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Kotzebue Lodge
To Be Built At
Cost Of $250,000.00
Two pilots and one attorney
flew into Kotzebue the other day
to select a site for their new quar
ter million dollar project; a hotel,
in that tiny village, about 200
miles north of Nome.
Sam Shafsky, president, ex
flyer, formerly with Alaska Air
lines; John Lahtanan, vice presi
dent, attorney, of the firm of
^Lathanan & Ellis, Anchorage; and
Albert H. Peterson, secretary and
treasurer, captain with Alaska
Airlines, have organized the cor
poration under the laws of the
Territory of Alaska.
Following their flight to Kotze
bue, the trio returned to Nome,
where they filed for a permit in
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Veteran Alaska
Flyer Turns From
u Planes To Boats
SEATTLE, Feb. 7 'Seattle Times'
—If the Eskimos have a name for
ARCHIE FERGUSON
'LittU Mm m Bit Hmrf
i Archie Ferguson, it must be “Lit
tle Man in a Big Hurry.”
Archie for many a year has
been doing his hurrying around
the Arctic country in his own air
plane, operating a flying service
in the “bush” and ice areas, and
his “seat-of-the-pants” naviga
tional exploits have made him a
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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON, Beb. 11—(/R)—
The Supreme Court refused to in
tervene in the Manila proceedings
in which Lt. Gen. Homma was
convicted as a war criminal and
sentenced to be shot. Homma sent
petitions asking the court to take
him out of the hands of the mili
tary. His petitions were similar to
those sent earlier .by Yamashita.
The court last Monday rejected
Yamashita’s contentions. General
MacArthur ordered that he be
hanged. The Court based its re
jection of Homma’s petition on the
decision in the Yamashita case.
Justices Murphy and Rutledge dis
sented as they did in last week's
Yamashita decision.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11— </p)—
Winston Churchill postponed his
return to sunny Florida until to
morrow and settled down in the
snowclad British Embassy to rest
and talk with Earl of Halifax, an
old friend who is retiring as Brit
ish Ambassador. The embassy
said the former prime minister
had no definite plans for the day.
No conferences are scheduled. The
White House said Truman’s con
ference with Churchill last night
dealt almost wholly with a discus
sion of plans for Churchill’s
speech in Fulton, Mo., on March 5.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—(/P»—
The White House said officially
for the first time that changes are
in prospect for top administration
personnel and indicated the an
nouncement of the formula for
settling the steel strike is immin
ent. Press secretary Ross told a
news conference that personnel
changes are “in prospect,’’ but de
clined to elaborate. When asked
whether they had to do with sta
bilization of the high command,
he left it for the reporters to use
their own phraseology.
Indonesia Dispute
May Be Shelved
LONDON, Feb. 11—</P)—1There
is a possibility that the Indonesian
dispute might be shelved pending
the outcome of current negotia
tions in Batavia between the Indo
nesians and the Dutch. The coun
cil prepared to resume debate on
Russian charges of “war being
waged” in Java. Officials were
cautious about commenting on the
final outcome of the controversy
which was marked by a new
round of acrimonious debate be
tween Soviet Vice Commissar
Vishinsky and British Foreign
Secretary Bevin yesterday.
THE LINCOLN LEGEND - -
lull \\ as Ann Rutledge'S Role?
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By BOB PRICE—(/P) Newsfeatures Writer
NEW YORK—Any time any one sets out to compile a list of the
best known love stories in American history, the names of Abraham
Lincoln and Ann Rutledge are pretty certain to be close to the top.
Yet there’s a question today
whether the Lincoln-Rutledge
story belong on any historical list,
or whether is should be consigned
to the category of legend.
There is fact mixed with the
fiction, of course. But, despite all
the patient probing into every
scrap of memory or manuscript
that might illumine some frag
ment of Lincoln’s life, historians J
still are not sure which is which. J
There is no quarrel with the
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PIONEER WOMEN HELD
MONTHLY MEETING
Last Friday evening the Pioneer
Women held their monthly meet
ing at the Whaley House with
Mrs. Robert Baldwin, presiding.
Winners of the card games fol
lowing the meeting were: Mrs. A.
Nordlind, Mrs. Emma Lyle, and
Mrs. Ole Hay. Mrs. Lyle also won
a special prize. The committee in
charge was Mrs. Peter Olson and
Mrs. Effie Baldwin.
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Yalta Promised
Kuriles T o Ru ssia |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11——
Russia clamped three conditions, |
including the outright Soviet pos-1
session of the Kuriles, on its |
agreement at Yalta, one year ago j
today, to enter the Pacific war.
This condition and the aspect of
Stalin’s pledge to fight Japan was
disclosed when the text of the
long secret Big Three pact on the
Far East was made public in
Washington, London and Moscow.
Secretary Byrnes reportedly has
insisted it is the last of the war
time arrangements of its kind
withheld from publication.
Yalta secret previously bared
promised Russia, Anglo-American
support for Big Power veto in the
United Nations Security Council,
and separate United Nations mem
berships for Russia and Soviet
Ukraine under agreement that'
STRIKES
At A Glance . . .
About a million four hundred
seventy thousand are idle due to
the country’s labor troubles. Ma
jor developments are:
Transit— Philadelphia’s trolley,
bus and subway service is para
lyzed by a strike of ninety six
hundred CIO workers who ask a
twenty-five cents hourly raise and
other benefits. Emergency sys
tems have been improvised to get
esential workers to their jobs.
Shipping — The union and the
operators decide to arbitrate their
differences as a means of ending
the strike of AFL tugmen in New
York harbor. Mayor O’Dwyer,
however, says the settlement will
not end the fuel crisis immediate
ly.
Administration — Washington
expects an early announcement of
a new wage and price policy for
steel. The price boost may be suf
ficient to meet the eighteen and
one-half cent hourly wage raise
to end the strike.
Automobiles—CIO United Auto
Workers leaders await an expect
ed General Motors offer, based on
eighteen and one-half cents an
hour increase to electrical work
ers, but UAW vice president Reu
ther say auto workers should get
“more than eighteen and one half
cents.”
Communications—The walkout
of New York Western Union em
ployees ends and a restoration of
normal service in a few days is
expected.
Homma Sentenced
To Be Shot
MANILA, Lt .Gen. Homma has
been sentenced to be shot. He was
convicted by a military tribunal
of war atrocity charges, including
the infamous Bataan death march.
Homma was moved immediate
ly to Luzon prisoner of war camp
number one, where he joined his
successor as supreme commander
of the Philippines during the
palmy days of the Jap conquest,
Lt. Gen. Yamashita and ten other
convicted war criminals.
Just before he was sentenced
Homma made a brief speech
thanking the court for “the cour
teous way I have been treated all
during my trial.”
Russia would join in the Far East
ern fight.
Reference of the Kuriles in the
pact are blunt “The Kurile Islands
shall be handed over to the Soviet
Union.”