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Armed Man
► Is Seized At
White House
Barber, Wearing Legion Uniform
Claims He was Helping to
Guard President
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 — The
Secret Service reported their
agents and local police had ar
rested an unidentified man carry
ing a loaded revolver in the
square fronting the White House
just before the President return
ed from taking the oath at the
Capitol.
The man was sent to a hospital
after a lengthy questioning. Sec
ret Service oflicia’s said the man
was a Washington barber wear
W ing a Legion uniform. He told
them he helped to guard the
President four years ago.” The
man also asserted his command
er sent him down to help again
i this year.
GLASS AIRPLANE WINGS
An airplane with glass wings
jias be n built — and has b-ten
flown.
This radical development still is
in the experimental stage a d
mu-l be approved by government
authorities before it can be made
use of commercially, but the
builders are confident it will live
up to advance expectations.
Highly fire-resistant, the cover
ing of the wings is a material
woven from pure fibrous glass.
The same glass fabric can be
adopted to cover the fuselag and
control-surface framework of a
plane.
♦ .Mi vantages listed by the man
ufacturers for the glass fabric in
elude: That it is fire-resistant to
such a degree that a torch wil
cause only a smudge; that it i
lighter and stronger than c oth
4r now used for wing cov-rings;
that it absorbs little moisture,
thus lessening the accumulated
weight danger in flight.
The material is designed for
use only on planes of lower hors,
power classes. It will b,o tested
for six months or more by gov
ernment experts to determine its
safety in use.
Japan Disturbed
0\ er Higliw ay
U. S. To Alaska
Road Would be Continuation
of Horseshce-Shaped En
circlement of Japan
TOKYO. Jan. — The newspa
per Hochi S3id that Japan is
greatly disturbed over r ported
plans for building a military
highway from the United States
to Alaska through Western Can
ada.
The newspapers said that the
Tokyo foreign office was inform
ed that a string of airbases will
be built along the highway by
the Unit.d States and Canadian
governments.
Strategic Bases
Hochi declared: “ American
measures in this direction will
be regarded as a continuation of
the horse-shoe-shaped encircle
ment of Japan by the Washington
government. Military bases of
the United States would thus be
$ .ategic from Singapore, via
Australia, the Philippines, Haw
, a i and the Unit d States to Can
ada and Alaska.”
The western-most islands of
the Alaska territory are closer
then Hawaii to Japan. The news
paper assumed that the United
Sta‘es would be given joint use
of British air bases in the South
Seas.
Honored Guests
Are Encouraged
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 — In
his inaugural address, President
Roosevelt said that the Democrat
ic faith ”sp. aks to us of other
nations of this Hemisphere and
also from across the sea where
there are enslaved as well as
free people.”
To two honored guests on tho
inaugural platform, these words
were of special import. The two
honored guests were Crown
Prince Olav and Crown Princes?
Martha, of Norway, exiled from
their homeland by the G rman
invasion.
Capt. Wood
Loses His
Grid Post
WEST POINT, N. Y„ Jan. -
Capt. W'lliatn H. Wood, head
football c : ch at the Army for
the last thr e years, has been
ordered by the War Department
to duty at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Lieut. Col. E H'bbs, graduate:
manager of athletics who made
the announcement said the poor
showing of the Army team last
fall had no bearing on the trans
fer. Th Cadets beat only Wil
liams and, tied Harvard while
losing to Cornell, LaFayette,
Not.re Dame, Brown, Penn,
Princeton and Navy for their
poorest season in fifty-one years
of football.
Last year the Cadets won three
lost four and tied two while in
1938, the first year under Capt.
Wood’s direction, they won eight
and lost only two.
Mention Civilians
The War Department ordered
Capt. Wood to sail on a trans
port for San Francisco, February
(6 and then motor to the Texas
, station.
I Several names wer? mentioned
as the successor to Capt. Wood,
| among them civilians, but Col.
Hibbs said “our athletic board
' h.s rude no decision as yet.”
Brigadire Gen. Rovert L. Eich
j lbcrger, superintendent of the
; military acad my, said that Maj.
iGen. John K. Herr, chief of c-av
| airy in Washington had request
ed that Wood be assigned to act
ive duty and that the retiring
j coach wanted the assignment.
Most of Wood's corps of assist
: ant coaches have left for perman
lent stations.
At Point Since ’31
Wood, who won twelve letters
in football, basketball and base
j ball while a cadet after attend
ing John Hopkins, has been at
:lie P unt since 1931 either as as
sistant or head coach.
After graduating in 1925, he re
. urned to West Point as assistant
under Maj. Ralph Sasse in 1931.
H then served as head back
1cId coach under Capt. Gar Dav
id on until 1937, when he was
l lamed head coach.
SIGHT FOR FEW TO S C E—Banned to the public as a defe nse precaution this is control
i tower at LaGuardia airport, X, Y. Dispatcher is Larry Walsh, at radio-phone with orders.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, IN AIR -High above Randolph field in south
Texas, the “West Point of the air,” an Air Corps cadet practices hissent output
L field’s 300 basic training planes. By the spring of 1941. .t is expected that the field s Present output
of 250 basic trained piiois &\cry five weeks will be raised to luO for saint period.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF EXAMINATIONS
THE ALASKA MERIT SYSTEM
announces that OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS for classes of po
sitions listed below will be held throughout the Territory for the purpose ol
establishing registers of eligibles from which appointments may be made to
the stalls of the
Territorial Department Of Health
Territorial Department Of Public Welfare
Alaska Unemployment Compensation Commission
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING RECEIVED FOR
Monthly Monthly jj
. Salary Salary
Position Range Position Range
Senior Clerk . $155-$185 Research and Information
Clerk-Stenographer $ 155-$ 185 Representative .$245-$290
Clerk-Typist $140-$155 Chief of Benefits .. $245-$290
. . Director, Employment
Fiscal Accountant $18o-$215 Service Division $2904335
Chief Field Auditor and
Accountant .. $2154245 Meager .$ ^-$215
Chief Accountant and Senior Interviewer $155-$185
Office Manager $245-^290 Fiscal Officer .$195 $225
Make out a separate application for each examination you wish to take
APPLICATIONS MUST BE FILED WITH THE MERIT SYSTEM SUPER
VISOR OR POSTMARKED BEFORE MIDNIGHT OF
CLOSING DATE—FEBRUARY 25, 1941
Examinations will be held wherever in Alaska applications from qualified
applicants warrant. Applicants will be notified of time
and place of examinations
For Application Forms, Statements of Minimum Qualifications for each
position, or copies of this announcement write or apply to:
Only United States citizens who GEORGE SUNDBORG,
have had residence in the Terri- ALASKA MERIT SYSTEM SUPERVISOR,
tory for one year preceding the POST OFF ICE BOX 2661,
date of examination are eligible JUNEAU, ALASKA
to apply. 261 Territorial Building—Phone 726
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and colder tonight with clea -k.c< and slow.y lowering tem
peratures Satuiday.
Data For 24 Homs Finding 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 20 Lowest temp — 0 Precipitation — 0
Toto preeip this month 0.07 To.nl since Jan. 1. 1941, 0.07
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
2 Midnight . • 6 49 N 4 Clear
3 a m ... 13 61 S3 Clear
Ml, i, m 7 II .. - 16 41 NNE 6 Cl ar
Tom.;irow: Sunrise 9:09 a. m. Sunset 3:18 p. m.
un* Year Ago Today
H.ghest ! mp — 17 Lowest ten.) - 27 Precipitation — 0
Criticisms lnvite.1
0
LOOKS LIKE A CINCH—Give Orpha Ohlsen (above)
I a chance to be “Miss Sunshine’’ and represent Long: Beach in
southern California’s all-winter sun festival and she'll be happy
i —she says. She’s just rehearstnr for role, on I.oni: Beach beach.
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FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Chas. Olsen, his heirs, ex
, ecutors, administrators and as
signs.
You and each of you are here
by notified that I have expend
ed during the y ar ending July
1st, 1940, two hundred dollars in
labor and improvements upon
the Sand Hill Association Placer
mining claim, situated on the
right bank of Snake River about
three and one-half miles north
westerly from the mouth thereof
and the town of Nome in the
Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, Territory of Alas
ka, in order to hold said mining
claim under the provisions of U.
S. C. Tit. 30 Sec. 28, and amend
ments thereto concerning annual
labor upon mining claims, being
| the amount required to hold said
claim for the period ending July
1st. 1940.
I And if, within ninety days af
ter the publication of this Notice
i you fail to contribute your pro
portion of such expenditure as a
co-owner, which amounts to one
uindred d liars, your interest in
said mining claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
your co-owner, who has made
tli requ red expenditure to hold
s.. id claim.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, the
6th day of December, 1940.
John Carlson, Co-owner
Publish Dec. 6 13 20 27. 1940,
Jan. 3 10 17 24 31, Feb. 7 14 21
28, 1941.
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LONGEST RUNWAYS
An airport with the longest
unways in the Western H mis
here is now under construction
:t Miami, famous for many years
is the Air Gateway between the
Americas.
Nearing completion, the huge
easier airport wil cov r a total
if more than 870 hundred acres,
and will include the greatest ex
' ■ -nt of paved runw'ays at one air
port in any country on this side
of the ocean. Two runways will
j each be 7,900 feet — or a mil .
i i id a half long. The shortest run
way will be over a mile long. A
| large combination building and
passenger station will also be con
structed. Total cost of the airport
will be approxmately six mil
| lion dollars.