Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome ami Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, February 11, 1949
Forecast Nome: Continued
cloudy with light snow tonight
and Saturday. Gentle to moder
ate southerly winds. Lowest tem
pertature tonight 25, highest tem
perature Saturday 29.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation 0.26 inches. (To
tal this month 0.77 inches).
4 Temperatures: highest 29, low
est —4.
Maximum wind 50 miles per
hour from the east.
Sunrise at 8:11 a.m., sunset at
4:19 p.m. ,
Comparative Data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
21, lowest —5.
Extreme temperatures on this
•date since 1907: highest 37 in 1907,
lowest —33 in 1924.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —6 Snow
Point Hope 11 Snow
Kotzebue 7 Snow
Wales 29 Cloudy
Gambell 28 Snow
Nome 28 Snow
Unalakleet 18 Snow'
Bethel 31 Snow
McGrath —2 Snow
Anchorage 7 Cloudy
Fairbanks —5 Snow
Whitehorse —22 Cloudy
Edmonton —10 Snow
Juneau —7 Clear
Ketchikan 23 Clear
Seattle 33 Cloudy
San Francisco 43 Cloudy
T ransport a t ion
Strike Hits Philly.
PHILADELPHIA, (/P)—Detour
ed by a strike of transit workers,
Philadelphia’s 3,200,000 bus, sub
way and trolley riders scrambled
into the city today on foot, by
thumb-flagging of passing cars
and by fighting their way aboard
sardine-can packed suburban rail
way trains.
The massive operations of the
Philadelphia Transportation Com
pany ground to a halt at one min
ute past midnight, throwing work
ers in the nation’s third largest
city to their own resources.
The strike of 11,000 members of
AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Pilot Bob Murphy made a flight
to Koyuk for Carl Apok yester
day. One the return flight the
plane was forced down on the ice
near Moses Point due to extreme
cold weather. Both pilot and pas
senger were picked up by dog team
and are in Moses Point awaiting
favorable flying weather. The
plane was not damaged according
to reports.
Navy Awaits Break
In Weather To
Attack Kodiak
(By Ralph Dighton)
KODIAK, (jP) — A navy task
force rode 25-foot waves yester
day and awaited a break in the
weather for its mock assault on
Portage Bay in the Battle of Ko
diak.
If the seas calm, 2,000 marines,
toughened by weeks of cold-wea
ther maneuvers, will splash
through 38-deeree waters to at
tempt to “retaKe” the island from
a simulated occupying enemy.
One of the heaviest barrages
fired in the Pacific since the end
of the war were to soften the is
land’s defenses for the leather- ,
necks.
Weather permitting, more than
100 planes from the carriers Bai- !
roke and Boxer will zoom over- i
i head to hack up “enemy strong- '
points with rockets, bombs and
machine gun fire.
The assault, put off Wednesday
because of heavy seas, may be
postponed again unless the storm
abates, sadi Vice Adm. C. F. Bo- i
gan, commander of the First task i
fleet.
Portage Bay is uninhabited, but
Kalsin Bay, where landings are
scheduled today, has a small col
ony of trappers and fishermen, I
precluding the use of live ammu
nition in that operation.
Rome’s Colosseum, finished by ;
Titus in 80 A.D., held 100,000
spectators.
the CIO’s transport workers union ;
was in support of a demand for a
fourth round wage increase.
The workers originally dema id- j
ed a boost of 25 cents an hour but i
later reduced this to 20 cents 1 he
company’s initial offer was two
cents, boosted to three cents j
shortly before the strike deadline.
Workers now average f rom|
$1.09 to $1.63 an hour.
HOSPITAL NEWS
Jane Anderson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Anderson, is a
patient in the hospital .
Eddie Gross, who just returned
from Serpentine Springs, is a pa
tient in the hospital.
Bisayan is spoken by about 45
per cent of the Philippine popula
tion, but is not officially recog
nized because it is not spoken in
the Manila area.
NOTICE
Chaplain Darling will be the
speaker at the Native Church Sun
day evening at 7:30. Chaplain and
Mrs. Darling will also sing special
music for the service.
NOTICE
BOY SCOUTS
All Boy Scouts are requested to
be at the Scout Hall 10:30 Sunday
morning. A truck will take us to
the Army Base for church serv
ices.
Ralph Bingham. Scribe.
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NOTICE
—
Annual Meeting for election of
Officers of Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday evening February
15. Dinner meeting at seven p.m..
Pioneer Hall. Reservations with
Nome Motors or Vi's Shop.
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NOTICE
—
Valentine Dance at Bering Sea
Club, Saturday February 12th.
Sweetheart night with prizes for
the newest bride and longest mar
ried couple.
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NOTICE |
ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRES
Dance at Legion Hall Saturday.
Feb. 12th, at 9:00 P.M.. for Le
gionaires and guests.
C. G. GODSBE. Chairman.
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Classified Ads
FOR RENT—Small cabin. Close
in. Call Black 41. J8-3‘.c
FOR SALE—Corner Shelf (what
not), Chinese modern screen, pr.
Chinese modern table lamps, pic
tures, card table, nursing table,
high chair, juicer, 6 h.p. outboard
motor, 13.5' hardwood boat. For
information call Lt. McAneney,<
Army 89 or 246. 18-ltp
FOR SALE—G. E. Refrigerator,
like new. $150.00 at Polar Li-:
quor Store. 17-3tc
BARGAIN — Hallicrafter Radio,
SX-25. Extra loud speaker. Good
condition. Polar Liquor Store.
17-3tc
NOTICE
WANTED—Civilian Workers for
E. M. Mom. For Applications
Contact Lt. R. Baaner at Army
137. 16-3tc
AIRPLANES—Send for free list.
All makes and models. World's
largest s ock and lowest prices!
It’s easy to buy from us—we do
everything for you except pay
for the airplane. Vest Aircraft
Co., 4600 Dahlia, Denver, Colo.
126-tfc
TANNING—Send us your skins
and furs to be tanned. Quick, ef
ficient, reliable. Valcauda Fur
Co., National Bldg., Seattle,
Wash. 103-tf
FOUND—Keys in Key container.
Call at Nugget. 15-tf,
Truman Calls
Mindszenty Trial
“Infamous”
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views in response to questions at
a news conference. On other sub
jects, he said:
1. He is opposed to disclosing how
many atomic bombs this coun ry
has on hand. He said it is a mat
ter not for public discussion.
Chairman David Lilienthal of the,
atomic energy commission cate- j
gorically denied to him Wednes
day. he said, reports that he (Lil
ienthal» has favored making this
information public.
2. S'andby price control power
and $4,000,000,000 of new taxes
are just as necessary now as when
he first asked for them. He would
not comment on the recent down
ward price trend in commodity
markets.
But when asked if new taxes
would be advisable if a recession
developed, he replied they would
be needed because the expenss of
govrnment would no! be affected
and he is trying to avoid a deficit.
He said he certainly does need
standby price control power de
spite the priec drop and a bill
providing it will be ready for Con
gress soon.
3. He thinks Republican Senator
Margaret Chase Smith was mis
taken when she told a Lincoln
Day dinner here Tuesday that “we
now have a government by pres
sure groups.” He referred to Sen
ator Smith as the good lady from
Maine.
Asked to comment on Gov. Tho
mas E. Dewey’s remark at the
same dinner that the Republican
party is “split wide open,” the
President smiled and s#id he gave
Dewey all the advice he possibly
could in the last campaign.
Northern Ireland
Votes Not To Join
South Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (/P)
Supporters of continued partition
of Ireland clinched control of
Northern Ireland’s parliament to
day in an election fought on the
issue of king-or-Republic.
Victory of the “King’s Men”
over proponents of a merger with
Eire had been a foregone conclu
sion, but returns from yesterday’s
balloting indicated political forces
which want to stay in the United
Kingdom did even better than
they had hoped.
Candidates of the pro-British
Union party won seven of the firs'
eight districts reporting, including
an upset gain in the Belfast dock
Cut Boat Service;
Aleutian Villages
Suffer As Result
■ Continued from Page One)
plies has been a real problem
since the mail boat was taken ofl
the run,” declared Wortman, own
er of a bakery »and coffee ship.
“At one time there was no milk
for the babies in the town.
“Out in the Aleutians there are
trappers, running short of food,
with no way to get back to the
mainland. The boat was our life
line and it has been cut off.”
The mail boat was taken off the .
run and the mail con'ract trans
ferred to an airline. Since then,
however, the government has ap
propriated new funds for a mail
boat contract, but bids by vessel
owners were considered “too
high” bv the postal department.
A. D. Lawrence, superitendent
of railway mail service, said a
new set of bids on the contract
have been submitted through his
office to Washington, D. C., and
he is awaiting an answer.
“I am not optimistic, however,”
concluded Lawrence. “The second
set of bids, like the first which
had to be rejected, appeared to be
too high for acceptance. It would
be cheaper to buy the boats.”
Art Ganson of the Seattle cham
ber of commerce Alaska division
said every effort is being made to
help the northerners get renewed
boat service. Ganson said many
complaints have been received by
the chamber and that the prob
lem is ‘‘one of the biggest head
aches in Alaska.”
Lawrence said he was sympa
thetic to the plight of the Alas
kans, and that his office was do
ing all it could to help them. He
pointed out that mail service by
plane has been highly satisfactory,
but that what the people want is
freight boat service subsidized by
a government mail contract.
Mistress—When you werehirecf,
you told me one reason you were
such a good maid was that you
never got tired. This is the third
afternoon I’ve come into the kit
chen and found you asleep.
Maid—Yes’m. That’s how I
never gets tired!
district.
Results of the election, except
for mail ballots, are expected to
be known tonight. About 90 per
cent of Northern Ireland’s 459.
744 registered voters were report
ed to have cast ballots.
The Unionists, who want to re
main under the Crown, and the
opposition, who want the six
counties of Ulster to join with the
26 in Eire, made conflicting nre
dictions of the results.
ARCTIC OIL DELIVERY
Phone—Shop: Black 71 — Residence: Mein 52
WE CHECK YOUR TANK REGULARLY
BEN YOUNG
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
WILL REMAIN OPEN
FOR COLLECTION OF ACCOUNTS ONLY
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