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STRANGE SOUNDS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD
COLD WEATHER AHEAD,
Miss Eunice Merton, of West Richfield, Ohio, says
the coming winter will be one of the hardest on record.
Miss Merton predicts the weather by watching bugs,
bushes, animals and other natural phenomena.
Relying on the indications and clues given by these
various phenomena, she comes to a conclusion which
she feels is as accurate as those of trained weather
observers.
Recently there have been many signs to indicate
a cold winter ahead, she says. Among them are the
heavy coats grown by animals, the high level at which
hornets have hung their nests—to keep them free from
high snowdrifts.
Another sign, according to Miss Merton, is a great
hole in the Milky Way which is letting cold air in from
outer space. As a result, this weather prognosticator
says, the coming winter will be very severe, and you
can make your plans accordingly.
Civilian Evacuation
By Air Rescue
To Be Curtailed
HQ ALASKAN. AIR COM
MAND — The evacuation of civ
ilians by Air Rescue planes is to
be greatly curtailed, the Alaskan
Air Command announced last
week. The Air Force has in the
past been giving assistance to
civilians in Alaska comparable td
assistance rendered in times of
disaster. During disasters such as
the Greek earthquake and the
floods in Holland, the Air Force
gave the kind of assistance it is
called upon daily to give civilians
in Alaska.
At the present time there is no
disaster situation in Alaska and
civilian agencies are considered
adequate to handle the type of
c 11s received by our Air Rescue
Group. Furthermore the cuts in
military personnel and allowable
fl„ ing time caused by the reduced
Air Force budget make it neces- j
s_ i y to confine the activities of
Air Rescue to its primary mission.
Walt Sipprell Reassigned
To Kodiak As Alaska
Steam’s Acting Agent
SEATTLE, UP—Walter W. Sip
prell, agent for the Alaska Steam
ship Co., at Nome, has been ap
pointed acting agent at Kodiak,
H. N. Peterson, general traffic
manager, announced today.
Sipprell, who was born in Skag
way, has been with the Alaska
Steamship Co. since 1942.
This is' his second assignment
as head of the Kodiak office. He
was Kodiak agent from 1943 to
1947.
French Gain In Indochina
HANOI, Indochina, W)— French
Union infantry and armored units
reoccupied the town of Phy Nho
,Quan, about 50 miles south of
Hanoi, in hard fighting Tuesday
against Vietminh forces.
In yesterday’s action, French
and Vietnamese paratroopers’
dropped into Phy Nho Quan and
spearheaded assaults by the ar
mored and infantry columns.
Fine Job Printing at the Nugget
Democrat Victory In
New Jersey Casts Pall Of
Gloom Over GOP Leaders
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ernor of New Jersey in 10 years.
On the professional politicians,
there were deeper impact, how
ever, from the election of Demo
crat Harrison Williams, Jr., to
Congress from the 6th New Jersey
district. Williams won over Re
publican George F. Hatfield by
about 2,000 votes in a normally
heavily Republican district which
has had a GOP congressman since
iti was organized in 1932.
This came atop the loss of a
Republican seat in Wisconson’s
recent special election.
The party division in the House
of Representatives now stands at
218 Republicans, 215 Democrats,
1 Independent, 1 vacancy. The
vacancy is in a California district
which has been represented by a
Republican. A special election is
to be held in the district next
Tuesday. Two Republicans are
running against two Democrats.
The outcome of this one will also
be watched for signs of national
significance.
Adlai Stevenson had this com
ment:
“Many people in many places
have expressed renewed confi
dence in Democrats and the con
structive record of the Democratic
party.
“I am not sure what the re
turns mean in all cases, but it
looks as though the fruit of Re
publican promises and perform
ances is dissatisfaction, disillusion
and defeat.” ,
Russia Claims
Advancements
In Atomic Field
LONDON, (iPi — Moscow radio
claimed Tuesday Soviet scientists
have created “several types of
atomic and hydrogen bombs.”
The claim w^s made in a Mos
cow broadcast to Russian listeners
summarizing a talk on the achieve
ments of Soviet chemical science
by Academician S. I. Voitskovich.
The broadcast said: “The joint
work of physicists, chemists and
petrologists has helped Soviet sci
ence, within a short period of time,
to solve the most difficult problem
of disclosing the secret of the
atomic weapon and of creating
several types of atomic and hydi'o
gen bombs.” It added:
“This work demonstrates the
high standard of Soviet science
and technology but our country is
resolutely coming forward against
the use of the atomic weapon
(and) it continues a persistent
struggle for its prohibition.”
The broadcast said that Soviet
chemists are “developing work on
the use of atomic energy for
peaceful constructive purposes for
the good of the people.”
Yesterday’s broadcast was the
first Soviet reference to the pro
duction of several types of hydro
gen and atomic bombs.
Mr. and Mrs. George Waldheim
have returned from their claim
on Dahl Creek in the Kougarok.
They have chosen to make their
home in Nome this winter instead
Of going to sunny California.
FREE HEALTH MOVIES
The Lavinia Wallace Young
Community Center and Health
Center will show a movie on tu
berculosis and slides of Alaska at
the LWY Community Center on
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
Adults and children are invited.
No admission charge. 133
Eskimos Have
Various Thoughts
About Wolves
Reprinted from
"Jack Wilson's Washington"
WASHINGTON — Along with
everything else your government
and mine has to worry about, it
now is trying to figure out how
Eskimos feel about wolves. Es
kimos and wolves are sort of
mixed in their relations with each
other.
A few years ago, the Eskimos in
Alaska put on a moan that the
sneaky wolves were munching on
the local caribou to the degree
that the Eskimos who Jike nothing
better than a fresh caribou cutlet,
were practically down to eating
last year’s mukluks. The caribou
shortage was so tough, the way
the story reached here, that a
medium-plump dog was in dan
ger of his life if he wandered
into an Eskimo community around
lunch time.
Congress replied with enough
small change so the Federal Fish
and Wildlife Service could deploy
seven wolf hunters into the cool
Arctic reaches. A year ago last
spring, the seven, complete with
wolf bane, hove into Umiat, a
thriving little igloo city. They took
three little airplanes along and
put on a wolfkrieg, potting the
wolves vigirously with shotguns
from upstairs. Got 250 in six
weeks.
They Uttered Loud Yelps
The Eskimos did not gather
around the returning hunters,
though, and ply them with rich
gifts and fancy viands and invite
them to make speeches at the
Commercial Club. Instead, they
uttered loud yelps which they sub
sequently dispatched down here
*via dog team and visiting con
gressmen. The Eskimos’ plaints
arrived in good condition, and the
Fish and Wildlife Service has de
frosted and examined them.
It seems the Alaskan govern
ment pays $50 a head for dead
wolves and the Eskimos had been
making a nice thing out of this
bounty until the white men loused
it up by killing the wolves, on
the flimsy excuse of saving the
caribou.
Boston Harbor
Fire & Explosion
Kills 7, Injures 18
BOSTON, UP>—The fourth Bos
ton harbor ship fire in 17 days
swept the Norwegian freighter
Black Falcon after a violent ex
plosion Monday with a toll of 7
dead and 18 injured.
The dead and 13 of the injured
were longshoremen working deep
in the aft hold unloading chemi
cals at the army base, 200 yards
from where the aircraft carrier
Leyte was berthed when it was
rocked by an explosion that killed
37 men on Oct. 16.
The seven victims either were
killed outright by the blast or
burned to death.
The chief of the Boston Fire
Department’s arson squad said
after a preliminary survey of the
scene that it is his theory the
explosion was caused by a mix
ture of chemicals.
He said a drum of sodium per
oxide apparently was stored “too
near the boilers” and that the heat
caused some of the chemical to
leak out and mix with bauxite—
aluminum ore—stored in the same
hold.
He said when the mixture be
gan to smoulder, one of the men
threw a pail of water onto it
and caused “a violent chemical
reaction.”
None of the Black Falcon’s crew
of 40 was injured.
18,841 Japanese Fired
By U.S. Military
TOKYO, UP)—The Japanese gov
ernment Tuesday announced that
18,841 Japanese laborers working
for U.S. garrison forces in Japan
are being dismissed as a result of
a cut in^the U.S. military budget.
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