22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVII. No. 10 1. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1945 PER COPY —15^
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Allies Assembling
Largest Transport
i Fleet Ever Used
MANILA, Aug. 22—(^—Gen
eral MacArthur disclosed that the
Japs already have a copy of the
surrender document they will be
required to sign, and said it in
forms them that representatives
of Australia, Canada, New Zea
* land, France and the Netherlands
will join the Big Four in signing.
This is the first indication that
the Jap emissaries to the Manila
conferences carried back to Ja
pan the surrender document. Pre
vious announcements said the
conference was limited to details
pertaining to MacArthur’s entry
into Jaoan. Tokyo radio said
without Allied confirmation that
MacArthur would set foot on
Japan nex Tuesday, arriving by
plane at Atsugi airfield two days
after airborne troops make their
initial landing at that airfield,
twenty miles southwest of Tokyo.
* The broadcast beamed for Eng
lish and American consumption,
avoided the word “surrender”, as
it reported the “truce agreement”
will be signed formally on August
thirty-first aboard a United States
warship in Tokyo bay.
The source quoted was the
Tokyo paper Yomiuri Hochi. The
radio said Japan was preparing to
withdraw her armed troops “as
* promptly as possible’ ’from the
area south of Tokyo on both sides
of Tokyo bay prior to Allied land-1
mgs.
General MacArthur relaxed his
order grounding all Japanese
planes in order to permit the Nip
ponese to use a minimum number
of unarmed aircraft for liaison
purposes in applying the surren
der terms.
OKINAWA, Aug. 22—(/P)—The
greatest fleet of giant four-engin
ed C-54 transport planes ever as
sembled on one field is spread
over a two square mile area at
* the Okinawa Kadena airdrome as
the Army Transport command
concentrated the airlines from all
over the world here to execute the
unannounced mission of the great
concentration, which is presum
ably ready to carry Allied occu
pation troops to Japan.
Tokyo said they will start land
ing Sunday.
The scores of big silver aircraft
9Y6 parked double along the serv
f ice aprons of the taxi way at Ka
dena where General Doolittle’s
Superforts were scheduled to# be
k based in the aerial offensive
against Japan.
SUNK BY U. S. SU B—A Japanese ship, shelled by a U. S. submarine, slowly slides below
the surface of the Pacific. Survivors later were rescued by. the submarine’s crew.
French Will Pay
Subsidy To U. S.
Armed Forces
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—(^P)—
The war department and the
treasury department of the French
government announced jointly to
night that the French government
will pay a “subsidy” to members
of the United States armed forces
in France, amounting to eight
hundred fifty francs—about sev
enteen dollars per month—in ef
fect this amounts to a revaluation
of the French franc as far as serv
ice personnel is concerned.
EVANGELIST FAILS TO
ARRIVE IN NOME
Dr. Oswald J. Smith, evangelist,
who was to conduct evangelistic
services at the Federated church
and the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday nights of
this week, was unable to arrive
in Nome on schedule. He will
probably arrive Thursday via
Alaska Airlines.
M. S. NORTH STAR
SKIPS NOME UNTIL LATER
The M. S. North Star which was
due in yesterday went directly to
St. Lawrence Island because of
the bad weather here. It will call
in here before going north.
RICHARD LEE FAMILY
LEAVE FOR CAMP
Richard Lee and family visited
in Nome while loading supplies
for their camp at Solomon. They
left today by truck.
480,000 Casualties;
Homeless From
Atomic Bomhs
Tokyo radio said the latest
checkup of the damage done bv
the atomic bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki showed that four
hundred eighty thousand persons
had been killed, injured or made
homeless in the two Jap cities.
The broacast recorded in New
York by said the bomb that
fell on Hiroshima on August sixth
killed or injured one hund.ed
sixty thousand persons and left
two hundred thousand homeless.
The bomb that hit Nagasaki
August ninth, left one hundred
twenty thousand casualties the
radio report said.
The broadcast said “furthermore
many persons are dying daily
from burns sustained in the course
of the raid.” Since the raid on
Hiroshima occurred during the
working hours of the morning and
the atomic bomb hit the central
part the casualties were tremen
dous. More than sixty thousand
persons were killed.
“The number of dead is mount
ing as many of those who received
bums cannot survive their wounds
because of the uncanny effect
which the atomic bomb produces
on the human body. Even those
who received only minor burns
looked quite healthy at first; only
to weaken after a few days from
some unknown reason and fre
quently died.
The sight of women and chil
dren wounded by the explosion
defies description/
Salmon Industry
To File Exception
iTo Ickes’ Order
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KETCHIKAN, August 22— (/P)
—The Alaska canned salmon in
dustry will file exceptions to the
recent Department of Interior or
der setting up Indian reservations
in Alaska, Mader W. C. Arnold |
reported today. The chief bone of
contention, Arnold said, was the
P. E. Harris cannery of Kake, lo
cated on a patented site.
He said the department order
would make Kake a reservation if
he interpreted the word “land”
| to include land uncovered at low
tide. This would jeopardize the
canneries use of adjacent beaches
to work fish traps and nets. It
would also affect shore installa
tions.
There are eight detinning and
six shredding plants for salvaged
tin cans in the United States.
Quisling Denies
Murder Of
Viggo Hansteen
OSLO, Aug. 22—UP)—The State
accused Quisling of the murder of
Viggo Hansteen, one of the lead
ing Norwegian underground lead
ers. The defendant with a sob in
his voice denied the charge.
Hansteen, whose widow is a‘
member of the present Norwegian
government, was killed by Ger
mans in 1941. Prosecutor Schjoedt
accused Quisling of the responsi
bility. charging Quisling with the
murder.
The puppet premier during the
occupation asked the Germans to
get rid of Hansteen because he
led a strike. “I never asked the
Germans to kill Hansteen, but
only to remove him, he was mak
ing things difficult for me.” cried
Quisling.
Schjoedt read a letter he said
Quisling wrote to Hitler, giving
his “great Germanic” plan for
placing Norway inside the Ger
man state system. Quisling denied
the letter but said he sought a
means of uniting a block of nations
with Germany.
Three Found Dead
In Cahin Near
Kodiak
KODIAK. Aug. 21—f/P)—U. S.
Deputy Marshal Paul Herring
said that William E. Bauman, Jr.,
found William E. Bauman, 50, his
wife Bety Bauman, and a negih
bor John E. Strickler, dead inside
a lonely cabin on Terror Bay. A
thirty-thirty carbine was nearby.
Bauman, Jr., stopped by on a
fishing trip to see if his parents
wanted him to get groceries.
Stricklers cabin was burned to
the ground.
Marshal Herring and a Federal
Bureau of Investigation man from
Anchorage left for Terror Bay,
which is fifty miles from Kodiak.
Airplane Companies Anticipate
Billion And Half Output In Next Year
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22 — (/P)—
Despite the sharpest contraction
in dollar volume ever suffered by
an American industry, the na
tion’s airplane manufacturers held
hopes for more than a billion and
a half dollar output in the next
twelve months.
A survey of the country’s num
ber one wartime business coupled
with reports from individual
plane makers to the Securities and
Exchange Commission showed
that seven companies alone now
had orders for approximately a
billion dollars on their books.
A partial picture of the terrific
shrinkage suffered almost over
night by aviation products was
given in reports to SEC, which
showed contract cancellations of
over five billion dollars.