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March 23. 1939
Nome Chamber of Commerce
I have heard much indirectly
of reward for combined hard
■work and enterprise in Alaska.
Please give me a reasonable
outline of opportunity and re
quirements necessary to become
a part of the varied activities of
this growing country.
I am forty-five years of age.
six feet tall, weigh 180 pounds.
Mechanic, general production
shop, automobile maintenance,
one year airplane motors, eight
years contracting homes and
buildings. Born and raised on a
farm.
One son, 20 years old, five feet
eleven inches tall, weight 165 lb.
High school, auto mechanics grad
mate, student airplane pilot.
One son, 23 years old, five feet
eleven inches tall, weight 185
lb. High school, shop practice,
•truck driver, student airplane
pilot, part owner of Waco plane.
We would have 3 to 5 thousand
dollars in cash.
Herbert Musgrave,
R. F. D. 1
Freedom, Pennsylvania.
Dear sir; „
Would you kindly give me aW
possible information regarding
the possibilities of placer mining
in your or adjacent districts.
Have had considerable exper
ience in this line in British Col
umbia. Am contemplating look
ing for prospective ground.
What would be the approxi
mate cost of equipment? Could
property be leased on a share
basis? What other opportunities
are offered to a man with own
help (3 men) and about two to
four thousand dollars capital? 1
am a naturalized Canadian but
originally came from the U.S.A.
Your information on your part
of Alaska would be very much
appreciated.
Ernest Messmer
Box 71
Barrhead, Alta., Canada.
McKesson-Robbins Prober Dies
NEW YORK (/P> — Julian
j Thompson, 50, treasurer of the
I McKesson-Robbins firm, whose
I personal investigation of the cor
Iporation’s affairs led to the ex
I posuTe of President F. Donald
Coster as Philip Musica, ex-con
vict, died of influenza.
Are you taking advantage
of six months paid in ad
vance subscription ?
MINERS AND OPERATORS
You can obtain at the Nugget
i Office the following forms which
are carried in stock, thus avoid
ing long delays and incomplete
j blanks obtained in the Slates,
i Write or call at the Nugget Of
j fice for:
Dredge Shift Reports—2 types.
I Prospecting Drill Field Logs.
Cold Water Thawing Logs.
Time Sheets for Employees
Pr«H»fs of Labor Banks.
Special Power of Attorney
Blanks.
Deed Forms.
Placer Location Notices.
Lode Location Notices.
Voucher Forms.
We will soon have printed
notices of “Not Responsible for
Debts and Wages" which are post
ed on claims leased by owners.
Airplane News
Saturday, Pilot Sig Wien made
four trips north with freight
and passengers. Ed Jacobsen was
a round trip passenger from Tay
lor. John Cross was brought to
Nome from Taylor and Mr. Keali
her was taken to Taylor.
A trip was also made to Bluff
and Solomon with Richard Lee
for Solomon and John Hegness
for Nome from Bluff.
Yesterday Pilot Wien made 4
trips north with freight and pas
sengers. Dan Myers, Kenneth
Johnson and “Heavy” Lee were
all passengers to Macklin Creek.
| Several trips are scheduled for
j the Diomede Islands as soon as
] weather permits via Wien Air
i lines.
A Woodley plane from An
j chorage, piloted by Don Glass,
! arrived Nome Sunday with Ralf
Merrill, Mr. Philips and Mr.
Myntty.
Pilot Cross flew a Load of
freight to Candle Saturday and
returned by way of Taylor with
Jim Kealiher.
Pilot Jack Hermann from Kot
i zebue arrived Nome Sunday and
i returned to the north with mail.
—
John Hegness, pioneer Nome
ite is a recent arrival in Nome
j from Bluff where he has spent
j the winter.
Walter Kirkland, Caterpillar
man for the N. C. Company, Al
I aska distributors, was an arrival
: in Nome, Saturday from Fair
, banks via plane.
EIGHT HURT IN TIN LIZZY DERBY' CRASH
A spectacular pileup of 18 speeding racing cars during a 100-mile “tin lizzy derby’ at the Son
oma County Fair in Santa Rosa, Calif,, caused a near-panic among 10,000 sppetators and leit eight
drivers injured. Two cars locked wheels and the others, unable to stop, piled into them._
CINC1NNATY SHORTSTOP HURT
Billy Myers, Cincinnati shortstop, got in the way of a ball thrown by Billy Brubaker in the sec
ond inning of the opening major league baseball game of the season against Pittsburgh, and was
knocked unconscious. Trainer Doc Rhode of the Reds is shown at left working over the stricken
player, with Manager Bill McKechnic at the right. Cincinnati lost to the Pirates 7 to 5.
Coast Guard Lists Boats
On Bering Sea Patrol
SEATTLE (/P>—On their year
ly assignments to the Bering Sea
patrol, coast guard cutters today
, are preparing to Leave Seattle
and San Pedro for Alaska. The
j vanguard of the coast guard
fleet, the first boats out wiCil
' look after lives and property at
sea and watch for violaters of in
! lernational treaties covering fur
. seals, and halibut fisheries; and
I carry law, surgery, medicine and
dentistry to ports along a wide
range from southwestern Alaska
i to within the Arctic circle.
Captain Stanley Parker, com
mander of the San Francisco di
! vision of the coast guard, is sched
I uled to leave aboard the Duane
i soon for Unalaska where he will
i maintain his headquarters.
Other coast guard craft sched
1 uled to leave from Seattle are
the Morris and the Hermes. The
Redwing will leave from Port
Angeles May 15, the Itasca from
San Diego June 1, Atlanta from
Seattle June 20, Alert from
Ketchikan July 1, Spencer from
Cordova July 25.
The cutters Haida, regularly
based at Juneau and Shoshone,
regularly stationed at Oakland,
have been named standby cut
ters.
On June 1 the Haida will leave
Pnnce William Sound with the
federal judge of the Third Div
ision and other court officials for
western Alaska to take care of
cases which have accumulated
during the winter.
Wrong Address
Book Canvasser (to little boy
at gate of yard)—Is your mother
at home?
Little Boy (politely)—Yes, sir.
Canvasser (after knocking at
the house door a dozen times)—
I thought you said your mother
was at home?
Boy—Yes, she Is, sir, but I
don’t live here.
Sen. Disapproves
Bill Suspending;
Assessment Work
WASHINGTON, May 11, (£>> —
A bill to suspend assessment
work against unpatented mining
claims for the current fiscal year
was disapproved by the Senate
Mining Committee who advised
the Senate, if mineral activity is
to continue in the west. Congress
should forwith abandon its prac
tice of exempting holders of
such claims from the require
ment of annual assessment work.
Similar legislation has been en
acted each year since 1932 when
Congress in recognition of de
pressed conditions first exempted
prospectors in the United States
and Alaska.
Have The Nome Nugget sent to
your mining claim.
IF YOU MUST TAKE A SPILL, take it as well as do Kay Stammers, tennis star tn Ion*
don, and Lulu Albertino, believed the only woman clown with an American cuan, to New York.
IMPLEMENTS WAR RETURN TO HOME PORTS
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Looking down the barrels of 14-inch guns of the S. S. California, this picture shows officers and
sailors serried on deck after orders tame from the navy d“partn*ent to prepare immediately for
a surprise return to the Pacific coast, the vessel’s home port. The orders came as the ship lay at
anchor at Norfolk. Va„ awaiting a scheduled fleet review.