NEWS IN BRIEF
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Mar.;
22, (/P)—Vive Adm. Howard L.
Vickery, 54, wartime vice-chair
man of the U. S. Maritime Com
mission, died a few hours after
coming to this winter resort in an
effort to recoup his health. Vick
ery was assigned by the Navy to
the Maritime in 1937, then on de
fense preparation for war. He had
charge of the construction of the
Merchant Marine. Last December
the White House announced the
acceptance of V;ckery’s resignation
because of ill health.
OTTAWA, Mar. 22, (/Pi — The
Canadian army unit will take over
the Alaska Highway from the
United States army in a ceremony
at Whitehorse on April third. De
fense Minister Douglas Abbott
told the House of Commons the
Canadian Army planned to use
the highway for training purposes
and there was no possibility of its
being open to civilian traffic in
the near future.
SINGAPORE, Mar. 22, (JP) —
Southeast Asia Headquarters—
Adm. Mountbatten said reports in
Batavia of Russian subs off the
south coast of Java are regarded
as rumors without foundation. The
report apparently resulted in a
communications mixup. A head
quarters spokesman said a mes
sage had been sent to Batavia,
giving instruction to check on the
sub rumor, but not to release any
thing to the press unless con
firmed.
HAMBURG, Mar. 22, (^—Ger
mans raided nine more Hamburg
bread shops in the past twenty
four hours. Special police squads
are placed in each city district and
a reserve is being held at police
headquarters to dispatch to any
scenes of rioting or demonstrations
that might develop. British occu
pation authorities recently cut the
German ration one-third to about
a thousand calories a day.
LONDON, Mar. 22, (/Pi—U. S.
Army headquarters in London
said charges of conspiracy to “in
flict cruel, unusual and unauthor
ized punishment” on guardhouse
prisoners were brought against
Col. James Kilian, former com
mander of the Tenth Reinforce
ment Depot at Litchfield, and five
other officers. Maj. Richard Kear
ney, staff judge advocate, said the
charges were preferred for inves
tigation under the seventieth arti
cle of war.” also included separ
ate counts of misfeasance and
malfeasance in office.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, l/P)—
Soviet Ambassador Gromyko
made an unheralded call on Pres
ident Truman in the White House
followed by a day of conferences
with Secretary Byrnes. No infor
mation was immediately avaliable
on the purpose of Gromyko’s visit.
Fishing Date Order
Is Rescinded
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, (/P)—
The Interior Deparmtent rescind-1
ed the regulations postponing the
opening of deepsea fishing in Alas
kan waters from March 15 to May
1. Delegate Bartlett had protested
the regulations announced in Alas
ka March 14, after some fisher- i
men had started for the fishing
grounds, and others were ready
to depart.
SPORTS
TENSLEEP, Wyo., UP> — The
wide-awake basketball team of
Tensleep High School won seven
of its first eight league games this
season—even though its squad of
12 represents half the boys in
school. School Superintendent S.
D. Reser doubles as the coach and
as a teacher.
NEW YORK, (/P) — Emerson
Dickman, former pitcher for the
Boston Red Sox, has retired from
organized baseball to devote most
of his time to his own manufac
turing business in Jersey City, N.
J. Dickman, however, plans to
confine his pitching to semi-pro
ball in the east. During the war
Dickman was stationed at the U.
S. Merchant Marine Academy.
STINESVILLE, Ind., (^—For
getting to send in the school’s en
try in the annual high school bas
ketball championship is almost a
major offense in Indiana, noted
for its rabid basketball fans and
many topnotch teams.
After A. E. Breeden, principal
of Stinesville High School, let the
entry blank lie on his desk past
the deadline, a number of the
more vigorous basketball follow
ers in this town demanded that he
be dismissed.
The principal apologized at a
school convocat:on, but the Stines
ville team is sad about the affair.
It won 12 of 18 games and was
one of the best the school ever
produced.
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tables at Polets.
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COMING TO NOME
Robert Maddox, an instructor in
the School of Mines, University
of Alaska at Fairbanks, is coming
to Nome soon to give a course of
instruction in minerology, mining
and geology. This course, which is
free, will run for about three
weeks. It will be held in the Ter
ritorial High School at Nome in
the evenings—exact starting date
will be announced later over
WXLN and in the Nome Nugget.
All interested persons are urged
to attend.
These series of lectures by Mr.
Maddox are being offered through
the cooperation of the University
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charge to any person attending.
Meetings
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Nome Federated Church are re
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services this next Sunday, March
24th.
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SUNDAY
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FRED MacMURRAY
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ANNE MILLER. JESS BARKER
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