AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
On Monday Jack Whaley made
a flight to Candle and Kotzebue
taking W. E. Carter to Candle.
On Monday Frank Whalye went
to Candle, Deering and Kotzebue!
with John Cross as passenger.
Frank Stinton made the Kotze
bue flight on Tuesday taking Carl
Neilson as passenger.
Arriving from Fairbanks on
Mondrfv were Mrs. J. B. Tucker
and child, Carl Neilson, John
MacNees and Bill Munz.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving late last night from
Fairbanks were Patricia Cross,
Rita Tantaneli, Celeste Clark, Eu
gene Remington, Ed Paluska, Mr.
and Mrs. Duke Mitrovitch, Rich
ard Barner, Lucille Young, Clyde
Young, Ed Butters, B. Neilly
Departing were Isadore Ch'im
-eris, Mrs. John Amundsen, E. W.
Quigley, K. C. Jones, Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Kitzmiller, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. McDonald, Alfred Lome'1,
Jr., L. A. Stevens.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
Ed Paluska, Juneau. Ed Butters,
Clyde Young, Cold Water Michi
gan. Dick Borneo, Anchorage.
Patsy Cross, Juneau.
Hick Town—One which, if you
see a girl dining with a man old
enough to be her father—he is.
Canadian Seamen
Postpone Strike
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VANCOUVER, B. CM i/P>—Sev
enty-five hundred Canadian sea
men tentatively scheduled to have
gone on strike last midnight, re
mained on the job today after the
strike deadline was indefinitely
postponed.
The Vancouver local of the
AFL-Canadian seamen's union
said it had been informed from
Montreal that negotiations are be
ing continued to prevent a tie-up.
The union seeks a 15-cent hour
ly wage boost and a work week
of 48 hours at sea or 40 hours
ashore.
ALFRED LOMEN. JR.
LEAVES FOR STATES
Alfred Lomen, Jr., left for Seat
tle last evening to join his family
who left suddenly a few weeks ago
due to Mrs. Lomen’s illness. He
has received word that she is in
the hospital in Seattle.
william McDonalds
to VISIT in states
Mr. and Mrs. William McDon
ald of the North Fork Mining Co.,
left last evening on the Pan Amer
ican Airways for a visit in the
States. During their absence Mr.
and Mrs. Harold McLain will re
side in their residence on First
avenue.
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Forecast And
Weather Report !
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Wednesday, November 26, 1947
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
and slightly colder tonight and
Thursday. Fresh northeaste r 1 y
wind. Lowest temperature tonight
zero. Highest temperature Thurs
day 6.
Nomt data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours none.
Total precipitation this month
1.23 inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 29, lowest 12.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 43
miles per hour from the east.
Sunrise at 9:09 a.m., sunset at
2:31 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
13. lowest —4.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —26 in
1928, highest 37 in 1943. i
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —8 Partly Cloudy
Point Hope 6 Clear
Kotzebue 3 Clear
Shishmaref 3 Clear
Wales 5 Clear
Gambell 17 Clear
Nome 3 Partly Cloudy
Unalakleet 12 Snow,
Bethel 21 Cloudy
McGrath 10 Snow
i Anchorage 32 Cloudy
: Fairbanks 11 Snow'
| Juneau 44 Cloudy;
I Whitehorse 38 Cloudy
Ketchikan 46 Rain
Edmonton 40 Clear
Seattle 49 Cloudy
San Francisco 57 Partly Cloudy
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TONSILECTOMY PATIENTS
AT THE HOSPITAL
Helen Reader, daughter of Mr.
1 and Mrs. Pete Reader, and Helen
(Loveless were tonsilectomy pa
. tients at the hospital yesterday.
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Truman Commutes
Two Mail Fraud
Sentences
WASHINGTON, (£*)—President
Truman today commuted the fed
eral mail fraud sentence of Mayor
James M. Curley of Boston, pro
viding for his release today from
the federal correctional institution
at Danbury, Conn,
The commutation provides that
Curley’s sentence has been com
pleted with the five months he has
served of a six to 18 months sen
tence on a mail fraud conviction.
Mr. Truman also commuted the
sentence of Donald Wakefield
Smith, a former member of the
national labor relations board,
who was convicted on the same
charge.
Smith had been sentencd to a
term of from four months to one
year and a day.
The commutations mean that
both Curley and Smith will be re
leased in time to spend Thanks
giving with their families.
Charles G, Ross, Presidential
secretary, said Smith would be re
leased from the District of Colum
bia jail.
Curley and Smith began their
sentences last June 26. Curley
would have been eligible for pa
role Dec. 26. Smith became eligi
ble last Oct. 26.
Ross said the chief medical of-.|
ficer of the Danbury institution
had informed the department of
justice that the 73-year-old Curley
is suffering from an acute heart
condition and has diabetes. •
Stassen States
8-Point Platform In
Nomination Bid
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‘‘lack of adequate health service”
were ranked top priority by Stus
sen in his program, which also in
cluded six other policies he said
“must be inaugurated to prevent
the boom and bust tendencies of
our free economy.”
They included reduction in taxes
to specifically give a break to
small new businesses; mainten
ance of consumer credit control;
insistence that agriculture should
never be permitted to be distres
sed; a labor policy “that is fair
and just and maintains a balance
between individually managed
capital and free organized labor;
affirmative backing of the United
Nations, making clear "we would
never follow a policy of appease
ment toward anyone,” and elim
ination of communist infiltration
in America.
MISS CROSS
HOME FOR HOLIDAY
Miss Patsy Cross. 13 year old
daughter of Mrs. John Cross of
Kotzebue arrived last evening to
be with her mother for the
Thanksgiving holiday. Mrs. Cross
arrived from Kotzebue a few days
ago to meet Patsy here.
Curley is Democratic national
commiteeman from Massachusetts
and also has served as U. S. Rep
resentative and governor of his
state.
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