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EDITORIAL
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DIMOND ON THE JOB
That was an impressive list of
-Alaska bills Delegate Dimond
dropped in the hopper as the
nfew Congress convened. Some
Were old measures which the
76th Congress didn’t get around
to considering. But there are also
a few outstanding new bills.
One would authorize construc
tion of a half million dollar fisher,
ies research vessel for use in the i
Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea and Al
aska waters. The Delegate also
tosses in “and Hawaiian waters.”
Everyone concerned admits that
the greatest need in the realm of
fisheries is more scientfic re- j
search. The Bureau of Fisheries'
now the Fish and Wildlife Ser-1
vice always has ben denied I
equipment and funds needed to
extend its research studies. We
ihope Dimond’s bill passes and
■that the Service is allowed an ap
-propriation which will really let
its scientists get in and find out
what we all want to know about J
*a!>i)on and other fish.
Another new Dimond bill
would transfer jurisdiction over
the Alaska fishing industry from
the Interior Department to the
Territory. The 1939 Legislature
asked for this in a memorial, if
•we remember correctly. The;
chance of passage of this piece of
legislation is negligible so it is j
probably useless to speculate
upon its merits. Th.e object
sought is one 6f greater Territor
ial control of its own affairs, a
worthy aim.
Appropriation of $250,000 to
construct two armories in Alaska
is asked in another Dimond bill.
M ney for the building of armor
ies is something which no State
has ever been able to wangle out
of Congr. ss. If the Delegate can
make the grade for the territory,
he will be achieving a legislat
ive miracle. Most Alaekas will]
ask why two? The Territory has
four National Guard companies
al needing armories. If the bill
dors pass, th re will be injured
feelings in half the towns with
Guard units. Perhaps it could be
am ”ded to read “four armories”
and $500,000” though that is not
the usual direction of arnend
n
T! list of m w Dimond bills, all
in n' 1. is an impressive one and
r. n-'njs u.s once again as if any
A :i needed reminding, that
w ■ hove a tireless and able repre
aentative in Washington. Tony
Dimond has achieved wonders
for the Territory in former Con
gresses. We hope it is not too
much to hope he will do it again
in the 77th,
GO WAF FOG
(Philadelphia Record)
In spite of the amazing pro
gr ss of both military and com
mercial aviation in the last five
years, it is still correct to say:
“They haven’t licked the wea
ther.’’
Commercial planes are ground
ed more often than we like to ad
mit. Th-re have been days and
even weeks in this war when
airplane could not be used effect
ively in certain areas.
But aviation is still trying to
lick the weather, and still mak
ing progress against it. The radio
beam and the radio-telephone
help fliers to find airports that
they could not possible locate in
heavy weather.
But neither of these devises
helps much against that insidious
enemy, the ground fog. A radio
beam can guide a plane right
over a field, but if, when he gets
there a pilot can only see below
him a soft gray haze of indeter
minate depth he can’t drop thru
it on the chance of finding a run
way.
Progress against fog is anounc
-d by Dr. Svere Petterssen, Nor
wegian meteorologist, now at the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. Two of Dr. Petterssen’s
colleagues have cleared a path
through fog 1.500 feet long, 150
feet wids: and 30 feet high.
They sprinkled 80 gallons of
Sulphur chloride through sprays.
This causes the fog to fall to the
earth as rain.
Meteorology is not merely the
passive science of studying the
wreath.: r and finding out what it
is going to do. It is also entering
an active stage of seeking to fit
the weather into man’s needs.
The M. I. T. erperiment is a
small but exciting beginning of
another phas. of man’s conquest
of nature.
OCTANE GENIUS
An Army airplane has, in the a
lat test, attained a speed of
520 miles an hour—faster than a
bullet, and an airplane speed of
600 and 700 miles an hour is in
sight.
It is the octane content of
gasoline that makes such speeds
possible and it is a former Rus
sian exile, no-w becoming a natur
alized American citizen who has
made the discoveries that permit
this hope.
The name of 73-year-old Vlad
imir N. Ipatieff was for years
revered in Russia much like
Thomas A. Edison’s was in Am
erica. Quitting Russia in protest
at what was happening, Prof.
Ipati ff came to America to be
come a lecturer at Northwestern
WINE FIELD ENTERED
15Y SCHENLEY CORP.
NEW YORK, Jan. — Purchase
of th.: Cresta Blanca Wine Com
pany of Livermore, California,
one of the most famous winer
ies in America is announced here
by Theodore C. Wiehe, Presi
dent of the Schenley Iimport Cor
p; ration. Mr. Wiehe said the firm
would start on a program of ex
pansion immediately after tak
ing possession of the property.
The transaction, hailed by the
American wine industry as “an
important step in the develop
ment of the industry,” gives
Seb nly a winery and vineyards
located in the finest dry wine
area in the country, Mr. Wiehe
said. Included in the purchase
is the trade name of Cresta Blan
ca Souvenir wines.
The Cresta Blanca winery pro
duces both red and white wines,
including sauterns, chablis, reis
lings, clarets, burgiulndies and
sweet wines.
Besides fermenting and stor
age buildings, equipment at the
Cresta Bianca plant inciltidieis
three storage caves. The expan
sion program calls for the ex
tension of the caves.
LINES OF THE TIMES
Some of the memorable lines
of 1940:
Adolph Hitler: “The fight be
ginning today decides the fate of
the German nation for the next
1,000 yrars.”
John Barrymore: "No man is
safe as long as there are women
in the world.”
Werdoll Willkie: “I hope they
r. nominate the President, I’d like
to beat him.”
Winston Churchill: “I havi-: no
thing to offer but blood, toil, tears
and sweat.”
President Roosevelt: “My con
science will not let me turn my
back to a call to service.”
Premier Reynaud: “If I were
1 told only a miracle could save
; France, then I believe in mir
acles, for I believe in France.”
Nevil’e Chamberlain: “Hitler
missed the bus.”
Mussolini: “We will break
Greece's back."
Premier Marshal Petain: “Too
i few children, too few arms and
too few allies were the cause of
| our defeat.”
Oscar Vitt: “Whoever gets the
job has my best wishes—also my
sympathy.”
Queen Wilhelmina: “The Neth
erlands will one day, with the
help of God, rewin its whole Eu
ropean territory.”
Pope Pius XII: “Grant us, O
Lord, peace in our day.”
University and chemical research
director for an oil company.
Here he has worked out a pro
cess of condensing the molecules
of a gas that was formi rly wast
ed in the “cracking” of crude
oils to make gasoline with such
resu'ts that the process repre
sents a saving of 75 million bar
rels of crude oil a year.
Thi pepped-up gas promises
speeds up to or better than 700
miles an hour and there are still
four billion untested ways of
trying to make better gasoline,
any of which may be an improve
ment on what is known today.
SEEING S NOT BELIEVING, NAZIS HOP E—Camouflage intended to conceal this
craft from enemy eyes gives above German mine-sweeper a gay pattern as it enters war lanes.
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At your favorite tavern
Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo..
Schenley Distillers Corp., N. Y. C.
Notice of Final Settlement
| In the Probate Court, Cape
| Nome Precinct, Territory of Al-,
aska:
In the Matter of the Estate of
CHAS. C. BRILL, Deceased:
Notice is hereby given that
Dave Gray, Administrator of the
Estate of Chas. C. Brill, Deceas
ed, has filed in said Court his
Final Report and Account; and
that Monday, the 10th day of
March, 1941, at the hour of 2
i o'clock p.m., at the Court Room
j of said Probate Court, in Nome,1
Alaska, has been set as the time
i and place for the hearing of ob
jections, if any there be, to said
Report and Account, and the set
| tlement of the same. At said
time and plae?, the Court will
adjudicate and decree who are
the heirs and distributees of said
deceased.
Dated: Nome, Alaska, January
8. 1941.
Dave Gray, Administrator
Publish Jan. 8 15 22 29, 1941.
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Notice of Hearing and Settle
ment of Final Account
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No. 578
In the Probate Court for the1
Cape Nome Precinct, Territory
of Alaska, Second Division.
In the matter of the estate of,
ISADORE FIX, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to,
whom it may concern;
That the undersigned Adminis-1
tratrix of the Estate of Isadore
Fix, deceased, has filed in the
| above entitled court, her final
account and that the 27th day
of F bruary, 1941, at the hour of
11:00 o’clock a.m. of said date in I
the Court room of said Court at
Nome, Alaska, has been fixed by
! the order of said Court, as the t
time and place for the hearing
\ of said final account and objec- j
Uions thereto and the settlement
thereof and that at said time and
place the Court will adjudicate!
and determine who are the heirs
‘ and distributees of said deceas- J
ed.
Dated this 16th day of Decem
ber, 1940.
Edna Fix,
Administratrix of the
Estate of Isadore Fix,
deceased.
Publish Dec. 18 25, 1940 Jan.
1 8 15, 1941.
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Continued fair and slightly colder tonight and Thursday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 20 Lowest temp — 10 Precipitation — 0.06
Highest temp — 22 Lowest te mp — 4 Precipitation — 0
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight-- --- 14 74 NE-13 Clear
8 a m ---_ 21 74 NNE-19 Clear
12:30 p m.... 22 63 NNE-20 Clear
Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:30 a. m. Sunset 2:50 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 14 Lowest temp — -11 Precipitation — 0