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VOL. XLVII. No. 132 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMB?R 2, 1 9 4 5 ~PER"cOPY— 15?
1 R-29s Make First
Non-Stop Flight. j
Japan-Washington
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— (JP) —
Four B-29s, carrying forty-three
tired by happy men home from
war, completed the first non-stop
flight from Japan to Washington
in twenty-seven hours, twenty
nine minutes.
Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong,
Jr., deputy commander of the
Twentieth Air Force, led the flight
to the home landing at Washing
ton National airport at 1:38 p.m.,
Nome time, Thursday. The dis
tance is figured at six thousand
five hundred forty-four miles.
It was the Army’s second at
tempt to make the trip non-stop.
The first attempt on September
eighteenth and nineteenth fell
short of its goal because of con
stant adverse winds. The three j
plane flight sat down at Chicago
to refuel.
Both flights followed roughly
the same route of the great circle
across the Pacific by way of Agat
tu, Kodiak, the Aleutians, Sitka,
Alaska, Fort St. John, Winnipeg,
and thence eastward across the
United States.
General Armstrong, smil i n g
through grime and two days’
growth of beard, said the weather
was “terrible”. On this flight also,
that did not know until they had
reached Kodiak, Alaska, whether
they would make it. But as it
turned out his plane landed with
eight hundred gallons of fuel,
enough for about three hours fly
ing.
Gen. Armstrong said the plane
took off from a field near Sap
poro, capital of Hokkaido, north
ernmost of the major Japanese
islands, during a rain. They had
a helping tail wind of about forty- i
five miles an hour part of the way
and made the best average ground
speed of two hundred ninety miles
per hour between Fort St. John
and Winnipeg.
Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker, deputy com
mander of American Air Forces,
who was on hand to greet the air
men, said the flight was “primar
ily for the purpose of pioneering
the new ‘great circle’ route.”
JUMPING JIVE
DUBLIN— (/P) —Girls going to
the movies or dances, instead of
giving themselves a dash of per
fume, are using flea powder. Dub
lin is visited by a plague of fleas.
Bermuda is 077 miles southeast
of New York.
MODEL OF. BRITISH PLAN E—This is a model of the giant Brabazon plane now under
construction in England. It will carry 224 day passengers or 80 sleeping passengers.
Chinese Troops
Landing In
Manchuria
CHUNGKING, Nov. 2 — (/P) —
Chinese government troops are
pouring from U. S. transports and
began reoccupation. The landings
at the two ports in Manchuria
were on the same day the Rus
sians were scheduled to begin
withdrawing from the country.
The army paper Sao Tang Pao
reported Japan had wrested Man
churia from China in nineteen
thirty-one by landing at points on
opposite sides of Liaotung bay.
On one side Chiang Kai-Shek’s
men went ashore at Hulutao, sev
enty miles northeast of the scene
of clashes between his soldiers
and Chinese Communists in the
area of Chunwangtao. On the east
side the troops landed at Yinkow,
a hundred miles southwest of
Mukden, one hundred forty miles
north of Port Arthur.
Both Yinkow and Hulutao have
rail connections with Mukden.
Meanwhile, as scattered fighting
occurred in eleven northern prov
inces in China, a central govern
ment spokesman charged anew
that Chinese Communists threat
ened to fire on any government
soldiers landed by U. S. ships in
Communist “liberated areas.”
Happy Landings
LONDON—(A31)—Some 1,500 U.
S. airmen found brides in one
Northamptonshire district where
several American airfields were
located.
Communications
Following are a few telegrams
sent and received by Mayor Ed
ward M. Seidenverg Tuesday, fol
lowing the storm:
From Ernest Gruening, Anchor
age, Alaska,
To Mayor Seidenverg, Nome,
Alaska.
Please wire me government col
lect at Anchorage if Governor’s
office can assist Nome in any way,
either directly or through other
government agencies.
From Edward M. Seidenverg,
Mayor, Nome, Alaska.
To Hon. Ernest Gruening, Gov
ernor, Anchorage, Alaska.
Retel news reports of damage
Nome grossly overrated. Storm
has gone down, water now calm.
Stop. Considerable damage done
to business houses on South side
of Front Street. No pepole home
less. Stop. Base Commander,
without consulting any city offi
cials has placed us under martial
law. Help rendered by soldiers
and Army equipment was needed
and appreciated. Martial law was
unnecessary. Appreciate your
kind offer of assistance but be
lieve unnecessary at this time. If
conditions develop where I deem
necessary will call upon your of
fice for help.
Washington, D. C., Nov. 1, 1945
To Mayor Edward Seidenverg,
Nome, Alaska.
A b b r eviated newspaper ac
counts here have told of heavy
damage in storm. Stop. If there is
(Continued on Page Five)
Asks Congress To
Raise Salaries
.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— </P) —
The Administration added force
to President Truman’s appeal for
higher wages for industry by urg
ing Congress to grant a straight
twenty per cent salary increase to
Federal and civil service em
ployes. The Senate committee also
was notified that Truman also
wants the pay for members of
Congress, Cabinet officers and
federal judges raised ten thou
sand dollars a year generally. In
creases were also asked for other
government officials.
Manila Witnesses
Testify To Jap
Beastialilv
MANILA, Nov, 2—</P)—Chinese
Spanish and Filipino witnesses
who hysterically cursed the Japs
and screamed death to Yamashita,
threw the war criminal trial of
the former Philippine commander
in chief into a continual turmoil.
Members of the prosecution
faff and interpreters both were
required to quiet a Chinese wo
man, whose four year old son was
snatched from her arms and re
peatedly bayoneted. The woman
testified she had lost nine out of
twelve of her family, and had
seen women and children slain
and raped when thirty-nine Chi
nese were herded into a lumber
yard and murdered on February
tenth last.
“I’d like to kill that Jap man,"
I she screamed in Chinese at Yama
1 shita, as she finished her testi
mony and leaped to her feet.
Scenes “so beastial it is hard to
, find words to describe them,"
I were related by witnesses of the
mass slaying of five hundred to a
thousand civilians who had taken
refuge in the German club on the
same day.
SCYTHE TRICK
POCATELLO, Idaho — (fi>) —
When the handles on John Hay
den’s scythe wore out he fitted it
with steer horns. The horns are
smooth and their natural curves
fit his hands even better, says
Hayden, than manufactured hnn
! dies.
Fairbanks Fndorsed For Direct Air
Route From Alaska To Fast Coast
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2— UP) —
The Interior Department and the
Port of New York Authority have
endorsed Fairbanks, Alaska, as a
direct air route from Alaska to the
industrial east. The establishment
of such a route with Chicago and
New York as co-terminals in the
United States has been recom
mended by CAB. Arguments
against this recommendation and
applications by others for Alaska
Pacific airlines are being heard
by the board.
Norman C. Stines, mining en
gineer, representing Fairbanks,
asserted the route from Chicago
and New York to Alaska, via
Seattle would be very circuitous.
“Seattle is no longer the sole gate
way to Alaska,” he insisted, and
added that flying conditions
across Canada would be immeas
urably better than from Seattle
up the west coast.
The recommendation of CAB
examiners for certification of
Alaska Airlines operate a route
between Seattle and Anchorage,
Alaska, has been protested by
John S. Wynne, representing a
group of small Alaskan airlines.
Wynne asserted that Alaska Air
lines routes now parallel about
ninety percent of those of all
other carriers in the Territory,
and that the added advantage of
a link with United States mail
contracts place it in too strong a
competitive position, “the board
should take a second hard look at
this thing.”