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VOL. 47.—No. 39. NOME, ALASKA, APRIL 5, 1944. PER COPY—15c
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l_LIBUT FLEET
PREPARES
FOR SEASON
—As the Pacific halibut fleet
made ready to start the fishing
season on midnight April 15th. Dr.
Ira Gabrielson, deputy coordina
tor of fisheries, said: “The nor
mal flow of the halibut marke*
must be restored by some means,
to Seattle.
“Because of price schedules be
coming effective in mid-season
last year, it made it more profit
able for the fishermen to land
their catches in Canadian and
Alaskan ports near the fishing
grounds.”
Dr. Gabrielson added:
Friday the OPA published new
prices scheduled and designed to
bring about an equitable distribu
tion so that fishermen bringing
their halibut to Seattle get 2 1-2
cents more per pound ‘han at
Prince Rupert. And if the new
prices do not succeed in establish
ing a normal flow through Seattle,
his office may have to use other
means such as allocating certain
minimum weight of fish to Seat
tle, forcing the vessels to comply
by the withholding of licenses."
He concluded with the state
ment:
‘‘The Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice have released regulations
which allow a gross catch of 51,
000,000 pounds this year."
AIRWAYS
Wien Alaska Airlines
Herb Hager arrived Monday in
the Ford tri-motor with Bill
Heusemeyer, Eldred Quam, Ed
McClure and Jennings Johnson,
and left today with Pat Cartee.
Frank Whaley went to Diomede
Island Sunday wi‘h Agnes Kap
uguk, Emma Milligrok, Edgar
Elsanga, Mrs. Spike Milligrak and
returned with Edward Ahkolik.
Pan American Airwyas
Arrival of plane with mail and
• express this morning.
Alaska Airlines
Pilot MacKenzie is scheduled
out tomorrow morning for An
chorage with Alvin Polet, mana
ger of the western division for the
Alaska Airlines, on business for
the company.
This morning Don Emmons flew
the mail run to Golovin, White
Mountain and Council.
Elmer Nicholson flew in on a
charter run with Roy Douglas
and A. Condon, salesmen for
Schwabacher Bros., hardware and
groceries.
Special Trips
Oscar Winchell, on a charter
run, will fly to Kotzebue with the
National Grocery Company sales
man, Dinty Moore, as soon as
weather permits.
Aschie Ferguson flew to Kotze
bue and Deering with Clark An
dreson.
WAS PASSENGER ON
LINER BRIPSHOLM
One of the passengers to Ameri
ca on the last trip of the Grips
ttolm was Mrs. H. F. Pa*me, for
merly of Shanghai, China, where
h'er late husband was for many
years with the American- Bank
Npte Company. Payne died in
Shanghai in August, 1948. Mrs.
Payne, the former Selma Scott of
Nom§, is now kving at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Ladies' Aid Bake Sale Sai
uaday< at Lehmann's.
OCEAN ISLAND | ~~
Pacific Ocean
LILLIAN
POINT
Home Bay
1 Boat
Harbor t
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STATUTE MILES_ru
CHAPLIN IS
ACQUITTED
OF CHARGES
—
| LOS ANGELES, Apr. 5.—fAP)
—The film comedian Charles
Chaplin, was acquitted by the fed
eral jury on both counts of the
Mann Act indictment charging
transportation of Joan Berry, 24,
ex-protege, to New York and
back for immoral purposes.
The jury brought in the verdict
of not guilty after deliberating
five hours and one minute.
| The crowded courtroom ap
plauded the innocent verdict.
, During the trial Chaplin re
mained emotionless and sat with
his head in his hands as the jury
entered, and as the verdict was
announced, the comedian rose
from his chair and grasped his
attorney’s hand as friends swarm
ed around.
Miss Berry was not in court,
but was informed later of the ver
dict, to which she replied:
“I am just a government wit
ness, and if the jury wished to
believe him that was their privi
lege.”
PEDERSEN IS
ELECTED
KETCHIKAN—R. C. Pedersen
was named mayor of Ketchikan
by a six vote margin, over J. P.
Valentine.
Clyde McGillvray, O. M. Lien,
J. O. Whaley and Arthur Bryant
were named to the council.
R. M. MacKenzie, dentist, was
elected to the Utility Board, and
John Lokken was Unopposed for
position on the school board.
ENDORSES
GOV. DEWEY
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ST. LOUKt, Mo., Apr. 5.—(AP)
—The Eleventh and Thirteenth
(St. Louis end) districts, endorsed
Dewey for president and called
him the man of the hour, and
urged other districts to instruct
their delegates to vote for him.
NEW DISTRICT
CREATED
IN ALASKA
SEATLE, Apr. 5.—(AP>—The
creation of a new naval district
comprising all of Alaska, includ
ing the Aleutians, was announced
today by Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox, who added ‘‘the Sev
enteenth Naval District”.
The new district will be under
command of Rear Admiral F. E
Whiting, of Watertown, N. Y.,
and temporary headquarters will
be at Adak, Alaska, only a few
hundred miles from Attu, the end
of the Aleutian chain. Another of
fice will also be maintained on the
mainland of Alaska.
Admiral Whiting has been com
mander of a southeastern Pacific
force, and was in command of a
destroyer division from 1938 to
1940, and has served in various
recruiting assignments.
He was born in New York
City 53 years ago, and was grad
uated from Annapolis in 1912.
300 PLANES
USED IN ATTACK
ON HOLLANDIA
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Apr. 5.—(AP>—Wednesday, Lt.
Gen. Kenney sent 300 planes
against Hollandia in the biggest
raid ever attempted by the Fifth
Air Force.
When the attack ceased after an
hour and a half of steady bom
bardment, the big Japanese base
on northwestern New Guinea was
a mass of smoking wreckage.
More than 400 tons of bombs
were dropped in the raid and
every one of the 288 Je^ahese
planes were destroyed.
Gen. MacArthur’s communique
asserted 26 intercepting Jap
planes were also shot down,
Th ecommunique also announced
the occupation of Ramhutyo is
land southwest of nanus Island
and the second largest island In
the Admiralty gpoup.
Allied bombers again hit Truk,
dropping 46 tons of bombs on
wharves and warehouses.
LIBERTY SHIP
NAMED FOR
PIONEER
RICHMOND, Calif., Apr. 5.—
(AP'—A new Liberty ship, the
Louis Sloss, named for the organ
izer of the pioneer rtading com
pany, the Alaska Commercial
Company, was launched last night
by Permanent Metals Corp. Sloss
was active for many years in the
sealing industry, operating in
Alaska.
The sponsor of the ship was
Mrs. Hattie Sloss, wife of Judge
M. C. Sloss, former member of
the California Supreme Court,
and son of the Alaska pioneer.
HERHEY SAYS
VIEN HAVE DUTY
TO FULFILL
WASHINGON, Apr. 5.—(API
Selective Service Director General
Hershey snid, ‘After the service
had taken all men under 26, it
will move in a progressively less
strict manner to the higher age
bracket groups and that up to 20
will be the next limit, for those
who refuse to stay on war pro
duction and other important jobs.”
He added:
‘ The less fit have a duty to fill,
to replace men under 26, who are
called for combat duty, and con
stitute the greatest manpower
pool in the nation.”
ROOSEVEL'T
SIGNS BILLS
WASHINGTON, Apr. 5.—(AP)
—President R<*ogpvelt today sign
ed a bill which was introduced
by Delegate Dinaond, raising the
shlary of the Secretory of Alaska
to $7,500, an increase from $^600
per year. . •
He also added Ms signature
to the measure* *«fthorizing the
navy to spend, one billion doUarsJ
on our Pacific advanced bases.
Bake Sale Saturday at Leh
mann's. Hot Cross buna.
HUGHES IS
NAMED MAYOR
OF F AIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS—The city election
here resulted in the re-election of
Dr. H G. Hughes as mayor, with
out opposition. Kenneth A Mur
ray, insurance man, W. K. (Bud)
Foster, radio stat.on manager and
newscaster, and Mrs. Sylvia
Ringstad, apartment owner, were
named for city council positions.
Defeated candidates were Mort
Cass, grocer, Howard Herman, ma
chinist, and Robert S. McCombe,
trucker, and Albert C. Muidoon,
bar owner.
T. S. Batchelder, carpenter, was
unopposed for a one year unex
pired council term as was John
B. Hall, Fourth Division district
court clerk, for a fourth term on
the school board.
No retiring councilmen sought
re-election.
Total vote cast was 720
RATE TO BE
CONTINUED
HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — Soldiers and
civilians, whose mail is handled
by army post offices in Seattle
and Minneapolis, will continue to
use a six-cent airmail rate for
each half ounce of mail, accord
ing to a new post office depart
ment ruling.
The ruling removes Alaskan
military mail from the domestic
rate zone and places it within the
international zdne, on an equpl
basis with all other APO’s outside
the continental limits of the Unit
ed States.
Present domestic airmail! rate is
eight cents per ounce or fraction
(hereof.
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*A<OTtDY(fHM®AY
Service at Masonic Temple.
Thursday. April i. 1944. 7PM)
p. m. sharp.
All members requested to be
present. All Scottish Rite visit
ors welcome.
THOMAS MORODM. Pres.
INCUMBENTS
LEAD IN CITY
ELECTION
At the annual municipal and
school board election held in the
city of Nome and the Nome school
district yesferday. Tuesday. April
4th, the voters re-elected the en
tire present officers incumbent,
with the exception of the treas
urer’s office, which was won by
Harry Gabrielson, cashier of the
Miners’ and Merchants’ Bank,
Also on 4he ballot was an ordi
nance which was entitled: “An
ordinance vacating certain streets
and alleys in the northeastern sec
tion of the city of Nome, and
which was ratified by more than
two-thirds of the votes cast.
The following is the final
standing from all votes cast:
For Mayor: Edward Anderson,
203; S. David Mazen, 80; Jay R.
Smith, 20: Luther Dunbar. 1;
Guy M sh, 1.
For Councilmen: Robert Bald -
win, 237; Hugh Gabbard. 72;
Keith Hedreen, 74; Audrey Hen
derson, 20; Ralph Kitzmiller, 233;
Joseph Mullins, 39. Peter L.
Reader, 174; Grady Robinette, 13,
For City Clerk: Carrie M. Mc
! Lain, 289.
j For City At’orney: C. C. Tan
ner, 285.
For City Treasurer: Harry Gab
rielson, 284.
For Member of the School
Board: Lester Bronson, 112; Nete
Strand, 191.
For Ratification of Ordinance
No 301: iYes» 200; (No) 26.
FUNERAL OF
MARY KING IS
HELD IN STATES
SEATTLE, Apr. 5.—CAP)—The
parents Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Walsh, all four brothers and four
sisters and husband, Maurice
King, attended the 10:00 o’clock
funeral mass at the St. James
Cathedral here for Mary King, 30,
of the prominent Nome family.
Rev. Daniel J. Connors was the
Omi Celebrano. The burial took
place in Calvary cemetery here.
Her husband, Maurice King, is
a pilot with the Alaska Airlines,
operating throughout Alaska, and
was with his wife when she died
suddenly at North Bend, where
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. G.
King, reside.
A son, Mike, aged three, also
survives, as well as brothers Jos
eph, employed with the CAA in
Alaska, and Pierce, Kevin and
James, in the armed service; and
sisters, Mrs. Julian, Eileen Taylor,
Noreen, Patsy and Ann, came
from California; also a sister,
Kathleen, who is working in Se
attle.
ERROR NOTED IN
MONDAY'S NUGGET
B. G. Baker, a republican can
didate on thee republican ticket,
was inadvertently placed in the
list of democratic candidates in
Monday’s issue of Hhe Nugget.
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PIONEER CARD PABW
TO BE HELD TONIGHT
The Pioneer Card Party wyll be
held tonight at 9:00 p. m. at the
Odd Fellpws’ Hall. Refreshments
and prizes.
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