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Far Fast Situation
At A Glance
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Chinese Nationalists reportedly
gained twenty-five miles in a push
in rich Manchuria against light
Chinese Communist opposition,
while the Reds forecast early
flareups in central China.
A comparative lull has settled
over bleeding Java.
In Chungking the Communists
reported a hundred thousand
troops were massing along a one
^ hundred ten mile front against
two Red armies in Honan and Hu
peh provinces in Central China,
and predicted a “large scale” bat
tle soon.
The Nationalist army paper Ho
Ping Pao reported a twenty-five
mile gain to the Peiping Mukden
railroad town of Hingcheng, sixty
miles to the northeast fo the Shan
^aikwan gateway into Manchuria.
a cninese cabinet spokesman
said negotiaitons were under way
with Russia seeking Soviet coop
eration in moving Nationalist
forces in Manchuria and indicat
ing that Russia thus far had made
no move to help, although recog
nizing China’s full sovereignty
there.
In Manila Yamishita listened
^ approvingly as his chief of staff
Lt. Gen. Muto came to his defense
in the war crimes trial, denying
Yamachita’s responsibility for the
atrocities. Muto remarked had the
American invasion of Luzon come
one month earlier they would
have won the whole island “with
one blow.”
In the wake of recent serious
outbreaks in Batavia the Allied
Netherlands East Indies command
ordered gun waving native troops
•under Dutch command to with
draw from the Java capital.
Comparative quiet was reported
at Soderabaja, where Indonesian
extremists and Allies have been
battling.
Urge Development
Of McKinley Park
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CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 21—(£>)
—The Western Governor’s confer
ence urged Congress to make ap
propriations for development of
Mount McKinley National Park,
and Katmai Glacier Bay national
monuments in Alaska, to make
them available to the traveling
public, and recommended a Vet
c®ans Administration region of- j
fice for Alaska. '
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^ ? SAW CHURCH SPARE D—Almost alone in the midst of war’s rubble stands
_tnis Roman Catholic church in what was a ghetto section of the Polish capital of Warsaw.
Alaska Steamship
Strike Ended
SEATTLE, Nov. 21— CP) —An
agreement was reached in San
Francisco ending the Marine
Cooks and Stewards Association
strike which tied up the Alaska
Steamship’s fleet, Joseph Harris,
union business agent said. He no
tified the company office and con
firmed the word of settlement.
The first sailing will be the Yu
kon on Saturday.
Overtime claims sought by the
union will be paid. The issue of
a meeting place in the recreation
quarters will be turned o\er to a
referee for settlement, Harris said.
The company said the Yukon
will touch at Ketchikan. Juneau,
Cordova, Valdez, Seward and
other scheduled ports of call.
The Alaska will sail Nov. 28,
for Ketchikan, Wrangell, Peters
burg, Juneau, and Seward. The
Baranof will sail December first
for Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova,
Valdez, and Seward. The Denali
will said December fifth for
Ketchikan, Juneau and Seward.
FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY
FOR MARY KOMONASEAK
Friday afternoon at 2:00 funer
al services will be held for Mary
Komonaseak, at the Methodist
Church. The old native woman was
reputed to be 106 years old at the
time fo her death. Rev. R. Amund
son will conduct the services.
Alaska Victory
Loan Sales
| $477,000
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JUNEAU, Nov. 21 — The total
Victory Loan sales through No
vember tenth were $477,012.75, of
which E sales are $371,812.75. The
breakdown is as follows:
Eor E sales only—Fairbanks,
$233,043.50: Ketchikan, $42,593.75;
, Anchorage, $34,300; Petersburg,
j $11,531.25; Juneau $11,100; Kodi
ak, $10,743.75; Seward $7,112.50;
| Cordova $5,906.25; Sitka $3,525;
J Wrangell $2,025; Haines $1,766,77;
' Nenana, $4,987.50.
No report as yet from Nome.
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THANKSGIVING SERVICES
AT LOCAL CHURCHES
Special Thanksgiving services
will be held at the Federated
Church tomorrow morning at
eleven o’clock by Rev. A. Cape
ner.
Special -Thanksgiving Services i
will be held at the Methodist Na
tive church at 7:30 Thursday eve
ning, by Rev. A. Amundson.
WXLN will broadcast a Thanks
giving message at 11:00 a.m.
The Nazarene Church will have
special Thanksgiving Services at
2:00 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.
The services will be followed, in
the old Quaker custom, by a
Thanksgiving feast in the church.
Japan’s production of oil is un
der three million barrels a year.
DeGaulle Forms
Coalition Govt.
PARIS, Nov. 21. i/P)—DeGaulle's
Chief of Cabinet said the presi
dent had formed a coalition gov
ernment, giving the Communists
five portfolios, including the new
ly created ministry of armaments,
which DeGaulle is scheduled to
present to the Constituent Assem
bly Friday.
In Morocco, the right hand is
the eating hand, and the only one
used to touch food.
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General Motors
Plants Closed
By Strike
DETROIT. Nov. 21—t/Pl—CIOs
United Auto Workers union struck
in the plants of General Motors.
The walkout is aimed at crippling
the gigantic producer force with
its thirty per cent wage rate boost
strike, the first big authorized
peacetime walkout of the U.A.W.
This is the CIO union’s first
such blow to General Motors since
the sit-down strike in 1937. It be
gan at eleven a.m. All General
Motors plants in twenty states,
employing close to two hundred
thousand production workers,
were ordered out in the long
threatened battle between Amer
ica’s largest labor union and its
largest operating corporation.
(ion. Eisenhower
Chief Of Staff
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| WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—f/P>—
I President Truman announeed the
| immediate retirement of General
Marshall and the nomination of
; General Eisenhower to succeed
i him as Chief of Staff. The Presi
, dent also told the news conference
that Admiral Nimitz would suc
ceed Admiral King as Chief of
Naval Operations shortly after
Christmas.
General Joseph McNarmer is to
succeed General Eisenhower as
commander o fthe U. S. forces in
Europe and Admiral Nimitz will
be succeeded as Commander in
Chief of the Pacific by Admiral
Spruance.
THANKSGIVING 1945
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This Thanksgiving Day of 1945 is the one
we have all been looking forward to. A
Thanksgiving Day without war! Our boys and
girls in service are coming home, or will he
home soon. Our loved ones are not in con
stant danger of their lives. So. let this be a
truly good old-fashioned Thanksgiving Day!
We must not forget the object of the day,
but be truly thankful for the rich blessings a
kind Providence has bestowed upon us as indi
viduals, and upon this community as a whole.