government
over to them. ,
Edward Seidenverg, the outgo
ing mayor, will open the meeting.
Outgoing councilmen are Robert
Baldwin, Carl Glavinovich and
Dr. Maxwell Kennedy.
Incoming Mayor Luther Dunbar
will take the reins of city govern
ment from Mayor Seidenverg and
will hold the first official council i
meeting of his one-year term, on
April 22.
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Incoming members of the coun- j
cil are Paul Mandeville, Richard
Webb and Ben Young. The hold
overs are Guy Mish, Chris Roust
and Joe Wallace.
Communists Enter
Changchun: Seize
Kail way Station
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PEIPING, April 17, (/P) — The
fall of Changchun, capital of civil
war torn Manchuria, by an over
whelming force of Communist!
troops is forecast at Sino-Ameri
can troop headquarters, as China
awaited the arrival of General
Marshall.
Latest news dispatches reported
Communist forces had penetrated
deep into Changchun and seized
its only railway station and dis
rupted communications formerly
controlled by the government.
Officials and Peiping observers
doubted if the government troops
there could hold out three more
days. Marshall arrived in midaf-|
ternoon from Tokyo, where hei
conferred yesterday with General)
MncArthur. *
Truman Suggests
European Rations
For Americans
WASHINGTON. April 17. f,P>—
Prseident Truman said most
.Americans eat too much and it
might be a good idea it their food
consumption was reduced to the
low European standards two days
a week during the world crisis.
Asked during a news conference
about the proposal for Americans
trying living on the European ra
t;on one day a week, the President
replied he personally liked the
suggestion, that not only do most
Americans eat too much, he said,
but they also waste enough food
to prevent people in the war rav
aged areas from starving.
Admiral In Hawaii
"Stirs Up' Truman
WASHINGTON. April 17. (/Pi
President Truman said it was an
admiral in Hawaii who touched
off his recent blast against navy
lobbying. The President told a
news conference he didn’t think
that Secretary Forrestal and Adm.
Nimitz, chief of naval operations,
were doing any lobbying against
unification of armed forces.
Th eadmiral who stirred him up
he said, was in charge of a Hawa
iian station. The President had a
late afternoon appointment with
Forrestal and Nimitz. to talk over,
at their request, the proposed
army and navy merger.
The admiral who stirred him up
admiral in Hawaii was named
Melville, anyway he said the ad
miral in charge there got into
print in an interview he saw. He
said it really stirred him up.
At a news conference last
Thursday the President rapped
the navy sharply for using lobby
ing propaganda against the merger
bill pending in Congress.
Soviets Will Get
Answers To Japan
(Questions
TOKYO, April IT, t/T*i—A Gen
eral MacArthur’s Military Gov
ernment officer replied sharply
today to the Allied four-power
council’s first business meeting to
Russian questioning about the ef
fectiveness of Allied purge de
cree : “The Japanese government
is complying with the purge di
rective, and doing it as fast as
consistent with occupation poli
cies,” Brig. Gen. Courtney Whit
ney told the Soviet Delegate.
He said he would supply the
Russians with all available infor
mation on the topic ‘ if it takes all
Summer.” The Russian charges
that the “normal progress of dem
ocratization of Japan was endan
gered” and that certain undesir
able persons were not being re
moved from office.
Gen. Whitney added, reminis
cently on the matter appearing re
cently in the Soviet press: “So far
as I know, neither the member
from the U.S.S.R., nor others, have
any knowledge of the manner of
Japanese compliance with the
purge directive, and haven’t
sought this information,” from A1
lied headquarters.
‘Husband’ Proves
To Be A W oman
TOCOMA, April 17. i/Pt—Dep
, uty Sheriff Sig Kittlcson, said a
: young bride’s disbelief in a death
message concerning the groom
who "never shaved" led to the
discovery that Jerome Hurst, was
actually a woman “Margaret
Hurst,” an ex-member of the Wo
men’s Army Corps.
Margaret Hurst, 29, was brought
from Kelso, Wash., to Tacoma, on
a Justice Court warrant, charging
grand larceny and forgery.
Kittleson said the “bride,” an
18-year-old Tacoma girl sought
police help when she received a
telegram saying her “husband”
had died and this “his” body had
been sent East. An investigation of
the telegram led to Kelso, and the
return of Margaret, who Kittleson
said, is under a fifteen-year sus
pended sentence on a larceny and
forgery conviction.
The origin of the telegram has
not be explained. The deputy said
a check of the records showed.
The Tacoma girl Miss Hurst
married March 4, told him they
spent their honeymoon at the sea
side in Oregon. Kittleson quoted
as saying she thought it odd her
husband never shaved.
NEW OFFICER IN
CHARGE AT A.C.S.
Captain Amon L. Hatfield, of
the U. S. Signal Corps, arrived in
Nome aboard the P.A.A. plane
Monday night to take charge of
the local A.C.S. station.
Sgt. Clarence Woofter who has
been officer in charge, will remain
at the station until his application
for retirement is approved.