AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Saturday evening with
the Pan American were Woody
Spagnola, Louis Buckland. Mabel
Wilcox, Barney Crosby, Stan
Bartlett.
Round trip passengers were Ida
Savory and daughter, wife and
daughter of the chief pilot of the
Pan American and Alaska L'.ncke,
also Pan American employee,
from Fairbanks.
Garnet Martin was a departing
passenger.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
H. R. Rugwell was a passenger
from Kotzebue to Nome on Satur
day.
The first flight to Diomede this
winter was made on Saturday by
Wien’s. Frank Okpealuk and Char
lie Ipana was brought to Nome by
way of Teller.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving from Anchorage on to
day’s Alaska Airlines plane were
Merlin Huffaker and Rose Wood.
Passengers departing on the re
turn flight were Rose M. Pierce,
Ward, Florence, Judy and Joy
Thompson, Barney Crosby, Cyril
Seeds.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
M. Schart, Kotzebue. M. W. Pe*
terson, John Roberts. Rob Roberts.
Bill Newley of Anchorage. Don
Emmons, Fairbanks, Tex Ziegler,
Igloo, Louis Bickland, N. Y. City;
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Anchor
age.
Guilty Conscience
Discovers Sticker
QUINCY, 111. </P)—Traffic Offi
cer Lawrence Kill was accosted by
an indignant woman driver who
was convinced she had erred in
considering Quincy police courte
ous and considerate. “I’ve always
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, of
, Commerce, Weather Bureau.
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Monday, February 16, 1948
Forecast Nome: Clear and con
j tinued cold tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest temperature tonight —25,
highest temperature Tuesday —10.
Nome data as of 7:30 a m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month 0.66
i inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest —6, lowest —20.
I
I Sunrise at 7:55 a.m., sunset at
4:38 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
38, lowest 21.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —29 in
1907, highest 38 in 1947.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Barrow —12 Snow
Point Hope —9 Snow
Kotzebue —9 Clear
Shishmaref —9 Cloudy
Wales —8 Snow
| Gambell 0 Clear
, Nome —16 Clear
Unalakleet —17 Clear
Bethel —14 Clear
McGrath —37 Clear
Anchorage —32 Partly Cloudy
: Juneau 2 Clear
Whitehorse —9 Clear
Ketchikan 17 Partly Cloudy
San Francisco 54 Clear
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understood that if a parked over
time just a little bit I wouldn’t
get a ticket. And now look!” She
pointed to her windshield. “Ma
dame,” said Kill, “that is a federal
automobile use tax stamp. It prob
ably has been on your windshield
; for several years.”
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Floods, Tornadoes
Hit Central States
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I tucky, West Virginia and Missis
1 sippi—for near freezing weather
' and possibly light snow.
Meanwhile, Tennessee, already
! plagued by rampaging rivers in
the central part of the state anx
; iously eyed the massive river of
' the same name and the Cumbel
land which winds through the
heart of Nashville.
Chattanooga expected the Ten
nessee to crest there at midnight
4.5 feet above flood stage. Already
the river stands at foot over the
safety mark of 40 feet. Lowlands
are flooded.
j The Cumberland, with a flood
! stage of 40 feet was standing at
43.5 and threatening to go higher.
Business and homes along its pre
cipitous banks prepared for the
worst.
Development of America’s un
forested land was long delayed by
the mistaken belief that land
which did not support trees could
not grow crops.
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AIRPLANE
We Service the Seward Peninsula, Fairbanks,
And Have Connections
To and From The States
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COME IN AND SEE US ABOUT OUR LOW RATES
AND OUR CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
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Chinese Reds Hold
Four U. S. Marines
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said the last word they received
from their son was at Christmas,
when he_wrote telling of his ex
pected furlough. He sent gifts of
roses, a recording and a photo
graph of him and four buddies.
The four were captured by the
Reds at the same time as Brayton
but still are alive.
I Young Brayton was born in
New York City. His father, a vet
eran of the first world war, has
been living at Fort Jay on Gov
ernor’s Island in New York Bay]
and is a civilian electrician there.
In addition to the son, the Bray
ton’s have one daughter, Mrs. Car
olyn Whitmore, 20, Washington,
D. C.
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SHANGHAI, </P)—'The Chinese
Communists demand a “neutral”
go-between to arrange a parley
for release of four American ma
mines they hold captive.
This information was taken to
Tsingtao by a wartime intelligence
j officer, capt. John Bristow, who
met the Reds irf the little Shan
tung port of Haiyang two weeks
ago.
I A reliable informant told this
story today:
i Bristow landed from an Ameri
can destroyer in a small boat. He
met a communist sopkesman on
the beach. The American, who
sneaks Chinese well, was told the
four marines were safe and well.
, He asked for their immediate
! transfer to the ship. The commun
ists replied that this- would have
to be arranged by “a neutral dele
gate.”
Bristow, 28, is from Santa Bar
bara, Calif.
Adm. Charles M. Cooke, Jr.,
t commander of U. S. naval forces
in the western Pacific, and U. S.
Ambassador John Leighton Stuart
are scheduled to meet in Nanking
j within 24 hours to discuss the
next step.
CHILDREN'S HOME AT
UNALAKLEET COMPLETED
John Dahlstrom, contractor
from Eligin, 111., who has been in
| Unalakleet since April building a
j children’s home for the Mission
! Covenant church arrived in town
j
Saturday on business.
He states that the building is
now completed with a capacity for
about 40 children. Rev. and Mrs.
| Lindgren and Arlene Anderson
| are now in charge of the homo.
Rev. Amundsen, who flew him
in is returning him to Unalakuot
from where he will depart soon,
j Mr. Dahlstrom stated that the
| community is certainly pulling to
i gether on all projects and can be
[justly proud of the advancements
• it has made in the last few years,
Storm Lashes
Washington Coast
SEATTLE, (/P)—Winds and rain
lashed the Oregon-Washington
coast line with almost unrelenting
fury for 24 hours were subsiding
today.
The storm, one of the winter’s
worst, struck Saturday night.
Winds of 85 miles an hour were
recorded by the coast guard at De
struction Island lighthouse south
of Cape Flattery on the north
Washington Coast.
Gusts of 52 miles an hour were
marked up in Seattle. More than
a dozen utility poles were levelled.
Numerous trees were felled and
windows of several downtown
stores were blown in.
PIONEERS TO CELEBRATE
41ST ANNIVERSARY
The Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo
No. 1, will celebrate their 41st an
niversary next Wednesday eve
ning with a banquet at the Pioneer
Hall.
Igloo No. 1 was the first to be
organized in the Territory on the
21st of February, 1907. The Grand
Igloo of the order also originated
in Nome in 1908. This was follow
ed by the women’s organization in
1912, also a first.
28 Igloos have been instituted
since that time in most of the
larger towns in Alaska with a total
membership now of about 1500
members.
Prior to the war the Pioneers
celebrated their anniversaries with
sumptuous parties, but in compli
ance to the general war activities
have not done so for several years.
This year they going all out for
another turkey dinner and a full
program of events are well under
way.
Members and their families are
urged to put in their reservations
| immediately at Polet’s Store and
not later than Tuesday to insure
sufficient seating and so that the
purchase of food can be complet
ed.
j JAMES WALSH TO ATTEND
i HONOLULU CONFERENCE
Jimmy Walsh, sales manager
i for the Pan American has received
word that he is to attend a confer
ence of the Pacific Alaska Divi
sion at Honolulu on March 11, 12,
1 13. Nome will be well represented
during the conference in Honolulu
with Alvin Polet, from Fairbanks,
and Joe Giddings from Ketchikan
• as well as Rita Tavis who resides
in Honolulu, Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Davidson and E (Bo) Mozee.
With its gardens it hopes to be a
self sustaining community before
too long.
Mr. Dahlstrom says he likes
Alaska and hopes to have the op
portunity of returning again.