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Alaska Marine
Rales To Re
Investigated
At the request of the War Ship
ping Administration, the United
States Maritime Commission will
investigate the entire Alaska wa
ter rate structure this month, ac
cording to information reaching
Delegate Bartlett. The hearings
are to be held in Seattle probably
the latter part of November.
Need for the inquiry is brought
about by the fact that the War
Shipping Administration, opera-,
tors of Alaska carriers since the
beginning of the war, will soon
have to withdraw from the opera
tion, probably within a period of
a few months.
“This poses a problem of ex
treme urgency for all the people
of the Territory,” said Delegate
Bartlett. “Government sou r c e s
state that despite the surcharges.
still in effect, very large deficits
are being incurred. I am told this j
has run into millions of dollars in
1945. Shipping experts with the
government have guessed that
peacetime Alaska marine rates
may have to be from eighty to
one hundred per cent above those
prevailing before the war if the
carriers are going to stay in busi
ness. They cite higher operating
costs in all categories, plus the
need for amortization schedules to
pay for the new ships which will
be required for the trade.”
The proposed investigation will,
it is expected ,make available
data which will allow a future
pattern to be worked out.
“Neither I nor any other layman
who has not had opportunity to
examine into the whole matter,
can say it will not be necessay to '
raise rates,” Bartlett declared,
i
“but it can be emphatically de-!
dared that it is idle to talk about
development of Alaska if the al-1
ready crushingly high rates are to
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Eisenhower Says
We Must Have A i
Unified Command
•WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—f/P)—;
General Eisenhower said unless *
the armed services are placed un
der one unified command “we
may enter another emergency in
time to come, as we did at Pearl
Harbor.” He told the Senate Mil
itary Committee “This nation
must preserve a balanced and ade
quate measure, our land, sea and
air power, lest we lose the peace
we so dearly bought.”
In World War II, he said,
United States had to achieve a
change to a unified command in
“the hard way.” He added “I know
our efforts would meet failure
without a unity of direction. No
system of joint command could
possibly have brought victory for
our cause.” i
HEIRESS AND FRIEN D— Barbara Hutton, Wool
worth heiress who recently won a divorce from screen actor Gary
Grant, and actor Phil Reed take time out for a snack while watch
ing play at the Los Angeles Tenuis Club.
Cruiser Boise j
Sighted Jap
Attacking Fleet
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—f/P)—
Republicans raised the question
of whether the American Cruiser
Boise sighted at sea the Jap fleet
that attacked Pearl Harbor, but
failed to report it because of or
ders for “radio silence.” Rep.
Gearhart, member of the Senate
and House committee investigat
ing the disaster, asked Inglis to
investigate and determine “whe
ther the officers and crew' of the
Boise sighted the attacking Jap
fleet during the first week in De
cember.”
Inglis agreed with Gearhart and
said he had information of a
“fight aboard the Boise over whe
ther they should break the orders
for radio silence and report it.
The captain decided they should
not.”
Two Killed In
Street Battle j
In Seattle
SEATTLE, Nov. 16 — (/P) — A
veteran Seattle police officer, Fred ,
Hull, about fifty, and a Negro
gunman, Eugene Moszee, 21, died
and another police officer was
wounded as the result of a blaz
ing gun battle in Seattle last night.
Hull exchanged shots with Mos
zee, a service station attendant,
and was killed when he took
refuge in the gas station lubrica
tion room after fleeing from a
Madison street beer tavern. Pa
trolman Ralph Osborn, wounded
in the ankle, reported to police
that when Moszee was thrown out
of the bar he drew a knife.
Soybean meal is used in mak
ing plastics, glues, casein and cel
luloid substitute.
Navy Ordered
Convoys Before
Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—MP1—
The Navy ordered convoying of
merchant shinping in the Pacific
twelve days before the Jap attack
on Pearl Harbor, the Senate and
House inquiry committee learned.
Admiral Inglis put into the record
of the disaster investigation a
copy of an order issued November
twenty-fifth, 1941.
Admiral Stark was then chief
of naval operations. Stark instruc
ted naval officials in San Fran
cisco to route all merchant ship
ping on the southern route, and to
“provide the necessary escort.”
A Jap message from Tokyo, in
tercepted nearly a month before
Pearl Harbor describe Roosevelt
as believing then that Japan
would be “on the move soon.”
A message sent to Jap Ambas
sador Nomura on November 10,
1941, a “certain Cabinet member”
having told Nomura that Roose
velt and Secretary Hull didn’t be
lieve the impending “peace” con
ferences would alter the tense
diplomatic situation.
The messages were decoded and
translated by U. S. Army intelli
gence.
Senator Ferguson asked Ad
miral Inglis “Do you think the
people blame them for Pearl Har
bor?” “My opinion is they did con
tribute somewhat to Pearl Har
bor,” the witness replied.
LESTER D. HENDERSON
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Word has been received of the
death of Lester D. Henderson,
aged fifty-nine years, at Burlin
game, Calif. He was Commission
er of Education in the Territory
from 1914 until 1929, prior to
which he was superintendent of
Schools in Juneau. At the time of
death he was superintendent of
schools in Burlingame.
Success, Failure Of
Control Program
Up To Russia
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16——
Russia holds the key to the suc
cess or failure of the Anglo-Amer
ican contol program. American
officials say the next move is up
to Moscow, hence the immediate
future is viewed as an extremely
critical period by those who re
gard the existence of the atomic
bomb as probably the foremost
problem of diplomacy in the
world.
Truman, Attlee and King laid
the ground work yesterday for a
test of their proposal for the
United Nations organization to
create a special commission for
atomic energy.
Russia’s reaction may either be
made known quickly or withheld
until the United Nations hold its
organization meeting in London
the first week in January. Mean
while the world will probably
learn smoething more about
American thinking on the subject
tonight from Secretary Byrnes.
The State Department said
Byrnes would devote part of his
speech to the three power declar
ation when he appears at a testi
monial dinner in Charleston,
South Carolina.
Communists Fire
On Train Bearing
IT. S. Marines
SHANGHAI, Nov. 16 — (/P) —
U. S.-China theater headquarters
reported that a train bearing Maj.
Gen. DeWitt Peck, First Marine
Division commander was under
fire in a Communist occupied
North China village yesterday.
Gen. Peck was not injured, but
requested United States planes to
strafe the village if the firing con
tinued.
Headquaters disclosed that Lt.
Gen. Wedemeyer, commanding
United States force in China in a
careful reply authorized “appro
priate military action,” but only
after considerable warning to the
village and adequate precautions
to avoid endangering innocent
persons.
Headquarters was unable to
confirm Tientsin reports that Ma
rines aboard the train had re
turned the fire.
DAUGHTER BORN TO MR.
AND MRS. ALLEN DAVIS
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Davis have
annouced the arrival of a new
daughter, Carolyn, at thier home
in Portland, Ore. Allen Davis, it
will be remembered, was sta
tioned here for three years with
the ACS, but is now a civilian,
and employed at KGW in Port
land, Ore.
In the 18th century in France,
every window was taxed.
Thanksgiving
Proclaimed For
November 22
(Special to The Nome Nugget*
WHEREAS, following time-hon
ored custom, the people of Amer
ica have set aside Thanksgiving
Day as a national holiday to ex
press their gratitude for the many
blessings they have received, and
WHERAS, the succesful termin
ation of the greatest war in his
tory, resulting in the uncondition
al surrender of our enemies, and
the reestablishment of peace,
gives the American people special
cause for thankfulness, and an
opportunity for rededication to
the principles for which we have
successfully fought, and
WHEREAS, the President of
the United States has proclaimed
Thursday, November twenty-sec
ond. of this year, Thanksgiving
Day for the Nation, now,
THEREFORE, I, Ernest Gruen
i ing. Governor of the Territory of
Alaska, do hereby pro claim
1 Thursday, November twenty-sec
! ond, to be Thanksgiving Day
throughout the Territory of Alas
ka, and a legal holiday.
Russia Has Not
Withdrawn From
Manchuria
PEIPING, Nov. 16— (IP) —Chi
an g’s Nationalist troops will begin
a mass movement “quite soon,”
into Manchuria in air transport
turned over to China by America.
A spokesman of Chiang’s said the
destination was Changchun, capi
tal of Manchuria, which uncon
firmed reports say is in the hands
of Chinese Communists after the
withdrawal of the Russians.
An official Chinese government
dispatch received in Chungking,
said the Russians had yielded the
control of Changchun's postal tel
egraph facilities to a handful of
Chinese government authorities,
which indicated that the Russians
had not yet completed the planned
withdrawal from Manchuria.
Military Court
Convicts Prison
(lam pCotn vna tula tit
LUENEBERG, Nov. 16— (A>) —
Josef Kramer, commandant of
Belsen and Oswiecim prison
camps, and two other main de
fendants, were convicted by the
Briitsh Military Court of commit
ting atrocities nad brutalities.
The others convicted were Dr.
Fritz Klein and Irma Grese, 22,
chief among foryt-five as guards
tried in the nine-weeks’ trial.
The first known zoological gar
den was founded in China in 1100
B.C., and was called the Intelli
gence park.