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VOL. XLVII. No. 102. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1945 PER COPY —15*
Lend Lease End
♦Puts Britain In
Bad Position
LONDON, Aug. 24—i(7P)—Prime
Minister Attlee told Commons the
sudden end of lend lease put Brit
ain in a “very serious financial
position.” Winston Churchill said
♦ he couldn’t believe that “this is
the last word.” Attlee said the
British government hoped that
lend lease wouldn’t be ended
■without prior consultation.
In response, Churchill, now
leader of the opposition, declared
he couldn’t believe that United
* States would “proceed in such a
rough manner as to hamper their
faithful ally who held the fort
while their own American arma
ments were being prepared.”
Attlee cautioned members of
the House to exercise “utmost re
straint” within and without the
Chamber in commenting on the
situation. Churchill agreed that de
bate now might be detrimental to
national interests.
Atlee disclosed that Lord Hali
fax, British ambassador to United
States during the wartime coali
tion government had been invited
to return to Washingon to negoti
ate financial arrangements to suc
ceed lend lease.
• WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—(/P>—
Foreign Economic Administrator
Crowley said responsible British
officials “must recognize that lend
lease would have to be discon
tinued after the Jap war and could
not be used as part of her post
war rehabilitation and reconver
sion program.”
• Commenting on Prime Minister
Attlee’s statements, Crowley said
“In no discretion under the law or
under promises made to the Con
gress of the United States by the
late President Roosevelt or Truman
as Vice-President and asPresdient.
I repeatedly stated that lend lease
couldn’t be used for postwar re
habilitation.”
Forest Fire Burns
180,000 Acres
PORTLAND, Aug. 24—</P)— A
tremendous new blaze roaring
through the green pine timber
standings in this state where still
burning fires have already black
ened one hundred eighty thousand
acres, a new fire, which mush
roomed from a small lightning
b Strike to a conflagration within
f two days and leaped through five
' thousand acres in the high Cas
cades south of Mt. Jefferson.
CAMOUFLAGED ACTOR — Dressed in jungle camou*
flage suit, Moss Hart, playwright turned actor for a South Pacific
USO-Camp Shows tour, gingerly starts across a rope bridge near
an unidentified baa*.
Salmon Pack
Lagging Half
Million Cases
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—(/P)—
This season’s pack of Alaska sal
mon is lagging nearly half a mil
lion cases behind last year’s pro
duction total. Forty five may be
the smallest peak since nineteen
twenty-seven.
This outlook is reported by the
Office of the Coordinator of Fish
eries. By August eleventh the pack
had reached three million two
hundred thirty thousand cases as
compared to three million six hun
dred ninety-four thousand cases
by August twelfth of last year.
Quotas Off On
Passenger Cars
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—<A>»—
WPB removed all quotas on the
production of passenger cars, leav
ing the industry free to make as
many as their capacity permits.
Commercial mint culture first
began in New York State more
than 100 years ago.
Moscow Will Send
Airborne Troops
To Hokkaido
An official Jap broadcast as
serted that Moscow has announced
intentions of sending airborne
troops ot the Jap island of Hok
kaido. The broadcast to General
MacArthur said “According to a
Moscow broadcast it is reported
that the Soviet Union is about to
send airborne troops to Hokkaido.
Should his report prove true it
will be greatly regretted by the
Jap government which is doing its
best in order to fulfill all your re
quirements by placing the army,
navy and civilians under strict
control.”
FRANK DAUGHERTYS
ARRIVE FROM GAMBEL
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daugherty
and son arrived from Gambel
where they have been teachers
for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
for many years. Their good work
is show* by the fine condition of
the natives. Financially this group
of Eskimos is better than any
other group known. The Daugher
tys are planning on teaching at
Golovin this coming winter.
SCHOOL PRINCIPAL
AND FAMILY ARRIVE
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After what they all enthusias
tically describe as a wonderfully
happy and interesting trip down
the Yukon from Nenana to St.
Michael, and by small boat to
Unalakleet and thence to Nome by *
Wien Airlines, the new superin
tendent of our school, J. W.
Thompson and their three chil
dren arrived in Nome Thursday
afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Thomp
son, Martha Ellen 15, Jerry 13,
and Mary Joan 9, are all interest
ed in Alaska.
They want to learn about it,
see it, live in it. They love its peo
ple for their friendliness and their
hospitality, and they are looking
forward eagerly to their home
among us. Mr. and Mrs. Thomp
son claim the state of Iowa as
their home state. They have both
had years o" < xperience in the
states of Iowa and Washington,
and their one year in Alaska.
Mrs. Thompson is a graduate of
the Iowa Stale Teachers College
and has had special training for
kindergarten and primary worit.
The School be ard asked her to
teach the first end second grades
this coming year, and we welcome
her to our staU.
Mr. Thompson hod v ork in the
Iowa State Teachers College, the
University of Minnesota Nortn
western University and the Uni
versity of Chicago and its Law
School. He has had experience in
business and law, but he comes to
Nome as a man primarily inter
ested in education. It is his desire
to build up a strong school with a
finely trained, cooperaitve staff;
one that will serve in the com
munity.
Mr. Thompson has already been
of great service to the school
board through correspondence in
contacting teachers and has shown
his interest in many ways. The
members of the Board are confi
dent of his ability to head our
Typhoon Lashes
Tokyo; Plans
Go Forward
MANILA, Aug. 24—(TP)—Allied
occupation forces will expand
their grip on Japan from Tokyo
to Kyushu the southernmost home
island on September first, four
days after MacArthur’s scheduled
landing near the typhoon crippled
capital.
Jap government Imperial head
quarters announced that Tokyo
had informed General MacAr
thur’s headquarters that a typhoon
howled through Kacto district
early Thursday morning and in
terferred with preparations for
Allied preparations there. There
was no direct request for a post
ponement of Tuesday’s major
landings, however. Presumably
the storm affected principally the
preparations for the advance
units.
Japan said airborne forces will
reach Kyushu’s Kanoya airfield
September first. Todays Jap lan
guage communique reported one
day after the surrender is signed
aboard the Battleship Missouri in
Tokyo Bay the seaborne forces
will follow.
B. W. NEILY ENROUTE
TO THE NORTH
B. W. Neily, U. S. Marshal from
Kotzebue, who has been in An
chorage, arrived with the Alaska
Airlines, enroute to the North.
Mr. Neilly has been in Anchor
age for the past two weeks. His
son Wilfred, formerly of Nome,
died in the hospital last week and
was buried Saturday in the An
chorage cemetery. He is survived
by his father, and his wife and
child in Anchorage.
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teaching staff as superintendent
and welcome him most cordially
to our town.
Death Toll From Atomic Bomb
Still Mounting In Hiroshima
A -—
Tokyo radio said that radioac
tivity with which Hiroshima was
blasted by atomic bomb is taking
a mounting death toll weeks after
the day of attack. In the fourteen
days following the raid the death
toll mounted from thirty thousand
to sixty thousand.
The broadcast recorded by (/P)
said servicemen working in the
area on reconstruction a week af
ter the attack to have a severely
diminished number of red and
white corpuscles. Investigations
in the city showed that “radioac
tivity caused by fission of urani
um used in atomic bombs was
taking a toll of mounting deaths.
Moreover, it was causing persons
engaged in reconstruction work
in Hiroshima to suffer various
sicknesses and ill health.
Tokyo broadcasts have been re
ferring repeatedly to the atomic
bomb raids on Hiroshima and Na
gasaki, possibly in a bid for world
sympathy.