22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. X L V 111. No. 3 NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1946 PER COPY_15c
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NEWS IN BRIEF
TORONTO, Jan. 7 — (A3) —1The
Province of Ontario demanded fis
cal autonomy for Canada’s nine
provinces. Ontario’s demand was
contained in a report prepared for
a Dominion Provincial conference
and was made public by Premier
George Drew. Copies were air
mailed to Prime Minisetr MacKen
zie King and nine provincial Pre
miers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7— (A3) —
The Treasury department an
nounced the official standings of
the States, Territories and Island
Possessions in E bond sales in the
Victory Loan. Alaska was second
to the Canal Zone of the Territo
ries with sales of two million dol
lars, and a quota of one million,
and a percentage sold of 154%. i
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7— (/P) —!
After nine busy days at home Sec
retary Byrnes left at eleven a.m.J
Nome time, to attend the United
Nations assembly to tackle world
problems unsolved at Moscow.
^\mong other things Byrnes will
try to get is: One—An internation
al agremeent on the Dardaneles
question, thus easing the Russo
Turkish relations. Two—An agree
ment for a Soviet, British and
American commission to study the
complicated problems of oil rich
Iran. Three—British and Russian
assurances that “full security” will
be guaranteed operations of the
United Nations atomic energy
commission.
CHUNGKING, Jan. 7—(/P)—'The
^first National Government troops
entered Mukden Saturday morn
ing after a march along the rail
road leading into the city a semi
official dispatch reported. The an
nouncement said the soldiers were
greeted by a large enthusiastic
crowd.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 7—
(^P)—Two crewmen were injured
fatally and six others hurt when a
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
plane overshot the runway at
^Birmingham municipal airport
»nd crashed into a creek. Murky
•weather was the cause. Co-pilot
Delman Ruskin, Oklahoma City.,
and Capt. Samuel Carson, Rose
I ville, Mich., died in the hospital.
MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 7 — (tf*) —A
four-engined Constellation plane,
built for Pan American’s New
York to London run, landed here
after a nine hour, eight minute
non-stop flight from Burbank, Cal.
Ipapt. Scott Flower, who flew the
^Constellation said no attempt was
made to set a record for the flight.
SEEN AT THE RACE S—This bevy of senoritas represented the Mexican state of Oaxaoa on
"Oaxaca Day" at the Hipodromo de las Americas, famous Mexico City track.
Fairbanks Suffers
Worst Fire In
Its History
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FAIRBANKS, Jan. 7—(&)—'The
worst fire in forty years destroyed
four wooden business buildings in
the heart of Fairbanks Saturday
night, causing a loss of over half
a million dollars, wiping out a
hardware store, two cocktail bars,
a liquor store, barber shop, and
meat market before the fire was
controlled.
The fire was finally brought un
der control after two hours work
by the Fairbanks and Ladd Field
firemen and scores of volunteers
in fifteen below zero cold. Four
other wooden buildings in the same
block were saved when the path
of the flames was blocked by the
Empress Theater, the first con
crete structure in Fairbanks.
The Lavery building, adjoining
the fire on the other side, housing,
seven businesses and several of
fices, was saved by strenuous
work, but much damage was suf-!
fered by the stock, which had to
be moved to the other side of the
street.
The fire began, from an un
known cause, between the Patton
Hardware and the Mecca Bar. Ex-j
ploding ammunition on the hard-*
ware store shelves kept firemen
at bay, and stray slugs broke three
plateglass windows across the
street, while the flames spread
rapidly. Half of the town was in
darkness due to interruption of
electric circuits. No one was in-,
jured.
1 C OF C MET AT NOON
LUNCHEON SATURDAY
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The NWA Chamber of Com
merce met at a noon luncheon Sat
j urday with several guests present.
Duke Mitrovich, vice-president,
presided at the meeting. A Polet
brought up the subject of a perm
anent paid secretary for the Alas
ka Planning Board to be estab
lished in Nome, with the possibil
ity of the Nome Chamber paying
part of the office expense in order
that more of the necessary work
of the Board and Chamber could
be accomplished.
A communication Trom the
board manager was read, in which
he asked for a catalogue of busi
nesses in Nome and the Second
Division for use in the Juneau of
fice to be used as a guide for
recommendations in answering
Outside requests for information
regarding the Territory.
A. Polet asked the Chamber to
endorse the renewing of activities
of the Northwestern Alaska Fair
Association in backing a plan to
hold a fair during April of this
year.
Following the reading of com
munications, the president was re
quested to appoint a permanent
Tourist Committee in order to
have more complete information
on the points of interest and ac
commodations in the Division.
The visitors were then called
upon. Herbert McClellan, Rein
deer Unit Manager of Kotzebue
explained the willingness of the
Kotzebue people to cooperate in
Marshall Makes
Progress In
Chinese Peace
| CHUNGKING, Jan. 7— (/P) —
General Marshall met with gov
ernment and Communist peace ne
j gotiators and at the end of the
j first historic session declared “we
made progress.”
President Truman’s special en
voy, making his first comment
since he stepped into the midst of
Chinese negotiations after the ri
vals agreed to methods leading to
a truce, said the conferences will
be resumed tomorrow. General
Marshall met for about three
hours with Gen. Chou, head of the
delegation representing the Com
munists, sent here to talk peace,
and Gen. Chang, representing the
Chinese government.
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the coming NWA Fair, but that
| in the event of tourist travel this
summer, they were not in a posi
tion to handle overnight stops,
that is, sleeping accommodations
even though the daylight is con
tinuous throughout the 24 hours.
J. A. Snow, of the Bethel Unit
stated that Bethel had a chamber |
of commerce, and it was fairly ac-|
tive on the problems concerning
the Freight Rate Hearings and|
mining activities, which are be
ginning to open up in fair shape.
Bethel is going through a period
of readjustment in that the small
population must handle the prob
lems caused by the sudden arrival
| of the army in 1941, the cessation
Million And Half
Scheduled To Be
Idle By Mid Jan nary
The nation’s idle from labor
disputes continue to number
around four hundred thousand,
but a million, one hundred thou
sand more are scheduled to walk
out next week. This is the picture:
Steel—The giant steel strike
scheduled for January 14th, of
eight hundred thousand CIO steel
workers involved. The govern
ment fact finding board in the
U. S. steel dispute urges the cor
poration union to resume collec
tive bargaining on the union’s two
dollar daily wage increase de
mand.
Electrical—CIO electrical work
ers prepare for a nationwide strike
set for January 15. Two hundred
thousand employees of General
Electric, Westinghouse, and Gen
eral Motors union seek two dollars
a day more pay.
Meat Packing — Government
conciliators call for the Chicago
conferences to start Wednesday in
an attempt to avert a work stop
page of two hundred thousand
CIO packing house workers sched
uled for January 16.
Communications—Two hundred
sixty-three thousand Bell Tele
phone system employees ballot on
whether to stop work in a sympa
thy strike of twenty-one Western
Electric plans in New Jersey and
New York City. President Truman
has been asked by the union to
appoint a fact finding board “if it
will get men back to work.”
Oil—The fact finding panel re
convenes with agreement between
CIO oil workers and refineries to
consider a possible basic eighteen
per cent wage increase. Most re
fineries and pipelines have been
under government operation since
October 4.
Automotive—Fact finders in the
General Motors dispute are ex
pected to report Tuesday or Wed
nesday on CIO auto workers. Gen
eral Motors sources deny rumors
that the company is ready to offer
a fifteen to seventeen percent
raise to end the strike of one hun
dred seventy-five thousand work
ers.
of mining activities, and the sud
den departure of the army in
1945. These and other problems
are large for a small community
to handle.
Doug Johnston, manager of the
Nome unit, spoke, complimenting
the Fair Association on the re
opening of the fairs and that the
Alaska Native Service, in all de
partments, was behind the project
100 percent.