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WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1944._
ONE YEAR AGO—MAY 9th AND 10th
Allies retreat from Buthedaung, leav
ing the east side of the Mayu Peninsula
in Japanese hands.
In Tunisia, British forces advanced up
both sides of Cape Bon Peninsula, with
Axis resistance crumbling before them,
taking more than 70,000 prisoners, in
cluding a number of high-ranking gen
erals.
Australia was raided by nine Japan
ese planes striking at Millingimbi, a
northern outpost, “causing slight dam
age”, with the loss of three planes.
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
arrived in New York City from Nassau
in the Bahamas.
The U. S. Supreme Court decided that
violations of the ceiling on prices could
be prosecuted.
THE CREWLESS BOMBER
Like all the “secret weapons” of which
we have heard since the outbreak of
war, the radio-controlled bomber of the
Germans turns out to be no secret at all.
It is nothing but an enlargement of the
German winged, radio-controlled rocket
bomb described by Mr. Churchill last
year. Like other secret weapons it has
not fulfilled expectations by reducing
Allied military forces to helplessness.
The general principle of controlling
apparatus by radio goes back to the early
days of what was once called “wireless.”
At the first electrical exposition held in
this city over forty years ago, Nikola
Tesla maneuvered and blew up a model
submarine in a tank by radio. There
soon followed a score of German. Am
erican, English and French inventors
who showed how engine-driven vehicles,
torpedoes and ships could be steered by
radio waves with never a man on board.
Both the British and American Navies
maneuvered obsolete crewless • battler
ships under full steam in the same way
and used them for target practice.
Whether or not the new German
bomber is as destructive as the Germans
claim, it manifests a trend which goes
back to the introduction of cannon. Ig
nite gunpowder and chemical energy is
released. The mechanization of war.
therefore, begins with artillery. Every
improvement in mechanical engineering
has been applied in battle. Troops are
carried to the front in trains. Tractors
have taken the place of horses, and steam
engines the place of sails on battleships
and cruisers. Now we have tanks, jeeps,
trucks, planes—all engine-driven so that
battles are fought by machines as well as
by men. And the machines have become
more and more automatic until at last
a stage has been reached when the crew
less bomber, remotely controlled^ pan be
launched against an enemy. Whrrknpws
but some day, if war is not abolished,
battles may be fought simply by more
or less automatic machines?
We have not yet reached the stage of
military and naval evolution, but we are
not far from it when a battleship is re
duced to helplessness if turrets can no
longer be turned or her steering-gear i.’.
crippled or if Germany finds it impossi
ble to launch enough planes to ward off
an attack on Berlin. The writers of ro
mantic scientific fiction have been tell
ing us for years that wars will be blood
less because machines will do all the
lighting, and the radio-controlled devices
of the war lend some color to their
fancies.—(New York Times).
JACK WHALEY SURPRISES
MANY NOME FRIENDS
Mrs. B. V. Whaley reports she
has received information from her
son, Jack Whaley, who is now a
lieutenant in the Air Corps, in
the Mapping and Observation De
partment, with headquarters at
Pearl Harbor. Jack also revealed
the fact that he was married
nearly two years ago to a girl in
Honolulu, and they now have a
baby girl, and are living in Hon
olulu. This is indeed a pleasant
surprise to Jack's many friends
in Nome, who will wish them
much happiness.
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AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airways
Sig Wien left yesterday on a
postal inspection trip with Mr.
Blake of the postal department.
They will stop at White Moun
tain, Kotzebue, Candle and
Sungnak, and then return to
Nome.
Gene Jack Airways
Gene Jack recently purchased a
plane in Miami, Florida, and with
his wife, flew the ship to An
chorage, his home office.
Gene is now on a trip which
took him from Anchorage through
Shungnak to Pt. Barrow, then to
Nome, on charter by Robert Hen
ning, a fur buyer for the Gold
stein Co., of Juneau; R. S. (Deac)
Brown, manager of the J. Vic
Brown & Son, Jewelers, of Fair
banks and Anchorage, and Miss
Regina Cashen, who is in the
employ of the jewelry company.
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RETURNS OF
ELECTION ARE
INCOMPLETE
Election returns are still in
complete, as Utica precinct and
the absentee votes are yet to be
recived.
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j At present writing, the Repub
. iican nominees are as follows:
Grigsby holds the lead in the
Second Division only, while Man
ders takes the other three Divi
sions to cinch the nomination for
Delegate. Since there was no com
petition on the ticket for other
Territorial offices, except repre
sentative, here are the standings
in that section for the Second Di
vision: Baker, TayllKr, Bell,
Bayne , Seifferf, in the order
named
The Democratic ticket went a
little different: Thus we have
Bartlett over Roden and Ziegler,
for Delegate; Rivers wins over
Drager; Smith easily takes it from
Metcalf, but for Second Division
representatives, there is a closer
contest. Walsh, Porter and Ander
son lead the ticket, with Bess
Cross taking fourth place on the
ticket over W. E. McDonald by
only one vote, with Madsen and
Castel out of the running.
This is not a final nor an offi
cial report, but is correct to date,
"THE ARTICAN" IS
NEW ARMY PUBLICATION
Under the guidance of Army
personnel of APO 947, and chock
| full of late news releases, both
world-wide and local, ‘‘The Arti
can, four-page mimeographed
daily, reached the editor’s desk
this week.
“G. I. Arctic Articles” is
the theme established for the pub
lication by the army personnel
editors and assistants, and the is
sues are well-filled with pertinent
happenings of the day at hand.
“Life Savers”, a cartoon, occu
pies a prominent spot on one page
! of the newspaper while Holly
wood Flashes and announcements
make up the back page.
“Tailing Tattler”, features the
thoughts of many, and bids fair
to become one of the more pro
nounced features of the publica
tion •
We look forward to more issues
of this fine “daily” in the future.
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FORMER NOMEITE
NOW AT KODIAK
John Darrah, son of H. H. Dar
rah, who was a deputy marshal
here several years ago, is now sta
tioned at the Naval Air Station
at Kodiak. His mother lives at
Winlock, Wash., and is always
happy to have her Nome friends
stop when they travel that way.
as nearly as we can ascertain.
Further returns will be pub
lished Friday.
NATIVES BAG
jVRGE NUMBER
OF WOLVES
The following reports on the
killing of wolves in this section
of the Territory have been pre
sented by the Nome office of the
Wildlife Service.
Sig Wien Northern Activities
103 wolves have been trapped
and shot this winter by Shung
nak Natives, according to advices
by Pilot Sig Wien. Nearly all
were killed in the area between
Kobuk and Colville rivers, where
great numbers of wolves are
preying on caribou. These wolves
could easily, in a single year, kill
more caribou than the total shot
by Alaska hunters.
Wolves kill caribou and rein
deer in three main ways: (1) by
outright killing, for sport and
food; (2) by constantly chasing
the animals, which gradually
starve from insufficient chance to
feed; <3) by driving mothers away
from their fawns during fawning
season, which results in fawns
starving.
Reindeer are now being herded
constantly on northern ranges,
so wolves have left the herds to
hunt caribou.
‘Bill Muns Bags Another
A large, black male wolf was
shot yesterday by Bill Munz, 10
miles east of Pilgrim Springs.
Munz landed and shot the animal
with a 30-30 carbine
' The grey wolf shot with buck
shot by Grant Jackson Sunday
was a female, the second bagged
by him this season. Grant handles
a shotgun expertly, and is fast
learning the technique of slaying
ruining wolves from planes flying
80 miles per hour.
A total of 13 wolves have been
shot from planes piloted by Bill
Munz this season.
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