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VOL. XLVII. No. 155. NOME. ALA SKA. WEDNESD AY, DECEMBER 26. 1945 PErTcQPY— 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
LONDON, Dec. 26— (/P) —Ad
miral of the Fleet Lord Keyes, 73,
one of Britain’s outstanding naval
* heroes, leader of the spectacular
Zeebrugge raid in the first world
war, died in his sleep. He was ill
three weeks. Adm. Keyes is cred
ited with a large part of the suc
cess in combatting the German
sub menace in World War I. As
•commander of the Dover Patrol,
he organized the famous St.
George’s Day operation and sealed
Bruges Canal in 1918.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26—(/P)
A fo»y. vj»ar old father, sad
dened b> aid death of his eight
year old daughter, could think
only of her dying wish “I would
not mind dying if only papa could
go along with me.” Papa—Emory
S. Potter, died of a heart attack
% which walking upstairs.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26— (/P) —A
public offering of one hundred
twenty-five thousand additional
common shares of Alaska Airlines,
Inc., is being made by a syndicate
headed by R. H. Johnson & Co., at
$15.50 a share. The shares are
l^art of the original authorized is
sue of one million. The proceeds
will be used to provide additional
equipment and other improve
ments.
SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 26—
(/P)—Three persons were killed
, and a fourth missing, and five
others were injured, none serious
ly, in an explosion of a butane gas
struck, which destroyed a ware
house and an apartment building.
The dead are tentatively identi
fied as Mr. and Mrs. John John
son, Caroline Sue Stovall, 10, all
residents of apartments in the up
per floor of the building. The in
jured included Anthony Berta, the
truck driver, who explained the
explosion, “I stepped on the
starter and the butane just took
off.”
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KWAJALEIN, Marshall Islands,
Dec. 26—(/P)—The second high
ranking Jap Officer, Rear Adm.
Sakai»*^, must hang. The war
* ’ '‘Hitary commission yes
‘creed death by rope. Sa
qT former Wake Island com
mander during occupation, and
hi^ executive officer, Lt. Comdr
Tachbana for mass executions on
Wake Island, October 7, 1943, of
ninety-eight American civilian
employees of Pan American Air
ways. The military commission in
Manila recently sentenced Lt.
Gen. Yamashita to hang for con
doning the atrocities of his troops
in the Philippines.
ANCHORAGE—(/P)—The Union
Bank has been founded with
$60,(H)0 of local capital, and will
be opened soon after January 1,
i Andrew Hassman, former credit
I agency manager, and Atty. S. J.
•McCutcheon, territorial represen
tative, announced jointly.
SAVINC SAW BLADE S-a POW at a saw mill in
Grunewald forest, Germany, uses a mine detector to locate hid
den fragments of bomb splinters before the logs are sawed.
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Senate Will
Investigate
Military Waste
”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—(£>)—
j Senator Knowland, who has seen
i the waste of war, said he and fel
low Senators hope to determine
within a month whether any mil
itary goods are wastefully thrown
away. Whether usable trucks are
being pushed over cliffs, food be
ing allowed to spoil while chil
dren go hungry.
These are among the questions
the sub-committee of the Senate’s
investigating committee will seek
an answer in a month long round
the world flight. The trip starts
tomorrow. Senator Tunnell, Dela
ware Democrat, heads the group.
The third member is Senator Mit
' chell.
Allied Commission
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Leaves For Japan
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—(/P)—
Nursing ambitions at policy mak
ing rather than mere advice giv
ing, the Allied Far Eastern Com
mission leaves late today for
Japan to have a look see at Gen
eral MacArthur’s administration.
After flying to Pearl Harbor they
will complete the trip ontheU.S.S.
McKinley, Navy command ship.
They expect to return to Wash
ington about February 15. The ten
nation commission made it plain
in its two months’ deliberation in
Washington, that it doesn’t ex
pect to find any grave fault with
the way General MacArthur has
administered Japan. Most commis
sion members said they believed
the Supreme Allied Commander
had done a good job.
117 Die In Xmas Fire
In Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 26—
! (JP)—A Christmas Eve fire took
seventeen lives in Niles Street
Hospital in Hartford. The fire got
a head start because it burned
through telephone wires, causing
a delay in sounding the alarm. Ed
ward Hickey, state police com
missioner and fire marshal dis
closed, because a few minutes
elapsed between the time the fire
broke out in the tinder dry Christ
mas tree and the sounding of al
most simultaneous telephone box
alarms by the next door neighbor
and a passerby.
Hickey said as many as thirty
i one elderly bedridden patients
were beyond aid when the first
| firemen arrived, eighteen persons;
were injured, five critically. An
attendant unplugged a string of j
Christmas tree lights from the
wall socket and a spark ignited
the cotton under the tree which
was set up nine days previously.
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Congressman Dies
In Washington
_
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—(^P)—
Clutching a pistol and a razor,
Rep. Joe Ervin, 44, North Carolina
Democrat, was found dead in the
gas filled kitchen of his home on
Christmas Day. Coroner MacDon
ald issued a certificate of death by
asphyxiation. Ervin, first termer
in Congress complained Monday1
night of an old leg ailment which
had been complicated by a fall
last week in a recent heart dis
turbance. His death left the House
line-up 240 Democrats, 190 Repub
licans, two minor party members
and three vacancies.
Ministers Meeting
Kih!s Successfully
•»
MOSCOW, Dee. 26— (/P> —The
Big Three foreign ministers, after
a lengthy Christmas day sessiqn,
arranged to announce the results
of their eleven day conference, at
which achievements, reliably re
ported, include concrete agree
ments on several vital world is
sues.
A British source said a com
munique would be issued at noon
(Nome time) today. The foreign
ministers already have reached an
accord on the precedure of drafting
a European peace settlement. Au
thoritative quarters said that Sec
retary Byrnes was highly pleased
with the results of his discussions
with Molotov and Bevin so far,
and more had been achieved,
these quarters said, than even was
contemplated when Byrnes left
Washington. The full extent of the
agreements has not been learned,
but one of Byrnes aides said the
results would not be disappoint
ing.
Communists Ask
Time Limit For
U. S. Withdrawal
CHUNGKING, Dec. 26— (/P) —
The Communist New China Daily
News urged General Marshall to
set a time limit on the disarma
ment of Jap troops in China and
the withdrawal of American
forces. The newspaper asserted
that any American help in Chung
king: military, political, financial
or technical, before the coalition
government was established would
aggravate the “current civil war.”
The statement of the paper,
which has been speaking authori
tatively for the Communist side,
came at a time when General
Marshall was plunging into his
mission of peace for troubled
China.
After conferring with Chiang
Kai-Shek, Premier Soong and
three Communist leaders of the
peace delegation assigned here,
General Marshall admitted “it will
be some time before I can hope
to picture China peaceful.” The
statement of the President’s spe
cial envoy to China is coupled
with the government suspicion of
the Communist truce proposal,
and strengthened the doubt that
the civil war would be halted
quickly.
U. S. Ready To
Discuss Spain With
France, England
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—(/P)—
United States notified France of
its readiness to discuss with Brit
ain and France all aspects of the
three governments’ attitude toward
Franco’s regime in Spain, acting
secretary of State Acheson told a
news conference.
United States
Grateful For
Peacetime Xmas
<By Associated Press)
Coast to Coast rejoiced Tuesday
and was grateful for the first
peacetime Christmas in five years.
GIs stranded on the east and west
coast ports on shipboard in stag
ing areas, cheerfully accepted
their fate, knowing they would be
home for good soon. Civilians sef>
arated from loved ones overseas
opened their homes and hearts lo
stranded soldiers and sailors, or
found joy in the knowledge that
they own sons and daughters were
not in danger.
President Truman flew to Inde
pendence, Mo., to spend the holi
day with his mother and sounded
the keynote of the nation when
he declared: “This is the Christ
mas that the war weary world
prayed for through the long awful
years.” Minor disappointments
couldn’t overshadow that thought
as millions expressed the Presi
| dent’s thought in churches across
1 the country.
, President Truman gave freedom
to more than two thousand federal
prisoners who have served faith
| fully in the armed forces during
! the war. In Charlotte, N. C., five
hundred sixteen nurses and wo
men employees of the hospital
were gladdened to find nylons un
der the tree, a gift from a doctor,
whose name was mercifully with
held.
CIO United Auto Workers hol
iday truce in their strike against
General Motors drew to an end.
The strikers were to resume their
I fight for a thirty- percent wage
! increase.
32 Cardinals
To Receive Hats
VATICAN CITY,—(#*)—Thirty
two new Cardinals, including four
from United States, six from Latin
America, and one from Canada,
have been named by the Pope to
receive the red hats, emblematic
of their office, in Rome on Febru
ary eighteenth.
The Sacred College of Cardinals
now numbers seventy members.
The four new United States mem
bers will be Archbishops Spell
man of New York; Glenn of St.
Louis; Stritch of Chicago; and
Mooney of Detroit. The Vatican
announcement said that Cardinal
Dougherty of Philadelphia, only
living United States Cardinal, and
the four new United States Car
dinals would give United States
the largest representation on the
College. United States has never
before had more than four in the
membership. Archbishop MacGui
gan of Toronto, is the new Cana
dian Cardinal.
American food shipments to
England, Russia and other United
Nations in 1944 totaled about 1H4
per cent of U. S. supplies.