Less Danger
To U.S. Now
WASHINGTON {IP)— Congress
heard that Chief of Staff Genera]
Marshall considers invasion less
imminent than a year ago when,
he said, this country would have
been in a ‘somewhat hapless
plight’’ had control of the Atlan
tic “passed to an enemy.’
At the same time the legisla
tors learned from Admiral Stark
that while transfer of mor.: des
troyers to Britain on a scale such
as suggested by Wendell Willkie
is not advisable ‘at the moment,’’
the government’s hands should
not be tied in the matter.
Both statements were made
public by the house appropria
tions committee in connection
with the fourth supplemental a
propriation bill.
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Heirs of McAdoo i
To Share Equally
SANTA BARBARA, Cal.—The
will of the late William G. Mc
Adoo filed in the Santa Barbara
probate court, divided his estate
equally among his widow, his
former wife and five of his six
children.
The former Secretary of the
Treasury and United States Sen
ator bequsthed his valuable law
library to his son, Francis Mc
Adoo instead of a share in the
assets of the estate. McAdoo died
unexpectedly in Washington. His
divorced wife is a daughter of
the lat. President Wilson.
The will listed the value of the
McAdoo estate in excess of $10,
000. It was believed to be quite
large.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST. NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and continued cold tonigh t and Thursday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 4 Lowest temp — -15 Preceipitation — 0
Total since Jan. 1, 1941 0.94’ Total precip this month — 0.06
Temp, Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight —...-11 43 E 5 Clear
Bam . .—-- -11 77 NTS 3 Clear
12:30 p m - —.. 2 63 N 2 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 6:29 a. m. Sunset 5:56 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 23 Lowest temp — 2 Precipitation — T 1
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Newspaper
Merges After
2 Centuries
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VENICE, Italy, — The Gazetta
di Venezia, b iieved Europe's old
est newspaper, has been merged '
with another newspaper, the Gaz ‘
1 zettino, after exactly two c.ntur
; ies of daily publication.
A morning paper, it has bo
, come the afternoon edition of the
Gazzetlino. A complete file of the1 '
n wspaper is kept in an Italian 1
; national library as a daily record 1
of Venetian life from the frivol
ous days of the 18th century to
the Fascist present.
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Cold Storage
C ! |
Lockers For
iFairbanksans
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FAIRBANKS — Co nstruction '
will start as soon as “building i
weather’’ arrives on a $20,000
public cold storage plant, accord
inglo an announcement by the, j
Sub-Arctic Trading company.
The plant will contain 350 pri- |
vate lookers, each capable of hold
ir.g 300 pounds of meat or an
j equivalent amount of fruits or
i vegetables.
In addition to the private lock ;
ers, th plant will have a modern
meat market for retail sales of
meat as well as for the benefit
of those storing meat in the lock
ers. A fur storage room and
sharp fre zer for meats, fruits
and vegetables will complete the
plant.
Radio-Phone For
Up - To - Date
Locomotives
CHICAGO — The two-way ra-1
I dio—a modern aid in chasing law
breakers or directing airliners—
now' is being used to run down
box cars, and keep track of
1 switch engines.
Without radio, a switch engine
1 crew is handed its orders and
th n is out of touch with the
roundhouse until it concludes its
specified task.
The Pi'oviso yards where the
; tests are being made sprawl over
i 3,000 acres and handle an averag
of 7,500 cars daily. Some assign
ments take the locomotives miles
away from their starting point.
Use of radio enables the crew to |
rec ive new instruction immed
iately permitting orders to be
countermanded, without delay. I
when more urgent needs for the I
engines arise.
Stanley E. Noble, superintend
ent of telegraph and signals, re
ports the tests have worked out
"very well.’’ Th y were started
four months ago by the General i
Railway Signal Company under j
an experimental radio permit.
SLIDES TRAP TRUCKS IN MUD, HALT TRAFFIC
Slides caused by heavy recent rains covered parts of the Roosevelt coast highay near Los Angeles 1
with mud several feet deep, miring trucks and autos and halting traffic. :
Ca n a (I a
Opens Her
Medical Corps
_
OTTAWA. Canada, March —
:.in n lional def. n ■ head
ju rt. rs announced :vw regula-,
'ions which" permitt d doctors
hem outside of Canada to r g:s
r in thr* Royal Canadian Army
VI. dic l Corps. Previously the
statement said, only medical men
icenscd in Canada were ligible
tor service.
Tile new regulation authorize
he signing of medicai men from
it her part- of the Empire and .
Irom th' United States. The only |
•equirement of the regulations is j
that the men are graduates of;
medical srh ols and coll gss-e j
whose academic standards are ac
' ptab'u to the director general
if the medical corps.
Vlataimska
S alley May Be
•/
Electrified
JUNEAU — T ■ study the pos
• ibilitk s of a Rural El o trifica
liun administration project for
l h ° Mntauska Valley. Dona’d
Mr.okay of th Engineering Div
ision of REA. is in Juneau on
routeto Palmer.
Mock ay said his study is bung
made in response to correspond
ence which has been g i’ig back
and forth between th Valley
ar.d Washington for threi years.
Farm*. rs at M; tanuska have
been attempting for some time
to have electricity ' tended to
tiieir farms. At present tin* .: 1
ministration building- at Palm
er and imnifd ate vicinity are
lighted but not so the farms of
the valley.
Savings Are
Put Into
I n s u r a n c e
WASHINGTON — Senator O’
Mihoney, Democrat of Wyoming,
said that the vast flow of savings
int insurance policies has dam
med up great r°s rvnirs of money
which might otherwise be avail -
able for loans to small business
es,
O'Mshoney is chairman of the
monopoly committee which has
inquired into many phases of Am
erican conomy. He said some
businesses find it difficult to ob
tain collateral for use in business
loans. Said he:
“The extent of this concentra
tion of savings does not in any
sense mean a criticism cf manage
ment. but does point the reason
for the drying up of sources of
finacial supply.
AMERICAN WOMAN
SI'.' H) IN CHINA
SAN FRANCISCO M h
Relatives in San Fra.acb c • v.-i-c.v
ed v. rd of the death of a young
mission teacher. Miss Margare1
Kc s, in an automobile accident
at V mgping, Yunan P. vir.ee,
China.
Mis; Kees had just completed
a term on the faculty of Cheng
tu University and was on her
way home by way of British
Burma. Details of the accident
were not revealed.
Miss Kees graduated from
Whitman College of Walla Wal
la, Washington in 1931, and later
attended the University of South
c.rn California.
■ SOURDOU G H "
S r A T I O N E R V
V Nugget Office
Warning is Giv en
To Dutch By
German Army
j
AMSTERDAM, March The
President of the German Mil -
tary Court condemned 18 Nether
finders to death before a firing
squad and he also told the Dutch
people that every one who even
in thought plots against the Ger
man Army is playing with h:
!ife.
It is disclosed that many sabot
age cases are awaiting German
court martial proceedings.
Most of those sentenced wen
charged with spying for England
and plotting to coop rate with
the British Army in the event of
invasion.
The trials also revaled that a
secret Dutch organization had
been active from May to Decem
ber, last year, 'Especially in the
Dutch region nearest the English
coast.
RICH ON RATS
LONDON (A1) — A rat catcher
imetime.s makes as much as $
i v k. a London housewife m*
. d. : i magistrate’s court in
■ king more money from her
husband, who makes his living
.. i a t way.
FACTORIES ARE
CLOSED BY BRITISH
LONDON, March — Closure -
consolidation of dozens of facto,
ies engaged in some of Gr*a
Britain’s largest peace time in
dustries is announced by the Brit
ish Government.
The change releases a many as
750,000 man and women for arms
manufacture.
More than 50 industrial enter
prises employing fully 1,000,000
workers are affected by the cl s
ure or conso idation of faclori s.
POLICE, PICKETS MILL AROUND BETHLEHEM PLANT
Buffalo, \. Y.. police and pickets of the SWOC milled around one of the sates of Ihe Bethlehem
Steel Company s Lackawanna plant as a strike of fit) workers continued in its second day. t'nion
eaders claimed the walkout was 100 percent cfl five.
NEW BOMBERS RE iDY 1 OR ENGLAND
-lined up cn a storage field at Seattle, these four-motored Boeing heavy long-range bombing plan >
iwait delivery to Britain. One in left background is a U. S. plane, others have British markings.