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OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVII. No. 142 NOME. ALASKA, MOND AY. NOVEMBER 26, 1945 PER COPY^~isi
Strikes At A Glance j
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After a two-hour Union mem-1
mership meeting, T. K. Garrison,
^president of the striking Seattle
Typographical Union, AFL, told
newsmen the membership were
still holding out for the requested
two dollar ninety-five cent a day
raise. The management has offer
ed one dollar sixty-five cents. The
meeting was the regular weekly
session of local 202. The strike
started last Sunday after one edi
tion of the Post-Intleligencer,
morning paper, had been printed.
The other papers shut down are
the Times and the Star, afternoon
sheets. f
Montgomery Ward Company re
turned to the labor scene as sev
enty-five thousand #CIO employes
of the big mail order house began
a one week ‘demonstration’ strike.
At Detroit the UAW CIO reiter
^ ated its demand for negotiations
with the General Motors Corp.,
for a thirty percent wage increase
be resumed in the full glare of
publicity, as the walkout of two
hundred thousand went into its
sixth day.
Telpehone service in Illinois and
two northern Indiana counties
went back to normal after the
company and eighty-seven hun
dred operators compromised a
wage dispute.
Altogether there are five hun
dred seventy-five thousand work
ers idle in labor disputes across
the nation. Other major strikes
involved ten thousand ALF and
CIO machinists in San Francisco,
which kept fifty thousand other
workers off the job. Sixty-one
« hundred Brown and Sharpe Man
ufacturing Company employes in
Providence, R. I., and forty-three
hundred Greyhound bus drivers
in twenty-six states.
The employes at Wards demand
a closed shop, check off union
dues, and wage increases.
Five Escape In
^Capital Jail Break
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—De
spite precautions following a tip
that a jail break would be at
tempted, five men sawed a win
dow and escaped from the Dis
trict of Columbia jail Sautrday.
Among the escapees was Mich
ael Quinn, 37, convicted last Mon
day of participation in the hold
up of two bank messengers with
twenty-four thousand dollars in
cash from a department store.
ALASKA DEPARTMENT
PROVOST MARSHAL IN TOWN
Major Irving Gerring, Provost
Marshal for the Alaska Depart
ment of the U. S. Army, is in
town on an official survey.
The Straits Settlements, the
FAlerated Malay States and the
Unfederated Malay States com
pose British Malaya.
NEW NAME FOR SQUAR E—Sign identifies new Truman Square in Town Line, N. Y.,
community which “seceded” in 1861 and only now is being welcomed back into the union.
Truman Surprises
Mother On Her
93rd Birthday
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 26—(>P)—
President Truman and his family
stake out a claim for a little pri
vacy sometimes when they go
avisiting. The President himself is
back in the White House after
what began as a secret flight to
Grandview, Mo., and ended last
night by landing at the national
airport here.
He made the unheralded trip to
visit his mother Mrs. Martha Tru
man on her ninety-third birthday
anniversary. Mrs. Truman and
i their daughter Margaret are visit
1 ing friends in New York. The
i identities of their hosts is a secret.
They plan to attend tonight’s
opening of the Metropolitan Opera
season.
Troops Arrive In
Soldier-Made
Transport Ship
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26 —
The first post-war soldier-made
troop transport S.S. Otto Mears,
brought five hundred thirty-two
servicemen to San Francisco from
Manila Sunday.
The ex-Liberty ship was con
verted last month by soldiers
eager to return home. In six days
bunks and cots were installed in
the holds apd dispensary and rec
reation rooms erected. The ship
sailed from Manila October 28. •
Rural deaths in 1943 decreased
23 percent as compared with 1942.
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Japs Were “Hell
Bent" For War
WASHINGTON. Nov. 26—(/Pi
Hull declared the Japs were “Hell
bent” on war in November, 1941,
and rejected a ten point American
note. He said any peace seeking
nation would have been “delight
ed to accept” it.
The former Secretary of State,
testifying before the Senate and
House committee investigating
Pearl Harbor, said the November
twenty-sixth note he handed the
Japs had been “ignorantly mis
represented.” Jap propagandists
later called it an American “ulti
matum.” The Army Pearl Harbor
board said in its report, that
Hull’s delivery of the note may
have started the war.
Soldier’s Wife And
Child, Stowaways
BOSTON, Nov. 26—(/P)—Stow
aways aboard a troopship, the
English wife of a U. S. Army sol
dier, and her eight months old son,
arrived in America without the
knowledge of her husband Pvt.
Ralph Maresco, Corona, N. Y.
Mrs. Winifred Maresco said she
and her son Joseph Ralph were
smuggled aboard the S.S. New
Zealand Victory, and hidden in
the emergency generator room by
her brother, a British soldier.
Oklahoma and St. Mary’s
To Play In Sugar Bowl
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 26—(/P)—
Oklahoma A. & M. and St .Mary’s
will meet in the Sugar Bowl on
January first.
Gen. Mac Art Imr
Orders Stiff Taxes
For Japan
TOKYO, Nov. 26—Gen. Mac
Arthur in a stern “war does not
pay” directive Sunday ordered
the Japanese government to tax
away war profits of all Jap firms
and individuals, and make a cap
ital levy ranging up to seventy
per cent on corporate and private
fortunes, including the Imperial
household.
A statement accompanying the
directive said it would “result in a
more equitable distribution of
wealth than Japan has ever had.”
In the most strongly worded or
der of occupation to date, the Su
preme Commander prohibited all
government credit or subsidy ac
tivities, pending a sweeping or
ganization of government finan
ces, and directed the Japs to sub
mit a complete war profits tax
program to the first session of the
Diet in 1946.
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Negotiate For
Release Of
U. S. Fliers
SHANGHAI, Nov. 26—An (&)
dispatch Sunday stated that U. S.
Third Amphibious Corps officials
are engaged in negotiations with
Chinese Communists for the re
lease of six American Marine fli
ers held prisoner by the Commun
ists at a remote village, eighty
miles west of Tientsin.
The dispatch said the fliers
were forced down fourteen days
ago during a flight from Peiping
to Tientsin.
British Subdue
Jews With
Tear Gas
JERUSALEM. Nov. 26 — UP) —
Police battered with batons and
tear gas into the surrounded Jew
ish settlement of Shefayim, one of
three localiites surrounded yester
day after armed Jews wounded
fourteen officers in attacks on
Coast Guard stations.
Curfew prevailed along a large
section of the Palestine coast,
where the British are trying to
stop illegal immigration. British
immigration. The British Sixth
Airborne division cordoned off
Shefayim, Givath, Haim, and
Rishbon.
Hitler Planned
Cold Blooded
Murder of Millions
NUERNBERG, Nov. 2^—UP)—
Evidence designed to show Ger
man leaders incited Japan to
make the attack on Pearl Harbor,
was placed before the internation
war crimes tribunal by American
prosecutors. The documents added
by the tribunal to the mounting
pile of Hitler’s war plans, which
included cold blooded schemes to
assassinate the German envoy in
Prague on the pretex for an inva
sion of Czechoslovakia;to overrun
Poland and seize the low coun
tries, and to ultimately attack
Russia.
Assistant prosecutor Alderman
produced a memorandum signed
by German General Thomas, say
ing the war with Russia was
necessary in order to provide food
for the German army. Alderman
charged the German commands
plan was to systematically starve
millions of Russians in the occu
pied area, and denounced it as
“one of the most sinister on rec
ord.”
Move For 49th. 50th
States Launched
JUNEAU, Nov. 26—Proposal to
create the forty-ninth and fiftieth
States in the Territory of Alaska,
was made here by publisher
Wood. The move gained support
Sunday when residents started the
move the have the proposition
placed on the general ballet in
nineteen forty-six.
The proposal would divide Alas
ka into two states. The first would
consist of the southern state from
Seward south, and the other
would be including Seward to the
north. Move was proposed be
cause of the diversity of interests
of residents in the southern and
northerns parts of Alaska.
Montreal is the largest city in
Canada, and the second largest
French-speaking city in the world.