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Forecast And
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Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the United States]
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
June 6, 1945
Forecast Nome: Clear today and
tonight becoming partly cloudy
Thursday. Highest temperature
today along water front 40; high
est temperaure inland 53. Lowest
temperature tonight 34; highest
temperaure Thursday 45.
Nome data: Precipitation last
24 hours ending 8:30 a.m. today
trace.
Total precipitation this month
to 8:30 a.m. today 0.05 inches.
Temperaure last 24 hours to
8.30 a.m. today: highest 53, lowest
23
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 36 lowest 30.
Extreme temperaturs on this
day sine 1907: lowest 27 in 1916; |
highest 64 in 1929. I
Sunrise 2:35 a.m., sunset 11:28
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Data for other selected stations
as of 8:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Point Barrow 30 Rain
Point Hope 27 Cloudy
MRS. DON LYLE LEAVES FOR
PARENTS' GOLDEN WEDDING
Mrs. Don Lyle left with the Pan
American plane for Oregon, where
a family reunion is being held
honoring her parents’ golden wed
ding anniversary.
GRACE BURLEY TO STATES
ON VACATION TRIP
Miss Grace Burley, of the Arts
and Crafts Division of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs left for the
States on a vacation trip. She will
spend some time at Juneau con
ferring with the heads of her de
partment.
Kotzebue 32 Clear
Wales 30 Cloudy
Gambell 29 Cloudy
Nome 39 Clear
Golovin 45 Clear
Moses Point 43 Clear
Unalakleet 43 Clear
Bethel 43 Clear
McGrath 55 Clear
Galena 54 Cloudy,
Fairbanks 51 Rain j
Summit 42 Cloudy j
Anchorage 50 Cloudy
Cordova 42 Cloudy
Whitehorse 45 Cloudy
Seattle 53 Rain
San Francisco 51 Clear
Ketchikan 48 Cloudy |
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HIROHITO’S ROLE
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By RICHARD TOMKINS
Japan’s war lords command her
troops, but it is Emperor-worship
that makes them fanatical.
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Cloaked with divinity by tradi-!
tion, the Emperor can do noj
wrong.
Whether he favored the war or ■
not, Hirohito outwardly supports
it. The war therefore is “sacred,”
because the Emperor who sane- (
tions it is “divine.”
I He is the living core of the j
Shinto religion, based on worship
of Imperial ancestors from whom ■
all Japanese lay claim to descent, i
Furthermore, all Japanese revere ;
the Emperor as the descendent of;
an “unbroken” line of rulers. Com- j
bine this unswerving feality with
the desire to perpetuate the Impe
rial dynasy and you have fanati
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cism. j
Japanese, weary of the war,
might blame the army and navy
clique or Hirohito’s advisers, but
never the Emperor.
Observers having close contact
with the court say that Japan
would not have gone to war with
us if Hirohito had had a part of
the power attributed to him.
His message to President Roose
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velt told of his ‘earnest endeav
ors” to keep peace.
But generals and admirals
usurped the vast powers of his
throne, and Hirohito had to do
their bidding. To the unknowing
masses, however, it was war for
the Emperor.
A year after war started he
made a solemn pilgrimage to the
grand shrine of the Sun Goddess
to pray for “divine assistance.”
Only last December, when Super
fortresses were bombing Japan,
Hirohito visited the famed Ise
shrine to pray for victory.
When Hirohito came to power
MRS. FLORENCE DE MUSIE
ARRIVES FROM ANCHORAGE
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Mrs. Florence de Musie arrived
from Anchorage with the Alaska
Airlines, to visit her niece Mrs. <
Saario, who is employed by the
Miners and Merchants Bank.
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T. O. DICKINSON HERE ON
INSPECTION TRIP
Mr. T. O. Dickinson, Alaska
Agent for the Railway Express is
in Nome on his annual inspection
trip.
Paul McCarthy leaves for
COLLEGE SUMMER COURSE
Paul McCarthy who recently
graduated from the Nome High
School with high honors is leav
ing this week to take the summer
course at the Washington State
College at Pullman, Wash. Paul
has been scout master of Troop
666 for the past year and will be
missed by the boys as well as his
many friends who wish him con
tinued high scholastic honors.
in 1926 he chose for the name of j
his reign “showa,” which may be
translated “enlightenment and
peace.” But the army made it a
mockery with the invasion of Man
churia. Hirohito dutifully played
the role of puppet, arranged by
Japan’s real rulers.
It is not believed likely that he
will become a self-imposed exile
in Manchuria or elsewhere when
the pressure on Japan gets too
great. His subjects would have no
god, and Hirohito holds the em
pire together. Some observers be
lieve he is too concerned to desert
his people.
Taking his job seriously, but
performing his duties mechanical
ly, he might be expected even to
aid the United Nations in making
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I militarism impotent as long as he
reigns. The State Deparment’s pol
icy of not condemning Hirohito
would indicate his usefulness
along such a course.
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