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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Increasing coudiness tonight followed by light to moderate snow
• early Thursday accompanied by f resh to moderate easterly winds.
Colder tonight with slowly rising temperatures Thursday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 31 Lowest temp — 16 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this month 0.45 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 11.15
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight ..- - 22 51 NE-11 Clear
8 a m..... „ 19 50 NNE-16 Cloudy
12:30 p m . ..- .. - 20 61 N-12 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 6:24 a. m. Sunset 3:03 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 23 Lowest temp — 3 Precipitation — 0
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
Ski Troops to Be
Developed by U. S.
Army is Indicated
(Continued From Page One)
The Russians even ordered
their troops to take up skiing,
which was a laugh, the prospect
us points out, because everybody
knows that it take three years of
intensive training to make a
good skier out of the average sod
ibound citiezn and that isn't tak
ing into consideration any time
for his having to learn soldier
ing.
NEAR MOFFAT TUNNEL
Here is what Lewis and his co
workers suggest: A 6,000-acre
training ground at an altitude of
from 10,000 to 13,000 feet in the
bowl stretching up to the divide
near Jones pass, below which the
Moffat road ducks under the
great ridge for its long dark
journey to the western slopes.
Twenty miles away at Fraser
is a landing field where the air
force could base for cooperative
training with the snow troops. To
the south is the Gore range and
to the north the Arapaho. These
would provide opportunity for
mountain operations both in win
ter and summer.
DOG TEAMS
The first ski troops comprise
500 officers and enlisted men.
Training would start on a great
slide not far from proposed bar
racks with the men taking ele
k mentary spills on a half-mile run
& that drops 600 to 700 feet. They
■ would go back to the top by a
§j| Swiss type tramway for another
m try.
There would be outdoor snow
■ maneuvers of all kind- including
|B junkets to far places with dog
^B teams. Also included would be
■ training in the art of scaling icy
peaks and education in the moun
fK tain and winter aspects of eng in
coring, eonnmmiealions and
■piy
WM The fact that Army staff has
|V taken it under eon. ide1 alien does
^B not mean that it is a certainty.
V Over at Army headquarters, they
V are noncommital, just say it is
W. b ing studied. But Lewis and the
Coloradoans who helped him 4out
line and present the plan are
hopeful.
If you would ask me, the ski
manufacturers and a lot of sol
diers who know the difference
between a slalom and a smorgas
bord are hopeful too,
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“God Bless
America” Is Put
Into German
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A German translation of Ir
ving Berlin’s “God Bless Amer
ica” has bee made to fill a need
on the part of those of German
lineage in this oountry who feel
that “Germania is our mother,
America our bride.”
Forty thousand German-Amcri
cans sang “God Bless America”
in German last month in a Roch
ester park where they were gath
er:d to celebrate German Day,
which commemorates the land
ing of the first organized group
of German immigrants in Amer
ica in 1683.
The popular patriotic song was
adapted and translated by Eliza
beth Schwerin, German-Ameri
can newspaper woman, who re
e ntly suggested in one of her
regular columns in the Milwau
kee Deutsche Zietung that “God
Bless America” be sung at meet
ings of German-American organ
izations to manfest their loyalty
to the United States.
Miss Schwerin’s German adapt
ation follows:
Herr, schuetz’ Amerika!
Land meiner Treu’;
Will bekennen mcine Liebe
Zu dem Land m-iner Wahl stets
auf’s Neu.
Von den Bergen, Wald und Auen
Zu dem schaeumend’ Meeres
strand;
Herr, schuetz' America!
Mein Heim, mein Land.
[ Th following is a literal re
transiation into English:
Lord protect America,
Land of my loyalty;
I wish to declare my love
To the land ofwny choice
Ever anew.
From the mountains, forests
and prairies
Lord Protect America,
My home, my land.
Notice Of Public Auction
Lots 9, 10, 11 and 12, Block 23
Nome, Alaska, with the 2-story
j frame house on lot 10 and 1-story
| frame house on the North part of
Lot 9, will be off-red for sale at
I public auction to the highest bid
der for cash. Time and place of
(sale City Hall, Nome, 8 p.m. Wed
; nesday. November 13, 1940. Any
■ and all bids may be refused, and
S any sale must be confirmed by
! the Probate Court at Nome be
! fore it becomes effective.
This is the Heinrich (Harry)
Ewert property and the sale is
being made under authority
[granted in his will.
The houses and property may
be examined any evening by con
tacting George Modini who re
sides in the house on Lot 10.
George Modini and
Kari Palsson, Executors
.... and Trustees
Publish Nov. 6 8 11 13, 1940.
Roosevelt Calls
Our Free Schools
A Bar to Tyranny
(Continued from Last Issue)
Tells Dutchess County Meeting
They and Public Schools Are
Vital Defense Factors
DEFENDS RELIEF PROJECTS
By Charles Hurd
“They will not get all of the
story part of the timo, or only
part of the story all of the time—
they will get all of the story all
of the time.”
The school buildings also stood
Mr. Roosevelt went on, as “a sym
bol of a second and a newer re
sponsibility which our democ
racy has assumed as one of its
major functions.” The schools
had been paid for in part by Fed
eral grants “in accordance with
the purpose of the Federal Gov
ernment Jo give work to many
Americans who otherwise could
find no work,” he added.
He told this audience that
eight years ago, “at a time when
our national economy had been
prostrate for several years, when
starvation and bankruptcy had al
most become the order of the
day,” the government rejected “a
philosophy of inaction and ir
responsibility to the destitution
of its citizens.”
“In its place,’ he, continued,
“was substituted a new doctrine
— that the government owed a
continuing responsibility to see
to it that no one should starve
who was willing to work but un
able to find work. That was the
responsibility, the duty, which
the collective strength and will
of all the people imposed upon
thems-lves, to alleviate the suf
fering of their fellow-beings and
to stimulate recovery in their na
tional economy.”
As a result, Mr. Roosevelt de
clared each of the 3,200 countks
in* the United States had some
new construction built incollabor
ation between the Federal and
local governments, “a hospital, a
bridge, a town hall, a highway,
an airport, a dam, a sewr—one
of the hundreds of thousands of
new necessary improvements
which were built in the United
States — illustrations of the re
sults of giving employments on
useful projects.”
“The public wealth of the Unit
ed States—the property that all
of us own jointly—has been in
creased by means such as these,”
the President said. “In a hundred
ways the idle funds of the nation
hav bees put to work so that
idle hands could be put to useful
tasks.
“Into every project went mon
ey for wages; the wages were
spent at local stores; the stores
replenished their stocks, and the
wheels of industry and business
began to move faster. Into ev ry
project went materials for con
struction — materials from all
parts of the country.
“In terms of dollars and cents,
no sounder investment could
have been made for the. Ameri
can people. But the material re
turn from that investment was
not the most important gain.
There came with it a develop
ment of moral'1, a new hope and
courage, a new self-respect am
ong the unemployed —a definite
gain in the fibre and the strength
of American life.”
The local school •Exercises re
ceivel a distinctly national at
mosphere not only from the pre
sence of Mr. Roosevelt to deliver
a speech, but from the presence
as well of the- Army band from
West Point, which came accom
panied by one of the new-type
Signal Corps field trucks to am
plify the music and the speeches.
Mr. Roosevelt was introduced
by Ralph R. Smith who also in
troducel other guests .including
the President’s wife and mother
and John W. Studebaker, United
States Commissioner of Educa
tion, who was Mr. Roosevelt’s
guest aboard the private train.
Also with the President, but in
no official capacity, was Judge
Samuel Rosenman, an adviser in
the preparation of Mr. Roose
velt’s speeches.
City Council Meets
The City Council met in reg
u’ar session Monday, November
i 11.
Mayor Miller presided and the
following members of the Coun
cil answered roil call: Kelsey, Ma
loney, O’Leary and Stewart.
Councilmen Anderson and At
wood were absent.
Among the correspondence
read was a letter from Dr. W. W.
Council, Territorial Commission
er of Health, advising that Mrs.
Ida Sprenger had tendered her
: resignation as Territorial Health
j nurse. Mrs. Kitzmiller has now
taken the ]jlace of Mrs. Sprenger.
| Many offers were received for
icity lots, which is evidence of in
: creased population as well as in
dicating a feeling of confidence
- in the future of Nome.
Reports were received from
the various committees covering
the different city departments,
i The Street committee reported
j haying instructed Chief Laws to
notify property owners to the ef
! feet that under the terms of a
certain ordinance, dumping of
water in city drains is prohibit
ed after November 1st each year.
The object of this provision is
| to attempt to keep the drains
from filling with ice, thereby nec
essitating large expenditures in
thawing them out in the spring.
A total of approximately $2,500
was approved for payment, cover
i ing current bills included in
"which was a payment of $1,485
to George Hite, as the City’s
share of the cost of the construe
tion of the addition to the school
building.
In rendering his final report to
the Council in the mttcr of above
constructon Inspector Kelsey stat
£d that Mr. Hite had performed
an excellent job, both in work
manship and materials. The
grade of materials furnished
were even above that called for
in the specifications, in some in
1 stances. The character of the
work was all that could be de
sired. The job was completed
within the time provided in the
contract. There were no extra
charges made for some miscellan
eous items of labor and mater
ials. Taken as a whole, Mr. Kel
sey stated the City got a good
building, completed within the
time specified and in a most sat
isfactory manner. All members
of the Council and Mayor Miller
expressed complete satisfaction
with Mr. Hites work, after which
the building was accepted for
the City by an unanimous vote of
the members prrsent.
The total cost of above build
ing was $11,485. The foundation
cost $485. The Geo. Hite con
tract $11,008. The appronriation
from the Territory $10 000.
- DEFENSES ON PARADE*
VISITINO .(AMERICAN S—Second group of Central and
South American officers to reach capital for a tour of defenses in
i \ Gen. Guillermo Jose Mohr (left), Argentina’s inspector
gc. . whose companion is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson,
Chiie, Nicaragua, Mexico, El Salvador, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay, Vcnci,ujla and Cuba are represented in second group.
AND CHAMPAGNE, TOO! —Toast to the lb S. army
anil American defenses was drunk at New York dinner given by
Niles Trammell (left), radio head, to visiting Latin American
officers. Absorbed with his drink is Col. Felipe de La Barra, Peru.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 627
In the Probate Court in and
for the Cape Nome Precinct,
Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estat: of
IRA M. RANK, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that by
order of the Probate Court in
a d for ihe Cape Nemo P -Hnct,
T .rir-ry of A aika. the under
signed hns 1 een rprc'nLed Ev
ocator of the Estate of Ira M.
Fi ’i’ll', d/?oc'°scvL AM hiv
claim? ago'rrt s.-id estate
■ha’1 p- r.-art them with per
vouchers rtiach d w‘ h r
""n !'s farm 'he d'i’e of this no
tice to the undersigned at Nome,
Alaska.
Dated at Nome. Alaska, Novem
bar 3, 1040.
Kenneth McVeigh Rank
Executor
Publish Nov. 13 20 27 Dec. 4,
1940.
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M. J. Wilcox, Agent, Alaska
Steamship Company, announces
that he hps a limited supply of
Great Northern Calendars on
hands for distribution, these be
ing the large calendar showing
all twelve mon'hs of th. year.
Drop in at the Alaska Line office
and get your copy.
Buy them pv ;rm bundle. T’-u
them for star* ns fires For *<.ih
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TRYING OUT NEW FIN S—Several lessons In how to behave in water were given above
Ryan S-T training plane, the first such craft to be equipped as a seaplane and tested at San Diego,
Cal. The Ryan S-T military land planes are used by the V.S. army air corps and by several foreign
governments. The plane is equipped with a 150-horsepower engine.
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