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VOL. XL VIII. No. 111. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER~16, 1946 PER COPY— 15c
New Steamer
To Be Built In
JB. C. Shipyard
SEATTLE, Sept. 16, —(/P)— A
5,000-ton passenger steamship, ex
pected to be ready for service be
tween British Columbia and Alas
ka in 1948, will be built in an-;
couver, B. C., for the Canadian
| National, a Pacific coast steam
ship company, company officials
disclosed today.
#The $3,000,000 vessel, largest
passenger ship to be constructed
in Western Canada, will be built
at the Yarrow plant of Burrard
Dry Dock Company, Ltd.
Work on the vessel will be un
dertaken as quickly as materials
are available, the company said.
Football Stars
Should Be Drafted
$ays Truman
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 16,—(/P)—
President Truman reportedly sug
gested to State Draft Boards the
induction into military service of
football stars who have left West
Point and Annapolis to play at the
^>ld home school, the Commer
cial Appeal said today in a copy
righted story.
Such action, the story added,
would affect Thomas (Shorty) Mc
Williams of Mississippi State, Clyde
Scott of Arkansas, and Notre
Dame’s Box Kelly.
No comment was immediately
available from the White House.
4 U. S. Soldiers Get
3 yrs. - No Pay - D.D.
TOKYO, Sept. 16, — (&)—Four
American soldiers were sen
tenced by a general courtmartial
today to three years imprisonment,
forfeiture of all pay and dishonor
able- discharge upon their pleas
• of- guilty to stealing and selling
hospital .supplies from the 29th
Medical Depot.
Remove Dam To.
Build Up Salmon
SEATTLE, Sept. 16—(/Py—State
Fisheries Director Milo Moore
> disclosed yesterday ;the Cedar
creek dajn. on the Lewis Oliver
*7 has been removed in an effort to
build dp salmon and trout runs
in the ftreasfL *:• V: : »• - -
•. The rd«m- was.bui# uv 187flito
provide, .power .for . jl grist. rajlL ‘
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THREE* W AR VETERA N—The U. S. frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides), whose career
began in the War of 1812, soon will be reopened to visitors at Boston navy yard.
Portland Swim Star
Wins Western Title
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 &—(£»)
—Nancy Merki of Portland’s suc
cessful defending champion Mult
nomah Athletic Club today boost
ed her bid for the American
Olympic Team with three firsts
and a meet record . in the far
Western AAU Swimming and
Diving Championships.
The Multnomah Club accumu
lated 49 points to defend its wo
men’s Division title against San
Francisco Crystal Plunge, with 34.
Killed
Eight Injured-...
Bombay Rioting '
BOMBAY, :5et>t.fr 16;, 0»e
person was killed. and. eight in
jured today in renewed communal
rioting in Bombay, bringing the
casualty total for the past two
weeks up to 258 dead and ‘790
injured.
.• In -scattered disert*ders in Bom
bay ahd^elsewhere,-ten were Trilled
and 44 injured ove^th? w^ek-end.
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NORTHWEST AIRLINES
STARTS DAILY SERVICE
NOME TO SEATTLE
Faster service for residents in
Nome traveling to the West Coast
went into effect last week when
Northwest Airlines ’ inaugurated
daily, direct flights between An
chorage -and Seajttle, following
certification by the. CAB last
month.
Northwest makes no stops on
its run, flying direct to Seattle
from Anchorage. , . •. *
Planes in operation are DC-4’s,
which carry 44 passengers. Pi
lots on this run hold senior ratings
and have had .extensive flying ex
perience durihg the war wijen they
transported personnel 'and equip
ment under army contract, be
tween the States and various ar
my Installations iri the Territory.
'A. B.- Hayes is the Alaska Re
gional Traffic Manager for North
west/ ' ’ Personnel in:' Alaska will
be made, up of local peQpte, famil
iar with Alaskan conditions, and
<x>mpapy people, frcjm the States
familiar .yrith Northwest proced
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Prison Camp C.O.
And Dr. Sentenced
Shanghai, Sept. 16, —(/P)—Capt.
Jiochi Kuwashima, chief medical
officer of the prison camp in which
General Wainwright was held in
Mukden, Manchuria, was convict
ed of war crimes today and sen
tenced to death by hanging.
The four-man American mili
tary tribunal also sentenced Col.
Genki Matsuda, camp command
ant, and sentenced him to seven
years imprisonment at hard labor.
Vet Paratrooper
Falls 3000 ft To
Death, Chute Fails
BOWLING GREEN, O., Sept. 16
—Gordon Lahm&n, 18, of Eagle
Rock, Calif., ortly* 10 days out. of
a paratrooper, regiment, dropped
3,000. feet to his death before a
crowd of 1,000 at a “Flying Tiger
Air Circus” here yesterday, when
his main chute failed to open.
A verse “The Paratrooper’s
Prtyer,* was lortiifd irt his cidthitig!
‘‘CHjty, gory* what * jhelhrite way
to j|4e-..t^f< .this* is; jny.^ast
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UNDATED Maritime Strike-Sept.
16. —'/P)—The twelfth day of the
nationwide maritime strike found
( New York City’s waterfront tense
today with threats of clashes be
tween thousands of picketing CIO
seamen and AFL longshoremen
I under instructions not to “respect
any commy picket line.”
i CIO National Maritime Union
leaders hauled out their most for
I midable weapon—the massed pic
1 ket line with marchers so close
I ly linked it is virtually impossi
ble to squeeze through—as nego
j tiations to end the walk-out col
! laDsed.
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CIO leaders said last night there
might be trouble if the AFL long
shoremen attempt to break the
picket lines as they did Saturday
to help unload the SS George
Washington.
Fourteen liners with more than
6,000 passengers—half of them ar
my or navy personnel—were due
in New York port during the day.
Many of the longshoremen were
on the job along the waterfront
but they had not passed picket
lines to get there. Some men,
anxious to return to work after
11 days of idleness, reported for
work early, before the CIO p.ck
ets were dispatched for duty
Joseph P. Ryan, president of the
AFL Longshoremen, was cover
ing the waterfront this morning
urging his men to go to work
where steam was up and winches
could be worked.
“We don’t respect any commy
picket lines,” he said. “If the
AFL seamen will give us steam,
we’ll work.”
There was no indication that
AFL seamen, who had the sup
port of CIO seamen in the early
days of the strike, would return
to work until members of the ri
val union, too, had won a pay
raise.
Nazi Spy Ring
Members Arrested
SHANGHAI, Sept. 16, <;P>—Ar
rest in Peiping of four more al
leged members of the Bureau Ehr
hardt was announced by American
intelligence officers today as 23
Nazis accused of Operating the
Far East spy network went on
trial here before a four-man Am
erican military commission.
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No Casualties When
Hand Grenade Hit
‘ATHENS,' gept. 16,—<#>—Police
said today that a hand grenade
was thrown at one of their pat
rols in the fasfiloriable fcolonaki
section' d! Tthens this mornihg but
|here> wore ho -pesuaWies.
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