AIRLINES
ALASKA AIRLINES
Homer Rugwell arrived from
Anchorage Wednesday on the
Alaska Airlines.
Passengers leaving for Anchor
age on the return flight were Les
Greening, J. E. Griffin, Albert
Mode, Merlin Huffaker.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Lydia Berry was a passenger to
Kotzebue on Wednesday.
A flight from Fairbanks yester
day brought in a load of freight
and left via Kotzebue with a load
of theater chairs for the Archie
Fergusan show house.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
E. Pearson, E. Frederick, An-,
chorage. Waive Gifford, E. Sulli
van and H. Radley, Fairbanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon E. Jacob
son of the C.A.A., are making
their home in the A.N.S. building
on 1st Ave. Mrs. Jacobson the for
mer Miss “Ole” Olson of the May
nard Hospital surprised her
friends, recently when her wed
ding was announced from the
MR. AND MRS. VERNON E.
JACOBSON WITH C.A.A. HERE
States. They returned to Nome
last week.
Poland Mixes Barter'
With Rationing
WARSAW, {i-P) — The Polish
government is distributing cpal
and building materials to peasants
to encourage them to sell grain
supplies to government agencies.
The plan for distributing goods
in the next several months in
cludes 100,000 tons of coal 40 tons
of leather, several thousand tons
of cement, and $30,000,000 worth
of manufactured textiles monthly.
The coal premium has been set
at 200 pounds of coal for the sale
of each 200 pounds of grains to
the state.
Canada Reimposes
Meal And Butter
Price Controls
(By Robert Bunnelle)
OTTAWA, (/P)—Canadian con
sumers beset by steadily soaring
living costs, looked for at least
partial relief today in the govern-1
ment’s reimposition last night of
price controls on meat and butter
In addition, the government
said it will ask Parliament to ex
tend rent controls until March ?1,
1949.
Controls on meat and butter
were lifted last fall, and since that
time prices have climbed, accom
panied by the angry portests of
consumers.
In Ottawa, butter is cm ently
selling foi 7.} cents a pound whole
sale, and residents who have *a
fancy for good beefsteak find it
priced a* dO tc 65 cents.
(Bidter cosfs consume s around
95 cents a pound in New York
City and steak costs then from 55
to 90 certs a pound>.
Fin?r:e minister Doug'is Ab
bott. who announced the re-impo
sition of controls on the two prime
staples last night, said a ceiling
price would be fixed on butter in
a day or two, pegged on i whole
salt price per pound in Montreal
of 67 cents. It will take aooui two
weeks to evolve a meat ceiling, he
sn:d
AMhough Abbott said meat ceil
ings will mean Canolian wholesale
anr! retail prices for por1': will re
considerably above these o! a
month ago, they will be less than
many prices reported during the
past fortnight. Beef, lamb and veal
prices will be fixed at prices
“moderately above” ceilings abol
ished last October.
Bacon, beef and other prices
tilted sharply upward Jan. 2 when
Canada concluded new food con
tracts with Great Britain at in
creases of seven to 22 per cent.
Bricker Urges •
Rent Increases
WASHINGTON, (/P> — Senator
Bricker (R.-Ohio) urged tday that
Congress open the way for land
lords to increase rents of millians
of tenants who have failed to sign
leases permitting “voluntary”
hikes of up to 15 per cent.
At the same time, Senator Myers
tD.-Pa.t said he is going to “fight
like hell” to strengthen rent con
trols in line with President Tru
man's request in his anti-inflaiton
program.
The present rent control law is
:*heduled to expire February 29.
A Senate banking subcommittee
starts hearings tomorrow on legis
lation to extend it.
Under the existing law, land
lords—up to the start of this year
—could raise rents by as much as
15 per cent in cases where tenants
agreed to an increase in exchange
for a lease running through 1948.
Several Injured As
Train Is Derailed
, CROSS CITY, Fla. (/P) — The
Southland, fast Chicago-to-Tampa
passenger train, was derailed in
an isolated sector north of here
today and several persons were
reported injured.
Seven cars of the southbound
Atlantic Coast line train left the
rails and five others were partial
ly derailed in the accident, which
occurred around 7 a.m., 11 miles
north of here.
J. L. Naylor, ACL ticket agent
at Cross City, said the engineer of
the train came here immediately
afterward to report the wreck and
related that several passengers
were hurt. Extent of their injur
ies was not known immediately.
All available ambulances in this
section were started for the scene,
which lies in a remote sector a
few miles from the Gulf coast.
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WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
AIRPLANE
We Service the Seward Peninsula, Fairbanks,
And Have Connections
To and From The States
COME IN AND SEE US ABOUT OUR LOW RATES
AND OUR CONVENIENT SCHEDULES
Income Tax Cut
Will Be Vetoed
--
WASHINGTON, —Secre
tary of the treasury Snyder today
virtually promised the Republican
controlled Congress that President
Truman will veto any attempt to
reduce income taxes without
boosting other federal revenues.
He laid what looked like an ad
ministration ultimatum before the
House ways and means committee,
whose GOP majority is bent in
passing a tax-cutting measure
quickly. It went like this:
“The revenue loss resulting
from any tax adjustments should
be offset by upward revisions in
other taxes. There must be no re
duction in aggregate revenue.”
Snyder said the President’s own
plan of a $40 income tax cut for
each taxpayer and dependent,
matched by a new $3,200,000,000
bit of corporation prewar aver
age, would fill the bill.
But he declared a measure by
chairman Knutson (R.-Minn.> oi'
the ways and means committee, to
cut income taxes without mak'ng
up vhe loss elsewhere, would wipe
out part of this year’s budget sur
plus and create a $2,000,000,000
deficit in the 1949 fiscal period
starting July 1.
U. N. Will Send
Military Force
Into Palestine
(By Larry Hauck)
LAKE SUCCESS (JP)—A United
Nations delegate said today he had
been informed the security coun
cil will act on providing an inter
national military force in Pales
tine before a U. N. commission
goes into the Holy Land to enforce
partition.
This delegate—a member of the
Palestine commission — said he
had been advised that the council
would act in the near future, per
haps without waiting for a specific
appeal from the five-nation com
mission.
The delegate declined to permit
use of his name or to disclose his
source but said the information
came from high quarters.
AN APPEAL
FOR HELP
Many letters have been eceived
from refugees in Europe and poor
people of the Philipp'nes, asking
for clothing. ■ Any one having ex
tra clothes or used shoe- who care
1 to contribute them to these needy
people would render a real service.
Rev. Fred Wagner will pick them
up at the Nugget Office for mail
ing. Phone calls may be left at the
Nugget Office also for pick-up of
good used clothing.
TO THE PUBLIC:
There is being circulated a pe
tition protesting the City Coun
cil's action in granting Carl Lomen
SLOGO to go back to Washington,
D. C.
As a member of the Council I
did not approve nor did I vote in
favor of this expenditure in view
of the City's dire financial situa
tion. $1,000 represnts the tax on
$80,000.00 of assessed property.
Mr. Lomen will unquestionably
be back in Washington anyway
and if his interest in Nome's wel
fare does not warrant assisting in
the breakwater project, then I sin
cerely believe we could work to
much better advantage by allow
ing Delegate Bob Bartlett to repre
sent us.
C. DEWEY ANDERSON
• (Paid Advertisement)
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinitj
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, o
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, January 16, 1947
Forecast Nome: Cloudy witl
snow or rain tonight and Satur
day. Continued mild temperatur
with gentle to moderate sout:
wind increasing and becomin
fresh to strong easterly Saturdaj
Lowest temperature tonight 21
Tighest temperature Saturday 3
Nome data as of 7:30-a.m. toda>
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.2
inch. Total precipitation thi
month 0.34 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours
highest 31, lowest 22.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 3
miles per hour from the E.S.E.
Sunrise at 9:26 a.m., sunset a
2:52 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highes
—14, lowest —24.
Extreme temperatures on thi
day since 1907: Lowest —33 i
1934, highest 33 in 1922.
Data for other selected station
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Barrow —13 Sno\
Point Hope 19 Sno\
Kotzebue 20 Sno\
Shishmaref 21 Clea
Wales 5 Sno\
Gambcll 8 Sno\
Nome 31 Sno"»
Unalakleet 35 Cloud
Bethel 30 Claud
McGrath 0 Cloud
Anchorage 27 Partly Cloud
Fairbanks 8 Cloud
Juneau 38 Cloud
Whitehorse 30 Cloud
Ketchikan 37 Cloud
Edmonton 8 Cloud
Seattle 33 Cloud
San Francisco 59 Clea
Old “Gold Room”
Catches Fire
SEATTLE, (A*) — A fire brok
out Wednesday morning in the ol
“Gold Room” of the Northern ho
tel, the place where the Klondik
gold rush sourdough’s often store
their gold in Seattle.
The room is in the basement o
the hotel on 1st ave. S., and rx>v
is being used by the Jericho mis
sion.
Battalion fire chief J. A. Sprag
ner said the fire was caused b;
some sulphur, spilled while E<
Wellwanger, of the mission, wa
attempting to do some fumigating
The room, specifically designer
during the gold rush days to stor
the fortunes of the sourdough
coming through Seattle, is of soli<
brick and cement constructioi
with a heavy metal door, Chie
Spranger said.
ROTARY CLUB HELD
MEETING THURSDAY
The Rotary Club held its regu
lar noon luncheon at the Pionee
Hall yesterday and welcome
Keith Hedreen as a new member
C huck O’Leary was guest speak
er and told of his experiences 01
the rescue trip he made to Ser
pentine for the army before the;
withdrew him and replaced hir
with Jim Gale.
Sgt. Sid Black of the ACS, wh
is leaving soon was also a gues
■ The luncheon was prepared b
Mrs. Jack Reed.
If all the words in the lates
Encyclopaedia Britannica wer
printed end to end on ticker tap*
it would make 160 miles of read
ing material.