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EDITORIAL
Uncle Sam's
New Pilots
With so many factors in the de
fense program coming these days
under the fire of criticism, it is
pleasant to be able to record good
.progress in the field of civilian
pilot training. The project begun
by the Civil A ronautics author
ity, a project which resulted in
the primary training of some
14,000 pilots last year with only
a single fatality, is now being car
ried forward on a greatly expand
ed scale by that body in its new
status as the Civil Aeronautics
Board.
One of the board’s members,
Oswald Ryan reports that by the
end of the present academic year
we will have 100,000 civilian pi
lots as compared with only 21,000
pilots of all sorts in the United
States two years ago. More than
700 colleges and universities and
more than 200 non-college cen
ters are participating in the
work. It is especially gratifying
that this training has been ex
tended to non-college groups for
the opportunities inherent in this
program certainly should not be
offered merely on a basis of schol
■astic attainment.
As far as primary fliers are con
cerned, we are at least 18 months
ahead of the point at which we
should b if we now had to start
from scratch.—N. Y. Times
New Status
Of The CCC
(Cleveland Plaindealer)
The popular belief that the
Civilian Conservation Corps has
been the best handled and most
successful of all the relief agen
cies established by the Roosevel*
administration is supported by a
report which the American
Youth Commission of the Ameri
can Council on Education has
made after an exhaustive study
of the CCC.
The commission believes that
the time has now come to accept
the youth labor camp as a per
manent American institution, and
to make those changes in the
CCC which would be in keeping
with such a conception.
( It is the belief of the commis
sion that the Civilian Cons rva
tion Corps has outgrown its orig
inal purpose —that of provding
•relief jobs for youths in desti
tute families — so that it now
should be operated from the
point of view of conserving our
natural resources, of building
character in our young men, of
restoring to a large body of Am
ericans the health-giving habit
of outdoor life and of providing
a permanent defense reservoir.
With this in mind, the commis
sion w'ould stop recruiting x
clusively from relief families
and open the ranks to any youths
who cannot find private employ
ment.
Army To Build
Cold Storages
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WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
War Department said that 46
new army camps and posts w>ere
being equipped with modern cold
storage facilities, each camp in
stallation capable of holding
enough perishable fod to supply
16,500 men for three days.
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New Forms
For Recording
Alaska Sliipments
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Circular letb rs and detailed in
struction have been mailed from
the Bureau of Foreign and Dom
estic Commerce at Washington to
j the collectors of customs and
others who are required to make
records of shipments from Seat
tle to Alaska under the new reg
! illations.
The information is sent out ov
er the name of Bernard Barton,
chief of the Division of Foreign
Trade Statistics, under title of:
“Comm! rce Form 7525-H, Ship
per’s Export Declaration for Ship
ments to A'aska from Seattle,
Washington.”
Plan Explained
The body of the circular reads
as follows: Effective November
18, shippers have the option of
filing eithi-r Commerce Form
7525 or Commerce Form 7525-H,
Shipper’s Export Declaration, for
shipments to Alaska from the
United States. The fol'owing reg
| ulations will govern the use of
this new form, 7525-H:
“The use of Commerce Form
7525-H is inaugurated to permit
the preparation of the export de
claration at the same time the
bill is lading is typed. By this
rearrangement of th: format of
the declaration, shippers arc re
1 ived of the additional operation
which was involver in preparing
1 the old Shipper’s Export Dcclar
at ion, Commerce Form 7525.
“Comm' rce Form 7525-H must
be printed privately. It will not
be printed by the Government
Printing Office. Changes in the
printing of this nem form will be
permitted to make it conform to
the bill of lading now in use for
-hipm nts to Alaska. For any pro
posed changes permission must
be obtained from the Division of
Foreign Trade Statistics, Wash
ington, D. C.. prior to printing.
“Schedule H — 'Statistical Clas
sification and Commodity Code
Numbers of shipments of Mer
chandise to Alaska’ will be used
in coding these transactions on
and after January 1, 1941. The
commodity code numbers appear
n the left column of Schedule H.
This new schedule will contain
150 commodity code numbers as’
compared with the 1200 code num
h rs previously used in accord
ance with Schedule B. Copies of
Schedule H may be obtained
from the Collector of Customs at
1 Seatt.e, Washington, from our
District Office located at the Fed
eral Office Building, S attle, or
from the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce in Washing
ton, D. C.
“Shippers must describe their
merchandise in sufficient detail
to permit classification in accord
ance with th, requirements of
Schedule H.
"Quantities must be expressed
in unit measures of pounds, tons
(of 2,240 pounds unless otherwise
specified) gallons, etc., as requir
ed by Schedule H. When the
quantity inserted in the ‘Quan
tity’ column on Form 7525-H dif
fers from that required by Sched
ule H, the required quantity must
be inserted to the left of the ‘Val
ui-’ column in the ‘Description of
Goods’ column.
“Commerce Form 7525-H must
be filed in duplicate. The atten
tion of the shippers is called
to Schedule H. Class Number
9999.1 — ‘General merchandise
valued at $10.00 or Loss. (This
commodity should be applied to:
(a) All SINGLE ITEMS of Sched
ule H commodities valued at $10
or less; and (b) All TOTALS of
Schedule H commodities, single
items of which are valued at $10
or less, including shipments to
postmaster or other agents for
The America
Sails With
Mine Device
First Liner Fitted by Navy
With ‘De Gaussing Belt Is
Off on Caribbean Cruise
NEW YORK —The United Slat
es liner America, the first Ameri
can flag ship to be equipped by
the United States Navy with a
magnetic mine-repelling belt,
sailed recently on a twelve-day
cruise to the West Indies and
Havana with 751 passmgers.
Tre Navy Department in Wash
ington and officials of the United
States Lines have declined to
make any statement on the rea
son for equipping the America
with the so-called “de Gaussing
belt” which, it is said, will repel
floating mines from the ship and
explode the magnetic ones before
they can reach the vessel. A rep
r sentative of the line said the
belt had been installed at Nor
f lk in the record time of three
and a half days. Ordinarily thirty
days are necessary, he said.
The device which neutralizes
tha magnetic quality of the hull
is virtually all inside the ship,
differing from the British “de
Gaussing belts,” which are en
tirely outside the hull. The one
on the America consists of four
3-inch cables covered by canvas
and prot.cted by a heavy steel
hood eight inches wide.
A ong the America’s 723-foot
length only thirty feet of the pro
tecting device is outside and is
scarcely noticeable. This section
is the four 3-inch cabl s forming
the belt that is situated under the
bridge on the promenade deck
running down to the well deck.
Starting at the stern, the belt di
vides at the passenger quarters
half going along the main prom
enade and half along the deck
below, in the “scuppers,” and
joining again forward of the
bridge.
In the excitement of taking pic
tures of the belt, Roy Viktorin,
the ship’s photograph, r, was
caught in the milling crowd of
visitors trying to get off and was
swept down the gangplank onto
the pier. He managed to find a
tugboat at the end of the pier
distribution at destination.)
“This number may be used on
both Commerce Form 7525 and
the new Commerce Form 7525-H.
“Correspondence regarding the
use of this new form should b
addressed to the Division of For-|
eign Trade Statistics, Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
Washington, D. C.”
Attached to the foregoing is i
the lengthy schedul. of commod
ities under title of Schedule H,”
statistical code classification of
shipments to Alaska from the
United States, eective January 1,
1941.
“For classification of ship
ments to other noncontiguous j
t, rritories, it is noted, shippers!
should use export Schedule B. I
PROGRESS AT KODIAK
BASE IS REPORTED
—
Back in Fairbanks from a busi
ness trip to Kodiak, W. L. "Dan"
Lhamon, head of the Northern
Commercial Co. Caterpillar de
partment, reports that activity
on thi: U. S. Navy’s seaplane and
submarine base on the island is
progressing rapidly, with a crew
of 1.200 men on the job.
In addition to the Naval facil
ities under construction, Lhamon
reported work going ahead on
the Army airfield adjacent to the
Naval base.
A f w miles from the town of j
Kodiak, the contractors on the i
government job, Siems, Drake.;
Puget Sound Co., have their own
bunk houses and messhouse. At
the messhouse 500 men can now'
be f d at one seating with the
capacity to be tripled this spring.
The contractors figure that they
have five or six years’ work
ahead of them on the big pro- j
ject.
Other government work at Ko
diag includes the CAA radio
b am station on Woody Island, |
now being completed.
New equipment just arriving
on the job or enroute, in which'
Lhamon was especially interest-:
ed. includes five D8 tractors, a
D17000, 85 kilowatt generator
and two 12-yard carryall scraprrs
all Caterpillar machinery.
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that put him safely aboard the:
America after she had backed out
into the river.
Among the passengers were
Dr. and Mrs. James Arthur Su-,
therland of Fairbanks, Alaska,.
who have been making their first
visit to the United States in forty
years, hey are going to Puerto
Rico, where they will be the |
guests of the Lieutenant Gover- j
nor. Another passenger was the I
IVJost Rev. Aloysius J. Wellinger,
Bishop of Puerto Rico, and form
er State Supreme Court Justice
William H. Black.
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MOVES U P—Capt. David
Margesson (above), who was
named Britain's war minister to -
succeed Anthony Eden when
latter became foreign minister,
was former government “whip.”
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Arrows indicate points at which Thai army, supported by air raids
was reported by Thai, French and Japanese sources to have in
vaded French Indo China. The French charged aid to Thailand is
coming from “an Asiatic country.”
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
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Gale force northeast winds will moderate slowly tonight with
temperatures remaining about 15 above zero. Tuesday generally
fair and slightly warmer with increasiny cloudiness followed by
light snow Tuesday night.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 15 Lowest temp — -20 Precipitation — 0
Total preeip this month T Total since Jan. 1, 1941 0.19
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight----- _! 57 NNW u clear
8 a m - -.-... 14 57 NNE 34 Snow 4
12:30 p m -- 14 02 NE 38 Drifting
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:37 a. m. Sunset 3:58 p.m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — Lowest te mp — -4 Precipitation — T
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