SOCIAL SECURITY
Receipt Forms
Simple and Easy to Fill In—Meets the Provisions
AS REQUIRED UNDER THE NEW LAW
IN EFFECT JAN. 1, 1940.
r-vwnr
EXCERPT FROM THE LAW
Section 1403 of the new Federal Insurance Contributions
Act reads as follows:
“(a) Every employer shall furnish to each of his em
ployees a written statement or statement in a form suitable
for retention by the employee showing the wages paid by
him to the employee after December 31, 1939. Each statement
shall cover a calendar year or one, two, three, or four cal
endar quarters whether or not within the same calendar year
and shall show the name of the employer, the name of the
employee, the period covered by the statement, the total
amount of wages paid within such period, and the amount
of the tax (Old-Age) imposed by Section 1400 with respect
to such wages. Each statement shall be furnished to the em
ployee not later than the last day of the second calendar
month following the period covered by the statement, ex
cept that if the employee leaves the employ of the employer,
the final statement shall be furnished on the day on which
the last payment of wages is made to the employee. The em
ployer may at his option furnish such a statement to any
employee at fhetime of each payment of wages to the em
ployee during any calendar quarter in lieu of a statement
covering such a quarter and in such case the statement may
show the date of payment of the wrages in lieu of the period
covered by the statement.”
“(b) Any employer who willfully fails to furnish a state
ment to an employer in the manner, at the time, and showing
the information required under sub-section (a) shall for each
failure be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $5.00.”
Order Now And Simplify Your Office Work
FOR SALE AT
THE NOME NUGGET
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair with slowly rising tempcrat ure Tonight and Thursday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 10 Lowest temp — -15 Precipitation 0.00
Total precipitation this month—0.25 Total since Jan. 1 — 1.10
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . -12 70 N-2 Clear
8am . -9 51 Calm Clear
12:30 p m . 9 59 Calm Clear
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 11 Lowest temp-14 Precipitation — 0.00
Tomorrow: Sunrise 5:19 am Sunset 6:17 pm
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather
Deering .
Council . -12 Calm Clear
Clolovin . -15 Calm Clear
Kotzebue ...... -20 E-2 Clear
Solomon . -14 NE-6 Clear
Teller .
Wales . -6 N-2 Foggy
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 3 SE-3 Clear 0.00
Bethel . -3 NE-16 Clear 0.00
Cordova . 16 N-6 Clear 0.00
Dutch Harbor . .„... 27 ENE-10 Pt Cldy T
Fairbanks . -21 NE-6 Clear 0.00
Juneau .. 28 W-3 Snow 0.58
Pt. Barrow . -9 S-9 Clear 0.00
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
Bery little and unimportant
changes have taken place in the
pressure and wind distribution
during the past 48 hours, pres
sure remaining high over entire
Alaska area. Clear or nearly
clear skies prevail over Alaska
except along the coast from near
Cordova southward where over
cast with rain and snow obtains;
betwen seven and nine inches of
snow has fallen at Juneau. Tem
peratures are generally well be
low normal.
With the present condition of
presure and wind circulation we
expect continued fair weather
with slowly rising temperature to
night and Thursday.
Suggestion and Criticisms Invited
! CHAMBER HOLDS
NOON LUNCHEON
The regular business meeting
of the Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber
! of Commerce met in the North
I Pole Dining Room yesterday.
After the minutes being read.
! Bill HR 8732 introduced in the
I House of Representatives which
was referred to the Committee
on Public Lands was read. The
bill is entitled “To Promote the
Development of the Territory of
Alaska and to Authorize the Sec
retary of the Interior to Lease
the Public Lands in Alaska.’’ The
substance of the bill is to with
draw all public lands in Alaska
which lie within 80 rods of any
navigable or other waterway
from settlement, location, sale,
enter or lease and grants the Sec
retary of the Interior absolute
power and discretion to prescribe
the terms and conditions upon
which the permits and leases of
such waterfront areas shall be
made, including the rental to be
charged. The Bill has broader
implications and far reaching con
sequences for Alaska because it
puts the whole public lands at
tidewater and on lakes and
streams, whether navigable or
otherwise, within the discretion
of the Secretary of the Interior,
uncontrolled by any standards or
regulations fixed by Congress. Un
der the present law every other
80 rods of public lands abutting
on waterfront are open to entry,
the intervening 80 rods being re
served to the Government. The
Section 4 of the Bill does not re
strict prospecting, locating, devel
oping, mining, entering, leasing,
or patenting the mineral resourc
es of any of the public lands in
Alaska under the applicable law
and does not affect any existing
I rights or waive, or modify any
| present requirements or condi
J tions. The bill was referred to
j our Legislative committee, Terri
I torial Senator Leroy Sullivan.
I Chairman and the President add
j ed Mr. H. W. Starling to the Com
j mittee.
The subject of Membership
Drive was taken up and Mr. H.
! G. Gabrielson, Chairman was re
I quested to organize the Member
ship Campaign for 1940 and re
port to the Board who will co
! operate with the Committee to
make the 1940 campaign a suc
cess.
The Committee on Aviation re
ported that memorial to the hon
or of Hans Mirow be undertaken
by the Chamber of Commerce &
j that is for the establishment f
I a Beacon light on the Nome Field
I to be known as the Mirow Bea
con.
The subject of names for the
; streets and numbers for the hous
i es in Nome which was submitted
to the City Council and tabled by
them at the last meeting, on mo
tion the President and Secretary
were instructed to appear before
the City Council at .their next
meeting and endeavor to have
j the petition of the fifty or more
l citizens as presented by the
j Chamber to the City to be
! brought up for consideration at
! this time.
j The Secretary was instructed
| to wire the Alaska Steamship
! Company for the schedule rates
for 1940.
The Board will meet again
next Tuesday, March 26 to ar
range for the Social Gathering
which will take place on the first
meeting of the month, April 2 at
which Miss Nome and Miss Con
nie Mazen will be guests of hon
or.
SENATE TO STUDY
GOLD PROBLEM
The forthcoming hearings on
monetary policy by the senate
banking and currency committee
will provide an opportunity for
airing suggestion by Winthrop W
Aldrich, chairman of the Chase
National Bank for pompt resum
ing gold specie payment. Mr. A1
drick’s position of banking lead
ership and his gift for popular
expression brought the whole sub
ject to the fore, but his program
in broad outlines is similar to the
| earlier proposals by the Ameri
can Mining Congress.
With 60 percent of the world’s
monetary gold supply hoarded in
the United States, partisans of
gold are fearful too long to sus
pend the monetary uses of gold
' lest the metal lose its prestage.
Referring to this situation, the
| mining congress pointed out that
"individuals composing the rapid
ly increasing general.on coming
nto active busines and politcal
life since Feb. 1, 1934, have had
little or no practical personal
| knowledge or experience with
i gold coin or even with gold bars.”
i Therefore the congress pointed to
"a growing possibility that gold
ultimately may cease to be the
foundation of money systems &
become a mere commodity.”
Irrespective of the monetary
consequences of such a contin
gency, it is obvious that it would
be an adverse turn for the gold
mining industry. Unquestionably
1 the raising of the price of gold
to $35 an ounce proved a bonanza,
to the gold mining industry at
home and abroad. In urging re
ige of g >ld ai d pi cing
circulation, the congress was eag
or to prevent the degradation of
gold to the status of a "mere
| commodity” useful only in dentis
1 try and in the arts.
Obviously, if the currency pol
icy of drifting threatens to cle-,
predate gold, then the United
States made a colossal blunder in
accumulated 60 per cent of the'
world's monetary suppy at fan
cy prices.
The plan of Mr. Aldrcih and
the American Mining Congress
would attempt to salvage Uncle
Sam’s big investment in the yel
low metal. !
, As a device to put a ceiling on
Uncle Sam’s holdings, these plans
also provide for the privilege of
paying for new gold imports in
gold coin, bars, or gold cretifie
ates. Thus Uncle Sam con’d swap
gold for gold instead of contin
uing the present system whereby
the foreigner has been enabled to
exchange for a non-earning asset
in the form of American bonds
and shares.
There can be little doubt that
the status quo in gold ie ves the
United States in a vulnerable pos
ition. Yet the American Mining
Congress plan meets some opposi
tion from both sides. In the first
place, some of the monetary theo
rists think that an ultimate solu
tion must rest on an internation
al agreement, and that the lime
will not be ripe for that until af
ter the present war.
Internal oral agrsem nt it
should bn born a in ml. i. i- ’:ke
ly ta be at the expense of Uncle
Sam, who will doubt er- b • < d
1 ■ chi ig lis d arly pu; . ■ .1
gold for the promise to pay of
other nations. Secondly. ?:. plan
is opposed, on the other . and, by
heterodox monetary gr ups who
wish to put an e-d to i'. ■ ‘ f tich"
of gold 1' rough cessati' n of gold
buying.
One suggestion has he ;1 that
the treasury withdraw it bid for
foreign gold while maintaining a
$35 bid for domestic gold.
This, it is argued, v\ aid en
able tiie treasury to retr it from
its present position with ut tak
ing a book loss on present hold
igs. On the other hand, orth -
dox advocate of coinage of gold
argv.a that this compromise
would promote widespread pr -
jata speculation in gold.
Implicit in the A'drich sugges
ions is the hope tha' the dolter
■ uld bf rru the p . r n on -
•.ary yardstick, displacing the
pound sterling. This ambition, it
would be borne in mind, is a
,:p in the direction of interna*
. ana.ism r^lher than one toward
primary concentration on build*
i ig up the home econ my.
Thus the gold problem, shou-d
be viewed as an incident in the
whole set of economic relation
s'). ps of the United States vis-a
vis the rest of the world.
WELLES SEES HITLER
KacUjophoto from Berlin shows C. S. Undersecretary of State Sumner
V. pit; than*': tv tied) !<■:.• vir.sj the Chancellery in Berlin after his
, .In t <•(. -ifcrc-cee v.-:th Adolph Hitler at which time the Fueh
er is 1 ii-- - • (o j-.^ve ouHincd Germany’s price for peace. Besides
•n is Or. Otto Meissner, state minister.
■■ i -
Russian forces have all but eneir ' 1 1 *' ri (1> in their i rive o ' ct ", th, r "< ir of Tuppur
ansaari, a bay in Vlipuri Island i'urni farm anr hr. base. A .'. rale and northeast of
Lake Ladoga (3) Fisns reported eontinoa'i > of sueces ' a! res -f i \vi i heav> Russian losses
in the Aittajoki sector. Fighting ’v ; s h. aw at K a Inn » and at Sal ' arui 5'. _’
IN THE SERVICE OF FRANCE—ip the Champs-Elysees in Paris move American
donated ambulances, destined for service at the front Twenty-six American volunteers drive them.^