VOL. L. No. 153_NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1943_PER COPY—15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
MOSCOW, i/P)—Prime Minister
Joseph Stalin,' apparently healthy
and vigorous, reached his 69th
birthday yesterday.
As has been customary for some
years now, the Soviet press took
no note of the generalissimo’s
birthday.
ST. LOUIS, </P)—Wage negotia
tions between the Southwestern
Bell Telephone company and a
union of 50,000 employees in five
states failed to break a deadlock
Monday n».Tht and unauthorized
• walkouts in some areas were a
distinct possibility.
MANCHESTER, Englan.d UP)—
Seven Royal Air Force men were
killed early yesterday when their
Lancaster bomber crashed into an
1,800-foot mountain near here.
The plane burned after the’crash.
TOKYO, (jP)—The Tokyo news
paper Yohiriu reported six more
infants died yesterday from injec
tions of faulty anti-dyphtheria
serum. This would bring total fa
talities from the government’s
immunization program to 66.
KETCHIKAN, — The city
council has authorized the city
manager to buy as many parking
meters as are needed here. The
Ketchikan business association has
recommended their use.
CORDOVA, </P)—'This Alaskan
town has started ‘’power saving
time’’ to cut down on the use of
electricity. Clocks were set ahead
an hour several weeks ago. The
additional hour of daylight daily
should save the town's light users
$200 a month, an Alaska public
utilities spokesman said.
PHILADELPHIA, (JP) — Flames
swept a section of the Westminster
hotel in downtown Philadelphia
yesterday, killing two guests trap
ped on the third floor. Two other
guests and a fireman were burned.
Ninety-five persons escaped the
blazing inferno.
WASHINGTON, .-(A*) — Funeral
services will be held Thursday for
Dr. Hugh Scott Gumming, former
surgeon general of the United
States public health service, who
died here Monday night at the age
of 79.
The funeral will be.' held at
Hampton, Va., ;where he was born.
-After entering the public health
service in 1894, Dr. Gumming
served as its director from 1920 to
193& He was known for. his work
in quarantining such diseases as
smallpox and yellow fever, and
received numerous foreign decor
ations for his health work.
DAMASCUS, - (/P)—The Syrian
government- today banned the
American magazines Life - and
Newsweek because of what ’it
termed “increased Zionist propa
gartda.”
’ CHALK,. England, (JP) — The
Rev.'A'. W/ W. Bowihair quipped i
in his parish magazine: “A new
dance is being introduced in which
one step is forward and then two
backward. Proably it goes with
thp lafp«!t snnp ‘Civilization’.’’
Inlernation’l News
At A Glance —
•By The Associated Prses'
Tuesday, December 21, 1948
Dutch troops appeared today to
be cutting at will across transport
lines of the Indonesian republic in
central Java. Holland called the
fighting “police action” against
terrorists.
The Indonesians asserted frorrf
Singapore and Paris that heavy
fighting had broken out again in
Jigjakarta, the Republican capital
| which Dutch airborne troops cap
tured Sunday. Most ranking Indo
1 nesian politicians and the native
i commander-in-chief, Gen. Soeder
» #
j iman, are in Dutch custody.
The Indonesian spokesman at
the United Nations sessions at
Paris said he heard Jogjakarta
had been recaptured. A Dutch mil
itary spokesman in the Hague said
lie had heard the report but
1 thought it false. The Republicans
said 52 parachute troops had been
: killed in their capital and that
armed revolt had flared against
i the Dutch in dozen Javanese
I places.
American annoyance with the
j Netherlands was plain. Officials
in Washington said the Dutch “po
I lice action*’ may have dealt a
| body blow to efforts to curb com
• munism in .Southeast Asia and
may result in disorders the Reds
1 can explot. *
j The United Nations security
j council is to hear complaints to
! morrow from the U. S., India and
Australia against the Dutch.
Prime minister J. B. Chiefley of
Australia said his delegation will
I ask an immediate cease fire order,
1 enforceable by economic or other
i sanctions. An American spokes
man said the U. S. has given up
j hope of getting Dutch troops to
i withdraw to their old lines in
'.Java and Sumatra.
A Dutch communique said ma
| rines have captured Toeban, Re
publican port on the north shore
of Java, and moved into the out
skirts of Bodjonegoro, a road cen
ter 25 miles southwest.
The lower house of the Dutch
parliament supported government
policy in the rich islands, 88 to 8
with only the communists dissent
ing. The Netherlands contends the
Republicans sabotaged negotia
tions for a projected United States
of Indonesia. The Dutch starting
their military action said they
would set up a federal interim re
gime without the Republic.
One report said the Indonesian
Republic might establish a gov
ernment in exile, probably in In
dia, during the day. The situation
seemed quite likely to produce a
long guerrilla war.
Nationalist China moved closer
to utter collapse.
• Pro-government newsp a p e r s
said Tientsin, the major industri
al center of North China* .is com
pletely isolated. The advancing
communists had towns 10 ancf 17
miles from'the city. -
Peiping, the ancient capital and
main city in the north, was cut off
completely. The modern capital of
Nanking was brought even closer
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Philip Martin
Sentenced To
Life Imprisonment
! _
Philip Martin, who pleaded
! guilty to murder in the second de
gree of Luella Grant in September
, was sentenced Tuesday morning
! in the U. S. District Court.
Speaking in his defense Attor
ney C. C. Tanner stated that he
! was convinced from the talks that
[ he had had with Philip that the
I act was not premeditated and that
' Philip remembers but vaguely
i what happened.
Judge J. Kehoe, before pro
nouncing sentence stated that he
had weighed all factors in the
case carefully and given the mat
ter several days’ study. He also
stated he felt a lone woman of
sixty-one years of age was an easy
victim for an intruder in her
home.
Philip Martin was then sen
! tenced to life imprisonment in a
! penitentiary.
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ARC Supts. Will
Meet Jan. 17
—
Col. John Noyes, who made the
| statement in the Monday issue of
the Nugget that he was in accord
' with the road program of the
Chamber of Commerce, when in
! terviewed Monday stated that
there would be a meeting of Road
Commission superintendents on
j Jan. 17th at which time the pro
gram for next year’s work would
be discussed and presented for
1 the approval of the Legislature.
I He stated that in addition to the
; road program he felt Nome de
i partment of the Road Commission
was badly in need of a new depot, j
as the bulidings now used were in- j
adequate and the location badly
crowded. Superintnedent John
j Hudert, he stated, had a site in
mind about 2V£ miles from town, ;
but it was his opinion that the de- j
; pot should be in Nome.
When questioned about the
great amount of money spent in
the 3rd and 4th Division in com
parison to the amount spent in the i
1st and 2nd, he stated that federal!
funds were used which were des-i
ignated for definite projects, pri- j
marily for military use and could :
not be divided by Judicial Divi
sion. . . , ;;
Cob Noyes plans to return to
Anchorage today with Alaska'Air
lines and be home in Juneau for
Christmas. : .
Western Allies Set
Up Three Power
Govt. In Berlin
BERLIN, f/P) — The United
States,’ Britain apd ... France an
nounced yesterday a three-power
government., for Berlin. . \yitholit
Russian participation.
The' French comma ncf ant, Gen.1
Jean Ganeval, read a three-power
statement saying:
“If Soviet authorities either
now or at some future date, decide
to abide by the agreement to
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Seven Jap W ar
Leaders Executed
TOKYO, — War Prem.er
Tojo and six other convicted war
crimes leaders, were hanged last
night.
The seven were convicted of
plotting and waging aggressive
war in the Pacific and the Far
Ea.'t. An 11-nation Allied tribunal
sat in judgment on them for 2xi
year.
Headquarters has announced
that bodies of the former cabinet
members and military leaders will
be cremated. To prevent enshrine
ment of the war criminals, their
families will be denied their ashes.
U. S. Eighth Army was in
charge of the execution. General
MacArthur refused clemency to
any of the 25 class “A” war
crimes defendants convicted by
the international tribunal. The 18
others received prison terms—16
of them for life.
Two of the condemned men ap
pealed in vain for intervention of
the United States Supreme Court.
The court decided Monday it had
no jurisdiction.
ECA Suspends
Chinese Building
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Paul G.
Hoffman said yesterday the Eco
nomic Co-operation Administra
tion had suspended all construc
| tion projects in China. It had al
lotted $70,000,000 for that pur
pose.
The ECA administrator told re
porters about the suspension after
talking with President Truman at
the White House.
Hoffman returned only Monday
from a flying inspection trip of
ECA work around the world. He
visited China on the rtip.
Hoffman said the decision to
hold up the reconstruction spend
ing in China until the situation
clears in that strife-torn country
was made during his recent visit
to Shanghai.
Dismiss Hilky
Robinson Case
Hilky Robinson, who was given
a thirty day suspended sentence in
city court last week for giving
liquor to an intoxicated person,
appealed the case. The, appeal
started Tuesday afternoon in the
IT. S. District Court.'
Jhrors were drawn and the casef
continued this morning when the
case was dismissed by District
Judge Joseph E. Kehoe, on a tech
nicality, on. motion of attorney
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HARP CONCERT DELAYED
UNTIL JANUARY 14
Word was received at. noon to
day that. (Margo Freeman, harpist
who was scheduled to present a
qoncert in Nome next week, has
“been ’forced' to ’delay' tier 'trip as
*he Alaska Airlines- was unable t<x
ship her harp until January 1C
The reason given being that their
huge backlog of freight prohibits
the acceptance of any more freight
until that time.
Two AI ^ Laborers
Beaten Up; Closes
Port Of Seattle
SEATTLE. I/Pi—An AFL water
front union’s charge that two of
its men had been beaten up on the
job closed the Port of Seattle
again today.
Five army transports were
among 35 ships affected by the
walkout. CIO longshoremen were
unable to work the ships without
checkers, foremen and supercar
goes. The shutdown came just two
weeks after the end of the long
CIO coast maritime strike.
.lack Doyle, president of the
AFL-foremen’s union, and Pape
Crummer, head of the AFL check
ers, said in a joint statement after
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Guamanians Seek
Li. S. (Citizenship
GUAM, i/P)—The Assembly, the
lower house of Guam, voted t(xiay
to petition the U. S. Congress for
citizenship for Guamanians.
The resolution, passed after a
' heated debate, ended a 17-month
truce under which the Guam con
gress had asked that the U. S.
naval government be continued in
full control of the civilian popula
tion of this central Pacific island
fortress.
The resolution said Congress
j had delayed for 50 years defining
i the civil rights and political rep
! reservation for Guamanians as
promised in the Treaty of Paris
| with Spain.
33 Burn In Air
(Crash In China
HONGKONG iVPi—A Shanghai
j Hongkong C-54 Skymaster of the
Chinese National Airlines Corp.,
crashed and burned off Hongkong
1 yesterday and the 33 persons on
board were feared dead, the CNAC
! announced here.
The plane left Shanghai Tues
day morning and became lost in a
fog. It was reported to have
crashed at Bafalt Island, after los
ing contact with the airport here.
SHANGHAI, <#») — Local avia
tion sources said that Quentin
Roosevelt was on the Chinese air
liner which crashed and burned
near Hong Kong yesterday with
the possible loss of all 33 persons
aboard.
The grandson of President Theo
dore Roosevelt is a vice-president
of the Chinese National Airlines
corporation. It was a CNAC C-54
Skymaster which crashed on Ba
falt Island, 10 mlies from Hong
Kong.
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