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Saturday, December 28, 1940
Doors Open 8 p.m. — Program Begins 9 p.m.
Medley of Stage Acts
Refreshments - - ■ Dancing
Fun For The \\ hole Family
Admission, Adults $1.00
Children (school age) 25c
$10.00 DOOR PRIZE
TO WINNING NUMBER
$3.00 Worth of Food and Fun
NOME MOTOR COMPANY
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Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Lew
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
Thus. R. Lyons Ira D. Orto»
CHAS. CAVEY
Carrying an Assortment
• of Fine Liquors, Win
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FRONT ST. NOMK.
NOTICE
...Pursuant to an order of court
entered on this 22nd of Novem
ber, A. D. 1940, notice is hereby
* given that a general term of the
District Court, Second Judicial
Division, Territory of Alaska,
will be held in the Court House
at Nome, in said division and
territory, oomrhemcing at the
hour of nine fifteen o’clock (9:15)
a.m. on Thursday, January 2,
1941, and to continue according
to further orders of the court.
Given under my hand and
with the Court’s seal affixed this
22nd day of November, 1940.
Alm.er Rydeen,
Clerk of the District Court
^ for the Territory of Alaska,
Second Division.
Publish December 9 16 23 30.
Proof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Nome Nugget office
I
Pioneer Water Co.
Arrange Now For Your Winter
Delivery of Fresh, Sparkling
Spring Water
ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE
NELSON and BULLOCK
Phone Back 44 or Main 15
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blank.
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing aiid drill reports
Mining Deeds Placer and Lode
Location Notie"’ Vouchers,
I
The Washington
Daybook
Bv Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON —What’s your
nationality? Now slop and think.
Can you prove it?
WhaL's your age? Stop and
think again. Can you prove it?
With ladies cf indeterminate age
that ha- been a question that has
, prov. 1 d more Joe Millers than
has the mother-in-law or the
trave ing salesman. But strange
j as it may seem there are thou
sands of Americans who can’t
prove thier nationality and hun
dreds of thousands who—if they
know how old they are—can't
prove it.
In spite of the fact that this is
probably the most statistical era
of all time the great void in the
American knowledge of facts and
figgers might never have come
! to light if it wer n't for the Cen
sus Bureau. That division of the
government which is charged
I with enumerating the peoples of
.our nation is discovering that if
i it takes at least a sizeable battal
ion to answer the question: How
old am I? Where was I born?
! At the rate of 1.500 to 2,000 a
day letters have been pourning in
to the Census Bureau for weeks
asking verification of these two
facts. The flood has been such
that ther. has been no chance
yet to analyze it—to seperate the
queries into classifications that
might define just what is going
on. But on the basis of the super
vicial observation there are some
things that can be said right now
Jobs Threatened
Not only in the government
i but in private industry there is a
house-cleaning move to purge' all
j aliens. Of the thousands of let
ters the Census Bureau is receiv
ing asking proof of citizenship,
by far the greater per cent ex
plain that writ r MUST have this
information immediately to hold
his job. For one reason or anoth
er (accent or appearance, to
name only two) the author writ
es. he is suspected of being an
alien. He knows that the Census
Bureau can clear this up. Will
| they please do so at once, so he
won’t get fired?
Just what percentages of
these requests come from private
industry or fromthe government
i where laws already passed for
1 bid employment of undeclared
aliens in many departments has
not yet been determined but it is
certain that lots of private em
| ployers are scanning their pay
rolls and we ding out the foreign
' born wiio have not taken out pa
pers.
1 An even great number of let
| ters fall into the Census Bureau
mail baskets from persons trying
to find out old they are. Most of
these came originally from p r
' sons seeking old age pensions.
But the draft swamped the bu
reau. The compulsory filing of
,birth certificates is comparative
lyrecent and ven where it has
been a practice for years hun
dreds of communities have seen
their records lost through care
lessness and indifference or de
stroyed by fire, floods or winds.
Validity Established
j Through the courts, validity of
the Census Bureau statistics has
been established. It has been
prived that army papers, pass
ports, civil service records and
other official papers filed under
oath sometimes lie but Census
Bureau records checked and
double-checked over th? years,
rarely fail to disclose the truth.
Private employers, the govern
ment and the courts all have
come to recognize the authentic
ity of Census Bureau reports, ac
counting for the demand.
To meet this demand, the Cen
sus Bureau has prepared these
questions—but don’t try to get
one of these just by writing in
1 for it.
Census Bureau information on
individuals is available only to
| thos-2 individuals. The bureau al
ready has had it round and
around about the secrecy of its
information on individuals and
(,10f even J. Edgar Hoover and his
j G-boys could get it without the
! permission of the person involv
| ed—which is sort of tops in hush
| hushing.
THE FACES LOOK F A M I L I A R—“Big Four" of the Axis powers were deep in conver
sations that possibly concerned their plans for Europe and points east, west, north and south when
this was made at Florence, Italy. Left to right: Premier Mussolini of Italy; Chancellor Hitler of Ger
many; Foreign Minister von Ribbentron of Germany: Foreign Minister Ciano of Italy.
INCOME TAX RULING
AFFECTS l!. S. DRAFTEES
The Commissioner of Internal
Rev nue has ruled that payments
made by an employer to his form
or employees called for active
service with the armed forces of
the United States or who volun
tarily enlisted for service, which
payments are designed to supple
ment amounts received by them
from the Federal Government,
do not constitute "wages" for
Fed eal employment tax purpos
es. The Commissioner pointed
out that this ruling is in conson
ance with the Bureau’s ruling
holding that amounts paid hy em
ployers during the present emer
gency to employees who are ab
is nt in the military or naval ser
vice are alowable deductions
from gross income of the payors
for Federal income tax purposes.
Tiie Commissioner also pointed
out that this ruling does not mod
ify previous rulings holding that
such payments constitute taxable
income to th receipient for pur
poses of the Federal income tax
laws.
TUBERCULOSIS AFFECTS
MILITARY PREPAREDNESS
In organizing the best possible
defense the American people
should make provision to fight tu
berculosis President Roosevelt
said today in endorsing the an
nual Chirstmas Seal Sale of the
National Tuberculosis Associa
tion.
In military preparedness, Presi
dent Roosevelt said tuberculosis
a communicable disease which
kills more p rsons between the
ages of 15 and 45 than any other
disease might interefere with
mustering the best possible man
power.
“The National Tuberculosis
Association and its affiliated state
and Inca' organizations can ren
der s rvices of inestimable value
to public health officials in handl
rg the problem of tuberculosis as
it is discovered from physical ex
amination of recruits," said Presi
dent Roosevdt. “Therefore the
I 34:h annual nationwide Christ
-nos Seal Sale of tub rculosis as
sic... . n lakes on add ’d signific
mce this year. It sh . 1.1 'ceive
mare than ever before the fullest
ipuisible support of all the peo
ple of our country.
“From now on until Chri-tmns
Day. w ■ as individuals by g-ner
ous purchase of the Seal- can do
our part to help tubercul )s:s as
sociations free us from the dead
ly menace of this communicable
[disease. We know from past ex
k l ienees that our dollars will
be w li spent in behalf of public
good.”
PRIORITIES AGREEMENT
•S REACHED
WASHINGTON — A priorities
| agreement between commercial
j airlines and defense officials, a
program of ship construction and
| a labor conciliation plan high
| lighted the week’s development
! in the national defense program.
Th. weekly progress report, is
issued Sunday by the National
| Defense Commission revealed
that the commercial an lines will
1 gear their plane production to
military needs and have agreed
i o give th: Army a number of
new plane engines. The airlines
! will re ease to the military ser
vice during 1941 an additional $7,
! 50).000 worth of equipment.
New Shipyards
Te review- showed that 330 com
bat naval ships are under eon
; struction w’hile shipyard facilit
ies are being expanded. New nav
al fighting vessels are going into
-orvice at the rate of one every
12 days as a $7,700,000,000 pro
gram goes forward. New ship
yards are being bu lt on the Pac
fie and Gulf Coasts. At present
16..000 persons are working dir
ct y in shipyards.
Representatives of labor and
the shipbuilding industry met
md formulated that no work
stoppages be permitted until ev
ery means of conciliation has
... u..i./.eu. The c mmittee
v $-iv a•• a Dattern to guide
■w-erd harmonious L.bor—man
- relationships.
ICKF.S RAPS LINDBERGH,
COUGHLIN AS FASCISTS
NEW YORK -Secretary Ick .‘s
- rted last week that "roughly
-O; : k. -g the United States har
1: rs four large groups that are
ul.ver.-iv to our institutions and.
'DC. ly hostile to demorcracy it
self.
In address at Town Hall the
Secretary of the Interior said
that “first there are the Silver
Shirts, the Knights of the White
Camelia. certain Ku Klux Klans,
the Christian Front, etc.”
"While in general th se groups
terrible as it is to say, are com
posed of native born Americans,
they may also include American
citizens of foreign birth such as
Father Coughlin," Ickes said. “In
the ranks of the native Fascists
one may ven discover such an
individual as Colonel Lindbergh
a busy appeaser who would sur
render voluntarily his sword ev
en before it is demanded.”
Iokes characterized Merwin K.
Hart, president of the New York
State Economic Council as “an
other native Fiscisl" who "misses
few occasionsto sneer at demo
| cracy.”
Referring to subversive organ
izations Ickes said that' "most,
perhaps even all of thes groups
are instrumentalities of foreign
intrigue. Most, perhaps even all
are financed by funds from
abroad.”
Notice to Licensees of
Radio Stations
A majority of the licensees of
radio stations in Alaska will ex
pire on January 1st, 1941, unless
renewal applications are filed
prior to this date. It is urged
(hat licensees apply for renewal
immediately to avoid loss of ra
dio communication. App.ication
.1 urns are available on request at
iuncau office of tiie Federal Com
muni cations Commission.
' S J U R O O U G H ”
S I A T ! O X E R Y
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MOUNTAIN HAS A WORD FOR I T—A large “Dux,” meaning leader, shone from the
i mountain as Mussolini (front! reviewed Italians stationed near the Yugoslavian border.