Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the United States
Weather Bureau, Nome, Alaska.
Friday, February 1, 1946
Forecast Nome: Clear tonight
and Saturday. Lowest temperature
Saturday morning —12. Highest
temperature Saturday —5.
Nome data as of 7:30 a m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours 0.08
inches. Total precipitation this
month 0.02.
Total snowfall this month 0.2
inches.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
Highest 16, lowest —7.
Maximum wind last 24 hours
12 miles per hour from the north
west.
Sunrise at 8:43 a.m., sunset at
3:46 p.m. '
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
30, lowest 14.
Extreme temperatures on this
day since 1907: lowest —38 in
1910, highest 33 in 1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —22 Snow
Point Hope —15 Clear
Kotzebue —9 Cloudy
Shishmaref —11 Snow
Wales —15 Snow
Gambell —11 Clear
Nome —4 Snow
Unalakleet 2 Snow
Bethel —1 Clear
McGrath 10 Snow
Anchorage 15 Snow
Fairbanks —2 Snow
Juneau 25 Cloudy
Whitehorse 3 Snow
Ketchikan 34 Clear J
. The first practical diving bell!
was invented by Dr. Edmund Hal-1
ley of England in 1717. '
HOMESICK ITALY
Its People Miss the Glory
And Order of II Duce's Day
POMP of parade reviews is missed by Italian children.
By john p. Mcknight
(#*) Newsfeatures
ROME—Has Italy put thoughts
of Fascism behind her?
Perhaps. But not without some j
lingering regrets.
Some Allied occupation officials
shrug off the fact with an, “It’s j
only natural.” Here are some rea-!
sons why:
1. The bitter contrast between
the days of Fascist glory and
Italy’s present subjection.
2. Disappointment over the Al- j
lies’ failure, as the Italians regard
it, to fulfill promises they believe
were explicit or implicit in proga
ganda preceding Italy’s surrender.
3. Humiliation over the recent
ly published terms of the secret
armistice signed at Malta in Sep
tember, 1943, which gave the Al
lies far more complete control
than most Italians realized.
4. Prospective loss not only of
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Mussolini’s territorial conquests
but also of some areas today’s
generations always thought of as
Italian.
5. A faint nostalgia for the
pomp and circumstance of Musso
lini.
6. The “unendurable hardships
and privations,” in Prime Minis
ter Parri’s phrase, that war’s dev
astation, short crops, lack of fuel
and soaring black market prices
impose.
The Good Old Days
To state the fact that the era of
the dictatorship is coming to be,
by comparison with the present,
“the good old days’” for many
Italain foes of Fascism and friends
of democracy are not counted in
the hundreds of thousands.
It is merely to say that an emp
ty stomach tends to blur ideologi
cal distinctions—never too sharp,
at best, to the great mass of Ital
ians.
A thoughtful Italian journalist,
Mario Vinciguerra of the indepen
dent morning paper Giornale del
Mattino, recently retold the myth
ological story of the death of Her
clues—how, having slain the cen
taur Nessus, he was persuaded to'
don his victim’s blood-stained coat
by assurances that it would pro
tect him against harm, and
promptly died of contact with the
poisoned blood.
Fascism's Legacy
Fascism has left its own “black j
bloody, filthy shirt to an ingenu-;
ous Italy,” Vinciguerra said. “She
has not destroyed the black shirt:
she has put it away in a corner of
the wardrobe and now, rummag
ing among her rags . . . she looks
at it hesitant and embarrassed,
saying. ‘Can it really be true that
it will deliver me from my woes’?”
Liberty Vs. Food
“At least,” as one middle-class
Italian said, “there was order—
and, thought there was no liberty,
most of us ate.”
Another spoke of the Italian
youngsters who, under Mussolini,
wore uniforms and marched and
counter-marched in mock war-1
fare. “They thought, then, that
they didn’t like it. But now, they
miss it,” he said. “We’ve given
them nothing to take the place of’
the panoply of Fascism.”
Allied officers, freely admitting
the existence of the problem, say
frankly that they do not know its
solution.
No overnight solution is possi
CIRCUMSTANCE of war's devastation fosters discontent.
ble, they say—only the slow, pain
ful process of helping Italy back 1
to the ways of democracy and j
back to economic well-being and j
security can provide the cure.
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Sandy Polaski Learns
To Blow The Bagpipe
EDINBURGH, Scotland— UP) —
Even soldiers of the Polish army!
learned to skirl the bagpipes dur- j
ing the war.
Pipe Major William Ross, M.B.E.
noted Scottish bagpipe instructor,
reports that he taught 713 pipers
from British Dominions and other
countries. The courses were spon
sored by the Piobairdeachd Soci
ety at Edinburgh Castle. Ninety
three Canadians learned to pipe.
CHUCKLES
Dub—When I go around this
course in less than a hundred I’ll
give you five bucks.
Caddie—Thanks. It’ll come in
handy in my old age.
Parisioner (to preacher solicit
ing money)—But Parson, thought
you said savlation was free as wa
ter.
Parson—Salvation is free as
water, Brother. But when we pipe
it to you, you have to pay for the
piping.
Farmer Boy—If things get too
bad we can eat our forest.
City Boy—You’ve nothing on
us; we can eat our traffic jams.
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