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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—(/P)—
Twenty-one Congressmen have
given support to Western Air
Lines application to extend its
service from Great Falls, Mont.,
to Edmonton. Rep. Mansfield,
Montana Democrat said he for
warded to CAB a petition by west
erners asking approval of the com
pany’s application for the exten
sion. Mansfield said the route
would “provide the shortest and
r most direct connection to Alaska
and the Orient for thirteen million
people in the intermountain re
gion, comprising forty-one percent
of the area of United States.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—</P)—
The government’s program to
spur home construction will go
into effect January fifteenth, John
• Small, head of the Civilian Pro
duction Administration said. He
had ordered dwellings costing ten
thousand dollars or less be of
fered first to veterans, he told a
news conference. Top rent of
these dwellings will be eighty dol
lars a month.
NANKING, Dec. 21—(^—Gen
eral Marshall, Truman’s special
1 envoy to China arrived by plane
and was met at the airfield by
Chiang and Madame Chiang. The
two men saluted and clasped
hands on the dusty windswept
Nanking airfield, and then drove
off for tea and initial history
making talks looking toward unity
and peace in China.
BATAVIA, Dec. 21—(^—Brit
ish Lt. Gen. Dempsey and Air
9 Chief Marshal Park made a flying
visit to Batavia as British forces
campaigned against Indonesian
troops in East Bandoeng. Dempsey
Allied ground forces commander,
took off again a few hours later.
Nothing authoritative could be
learned about the trip. Nine Ba
tavia based RAF planes blasted
roadblocks and Nationalist strong
• points in East Bandoeng, to clear
the line of march for British
ground troops.
DREAM THEATER
CLOSED TONIGHT
The Dream Theater will be
closed tonight in order to allow
everyone to attend the Community
Christmas program, which will be
given in the Territorial School
4 Gym tonight at eight o’clock. The
school children have worked hard
• to make this a very interesting
program.
COMMUNITY XMAS
TREE TONIGHT
INome Hi North Star)
For many years it has been the
custom in our little city of Nome
to have what is called a “Com
munity Christmas Tree.”
This great event is looked for
ward to by both young and old. To
the younger set it means a stock
ing full of “goodies” such as
candy, fruit and nuts. To the little
older group of children it means
hard work, as most of the school
children take part in the program.
It also adds many gray hairs to
the heads of our teachers. They
spend days and months getting
ready for the program, and by the
time it is over they all are pretty
well tired out.
The funds for this program are
received from the different places
of business and also the people in
town. Enough money is raised us
ually to purchase a large tree and
also the “goodies” that are put in
the stockings.
This year over one thousand
dollars was raised among the
merchants and townspeople for
this worthy cause.
The Nome Public School has
made the stockings for the last
few years. It is not a hard job, but
it takes last of time and there are
a great many stockings to sew.
This year there are several com
mittees to take care of all the
things that must be taken care of,
such as the Good Cheer Commit
tee, Entertainment Committee and
Christmas Baskets. This year the
Good Cheer Committee is being
taken care of by our many preach
ers and several others. The enter
tainment is being handled by both
the Territorial and Native Schools
This year our Commu n i t y
Christmas Tree should be a great
success, as we haven’t been able
to have it for the last two years.
Last year we were unable to have
it because of the terrible diph
theria epidemic.
Tire Rationing
Ends January First
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21— (/P)—
Tire rationing will end January 1,
Price Administrator Chester
Bowles announced. He said the
rationing program would be ter
minated then “because the pro
duction of tires, particularly pas
senger tires, the shortage of which
has been most acute, has increased
steadily the last two months,
reaching an output this quarter of
about eleven million.”
Congress In
Discord With
President Truman
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21——
President Truman’s relations with
Congress took on a new air of ten
sion, particularly among Southern
Democrats. One of the latter, Rep.
Gibson of Georgia, declared an
“open break” now exists. Others
who preferred not to be quoted
directly, echoed his remarks.
The note of discord is prompted
by three White House develop
ments yesterday. One—Truman’s
news conference assertion that he
would express himself forcibly
soon on legislation calling for re
turning the U. S. Employment
Service to the States within a hun
dred days. Several Congressmen
interpreted this as meaning either
a veto, or another blast at Con
gress was in the offing.
The release of leters of key law
makers, which the President
termed as “unacceptable” the
House substitute so-called “full
employment” bill which the Sen
ate passed.
Three—The issuance of an or
der authorizing the fair employ
ment practice committee to inves
tigate the report on employment
practices in private industry un
til June 30.
New Policy Keeps
Yank Troops
In China
SHANGHAI, Dec. 21—(/P)—Lt.
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer today
told American troops in China in
view of President Truman’s recent
Chinese policy statement their re
turn home would be delayed, “as a
matter of fact.”
He said in a radio address “I
had to cancel two ships this month
as a result of changes in our evac
uation plan.” The general said un
til recently the United States pol
icy would have permitted the
withdrawal of practically all the
American forces in China by the
first of the year, or early spring,
but this is not now possible in line
with the President’s statement on
December fifteenth.
LILLIAN LEYBA
RETURNS TO NOME
Miss Lillian Leyba, daughter of
Mrs. Kirk Jackson, returned to
Nome Wednesday on the Pan
American plane, to be with her
mother and step-father for Christ
mas.
CHORUS TO GIVE
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The United Christmas Chorus
will be giving a concert of Christ
man music Sunday, Dec. 23, at 3
p.m., in the Gym of the Territorial
j school under the leadership of
Mrs. Emma Grill. The chorus is
| composed of 28 voices from the
different church groups of Nome.
Assisting artist will be Cpl. Aris
totle Gavris and his violin.
Following is the program for
the afternoon.
Group I
Adeste, Fidelis.J. Reading
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
R. Willis
The First Noel.Traditional
Chorus
' The Birthday of the King
W. H. Neidlinger
Solo: Rev. Amundsen
Lo How A Rose.Praetorius
Quartette
Group II
I Oh Little Town of Bethehem
Redner
There’s a Song in the Air
Harrington
Gloria in Excelsis.French Carol
Chorus
Ave Maria .Schubert
Violin Solo: Cpl. Aristotle Gavris
Group III
We Three Kings.Hopkins
Nazareth . Gounod
Silent Night .Gruber
Joy to the World.Handel
Chorus
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MacArthur Bans
Shintoism From
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TOKYO, Dec. 21—General Mac
Arthur has ordered that Shinto
ism be abolished in Japan to de
stroy compulsory religious ideol
ogy, which his staff asserted led
the nation into war and defeat.
With the expressed aim of free
ing the people from “direct or in
direct compulsion” to believe in
“manufactured’’ religion, the Al-1
lied directive laid down a program
of broad revision, calling for:
1— Withdrawal of all govern-1
ment control and support of State |
Shinto, j
2— Purging of militaristic and
ultranationalistic ideology from
the doctrine of the cult which
preaches ancestor worship and dei
fies the Emperor.
3— Removal of Shinto teachings
from the schools.
Allied officers emphasized that
the action, which carries out the
Death (Caused Bv
Neek Being Broken
In Auto Accident
HEIDELBERG. Dec. 21—(£>)—
General Patton, who led the vic
torious United States Third Army
from the beaches of Normandy to
Czechoslovakia, died at 5:50 p.m.,
a dozen days after his neck was
broken in a traffic accident. The
general’s stout fighting heart
weakened during the day from
the effects of pulmonary compli
cations which beset his apparent
recovery from a broken neck and
partial paralysis. Mrs. Patton was
with him at the time of his death.
The general observed his sixtieth
birthday on November eleventh.
General George Smith Patton,
Jr.,—“Old Blood and Guts” to his
men—regarded his job as winning
battles.
He first caught popular fancy as
the dashing, roaring, hell-for
leather old cavalryman, with two
pearl handled pictols on his hips,
who led the United States forces
in the conquest of western Tunisia
in World War II.
then, commanding the Ameri
can 7th Army that invaded Sicily,
Patton leaped into the surf from
a landing barge and waded ashore
to assume personal leadership in
the bitter fighting against German
tank units. “Keep punching,” read
his order of the day. “God is with
us.’’ He achieved a brilliant suc
cess. Many military men believed
Sicily never would have been con
quered in 38 days had it not been
for Patton’s driving force.
“Go forward — always go for
ward.” He drilled that doctrine
into his officers. He insisted that
they be as disdainful of death as
he and that they go into battle
with their men. Taking greater
risks than his men, he said, was
“the privilege of an officer.” His
grandfather was killed in battle
and Patton indicated he would not
mind such an end for himself.
MAY BE HOME
FOR NEW YEAR
Norvin W. Lewis tells us he
heard from his son Norvin, Jr.,
who stated that he was discharged
from the Navy and will probably
be home in time for New Year.
policy announced recently by the
United States State Department,
involves State Shintoism, but does
not affect the sect of Shinto, which
in 1941 had an estimated seven
teen million adherents. Nor is it
an attempt, they said, to dictate
religious beliefs of any kind to the*
Japanese.