* The El Capital! Is Bringing Four
NEON SIGNS
IF YOU ARE DOING YOUR PART TO MAKE
NOME A BRIGHTER TOWN IN WHICH TO
LIVE, THROUGH THE LONG WINTER, THIS
IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO ORDER AND
SHIP THIS SEASON. SAFE DELIVERY GUAR
• ANTEED. OPERATION COSTS NEXT TO
NOTHING. FOR DETAILS SEE—
S. W. TAGGART
% Census In Alaska
Be Taken: Start
( About Oet. 1st
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23
(/P)—Taking the census in Alas
ka will be a mansized job and
includes the use of dog sleds,
boats, snowshoes, and trailers,
ft Dwight R. Hammaek. area su
pervisor for the census bureau
is already working over plans for
the count which will be started
October first. The Alaska count
is started six months ahead of
the United State census because
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of the difficulty of weather con
ditions.
Coast Guard cutters, vessels of
4^ the Coast and Geodetic Survey,
Bureau of Fisheries and Alaska
Game Commission craft will be
used by the far north’s two hun
dred enumerators.
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• SALT IjAKE CITY. Aug. 24.—
Many mining men of Alaska are
making their plans *o attend the
sixth annual Metal Mining Con
vention and Exposition of the
American Mining Congress to be
held at Salt Lake Cny August
28-31 inclusive.
Members of the program com
mittee for Alaska who are expect
♦ ed to attend include: W. A. Cast
leton. Cast let on & Keenan, Seat
tle; H. L. Faulkner, Faulkner &
Ranfield, Juneau; Lewis A. Lev
ensaler. Cons. Mining Engineer,
Seatlte; J. D. Littlepage, V. P. &
Gen. Mgr. Chichagoff Mining Co,
Chichagoff, Alaska.
Herbert L. Faulkner. Counsel,
Alaska Miners Association, will
discuss "The Wagner Act and the
^ Mining Industry” at the Tuesday
afternoon session. Aug. 29th.
Senators Pittman of Nevada.
King of Utah, and Wheeler of
Montana, all will address delegat
es at the meeting.
At this meeting over two thou
sand delegates from the various
metal producing states will de
vc4e particular attention to the
^ Wagner Labor Relations Act and
the Wage-Hour Act, both of
which have worked hardships up
on the metal mining indusrty. Ad
ministrator Elmer F. Andrews of
the Wage-Hour Division of the
U. S. Department of Labor will
present the government’s posi
tion on the application of the lat
ter law to mining.
^ Tax problmes. mine financing
and security registrations, tariff
developments, monetary legisla
tion, minerals and the pare they
play in the national defens e pro
grom, and occupational disease
legislation are also scheduled for
thorough study.
The outlook for copper, lead,
zinc, iron ore. gold, silver, and
other metals and non-metallic
^ minerals will come in for much
discussion at the meeting.
Vying with sessions of the
Congress will be an Exposition
of metal mining equipment and
^ supplies participated in by over
a hundred manufacturers.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
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Many Responses to
leke’s Proposals
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. —
The Slattery program for colon
ization of Alaska got a big re
sponse, Interior Department of
ficials revealed.
Five hundred requests have
been received since August 14.
when Secretary Harold Ickes an
nounced a plan submitted by his
under-secretary. Harry Slattery,
to grubstake settlers in Alaska
by private capital.
Equal numbers of native Am
ericans and central European pol
itical refugees, as well as busi
ness houses quickly wrote for
details.
Prospective settlers expressed
personal ambitions and a frant
ic dsire for a new chance in life’s
struggle.
A New York bank clerk wrote
his hipe was to find some oppor
tunity in Alaska for a young
man with a wife and child. An
unmarried New Jersey woman,
despairing of economic security,
said she eventually hopes to set
tle there. An Iowan asked if Al
aska is still open to Americans,
and from Ohio came a rush for
details as to Alaska opportuni
ties.
‘‘I am a married man and I
might want to go there,” wrote
one.
Ickes said there-are still thou
sands of applications for Mata
n.uska. but he <’ as r. >t believe
the colony is capable of support
ing more than 150 families now.
Most responses contemplated
Alaska as a possible empire or
an overlooked oppoi .unity: most
are confused on the extent of ad
vantages realized by agricultur
al settlers.
Reports Misquote
True Conditions
Telegrams received by The
I Nome Nugget from the Asso
ciated Pr: ss in Seattle state that
"according to opposition news
j services. Nome is being ravaged
j by a serious epidemic of measles
j with hundreds now inflicted and
I the situation growing steadily
i worse. What is the information?”
i True, many cases of measles
have broken out in the commun
ity, and normal precautions are
' being advised. But. the reporting
j of a serious epidemic with result
i ant misinformation and misinter
pretation by newspapers in the
! States, seeks oniy to exploit bu
; man misery and create anxiety
- and worry by relatives and fam
I dies -who are away from Nome
'during the summer, with the on
1 iy gain being to the reporter’s
| pocket.
The telegram from the Asso
ciated Press also asked about
he "serious outbreak at Unala
kleet of spinal meningitis”.
To -begin with, the information
from Unalakleet said that a little
I girl was suffering from what ap
peared to be spinal meningitis. A
j diagnosis by Dr. Moreom yester
| day who w-as flown there by the
1 Coast Guard plane, w?as not con
- elusive, and samples are being
] forw arded to the laboratories in
Juti-.u for analysis. It possibly
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will be defined as such a case,
bat that is far from being an
“outbreak”.
Thoughtful and considerate re
porting of news and news events
and the responsibility incident
thereto, is a crede livi d up to
| by Alaskans, who realize that any
; information coming from Alaska ,
| is usually played up in the Siat
j es. and unless such information
is extremely acuratc and reflects
! the true state of things, nothing
I but adverse publicity i suits for
our Territory.
Conditions at Nome have ap-,
patently not reached a critical
st3ge, as intimated in the “oppo
sition's" telegrams, or else a per-;
iod of quarantine would have i
been imposed by Pubic: Health
Officials here Too manj ‘ scare
headlines” have been sent from
Nome during the past \ ar or
two and only confusion and ad
verse publicity results. Whoever
is reporting sensational news as
■ outlined above owes this commun
ity a more dignified responsibil
ity and faith.
| LA PAZ. Bo’ivia, Aug. 24. —
: President German Busch. Boliv
ia’s dictator, age 35. was report
i ed by presidential p. lace physi
cians to be in a dying condition .
as the result of a pistol wound
received early this morning.
First reports did not say how
the president was shot.
Later reports revealed that one
official had declared Busch com-1
milted suicide.
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IT’S NO' S E T - U P—When Priscilla Lane of the ftim
colony decides to heft one down the alley, her opponents in the
bowline leaeue have to watch their laurels. Formerly named
Mullican. she and sisters once lived at Indtanola, la.
MISSING S«S3ETHIN€ '
FINE OliO-TlNSi; FMFOR
NOTICE TO < REDITORS
No. 59!)
In the Probate Court in and for
the Cape Nome Precinct. Second
Division: Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of
JOHN GROSS. Deceased.
Notice is hereby g.ven that by
order of the Probate Court in
md for the Cape Nome Precinc'
Alaska, the undersigned lias been
appointed Administrator of the
estate of JOHN GROSS, deceas
ed. All persons having claims
.gainst said estate shall present
them with proper vouchers at
tached. within six months from
the dale of this notice at the
office of Leroy M. Sullivan, at
torney, at the City Hull n Nome,
Alaska.
Dated at Council, Alaska. A ig
ust 3, 1939.
Fred P. Durocher
Administrator
Publish Aug. 4. 11. 18. 25. 1939
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I Seven weeks’ of painstaking effort to raise the Submarine Squalus anti its cargo of dea*i were nullified in a few brief moments when the era burst from
the water near Portsmouth, N.H .nokctl its nose into the air. then slinpe'’ hack to the ocean dept'*.". The how of the Squalus is shown as it shot into ihe air.