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THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday, Friday, by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
Telephone Main 114 P. O. Box 518
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EDITORIAL
IT'S HERE
AMAZING NEW MAIL ERA
That overnight Fairbanks be
comes a suburb of Seattle with 1
the establishment of the Clipper |
plane service from that city is 1
forcibly demonstrated today—Am
azing realization of the fact was
brought to Fairbanks when a
PAA Electra, connecting with the
Clipper's shakedown flight to Ju
neau yesterday landed here this
morning with a sunrise edition of
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
printed yesterday morning, June
14. Ponder what it means.
It’s a long cry from the day of
Jack McQuesten and A1 Mayo,
who broke trail into the Inland
Empire of the vast Yukon basin
67 years ago, isolating themselves
from the great Outside world.
For years they and other stout
hearted pioneers of the realm
considered themselves lucky to
get word once a year from their
old homes.
Denizens of the region depend
ed on the dog team, and consid
ered it a great event when the
musher struggled in from Dyea
or Valdez to Circle, Dawson and
the numerous other gold camps
with their sacks of precious let
ters. Nome at first depended on
the dogs to travel nearly 2,000
miles, down the Yukon and into
the camp in winter.
Little did the early denizens
even dream that some day Jhe
mail would come to the same
camps in a single day from Ju
neau or less than two days from
Seattle. Nothing but a miracle
would have made it possible.
Yet today that miracle has be
come a realization. Huge birds of
the air termed Clippers, flew the
route from Seattle to Juneau yes
terday. Next Thursday the first
official airmail between Seattle
and Alaska will be on the wing,
*nd will be followed by twice a
week flights —a permanent ser
vice, between Seattle and Juneau
wi h connections to Fairbanks
and all major Alaskan points
throughout the continent.
Local planes will tie-in speed
ing up the service for every
northern community.
Northerners will quickly take
advantage and adapt themselves
to the new service, but it will
require time to acquaint many in
the States that the service is a
reality. The best way to awaken
the m to the realization of the
service is to send your letters,
especially the more important
ones by airmail. Do this at ev
ery opportunity. And advise your
Outside friends and.business con
ne'lions of the speedy new ser
vice. Make them Alaska airmail
co cious.
1 blicize the fact, and incident
ah ' let them know they can hop
to Alaska over the week-end for
a outing helping to build a big
g. • and better Alaska and multi
plv our accomplishments and as
sure continued improvement to
the splendid service that is mak
ing the dog-team days a heroic
pioneer memory.
—Fairbanks News-Miner
TEST IN TIME OF WAR
Those who have seen the pa
rad 2S of young men who do not
want to become cannon-fodder
and fear for the safety of the
country might well consider the
experience of other nations.
France was the most outspoken
pacifist country in world in the
late 1920’s and early 1930’s.
Ls labor unions, teachers, and
peasants were rather uniformly
pacifists, countless thousands of
t m taking sundry oaths not to
fig .it anybody’s war. But when
th.' test came last September,
f e wa even less opposition to
V r than la 1914.
In England only a few years
ago large numbers of university
men committed themseves to ab
solute pacifism. Today the num
ber of conscientious objectors is
very small, and there are deftly
shunted into civilian war work
quite as necessary as fighting.
Germany, on the other hand.
; had no significant pacifist move
ment after the early 1930's. War
was glorified in the pliant minds
of German youth. Yet there was
at least as much popular reluct
ance to go to war in Germany as
in the Allied countries.
It would seem from the record
that the advertised attitudes of
young men in advance of a war
crisis do not have very much to
do with their readiness to take
up' arms when the actual neces
sity of fighting comes. Certainly
the determination to stay out of
war is not in itself evidence that
the country’s youth would evade
their patriotic duty once they are
persuaded that the nation’s most
vital interests and security are
at stake.—Cincinnati Inquirer.
CONSULAR OFFICIALS
ARE SCRUTINIZED
—
WASHINGTON, June 15 (A*) —
State Secretary Cordell Hull dis
closed the government is investi
gating reports bearing upon the
conduct of Italian consular offic
ials in the United States.
He made the disclosure at a
press conference when asked to
comment on objections registered
to him Friday by the Italian am
bassador against reports that
consular official were engaging
in pro-Fascist activities.
LIBRARY MEN CONFER
WITH GOV. GRUENING
Enroute to the Territorial capi
tal for a conference with Gover
nor Ernest H. Gruening, Dr. Fred
erick K. Keppel of New York
and Judson T. Jennings of Seat
tle left Fairbanks by p’ane.
Dr. Keppel is president of the
Carnegie Corporation of New
York. His traveing companion is
head of the Sea tile Public Li
brary sysiem. The pair are in the
Territory investigating Hie po.
sit ilities of err..ini' an Alaska
j v\ oe circ.i v ng library project
\* *h finau.’i 1 aid frcni the Car
negie Corporation.
FOR SALE
Reasonably Priced
Complete set dishes, service foi
12, and various household ap
liances in first class condition
Inquire Mrs. Russell Maynard.
39 r, S. BOMBERS ARE
DELIVERED TO CANADA
LONDON, June 15 — The Brit
ish Broadcasting Company an
nounced that 39 American bomb
ers purchased by the Allies in
the U. S. had just been delivered
in Canada. It was said that the
bombers would be sent to Eu
rope immediately. There were
hints that the big ships might be
flown to Europe rather than be
ing transported by boat.
ITALIANS AND BRITISH
CLASH ON FRONTIER
ALEXANDRIA, June 15 UP) —
Sharp fighting between Italian &
British troops on the Egyptian
Libyan frontier after repeated
Royal Air Force bombings of en
! emy positions, accentuated the
(danger that Egypt itself will be
drawn into the war.
Operations of the past 24 hours |
it was declared brought the capj
ture of the Italian forts of Cap- j
ruzzo and Maddalena by British
j troops. „
Paterson Hotel Arrivals
Ralph Weir
B, W. DrufTer
H. Rorquist
Boris Magids
Mr. Scammon
Mr. Schollard
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
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-tick out of it.
NOTICE
All taxes real and personal
due the City of Nome for the
year 1939 are due, and on July
15, 1940, penalty and interest on
those unpaid taxes will be cal
culated. and the delinquent tax
roll will be prepared, advertised,
and the property sold according
to law.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. Walsh,
City Clerk
ALASKA CLIPPER COMPLETES
FIRST FLIGHT From SEATTLE I
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Juneau, June 15 — The Alaska
Clipper passed over Juneau at |
7:16 p.m. Friday for the landing
at Auk Bay, 12 miles out.
Hundreds of Juneauites left!
town late in the afternoon to view
the Clipper. Including the crew
of 10, there were 26 aboard the
Cipper, representatives from var
ious government departments.
Soaring at a low altitude, the
Cipper flew over the water from
the landing field at Auk Bay Fri
day night and coninued its flight
to Skagway, Haines and Chilkoot
Barracks, making an investiga
tion from the air of potential
landing fields, then returned and
came down on Auk Bay at 8:30
p.m.
SATKO’S ARK IS
CONVOYED ON CHATHAM
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PRINCE RUPERT, June 15 —
Captain Franklin Stewart of the
Fishpaoker, Rap 1 arrived here
and told of convoying Paul Sat
ko’s Ark across the storm tossed
waters of Chatham Sound to the
shelter of Dundas Island. 25 mil
es north of here.
Mrs. Satko and children were
weak with seasickness and were;
taken aboard the Rap in the lee
of Green Island and continued
aboard on to Goose Bay.
Anton Strand, member of the:
Fishpaoker crew, boarded the!
Ark and helped Satko with the j
home-made Ark. The Ark was!
still at Goose Bay Thursday af
ternon.
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German soldiers above were captured in western front battles by the French army. They are
shown in this picture, radioed from Paris to New York, as they arrived at a prison camp “somew
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