THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday, Friday, by The Nome
Publishing Company. Nome, Alaska
Telephone Main 114 P. O. Box 518
Entered in the Post Office in Nome as 2nd Class Matter
Subscription Rates Payable In Advance
Delivered by carrier in Nome and L.’ttle Creek fioi $2.00 per month
By mail, postage pa d. outside of Nome & vicinity $1 50 per month.
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
Australians Hail American Army
By ROY L. CURTHOYS
Melbourne, Australia — In the last war America en
trusted some of her men to an Australian general in
their first offensive action. On Independence Day. 1918,
1,000 Americans, who until then had been holding the
line, fought beside the Anzacs in the Battle of Hamel
under the late General John Monash, Australian Com
mander in Chief, who led them to a great victory. Af
terward he wrote that the Americans fought most gal
lantly and were ever after received by Australians as
“blood brothers.” Three months later General Monash
was given 50,000 Americans from the Twenty-seventh
and Thirtieth Divisions for an attack on the Hinden
burg Line in the battle that sealed Germany’s doom.
America's Battle
Today, as one Minister has said, Australia gladly en
trusts her entire forces to America's foremost contem
porary soldier, who has shown the world that the only
true defense is offense. General MacArthur’s welcome
is not only for his renown as a fighter but also as proof
of the first-rate importance which America attaches to
the task of holding Australia, of her willingness to un
dertake tremendous commitments to this end and also
as demonstrating the United States Government’s re
cognition of the fact, abundantly emphasized both here
and in America, that the Battle of Australia is as much
America’s battle as it is ours.
Since America is providing most of the planes and
ships essential to victory it is deemed appropriate that
she also furnish the strategic leadership. MacArthur’s
is just the kind of bold, tenacious generalship for which
Australians have been crying out. It is looked to for an
aggressive effort such as brought about the devastat
ing assault on the Japanese convoy in New Guinea
waters, announced the day after General MacArthur’s
arrival in Australia. The expectation is that there will
be no waiting dumblv for the enemy but instead an
incessant and vigorous harrying of him. So Australians
hope that they will some day lye able to say that theirta
vis the country where the hitherto unbroken surge
< f the Japanese conquest was decisively halted and
thrown back.
It is fully recognized that the best pledge Australians
can give of their gratitude for America’s aid is to in
fuse an ever increasing vigor and maximum efficiency
into their own war effort and to lend Americans the
closest and ablest collaboration possible.
Hospitality Flows Free
Thus, in its very nature, our welcome to the Ameri
can forces is no mere form. It is an expression of warm
hearted gratitude, of a bond of good-will and brother
hood in arms based on a common outlook and way of
life. Now that the ban of official silence has been lift
ed. the wellsprings of private hospitality have already
been freely opened and are bound to flow in greater
measure.
Americans seem to like being among us as much as
we like having them. Many say that they still can’t
believe that they would feel so completely at home —
except that our skyscrapers are of the dwarf variety
and the traffic is all on the wrong side of the road.
Accorn .'dating the Americans was a real problem at
first. Many were billeted in private homes until camps
were ready, and whole buildings have been taken over
1 :. u • administrative staffs. One morning the people
< f a quiet suburb had their sleep disturbed by noise in
a near-by park. The next morning revealed the skele
ton of a regular town which within a fortnight was a
completely new camp. Such all-American cities have
risen in many parts of Australia.
The Americans are exemplary guests—good natured,
generous, gentlemanly, patently anxious to fit into the
Australian picture, yet full of hugh spirits and wise
cracks, eager to know all about Australia. This healthy
curiousity sometimes sends embarrassed Australians,
not as well informed as they ought to be, to brush up
their knowledge of their own country. While Ameri
cans profess to be having trouble with the language,
which they complain Australians speak too fast, the
truth is they are acquiring a nice command of Austral
ian slang, liberally garnished with “digger” tags.
Doughnuts and Hamburgers
Hospitality bureaus under committees of American
women welcomed them with all the American eats and
drinks to which they were accustomed at home—dough
nuts, hamburgers, coffee made as Americans like it
(one American lad described Australian coffee as just
as good) and their own kind of lemonade. Handbooks
were distributed contained city maps, explaining how
to distinguish Australian currency, what taxi fares
.vert payable, what was chargeable for accommoda
Philippine Commander
! _I
Major General Jonathan
M. Wainwright (above),
senior officer remaining in
Bataan, had direct com
mand of the U. S. forces in
the Philippines now that
General Douglas Mac Ar
thur had taken command in
Australia.
The universe, visible to
science, extends six thou
sand million billion miles.
This convinces us that it is
big enough.
W J* Y" 1 ^ J1 O 0 D S A fcw tlAPPV H°ME favorite
CONTROL your food budget —delight your freestone peaches pears
family and friends — protect health. Look fRUIT cocktail
for the HAPPY HOME red circle on the can. grapefruit juici peas
Assure yourself of Highest Quality in luscious, OVEN-BAKED BEANS EE S
fully-ripe fruits — carefully selected, garden-fresh RED KIDNEY BEANS
vegetables — seafoods and delicacies from near and
far -Fancy" Grade, yet economical. ~ *nd °Jer 150 °Jhetr
“In Season - All Seasons” Happy Homk Products
Guaranteed by SCHWABACHER BROS. & CO., Inc, Seattle, Washington
ENJOY THESE PROGRAMS ( Every Sundoy night at 9.30, the Gold Shield Coffee "Thirty Minutes of Music”
OVER KIRO 1720 ltd \ Every Wednesday evening ot 7:43. MAX DOLIN end "HIS VIOLIN"_
r
MacARTIIURS ARRIVE IX MELBOURNE
Welcomed by the deafening cheers of an admiring
crowd, General Douglas MacArthur, his wife and
young son. Arthur, arrived in Melbourne March 21
from Adelaide. Th’s picture, radioed from Melbourne:
to London to New York is the first picture of the Mac
Arthurs in Australia to reach the United States.
tions. There were sepcial celebrations on Washington's
Birthday at which Australian entertainers gave pro-j
grams.
Already there is a host of amusing stories, all varia
tions on the theme that these boys know how to get
things done. It isn't the least salutory lesson Australia
will earn trom Americans, who can’t see the use of
rules and regulations and trade-union limitations' in
war-time and want the wmrk done regardless of hours.
If wharf laborers don’t feel like working around the
clock the Americans will and do. Unloading ships,
many Americans worked twenty-four hours at a stretch
and longer. Their little jeeps, which excited the wonder
ment and amusement of all Australia, seem to go any
where and everywhere.
One good thing about the shortage of autombiles is
that 1942 will have less traffic deaths.—Chicago News.
Hard work, mixed with some intelligence, usually
reaps a reward.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
(MAS. CAVEY
Carrying an Assortment
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Beers.
FRONT STREET, NOME
PIONEER WATER
DELIVERY
SPRING WATER
Always At Tour Service
Phoue Black 44
PIONEER LINE
Bases At
NOME : : : FAIRBANKS
PASSENGER INSURANCE CARRIED
FREIGHT — EXPRESS — MAIL
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
+ MINERS & MERCHANTS BANK OF ALASKA f
+ NOME, ALASKA f
+ X
t %
An Alaskan Bank Which Has Served This %
Community Continuously Since 1904 J
| GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS CONDUCTED |
«j. T
Money Transfers Made to Any Point In
t States By Wire or Draft
•> *
* Carry Your Money tft the States in the %
SAFE Way, Bv Draft t
Z ♦
.j. -
% GOLD DUST PURCHASED
* %
* •> -5- •:> * * * •> •> * * * * * * * *j....... ... ...... ...... ^
| “Belter Light—Better Sight” f
i *
1 i
i i
APPLIANCES ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES 1
| |
| WASHING MACHINES.IRONERS t
t |
f — ?
I f
| Northern Light and Power Co. *
I
YOU CANT QUIT ADVERTISING
YOU’RE TALKING TO A I’ARaOK
NOT A MASS MEETING