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A flight was made to Moses
Point and Golovin on Friday with
freight.
On Saturday Robert Elingnak
was brought in from Shishmaref'
and Joe Attatavuk from Teller!
Mission.
Two attempts have been made
to land at King Island to bring in j
Father Tom Cunningham for the
local Catholic church but have
been unsuccessful. On the trip to
King Island which also stopped at
Teller and Wales, Pearse Walsh
was a passenger.
Jack Whaley returned to his
base at Kotzebue on Saturday, j
The same flight stopped at Candle
and Deering.
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AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
T. Daugherty, Golovin. M. W.
Peterson, E. Pearson. Anchorage.
L. J. Miraldi, Don Gretzer, Fair
banks. S. J. Carroll, C. Satter
field. Lee Beann, Seattle.
Inflation Danger
Still Present
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WASHINGTON, — The re
cent market breaks do not mean
that danger of inflation is past,
one of President Truman’s top
economists said today.
Leon J. Keyserling, vice chair
man of the President’s council of
economic advisers, said that on
the contrary—
“Even if the increase in steel
prices had not come along, the
first lesson to be learned from the
drop in commodity prices is that
the inflationary danger is very
much with us still.”
New dishtowels that are very
heavily sized will serve better if
soaked overnight in warm sudsy
water to remove stiffness.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinit\
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Compiled by the U. 3. Dept "•
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, February 23, 1943
Forecast Nome: Clear and con
tinued cold tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest temperature tonight —20,
highest temperature Tuesday ze’-o.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month
0.66 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 1, lowest —17.
Sunrise at 7:30 a.m., sunset at
5:02 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
29, lowest 4.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —36 in
1915, highest 36 in 1940.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —27 Clear
Point Hope —20 Clear
Kotzebue —29 Clear
Shishmaref —28 Clear
Wales —15 Cloudy
Gambell —7 Clear
Nome —10 Clear
Unalakleet 1 Clear
Bethel 1 Clear
McGrath —29 Clear
Anchorage 3 Cloudy
Fairbanks —27 Clear
Juneau 30 Snow
Whitehorse —18 Cloudy
Ketchikan 33 Snow;
Edmonton 4 Cloudy |
Seattle 42 Cloudy j
San Francisco 51 Clear I
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When the black roof of a large
factory was painted white, the re
sult was an interior which was
cooler by several degrees in hot
weather.
Idaho Set For
Annual Dog Derby
ASHTON, Idaho, (/Pi—A seven
dog team of Targhee hounds rated
the favorite’s spot today as this
tiny eastern Idaho community
waited the “come on” call for the
1948 all-American dog derby.
Thirteen teams — eight in the
derby and five in the husky race
—are entered.
Ten inches of new snow in yes
terday’s storm brougrt smiles to
derby officials’ faces after a Sat
urday night rain softened the pre
viously well-packed course.
The town was crowded. Race of
ficials predicted 10,000 spectators
would watch the 10-mile derby,
scheduled to start about 4 p.m.
A new derby champion was as
sured. The five-times winner Ev
erett Heseman withdrew his en
try last week when his lead dog
developed a shoulder injury.
That left the Targhee hounds of
Austin Neeley of Drummond in
the favorite’s spot. Neeley finished
second to Heseman in 1946 and
again in 1947.
New Seine Law
Idles Fishermen
SAN FRANCISCO, (IP) — Hun
dreds of fishermen have been
made idle temporarily by a court
decision upholding a state law
governing the size of trawl fishing
nets, an industry spokesman said
today.
Joseph L. Alioto, attorney for
the northern California fisheries
association, said a total of 80 fish
ermen and allied workers were
idle Friday. He said many fisher
men would have to wait until July
to obtain nets with a minimum
mesh size of five inches as speci
fied by law.
The federal court ruling affect
ed size of nets on “bottom fish,”
such as sole, sand dabs and rock
cod.
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Truman Addresses
Puerto Ricans
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, UP)—
President Truman told the people
of Puerto Rico Saturday that the
appointment of an island-born
governor was just a step toward
; an “increasing measure of self
government.”
He greeted Gov. Jesus T. Pinero
—his own appointee, and others
gathered at San Juan’s Island
Grande airport in this fashion:
I “Freedom is a word which is
found in every language. Equality
, means more than mere political
emancipation.
“I have said to the Congress
several times—and I repeat it here
—that the Puerto Rican people
should have the right to determine
for themselves Puerto Rico’s po
litical relationship to the United
States.”
CHRISTIANSTED, St. Croix,
Virgin Islands, UP) — President
Truman declared today that re
newal by Congress of the charter
of the Virgin Islands company is
essential to stabilization of the
economy of these islands.
He closed his good will visit to
these Caribbean possessions with a
tour of St. Croix, largest of the
Virgin Islands, and an official
luncheon, attended by Governor
William H. Hostie and other local
officials.
The President intends to leave
later in the day, aboard the Presi
dential yacht Williamsburg, for
the naval base at Guantanamo,
Cuba. He is due here Wednesday.
From Guantanamo he will fly to
Key West, Fla., for a nine-day va
cation.
Saying that he had come here to
! “see for myself what this part of
our American family is doing to
; meet oul- common problems,” the
President said in his prepared ad
: dress:
“Here, I know, our American
: way of working together toward
peace and prosperity will bring
results we can all enjoy.”
The Virgin Islands Company, he
; said, “is our greatest hope for the
stabilization of the economy of St.
Croix.”
A round of engagements yester
day at the neighboring island of
St. Thomas, with Negro governor
i William H. Hastie, brought to the
! fore the hope of the Islands’ dom
inantly Negro population for help
from the United States govern
ment.
NEW ORLEANS, UP) — “Baby”
Betty Horrell, 750-pound sideshow
entertainer, died in foundation
‘hospital last night. It required six
men to carry her into the hospital
two weeks ago for treatment of an
undisclosed ailment. Two hospital
Commodities lake
Steady Decline
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The government bureau found
the biggest drops in pork chops,
lard, bacon, eggs, and lettuce.
Prices for fresh fruits and vege
tables rose, the report said.
Price cuts have differed widely
between cities and between stores
in the same city. Some independ
ent grocers said they cut some
prices to meet chain store compe
tition, regardless of profit mar
gins. And Friday night the de
partment of agriculture at Wash
ington attributed the price break
in commodity markets to these
things:
Prices had gone too high in view
of remaining supplies and in view
of the fact that export purchases
were largely out of the way.
Action of Congress requiring a
crop year-end reserve of 150,000,
000 of wheat, which is almost dou
ble that of a year ago.
Feeding of wheat so far this
crop year has been lighter than
had been expected.
Market prices of grains were so
high as to discourage feeding to
livestock.
January weather was favorable
to the winter wheat crop, thus in
dicating a possible good crop
which would help ease the short
age.
Marked improvement in crop
prospects in other parts of the
world.
Assailants And
Victim Disappear
MANNING, la., (/P) — A gang
land-style shooting occurred on
the streets of this quiet western
Iowa town of 1,800 last night.
, After felling their victim on a
main street with three shotgun 4
blasts the assailants placed him in
a car and drove off, Sheriff Tom
J. Finegan reported.
The identity of the principals
! was not known.
I The sheriff said three witnesses
viewed the shooting. He said he
was convinced it was pot a hoax.
The witnesses told the sheriff a
tall man ran down the street, pur
sued by two others. One of the two
: fired three times with a 20-guage
shotgun. The tall man fell.
A car roared out of an alley
and stopped alongside. The two
assailants placed the fallen man
in the car when they drove off.
The sheriff said he found the
empty shotgun shells in the street.
| No one has any iead who the
men were, the sheiff added.
beds were bolted together for her.
“Baby Betty” was 39 years old.
Her home was Tampa. Fla.