THE NOME NUGGET
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Nazi Propaganda
Fails NV in Peru
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Government and People Found
Oposed to Totalitarianism
Despite German Efforts
JAPAN HELD CHIEF DANGER
Attack From Pacific Feared —
Defense Policy Is Based On
Cooperation with IT. S.
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By Russell B. Porter
Special cable to New York Times
LIMA, Peru. Aug. — Nazi pro
pagandists are working just as
herd here as elsewhere in South
America, but apparently they
have had-less success.
v though some influential
Peruvians seem to be pro-Nazi
or pro-Fascist and there is dan
ger o{ a growing trend toward
totalitarianism if Germany wins
the war, there is no such wide
spread fifth-column penetration
evident in the government, the
Army, commerce or the press as
is obvious in Brazil, Chile and
Bolivia.
An example is the Prado gov
ernment’s refusal to grant appli
cations by the German Lufthan
sa commercial airline to extend
its service from Lima to North
Peru. Lima is the western ter
minus of the German aviation
network that extends through
Southern and Central South Am
erica from Northern Brazil
where planes from ALfriea have
their shortest transatlantic cross
ing.
If Nazis could run planes to
North Peru they would close a
600-mile gap now separating this
major network from the,German
Sedta airline in Ecuador. As
North Peru and Ecuador are
within the 1.000-mile defense ra
dius of the Panama Canal, the
importance of keeping the Ger
mans from forging this connect
ing link is obvious.
They have four-motored long
range Focke-Wulf planes con
vertible into bombers in Brazil.
These would be a real threat to
the Canal if based in North Peru
or Ecuador.
(To Be Continued in next issue)
HUGHES ADDED TO
KOYUKUK MAIL FLIGHT
Addition of Hughes as a month
ly one-way point of call on the
winter air mail schedule to the
Koyukuik was authorized last
week in a communication to the
Wien Alaska Airlines, holders of
the winter contract, from Earl L.
March, chief clerk of the United
States Railway Mail Service sta
tioned at Seward.
The Hughes stop will be made
on one of the bi-monthly mail
flights by Wien pilots to Wise
man, Alatna, Betties & Steven’s
Village. In addition to a native
village, Hughes is the winter
headquarters of L. McGee, min
ing *on nearby Utopia Creek, and
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. James, operat
ors of the Hughes Trading Post.
The winter contract goes into
effect after September 15.
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Registration
Of Aliens
An Address By
Lemuel B. Schofield, Special
Assistant to the Attorney Gen
eral in charge of Immigration
| and Naturalization Service, De
partment of Justice.
—
It is my privelege to talk to!
you on an important phase of the
National Defense Program. I j
shall try to explain the nature
and purpose of the Alien Rdgis!
’.ration Act. and how it will be!
administered by the Department!
of Justice, which, with the Post
Office Department, has been en
trusted by the Congress to carry
out the provisions of this new
law.
Our country has developed
and grown to be the greatest na
tion on earth, largely because of
our traditional policy that peo
ples of other lands are welcome j
here. Through the years they
came from every corner of the
world. They can still come and
they are still coming, though
their numbers are now limited in
accordance with a plan adopted
by the Congress some years ago,
based on allotments or quotas
woi’ked out according to nation
alities.
These people came to us be
cause they were looking for a
pew chance at life. They were
Seeking freedom. They wanted to |
live in a land where they could j
worship God as they saw fit. j
where their children could go to,
school, where they could think;
for themselves and speak out on j
occasion, where they had a
chance to eard their daily bread
according to their best ability
and to lay aside a little against
a rainy day, and where they]
could live and laugh without be
ing hounded and drived from
pillar to post at the whim or
caprice of some autocratic over
lord. In short, they sought liber -
j ation in this land of liberty. They
came here to be free.
(To be continued in next issue)_
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ARMY TRAINS ’CHUTISTS —Drill in parachuting has been added to Uncle Sam’s cur
ricula, and here’s a scene at Hightstown, N. J., where a test parachute platoon of two officers ami
4S n en has been training. With the upper cable the man and chute are raised to 125-foot free d. op
, towers, and ride down begins. Beginners use harness suspension drop (attached to cables).
TUBERCULOSIS LEADING
CAUSE DEATH IN ALASKA
Tuberculosis, known for many
years as “The Captain of the
Hosts of Death,” but now relegat
ed to 7th place in the country
as a whole, still retains its posi
tion as the leading cause of death
in Alaska.
Figures released by the Terri
torial Department of Health cov
ering the year ending July 1,
1940 show a tuberculosis death
rate of 498 per 100.000 popula
tion during this period. This is
the highest death rate for this
disease since 1932 when it was
547 per 100.000.
The Alaska death rate was al
most 11 times that of the na
tion as a whole. Figures released
by the National Tuberculosis As
sociation covering the calendar
year 1939 show that the death
rate for tuberculosis throughout
the country decreased 4.7 per
cent to a new low of 46.6.
During the period ending July
1, 1940 there were 299 reported
deaths from tuberculosis in the
Territory and 527 new' cases of
the disease reported.
Dr. Courtney Smith, Assistant
Commissioner of Health, in com
menting on these figures stated: j
“To some extent, the increase in j
the number of reported cases is j
attributable to the activities of
the Tuberculin Testing & X-ray
Clinics which were held in many i
localities for the first time dur- j
ing this period. The greatly in
creased death rate, while probdb
ly caused to some extent by an
actual increase in the number of
deaths occuring, it is for the
greatest part, the result of im
proved methods of reporting.”
“However,” he continued, “Un
til adequate facilities are avail-!
able for the isolation and treat
ment of existing cases of this,
disease, the Territory must con-1
tinue to expect a rising incidence |
of tuberculosis and a steadily in
creasing mortality rate for the
disease.”
S25.000 FOR NATIVE
ROAD CONSTRUCTION
Twenty -.five thousand dollars
has been allotted by the Office
of Indian Affairs for road work
in Alaska, Harold J. Doolittle,
district highway engineer in the
Indian Service, reports.
For and By Natives
Mr. Doolittle who arrived in
Nome Sept. 9 is in the Territory
to help formulate a program of
road constructiin. The roads pri
marily will be for the use of na
tives and the work will be done
by them.
From Nome, Mr. Doolittle will
go to Kotzebue and Wainwright
and will try to visit all possible
points.
In returning to the States, he ex
pects to travel by way of An
chorage instead of Fairbanks. He
will visit the Southwest parts of
the Territory.
At Nome, Mr. Doolittle will
confer with Claude M. Hirst, gen
eral superintendent of the Indian
Service in Alaska with headquar
ters in Juneau, who is now on
the Seward Peninsula.
Mr. Doolittle’s headquarters
are in Spokane, Wash. As dis
trict highway engineer in the In
dian Service his jurisdiction in
cludes Washington, Oregon, Ida
ho, Nevada, California, Arizona
and Alaska.
SECRETARY OF NAVY TO
VISIT ALASKA IN 1941
HONOLULU, Sept.—On behalf
of Gov. E. H. Gruening of Al
aska, Gov. J. B. Poindexter of
Hawaii invited Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox to visit Al
aska He was extended the invit
ation when Secretary Knox
made his formal call on Gover
nor Poindexter, just before leav
ing for California on a Clipper
plane Friday, asked him to do it.
Knox said he will be glad to
accept the invitation “next year.”
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