U. S. Leads In
Developing Jet
Propulsion Planes
WASHINGTON, (Ah—Engineer
ing chief for the nation’s major
builder of jet engines said vester-'
day that the United States has “at
least caught up with and in some
ways is ahead” of the British in
jet propulsion.
This view was expressed to the
President’s air policy commission
by R. M. Hazen, engineering di
rector for the Allison division of
General Motors corporation, Indi
anapolis, Ind. Allison builds a
large share of the turbo-jet en
gines now in use.
Hazen said the United States
leads in building and using axial
flow' compressors—a type in
which the air is shoved straight
back by a series of blades, as com
pared with’ the centrifugal type in
which air is compressed by throw
ing it off the ends of the blades—
and in the use of water injection
for extra thrust.
But, he added, the British gas
turbine flight tests are “on a lav
ish scale compared with this coun
try.” Hazen urged greater invest
ment of funds and more emphasis
on flight tests here, along with
support of experiments to adapt
gas turbines to commercial planes.
He predicted that within five
years all new large aircraft will
be powered by turbine engines,
the military using turbo-jets (such
as the P-80 Shooting Star) for
short and medium ranges and tur
bo-prop <a gas turbine driving a
propellor* for lang range planes.
William M. Allen, president of
Boeing Airplane company, Seattle,
Wash., outlined a progrem for
maintaining a heavy bomber plant
in peacetime. He said the mini
mum number of employees should
be 13,000 and the annual volume
of business $80,000,000.
His figures are based on the
B-50, a modification of the B-29
superfortress now in production,
and “will require substantial up
ward adjustment” for the “much
larger bombers” being designed.
Allen recommended a produc
tion contract for each experiment
al bomber that proves meritorious.
MR. AND MRS. HAROLD
EDWARDS LEAVE FOR STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Edwards
and child left for the States yes
terday. Mr. Edwards has been em
ployed by the Northern Light and
Power Co., for several months and
has been replaced by Wesley
Welsh.
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Britain Bans
Foreign Travel
For Pleasure
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(By Robert Hewett)
LONDON. I/P) — -Life in this
“tight ljttle isle" became tighter
today with the enforcement of
new government austerity mea
sures that virtually banned for
eign holiday travel, wiped out gas
oline rations for pleasure motoring
and boosted railway fares 50 per
cent above pre-war levels.
Limited direction of labor goes
into effect next Monday under an
other decree issued by the labor
government, which recently ob
tained from parliament almost un
limited powers to combat Britain’s
economic crisis.
The new measures that became
effective today, two days after
Prime Minister Attlee began his
long-expected cabinet shakeup. j
are part of the government’s pro- j
gram to slash dollar spending and
increase production in the hope of
erasing the nation’s grave export
import deficit by mid-1948.
An advance warning that Oct. j
1 Britons would no longer be able
to exchange sterling for foreign j
currencies to spend on holidays
abroad brought a last vacation
rush to the Continent and the U.
S. during September.
Up to Sept. 1 Britons could |
spend 75 pounds ($300' yearly in
foreign pleasure travel. Then the
allowance was cut to 35 pounds
($140), and now it vanishes com
pletely.
Beginning today the “basic pe
trol ration,’’ which permitted au
tomobile owners about 300 miles
of pleasure driving a month, will
be eliminated and gasoline will
be reserved in the future solely
for priority purposes as it was
during most of the war.
MASS X-RAY' CLINIC
VERY BUSY PLACE
The mass x-ray survey has been
a busy place since Monday with a
steady line-up of Nome residents
receiving their examinations. Only
three more clinic periods will be
held. This evening from seven un
til nine o’clock, Thursday after
noon from one o’clock until three
and Thursday evening from 7 to
9 o’clock.
About sixty people have failed
to keep their appointments, Mrs.
Mandeville, chairman, stated and
it is hoped that they will respond
today or tomorrow without fur
ther appointment.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
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MS. JUMPER HITCH sailed from Seattle Sept. 20th.
Weather permitting expected to arrive at St. Michael
Oct. 3rd, Unalakleet Oct. 4th, Nome Oct. 5th.
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SS. BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seward for
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle October 3rd.
SS. ALEUTIAN scheduled to sail from Seward for
Valdez. Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle Oct. 9th.
SS. BARANOF scheduled to sail from Seward for
Juneau, Ketchikan and Seattle Oct. 17th.
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Reservations made through Anchorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent
NOTICE
Pioneers of Alaska meet tonight
at Pioneer Hall at eight o'clock.
'Robert Baldwin, Secy.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT ~
NOTICE
To Whom It May Concern:
I am no longer responsible for
any debts contracted by my wife,
Dora A. Welsh, from date of this
publication. Richard E. Welsh.]
Pub. Oct. 1, 3, 6.
NOTICE
All persons who were unable to
keep their appointments at the
Tuberculosis Clinic this week may
receive their x-ray today and to
morrow without further appoint
ment. You are urged to do so that
Nome may have a 100% turn-ouf.
Ellen Mandeville,
General Chairman.
NOTICE
Three 16 x 16 Yak huts desig
nated A.. B., C.. located in the old
Post Headquarters area by the j
Bessie Road will be sold to the
highest bidder, as they are and
where they are. Sealed bids for I
one or all of the lot will be receiv- ]
ed until October 6, 4:00 p.m.
The right to reject any or all
offers is reserved. Box 519, Nome.!
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NOTICE
Arctic Native Brotherhood spe
cial meeting Thursday night at
7:30 p.m., at Native Clubhouse.
All members are requested to at
tend. Important. . Bert Bell, Secy
NOTICE
Ladies Aid will meet at the
home of Mrs. Murlin Day Friday
evening at eight o'clock
Mrs. A. Norland. Pres.
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Classified Ads
FOR SALE—Cot Beds and Matt
resses. Several doors, single panel
inside. Call Paterson Hotel. 118tf
FOR SALE—One Emerson port
able, battery electric radio, like
new $40; one electric radio-pho
nograph combination with rec
ords $50; one Hamden 17-jewel
man’s pocket watch,* completely
overhauled, $35; one new set
power tools with case, (Casco) j
$25; one new Sessions electric
aeroplane clock $20; Thompson,
The Eye-Glass Man, Nevada
Building. 114-tf
FOR SALE—Dodge pick-up truck.
Call Alaska Airlines. 118-tf
FOR SALE—Radio and Phono
graph with records. Call Red 77.
116-3tp
_
FOR SALE—Used General Elec
tric automatic steam furnace.
Suitable for home or small busi
ness. Good condition. Also almost
new master control for Hot Wa
ter G.E. See them at Assembly
of God Church. 116-tf
FOUND—Key oh chain. 116tf
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THEATER
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| 1 Show, Oct. 1 and 2, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursday
"UP GOES MAISIE"
George Murphy • Ann Sothern
Also "Happy Birthdaze"
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2 Shows, Oct., 7:15 and 9:00 P.M.
Friday
"CODE OF THE OUTLAW"
Starring The Three Mesquiteers
Also "Gruesome Twosome"
And Chapter 9 "Dick Tracy"
Freight Shipping
Tied Up At'
Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, <#*)—'The wa
terfront employers associat i o n
brought cargo handling to a stop
in Los Angeles and Long Beach
harbors today.
The association, representing 12
stevedoring firms, decreed that
after last midnight no more crews
of the CIO international long
shoremen’s and warehousemen’s
union would be called for loading
or unloading of freighters.
The port freight shutdown
brought to a head the dispute in
which the union demands that it
be recognized as bargaining agent
for longshore foremen and the
employers have refused on the
ground that the foremen are part
of management.
Fifteen freighters were caught
in the shutdown and an estimated
3,000 longshoremen and 350 fore
men were involved.
There is no cargo handling at
the harbor during the hours after
Kodiak Buys
m
Army Dock
*
M/P) Suecial Washington Service*
WASHINGTON, l/P)—Secretary
of the interior Krug, said today
that Kodiak, Alaska, has pur
chased the army’s 900-loot dock
at Kodiak for $65,000.
The property includes ten build
ings and a 350-foot boat landing^
The sale contract specifies that
the property be used to promote
construction of a cold storage
plant, to improve the town’s utili
ties and to encourage development
of shops.
Kodiak made a down payment
of $13,000, and will pay $5,200 a
year for ten years, in addition to
four per cent interest.
Legal Blanks at'The Nugget office
midnight, but a spokesman for
the employers said no orders- for
crews were placed with the hiring
hall last night and as a result the
usual crews which report at 8 a m.
each morning would not go to
work today.
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