AIRLINES
Wien Alaska Airlines
The regular flight from Fair
banks arrived yesterday with Mr.
and Mrs. Cleo Armstrong for Kot
zebue, and Frank Whaley and
Richard Webb for Nome.
The plane is waiting weather to
make a flight to King Island and
Kotzebue.
Pilot Storey arrived from Wales
bringing in Mr. and Mrs. James
Brooks.
Pilot Stinton, who has been
stormbound at Moses Point, ar
rived yesterday.
Pan American Airways
Passengers arriving Tuesday af
ternoon were A. L. Herman. C.
Wheeler. Joe Woodis. Mr. and Mrs.
Gunnar Kaason, Wilson Norton,
David and Maxine Stewart.
Russell Maynard was the only
departing passenger.
Alaska Airlines
Arriving on the noon flight of
the Alaska Airlines today were
A. Condon, Dr. J. B. Tucker and
E. Q. Wunderluch.
Departing passengers were Din
ty Moore, Chester Milligan, Mr.
and Mrs. James Brooks and Ger
trude Wetzel.
Wallace Hotel
Guests at the Wallace Hotel to
day are Cliff Barnhill, Seattle; Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Brooks. Wales Al
aska; Dr. H. D. Davies, Chicago;
Harold, Wilbur and Norman
Tweet, Teller, Alaska.
CORRECTION
A typographical error in the
Monday issue of the Nugget added
ten years to the age of one of
the contestants in the popular
Arctic Club Queen Contest.
We apologize, Jane Atcheson
is 24, not 34 as announced.
Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce. Weather Bureau.
Forecast for Nome and vicinity:
Snow and warmer tonight with
strong easterly wind*. Cloudy
Thursday with intermittent snow.
Lowest temperature tonight 15,
highest temperature Thursday 25.
Nome data as of 7:00 a.m. to
day:
Precipitation last 24 hours a
trace.
Total precipitation* this mon;h
1.68.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 18, lowest -10.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
21 miles per hour from the NNW.
Sunrise at 5:18 a.m.. sunset at
6:52 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 23, lowest -5.
Exereme temperatures on this
day since 1907:
Lowest -28 in 1920, highest 38
in 1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -25 Partly cloudv
Kotzebue -14 Cloudy
Shishmaref 4 Cloudy
Wales * 10 Cloudy
Gambell 26 Snow
Nome 3 Snow
Unalakleet -8 Snow
Bethel -1 Partly cloudy
McGrath 4 Clear
Anchorage 22 Clear
Fairbanks 7 Partly cloudy
Juneau 33 Snow
Whitehorse 11 Cloudy
Ketchikan 41 Cloudy
Edmonton 31 Partly cloudy
Seattle 48 Cloudy
San Francisco 56 Clear
Atomic Research
Fund Approved
WASHINGTON, —(>P>— New
funds for atomic weapons and re
search for military road work in
Alaska, and for the w’ord war
with Russia were okayed today
by the House Appropriations com
mittee.
It also approved new’ grants for
relief work in army occupied
countries and for Veterans’ Ad
ministration personnel.
The committee recommended a
general bill to meet shortages in
funds previously voted for var
ious agencies for the year ending
June 30. The bill is scheduled to
come before the House for a vote1
Wednesday or Thursday.
Not a penny was cut from the'
$150,000,000 asked by the atomic
energy commission, all of it in
contract authority for which con
gress will put up the actual cash
later. The new’ authority boosts
to $659,091,863 the amount the
commission \yill have at its dis
posal this year.
The committee admonished the
commission to “move forward with
all possible speed in its research
programs, both in the wartime and
peacetime uses of the newly dis
covered secrets.”
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“How You Gonna
Keep ’Em — ”
HOLLYWOOD, (/P)—High chief
Tufel-Faia’oga is worried about
the future of his three-island Ma
nu’a group in American Samoa.
“Our young people are leaving
the islands for an education,” the
50-year-old ruler said on his ar-!
rival by Clipper plane Friday.!
“And most of them are not com
ing back. I don’t know what is go
j ing to happen in the future.”
He came to discuss a manuscript
on which he is collaborating with
Mrs. Elsie Noble Caldwell, South
Seas writer.
I
Wein Alaska Airlines
ANNOUNCES... !
A NEW SCHEDULE
Effective March 16, 1948
FAffiBANKS TO NOME TRIPS
on
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
OF EACH WEEK
%
MERCHANDISE SHIPPED FROM SEATTLE
MONDAY WILL REACH YOU
IN NOME ON TUESDAY
Franco Spain May
Now Join Kill*
WASHINQTON, — <£») —The
House voted 149 to 52 today to
invite Franco Spain into the $6,
205,000,000 foreign aid pr >gram.
The foreign affairs committee
had agreed to include Spain, but
Rep. Vorys, <R-Ohio>, in charge
of the aid bill, said the State de
partment is against it.
And whether the Senate will
go along is another question.
In any event, Spain could ge’
in on the program only if she
agreed like other participating
countries to join hi a European
recovery program of cooperation
and self help.
Spain now is specifically named
as eligible to qualify under the
bill before the House. Eastern
European nations to come in un
der the same terms as Spain, by
agreeing to terms of the program.
Japanese Unions
Strike for More Pay
TOKYO, — (/P) (/P) The Jap
anese Communications Workers’
Union called off its threatened
general strike of 400,000 members
today.
An estimated 200,000 already
walked out, however, in regional
layoffs.
General MacArthur Monday
banned the general strike. Chief
union secretary Mitsu.ii Nagaoka
said he did not believe the direct
ive applied to regional walkouts.
Union president Kazuyoshi Do
bashi announced regional work
s’oppages would be continued in
m st of Japan’s vital areas. A
new union order calls for 48 hour
layoffs beginning today in Hokk
haido and in northern Honshu.
Tokyo is excepted— “It’s too
close to General MacArthur,” a
union spokesman said. The un
ion is seeking higher pay.
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