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VOL. X LVIj I. No._3 (i NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1946 PER COPY —15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
TOKYO, Mar. 25, (/P)—Crowds
shouting “banzai” greeted Hiro
hito on his third “meet the peo
ple” tour within a month, as he
visited a hospital and a silk mill
’ industrial plant, and the orefec
tural government office. The tour
took the Emperor about forty
miles around Tokyo, and proceed
ed smoothly, except when a minor
official bowed low too close to the
Emperor’s limousine and was
smacked on the head by the open
ing door.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25, f/P)—
Bernard Baruch called for “the
high court of commerce” to renair
the inflationary damage, he said
had been done by hiking wages
and prices, while cutting taxes.
Cautioning “race selfishness is on”
the elder statesman of two world
wars pleaded for another year of
^price control, coupled with a firm
grip on wages. He said the one
must be and the other was over
riding the objective of greater
production.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25. (/P)—
Senator Johnson, (D., Colo.) as
serted the chief reason some ad
ministration leaders are trying to
keep the draft act alive is “to hold
their finger on every man who
has been discharged from the
Army and Navy.” Johnson, who
advocated extending selec t i v e
^ service only six weeks beyond the
present May 15 expiration date,
told a reporter he was convinced
that some supporters want to re
tain indefinitely the authority to
call men back into the armed
forces.
NEW YORK, Mar. 25, UP)—-Rt.
Rev. Monsignor Fulton Sheen,
professor of Philosophy at the
Catholic University in Washing
ton, said in a speech that a Soviet
agent had been picked up at a
Congressional committee hearing
in the Capital within the past
^ week, but declined to name the
individual or committee. He said,
however, the individual was not
an elected official.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25, (A*)—
House military committee mem
bers said the committee plans to
hold the controversial universal
military training bill over until
next January, and let the new
Congress wrestle with it.
SEATTLE, Mar. 25, (/P)—Wil
lian Hosie, U. S. Labor conciliator,
p announced that the King County
meat cutters and employers have
reached a wage agreement avert
ing the threatened strike. The
new contract gives the cutters a
five dollar a week wage boost.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26, (/P)—
States and local communities are
falling behind in their planning
for public works, the Federal
Works agency told Congress. The
volume planned falls far short of
the needs which may arise within
the next few years. Estimated con
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Victory is the man with a secure future.
Russian Troops
To Leave Iran
NEW YORK, Mar. 25, (/PI—'The
reported Russian agreement to
withdraw the Soviet troops from
Iran appeared to have pulled the
UNO security council through its
worst crisis so far, and the major
improvements of the relations
among United States and Britain.
The Iranian issue was announc
ed over the Moscow radio and
came on the eve of the council’s
opening at Hunter college. It was
immediately hailed by officials as
a victory for the United Nations
system, even though the expected
fireworks don’t develop, these au
thorities said the fact that the
UNO council was due to go into
the Iranian case must have been
the chief cause of Russia’s deci
sion to get her troops out of Iran.
Yamashita Advised
Japs About
Future Wars
WASHINGTON. Mar. 25, i/P)—
The Jap general Yamashita ad
vised the nation who hanged him
Februry 23, as a war criminal to
ignore the traditional ideas of mil
iary strategy in preparing against
the possibility of another conflict
in an article dictated from his Ma
nila death cell and published semi
officially in an infantry journal.
Yamashita told his conquerers
that the atomic bomb and long
range planes meant the textbooks
of West Point and Annapolis must
be re-written. The ill-fated ‘Tiger’
of Malaya, predicting that any fu
ture major war must be settled by
a single blow from the air, and
argued therefore that the infan
try had lost its once vital role.
struction cost of proposed public
works on which the government
is assisting in the planning, and
projects on which plans are com
pleted without federal aid, include
Alaska, $1,995,000; with Federal
aid; $183,000 without.
Hess Says Secret
Russian-German
Treaty Existed
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NUERNBERG, Mar. 25, f/P)—
Objection of the Russian prosecu
tor prevented the counsel for Ru
dolf Hess from reading into the
court records excerpts of what he
] called a secret treaty concluded
between Germany and Russia
three days before the Nazi attack
; on Poland.
The lawyer asserted before the
international military tribunal
that the alleged treaty fixed
spheres of influence in eastern
Europe. The details were contain
ed in an affidavit submitted by
Dr. Gaus, former German ambas
sador to Moscow.
Soviet prosecutor Rudenko
jumped up to object to the read
ing of “surprise” documents, be
fore they were translated, but sub
mitted to the prosecutor when
Chief Justice Lawrence sustained
the objection.
The Hess lawyer countered with
“In that case I must ask permis
sion to call Soviet Foreign Com
missar Molotov to establish if this
agreement is not actually con
cluded.”
Chinese Battle
Near Mukden
CHUNGKING. Mar. 25. </P)—
“Pitched battles” between Central
Government and Comm u n i s t
troops near Mukden were describ
ed here as the government and |
Communists were reported on the |
verge of agreeing to send truce
inspection teams to Manchuria.
Dispatches from Mukden said
four regiments of Communist re
inforcements under Gen. Lon, hot
ly contested the government en
try into Fushun. important coal
center thirty miles east of Muk
den. Communist forces withdrew
to the northeast under pressure
of government forces, which were
continuing to advance, the report
declared.
EXTRA SESSION
HIGHLIGHTS
JUNEAU, Mar. 23—Under sus
pension of rules McCutcheon in
troduces a memorial to abolish
Katmui National Monument, goes
to the committee. Nerland moves
successfully for an indefinite post
ponement of the memorial direct
ing the Alaska Development
Board to turn over $5,000 appro
pr'ation to the Alaska Statehood,
saying let the $12,500 a year man
do it. he has nothing else to do.
Shattuck said the board was hav
ing a hard time to spend one hun
dred twenty thousand, and were
scattering the money to the four
winds.
In the afternoon session the
Senate struck the word Ketchikan
from the bill for $150,000 for a
branch university in Southeast
Alaska.
Taylor asks that his opposition
bill to the Green-Shattuck com
pensation measure be sent to the
bottom of the calendar to its own
death.
The House passed the bill for
$25,000 to encourage mining and
prospecting. The memorial provid
ing plane landing strips and wid
ening Territorial highways at ap
propriate points passes. The me
morial abolishing Katmai Monu
ment and to permit fishing in the
area passes.
The bill creating the Alaska Li
brary commission was tabled. The
memorial to reorganize the Legs
lature recommends the Senate bill
which provides the people’s choice
for Governor be returned to com
mitte with “do not pass” recom
mendation.
JUNEAU, March 24—Acting up
on the Senate judiciary commit- j
tee’s report that there is nothing
in the laws of Alaska for the
House and Senate to meet in joint
assembly to pass upon appoint
ments made by the Governor, the
Senate confirms three members of
the Alaska Housing Commission:
Mrs. Louise Miller, Ketchikan;
Edward Davis, Anchorage. Harold
Byrd, Fairbanks; Commissioner of
Agriculture Dr. George Gasser;
Tax Commissioner, Mathew Mul
laney; to Alaska Development
Board, Antonio Polet, Nome.
JUNEAU, March 25—The Sen
ate Saturday passed the bill re- |
creating the Pioneers Home board
without the governor, as a mem
ber. The House passed the bill giv
ing Legislators $10 per diem in
lieu of subsistence. Passed motor
fuel oil levy, amended to make
municipal corporations taxable
when operating public utility.
Rushed to third reading the bill
to secure a site for a Pioneers Wo
men Home, but to come up Mon
day for final disposal.
Saturday was the last day for
exchange of bills between the
two Houses.
Trotting horsemen throughout
the nation competed for $4,445,
906.12 in 1945, as compared with
$2,634,977.58 the previous year.
May Withdraw
Bikini Atomic
Boml> Tests
WASHINGTON, Mar. 25, t&)—
When and if the atomic bomb tests
are held two of them may be run
off within a single month to meet
problems posed by President Tru
man’s delay order. The high com
mand of the joint army and navy
task forces met today to consider
these among other siutations cre
ated by the suddenly issued White
House directive setting back the
first test date from May 15 to July
1.
The meeting was called, even
while speculatoin persisted be
cause of the international situa
tion the tests might be cancelled
instead of only postponed.
Two factors of a wiedly differ
ent nature are among the reasons
for tightening the schedule: wea
ther and opening dates of college
semesters. Experts say the weather
is important, both in the first air
drop and the second surface ex
plosion tests, because of the neces
sity for forecasting the drift of the
deadly radioactive cloud formed
by the atomic blast.
The college semester situation
enters the picture because a num
ber of the task force scientists
have civilian contracts to start
teaching in various universities
next September.
FAIR NOTES
Attention is called to the adver
tisement of the Wein Alaska Air
lines who offer a round trip for
one-way fare for persons wishing
to come to the Northwestern Alas
ka Fair to be held in Nome April
7 to 13, inclusive. Good only for
the period April 5 to 15.
Prospective exhibitors are ad
vised to contact the superintend
ents of the various departments in
which they may desire to enter
exhibits, all of which have been
printed in former issues of the
Nugget. In the near future a list
of all Superintendents will be
published.
Every effort will be made to in
sure the safety of all exhibits and
to give each exhibit as prominent
a display as possible.
The casts of the various plays
are busily at work and an enjoy
able treat is promised each night
of the Fair.
The committees are hard at
work to make the Fair a success,
as it always has been, and a social
benefit for the winter. Let’s all
all get in and boost; we’ve made
our fun before, and we can do it
again. That good old American
spirit of Get In and Do is still
alive and kicking.
Happiness is a condition of the
mind. Get the thought, strut with
the thump of the drum, and LET’S
GO.
The cornerstone of the Capitol
was laid by George Washington,
Sept. 18, 1793.