AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
A flight was made Saturday to
Nome from Fairbanks bringing in
Forbes Baker and Richard Webb.
The plane returned to Fair
banks via Kotzebue taking Bess
Cro ssand Mildred Webb, both
passengers enroute to Fairbanks.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving from An
chorage Friday \tfere Jacob Hana
ka, T. H. Wheaton, Mr. and Mrs.
Orin Felmley, Mrs. Mary Felmley.
C. R. Furlong, was the only de
parting passenger on the return i
flight, bound for Anchorage.
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AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
The hotel was filled to capacity
and overflowing trying to accom
modate army personnel who were j
stormbound in town Saturday j
night when the weather closed in
and all transportation to and from
the Air Base was suspended.
Pastor Resists
Denazification ■
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FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P)—'
Members of the Evangelical
church in the American zone state
of Hesse have been urged in a
partoral letter to resist denazifi
cation procedure.
The letter, read in Evangelical
churches yesterday, said “a new
seed of hatred” has grown from
the law. At the same time it said
national socialism (NaziisirP per
sists despite the Allies’ efforts to
root it out.
The church administration,
which issued the letter, is headed
by the Rev. Martin Neimoeller,
famed wartime prisoner of the
Nazis. He was elected bishop of
the Hesse union of Evangelical
churches last October. The synod
claims 1,400,000 members.
Forecast And .
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
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Compiled by the U. 3. Dept. 01
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, February 2, 1948
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
tonight, cloudy Tuesday with
snow in the afternoon and warm
er. Increasing easterly wind to
night, becoming strong Tuesday.
Lowest temperature tonight 5.
highest temperature Tuesday 24.
(Note—The wind Saturday
night to midnight reached a ve
locity of 52 miles per hour with
gusts up to 60 miles per hour).
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours,
trace. Total precipitation this
month 0.11 inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 20, lowest 2.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
24 miles per hour from the west.
Sunrise at 8:37 a.m., sunset at
3:47 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
—8, lowest —25.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: Lowest —37 in
1914, highest 35 in 1945.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow’ 2 Partly Cloudy
Point Hope —6 Clear
Kotzebue 3 Clear
Shishmaref 1 Clear
Wales 2 Clear
Gambell 10 Cloudy
Nome 6 Snow
Unalakleet 22 Cloudy
Bethel 11 Clear
McGrath 22 Cloudy
Anchorage 33 Cloudy
Fairbanks 21 Snow
Juneau 28 Cloudy
Whitehorse 17 Cloudy
Ketchikan 37 Cloudy
Seattle 38 Clear
San Francisco 46 Cloudy
Timber To Be
Auctioned Feb. 18
WASHINGTON, </P) — The for
est service said today it plans to
auction off 1,500,000,000 cubic feet
of pulp timber in Tongass nation
al forest in Alaska on Feb. 18.
An official told a reporter the
D. & F. Company of New York
has qualified as a bidder for the
timber.
The tract is near Petersburg. It
is the first of several in Alaska tv)
be put up for sale under a law
passed by the last session of Con
gress.
Orville Wriglit, 76.
Pioneer Air Man
Died Saturday
DAYTON, O. (#*)—Death came
to Orville Wright Friday night 44
years after he put wings on the
world with the first flight in a
heavier-than-air machine.
The 76-year-old co-inventor of
the airplane died in his sleep un
der an oxygen tent at Miami Val
ley hospital at 10:40 p.m.
Dr. A. B. Brower, his physician
said Wright succumbed to a lung
congestion and coronary arterio
sclerosis, a heart disease. The
world’s pioneer aviator entered
the hospital last Tuesday after
suffering his second heart attack
of recent months. He recovered
rapidly from a first attack Oct. 10,
1947.
LA DELL SAXTON
ANNOUNCES ENGAGEMENT
La Dell Saxton, formerly a
nurse at the Maynard Columbus
hospital has announced her en
gagement to S/Sgt. Maynard
Jennette \v^o was also here last
year with the armed forces. The
young couple plan to be married
in the spring in Boise, Idaho, the
home of the bride.
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NOME TEAMS LOSE
TWO GAMES
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Friday night’s play opened with
a fast hard-fought game in which,
the 582nd Engineers edged out the
Nome High School by a score ofi
45 to 42. In the night-cap the
U. S. Merc team easily downed
the Ordnance team by a score of
46 to 17.
In Sunday’s game the Nome All- ]
Stars were downed by the stronger i
Nome Air Base Flyers, who held
the lead all through the game. The
score, 45 to 35.
India Works To
Restore Peace
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NEW DELHI, OP)—Prime min
ister Jawaharlal Nehru staked the
survival of his government today
on the issue of restoring peace, for j
which Mohandas K. Gandhi was
killed.
In swift implementation of Neh-,
ru’s stand, the home ministry is
sued a communique abolishing
private armies and “any organiza
tion preaching violence or com-!
munal hatred.”
Crowds in Bombay, angered
by Gandhi’s death, tried to burn
the house of a member of the mili
tant Mahasabha (Greater Hindu
Organization). They attempted to
stop traffic and close shops. They
kept all but a few workers from
their jobs.
Home minister Sardar Vallab
hai Patel said he, Nehru and
Maulana Abul Dalam Azad, the
education minister, all has been
marked for assassination because
they advocated peace with the
Moslems, as did Gandhi. The gang
accused of plotting the deaths was
hunted.
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Jerusalem Bomb j
Starts Large Fire j
JERUSALEM, (/P)—Police said;
today they were still unable to fix
the blame for a bomb blast which
wrecked the Palestine Post last j
night, injured at least 20 persons
and touched off an $600,000 fire.
One Arab source said Arabs did
it. Other informants blamed Jew
ish extremists, who have threat
ened the pro-zionist, English-lan
guage daily newspaper because of
its moderate stand on Jewish de
fense.
Still other sources blamed Bri- j
tons for their anti-Jewish senti- '■
ments.
Downtown Jerusalem, Zion’
Square and Ben Yehuda street;
were littered with broken glass
from windows shattered as far as
1,000 yards from the site of the
blast.
30 Drowned In
Chinese Ship Fire
HONG HONG, (/P)—Thirty per
sons were pushed into the water
and drowned Saturday night when
steerage passengers stampeded
off the burning coastal steamer
Kwantung at a Hong Kong wharf.
Most were women and children.
The fire, atrributed to chemicals
in a passenger’s luggage amid
ships, started as the ship was
about to sail for Canton.
Crew members extinguished it
with slight damage, but bodies
still were being fished from the
harbor late Saturday night. The
sailing was cancelled.
Chinese Cabaret
Girls Riot
SHANGHAI, (/P)—Rioting Chi
nese cabaret girls and their men
friends Saturday night wrecked
the municipal social affairs bur
eau building and injured an es
timated 20 Shanghai policemen.
An estimated 2.000 girls and an
almost equal number of men coin
panions rioted in protest against
the city’s closure of 14 cabarets in
connection with China’s austerity
program.
The rioters broke into the build
ing and smashed furniture, win
dows and doors before being driv
en by club-swinging police into a
yard. There the police held them
at bay, but appeared unable to
make them disperse. A number of
the rioters were injured.
Shanghai’s cabarets — some of
them world-famous — employ
thousands of hostesses.
Costs Half To Sell
WAA Surplus
WASHINGTON, The cos
of selling war surplus now
amounts to about half the receipts
the war assets administration re
ported Saturday.
Disposal costs, which amountec
to 24.7 per cent of the monej
taken in during 1947, rose to 41
per cent in the final quarter.
DR. MAXWELL KENNEDY
RECOVERING FROM INJURY
Dr. M. Kennedy is recover ini
from an arm injury sustained sev
eral weeks ago and has not beei
able to be at his office.
SANDY MAZEN TO ENTER
ACS SCHOOL IN STATES
Sandy Mazen, oldest son of Mi
and Mrs. David Mazen left las
Thursday for the States where h
is entering the ACS school fo
special training.
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