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VOL. XL VIII. No. 114. NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1946 PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
TOKYO, Sept. 23. (/P)~ 12-year
old Kuniko Sumitomo, kidnaped
heiress to a Zaibtsu industrial for
tune, was found unharmed near
Nagoya today, and police arrested
^oshio Higuchi as her abductor,
Kyodo news agency reported.
PORTLAND, Sept. 23 (^—Ma
jor General Charles H. Martin, re
tired, who served as assistant
chief of staff under Gen. John J.
Pershing and was a former con
gressman and governor of Oregon,
died at his home here last night.
, He had lived in quiet retirement
wifli his wife here the past nine
years after capping a brilliant
military career with a brief but
turbulent entry into Oregon poli
tics in the 1930’s.
DETROIT, Sept. 23 (/P)—Wayne
County prosecutor Gerald K. O’
Brien today authorized a new
warrant charging the University
of Detroit’s Negro football star,
Guy Brown, 21, with the rape of
a Second white woman.
Recorder’s judge George Mur
phy Saturday signed a warrant
accusing Brown of attacking a
theater cashier August 28.
The new charges relate to an
attack on a 23-year-old woman
September 18.
The Manhattan, Kans., Negro, a
tlfle e-sport star at the university
has denied the charges.
BELLINGHAM, Sept. 23 (/P)—
Puget Sound and Fraser River
commercial salmon fishing will
close Wednesday noon.
The closure was decided Satur
day by .the International salmon
fisheries commission when it was
reported that a large school of
salmon was off the mouth of the
Fraser river and that there had
been insufficient escapement to
the spawning grounds.
SEATTLE, Sept. 23 (A>)—Award
of the Army commendation ribbon
to Maj. John J. Filipiak of Seattle,
for meritorious service as trans
portation superintendent at Shem
ya, Attu, and at Nome, Alaska,
Coring World War II, was an
nounced yesterday by headquar
ters of the Army’s Alaskan De
partment.
SOFIA, Sept. 23 (SP)—1The Bul
garian government announced to
day that approximately 2,000 po
litical and criminal prisoners will
be pardoned and released from
Jail tomorrow.
Rangoon, sept. 23 (jpy—‘The
great Burmese port of Rangoon
^wasf paralyzed today by the first
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Chinese Launch
Manchurian
Offensive
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NANKING, Sept. 23 (/P)_Two |
crack government armies today
were reported launching a new
Manchurian offensive near the
border of Russian controlled
North Korea, aiming at the port
of Antung. One government
spokesman described the city as
a funnel for delivery of foreign
supplies to the Chinese commun
ists.”
He did not mention Russia—the !
i
only foreign power near Antung i
—nor did he explain whether he
thought the “funnel” was already
in operation or merely a future
possibility. Thus far there has
been no evidence that Russians
have given any direct aid to the
Chinese Reds.
Communist peace negotiator
Chou En-Lai meanwhile sent from
Shanghai a new written demand
that General Marshall’s “commit
tee of three” be resurrected to at
tempt to halt hostilities. The com
mittee’s efforts to reach a work
able truce last winter failed.
There were fresh reports—from
sources close to Gen. Marshall,
this time—that the American me
diator might give up his 10,
months’ struggle for peace and go
home.
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Stoeckel To Be
Tried By Yugoslavs
BELGRADE, Sept. 23 (>P)—The
Yugoslav foreign office informed
the United States embassy today
that Roy H. Stoeckel of Kearney,
N. JM a civilian employee of the
U. S. Army at Linz, Austria, was
being held on charges of illegally
crossing the border and taking
photographs of prohibited ob
jects.”
The foreign office said Stoeckel
was arrested July 15 at the village
of Kramerovac, in the Murska So
bota district near the Austrian
frontier.
The Yugoslav note was the first
reply to two formal requests and
one informal request by the
American embassy regarding the
whereabouts of Stoeckel, reported
missing since the day of his ar
rest. The “embassy will be in
formed on the further course of
the investigation,” it said.
The only clue the embassy had
at the time of its inquiries was a
letter from Stoeckel delivered by
the Yugoslavs to the British vice
consul in Ljubljana saying he had
been detained while on a picture
taking jeep tour.
Regulars Visit French War Memorial in Nice
J RPB HA-982
The three soldier? shown above are old friends who met at the U. S. Army
Riviera Recreation Area, in Nice, France. They are enjoying a furlough
by taking in the famous sights. Army Regulars are entitled to thirty days'
furlough each year.
Skagway Plane
Crash Kills Two
SKAGWAY, Alaska. Sept. 23
(#*) — A two-passenger plane
crashed on the tideflats here Sat
urday killing both passengers as
the fiancee of the pilot and the
wife of the passenger looked on
helplessly.
The victims were Bob Converse,
19, pilot, of Juneau, and William
Rittenhouse, Skagway.
Observers expressed the opin
ion the plane tried a sharp turn
at too low an altitude.
Converse and his fiancee, Helen
Haffner of Juneau, arrived Satur
day morning and converse was
giving Rittenhouse a ride before
starting on the return trip to Jun
eau. Miss Haffner and her sister,
Mrs. William Rittenhouse, were
waiting at the field for the pair
to return.
Iranian Tribesmen
Attack Bushire
TEHRAN, Sept. 23 (Delayed) </P)
Rebellious nomad tribesmen have
captured several Persian gulf vil-1
lages and launched repeated at
tacks upon Bushire, one of the
largest ports on the Iranian coast,
the newspaper Keyhan reported
today.
The Bushire garrison is still re
sisting the tribal assaults, Keyhan
said, and Premier Ahmed Qava
ma’s government has dispatched
! Grueiiing Appeals
For Arctic
Food Shipments
JUNEAU, Sept. 23, (/B—Food
must reach Alaska’s Arctic rim
before the end of October or “it
will be too late,” Territorial Gov.
Ernest Gruening said yesterday in
a long-distance telephone plea to
Secretary of Interior Krug to ob
tain Army transports or other
steamships to haul the food.
Gruening urged Secretary Krug
to “take whatever action is neces
sary” to speed food to Nome, St.
Michael, Golovin, Teller, Kotze
bue and other towns in the Second
Division, which face the long
winter without their customary
winter supplies as a result of the
shipping tieup.
strong troop reinforcements to the
area.
I
LONDON, Sept. 23 (/P)—A Teh
ran government spokesman was i
quoted by the Daily Telegraph to-;
day as saying Iranian insurgents'
were receiving arms through the
Persian gulf ports from “a foreign
power” and that foreign warships
had been seen near Iranian coastl i
waters.
A British foreign office spokes
man said that Britain was not sup
plying arms or ammunition to the
tribesmen. The foreign office de
clined further comment on the re
volt, saying “it is a matter for the
Persian government.” j
Ships Sail As Strike
hauls Late
Saturday Night
The nation’s seaports emerged
today from the 17-day tie-up
caused by the worst maritime
strike in history as dock and ship
workers went back to their jobs
and ships steamed out of east and
west coast harbors.
The strike actually ended late
Saturday night when west coast
unions announced they were with
drawing picket lines from piers.
The shipping industry was
faced with the possibility that the
respite might be only temporary,
however, as three maritime unions
have been threatening to walk off
at the expiration of their con
tracts on Sept. 30 unless operators
agree to union demands for new
i contracts.
The federal department of labor
assigned a mediator, Nathan Fein
singer of the University of Wis
consin, in the negotiations be
tween Harry Bridges, west coast
CIO longshoremen and operators.
The marine engineers beneficial
association <CIO> begins negotia
tions for a new contract in New
i York today and the masters, mates
and pilots will seek new contract
terms in meetings beginning to
morrow.
Other disruptive possibilities ir»
the maritime picture were pre
sented by a jurisdictional dispute
between AFL and CIO unions in
Los Angeles, tieing up 40 vessels
despite the end of the national
strike, and a war of words be
tween the president of the marine
firemen’s union <IND> and the
CIO committee for maritime unity.
The Los Angeles controversy
centers around a ship recently
transferred from the Matson Nav
igation company to the Great
Lakes Navigation company. Un
der Matson, the AFL manned the
deck department and CIO and in
dependent unions the steward’s
and unlicensed departments.
When transferred to the Great
Lakes company, AFL men were
hired for all departments and CIO
unions began picketing the docks.
CIO longshoremen are respecting
the picket lines, preventing load
ing of the vessels.
Ports along both coasts reported
resumption of full sailing sched
ules already under way or ex
pected during the next day or two.
The back to work movement
began after the maritime commis
sion directed, in effect, that mari
time workers on all coasts will get
$27.50 a month more than they re
ceived under their old contracts.
This placed maritime wages on a
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