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VOL. XLVII. No. 71. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1945 PER COPY — i57
5-Year-Old Boy
Killed By Army
Command Car
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Sonny Henry, 5-year-old son of
Ella Henry, was run over and in
stantly killed by an Army Com
mand car, on Front Street in front
of the U. S. Mercantile store
building. The child was playing in
the street and was not seen by the
driver.
&uy Mish, owner of the Nome
Hardware Store, was driving his
truck directly behind the army
vehicle and witnessed the entire
accident, said that both right
wheels of the car passed over the
child, killing him instantly. The
accident occurred at about 1:40
Am.
The three men in the vehicle,
including the driver, Wm.
OTjftughlin, claimed they did not
see the child until after the acci
dent
This is this second accident in
the pest few weeks in which an
Army vehicle has run over and
killed a child, the other being
Richie Beach.
MR. AND MRS. JOHN LOWE
ytsrrnvG son here
ftr. and Mrs. John Lowe, par
ents of Robert Lowe, who is sta
tioned here with the ACS, are
visiting here with their son for a
few weeks.
Yanks Seize Both
Ends Of Yaeju
Escarpment
GUAM, June 13 — (#>)—Using
ropes for scaling, and the pre
dawn darkness for cover the
United States Tenth Army forces
seized vital heights at both ends
of the Yaeju escarpment on south
ern Okinawa Tuesday and held on
grimly during daylight against
heavy counterattacks.
No-surrender Japanese in two
separated fast dwindling forces
on the island, brought every wea
pon ter bear, even ripping machine
guns from wrecked airplanes as
I they elected to die. Wtih a typical
| flourish of defiance the Japanese
( navy men, trained originally as a
landing force held grimly a small
pocket on Oroku peninsula.
WPB’s Stines In
Nome On Business
Word has been received that
Norman Stines, Alaska Chairman
of the War Production Board will
arrive in Nome on Thursday and
will be located at the Wallace
Hotel. He will be here to assist the
public in obtaining priorities and
permits for building and other re
stricted materials.
Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt Borrows
$200,000; Pays Back Only $4,000
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NEW YORK, June 13— </P) —
Caruthers Ewing, general counsel
>for the Great Atlantic Pacific Tea
Cq., says the two hundred thou
sand dollar loan to Brig. Gen. El
liott Roosevelt from John Hart
ford, president of the .A. & P. was
settled for four thousand dollars.
Hartford yesterday termed
“substantially correct" the story
in Pegler’s column that the son
of the late President borrowed the
money in 1939.
Brig. Gen. Roosevelt couldn’t be
filched for comment.
“£egler’s account is “not the
whole story, but it is substantially
correct," Hartford said, adding “I
would not have made it public
myself. I regret very much it was
published.”
Ewing said tlie debt had been
settled three years later on “re
quest of the Roosevelt family,”
through the then Secretary of
Commerce Jones. Ewing then said
that Roosevelt secured the loan in
1929 to finance his Texas radio in
terests. “They were losing money
hand over fist.”
He said in 1942 Jones told him
the Roosevelt family wanted to
compromise the debt. He took
Roosevelt’s note and stock as col
lateral. Jones who “gave me a
check payable to John Hartford
for four thousand, dollars, which
was all Harford ever received on
the loan.”
BATTLESHIP’S SCOUT — A U. S. Navy KlnpRsher
lands In a cloud of sally spray alongside Its battleship home after
completing a scouting mission.
Eubank Hopes To
Visit Aleutians To
Count Sheep
OGDEN, Utah, June 13—<£>)—
Carlyle Eubank is hopeful of get
ting up ot the Aleutians sometime
this summer to count the sheep.
Eubank, an Ogden insurance
man, who before the war with
Japan counted twelve thousand
sheep on Umnak.
The latest count of his flock,
mailed in by his foreman is thir
ty-five hundred, made before the
current lambing season. “I’ve
asked the Navy to give me a pri
ority to fly up there. It looks as
though they were back where they
were in 1930. I want to see if it
will pay to try to begin all over
again,” Eubank said.
INTERNAL REVENUE TAX
ESTIMATES DUE
The Internal Revenue Tax Es
timates for the year of 1945 are
due Friday.
At this time all those who have
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not filed previously must pay one
half of the tax due for the year. A
deputy collector for the Internal
Revenue Office, Mr. Leon Bagley
is located temporarily in the U. S.
Commissioner’s office.
Yanks Advance On
Cagayan Valley
For Major Battle
MANILA, June 12—(/P}—Amer
ican forces resumed their advance
Monday toward the broad Caga
yan valley in northeastern Luzon,
where the last major battle of the
Philippines may be fought. Gen
eral MacArthur said in a commun
ique that the Thirty-Seventh Di
vision was pushing north along
highway four and had destroyed
seven enemy tanks as the Japan
ese increased resistance.
The fighters caught a Japanese
truck convoy on the highway and
demolished forty-eight vehicles.
Far to the north the Japanese is
being harassed by light naval
units, which pounded enemy posi
tioAs along the northern coast of
Luzon.
ROBERT TRUCKEY
ARRIVES IN NOME
Robert Truckey, son of Col. and
Mrs. Phil Truckey, arrived from
Seattle, where he has been at
tending the University of Wash
ington. He will be employed by the
Lomen Commercial Co., where
his father is in charge of the
frieght office.
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Truman Sees An
Early Settlement
Of Polish Question
WASHINGTON, June 1J—{IP)—
President Truman announced that
the Big Three meeting had been
set, but said he couldn’t announce
the time nor place until his arrival
there. The President also told a
news conference he expected the
meeting in Moscow this Friday to
work out a unified Polish govern
ment on a broad base to produce
results.
In obvious good humor after an
earlier conference with Hopkins
and Davies his representatives to
Moscow and London, the Presi
dent told reporters the results
they obtained were completely
satisfactory and gratifying. He
said he would take Stettinius,
Byrnes, Hopkins, and Davies to
the Big Three meeting if the
health of the latter two permits.
The President said that the all
important thing was that London,
Washington and Moscow continue'
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in unity in the confidence and re
spect which brought results in the
military picture and which is sure
to make for a lasting peace.
He sakl that he, Stalin and
Churchill must trust each other.
Discussing last night’s announce
ment regarding the forthcoming
meeting of American Russian and
British with the three groups of
'Polish representatives, the Presi
dent said he thought we were on
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Introduce Bill To
Abolish Interior
Dept. Authority
WASHINGTON, June 13—(/P>—
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Senator Magnuson has introduced
a bill to abolish the authority of
the Interior Department to estab
lish Indian reservations in Alaska.
Magnuson told reporters he did
not intend to press action on the
bill, but expected it to be the basis
of the hearing in the Senate In
dian Affairs Committee in Seattle,
where all matters concerning the
Alaska natives could be discussed.
The bill, he said, resulted from
efforts of “some persons” to have
additional reservations established
in the Territory.