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VOL. X LVII. No. 137 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESD AY, NOVEMBER 14, 1945 PER COPY 1
Delegate Bartlett
Fears Pacifie
Atom Blast
WASHINGTON.—(/P)—Delegate
Bartlett warned Navy Secretary
Forrestal that the proposed test of
an atomic bomb on warships may
have “catastrophic” results.
Explosion of an atom bomb in
North Pacific waters might de
stroy Alaska’s entire fifty-million
dollar salmon fishing industry, he
said.
It also might result in tidal
waves that would cause grave
danger to the Territory, he said...
In a letter to the secretary,
which emphasized that the effects
of an atomic explosion in the sea
are still unknown, Bartlett asked
that the North Pacific be ruled
out as a site of the experiment.
“It is improbable, but also pos
sible,” Bartlett wrote, “that the
salmon are schooled together out
in the ocean beaches and that the
dropping of a single atomic bomb
might at one stroke do away with
the fish which produces in the
amount of around fifty million
dollars annually.”
Bartlett said the bomb ought
not be dropped anywhere in the
vicinity of the migratory seal
herds which move each year from
the California coast to the north
ern Pribilof Islands.
Congress Asked
Not To Adjourn
WASHINGTON. Nov. 14—(^P)—
Senate majority leader Barkley
said, after a White House call,
that Congress had been asked not
to adjourn until it completes ac
tion on what he called “must”
legislation. He described this must
legislation as bills on full employ
ment, appropriations, cutbacks,
reorganization, UNRRA funds,
second war powers act, and the
pending deficiency appropriation
bill.
O. E. S. ORGANIZES
ORTHOPEDIC DRIVE
The Orthopedic Hospital drive,
sponsored by the Order of Eastern
Star, which had a good start by
the members of that organization
last Monday, with a benefit party
for members only, is now under
way with boxes placed in the
prominent business houses all
over town.
With 27 Alaskan children now
in the Orthopedic Hospital, and
many more awaiting the beds as
they are vacated, Nome should as
sist in doing its share toward the
funds being raised for a new wing
to the hospital.
Independent of the special
drive now underway, the Board
of Trade has already sent in
$1,001.10.
Do your bit for the crippled
children.
An American Soldier Enters Sorbonne University
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^r,va*e Russel K. Casey of Jamaica, New York, former junior at
St. Peter s College, New Jersey, reports at Sorbonne University, Paris, to
study French under the Army Education Program. Education and troining
are two of the many inducements for which many soldiers and qualified
civilians ore enlisting in the Regulor Army.
Assistant Secretary
Of War Resigns
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14——
President Truman accepted the
resignation of John J. McCIoy,
Assistant Secretary of War, effec
tive November 24. The White
House made public the exchange
of letters in which the President
expressed “very great regret” at
having to let McCIoy go.
SPECIAL HOLIDAY CHOIR
TO BE ORGANIZED
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There has been considerable
enthusiasm over the organization
of a large chorus for the holidays.
Many fine voices from the several
churches are planning to unite in
a special chorus for holiday mu
sic. They are planning on special
music for the Community Christ
mas tree program, as well as
church services. The Community
Christmas, which was not held
for the past two years, is to be
revived.
Mrs. G. E. S. Grill, graduate
i of Syracuse College, with a Bach
! elor’s Degree in music, who has
not only taught music in public
schools, but directed a church
choir for several years in Denver,
has volunteered to direct the
chorus.
A largd attendance is expected
on Friday evening for the first
meeting of the group, to be held
in the Federated Church.
FORMER NOME BOY
RULES PALAU
Mrs. George Taggart and
daughter Kay, six-years-old, of
Seattle, are enroute to join Lt.
Comdr. George Taggart, who is
the new Civil Administrator of
the island of Palau in the Caro
lines. Commander Taggart is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W.
Taggart, formerly of Nome.
Japs Bayoneted
And Burned Yank
Airmen Alive
MANILA, Nov. 14 — f/P) — The
story of the inhuman bayoneting
and burning alive of two Ameri
can airmen has been added to the
long list of atrocities charged
against Jap soldiers in the Philip
pines.
The bodies of fliers and gunners
of a twin-engined plane which
crashed off Cebu were found by
an American officer in charge of
grave registration, who told the
United States military commission
trying Yamashita for war crimes
on charges of atrocity.
Yamashita’s interpreter told the
commission he saw Jap military
policemen behead twenty-six Fili
pino men and one woman in forty
minutes in a North Manila ceme
tery. One witness who worked for
the South Manila military police
told of seeing the order to the
garrison, signed by Yamashita,
commanding the treatment of the
“guerrillas in and around Manila.”
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GROUP OF ESKIMOS
TOURING THE STATES
A group of 18 Eskimos have
been taken to the States by Art
Monette for show purposes. These
natives are from Point Barrow
and include Mr. and Mrs. Walton
Ahmaoyak, who were in Nome
last year. They are going to tour
the United States for approxim
ately three years, putting on Es
kimo dances. They are accompan
ied by Louis Johnson, who will
show motion pictures. The party
has a sled and seven dogs with
them and will cross the country
in a caravan of trailers. The
youngest member of the party is
a seven-month-old baby.
Police Quell
Disturbances In
Honolulu
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HONOLULU. Nov. 14— l/P) —
Strengthened civilian and naval
no lice kept close watch in the vio
lence-marked vicinity of the naval
air station in Honolulu’s outskirts.
A Navy spokesman blamed the
city police and the city police
blamed the navy for Monday
nights rioting in which fifteen
hundred navy men tangled with
civilians. City patrolmen joined
[ shore patrolmen last night.
There was no further violence
after the sailors were confined to
their station. A crowd around the
station gates, but the combined
] force of police broke up the crowd
' without disorder.
Lt. Singer, naval air station in
; formation officer blamed police
I for the disturbance and charged
j that more than thirty naval per
j sonnet had been beaten by civil
j ians in the past two months but
I the police made no arrests. Police
j chief Gabrielson countered “it is
an absolute falsehood when police
are charged with not cooperating.’’
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Russians Make
Discoveries In
Atomic Field
MOSCOW. Nov. 14—i/P)—:High
ly important discoveries which
j may well have direct bearing on
; Russian explorations in the field
of atomic energy, have been re
ported from Mt. Alagos on the
shores of Lake Karagel, in the Ar
menian Socialist Republic. The
government paper Iz.vestia, said
the expedition engaged in study
ing cosmic rays had discovered
that cosmic rays knocked protons
out of lead.
The report said this discovery
i was “of outstanding interest,” but
didn’t say why.
I Japan Pleads For I
j Allied Food
And Fuel
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TOKYO, Nov. 14—(i^5)—Desper
ately hungry appealed officially
for Allied food and fuel, promis
ing to pay in instalments by ship
ments of gold diamonds, silk and
i other goods. General MacArthur’s
headquarters ieported it was not
ready to indicate what the Allied
answer might be.
Jap Minister of Commerce Oga
sawara, announced the application
for imports, mostly from America,
to stave off the threatening fam
ine. He made it clear that Japan’s
alternatives were simple barter or
die.
Lt. Gen. Eichelberger reported
the occupation forces at Apan on
Korea were near the peak and
would soon decline from the pres
ent four hundred sixty thousand.
\alionals I,and At
Tsingtao; (!it\
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TSINGTAO. Nov. 14 — UP) _
Thousands of American trained
and equipped Chinese Nationalist
troops are landing unopposed
from U. S. transports at this North
China city, which has been occu
pied since October eleventh by
American Marines, who have since
been cooped up by the presence
of Chinese Communists nearby.
Whether the Marines will be
pulled out of their lone foothold
on the Shangtung Peninsula, re
portedly dominated by Reds has
not been made known. The leath
ernecks have been limited to gar
rison duty since accepting the sur
render of more than ten thousand
Japs. Some of these Japs were al
allowed to retain their arms and
stand guard over Tsingtao indus
tries. Many Jap civilians are
keeping cotton mills open. Chin
ese Red troops ring the port by
land.
Battle Raws
Unbated In
Soerabaja
BATAVIA, Nov. 14— <7P) —The
fighting raged with unabated fury
at Soerabaja in Batavia. Maj. Gen.
Hawthorn accused the commander
of the Jap Sixteenth army and
his chief of staff of having delib
erately handed over arms to “un
ruly elements.”
A Java dispatch from and <7PI
correspondent, Vern Haugland, in
Soerajaba, said that British and
Indian troops were battling in
the heart of the naval base and
had hurled back three suicidal at
tacks during the night, killing
more than a hundred and sustain
ing half a dozen casualties of
their own.
In the fighting at Kota railway
station marshalling yards a reli
able but unofficial estimate placed
the number of Indonesians oppos
ing the British in Soerabaja at be
tween fifteen and eighteen thou
sand men, many armed with
spears.
GEORGE AHGUPUK. ESKIMO
ARTIST, VISITING IN NOME
George Ahgupuk, well known
Shishmaref artist, is visiting in
Nome for a few days while hav
ing dental work done. He is well
known for his sketches on rein
deer skin, which were submitted
to the Artists Guild several years
ago, and which have been repro
duced on Christmas cards.
This season the Christmas cards
have been produced in color by
the Artists Guild. George says
that he is not responsible for the
coloring, as that addition was
made by the Guild. He claims onljr
credit for the sketches.