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Published Monday, Wednesday
and Friday by The
The Nugget.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone: Main 125
P. O. Box 618
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Nome Post Office
Nov. 27, 1944.
IKI, Waki and So Forth
(New York Times)
The Japanese battle cry
chosen by the Imperial
Rule Assistance Associa
out of 176,000 slogans
entered in its 1,000-yen
prize contest, is trans
lated into English as
“Spirit, harmony, stam
ina, total action.” Even
a Japanese soldier, train
ed to endure all sorts
of hardships, couldn’t
spit out this mouthful
under fire. In the Jap
anese tongue, however,
the syllables have the
brisk sound of popping
corn. “Iki, waki,” they
run, “konki, sookekki.”
If that doesn’t scare a
marine, if it doesn’t in
timidate the infantry, if
it doesn’t throw the field
artillery off its marks,
what will?
Of course, we shall
have to retaliate. The
Japanese can’t do this
sort of thing to us and
get away with it. The
American Imperial Rule
Suppression Association
must take steps., The
Army and Navy should
at once organize units
composed entirely of for
mer college cheer lead
ers. From Harvard in
the East, from Stanford
and the University of Cal
ifornia, Oregon and Wash
ington in the West, from
Bowdoin in North and
Texas A. and M. in the
South, they should rally
to their country's cause.
Then, if one single ‘,Iki”
is heard from any con
tested cave or bit of
shrubbery, they should
turn their trained bat
talions loose. The Japan
ese can’t outfight us and
they needn’t think they
can out-yell us.
MINING CLASSES
A recent edition of the
Farthest North Collegian
publication of the Univer
sity of Alaska, announces
that mining classes are be
ing held in several south
eastern Alaska towns.
In the past, Nome has
had a share in this exten
sion work of the Univer
sity and could probably fig
ure in again if* enough and
proper interest were tak
en.
Last year there was no
place available for classes
to be held in the city, so
the course was given at the
army post. Now that the
broadcast station has been
j moved out of the city hall
it is just possible that
space would be available
for that purpose.
If enough interest is
shown, it may still be pos
sible to have an instructor
from the University give
l the mining course here.
ALONG MEMORY
I LANE
TEN YEARS AGO
Nov. 27, 1934.
The first house warm
ing of the new Nome
business district will be
at the Nome Motor Com
pany building. Elaborate
preparations have been
arranged for furnishing
entertainment and danc
ing. i
A special of the Nome
City Council was called
by Mayor Rex Swartz
to consider the new plat
of the burned area, which
was presented to the coun
cil by B. D. Stewart, Eng.
John Lichtenberg, well
known hardware merchant
today moved into his new
building located on Front
Street and Federal way.
Thorulf Lehmann, local!
department store owner, j
| completed moving into his,
new building. Temporary
quarters has been in the
Ames building.
The Dream Theater is
near completion, says C.
' H. Code, and he hopes to
have the first show since
the fire, on Thursday ev
ening, as the interior will!
be ready by that time. !
Among the many mat
ters for discussion by the
City Council at their reg
ular meeting, was the pro- j
posed application for a
PWA loan. f
owe WRN6D 5H0PTA6E AeTeR ANOWeR.
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GRASS SHACK TOKYO?
Are you unduly optimis
tic in your impressions of
what the bombing of Tok
yo means?
Do you believe that Tok
yo is nothing but a paper
city, with houses of cane
and grass?
Well, it’s about time we
took a look at the real city
of Tokyo, its size, build
ings, etc.
The city of Tokyo is far
greater than Berlin* Only
London and New York are
bigger than Tokyo. With
a population of more than;
7,000,000 inhabitants hous
ed in some million build
ings, Tokyo stretches out
over some 217 square miles
The center of the city, re
built after the 1923 earth
quake, is like a western
metropolis with its great
steel and concrete build
ings and broad streets
built as a fire break a
gainst conflagrations from
the flimsier outlying dist
ricts.
The people of Tokyo, long
anticipated another great
earthquake and fire, and
have specially built their
industrial and business sec
tions to withstand flames,
shock and concussion.
True, the homes generally
will burn easily,r but fire
fighters have been inten
sively trained against just
such a catastrophe, and, in
any case, houses will be
far easier to replace than
they are in Berlin, so the
people will not long remain
bombed out.
Since the targets of the
Air Forces will be factories
and military objectives,
the inflammability of pri
vate dwellings is of min
or concern to us, except in
sofar as these house family
factories, those small home
workshops feeding the
munitions industry.
The great industrial belt
of Tokyo is strung out some
18 miles from the center of
the city, with factories,
naval bases, shipyards,
piers, warehouses, and ar
senals reaching down the
Tokyo Bay to Yokohama.
Yokohama itself has some
4,500 factories and it is the
great shipping port for
| Tokyo, its wharves capable
of accommodating scores
of 10,000-ton merchant
ships at one time.
So far as bombing is
concerned, Yokohama with
866,000 population will
hav.e to be considered as
part of Tokyo, and its des
truction as^part of; the job
in “the bombing of Tokyo.
The disabling of the in
dustrial and military pc^v
er of these twin cities may
require a long and tough
! campaign by air.
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