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British Sea
Losses Not
So —
LONDON, March 25—'The Brit
ish Admiralty announced that fig
ures showed a drop in British
Sea losses for the second succes
sive week while Britain r turned
the blow by blow battle in the
Atlantic.
23 British and allied merchant
men totaling 71,000 tons were lost
at sea during the war week
which ended March 16. The Ad
miralty said this was compared
to total losses of 90,000 tons th
week before.
The British declared in the
same period Britain’s own naval
air raiders were sinking almost 3
' tons of Axis ships to every 4
tons the British had lost.
The Admiralty announced that
the 8,500 ton German merchant
ship Ober had been intercepted
and captured in the Red Sea by
the British sloop Shoreham.
The Admiralty said the Nazi
merchant ship tried to escape
from the Italian R d Sea base at
Masawa in Eritrea.
Nome School Economic
Class Eentertains
As a class project and to serve
as final examination the Econ
omic Class of the Nome School
adopted the theme of planning,
cookin*. setting and serving a
^ luncheon besides acting as host
esses. The class is under the dir
ection of Miss Edith Hablutzel.
The guests were the officers and
members of the Board of Direct
ors of the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce and the
Mayor and members of the Nome
City Council and Supt. A. A Ry
an and faculty.
This took place Thursday noon.
At the conclusion of the repast
the unanimous vote of all present
' was 100 percent to every member
of the class and the highost
praise and heartfelt thanks to
Supt. Ryan and teachers.
Blast In Chemical
Plant Kills One
Man, Injures 6
PORTLAND. Ore.. March 25 —
A terrific blast at 9:35 a m. level
ed the recently completed R. N.
Chipman Chemical Company fac
tory here, killing on-v worker,
Harry R iy, 32.
The Portland plant was being
converted for the production of
explosive chemicals but held no
defense contracts.
At least a dozen others were
injured in t'he blast, among thorn
Ralph Chipman, the manager.
Ray’s wife was standing near
their trailer home a short dis
tance away when she reported
she saw the body of a man blown
at least 190 feet in the air thru
a wall. Firem n presumed it was
her husband.
Ray succumbed to burns and
multiple injuries shortly after be
ing removed to the hospital.
The trailer was demolished but
Mrs. Ray was uninjured. Ray was
a construction foreman who had
been retained by the factory af
t r the plant was finished.
Fire Marshal Fred Roberts said
he was convinced the blast orig
inated in a large mixing machine.
EX-POLISH ENVOY
IS ILL IN IDAHO
SUN VALLEY, Idaho, March
25—The former Polish ambassa
dor to the United State's, Count
Goorge Potocki, is under treat
ment at th.; Sun Valley resort
hospital for a foot injury.
Count Potocki suffered the in
jury to his left foot while alight
ing from the ski lift on Dollar
Mountain.
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FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Intermittent light snow tonight fallowed by clearing skies Satur
day. Little change in temperature.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 31 Lowest temp — 24 Precipitation — 0.09
Total precip this month 0.22 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 1.10
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight _— ---- 28 92 N 5 Snowing
8am------ 25 95 E 7 Snowing
12:30 p m-—.... 29 82 SE 5 Snowing
Tomorrow: Sunrise 5:31 a. m. Sunset 6:43 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 31 Lowest temp — 18 Precipitation — 0.02 j
Bi^est Thin"
Made By Man
"n Operation
GRAND COULEE, Wash.. Mir.
24—The biggest man-msd ■ thing
an earth. Grand Coulee Dam. be
gan g nerating electricity Satur
day.
A but n pressed by Chief Jim
James, aged leader of Nez Perce
Indian trib > set in operation two
10,000-kil watt generators at the
dam.
President Roosevelt and Soe
r tary of the Interior Harold L
Iekcs sent messages to be read
at the ceremony.
Grand Coulee Dam, across the
Columbia River in North Central
Washington, is so huge that the
famous pyramids of Egypt would
be dwarfed beside its concer ta
wall. It rises 550 feet above gran
ite bedrock, and backs up tho
waters of Columbia River for 151
milas.
The water from the artificial
lake backed up by the dam will
b used to irrigate nearly 2.030,
000 acres of present desert.
Tlie brief program was broad
cast from the dam as the first
water rushed through spillways
to star; two water".',', el turbines
generating electricity. The el c
trio current was transmitted to
the B nneville Dam further
down the Columbia in Oregon.
The new energy will be used t:
augment curr nt supplied by
Bonneville Dam for the defense
industries of the Pacific N rth
west.
The dam will produce 2.700.000
horsepower when it is completed
within the next two years.
WARPLANES BEING
RUSHED TO ENGLAND
TACOMA, Wash., March 25
Twenty - two giant Americ.an
made bombers are being turn d
over at McC'nod Field in Tacoma
for Great Britain.
The aircraft are fully armed.
They will be flown to the East
Coast, and thence across the At
lantic to England by British avia
tor*.
Some of the bombers took off
from McChord Field las; we k.
HOUSE FAVORS MORE
MEN IN NAVY
WASHINGTON, March 25
The House yesterday passed un
animously a bill authorizing an
increase in the Navy's enlisted
manpower to 233,000 men and
permitting an em rgency in
crease to 300,000.
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Follows In Foot
Steps of Father
DETROIT. Mich., March 25
James H. Doolittle, Jr., son of
Major Doolittle, left today for
San Antoni ), Tex., to take pre
liminary training at Randolph
Field for service as an Army av
iator.
The yo-ung man is following in
the footsteps of his father, whose
feats as an aviator made history
15 years ago.
Major Doolittle is in charg of
Air Corps Procurement in the
Detroit area.
Young Doolittle was signed up
for the Air Corps last week.
I. S. (/ratified
Russia's Stand
WASHINGTON, March 25
Sumner Wt lies, acting Secretary
f S'a ■ expressed the U. S. gov
rnmrnt’s satisfaction that Rus
sia has given a new declaration
if friendship for the British and
T urkey.
Well s told hi* pr -> confer
ence at a time when so many na
tions have lost their autonomy
and independence it is a matter
if satisfaction to this country
when a great power like Russia
reaffirms its intention to maintain
its c imprehensive n utrality in
tlie event a neighboring country
may suffer attack.
Browder To Begin
Four-Year Term
NEW YORK, March 25 — The
Communist leader Earl Browd r
-out ndered t( day to begin a 4
vi-nr term for obtaining pa; s
• its by fraud. Browder went
'i: fore F d ral Judge Mand< 1
bum, where !hc U. S. Marshal
to >k him into custody.
The marshal sent Browder to
hr d tit inn pen of th court
house where the prie nor pr i
ll!'. will be held for a few days
be! re going to prison.
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GRAND COULEE READY TOR BIRTN OF POWER —Demands for more electrical power to answer defense pro
gram needs have so stepped up the program ai Grand Coulee dam (above) in Washington state that the dam will start to furnish
power on March 22, when two 10,000-kilowatt station service generators are cut into the Bonneville transmission line. Grand Coulee
will then be contributing kilowatt hours to Pacific Northwest needs and the dam, says John C. Page, Commissioner of the U. S. Bureau
of Reclamation, will be going into use tu o y-ars ahead of schedule. Grand Coulee on the Columbia river, was started in 1933, is 550 feet
high and 4 300 feet long. It contains 11,250,000 cubic yards of concrete, is believed the largest structure ever erected by man.