PACIFIC ALASKA AIRWAYS
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Change in Nome Schedule
Ships Arrival and Departure
TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy- and slightly warmer ton ight and Tuesday with intermit
tent light snow. Lowest tempera ture tonight about 19.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 27 Lowest temp — 12 Precipitation — 0
Tctal precip this month 0.31 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 10.58
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight...14 81 N-5 Clear
Bam ..- .. 22 73 N-7 Cloudy
12:30 p m .... . - 27 62 N-8 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 7:09 a.m. Sunset 4:18 p.m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 33 Lowest te mp — 15 Precipitation — 0
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
High Court
To Review'
Litigation
WASHINGTON, Oct. — The
Supreme Court agreed to review
litigation appealed by the Jus
tice Department in an effort to
obtain rulings on the federal gov
ernment’s power to regulate pro
fits resulting from national de
fense contracts.
Specifically involved wrere the
Department of Justice’s charges
that the Bethlehem Shipbuilding
Corporation had made “unconsti
tutional” profits on 86 ships con
tracted for by the government
during the World War.
The government petition said
approximately $13,365,000 was at
issue. The corporation won in the
lower courts.
Earl Browder, leader of the
Communist Party in the United
States, convicted of wilfully us
ing a passport obtained by false
statements, was granted a court
review.
Two kidnapers seeking release
from the federal prison at Alcat
raz failed to obtain a review on
their contention that the Lind
bergh kidnaping law is unconsti
tutional. The law prohibits trans
portation of a kidnaped person
across state lines.
The kidnapers are Albert Bat
es, serving a life sentence for the
$20,000 kidnaping of Charles Ur
eschel in Oklahoma City in 1933,
and Harmon Waley, sentenced to
a life sentence for the $200,000
kidnaping of little George Weyer
haueser in 1935.
sourdough stationery
At Nugget Office
Write to your friends and rela
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ougb Stationery. They’ll get a big
rick out of it.
The Greek army cancelled all leaves on gttard against invasion
from Albania where Italian troops have been reported massing.
^ Shaded area (1) is the Ciamuria district of Greece, which has been
claimed for Albania by the Italian press.
Nazis’ New I
Secret Weapon
SMios^ene Gas
c
—
By .Morgan M. Beatty
AP Feature Service Writer
WASHINGTON — When the
Germans teli you that they have
a great surprise in store for use
against the British and the Brit
ish admit the peak of air war is
not yet, it adds up, for the mili
tary expert, to the probable use
of poison gas in the near future.
And you can bet one gas that’s
coming will be deadly, almost
invisible phosgene.
If the Germans use it first —
and they were the first to use
Chlorine in the World war—air
; experts expect they will drop it
from the sky.
The purpose would not be to
decimate the population, as so
many people seem to think, but
to spread panic and fear when
panic and fear are already taking
hold of the civilian poplation.
Phosgene would be the favor
ite for this purpose for these rea
sons:
L. It is almost invisible, and
I therefore will have a terrifying
j effect on civilians subjected to
! the first attacks. People will ap
! pear to drop dead like flies for
! no apparent reason.
I |
2. It is easy to store in bomb- [
like containers and drop from
the air.
3. It is highly adaptable to use
I in the British Isles at this sea-1
Ison, because the atmosphere is
[ often hazy, almost foggy. The
thin white cloud of stuff would
I be invisible under these condi
' tions.
(Phosgene is no good in wet
I weather, for water absorbs and
dissipates it more rapidly than
air.)
4. The Germans know that the
British population has been lax
in their use of gas masks.
I have it from well-informed
military observe”s that both the
i Germans and the British have
big stores of gasses for use un
der desperate conditions — the
Germans for the peak of their
air attack against the islands,
and the British to use against
land invasion.
As protection, the British auth
orities have already distributed
; .30,000,000 gas masks among their
‘ people. They have rigged up
i thousands of underground anti
gas shelters. One gas-proof sub
I way shelter in London can house
I 8,000 people.
Phosgene is ideal for the Ger
j mans to use at the peak of their
'air war because it has all deadly
| effects and mysterious presence
; attributed to war gases in pop
ular fiction, and not because it
is widely destructive to human
! life. It disappears too quickly to
be of maximum value as a wea
pon against trained troops.
But as a panic producer among
civilians it is highly effective.
Some experts figure one bomb of
phosgene would produce for pan
ic and fear among civilians than
100 actual explosive bombs.
The stuff is a simple combina
tion of chlorine—the purifier you
get in drinking water in minute
quantities — and carbon mon
oxide. It is easy to compress into
a liquid, and upon release hecom
es a gas.
Slight concentrations smell
like fresh-cut corn in a field.
Heavy condensations smell like
a silo full of fermenting ensilage
When a man smokes a eigaret in
the presence of phosgene, he ex
periences a sharp metallic taste
in his mouth.
In an area as big as a room 10
feet square, a lethal dose of pi ms
gene is one-third of aii ounce, if
the victim js exposed thirty min
utes. In higher concentrations,
of course, it is quickly fatal.
Drops of watery material form
in lung tissues, stop oxygen, and
I the victim suffocates.
It is well suited to use against
icivilian populations also because;
i victims would be likely to run i
lor exert themselves. The slight-1
, est exertion produces death al-!
! most immediately.
| Phosgene is known to all mili-1
tary forces. The common gas
mask is one hundred per cent
effective against it.
Military experts point to re
cent statement of the German
High command accusing the Brit
ish of dropping poisonous mater
ial in grain fields. They suggest
the Germans are preparing to
use gas and are “justifying” its
use in advance —just as Hitler
“justified” wholesale raids on
London in advance by accusing
the British of barbarous bombing
of civilian populations.
U. S. and Mexico
N e g o ti a t e
Defense Pact
MEXICO CITY, Oct. — Word
spread that the United States and
Mexico might negotiate a pact
pledging mutual military, econ
omic and political assistance. Re
liable spokesmen said that the
agreement if signed, would be
patterned along the lines of the
defense accord recently put into
effect by the United States and
Canada.
The press was told that no
thing definite would be done
until at least January 1. It was
explained negotiations hinge on
a possible election and until Gen
eral Manuel Camacho succeeds
President Cardenas on December
first.
Jimmy Hines
Now Convict' fn
Sing Sing
—
OSSINING, N. Y„ Oct.—Shorn *
of all power which made his
name a synonym for political po
tency for more than a quarter of
a century, James J. (Jimmy)
Hines, has become a grey-clad
convict in Sing Sing prison.
The former Tammany District
leader has started to serve a four
to eight year sentence following
conviction of protecting the $20,- j
000.000 a year gambling syndi
cate of Dutch Schultz.
—
STRANGE STORY OF OLD
MAN TRYING BRING BACK
LIFE DEAD YOUNG WOMAN
KEY WEST, Fla., Oct.—Police
pieced together the strange story
of Karl van Cohel, 70, accused
of keeping in his bedroom for
seven years the preserved body
of a young woman he hoped to
restore to life.
The man, a medical expert on
X-ray, holding degrees from
Leipzig University, is charged
with removing the body of the j
woman, 19, from its grave with
out permission.
Van Cohel was quoted by De
puty Sheriff Ray Elwood as say
ing that he "didn’t want one so
I mtiful to go to dust and tried
experiments to restore her to
life and he hoped still, if he lives |
long enough, to bring her back.”
He declared he visited the i
crypt in which the young mat
i n’s body lay for two years af- j
ter her death and decided to take
the body away.
He said he transferred it to tne
Key West Marine Hospital,
which was ready of access to
him as a former X-ray employee
and there he treated the body
chemically for a week to restore
d o mposed parts.
He then brought it to his home
and later applied beeswax to pro ;
tect the outer tissue.
Old Papers For Sale
Buy them by the bundle, Use
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V The Nome Nugget.
'TICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1825
Mineral Entry No. 09-12
In the United States Land Of
fice for the Nome Land District,
Nome, Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that
JOHN S. CARLSON, whose post
office address is Nome, Alaska,
has made application for an Unit
ed States Patent for the Sand
Hill Association Placer mining
claim situated on the right bank
of Snake River about 3.5 miles
i northwesterly from the mouth
, thereof and the town of Nome,
! Alaska, in the Cape Nome Mining
and Recording District and Pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, desig
nated as United States Mineral
Survey No. 1825 and particularly
described in the official plat and
field notes of said survey on
file in the said Land Office,
with magnetic variations of 17
deg. 15 min. to 18 deg. 45 min.
E., as follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, a fir
post scribed l-SH-1825 from
whence U.S.L.M. Sur. No. 512
bears S. 83 deg. 38.05 min. W.,
,5830.46 ft.; thence N. 8 deg. 46
min. W., 1006.60 ft. to Cor. No. 2,
la fir post scribed 2-SH-1825;
[thence N. 81 deg. 12 min. E., 660
ft. to Cor. No. 3, a fir post scribed
3-SH-1825; thence S. 56. deg. 11
min. E., 1432.20 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
a fir post scribed 4-SH-1825;
thence S. 37 deg. 16 min. W„
588.10 ft. to Cor. No. 5, identical
with Cor. No. 6 Snake River
Placer, Sur. No. 1367, a fir post
scribed 5-SH-1825 for this sur
vey: thence S. 27 deg. 48 min. W.,
173.00 ft. to Cor. No. 6, a fir post
scribed 6-SH-1825; thence N. 75
deg. 33 min. W„ 1294.50 ft. to
Cor. No. 1 and place of begin
ning. Containing an • area of
37.526 acres.
The adjoining claims are: on
the north, Paul Jones Placer, un
surveyed; on the east, unknown
and unsurveyed; on the south,
S ' Rver Placer, Sur. No.
1367 a~ A ma Placer, unsurvey
ed; and on the west, Easther Pla
cer. unsurveyed.
The original and amended cer
tificates of location are record
ed in Book 208 at pages 108 and
292 of the records of location of
the said mining district.
The mineral monument to
which this claim is tied is des
cribed as follows: U.S.L.M. Sur.
No. 512 is a limestone 12 in.
above the ground marked U.S.
L.M. 512 and is located on high
ground about 2100 ft. north of
Bering Sea \k mile south of
Snake River and about 5 miles
westerly from Nome in the Cape
Nome Recording District and Pre
cinct. Territory of Alaska in Lat.
64 deg. 31 min. N., Long. 165
deg. 33 min., W.
Dated August 30. 1940.
Aimer Rydeen, Registrar
Publish Sept. 2 9 16 23 30, Oct. 7
14 21 28, Nov. 4, 1940.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Survey No. 1826
Mineral Entry No. 0943
In the United States Land Of
fice for the Nome Land District,
Nome, Alaska.
Notice is hereby given that the
UNITED STATES SMELTING
REFINING AND MINING COM
PANY, a Maine corporation, by
and through its attorney-in-fact,
A. M. Hartford, whose post office
address is Nome, Alaska, has
made application for an United
States Patent for the Ellen Claim
Placer, Snow Queen Placer, Ver
don Group Placer. The Alma
Claim Placer, and Esther Associa
tion Placer, placer mining claims
situated about four miles wester
ly from the mouth of Snake Riv
er and about three thousand feet
north of the shore of Bering Sea
in the Cape Nome Mining and
Recording District and Precinct,
Territory of Alaska and designat
ed as United States Mineral Sur
vey No. 1826 and particularly
described in the official plat and
field notes of said claims now on
file in the said Land Office, with
magnetic variations of 17 deg. 06
min. to 18 deg. 45 min. E. as fol
lows:
ELLEN CLAIM PLACER
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with location and with Cor.
No. 1 Alpha Group Association
Placer, Survey No. 1823. a fir
post scribed l-E-1826 for this sur
vey from whence U.S.L.M. sur.
No. 512 hears N. 86 deg. 31 min.
W„ 2404.60 ft; thence N. 6 deg. 07
min. E„ 1409.40 ft. to C r. No. 2.
a fir post scribed 2-E-1826; thence
S. 70 deg. 01 min. E., 600.5 ft. to
Cor. No. 3, a fir post scribed
3- E-1826 for this survey; thence
S. 6 deg. 02 min. W„ 1322.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 4 on line 1 - 2 Alpha
Group Association Placer. Sur
vey No. 1823. a fir post scribed
4- E-1826 for this survey; thence
N. 78 deg. 25 min. W. along line
2 - 1 Alpha Group Association
Placer, Sur. No. 1823, 587.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 1 and place of begin
ning. Containing an area of 18.297
acres.
SNOW QUEEN PLACER
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with location and with Cor.
No. 4 Ellen Claim Placer this sur
vey previously described from
whence U.S.L.M. sur. No. 512
bears N. 84 deg. 56 min. W.,
2986.87 ft.; thence N. 6 cleg. 02
min. E. along line 4-3 Ellen
Claim Placer this survey, 1322.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2, identical with
Cor. No. 3 Ellen Claim Placer
this survey previously described;
thence S. 79 deg. 37 min. E., 208.00
ft. to Cor. No. 3, a fir post scribed
3-SQ-1826 for this survev; thence
jS. 74 deg. 13 min. E„ 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 4, a fir post scribed
i-l-SQ-1826 for this survey; thence
S. 18 deg. 39 min. W. 1269.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 5, identical with Cor.
No. 2 Burg Claim and Cor. No. 1
Venus Tundra, both of survey
No. 1824, a fir post scribed 5-SQ
1826 for this survey; thence N. 75
deg. 36 min. W., 610.30 ft. to Cor.
. No. 6 identical with Cor. N 1
; Burg Claim, survey No. 1324, • fir
■ i post scribed 6-SQ-1826 for this
- (survey; tihencc N. 78 deg. 25 nun,
I W. along line 2 - 1 Alpha Group
' Association Placer, Survey No.
I 1823, 551.00 ft. to Cor. No. ! and
! place of beginning. Containing an
area of 38.611 acres.
VERDON GROUP PLACER
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, ie; ti
cal with Cor. No. 5 Snow Queen
previously described. Cor. .V». 2
Burg Claim, and Cor. No. i
Venus Tundra Placer, Sur. No.
1824 and from whence U.S.L.M.
Sur. No. 512 bears N. 82 deg. 42
min. W.. 4139.70 ft.; thence N. 18
deg. 39 min. E. along line 5-4
Snow Queen Placer previously
described, 1269.00 ft. to Cor. No.
2, identical with Cor. No. 4 Snow
Queen Placer this survey pre
viously described; thence S. 88
deg. 39 min. E.. 1283.00 ft. to
Cor. N. 3. identical with Cor. No.
1 Sand Hill Placer, Sur. No. 1825,
a fir post scribed 3-V-1826 for
this survey; thence S. 17 deg. 57
min. W.. 1520.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4,
a fir post scribed 4-V-1826: thence
N. 78 deg. 53 min. W„ 571.00 ft.
! to Cor. No. 5, identical with Cor.
No. 2 Venus Tundra Placer, Sur.
No. 1824, a fir post scribed 5-V
1826; thence N. 76 deg. 02 min.
W. along line 2 - 1 Venus Tundra
Placer. Sur. No. 1824, 679.60 ft.
to Cor. No. 1 and place of begin
ning. Containing an area of 39.790
acres.
THE AI.MA CLAIM PLACER
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with Cor. No. 4 Verdon Group
P acer, this survey previously de
icribed from whence U.S.L.M.
Sur. No. 512 bears N. 81 deg. 27
min. W„ 5335.72 ft,: thence N. 17
deg. 57 min. E. along line 4-3
Verdon Group Placer this survey,
1520.40 ft. to Cor. No. 2. identical
with Cor. No. 3 Verdon Group
Placer this survey and Cor. N
1 Sand Hill Placer, Sur. No. 1825.
thence S. 75 deg. 33 min. E. ale I c
line 1 - 6 Sand Hill Placer, S
No. 1325, 1294.50 ft. to Cor. No.
3. identical with Cor. No. 6 Sand
Hill Placer, Sur. No. 1825, a fir
post scribed 3-A-182C for this sur
vey; thence S. 27 deg. 48 min. W.
along line 6-5 Snake River
Placer, Sur. N. 1367, 1498.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 4. Cor. No. 5 Snake
River Placer, Sur. No. 1367, a fir
post 4 in. square, 2 ft. above the
ground in earth mound, scribed
5-SR-1367 bears S. 27 deg. 43 min.
W., 710.00 ft. the true cor. falls
in small pond where same would
not be maintainable, and a wit
ness corner bears N. 78 deg. 53
min. W„ 104.00 ft. distant, being
a fir post 4 in. square, 3 ft. long
set 18 inches in the ground and
marked W-C-4-A-1826: thence N.
I 78 deg. 53 min. W. from true cor.
1042.50 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning. Containing an area
of 39.27 acres.
Easther Association Placer
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identi
cal with Cor. No. 3 Snow Queen
Placer this survey previously des
cribed from whence U.S.L.M.
Sur. No. 512 bears S. 73 deg. la
min. W„ 3513.12 ft.; tihence N. 15
deg. 25 min. E.. 290.00 ft. to Cor.
No 2. a fir post scribed 2-E-1826:
thence N. 81 deg. 12 min. E.,
2271.00 ft. to Cor. No. 3. a fir post
scribed 3-E-1826 for this survey,
identical with Cor. No. 2 Sand
Hill Placer, Sur. No. 1825 thence
S. 8 deg. 46 min. E. along line
2-1 Sand Hill Placer, Sur. No.
1825, 1006.60 ft. to Cor. No. 4.
identical with Cor. No. 1 Sand
Hill Placer. Sur. No. 1825. and
with Cor. No. 3 Verdon Group
Placer of this survey previously
! described; thence N. 88 deg. 39
min. W. along line 3-2 Verdon
Group Placer this survey 1283.00
ft. to Cor. No. 5. identical with
Cor. No. 2 Verdon Group Placer
this survey previously described;
1 thence N. 74 d°g. 13 min. W.
along line 4-3 Snow Queen Plac
• or. this survey, 1240.00 ft. to Cor.
No. 1 and place of beginning. Con
: taining an area >f 99.065 acres.
The adjoining claims are; On
the north, Ind pendence Placer
. and Paul Jones Placer, unsurvey
|ed; on the east'. Sand Hill Placer.
Sur. No. 1825 and Snake River
Placer, Sur. No. 1307: on the
, South, California Placer, unsur
, veyed, Venus and Burg Placers,
, both of Sur. No. 1824 and Alpha
Placer, Sur. No. 1823: and on the
west. Quicksand Placer, unsur
veyed.
The location certificates for
1 said placer mining claims are re
. corded in Bcok 203 pt page 77;
Book 190 at page 308: Book 199
at page 251; Book 199 at page
333: and Book 208 at page 292
of tihe records of locations of the
i said Cape Nome Mining D:strict
■ and Precinct, Territory of Alas
; ka.
T-he said placer mining claims
! being contiguous and forming
; one consolidated claim. The min
eral monument to which said
| claims are tied is described as
follows:
U.S.L.M. Sur. No. 512 is a lime
! stone 12 in. above the ground
: marked U.S.L.M. 512 and is lo
; cated on high ground about 2100
ft. north of Bering Sea Q mile
i south of Snake River and about
5 miles westerly from Nome in
the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict and Precinct, Territory of
Alaska in Lat. (?4 deg. 31 min. N.,
Long. 165 deg. 33 min. W.
Dated August 30, 1940.
Aimer Rvdeen, Registrar.
Publish Sept. 2 9 16 23 30, Oct. 7
J14 21 28, Nov. 4, 1940.