EE NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVIII. No . 15 2. N OMeT~L~A S K A~FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20,~ 1946 PER~COPY — I~
NEWS IN BRIEF i
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NEW YORK, (TP) — Harry A. |
Cobrin, executive secretary of the
clothing manufacturers associa-1
tion, said today it would be some
time before double-breasted suits
with vests and two-pants suits are
available in retail stores. The of
fice of temporary controls yester
day lifted all style restrictions on |
men’s and boys’ clothing.
SITKA, Alaska, </P)—Calling on
lftlaska Business men to organize
and cooperate in discovering new
wholesale outlets and additional'
shipping facilities, 35 men organ
ized the Sitka Business Men’s as
sertion last night. They said they
would demand faster and more
frequent freight service, as well
as the purchase of merchandise in
mher markets than Seattle. They
will arrange to make purchases as
one organization for shipment
here.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Govern
ment operations for this fiscal
year went back into the familiar
red today after one day in the
black. A $496,231,606 interest pay
ment on the $259,097,000,000 na
tional debt sent expenditures so
iHuch higher than receipts on the
treasury’s latest daily report—Dec.
18—that the previous day’s sur
plus of $176,965,000 was turned in
to a deficit of $69,445,000. The fis
cal years ends next June 30.
VANCOUVER, B. C„ (/P)—The
fifth large body of Japanese to re
ctum to Japan will leave here
Tuesday aboard the Marine Fal
con. The group numbers about 300
persons. An additional 200 Chi
nese also will leave aboard the
vessel to rejoin their families in
China.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (/P)—In a
series of anti-Communist demon
strations, mobs last night stoned
Brazilian Communist party head
quarters, burned a Russian flag,
wrecked Communist election bill
boards and beat a guardsman. No
fatalities were reported.
MANILA, (/Pi—U. S. Ambassa
dor McNutt and President Roxas
today began a series of explora
tory talks preparatory to resump
tion of negotiations for Philippine
sites for U. S. military bases.
AN EASY KILL
f MT. OLIVE. 111. I/P) — Joseph
Woltering, truck driver of Effing
ham, 111., bagged a 275-pound
four-point deer without firing a
shot.
The animal was killed when it
ran into the side of his truck as
he drove down a highway.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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% The Nome Nugget will
issue a 16-page edition on
Tuesday, December 24, in
place of the regular Mon
day and Wednesday issue
dates.
Thrilling Air View of fhe French Pyrenees
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> RPB MA-AOB
Really "up in the air" are these Army Regulars, but they're having the thrill of a lifetime os they gaze
at the natural beauty of the French Pyrenees from e cable car. Experiences like these can be realized by young
men between 18 and 34 yaars off age, inclusive, who enlist in the Regular Army.
U. S.- China Sign
Air Agreement
NANKING, hP) — The United
States and China today signed a
commercial air transport agree
ment giving the United States
pickup and discharge rights at
Shanghai, Tientsin and Canton
and China similar rights at Hono
lulu, San Francisco and New
York. It conforms with the 1944
Chicago civil aviation code.
Transworld Airways, Pan Amer
ican Airways and Northwest Air
Lines of the United States and the
China National Aviation Corp. and
Central Air Transport Corp. of
China were designated to fly three
routes, via Canady, Alaska, the
Aleutians, Kuriles, Japan and Ko
rea; via Hawaii, Wake, Guam and
the Philippines, and via Europe,
Will Exchange
Xmas Greetings
HAMUBRG, Germany, (A*> —
Coventry and Hamburg, two bomb
blasted cities, will exchange
Christmas greetings of “forgive
ness and rebirth.”
The provost of Coventry, an
English city so hard hit by Ger
man bombs that a new verb was |
coined from its agony, will address
a message to Hamburg—target of
the RAF night after night in some ;
of the war’s heaviest raids.
Through radio Hamburg, relay
ed by BBC, will come the reply,
from Pastor Bernhard Meckem
burg, a Roman Catholic priest im
prisoned in Dachau for nearly
three years.
North Africa, the Middle East, In
dia, Burma and Indo-China.
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Yugoslavs Mass
Troops, Supplies
ATHENS, (/P) — An informed
source said today concentrations.
of large numbers of Yugoslav
troops at Skoplje, on the tradition
al Vardar valley invasion route,
and near the Monastir Gap at Bi- J
tojl had been reported to allied
military authorities.
A highly confidential report
says heavy movements of ammu
nition trains through Skoplje had
been noted for three weeks and
normal traffic from Skoplje south
eastward to Djevdpelija, which is
immediately north of the Greek
border on the Vardar, had been
stopned since Dec. 6.
“It is reasonable to believe,” the
report says, “the highway is now
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COMMUNITY XMAS TREE
Tonight—Friday, December 20
At TVo Nome High School At ii o’clock
\oS)o<Iy Hurt As
Two Airliners
Crash In Air
ABERDEEN, Md. — Split
: second reactions by two pilots
! were credited today with saving
1 the lives of 85 passengers and
| crew members of two Miami
, bound airliners which collided
2,000 feet in the air near here in
an acident unprecedented in
American commercial air travel*
None of the passengers suffered
so much as a scratch, although
both planes were damaged in the
collision, which occurred in clear
weather shortly after dark last
nig.n.
The co-pilot of one, a big, four
engined DC-4 Eastern Airlines
craft carrying 5 passengers, said
he saw the other, a two-engined
Universal Airlines C-47, approach
ing from the left three or four
miles north of Aberdeen. He pull
ed his ship up at the last instant
' and scraped over the top of the
Universal plane, Eastern officials
said.
The co-pilot, R. Brown, of Mi
ami said he had “just a second or
two” in which to avert disaster.
The pilot of this plane, J. B.
Kuhn, also of Miami, told a re
porter, “Brown saved the day.”
A three-by-five-foot hole was
ripped in the tail section of the
larger plane, while the Universal
liner, carving 22 passengers and a
crew of three on a charter flight,
had a hole driven into the upper
portion of the fuselage, its escape
door wrenched free and its radio
and hydraulic system knocked out
of commission.
Despite the damage. Henry Nor
ris, of Cambridge, Mass., pilot of
the Universal ship, brought it
down safely at the Aberdeen
Proving Ground field, while the
Eastern plane was landed unevent
fully by Kuhn before waiting
crash-wagons and fire-engines at
National airport, Washington, D.
C.
The four-engined DC-4, cruising
at about 230 miles an hour, appar
ently had overtaken the slower
aircraft. •
The Universal plane, bound for
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Hanoi Under
Heavy Gun Fire
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SINGAPORE, (TP)—An (A3) dis
patch from Hanoi, Indochina, de
layed in transmision, said Viet
Namese forces opened heavy fir
ing throughout Hanoi Thursday
night, five minutes after the city
had been plunged into darkness by
suspension of electric power serv
ice.
In a brief dispatch filed shortly
after the shooting started, (TP) cor
respondent Michel Moutschen said
“The Viet-Namese began shooting
everywhere with field guns, mor
tars and machine guns.”
He said immediate French coun
ter action was expected. His dis
t.ch promised “more late”.” but
■aether details also were delayed.