Plan Xmas Parly
For All G. I.’s
In Nome Area
(Continued from Page One)
cakes, coffee, sugar, etc. The spon
soring group, which is headed by
Mrs. Robert Scott, Mrs. Dan Jones,
Mrs. Clyde Godsbe, have suggest
ed that anyone wishing to con
tribute to the party send small
packages of candy, cigarettes, etc.,
as gift packages for the G.I.
guests. They also wanted it clear
ly understood that this was a com
munity party and they hoped that
everyone would enter into the
spirit of the affair and come to
the Legion Hall on Saturday eve
ning and share in the entertain
ment of M.A.F3. personnel, and
the members of the A.C.S.
Anyone wishing to contribute to
the party may contact the above
named women.
A special invitation was extend
ed to M.A.F3. personnel to take
part in the Community Christinas
Tree Celebration on Friday eve
ning by chairman, Clement Bou
cher.
Many Nome homes have includ
ed guests from the Base this year
and it has been suggested that if
others wish to do so, contact can
be made through local pastors or
the radio broadcasting station.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Spring
steen, Nome residents of the early
days, have just built a new home
at Deer Lodge, Mont.
An early morning fire alarm
this morning came from the Qui
•anrra Cltfb. It is reported that
there was about $150.00 damage
done to their light plant.
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jXmas Home-Going
Halts Passage Of
Truman’s Bills
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terday afternoon, it quit for leg
islative purposes until New Year’s
day. Token sessions will be held
next week, but no business com
pleted.
That leaves only the two days
from Jan. 1*until the new 82nd
Congress takes over Jan. 3, for
clearing up pending legislation.
Congress members found some
cheer in defense mdbilizer Charles
E. Wilson’s prediction that muni
tions production will roll at a
swift pace in 1951.
Wilson put it this way:
“My guess is that industry can
supply 50 to 100 per cent more
material in the next year than in
• the first big year after Pearl Har
| bor.”
Wilson made the forecast late
Thursday to a Senate-House
“watchdog committee on defense
production.
In other mobilization-connected
developments:
1. The wage stabilization board
announced Thursday night that it
had reached a unanimous agree
ment on the question of wage con
trols over 1,000,000 auto workers.
It did not say v/hat the agreement
was, however.
2. Alan Valentine, chief of the
economic stabilization administra
tion, said his organization is work
ing on a program to stabilize meat
prices.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Miller are
spending the holidays at Nephi,
Utah. .
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Christianson
have purchased a new home near
Spokane, Wash.
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Senate Passes
Twenty Billion
Defense Measure
WASHINGTON, </P)—Congres
sional action of the multi-billion
dollar defense program was spur-1
red yesterday iby a grim warning
| that Russia is making “an inten
I sive effort” in the field of atomic
energy.
Expert testimony on the Rus
sian atomic program came from
chairman Gordon Dean of the
atomic energy commission. Orig
inally given behind closed-doors
it was made public by the Senate
appropriations committee.
Dean told of Russia’s activity,;
and filled in some details of this
nation’s expanding atomic pro
duction, in testifying on the twen
ty-billion dollar emergency de-J
fense money bill. This measure
steamed through the Senate i
Thursday at a wartime clip. And •
it carried some $2,000,000,000
more than the Housel voted.
A Senate-House confere nee
group met yesterday to iron out
differences in the two bills.
Speedy agreement was expected.
Other fast-moving develop
ments in the nation’s rearmament
program:
1. Secretary of the Air Force \
Finletter told Senators that the
nation lacks “an absolute air de
fense” against possible atomic at
tacks. The best defense would be
to attack the bases of the, enemy,|
he said, adding quickly that he'
1 was not “recommending a preven
tive war.”
2. Secretary of Defense Mar
shall said that this country must
tool up at once for another world
war even though we hope it will
not come.
3. Navy officials disclosed that
this country plans to turn over j
half a dozen or more cruisers to j
some South American countries,
probably Brazil and Chile, and
possibly Argentina.
4. Gen. Clifton B. Cates, com
mandant of the Marine Corp., j
suggested that Marine strength be i
boosted to twice the 18 squadrons
and two full war-strength divi
sions, currently planned.
5. Navy spokesmen expressed
confidence that “we have suffi
cient strength” to handle any Rus
sian submarine action which
might be launched off Korea.
6. Military leaders testified that
defense costs already nearing
$45,000,000,000 for the fiscal year
ending June 30 may continue near
that rate for some years in the fu
ture.
The Senate committee publish
ed the testimony on the emer
gency defense measure after de- j
leting many sections for military
security.
Testimony oy Aiat omciais ais
closed that this country’s expand
ing atomic energy program “in
volves at least six new sites.”
They mentioned a “new gaseous
diffusion plant” at Paducah, Ky.,
and another “new type plant”
near Savannah, Ga.
Mrs. Rose Silverman, owner of
the Trading Post, who arrived on
the last Pan American, states that
her daughter, Lillian McAllister
is now in business in San Francis- ;
co where she has a thriving dry |
cleaning establishment and is do-1
ing well. She will be glad to see
Alaskans who are downtown in
Frisco.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Leary
are spending the holidays at For-!
sythe, Mont.
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