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NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE, </P) — Six persons
pleaded guilty in federal court
Monday to forging government
checks. They included James Love
Deau, 36, of Seattle and Anchor
age, wh’<5 admitted forging an en
dorser’s name on a government
check taken from a sea captain at
Anchorage.
SAN FRANCISCO (£»)—Capt. C.
W. Swainson, 61, ended 38 years
with the United States coast and
geodetic survey Monday, retiring
as head of the service’s western
district. Among the many charting
jobs he and his men did was that
of waters around Midway in the
early 1930’s. The navy found the
information very handy when war
broke out.
ANCHORAGE, l/P)—Only 33,000
acres of forest land were burned
over in Alaska this summer, small
est fire damage in years.
Roger Robinson, director of the
Alaska fire control service, said
the heavy rainfall was responsible.
In 1947, he said, fires swept over
an estimated 1,431,665 acres of
area. And back in 1940, four and
a half million acres were fire
damaged.
TOKYO, (/P) — The Japanese
whaling fleet wilf sail for the Ant
arctic next week on a six-month
expedition—the third since the oc
cupation began, allied headquar
ters announced. The first unit of
17 vessels will sail Nov. 12 and the
remaining 14 will clear port the
following day.
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PRINCETON, N. J., (^-Nor
man Thomas, Socialist candidate
for president, predicted yesterday
Gov. Dewey would win the elec
tion. Thomas said in a campaign
speech Monday, that he wished
Dewey “well for the sake of the
United Statse and for the sake of
mankind.”
LIMA, Peru, (/P)—The Peruvian
communist party has been out
lawed by the new government of
Gen. Manuel Odria.
OTTAWA, <iP) — The statistics
bureau reported yesterday that in
dustrial employment reached an
all-time high in Canada in 1947.
The average was 2.1 per cent
higher than the previous mark, set
in 1943. The average wage was
$36.15 a week.
NEW YORK, (#>)—Major secur
ity and commodity markets in the
United States were closed yester
day lor the national elections.
Markets in Canada and Europe
were open as usual .
Chamber Meeting
Presents Problem;
Nome Is Aroused
A capacity crowd filled the Pio
neer Hall last evening for the din- j
ner meeting of the C. of C.,' with
enthusiastic citizens anxious to do
their part toward solving the grave
j health and moral situation con
i fronting our community.
Pres. Harper opened the meet
ing after the group had enjoyed a
, very fine dinner. As the final re
! suits of the election was evident
he did not carry out that part of
the program, but opened the vital
j subject for which the meeting was
! called.
Pres. Harper briefly brought up
I to date the events leading to the
j issues in question. He reported the
I action of the board of directors
i who had discussed the last meet
ing of the City Council and re
! solved to bring the issues out in
the open and arouse the people of
Nome to action.
President Harper reported for
the harbor committee recently ap
pointed to take charge of the rais
ing of revenue to send a delegation
to Washington to endeavor to ob
tain passage of the appropriation
bill for our sea wall.
The committee appointed are
Messrs. Harwood, representing the
Chamber; G. R. Jackson the own
ers of the south side of Front
street; Carl Dewey president of
the Rotary club; Luther Dunbar,
representing the City of Nome.
The president reported that the
report of the road committee was
to be printed for distribution.
The president opening the main
subject for the evening, stated
that he had appointed the entire
board to study and report at this j
meeting. First to be called was j
John McNees, who stated that j
there were several vacant rooms
in the hospital that could be used
to quarantine and treat infectious
cases of V. D. He also stated that
the air lines should be enlisted to
return these girls to their homes
when cured.
Mr. Nay, of the Alaska Airlines,
called attention to the fact that
the CAB regulations state that if
anyone has the money for passage
they cannot be refused transoprta
tion. Howevre the airlines can di
vulge the destination of passen
gers to the proper authority in
these cases he stated, and the
Chamber could be assured of his
cooperation.
Colonel Harry Burkhalter, com- J
mander of the Marks Air Base,
was called upon and state in part
that the young men on the Marks
Field are mostly boys who are un
derage and many of them away
from home for the first time. He
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stated that he receives letters from
their parents continuously asking
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Internation 1 News
At A Glance —
<By The Associated Press*
Tuesday, November 2, 1948
Chinese communists demanded
today the surrender of Chiang Kai
Shek’s beaten armies in Manchur
is and boasted they would conquer
all of China.
Communist forces are stirring
elsewhere, too, such as in France,
I aly, Eastern Germany, Finland,
Greece, Indonesia, Burma and
even massive India.
Mao Tze-Tung, chairman of the
Chinese communist party which
long has been subservient to the
will of the Kremlin, wrote in the
communist information bureau
(Cominform* bulletin that the
communists already control a
fourth of China and a third of her
people. He set the figures at 907,
000 square miles and 168,000,000
people.
Fighting was reported ended
around Mukden, the old Manchur
ian capital and richest prize the
Communists yet have won in the
two or more decades of civil war.
The loss of Mukden and the dis
aster to nationalist armies jarred
China. Inflation and economic in
stability increased. Shanghai
prices rose 300 to 400 per cent.
The Manchurian victory loosed
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President Beats Dewey In Closest Race
For Presidency In 32 Years
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NEW YORK, (AP)—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today
conceded the Presidential election to President Truman.
The Republican Presidential nominee's press secre
tary, James Hagerty, announced at 11:15 a.m. (EST)
that Dewey had sent a telegram to Mr. Truman conced
ing the election.
The text of the telegram:
“My heartiest congratulations to you on your elec
tion and every good wish for a successful administra
tion, and I urge all Americans to unite behind you in
support of every effort to keep our nation strong and
free and establish peace in the world.”
'By The Associated Press'
Good voting weather encour
, aged a record turnout of Ameri
cans yesterday to ballot for a Pres
ident and a new Congress.
Heavy forenoon voting was re
ported from many industrial cit
| ies. And good weather helps bring
out a big farm vote. For the coun
try as a whole, it was fair with
mild temperatures. There was
, some rain in the central valleys,
the northern Rockies and the State
of Washington.
The usual race among small
precincts to be the first to report
their vote was won this time by
Hart’s Location, N. H.
Backers of Democratic Presi
dent Harry S .Truman and Repub
lican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
both found something to cheer
about in the first trickling returns.
Hart’s Location went 11 for
Dewey and one for Truman.
Franklin D. Roosevelt carried the
precinct 6-4 over Dewey in 1944.
Cataloochee precinct in North Car
olina’s Smoky Mountains popped
in next—seven for Truman and
zero for Dewey. Dewey got two
votes there four years ago and
Roosevelt got eight.
Brown’s Farm precinct in
Southern Florida reported four for
Truman and two for States Rights
candidate J. Strom Thurmond.
First of the Presidential candi
dates to get his own ballot into the
box was Henry A. Wallace. The
early-rising Progressive party can
didate put his vote in shortly after
3 a.m. <EST> at South Salem, N. Y.
The two major candidates
wound up their campaign drives
in much the same language they
used at the start last September.
Both were on national radio hook
ups Monday night.
But Truman broke away from
the tradition that election eve
speeches are confined to appeals
to get out and vote. He said at In
dependence, Mo., that to continue
his administration “is our best in
surance against going back to the
dark clays of 1932.“ And he added:
“I believe, in particular, that
the industrial workers, the faim
ers and the small business men of
this country can best protect them
selves against reaction and against
inflation through the Democratic
party.”
Dewey stuck to the “unity” note
he has sounded up and down the
land. He said from New York af
ter a plea to “vote regardless of
how”:
“The foremost issue rising clear
and high above all others is whe
ther in this solemn hour the
United States of America is going
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