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VOL. XLVIII. No. 54 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1946_PER COPY —15c
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Election Returns
Come In Slow
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Election returns from the out
lying precincts are very slow this
year, partly on account of weath
er conditions.
Teller election returns are as
follows: E. L. Bartlett 9, Oscar G.
Olson 6, K. C. Johnson 2, Walter
P. Sharpe 2, Bess Cross 1, How
ard Lyng 5, Frank Whaley 6.
Edward Anderson 5, George Mad
sen 3, W. E. McDonald 8. Wal
® lace Porter 6, and Mrs. Esther
Wallace 4.
On the Republican ballot: G.
Grigsby 3, Aimer J. Peterson 3,
fJash Cole 3, Leonard Soholt 2,
Henry A. Benson 4, Chas. D.
Jones 8, M. S. Mitrovitch 1, Wm.
Munz 5, C. Dewey Anderson 3,
W. W. Laws 1, Chester Milligan 2.
L. E. OST 5.
Totals as counted to date from
•returns of five precincts:
E. L. Bartlett 310, Oscar G. Olson
259, K. C. Johnson 89, Walter
Sharpe 194, Bess Cross 140, How
ard Lyng 221, Frank Whaley 196,
Ed. Anderson 205, Geo. Madsen
236, W. E. McDonald 263, Wall
^ ace Porter 240, Esther Wallace
* 158.
Republican:- George Grigsby
73, Aimer Peterson 100, Cash Cole
121, Leonard Soholt 47, Henry
Benson 138, Chas. D. Jones 123,
M. S. Mitrovitch 96, Wm. Munz
144, C. Dewey Anderson 148
W. W. Laws 168, Chester Milli
gan 135, L. E. Ost 158.
Hoover said Food
•Situation Would
Be Greatly Helped
TOKYO, May 6. — (/P)—The whole
world food situation would be
greatly helped, said UNRRA's
Herbert Hoover today, “if Rus
sia would release to China and
Korea, part of the food-stuffs they
secured in Manchuria.”
The former U. S. President is
chairman of President Truman’s
and made the assertion in a for
mal press conference.
“Japan must have some food
imports,” the statement began,
“without them all Japan will be
on rations little better than that
which the Germans gave in the
jp Buchenwald and Belsen concen
tration camps.” •
Hoover praised General MacAr
thur’s food staff as one of the
best he has seen.
GERMANS SALVAGE FUE L—A donkey pulls a cart of wood salvaged from a dismantled
barracks, as Germans anticipating a fuel shortage gather wood at Augsburg.
Fire Wipes Out
Village - Families
Are Homeless
UNDERWOOD, Wash. May 3,
(/P)—Thirty families are homeless
in this small Mid-Columbia rivet
valley community, where fire vir
tually wiped out a village and
swept into the nearby forest.
Firemen of four towns are re
ported extinguishing brush fires
which are menacing the larger
town of White Salmon, to the
east of Underwood, but not be
fore several farm buildings were
destroyed.
The only business building still
standing in Underwood is an ap
ple storage warehouse.
Philippine Pres,
Roxas To Visit
Washington
MANILA, May 6. — (/P)— The
Philippine president elect, Man
uel Roxas, and High Commiss
ioner McNutt, will visit Tokyo,
Adak, Seattle and Washington, D.
C., as the itinerary was disclosed.
They will leave Manila by
plane Wednesday afternoon.
Two Missing
From Hallibut Boat
PRINCE RUPERT. B. C. May 3.
—(£*)—Two crew members of a
halibut boat, Edward Lipsett,
were washed overboard Saturday
when a giant wave almost took
Noted Doctor Dies
After Operation
NEW YORK CITY, May 6,—(£>)—
Dr. Simon Flexner, 63, Director
Emeritus of Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research, world-re
nowned for his studies of menin
gitis, infantile paralysis, dysentry
flied after a critical operation.
Tojo and 26 Other
Japs Enter Pleas
I. _ Guilty
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TOKYO, May 6, —(/P)—Tojo and
26 other wartime leaders in Japan
entered staccato pleas of innocent
to charges that they unleashed
a war of aggression and murder
in the Pacific.
The trial date was set for June
3, despite counsel’s protests that
the interval was too short from
the Far East Tribunal, before
which the 27 appeared for their
first formal hearings. However
the court will convene again next
Monday to permit defense to re
new its emphatic challenge that
the court has no jurisdiction in
the pending cases.
Tojo’s attorney, Ichiro Kiyose,
charged the court’s president, Sir
William Webb, of Australia, has
been so biased by investigation
of Jap atrocities in New Guinea,
he cannot judge fairly.
the life of a third crewmember.
The missing men are Andrew
Sorensen and Ragnar Frederick
| sen.
Gen. Vandergrift
Fights To Save
Marine Corps
WASHINGTON, May 6, —o'Pi
General Vandergrift came out of
his corner fighting today, to save
his U. S. Marine Corps from ex
tinction.
The general said. “Extinction
is threatening the Marine Corps,
{lending the army-navy merger
bill.”
The marine general contended
the army was “determined to re
duce the marine corps to a pos
ition of military ineffectiveness.”
The merger bill in its present
makes this objective readily at
tainable.” Vandergrift declared.
At the close of the Senate Nav
al Committee session, Vandergrift
underlined a reminder, “The Mar
ines are ready If It comes to a
fight today, I don’t know who
could replace them.”
Waterfront Dispute
Settled Today
PORTLAND, May 6, —(/P)—Fed
j Conciliator Oliver Goodwin an
nounced that waterfront employ
| ers and the CIO checkers and
supercargoes union reached an
agreement to end Portland’s har
bor tie-up today.
The dispute involved the num
| ber of checkers to be hired with
I each longshore gang and came
: well into the fourth day.
The provisions of the agree
ment were not disclosed.
TANANA, Alaska, May 6, SPEC
IAL to the NUGGETT,—The ice
in the Tanana river broke the
wire yesterday, May 5th at 4:40
p.m. amid the swirling of muddy
water and great chunks if ice.
The winners of the total prize
of $108,000 were C. A. Forsfeld
Company of Fairbanks, Lila Links
Company of Anchorage. The Fed
eral Eleven Company of Anchor
age, and Mike Johnson of Sitka,
the only sole winner of $27,000.
Fairbanks radio station, KFAR,
with reporter Ed Stevens as an
eye-witness broadcast, described
the ice jam which formed Sat
urday night. The great force
of water dammed up behind the
t jam finally broke through and the
huge cakes of ice swirled down
! stream in te torrents of muddy
water, carrying the tri-pod away.
The breaking of the wire stop
ped the clock at exactly 4:40
p.m. Sunday.
The prize of $108,000 will be
divided four-ways as there were
four winning tickets on the min
ute. Each ticket will receive $27,
000.
Winners of the local Ice Pools
are as follows; At the Nevada Bar
Woodrow Spagnola won the $300
and $120 pools and William Bul
lygo won the $60 pool.
At the Polar Bar Peter Lee Jr.
won a total of $480 in three pools.
Bailey Covey won the $60 pool.
At the Board of Trade Hans Arp
won $300.
The pools at Polet’s Store were
won by Robert Okpealuk $15, and
Herb Dodderidge $60.
Edward Seidenverg drew the
lucky number on the Bon Marche
$60 pool.
The nearest Nome guesses on
the main event were Pete Reader
\ at 4:29 p.m. and Leif Kvile at
4:56 p.m.
U. S. To Take Up
Whole System Of
Soviet Agreements
WASHINGTON, May 6, —(/D—
The U. S. will take up the whole
j Russian system, exclusive of trade
j agreements, which the Soviet
Union is putting into effect with
it’s smaller neighbor nations.
Officials who disclosed this in
formation, said, so far, no satis
factory replies have been received
from Moscow, in fact, they added,
Washington has been able to learn
very little officially about what
kind of agreements the Russians
are actually making.