THE NOME NUGGET
QEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
published Monday, Wednesday, Friday, by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
Telephone Main 114 P. O. Box 518
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICA SPENDS
A wag once remarked that the
only reason any of us ever work
ed was in order that we might
play. Well, there are such trifling
items as the rent and the grocery
bills to keep us reminded of our
jobs. But whatever the reason for
and however one may have to
work to obtain it, most of us will
agree that a period of rest and
play is a high spot in the life of
any individual. And what a gi
gantic business this health and
recreational activity has created
for scores of industries and or
ganizations and for millions of
individuals.
If you axe statistically inclin
ed, you can obtain from the rail
ways, from the steamship com
panies, from the buses and from
the airways ,the exact number
of “passenger miles.” You can
check the registrations at the ho
tels and at the resorts. And by
approximation you will know
about how many of these trav
elers are strictly pleasure seek
ers. You can know how many
million lusty football and base
ball fans pass though turnstiles.
Then, too, you can get a fairly
close approximation of the vast
numbers of dollars spent every
year in advertising this great
business of recreation. The media
advertising volume would be
readily obtainable; we predict a
Herculean task in arriving at a
reasonably accurate total for the
enormous volume of travel liter
ature. Why this phase of business
alone actually staggers the im
agination.
Yes, you could, if you chose,
gather together long reams of fig
ures to determine fairly accurate
ly just to what magnitude this
strictly recreational business
reached. But —we defy you to
aproximate the amount of addi
tional business it creates of a
completely miscellaneous and
general character nature. After
all —speaking in a commercial
sense—is not a vacation in most
any form that of a period of un
usual spending? During such an
event, is it not a fact that dol
Jars flow more freely than in per
baps any similar period? Think
of the myriads ~f odds and ends
in apparel and accessories *and
for the endless variety of im
pulse purchasers. And then think
of the tremendous power of the
printed word.
People refuse to try new fruit
invented by a horticulture ex
pert. Well, it took man a long
time to become convinced 1hat a
pickle is really a cucumber
Another ad for the jays of life
in the new Germany. Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll yearns for an
American prison.
WAR INFLUENCE IS SEEN '
IN HOME OF MAHARAJAH
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A
home built much like a fortress
is under construction here for
Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar. maha
rajah of Indore, at a cost of
$50,000.
Local information is that in
the event of a world war he in
tends it as a haven for his 5-year
old daughter, Princess Usha, and
possibly for himself and his wife
the former Marguerite Lawler
Branyen of the United States.
Heavily barred windows are so
designed as to carry out a stream
line architectural effect.
ANNOUNCEMENT
List of furnishings for home
for sale between now and July
1st:
Double day-bed without mat
tress.
Hoosier Kitchen cabinet.
One Gr&fonola with records.
One new all-metal wringer for
clothes.
One wash copper boiler.
One wash tub
Cooking utensils and dishes.
Bread mixing pan. 2 dish pans.
One aluminum cake griddle.
Two new Colman gas lamps
with 24 mantels and 6 extra gen
erators.
Camp chair. Ironing board on
folding stand.
One gasoline iron
3 special sad irons.
One hand operated portable
sewing machine.
INQUIRE
125 D STREET
HERE WAS BORN the American Legion March 15-17,
1919, and officers of the French army joined with Americans in
paying tribute at the tablet which was unveiled in the city of
Paris when the Legion celebrated its twentieth birthday. The
plaque Is in a new building which Is located at 14 Rue Ernest
Psichari, on the site of the old Cirque de Paris.
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RADIOPHONE RATES
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The below information is pub
lished for the benefit of those
desiring direct personal contact
with friends or business associat
es in outlying localities by means
of radiophone.
Radiophone conversation rate
between signal corps stations or
between a signal corps station
and a commercial station for
! three (3) minutes or less is three
times the minimum message rate;
for each additional minute or frac
tion add one third of the initial
rate.
For example—the day rate
from Nome to Kotzebue is 50c;
a three minute conversation to
Kotzebue would cost three times i
the day rate or $1.50 and each
additional minute or fraction
thereof would cost 50c. (Federal
tax of 5% is charged on all total
charges).
Anyone desiring radiophone
conversation must make their re
quest for such service to the op
erator on duty at the radio sta
tion.
For most satisfactory contacts
requests for radiophone conver
sation should be made sufficient
ly in advance to allow arrange
ments to be made for the special
schedule during normal office
hours.
The following is a list of ra
diophone stations with whom
the Nome radio station is in daily
contact.
Station Day Rate i
Teller . $1.00
Elian .50
Selawik 1.00
Savoonga .50
Ungalik . 1.00
Anchorage . 1.50
Kotzebue .50
Pilgrim Springs 1.00
Candle . 1.50
Gam bell .50
St. Michael . .. 1.50
Unalakleet .50
Fairbanks . .70
All contacts are subject to de
lay during periods when routine
communication is interrupted
due to atmospheric disturbances.
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX
TO ALL WHOM THIS MAY
CONCERN:
In accord with Chapter 29. Ses
sion Laws of Alaska. 1919, and
amendment thereto, all male per
! sons between the ages of twenty
i one and fifty years, who are not
“sailors in the United States
Navy or Revenue Cutter Ser
vice, volunteer firemen, pauper
or insane persons,” are required
to pay an annual School Tax of
FIVE DOLLARS ($5.00).
This tax is due and payable
after the first Monday in the
month of April and shall be paid
before the first day of May, pro
viding you are in the Territory
of Alaska on said first date; if
not, the tax is due within thirty
days after your arrival in Al
aska or within ten days after
written or oral demand is made
upon you by the School Tax Col
lector. Taxes not paid in accord
ance with the foregoing require
ments shall become delinquent,
and each person delinquent shall
be subject to a fine of Two Dol
lars ($2.00).
All persons, firms and corpora
tions employing labor in Alaska
shall furnish to collectors a list
of all employees subject to tax,
and employers of labor as above
set out are authorized by provi
sions of said Act to deduct
amount of the tax from the wag
es of each employee who is sub
ject thereto. If any such employ
crs shall fail to report and deduct
as herein specified within the per
iod designated for payment of
said tax, the said employers of
labor shall be guilty of a mis
demeanor and subject to a fine
of from S50.00 to $500.00.
All persons subject to, and re
fusing or neglecting to pay, said
tax, are subject to a fine of $25.00
or imprisonment in jail for a per
iod of one month; and all such
employers of labor as herein set
| out, who neglect or refuse to col
| lect such tax from employees
may be proceeded against and
i shall pay the amount of each in
dividual tax, and a further pen
I alt.v of $25.00 for each such tax.
The receipts will be furnished
by the tax collectors.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
1st day of May, 1939.
E. B. O’Connor,
Duly authorized and
qualified Alaska Terri
torial School Tax Col
lector for Nome School
District.
That unique and humorous,
and typical Alaskan stationery—
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have been
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offi
ce.
BOLIVIA’S DICTATOR
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German Busch (above), Presi
dent of Bolivia, abolished consti
tutional guarantees and dissolved
Congress, and was ruling the na
tion under a totalitarian dictat
orship. He explained his action
was necessary to save the coun
try from “formidable economic
crisis.” * ’
Full Text of
Alaska’s New
Staking Law
Numerous inquiries have been
made of late respecting the exact
provisions of the new law, en
acted by the recent sesson of the
Territorial Legislature, govern
ing the size of association claims
and use of the power of attorney
in locating placer claims. The
new act, known as chapter 77 in
the session laws, becomes effect
ive June 9, or 90 days after it
was approved by the governor.
Any stak,ings before that date are
governed by the old law.
The new law, to apply on and
after June 9, is brief. The full
text of the act follows:
CHAPTER 77
AN ACT
[H. B. 62)
To amend Sections 3 and 5 of
Chapter 76, Session Laws of Al
aska, 1935, relating to placer min
ing claims.
Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the Territory of Alaska.
Section 1. That Section 3 of
Chapter 76 of the Session Laws
of Alaska 1935 is hereby amend
ed to read as follows:
“Section 3. Association Claims,
No association placer mining
claim shall be located in excess
of forty acres, and have a great
er length than twenty-six hun
dred and forty feet (2640 feet).”
Section 2. Section 5 of Chapter
76 of the Session Laws of Alaska
1935 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
“Section 5. Location by Agent
or Attorney. No person shall lo
cate any placer mining claim in
Alaska as agent or attorney for
another unless he is duly author
ized thereto by a power of attor
ney in writing, duly aoknowledg
ed and executed within four
years prior to the date of loca
tion, and recorded in the office of
the Recorded of the Recording
District in which the claim is lo
cated. No person shall act as at
torney in fact for more than two
principals in any one recording
district; if the attorney in fact
has two powers of attorney he
may locate one claim under each
and no more, and if he have one
power of attorney, he may locate
two claims thereunder and no
more during any one calendar
month in the same recording dis
trict.”
Approved March 9, 1939.
Staking of Claims
Under the law as changed a per
son may stake two claims for
himself and two under power of
attorney in any month. UndeT the
old law a person could stake two
for himself and 16 under power
of attorney in any month.
DREAM THEATRE
IOO% TALKING PICTURES
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