Newest Disaster in China Widens Nationalist Losses
AP reports Communist forces trap three Nationalist army groups totaling about 110000 men defending Nanking while a fourth group had already been encircled. Suchow garrison retreated late. Towns near Peiping abandoned and a Peiping aviation fuel depot exploded. Mme Chiang Kai-shek faces hurdles in securing more US aid amid scrutiny of prior funds.
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Associated Press
China
Nanking
Suchow
Peiping
Mme
Chiang Kai-shek
Washington
United States
U. S
W Semar to Retire From Steamship Business in Seattle
William Semar, longtime head of Northland Transportation Company, will retire December 31 after 25 years with the firm. He helped grow its fleet from the motorship Bellingham. Northland assets, including Chief Washakie, will transfer to Alaska Steamship after Maritime Commission approval of a merger. Semar will lead Sitka Cold Storage and Aleutian Cold Storage as president.
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Seattle
William Semar
Northland Transportation Company
Lemar
Northland Company
Little Motorship
Bellingham
Alaska Steamship Company
Noted Lawyer Liable for Lynching in Japan Saga
The Washington Merry-Go-Round column recalls a Cleveland-Washington lawyer Joseph B. Keenan who traveled to Tokyo to prosecute Japan's wartime leaders and allegedly lynched with the Emperor of Japan. The piece hints at a controversial, sensational scene with foreign and imperial figures, continuing on Page Four.
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Japan
Tokyo
Joseph B. Keenan
Chambers on Stand in Spy Probe Testimony
Chambers testifies before a federal grand jury amid the renewed espionage inquiry. He says microfilms of key documents, found hidden on his Maryland farm, were out of his possession for a decade and claims to have obtained them from Hiss in 1938. No details on destinations or Russian handling are provided.
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Robert E. Stripling
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Johm
Rankin
D.-Miss
Maryland
Whitisker Chambers
Time Magazine
Stripling
New York
Whittaker Chambers
al Lger Hiss
State Department
Chambers
House Un-American Activities Committee
Hiss
Thomas J. Donegan
Market closes on Alaska Juneau and peers on Dec 7
Stock quotations from New York show Alaska Juneau at 241, American Can 62, Anaconda 33 percent, Curtiss Wright 27, Kennecott 57, New York Central 421, Northern Pacific 177 percent, U S Steel 72, and Pound 4031. Volume traded reached 1,140,000 shares with daily averages: Industrials 176.67, rails 53.68, utilities 32.91.
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New York
Alaska
Juneau
American Can
Anaconda
Curtiss- Wright T
International Harvester
Kennecott
New York Central
Northern Pacific
U. S. Steel
Rails
Welles Testifies in Spy Case Hearing on Confidential Documents
Former Undersecretary of State Welles testified at the House Un American Activities Committee hearings on Whittaker Chambers and covert documents from 1937 and 1938. He warned publication could harm national security as the committee kept the materials confidential.
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Washington
Snitter Welles
Congreslon
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Chambers
Welles
Robert E. Stripling
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Striping
Stripling
Rep. Herbert
D-La
Steamers Planned Departures From Seattle in December
The Baranof is set to sail from Seattle at 10 a.m. Friday December 10 followed by the Denali on Wednesday December 15 and the Alaska on Saturday December 18. Freighters Victoria and Terminal Knot are scheduled to depart Seattle around December 17. The Princess Norah is listed as southbound this evening possibly around seven. In early times, stranded English and Scottish whales were considered crown property.
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Baranof
Marshall undergoes kidney operation at Walter Reed
Secretary of State Marshall, age 67, underwent a kidney operation at Walter Reed Hospital. Officials reported the procedure was successful with no complications. The operation may affect his tenure as Secretary of State as he approaches his 68th birthday.
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Washington
Marshall
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Joiins
State Department
Holzheimer Rites Set For Thursday at Elks Lodge
William A Holzheimer, resident of Juneau, dies Sunday in St Ann's Hospital. Funeral services will be Thursday at 2 PM in Charles W Carter Mortuary under Juneau Lodge No 420 BPOE rites with Attorney R E Robertson delivering the eulogy. Interment follows in Evergreen Cemetery Masonite Plot beside his wife.
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William A Holzheimer
St. Ann's, Hospital
Charles W. Carter
Juneau Lodge No. 420
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
R. E. Robertson
Evergreen Cemetery
Weather Extremes and Kiwanis Meeting in Juneau
Summerlike forecast clashes with record lows as Juneau endures a dramatic temperature swing from minus 36 to near zero. Gusty winds expected tonight as officials warn of subzero conditions tomorrow. In local life, Mildred Hermann will speak to the Kiwanis Club on the "Value of the Dollar" tomorrow noon with Jud Husted coordinating.
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Juneau
Loop Road
Sherwood Dairy
Front Street
Percy
Junior
Mildred Hermann
Kiwanis Club
Jud- Husted
Mazen 10 to Enter Plea on False Entries Charge in Alaska
NOME Alaska Dec 7 Ex Postmaster Mazen was to enter his plea today to a charge of making false entries over two years and increasing his wife's pay. Indicted by a grand jury Friday the complaint came from Rev A Capener Assembly of God Church and was witnessed by postal clerk Mary Roesl. Mazen was relieved of his postal duties recently.
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Nome
Alaska
David Mazen
A. Capener
Assembly of God Church
Mary Roesl
Mina
Truman and Madame Chiang to Meet at Tea on Friday
President Truman will host tea with Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the White House on Friday. Presidential secretary Charles G. Ross said Madame Chiang will be the guest of the President and Mrs. Truman, with no other guests expected and no separate conference planned.
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Truman
Madame Chiang
Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
White House
Charles G. Ross
Chinn
Vrumad
Ross
Teuman
U S Asks UN to Shield Korea Amid North Korean Threats
The United States urged the United Nations to protect the South Korean Republic from violence and terror allegedly fostered by the North Korean regime. Sgt. Wiliam D. Rethimke, of Seattle police, declined an Anchorage captaincy citing lack of local support for the department. He plans to return to Seattle tomorrow after brief city inspections.
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Associated Press
United States
United Nations
South Korean
Russia
North Korea
Anchorage
Wiliam D. Rethimke
Seattle
Anchorage Police
wThe
Kebmke
J. Loussac
Ben Wilson
Charles Stawell
Mounds
U. S
First Displaced Person Reaches Alaska Enroute Anchorage
Roxolana Skobelka, 24, the first displaced person under the displacement act, paused in Everett on her way to Anchorage. Born in Vilnius, she and her mother fled partitioned Poland and Vienna before settling in the United States. She plans to homestead on the Kenai Peninsula and dairying appeals to her.
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Everett
Wash
Roxolana Bkobelaka
Alvi
Anchorage
Maskit
Alaska
Misa Skovelska
Vienty
Astern
Poland
Russia
Germany
Viena
Vienna
Alwska
Kenai Peninsula
Alaski
United States
Lynchburg
Miss Skobelsky Sald
Alaska Cold Spot in Nation Amid Mixed Temperatures
Chicago dispatch reports U S Weather Bureau notes no extreme cold nationwide while Alaska shows chilling records. Minot North Dakota marks 65 below zero near the coldest point, with readings of 63 below at Mayo and above freezing in Alaska towns Dawson and Fairbanks despite overall frigid conditions in the midwest and mountain states.
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Chicago
U. 8
Weather Bureau
United States
Imi
Alaska
Mercury
Minot
N. D
Vero
Monta
Midwest
J. E. Hovden
Snag
Yurton Territory
Mayo
Dawson
Fairbanks
Alavka
H ‘Minam
Berlin election shocks West Berlin as Communists falter
Western Berlin voters rejected Com munist candidates by a large majority as the city reconstitutes its government. The Social Democrats surged while Ernst Rew ter loomed as a reformist rival, with Russians denouncing the western base voting. A Seattle officer declined a job, and Anchorage staff counts were noted in a fragmentary report.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Moscow
Social Democrats
Labor Party
Ernst Rewter
Dramatic Navy Rescue Saves 53 Crash Survivors
Navy aircraft carrier Test night rescued 53 survivors from a mid Pacific plane crash 40 miles from shark infested waters aboard two life rafts built for seven men. Survivors endured exhaustion seasickness and shark circling as sharks circled the rafts during five days afloat before rescue by Rendova.
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Lew Erickson
Honolulu
Howe
Air Force
Navy
Vscort Carrey Rendova
Parkes
Lsted
William R. Galhoun
Birmingham
Ain
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