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1 VOL. XLVII. No. 123. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 194 5_PER COPY — 15^
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Military Personnel
Dependents
^ Come To Alaska
(Special to The Nugget)
JUNEAU, Oct. 12 — Governor
Gruening, in a message from
Washington to his office here to
day, said the War Department had
lifted the restrictions on the en
try of military personnel depend
ents into Alaska.
In his message the Governor
said “I am pleased to inform you
that the Secretary of War has
acted favorably on my request for
removal of the prohibition of the
entry of dependents of personnel
of the Army, Navy and Coast
Guard into Alaska. The only ex
ception being to the travel of mil
itary personnel to Kodiak and the
Aleutian Chain.
Secretary of War Patterson in
forms me that the commanding
I general has been given the appro
priate instructions necessary to
implement this policy and the de
cision to lift these restrictions is
likewise being coordinated by the
Navy Department.”
British Liners
Taken From Troop
i Transport Service
LONDON, Oct. 12—(/P)—United
States Army headquarters have
announced the transfer of the
Cunard liners Queen Elizabeth
and the Acquitania from Ameri
can troops service to British use.
This transfer made it doubtful if
the “back home” schedule of fight
ing men can be met.
• Commenting on the announce
ment Alfred Barnes, British Min
ister of War said the transport
liners being taken out of Ameri
can service said that shipping
space for at least one hundred
twenty-five thousand American
soldiers will be lost in the next
three months.
I Seals Win Fifth
Game Coast Series
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12—</P)
—The San Francisco Seals won
7to 4 from the Seattle Rainiers in
the fifth game of the Pacific
Coast League Governor’s Cup fi
nals here. The victory gave the
Seals a three to two game edge.
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out 200 farm buildings burn
day in the United States
L and Canada.
PRISON-MADE FLA C—Thomas G. Essaff (left) of
San Francisco and Verdun Andrus (kneeling, right) of Idaho
Falls, Ida., civilian workers on Wake Island when the Japs moved
in, show Monroe Sweetland, Red Cross worker from Portland,
Ore., the flag they made in prison camp from blankets, white
trousers and mosquito netting. Scene is on Okinawa.
DeGaulle Refuses
New Trial
For Laval
PARIS, Oct. 12—(/P)—DeGaulle
apparently ruled out a new trial
for Laval who is sentenced to
death for treason. When asked at
a news conference whether he
would order a new trial for the
former Vichy leader who was con
victed in a story and much criti
cized trial for wartime collabora
tion with the Germans, DeGaulle
replied “certainly not.”
One Paris paper said it had in
formation that the present plans
are to execute Laval Wednesday
or earlier. Laval’s attorneys said
they had important new evidence
which would explode the case1
against him.
DeGaulle was asked if he would
receive the attorneys to hear it.
“You’ll learn that in the newspa
pers,” he replied.
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RALPH REAT VISITING
MOTHER AND SISTER
Ralph Reat, son of Mrs. Mary1
Reat, is visiting with his mother
and sister, Miss Ruth Reat. Ralph
who lived in Nome for many years
has made his home in Seattle dur
ing the war years.
President Truman
Criticizes Race
Discrimination
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—</P)—
President Truman sharply criti
cized race discrimination by mak
ing public a letter concerning the
refusal of the use of Constitution
al Hall here to a Negro musician.
The President said, however, he
was powerless to interfere with
the ban imposed by the D.A.R.
The D.A.R. president sent a let-1
ter to Negro Rep. Adam Powell,
Democrat of New York, whose
wife, Hazel Scott, a pianist, was
refused the use of the D.A.R.’s
Constitution hall for a concert on
October 20.
The President wrote Powell
“Artistic talent is not the exclu
sive talent of any one race or
group. We have just brought to a
successful conclusion a war
against Totalitarian countries
which made racial discrimination
their state policy. One of the first
steps taken by the Nazis when
they came into power was to for
bid public appearance of artists
and musicians whose religion or
origin was unsatisfactory to the
master race.”
Nation’s Strikes !
At A Glance
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Four hundred fifty-two thou
sand are idle in the nation be
cause of labor disputes in indus
try and business. Major strike de
velopments in Washington were
when strong disputes developed in
Congress over the repeal of the
War Labor Disputes Act in favor
or new antistrike legislation mak
ing labor unions and employers
“mutually responsible.”
Coal—The government prepared !
for the possible rationing of man- !
ufactured gas to industrial users
as conciliation talks to end the
spreading soft coal strike remain
ed deadlocked with nearly nine
hundred mines and two hundred
thousand workers off their jobs in
the six-state strike area.
Shipping — Federal conciliators
moved to end the twelve day
strike of thirty-five to sixty thou
sand AFL dockworkers in New
York harbor as three hundred fif
ty ships lay idle and cargo piled
up. Soldiers turned to being steve
dores.
Transportation — The strike of
AFL bus drivers is scheduled to- i
morrow on a system serving near
ly a million passengers daily in
seventy-one Massachusetts cam
'munities. The walkout of twenty
seven hundred AFL drivers in
seven northwest States continues.
Lumber—Striking AFL lumber
workers hailed the resumption of
work in two strike-bound Mon-,
tana mills as an important break :
in the five-state walkout of sixty-'
one thousand closed four hundred
eighty mills after a wage dispute. ’
Great Damage
Caused; Typhoon
Grosses Honshu
PEARL HARBOR. Oct. 12—f/P>
—Three Navy men were killed
and ten are missing: one hundred
army personnel injured and four
Japanese prisoners of war were
killed as well as fifty-two ships
and seventy miscellaneous craft
beached, two tugs, one patrol
yacht, one gasoline barge, one
mine sweeper, when a typhoon
struck Okinana Tuesday.
Destroying many shore installa
tions the winds were reported as
high as one hundred thirty-two
miles an hour. Later the typhoon
moved north to Japan, where it is
estimated sixty-nine persons were
killed and thousands were home
less in central and southern Hon
shu, where eight thousand homes
were flooded. eighty bridges
washed out and more than a
thousand acres of land washed
away.
James Doolittle. Jr.
Engaged.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12—/£>)—
The engagement of Miss Priscilla
Arnold Johnson of Washington, to
James Doolittle, Jr., son of Maj.
Gen. James Doolittle, was dis
closed tonight.
WASHINGTON. Oct. 12——
The Office of Surplus Property
has announced the sale of pigeons
trained by the Army as message
carriers are being sold in lots of
five pairs for twenty-five dollars.
Unrest Spreads In Argentina: Cabinet
And President Forced To Resign
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct, 12—(JP)'
—The Cabinet and Argentine
President Farrell resigned under
from both military and civilian
groups. The official announcement
of the mass resignations came as
some one hundred twenty army
and navy officers met in the offi
cers club. A growing crowd gath
ered in the streets outside. Vern
engo Lima, the new naval minis
ter said Peron had been arrested.
BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 12—(/P)
—Col. Juan Peron, political strong
man, who was ousted from the
Argentine government this week,
apparently fled to a refuge in the
countryside in the face of de
mands by a group of army and
navy officers for his arrest.
Regiment president Gen. Farrel
set next April seventh for the
presidential election date in a de
cree issued shortly after the mil
itary group demanded Peron’s de
tention.
The resignations of Farrell’s en
tire cabinet and the political un
rest was complicated by both mil
itary and civilian pressure.
All Buenos Aires morning pa- 1
pers except Lanacion Laprensa,
refused to go to press as a protest
against the closing of one morning
and three evening papers yester
day, although the government an
nounced last night the ban against
the four publications had been
lifted.