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EDWARD ANDERSON
Independent Candidate
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
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General Election September 10, 1940
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* FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and cool tonight. Saturday fair and warmer with increas
ing coudiness followed toy rain late Saturday afternoon or night.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 60 Lowest temp — 40 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this month 0.94 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 6.22
I Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight___ 45 91 W-3 Clear
8am__- 51 80 Calm Clear
12:30 p m ...— _ .. 56 78 SW-8 Clear
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 54 Lowest temp — 31 Precipitation — 0
Tomorrow: Sunrise 4:15 a.m. Sunset 7:47 p. m.
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NEWS ITEMS
The Coast Guard patrol boat
Aurora arrived Nome Wednesday
afternoon and departed for Gam
bel on St. Lawrence Island Thurs
day.
The Nanuk, under Captain
Aarnout Castel was scheduled to
sail for Teller this afteron with
passengers and freight.
DIRECTORS OF FAIR
BOARD MEET
On Wednesday evening the dir
ectors of the Northwestern Al
aska Fair Association, President
Chas. Jones presiding, met to dis
cuss various matters pertinent to
the coming Fair. Inasmuch as the
Fair Booklet was completed Aug.
15th by the Nome Nugget, and
contained the names of all de
partment superintendents, the
Board set next Monday Aug. 26,
8:00 p.m. at IOOF Hall for a meet
i'ng of the Board and all super
intendents and assistants.
Howard Lyng was selected as
this year’s Fair manager and
Mrs. Chapman Secretary of the
Board, was commended for her
work in connection with getting
out this year’s booklet.
This booklet is now being cir
culated both by mail to outlying
districts and throughout the cam
munity. The Board also decided
that this year, amateur movies
would ibe displayed in the ball
room downstairs, instead of up
stairs in the crowded quarters as
heretofore. And as an added en
tainment feature, Nome’s excel
lent band, under the direction of
band master Knutsen, has been
engaged by the Board for the
three-day period of the Fair.
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS
Physical examination of school
children will be done by Dr.
Morcom at the Territorial School
Building Aug. 27 and Thursday
Aug. 29, 10 to 12 a.m.
Children whose last names be
gin with either of the letters
j from A to M inclusive are asked
I to come on Tuesday and those
whose names begin with N to Z
are asked to come on Thursday.
Parents are invited to accompany
their children during the exam
ination, and the order in which
the examinations are done will
enable parents to accompany
each child in the family iby mak
ing one visit. Every school child
has a physical examination at the
begining of school and it is hoped
that parents will cooperate by
seeing that their children are
present on the days designated.
Mrs. Ida Sprenger, Public
Health Nurse is on duty after her
annual vacation which ended on
Aug. 21. Mrs. Sprenger has been
granted an 8-month educational
leave which wil begin the last of
October. At that time she will
leave which will begin the last of
will attend the University of Ore
gon Medical School to extend her
studies in Public Health Nursing.
It has been announced that
Miss Eunice Anderson who is
now a member of the Public
Health Department at Walla
Walla, Washington, will be in j
Nome as substitute nurse during
Mrs. Sprenger’s absence. Miss
Anderson although new to Nome
has served as Public Health
Nurse in Alaska at both Anchor
age and Matanuska.
MIROW ACTIVITIES
Aug. 21 — Pilot Chambers flew
John Cross, Carl Thiel, and W. H.
Lanagan from Nome to Deering.
On the return trip he took Biest
lon from Deering to Hellsapop
pin.
Aug. 22—.Pilot Chambers made
an emergency flight to Unalak
leet via Ungalik with Doc. Hink
ley as round trip passenger and
Edward Ketchatag from Unalak
leet to Nome.
In the evening Chambers took
Clyde Glass to Council and Fritz
Mebes to Golovin.
Pilot Sasseen left Anchorage
at 1:30 for Nome via McGrath.
Passengers are: Chuck O’Leary,
Edna O’Leary, and three others,
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Sergeant Goble, Nome Radio
Statiob Slated for Transfer
Sergeant Goble of the Nome
Signal Corps station has received
the following communication
from Seattle from Major Wool
verton, commanding the Alaska
Communications System.
Due to recent promotions to
the grades of master, technical
and staff sergeants, the Alaska
Communication System is not on
ly over strength in the first three
grades but the number of mas
ter and technical sergeants is out
of proportion to other grades.
Therefore it will be necessary to
transfer off the system some of
our older non-commissioned of
ficers who will be utilitzed to fill
key positions in new field organ
izations. Orders are expected in
the near future transferring
about eighteen of our first grades.
It is deeply regretted that all first,
three grades cannot be retained
as all without exception are out
standing non-commissioned offic
ers, many of whom received all
of their training on the system.
However, the retention of so
many first three graders is im
practicable and our personal de
sires cannot be considered when
the question of national defense
is involved. While no definite or
ders have been received it is high
ly probable that Goble will be
among those transferred to the
309th Signal Aviation Company,
Spokane, Washington.
WIEN ACTIVITIES
August 22—Pilot Lund made a
flight to Council with express,
Joe Lucas and Chas. Clasby.
Mr. Krorn and express were
taken to American Creek.
Pilot Wien made two trips
north with express and returned
to Nome via Teller on the sec
ond trip. Jane Nelson was a
round trip passenger.
Trips are scheduled for the
Kougarok, Council, Haycock and
Fairbanks this evening and to
morrow.
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SIX TIMES COST OF ALASKA
BEING SPENT ON BASE
Today the Army and Navy are
rushing to spend more than six
times what Alaska cost the U. S.
in 1867 in order to fortify the
Territory, according to the lead
article “Fortifying Alaska” in1
the national defense section of
a recent Time magazine.
The article calls Alaska “one
of the U. S.’s two most import
ant outposts against invasion
from the Pacific (the other: Haw
aii.)”
The $45,000,000 already put up
for Alaska defenses is only a
starter, with Alaskans “talking
hopefully of the possibility of tenj
or 20 times as much,” the article
states.
Diomede Report
Mentioned in the story are the
reported Russian activity on Big
Diomede Island, the construction
of Russian bases north along the
Siberian coast and a new Japan
ese base at Paramosmiri Island
south of Kamchatka and the re- j
cent visits to Alaska of Major
General Henry H. Arnold, Chief
of the Army Air Corps and of
Lieut. General John L. DeWitt
of the Fourth Army.
Mentioned also are the Army
and Navy base projects at Fair
banks, Anchorage, Kodiak and
Sitka and work on emergency
fields on Seward Peninsula, and
others in Southeast Alaska.
Strategic Importance
“Lying in flank of the sea rout
es from Yokohama and the fax
Pacific Islands to continental U.
S., Alaska is much more likely to
be attacked toy an Oriental in
vader than the U. S.s great sea
fortress at Hawaii,” the article
states. “If an enemy reduced the
$400,000,000 defenses of Hawaii—
a man-sized job for any Navy—
he would still be 2,400 miles
from San Francisco, would face
serious obstacles to supply in an
attack on the Pacific Coast. But a
successful attack on Alaska
would bring him closer to his
goal. Sitka is only 800 miles from
Seattle, and an enemy once posi
tioned in the fjords and deep
bays of the Inland Passage would
be a tough customer for the U. S.
Navy to dislodge.
The article, which is illustrat
ed with the pictures of General
Arnold and the Diomede Islands
and with a map of the North
Pacific with Alaska in red ink,
concludes: “From now on Alaska
becomes a permanent station of
U. S. defense.”
GOVERNOR’S SON WORKING
IN HEALTH LABORATORY
Young Peter Gruening, son of
the Governor, has a job—and not
the most distinguished white col
lar work in town.
In the Territorial Health De
partment Laboratory in Juneau,
young Gruening has taken over
the job of washing test tubes,
and other things technicians dir
ty. -And every day he cleans the
guinea pig pens.
Lab employees say young
Gruening, hired through the Em
ployment Office, is “doing a good
job.”
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AMERICAN PILOTS
SOUGHT BY CANADA
OTTAWA — The Canadian Air
iministry announced that Lord
Beaverbrook is seeking 100 Unit
ed States airplane pilots to fly
bombers to England. The pilots
will also deliver planes from En
giish factories to fighting stations.
The announcement stated no
planes have thus far been flown
across the Atlantic for delivery
from Canadian and United Stat
es factories, but that crew re
cruiting is under way for such
deliveries.
iSAN FRANCISCO, Cal.— Pac
ific flyer Clyde Pangborn said he
is awaiting only State Depart
ment approval, which he expects
shortly before he starts American
aviators to fly bombing planes
across the Atlantic to England.
Pangborn is working for the
British government. He already
is hiring American pilots at $150
a week to fly British-made planes
from the factories to the fields.
The man who once flew from
Japan to the United States, said
that American pilots will be paid
$1,000 per month for making two
flights monthly from Newfound
land or Canada to England.
Co-pilots will be paid $800 a
month, radio operators $800 and
mechanics $500 per month.
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