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Wrangell Man
Drowns In
Sikine River
WRANGELL, Oct. 19 — (/P) —
One man drowned and a second
was rescued from a flood menaced
bar in the Sikine river on October
9, after their boat was swamped
by a huge swell, it was disclosed
with the arrival of the rescue
craft piloted by Capt. A1 Ritchie.
The man lost was William
Aiken, who left Telegraph Creek
with Walter Simpson and Dan
McLennon alive on a bar and took
stream they made an effort to
pass a rock in Glendora Rapids. A
swell capsized the outboard motor
powered craft. Simpson and Aiken
clutched eiderdown sleeping bags
and were swept two miles down
stream, the former reaching a
4 river bar.
After hearing Aiken’s final
struggle, Simpson walked four
teen miles to Telegraph Creek to
report the accident, thinking Mc
Lennon had also lost his life. The
search party the next day found
McLennon alive ona bar and took
him aboard the boat just a few
minutes before a sudden rise of
the river inundated the bar.
Japs Dropped
Incendiary Bombs
Near Seattle
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19—(JP)
—An American broadcasting cor
respondent, Larry Tighe, quoted
an unnamed Jap official in a
broadcast from Tokyo last night
t saying a Jap plane dropped in
cendiaries near Seattle December
22, 1943, but Seattle Army and
Navy authorities said they could
recall no such incident.
Tighe said he heard a navy
commander attached to the avia
tion tell American Army and
Navy interrogators that a pon
toon equipped plane took off from
• a submarine fifty miles off the
shore of Washington and flew
over the Seattle dock area and
dropped incendiaries near the
city with “unobserved results.”
The only reported visit of a Jap
sub-launched plane in the north
west was on September 9, 1942,
when one was observed over an
area in Oregon. Fragments of an
incendiary bomb were found in
the ashes of a forest fire which
broke out in the region shortly
^afterward.
•• Several blood transfusions took
place in 1666.
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NEW FUEL DEVIC E—Frank C.Mock, John Marshall and
C. D. Manhart (left to right) examine a cut-away model of a
direct fuel injection system developed for the B-29 In the BendiX
plant at South Bend, Ind.
I
Communists And
Socialists May
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Join In Japan
—
TOKYO, Oct. 19 — (JP) — Jap
Communist leaders have asked
the Socialist party to join them in
a united front against the Shide
hara government, which they said
“has no ability to cope with the
present situation.”
The Socilaists didn’t reply im
mediately, but further talks be
tween the two groups are set for
tomorrow, but the National Fed
eration of Toilers and Workers
Organization strongly denounced
the Communist suggestion at the
first Toilers mass meeting since
the surrender.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister
Yoshida told his first press con
ference that the chief task of
Shidehara’s cabinet was to carry
out the terms of the Potsdam con
ference as smoothly and as rapid
ly as possible, to “demonstrate
our good faith through deeds.”
TUG EN SEE FROZEN IN
AT TANANA
Mr. Alex Johnson, of the N. C.
tug, the En See, was brought to
Nome from Tanana, where the
boat is frozen in for the winter.
It was enroute to Nenana. Capt.
Hoelscher, veteran Yukon River
pilot took a plane for the States,
where he will spend the winter.
More than 90 percent of Argen
tina’s exports are agricultural.
Servicemen
Complain Army
Breaking Faith
MANILA, Oct. 19—(/P)—U. S.
enlisted men in the Philippines,
writing “letters to a column” of
the Army paper, Daily Pacifican,
accuse Army authorities supervis
ing the homeward shipment of
veterans of stalling, inefficiency,
and promise breaking.
The writers complained that
the Army is failing to make use
of dozens of cargo vessels which
are sailing empty to the United
States. They said these ships sail
ed to various Pacific landings,
and described as “phoney” the
Army’s solicitude for their com
fort now.
Postpone Allied
Jap Commission
Meeting
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—(/P)—
The State Department announced
a 7-day postponement of the first
meeting of the Allied Advisory
Commission for Japan. Russian
attendance is in doubt. Official
reason for the postponement is
that some of the invited govern
ments wouldn’t be able to get
their representatives here in time
for the scheduled session on Octo
ber twenty-third.
Chinese Kill
Jap Civilians
In Peiping
PEIPING, Oct. 19 — </P) — A
crowd of Chinese attacked Jap
civilians in the Little Tokio dis
trict of Peiping last night. It was
the first outbreak of violence here
since the surrender. Three deaths
were reported and other Japs
were beaten and stoned.
The outbreak followed similar
disturbances at Tientsin, where
homes were entered and several
hundred Japs were beaten four
days ago.
More than fifty Chinese troops
and American crew were killed
when a troopship bringing Chin
| ese government soldiers from the
north China occupation zone
crashed in attempting a landing
; at Peiping.
Peron To Run
For President
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 19—(£>)
—Col. Juan Peron will be per
I mitted by the Army to run for
president next April seventh a re
i liable source reported as a stun
ned populace dazedly accepted his
swift return to power, but the
army is patently the power be
I hind Peron, President Farrell re
ported.
He stipulated that further gov
1 ernment must remain impartial in
| elections, and giving no direct aid
; to Peron. This source said the
* army was represented by the
powerful Campo de Mayo garri
son, which laid down conditions
for Peron’s return from custody
to the dominating position in Ar
gentina’s violent politics.
Nazi War (Criminals
Trial In November
I
NUERNBERG. Oct. 19— (/P) —!
The first great war criminals
trial of twenty-four high Nazis, |
German militarists and industri
alists will begin in Nuernberg on
November twentieth, the Inter
national Military Tribunal an
nounced.
The date of the beginning of
the proceedings to establish re
sponsibility for the second world
war and its cruelties was set by
the tribunal shortly after the mas
sive indictments were presented
to the court at its first sitting in
Berlin, served on twenty-three de-1
fendants in Nuernberg jail.
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Revolution Breaks
()ut I n V enezuela
WASHINGTON. Oct. 19—</P)—
A United States Embassy official
in Caracas was fired on last night
in the course of the spreading
revolution in Venezuela. The inci
dent was disclosed by the State
Department in making public dis
patches from Ambassador Corri
gan on the revolt.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 19—(VP)—
A revolution has broken out in
Venezuela, centering at the Cap
ital Caracas, the State Depart
ment was informed by word
reaching here through diplomatic
channels.
The rebellious forces at San
Carlos barracks have taken pos
session of the resident President,
General Angarita. At Miraflores,
a suburb of Caracas, heavy firing
was reported this morning. Short
ly after midnight troops loyal to
the government, according to in
formation reaching the State De
partment, were ready to march
against San Carlos barracks.
U. S. Does Not
Recognize Russia’s
Baltic Sovereignty
BERLIN, Oct. 19—(VP)—Justice
Jackson, in a letter with three
other Neurnberg war crimes trial
prosecutors, said the reference in
the indictment to the Baltic
states and ether territories as be
ing with Soviet area didn’t con
stitute “recognition by U. S. of
such sovereignty.”
Jackson added “his language,
proposed by Russia, was accepted
to avoid the delay that would be
occasioned by his insistence of the
alteration of the text of the indict
ment. and was signed subject to
this reservation.”
Planes To Travel
2500 Miles An Hour
CLEVELAND, Oct. 19 — (/T>) —
Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle pre
dicted before long that “planes
might burst through the air with
the speed of German buzz bombs,
twenty-five hundred miles per
hour. The famed leader of the
first air raid on Tokyo declared
“An adequate air force is the best
investment in defense American
people can make. It should assure
peace, but should war come it will
assure victory quickly, economic
ally and efficiently, with a mini
mum loss of precious lives.”