AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Pilot Whaley came in from
Kotzebue last Friday, flying a load
of express from Shishmaref.
Dave Bronaugh made a trip
Saturday to Candle, Ungalik and
Council, bringing L. T. Tingham
from Council and Charlie Ander
son from Ungalik.
Saturday Harry Nelson and Jed
Fowler were round trip passen
gers to Davidson’s landing.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Departing Thursday were Mr.
and Mrs. V. Richmond, Jr., Mr.
Soper, O. B. Van Sickle, Mr.
Thompson, Erick Thompson, Mrs.
John Rock.
Pilot Wood took Mr. Guzy to
Moses Point on Friday.
Passengers arriving on the
flight Friday were: Mr. Jacobsen,
Mr. Horning.
John Lewis was a passenger to
Anchorage Sunday.
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AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
George Eckert, M. L. Marlin, j
Bremerton. George Horning, W. i
J. Cole, A. J. Kinsman, Les Green- j
m g, Anchorage. L. Tinkman,
Council.
Ortiz Retains
Bantam Title
HONOLULU, (/P)—Manuel Or
tiz, El Centro, Calif., retained his
world’s bantam weight champion
ship Saturday night with a 15
round decision over Hawaii’s gol
den boy, David Hui Kong Young
I of Honolulu.
Ortiz weighed 118, Young 116%.
Ortiz came out for the 14th af
ter a ten-minute intermission
called after he protested he could!
I not continue because of a low j
blow that sent him to the canvas j
as the bell ended the 13th round.,
Ortiz, manager, Tommy Far
mer, said Young’s hard left hit
i Ortiz in the groin, but ringsiders
| said it appeared to land in the
; champion’s stomach.
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Washington May
Go Underground
WASHINGTON, (£*)—An army
expert on atomic age weapons de
clared today that Washington
should start “right now” to put its
vital units of government under
? *ound to shield them from pos
sible a-bomb attack.
Lt. Col. David B. Parker, who
has been assigned from the engin
eer corps to the secret “armed
forces special weapons project,”
expressed this opinion in an arti
cle written for the unofficial serv
ice publication, the Coast Artill
ery Journal.
Parker, illustrating his article
with maps, discussed atomic at
tack methods by which he said
the capital could be destroyed,
along with plans for specially con
structed, blast-resistant structures
of fantastic design. He wrote, too,
of abandoning the city as a capi
tal and dispersing the government
over a wide area.
“Can we defend Washington
against an atomic bomb attack?”
he asked. “Well, if you are a
Washingtonian and you want to be
sure to survive a forthcoming at
tack, your best plan is to buy a
one-way ticket to the west coast.”
The officer suggested three
types of attack — (a) airburst
bombs: <b) underwater blasts set
off in the Potomac and Anacostia
rivers to spread radioactive con
tamination over the city and fc) a
“silent” atomic attack, in which
a bomb might be smuggled in by
saboteurs, or in which radioactiv
ity could be spread “over our
land, buildings and supplies by
some means other than a tremen
dous bomb blast.”
In the latter connection, he said
a “constantly alerted organization
must be ready to detect the invisi
ble death of radioactivity.
Parker said reasonable complete
protection for the capital would
involve reconstructing virtually
i everything in the city. He ven
: tured no opinion as to the cost of
; such a project, except to comment
! that the estimate of the present
| value of all public structures in
i Washington “is a mere matter of
$1,500,000,000.”
There are about 63 million in
, surance policy holders in the
United States.
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, June 2, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cloudy tonight
with occasional light rain. Partly
cloudy Tuesday and warmer.
Lowest temperature tonight 42.
Highest temperature Tuesday 55.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.17
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.17 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 55, lowest 41.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 30
miles per hour from the East.
Sunrise at 1:46 a.m., sunset at
10:14 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
41, lowest 33.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest 20 in 1931,
highest 65 in 1940.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.*m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 22 Cloudy
Point Hope 43 C’oudv
Kotzebue 43 Cloudy
Shishmaref 40 • Cloudy
Wales 36 Rain
Gambell 37 Partly Cloudy
Nome 41 Rain
Bethel 47 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 43 Rain
Anchorage 51 Cloudy
Bairbanks 44 Cloudy
Juneau 55 Clear
Whitehorse 53 Partly Cloudy
! Ketchikan 65 Partly Cloudy
Britain Presents
Withdrawal Plans' •
NEW DELHI, (£*) — Britain’s
plan for withdrawal from India
after a century and a half was
placed before seven Indian lead
ers by Viceroy Lord Mountbatten
today as heavily armed troops and
police stood by to prevent new
outbreaks of communal violence in
this tense capital.
Despite fears that the confer
ence might be the signal for fresh
demonstrations by this teeming
country’s widely divided political
and religious faiths, no incidents
have been reported here up to
mid-day when the smiling but
tight-lipped Indian leaders emerg
ed from the vice regal palace.
None of the Indian conferees—
who included representatives of
the predominantly Hindu Con
gress party, the Moslem League
and the Sikhs—gave any indica
tion of the nature of the plan pre
sented to them or of their reac
tions to it.
However, it was generally con
ceded that Mountabtten made a
final appeal for adoption of the
British cabinet mission plan for a
United India. The alternative, to
which the British were reported
reluctantly ready to agree, was
partition of India into Hindustan
and an independent Moslem state
of Pakistan.
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States government securities,
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Seattle 64 Cloudy
San Francisco 66 Clear
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