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THEY SET THE DAT E—Wedding ceremony April 12
will Uiiice Eleanor Roosevelt, niere of Mrs. Franklin I). Roosevelt,
and her English-horn fiance with whom she’s shown at Dedham,
Mass. He is Edward I’rocler Elliott, an architect in Virginia.
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby given that th
annual Municipal and Schoo’
Board election will be held on
Aeril 1st a; the City Hall, Nome.
Alaska, fnr the purpose of elect
ing the fol owing officers viz:
Mayor; thr e members of the
Common Council for a term of
two years and, two members of
thg Conion Council for a term of
one y ar each; a City Treasurer;
City Attorney; City Clerk and, a
memb. r of the School Board.
Also, there will appear on th
official ballot for ratification, the
following three Ordinances:
Ordinance No. 291 Entitled
"An Ordinance granting to the
Northern Light and Power Com
pany, its successors and assigns,1
a franchise to construct, equip,
maintain and use an electric light ]
?and pow r plant and system with |
in the City of Nome, and provid 1
ing for the ratification hereof.”
Ordinance No. 292 Entitled
“An Ordinance se'ling to the Dir
ector-; of the ‘Drifters Club’ and
W. H. Kelsey the South and
North on -half (*2) respectively
of Lit 14. Block 30, and provid
ing for the ratification heraof.”
Ordinance No. 293. Entitled
“An Ordinance to convey to Jam
es E. H *witt a portion of Lanes
Way, aid providing fnr the rat
ification hereof.”
P hs w: 1 open at 3 a.m. and
'lose a! 6 p.m.
M. J. WALSH, City Clerk
Pu fiish March 19, 21, 1941
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LIQUID FIRE’ GOES ON RAMPAGE
Four 100.000 gallon storage tanks at the Wilcox Re nery, Brbtuw, Okla., exploded, sen a (laming
flood down a creek bed, threatening for a while to et firt to the plant and a nearby neg^ residential
district.
HANK GREENBERG DODGES DRAFT QUESTION
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Hair still tousled, Hank Greenberg, Detroit slugger who holds a low draft number, would neither con
firm nor deny he had asked has draft board for occupational deferment when he was met at the door
of his cabin on arrival at Los Angeles from a Hawaiian vacation.
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The Washington
News-Letter
M. W. CODING
Office of the Delegate
—
March 1, visitors of the week
inc'uded Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Sat! r and son, of Nome; and Dr.
Mrs. Thomas Morcom, also of
Nome.
Indian Service Legislation
On February 24 Delegate Di
! mond introduced s veral bills for
the improvement of the service
, given by the Office of Indian Af
i fairs in Alaska and to effect cer
tain economies in that service.
The following is a list of the bills
so introduced:
H. R. 3539, which provides that
hereafter miscellaneaus revenues
deriv d from schools, hospitals,
and other facilities maintained
and operated by the Indian Ser
vice for the benefit of the In
dians and natives of A ask a shall
be cover'd into the Treasury un
der the provisions of a previous
act of Congress which makes
such sums available for expendi
ture, at the discretion of the Sec
retary of th Interior, “for the
I benefit of the Indian trib. -. agen
eies, and schools on whose behalf
they are collected."
In a number of places in Al
{a- ka the Indian hospitals are
'the only hospitals available for
both non-native and native resi
dents. It is highly convenient,
! and sometimes absolutely neces
sary, that these hospitals should
furnish faciliti s to the white pop
[ ulation. Under existing law any
j money so received goes into the
i Treasury of the United States
! and is not available for expendi
ture in maintenance and upkeep
of the hospital unless and un
til at some future date. Congress
! shall m;<ke another appropria
tion. As a matter of practice such
I sums are never directly reappro
Ipriat.d as all appropriations are
I made out of the general fund o!
! the Territory. Under presenl
practice, the aid that can be giv
en to the white people of the re
gions in which the Indian hos
pitals are located is strictly lim
ited. The enactment of this mea
sure will enable such hospitals t<
give an nlarged and improved
service to all people of the re
gions in which they are situated
without in any way detracting
from the service given to the na
tiv-s.
H. R. 3542 is a bill to authorize
the purchase from appropriations
made for the Indian Service of
[supplies and materials for resale
j to the natives, native cooperative
| associations, and Indian S rvice
j employees stationed in Alaska,
and providing that the proceeds
of such sales shall be credited to
the appropriation or appropria
tions current at the date of dep
osit th.reof in the Treasury and
shall be available for the same
purposes.
H. R. 3540 is a bill providing
that the Secretary of the Interior,
under such rules and regulations
as he may prescribe, may trans
j port Government and non-Gov
j ernment freight and passengers
on Indian Service ships operating
| between the continental United
States and Alaska, and in Alaska
waters, and that all revenues de
rived from the transportation of
such freight and passengers shall
be deposited in the Treasury to
the credit of the apropriation av
ailable at the time of deposit for
the operation of such ships. The
measure will enable the Indian
Service to better accomodate all
persons residing in the areas serv
ed without depleting the fund
which is appropriated for the aid
of the natives.
A fourth bill, H. R. 3541, mak
es provision for the purchase of
articles or the procurement of
service by the Department of the
Interior, or any of its bureaus or
offices operating in Alaska, with
out advertisement when the
amount involved is $300 or less.
Board of Directors of the north
western Chamber of Commerce
met at noon today to consider the
above bills, and telegrams were
ordered sent to Delegate Dimond
and Senator Cochran requesting
further information on the sub
ject.
(tanning OF DEER SKINS
! SEEN AS POSSIBLE SMALL
INDUSTRY FOR NATIVES
KETCHIKAN OP) — As an ex
periment, A. M. Kneuker has tan
I ned seven^eer skins, producing a
(leather which he believes may
j open the wav to a new small in
: dustry for natives in Ketchikan.
The leather, he said, is of good
quality and should be suitable
for the manufacture of shoes,
glov *s, belts and the like. By us
ing established methods of tan
! ning, the quality of leather for
made moccasins, dolls, etc., Mr.
Kneuker believes, would be great
ly improved.
Thre_ things are necessary to
establish the industry on a small
<cale, here, he said: (1) a supply
of skins, (2) equipment which
would cost about $100, and (3)
scholars.
Mr. Kneuker figures that 500
deer skins tanned would be
worth $2,000. As he points out,
hundreds of skins are wasted
here every year.
Because of restrictions on the
sale of deer, the industry pro
bably would b. most adaptable to
the na'i' population. Mr. Kneu
ker thinks that the work is too
hard for native girls but said he
has been negotiating to teach a
number of native boys the art
of tanning with which he be
canv familiar when he worked
in the leather business.
He said it takes about 30 days
to put a skin through the tan
, ning process.
BRITISH TO EAT
SEAGULL EGGS
LONDON </Pi—The ministry of
food announced that Britain’s
fighting services had agreed to re
duce rations for soldiers and air
men as a “contribution to the na
tional food shipping situation.” It
was disclos d that the ministry
of agriculture had just complet
ed a census of seagulls and ar
ranged to have their eggs collect
ed and marketed in the spring
laying season. The eggs of sea
gulls long have been a favorite
with fishermen.
RECRUITS’ FEET LARGER
FORT JACKSON, S. C. (/P)
The quartermaster corps at this
post reported that the size re
quirements of troops here indicat
ed that the av rage soldier’s feet
had grown bigger and his body
smaller since the World War.
PHILIPPINES SEEK OIL
FANILA (/P) —A government
, controlled corporation has been
organized to prospect for oil in
12 regions of the Philippine Is
lands. Anoth r aspect of the is
lands' campaign for economic ad
vance is a quinine producing pro
ject, already in operation.
NORWAY’S PIGEONS
GROUNDED BY NAZIS
The Norwegian legation's News
of Norway reports that all Nor
wegian societies have be n or
dered to register with police, pro
viding full details of aims and
purposes, meetings, names of all
members.
At th same time, owners of
carrier and ordinary pigeons
have ben ordered to report the
number of birds on hand. Increas
es also must be registered. Ev
ery pigeon in Norway—earn r or
otherwise—has been grounded by
official decree. This, of course, is
an effort to prevent Norwegian
from smuggling out information
to the British by earner pig on.s.
CIVIL SERVICE CALLS
FOR SKILLED ALASKANS
Announcement of civil service
examinations for jobs in the de
fense works in Alaska was dis
closed by L. J. Chilbcrg. Seattle
secretary of the fed ral civil ser
vice board. Skilled workmen are
sought, to be employed by the
war department engineers, includ
ing carp nters, cement finishers,
electricians, pipefitters, plumb
ers, sheet metal workers, steam
fi'ters. structural-iron workers
and reinf reed steel placers.
Application for the tests may
be obtained from civil service
secretaries. The applications will
have to be filled out and filed
with the Seattle office of the civ
il service by mail.
UNIONS AND OPERATORS
PROTEST HERRING RULE
SEATTLE i/P) — Union fisher
man and operators wired Interior
S eretary Iekes, protesting ag
ainst the proposed restrictions on
the Alaska herring industry and
asked that a hearing on th ques
tion ba held in Seattle.
The message declared the 19*1
regulations are confLcat; ry a i
threaten destruction of Alaska s
third larg st industry.
CHINOOKS ARE CANNED
ASTORIA. Ore. ..lb —■ Colum
bia river packers are canning
chinook salmon for the second
time in history. The pack, rs as
sociation opened its plant at Ells
worth. Washington, for process
ing the fish which have been d ■
livered in too great volume late
ly for the fresh fish mark t.
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BRITISH AMBASSADO R—With smiles Viscount and
l ady Halifax greet newsmen covering their arrival In America,
lie is Britain’s new ambassador to U.S., made a highly secretive
Atlantic crossing aboard British battleship. King George V.
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy and slightly colder tonight. Thursday increasing
cloudiness probably followed by light snow late Thursnay after
noon or night.
Data For 24 Honrs Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 35 Lowest te mp — 25 Precipitation — T
Total precip this month 0.13 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 1.01
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight-—.-._ . 33 72 NE 13 Cloudy
8am ___. 33 65 N 4 Cloudy
12:30 p m___ 31 74 NW 4 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 6:05 a. m. Sunset 6:16 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 8 Lowest temp — -18 Precipitation — 0