Wolfe Named
Credit Chief of
Office
\ r",n who his been connect
r. i wi*'t the Ohif o nf in'jip .Af
fairs in Alaska for the pas* 14
year- was recently named chief
'medt a? nt fo rthe Indian bu
-c’u in the Territory.
U > is Raymond L. White, and!
■ 11 sum 'i d P. J. Fitzsimmons to
‘he imp- riant credit nost in the
Office of Indian Affairs, accord
ing to a wire from Washington,
D. C.. confirming his appoint
memt. Fitzsimmons was appoint
i auditor for the Territory of
Puerto R co last spring.
Wolfe has been principal of the
government school in Sitka for
the past seven years. Before that
he served as Indian shod prin
- oa: at Klawock, Metlakatia and
Xake. During the past several
non.hs, Wolfe has been helping
an detail work in connection
with the credit devision of the
Office of Indian Affairs in Ju
neau. His headquarters will be
at Juneau.
ionecr Water Co
SPRING WATER
Always At Your Service
Phone Bl3ck 44
N O T 1 C E
\'-w - -ne time to look ovei
nr r ung needs for the
r-r.ng summer. The Nug
w.’l be glad to consult
-. u as to your wants and
ir:i’“; same.
So huge that a Martin B 2 medium bombe • rvn ci. die under if1 wing, the Navy’s new flying war
ship was wheeed into the open at the (.linn L, J.ni t plant at Baltimore. The four-mottred plane
described by ccrnpany officials as the largest flyi g Lc.it ever built, has a gross eight of 70 tons
anti 200-fcot wingspread. The ship, due to underg > water tests next month, will he flu* first plane
to carry a motorboat and will be the Navy’s counterpart of the Army’s mammoth li-19.
I
Troops of the First Armored Division, nicknamed “(>!d Ironsides,” demonstrate how they would
take village held by enemy troops. Rolling into Castcn, La., are some of the Army’s new medium
tanks, while three A-20 attack planes of the. seco .d Air 'S ank Force of Barksdale Field, La., which
supported the land attack, roar overhead. Defend g Uie town are anti- tank gun units ol the div
ision and a company of infantrymen (left, and ri.nt foreground).
Slot Machines, Pin
Ball Games Hit In
Tax Measure
Bv Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON, Oct. — It's a
strange town.
Although many state- and
most communities have had their
buttles with slot machines and
even pin ball machines. Con
gress, for the first time in history
gave them an official nod in the
$3,500,000,009 national defense
tux bill. They did it by slapping
a tax on them—$10 a year if they
are simple “gaimcs of skill'’ and
$50 a year if they are the “one
armed bandits.”
This doesn't mean, of course,
that Congress has legalized any
thing outlawed by any state or
local government. If Congress
hadn’t slapped an income tax on
ill-gotten gains, there would bo
a lot of gamblers, bootleggers,
racketeers and other criminal
gentry roaming around today
without their prison records. Pro
bably in another year, some two
bit racketeer who has been play
ing his machines over the heads
of mayors, sheriffs and governors
for years, will find himself in
the clink for failure to pay hfs
$50 tax.
Secrets are Shushed Around
A court martial in the Army or
Navy, and censorship, are two
subjects that always make news,
but I know cases of both that
haven’t got above the whisper
si-go. In recent weeks that have
been cases of "court martial” in
the Navy on botli coasts — and
the charge was that the wives of
naval officers on sea duty met
them at the dock when the ship
hove to.
Here's the why of the court
martial. All movements of the
fleet these days are secret. All
Navy mail from men at sea duty
is censored. So how could these
wives show up at ports far away
from home unless somebody was
telling secrets or sneaking out un
e nsured messages The penalty
in most such instances, is that a
man is dropped a hundred num
bers or so on the promotion lists.
I don’t know if anyone has been
found guilty yet. I doubt it. If
any court martial officials can
ferret out where Navy (and
Army) wives grow their grape
vines, they’d belter get out of the
service and go to work for J.
Edgar Hoover.
Hollywood Bullseyc
You gotta hand it to Holly
wood. Right in the middle of all
that Senate hoopla about the
movies turning out war propag
anda, Warner Brothers announc
ed that the world premiers of
"One Foot in Heaven” would be1
held in Washington. If you are
not up on your best sellers,»that’s,
the film version of Hartzell’s
Spence’s book about the trials
and tribulations of a Methodist
minister in several midwestern
hamlets. The minister was Hart
zell’s father, Rev. William
Spence, and the picture was
supervised by Rev. Dr. Norman
Vincent Peale of New York.
In the world of the theater, as
well as on the floor of Congress,
that is what is known as perfect
timing.
It’s Nice to be President
Traffic got so bad in Washing
ton that President Roosevelt had
to pause in his consideration of
world affairs to declare that he
would like to see something done
about it. It wasn’t just one of
those off-hand quips of the Presi1
dent’s either. He wrote a letter
to the new police chief, Edward
J. Kelly, which in effect, said
that traffic is terrible; do some
thing about it. Hearing things ■
like that makes every man want
to be President.
1 —■
‘SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
CAVEY
Carrying an Assortment i
of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Betfi.
FRONT STREET, NOME
Priorities Rating
for Mines Lowered
An amended priorities o: ic-*- af
fecting mining machinery, which
i lowered '.he preference rating
from the A-3 rating previously
announced to an A-8 rating was
rece vrd recently by B. D. Ste
wart, emi rgency coordinator of
mines in the Territory, at Ju
neau.
The A-3 preference rating for
merly announced in a telegram
to Gov. Groaning from Donald
Nelson, priorities chief in the
Office of Production Management
was changed to the A-3 rating
on September 22, according to
the airmail message received by
Stewart from Nelson. As a result,
mine operators may find it in
creasingly difficult to obtain new
machinery and supplies during
the current national emergency.
The new order also “does not
include that form of mining
known as gold placer mining,”,
for which apparently, no prior-!
ities rating has been set up.
For i ’ncrgency Repairs
Under the order, a top prior
ities rating of A-l-A is provided
“for delivery to a mine operator
of material essential for emer
gency repair to a mine." To ob- (
tain this rating, however, mine
operators must communicate di
rectly with OPM, describing
material essential for the emer
gency and the nature of the em
ergency.
The A-8 rating applies to “de
liveries of material required for
emergency inventory, operating
supplies or maintenance.” The
same rating applies to delieveries
of material to a supplier of min
ing equipment to operators.
The order describes a mine as
“any plant actually engaged in
the extraction by surface, open
' pit, or underground methods or
in the benefiutinn, concentration
or preparation of mining activ
ities." A mine operator is describ
ed as anyone operating a mine
to whom a mine serial number
has been given.
Must Report Purchases
The certification of orders of
1 mine supplies will be handled in
each state or territory through
1 an emergency coordinator, the
post held in Alaska by Stewart,
the order pointed out. Through
this co-ordinator, serial mine
numbers will be given operators
and these numbers must be plac
ed on endorsed statements accnm
. ponying all purchase-orders for
equipment.
The order further sets out that
“each operator shall file with his
s!ate agency on or before the
t--nth day of each month, begin
ning October 10, 1941. a report of
purchase., made during the pre
ceding month.”
SOCIAL SECURITY
CAUTION URGED
WASHINGTON, Oct. - R pre
sentative Robert L. Daughton.
Democrat of North Carolina,
chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, proposed cau
tion in any raising of social seeur
ity taxes.
Daughton said he was not yet
ready to commit himself on cur
rent administration proposals to
double the coverage of social se
curity benefits. He added, how
ever, that he considered some of
the proposals “steep." Said he:
“It might not be the best pol
icy to boost it too much at this
time. The matter should be stud
! ied carefully.”
Daughton had conferred with
President Roosevelt, who is ex
pected to send Congress a mes
sage next week proposing cer-:
tain social security law revisions.
WEATHER FORCAST
—
Fair and continued cold to-'
night and Saturday with fresh to
moderate northwest winds to
night. Lowest temperature tonite
about 15 degrees.
A hurrican force storm is re
ported centered in the Gulf of A1
aska is moving eastward and will
not influence weather conditions
in the Bering Sea area. Winds of
over 100 miles per hour were pro
duced yesterday in the vicinity
of the Aleutians by the passage
of this storm but conditions in
this area have returned to nor
mal today.
Religious Issue
Pul To Russia
WASHINGTON. Oct. Pi
dent Roosevelt di losed that u
had instructed Averill Harrim n.
head of the Amer.ean Mission U
Russia, to take up with Moscow
the question of religious freed n
in Russia.
The President told his pies,
conference that the question had
i been taken up previously with
the Russian Government. The
Chief Executive left the impres
sion this was done through Unit
ed States Ambassador Laurence
A. Steinhardt.
The President said lie had re
ceived no reply yet from Harri
man and added he could not say
until he gets one, whether he
thought the overtures would re
sult in some success.
Hope for Complete Freedom
A hope that “complete freedom
of religion is definitely on its
w-ay” in Soviet Russia was ex
pressed by the White House late
yesterday. The hope was express
| ed in a statement commenting on
President Roosevelt’s recent
news conference comments that
the Soviet constitution declares
that religious freedom is grant
ed.
President’s Statement Quoted
The White House statem
contained verbatim quotation
the President’s comment wi.
came in response to a quest,
at the previous news conferene
The statement said the Presi
dent's reply received conflicting
intcrpreta’.i ns and "some mis
quotations.”
The previous news c infer!” ■’
comments arose fr< m a letter
the State Depart mi nt b th 1 1
ish ambassador saying Ra
find granted freedom of rein: r
to Poles who were signing ip
with the Russians against he
N: zi invaders.
S.iJ the While House st: ■
“Since the Soviet constitut a,
declares that freedom of relig on
is granted, it is hoped that in : 1
. light of the report of the Po h
ambassador an enteri g w<
f ;• ihe practice of c -r.pi te t e
d m of religion is definitely in
its way.”
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