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VOL. XLIX. No. 154 NOME. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1947_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
DES MOINES, Iowa, (/P) — A
spectacular fire swept through
the Burris-Hatch Mover, Inc.,
warehouse Monday, destroying the
four-story building at a loss es
timated unofficially at more than
$1,000,000.
LOS ANGELES, </P)—A suit of
separate maintenance has been
filed against Capt. James H. Doo
little, Jr., 26, son of the air forces
general, by Mrs. Elva S. Doolittle,
25.
Her action, filed in superior
6 court Monday alleges cruelty and
asks custody of their 3-year-old
son, James III. Capt. Doolittle
filed suit for divorce at Dayton,
O., last December. He is stationed
at Wright field.
They were married last year.
They were separated last year.
WASHINGTON, (#*)—A starry
eyed, blonde young woman billed ;
modestly as “Margaret Truman, j
coloratura soprano,” had the na-1
tion’s capital at her feet today, and
the critics might say what they
pleased.
Wave after wave of applause—
in which the 23-year-old singer’s I
father, the President, joined i
beamingly — swept Constitution
Hall where Miss Truman wound j
up her coast-to-coast concert tour
before a eelebrity-studded audi
ence of 4,000 Monday night.
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SEATTLE, —Stokes Royal, j
a widower, and his son Jim, 13,
expected to be on their way to
Father Flanagan's Boy’s Town in
the middle west yesterday.
Instead they were at a hotel,
facing a bleak Christmas.
The two came here last week
from Anchorage, Alaska, on their
way east to Boys’ Town, where
Royal said he had accepted a job
> as a recreation worker.
But Monday morning, he found
that his wallet with about $150, all
his money, was missing.
JUNEAU, (iP)—W. Olen Stone
man, Seattle attorney, arrived
here yesterday to represent six
seamen accused of pilfering from
the freighter Coastal Rambler.
The seamen are bing held under!
$3500 bond each pending action by
the grand jury.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.,
(iP)—The little Brown Church in
the Valley here will be the rite
site Saturday night for the wed
ding of film actress Janis Paige
and Frank Martinelli, Jr., San
Francisco restauranteur. The Rev.
John H. Wells will officiate.
RENO, <>P)—A 20-year-old gun
man cornered in a crowded gam
bling casino, wounded three po
licemen early today, fled, com
mandeered a taxicab, robbed the
driver of $20 and was captured,
wounded, 50 minutes later in a
gun battle.
Police chief Clayton Phillips
said the youth gave his name as
Bobby Carter and his address as
a Reno hotel. Officers later re
ported his home town as Hunters
ville, W. Va.
Halt Deportation i
Proceedings
Against Greek
LAKE SUCCESS. (^—Deporta
tion proceedings against a Greek
Communist correspondent accred
ited to the United Nations were
postponed yesterday as U. S. offi
cials weighed the possibility that
the action violated an agreement
with the U. N.
The issue was raised bv U. N.
secretary general Trygve L;e, who
dispatched a telegram Tuesday
night to Warren Austin, chief U. S.
delegate, calling attention to a
provision in the agreement under
which the United Nations head
quarters was established here.
The agreement provides that no
correspondent accredited to the
world organization shall be com
pelled to leave the United States
i until the U. N. secretary general
1 has been consulted. Pointing out
that he had not been notified in
advance of the deportation pro
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Panama Refuses
To Grant U. S.
Air Bases
PANAMA, Panama, (IP)—Pana
ma’s national assembly unani
mously refused last night to rati
fy a signed agreement giving the
United States the right to lease
and man 14 military and airfield
sites as defense bases for the Pan
ama Canal.
The assembly’s action took the
form of a flat rejection of the pact
and seemed to close the door to
future negotiations informed
sources here expressed belief the
issue might wind up in the United
Nations or some international ar
bitration tribunal.
The rejection, voted 51 to 0,
touched off a wild celebration in
the capital. Thousands of persons
marched through the streets
shouting gleefully: • “It did not
pass.” In the midst of the demon
strators was former foreign min
ister Ricardo J. Alfaro, who re
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War-torn,. Bloody i
World Observes
Christmas Dav
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(By The Associated Press)
In a world tormented by bloody
strife, afflicted by the misery of
cold and hunger and distressed by j
the unsolved problems of peace, [
much of mankind began today the
celebration of the third Christmas
since the end of the war.
There was bloodshed in Pales-J
tine, Greece, China and Indochina.;
Hunger and cold were specters j
clouding the celebrations in much
of Europe, where there was a new
| world of belt tightening.
Wrangling among the victorious
powers left Germany, Austria and
Japan without peace treaties and
Communist pressure in the “cold
war” kept the governments of
western Europe vigilant.
Pope Pius XII, one of the most
powerful spokesmen for Christen
dom. protested vigorously in his
Christmas message against “the
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P. O. Dept. Gives
Xmas Present To
Seward Peninsula
WASHINGTON, <&)—The post
office department said yesterday
that full air mail service is being
set up for 28 postoffices in the
Seward Peninsula area, previous
ly operated on a restricted basis
during the winter.
Effective January tenth the de
partment said, all mailable matter
up to 70 pounds may be sent by
air mail to these Alaskan postof
fices the full air rate of five cents
an ounce must be paid. Packages
must be held to 100 inches in com
bined length and girth.
Until now, the movement of
mail to the Seward Peninsula be
j tween November 1 and April has
been restricted to letters, postal
cards, newspapers and magazines
and when conditions permitted,
| emergency shipments to individ
uals or articles urgently needed to
maintain health.
The following postoffices will
get the new service: Barrow, Can
dle ,Council Deering, Elim, Gam
bell, Golovin, Haycock, Igloo, Ki
ana, Kivalina, Kobuk. Kotzebue,
Koyuk, Moses Point, Noatak,
Nome, Noorvik, Point Hope, Sa
vr o o n ga, Selawik, Shishmaref.
Shungnak, Solomon, Teller, Wain
wright, Wales and White Moun
tain.
Wind And Rain
Deter
i Christian Pilgrims
1 BETHLEHEM. (>Pi—Cold, rain
| sodden winds swept the Judean
1 hills today as Christmas Eve pil
grims, thinned to a handful by un
ceasing strife in the Holy Land,
arrived in this birthplace of the
Prince of Peace for traditional ob
servances.
Many of them came from Jeru
1 salem, down the road over which
Joseph and Mary passed nearly 20
centuries ago today to seek and be
refused shelter at an inn. Their
goal was the Sacred Grotto of the
Nativity, on the site of the stable
where Joseph and Mdry found a
haven and where Christ was born.
Usually tens of thousands
throng this hillside village, sacred
to a third of mankind, for the
Christmas Eve ceremonies, but to
day far fewer braved the hazards
of communal strife to pray at the
place where the manger was.
In the grotto, there will be con
stant prayers until the early hours
of Christmas morning before the
little marble altar which repre
sents the straw-filled manger
where the baby Jesus lay. Services
also will be held in other shines in
the Church of the Nativity and in
the Franciscan Church of St. Cath
erine’s next door.
NOME MOTORS OPEN
NEW SHOWROOM
Nome Motors have completed a
new show room and reorganized
their office and former showroom
to take care of increased amount
of merchandise and business.
Many interesting household items
are now available as well as auto
motive supplies.