THE NOME NUGGET
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The Pilgrims
Showed the Wav
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(Cincinnati Enquirer)
Eloquent Elder Robert Cush
man. delivered an address to the
little band of Pilgrims at Ply
mouth in December, 1621. His
topic in reality was that there
is strength in unity. He said.
“Great matters have been
brought to pass where men have
cheerfully, as with one heart,
hand, and shoulder, gone about
it, both in wars, buildings and
plantations, but where every
man seeks himself all cometh to
nothing.”
It is 320 years since the Elder
spoke these words. It was a time
cf discouragement. The little Col
cny was beset with many diffi
culties. Yet the Pilgrims perse
vered. They did not know that
they were to be the foundation
stone of a mightly nation.
So it was they builded vastly
better than they knew. They suc
ceeded because all of them with
one accord worked for the com
mon good. Again we are beset
with difficulties. And again as in
the time of the Pilgrims it is
necessary for us cheerfully to
labor with ' one heart, hand and
shoulder.”
Detecting
Submarines
(New York Times)
If Mr. Charles F. Kettering
were not a trained scientist and
the director of one of our great
industrial laboratories his fore
cast cf a new device to master
the submarine might be dismiss
ed as another optimistic dream.
His assurance that “we have
been working with the Navy for
six years” indicates plainly
enough that he refers not to
something which has been the
subject of systematic and earnest
experimentation.
The detection of submarines
under water may be considered
solved reasonably well. Here the
engineer deals with sound. Sen
sitive telephones have been used
successfully on transatlantic lin
ers to detect the beating of near
by propellers in a fog. The sub
marine commanders know all
this and shut off every sound
when they are submerged. The
question now is the perfection of
a device to catch submarines on
the surface at night.
Since Mr. Kettering refers to
work that has been going on for
six years we drift back mentally
to some experiments which were
made about 1935 off Sandy Hook
in detecting steamers at night
without the aid of searchlights.
Not the slightest technical hint
was given at the time as to the
principle that was tested. Per
haps thermocouples were used —
■devices which can measure heat
at considerable distances; for, it
an astrophysicist can measure
the temperature of Mars at a dis
tance of 40,000.000 miles, it ought
to be possible to detect the pres
ence of a submarine at the sur
face a few miles away by the
heat that its engines give off,
either during propulsion or dur
ing the charging of storage bat
teries. Radio, too, might be pos
sibly be used. If any piece of ma
chinery on a submarine generat
es sparks (something that engin
eers do their best to avoid) very
short wave^ are sent out which1
can be picked up. The faulty ig
nition systems of taxicabs around
the corner play havoc enough
with television set as it it. What
ever the means Mr. Kettering
may have in mind, he could hard
ly be explicit at a time like this.
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Names For
Airplanes
(New York Times)
In the interest of further dram
atizing and personalizing the
most spectacular of war services
we might do well to follow thei
example of the Royal Air Force
and the British Fleet Air Arm by
extending the practice of giving
names rather than mere cold and
pedantic-looking number and let
ters to specific types of fighting
aircraft. The British services
have been very happy, for the
most part, in naming flying wea
pons which have rendered so
splendid an account of themselv
es in the war. Spitfire and Hurri
cane, the fighters which have
proved so deadly to Nazi bomber
raids, are now household words]
around the world. Defiant is an-1
other fighter that lives up to its j
name, Skua, dive bomber which
is the namesake of a magnificent
flier among the gulls: Swordfish,
the torpedo plane; Battle, Glad
iator and Tornado, all are fight
ing names for fighting aircraft.
The British have applied their
habit of naming planes to the
types which we are furnishing to
them out of our expanding ar
senal. The pursuit which we call
Lockheed P-38, they call Light
ning. Our fighter, the Vultee 72,
they have dubbed Vengeance,
and the Consolidated B-24 bomb
er is called in England L:berator.
The long-range patrol boat here
designated as PBY-5 flies for the
British Fleet Arm as Catalina,
and so distinguished itself the
other day in picking up the trail
of the fleeing Bismark. We have
some ringing plane names our
selves—witness Hawk, Airacob
ra. Thunderbolt and Lancer. The
man in the street knows and
takes pride in our four-engined
bomber as the Flying Fortress
rather than the B-17-B. It would
be worth while to replace such
impersonal designations (except
for strictly military classifica
tion) as XB2U-1 with names that
in themselves carry something
of the trumpet call of action.
Home Guard >
Authorized
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For Alaska
•WASHINGTON, July 1 — A:
bill to permit the organization 1
of some guard units in Hawaii, i
Alaska, Puerto Rico and the!
Canal Zone passed the Senate!
and was sent to the House.
The BUI gives the Territories'
the same right that is extended to:
the States to have Home Guard
units while National Guardsmen]
are in Federal Service.
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Thr* unique and humorous ]
and typical Alaskan stationery— i
"Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beei
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offl
ce
Federated Church
Wilbur P. Wood, Pastor
11:00 a.m.—Church School
7:45 p.m. — Worship service.
Sermon topic: “And Jesus
Went A Little Further.”
ESKIMO METHODIST CHURCH
Miss Constance Erickson,
Superintendent
11:00 a.m.—Church School
5:30 p.m.—Worship service.
Communion service. Sermon
topic: ‘‘Broken Bread.” W. P.
Wood will preach.
CAA Radio
Blankets
The Atlantic
WASH INGTON — Following
successful negotiations by the
State Department with the Gov
ernment of Portugal, the Civil
eronautics Administration began
regular radio communications on
June 1 with stations at Horta, the
Azores, and Lisbon.
The new service gives Station
WSY, the CAA’s station at New
York. trans-Atlantic connections,
and, added to the service with
Bermuda and Ncwfoundlan. giv
es coverage for both the north
ern and southern trans-Atlantic
routes. Beginning June 15, WSY
also took over the radio beacon
service now maintained by the
Pan - American system's New
York station, WAQL.
Has Wide Range
WSY now operates four sched
uled serviced with its associated
ground stations, including trans
mittal between all stations of
weather information on which
weather maps and forecasts are
prepared, and regular scheduled
communication between the Brit
ish stations at Newfoudland and
Bermuda, and the Portuguese sta
tions at Horta and Lisbon. It also
carries on aircraft communica
tions with planes flying the Atlan
tic along the northern route be
tween Newfoundland and Ire
land and the southern route via
Bermuda, and is capable of han
dling aviaton traffic anywhere in
the North Atlantic. All messages
are in international radio tele
graph code, except when planes
arrive in the vicinity of New
York, when voice communication
is used.
Final technical arrangements
with representatives of the Port
uguose government were complet
ed by Eugene Sibley, Chief of
the CAA Communications Sec
tion. who returned from Lisbon
May 31 on the clipper.
Weddings Must
Wait In Alaska
June 24 was the last day when
two Alaskans could choose mat-j
rimony, snatch a marriage li
cense, and exchange I Do’s in as
little time as it takes to auto
graph the papers and recruit,
two witnesses.
From here on in, weddings
must wait three days—a round
72 hours —after reciept of thej
marriage license.
It's all the doing of the last
Territorial legislature which, in
its recent session, wrote a law!
decreeing the three-day lapse be
tween application and altar!
march.
The bill was referred to as the
"gin marriage” measure through
out Juneau session.
U.S. Tanks Better
Than Germany’s j
MANCHESTER. Tenn.—Major
General George Patton Jr. de
scribed the United States Army's
new light tanks as superior to
;hose of any country in the i
world.
General Patton said that with
new tanks arriving during field
maneuvers, the Second Armored
Division even now has enough
equipment to do a first-class job
in real battle. The commanding
officer said the division could use
more medium tanks, but he said
they were fully satisfied with the
present equipment.
Said General Patton:
“Our light tanks has more fire
power than any other country’s
and armament as much as any <
other medium tank. Its speed
and endurance are a great deal!
greater.
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( OFFICIAL PUBLICATION )
REPORT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION
OF THE
Miners and Merchants Bank of Alaska
Located at Nome, Alaska, Territory of Alaska, at the close of
business on the 30th day of June, 1941.
RESOURCES j
Loans and discounts . $ 406.500.87
Loans on real estate . 101,757.45
Overdrafts . 1,200.85
United States Bonds owned . 154.806.25
Other bonds and warrants owned . 192,292.13 1
Banking house, furniture and fixtures . 46,438.77
Other real estate owned . 3,019.64
Checks on other banks and other cash items. 7,675.68
Exchanges for Clearing house .
Cash on hand and due from banks . 369,743.97
Other resources, judgements, claims, etc....
Expenses in excess of earnings.
Gold Bullion on hand 13,714.65
Fuel Oil on hand . 81.29
TOTAL . $1,300,231.58
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in .......... $100,000.00
Surplus fund . 25,000.00
Undivided profits less expenses paid . 97,753.09
Dividends declared but unpaid ........
Due to other banks—deposits . .... '
Due to other banks—overdrafts........
Individual and savings deposits . 678,190.43
Demand and time certificates of deposit . 399,288.06
Cashier’s and certified checks .
Notes and bills rediscounted ......, _ _
Bills payaole (including certificates of deposit) for _
money borrowed ........
TOTAL . $1,300,231.58
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, )
Territory of Alaska, : ss:
Second Division. )
I, H. G. GABRIELSON, cashier of the above named bank, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief..
H. G. GABRIELSON, Cashier
(NOTORIAL SEAL) (CORRECT ATTEST)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this H. G. GABRIELSON
39th day of June, 1941. G. R. JAjCKSCXN
IRA D. ORTON
Directors
JEANNE C. MOZEE, Notary Public
in and for the Territory of Alaska.
My commission expires Sept. 24, 1943.
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Hidden Enemies — Stolen Secrets — Sudden Death
and “ROMANCING ALONG” also “PICTORIAL” No. 4
TWO SHOWS: SUNDAY. 7:15 & 9 Adm. 55# & 25#
“UNEXPECTED FATHER”
with BABY SANDY — DENNIS O’KEEFE — SHIRLEY ROSS
Sandy Wields A Mighty “Club” — And That’s No Baby Talk
also "POPULAR SCIENCE”
HOTEL PATERSON
NOME'S NEWEST
AND MOST MODERN HOTEL
The Resting Place For Weary Travelers
South Side Front Street and Lane’s Way
FOR PROMPT SERVICE
ON TRANSPORTATION NEEDS
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The Underwood Universal Portable Typewriter
has earned many boosters.
Smooth, Dependable Operation
Price — $55.50
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