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Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Continued cloudy and unsettled weather and not much change in
temperature tonight and Saturday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 31 Lowes te mp — 20 Precipitation — 0.10
Total precip this month —0.23 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 — 1.08
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . 23 97 SW-4 Snow
t a m . 21 100 SW-5 Snow
12:30 p m _ .1. 25 90 S-5 Fog
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 19 Lowest te mp-4 Precipitation — 0.00
Tomorrow: Sunrise—6:42 am Sunset—5:40 pm
lfce Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather
Deering . 20 W-8 Foggy
•©until . 26 Calm Cloudy
•olovin . 26 Calm Snow
Kotzebue . 20 E-3 Cloudy
Solomon . 25 SW-6 Snow
Teller .
Wales .
Weather Elsewhere: 1:M am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage .— 21 Calm Clear 0.00
Bethel . 17 NW-10 Cloudy 0.00
Cordova ._ 35 Calm Cloudy 0.19
Butch Harbor .. 37 S-10 Pt Cldy 0.00
Fairbanks .
Juneau . 33 W-3 Cloudy 0.00
Pt. Barrow ... -5 NE-6 Clear 0.00
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
The 1:30 am map indicates con vails over the entire peninsula
siderable stagnation in the pres- and along the extreme west coast
sure field with low pressure areas while variable cloudiness over
centered off the coast between the Interior.
Seattle and Juneau and another
over Southwest Bering Sea and Temperatures are well above
Eastern Siberia region. There is normal
a constant flowing aloft of warm Conditions are favorable for
moist air from the Pacific Ocean continued cloudy weather accom
region with some mixing and panied with variable fog areas
cooling in the under layers caus occasional light precipitation and
ing the fogs and low cloudiness, unimportant temperature chang
Cloudy and foggy weather pre- es tonight and Saturday.
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SALES
Every Month in the Year
Auction Sales Dates
1940
March 13 August 14
April 10 September 11
May 15 October 16
June 12 November 13
July 17 December 11
SPECIAL SALES HELD ON
REQUEST OF SHIPPERS
Advances will be made as
usual when requested.
Transferred by telegraph
If Desired
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British Boost
Foreign Trade
It Is Revealed
By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON — In spite of
British secrecy on trade statistics
j evidence has accumulated here
that England is fighting so hard
for her old markets that she is
even cutting down on production
of war goods so she can make
things to sell abroad.
A government economist charg
ed with observing these things
[said England had pulled numer
ous plants out of wrar production
to fill orders for foreign goods.
Even the rationing of British
subjects and the restraints on
purchase of non-essentials he
said is in large part directed at
preserving the output of export-'
able goods. It has other purposes
too. Britain doesn’t want her sub
jects to spend their war wages
foolishly. British industrial wag
es are in large part pegged to
prices. If British wage earners
begin buying too lavishly of lux
ury and non-essential goods pric
es will rise. That will force up
wages. In turn rising labor costs
will force up prices—and so on.
The old spiral leads to inflation.
The British want none of that.
Moreover they want their wage
earners to save their increased
earnings. It will be nice to have
them able to buy war bonds.
Britain wants no silk-shirt
craze to sweep the country as it
did the United States in the war
years. That sends gallons of gold
out of the country for fashion
able frivolities just when the
country needs raw materials she
can make into things to drop on
Germany or sell to neutrals.
What has made it possible to
return part of the great English
factory sytem to manufacture of
export goods is the strange na
ture of the war. There has been
no enormous destruction such as 1
I
: might be expected by this time.
I No trains have been blown up.
! No columns of trucks have been
! destroyed.
Britain expanded her plants in
the expectation that there would
be lots of shooting by now and
much destruction. There hasn’t
been much so England is able to
direct her attention to saving ov
erseas trade which she might
have expected to surrender to
the U S or Japan if the war had
become really explosive.
Here is an indication of what
is happening. Normally England
imports $324,000,000 of goods a
month exports $157,003,0 K). For
two months after the war started
in September both imports and
exports here were cut almost in
half. By November the conviction
had grown in Britain that there
was no need to cut otf her cus
tomers. She would keep her own
old customers and in addition get
those from which Germany had
been cut off. That was especially
true in South America.
Promptly British trade climb
ed back to normal and above. By
December it was better than nor
mal with imports at $387,000,000
and exports at $180,000,000. Re-'
turns from shipping and insur
ance handsomely helped balance
her trade.
She is engaging in direct bar
ter in many instances just as Ger
many did. Without stinting her
primary war production England
is able to supply machine tools
and railroad equipment in return
for essential raw materials. The j
raw materials she has sought 1
since November are the kind!
which can be converted cither in
to essential war goods or into ex
port goods. She is using mighty
little shipping space to supply
fancy goods for her wage earn
ers.
England seems to figure that
when the war ends she will have
world markets already at hand to
take up the slack caused by dis
banding her armies. In time of
war England is preparing for
peace.
PAA READY TO START
REGULAR RUN ON MAY I
WASHINGTON — Dr. Ernest
Gruening Governor of Alaska
urged the Civil Aeronautics Au
thority to authorize the establish
ment by the Pan American Air
ways of a Seattle to Juneau air
service.
Governor Gruening made his
plea at a CAA hearing in which
he traced the expansion of air
service over the Paficic and At
lanic. He said there was now on
ly one gap left and “w'e want
that closed.”
“Alaska faces a crisis as the
shipping companies have tried to
get additional ships on the route
north unsuccessfully. This air ser
vice is indispensable to Alaska.
We should have had it years
ago.”
He said it would be worth all
the costs to the government.
The PAA has estimated the
need of an air mail subsidy of
$330,000 annually to furnish two
round trips a week from May 15
to October 1.
Delegate Dimond joined the
appeal for the new service and
reiterated that it would be worth
“every cent it cost the govern
ment.
No provision was made in the
budget for this year but mem
bers of the House appropriations
committee told Gruening a defic
iency appropriation would be
made if the CAA issued a certific
ate to the PAA for operation t
the Seattle to Juneau link. T
company is already operating s
scheduled airline from Jun au j
Fairbanks via Whitehor ■ .
Gruening predicted the sur -
mer service would find at leaJt
30 passengers waiting f.r-each
trip.
Haro'd M Bixby PAA vice
president testified that tests had
been conducted over the route
and that the company had de
cided on Boeing 307’s as the best
type of plane to use.
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BRITAIN S ENTRIES IN SKY RAC E—These are powerful Vickers Wellington long
range bombers, which British-approved caption says “are of type which regularly flv over Germany.”
‘HONEY’ TIME NEARS IN NATCHEZ —Thanks to the competition between two
rival women’s club groups in Natchez, Miss., a tourist business booms each spring there with "Glad
to meet vou, honey, come again,” as a slogan. Each spring tourists by the thousands go through the
beautiful restored Natchez mansions, such as Auburn (above), paying for the privilege. j