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EDITORIAL
Remember.
Comrade Benito ?
Whether itbe true, or not, that
serious rioting has taken place in
northern Italian industrial cities,
we do no know It is more likely
that indirect reports are exagger
ated or even untrue.
And yet—it is not illogical that
there should be such disorders,
now or later. Se ds of socialism,
and of anti-imperialism, were
sown there many years ago. Lat
er efforts have been made to
root them out, but de p beneath
the soil of the Romagna they
may. remain today.
Who sowed those seeds? Thirty
years ago a young socialist was
agitating in Forli. Milan, and oth
er cities, demanding violent sab
otage against Italian imperialis
tic military ventures into Trip
oli. Outstanding in his advocacy
of violnecc, he urged that women
lie down on the railroad tracks
to bar trains from carrying It
aiian boys to Africa to fight for
the realization of imperial ambi
tions. He even si rved five months
in jail after an affair at Forli,
in which railroad tracks were
torn up to prevent the passage
of troop trains.
The name of this agitator Be
nito Muasolini. a ragged, <sick.
unstable workman who had spent
hours agitating for . very mo
ment of honest work he had ever
done.
Thirty years have passed, and
now, so wonderful is human life
and the strange things that hap
pen to men, it is this same man
who is s nding fresh transports
full of young Italians to die in
the same Tripoli for another Im
penal Dream. It is this same man
who dreams of resurrecting the
ghost of the old Roman Empire,
and who flings legions against
Greeci and Albania, and Ethio
pia.
Tru'y, in all history there are
f\ w parallels to this socialist turn
ed fascist, this worker turned
ruler, this poor, ragged agitator
turned to a rich, braid-uniformed
imperator, this man who tried to
stop troop trains, issuing ord rs
that the trains shall move again.
Should it happen, as it may
lhave happened, or as it may yet
happen, that discontented work
men of Milan or Turin, watch
ing the casualty lists that have
cost 20,000 dead and wounded
and 100,000 prisoners, watching
the infiltration of the alien Ger
man, should riot against Author
ity, one man, at least, will under
stand.
Benito Mussolini once stood
where they will stand.
— Cordova Times
ALASKA C. OF C.
RE-ELECTS OFFICERS
The Territorial Chamber of
Commerce, meeting in Juneau
recently named Calvin Poole of
Douglas as ex cutive secretary,
succeeding Curtis Shattuck of
Juneau, who declined to be a
candidate for re-election. Other
officers re-elect d were: O. D.
Cochran of Nome, President; L.
W. Kilburn of Douglas, first vice
president, W. C. Arnold of Ketch
ikan, second vice president; Leo
Roggis of Fairbanks, third vice
president; H. R. Vander Leest of
Juneau, Treasurer.
Second Division members of
the board of managers are Le,
Roy Sullivan and A. Polet of
Nome.
"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Navy Seeks
Fleet Thai’s
Bomb - Proof
By THOMAS M. JOHNSON
WASHINGTON. — The U. S.
Navy is breaking records and
shattering predictions in n-.eat
inp the m nace of air power to
'-ea power. The house has just ap
propriated $300,000,000 for streng
thening our warships against air
bombing, but nothing was sa;d
about the fact that the job is
already three-fourths done.
The Navy b gan the job last
spring when the German air
'orce thwarted the Briti h fleet
off Norway, Reports from naval
.attaches abroad revealed that
most U. S. warships were almost
obsolete in air defense.
The Navy marked the job
RUSH; gave it priority. Engin
eering, construction and the steel
industry cooperated; yards work
ed three shifts day and night,
mostly California, but Pearl H:.r
bor. too. They put strong r arm
or on firr control towers; built
virtual dugouts for men who
must be on deck, steel shields for
anti-aircraft guns and more such
guns, too: also more space to
store ammunition for them, and
more “blisters’’ on battl: ships’
sides against underwater bursts.
There are 15 U. S. battleships,
nearly 500 other major units, but
by cooperation, corner-cutting
and a speedup worthy of war
time*19l8 very prediction was
upset. Instead of two or three
years, the job will take barely
one. Today it is 75 percent done
and nearly 75 percent of all war
ships (. Aact numbers secret) that
can be "antiaircrafted,’’ are so
equipped. Work on a relative few
I is being deferred because of spec
, ial problems.
As a who!:, the fleet can look
at hovering warbirds with as
great confidence as any afloat.
The newest British battleship,
I King George V, showed Ameri
can naval officers at Annapolis
nothing our ships lack save a
pom-pom gun we now have in
production.
Th importance of the Navy’s
rush is plainer since German
dive-bombers went to the Medit
erranean and virtually sank a
British heavy cruiser and crip
pled an aircraft carrier. Planes
shot from the carri es are the
11 w’s best air defense; if the
carriers are sunk, such protec
tion as we are installing on ships
themselves b comes more import
ant than ever. More important to
u.-\ and more important to the
British whose ships must defend
against possible invasion the nar
row seas about the British Isles.
In just such narrow s^as, first
off Norway and now in the Med
iterranean, the Germans have
| d monstrated what shore-based
bombers can do. They have yet
| to sink a battleship — German
claims that they have, are known
in Washington to be untrue—but
the war is not yet over. Best op
inion is that they can do it unless
the battleship has every protec
tion known to man and, perhaps,
then some.
’CHUTE SILK PANTIES
DROP OUT OF SKIES
DENVER — Some Colorado
farm women, confides the airport
*wi ather station, may be convert
ing quite a quantity of bright
red parachute silk into srarfs or
panties.
Of 44 'dilutes sent aloft with
baloons carrying radio short
■wave radio sets ot report temper
atures at 50,000 feet only nine
have been returned since Jan
uary 1. The chutes float down
with the radios after the balloons
burst.
URGES EXPANDED ANTITRUST PROGRAM
The Fedora' Monopoly Committee at Washington was told by
.•V-Hs'int Attorney General Thurman Arnold there were indications
the government had been charged “excessive and unreasonable”
rices for c> gntial war materials. Arnold, shown testifying, sug
gested that an expanded anti trust program be recommended to
Congress by the committee.
}\N'?
Miss Alaska arrived yesterday
after spending a week jn Fair
banks. We are ail proud of Jane
wish her lots of luck toward a
trip outside.
At 13 years of age she was
chosen “Queen of the Trail” in
Nome's annual Kennel Club cele
bration.
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
D. Jones, “Miss Alaska” attend
ed school at Nome through her
freshman high school year. She
was graduated from Renton High
School in S attle in 1936, complet
ed a licensed cosmetologist’s
course at the Edison Vocational
School, then enrolled at Wash
ington State College for speech
and drama training with one ey?
on a possible career in theatricals
or radio.
Turn of Fortune
A position with the gardenia
growing firm of E. W. McLellan
and Company took her to San
Francisco, where opportunity,
knocking through the hand of
A. M. Hartford, shifted her
cours,: northward to become sec
rotary to the manager of the
Nome Department, United States
Smelting Refining and Mining
Company.
This was the turn of fortune
which,in June of 1940, removed
h. r miles from the theatrical cen
tyrs of the nation—yet, through
her resultant second election as
the queen of Nome’s winter fes
tival. leagues closer to wide
spread public recognition.
Ice Throne Ritual
The “Miss Alaska” crown of
ivory was placed on the head of
Miss Jones by King Regent Jack
Biimngton, who, with Queen Re
gent Stacia Rickert, occupied
seats with the Nome beauty on
the spectacular brilliantly light
ed throne.
For the coronation, “Miss Al
aska” was clad in white outing
garb, cloaked by a robe of roy
al purple, CTmine-trimmed. Pic
turesque beside the younger
queen were the pioneer King and
Quoi.n Regent, decked in parkas,
mukluks. and full winter regal
! ia- Whiskered King Burrington
topped off his costume with the
battered fedora from which time,
tide, nor the pomp of ceremony
could part him.
H r selection was staged be
fore a capacity audience in the
Fairbanks Public School auditor
ium. Competing also for the
honor were Miss Patsy Chisholm,
Miss Anchorage; Miss Betty John
i son, Miss Fairbanks; Miss Valerie
Pearce, Miss Juneau; and Miss
Ann Erickson, Miss University.
The contestants promendaded
in skitogs, beach attire, and for
mal dress.
I
N''TTCF O’7 ELECTION
TO R V'TFY 'RT' T ’ \CES NOS.
231, " 2 AND 203. TO THE EL
ECTORS OF THE CITY OF
NOME, .Alaska:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that pursuant to Ordinance No.
291 'entitled “An. Ordinance
granting to The Northern Light
and Power Company, its suc
cessors and assigns, a franchise
to construct, equip, operate,
maintain and use an Electric!
light and power plant and
system within the City of Nome,
and providing for the ratific
ation hereof,” and pursuant to
Ordinance No. 292 entitled “An
Ordinance selling to the Direct
ors of the ‘Drifters Club’ and W.
H. K lsey the South and North
one-half (14) respectively of Lot
14, Block 30. and providing for
the ratification hereof.” both or
dinances having been passed and
approved bv the Common Coun
cil of thp City of Nome on Jan
uary 13. 1941, and pursuant to
Ordinance No. 293 entitled “An
Ordinance to convey to James E.
Hewitt a portion of Lanes Way,
and providing for the ratification
hereof." passed and approved by
the Common Council on January
27, 1941. all of those 3 ordinanc
es wi'l be separately submit’ed
for ratification at the annual City
Election to be held in the City of
Nome on Tuesday, April 1, 1941,
at which election the qualified el
ectors and voters are invited to.
vote for ratification or for refus-1
al of ratification of the ordinanc
es. The submission of each or
dinance will be separate from
that of the others, and each voter1
or el ctor can declare himself for:
or against each ordinance separ
ately. Qualification of electors,
place of voting and the time for
voting, and all other rules, regu- j
ations, laws and ordinances re-;
specting the conduct of annual
city elections will apply to the
election as to the ratification of
these ordinances. Th original or
dinances showing their exact pro
visions are on file in the office of
the City Clerk, and are available'
to the public for reading and in
spection at all regular office
hours. The time of election shall
be between the hours of 8 A. M.
and 6 P. M., April 1, 1941, the
place of voting the City Hall lo
cated on the South side of Front
Street. As to Ordinance No. 292.
the property to be disposed of is
the South one-half and North
one-half of Lot 14, Block 30,
terms cash, consideration $100 as
to each one-half. As to Ordinance
No. 293 the property to be con
veyed is the East 7 feet of that
portion of Lanes Way lying be
tween Blocks “H” and “J”, and
being the 7 feet directly adjoin
ing on the West and paralleling
the Western boundary of Lot 1,
Block “J”, for the entire length
of 100 feet thereof.
DATED AT NOME, Alaska,
this 21st day of February, 1941.
M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
Publish Feb 21 28 Mar 7 14, 1941
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“The Amazing Dr. Clitterhonse”
with Edward G. Robinson — Claire Trevor — Humphrey Bogart
What Amazing Power Does He Hold Over the Underworld
and “CRACKPOT CRUISE’’ — A Cartoon
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