PACIFIC ALASKA AIRWAYS
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Change in Nome Schedule
Ships Arrival and Departure
MONDAYS and THURSDAYS
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Continued cloudy with snow flurries, clearing late tonight with
slightly lower temperatures. Sat urday increasing cloudiness fol
lowed by snow and southeast wi nds in afternoon or night.
Data For 34 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 32 Lowest te mp — 24 Precipitation — 0.28
Total Precip this month 0.98 Total since Jan. 1, 1940, 11.68
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight.... - 32 98 SSE-25 Cloudy
8 a m . 31 89 SW-10 Pt cldy
12:30 p m . ... .. 31 91 SW-13 Snow
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:55 a. m. Sunset 2:40 p.m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 13 Lowest te mp — 4 Precipitation — 0
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind Weather
Candle . 26 SSE-20 Snow
Council .
Golovin.
Kotzebue . 22 S-14 Pt cldy
Solomon .-.
Teller ... 28 S-20 cloudy
Wales . ..
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time
Temp. Wind Weather Precip
Anchorage .-.. — 5 NE-3 clear 0
Bethel ... 20 S-15 Pt cldy 0
Cordova . 26 calm Pt cldy 0
Dutch Harbor . 46 NW-3 cL ar 0.12
Fairbanks . . . '4 NE-3 clear 1
Juneau .. 39 NE-15 Pt cldy 0.55
Pt. Barrow . 15 SE-22 cloudy 0
Suggestions ar-i racisms Invited
HOLLYWOOD STAR-111 LS
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By Chuck Cochard
HOLLYWOOD Lxcusive i —
Movieland’s fl rists can tell you
more about y ur favorite stars
th3n all the snoop-rs and gos
sips together.
More real hot “gossip” passes
through their hands each day
than the avergae columnist re
. ceives in a week—For it is the
florists who can tell you WHO is
sending WHO orchids this wieek
—The Hollywood borist can tell
you when and where they’re go
ing each evening—He can even
teli you when a romance starts
cooling.
Yes, he could t-11 you who the
gentleman is who has been send
ing Norma Shearer flowers now
that the George Raft romance is
colder than a piece of ice. He
probably can / ven tell when the
Bi 1 Holden - Brenda Marshall
marriage wil come off—-he has to
know in advance to arrange the
flowers.
The theme song of Hollywood
romances is “Say It With Flow
ers.”
Find of the year is 23-year
old Laird Cregar—he stands 6
foot 4 and w< ighs a mere 309
pounds — who is making his
screen debut in the million dol
lar color feature “Hudson Bay"
with Paul Muni, Virginia Field,
John Sutton, Nigel Bruce and a
beautifully-talcnited girl Gene
Tierney (who-, debut was in
“The Return of Frank James”)
Laird's local stage role in “Oscar
Wilde" did the trick after hard
boiled filmland had turned him
down cold.
If his first film role is only
half as good as his performance
in “Oscar Wide” we are confid
ent that this g nial young fellow
is Hollywood’s newst star.
Man Comes
To Crips
With Bear
In a battle with a grizzly bear
near Chena Hot Springs, John
Gregg came off victor after he
had be n mauled and bitten by
the creature and after his ally
in the struggle, a faithful dog
had been so badly injured he
had to be slain.
Details of the encounter are
contained in a letter written by
Jack Mutchler. who is at the
Springs, to his brother David
Mutchler in Fairbanks.
Jack did not see the fight, but
he saw’ the dead bear< which
weighed between 700 and 800
pounds and measured more than
seven feet from tail to nose.
Jack, in his letter, says:
“Gregg had killed a moose,
and had put in into a cache about
one mi’e from his cabin. Sub
sequently when h? w’ent to the
cache to get some moose meat,
he learned a bear, a big one judg
ing from its footprints, had eat
en most of the moose, and had
dragg d nearly all the remaind
er away. There wras just a little
of the moose left in the cache-.
"Gregg started to trail the
bear and the stolen moose meat.
Hi found a quarter of the moose
and puiled it back to the cache.
Then he took up the bear's trail
again to find more of the stolen
meat-. He found some, and with
it retraced the trail back to
ward the cache. He got pretty
close to the cache when he saw
the bear coming from one side
of it toward him.
Only 10 Feet Away
“The bear wras only 10 fe-.t dis
tant. Gregg had his gun slung
over his shoulder with a strap.
Before he could get his gun off
his shoulder, he was grabbed by
one of his legs by the bear’s
mouth, and was pulled dowm on
his back. The bear started to
drag Gregg tow’ard some nearby
woods.
“Gregg had his mitts on and
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had difficulty in getting the safe .
ty off his rifle. He finally made it
but the gun was upside down.
The barrel was pointed toward
the bear, however. Gregg put the
muzzle about six inches from the
bear, just behind the animal’s
shoulder and pulled the trigger.
“Gregg said th2 bear made an
awful face, and let a groan out
of him.
Bear Breaks Dog’s Back
•Just after Gregg fired the
shot, his dog grabbed the bear
by the shoulder. This attracted
the grizzley's attention to the
dog. The bear let go of Gregg
and hit the dog one swipe, break
ing the dog's back.
“Gregg shit again, hitting the
bear near the first shot. The b ar
then turned from him and the
dog and started for the woods.
Gregg got to his feet and shot
again. With that shot the bear
appi ared to quicken his pace.
Gregg fired once more and the
bear went down and stayed
down.
“Gregg had to shoot his dog,
which was the saddest part of
the affair.
Felt Pain Near Cabin
“Gregg did not feel much pain
from the bit, in his leg until he
got near his cabin. Then the in
jured leg started to pain aw
fully. When he got home he
(found the boot on the injured
leg had a lot of blood in it. The
leg had two do p tooth marks.
“Gregg’s leg is in fine shape
[now, however. He limp-, a little
but he is pest ‘he danger r f in
fection. The leg is amost heal 'd."
STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 90 PROOF • SCHENIEY DISTILLERS CORP., N. Y. C.
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Says Alaska Is
Easy Market
To Sell In
NEW YORK —With Alaska be
coming a keypin in America’s na
tional defense program du,_ to its
proximity to Soviet Russia and
Japan, an unusual opportunity
looms for American manufactur
ers to increase trade there, Theo
C. Wiehe, president of Sehenley
International corporation, said in
an article in Shipping Digest
published recently on his two
months’ tour of the Territory.
Alaska, he said, is "one of the
easiest of all markets to sell be
cause the people are optimistic
about business.”
"It is important to study fu
tur, trade possibilities in Alaska
carefully." Mr. Wiehe said, first
because while it is not strictly
speaking, export trade at all.
most American manufacturers
handle it through their export
departments; second. because
trading with our own territory s
and possessions is much simpler
than with foreign nations, for
several reasons and is a very
profitable item in many an Am
erican company’s business."
Alaska is a good market for
American products today, vet
there is still plenty of room for
improvement, th, Sehenley com
pany’s foreign trade expert be
lieves, Canned goods enjoy an
excellent market because of the
limitation on fresh food impos
ed by th climate and transporta
ton difficulti he point; out.
Brewers and dis illcrs do a good
business too, he said.
Drawing a paral el between
the growth of Alaska trade with
that of the Canal Zone, Pu to
Rico and Hawaii. Mr. Wiehe
explains that important d fens.;
fortifications and new7 roads now7
being planned will require men
sent from the United Staff s who
"will be w: 1 paid and tht tore
viil give A rska c r rider able in
cr i d ou:chasi: g power."
Mr. V': ho comp res Alaska to
the “wild and woolly West of
our frontier days. Its cities are
really towns — only one, Juneau
the capital has over 4.000 inhab
il3nts and only seven have over
1,000 population. To that can be
added a summer population
which comes from the United
States for fishing, canning and
mining operations.-’
There is no manufacturing in
Alaska worth mentioning so
there is no question of competi
tion from the local market for
manufactured pnoducv Mr.
Wiehe said. The purchasing pow
er of th, inhabitants comes from
fi h. furs, gold and other miner
als a billion and a half dollars
worth of which have been export
ed since 1867 when the United
States purchased the territory
from Russia, he explains.
Summing up the factors favor
able to th. individual manufac
turer seeking to expand trade
with A aska, Mr. Wiehe mentions
the “undeniable prosperity right
now; indications that it and the
size of the market will increase
when gov rnmenta] defense pro
jects go through; absolutely no
exchange restricitons, quotas, tar
iffs or other trade barriers; and
people who like Amercian pro
ducts because they are Ameri
cans.”
On the advers, side of the
ledger, he would put the present
.I'.iied’- population of tor tclTiiui v ;
transportation difficulties; and cli
matte difficulties (although he
said the extreme southeastern
uertien of the t. rrimry h::s a cli
mate like that of Albany, N. Y.,
throughout the entire year.
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