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Atomic Energy
Conferences Hid
Bv Silence
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—<#»)—
A report that Prime Minister Att
lee is urging an international pool
of scientific information held
Washington attention as official
silence cloaked the historic atom
ic energy conferences. An official,
in a position to know, but who
declined to be identified, told re
porters that the British Prime
Minister suggested to President
Truman and Premier King of
Canada that unless atomic and
other discoveries were channeled
into controlled uses for peace,
they better be given over to war
making purposes.
The best way to channel these
discoveries into proper uses is to
share them with other nations,
once safeguards for the future are
set up. The official added, anyj
pooling by the three countries1
now holding the secret of the
atomic bomb, require the coopera
tion of Russia, France and other
United Nations. The others par
ticipating should be asked to make
their own developments available
to the same pool.
Need 350 Billions
To Provide Jobs
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—f/P)—
The Chamber of Commerce of
the United States estimated three
hundred fifty billion dollars as
the total investment that would
be needed to provide jobs for fifty
million industrial workers. It said
the country has a major invest
ment task before it if it is to raise
the standard of living to the level
of which it is capable.
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NOVEMBER 11
Armistice Day, a national hol
iday which in some states is
called Victory Day, was set aside
N at the end of World War I as a
day to commemorate the ending
of all wars. It is being observed
today with all business houses and
Federal and City offices closed.
Once again the world is at
peace. We quote the following
from General MacArthur on Sept.
2, 1945:
“Today the guns are silent. A
great tragedy has ended. A great
victory has been won. The skies
no longer rain death—the seas
^bear only commerce—men ev
erywhere walk upright in the
0 sunlight. The entire world is
^ quietly at peace.**
READY TO TOOT — At a Pacific base a member of a
Navy band awaits others of his unit to give the traditional musi«
cal welcome to a U. S. submarine returning from a patrol.
Eskimos On Way
Home From
Tribal Dances
SEATTLE, Nov. 12 —(/Pt —On
this first trip away from their
homes at Point Barrow, the most
northerly settlement on the Amer
ican continent, twenty-five Eski
mos arrived here yesterday. In the
group was Clair Okpeaha, who
witnessed the plane crash which
killed Will Rogers and Wiley Post
in 1936.
He ran more than twelve miles
to give the world the first news
of <he tragedy. Through an inter
preter he described the event:
“They were about a hundred feet
in the air. The plane turned to
the right and tipped, then it crash
ed. I was about three hundred
yards away. I ran to plane. I was
the first one there. The men were
dead. I went to Barrow to report.
I ran all the way.”
Rex Ahvakana served as inter
preter. The group was brought to
the States to demonstrate Eskimo
dances.
MRS. JOHN CROSS
BACK FROM THE STATES
Mrs. John Cross, who arrived
here Friday evening from the
States, has been joined here by
her husband Mr. John Cross, who
flew in from Kotzebue yesterday.
They are both enroute home to
Kotzebue.
British, Indian
Forces Control
Soerabaja
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BATAVIA. Nov. 12—(/P)—Brit-!
I ish and Indian forces gained con
trol of virtually all of Soerabaja
! the Netherlands news agency An
eta said, as British tank crews
turned back fanatical charges of
Indonesian Nationalists. Many In
donesians were killed in the
charges.
A Dutch dispatch said there was •
still no indication that the natives
were preparing to give up the!
fight. Foreign Minister Soekarno!
pleaded for Soviet intervention in
behalf of his unrecognized Indo
nesian Republic in a radio address
to Molotov. He asked Russian aid
in winning “justice from the
world” for Indonesians and prom
ised Indonesians would assist Al
lied forces in disarming and evac
uating Java-based Jap forces.
Secy. Hull Awarded
Nobel Peace Prize
LONDON, No. 12—(#*)—A Reu
ters dispacth from Oslo said Secy.
Hull had been awarded the Nobel
peace prize. Reuters said the Nor
wegian news service reported the
award of the prize to Hull, who as
Secretary of State, laid the foun
dations for the San Francisco con
ference.
May Substitute Sou
J
For Father At War
Crimes Trial
NUERNBERG, Nov. 12— (/P» —
Justice Jackson, U. S. prosecutor,
requested the International Mili
tary Tribunal to substitute Alfred
Krupp, son of Gustav Krupp von
Bolen und Halbach, as defendant
in the war crimes trials. Jackson
filed his motion because the elder
Krupp, head of the noted German
armaments trust was too ill and
aged to appear at the trial.
Chinese To Hold
Council On
Internal Troubles
CHUNGKING, Nov. 12— i/P)—
Chinese Communists said that
they and Kai-Shek’s Central Gov
ernment had agreed to allow a
proposed political consultative
council to settle “all outstanding
issues” on China’s undeclared
civil war. The council will be
called into session about Novem
ber twenty.
The final issue of peace or all
out war, however, rests with
Chiang, a Communist spokesman
asserted, adding “If Chiang can
cels his orders for bandit suppres
sion, there can be peace.” The
government called China’s nation
al assembly to meet May fifth,
with no word as to whether the
Communists will be given repre
sentation they demanded.
A top Nationalist general fore
cast a major government drive
into Manchuria “very soon,” de
spite the crack Communist troops
massed to block it.
Dixie Kiefer,
War Hero, Killed
In Plane Crash
BEACON, N. Y„ Nov. 12—(/P)—
Commodore Dixie Kiefer, Pacific
war hero, who lived through ten
major wounds in two world wars
was killed yesterday in the crash
of a Navy plane on Mount Beacon,
three miles northwest of here.
The wreckage was found today.
Five other persons also died in
the crash. Kiefer, 49, was widely
known as “Captain Dixie” and in
a documentary film as “Fighting
Lady.” He was commanding offi
cer of the First Naval District air
bases, stationed at Quonset, R. I.,
Naval Air Station.
The Winnipeg Grain Exchange
was formed in 1908.
Gov. Gruening
Against Raises In
Steamship Rates
^Special to Nome Nugget'
The Nome Nugget today receiv
ed the following telegram from
Governor Ernest Gruening:
JUNEAU. Nov. 12—UP)—Gov
ernor Gruening received a tele
gram from Delegate Bartlett say
ing that at the request of the War
Shipping Administration, an Alas
ka rate hearing would be started
in Seattle November 27. with the
hope of increasing rates, fares and
charges for the Alaska service.
It is not possible to accurately
cite the data available on just
how such an increase would af
fect Alaska, but I desire to state
that our Territory might just as
well fold up as a prospectively
thriving and developing part of
the United States if one hundred
percent passenger and freight
increases are imposed upon us.
Indeed any increases whatsoever,
would be seriously crippling.
The steamship rates long have
been, and are already excessive
and higher than for any other
equivalent service. They should be
drastically reduced. My recollec
is that the annual freight and pas
senger bill of Alaska is about
eight million dollars.
The proposal to double this, to
add another eight million dollars,
which would be borne largely by
the consumers of Alaska, would
drive the cost of living to such
astronomical heights that it would
be extremely difficult for people
to maintain themselves here.
It would cause such an increase
in prices that corresponding in
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Pictures “Buck
Rogers** Warfare
For Future
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—
General Hap Arnold advises that
atomic bomb warfare, waged from
interstellar space ships is “within
the forseeable future.” The chief
of the Army Air Forces gave his
in third annual report this eerie
picture of a conflict for which
United States should be prepared.
He said “war may descend upon
United States by thousands of ro
bots passing unannounced across
our shorelines, unless we act to
prevent them.” The way to do
that is to be ready to strike at the
source of attack with a strategic
air force delivering “one or two
atomic bombs.” That should suf
fice for the job.