AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Last Friday afternoon a flight
was made from Fairbanks bring
ing in F. W. Lucg. The plane then
left for Gambell taking Mrs. A.
Reed and son Gerald and Billie
Stoonrogook to the island. Yester
day it departed for Fairbanks via
Kotzebue taking Richard Webb to
Kotzebue.
Sunday Chester Milligan and
Richard Webb were brought to
Nome from Kotzebue.
A. V. Cordovado was a passen
ger to Deering on Sunday.
A flight was made to Diomede
yesterday without passengers. En
route the plane stopped at Teller
and Wales.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers for Candle Saturday
were F. A. Granger, Bill Major,
Lynn Carey.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAV*?
Pan American Airways arrived
Sunday evening with tne lonuvy
ing passengers: Gladys Seeds.
Linda White, Mrs. J. M. Campbell
and daughter, Marion Henry, W.
A. Boucher, Walt Wiedman and
Jack Hencke. Departing were:
Adeline Ullrich, James Russ and
Louis Buckland.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
B. Blanchard, Tom Jensen, Jack
Hinckle, Frank Clay, Mike Ben
son, Anchorage. M. J. Wilcox, Neil
Warren*, James Reidy, Fairbanks.
Helen Cass, Fort Richardson.
Walt Weidman, Nome.
Walt Weidman of the Silver Bow
Mining Co., arrived last evening
to start spring operations. He is
associated with Herb Jenks and
Earl Coulthard.
The world’s 10 largest islands
cover one-eightieth of the total
area of the earth.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. 3. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, March 1, 1948
Forecast Nome: Clear and con
tinued cold tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest temperature tonight —15,
highest temperature Tuesday 5.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 2, lowest —22.
Sunrise at 7:06 a.m., sunset at
5:24 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
30, lowest 20.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —32 in
1918, highest 40 in 1938.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —24 Clear
Point Hope —19 Clear
Kotzebue —18 Clear
Shishmaref —23 Clear
Wales —3 Fog
Gambell 3 Clear
Nome —22 Clear
Unalakleet —12 Clear
Bethel —16 Clear
McGrath —34 Clear
Anchorage —2 Clear
Fairbanks —26 Clear
Juneau 20 Cleat
Whitehorse —2 Partly Cloudy.
Ketchikan 36 Cloudy
Edmonton 4 Snow
Seattle 45 Cloudy
San Francisco 55 Clear
CONTRARY TO GENE R A L
opinion, the pig is a clean animal
if given sanitary surroundings,
according to the Encyclopaedia
Britannica, and sanitation is es
sential to good health, rapid
growth and development, and
profitable pig production.
Proud Of Twenty
Second Child
ATLANTA, (A3)—A 38-year-old
mother says she is mighty “tick
led” to be expecting her 22nd
“young up.”
A bride at 11, Mrs. Maud Ethel
Pope, has recorded the names of
17 boys and four girls in the worn
1 family Bible. Only nine of the
children are living.
“Four of my boys died of paral
1 ysis,” she said yesterday, “and one
I or two died of whooping cough. I
i don’t know what was wrong with
! the others.”
She said she met her husband,
j then 17, at the well used by her
| family and his one day and he
proposed.
I “I asked him,” she related, “if
he drank likker. He said ‘No,’ so
I said ‘All right’ because I thought
he was the prettiest thing I ever
saw.”
Mrs. Pope said her first child
was born when she was 12.
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“Civilization”
Brings Shooting
NEW YORK, (£>) — Continual
playing of the tune “Civilization”
on the juke box in a Manhattan
bar early today led to the shooting
of three persons.
The victims, police said, were
red-haired Josephine Ostoloco, 20,
who had fed nickels for the same
song for an hour, a seaman who
objected and the bartender, Neme
sio Salasen, 47.
Police said Filipe Torres, 30, the
sailor, shot the woman and then
the bartender when the latter tried
to pick her up from the floor. Tor
res was wounded and seized later
in a gun duel with police on a
subway platform.
Bullets flew when the woman
changed a $1 bill at the bar and
walked toward the juke box after
she had played “Civilization” over
and over again.
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Truman Cagey '
At Conference
At Key West
KEY WEST, Fla. (/P)—President
Truman steered clear of a discus
sion today of developments in Pal
estine.
The President said he could not
answer that question.
The President, attired in a white
! suit, came out on the lawn for a
! news conference. When reporters
stood up, he asked them to be
seatAl in lawn chairs while he
stood up so, he said, he could see
them better.
There, in the palm-shaded vaca
tion spot, he refused to comment
on the southern revolt.
What did he think of Governor
Tuck’s plan? Governor Tuck has
recommended that Virginia enact
a law barring the President’s name
from the ballot this year.
Every state has a perfect right
to conduct its elections as it sees
fit, provided every voter has the
right to express his opinion at the
polls, Mr. Truman said. He re
called that in the past electors
were not committed to any candi
date.
He said he thought maybe the
Virginians are trying to restore
the old Constitutional approach.
Did he think the time has come
for the western powers to form a
military alliance against the spread
of communism?
He said he could not answer
that question at this time. Nor was
he ready for a lecture on architec-1
ture when some one brought up'
the controversy over the White
House balcony.
The President blamed Presi
dential year politics for holding up
settlement of important interna-1
tional and domestic problems.
The President said he wasn’t be
ing critical of any one, that it was
a natural development in a cam
paign year, with several candi
dates for President in and out of
Congress.
At the same news conference—
held on the lawn of his quarters at
the commandant’s house here —
the President also reiterated that
he will be glad to meet with Pre
mier Stalin of Russia, but only if
the latter comes to Washington.
President Truman said the steel
price increase was a good argu
ment in favor of his anti-inflation
proposals to Congress.
He said he nad no new report
1 on the inquiry he ordered the jus
tice department and the council of
! economic advisors and the com
merce department to conduct.
However, he said he still felt the
necessity for drastic anti-inflation
action and that the steel increases
were a good argument for it.
Mr. Truman refused to discuss
his own candidacy and gravely de
clined to talk about Soviet pres
sure on Czechoslovakia and Fin
land of the continued disorders in
Palestine. He did say that he has
been in daily communication with
secretary of state Marshall
through the state department.
I
Royal Mothers
Visit Pope Pius
VATICAN CITY, </P) — Pope
Pius XII, received the mothers of
former King Mihai of Romania
and his fiancee, Princess Anne of
Bourbon-Parma, in private audi
ence Monday.
Vatican sources said the
church’s dispensation for marriage
of the couple may have been
sought.
Anne is a Roman-Catholic, while
Interim Shipping
To Continue
WASHINGTON, </P)—-Rep. Tol
lefson <R.-Wash.) said today he’
believes that Congress will ap
prove an extension, in some form,
of the interim shipping act pho
viding for service to Alaska.
The present agreement between
the maritime commission and
three Seattle steamship compan
ies, under which the companies
have continued service to Alaska
with Government ships, expires
June 30.
Tollefson said the commission
has promised to send to the special ,
House sub-committee on Alaska
shipping early in March plans for
a solution of the problem. He said
he had no idea what this plan
would be.
Tollefson, a member of the com
mitiee, said that even if a perm
anent plan is adopted he believe.;
the interim plan will have to be
continued for some time in order
to permit the steamship companies
to get any new plan into opera
tion. Any change would have to
be approved by Congress and this
probably could not be done quick
ly. Tollefson said that a perman
ent plan would be approved before
the present session of Congress
ended.
Alaskans have insisted that a
new plan should call for reduc
tion of freight rates. They have
opposed rates authorized by the
commission for the interim serv
ice.
California Feels
Earth Tremor
LOS ANGELES. (/P)—An earth
quake of moderate intensity awak
ened residents throughout a pie
shaped belt of southern California
early today but apparently caused
no damage.
It’s greatest force was felt in the
San Bernardino valley, 40 to 60
miles east of Los Angeles.
The quake was felt at 12:13 a.m.
(PST). The tremor, which shook
homes and rattled windows, was
the second in 12 days. A severe
quake jolted the Los Angeles area
Feb. 19.
The cities of San Bernardino,
Riverside, Upland and Pomona all
reported a fairly severe jarring.
| tremor this morning.
i Minneapolis
| Teachers Strike
MINNEAPOLIS, (^P) — Minne
apolis public school teach e r s
struck yesterday for higher pay
and a full school year.
The strike was called by the
AFL teachers federation which
represents about half the city’s
2,200 public school teachers.
Pickts were posted before some
schools shortly before the 8 a.m.
strike hour. No attempt was made
to hold classes. The city’s 94 ele
mentary, junior high, and high
schools have a total enrollment of
65,000.
THE FIRST AMERICAN
newspaper was the Boston News
Letter, established by John Camp
bell in April, 1704, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britan n i c a .
Campbell s paper developed from
news-letters that he wrote more or
less regularly to the various colon
iial governors of New England.
Mihai’s family belong to the na
tional orthodox church of Roman
ia.