One Man’s Opinion
Long skirts, the dust bowl and
prohibition all are returning —
the older folks will kindly leave
now, they’ve seen the picture ‘be
fore. ... In Hollywood, a survey
disclosed that stout women prefer
the long skirt. That’s odd — stout
men seem to prefer the short skirt.
. . . The White House was re
opened to visitors during Mr. Tru
man’s absence — several Repub
licans are reported to have slum;
through. . . . Never were so many
so well off they couldn’t afford to
celebrate at today’s prices. . . . But
we have made progress — a few
years ago one-third of the nation
couldn’t afford meat. Today it’s
two-thirds. . . . But it’s always a
pleasure to hear the boys with the
manicured nails tell the boys with
the broken nails about the gains
that have been won for them.
P. J. CUTTING IN TOWN
WITH BIG CLEANUP
P. J. Cutting, manager of the
Kougarok Dredging Co. is in Nome
from camp this week with a twen
ty-pound clean-up. He completed
a remarkable task of moving the
Fox Bar Dredge up the Kougarok
river, through its rapids, and into
operation this season. Many min
ing men had predicted that it
couldn’t be done, it was reported.
Gen. Ramey To
Make “Great
Circle” Flight
FORT WORTH, Tex. (/Pj—Brig.
Gen. Roger M. Ramey, command
ing general of the Eighth Air
Force, leaves early tomorrow in
a B-29 for Goose Bay, on the
mainland Labrador shore of New
foundland, from where he will fly
to Anchorage, Alaska.
It will be the second time in two
months for 8th air force activity
in the Arctic. The 3,000-mile
“great circle” course from Goose
Bay to Anchorage will take Gen.
Ramey’s plane just outside the
Arctic Circle for a major portion
of the flight over the Hudson Bay
region of Canada.
The general, who will be mak
ing his first inspection visit to
bases at Goose Bay and Elmendorf
Field at Anchorage, is to take off
at 12:03 a.m. Thursday from Fort
Worth; arrive at Goose Bay about
10 a.m. (CST), and pause there
overnight before the flight to An
chorage.
Goose Bay is used by the 8th air
force B-29 training flights to Eu
rope and by supporting C-54
transport planes. The Alaskan
field is a regular stop for B-29s
of the 8th returning from training
missions in Japan.
1 xj2 Cents
Per Dollar Sale
When you spend SI with the
N. C. for foods, the company
keeps about 1 1-2 cents. The
other 98 1-2 cents is spent in buy
ing merchandise, bringing it to
Nome, selling and delivering it to
you . .. plus other operating ex
pense such as taxes, repairs,
light and power and etc.
IN. C. food departments oper
ate on smallest margins of profit
of any business today, which
means that an IN. C. store bene
fits any community in which it
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operates.
From newspaper reports that
we read every day, our prices
are low in comparison with
some of the Outside prices.
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Arnold Becomes
Asst. Secretary
Of Intenior
U/P) Special Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. UP)—Edwin G.
Arnold, director of the division of
territories and island possessions,
has been appointed special assist
ant to the secretary of interior to
advise on certain international as
pects of the work of the interior
department.
Secretary of the interior Krug
also named Arnold as the interior
department member of the inter
national social policy committee,
succeeding former assistant secre
tary Warner W. Gardner.
A successor to Arnold, who re
cently represented the interior de
partment at the international trade
organization meeting in Geneva,
Switzerland, is expected to be an
i nounced within a few days.
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WASHINGTON, (/P)—Secretary
of Interior J. A. Krug announced
today the appointment of James
P. Davis as director of the interior
department’s division of territor
ies and insular possessions.
He succeeds Edwin G. Arnold,
recently appointed special assist
ant to Krug on international mat
ters.
Davis has for many years been
with various federal agencies, in
cluding the foreign service, the na
i tional recovery administration and
the OPA. He was an OPA price
executive and a consultant on
price and rationing controls in
Canada, Cuba, Bolivia. Chile and
other South American countries.
He also was OPA regional ad
ministrator for the territories and
! possessions and later for the At
lanta region of eight southeastern
states.
His foreign service assignments
I included Marseille, Bangkok and
, Shanghai.
He is a graduate of Mercel
i university, Macon, Ga.
Davis will be sworn in as direc
tor at ceremonies in Krug’s office
' tomorrow noon.
Two Men Shot
In Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, I/P)—Richard O.
Peargin, formerly of Klamath
Falls, Ore.,-lav near death yester
day and Patrick Powers, construc
tion worker, was recovering from
a minor wound after two separate
week-end shootings, one of mys
terious origin.
Hospital attendants said Penr
gin was in a critical condition
with a bullet hole in his abdomen.
Robert L. Becker, operator of a
special delivery service, was ar
rested by Marshal Stanley J.
Nichols and charged with shoot
ing at Peargin with intent to kill.
Nichols said Becker admitted or
ally that he fired a shot after
Peargin struck him early Sunday
with a canoe paddle at the door
of a wanigan. The nature of the
quarrel was not disclosed.
Powers suffered a flesh wound
in the leg while walking along a
Fairbanks street Sunday. The
source of the shot has not been
discovered. James Holmes, with
Powers at the time, is being held
as a material witness.
MR. MARION MORELLI HERE
FOR DAUGHTER'S WEDDING
Mr. Marion Morelli arrived
from San Francisco yesterday for
the wedding of his daughter Ag
nes Morelli to Kevin Walsh, which
will be held on Saturday morning
at the Catholic church.
Friend Wishes
Bride Good Lurk,
Shoots, Kills Her i
R IDG ELAND, S. C. (/P) — The
“good luck'* Mrs. John E. Curtis’
expected a “friend" to wish her
on her second honeymoon was a
blast of pistol fire. It left her dead
on the Coastal highway where her
army captain husband and her \
two-year-old son. Ruddy, looked!
on aghast.
The “friend" was a handsome,
27-year-old police officer, Dennis.
J. Counihan, of the Chatham
County (Georgia) homicide squad.
Mrs. Curtis met him in Savannah
while divorced from her husband,
whom she re-married Monday.
A coroner’s jury found Monday
night that Counihan after savage
ly pumping seven bullets into Mrs.
; Cyrtis, took his own life with two
shots in the chest.
Captain Curtis told the jury
how the policeman pursued them
! as they left Savannah on their
i wedding trip with their young
j son. He said Counihan waved
them down after they had crossed
into South Carolina. He wanted to
drive on, he added, but his wife
said:
“Wait. He just wants to speak to
us. He probably wants to tell us
i good bye and wish us good luck.”
Curtis said he shook hands with
Counihan, who at first spoke cor
dially enough. Then, he added, the
officer jerked open the car door.1
Sen. Cooper Savs
U. S. Should Build
Highway to Alaska
NEW YORK. i/P)—Senator John
S. Cooper <R.-Ky.> chairman of a
sub-committee of the Senate com
mittee on public works, said Mon
day the next session of Congress
should enact legislation to provide
for correction of deficiencies in
the country’s strategic road net
work.
“It is very necessary that the
next session of Congress adopt an
affirmative position rather than
one of mere negative criticism
toward the Inter-American High
way, the Alaska Highway and
roads within and leading to Alas
ka, as necessary elements of our
national security,” he told the 33rd
annual convention of the Ameri
can association of state highway
officials.
“Agreements should be reached
between the governments of the
United States and Canada for the
provision of suitable connecting
roads between the United States
and the southern terminus of the
Alaska Highway, and for the
proper terminus of the Alaska
highway itself,” he continued.
ripped the orchid corsage from the
bride’s grey traveling suit and
started firing.
"Never leave here with Curtis,”
he quoted CounLhan as exclaim
ing.
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