AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving from An
chorage Monday were G. E.
Knight, Mrs. Bernice Hunt, Star- [
lette Hunt, Jannie Sayers, Mrs.
Roger P. Stewart, F. Stanley Par-!
sons.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
A flight was made on Monday
to Teller, Shishmaref, Igloo and
3 Kotzebue, taking Walter Nayok
» puk as passenger for Shishmaref.
Jack Whaley made a flight to
4 Kotzebue yesterday with Forber
1 Baker and Annie Cox.
t Last evening a plane arrived
i from Fairbanks bringing in the
f following passengers: A. Bailey of
the C.A.A., Frank Stinton, Grave
v Stevens, enroute to Kotzebue and
t Mildred Webb of Wien Airlines.
p A full load of freight also arrived.
The plane depafted this morn
ing for Gambel on the mail run.
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ti Someone Lost A
11 “Ball and Chain”
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CHESTER, Pa. (/P)—Chester po
lice yesterday were seeking the
owner of a ball and chain found
hidden in a pile of straw near the
site of the partially constructed
Pennsylvania railroad station.
The ball and chain—similar to
those used to secure prisoners in
years gone by—was found yester
day beside a red and green check
ered hunter’s cap. The pile of
straw was packed down as though
someone had used it for a bed. po
lice said.
Chester authorities said they
have asked police in neighboring
states to check their areas for es
caped prisoners and at the same
time attempt to determine if any
husbands have been reported
missing.
Forecast And
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Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. Is. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, February 11, 1948
Forecast Nome: Cloudy with,
snow tonight and Thursday morn
ing, partly cloudy Thursday after
noon. Strong southwest wind to
night, decreasing Thursday. Low
est temperature tonight 20, high
est temperature Thursday 25.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.38
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.43 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 32, lowest 22.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 38
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 8:32 a.m., sunset at
3:57 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
—30, lowest —41.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —41 in
1947, highest 40 in 1912.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —14 Fog
Point Hope 22 Snow
Kotzebue 21 Snow
Shishmaref 28 Snow
Wales 31 Snow
Gambell 25 Snow
Nome 31 Snow
Unalakleet 34 Snow
Bethel 33 Snow
McGrath 15 Snow
Anchorage 19 Cloudy
Fairbanks 14 Cloudy
Juneau ' 18 Clear
Whitehorse —10 Partly Cloudy
Ketchikan 3 Snow
Seattle 37 Cloudy
San Francisco 43 Rain
Legal Blanks at Tne Nugget office
I.C.C. Will Control I
I
j Freight Rates If
! Statehood Comes
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — The in
terstate commerce commission
may take over the regulation ot'.
; most shipping rates between
mainland United States and Ha
waii and Alaska is the Territories
become States.
At present, the maritime com
mission controls sea commerce be
tween the United States and the
two Territories.
But the interstate commerce act
delegates to the interstate com
i merce commission the duty of reg
1 ulating the rates charged by water
I carriers, with certain exceptions,
operating “between a point in a
state and a point in any other;
state.”
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Therefore, officials oi Dotn me
maritime commission and the in
terstate commerce commission;
told a reporter today that unless
Congress amends the interstate
commerce act simultaneously with
the admission of Hawaii or Alas
ka as a state the interstate com- j
merce commission probably would
assume jurisdiction automatically
over the bulk of shipping between
the mainland and the new off
shore state.
An official of the ICC division'
of water carriers said Congress,
granted the ICC authority over in- j
terstate water transportation on i
the mainland on the theory that!
| shipping rates are competitive
with rates of railroads and trucks j
serving the same points on over- i
land routes.
The civil aeronautics board now ■
regulates air transpprtation be
tween the United States and the i
Territories, as well as interstate,
air routes. Government officials
expressed belief that admission of 1
the Territories as States would j
make no change in air transpor
tation regulation.
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Arabs Girding For
Palestine Battle
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DAMASCUS, Syria, </P) — j
Truckloads of armed Arabs roll
into Damascus led many observers
to believe that a general attack on
Palestine Jews may be approach
ing.
Some believe such an attack has
been set for Feb. 15.
Fawzi Bey A1 Kaukji, leader of
the Arab forces, told newsmen
that “The Middle East’s finest
army is moving in.’’
He said he expects to move his
headquarters to Palestine “soon,”
and that he will assume personal
direction of operations.
“We are organizing slowly and
thoroughly for an all-out fight,”
he said. “When we strike it will
be with confidence of complete
victory.”
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Reservists Take
Cruise To ’Frisco
SEATTLE, <£>)—Manned by 191
Pacific Northwest reservists the
destroyer escort U. S. S. Rombach
sailed from Seattle Sunday on a j
14-day training cruise to San
Francisco and return.
Oldest of the crewmen, Freder
ick A. <Pop> Fardo, 58, of Port
Orchard, said he volunteered for
the cruise because he “just could
n’t stay ashore any longer.”
Fardo, a torpedoman first class, j
retired from the regular navy
service in 1920 after 13 years’ du
ty. His last time at sea was in
1931 on another reserve cruise.
BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS.
perhaps the most successful of all
priates, was a teetotaler and al
lowed no gambling or women
aboard his ships, according to the;
E n c y clopaedia Britannica. He
was born in Wales In 1682 and
died fighting in 1722 after having!
captured "*more than 400 ships.
Propose Sky s-the
Limit Rent
WASHINGTON (£*)—A propos
al to permit “voluntary” sky’s
the-limit rent increases popped
up in Congress yesterday. A de
cision was near meanwhile on an
other cost of living issue—meat
rationing.
The suggestion for no-ceiling
rent boosts—in exchange for long
term leases—was outlined by Sen
ator Cain (R.-Wash.). Cain is
chairman of a Senate banking
sub-committee studying legisla
tion to extend rent controls be
yond February 29.
The Washington Senator told
rent administrator Tigue Woods
some committee members con
sider such a plan as the best way
to speed the end of rent controls.
Under the plan, tenants could
refuse to agree to an increase but
could not demand lease protection
beyond the expiration of controls.
Capture Seattle
Bank Robber
SEATTLE, (/P)—A Seattle bank
holdup described by a man under
arrest at Miami, Fla., corresponds
in main details with the $4,400
holdup of the Peoples Natnonal
Bank here last Nov. 3, detective
William Pendergast said yester
day.
On the date a lone robber hand
ed teller William F. Brietenstein a
note ordering him to fill a manila
envelope with money. He showec
Britenstein a small bottle which
he said held nitro glycerine, anc
threatened to blow up the place
At Miami, police chief Karl En
gel said a man identifying himsel
as Roy Toler, 27, admitting hold
ing up a bank here in November
The man is now “broke” and owe.
a week’s room rent. Engel report
ed.
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