THE NOME NUGGET
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EDITORIAL
200 YEARS IN ALASKA
(Juneau Empire)
Next year will be the 200th
anniversary of the Russian dis
covery of Alaska. On July 15,
1741. Alexei Chirikoff from the
deck of the ship St. Paul sighted
the Alaska coast at Prince of
Wales Island. The following day
Vitus Bering, Danish captain of
the Russian expedition in which
Chirikoff was second in com
mand. sailed his vessel St. Peter
in sight of Mount St. Elias which
he named. A few days later Ber
ing made a landing on Kayak Is
land, near Controller Bay. He
was, as far as history shows, the
first white man to set foot on
what is now Alaska.
Alaska should plan an appro
priate celebration of this event.
One who had such an idea was
the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff, who
passed away April 3. His grand
father had come to Russian Am
erica in 1820, not so many years
after the first explorers. The fam
ily has been an Alaskan one ever
since. Kashevaroff himself lived
76 years in Alaska, under both
the Russian eagle and the Stars
and Stripes. His life bridged the
historic span from the days of
Russian occupation, through the
purchase by the United States,
through all the long years of
official neglect, slow growth and
development down to the present
day of a busy, modern industrial
Alaska.
We may well look back next
year over the two eventful cen
turies since Bering's second Kam
chatka expedition came in sight
of a new land to the east. Father
Kashevaroff’s idea of a grand A1
aska celebration and festival is
a good one. Without him to re
cite the history, it will not be
quite what it might have been.
Bu Alaska should hold it anyway
in honor and remembrance of a
glorious historical past.
AVIATION — AN
AMAZING INDUSTRY
Aviation is perhaps the most
amazing of our younger indus
tries. It provides the world with
speed, together with safety, com
iui i, convenience and economy.
", The present capitalization of
airplane manufacturing in the
United States is about $115,000,
000. Production has grown 300
percent in four years. The produc
iion of 36,000 wage-earners, am
ong the best paid in America
{they earned $25,000,000) during
the past year, was valued at $165,
000.000.
Aircraft manufacturers buy
tna. rials, parts, and instruments
from 1,000 companies in seventy
five industries. One factory alone
bjy- from sixty-eight different
firms with 14,4100 employees.
An raft consumed 100.000,000
gallons of gasoline, 25,000,000 gal
Ions of oil last year.
M re than 10,000 planes are in
civil use by seventy kinds of busi
ness organizations. To operate
and service them, there are 22,
©33 pilots and 9,884 mechanics.
Nearly 2,000 planes were sold
for private, commercial and sport
use during the past 12 months.
The growing exports of Ameri
can airplane manufacturers is at
tributed solely to superiority of
product. Their value was $68,000,
000 last year. Almost every c ur.
try in the world is a customer.
Export orders this year are great
«r than ever before.
Travel by air is now so safe
that accident insurance costs no
n re than if you go by train.
0- airline has .flown 309,000.000
■r anger miles with only one
f accident in eleven years.
"• ->cr.» a ■ twenty-one air trans
port companies operating under
the American flag. During the
year just closed, they carried
1.500.000 passengers 642,000,
000 passenger miles over 73,267
miles of air-ways (35,492 domes
tic). There are 1,169 passengers
and fifteen tons of mail in the air
day and night. The mileage flown
daily would reach 94 percent of
the way to the moon.
The 13.000 employees of the air
lines—1.400 of them pilots and
3,500 mechanics—wert paid $24,
000.000 during the year.
Starting only twelve years
ago, the “All-American” air sys
tem —Pan American Airways—
has carried more than a million
passengers over 62,571 miles of
air routes to and between fifty
three countries and colonies, for
five years has been making a
9.000 mile trip on regular sched
ules across the Pacific, and now
operates new giant flying Clip
per across the Atltanic between ,
New York and Europe.
It is believed that within a
few years 250,000-pound flying
boats will be built that can carry
up to 150 passengers across the;
Atlantic in a day.
WOMAN WITH “GOOD
SENSE” MADE CITIZEN
PHILADELPHIA—A Yugoslav
woman gained citizenship papers
in spite of her declaration that;
she would not allow her children
to fight for the United States.
The decision, which violates all;
United States naturalization pre
cedence was made by Federal
Judge Welch. Judge Welch ques
tioned Mrs. Ana Ivorsich concern
ing her refusal to let her five
boys bear arms for her adopted
country. Said she:
“If they come this way, we
help. To go over there, No.”
Turning to naturalization au
thorities, the Judge observed:
“Here’s a woman with common
sense. Let’s give her credit and
not make our laws look ridicul
ous."
GO SLOW, SAYS NEWSPAPER
TO THE ALLIES
MILAN. Italy — The influent
ial newspaper “Corriere Della
Sera" warned Britain and France
to go slow with their Mediter
ranean fleet concentrations or
run the risk of trouble with It
aly.
At the same time, the Milan
newspaper alleged that British
agents were busy in Greece pre
paring to transform Greece into
a base for an Allied air force.
These moves, warned the news
paper “will backfire on the Allies
if they think such maneuvers
will intimidate Italy.
>i o r gined fighting plane, described as the fastest in the world and available for use by
ik', ;n.' !*s :tish air forces, was demonstrated recently by the Gumman Aircraft Engineering
Y,.r>. ,t s claimeh that the plane would fly well in excess of 400 miles an hour at an altitude
’ r-o v :i’d climb at better than a mile a minute, and is designed to permit installa
tion of at h i i t o cannon and six machine guns. This is an official U. S. navy photograph.
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3nn SEEK PLANE
PASSAGE TO ALASKA
Approximately 300 persons are
trying to get passage on the first
commercial flight of Pacific Al
aska Airways between Seattle
and Ketchikan, Robert O. Bull
winkel, PAA traffic manager,
said recently. Mr. Bullfwinkel
was in Ketchikan on his way to
Juneau and Fairbanks.
“That is because of the pub
licity attending the first trip. We
don’t expect anything like that
right along." Mr. Bullwinkel ex
plained.
Although the plane is a 32
passenger ship, it will have few
er passengers because of the ex
tra mail scheduled for the first
flight, he expects.
Before the passenger flight,
PAA will have a “shakedown”
trip over the route from Seattle
to familiarize pilots and officials
with the setup, according to pre
sent plans.
Regarding commencement of
the air service he said, “We will
start in as soon as we get the
equipment in.
A radio station will be install^
ed at Peninsula point soon under
G. E. Bassett, Ketchikan airport
manager.
Passengers carried by the
Munz Air Service were: Satur
day—Nome to Taylor, Bob Burn
ette and Chas. Smith.
Round trip Sunday to Deering:
Walt Kirkland and Tony Linde
strom.
Round trip to Coffee Creek to
day: Tony Lindestrom and Mur
phy Johnson.
WHAT THE WANT ADS
MEAN TO NOME
To Sell that gun, furniture,
baby carriage, coat, trunk at a
profit.
To Buy that ice box or rug,
piano or suit, car or accordian at
low cost.
To Rent that room, garage,
apartment or that house to de
sirable tenants.
To Hire that maid, gardener,
nurse, chaugeur, cook or laun
dress, etc.
THE NOME NUGGET
MIROW ACTIVITIES
Pilot Sasseen will return from
Anchorage tomorrow evening
with a load of passengers and ex
press.
Pilot Chambers made a trip to
Solomon with freight and return
cd with Daniel Boone from Golo
vin to Nome and Chester Milli
gan from Council who was brot
to the Nome hospital for treat
ment.
Saturday evening a trip was
made to Solomon with Mrs. Fel
der and son Bobbie. Freight was
also carried.
Pilot Chambers made a trip to
Golovin and returned with Harry
Boone and Ghas. Tuckoak for
Nome.
A trip is scheduled for Ameri
can Creek tomorrow morning
with Sam Emmons and freight.
WIEN ACTIVITIES
May 17—Pilot Pilot Sig Wien
returned to Nome from Fair
banks via Candle with James
Walsh and Ted Newman.
May 18 — Three flights were
made north stopping at Coffee,
Taylor, Pilgrim Springs, Noxa
paga and Wales. Passengers were
Tony Lindestrom, Taylor to
Nome; Lorene Hagen and J. J.
O'Leary, Nome to Teller; Dwight
Millgrack, Jacob Ahkinga, and
Roy Okpealuk, Wales to Nome;
Brownie Whaley, Springs to
Nome. Freight and mail was car
ried for all points.
May 19—A flight was made to
Haycock and Candle with freight
Tom Beltz was taken to Candle
from Haycock. Ted Coomara was
taken to Coffee Creek in the af
ternoon. Stops were also made at
Wales, Teller, Coffee Creek, and
Fox Bar. Passengers to Nome
were John Cross from Teller and
Romeo Nunooruk from Wales.
May 20—James Walsh, Paddy
Breen and freight w'ere taken to
Taylor.
A trip is scheduled for Hay
cock and Golopin late today.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill report*,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers,
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It's Choekful of Nuts
also "POPEYE” in “ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP”
A Special 20-Minute Color Cartoon
CHIAN G AMONG FRIEND S—In his capacity as
chairman of the Peoples Political Councih Chinas nearest P
proach to representative government. Gen. t hiang _
_pro..nrt> visit# d with 145 council delegates at Chungking.
ARCTIC SOFT DRINK PARLOR
Cigars Tobaccos Cigarettes
All Kinds of Soft Drinks
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy and warmer tonight followed by light rain Tuesday
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 53 Lowest temp — 28 Precipitation — 0
Total precip. this month 0.32 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 2.26
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight ... .. 39 70 SW-6 Clear
8am . 41 60 S-6 Pt Cldy
12:30 p m . 41 63 SSW-9 Cloudy
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 39 Lowest temp — 33 Precipitation — T
Tomorrow: Sunrise 2:22 a. m. Sunset 9:34 p. m.
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather
Deering .— 38 W-10 Cloudy
Council .— 36 W-9 Clear
Golovin ... 40 W-9 Clear
Kotzebue ......— 29 W-12 Cloudy
Solomon .-.. 38 NW-14 Clear
Teller . .... 31 N-2 Cloudy
Wales .... 29 NE-35 Cloudy
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage .-.— —.- 35 S-2 Pt Cldy 0.00
Bethel..-.- —. 40 NE-5 Cloudy 0.00
Cordova .-.— 42 SE-5 Rain 2:65
Dutch Harbor . .. 38 NW-21 Rain 0.51
Fairbanks . .-.. 34 N-5 Clear 0.00
Juneau..- .... 44 S-2 Cloudy 0.12
Pt. Barrow ..-.. .... 19 NE-16 Foggy 0.00
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