The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1946, Page 8

EIGHT WELL, 1946 COMES IN, IN NOISE 1 Ju- favors and tributed at various in public places as well & homes When the f the clock point ) 12 ct loose The Firc Boy annon booormn out 12 booms ered by the 1 tolling of the fire bell here merrymaker sered, from the n and ballroom to pi- n cocktail bars ¢ Dreamland and beyond, greetings broke loose Auto horns added to the din and up on Star Hill and down on Wil- Joughby Avenue, shots were fired In various homes, where partic were held to greet the new ) 1 was just as noisy. There was a difference in observ- ance in four religious places in neau where worshippers ed to quietly and reverently w the old year pass into history the new year arise. There prayers for guidance durin, il toming 12 months, songs were Joy- fully given and then, in atm noi MAJORITY IN HOUSE DROPS were when Congress reconvenes : ry 14, the Democrats will . ven fewer seats than they wo, January. | " The lineup then will be 236 Demo- icrats, 190 Republicans, -two minor parties and seven vacancies The 78th Congress, which met in January, 1943, found the Democrats and ' yith a majority of only 14—222 to three scientists who aided in thelsog with four minor party mem- development of the atomic bomb jers and one vacancy are among the many persons receiv- Today's drop to 47 resulted from ing awards from King George VI. |yesignations which became effective phere of thankfulness, I it greetings were spoken WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—The BBE Y S Democratic majority in the House fell to 47 today ee members . stepped back into private life, to be (hur(hlll IS wed quickly by a fourth LONDON, Jan. 1.—A New honor list, believed to be the long-| est in British history, revealed to- day that Winston Churchill Year Churchill, who declined the Or-jjast midnight for these three mem- der of the Garter last July, Was| pers: Samuel Dickstein, (NY), Rob- . awarded the Order of Merit Jert Ramspeck (Ga) and Clifton A. Wallace A. Akers, director of woodrum (Va). A fourth Democrat, atomic bomb research, was made a samuel A. Weiss (Pa) has resigned knight. Dr. Rudolf Ernst Peierls, offective January 7 scientific consultant on atomic bomb| yntil successors are named for research, and Dr. Franz Eugen Si-|ihese fou d to fill three other mon, professor in Thermodyanics at{ygcancies the vote on most major Oxford University, were made Com-|igsyes is expected to be close, since manders of the British Empire. many southern Democrats recently it = have balloted with Republicans. WILLIS RITES TOMORROW - Funeral services for Evangeline, John J Phillips, recent arrival Willis, who died last Thursday will | from Elfin Cove, passed away a' be held at the Charles W. Carter St. An Hospital this morning Chapel tomorrow morning at 10jand the remains are at the o'clock and in the Memorial Pres- |Charles W. Carter Mortuary. He byterian Church at 2 o'clock. Rites | was born at Tulsa, Okla., and was at the chapel will be the Russian|63 years old at the time of his service. death EVERYONE is included in our wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year —wishes which are drawn from the deep, pure wells of hope. You have helped .ncke the past year a most pleasant one for us. Mindful of this, we have but one thought as we enter 1946 ... to be fully worthy of the con- fidence you have reposed in us. PIGGLY WIGGLY SommEE e L S L S SPECIALIZING IN FERMANENT WAVING ‘ WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUN { OF BALTIMORE, MD., . MARGARET DEITSCH, NOW WITH LUCILLE’S BEAUTY SALON PHONE 492 PRINCESS NORAH SAILS SOUTH WEDNESDAY JANUARY 2 AT 7A.M. MAN OF THE YEAR HARRY S. TRUMAN S, CALIF—Bill Linder- SALID man, Red Lodge, Mont., was named world champion cowboy for 1945 by the Rodeo Association of Am- erica. He will receive $1,000 HELENA, MONT. — The Justice Court wound up its business for the year by fining a motorist $10 for driving without a 1945 license tag on his car. LONDON — Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin has given the British Cabinet a report on the Moscow conference of foreign ministers. In- formed sources say the British Cabinet official limited the review mostly to the informal talks he had with the United States State Secretary Byrnes and Soviet For- eign Commissar Molotov. — Civil Service employes wound up a three-day holiday by whooping it up in a manner reminiscent of the roaring twenties. HINGTON Ww. HINGTON — President Tru- man, along with most of official Washington, is taking a New Year holiday. He is aboard the Presi- dential yacht Williamsburg, an- chored off Quantico, Va., working cn two addresses on the state of the union. One is to be delivered in a radio talk to the people, some time within the next week. The second Mr. Truman will deliver to Congress after it reconvenes on Jan. 14 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — The stork wound up 1945 in a blaze of glory. He delivered no less than four sets of twins at a single hospital—a set of boys, a set of girls and two sets of mixed twins to start off the new year. MIAMI, FLA. Liquor dealers counted some $3,000,000 in the till on New Year's Day as the result of sales made during the past few days to vacationers who staged a bang-up welcome to young 1946 ANGELES, — Hotels today with crowds on hand for 1al Rose Bowl Fiesta, whil m stars turned ¢ « s in the cel zht spots last WASHINGTON - The sional committee inves the Pearl Harber attack also is taking a one-day holiday. Secretary of es again has ex- pressed his confidence that Ger MacArthur will make the Allied plan for Japan a success, despite the occupation commander’s stren- uous objections. The statement — made at a New Year's Eve news conference—is the second such made by Byrnes in two days R WASHINGTON State James By DRINK KING BLACK UABEL!| 7. LITERATURE Ernie Pyle DEMOCRATIC BULLETINS Home Afire; 4 Are Burned CHELMSFORD, Mass, Jan. 1— Four persons were burned to d today and several others escaped W 1 fire destroyed a one and one- half story home The dead were identified by police 1s Mr. and Mrs. James Maclver, 26 and 25 respectively; their 15-month- old daughter, Maureen, all o Chelmsford, and Thomas Copery, 24, of Lowell CANMONKEY WITH MONKEY SUITS OF NAVY; WHO CARES WASHINGTO! Jan. 1 — The sailor in the street had mixed re- actions today to the Navy's pro- posal to monkey with his monkey suit. In a poll taken by this reporter, the sailors favored a change. bY| rghe first contingent cver 2,000, of an estimated 90,000 Japancse now interned in the one-time ab;g; i;?-ylsmnm i it s | Bttt Shanghai, brard a Jap merchant ship 2t Shanghai for repatriation to their homeland. (AP Wire- closing last night that it is con-| Photo) sidering a new uniform. Under| 5 AT S the proposed new design ordinary States should help in Hiroshima's| He added that the japanese gov- trousers will replace the old bell- HIROSHIMA MAYOR | rebuilding because “we can't do|emment had made no move bottoms,* and a jumper type shirt | it ourselves.” ward the relief of the atom bomb will be used instead of the present GivEs ou'l' AppEAl Japan can furnish the labor | Victims and that captured Japanese skin-tight jumper. but Americans should provide the food and clothing which the U. S This outfit, the Navy hastily ex- ~HIROSHIMA, Jan. 1 — Mayor materials, food, clothing and medi- | Army turned back to the h plained, is just in the trial stage.: Shuchiro Kihara of this atomcines, he told visiting American ministry for relief purp It will be three months before bombed city thinks the United | correspondents. mained in warehouses. tests are completed and recom- mendations made. Boy, Believed to Be Hitler's Son, Is Ugdgr Arrest 1.—Reuters, in a reported toda that Czechc nclice have ar- rested a d boy who may be Hitler's son. The youth's descrip- tion was said to fit that of the picture ¢ boy found with Hitler's documents. - o LONGSHOREMEN IN NEW YORK GET PAY RAISE NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—Longshore- | men who went on strike for 18 da: in October started off the New Year | today with a 20 per cent basic wage | increase. | The pay boost was announced last night by William H. Davis, arbitrator | in the longshoremen’s wage dispute | with shipping companies. Both sides | had agreed to accept whatever de-| cision Davis made. | u. i JUNEAU, ALASKA i i WEATHER BULLETIN | DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 120TH MERIDIAN TIME | | station 24 hrs* | TODAY | | last | Lowest 4:30a.m. 24hrs. Weatherat | | Max. temp. | temp. temp. Precip. 4:30am. | | Anchorage 2k | 6 21 0 Cloudy | Barrow 13 ! Bethel 3 7 8 01 Rain | | cordova 36 | | Dawson 11 9 1 Trace Cloudy : | Bdmonton 10 1 | Fairbanks 11 14 11 0 Pt. Cloudy | Haines 37 34 35 2 Rain | | Juneau 44 | 36 a1 14 Rain ! Juneau Airport 38 29 38 .08 Rain | Ketchikan 48 42 4 69 Rain | Kotzebue 10 32 5 Trace Clear | | McGrath 0 | 10 10 & Cloudy | Nome 20 24 12 05 Snow i Northway 1 19 Trace : Petersburg 43 | 83 42 39 Rain Portland 53 43 50 01 Pt. Cloudy Prince George 22 0 2 24 Snow | Prince Rupert 49 42 45 06 “ Rain ‘ San Francisco 49 42 50 0 Fog | Seattle 51 43 | Sitka 58 40 46 Cloudy i Whitehorse 24 8 22 01 Cloudy | Yakutat 39 30 38 02 Rain Gulf of Alaska. Rain has fallen degrees, (4:30 a. m. yesterday to 4:30 WEATHER SYNOPSIS: A series of low centers located south of the | Aleutian Islands continue to move eastward and northeastward into the | along the west coast of the United States, British Columbia and along the Alaskan coast from Dixon En-| trance to Kodiak. Temperatures over this area range from 40 to 50 Snow has fallen over central Canada and interior Alaska,| temperatures ranging 5 to 15 degrees above zero. a. m. today) i R S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU | SPORTS ‘Doc Blanchard Army ENTERT Bob Hope SCIENCE = Dr.J R Oppenheimer (For Atomic Scientists) WOMAN OF THE YEAR Dr. Lise Meitner < W i i oy 1 INDUSTRY Eric A. Johnsfon LABOR Walter P. Reuther TUESDAY, JANUARY Jap Civilians in (hina Board Ship for Home to- 1, 1946 RESCRIPT OF HIROHITO IS GIVEN OKEH Gen. MacArthur Has Praise for New Year State- ment of Emperor TOKYO, Jan. 1—Gen. MacAr- thur today praised Emperor Hiro- hito’s New Year's rescript aimed at the democratization of the thought of the Japanese people along with the liberalization of their govern- ment. The emperor’s pronouncement, unparalleled in the annals of the ruling of the Rising Sun Empire, told the people their traditional conception of the emperor as a divine person was a “false con- ception,” and that the Japanese were not ordained to rule the earth. “The ergperor’s statement pleases me very much,” MacArthur said. “By it he undertakes a leading part in the democratization of his people. He squarely takes his stand for the future along liberal lines.” MacArthur likewise addressed a New Year'’s message to the Japa- nese telling them that a “new day dawns for Japan” needing only the awakening of the masses to the knowledge that “they now have the power to govern, and what is done must be done by themselves.” However, the course of the new year was not so clear # many observers of the Japanese scene, who expressed new cause for alarm in discovering that under the Moscow control agreement, the Japanese governmental #nd con- stitutional changes would be sub- ject to the control commission and council, rather than to MacAr- thur's directiv — .- U.S. Steamer In Distress LONDON, Jan. 1. — A shipping radic station at Lands End picked up a message today that the 7,196- ton U. S. steamer John B. Hood, carrying 550 troops, was wallowing off the Azores without a propeller and needed immediate assistance. Another message said the U. S. steamer Marion McKinley Bovard was standing by to help the Hood. INVENTORY SALE! Dresses: * Kid Gloves: Were 5.95 Now 1.50 YA Hankies: SPECIAL 25¢and 50c Dance Chiffons 29ct0 1.2 Were up to 32.50 Now8.951015.00 Housecoals, Robes: Were up to 25.00 Now 8.95 “IP’s the Nicest Store in Town” Women's AppAREL BARANOF HOTEL BUILDING Coats: Were up to 185. Now 68.50 Blouses: Were 7.95 * Now 2.50and 3.50 ~ Starts Tomorrow Were up 10 18.95 Now 75¢ 10 2.95 yAY A Few Suils: Special Prices!