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VOL. XLVIII. No. I NOME. ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUA 2, 1 9 4 6 PER COPY_15c
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2— UP) —
Supreme Court set aside the
’ eviction of three members of
“fundamentalist” cut who are
arged with violating the Lind
Fm-gh kidnaping act. Thirty-two
Men and women were convicted in
^deral court in Salt Lake City
• .! transporting a girl of fourteen
*r »m Utah to Mexico to become
ihn polygamous wife of one of the
rn *n, William Chitwin, 68. The de
■tL ;ion was eight to nothing. Justice
rv9juckson didn’t take part. Justice
Murphy said the purpose of the
** ndbergh act was to “outlaw in
"state kidnapings rather than
general transgressions of immoral
ly involving the crossing of state
ines.”
DUGWAY, Utah, Jan. 2—(/P)—
•'te Public Relations officer of
J:e Army proving grounds here
viid three soldiers had been found
lead from denatured alcohol poi
ling in their barracks. Lt. Theo
» ■ re Pimper, base public relations
uficer said the men apparently
tained the alcohol from clean
■ stocks at the base and decided
have a New Years paryt.
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LITCHFIELD, England, Jan. 2
—Fifteen people were killed
dien a freight train telescoped
four coach passenger train stand
.•nt; in a railway station. The re
val of the dead and injured was
♦- ndered by darkness.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 2—(/P)—Five
# Mies, burned beyond recognition
' y *re found in the wreckage of a
Tv in-engined Cessna private trans
’n'rt plane on a hillside near Lake
i! >dges, north of here, by a ground
search party. The plane was pilot
ed by Robert Baer, of La Jolla, and
fjjj disappeared in a flight from El
i so to San Diego. It was last re
t ' If ted attempting to land at Lind
Jkjrrgh Field, here, in a storm on
Mjlb* night of Dec. 21.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2—(/P)—Wil
'M?®m O’Dwyer, 55, native of Ire
• md, was inaugurated Mayor of
cNew York City, to which he came
» twenty-five dollars in his
kets in 1910, and whose streets
once poupded as a cop. Three
■V.Tn Fiorello LaGuardia, didn’t
Tr k reelection. O’Dwyer formally
i pk responsibility of the twenty-,
ve thousand dollar a year job.
'e ceremonies were held in the
liyor’s flower-decked office in
s City Hall.
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Lumber consumption exceeded
’ oduction by 4,200,000,000 board
’ .*t in the United States in 1943.
PLANE AND MOTHER SHI P—Two jet-propelled P-59 Alracomets In the
radio remote control aircraft project developed by the Air Technical Service Command and Bell
Aircraft Corporation are shown in test flight over a field at Niagara Falls, N. Y. At top is the
“mother” or control ship, and below the controlled or “robot” aircraft.
Kaltembrunner
War Crimes
Trial Begins
NEURNBERG, Jen. 2—OP)—'The
international military tribunal
heard testimony about Ernst Kal
tembrunner, former head of the
Gestapo who personally ordered
the execution of twelve to fifteen
Americans including OP) war cor
respondent Joseph Morton. Mor
ton and a group of members of the
office of strategic services was
captured late in 1944, far behind
the German lines in Slovakia.
They were put to death without a
trial.
The elongated Kaltembrunner
was absent from court as the case
against him personally was start
ed. He is recovering from a cran- j
ial hemorrhage.
American prosecutors put in the
records of the war crimes trial of
Kaltenbrunner and twenty other j
ranking Nazis, the affidavit of
Adolph Zutter, adjustant at Maut-|
hausen murder camp, telling how
the Americans were brought in
from Slovakia.
An earlier affidavit said that
Kaltenbrunner personally visited
the Mauthausen camp and watch
Girl With Two
Heads Is Born
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BIRMINGHAM. England. Jan. 2
MP)—A girl with two heads was
born yesterday to the wife of an
American soldier, officials of Selly
Oak hospital said. The doctor who
examined the baby said she had a
very slight chance of living. He
said the infant apparently had
two sets of respiratory organs and
two heads breathing at different
rates. The hospital said both of
the child’s heads were perfect end
were attached by twin necks to
normal shoulders. The body of the
father was returned to the United
States last July.
REQUIEM MASS HELD FOR
LAMBERT VOSS
Requiem Mass was held this
morning at nine o’clock in the
Catholic Church for Lambert Voss,
who died last Saturday morning,
at the age of 78 years.
ed the Nazis gas victims. The court
also heard that Hitler personally
ordered 'the “slaughter to the last
man,” of all Allied parachute com
mando troops captured after Oc
tober 18, 1942.
Truman All Set
For Fight With
Balky Congress
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2— (<P) —
President Truman returned to
Washington from a cruise on the
Potomac, ready to carry his fight
for his legislative program direct
to the people, both by radio and
television. *
The Presidential yacht Wil
liamsburg, docked here this morn
ing. President Truman will speak
at 4:00 p.m., Nome time, tomor
row on all radio networks. This
is the first straight national ap
peal to knock loose in 1346 the
chucks a balky Congr/dff\a»«ed in'
1945 under his twenty-one point
legislative wagon.
On January 15, he will go be
fore Congress in person to deliver
the first televised Presidential
message. It is expected to be an
elaboration of his Thursday night
speech, which White House aides
described as an “overall report to
the nation.”
For every 1,000 workers on pay
rolls in the United States, 43 quit
each month, according to reports
to Government agencies.
200,000 Packers
Vote To Strike
CHICAGO, Jan. 2—kP)—A na
tionwide strike of approximately
two hundred thousand members
of the CIO United Packing House
Workers of America is called for
January 15, Lewis Clark, union
president, announced.
He said not only the large pack
ers, Swift, Armour, Wilson and
Cudahy, but also “most of the
smaller independent packing
plants” would be affected in the
strike, which involves one hun
dred forty-seven plants across the
nation.
The strike is being called, Clark
said, in support of the union’s de
mand for a twenty-five cent an.
hour wage increase. He said the
overall average hourly wage in.
the industry now is eighty-seven
cents an hour.
Emperor Hihohito
Says He Is
Not “Divine”
TOKYO, Jan. 2—(JP)—Emperor
Hirohito, in a surprise renuncia
tion of the myth that he was di- *
vine, started f..e New Year with a
bold gamble to hold his position
before anticipated fresh interna
tional attacks. His unprecedented
New Year’s Day rescript also
(rowned upon “radical tendencies”
is an evident play for the people's
support against the Jap Commun
ists, who advocate his overthrow.
The document further stung the
government lightly, but definitely,
for dilatoriness in solving the
problems of livelihood, in that it
indicated the Emperor’s continued
interest in political affairs.
General MacArthur promptly
applauded the unusually straight
forward rescript, and said it pro
pelled Hirohito into a “leading
part in the democratization of his
people.”
Enterprise To
Bring Stranded '
Troops Home
NEW YORK, Jan. 2—(/P)—'The
carrier Enterprise left for the
Azores to pick up the American
troops stranded there when the
transport Athos, bringing the men
home, was forced to put into port
for repairs. Lloyds of London, re
ported that thirty of the troop*
were injured severely aboard the
ship when it was damaged by a
hurricane in mid-Atlantic.