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Delegates Ask
Territorial Pay • I
Hike Be Set Aside
WASHINGTON, July 11—(/P)—
Territorial Delegates to Congress
are feuding with the War and
Navy departments over the pay
differential plan put into effect
July first.
Under the plan which Delegate
Bartlett says was turned down by
other departments, the agencies
classified a civil worker recruited
from outside the Territories, re
ceives twenty-five percent more
pay than a worker of the same
grade recuited locally.
Delegate Farrington of Hawaii
joined Bartlett in an effort to
have the order set aside. Bartlett
described the order of “fantastic,
ridiculous, and discriminatory. All
departments, Bartlett explained,
have been paying twenty-five per
cent differential to all civil em
ployes in the Territories singe the
start of the war.
The Army and Navy now ex
clude employes whose homes are
in the Territories. Bartlett said
Senator Magnuson is hiding in the
fight against the differential plan.
Yank Revolution
Needed Says
Blue Star Mother
WASHINGTON, July 11—(IP)—
Opponents of the United Nations
charter trooped before the Senate
Foreign Relations committee as
Chairman Connally expressed con
fidence that any restrictive
amendments can be beaten down.
The first opposition witness was
Mrs. Agnes Watres, who said she
represented the National Blue
Star Mothers. She was escorted
from the committee table by po
licemen when she tried to con
tinue after her allotted time had
expired. “What we need is a good
old fashioned American revolu
tion,” she shouted as she left.
The Star Spangled Banner first
was printed in the “National In
tellignecer,” Washington, D. C.,
September 27, 1814.
EISENHOWER HOME — This is the modest two-story
frame dwelling in Abilene, Kas., in which an Eisenhower family
reunion was arranged in honor of the homecoming of Abilene’s
noted son, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
CITY COUNCIL HOLD
REGULAR MEETING
A regular meeting of the Nome
City Councli was held last Mon
day evening at the City Hall. City
Attorney C. C. Tanner reported
that he had petitioned the District
Court for the executors of the Mc
Dougall estate to file their final
report. (The McDougall Estate in
cludes the Nome Drug Store).
A letter was received from Dr.
Scorebrand of the Territorial
Health Department, concerning
Jim Christianson, who some time
ago was found to be a diphtheria
carrier. Dr. Scorebrand informed
the council that there were no
funds available to reimburse the
man for his fare to Anchorage or
for time lost from his work. He
urged the city to take up the mat
ter as he man proved himself a
good citizen by his cooperation
with the Public Health depart
ment. A special meeting has been
called to take up the matter.
Harry Gabrielson presented a
petition for the Nevada Cocktail
Lounge to be included in his
liquor license.
The matter of housing for fe
! Auto Use Stamps Available
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At Post Office
Auto Use Stamps are available
at the local post office according
to Leon Bagley, Internal Revenue
Agent, who has been in Nome on
official business since early in
June.
Mr. Bagley informs us that per
sons owning or driving automo
biles or trucks should purchase
these stamps at once, as they were
due July 1. Also when you receive
your stamp, it is a good policy to
copy the number of the stamp on
the back of your driver’s license
in the event that the stamp be
comes lost.
male prisoners was discussed, as
there are more prisonrs than ap
propriate space, and something
should be done about it.
Councilman Wallace called the
Council’s attention to the garbage
dump west of Nome and its very
unsightly appearance, and the
Clerk was instructed to get in
communication with the Army to
get their cooperation in the mat
ter.
Hoi •se Racing
Faces Shutdown
WASHINGTON, July 11—UP)—
Horse racing will be brought to a
standstill if another shutdown by
the Office of Defense Transporta
tion goes through. The ODT has
ordered transportation of race
horses or show animals by rail
road or contract motor carriers be
prohibited, effective six p.m. to
day.
Under these conditions continu
ance of racing appeared virtually
impossible except at tracks where
horses are already stabled.
Orlie Sullivan Appointed
Commissioner Of Taxation
Governor Gruening has ap
pointed Orlie Sullivan as Commis
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sioner of Taxation for Alaska.
; This is a new office which was
created during the last Legisla
■ ture. Mr. Sullivan will receive
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$6,250 per annum.
Having been Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the Territory
he will no doubt, prove very cap
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able in this new capacity.
Ryukus Aircraft
Command Given
To MacArtliur
GUAM, July 11— (^—Com
mand of all army planes based on
the Ryukus (Okinawa) including
the Eleventh Airforce passed to
General MacArthur, A d m i r al
Nimitz announced today. He de
scribed the shift %s “incident to
regrouping” the American air
power in the western Pacific for
the final assaults upon Japan.
Remaining under the Admiral’s
command are the Navy and Ma
rine aircraft wings on Ryukus and
I wo Jima .which are now busy
“tightening the blockade of Japan
and destroying Japanese forces
and shipping wherever found, pre-1
paratory to further amphibious
assaults.”
“Admiral Nimitz said “further
amphibious assaults” could mean
invasion of Japan.
Tokyo Reports
Thousand Planes
Over Japan
SAN FRANCISCO, Juyl 11—(/P)
—From bomb torn Japan Tokyo
radio reported it believed the
United States Carrier Task Force
which luanched more than a thou
sand planes has withdrawn in fear
of the suicide attacks, but in the
same breath it admitted it expect
ed the Americans back any mo
ment.
Tokyo said there had been no
raids from carrier planes today
but admitted the steady pounding
of the homeland was being kept
up without respite by landbased
planes from Okinawa.
New raids by one hundred fifty
Thunderbolt Mustang fighters hit
airfields on the east coast and the
south home island of Kyushu.
They stayed over the target two
hours.
In declaring that the American
Third Fleet had withdrawn “some
distance to the south” Tokyo made
no claim that the episode was fin
ished. It expressed belief that the
“enemy task force is still in the
seas in the vicinity of our home
land.”
While American sources refer
repeatedly to the raids as thou
sand plane affairs, Tokyo went
them one better by boosting its
previous estimate of eight hun
dred planes to the new total of
twelve hundred planes.
CATHOLIC PRIESTS
IN TOWN
Father Desechout arrived in
Nome from Nelson Island. He is
the General Superior for all Cath
olic Missions in Alaska. Father
O’Connor arrived from Kotzebue.
He is chairman of the Second Di
vision Housing Committee and
has spent considerable time in
Juneau this winter studying the
program in the interests of this
division. Faher Anable, who was
called to Juneau when Bishpo Cri
mont passed away, returned Mon
day evening to resume his work
here.
Coal is approximately 60 per
cent carbon.