Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the U. S. Dept, ol
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, March 31, 1950
Forecast Nome: Continued clou
dy and cold tonight, increasing
cloudiness tonight. Variable winds.
Lowest temperature tonight —15,
highest temperature Saturday 10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation, none. (Total this
month 1.0 inch).
Temperatures: highest 14, low
est —17.
Maximum wind 3 miles an hour
from the N.W.
Sunrise at 5:23 a.m., sunset at
6:51 p.m.
Comparative data:
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 12. lowest —19.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: Highest 38 in
1926. lowest —28 in 1920.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —16 Clear
Point Hope —15 Clear
Kotzebue —16 Clear
Shishmaref —12 Clear
Wales —13 Clear
Gambell 7 Clear
Nome —15 . Clear
Unalakleet 8 Snow
Bethel 7 Clear
McGrath 20 Clear j
Anchorage 30 Partly Cloudy
Fairbanks 13 Clear
NEW ORLEANS, (TP) — Left- !
hander Bill Tompkins is the only
member of the Atlanta baseball
team who likes the cool weather
that has hit the south.
And he’s got reason aplenty.
The young hurler is from Anchor
age, Alaska.
Atlanta manager Dixie Walker
said today that several members
of the team commented on Tomp
kins last night. He didn’t get into {
the exhibition game but during
the workout period, he was show
ing a lot more life than he has
since spring training began.
Walker has used Tompkins in
batting practice He said Tomp
kins has a good form.
“I guess it will take him a
while to get used to southern
weather,” Walker commented. He
added Tompkins will probably be
sent to a lower league for more
seasoning during the 1950 cam
paign.
AIRLINES
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ALASKA AIRLINES
H. R. Forehand was a passen
ger from Anchorage yesterday.
Dinty Moore departed for An
chorage.
Mr. Alexander was a passen
ger for Teller yesterday.
Navv Searches For
Strange Submarine
EUREKA, Calif. (/P)—1The navy
destroyer Colahan prowled the
Pacific today, hunting a mystery
submarine sighted five miles off
northern California. Planes also
were searching.
The navy, after listening with
some skepticism to several recent
reports of unidentified submar
ines in this area, took a more se
rious view this time—a navy pilot
made the report. The only United
States submarine known to be in
West Coast waters was south
bound from San Francisco to San
Diego.
The strange submarine was
seen in the same vicinity where
A1 Chisholm reported Feb. 21 he
saw a submarine he said resem
bled a German model known to
be used by the Russians. Chis
holm had flown previously for
the British Royal Air Force. The
navy said then “Chisholm’s report
cannot be discounted.”
Chisholm, now a private pilot,
was flying offshore when he sight
ed the vessel
Any foreign submarine has the
right to operate outside the three
mile limit.
If one were discovered inside
the three-mile limit, it could be
challenged, under international
law. If the submarine then dived,
instead of answering the chal
lenge, “We should have the right
to follow it,” a navy spokesman
said. He did not elaborate.
Washington Notes
CRIMES
The FBI reports that 1,763,290
serious offenses during 1949, or
an average of a crime every eight
een second of the year. In ary “av
erage day,” 293 persons were kill
ed or assaulted. On that same
“average day,” there were 162
robberies and in excess of 1,100
burglaries; also more than 440
automobiles stolen, in addition to
2,800 other thefts.
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A service especially arranged
for families is planned tonight at
the Federated Church, to be held
at 7:30. The theme will be “Christ
in Our Home."
Hospital INews
Peter Kowchce was admitted to
the hospital.
IN APPRECIATION
I wish to thank all those who
extended kindnesses in the pass
ing and burial of my cousin. Pat
Miller.
Tillie Burdeshaw.
NOTICE
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counting Office will be located in
Room 1 and 2 at the Wallace Ho
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eftective April 1. 1950.
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Saturday, April 1, 1950, at 2:30
p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Your attend
ance requested.
Refreshments will be served.
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Master
WANT ADS
FOR SALE—1946 Dodge lVfe-ton
Stake Body Truck. Body and
running gear in excellent condi
tion. Motor repairable. See at
Nome Motors. Bids will be accept
ed at the Post Exchange Office,
Marks Air Force Base until 12
o’clock Tuesday, April 4, 1950
34-6tc
FOR SALE — One Evening Well
Spent at the April Fool’s Day
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FOR SALEr—Kitchen Table, Dav
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board, Rug, 11’3” x 15”, Rug 9 x
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Gapt. Brown Pleads
Guilty At Navy
Gourl Martial
NORFOLK, Va., (A>)—Capt. Wil
liam D. Brown pleaded guilty yes
terday to charges of negligence
and neglect of duty in the ground
ing of the battleship Missouri.
Brown, who commanded the
Big Mo when she ran aground on
a Chesapeake Bay shoal January
17, pleaded guilty to each of three
charges and four specifications.
I nc action of the former sKip
per of the 45,000-ton battleship
came sohrtly after he was arraign
ed before a general court martial
convened to try him on the charg
es.
Several minutes earlier he had
stood before the court, composed
of four rear admirals and three
captains, and heard the judge ad
vocate read these charges:
(1) “through negligence suffer
ing a vessel of the navy to be
stranded.”
<2* “Through negligence suffer
ing a vessel of the navy to be haz
arded.”
<3> “Neglect of duty.”
Seven specifications had been
drawn by the convening authority
to support the three charges but
three of the specifications were
nolle prossed (will not be prose
cuted», it was announced at the
opening of court today.
Punishment usually imposed
upon an officer convicted of
charges of negligence and neglect
of duty in the rounding of a ship
is reduction in numbers. This
means a lowering of his standing
on the navy’s promotion list. It
usually has a most adverse effect
upon a senior officer in that it
normally prevents his attaining
flag rank.
The 47-year-old officer, who
wah relieved as commanding offi
cer of the Missouri shortly after
the vessel was refloated Feb. 1,
had told a naval court of inquiry
which investigated the grounding
that “I and I alone bear the sole
responsibility" for the accident.
Brown had become skipper of
the nation’s only active battleship
last December. The Missouri was
the first capital ship he had com
manded and the first ship of any
type he had skippered since 1943,
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