AIRLINES
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ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving on todays flight rere:
Boyd Harwood, George Lennon,
Lewis La Jombe, Capt. Anderson,
Earl Butcher.
Departing on the return flight
were Mrs. Harold Ivanoff, Glenn
Serealook, Larry Hagen, Daniel
Rohan, Mrs. Forest Wood, Mr.
Guzzy, Chas. Treager.
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Pan American airrived yester
day from Seattle bringing Carlos
de Loveneche, C. J. McEllis, Jack
Fricke. Departing passengers were
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hargrove,
Thomas Bontrager, Nina Boyd,
Mrs. William Webb, Bruce Niel
son.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
The following passengers left
yesterday for Fairbanks with Wien
Airlines: M. B. Vincent, Jennie,
Violet, Bale, and Vivian Anakok,
W. P. McLean.
Sig Wien arrived from Barrow
yesterday and has been busy
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freighting oil to Council. Seven
trips were made yesterday.
Elsie Bahnke and daughter were
passengers to Ungalik on Monday.
Henry Stanley, was a passenger
to Kotzebue today.
George R. Goshaw was a pas
senger from Shishmaref to Nome
yesterday.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Claude Watson, H. A. MacGee,
Seattle. Don Gretzer, Anchorage.
Mr. and Mrs Ray Thurston, Helen
Head, Frank Wilson, B. D. Tra
roaski, Seward. Frank Williams,
Nome. Charles Traeger, Unala
kleet. Chas. Fielding, Anchorage.
Allen Lee, Richard Lee, Jr., Solo
mon. C. De Loyeneche, Washing
ton, D. C. Charles Mellis, St. Louis.
George R. Goshaw, Shishmaref. G.
R. Tretcher, Anchorage.
I,EE BROTHERS IN TOWN
FOR LOAD OF FREIGHT
Allen and Richard Lee, Jr., of
the Lee Dredging Co. ,of Solomon,
arrived yesterday with trucks and
are taking back a load of freight
today.
Anchorage Fetes
Visiting Airfield i
Congressmen
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — Six Con
gressmen landed here yesterday in
a transport plane on the first leg
of an inspection tour of proposed
Alaska airfields.
The House commerce commit -1
tee group includes three Republi
cans and three Democrats. The
Republicans are Reps. Leonard
W. Hall, <N. Y.) leader of the
group; Hugh D. Scott, Jr., 'Pad
and Henderson H. Carson <0.>. The
Democrats are Virgil Chapman
<Ky.>, Richard F. Harless <Ariz.»
and Dwight L. Rogers (Fla.).
A public reception last night,
sponsored by the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce, will be
followed by a banquet today.
Motor trips and fishing expedi
tions are planned during the
group’s four-day stay. A trip to
Fairbanks Saturday and back
Sunday evening also is scheduled.
Russia mobilized a total of 12
million men during World War I.
SINCE 1924
FREE! Shopping service for all mining camps!
If Not Available in Nome, Will Shop in Fairbanks
DAILY! Trips to Kougarok and Council
BI-WEEKLY! Trips to Fairbanks,
MONDAY AND THURSDAY
NEW IMPROVED SERVICE — Call Main 46 for Information
Passengers - Freight - Mail... WE’LL DELIVER
“Alaska Must Be
Settled As Soon
As Possible”
■ oR) Spacial Washington Service*
WASHINGTON. </P) — Faster
settlement of' Alaska is necessary
to hold it against “:he inroads or
Russia,’ the chairman of a House
sub-committee cons rierin0 Alas
kan statehood said tod^v.
Rep. Crawford 'R.-M cn.> told a
reporter that “Alaska is the most
strategic base we have anywhere
so long as Russia and the United
States are the two leading world
powers.”
This is particularly true, lie
added, “so long as the relations
between them continue as they are
at present.”
Crawford is chairman of an in
sular and territorial affairs sub
committee that will leave Seattle
on August 25 for 12 days of hear
ings in Alaska on pending legisla
tion for homesteading Alaska and
granting it statehood.
Hearings on the bills were held
here while Congress was in session
but action was deferred until ad
ditional information could be
gathered.
"I think Alaska should be home
steaded, colonized and settled as
quickly as possible.” said Craw
ford. adding:
“If we are to hold Alaska
against the inroads of Russia, it
will be necessary to put people up
there to offer a defense. History
records that people defend their
homes and land, but a country that
is not populated is seldom defend
ed.”
He said special inducements to
be offered in the proposed home
steading bill, together with “op
portunities generally inherent in a
new country, should appeal to
young, red-blooded. adventure
some. pioneer-spirited men and
women.”
Then he added, “Of course I
don’t know if we have any such
young men and women these days
but we’ve got to find some.”
Although he originally opposed
he bill passed by the House to
i imit Hawaii to statehood, Craw
'ord said that “if we are to adopt
‘he policy of granting statehood
I
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, August 6, 1947
Forecast Nome: Increasing
cloudiness tonight with light rain
Thursday morning. Mostly cloudy
Thursday with fresh southerly
wind. Lowest temperature tonight
4R, highest temperature Thursday
58.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month
0.03 inch.
Temperaturese last 24 hours:
highest 56 lowest 43.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 20
nrrles per hour from the E.S.E.
Sunrise at 3:24 a.m., sunset at
8:53 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
56. lowest 41.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest 32 in 1937,
highest 74 in 1914.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 37 Rain
Point Hope 49 Cloudy
Kotzebue 51 Cloudy
Shishmaref 53 Cloudy
Wales 56 Cloudy
Gambell 51 Rain
Nome 55 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet 55 Partly Cloudy
Bethel 56 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 47 Partly Cloudy
Anchorage 55 Cloudy
Fairbanks 48 Cloudy
Juneau 65 Cloudy
Whitehorse 51 Cloudy
Ketchikan 54 Rain
Edmonton 61 Cloudy
Seattle • 66 Clear
San Francisco 58 Cloudy
The first, American emigrants to
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Liberia sailed from Baltimore in
1833.
to offshore areas, we should allow
Alaska to become a state just as
soon as it can demonstrate it is in
a position to support statehood fi
nancially.”
How Many Is a Million?
u MILLION DAYS
"have not yet passed
since the birth.
T~ of Christ — a I and
for
another
792
years
Pstack of
File cards
(1Z0 to.the inch)
as h igh aslhc
Washington
Monument
would not
total a
MILLION* l
It would have j
to be one fourth,
higher to mafic >
a MILLION j
? it requires the
combined
population of these
three states to
equal a MILLION
... ..r f
'’(0he 1940 Census d ave none
of these important cities as
much as a MILLION population.
The nation’s Methodists are trying to visualize a million.
The 16 months emphasis on evangelism of their “Crusade Cor
Christ” has surpassed its goal, having brought into the churches
1,050,889 new members: 507,233 on confession of faith, 483,G5G by
transfer. ,
During the same period 894 new churches have been organized and
; declining church (Sunday) school enrollment trend has been reversed,
, showing a gain of 458,896.