Nenana Breakup
Experts Predict
‘After May First’
The ice experts who live on the
banks of the Tanana River at
the scene of the annual Nenana
Breakup classic were giving odds
that the tell-tal, tripod won’,
pull the stopclock to a halt be
fore May 1.
Mike J. Cooney, mayor of Ne
nana and manager of the 1M1
breakup contest, made this state
ment by telephone to Fairbanks
in answer to queries over con
dition of the river ice.
"No Material Change”
Cooney reported “no material
change in thf*' ice appearance in
the past three days. He said al
though th, re are many signs of
thawing, the ice is not yet ris
ing along the edges, and oro
bably will not for several days.
Lack of snow in the hills al
most certainly averting any con
sidcration of waters in the flood
levels, is the basis upon which
the veteran riv r observers were
holding out for a breakup dot.
later than May 1.
Watchmen on Duty
Manager Cooney reported h
has four watchmen cn shifts, how
ever, at the cabin which houses
the time clock — ready for any
.eventuality.
A heavy rain, alon°, in his opi-1
ion, could hurry the breakup ir
advance of what he termed “the
normal period” —whatever thn'
means.
Nenanans no longer dare to
walk out on the ice to have :
close look at th, foot of the tr -
i pod Cooney said. Overflow water
appears in shallow pools in mid
day, but is glossed over by each
night’s temperature drop, so that
some have ventured out on the
ice early in day in rubber shoes.
Doughboy
Shoes Of ’18
To Britain
■
WASHINGTON, April — Twen
*• five thousand surplus U. S.
A-"’v shoe-, mad, 21 years ago
f r American doughboys, are b^
jrg used to figh tthe battle of
Britain — on the feet of Civil
Defense volunteers.
The shoes are the gift of the
American Ft d Cross which pur
chased them at a fraction of their
original cost from the Army
Qu; rte: master Corps.
From tha Chief Warden of
Manchester, Red Cross headquar
ters hern has received a I Iter
cf gratitude for an allotment of
the shoes. “I had been rather
troubled,” lie wrote, “as to how
best help volunteers whom I
w to b, in poor circumstanc
es Notwithstanding their person
a’ needs they turn out nigh* after
night, in all kinds of weather,
ready to perform sny task. These
stout hoots have been a great
c mfort to them."
N^EDI.F IV FFR LEG
MYSTIFIES WOMAN
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. April
Mrs, L la Jeffers told her hus
i. -.In' Rev. A. K. Jeff r.. she
b lo ved she had rheumatism in
r right leg. He examined her
! a nd pulled out a needle. Mrs.
J, fE rs said she must have swal
lowed it when a girl, but didn’t
renumber doing so.
"I shar the opinion of the ex
perts here,” said the manager. "I
can see no indications that the
jee will go out before May.
“But,” he added, “the longer
.you live by the river, the less
.you know about it. And I’v, liv
ed around here a long time.”
De Kauffman Is
Still Danish
U. S. Minister
WASHINGTON. April 14—The
United Slap's today refused to
recognize the action of German-,
occupied Denmark in r calling its ,
minis-er from Washington and j
notifi d the envov he would con
tinue to he considered the duly
authorized Dani«h minister here, j
The State Department mad
public the exchange of notes in
which this government agreed
with Danish Minister Henrik De
Kauffman that his government in
Copenhagen acted und r German
duress in* recalling him because
he signed an agreement last week
granting defense bases on Dan
ish Greenland to th; United Stat
es.
SITKA GAMBLING RAIDS
LAND 4 BARMEN IN JAIL
Proprietors of four Sitka bars
w re in jail today following a
Justice Department raid on il
legal si it machines.
Nine of the “one-armed band
its” w re seized by Deputy U. S.
Marshal Sid Thompson.
The e in jail, all sentenced by
U. S. Commissioner W. W.
Knight to 90 days on charges of
b ing di< vrdcriy are John Os
bakkhep. of the Anchor Bar, Er
nest Carter of the Silver Foam
Cocktail Bar, Dave Fenton of the
Columbia Bar and Ralph Wilcox
en of the Roadhouse.
Also r ceiving 90-day sentenc
es on charges of being drunk
and disorderly were Alex John
and Eva Mesendahl
You can ive -2.00 by paying si>
months n advance for your sub
icriDtion Thp Nome Nugget
r
RAID-CONSCIOUS SINCAPOR E—Concrete and brick bomb shelters stick out of Ihe
ground at Singapore as Britain's "Gibraltar of the East" prepares for possible future air r.i' .
FIVE RESCUED FROM BURNING TANKER
The tanker W. W. Bruce (background) picked up tanker and four crewman of the tanker Cities Ser
vice Denver (foreground), which burned and settled at the bow after an explosion tore through her
forward hold 80 mies oft the Carolina coast. Nineteen crewmen were missing.
I . I
Air Project
Is Started
\t Yakataga
—
CORDOVA — In more way
han on? the task of building an i
',m rgency air field at Yakatagr
i going to be a spectacular under |
taking. Work on th project will
under way soon ,if wca'her'
nermits, according to plans of W
B. West and Lawrence E. Aider
i on, contractors.
In the first place, the job of es- 1
; tablishing a field in the isolated'
Yakataga region is unusual. Not |
1 that it isn’t a worthy undertak- \
j ing, but it’s really a feat g tting
to the location with equipment.
This is going to be accomplish ;
: ed by placing all of the equip-j
ment on a barge there is being
towed here now by Heinie Berg- j
jer’s converted fishing vessel Kas
ilof and landing it, barge and all,
through the ocean surf on Yaka
iaga beach. And with a minimum
of sheltered water between Cor
dova and Yakataga, the task of
towing the 90 miles out there
with an unwieldy scow heavily
loaded in the present uncertain
weather will call foi extreme
| skill.
Finally, another unusual fea
ture of the project is the fact
' the equipment that’ll be used
. on the job is going to remain at
Yakataga even after the work is:
don It’ll be used by Contractor
West, who is also a placer ground
owner, for mining operations af
ter the building has been complet
ed.
j This equipment consists of two
. bulldozers and a carryall, as well;
as smaller auxiliary pieces.
In the air field construction it
will be us d to clear, level and
| grade a runway 4200 feet long
and 500 feet wide, which, for the
j time being, will constitute the
! Yakataga field. At the present
j time plane traffic down there is
j accomodat) d by a natural “air
I port,” a mile-long stretch of level
| sand beach that is hard and de
pendable whenever the tide is
low.
The landing field job, the con
tractors say, will take about three
months to complet . It'll employ
a crew of eight men, three of
whom —- two cat skinners and a
cook — came north from the
States with the contractors, and
the balance of whom are to be
hired here.
Loading of equipment will
start imnv diately upon arrival of
the Kasilof in Cordova. After
ward, provided that weather per
mits, the crew will start for Yak
ataga to begin work immediately ]
on landing.
CHAPLIN SUED BY WRITER
FOR FIVE MILLION
NEW' YORK, April 16 — Kon
rad Bercovici, writer, filed a five
million dollar suit against Char-!
lie Chaplin in Superior Court to
day charging the comedian used
the author’s idea in the film The
Great Dictator, without reimburs
ing_ him with either credit or
payment.
SWISS YOUTHS GET TOO
FOXY; THEY’RE JAILED
BASEL, Switzerland, April 14
— Three young Baselers have
been jailed because they had
their own ideas on how to give
quick service to the customer.
They would look through clas
sified advertisements of the local
papers and whenever they found
a “bicycle wanted,” they stole
one and sold it to the advertiser.
Federated Cliureh
Wilbur P. Wood, Pastor
11:00 a.m.—Church School
7:45 p.m. — Worship service.
Rev. Paul Carlson of Candle
will preach.
ESKIMO METHODIST CHURCH
Miss Constance Erickson,
Superintendent
11:00 a.m.-—Church School
5:00 p.m. — Closing of Mission
Conference. Sermon by Ralph \
I Hanson, “The Meaning of Pente
; cost.”
LIKE TO BE HAUNTED BY THIS SPIRIT ?
i
vi
Edith Bell (above), 19, of San Diego has been chosen to typify the
spirit of the aircraft industry. She is displaying an exhaust manifold
made in San Diego. Miss Bell won 34 beauty and dramatic contests,
in Kansas, where she was educated.
4 killed In Sing
Sing Prison Break
OSSINING. New York, April
14 — Two long term convicts
who shot their way out of the
Sing Sing infirmary in a sensa
tional break that cost four lives,
were captured in the woods ac
ross the Hudson River.
The two gray-clad convicts
were still arm d with smuggled
guns with which they and a con
federate, later slain, had broken
prison and killed a prison guard
and an Ossining policeman when
they were cornered on a slope of
Mount Hood Palisades.
Interstate Park Patrolman Wil
liam Mullen, experienced woods
man, member of the Park’s po
lice and one of 62 peace officers
trailing the fugitives, flushed
I
them in underbrush within a
mile of the shore point from
which they had fled after forcing
a fisherman to f rry them across
the river.
The convicts, Joseph Riordin
and Charles McGale, both und t
sentence for robbery, appear l
dazed when Mullen stepped out
from behind a tr e on the slope
below them.
The dead are John Hartyd \
prison guard: John Waters, 30,
serving a term for armed rob
bery; James Fagen, 36, Ossinirg
patrolman; McGovern Miller, 35,
convicted of rape and who was
in the infirmary for treatm at
of a heart disease. Miller collaps
ed and died from excitement
when Riordan and Waters who
feigned illness to get into the
infirmary, suddenly pulled out
smuggled guns and shot prison
guard Hartyde.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Increasing cloudiness with a few very light snow flurries after
sundown tonight. Slightly colder, fair with rising temperature Sat.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 29 Lowest temp — 14 Precipitation — T
Total precip this month 0.05 Total since Jan. 1, 1941 — 1.32
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight_____ 18 82 NW 5 Cloudy
Sam - ---- 21 84 S3 Cloudy
12:30 p m ...—-- 28 62 S 7 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 4:16 a. m. Suns-t 7:49 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 27 Lowest temp — 18 Precipitation — T