Forecast And
Weather Report:
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce,
Weather Bureau
Friday. April 27. 1951
Forecast Nome: Cloudy tonight
and Sat. with occasional light
snow ending tonight. Moderate
northerly winds. Low temp, to
night 12, high tomorrow 24.
Nome data last 24 hours: high
est temp. 23, lowest 12. Max. wind
26 mph. Sunset 3:46 a.m., sunset
8:16 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
1 32, lowest 18. Extreme temps, this
date since 1907: high, 60 in 1940,
low *10 in 1924*
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -3 Cloudy
Pt. Hope -1 Blowing Snow
Kotzebue 13 Snow
Wales 0 Blowing Snow
Gambell 6 Blowing Snow
r Nome 21 Snow
Unalakleet 32 Cloudy
Bethel 41 Part Cloudy
McGrath 36 Part Cloudy
Anchorage 36 Part Cloudy
Fairbanks 46 Part Cloudy
Whitehorse 42 Part Cloudy
Edmonton 62 Part Cloudy
Juneau 44 Cloudy
Ketchikan 43 Rain
San Francisco 65 Part Cloudy
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STRONG, INDUSTRIALIZED BASES
IN SIBERIA FACE ALASKANS
By EUGENE GRIFFIN <
(Chicago Tribuna Writer)
(The following is the conclu
sion of an article started in
last issue of the Nugget, com
paring Siberia and northern
Alaska)
Buildings many stories high
have been put up on permafrost
foundations in Siberia for the
first time anywhere. The founda
tion is excavated below the level
of thaw, and insulation spread on
the frozen subsoil to protect it
from unsettling warmth from the
building.
Knowledge gained by the Rus
sians in building on permafrost
would help them with military
construction. They are believed
to be ahead of us also in their
studies of polar ice islands as air
craft carriers.
Russia's Arctic scientific re
search institute, which organizes
expeditions in all fields of science
and conducts a large number of
polar stations, has functioned
since 1922. Stalin has shown his
interest in the institute’s work by
expanding its duties. Soviet planes
landed a party of scientists led by
Ivan Papanin on a floating ice
island at the North Pole in the
summer of 1937, and the same
year Russian planes flew over
the pole to California.
The base from which they took
off, on Rudolph Island of the
Franz Josef Land group, was re
! opened by Russia four years ago
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Much of Russia’s research and
settlement in the Far North has
been done by slave labor and
slave brains. Physicians profes
sors, engineers, physicists mathe
maticians, agronomists, biologists,
and other intellectuals were
among the first political exiles
sent to Siberia. Most of Stalin’s
slave labor camps, believed to
hold 6,000,000 prisoners, are in
Siberia.
Alaska, first claimed by Russia
! by right to discovery in 1730 and
first settled by a Russian colony
on Kodiak Island in 1764, was
sold by Russia to the United
States in 1667 for $7,200,000. The
1660 census had shown only 576
Russian men and 208 Russian
women in Alaska, and the main
tenance of the sparsely settled
territory was an expense to Rus
sia in peace and a menace in
war.
Moscow propaganda recently
has begun to plug the line that
Russia was robbed. Soviet writers
in the Literary Gazette, Moscow,
this year, asserted in a long ar
ticle about Alaska that it is being
prepared by the United States as
a springboard for aggression
against Russia.
Citizens of Irkutsk, in Siberia,
will observe the 155th anniver
sary this year of the death of
Gregory Shelikhov, founder of
the first Russian settlement in
Alaska^ with unusual interest.
The Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment in Formosa charged a
few weeks ago that Russia and
Communist China are preparing
to attack Alaska by moving troops
ito eastern Siberia.
U.S. WANTS ANTIMONY
FROM ALASKA
With defense production ma
chinery moving into high gear
acute shortages of antimony are
being experienced by U. S. in
dustry whic his looking to Alaska
as a potential source of supply
of the metal, it is reported by
the Alaska Development Board.
A number of large antimony i
users have written the Develop
ment Board dufing recent weeks
regarding the availability at anti
mony ore in the Territory. De
mand and current premium prices
should stimulate anitmony pro
duction in the Territory, the
Board believes.
One large mining and smelting
company is interested in obtain
ing an antimony property in
Alaska which it can develop for
its own use.
Antimony is cme of the strate
gic and critical minerals for a
supply of which the U. S. must
depend upon foreign countries in
large measure. Imports provide
i 92 per cent of current annual
I needs.
l Operators interested in dispos
ing of their properties or in fur
nishing antimony ore should ferr
ward details to the Alaska Devel
(opment Board, Bix 50, Juneau.
: The Board will arrange to have
i claim holders contacted direct by
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interested parties.
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