Truman Resting
In Florida
KEY WEST, Fla., (/P) — Presi
dent Truman carried out yester
day his promise to relax on his
third Florida vacation.
The biggest news coming out of
his headquarters at the command
ant’s house:
He ate bacon and fried mush for
breakfast after a long night’s
sleep. He “feels fine.” *
Presidential press secretary
Charles G. Ross came to the press
room in the nearby bachelor offi
cers’ quarters at 10 a.m.
“The President,” he said, “had
bacon and fried mush for break
fast about 8 a.m., after getting up
on hour earlier.”
JIM FRYES HOLD
OPEN HOUSE
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Frye held
open house last Tuesday evening
for their friends and to celebrate
the completion of the renovation
of their home.
From a tiny two-room house has
evolved a model compact home
complete with shower, refrigera
tor and every modern convenience
possible and their many friends
were amazed at what had been ac
complished, and intrigued at
what could be done to many small
homes in the community.
,
Germany’s principal oil wells
are at Nienhagen, 18 miles from
Hanover. * 1
German Gals Stick
To Short Skirts
(By Irene Simon)
BERLIN—Skirts are still knee
high in Berlin and show little in
tention of moving down in the
near future. An unofficial Asso
ciated Press poll of Berlin women
show’ they’re either uninformed,
uninterested, or just plain angry
over the long hemline.
“The new hemline,” said Frau
Junge. a typical housewife, “could
have been invented only by peo
ple w’ho aren’t in need.”
“Haven’t those women in the
rich new world any feelings for
us here?” snapped a young w’ife
with two children and a husband
still in prison camp. ‘‘It’s horrible
enough that w’e have to wear such
patched dresses. Now we’ll prob
ably seem more ridiculous because
for lack of materials we can’t fol
low the ‘latest style’.”
Frau Richter, a dressmaker who
has been in the business since
1890, refused to get excited when
shown fashion pictures from
America and Paris. She said they
are typical of postwar trends.
"After the first world war fash
ions went crazy too/' she recalled.
Leading fashion houses in Ber
lin, whose customers are mainly
allied personnel, haven’t yet be
gun the new hemline but all in
tend to show longer dresses at
their November showings.
Herr Gehringer, head of the
city’s most popular fashion house,
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LEAVING FOR THE STATES
FOR WINTER MONTHS
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Nerland
are leaving soon for the midwest
ern part of the States to spend the
winter months with relatives and
friends.
Jack Anderson, operations su
perintendent for the Lomen Com
mercial company here, will leave,
as soon as transportation permits,
for his home in Kingston, Wash.
BILL MALONEY IN HOSPITAL
IN SAN FRANCISCO
Bill Maloney who lived here
with his family prior to the war is
ill in the San Francisco hospital.
said the few German customers
who ask for the new style are fi
ancees of Americans who intend
to go to the States soon.
“And the only American women
interested in the new hemline are
also those who are going back
home soon,” he said. “So far oth
ers have stuck to the old hem
lines.”
The head designer of Horn and
Co., another top dress house,
agreed that the present skirt line
is too short but contended it is im
possible because of shortage of
materials to follow the new style.
Among his allied clientele, he
said, the Russian women are the
keenest followers of the long hem
line. He said:
"Our Russian customers are in
tensely interested in the latest
styles. We're already making long
er skirts for most of them.
“Some American women have
asked for the new style, but the
majornty are still ‘sitting tight’
and waiting for developments. All
our British customers stiqk to the
short skirt, while the French of
course told us about the new style
before we had even heard of it.”
Most of the men interviewed
on the new style refused to com
ment, while those who did com
ment said things which couldn’t |
be printed.
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, December 5, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cloudy tonight
and Saturday with occasional rain
or snow. Occasional strong south
east wind tonight decreasing Sat
urday. Lowest temperature tonight
28, highest temperature Saturday
32.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.08
inch. Total precipitation this
month 0.42 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 30, lowest 28.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 36
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 9:36 a.m., sunset at
2:09 p.m.
Comparative data: temperatures
one year ago today: highest 7, low
est —8.
Extreme 'temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —30 in
1916, highest 36 in 1934.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 6 • Snow
Point Hope 25 Snow
Kotzebue 23 Snow
Shishmaref 24 Partly Cloudy
Wales 28 Cloudy
Gambell 33 Rain
Nome 30 Snow
Unalakleet 31 Cloudy
Bethel 36 Rain
I Training Planned
For Greek Workers
ATHENS, Greece, (Ah — With
hopes of augmenting the nation’s
supply of skilled and semi-skilled
1 workers, the American Mission for
Aid to Greece is collaborating
I with the ministry of national econ
omy and representatives of educa
tional, industrial and labor groups
to establish a vocation educational
program, Dwight G. Griswold,
AMAG chief, says.
Special attention is being given
, to the formation of an emergency
phase to absorb some of the 15,000
excess civil servants slated for re
lease from government jobs be
tween now and the first of the
year, he says.
The program will provide also
for on-the-job training, short-term
courses for part-time workers, and
the rehabilitatioa of general, long
range systems utilizing the few
existing vocational schools as a
base.
As far as possible all windows
in a house should have a similar
appearance from the outside; if
the draperies hang straight, sheer
curtains used with them should
also hang straight.
McGrath 25 Snow
Anchorage 34 Rain
Fairbanks 20 Cloudy
Juneau 39 Rain
Whitehorse 18 Cloudy
Ketchikan 41 Partly Cloudy
Edmonton 30 Clear
San Francisco 54 Partly Cloudy
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