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The Nome nugget., 1945-05-09
Japanese Defense Stiffens Around .DavaO
By FRED HAMpSoN

MANILA, May 9-(P)- Stiff fened Japanese resistance around captured Davao on Mindanao is- land is reoprted by General Mac Arthur and the Twenty-Fourth Division has been forced back by Japanese counterattacks. This is the first report of any serious fighting since the second invasion of Mindanao on April IT.
 Associated Press correspondent Richard Berholz reported a strong force of Japanese penetrated the thin American lines to establish defenses running from Libby air drome south of the Talor,o river, partially isolating one. battalion which. had taken the village of Mintal.
 A few endorsements are reach ing the battalions over a little used trail.
 Japanese artillery is smelling Yank positions near Libby air field, but the Americans hold on tenuously.
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Pope BrOadcasts Plea For World
 Security and Peace

VATICAN CITY, May 9-P) The Pope in an eight minute broadcast marking the end of the European war said the continent is now faced with gigantic prob lems and difficulties" and called on God to enlighten the Allied leaders to bring about a peace founded on equality of all na- tions, weak and strong.
 He also said "The war has aroused everywhere discord, sus- picion and hatred" and eff there fore the world wishes to regain peace it is necessary that false hood and rancor should vanish, and in their stead sovereign truth and charity should reign"
 Expressing thankfulness at the end of the war in Europe the Pope declared a conviction eff we want to build lasting and safe peace. it must be built upon justice and comprehension with confidence. :"
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-09
To Be No Fall In Expenditures For War

Ted R. Gamble, national direc- tor of the war finance division in Washington states "the task ahead of us in terms of financial needs remains gigantic. Despite all that has and probably will be said about expenditures, there is no indication whatever that ex- penditures for war will fall be- low their present level for a pe- riod of at least ninety days fol- lowing the conclusion of tte Sev- enth War Loan drive.
 "The job therefore, from the point of view of raising the money to pay for the war ahead and raising it from the sources best designed to combat imitation is more imperative at this partic- ular moment than at any time during the lifetime of this impor- tant home front program"
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-09
NOTICE

Written applications shall be re- ceived in the office of the City Clerk until $500 PM. May l4. ls4s. for the following positions in the Nome Fire and Police De- partmsnt:
 Engineer .S3oo.oo per month Driver .$3o0.oo per month
 Common Council of Name
 By Carrie M. McL.in s-4.s.ll City Clerk
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CHAMBER WILL ELECT

BOARD
 A meeting of the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce will be held in the Federal Court room on Thursday evening at 800 pm. for the purpose of election. The nominating committee has added two more names to the list of nomineen for the Board of Di- rectors. These are Luther Dunbar and s. David Mazen. Many inter esting topics will be under dis cussion for the coming busy sea- son and a well defined program will aid materially in achieving successful results. All citizens in Nome's future are urged to at tend.
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-09

been made on the basic changes in the Dumbarton Oaks plan and intends also to consult fully on other issues as they arise.
The Nome nugget., 1945-05-09
WANT PLANE BASES

SAN FRANCISCO May 9-(Ho United States is seeking an agreement on control of lands seized in both world wars to allow the army and navy to set up bases at any point in the world which is considered vital to. United States security. The question in volved here is one labeled trus- teeship over territory seized by the enemy and mandated after the first ward war and incapable of self government.
 It is still a point of controversy between the Big Five powers and is one of the two most critical is V sues remaining before the United Nations conference.
 Upon departure today of Molo- tov other issues to dovetail the Pan American security system, recently worked out at Mexico City, into the security council of the world organization will be brought up. The American dele gation is sharply divided on this question. Some members favor giving the Pan American set up no special treatment, but strong opinion appears developing that the proposed council be given su- preme authority over the Pan American system, but instructed to delegate its powers to enforce peace in strictly regional dis pute in this hemisphere. Presi- dent Truman may have to make the final decision.
 Molotov, whose two weeks stay here was marked by several stormy sessions over Poland, White Russia, Ukraine and Ar gentina, leaves the conference in an atmosphere of big power har- mony which few people would have been willing to forecast a few days ago. Soviet Ambassador Gromyko takes over the chair manship of the Russian delega- ton.
 The presence of Molotov is credited with having speeded the conference through the first phase of the big power agreement.
 In a brief session of the Big Five last night which marked Molotov's last official participa- ton in it Secretary of State Stet- tinius is reported to have said despite the return of Molotov be- ing a possibility the other foreign ministers, their capitals and the
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TUESDAY GAMES American League

Cleveland 2, Chicago 1. Wash ington 1, St. Louis 2. Inly games scheduled in American League.
 National League
 Pittsburgh Cincinnati gam e postponed. It was the only game scheduled.
 Pacific Coast League
 Portland 1, San Diego 10. Hol- lywood 1, San Francisco g. Seattle 2, Sacramento 3.
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American League
NOTICE

Pioneers of Alaska meet tonight at ths WhalsY House at $500 o'clock. Ole Hay Pres.
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WEDNESDAYSGAMES

National League Pittsburgh g, Boston 5. St. Louis 4, Brooklyn 6. Chicago 2, Phila- delphia 5.
 American League Boston 1 Cleveland 2. Washing ton-St. Louis game postponed. New York 1, Detroit 4. Philadel- phia 4, Chicago 6.
Evening star., 1945-03-18

outside population. The worst in
dictment against Stain, he thinks,
is that the Russian people, gener-
alton after their liberation from the
Car, are less able to assume the
responsibilities of free citizens than
they were when the liberation took
place. He confirms, however. the
genuine freedom of religion - at
least for the Orthodox church.
He did not get to visit the front,
in spite of promises that he should,
but he had an unexpected look at
some of the difficulties which our
troops are experiencing in collabora-
ton with this ally. He visited the
airfeld where American bomberS
from the 9th Air Force were re-
ceived after their first shuttle raid
across Germany. The Russians, in
order to keep down American per-
sonnel, had refused to let us bring
in our night fighters, radar and
other detectional apparatus, claim
ing that they would supply protec-
ton. That night the Germans
bombed the field and destroyed
practically our whole bomber force.
There were no Russian night fight
ers and Russian antiaircraft guns
are aimed simply by sound. The
Germans had a virtually uncon-
tested field day.
Certainly this book will make
many fanatic Russophiles angry.
Its matter of-fact quality, however,
should recommend it to those who
want to learn.
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Among
the Authors
BY Carolyn Coegins.

Sinclair Lewis has finished a
manuscript for new novel to be
called "Cass Timberlane" when it
appears next fall. Lewis is one of
the most meticulous craftsmen in
the business. Often listing hun
dredS OF names before selecting
suitable ones for his characters. A
town, even to the streets and lamp
posts, will be laid out on a small
scale before he begins writing. This
may be why he so successfully uses
a mass of detail and had the pleas
ure Of refusing the Pulitzer Prize
and the distinction of being the
first American to receive the Nobel
Prize for literature.
Lewis is fiery man, tall and
cadaverous. He works endless hours
days on end, or else does no writ
ing at all.
Very Caspary really had the fun
OF seeing the movie version of
her Laura" set people about by
their ears Now she has sold her
Connecticut home to Writer
George Seldes, and is of to Lon
don to work on the movie ver-
sion of her new book, ''Bedelia."
Rosamond Lehmann's luck Is
still good. Her new novel, "The
Ballad and the Source" is getting
an excellent press in England and
is April book ok-of-the-month here.
Out of the five books she has writ
ten four have been book club selec-
tions-which means she Is in the
money.
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Incuboting a Chinese Revolution
In the Chinotowns of America

books about Americas Chinatowns
ana their colorful characters.
After soldering in the Philippines,
O'Bannion was brought into con-
tact by certain American officers
with young fellow w-countryman
who had commanded troops in
China at the time of the Boxer
rebellion and held commission as
lieutenant general in the Chinese
Imperial Reform Army. His name
was Homer Lea.
Training Los Angeles Chinese.
Gen. Lea, a mysterious soldier of
fortune who had won the complete
confidence of the Chinese revolu-
tiOniStS, commissioned O'Bannion as
a captain and secretly employed
him to give military training to the
young Chinese revolutionists of Los
Angeles. Later Capt. O'Bannion
engaged many of his old cronies
from the American cavalry to train
Chinese in other cities.
There is not room here to detail
the maneuvering, plots and counter
plots, smuggling, bribing, espionage
and conspiring which fill the VOL
ume. But when the revolutionary
leaders in China were ready to light
their powder, the American trainees
had secretly infiltrated the imperial
army, and it folded up like a house
of cards.
Enough has been said here, I hope
to let you in on the fact that this
is an exciting tale, guaranteed to
keep the most phlegmatic reader
awake until bedtime. Just how we'll
1t stacks up as authentic history, l
frankly do not know. Anyway, it
good story,
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1t tells of the adventures of a
young English scientist who is at
tached to a civilian research sec
ton. A change of ministries occurs,
the elder scientist whose genius has
made the section valuable is shelved
and his place is taken by friend
of the incoming official, who has no
knowledge of the particular field in
which the section has been occu-
pied. The young man stays on and
is subjected to deliberately humil-
iating treatment. The contrast be-
tween the impotence imposed on
him by his chief and his actual
abilities is brought out by the device
of having him solve, on his own
time, the problem of new kind of
delayed-action bomb which the
Germans have been dropping. The
account of his work in taking the
bomb mechanism apart is a gen.
timely thrilling piece of writing
Nigel Balchin has been very skillful
in enabling the unscientific reader
to follow the job, step by step, with
out departing unrealistically from
scientific language.
He does not, however, provide an
optimistic conclusion. The young
man receives no encouragement for
his labors. On the contrary, his
humiliations are increased and the
book ends with his conclusion that
to be scientist is to be a minor
kind of handy man, vulnerable to
the offensiveness of practically any
one who wants to be offensive.
Though this view is conveyed
through the personal narrative of
one man, the conclusion is plain
that Mr.. Balchin wants it to be
understood as the situation of the
laboratory men in general in Eng
land today. NC. r.
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Fury in the Earth
By Harry Harrison KrolI.
fBObbs- Merrill. 81 So

fBOOOS-Mer errtH, $2.5O.)
A .little-known disaster in our
country's history forms the motive
Of this picturesque novel. In the
winter of 1811-12 series of earth
quake shocks wiped out the frontier
town OF New Madrid, Mo-, and
created the famous Reelfoot Lake in
Tennessee. Harry Harrison Kroll,
who knows the country thereabout.
has turned his imagination to the
state OF the New Madrid population
in the weeks during which shocks
were a regular occurrence, up to
the final swallowing up of the town.
1t makes an extremely lively tale.
Relief, as We know it now, was, of
course, noneXistent. The immediate
effect Of the quake was utterly to
Isolate the town. 1t depended on
the Mississippi River for its COM
munications and river traffic ceased
while the quake lasted. The people,
an average ignorant and supersti-
tious frontier crowd, were alone with
their terror. Religious fervor in
spired some, famine haunted them
all, there were food hoarders and
particularly double-dyed rascals
schemed on turning the disaster
into profit by buying up land titles
cheap. Murders occurred and ro-
nance fiowered. All of it was to
the accompaniment of earth shocks
and engulflng waves from the river.
Both in drawing characters and
presenting physical horrors, Mr..
kroll does very good job. 1t is
admittedly imaginary, but it sue
ceeds none the less in making that
bit OF forgotten history very real.
The sense of rising hysteria could
hardly be better conveyed.-M.-C r,
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Continued From Page CID

tenn and interest in economic de-
velopment Of the Americas shown
by Secretary of State Stettinius and
his advisers helped to establish early
in the conference a confidence in
the United States that appeared to
be firmer than ever before.
ROckefeller's Work Lauded.
Assistant Secretary of State Mel
son Rockefeller was given special
credit for convincing Latin Ameri-
can representatives of the warmth
of United States interest in their
problems. Another big factor in
this regard was the broadly repre-
sentative character of the Ameri-
can delegation, providing contacts
by congressional, labor and farm
advisers with Latin American del
egates.
Advisers in the United States dele
cation included Chairman Connally
OF the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee; Senator Austin, Repub-
lican, Of Vermont, minority men,
ber Of the committee; Representa-
tives Luther Johnson, Democrat, of
Texas and Rogers, Republican, of
Massachusetts,, and spokesman for
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, the American Federation of
Labor, the United Steel Workers
(CIOO, the Railway Labor Execu-
tives' Association, the American
Farm Bureau Federation, the Ma
tional Farmers Union and the
National Grange
In dealing with these men, Latin
American delegations could fee
they were dealing with a team fully
representing the American people
not just the political administration
in power. The wide interchange oil
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DOUBLE TEN


By Charles Click. (WhittleSey
House, S2.50J
Reviewed by JOSEPH H. BAIRD
How many readers of today know
that the Chinese revolution that
overthrew the Manchu dynasty in
1922 and paved the way for the
republic of DR.. Sun Yat-sen was
incubated in the Chinatowns of Los
Angeles, San Francisco and other
large American cities? Certainly
didn't.
Not only did DR.. Sun, Kang Yu-
wei and other revolutionary leaders
make frequent trips to America to
consult their fellow conspirators and
collect hundreds of thousands OF
dollars here to finance the revolu-
ton, but also some 2,lO0 Chinese
officers, future fifth columnists"
in the Empress armies, were trained
secretly in the United States. To
all this skullduggery, Mr.. Click
clearly implies, the State and War
Departments, no lovers of the de-
cadent Manchu royal house in
Peking, willingly closed their eyes.
Double Ten"-the title derives
from the date of the Chinese revo-
luton, October 10, 1911, the 10th
day of the 10th months mainly
the story of swashbuckling Irish
American cavalryman, Sergt Ansel
O'Bannion. Now in retirement on
a California ranch, the old soldier
recently told the secrets of his part
in the 1911 revolution to Mr.. Click,
who has written several precious
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Two-BiHion-Acre Farm
By Robert West Ho1Udrd. fDou-
bleddy, Dordn; s2.50J
Reviewed by
ltCFICWtu Uy
MALCOLM LAMBORNE.

MALSobIkl JhI0DoINlNE1
Editor Howard knows we'll his
American farm plant-the two-bil-
lion acres, of course. are the United
States-and in 2l0 pages sets down
its history from Is 900 B. C. to 1914.
That is pretty big order for any
author. and If there is any criticism
of the book it is that it's all too
brief. Written in an informal and
highly readable style, the book would
still hold the readers interest for
another several hundred pages.
Mr.. Howard, editor in chief of
Pathfinder magazine. firmly believes
that Americas future lies In the
ownership Of land and resultant
family security. The cities, he con-
tends. have not only proved their
inability to fulfill either of these
urges, but have themselves become
economically passe. He does ad-
init. however, that the cities will
always be with us.
The valued inches of topSoil-
the one constant, seasonally re-
curing asset of the Nation-would
become common ward instead of a
mining property exploited by one
fourth of the population because of
the cash economy of the three
fourths living in Cities" he con-
cludes.
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There Goes
Shorty Hiqqins
By Jack Karney. (

By Jack Karney. William,
Morroao & Co., Inc: $2.50.)
Reviewed by BOB MCLEAN.
The authors biographical sketch
on the jacket of this book raises
hopes that some one at last has
written realistic book about pro-
fesSional prize fighting. Jack Kar-
ney reveals that he has practically
lived in GYM" fought in a Golden
Gloves tournament and is portrayed
as one who has felt enough violent
leather in the face to know what
the game is all about.
Shorty Higgins, a cigar-chewing
Broadway character who manages
secondrate boxers and wants to
own a champion some day, is the
central character of this first novel.
There is also a girl friend, Mona,
who wants to own a Persian coat
a daughter who gets involved with
one of the boxers in the Higgins
stable, a punch drunk battler sup
ported by Higgins, and guess what
girl who brings a healthy infiu-
ence into Shorty's life.
Heard that lineup before? Cliff
ford Odets tried a similar formula
in a play-"Golden Boy'-that was
a smash hit in New York, a big
money maker as a movie and died
somewhere west Of Pittsburgh after
touring the hinterlands in several
road show companies.
1t may have been a hit show, but
the fight trade still squirms in en-
barrasment to recall its sentimental
claptrap treatment of one of the
greatest of sports. This book, de-
spite an honest effort to reproduce
the sweat, smell and brutality OF
prirzefghting as well as its create,
moments, fails because of the same
hide-bound plot.
Shorty Higgins doesn't come alive
for any one who has known the likes
Of Jimmy Johnston, or even Ben
evil Eye Winkel and Sam the
mumbler) Sobel, colorful managers
all, because Shorty is the motion
pictures idea of a fight manager
not the real thing which Damon
Runyon, who know his sports, has
created several times.
Some day an excellent book NAV
be written about prizefighting. This
isn't it.
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kind to which the other neighbors-
not you, of course-listened in. 1t
was an old American custom, gone
now with the model-T and the
player-piano into the land of
nostalgia. Louis Baker grew up in
little place in California and
grew up in little place in West
Virginia, but her story is very like
things which I. too, remember.
She tells of Miss Elmira, the
operator, who knew everything and
used her knowledge according to
a system of ethics which she had
worked out between her conscience
and her God. She tells of Mrs
Cartwright, the hellion gossip who
blackened regulations for diversion
She tells of Uncle Willie, the editor
and how, with Miss Elmira's help
he STAYED off a run on the bank
And of Miss Mary, the old maid
school teacher, who was rushed into
marriage by the conspiring good
wives of the village working hard
on the party line. And a lot OF
other things, all of a kind. It makes
nice mellow reading. No one over
Is should really be too sophisticated
to enjoy it. NC. R.
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Report From Red China
By Harrison Forman. Holt,

By Harrison Forman. fHoH;:|
s3.J
Although this book is presented
as the report of member of the
first group of correspondents to visit
Communist China in six years, the
work actually contains very little
that has not already been written.
Harrison Forman went with a party
of journalists who entered Chinas
Northwest under the sponsorship
of the Chungking government. His
group may be indeed the first one
in so long which Chungking has
sent out. Other writer's, however,
have been in the region and have
told their story of it. AS a matter
of fact, there is hardly any front
in the global war which has had
more publicity than the one held by
China's Red army.
Relying on the publishers word
that Mr.. Forman had something
new to tell, however, I read his book
carefully. 1t is more explicit and
detailed than most of it's prede-
ceSSors on some matters-aS, for in
stance, the agricultural methods
used by the Communist troops to
raise their own food supplies. But
in the main it simply repeats. On
the question which is of the most
interest to American readers-the
question of the reported civil war
between Communist armies and
government troops-the book gives
us nothing more authoritative than
quoted statements by leaders on
both sides, with Mr.. Forman's added
statement that he believes the Com
munists. He admits that the Com
munist troops have fought those of
their government, says that the
reason was dispute over the COM
mand of their new army and seems
to consider that justification. He
denies that the Reds have collaboA
rated with the Japanese, as has
been charged against them, or that
they have committed atrocities
against the villagers. He has their
leaders own word that these claims
are not true, he tells us.
For the rest, his book repeats the
ldyllic story so often told of an
enthusiastic self-supporting COM
munity which mingles highly ef-
fective fighting against the enemy
with the production of plays, the
pursuit of learning and the ad-
vancement of culture generally
The Chinese Communists, he saws.
are true democrats. They are not
IN favor of collective ownership of
property, as are the Russians. They
suffer cruel injustice from the
Chungklng government, which
blockades them. They are the
heroes OF China's fight against
Japan, in Mr.. Forman's way of
thinking. -M-Cp
Evening star., 1945-03-18
Brief Reviews
HISTORY.

American Handbook. Prepared by
the ONCE of War Information.
public Affairs Press.) A thick
volume designed to supplement
standard historical works already
available for reference outposts"
overseas. A sort of world almanac
on the United States.
The Declaration of Independence,
by Julian Boyd. princeton Uni
versity Press) The story of the
evolution of the text, with repro
ductions of all known drafts in
Jefferson's hand. Valuable.
FOOD.
Food for the World, edited by
Theodore w. Schultz. university
of Chicago Press.) An impressive
symposium on the whole food situa-
ton as it will confront the world
at the close of the war. Written
by we'll known authorities in differ
ent fields, as nutrition, population,
movement, international relations
and SO forth.
HUMOR.
Joe the Wounded Tennis Player,
by Morton Thompson. Pictures by
Virgil Partch. doubleday Doran.)
Funny tales mostly of Hollywood
people. On the eccentric side.
POETRY.
A World Within a War, by Herbert
Read. (Harcourt Brace.) A small
volume in which are collected all
the poems which the author wishes
to preserve. Very fine.