LOCUST FOOD TAKES
PART OF U.S. TAXES
By ULRIK VALENTINER
COPENHAGEN— Compared to
a locust, you don’t eat much. In
proportion to its weight, a locust
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A device for measuring locusts'
air speed is shown being fast
ened to one of the insects.
eats 20 - 40 times as much as a
man, and this is really a problem
in o'ne-third of the world.
A big swarm of locusts eats
500 - 800 tons of food to be ■air
borne for five hours. This equals
the daily consumption of 1V£ mil
lion people.
These and other curious facts
are contained in a bulky scientific
report just finished by the young
Danish scientist, Dr. Torkel Weis
Fogh.
To study their flying ability lo
custs were suspended in front of
a wind tunnel. It has been possi
ble to make a single locust fly for
• several hours.
Locusts fly 3.5 meters per sec
ond (about eight miles an hour),
using enormous masses of fuel,
mostly vegetable fats.
After eating, preparatory “take
offs” intensify the mobilization of
“fuel reserves.” The insects’ mill
ing and surging sets the fat-con
suming process in operation. And
not until this process is working
to capacity can the actual migra
tion begin.
Emergency Legislation
Urged to Allow 240,000
Immigrants to Enter U.S.
WASHINGTON, UR — Under
secretary of State Walter Bedell
Smith Wednesday urged Congress
to enact emergency legislation ad
mitting 240,000 immigrants in the
next two years to relieve popu
lation pressures in Western Eu
rope.
Smith said Europe’s basic over
population and the postwar re
fugee problem were of most ser
ious concern to the United States
because of their “impact upon the
health and stability of friendly
countries.”
Smith was the first witness be
fore a House Judiciary subcom
mittee considering the adminis
tration program for immediate ad
mission of special quota immi
grants and refugees from Com
munism. President Eisenhower
asked on April 22 for such action.
THURSDAY SCORES
American League
Philadelphia 9—Boston 0
New York 6—Washington 5
National League
New York 7—Brooklyn 2
Pittsburgh 7—Philadelphia 2
St. Louis 11—Cincinnati 9
Coast League
Seattle 4—San Francisco 3
Oakland 5—San Diego 4
Los Angeles 4—Sacramento 3
NOTICE
Starting the 25th of this month
Ed Dalilak will resume full time
business.
Price per haircut will be $1.50.
CLEAN-UP NOTICE
May 25 to May 31 has been
designated by the Nome Common
Council as Clean-up Week. Pro
perty owners are requested to
clean up their premises prior to
the 25th and place the debris,
SACKED or BOXED near the
curb where it can be picked up
by the City truck at City expense.
The City officials are asking
for full cooperation from the resi
dents of Nome so as to make the
City presentable and a sanitary
community.
After Clean-up Week, the
Health Officer and Health Com
mittee will make an inspection
tour and report on the sanitary
condition to the City Council.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By Carrie M. McLain,
City Clerk
AGREEMENT REACHED ON
SALE OF 'LITTLE EKLUTNA'
TO INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
ANCHORAGE, OP—The city of
Anchorage has reached a tenta
tive agreement for sale of its
“Little Eklutna” power plant to
the Interior Department.
The agreement, which must be
approved by the Interior Depart
ment, Anchorage voters and per
sons holding municipal bonds cov
ering the city’s investment in Ek
lutna, calls for payment of $1,500,
000 or a guarantee that it pro
duce an equivalent in power it
now produces for the next 20
years.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Partly cloudy tonight becoming
mostly cloudy with occasional
light rain Saturday. Winds light
and variable. Lowest temperature
expected tonight 40, high Satur
day 55.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
50, low 35. Max. wind 12 mph
from the SW. Sunrise at 2:16 a.m.,
sunset at 9:40 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 42, low 27. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 54 in 1925,
low 19 in 1929.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today
Station Temp. Weather
Kotzebue 36 Part cloudy
Wales 2,7 Snow
Gambell 28 Snow
Nome 40 Cloudy
Unalakleet 43 Cloudy
Bethel 42 Fog
McGrath 49 Fog
Anchorage 51 Part cloudy
Fairbanks 53 Cloudy
Whitehorse 59 Cloudy
Edmonton 60 Cloudy
Juneau 52 Cloudy
Ketchikan 54 Cloudy
Seattle 46 Cloudy
San Francisco 44 Cloudy
Two Die In Crash
Of Passenger C-46
DES MOINES, UPi—A C-46 pas
senger plane crashed and burned
on a farm about 16 miles east of
here in a violent electrical and
windstorm early today, killing at
least two persons.
The two dead were identified
as Capt. Bowen Marshall, 33 and
co-pilot Manuel Aronson, 29, both
of San Antonio, Texas.
Iowa State Highway patrolmen
said they saw what may have
been a third body in the wreck
age, but added that it will have
to cool before it can be ascer
tained whether there were more
than two killed.
The plane, owned by Resort
Airlines, Miami, Fla., was on a
ferry run from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
to Chicago.
74,530 Acres Public Land
On Shore of Cook Inlet
Opened for Settlement
WASHINGTON, W") — Secretary
of the Interior McKay, announced
Wednesday that 74,530 acres of
public land on the northwest
shore of Cook Inlet, is being
opened to settlement.
The land, formerly a part of
the aerial gunnery and bombing
range across Cook Inlet from An
chorage, will be subject to settle
ment by World War II veterans,
who will have a 91-day priority
starting on June 23. Others not
entitled to veterans’ preference
may apply for any land not set
tled by September 22.
Administrator Edward Woozley
o'f the Bureau of Land Manage
ment said the Air Force will be
given use of 86,085 acres of moun
tains and glaciers on the north
western border of the range to
compensate for loss of the sea
coast land.
Said To Be Saddest
Face In All History
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NASHVILLE, TENN. — The
face of Christ with his disciples at
the last supper, as depicted by
Leonardo da Vinci, is said to be the
saddest face in all history. A new
interpretation of that face is being
seen by thousands of visitors to the
newly consecrated Upper Room
Chapel here.
The chapel, built in connection
with the new headquarters building
for The Upper Room, the world’s
most widely used devotional guide,
features a great woodcarving of
Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper.
Hailed as a work of art with
breath-taking beauty, it is hoped
that it will inspire visitors to bridge
the centuries and at least for a few
minutes of meditation and prayer
commune with Christ as he said:
“This is my body which is broken
for you.” The chapel is open daily
for prayer and meditation.
MISTAKE FATAL
AARHUS, Denmark, —Farm
er Helmuth Gensen sawed thru
a tree branch on his Ebeltoft farm
and fell to his death from a lad
der. He had cut the branch
against which the ladder rested.
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