HALF MILLION LOO K— Not for the budget-minded is
this black satin pouch envelope handbag shown at the new fashion
terrace at Belmont. N. Y., track. It’s a $500,000 purse designed by
1’aul Flato with brilliant-cut diamond solitaires curving grace
fully toward a diamond rose having waterfall diamond drops.
The evening dress is black chiffon edged with black lace.
A Cheechacco’s impresson of Nome and Alaska
“THERE’S A PLACE THEY CALL ALASKA*’
There’s a place they call Alaska
On the northern boundary
It is full of lake and rivers
Or>. the west, the Bering Sea.
On the North the Arctic Ocean
With its whales and seals and
walrus
And its hardy Esquimeaux.
On the South there is the main
land
■Where the white man comes and
igoes
On the East there is the Yukon
Where they take it on the nose
’Tis a land where men are hardy
And the air is blowing free
But I say, if you’re a cream puff
Then it’s not place to be.
Sure there’s Ketchikan and Sitka
And there’s Juneau fair to see,
There’s Cordova — and there’s
Seward
Where some would rather be.
iBut they’re just a lot of softies
And they’re all afraid to roam
To that funny little village
That they all call Nome.
There it’s perched along the ocean
With the mountains at its back
There you see the hardy huskie
And the miner with his pack
There you see them always
watching
For the waves to settle down
They hope and pray the fog will
lift
So you can see the town!
There the ground is always froz
en
And it’s work to make it thaw
’Tis the darndest little village
I nearly ever saw.
It ain’t no use to plant a tree
Or try to keep a cow
You’d bust yourself wide open
If you tried to use a plow.
But they put up with these
hardships
Like the pioneers of old.
They have fish and furs and na
tives
And men still come for gold
They’re a kindly set of people
In this little place called Nome
And if you ever go there
You’ll sure feel at home.
There are valleys in Alaska
Where the sun is warm and
bright
There are places where the
heavens
Are touched with northern light
There are spots were folks less
hardy
Have gone to settle down
But if you want real pioneers,
Then Nome’s the town
They sure are kindly people
In that funny little place
And if my rhymes would just
hold out
I’d give them some more space.
But now we’ll have to hurry
If we’re going to get around
For Alaska is a big country
And it's chucked clear full of
ground.
j We’ll get aboard a steamer
, And we'll head her toward the
north
To a little place called Teller
j Where the natives sally forth
: Just to show their basket-weav
ing
And their walrus ivory.
There you see their huts and
j families
On that sand spit by the sea.
| Then we get aboard the steamer
And we head her toward the
south
To a place called St. Michael’s
Where the Yukon has a mouth
There you see abandoned vessels
1 Lying stranded on the beach
Frantic miners simply quit them
! When the gold was out of reach.
j Many islands in great numbers
To Alaska do belong
: And it now is ancient history
| That we bought them for a song
They are known as the Aleutians
And they teem with fish and bear
They are full of seals and walurs
And the whales get in your hair.
It’s a topsy turvy country
With an awful lot of space
With the biggest hearted fellows
Among the human race
They never have to press their
pants
They never have to shave
Uncle Sam, so it is rumored
Never can make them behave.
There are glaciers in Alaska
And they count them by the
score.
There are large and live vol
canoes 1
That let out a mighty roar!
There are sleek and silvery sal
mon
Into cans they pack and squeeze.
There’s lofty mount McKinley
With its head up in the breeze.
So we say to you, Alaska
That you surely are a pip
You are famed for telling stories
Have something on the hip!
And it may be in the future
I can come to live up there
Where the life is wild and wooly
And the whales get in your hair!
Marion E. Harvey,
Ideal Pictures Corp.
^ Chicago, 111.
Shorts for formal wear have
been introduced on the West
Coast by film star Paulette God
dard. We’ll leave it to the women
with knock knees, bow legs,
thick ankles, or scrawny legs, to
see to it that the new style of
evening dress doesn’t prove pop
ular.
Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting fires. For Sale
at The Nome Nugget.
Price Ceiling
To Be Set
On Lumber
WASHINGTON — Price Ad
ministrator Leon Henderson said
that a price ceiling is being form
alated for “upper grades and
-pecialties of West Coast lum
ber.”
Rates have reached “unreason
able levels,” he said.
The movement has been under
scrutiny of the Price Adminis
trator for some time.
Price increases have ranged
from $8 to $15 pesr thousand
board feet for ship decking, floor
ing, and box car materials.
Magnuson
Urges Flights,
Alaska to Asia
SEATTLE — Representative
Warren G. Magnuson, Chairman
of the Alaskan International
Highway Commission, who has
returned here after a commission
meeting in Juneau and flight ov
er certain parts of the proposed
highway, said more ships are
needed to ply to Alaska and he
will demand of the Federal Main
time Commission on his return
to Washington that this demand
be granted.
Magnuson said that work at
the naval bases at Kodiak, Sitka
and Dutch Harbor is ahead of
schedule but would go much fast
er if shipping facilities could be
obtained to get needed material
to the bases.
Magnuson said also that when
he returns to Washington he will
ask commercial air lines to make
test flights from Alaska to Japan
and points on the Asiatic main
land and “unless we take advan
tage of the opportunities we will
wake up presently and find the
Japanese and Russians are flying
to Alaska as the result of the tre
mendous impetus given aviation,
j Thousands of trained pilots, as
the result of our national defense
will make flights over the top of
the world and these will be com
monplace.
“In furtherance of the idea, I
shall ask the State department to
negotiate for the joint occupation
of Wrangell Island with Russia.
Slot Machines
Will Be Taxed;
Other Proposals
—
WASHINBTON, July 1 — The
House Ways and Means Commit
tee has voted tentatively to re
commend excise taxes and slot
machines, office and store ma
chines and optical instruments,
other than eye glasses to help
raise $3,500,000,000 additional
revenue to help finance the de
fense program.
Representative Jere Cooper of:
Tennessee announced the com
mitee has agreed to an annual
'tax of $25 for use of coin operat
ed devices that pay cash or tok
ens redeemable in cash, and a
tax of $5 each on merchandise
machines vending such commod
ities as cigarettes.
MINFRS AND OPERATORS
You can obtain at the Nugget
Office the following forms which
are carried in stock, thus avoid
ing long delays and incomplete;
blanks obtained in the States.!
Write or call at the Nugget Of
fice for:
Time Sheets for Employees
Lode Location Notices.
Placer Location Notices.
Proofs of Labor Banks.
Cold Water Thawing Logs.
Dredge Shift Reports—2 types.
Non-Liability forms printed on
cardboard, for posting on claims
when owners lease property. 50tf
each or three for $1.00
Prospecting Drill Field Logs.
Deed Forms.
Voucher Forms.
Special Power of Attorney
Blanks.
CIO Complains Of
Hoodlum Tactics
WASHINGTON— Chairman A.
D. Lewis of the CIO -charged that j
the AFL union had imposed ;
"hoodlum "tactics into recent ac-1
i tion in an effort to crush the CIO
! Teamsters' Union with the use of
knives, guns and thug tactics, at
-Minneapolis. Minn.
Lewis charged that the AF of
L Teamsters' Union was conduct
ing a wide-scale campaign to
smash the 5.000 members of Min
neapolis CIO Teamsters local. He
released a telegram from Region
al Director Frank Barnhardt say
ing that the A F of L has re
jected all offers to settle the juris
dictional dispute in peaceful
fashion.
The CIO charges that nation
wide A F of L boycott has been
imposed on all CIO truck driv
ers. Barnhardt said that the 5,000
teamsters in the Minneapolis re
gion would defeat the Federation
assault with the aid of the na
tional CIO.
I
Pipe To Take
U.S. Oil to Canada
OTTAWA, Canada— Munitions
and Supply Minister Howe said
that the construction of the new
pipeline from Portland, Me., to
Montreal was another example of
the all-out cooperation between
the United States and Canada in
the Canadian war effort.
I Howe stated that when the
pipe-line goes into operaiton this
!year, pumping approximately
, 55,000 barrels of crude oil daily
1 to Montreal, it will make more
j certain an all-year supply for
i Montreal refineries.
Canada To Ship
Wheat to Russia
VANCOUVER, B. C. — Ship
ping circles revealed that tenta
tive plans are under discussion
to ship 50,000,000 bushels of
wheat from Vancouver to Vlad
ivostok, as result of the German
blitzkrieg against Russia.
The wheat will be used to sup
plement Russian troops battling
Germany, supplementing present
Russian grain supplies.
“SOURDOUGH"
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
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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Nazi Attack
Is Sign Of
Weakness
SAN FRANCISCO — Great
Britain's new high comm ssioner
to Australia. Sir Ronald Cros=
believes that Germany's attack
on Russia is a confession of weak
ness on the part of Hitler.
Sir Ronald and his family are
in San Francisco while awaiting
passage to Australia. Said the
high commissioner:
“We can't say for certain just
what that weakness is, but we
can feel certain that the attack
wouldn't have come at this mo
ment unless Germany was after
something she desperately needs
to carry on the war effort.”
Sir Ronald said that whatever
its background, the new turn of
the war should be to the advan
tage of Britain.
THE NEW 1941
Kroll Map of Alaska
Shows the Latest
Aviation Fields
See your local dealer
or write
KROLL MAP CO.
Seattle, Washington
NOTICE
All taxes real and personal due
the City of Nome for year 1940,
are due, and on July 15th, 1941,
penalty and interest on those un
paid taxes will be calculated, and
the delinquent tax roll be prepar
ed, advertised, and the property
sold according to law.
Nome Common Council
By M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy tonight and Sunday morning becoming partly cloudy and
slightly warmer Sunday afternoon.
Data for 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 48 Lowest temp — 42 Precipitation — T
Total precip this month — T Total since Jan. 1, 8941 — 2.19
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight--- 43 93 NVV 11 Drizzling
8am__ . 45 86 W 8 Cloudy
12:30 p m . .... 47 S3 WSW 13 Pt Cldy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 1:29 a. m. Sunset 10:39 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 56 Lowest t.mp — 4£ Precipitation — T
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
SEASONING TRI P—Led by motorcycles, the First armored brigade of the First armored di
vision moves along a highway from Fort Knox. Ky„ to Mammoth Cave. Ky„ during a seasoning trip.