The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1945, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1945 And Allof Yours . . . . . AVery MERRY CHRISTMAS 1y vou, and into your hands with its spirit, and bring MAY PEACE significance and 1ch hapr OME WITH IT iness B M BPehrends QARLITY S/NCE /887 HEALTH CONDITIONS 'N TERRITORY ARE - 000D, SAYS NORRIS Dr. E. W. Non‘ls Medical Di- rector of the Alaska Native Service, returned from an inspection trip to Fairbanks, Barrow, Nome, Kotzebue, White Mountain and Tanana, and reports favorably on the present health situation in those areas. Making his fi t official trip to Barrcw, Dr. Norris said he was eeably surprised” to find the Native Service Hospital at that town so well equipped and modern despite the lack of ordinary con- veniences found in towns where public utilities are available, “The Eskimos in that area are receiving exceptionaly fine care and there is excellent cooperation between the Government Hospital and the Navy Base, which is lo- | he 12-man committee, night to narrow down the field of United States ccmmunities which have offered tribute to field nurses who are sites fdr the world capital. ministering to the imos in the The committee will tour the Arctic and Interior Alaska: “They United States and then sclect a are brave women who are com- maximum of six cities as candi- pelled to travel from village to dates for the capital. It also will village by plane and dog sled set a deadline for new invitations during the winter, by plane or from prospective sites river boat in the summer.” Members of the committee will The Medical Director reported > appointed from Australia, China, he was very fortunate in obtaining |Cuba, France, The Netherlands, transportation without any appre-|Iran, Iraq, The Soviet Union, The ciable delays due to weather. The | United Kingdom, Uruguay, Yugo- weather conditions were not severe slavia and Poland. A proposal that at any place on his journey, the the United States be added to the coldest being 24 degrees below at group was declined by U. S. dele- Fairbanks. However, it seemed gate Wilder Foote. much colder than this at Point| The committee will start work Barrow, where icy blasts from the |as soon as the preparatory com- Arctic Ocean penetrate ordinary mission adjourns, probably Sunday. clothing. It is necessary to wear It must complete the job before the mukluks and skin parkas in order end of the first Union Assembly, to withstand the cold. which will convent in London Jan- Dr. Norris expects to leave for uary 10 Spokane, Wash., to spend the holi- days with his lamlly natives in areas visited is good, said ination stablished last a Field Nurses Praised Dr. Norris paid the following > Safeway | i 'MORE DISCHARGES|"" RE-CLASSIFIED BY BRAH BOARD Hfl!! Of 67 registrants classified by Lo- cal Selective Service Board No. 3 at its most recent meeting, all but four | are servicemen who have been dis-| charged back into civilian life and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22—"It's are now in the 1-C (Disc.) category.'ths same old army,” said Corporal Of the others, two are new regis- A. L. Holzman, of Long Island, N. trants, just reaching 18 years who Y., “Hurry up and wait. have been dropped into 1-A. | Holzman was one of nearly 100,- The new classifications ére: 000 veterans from the Pacific who 1-A—Harold Bremner and Eric tcday appeared likely to be strand- A. Larson. led at West Coast ports on Christ- 1-C—John Guerrero (Inducted). !mas Day because of lack of trans- 4-A—Charles R. Albert. | portation. 1-C (Disc.)—Julian 8. Villamor,' Nearly 120,000 veterans were sty- Royal J. Paddock, Bernard E. Hulk- mied at the ports today, and ships ko, John D. Pendergrass, Joseph J. were scheduled to dump an addi- Thomas, David A. Ellis, Rudolph C. ticnal 15000 more daily on har- Fusich, Robert W. Feero, Clifford rasced Army and Navy transpor- Williams, Gordon K. Chappel, Fran- tation officials, a far larger num- cisco C. Sison, Jack L. Young, John per than ¢they ecxpected to have Alstead, Earl L. Smith. transportation for. Donald R. Bates, Bert V. Bartlet, “We had hopes of getting home Shirley R. Voreis, George M. Gras- by Christmas,” said Pfc. Juli ty, Walter W. Barnes, Louis J. An- Brenner, of Hudson, N. Y. dersen, Walter D. Griffith, William- bedy promised us we would. scn L. Nance, Robert L. Duckworth, just hoped we would. I've Greig V. Stromme, Kenneth L. overseas only 25 months. Lots of Brown, John Ktibek, John J. Gil- these fellows have been over a lot more, Marvin D. Johnson, Vincent longer.” H. Schmidt, George Bourdukofsky, Brenner Charles Thomas, John E. Thomp- parents: son, William T. Johnson, Ira C. Tuni- ' “Living aboard son. transportation tieup. Roymond O. Havlic, Richard O. when I'll get home.” Kcbbevik, Arnold L. Henrikson, Men required to st Hialmar A ikko, Ray R. Mans- there were four “floating barrack: “Id. Georze W. Young, Crisanto D. here today—were given an informa- Saravis, Sethi G. Glover, George H. tion sheet explaining the reason for. Ccnverse, William R. Weir, Richard the delay. The paper also listed B. Brown, Arthur E. Vienola, Harry entertainment and sightseeing pos- A. Savage, Willilam Morgan, Orvald sibilities in San Francisco. G. Osborne, Amos L. Wallace, Sim- A spokesman from the office of cen Swetzof, James V. Hickey, Paul Major General Homer Groninger, H. Stover, Harold H. Zenger. commander of the Port of Embark- Jake Cropley, Jr., Alexander Miller, ation here, said: Charles E. Porter, Axel Nielson, Rob- “Our ‘operation Santa Claus’ Hurry Up and Wait"' Is Old Cry, Say Vels “No- We sent a telegram to his ship because of Have no idc:\ (the been ° "broken through the Ardennes. All men in the command at that time will be entitled to wear the green and red decoration on their shoul- ders. NEW SUPER PLANE, FASTEST OF KIND, HAS BEEN BUIL BURBANK, Calif,, Dec. 22 — A new super patrol plane, which its designers say has the greatest | range, fastest speed and heaviest | armament of any scouting bomber | yet developed, was announced to- day by the Navy. Known as the P2V, the midwing, land-based monoplane can attain on two Duplex engines with a ccmbined 4,600 horsepower—all the and loac pecrformance claimed by the giant four-engine B-17s and B-24's, say designing engineers at Lockheed Aircraft Corp For instance, range the craft reputedly * can fly its seven-man crew nonstop for more than 5,000 miles — from Seattle to Tokyo—at 300 miles an hour. Or, if based at Guam, it could scoute Wake Island, Tokyo, Manila and New Britain. wgineers say the plane can perform equally well on high al- titude photographic or low level rescue missions, or can be trai formed quickly into an attnck bomber, its bomb bays fitted for atomic bombs, Capable of transporting enough explesives to sink a heavy cruiser, the 29-ton craft is fitted for two | 12,000 pound aerial torpedoes, four | {415 anch aerial rockets, 8000‘ | pounds of regular bombs or | dozen 325 pound depth charges. | Engineers say the plane has been | tested extensively and that 100 preduction models will be delivered | to the Navy soon. —————— BETTER LATE— DEARBORN, Mo.— Dr. F. L. Dur- ham arrived &t a farm home near here ten minutes too late to de- liver a baby daughter to Mrs. Cecil Foster, but just in time to discover a fire in the home The doctor bundled and baby in blankets, and as the flames destroyed the farmhouse, rushed the mother and infant to a St. Joseph, Mo., hospital where both are reported doing nicely. - the mother tika frequently oceur- and archaic Greek! The s red in Aegean ! pottery. Palestine Inquiry Slarlmg on Jan. 7 WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 — The British-American committee of in- quiry on Palestine will open its hearings in ‘Washington Jan. 7, Judge William Hutcheson, U. .S. chairman, announced today. Hutcheson said arrangements for the hearings were completed yes- terday in a trans-Atlantic tele- phone conversation with Sir John Singleton, the British chairman. R was decided that the British commissioners would come to ‘Washington for the first session and that the whole committee then would go to London before start- ing a firs A NUMBER PI.EASE SPRINGFIELL, 1. Illinois motorists, applying for 1945 license plates, didn’t want any part of the number “13”, say Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett. Some 50,000 motorists had put in requests for the first 10,000 num- bers, he said. The most popular numbers? Seven and eleven. L et Empire Want-ads hrmy rexulu! %W%%WW’%&%W)%W%WW THE NEW YORK TAVERN Sends Christmas Greetings ert D. Fleek, Louis L. Lucas, Ivar E. Cenn, Bryce J. Meilke, John M. Faulkner. name the army gave its plan for handling returning veterans) has been too successful. We've brought back more men than the railroads AND THANKS YOU FOR THE PAST can handle.” NUERNBERG TRIAL ' IS RECESSED FOR BEWUM HONORS HOLIDAY SEASON AMERICAN FORCE BRUSSELS beigium, Dec. 22 The Belgian Creix de Guerre 11 be pinned tomorrow to the colors of the Ninth Tactical Command of the Ninth Airforce, constituting cne of the largest mass decorations in history .The ceremony commemor- ates a year ago when Belgian skies cleared and the airmen launched their famous attack on Na wxmured columns that had NUERNBERG, Dec. 22—Members of the Allied prosecution staff ex- pressed hope teday that war crime: evidence against 21 leading Nazis and six Nazi organizations may be finished by the end of January, enabling the defense to begin its case early in February. The Ifternational Military Tri- bunal trying the Nazis adjourned yesterday for a 13-day holiday re- cess. In the month since the tribunal convened, American and British prosecutors have virtually com- pleted their share of presentation of the evidence under general terms of the indictment. When court reconvenes on Jan U. S. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson's staff will first finish its case against the Gestapo and the Nazi Security Police and then proceed with evidence against the last of the six indicted organiza- tions, the German high command and the general staff. ‘With completion of cases against the organizations, the prosecution is scheduled to swing immediately to submission of briefs and evi- dence intended to show individual responsibility of the 21 defendants That is slated to be followed by Russian and French evidence of war crimes and crimes against hu- manity, which constitute the final phase of the prosecution’s case. The defendants were returned to their cells to spend the Christfhas season, which will be marked by special opportunities for them to participate in religious sérvices. - treaty The first between the SAN FRANCISCO—Seventy-eight United States and China was signed Markets reopened today OclobFr 24, 18« YEAR'S BUSINESS New Friends ard Old are invited to our OPEN HOUSE CHRISTMAS EVE after 6:00 P. M. First Drink Is on the House! GEORGE SALOQ, Proprietor cated about two miles east of the | cillage,” the medical Director said. ‘(o"ege ("S“ CrealedasVefs Seek Enroilment WASHINGTON, Dec. The United States is headed for the | greatest educational jam in history as thousands of returning war vet- | erans swamp colleges and uni- | versities with enrollment appli { tions. . Already 125,000 veterans, financed under the GI Bill of Rights, are in college classes, and 207,000 more | have applied for entrance Dr. Francis J. 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