Forecast And '
Weather Report i
Nome and Vicinity'
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, ol'
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
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Friday, February 25, 1949
Forecast Nome: Partly cloudy
and continued fair tonight and
Saturday. Gentle northerly to
northeasterly winds. Lowest tem
perature tonight —10, highest
temperature Saturday 10.
Nome data last 24 hours asof
7:00 a.m. today:
Precipitation none. (Total this
month 0.97 inches.>
Temperatures: highest 6, low
est —12.
Maximum wind 6 miles an hour
from the N.N.E.
Sunrise at 7:24 a.m., sunset at
5:05 p.m.
Comparative Data: Temper
lures one year ago today :highest
II, lowest —19.
Extreme temperatures on this
date since 1907:
Highest 39 in 1947, lowest —32
in 1938.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:00 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow —15 Clear
Kotzebue 1 Cloudy
Shishmaref —3 Cloudy
Wales —4 Snow
Gambell —1 Partly Cloudy
Nome —7 Clear
Unalakleet 12 Cloudy
Bethel 10 Cloudy
McGrath —9 Cloudy
Anchorage 11 Cloudy
Fairbanks 11 Clear
Juneau 34 Cloujiy
Ketchikan 34 Rain
Seattle 47 Partly Cloudy
San Francisco 53 Cloudy
PIONEERS HOLD SECOND
IN CARD GAME SERIES
The Pioneers held the second of
their series of Whist Parties last
evening with a large crowd in at
tendance. Winning prizes for the
evening were Mrs. Henry Ullrich,
Mrs. Lester Bronson and Maude
Taff, for the women; and Norvin
Lewis, F. C. Bingham and Pearse
Walsh for the men.
Leaders for the trophy prizes
will be announced after the next
party which is scheduled for Mar.
10.
Committee in charge of refresh
men’s were Loretta Jones, Mrs.
Elmer Straub, Jake Overbaugh,
and eGorge Waldheim.
Natal was annexed as a British
possession in 1845.
AIRLINES
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
- Pan American arrived Thurs
day morning bringing Don Bishop
as passenger. Departing were Vir
ginia Daniels, C. B. Finnegan, M.
F. Roscoe and Doyle Lathrum.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Wednesday Pilot Murphy
took Jack Hoogandorn from Nome
to Ungalik.
Pilot Bronaugh took Chas.
Lewis from Nome to Kotzebue,
and Nathen Noongwook from
Nome to Kotzebue, he came from
Gambell. On the return trip M. F.
Roscoe was brought from Kotze
bue to Nome.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers departing today
were Frank Jensen, Gunnar Lang
hus, Earl Butcher.
Pilot Seeds made six extra mail
trips to Kotzebue and three extra
mail trips to Shishmaref, Teller
and Wales.
AT THE POLARIS HOTEL
B. D. Brown, G. C. Denton, L.
Timmons, J. E. Willard, L. C. Pep
per, H. H. Hudgins, R. H. Toy, J.
T. Sutton, J. J. Andrews, Adak.
W. T. Roscoe, Fairbanks, J. J. Ce
darstrom, Juneau, F. T Boyle, S.
Hill, L. Lambert, Anchorage.
General Motors
Cuts Wages
And Prices
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ated to save $9,000,000 to $10,000,
000 annually in the production
workers’ payroll.
These savings, G-M said, are be
ing passed along immediately to
the consumer. It was G_M’s first
price cut since the war.
The individual reductions on
Chervolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile,
Buick and Cadillac will be an
nounced later.
It also was the first wage slash
j for G-M workers under the corpo
ration’s unusual two-year contract
with the CIO UAW. The wages
1 are pegged to the ups and downs
of the government’s cost of living
index. The contract still has more
than a year to run.
The index showed today that
from Dec. 15 and Jan. 15 the retail
prices of goods and services pur
chased by moderate-income city
families declined 0.3 per cent.
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Russia May Have
Secret Of “Liquid
Death” Spray
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (A*)—
Russia quite possibly has the se
cret of a Nazi-developed liquid
death spray potent enough to wipe
out whole divisions of men in the
j open, says an American officer
t who helped destroy the weapon.
But Germany didn’t use the
spray, ahd Russia probably would
not— for the same reason—it con
taminates the area for too long a
period—in the opinion of Maj.
James M. Graham, a U. S. army
engineer.
The two German scientists who
formulated the spray were in Ber
lin when the Russians took over
I and more than likely were taken
in hand by the Soviets, Graham
says.
Whether chemical analysis of
the liquid by its American cap
tors yielded the secret, Graham
didn’t know.
Graham had charge of dispos
ing^ of the spray, named “tabun”
( after the names of its two invent
ors. He disclosed some of the de
tails in Mountain View.
Hidden stocks of tabun—125,000
tons of it—were found by Ameri
can intelligence officers in Bavar
ian caves. Engineers built huge
fires in p;ts to destroy the liquid.
Graham described tabun as a
nerve poison not unlike snake
venom in its effect. Only quicker.
A spot of it the size of a dime
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dropped on the skin would kill a
man in two minutes unless wiped
off quickly.
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NOTICE
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The Arctic Club will have a
formal dance on Saturday, Feb.
26th at the Clubhouse.
Gordon Osborne. Pres.
NOTICE
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Board of Directors meeting of
Chamber of Commerce will meet
' Friday evening at Mandeville res
idence at 7:30 p.m.
DANCE
At the Arctic Native Brother
hood Hall Saturday, 8:00 p.m.,
February 26.
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Three-Year Olds
Identify Planes
In Kodiak ;
(By Ralph Dighton)
KODIAK ISLAND, (A3) — Navy
kids playing blithely here in the
shadow of the Russian Bear can
identify PB4Y2’s and R4D's with
the same ease that stateside
youngsters distinguish between
Fords and Chevrolets.
The PB4Y2 is a four-engine
navy patrol bomber. /The R4D is 3
twin-engine transport. They and
[the “clunks” <four-engine C-54’s>
are familiar sights in the skies
above this volcanic island, home
of the only major naval base in
Alaskan waters.
What would happen if a plane
they -couldn’t identify were sud-.
denly to appear? The kids know
the answer to that, too. f
Once every month they partici
pate in defense drills, and get a
big bang out of it.
For grownups, these defense
drills are a necessary nuisance.
They mean battle stations on the
double, and a quick manning of
weapons.
But for the children, drill days
are a wonderful lark. They get
long rides in buses with their
mothers to a remote barracks
area. Once there, they are fed hot
chocolate and sandwiches to keep
them quiet until the all clear is
sounded.
Little Brian Thomas, who is not
quite three, has spent half his life
on Kodiak Island. His father, Lt.
Com. Thomas R. Caldwell, dis
; trict ordnance officer, brought
, Brian here with the rest of his
family 18 months ago from San
! Francisco.
Brian already can spot aircraft
like a combat veteran, and thinks
there’s nothing unusual about his
accomplishment. All the other
kids can do it.
Tom Caldwell, 29, and his pret
ty 26-year-old wife, live in a big,
roomy cottage on the top of a
knoll overlooking St. Paul’s Har
; bor. From the living room they
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Truman will Stump
For Legislation
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price support program and force
upon the government a “do noth
ing” policy which would let the
American economy “slide into a "
depression.”
To this, most Republicans had
one answer:
Let the President first find out
how he stands with his own party;
then let him appeal to the people.
Senator Brewster of Maine,
chairman of the GOP senatorial
campaign committee, said #the
President seems to forget that he
has a Democra'ic Congress.
“What’s become of his 'majority
in both Houses?” Brewster asked.
"The 81st Congress must be worse
than he said the 80th was.”
get a view you couldn’t buy for
$25,000 anywhere else.
“You have no idea,” says Mrs.
Caldwell, “how we miss night
clubs, and Sunday drives, and
street cars and domestic help. But
most of all, I guess, I miss the
stores. We have the commissary,
of course, But how can you shop
when there is only one place to
buy?”
“And fresh vegetables, too,”
says Caldwell. “We go for months
sometimes without them. When «
you can find them, it’s nothing to
pay 35 cents for a head of lettuce.
But what can you expect when
eggs are $1.35 a dozen, bread 40
cents a loaf, and milk 37 cents a
quart plus 15 cents deposit on the
bottle?”
There’s one other thing the
Caldwells miss.
“Do you know,’ says Tom, “I
have never seen a television set?
Thats going to be quite an experi
ence for me some day.”
He’s right, of course. But no ^
television set could ever arouse
more wonder in a man’s mind than
does the sight of a boy crying,
“Look Daddy, here comes a PB4
Y2,” especially when the boy is
not quite three.
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