Forecast And
Weather Report;
Nome and Vicinity
Forecast Nome: Continued clou
dy and warm with occasional
snow this afternoon continuing
late tonight. Moderate southeast
erly winds increasing to 25- 30
miles per hour tonight. Lowest
temperature tonight 25, highest
temperature Thursday 30.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation 0.22 inch. (Total
this month 0:57 inch).
Temperatures: highest 30, low
est 5.
Maximum wind 41 miles an
hour from the E.N.E.
Sunrise at 7:42 a.m., sunset at
4:51 p.m.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: highest 10, lowest —16.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907: Highest 36 in
1924, lowest —34 in 1915.
Data for other selected stations
as of 8:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —24 Snow
Point Hope —5 Snow
Kotzebue . 9 Snow
Shishmaref 18 Cloudy
Wales 5 Snow
Gambell 0 Snow
Nome 30 Snow
Unalakleet 15 Snow
Bethel 32 Snow
McGrath 7 Snow
Anchorage 27 Snow
Fairbanks 7 Cloudy
Whitehorse —1 Cloudy
Edmonton 15 Snow
Juneau 34 Cloudy
Ketchikan 37 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 40 Partly Cloudy
ARSONIST PLEADS GUILTY
TO $4,500,000 FIRE
LANSING, Mich. </P)—Richard
C. Shay, the ’teen-aged father
who set the $4,500,000 state office
building fire Feb. 8, pleaded guilty
to arson Monday.
Shay, 19, former state highway
department employee, faces a pos
sible maximum prison term of ten
years.
Married and father of a seven
month-old daughter, Shay said he
set the fire in hopes of escaping
the army draft by acquiring a
criminal record. He said he meant
to start only a small blaze.
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
There were no inbound passen
gers on Pan American today. De
parting were B. P. Gerard' for
Fairbanks, Nick Simeon and Mr.
and Mrs. Jim McLean for Seattle.
Shishraref
Postmaster Has
Narrow Escape
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and ropes and they were pulled
back to the solid ice while he pad
died himself back.
When Verne tried the same
method of “iceboating,” it is re
ported that he stepped to a close
to the edge of his “boat”, which
capsized, throwing him into the
water.
Fortunately he was able to
grasp his seal hook before he went
under. His companions quickly
pulled him to the surface on the
thin ice which gave way under his
weight, and he went down the sec
ond time. Still clinging to his hook
and kicking his feet he came to
the surface again in the freezing
water, but found himself under
the fresh ice which he was able to
break and keep breathing as his
friends pulled him to shore.
His companions quickly strip
ped him of his freezing clothing
and each gave him part of theirs.
He thanks his lucky stars that his
rope was new and strong. All ex
cept Arthur are members of the
National Guard unit at Shish
maref.
EASTERN STARS OBSERVE
FRIENDSHIP NIGHT
Friendship Night was observed
last Monday at the Order of East
ern Star meeting with visiting
Stars being paid a special tribute
by the Worthy Matron, Eda
Dewey.
Visitors who have been in at
tendance here have their home
chapters in interesting places all
cfver the States. They were pre
sented with individual gifts.
Officers were also surprised by
the Worthy Matron with artistic
nosegays which she had made.
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“Threat,” Not
Troops, Will Deter
Russia From War
(By Oliver W. De Wolf)
WASHINGTON, (A*)—L»t Gen.
Curtis E. Le May, who commands
the U. S. fleet of long-range atom
bomb planes, sadi today their
threat, rathe* than any ground
forces in Europe probably will de
ter Russia from starting a general
war in the next two or three
years.
But Le May said he favors the
administration’s plans to send U.
S. army troops to serve in a com
bined European defense force.
Specifically, he opposed at Sen
ator hearings a resolution by Sen
ator Wherry (R.-Neb.) which
would declare the Senate opposed
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to sending any troops without pri
or Congressional approval.
Le May explained he did not
think the hands of the military
should be tied by Congress.
Under such restriction, he said
“I would be handicapped very
much in where I could place my
wings and groups after war start
ed.”
Le May, head of the Strategic
Air Command, testified at Senator
Wherry’s request at Senate hear
ings on the troops-to-Europe issue.
The hearings are being held by
the Senate foreign relations and
armed services committees. *
Le May called his big bombers
the “only effective weapon” this
Govt. Pegs Sale
Price of New Cars
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WASHINGTON, The gov
ernment today banned the sale of
new cars at inflated prices in the
used car market and set dollars
and-cents ceiling prices on all
used cars.*
The action was announced by
the office of price stabilization.
The new regulations are effective
March 2.
Bruce Morns, chief of the agen
cy’s automobile pricing division,
said the move was designed to
halt a “widespread” flow of new1
cars into the used car market and
to prevent used cars from selling
above new car prices.
( Both practices occurred during
the last war.
1 The price schedule of used cars,
under the ceiling, will be based on
prices listed in guide books em
j ployed by used car dealers as a
yardstick of values.
OPS listed the five standard
books used in this connection and
'said that they will be recognized
as the official source o*f dollars
and-cents prices for used automo
biles.
country now has for dealing with
Russia in event of war. When
Wherry asked if they could knock
out Russia by long-range bom
bardment, the general replied: “I
don’t know. That’s my job to try
and achieve that end.”
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WASHINGTON, <ff)—The U. &
Board on Geographic Names has
rejected “Bilgewater” and “The
Pub” as names lor a creek and a
hill in Alaska.
In place of Bilgewater, the
board approved Bilge Creek for
•the identification at a stream in
Imuruk Lake area of the'Seward
Peninsula, north of Nome.
The geological survey had sug
gested Bilge as more acceptable
than the longer name, by which
the creek has been/ identified in
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the past
Maps of the western Aleutians
•have listed a 585-foot hill on Sem
isoponchnoi Island, west of Center
Lake, as The Pub.
The board ruled that this eleva
tion be'known henceforth as Lake
shone Cone.
The Board also reluctantly ap
proved “Ragged Top” as the name
of another peak on Semisopochnoi
Island. At an earlier meeting the
unit deferred action on the peak’s
name. “Ragged Top” finally was
approved, members explained,
only because no satisfactory sub
stitute was available.
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FUR RENDEZVOUS EXCURSIONS
NOME TO ANCHORAGE
Round Trip *80.00 T“
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NOME TO FAIRBANKS via Anchorage—
Round Trip $122.50 Plu*T#x
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