22 NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. XLVII. No. 13 0 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29~, 1945 PER COPY— 15«*
Thousands Of
Dollars Of Damage
Caused Bv Wind
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Much damage has been wrought
by the force of the storm which
has raged throughout the North
Bering Sea area, during the- past
few days. The wind and waves
continued to grow until the sea
walls gave under the terrific im
pact of the mountains of water
hurled against them by the wind,
which attained peak velocities
nearing 80 miles per hour.
Storm warnings were issued yes
terday and today as the force of
the gale seemed not to abate, but
which will probably lessen during
the late hours tonight.
In the high winds, telephone
service went dead, and power
service was intermittent, making
it difficult for electric pump
equipment to keep the basements
clear of water.
The peak force of the storm
seemed to hit in the area at the
center of town, hitting with gale
fury, breaking through bulkheads
and seawalls, like going through
the center of a football line.
Once the bulkheads gave way
the timbers of the bulkheads ham
mered at other bulkheads, break
ing them to bits.
The easternmost damage of any
material consequence was the
Lincoln Hotel, which was under
mined during the early hours of
the morning more than half way
under the building, and the rear
half of the structure broke off
about 10:00 o’clock this morning,
breaking up almost immediately
in the high surf.
The Miners and Merchants
Bank building was being ham
mered by heavy timbers and high
seas, and the garage alongside
was undermined to within a few
feet of the sidewalk, and hanging
at a precarious angle. Later the
building was pulled into the street
away from the storm.
The basement of the U. S. Mer
cantile store is full of water and
much merchandise was damaged.
Stocks on the main floor were
moved to warehouses in the north
end of the city.
The Polar building likewise suf
fered damage to the rear and
basement, and valuable stocks of
liquors and beers were lost, in ad
dition to the damage to heating
plants, etc.
The Nome Drug Company lost
the rear and the basement of its
building and great quantities of
drugs and supplies—little being
saved—which will make drugs
and medicines critically short this
T HE ROCK S—The French submarine Minerve drifts helplessly ashore on the rocks at
Portland Bill, Weymouth, after breaking away from its escort during heavy seas.
Russian Papers
Carry Truman’s
Navy Day Speech
MOSCOW, Oct. 29—(/P)—Pres
ident Truman’s Navy Day foreign
policy speech was carried conspic
uously in today’s newspapers with
bold face, two and three-column
headlines. All twelve points of
the speech were published verba
tim, with a number of direct and
indirect quotations from the parts
on the atomic bomb.
The Palisades of the Hudson in
New Jersey are an unbroken per
pendicular cliff of colored balsat
300 to 500 feet above the river.
winter.
The Northern Commercial Com
pany had water in the basement,
and all of the supplies therein,
such as flour, sugar, etc., were
damaged.
Other buildings, the Nome Grill,
Dream Theater, Patterson Hotel,
and North Pole Bakery, had a few
feet of water in their basements,
and although there was consider
able damage to merchandise and
equipment, the buildings were in
tact.
The Weather Bureau issued
warnings for tonight, that the
temperature would be colder,
about 15 to 18 degrees, and that
the storm center has moved
slightly northeast. The width of
the storm is diminishing and like
wise the intensity, and provided
the center continues to move in a
northeasterly direction, the next
few hours should see an improve
ment in the weather, inasmuch as
the storm is concerned.
•
Rescuers Find C-54
j Which Crashed
Near Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 29— (/P) —
A ground rescue party radioed at
eleven thirty-five a.m. it had
found the big C-54 transport
plane reported to have crashed
on a mountain fifteen miles east
of here enroute from Edmonton
to Elberta.
The rescuers reported two men
were alive, but the fate of the
other five believed to be aboard
the plane was undetermined by
the rescuers. A walkie talkie op
erator asked for two stretchers, a
gas stove, toboggan, clothing and
bandages to aid in bringing out
the survivors.
DREAM THEATER CLOSES
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Dream Theater has an-!
nounced that there will be no
show until further notice, as the i
boiler room and basement are full j
of water. There has been damage |
to the living quarters as well, but
at the time of going to press the,
building was still intact.
LINCOLN HOTEL BROKEN
IN HALF BY STORM
The first business house to be
destroyed by the gale was the
Lincoln Hotel, which was under
mined during the night. By nine
o’clock this morning, half of its
foundation timbers were gone and
by noon the buildiqg had broken
in half and washed away to sea.
The capital in southern cotton
mills is probably more than 80
per cent owned in the south.
Civil War Rages
In North China
CHUNGKING, Oct. 29 — (/P) —
Reports of heavy fighting between
| Chinese Communists and Central
Government troops in North
China pictured the nation locked
in a civil war, real though not of
ficially declared.
The warfare is growing in inten
sity in Shantung, Shansi and Sui
yan provinces said dispatches re
ceived in Chungking. The Chinese
press attributed to Gen. Hsi Shan,
governor of Shansi, now visiting
in Chungking the statement that
the government forces suffered
fifteen thousand casualties and
that Communist loses were “also
heavy.”
The fighting centered around
Changchih, the stratgeic town in
southeastern Shansi which Yen
conceded the Reds had captured.
Independent reports said that
wherever the Communists were
retreating along railways they
were destroying the tracks and
blowing up the bridges. This ex
plained the slow movement of
Kai-Shek’s troops proceeding
along the Peiping, Hankow, Tient
sin and Pukow railroads to re
place the United States Marines in
the Peiping-Tientsin area.
Insistent reports that the Rus
sians are supplying the Commun
ists with captured Jap war ma
terial continued to circulate in
Chungking, but no authority will
allow himself to be quoted.
Scientists claim the earth’s at
mosphere shields its inhabitants
from harmful sun rays and helps
to equalize day and night temper
atures.
Proclamation
WHEREAS, a state of destruc
tion and emergency exists in the
City of Nome, Alaska, due to the
elements and
WHEREAS, such conditions, be
cause of their magnitude, are be
yond the powers of the local Civil
Government and civilian popula
tion to o'reicome or control, and
WHEREAS, such supplies and
foodstuffs and stores as are ieo
pardized are winter provisions for
the population of Nome, Alaska,
without chance of replacement
due to the close of the shipping
season, and
WHEREAS, the further loss or
destruction of supplies would en
danger the entire population of
Nome, Alaska,
THEREFORE, I, W. B. MOR
GAN, Lieutenant Colonel, Air
Corps, 0257028, Commanding Of
ficer, Headquarters, United States
Troops, Army Air Base, Nome,
Alaska, by virute of the authority
invested in me by the Comanding
General. Alaskan Department and
the War Department, Washington,
D. C., do herby declare a state
of martial law existant for and in
the City of Nome, Alaska, and its
environs, such declaration to re
main in effect until lifted by offi
cial notice from this Headquar
ters or higher authority.
The entire civil population of
Nome, Alaska, and all members
of the Military Establishment will
govern themselves in strict ac
cordance with the dictates of the
Provost Marshal or his represen
tatives duly constituted by this
Headquarters.
W. B. MORGAN,
Lt. Colonel, Air Corps,
Commanding.
ARMY ASSISTS IN
EVACUATING GOODS
The U. S. Army came to the aid
ol the stricken business houses
this morning by sending in all
available transportaiton and men
to facilitate the moving of winter
supplies from stores and homes
which are endangered.
NEW CITIZEN
LAST WEEK
T-5 Patrick Dromgoole, of the
331st Engineers, Nome Air Base,
was made a citizen of the United
States, in the court of Judge Ke
hoe during the past week.
Dromgoole was born in Ireland,
came to the United States in 1925
was married in Albany, N. Y., hi
1941, has a daughter 4 years old.
He spent 13 months at Adak, and
other points in Alaska. "I am
happy to become a citizen of the
United States," said Dromgoole
as he was leaving the courtroom!