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DONATIONS TO CRIPPLED
CHILDREN COMING IN
Mrs. Donald Lyle, local chair
man for the Alaska Crippled Ch;l
% dren’s Association reports that the
sale of cook books is well under
I way and that $375.00 has already
been collected from them in Nome.
The jar which is kept in the Ne
vada has yielded $14.62 in volun
tary contributions and the Bering
Sea Club $87.59 to date.
She wishes to extend apprecia
tion to all those who have con
tributed to this worthy cause.
Maternal deaths In childbirth
reached a record low of 44 per
< 10,000 live births in the United
States in 1946.
Jap Students Favor
Gen. MacArthur
$
TOKYO, (A*) — General MacAr
thur polled more votes than Em
peror Hirohito on a Japanese
Communist in balloting among
high school students as to whom
they respected most.
The poll was conducted at Iizu
ka school, in Fukushima Prefec
ture north of Tokyo. The supreme
commander received 332 votes
Hirohito, 328, and Kyuichi Toku
da, secretary general of the Jap
anese party, 141.
Prime minister Tetsu Katayama
received 40.
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THE PASSING PARADE
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A STYLE REVUE
from the Beginning of Nome
- by
The Gals Who Wore Them Then
and
Those Who Wear ’Em Now
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* THE PIONEER ROOF GARDEN
DECEMBER 20th
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and Express
Outbound on Flight 6
A Deadline 11:30 A.M.
U. S. Poorly
Prepared For War
With Russia |
WASHINGTON, (/P)—A leader
of the army’s reserve officers de
clared yesterday this country is,
“making faces at Russia” with
neither the military force nor mili-}
tary training to back it up.
Brig. Gen. E. A. Evans, execu-:
tive director of the reserve offi-!
cers association, told reporters the
nation’s defenses are suffering;
from poor leadership “at the Pen-1
tagon”—headquarters of the new j
national defense department.
He said at a news conference j
he and other reserve officers are
ready to tell Congressional com
mittees that:
1. The manpower of the army is
declining “at an alarming rate”!
because the volunteer system of j
recruiting has failed.
2. The national guard, supposed ,
to have 680,000 men ready for any j
“mobilization day” emergency, |
actually has only 200,000 “poorly
equipped” troops. The morale of;
the organized reserves is "so bad
ly shot that I doubt you could get
together 20 per cent of the men in
an emergency.”
Evans said that in the organized
reserve only one out of five
among the 500,000 officers and
only one out of 24 among the 680,
000 enlisted men have received
any instructions on what to do in
a national emergency.
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ORDER OF EASTERN STARS
HOLD INSTALLATION
In a beautiful candlelight cere- j
mony with Christmas decorations |
in the Masonic Temple the Order
of Eastern Star held their installa
tion last Monday evening before
the assembled members and in-,
vited guests.
Officers installed were Mrs. Gus
Steinwandel, W. M.; Frank Love,
W. P.; Mrs. Luther Dunba^, A. M.;
Ben Gillette, A. P.; Mrs. Robert
Long, secretary; Mrs. Emma Lyle, I
treasurer; Mrs. Stanley Morgan,
conductress; Mrs. Karl Dewey,
Ass. Conductress; Mrs. Ben Gill- j
ette, chaplain; Mrs. M. Day, or
ganist; Mrs. Ben Young, Mrs. T.
McAllister, Mrs. John Fults, Mrs.
Earl Coulthard and Mrs. Bernard
Smith, star points; Mrs. Don Lyle,
warder; and W. E. Creamer, out
side guard.
Mrs. E. H. Mahon, outgoing
worthy matron, who was install
ing officer and Mrs. Herb Jenks,
who was marshall, did their work
beautifully; after which the
worthy matron and worthy patron j
were each presented with a past i
officer’s jewel by Emma Lyle and |
Antonio Polet.
Special music during the eve
ning was furnished by Mrs. My
Day, Mrs. Luther Dunbar and Mr. |
and Mrs. W. Boucher.
A lively Santa arrived, follow- i
ing the installation and handed
out presents lor all the “good lit- t
tie girls and boys’’ after which re-1
freshments were served and
Christmas carols sung.
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RICHARD LEES CLOSE
CAMP FOR SEASON
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lee, Sr.,
and their two sons Allen and Rich
ard, Jr. arrived from Solomon
yesterday, having closed down
their dredges for the season.* Rich
ard will fly to Hollywood to join
his family and Allen is enroute to
Fairbanks which is now hiS home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Sr., left yester
day to visit in Fairbanks before
going south. j
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The south uses more cord wood
than any other region.
Find U. S. Weather
Pilots Dead
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WIESBADEN, (A3) — U. S. Air
force headquarters announced yes
terday that an American weather
plane, missing since Monday night
on a local flight, had been found
near Nierstein in the French occu
pation zone with both its occu
pants dead in the wreckage.
The crashed plane was discov
ered by Maj. Raymond E. Johnson
of Minneapolis, who landed his
light L-5 observation plane beside
it. The identity of the dead air
men was withheld pending notifi
cation of relatives.
Tokyo Residents
Look For Homes
TOKYO, i/P) — Kyodo news
agency took a look at this pros
! trate nation yesterday in the third
winter since the surrender, and
observed:
“One 1,600,000 persons are
searching with bloodshot eyes for
homes.”
A survey by the agency showed
19.000 families are living in shacks
and more than 2,000 families in
air raid shelters in Tokyo. De
stroyed by fire bombs were 769,
000 homes, and an additional 207,
000 were torn down for firebreaks.
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