I
QUALITY
ffioictAmerican
At your favorite tavern
and package store.
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Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 100 proo..
Schenley Distillers Corp., N. Y. C.
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Schenley (rives
Aid to Selectees
NEW YORK, Dec. — In the an
nual report just issued by Schen
^ ley Distillers Corporation it is
said that benefits for employees
entering the military training ser
vie,; will include the equivalent
of three months’ salary and pay
ment by the company of the full
cost of the employee’s group in
surance. Seniority of the com
pany’s employees will continue
to accrue during their period of
service and they also will have
available for the protecting of
themselves and their families the
benefits of the Schenley Found
ation a non-profit membership
corporation run by employees
tli: purpose of which is to aid e.m
ployees who through illness or
other uncontrollable emergencies
find themselves in financial dif
ficulties.
Consolidated net profits of
Schenley Distillers Corporation
for the fiscal year end d August
31, 1940 after all charges includ
ing taxes, but before preferred
dividends amounted to $4,392,763
according to the report mailed to
stockholders. Federal income tax
es ar.r at the increased rates re
troactive to January 1 as provid
ed by the Second Revenue Act
of 1940 the report said.
These earnings were equival
ent to $2.73 a share on 1,260,000
shares of common stock outstand
ing after deducting divid nds of
$941,875 on the 5V2 percent cum
ulative preferred stock. Consol
idated net sales for the fiscal
year totaled $81,473,632.
Since this is the company’s
first report for the period end' d
August 31 no audited compari
son for a like period is available
the report said but referred to
the annual report for the calen
dar year 1939 showing sales of
$73,867,529 in that 12 months’
period and net profit of $4,129,
080 after all charg s, equal, after
preferred dividends of $953,425
to $2.52 a common share. The
company’s fiscal year has been
changed from a calendar year
basis, the report said to conform
more closely to the natural busi
ness year of the industry.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
The Nome Daily Nugget carne.
several forms of printing blank.
for your convem .nee — Dredgi
Logs, thawing a~.d drill report:
Mining Deeds Placer and Lod’
Location Notice- Vouchers,
PIONEERS^
* OF '
ALASKA
THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL
ROOF
GARDEN
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Saturday, December 28, 1940
Doors Open 8 p.m. — Program Begins 9 p.m.
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Medley of Stage Acts
mu i ii
Refreshments - - - Dancing
Fun For The Whole Family
* Admission, Adults $1.00
Children (school age) 25c
$10.00 DOOR PRIZE
TO WINNING NUMBER
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* $3.00 Worth of Food and Fun
I
More Outposts
Needed For
Defense Says FDR
(Bv Associated Press)
President Roosevelt is back
'home again after landing at j
Charleston from the USS Tus-lj
I eaLoosa following a cruise of the
Caribbean Sea.
President Roosevelt while
I aboard th ■. Tuscaloosa discussed;
I with the Duke of Windsor the
new y-aoquired Caribbean Sea
j outposts which the President de
scribed as stepping stones for
United States defense.
The President expressed satis
faction at some bases and dis
satisfaction with others.
At a conference with the news
men the President said the fur
ther attack is kept from the con
tinent the safer the continent will
j be and lie wants outposts as far
out as possible to New Found-,
land, as far as they can go in
I the north, to Bermuda and as far
off the coast as possible. With no
island between Puerto Rico and
Bermuda, the President said the
n xt best outpost of defense will
be the Bahamas.
The President conferred for
three hours with the Duke of
Windsor aboard the Tuscaloosa.
The Duke was flown to the Am
erican Navy craft aboard a Naval
p'ane. The Duke also told the
newsm n the people of the Ba
hamas look with great favor on
the establishment of bases and
said: “We are ready to do what
President Roosevelt wants and
ready when he gives the word.”
SPARKS FROM
THE ROOF GARDEN
Five more days and the big ev
tent will lake place. Interest in
this c lebration is gaining mo
mentum every day. It is not con
fined to Nome either. Tony Polet
who arrived Nome Thursday re
: ports that the Nome Pioneer
Roof Garden is being discussed
from Anchorage to Unalakleet.
H confirms the earlier report
that Shallitt's theatrical troupe
will arrive for the occasion. Boy
what a thrill! This is not all. we
just learned that Aben has many
surprise numbers also. Of course
these are secrets. But what an on
looker reports who saw them re
hearsing. it’s going to bs1 a whiz
of a program.
The committee on arrange
j ments is taking no chances on
anything to insure a successfcl
i evening of diversion with varia
, tions to keep you interested all
the time. The hall will be dec
orated so that it will be inviting.
The heating and lighting will be
so arranged that you can enjoy
the utmost comfort while you
see the performance. The dance
floor will rec ive a surface treat
ment that will please those who
delight to glide over a slick floor,
and the music. It will be special.
The games will remind you of
Monte Carlo. Or what you road
about it. And the eats. Well, nuf
:sed. Best and most important of
all, Grant McMurray assures us
th weather will be perfect. Let’s
! go. Where? To the Roof Garden.
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N O T I C E
Write to your friends and rela
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They ii gel a big
f.,ick out of it. _r—
ALASKA STEAMSHIP
COMPANY
LAI) DRINKS PAINT.
DIES IN TWO HOURS
NEW YORK, Dec. — Two-year
old Jackie Walters couldn’t re
sist the pretty red colored liquid
he found in a tumbler on the win
dow sill of a neighbor’s home,
so he drank it.
Jackie is dead now—the liquid
was paint.
He did in Mortisania hospital,
two hours after swallowing the
paint.
Newspaper advertising
will develop new business
tor you.
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 h id in the Court House
at Nome, in said division and
territory, commencing 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.
A’m r Rydeen,
Clerk of the District Court
for the Territory of Alaska.
Second Division.
, Publish December 9 16 23 30.
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PACIFIC ALASKA AIRWAYS
ANNOUNCES
Change in Nome Schedule
Ships Arrival and Departure
MONDAYS and THURSDAYS
rOOL MAKING SI’EEI)
I' KG ED BY KNL’DSEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. — An 31
pea t to manufacturers of ma
■hine tools and to th. ir etnplov
■j to speed up production in
ew of the “t triple urgency of
he situation” was sent out by
.Vdliam S. Knudsen. pied :cti-: 1
hief of the National D t "
Commission and former General
iotors pi - ident.
He wrote to industry that it is
nnpei ative to obtain machine
ol- wii;ly i':r production of
irp'.ancs. an’.i-a rcraft guns, ma
• r ga s, t . . > hosts, de
royi is and tanks.
K i . . : ;md empl ye s
i in u> .. J.^y , re cv n mere
■r n . :' cc - try t h m
a J Ait 1 r - b.cause with
i.. iutter are help
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j. had a! the N it Nugget office
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THE ‘BIC FOUR’ IN MOSCOW —Russia has been described as a “besieged fortress’’ covering onC-sixth of the world by
Michael Kalinin (second from left), who adds that "the other five-sixths of the world are our irreconcilable enemies on princip e.
This photo, made during a Moscow review celebrating 23rd anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution, shows, left to right. J<^e* in*
Kalinin, head of all-Russian central executive committee; Army Marshal Voroshiloff, and l‘*remler-Foreign Commissar . Io oto f. __