AWAITS DECISION — A one-legged German who
wants to cross the Russian-American frontier into Russian-occu
pied territory watches as an American guard checks his papers
at the barrier Gros Topfer in Germany.
No Compromise With
Flight Safety
Headquarters Alaskan Depart
ment—Stating that “there will be
no compromise with flight safety”
the Headquarters of the Continen
tal Air Forces has ordered special
shakedown inspections of all
planes in an all-out effort to curb
the rise of accidents. About 20,500
aircraft are involved.
During the rapid demobilization
of the Army, the Army Air Forces
have lost, and are daily losing,
large numbers of experienced air
craft maintenance and flying per
sonnel and have been carrying on
current operations with pilots and
mechanics of lower experience
levels. Key men such as experi
enced pilots, crew, chiefs, expert
airplane mechanics and other spe
cialists of aviation maintenance
have been among the first to be
discharged. This situation has
been reflected in the increase of
the aircraft accident rate.
The number of aircraft in oper
ation has been reduced to meet
the reduction in the number of
skilled mechanics, and some
planes have been placed in tem
porary storage even though they
were airworthy. If there were 15
aircraft on a field with sufficient
pesonnel to maintain only 10, five
aircraft were placed in storage.
After functional operations have
been tested, each airplane will
have brake condition determined
and then test flown by an experi
enced flight test crew. Communi
cation will be checked in flight by
a radio technician. No plane will
be released for regular flight un
til any needed adjustments have
been made.
Since World War I, there have
been more than 300 000 admiss’ons
of tuberculosis veterans to hospi
tals of the Veterans’ Administra
tion, or to other government, state
or civil institutions.
CHUCKLES
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When you feel crowded, think
of the Scotchman who wanted to
rent the longest horse in the stable
so that his family of five could go
horseback riding.
Bill—I’ve often been compared
to Van Johnson.
Jim—By whom?
Bill—By my girl friend. She
seems to prefer Van Johnson.
Did you ever hear of a man
marrying a woman to reform her?
Guest <to host in new home)—
Hello, old pal, how do you find it
here?
Host—Walk right up stairs and
then two doors to the left.
Man Instructor (to new girl)—
I’m putting this rivet in the cor
rect position: when I nod by head i
hit it real hard with your ham
mer. . . . That’s all he remem
bered until he woke up in a hos
pital.
Of all the different things you
wear, your expression is the most
important.
She’d never really had a chance
Long year had Annie waited;
But when a camp sprang up close
by,
Oh boy, was animated!
Girls’ Head Sets
Keep ’em Tune-Happy
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—(JP)—
Music relieves the tediousness of
repetitious jobs, but there is usu
ally a conflict among the workers
over the choice of a program.
A portrait studio here solved the
problem nicely. It furnishes the
girls, who sit in long lines tinting
photographs, with headsets so
each can tune to the radio pro-1
gram, one of several available, she
wishes to hear without disturbing
the next worker who may not like
the music so hot.
Ad. Stark Testifies
Before Committee
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 ——
Admiral Stark asserted that Ad
miral Kimmel, Pacific Fleet com
mander at Pearl Harbor was am- i
ply warned to be on guard before
the Japs struck Pearl Harbor in
1941. The chief of naval opera
tions began his story of prewar
events when the Senate and House
committee, investigating the Jap
attack, resumed hearings after the
week-long Christmas recess.
Admiral Stark was called to the
stand amid indications that the
; committee might take another re
1 cess, possibly as long as thirty
' days, to find new counsel. The
legal staff, which has aided in the
inquiry since it began in mid-No
vember, announced the intention
to quit, possibly after the exam
ination of Admiral Stark.
Along with the twenty-five
i thousand word statement of Stark
the committee received the volu
minous correspondence he wrote
naval officers during the months
before Pearl Harbor plunged the
United States into war, from j
Stark.
From these records the commit- j
tee learned: One—Stark felt that
neither Congress nor President
Rosevelt supported his efforts to
bolster the strength of the fleet
before the war.
Two—At the time Germany at
tacked Russia, Stark urged Amer
ican entry into the war, and at the
same time expressed the hope that
Russia and Germany would “ex
haust themselves,” in the conflict
for a Communist dominated Eu
rope, he wrote then, was “no more
an attractive picture,” than a Eu
rope ruled by Nazis.
Three—President Roosevelt is
sued instructions on May 22, 1941,
to get an expedition of twenty
five thousand men ready to sail in
thirty days to seize the Portuguese;
owned Azores in the Atlantic.
Admiral Stark testified that in
December, 1941, the Navy didn’t
expect either an attack on Pearl
Harbor, nor on any such broad
scale offensive as the Japs launch
ed. The former chief of naval op
erations told the Senate and House
committe he wouldn’t have been
surprised by the appearance of
Jap subs off San Francisco, but he
was “not expecting air attacks on
Hawaii at that time.
ANS OFFICIALS j
COME TO NOME
ON BUSINESS
Don Foster, General Superin
tendent of the Alaska Native
Service is in Nome this week on
a tour of general administration
and will continue throughout the
ANS stations of the Second Divi
sion before returning to the Jun-'
eau headquarters.
Louis C. Peters, Director of Na
tive Resources, a new department
taking over all of the business ad
ministrative activities of the Alas
ka Native Service, is in confer
ence here today with the Rein
deer Unit Manager: Douglas John
ston of Nome; J. McClellan of
Kotzebue, and John Snow of
Bethel.
The purpose of the gathering is
mainly to iron out a plan to put
the reindeer into the hands of in
dividuals, and also to pool infor
mation gathered from the several
units to make for better adminis
tration in the future.
1946 AUTO LICENSE PLATES
TO COME FROM JUNEAU
The 1946 license plates must
come’from Juneau. Nome car
owneas must get their license
plates^ this year, direct from Jun
eau by mall.
Application mvi^ be made to
the ne\*>*-^Mr irtment of Taxation,
Box 651,
A new feature ot* the license is
the requirement that the number
of the certificate of ownership of
the car must be entered on the
form. Such registration was or-1
dered by the last legislature, and
no 1946 plates will be issued for
any vehicle if it is not registered.
The 1946 plates have a maroon
background with white letters and
are made of composition material.
Last year 6967 plates were is
sued in the Territory.
Phone Local News to Main 125
Nationalists Take
Over Jeliol
CHUNGKING, Jan. 2— bP) — A
Chinese cabinet spokesman, Chang
said China’s central government
is taking over Jehol as “a matter
of course,” and sending adminis
trative personnel on the heels of
the National Troops moving into
that inner Mongolian province. He
declared the government “had ev
ery right,” to do this.
The told questioners that there
were no Communist troops in Je
hol prior to Japan’s collapse. The
change topk issue with the Com
munist claim that a “democratic”
rule had been setablished by the
Chinese Reds in Jehol.
Meanwhile China awaited the
Communist reply to the govern
ment’s counter proposal to a truce
in the civil strife.
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