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Eyes for the Night
(New York Times)
From London comes the news
that an American method of
photographing German cities,
dockyards and other strategic
positions by night has been used
with brilliant success by the R-y
al Air Force. “Brilliant” is the
right work because of the ilium
ination that makes the perform
ance possible. With engines cut
off. the reconnoitering plane
drops to an altitude of a mile
and releases a flash bomb contain
ing from 2D to 40 pounds of mag
nesium powder, which enromous
amount is touched off by a time
fuse. The momentary blindinb
glare, which is said to be as
•bright as the afternoon sun,
causes a photo-electric cell to
send a signal which trips the el
ectric shutter of a specia ly de
signed camera in the airplane on
high. As each bomb is thus ex
$ploded a terrain of about five
square miles is photographed.
Moreover, the film is automatic
ally shifted to brine a new frame
in line with the axis of the lens
after each flash. Photographs are
deveioped in midair and their
revelations radioed to bombers or
headquarters.
There can be litle doubt that
this is the very invention which
Was demonstrated last October
over Rochester. N. Y.. and the
surrounding region. A dozen
times magnesium bombs burst
over the city, and a dozen time?
photographs were made that left
nothing to be desired in detail.
Eyes had been given to the night
fliers. “We have daylight here."
Major George W. Goddard, the
Army’s observer, is said to have
declared on that occasion. He
did not exaggerate; for the flash
of the exploding bombs is of
the order of a billion eandlepow
er. Something of the importance
of the achievement may be glean
ed from the fact that there have
been times when an extra hour
cf daylight would have changed
the course of a battle and the
history of the world. In these
days of lending ail possible aid
to Britain it is good to know that
we have communicated 4to the
•Royal Air Force a way of niaking
nocturnal photographs which we
we would have kept to ourselves
in ordinary times.
FBI Men Are Demanded Now
For Chiefs of Police: Many
Requests Filled by Hoover
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON—When Mayor
Marvin Kline of Minneapolis ap
pealed to J. Edgar Hoover, dir
ector of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, to find an FBI man
for a police chief. Kline was join
ing the parade that is making the
FBI one of the most unusual em
plovment bureaus in the land.
When Hoover informed Kline
that he had such a man in his
own front yard. Hoover was ful
filling his little-known function
as No. 1 placement man for
chiefs of police in the United
States.
FBI National Police Academy
graduates and men from the FBI
rods now are chiefs of police in
82 cities.
After explaining to Mayor
Klne that all FBI agents worthy
of conducting the Minneapolis
police department were needed
in national defense, Hoover told
the Mayor of Edward B. Hansen,
?, v:toi'3n of the Du'uth police
force who no: only had worked
himself up to chief in Duluth,
but had also acquitted himself
with hrnors at the FBI's “West
Point of law enforcement.”
Mayor Kline grabbed his man.
A Daily Routine
This has been going on for
months. There isn't a day passes
that the FBI director doesn’t
have from one to six requests for
a recommendation for police
chief. There isn’t a day that he
da sn’t answer these requests,
generally suggesting some mah
.'.ho graduated from the police
academy. Out of nearly 600 grad
uates of the NPA, 78 now are
chief of police and 12 are assist
ant chiefs.
In Kansas City there is 6-foot-3
L. B. Reed, who has been re
ferred to in inner circles as the
best all-around FBI man the ser
vice ever had. InTuisa. is Police
Chief Ralph Colvin, the man who
stopped that notorious western
grangster. Wilbur Underhill; and
who was in the saddle as agent
in charge of Oklohama City
hen the “Machine-Gun Kelly
Bailey-Bates gang was rounded
up.
Oklahoma City's chief is
Frank Smith, a quiet, unassum
No Further Exten
sion for Corp. In
come Tax Returns
Under instruction received on
Tulv 14 from Guy T. Helvering,
Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue. Col'ectors of Internal Rev
onus are no longer authorized to
grant extensions of time for fil
ing corporation income tax re
turns.
No further extension will be
granted by the Commissioner for
filing corporation income tax re
turns for the calendar year 1940.
and in no case except under most
unusual circumstances will an ex
tension of time for the filing of
returns for fiscal years ending in
1941 be granted, and then only
after submission to and approv
al by the Commissioner.
What Hitlerd means by saying
the Russians are tricky is that
he wants them to come out from
behind their whiskers and ex
pose their chin.
ing little man with gray hair —
the FBI agent who knew more
about south-western bank rob
bers than any other officer alive.
Workirg almost single-handed,
in the heart of the bank robbery
country, he cleaned out the band
its to such an extent than in
1937. toward the end of his FBI
reign, there wasn't a single bank
robbery in his territory. Inci
dentally, if Oklahoma Citians
want to know how close they
ca’-oe to being without Frans
Smith, let them look up the story
of the “Kansas City massacre.”
When gunmen opened up on the
ear that was transporting fugit
ive gangster Frank Nash back to
prison, Smith was sitting in the
center of the back seat, but, mir
aculous.y, came out of that slau
ghter unscatnea.
Theyre' Representative
These represent the kind of
men who are going over to cities
as chiefs of police, carrying with
them FBI methods. NPA grad
uates who have not worked for
!he FBI had the cream of know
ledge the FBI has assembled.
Here is another sidelight. The
District of Columbia police force,
because of an unprecedented epi
demic of unsolved crimes, is un
der congressional investigation.
Almost at the outset, it was dis
closed that only one man in the
Washington police force ever had
been through the FBI’s national
police academy and that there is
no former FBI man on the local
force.
Perhaps it is pertinent to this
story that Capt. Harvey G. Cala
'nan, the only Washington police
•nan who ever did swallow the
FBI's concentrated capsule of
law enforcement, may be the
:..?Nt chief of police of the na
tion’s capital.
Young Americans
Train For Mer
chant Marine
Opportunity exists for young
Alaska men interested in a car
eer at sea to become officers of
tlie American Merchant Marine
under a training program spon
sored bv the United States Mari
time Commission, it was announc
cd by the office of Gov. Ernest
Gruening.
Gov. Greuning was advised by
Commissioner Edward Macauley
of the maritime commission that
none of the 404 cadets now in
training under this program
come from the Territory.
"The commission feels that you
would want to know about this
opportunity which young Ameri
cans of your Territory are miss
i ing,” Macauley said. “We will
cooperate to the utmost with you
in arranging for young men to
take the prescribed examination
for cadet appointments. Another
national competitive examination
w 11 probably be held in Decem
j her, 1941. and in the interven
ing period we hope that sufficient
interest m3y be stimulated in A1
a ka so that we may have some
of your young men taking ad
vantage of this opportunity for a
career at sea as an officer.”
Requirements
Applicants must pass physical
and scholastic tests, and must
| not be less than 18 year of age
nor more than 25 years of age
on July 1 of the calendar year
i in which examinations are held.
' Candidates must be unmarried,
j Training is for a period of four
i years, three of which are spent
! at sea and one ashore. While in
■ training cadets will receive mini
i mum pay of $50 per month, in
1 creasing to not less than $60 af
j ter two years of service and to
| not less than $70 after three
| years of service. In addition, sub
- stence and quarters are furnish
! cd.
Alaskans interested in this pro
gram are asked to write Gov.
Gruening’s office for additional
information.
PROSPECTORS WORKING
NIGHTS TO FIND SCHEELITE
FALLON, Nev. — Night pros
pectors with fluorescent lamps
are hunting scheelite, from which
tungsten, a strategic war mineral
is obtained in a 20mile belt in
the area.
Hundreds of claims have been
staked out during recent months.
The region, including Pershing,
Churchill and northern Mineral
counties, shows more mineraliza
tion from metamoric contact than
any other opened in the far west.
The night prospectors hunt
Schoolite with lamps after first
having scanned the hillsides for
granite and limestone contacts.
In the daytime they spot crop
pings at the contact points, later
io give them the lamp test at
night.
The lamps at night bring out
luminous spots of scheelite.
Cye Cox, who last year discov
cred several croppings of schee
lite, has located 31 croppings
along two groups of claims which
extend in an east and west dir
ection for two miles. Most of
these lie in masses rather than in
viens, one bulk standing 20 feet
high and 20 feet across.
The exposed rocks were thick
ly sprinkled with bright freckles
about the size of a half dollar.
Production is already under
wya at the end of Cox’s east
group of claims, where Walter P.
Eafetfnan of Utah has been taking
ou$ ore for two months.
Federated Chureh
Wilbur P. Wood, Pastor
11:00 a.m.—Church School
7:45 p.m. — Worship service.
Sermon topic: “The Religion of
Jesus.” Miss Lance, of Oklahoma
City, will sing.
Lavinia Walace Young Mission
Miss Constance Erickson,
Superintendent
11:00 a.m.—Church School
5:30 p.m.—Worship service.
W. P. Wood will preach on
“What Will Happen Next?” Miss
Lance will sing.
SOLDIER STEWART ACTS AS GU»DE
Actor-soldier James Stewart became a studio guide for a day at Culver City, Calif., when he took
his family on a tour. Here they’re at the MGM lot. Left to right: Clark Gable, Mary Stewart, Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander Stewart, Lana Turner, and Jimmy.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday with light rain begin
ning late Saturday morning.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 57 Lowest t emp — 49 Precipitation — .01
Totalu precip this month — .01 Total since Jan.' 1, 1941 — 3.57
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight —---- 51 86 NE Cloudy
Sam----- - 51 95 E 6 Raining
12:30 p m--- 57 72 SE 9 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 3:06 a. m. Sunset 9:08 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 51 Lowest temp — 43 Precipitation — 0