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VOlT xLVII. No. 61. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1945 PER. COPY — 15r
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EUROPEAN
SOUP KETTLE
BOILS MADLY
Europe’s vexing problems of
frontiers and war criminals spur-^
red new demands early in a meet
ing of the Big Three. The British
press warned that some of the
issues are already beginning to
assume proportions of “interna
* tional crisis,” as tension height
ened over the Adriatic port of
Trieste.
Moscow commentators increas
ed their demands for a swift trial
of the captured Nazi big shots held
by the Americans and British, and
asked why other Hitlerite leaders
were not captured.
The Polish government question
is apparently no nearer a settle
ment. There are signs of Russian
disagreement with Anglo-Ameri
can methods of treating the Doe
nitz administration. Hunger began
to make itself felt in Trieste.
Associated Press correspondent
Lynn Heinzerling reported that
Yugoslav military authorities said
they had made overtures to Allied
authorities for shipment of food ^
from Italy, but that Italians were
* confronted with the problem of
feeding thousands of displaced
persons of their own.
The Allied military government,
which apparently is in a position
to alleviate the food shortages, re
mained outside Trieste and there
is little prospect it will act as long
as Tito’s troops continued in con
^ trol of the port. Yugoslavs gave no
sign of evacuating the city.
Publishing the text of Field
Marshal Alexander’s warning to
his Allied Mediterranean Com
mand of the gravity of the Trieste
* situation. The Yugoslav-controlled
Trieste paper II Nostro Awenire
adopted a concilatory tone. It as
serted that Yugoslavia was willing
to leave the ultimate disposition
of the port and the surrounding
territory to the peace conference.
The Russian press carried full
accounts of the Adriatic situation,
but refrained from editorial com
ment, while he discussion of how
to proceed against war criminals
* continued.
Occupation troops rounded up
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CRAIG BRONSON DIES
AT MAYO CLINIC
Lester Bronson received a tele
gram telling of the death of his
10-year-old son in the Rochester,
Minn., hospital.
The report contained informa
tion that the child was getting
along very well, but that he
caught a cold and went down sud
denly.
The funeral will take place from
the Paine undertaking parlors in
Rochester.
Ice Pool Winners
Will Shower
Mothers With Gifts
ANCHORAGE. May 21— </P) —
Two Nenana Ice Classic win
ners said they plan to shower their
mothers with gifts as a result of
their new fortune, estimated at
more than one hundred thousand
dollars. Rita Harding said she in
tended to purchase a small farm
near Oakland, Calif., which her
mother had always wanted. After
that she has no plans.
Tom Ringen said he would go
to Norway as soon as possible to
see if he can restore the personal
property and other belongings
lost by his mother during the
German occupation.
Miss Harding said she and
Ringen were partners in eighty
guesses and the eightieth one was,
the winner. “It’s the only lucky
break I’ve ever had,” she said.
“Ringer purchased eighty tickets
at eight o’clock on closing night.
We spent the evening marking
them.
“We did the last one in time to
get them deposited five minutes
before the deadline. When we got
to the eightieth ticket we were so
tired we did not know what we
were doing, and just marked it at
random.” '
Ringer has been a prospector
and a miner since 1932 and hash’t
seen his mother in twenty years.
Miss Harding visited her mother
at Oakland in 1941.
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Harry—Gotta minute to spare?
Jerry—Sure.
Harry—Good. Then you can
tell me al lyou know.
Frontier Night
Party Is Huge
Success
Approximately 1500 persons at
tended and enjoyed the Oddfel
low Frontier Party Saturday eve
ning at the Nome High School
Gym.
The old-time gambling and pio
neer spirit prevailed throughout
the evening, as the military per
sonnel and civilians of both sexes
rubbed elbows at the gaming
tables, trying to build their pokes
up to a fortune.
Many of the players amassed
. huge amounts of “stage” money,
the highest of whom won prizes
for their ability (or luckh
The “miners fresh from the dig
gins’ pushed up to the “bar,”
i which was full length across one
end of the hall, and purchased
drinks at $150.00 per bottle,
(champagnola), Hot Dog Sand
wiches at $150.00, and Ice Cream
at $250.00 per serving.
All games were called shortly
after midnight when the totals
were announced, and the winners
received their prizes.
Following is a list of the prize
winners:
Top money winner was Sgt. S.
J. Hunt, with $1,045,000; who won
a round-trip to Fairbanks and
$50.00; second prize went to Lt. E.
T. Suydam with $860,000.; won
two White Fox skins; third winner
was Sgt. J. Puntigan with a total
of $550,150, and won a large $75
Gold Nugget; fourth prize winner
was Wm. Gillespie, with $450,000,
winning three small nuggets; fifth
prize winner was a real oldtimer,
Slim Rydeen, who won $350,900
at the Black Jack tables, winning
a Red Fox fur.
The door prizes were as follows:
Fur Coat won by Beatrice Earle,
a Silver Fox fur won by Sgt. Ar
nold Reed, Louis Buckland won a
trip to Fairbanks, Cecilia Bayer
won a round trip to Fairbanks,
H. B. Brown won a round trip to
anyplace on the Seward Penin
sula. Cpl. Harry Dyke won an
Alaska Black Diamond Ring; Cpl.
C. Graney won a beautiful ivory
carving and an Eskimo doll; Sgt.
Kern won an Alaska picture; Wal
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Bartlett Protests
Ruling On Credits
WASHINGTON, May 21—(yP)—
Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlett
joined Governor Gruening in pro
testing against the Army ruling
denying overseas discharge credits
E. L. "Bob” Bartlett
j to Alaskans for service in the
! Territory’s neighboring islands.
| Bartlett said: “the Alaska pe
ninsula, the Aleutians and the
Pribiloffs are as remote from
the home of the Alaskan soldier
as the home of any soldier from
Continental United States." He
! said the Army is considering the
protest.
MEN OVER 40
BE DISCHARGED
WASHINGTON, May 21—UP)—
The Army has fixed at forty
years the age which enlisted men
may apply for a discharge from
the Army. Only last month they
lowered the discharge rate to
forty-two years.
It is estimated that thiry thou
sand enlisted men in the Army in
the forty and forty-one year age
, groups.
The War Department also an
nounced Wacs forty years or aver,
who have served the required pe
' riod of active duty are eligible for
discharge. It is estimated there
are eight thousand enlisted Wacs
who are eligible.
, The new order provides that in
1 case men of forty or forty-one
commanders are permitted to re
tain them not more than ninety
days any man whose replacement
I is not available at the time he re
quests discharge.
Clouds are rarely observed
more than six miles above the
i earth.
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Bartlett said the Veterans Ad
ministration esablished contact
wih the office in Anchorage.
CONFERENCE IN ACCORD ON
REGIONAL SELF-DEFENSE
Big Stumbling Block Is
Hurdled; Hope To Close
Conference June 2
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21—(/P)
—Agreement among the big five
Latin American nations on plans
for regional self-defense systems
within the world organization put
the United Nations conference
safely past its biggest stumbling
block. Russian acceptance of the
regional plan with only minor
changes in the wording was fol
lowed by signs of a smooth early
solution of the Soviet and Ameri
can difference over the system of
international trusteeship was close
at hand.
Furthermore the satisfaction of
Latin American Republics of the
regional defense system for this
hemisphere would be preserved
melted their opposition to decisive
action of other major conference
issues, mainly the veto voting sys
tem for the big powers in the pro
posed world security council.
As the fourth week of the con
ference opened many Unitd Na
tions leaders were hopeful that the
job of charting the new interna
tional league could be finished by
June 2. Proposals for the speeding
up of the work to meet that dead
line are already with the steering
committee.
In a session today of the Ameri
can military authorities, it is un
derstood, feel that the securiy ar
rangemens already made or are
in the making offer full protec
tion for United States regardless
of how the projected league works
out.