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LEGAL advertisement
IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT,
SECOND DIVISION, ALASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES
TATE OF EMILE LAURIN, De
ceased.
No. 756
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
l NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that by Order of the Probate Court
aforesaid, G. R. Jackson, the un
dersigned, has been appointed Ad
ministrator With Will Annexed, of
Simulated Arctic
Battle Rages
Near Fairbanks
(By Clark Beach)
With Task Force Frigid, FAIR
BANKS, <Delayed' —The Ameri
can Arctic got its baptism of fire
today.
The primordial silence of the
frozen tundra was split by the
thunder of artillery fire. Tanks
rumbled across the ice and snow,
creating an expected ice fog which
veiled the advance.
Soldiers of the army ground
forces charged heavily across the
white, bitter wasteland, their rif
les crackling and humming in the
stillness. Pyrotehcnics flashed gar
ishly in the blue gray twilight.
It was a mock battle fought by
Task Force Frigid, the first such
maneuvers ever held in a northern
Alaska winter, according to staff
officers, they said it showed how
Alaska could be defended if at
tacked.
The party of touring newsmen
and photographers set out in wea
sels and jeeps before dawn to wit
ness this unique test of military
equipment and tactics. It was 47
degrees below zero. A dismal icc
log made it impossible to see mo’-c
than one hundred yards at sunrise
The dim headlights of the caravan
and the thick steam of our breaths
the estate of Emile Laurin, de
ceased.
Ail persons having claims
against said estate should present
them with proper vouchers at
tached within six <6> months from
the date of this notice to the un
dersigned Administrator at Nome,
Alaska.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, this 3rd
day of January, 1947.
G. R. JACKSON,
Administrator With Will Annexed
C. C. TANNER,
Attorney for Administrator.
Publish January 6, 13, 20, 27, 1947.
WALLACE TAXI
NOME, ALASKA Phone RED 55
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME ALASKA
DON’T!
Delay having those Clothes
Cleaned. Phone Main 113 and let
ns pick them up.
For prompt cleaning and delivery
MODERN CLEANERS
PAUL A. MANDEVILLE
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were about all we could see.
We drove for 23 miles across the'
first road ever built in this section
of the tundra, crushed by tanks
and bulldozer: through the spruce
and birch, across the congealed j
tangle of mors and roots, which
thaws in the summer for only a i
few feet. Below that the ice neve
melts.
We crossed the ice bridge over
the Tanana'River, wound south be
tween the snow drifts and low’ for
est growth 10 the artillery em
placement. Howitzers of 75 an I
105 millimeter blasted the imag i
ary enemy, whose advance on
Fairbanks we were opposing.
The projectiles made a strange !
prolonged whizzing sound, caused
by the metal plowing through
masses of ice particles in the air.
These ice particles make it nece;
■ sary to set the range at 7700 yard:
to hit a target only 6800 yards
1 away.
That’s one of the things the ord
nance men have learned up here.
They’ve learned too how much to
allow for the difference in the force
of the explosion when the gun
powder is frigid, compared to
warm powder. They’ve learned
that the temperature is 22 degrees
warmer 3000 feet above the earth
than at ground level, and this ne
cessitates mother change in range
calculation.
The party moved to a butte over
looking the flat, bleak battlefield,
where two artillery observers have
been encamped in a tent for a
month, reporting on the effect of
.artillery fire. The two enlisted
youngsters seemed very glad to
have company.
The sun was a ghastly white
flare, curving in a low arc across
the southern sky, setting at 3 p m.
We who were on the butte learned
of the ferociousness of Arctic cold,
how it claws at exposed flesh.
Photographers could not onerate
their cameras in thick gloves. If
their hands were bared even for a
few minutes they were frost bit
tern The:r lenses iced, their shut
ters froze.
Porwtprs who tried to take
notes with bare hand'; felt in five
minutes as if thev had been fish
jn<r fo*> somethin" thev had lost in
slushv ice water. Mufflers of hand
kerchiefs had to be kent over the
face tn warm the breath and keep
the shin from freezing.
A r'-47 plane streaked in close
to hillton. drooned one end of
a telenbone line bv narachute,
then sned nwav at 120 mi'es ner
hour to lav six miles of line :n a
few minutes. The wire gave tele
phone communication between the
observation station and the com
mand post.
"taro artilicrv fire from 7*> 00,
and 70 millimeter Puns. Blasts
fmm 00 a"rl R1 m’llimeter mor
tars. A column of tanks nlowed
across fv,0 vallcv, and the foot soi
di°rs moved in.
Tf woe a small maneuvo- in
volvin'* onlv a comnanv of infan-J
t"v *> v»o^tofv of fioid artillprv. and
a comnanv of tanks. But it was!
sufficient to tec^t emiinment and
men w**?ch is the task force’s r,nr.
•
a itovptber Ron men partici
pated.
As the firing ceases, a half track j
and a weasel rolled down into the!
valloV and radioed the position of
wounded men. Then a hel:cf'nter
dinned to earth and evacuated
them before the deadly cold
brought death.
With late afternoon darkness,
there was a lull in the mock strug
gles.
Those who saw it honed they
would never have to witness such
a battle fought in earnest.
CONVERTED UNIFORM — s/ic Elizabeth Hall
of Rochester, N. Y., models the regular SPAR uniform (left) and
shows (right) how it may be converted for civilian wear in a
design by Sl/C Nancy Laraway of New Rochelle, N. Y.
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