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NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON—Senator Joseph
C. O’Mahoney, Wyoming Demo
crat, said that OPA has pledged
early action to make woolen
clothing available to returning
veterans “at a price they can af
ford.” O’Mahoney said OPA con
siders it of “paramount import
ance” that all necessary steps be
taken to insure millions of return
ing vets an opportunity to buy
wool garments.
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WASHINGTON—More than 600
Americans will go into all parts of
Greece shortly as election observ
ers in a project believed unique in
history. Informed govern m e n t
sources said they knew of no par
allel for observation by invitation
of one country’s elections by citi
zens of another on such a scale.
Britain and France also have ac
cepted the Greek invitation to
send observers.
PINEVILLE, Dec. 31—(JFh-In a
conference between Federal, State
and private mine officials propos
ed sealing off the mine near here
in which twenty coal miners have
been entombed snice Wednesday.
Sealing off the mine will halt res
cue operations, but veteran miners
said all hope had been abandoned
for the survival of any of the
trapped men. The action will leave
only seven survivors out of thirty
one miners trapped in the under
ground explosion of unexplained
origin in the Kentucky Straight
Creek Coal company’s number
One mine.
Hitler’s Political
Testament Found
NUERNBERG, Dec. 31— (^)—
Hitler’s last political testament,
apparently prepared as Berlin tot
tered before the Russian on
slaught, is revealed as a master
piece of propaganda in which he
built himself up as a martyr, and
bequeathed to the German people
the Nazi creed of fierce loyalty to
the State and hatred for Jews.
His final admonition: “Above
all, I enjoin the government, na
tion and the people, to uphold ra
cial laws to limit and resist merci
lessly the poisoner of all nations,
International Jewry.”
The document, dated April 29,
1945, also disclosed that Hitler ex
pelled Goering and Himmler fi*om
Nazi ranks for attempting to seize
control of the State, by “negotiat
ing with the enemy without my
knowledge.”
The text of the testament, to
gether with the texts of Hitler’s
personal will and appendix to the
testament by Goebbels’ document, j
recording Hitler’s marriage to Eva
Braun, was released yesterday by
Allied authorities.
Hitler’s testament indicated he
preferred suicide in the Reichs
chancellery bunker to a trial be
fore an Allied court. The docu
ments were recovered by Ameri
can intelligence agents. The Brit
ish also seized a messenger who
carried a duplicate set of docu
ments.
United States paid Russia about
two cents an acre for Alaska.
TELEPHONE COMPANY
RINGS IN THE NEW
With the cutting of the last link
between the new Western Elec
tric switchboard and the 35-year
old system installed in 1910 by
Harry Riley, the Alaska Telephone
Company began ringing in better
service for 1946.
The new equipment will handle
about fifty percent more calls
than was possible on the old sys
tem, which was handicapped by
worn-out parts, which could not
be replaced because of age.
The outmoded cables and wir
ing relays have all been replaced
with modern simplified units,;
which will make for much better
and clearer telephone connections.
WATCH NIGHT
PROGRAM
The Church of The Nazarene,
located at the corner of Third and
Division invites you to enjoy the
watch night service this evening
from 10:00 p.m. to midnight. A
special program of music, scrip
ture reading, testimonies, prayers
and an appropriate message is
planned for your enjoyment. This
is the best way to end the old year
and start the new year right.
We wish all of you a Happy
New Year. Sound Health. Grow
ing Minds, and All tho Lore you
can crowd into your hearts.
U. S. MERCANTILE
OPENS NEW DEPARTMENT
The U. S. Mercantile Co., this
morning opened the new section
of their store, which is in itself a
small modernized store, having
various departments, each desig
nated by title.
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Chinese Plan
For Truce
CHUNKGING, Dec. 31— (/P) —
The Chinese Central Government
countered the Communist plan
for a truce by proposing to bring
General Marshall into the discus
sions for the cessation of hostili
ties. The move to bring the Pres
ident’s special envoy into the
peace picture came as Chiang
made an outright bid for the
Communist to join the Govern
ment to unify China.
The Government proposed that
it and the Communists appoint
representatives to confer with
General Marshall, the procedure
halting hostilities and restoring
railroad communications if ac
cepted.
The government’s counter pro
posals are to give General Mar
shall a direct part in the attempts
to avert all out civil war.
In a New Year’s message to the
Chinese people, Chiang said the
government twas ready to invite
the leaders of other political part
ies to “take part in the govern
ment, in either policy-making
councils or executive branches.’’
They will be welcomed by the
government, he said, before the
national assembly meets May fifth
to consider a new constitution for
China.
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SCHOOL TO RE-OPEN
WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 2
The Christmas holidays of the
Nome Territorial School will come
to a close tomorrow, New Year’s
Day, and school will re-open on
Wednesday, January 2.
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Last Will And
Testament
Dear 1946:
Sorry I couldn’t be around when
you came in. It’s not that I don’t
care. I’m just plain exhausted.
Now don’t smirk, son, but take
an old man’s advice. Of course
they’ll sing and cheer the first
time they see you and make out
like you’re a great fellow. Don’t
believe it! They acted that way
when I came along—then look
what they did to me.
I no sooner got my first pair of
diapers adjusted before they were
howling for meat and cigarette^
saying I was treating them worse
than any year they’d ever seen.
Then that MacArthur fellow be
gan battling in Manila and the
Marines jumped onto I wo Jime
and Eisenhower blasted up to the
Rhine and hopped across it. I had
to watch Germany. Then Okina
wa. Then Germany. Then all the
Pacific. All of a sudden there was
no more Mussolini, no more Hit
ler and no more Germany.
Maybe I should have quit then.
But they wouldn’t let me. Those
Superfortresses over Japan nt*d
that Halsey chap kept working
me 168 hours a week.
Then they pulled that atom
business. You can imagine what
that did to my arteries
Another declaration of war by
Russia . . . another atom bomb
. . . another surrender. . . . UNO
and labor strikes and all kinds of
trouble popping all over the world
and that Pearl Harbor story and
putting war criminals on trial—I
guess I’ve seen just about every
thing.
O.K. son, it’s yours. You’re young
and probably feeling pretty chip
per. But before you start feeling
sorry for an old codger like me,
let me say this: I’ll bet you won’t
get as much done as I did!
Creakingly yours,
t.-”45
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I STORES WILL BE CLOSED
NEW YEAR'S DAY
Merchants announced today
that their stores will be closed on
New Year’s Day. The Bon Marche
Stores announced they will re
main closed both Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Postmaster S. David Mazen, an
nounced today that the post office
will be closed New Year’s day.
Wednesday morning from 9:00 to
11:00, the post office will be
closed for the funeral of Lambert
Voss, 78, a postal employee, who
died Saturday morning.