THE NOME NUGGET
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EDITORIAL
BREAKING DOWN
ANCIENT BARRIERS
Singular how a common threat |
©gainst members of a family at
odd among themselves will causi
every member to fight to the last
ditch against their assailants. Bra
thers may battle against one an
other in the old home or in their
-own yard, but just let some
stranger attack or,; of them and
see what happens.
So it is with nations and races.
The English speaking family has
had its family rows. In America,
sons of old Britain set up two
separate households, the United
States and Canada. Long have
they conducted thems Ives apart,
each with a distinct national spir,
it. Now they are drawn together
in many emergency arrange
ments of a reciprocal natui'e.
Ancient trade and defensive
handicaps and barriers are going
by the board. Arrangements are
being made whereby America
gets defense basi s and travel anl
trade routes across Canada and
Britain receives aid from the
States.
Each country is brought to
trust and believe in the other.
Doubtless the results will wit
■i-j ss many progressive develop
ments.
Not the least of these promises
to be the granting of rights for
an international highway route
or corridor from the States to Al
aska. Aviation routes, airmail
services and shipping and trade
rights of mutual character and
benefit an. evolving. Canadians
no longer entertain the old fear
of American design to acquire
their territory or absorb their
pc pie. Each respects the rights
of the other.
While this mood prevails why
net make the most of it and go in
for more complete mutual devel
opm ;nt plans. It’s a great oppor
tunity for unified efforts that
may result in opening vast areas
of the Dominion and America, in
eluding Alaska and the Canadian
hinterland, on an unprecedented
scale. Efforts to that end need
not commit America to engage
in f: reign warfare but the mu
tual efforts can be such as doubt
L s will submerge many a long
standing barrier to progress and
vivc a great impetus to both
countries, never before possible,
especially in the long comparat
iv .y dormant domains of the
v. a. Northland.
—Fairbanks News-Miner
Tourists Favor Latin America
G atly increased" interest in
the countries of South America,
the West Indies, Mexico and Cen
tral . merica cto the part of
N rt-i Americans is shown in a
tree, nt survey conducted by a na
tional magazine in the United
States. Replies from more than
31.000 people express a desire to
read articles about these coun
tries, and many stated that they
-bad made definite plans in that
c '.inration. Some 16,000 people
made trips into one or more
Latin American countries last
year and the number this year
wilt be greatly increased. More
than twenty three percent of the
people replying stated that they
planned to make their trips by
air.
1
Letter Of
Thanks From
Pilgrim Springs
Mrs. George Maynard;
Will you kindly permit me to
use* the columns of your valuable
paper to thank my numerous
benefactors for the many gifts
they sent to Pilgrim Springs this
Christmas, and to express my
gratitude for the kindness and
generosity all showed to make
the Christmas Day a day of joy
and delight to the orphans of my
mission.
There are always so good,
thoughtful people in the City of
Nome who try to remember the
orphans at the Springs and who
endeavor to make their Christ
mas a happy and joyous one, but
this year the people of Nome
surpassed themselves in gener
osity, for m ver before in the six
years of my Superiorship, have I
had the pleasure of receiving so
many gifts and presents.
Such kindness and generosity
on the part of the people of
Nome should not be pasa-d over
or forgotten. During the few
days I am here in Nome I am
making every effort to thank my
good benefactors and friends, per
sonally, but there are always
some who like the pious man in
the Gospel, keep their right
hand from knowing what the left
hand has done. This latter type
have given and given most gen
erously, yet their gifts bore no
indication from whencic they
came, no sign or name to identify
the donor. I feel dreadfuly offend
ed, when I am unable to express
my gratitude, either by voice or
by pen but knowing that all read
The Nome Nugget, I am making
this local paper, to be the instru
ment of my deep and sincere grat
itude.
First I wish to thank Mr. Sig
Wien and his loyal pilots for
transporting these gifts to the
mission once in the face of se
vere storm. I wish to thank the
Ihcughtfulnes and generosity of
Rev. W. P. Wood and his loyal
congregation for the toys and
sweets shipped to my children.
The more deserving of thanks
too were thj se benefactors, for
they were mostly if not all child
ren themselves and members of
the Comunity Church. Every gift
was wrapped in Christmas art
paper and tied neatly with rib
bon ready to give the little or
phans at* the Springs. Let me
here thank each and every mem
ber of the "Good Cheer Commit
tee”who being “elders” of the
City, are not so old as to realize
that one of the essentials 6f
Christmas and one thing that can
. >t be removed from Christmas
festivities is sweetmi ats—candy.
The members of this generous
Committee, realize that they
once upon a time in the distant
past, were children themselves,
and that no stocking at Christ
mas time is completely filled
without candy and nuts. The mer
chants in town, Mr. Pnlet, Mr.
L hmann, and Mr. Seindenveng,
all generously contributed fruit.
Last but not Last, dear Mrs.
Maynard, allow me to thank you
for thi copies of The Nome Nug
get which came not only on
Christmas Day but on the many
days of the past years. I say
thank you, Mrs. Maynard, but I
should say with truthfullness the
Nugget is a welcome visitor at
the Mission and members of my
community tear off the wrapper
of the Nugget and read its con
tents even before their own per
sonal letters. This is the biggest
tribute I can pay to the Nugget,
to show its value and apprecia
tion at the Mission.
Since this letter is being writ
ten at the beginning of the Year,
and thj; month of January is but j
' seven days old, I can truthfully
say that the New Year is young.
What it has in store for all of
us we de not know. Like a the
atre, whose curtain when it rises
will have surprises, doubts, tears
laughter for the audience. But it
is my sincere hope and my daily
prayer that all my friends in
Nome, all my benefactors will |
■have, will enjoy, will obtain, a
blessed, happy and Prosperous
Year of 1941.
Rev. E. J. Cunningham
STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 90 PROOF • SCHENIEY DISTILLERS CORP., N. Y. C.
Einstein’s Cousin
Is Prisoner
In France
Martin Baer, American Painter
Says Hans Keller, Composer,
Suffers Great Hardships
Manual Labor Required
Conditions at Concentration
Camp Near Nimes Described
as Almost Intolerable
Leading intellectuals and art
ists cf Europe, among them Hans
Kell r. composer and a cousin of
Albert Einstein, and Robert Lieb
knecht, son of the assassinated
German Socialist, Karl Lieb
knecht, were revealed to be liv
ing in a French concentration
camp in Anglade, seven miles
from Nimes.
Martin Baer, well known paint
er and an American citizen, who
has lived abroad for fifteen years
disclosed how the intellectuals
and artists, unused to hard phys
ical labor, were being formed
into “work battalions” and given
shoves to do the hardest possible
work under the direction of
French and German authorities.
Mr. Baer arrived aboard the Ex
calibur from Lisbon.
The painter is staying in New
York with his wife, a European
art col ector at the Hotel St. Hu
bert. He plans to communicate
with Professor Einstein as his
cousin as soon as possbile.
No Beds In Camp
"They have no beds in this
camp near Nimes and every one
sleeps on hay right on the ground
without any blankets,” Mr. Baer
said. “There is no light or heat.
In a camp in th,; Basses-Pyren
ees there was only one toi et for
3,000. In that camp there are at
present about 10,000 women.”
Mr. Baer described the horrors
undergone by those confined in
the camps; of not knowing when
the secret police would visit the
camp and take some one off for
an execution, or take them to
Germany, never to be heard from
again.
Professor Einstein he said had
been able to send letters to his
cousin but the cousin had not
been able to communicate with
him. Mr. Baer explained that
th,_ French censors did not delete
anything from a letter sent to a
concentration camp, but rather if
there was anything they found
objectionab.e in a letter, they
have the secret police invssti- j
gate the person to whom it had
been addressed.
Heller, Mr. Baer said had writ:
ten about five symphonies and
was becoming popular in Ger-j
many at the time Hitler came to '
power.
“When I saw him last, he seem
ed to have lost nearly all hope
that anything could ever be done
to get him out,” he said.
Even French Not Protected
The French do not protect
their own people he said when
they are persecuted by the Nazis,
even those who had fought in the
French Army.
“Thu Gestapo is permitted to
take them out and shoot them or
s n.d them to Germany,” he add
£ d.
He disclosed how the Nazis h3d
trii d to take Heller’s wife aw-ay.
“Friends of Hol er's hid her
away from the Gestapo,’ he said.
“The concentration camp in An-1
glade is made up of old stables
and so they were successful in |
keeping the woman from being
found.” I
Mr. Baer said that much of his
property and some of his paint
ings had to be left behind in 1
France and Portugal. He had res
ervation on the clipper but be
cause the plane was carrying
more mail than usual, he was
forced to come on thi: Excalibur.
Because his wife is Polish and
the Polish passport is not recog
nized at the Spanish border, Mr.
Baer and his wife, wrho has a
brother and a son by another
marriage fighting in the RAF.
spent many months at their'home !
in St. Tropey before the proper
papers were obtained for his
wife’s passage.
“The Portuguese are sympath
etic with the British cause, but
they fear the day, which they be
lievi. is not too far off, when Hit
ler will close Lisbon,” Mr. Baeri
said. “Lisbon is today the only j
md last e.-cape from Germany.” i
Mr. Baer said that Spain was!
today the worst country to travel
through in Europe, because j
“there are so many secret polio,
and the laws are being changed i
every three days.”
HOLLYWOOD STAR-L1TES
By Chuck Cochard
HOLLYWOOD (Exclusive) —
With the passing of each year
th re brings back that rcminis-!
cent fever that usually ends up
with your Hollywood correspond
ent picking, the ten best pictures1
of the old year. During 1940
the same qaulity that it would
there were so many pictures of j
bi_ easier to pick the 50 best.
In a special c'ass all by itself
as the greatest picture ever pro-1
duced is "Gone With the Wind.” ;
It is also the greatest money
maker in filmdom’s history —
and it hasn't played a popular- ,
priced theati.r as yet. ,
The TEN BEST of 1940:
1. Foreign Correspondent.
2. Rebecca
3. The Grapes of Wrath
4. Spring Parade
5. The Long Voyage Home
6. All This and Heaven, Too.
The Letter
7. Of Miq: and Men
8. Pride and Prejudice
9. My Son, My Son
10. Northwest Passage.
I
Runners-Up in the Ten
Best Movies of 1940
Aria: My Love, The Mortal
Storm, Our Town, Abe Lincoln
In Illinois, The Sea Hawk, North
west Mounted Police, The Great
McGinty, Waterloo Bridge, The;
Biscuit Eater, Young Tom Edi-1
son, and many others. Two best
musicals: Down Argentine Way j
and Strike Up the Band. j
IOO% TALKING PICTURES j
Show TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m,
“THEE LOVES HAS NANCY”
WITH #
ANET GAYNOR—ROBERT MONTGOMERY FRANCIIOT TONE
Love In High Gear and Laughs by the Loads
also “SONS OF LIBERTY”
rwo Shows Friday, 7:15 & 9:00 p.m Adm. 55tf & 26*
*H LON DIE TAKES A VACATION”
WITH
PENNY SINGLETON—ARTHUR LAKE—LARRY SIMMS
The Bumsteads Take To the Great Open Spaces
md "PORKY’S PHONEY EXPRESS” also “FROLICKING FROGS”
PASSENGERS AND EXPRESS TO
ALL PARTS OF ALASKA
Approximately One Dollar of Each Fare
Is Spent for Passenger Insurance
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
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FRONT ST. NOME
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Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
rbos. R. Lyons Ira D. Orton
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Increasing cloudinessan d warme r tonight. Tuesday occasional -i
light snow beginning late tonig ht.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:60 pm Today
Highest temp — 20 Lowest temp — 10 Precipitation — 0.06
Total precip this month 0.07 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 0.07
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight-—.—-- 17 88 E-lg Snow
1 a m --- 18 88 ENE-13 Cloudy
12:30 p m--- 17 85 ENE-13 Pt Cldy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:37 a. m. Sunset 2:40 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp —-15 Lowest te mp — -3 Precipitation — 0