THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
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W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER..Editors
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at the postoffice at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Monday, May 27, 1946
“WE LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS BUT.
(O.P.A. Messenger)
A “most courteous but emphatic no” was the reply
of Nome’s four dealers in that golden commodity, but
ter - when Fairbanks made overtures to them for
any surplus they could spare.
Nome’s “good neighbor policy” has to be tempered
with the fact that their supply, which may look sur
plus to towns where freight shipments are more fre
quent, has to carry them through to boat time again.
And - if the first boat doesn’t get into the Bering Sea
on schedule, Nome and also Kotzebue region to the
north can run low and out of butter too.
According to Nome clerk, Miss Ora Dee Clark’s
latest narrative report - “We were sorry to be so
unneighborly and unaccomodating to Fairbanks, but
we like butter too . . . and have just enough for sched
uled use.”
Now the St. Lawrence Island situation is something
else yet again - as they recently caught a “sixteen
foot jawed” whale at Gambell (the nor-westerly tip
of the island) so have the eleaginous situation well
under control. (Ed. Note: Thanks just the same,
but we’ll take the bovine variety)
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ROBOT WEATHER BUREAU
¥EROME ROTHSTEIN of Belmar, N. J., won patent
No. 2,389,935 on a device which brings the electron
ics into the age-old business of forecasting.
Developed under government supervision, his in
vention is a microphonic electron tube, highly sensetive
to changes in heat or pressure. The tube may be
calibrated to indicate static pressure, and used as a
barometer.
Because air pressure varies with altitude above the
earth, it may be used as an altimeter. Reinforced and
made rigid, the tube may be used as a piezometer.
Properly calibrated, it can be installed on submar
ines to give precise readings of depth, since water
pressure varies directly with depth.
The tube will also measure and record temperature,
measure wind velocity through dynamic pressure,
record air speed and water flow, register pressure
changes in a wind tunnel and measure minute changes
in the stress of metals.
The robot device that does all this is neither a large
nor an impressive looking affair. The patent may be
used by or for the Government without payment of
royalties. (The New York Times)
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WORLD WAR III • GERM WAR
DD GERMS to the atomic bomb, rockets and other
new weapons that can be expected to be used in
in any future wars, Watson Davis advises in Science
Service.
The War Department has released a report on Amer
ica’s extensive preparations to combat and undertake
biological warfare. These researches undertaken by
nearly 4,000 scientists, Army and Navy personnel, in
four war laboratories in Maryland, Mississippi, Utah
and Indiana, were “top secret” even after V-J day.
Biological warfare was not used by the United States.
While intelligence reports after the Japanese occupa
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tion showed that the Japanese army fostered offen
sive developments in this kind of warfare from 1936
into 1945, the report states there is no evidence that
the enemy ever resorted to this means of warfare.
The report declares, however, that biological warfare
was used in World War I, and that “there is incontro
vertible evidence that in 1915 German agents inocu
lated horses and cattle leaving the United States ports
for shipment to the Allies with disease-producing bac
teria.”
Only 60 cases of proven infection caused by accid
ental exposure to virulent biological warfare agents
were reported during researches and all recovered
or are recovering.
Much information of great and lasting value for hu
man welfare was obtained, the report claims. Unique
facilities were established for research and experi
mentation on pathogenic agents on a scale never be
fore possible.
In organizing the world for peace, the report de
clares, “the potentialities of biological warfare cannot
be safely ignored.”
“Unlike the development of the atomic bomb and
other secret weapons during the war,” the report
warns, “the development of agents for biological war
fare is possible in many countries, large and small,
without vast expenditures of money or the construc
tion of huge production^ facilities. It is clear that the
development of biological warfare could very well pro
ceed in many countries under the guise of legitimate
medical or bacteriological research.”
LEWIS GROWLS AT GOVERN
MENT ACTS
By MAX HALL
(For Jack Stinnett*
^/"ASHINGTON—John L. Lewis
wants the government to stay
out of the way of corporations as
well as labor unions.
He is attacking the government
for holding down prices, He
frowns on the nationalization of
coal mines, as planned in Eng
land.
In a recent appearance before
the House labor committee, Lewis
boomed:
“Let the politicians stand on
their own feet. Let the indus
trialists stand on their own feet.
And let’s have a free America
for a time.
The president of the United
Mine Workers was testifying
against President Truman’s bill
which would make major strikes
unlawful until after a fact-find
ing board has studied the dispute.
• • •
JT WAS one of Lewis’ most col
orful appearances on Capitol
Hill.
He growled, rumbled, quoted
Confucius, and talked back to the
congressmen in the best Lewis
manner. Whenever Lewis comes
before a congressional committee,
there is sure to be standing room
only.
Not many congressmen are
willing to tangle with Lewis in a
word battle. He is a tough man to
argue with. His enemies wouldn’t
deny it. He has a formidable,
frowning, bushy, fleshy, terrify
ing exterior. He is supremely
j sure of himself and doesn’t falter
: or grope for words. His sarcasm
! and roughness are disconcerting.
He thinks nothing of barking “So
i what?” to a congressman. That
puts the congressman on the de
fensive.
During the recent labor com
mittee hearing Lewis referred to
Rep. Howard Smith <D-Va.) as
I “old Judge Smith” and “old
Smith.” Smith was not present.
! Both Lewis and Smith live in
Alexandria, Va., but they are a
thousand miles apart in their la-V
bor philosophies. Rep. Claire Hoff
man (R-Mich.> protested hotly
; against the reference to Smith's
! age. 4
Lewis rumbled sarcastically:
“My dear sir, I have no idea
that Judge Smith is any older
than I am. It was a term of en
dearment.”
Actually, Lewis, who is 65, is
three years older than Smith.
* * *
j^EWIS testifies—without notes
—in rolling Patrick-Henry
like phrases. For instance:
“Take away my liberty and I’ll
fight you, I care not who you
are.”
At anotherpoint, Lewis frowmed
at the committee and declaimed:
“Why, gentlemen of the Con
gress, you can’t do that to Amer
icans. Americans won’t let you.
And I don’t think you want to.
I think you have been deluded by
all this fanfare about strikes.
There is nothing wrong with this*
country right now.”
Lewis apparently is not plan
ning any let-up in aggressiveness.
One congressman reproached
Lewis because the strike record
of the railway workers has been
better than that of the miners.
Quickly Lewis exclaimed: ^
“Naturally! And I think that’s
a safe assumption for the future.”
LAND REGISTRATION
BEGINS TODAY
Answers to questions about the
Alaska Real Property Registra
tion Law.
Q. What is the Alaska Real Pro
perty Registration Law?
A. An Act passed by the Ter
ritorial Legislature on March 24,
1945 (Chap 49. Laws of Alaska
1945>, which requires all owner^
of patented land in the Territory
of Alaska to file a declaration of
ownership. An Act passed by
Congress of the United States on
September 26, 1945 (Public Law «
188, 79th Congress, 1st. session)
authorizes the Commissioner of
the General Land Office and the
Registers Oa the District Land
Offices in Alaska to perform the
functions necessary to enable
compliance with the Territorial
Act.
Q. What is the purpose of the
Act?
A. The preparation and main
tenance of a permanent record of
land ownership in Alaska.
Q. What would be the benefit
from such a permanent record?
A. A complete file of land own
ership records would aid in the
orderly development and stabil
ization of the economic life of the
Territory, both now and in the jj
years to come.
Q. How would that be brought
about?
A. At the present time, many
tracts of patented land have been