THE NOME NUGGET
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EDITORIAL
Alaska’s New Coastal Menace
The disregard of intei-national
law by all belligerents in the Eu
ropean war serves at least one
useful purpose, in showing the
impracticability of the doctrine
of the three-mile limit.
This, in turn, should strengthen
the case of the United States in
seeking to keep Alaskan waters
free from the operations of Jap
anese fishing vessels and all other
alien encroachments.
Great Britain’s mining of Nor
wegian waters is not the only
instance of the breakdown of the
three-mile limit in practice.
Acknowledging that the halt
ing of Russian ships was outside
of Japanese territorial waters, a
spokesman for the Japanese navy
last week said that the waters of
the 500-mile-wide Japan sea
were nevertheless to be consid
ered “a Japanese lake.”
Whatever may be said of Brit
ain's action in mining Norwegian
territorial waters, it is evident
that the three-mile rule is in the
discard.
It should be plain also that a
nation which lacks a navy ade
quate to protect the waters bor
dering its coast has little chance
of prevailing by any appeal to in
ternational law.
Fortunately the United States
"has a Navy strong enough to pro
tect its shore line, including the
shore line of Alaska.
As we have previously pointed
out, the doctrine of the three
mile limit, as applied to Alaskan
waters, leads to manifest absurd
ities. It permits alien fishermen
to take, without hindrance, the
Ash protected by laws which ap
ply to our fishermen. It involv
es the constant threat of clashes
between American and Japanese
fishermen. It provihes one item of
friction in Japanese-American re
lations which should be cleared
up at the earliest possible mo
ment.—Seattle Post Intelligencer
Peg June 24 as the next pol
itical mile-stone, date of the Re
p lican National Convention, in
P ! adelphia. And after that the
D locratic National Convention
in Chicago July 15.
P ician For Barrow In Juneau
Dr. Harry Burnstein, Office of
1 n Affairs physician assigned
t <e new Borrow Hospital as
P -id a in Charge was a re
arrival in Juneau.
.. ransfcr from the States, Dr.
B tein will be on temporary
a. ment to the Juneau Govern
n . Hospital until transporta
t ■ rth can be arranged.
i ) Passengers Fly Atlantic
3 number one hundred ac
r the Atlantic between New
y and Europe was recently
c led by Pan American Air
wa
mg the past ten years 8G
a pi i were made to fly this
oc . Only ten died ti: .
c ", while some 30 flights
r crossing and landed
£ i ace in safety. Of these
t u antic fliers 39 wer - lost.
I American Clippers, in their
fir 100 trips carried in complete
c ' hurt and safely 1786 passen
g rs across the Atlantic, flying
r r • than 5,500.000 p ng?r
r \ c M re than 81.0" i nr h
of mail were carried with the
1 ' r trips averaging more than
2 ,30 pounds per trip. On Clip
P r recently carried 4203 pounds
of transatlantic mail.—or approxi
mu' ely 170,000 letters.
y them by the bundle, Use
for ^’artinsr fires. For Pale
e i N me Nugget.
ARMY CLAIMS FIRST
TOTALLY BLIND FLIGHT
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The first totally “blind" flight
in the history of aviation was com
pleted recently by the United
States army air corps when a1
22l2-ton bombing plane landed
at Langley Field, Virginia, from ,
Mitchell Field, New York.
Major Carl McDaniel took off
from the New York field and
landed at Langley Field entirely
by instruments.
McDaniel was in charge of a
crew of six men. He was shut off
from all outside contact by a can
vas screen around his side of the
cockpit. Before him was an array
of dials indicating his air speed,
compass course, altitude and pos
ition of the plane in relation to j
the horizon.
Once aloft, he set his course
for Langley Field, receiving re- j
ports from his navigator and ra- |
dioman on the plane’s interphone.
As he neared Langley Field, he
did an orientation problem to
check his position by radio beam
then slowly drifted toward the
field.
The landing was affected by
means of the crew and radio
markers which indicated to Mc
Daniel that his big plane was;
headed directly for the surface
of the airport. As he crossed the
radio markers in gliding down, a
light flashed on his instrument
panel and he knew the exact
distance he was from the ground
because the sensitive altimeter
let him keep the glide constant
and his engines gave him plenty
of air speed. He only had to wait
for his wheels to touch the
ground.
fust lifting off the runway at Mitchell Fi • \ N. Y., is the army bomber wrich v e . ' "toiallv”
blind to Langley Field, Va., the first such flight in the history of a viat n. V i*h a *->vas over the
windshield, Maior Carl McDanie! took c,f flew and landed the b » plane entire! v y instrument.
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THE LON'l ARM OF JOHN BliL L—British sources hail the torpedo boats on guard
(above) near liong Kong, China, as part of the defenses for Britain's “Gibraltar of the Far East.”
j
Anti Tuberculosis Campaign ’40
Continuation for another year
of the Tuberculin Testing and
Early Case Finding Clinics of the
Territorial Department of Health
was assured when the Board of
Directors of the Alaska Tuber
dulosis Association, at a special
meeting held April 27. voted to
again contributed $3,000 from tht
funds raised by the annual sale
of Christmas Seals to the main
tenance of this work.
Dr. Palmer Congden, Tuber
culosis Clinician announced that
he was leaving April 30 to begin
the most extensive program
which has ever been undertaken
by the Tuberculosis Division of
the Health Department. On this
trip he plans to hold clinics in
every coastal community where
sufficient power is available be
tween Kodiak and Point Barrow.
Among the localities to be visit
ed are 19 which have never be
fore had the benefits of this clin
ical service.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
A MATTER OF TIMIN C—This picture—which shows
the flight of a homing pigeon "stopped'’ h.v a flash of light that
lasted only 1-100,000th of a second—was taken in Philadelphia.
Note the "retractable feet.’’
ONE SHOW FRIDAY, 7:30 PM Adm. 554 & 254
*• HOTEL HAYWIRE ”
with LEO CARILLO—LYNNE OVERMAN—MARY CARLISLE
It's Chockful of Nuts
also “POPEYE” in “ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP”
A Special 20-Minute Color Cartoon
ONE SHOW SATURDAY 7:30 P.M. Adm. 554 & 254
‘•HOLIDAY”
with KATHERINE HEPBURN — CARY GRANT
Every Day's A Holiday When You’re In Love
and “MARCH OF TIME”
THE LION TAKES WIN C—Shown in formation above
the Richmond air station in New South Wales are some Avro
Anson bombers of the Australian air force. The “Aussies” are
grooming pilots for possible use in Europe's war.
ARCTIC SOFT DRINK PARLOR
Cigars Tobaccos Cigarettes
! All Kinds of Soft Drinks
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Mostly cloudy with occasional light rain or rain and snow mixed
tonight and Thursday: NoF much change in temperature tonight,
Thursday slightly warmer.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 44 Lowest temp — 28 Precipitation — T
Total precip. this month 0.32 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 2,26
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight ....«. 31 73 N-10 Cloudy
3 a m . 35 55 N-7 Cloudy
12:30 p m .
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp - 43 Lowest temp — 37 Precipitation — 0.04
Tomorrow: Sunrise 2:14 a. m. Sunset 9:45 p. m.
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind Weather
Deering ... 38 S-7 Cloudy
Council .. 33 W-4 Cloudy
Golovin ... 40 NW-10 Cloudy
Aotzebue . 30 S-2 Snowing
1 Solomon . 40 SE-4 Cloudy
Teller .-...1 N-6 Cloudy
, Wales . 80 N-20 Cloudy
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time *
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 45 S-5 Pt Cldy 0.00
Bethel .- . 35 NW-21 Cloudy 0.00
Cordova .i... 44 E-3 Rain 0.53
Dutch Harbor . 39 N-10 Pt Cldy 0.00
Fairbanks . 43 E-5 Cloudy 0.07
Juneau..- 44 W-5 Cloudy 0.62
Pt. Barrow .-.-...... 24 NE-28 Cloudy 0.00
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