THE NOME NUGGET
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NOME, ALASKA
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MONDAY DECEMBER 20, 1943
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A SOLDIER IN EVERY HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
A number of families this year are planning to have
a quiet Christmas at home without any outsiders to
bother about. How about it?
Why not start all over and plan this Christmas to have
one or more of the boys who are fighting, so that we can
fleally have Christmas?
Perhaps your boy is somewhere in the States, in Eng
land, Italy, Africa, the South Seas, China, or even near
er home, though not in better conditions, in the Aleut
ians.
Let us all plan to do for the boys stationed here, as we
would want others to do for our boys wherever they are
on the face of the earth.
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Remember, they are doing their all for us—it should
not be too much to ask that we share our Christmas
celebration with those who are paying the bills.
The boys will appreciate good home cooking in spite
of all we hear about the wonderful GI cooking, and the
chefs who put it out. Make arrangements with the spec
ial officer to ask some of the boys on the deserving list
to your homes during the Christmas holidays, and show
them the spirit that is true of Alaskans.
“The latchstring is always out!”
Let’s keep it that way.
OUR CHANGING WORLD
Since the early days when whaling ships sailed along
the thousands of miles of coastline of Alaska, from Ket
chikan to Demarcation Point, much progress has been
made.
From hand methods of mining come new mechanized
equipment which increased the output of gold, and all
other minerals many times, some as many as a hundred
or more times than is possible by hand methods.
Nearly every class of enterprise in industry was di
rectly benefited by the changes which followed in the
wake of the first World War.
Motion pictures, radio, commercial aviation, changes
in our way of living, of our thinking, and the scope of
our world picture—these and more we have come to rely
on as modern necessities—yet a few short years ago,
they meant next to nothing and were vaguely indefinite
to the average man.
These changes are familiar to all of us today, but we
must prepare our minds for the changes which scientists
and engineers say will result from this war. They tell
us that a new era is forthcoming, a chemical era, and the
array of sciences to which chemistry is related, one of
which is mining.
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i| That’s NEXT YEAR’S suit your wearing. Fab- !
;; rics have marched to war. It takes only “common
!I sense'’ care to keep that old suit ‘'new looking”
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! • quota of next year’s wear.
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(Modem Cleaning Is Clothes Insurance!)
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“A Sta»p a Day Keeps the Japs Away!”
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ONE WAY OF DOING IT!
Last week—Friday at 3:15 p. m., to be exact—three
little Eskimo children found a $10 bill—(banknote to
you)—on Front street. Two women were passing
and took in the situation.
“What do you have.there, boys? Oh! We’ll give you a
silver dollar for it.” Apd the deal was consummated.
It has been suggested that perhaps it will come to such
I that the family purchases in the future must be made by
I the grownups, as the children might fall prey to such I
persons as are mentioned above.
It seems a shame that the children who found the
money were not allowed to keep it, providing the true
owner could not be found, and under the circumstances,
proof of such would be rather thin.
| CRACKS NAZI
POSITIONS
LONDON. Dec. 20.—AP)—The
Russians’ Firdt Baltic Front
Army cracked German positions
on a 50-mile front to a depth of
nearly 20 miles, killing 20,000
Germans in a powerful five-day
surge toward Polotsk, key rail
junction near the old Polish-Lat
vian border.
Moscow announced that the
Red Army troops were believed
to be within 40 miles of Polotsk.
500 villages and hamlets fell
to the Russians in this sector, j
where they inflicted staggering
losses to men and equipment.
The German radio in Paris said ,
the German command proceeded
to withdraw forces to take new
positions to neutralize gaps in
the line.
An Axis broadcast from Berlin i
and Rome showed deep concern I
in the developments on the Rus
sian front, as the Russians an
nounced the toll of enemy equip
ment destroyed as 69 tanks, 164
heavy guns, 23 mortars, 586 ma
chine guns, 76 trucks, 16 supply
stores. Captured were 194 guns,
75 mortars, 735 machine guns, |
over 5,000 rifles, 37 tanks and
110 trucks.
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FRANK CANTY AND WIFE
ARRIVE IN NOME
Frank Canty and wife arrived |
Saturday from Fairbanks. Mr. !
Canty will take up the duties of
operator-in-charge of the Pan ]
American radio communications
system in Nome, as chief radio
operator. The Cantys are living in
one of the "Smith Center” homes,
next to the Nugget office.
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S. S. YALE IS
NOW IN SERVICE
SEATTLE, Dec. 20.—(AP)—
The veteran coastal passenger
vessel, the SS. Yale, is sailing the
Pacific for the second war, after
being beached for a bunkhouse
for Alaskan construction work
ers, the Twelfth Naval District
disclosed. The steamship was
commissioned for convoy service.
The navy explained the Yale
had weathered two winters of
outer Alaska storms, serving as
a stationary hotel, and “she was
too gallant a ship to die that
way.”
ADVANCES ARE
MADE STEADILY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ON
NEW GUINEA, Dec. 20.—(AP)—
A steady advance up Cape Mcr
kus Peninsula carried American
troops into the vicinity of the
Arawe airstrip, six miles east of
New Britain beachhead, which
they won less than a week ago.
Operations have gone almost
“according to plan" since the
main force drawn from Lt. Gen.
Krueger’s Sixth Army went
ashore on the southwest coast of
the Jap-held island Wednesday
morning. Even the enemy reac
tion from the American landing,
followed closely the expectations
of allied strategists.
Reports from Arawe up to late
Saturday, referred to a slacken
ing in the Japanese dive-bomb
ing and strafing attacks.
NOME BROTHERS
AT AIR SCHOOLS
Richard L Margraf and Oscar
E. Margraf, brothers fom Nome
who attended the univesity two
years ago, are receiving army pi
lot taining in the states. The for
mer is stationed at Merced, Calif.,
in Class 44A, Sqdn. 15 MAAF and
will be commissioned about Jan
uary 1. The latter is at San An
tonio, Texas, with Sqdn. 110 FIB
and will complete his course next
April.
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ROCKNE-RAMSEY
Kenneth K. Rockne and Elvera
R. Ramsey were married last
Friday evening at the parsonage
of the Lavinia Wallace Young
Mission. Miss Constance Erickson
performed the ceremony.
IS FINED BY
COMMISSIONER
David Joe was fined Saturday
in Commissioner’s Court for con
tributing to the delinquency of a
minor, by not having his children
| in school. The fine for this first
: offense was set at $10.00.
Tell them you saw it adver
tised in The Nugget.
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