Forecast And
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Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, December 18, 1946
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
and continued cold tonight and
Wednesday. Lowest temperature
* tonight —35, highest temperature
Thursday —25.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours, trace.
Total precipitation this month 0.10
inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest —12, lowest —36.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 17
miles per hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 10:02 a.m., sunset at
1:56 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 31, lowest 25.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —36 in
1946 highest 36 in 1932.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —19 Clear
Point Hope —8 Cloudy
Kotzebue —23 Clear
Shishmaref —14 Snow
Wales —11 Clear
Gambell —2 Cloudy
Nome —35 Clear
Unalakleet —33 Clear
Bethel —22 Clear
McGrath —8 Snow
Anchorage 38 Rain
Fairbanks —5 Cloudy
Juneau 38 Rain
Whitehorse 32 Clear
Ketchikan 41 Rain
Edmonton 28 Clear
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O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome, Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office:
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Canada Hangs Four
German Prisoners
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. uV)—Four
German prisoners of war and a
Canadian army veteran were
hanged for murder early today in
Canada’s largest mass execution
in 60 years. Three of the Germans
unsuccessfully attempted tn com
mit suicide a few hour< before the
hangings by cutting the'r wrists.
The Canadian veteran, Donald
Seattle 33 Clear
Coldest spot in Alaska today
Umiat —41.
Sherman Staley 29, of Brace
bridge, Ont., was convicted of the
sex slaying on July 24 of six-year
old Donnie Goss in Calgary Alta.
Police said he also confessed kill
ing 11-year-old Garry Billings in
Vancouver.
The German prisoners were
convicted of murdering Cpl. Karl
Lehmann in a prisoner-of-war
v..mo at Medicine Hat. Alta., on
Sent. !0, 1944, because of Leh
mann’s purported anti-Nazi att:
tude.
Some people I know would get
fractured skulls if an idea ever
hit ’em.
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On Trial Ktin
ANCHORAOE—The Northwest
Airlines made a trial flight from
Edmonton to Anchorage Sunday,
returning to Edmonton on Mon
day.
The flight was made to test the
route for stops and fuel facilities
on the Edmonton-Anchorage leg
of Northwest’s Orient route w'hich
will be initiated in the early part
of 1947.
On the flight were Mayor A ins
ley of Edmonton, the minister of
public works of the Province of
Alberta, manager of the Edmonton
airport, and manager of Northwest
Airlines Edmonton office.
While in Anchorage tne group
was entertained by A. B ’ Cot”
Hayes, manager of Northwest’s
Anchorage office. At a dinner in
honor of the Canadian guest.,
Mayor Ainsley of Edmonton,
spoke enthusiastically of the
flight in reference to the possibil
ity of trade relations between his
country and Alaska, hoping that
this could soon be brought about
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