Airlines In Drive
For Northwest
Gateway To Orient
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SEATTLE. Sept. 5—(IP)—Ore
gon and Idaho divisions of the
Pacific Oriental Airline committee
are being organized and will “add
their support to the drive for a
Seattle and Tacoma air gateway
to the Orient,” said Christy Thom
as, Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
He added conferences will be held
tomorrow w’ith executives of the
United Air Lines, Pan American
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Airways and Northwest Airlines.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—AJP\—
The Civil Aeronautics Board in
formed Senator Magnuson, Demo
crat of Washington, that argu
ments will be heard in October.
1 Eight applications for various
airlines to operate to the Orient
have been made. Sen. Magnuson
told reporters, and Seattle inter
ests will oppose the examiner’s
recommendations to permit North
west Airlines to fly from New
York and Chicago and then to An
chorage, and Pan American to
fly non-stop from Seattle to An
chorage enroute to Japan.
He said Seattle objects to being
bypassed by the new proposed
New York to Anchorage route to
the Northwest.
Truman To Send
Lengthy Message
To Congress
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5—</P)—
President Truman will send a
message to Congress tomorrow
Senate leaders said. It will be so
^comprehensive it will take a cou
rple of hours to read it. Talking
to newsmen after the White House
conferense with the President,
Democratic leader Barkley said
the President would deliver the
message in person. Speaker Ray
Plans Under Way
Occupy Ominato
Naval Base
By OLEN CLEMENTS
ABOARD USS PANAMINT, off
Northern Japan, Sept. 5—>7P) —
Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher
waited a* the head of a large
naval task force to occupy north
ern Honshu for Jap representa
tives from Ominato naval base
command to come aboard Friday
to receive instructions for turn
ing the base over to the Ameri
cans.
The Jap emissaries are to pro
vide Adm. Fletcher with data on
minefields guarding the import
ant base some three hundred
seventy-five miles north of Tokyo.
American minesweepers will clear j
; Tsugaru Strait and Mutsu bay
i before the ships move on.
The Japs put to sea in one of
their own vessels to be met by an
American destroyer there. Lt.
Robert Hartman of Longbeach,
Calif., disarmed them and es
corted them to Adm. Fletcher.
Ominato is the center of the
Honshu lumbering industry and
guards the strait between Honshu
and Hokkaido islands. One of the
first tasks of the occuping forces
will be the liberation of prisoners
of war.
They Do Say!
Revenge is the poor delight of
i little minds. —Juvenal, 128
A man is rich in proportion to I
the number of things which he
can afford to let alone.
—H. D. Thoreau, 1854
When a thought is too weak to
be simply expressed, it is a proof
1 it should be rejected.
—Due De Vauvenargues, 1746
burn said it probably would be
about Congressional investigation
of the Pearl Harbor disaster.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MET LAST EVENING
The Board of Directors of the
NWA Chamber of Commerce met
Tuesday evening to hear the re
port of the committee on roads
and to discuss matters relating ot
the Fish Survey which needed im
mediate attention, in order to get
the facts before the proper de
partments and officials.
Mr. Harold F. Harper, chairman
of the roads committee made an
extensive report on the findings
of his committee, on roads
throughout the Second Division.
Mr. Grant Jackson reported on
the findings of the special com
mittee regarding the fish survey.
Foster L. McGovern, assistant
vice-president of the National
Bank of Commerce of Seattle,
spoke briefly on the willingness
of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce, and businessmen, to co
operate with Alaska and lend ev
ery assistance in their problems.
The president announced that
there would be a general meeting
held at noon next Tuesday, Sep
tember 11 at a luncheon in the
Nevada.
Sergeant In Britain
Joins Church In U. S.
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — (JP) —
From an army base in England, j
Sgt. Paul A. Warg was received
into membership of the Middle
ton Methodist church.
He answered all questions of
the ritual by mail.
The pastor, the Rev. W. H. A.
Williams, advised the sergeant
when special services would be
held. The soldier replied:
“I’ll be at attention, looking up
to God.’’
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Indian Troops
Begin Occupation
Of Singapore
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SINGAPORE, Sept. 5—4>P)—In
dian troops landed in Singapore
and began occupation of this one
time bastion of the British Empire
which was surrendered to the
Japs on February 15, 1942. The
second battalion of the First Pun
jabi Regiment made the initial
landing in light craft to the main
wharf, where the Japs in appar-!
ent violation of the surrender
terms set fire to an oil tank farm
at Port Dickson.
A huge column of smoke was
observed there yesterday. The In-1
dian troops marched past the
tamed Jap sentries and cheering
Allied prisoners of war who were
still behind barbed wire.
foster McGovern visitor
FROM SEATTLE
Foster McGovern of the Nation- I
al Bank of Commerce is a visitor :
in Nome from Seattle. Although
this is his first visit to Nome he
lis well known here as he was in !
charge of the Alaska Department
of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce for many years. Last night
ihe was a guest speaker for the j
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce.
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