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VOL. XLVII. No. 129. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1945 PER COPY_ 15^
SOUVENIR HUNTER — A. D. Pirone, MOMM2/C
from Trenton, N. J., sightseeing in Yokohama, dickers with a
Japanese woman for souvenirs as sailors of the U. S. Fleet looked
over the Nipponese city before starting home.
Alaska Labor
Vote Ordered
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—(/P>—
The National Labor Relations
Board today announced it had
found the collective bargaining
elections held in the Bristol Bay
and Alaska Peninsula districts and
at four of the eight independents
in Southeastern Alaska were de
terminative. The other four did
not operate this season, and elec
tions will be held next season if
they operate.
Elections were ordered for the
members of the Alaska Salmon
Industry, Inc., in the southeastern
district not later than next Sep
tember 1, because none of the
choices received a majority of the
resident workers’ votes in this
year’s election.
The board dismissed the peti
tion of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations Food, Tobacco, Ag
ricultural and Allied Workers of
America for certification as repre
sentative of resident cannery
workers of the Alaska Native Con
solidated Canning Company, an
independent. The cannery did not
operate this year.
Filipino Guerrillas
Threaten Govt.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—</P)—
President Truman has asked the
Philippine High Commissioner
McNutt to make a prompt investi
gation of "unrest" in the islands.
McNutt was asked to especially
look into the activities of the
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"guerrilla army, which threatens
the stability of the government,"
the White House said.
House To Have
Showdown On
Military Training
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—(/P)—
House leaders decided to take
its membership off the political
hot spot by disposing of universal
military training issue before
Christmas. Present plans, it is
learned, call for a showdown late
in November, or early in Decem
ber. The outcome is presently re
garded as a toss-up.
The House military committee
will open public hearings, expect
ed to last two weeks, on Novem
ber eighth.
Truman Proposes
Price Stabilization
To End Strikes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—(ff)—
President Truman will announce
his proposals for a wage and price
stabilization program in a radio
address Tuesday afternoon at four
p.m. Nome time, as part of a fast
developing government attempt to
end strikes. The President will
broadcast an outline of a policy
which he and his advisers hope
will at least head off further
walkouts and pay increases.
POLES REPLACE
CHOPIN’S REMAINS
NEW YORK— (ff) —The Polish
Press Agency says an urn con
taining the heart of Frederick
Chopin, Poland’s greatest com
poser, has been returned to the
Church of the Holy Cross in War
saw. The urn had been hidden
from the Germans.
Japanese Question
Gen. Mae Arthur’s
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Authority
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TOKYO, Oct. 26—<7P)—The Jap
Foreign Office has showed reluc
tance to obey General MacAr
thur’s unprecedented orders for
diplomatic isolation of Japan. Do
mei quoted unnamed informed
sources reporting that the govern-1
ment would “exercise great care” ;
in following the order, but that j
foreign office officials “would
sound out” Allied authorities on
whether the directive “confirms •
with the Potsdam declaration.”
Lreneral MacArthur yesterday
ordered Japan to transfer all her '
diplomatic and consular proper-1
ties and archives, everywhere in
the world, to Allied powers and
cease relations with foreign gov
ernments, and to recall her diplo
matic and consular representa
tives abroad.
A directive prepared by joint
chiefs of staff in Washington,
MacArthur’s headquarters said,
plans for fitting other Allied
troops into the occupation set-up
will await conclusion of the policy
discussions among the big powers.
MacArthur meanwhile indicated
I impatience over the silence of the
Jap government concerning his
pointed suggestion, two weeks
ago, that Nipponese big family
monoplies be “democratized.”
Nobel Prize
Awarded To Sir
Alexander Fleming
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 26 — (/P) —
The 1945 Nobel prize in physiol
ogy and medicine was awarded to
Sir Alexander Fleming of London
University, discoverer of penicil
lin, and two of his co-workers,
Dr. Ernest Boris Chain, professor
of chemical pathology, and Sir
Howard Walter Florey of Oxford.
The three share equally in the
prize, which amounts to about
thirty thousand dollars.
DAILY PASSENGER
FLIGHTS FAIRBANKS
TO EDMONTON
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 25 — (/P)—
Daily passenger flights were in
augurated today between Fair
banks and Edmonton by Canadian
Pacific Airlines, offering the first
inland route connections between
Alaska and the States.
Among the first passengers was
Marshall Hoppin, president of
Alaska Airlines, Inc., and former
Alaska regional manager of the
CAA., who came from Anchorage
to make connections here for a
quick trip to Washington, D. C.,
to attend the Pacific air route
hearing.
Bolivia is the principal world
producer of antimony ore.
Liner Queen Mary
Stalled In
Terrific Storm
LONDON, Oct. 26 —</P> —The
great liner Queen Mary with a
thousand passengers aboard rolled
at anchor off the Isle of Wight, as
mountainous mine-strewn seas in
the fourth day of gales wrecked
four small vessels with an indi
cated loss of fourteen seamen.
For the second day the Queen
Mary was unable to proceed to
her dock at Southampton because
of waves fifty feet high in Eng
land’s worst storm in twenty
years.
Countless thousands of mines
are reported in the raging seas.
The waves are breaking up the
mine fields planted during the
war. The Admiralty said that
sixty-five thousand mines had
been planted in the fishing wa
ters off the east coast, and only
about sixty-five hundred had been
cleared away.
Thirteen lives are reported lost
and an unidentified Belgian fish
ing vessel had been sunk late
Wednesday.
Flying Devices
j Develop 1,400
I Miles Per Hour
BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 26—(TP)—
Curtiss Wright corporation have
announced they have developed
several special flying devices
achieving speed in excess of four
teen hundred miles an hour, al
most twice the speed of sound.
Dr. C. C. Furnas, director of the
Curtiss Wright laboratory said
military requirements prevented
him giving details, he said, how
ever, they were “not rockets, nor
artillery shells. Right now the de
vices are not carrying a pilot, but
we are working on this.”
IJ. S. And Russia
Have Better
Understanding
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26— i/P)—
Relations between United States
and Russia .seemed on the mend in
an atmosphere of better under
standing. These heartening devel
opments are that one State De
partment disclosure that the two
governments are discussing the
Soviet proposals for a four power
council of United States, Russia,
Britain and China to govern
Japan.
Indications are that Russia will
agree that when differences arose
in the council that the United
i States position should govern.
The timely delivery of Russia’s
I United Nations ratification docu
ments, which permitted the world
l security council organization to
become a fact on Wednesday.
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U.S. Lost 2003 Ships
In World War II
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I According to Coast Guard Clip
per, American fleet losses for
World War II totaled 2,003 ships
of 792,000 tons, including 1 battle
ship, 5 carriers, 6 escort carriers,
6 heavy and 3 light cruisers, 70
destroyers, 47 subs, and numerous
j smaller craft. Another 5,346 ves
sels were leased to our Allies.
COOMARA-CHARLES
NUPTIALS PERFORMED
Cpl. Theodore N. Coomara and
Lena A. Charles were married at
the home of Rev. Lewis Hudgins,
yesterday afternoon, Thursday,
October 25. Kenneth Rank and
Helen Fagerstrom, friends of the
couple, were the witnesses.
Cpl. Coomara is stationed with
the U. S. Army Weather Service.
Mrs. Coomara is from Elim, Alas
ka. The couple will make their
home in Nome.
ROYAL COURL E—This new picture of the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor was made aboard the U. S. troopship Arcen*
Una, as they cot their first flirapse of Encland In five years.