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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Increasing cloudiness with intermittent light snow tonight and
Tuesday rorning. Tuesday aftsrn oon fair and slightly colder.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 36 Lowest temp — 25 Precipitation — T
Total precip this month 0.45 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 11.15
0
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight ..... _ 33 62 SW-20 Pt Cldy
8am ... _ 33 60 SW-13 Pt Cldy
12:30 p m . ...... .. „ 29 81 E-8 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:18 a. m. Sunset 3:10 p.m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 17 Lowest tepm — 2 Precipitation — T
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind Weather
Candle 22 S-3 Cloudy
Council .
Golovin . .
Kotzebue . . 24 • SSE-10 Clear
Solomon .-.- 20 NE-2 Clear
Teller .... . _ 28 S-10 Clear
Wales ...- .... 23 S-30 Pt Cldy
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time
Temp. Wind Weather Precip
Anchorage ..-.-.— — 25 N-5 Pt Cldy 0
Bethel .:.- .- .... 32 NW-2 Snow 1.59
Cordova ... ........ 35 NE-5 Cloudy 0
Dutch Harbor .. 39 NW-15 Pt Cldy 0.26
Fairbanks .-.-.— — 6 SE-2 Cloudy 0
Juneau ..- 22 W-2 Ckar 0
Pt. Barrow .. ... 30 S-10 Cloudy 0
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
BIO SHIP ORDER IS FOR L.S.
WASHINGTON —Secretary of
Treasury Henry Morgenthau dis
closed that Great Britain has or
dered a “large number of freight
ships in this country.
The S.cretary said he did not
know whether the orders involv
ed the construction of a new
shipyards in the United S'ates
for the exclusive British use, but
edded: “Great Britain has ord r
ed a large number of Number
One standardized type of freight
ships.”
High-Priced Package Sent Mail
SAN FRANCISCO — One of
the highest-priced packages ever
s.nt through the mails is enroute
Honolulu by Clipper plane. The
package is a bundle of blueprints
and charts for naval contract
ors in Hawaii It was mailed hv
an Alameda firm.
The package weighed 26 pounds
.nd required $171.20 worth of
postage stamps. It was plastered
w 1h 34 flve-dollar Coolidge
stamps, one-dollar Wilson stamps
and one 20-cent Garfield stamp.
LEAVES HIM COL D—Preparing for a 35,000-foot jump,
Arthur H. Starnes, Chicago parachute jumper, donned this suit
with face mask and oxygen equipment for a test in the Armour
Research Foundation “cold room” at Chicago. Wind velocity and
’chute iumping temperatures were simulated there. At left is I)r.
► Albert 'I. Andrews, Jr„ of the Northwestern C. research staff.
Late Telegraph
First American
Ship Is Sunk
Result Of War
SYDNEY, Nov. 9 (/P) — Naval
.Minister William Hughs announc
I ed that the 5800 ton American
freighter City of Rayville blew
up and sank near Melbourne
last night. Thirty seven of the
icrew of thirty eight were saved.
He said it was probably caused
by a mine.
Reuters n ws agency said that
some members of the crew blam
ed the sinking on sabotage. This
is the first American ship sunk
in the war.
(JO Longshore
men West Coast
Agree Contract
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 9 (/P)
— Climaxing 14 months negotia
tions, CIO longshoremen and
the Waterfront Employers Asso
ciation last night reached a ten
tative agreement on the terms
of a new contract covering 14,000
West Coast longshoremen. The
proposal must be ratified by the
memberships of both organiza
tions to become effective. The
new contract generally follows
previous contracts in regards to
hours, wages, holidays and hir
ing halls, but would add a “new
coast labor relations committee”
to serve as a court of appeals.
Roosevelt Falls
Our Free Schools
A Bar to Tyranny
Tells Dutchess County Meeting
They and Public Schools Are
Vital Defense Factors
DEFENDS RELIEF PROJECTS
These Symbolize A “Modern"
Doctrine of Responsibility to
The Destitute. He Asserts
By Charles Hurd
HYDE PARK, N. Y., — Free
and uncontrolled education was
described by President Roose
velt as a vital necessity in the
preservation of democracy ag
ainst encroachment by dictators.
Speaking at East Park, n ar
| here where a high school and
1 two grade schools constructed
with Federal aid in the Hyde
Park area were dedicated in
joint exercis:s, Mr. Roosevelt
listed academic freedom along
side the New Deal public works
program for relief of unemploy
ment as integral parts of Ameri
ca's well-being and her defense
as well.
| “These three new schools.” he
said “symbolize two modern func
tions in America, each of which
is proving itself more and more
vital to the continuance of dem
ocracy.”
Mr. Roosepelt spike primarily
to some 2,0000 persons, of whom
perhaps one-third were children,
gathered on the lawn in front of
the new Franklin D. Roosevelt
High School. His speech however
was obviously designed for the
wider national audience which
would read it in the newspapers
or hear it over the radio.
“Here, in these and other
schools,” he said, “will be train
ed the young people of a nation
not for enforced labor camps or
for regimentation as an enslaved
citizenry but for the intelligent
exercise of the right of suffrage
and for participation as free hu
j man beings in the life of the
nation.”
Acclaims Public Works Plan
As for public works, which he
said were symbolized by these
new schools, the President re
marked that in less than eight
years almost every community
ihad obtained some new builling
jor work—“illustrations of the re
I
'suits of giving employment on
useful projects-’—with the result
i that “in building for th: well
being of America, we have built
for the defense of America as
well.”
Mr. Roosevelt listed this ad
dress as one of his “non-politi
cal” speeches. H.j interpolated in
jan opening paragraph this state
ment:
“On matters which relate to
elucation in this States of ours
and in this country of ours, very
little has been decided on the
basis of party politics.”
H.j divided his talk into three
sections the first consisting of a
tribute to local citizens who
worked for the construction of
the schools, which cost $1,300,000
of which the PWA contributed a
grant of $585,000; the second of
a sharp arraignment of the man
ner in which dictators have sup
pressed education, and finally an
mphatic defense of the public
works program which has figur
ed so largely in controversies vo
er the New Deal.
President Roosevelt said that
these new buildings could well
be dedicat d to “that old func
tion—the American institution of
universal education.”
“In the last decade,’ he went
on, “this right of free education
which has become a part of the
national life in our land has tak
' en on additional significance
from events in certain other
lands. Almost the first freedom
to be destroyed, as dictators take
control, is the freedom of learn
ing. Tyranny hates and fears no
thing more than the free ex
change of ideas, the free play of
the mind that comes from edu
cation.
“In these schools and in other
American schools the childr n of
today and of future generations
will be taught, without censor
ship orf restriction, the facts of
current history and the whole
context of current knowledge.
Their textbooks will not be burn
ed by a dictator who disagrees
with them; their teachers will
riot be banished by a ruler whom
they have offended; their schools
will not be closed if they teach
unpalatable truths, and their
daily instruction will not be gov
erned by the decree of any cen
tral bureau of propaganda.
(Continued in Next Issue)
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I.) Leaders
% ose Feeding
01 Europe
(Continued from Page Two)
nightly in the lives of women
and children. For the democratic
nations, overwhelmingly outnum
bered in military strength, the
only instrument of defenses avail
able to them is the imposition
of a naval blockade by which
their adversaries shall be barred
from the raw materials including
food essentials for their aggres
sion. This blockade cannot fail
to occasion privation among peo
pies already suffering virtual en
slavement at the hands of their
conquerors.
“The American people have
given overwhelming evidence of
their sympathy with Great Brit
ain and her Allies, of their re
cognition that American secur
ity is deeply involved in British
victory, and of their resolve to
lend the British all aid n cessary
to assure defeat for the totalit
arian threat to the liberties of
free people. It is a keystone of
American policy that we will
lend ourselves to no plan which
might directly or indirectly stren
gthen the enemies of democracy.
This principle must determine
our course of action in the issue
now’ under consideration as well
as in all other issues.
“Any proposal to feed civil
populations in conquered coun
tries would naturally have to
rest upon the consent of both
belliger nts. Germany and her al
lies would be asked to give guar
antees not only that all food
sturs sent would go directly and
solely to the civilians of the con
quered nations and that no food
which otherwise would sustain
thes:- people would thereby be!
removed, but also that quantities
of foodstuffs known to have been
already withdrawn from Den
mark and Norway and Poland.
From Belgium and Holland and
France for the feeding of the to
talitarian armies and peoples
would be- restored. The Allied
forces would be expected to per
mit food ships to pass their block
ade.
“Since these are matters which
vitally affect the interests of the
Unit-d States they cannot be
dealt with independently of our
own government and its careful
ly considered policy. It is our
strong conviction that any effort
by private American citizens to
bring pressure to bear upon oth
er governments or to arouse Am
erican sentiment for that pur
pose would be improper and un
fair as well as directly contrary
to America’s essential interests,
and should be firmly resisted by
I
.very clear-sighted leader f pib
lie opinion.
"We do not raise questions as
to the practicability of the un
dertakings which it is proposed
to demand from the totalitarian
governments. But. in view of the
habitual violation by those gov
ernments of every sol mn under
taking entered into, it is obvious
that no confidence could be plac
od in any pledg' which they
might give. Therefore th deci
sion as to whether the proposed
scheme would guarantee that it
will not strengthen the aggress
ors rests primarily with those
heroic sacrifices today safeguard
our security and whom Ameri
icans are resolved to uphold by
every means within our power.
"Unless the British Govern
ment gives its free consent, un
coerc d by any external press
ure, it is our reluctant but con
sidered judgment that the Ameri
can people should have no part
in the scheme. It may well be
that the issue is b tween restrain
ing the natural impulse to re
lieve privation, and giving a
measure of immediate relief, the
effect of which will be to make
tl status of slavery more toler
able. Between the agony of emp
ty stomachs for a time in one
part of the world and the agony
of stricken souls in every part of
the world there can be but one
choic
The signers, in addition to
those mentioned, are Mrs. Car
rie Chapman Catt, feminist lead
er; Dr. Carlton J. H Hayes, Pro
fessor of History at Columbia
University; Umphrey Lee, presi
dent of Southern Methodist Uni
versity; Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell,
president emeritus of Harvard;
James G. Patton of the Colorado
Farmers Union; Bishop William
Scarlett of the Protestant Epis
copal Church. St. Louis: Dr. Ro
bert E, Speer, form r secretary
of the Board of Foreign Mis
sions of the Presbyterian Church
Herbert Bayard Swope, journal
ist; Bishop Henry St. George
Tucker of the Protestant Episco
pal Church, Richmond. Va„ and
Dr. Mary E. Wooley, president
emeritus of Mount Holyoke Col
lege.
WHAT THE WANT ADS
MEAN TO NOME
To Sell that gun, furniture,
baby carriage, coat, trunk at a
profit.
To Buy that ice box or rug,
piano or suit, car or accordian at
low cost.
To Rent that room, garage,
apartment or that house to de
sirable tenants.
To Hire that maid, gardener,
nurse, chaugeur, cook or laun
dress, etc.
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■HBIBHaKMCaL.
Rushing aid to Greece, the British were reported ti have landed troops at Corfu (1>- Italian troops
were reported to have driven 1ft miles into Greece (2) in the direction of Fiorina, but Athens said
the Greek defenses were holding. There were Italian air raids on the Greek naval base at Preveza
(3) and the port of Patras (4). and, in the Athens area (5), along the Corinth Canal and the Tatoi
airport. The Greke navy was reported clustered at Salonika (6). London denied reports British troops
had landed at Crete (7).