AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
On Wednesday Peter F. Follett
was taken to Kotzebue, and Ter
rence Driggs was returned to Nome 1
from Kotzebue.
Mr. and Hrs. T. C. Buchanan 1
and children, Robert Vail, Guy [
Moyer, June Kingsbury and Edith
Kaigek were taken to Fairbanks.
John Auliye was a passenger to i
Shaktoolik from Unalakleet.
Passengers from Ungalik to j
Shaktoolik were Frank Pitmatalik,
Silas Sockpealik, Harry Sookiayak,
Johnson Sagoonik, Fred e r i c k
Asicksik, and Ralph Segock, and
to Nome were Wm. T. Nelson and j
Raymond Haering.
Thursday, David Hopkins and
David Seitz were passengers from
Rainbow Camp to Nome.
Incoming passengers on the
Douglas from Fairbanks were Miss
Helen Cass, Mrs. A. Johnson, i
Bert Galbraith, and from Kotze
bue, William Laws, John Cross,
and Peter Follett. Passengers
Fairbanks to Kotzebue was Harry
Baldwin.
On the return flight William
Laws, John Cross, R. B. Webb,
Mrs. E. H. Mahan and Bessie Land
were taken to Kotzebue and M. T.
Furlong to Fairbanks.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Incoming passengers today were
Jerry Noonan, Fred Brechen, Le
land Smith, Tony Rahoe, H. John
son, E. A. Williams, Mrs. Donald
Lyle, Thomas Sours, Henry O’
Rock, Geo. Thompson, Frank
Heal, J. W. Perron.
Departing on the return plane
were Lester Bronson, Mr. C. Mont
Joy.
Cyril Seeds has gone to Bethel
and Akulerak with Mr. Easley and
Mr. Owen to Aniak. He is flying
children to Bethel.
TETERBORO. N. J. (/P) — Doris
Duke Rubirosa’s “flying apart
ment” is a pile of wreckage in a
swamp.
The plush plane, with elaborate
upholstering and a complete kitch
en, was wrecked yesterday in a
crash landing near Teterboro air
port. The tobacco heiress was not
aboard, and the crewmen were un
hurt.
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Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
"ommerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, September 10, 1948
Forecast Nome: Fair and cool
tonight and Saturday. Lowest tem
perature tonight 26, highest tem
perature Saturday 42.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitaion trace. (Total this
month 0.21 inches).
Temperatures: highnest 52, low
est 27.
Maximum wind 24 miles an
hour from the north.
Sunrise at 5:10 a.m., sunset at
6:46 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
50, lowest 36.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Highest 65 in 1929,
lowest 24 in 1936.
Data for other stations as of 7:00
a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 23 Cloudy
Point Hope 38 Partly Cloudy
Kotzebue 36 Clear
Shishmaref 33 Clear
Wales 39 Clear
Gambell 42 Partly Cloudy
Nome 31 Clear
Unalakleet 41 Cloudy
Bethel 42 Partly Cloudy
McGrath 45 Rain
Anchorage 51 Cloudy
Fairbanks 48 ^ain
Whitehorse 47 Partly Cloudy
Juneau 51 Rain
Ketchikan 55 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 70 Clear
San Francisco 59 Clear
WASHINGTON, (JP)—A Federal
grand jury today indicted Mildred
Elizabeth Gillars—“Axis Sally" of
the Nazi radio—on charges of
treason. '
The 47-year-old Portland, Me.,
native is charged with making
wartime propaganda broadcasts
for the Germans.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Cutting, An
chorage. Helen Cass, Fairbanks.
Allen and Richard Lee, Solomon.
P. F. Follette, Pittsfield, Mass.
W ALLACE LIQUOR STORE
Phone Ma. 55 - For finest Liquors
115,000 Idle From
Many Strikes
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les area was the hardest hit in sup- |
plies of gasoline but a million gal
I Ions was to be sent from Okla
homa.
i In New York, leaders of strik
j ing local 807 of the AFL interna- 1
tional brotherhood of teamsters
called a union membership meet-1
ing this afternoon to decide whe
ther to reduce their wage demands ,
I from 25 cents to 17 Vi cents an I
hour.
The truckers quit work 10 days
ago after rejecting an employer of
fer of a 15 cents an hour pay hike.
About 1,000 s‘rikers at a meeting
i yesterday, voted not to propose the i
lower wage demands,
j About 1,000 of the 4,300 New
Jersey truckers who joined in the
| strike five days ago were expected
to return to work today. Members
of local 478 in Newark last night
ratified agreements with 16 inde-1
pendent trucking concorns.
I The CIO longshoremen union
members voted on whether to have I
their leaders sign non-communist
affidavits and accept the final
wage offer by the west coast em
ployers. The union announced the
vote at Seattle was 1,468 to 19
against its leaders signing the af
fidavits. The strikers at Seattle
also voted 1,467 to 11 against ac-!
cepting the employers’ last offer—a
pay raise of 10 cents an hour. The
union had demanded a hike of 15
cents an hour.
Union president Harry Bridges
said he would offer to resume ne
gotiations after votes in the coast
wise union were counted. The
strike, now in its ninth day, has
tied up 160 ships from Puget
Sound to San Diego.
The 50,000 auto workers were
^nade idle in Detroit after a strike
by 170 independent plant guards
at the Briggs Manufacturing com
pany. They included 25,000 Briggs
workers, 19.000 at Chrysler Corp.
plant and 6,000 at Packard. The
guards struck in support of de
mands for 15 minutes paid prepar
atory time.
NOTICE
All Boy Scouts will leave the
Scout Hut at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, to
visit the dredge. Previously ar
rangements had been for the
morning.
Scoutmaster Paul Pew.
NOTICE
BADMINTON
Badminton practice will begin
Tuesday night at 7:'30 p.m. in the
Nome Hi-school Gym. All are in
, vited to participate.
Gordon Osborne, Chm.
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Heat Wave Starts
N. W. Forest Fire
A late-summer heat wave parch
ed northwest residents today, kin
dled at least one forest fire and
dried other wooded areas to the
danger point.
Forest service crews are fighting
a blaze which is reported out of
contool in 100 acres of the Canoe
Creek area at Lake Quinault,
Wash. In Oregon, no major fires
were reported, although timber
land was tinder dry.
PETITION FOR CHANGE OF
NAME GRANTED
William Richard Ganoe petition
for change of name was granted
this morning in the U. S. District
Court. The name now is Rex
Richard West. West is a GI sta
tioned at the Marks Air Force
base.
LABOR HEAD VISITS
NOME AREA
Leonard E. Evans, U. S. Depart
ment of Labor represntative, who
has been in Nome for the past
week, left for his Juneau office to
day on the Pan American plane.
Mr. Evans has been assisting
Nome merchants in matters rela
tive to reports on employees and
payrolls, and labor problems.
Union Endorses
Dewey Candidacy
ALBANY, N. Y. i/P) - Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey yesterday won
the endorsement of the executive
board of a major AFL union in his
campaign for the Presidency.
The board of the building serv
ice employees international union,
representing a claimed 175,000
members, pledged its support to
the Republican nominee.
The action of the group was an
nounced by William L. McFet
ridge of Chicago, general president
of the union, after he and other
officers had conferred here with
Dewey.
The step represented the first
outright endorsement of Dewey by
a major union.
COL. T. J. TULLY HERE
ON QUICK SURVEY
Col. T. J. Tully, commanding of
ficer of the Alaska Communication
System arrived in Nome on the
Pan American plane today on a
quick survey of the system’s farth
est northwest communication cen
ter. Lt. Stanley R. Morgan, com
canding officer of the local station,
conducted the tour of inspection.
Col. Tully has been in charge of
the ACS for the past two years.
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