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VOL. XLVII, No. 105._NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 1 , 1 9 4 5 PER COPY_15 7
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Held In Nome
* Courtroom
The Civil Aeronautics Board
started hearings this morning in
the courtroom of the Federal
Building in the matter of the vari
ous air line companies in their ap
plications for approval of routes
and mail runs, in the Seward
^ Peninsula area and coastal to Bar
row.
The Wien Alaska Airlines is
represented by Charles Clasby,
Fairbanks attorney, George Ray
burn, treasurer and chief account
ant for the company, and Richard
Webb, manager of the company’s
^ operations in the Second Division.
Alaska Airlines is representing
it’s case through attorney John W.
Cross of New York, Don H. Good
man, vice president of Alaska Air
lines, D. G. Bash, chief account
ant, Edward Orr, accountant, and
Robert Bartoo, treasurer of the
company.
The hearing is being conducted
• by C.A.B. Commissioner Raymond
Stough, assisted by M. Fitzmau
rice, also of the C.A.B.
Other airline companies which
were to present applications at
this consolidated hearing were
Northern Cross Airlines, Deering;
Arctic Air Service, Candle; and
Ferguson Airways at Kotzebue.
Mr. C. C. Taner, attorney for
# Ferguson Airways, stated he
would enter application for his;
client. Other companies are not as
yet represented in the hearing.
The Wien Alaska Airlines pre
sented its exhibits as requested by
C.A.B. Commissioner and placed
the company treasurer, Mr.
George Rayburn on the witness
* stand to testify to the accuracy
and meaning of the various sum
maries of flight reports and com
pany business pertaining to the
present hearing on routes in this
district.
Mr. John W. Cross, Alaska Air- |
lines attorney, presented the vari
ous exhibits for his client and
• called upon Don Goodman, vice
president, and Edward Orr, com
pany accountant to verify the
company records entered as ex
hibits in the hearing.
As a rhatter of record the Com
missioner then excused the wit
nesses to prepare for cross-exam
ination upon return to the hearing
at 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon, fol
lowing adjournment at 11:55 a.m.
When the hearing reconvenes at
$ 3:00 p.m., both the Wien Alaska
Airlines and the Alaska Airlines
are expected to introduce some
ni revised figures and records to sub
stantiate given evidence and ex
hibits.
REPAIRS AT SEA—A-big U. S. Navy PBM Mariner un
dergoes repairs on the deck of a large seaplane tender.
Super forts Did
Great Damage
In Tokyo
ATSUGI, Japan, Aug. 31—(/P)—
A Japanese newspaperman said
from three hundred to five hun
dred thousand persons were killed
or injured by the great Superfort
raids on Tokyo, once the world’s
third greatest city.
At the same time Nicholai P.
Agueev, Russian trade representa
tive, who has been in Tokyo 2 years
said it had been officially esti
mated that nearly half a million
homes and buildings had . been
razed, leaving only three hundred
eighty still standing.
Victory In Japan
Slashes Budget To
Sixty-Six Billion
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 !-<£>)—
Victory over Japan resulted today
in a cut of eighteen billion five
hundred million in the budget for
the fiscal year, which began July
first.
This reduced the budget to sixty
six billion four hundred million.
Jap Surrender
Broke Militaristic*
Grip On Throne
By RUSSELL BRINES
TOKYO, Aug. 31 — </P> — The
concensus of many well informed
Japanese with whom I talked on
my first visit to Tokyo since be
fore the war was that Emperor
Hirohito broke the long militaris
tic grip on his throne to sue for
peace.
He thereby won “a courageous |
gamble,” added these Japanese,
who had no reason to try to prop
agandize me on the Emperor’s im
portance. It is evident they were
speaking sincerely. Emperor Hiro
hito went to the people with this
gamble.
These Nipponese said the coun
try was unprepared for his report
of peace. When the Emperor be
gan the unprecedented broadcast
on August 15, nearly everyone ex
pected him to urge more war.
ROBERT SOMMERS TO
FAIRBANKS ON BUSINESS
Mr. Robert Sommers of the
Sommers Construction Co., made
a business trip to Fairbanks and
will return in a few days.
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Occupation Forces
Landing In
Tokyo Area
TOKYO, Aug. 31—I/P)—Ameri
can Marines took over Tateyama
naval base and air station, guard
ing the mouth of Tokyo Bay as
occupation forces hourly increased
their holds preparatory to Sun- I
day’s historic surrender of the Jap
Empire. In contrast, clear beauti
ful weather marked yesterday's
airborne landing at Atsugi to the !
occupation of Yokosuka naval |
base across the bay from Tateya
ma when the Leathernecks took
possession of that vital naval in
stallation in a driving rainstorm.
The Marines are reconnoitering
the beaches and defenses in gen
eral to prepare for the Army oc
cupation to follow. Already while
plans for the final surrender cere
monies are still under way naval
occupation forces at Yokosuka
started development of the great
base for use of Allied shipping.
The time Sunday for the cere
monies has still not been an
nounced, and it is uncertain whe
ther Admiral Halsey’s flagship
the Missouri, aboard which the
final capitulation will be made
will remain at its present anchor
age several miles off Yokosuka
or will more in closer to give the
population of Tokyo and Yoko
hama areas a closeup look at the
mighty forty-five thousand ton
symbol of American sea power.
The floodtide of American mil
itary power rolled in by air in a
stream which will continue at
least until mid-September, when
half a million troops will be bil
leted in this conquered country
to bolster the first forces. More
than eighteen thousand of the
United States Eighth Army under
Lt. Gen. Eichelberger are due to
start landing tomorrow at Yoko
fContinued on Page Five)
Search Fails To
Reveal Plane Lost
Near Fairbanks
'Special to The Nugget)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 31 — The
search Thursday failed to reveal
any trace of the plane piloted by
William English and carrying
Swen Gustafson and Miss Adele
Johnson which has been missing
since Saturday night on a flight
from Circle Hot Springs. The
plane was last heard heading
toward Fairbanks through the
rain at nine thirty that night.
Improved weather Thursday
permitted a dozen search planes
to scout a hundred fifty mile
square area and to follow routes
English may have taken when he
was unable to cross summits due
to the low ceiling.
English is the son of a Wiseman
trader, Gustafson is from Anchor
age and Miss Johnson was a Ladd
Field worker.
V-J Proclamation
By President
On Sunday
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—(/P)— ■»
The Whitehouse said the Presi
dent’s V-J Day proclamation
would be sandwiched in between
descriptive broadcasts of the sign
ing of the Jap surrender aboard
the Battleship Missouri. Press
Secretary Ross said it is not
known now just when the signing
will take place, but hoped it
would be around seven or eight
p.m. PWT (6 or 7 p.m., Nome
time) tomorrow, in which event
the President will go on the air
eight or nine minutes immediately
after the signatures are affixed.
The Empire State building in
New York City is 1,250 feet high.
Kaiser Shipbuilding Yards In Portland
Razed By Three Million Dollar Fire
PORTLAND, Aug. 31—</P) —
Ranked as his city’s costliest fire
the warborn Kaiser yard, which
broke world production records,
neared the end of its career in a
mass of charred buildings and
crumpled whirley cranes by a
blaze which swept the Oregon
Shipbuilding Corporation’s out
fitting basin yesterday, destroying
the dock and adjacent buildings
and damaging several completed
ships.
Unofficially it is estimated,
pending a survey the damage was
three million dollars. The flames
were halted just short of the ship
ways, where three vessels remain
to be launched.
Fifteen thousand employees of
the shipyard were told not to re
port today. Officials said the out
fitting of the damaged ships would
be compleed by other Portland
yards. The yard said the blaze ap
parently was caused from a
broken acetylene line igniting the
wooden dock.