CURBSTONING
ALONG MAIN
STREET
By JAY RAYMOND
As long as I have nothing else
to do except keep out of the boss’s
sight for a few minutes, Td like
to jot down a few words,' or a
few lines which might be classi
fied as pertinent in regard to
some of the things htat have ha<p- I
pened to me since I came to Nome j
and' incidentally, some of the
things which happened when I
was in Nome prior <to this recent.
return.
In the first place Fm sitting
here thinking of a pair of brown
eyes—eyesjhat have the hue and
color of an autumn eve—with the
variance of the original brown I
temepered to a high degree—and
believe you me—they're pretty, j
But such is not tor the likes of
me. i
*««
In the second place Tm think
ing of where I first ran across ,
those same brown eyes—in the
Nome Grill, of course—where else
does a man glean such know
ledge of the sublime if not in a
restaurant or a like place of gour
met atmosphere?
For the nonce I dreamed of the
eyes—then, my newspaper in
stincts being called upon, perused
the activity taking place at the
time.
What I saw was of no mean im-!
portance, but Cd like to tell you
about it
1 saw a beehive of activity
within the walls of Nome’s
newest and most up-to-date
eating emporium.
I saw enough to bring my
newspaper instincts alive and
try an ingenious plan in order to
contact the owner of such an ac
tive establishment — I finnally I
succeeded—over a beer! And the
results of my investigation reads
something like a fairy tale out of .
a book similar to the much-touted
“Alice of Wonderland.”
Too few of us realize the I
enormity of the workings of this
organization.
In the first place, this firm,
operated bv Monte Ferguson and
“Blackie” Lord carries a pay- j
roll commensurate in size with '
that of quite a few leading res
taurants of the coastal cities of
Continental United States.
Among the members of this or- i
ganization are folk of every walk i
of life—one used to be employed i
in a prominent bank in the State |
of Washington; another in a like
enterprise.
In all 27 employes grace the
weekly payroll checks—and it
seems to be a pleasure for
Monte and “Blackie” to deco
rate the bottom of these pay
roll checks with their “John
Henry’s*.
Among the .personnel includ
ed are Marzella Hurley, acting
in the capacity of chef and gen
eral factotum in the absence of
Monte and “Blackie”; Audrey
9 Hendersen, Alice Barnum (Brown
Eyes), Mrs. H Grant, Isaac Mat
thews, John DeFrance, Willett
Deliluk, Alberta Schenck, Peter
Natungok, Martin Richard, Carl
Apok, Aly Sookiayak, Ronald
Ailuk, John Mosquito, Olga Bahr,
Roland Rahr, Irene Grey, Mar
orie Caslel, Edith Thompson,
Margaret Gradall, Glenna Paul,
> Agnes Jakes, Pat Storey, Maggie
Singyke, Grace Garney, Margaret
Mozes, Martin Richard, Emma
Carpenter, Mary Ann Johansen,
•••
And, as a parting gesture to
.this stable organization—may
i say that Blackie was right,
when he Informed us: “Monte
Is taking the weight off—Fm
putting it on.”
• ••
Nonentities of the Week:
Chief of Police Tenney juggl
, ing a sandwich and a spot of cof
fee, headed somewhere in the
the direction of City Hall . . .
Mixologist Luke of the Nevada
(Continued on Page Seventeen)
SOUV MIR EDITION
THE NOME NUGGET
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. 45—No. 75. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1,1943. PER COPY—25c
NAPLES FALLS TO ALLIES
RELIGIOUS
COUNCIL
FORMED
i The religious leaders of the
city, feeling the need of closer
council and cooperation, organ
ised themselves into a council on
September 1, 1943. An invitation
was extended to the Catholic
Church, the Methodist Mission
Church, the Federated Church
and the Army through its chap
lains. Each organization was
asked to send its religious leader
and three lay representatives.
Any other religious leader or
group in the community is wel-!
come on the council.
The purpose of the council as
set forth in its first meeting is:
1. To coordinate the religious
work in the city of Nome.
2. To plan ways in which all;
the people may be reached with ,
religious instruction and worship
3. To cooperate in moral and
special welfare work that every
one may have the greatest bene
fits the city can afford.
4. To work together in any
other area where religious lead- ,
ership may help further the |
Kingdom of God in Nome. ,
The officers of the council arc:
Rev. Vernon L Booker, presi- j
, dent; Mr. Thomas Morris, sec-1
i retary, Rev. Paul Carlson, treas- 1
> urer.
I . Meetings are held each week
|on Wednesday at 8 p m.
Many matters have been con
sidered by council but there was
one that everyone felt we should
begin work on first of all, name- j
i Iy, a religious survey of Nome. I
Committees have been at work I
preparing materials and securing
workers for this survey. Tb do
1 this task adequately we need as
| many workers as possible and the
| full cooperation of all the people
i in the community.
; Those who are working on the
survey are asked to meet at their
respective churches for final in
struction this Sunday, October
3, at 2 p. m. The following Sun
day, October 10th, at 2 p. m., the
survey will begin. It is hoped
that we may be able to cover
.most of the city in this one aft
: ernoon. Please reserve Sunday
I afternoon, October 10th, to work
: on the survey or to help the sur
I vey workers secure the complete
information they seek, that this
city may be ,ore effectively serv
ed by the religious forces work
ing among you
BOMBER JACKPOT
SIX SHIPS BAGGED IN TEN MINUTES
This is how a Tenth U. S. Air Force bomber recently destroyed
five Japanese rivercraft and badly damaged a sixth—all in ten
minutes on la flight from India. The crew of the America . B-25
sometimes flying only 10 feet above the Irrawaddy River, was
headed by Thomas J. Smith, Magazine, Ark.
\ '
POST-WAR
AVIATION
MULLED
' V
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Roosevelt said today the
position of aviation in the post
j war world had been under study
by the government for months.
Both he and Prime Minister
Churchill stand in agreement
there should be freedom of the
air. Some conversations also have
i taken place on aviation among
j other high government officials
I and other Allied officials,
i The President added today in
i Washington that the War Produc
j tion Board has authorized public
utilities to extend their service
throughout 41 areas and 17 states,
including Alaska.
The areas included were desig
| nated as critical war housing
areas.
ARRIVES FROM ANCHORAGE
Pvt. Charles O’Leary arrived
! from Anchorage to spend his fur
I lough with Mrs. Charles
, O’Leary, superintendent here for
J the Arts and Crafts Division of
! the Bureau of Upd^an Aljfairs.
Mr. O’Leary is stationed at Kis
ka with the Alaskan Scouts and
took an active part in that fam
ous campaign. Mr. and Mrs. J.
J. O’Leary, parents of Charles,
and his many friends in Nome
are also enjoying his brief visit
BOASTS i
STATES
GENERAL
By Norman Bell
ADAK. Alaska (AP) — Major
General Landrum, commanding
the army troops which saw the
bloodiest fighting in the attempt
to clear the Aleutians of the Japs,
brushed aside rumors of a Jap
invasion threat, says emphatically
that “it would be foolish
He asserted further that they
were not fully prepared for a
possible comeback attempt.
The general expressed his
thoughts to the effect that it
may be a trick by the Japs to
assuage our victory at Attu in
May.
Gen. Landrum made this state
ment at an interview when dis
cussion developed over the more
recent bloodless conquest of Kis
ka.
When U. S. and Canadian forc
es landed at Kiska, only to find
that the Japs had evacuated, they
discovered such signs as these:
“We come back to kill out sep
arately Yonkee joker—Remember
Kiska.”
General Landrum said that
the signs were probably mere
boasts by the retreating men. He
suggested that the Japs drew
back as a defensive move on their
own soil.
A strictly defensive war be
fore the war can be won was the
declaration of Landrum. He
was firm in his belief that ground
forces must invade Japan itself,
he averred declaring that “physi
cal difficulties alone take time
to overcome.
NAME NEW
ENVOY
WASHINGTON — W. Averell
Harriman, was nominated by
President Roosevelt today, as U.
S. ambassador to Russia. Harri
man was named to succeed Adm.
Standley, 71, who returned from
Moscow recently to report on the
Soviet government’s attitude to
ward projected Anglo-American
Russian war talks.
Before leaving Moscow, the ag
ing Standley made known he did
not wish to return to his post
there.
AMERICAN FIFTH ;
ARMY CAPTURES
ITALY’S THIRD CITY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA!
((/P))—Clark’s American Fifth Army capture Naples
Italy’s third greatest city, threw German defenders
back toward defenses of Rome, over one hundred airline
miles north. American and British forces clattered
over the streets of Naples only to find that 925 thou**
and enemy Germans had for a week engaged in an orgy
of destruction and terrorism, designated to burn and
tear down every installation of benefit to the Allied
forces to hamper Italian cooperation on liberation. The
The armies’ .special communique announcing the
fall, didn’t give, the time at whlich allied troops seized
the greatest city port they have won on the continent
of Europe. I
HOLD LINE
AT KIEV
______
j LONDON (AJP)’— The battle
i of Kiev is expected here to be one
iof the'decisive struggles In the
war.
Fifihting raged with unabated
fury by both the Russian and the
Germans Throwing r emend* v
| forces A artillery an .
j and air power that the fight
j ,ight achieve the mighty Dnieper
Line, Germans entranched in the
ancient city fortress, high on the
: western cliffs of the Dnieper riv
er, while picked Russian armies
faced them across a hundred yard
water barrier which separates
Kiev. Its eastern bank suburbs
already in Soviet hands, in the
battle may rest the fate of Ger
man armies.
The great Dnieper bend south
erf Kiev and in Crimea Wells con
the Black Sea.
A German communique was is
sued indicating Russians were at
tacking with unsual vigor on
south Dneiper Ben, adding that
the Soviet assaults were made
with ‘the strongest of infantry
tank forces.”
NOME’S FIRST
WOMAN PILOT
Neva Whaley, wife of Frank
Whaley, who is local manager of
! Wein Airlines, has the distinc
; tion of being the first woman of
! the Second Division to be issued
a private pilot’s certificate by
j the Civil Aeronautics Authority.
Mrs. Whaley has now put in over
eighty hours and will soon be
ready for a commercial license, i
—
TO SING MESSIAH
The Federated Church choir,
under the direction of Lt. Jones,
plan to stage the famed “Mes
I siah” as their Christmas cantata
j at the church this year. It is
: sincerely hoped that all those de
siring to be included among the
membership of this organization
at the time, will see Lt Jones or
be at the regular weekly re
hearsals Thursday evening at 7:45
in the church parlors.
VISITS IN NOME FROM
WHITE MOUNTAIN
Mrs. Amy Krabler is a visitor
in Nome from White Mountain
where she is supervisor of the
White Mountain School for Vo
cational Education. Mrs. Krabler
reports that the school has an
enrollment this year of forty
girls and thirty boys. She is vis
iting with her daughter, Mrs.
Glenn Smith while recuperating
from an illness and plans to re
turn to White Mountain in the
near future. ,
FDR TELLS
OF PLANS
FOR ROME
WASHINGTON (APf —presi
dent Roosevelt was quoted as
having said today the objective «f
Allied forces in Italy was to free
Rome and the Vatican Pope
Pius r eacts much in the manner
of a crusader, while at the same
time desirous of avoiding all pos
sible destruction.
Mr. Roosevelt showed some
skepticism at his press radio con
ference today about news reports
that the Germans might make
their next stand on a line around
Rome now that the Allies have
entered the city of Naples.
The President said he didn't
think even General Eisenhower
knew where the next stand would
be three minutes away.
Before his news conference
opened the President received »
flash from General Elsenhower;
saying that Allied troops had en
tered Naples.
The President asserted there
was one thing he could say, nat
urally. That was that the advance
was going to continue and that
every effort was being made by
the Allies to prevent damage to
Rome and the Vatican. That
everything possible was being
done to prevent active fighting
leading to the destruction o*
Rome.
VESSEL
SUNK ■
i
OTTAWA (AP)—The Cana
dian destroyer Sicroix was tor
pedoed and sunk while on convoy
duty with a loss of 146 men.
Navy Ministry head MacDon
ald ,ade the announcement, driv
ing home the fact that German
subs are again preying the North
Atlantic supply routes.
Only one member of the tor
pedoed destroyer was rescued
MacDonald’s statement gave ao
details. r
The loss of the Sicroix, one
56 U. S. destroyers turned over to
Britain before Pearl Harbor In
an exohange of naval bases.
MacDonald recalled Prime
Minister Churchill’s disclosure to
Commons in his war review on.
September 9th, that an a tl an tip
convoy was under attack at that
moment.
The Sicroix was the fourth
Canadian destroyer last since the
beginning of the war.
OUR POLICY:
To serve our country!
To aid in the development in Seward Peninsula and the Sec
ond Division.
To help unify our collective interests with those of the other
divisions of the Territory.
To make every effort to cement Good Will and trade rela
tions with the Soviet Union—our neighbors.
To take an active part in the affairs of our nation.
As the future of aviation will increasingly lessen the distances
on the earth”s surface, we will take added territory into the scope
of our interests, and plans of future development.
All of which we will bring to our readers, wihereever they
may be, through the columns of The Nome Nugget
Yours truly,
9
W. A. BOUCHER, Editor.