REAP THE WHIRLWIN D—British flier makes friendly Inspection of four cannons which
give England's K.A.F.'s Whirlwind two-engined, high-tailed fighter plane its deadly power.
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A small observation plane—one of the new hedge-hopping “eyes” being trained
for the United States artillery, flies back, of the firing line as a big 155mm field
gun prepares to fire. Planes of this k’nd— flown by field artillery personnel in
stead of by the Air Corps—fly low, well.. V ehind their own front lines and report
to the gunners by radio how their shots are falling. This practice was being held
at Fort Bragg, N. C. ___i
Half Million Set
Alaska Bond Pur
chases After J y
Alaska War Bond purchase*
during the month of Anril ex
ceeded '.he quota set bv the War
Savings Staff of the U. S. Trea
sury for the current month. Fred
W. A'cpir. Deputy Administrator
of War Savings, announced to
day.
Sales of Scries E Bonds las!
month, cn the basis of report -
frem eighteen communit:es, to
taled $352 759. This compared
with $355,939.75 in January;
$305,PIP.25 in February, and
$432 729.75 in March. The quota
for the current month of May is
$350 000.
"The Territory has been fairly
consistent in its support of the
War Sav'ngs program,” Mr.
Ayer said, "but while the April
sales exceeded slightly the quota
sot for May, the June quota will
mere nearly approximate the
sales during March, when the
Spirit of Alaska’ bomber cam
paign, coupled with the highly
successful Defense Sports Festi
val at Fairbanks, sent sales to
their highest peak.
“In the month of July, Alaska
is asked to attain the half mil
lion dollar mark in bond pur
chases, and from that point on
ward, for the duration of the
War. will be expected to main
tain that figure as a minimum
monthly average. The Treasury
Department cannot put too much
stress on the absolute necessity
for the setting of these quotas
Time is short and the ever-in
creasing demands of our war
machine create an urgency that
; we cannot escape or evade. T
; raise the billions which we need
to win this war, and to do all in
I our power to check inflation, we
! must raise our sights. Alaska not
I only must meet the quotas which
i have been set; it must exceed
j them.”
I A breakdown of the sales for
1 April follows:
| Anchorage . $110,044.75
Fairbanks . 64,668.7"
Ketchikan 46,331.25
Kodiak 29.737.50
Juneau 27,051.25
S'tka. 22.200.00
Crirdova . - 10,068.75
Petersburg . ' 10.012.50
Nome 9.375.00
Valdez . 9.150.00
Wrangell 3.881.75
Palmer . 3,300.00
Skagway 2.550.00
Craig . 1.462.50
Haines 1.265.25
Non ana 1.131.25
College . 450.00
-Hydaburg 37.50
$352,759.00
Save $2 by paying in advanc
1 •! von? subscription
i _.
Giant transports and wsift fighter planes dominate this view of a final assembly department in one of the
Curtis-Wright Corporation’s plants. Ships in foreground are Curtis fighters of advanced P-40 types. Big
craft are 25-ton transports—“troopships ; the sky”—of the new C-46 type.
J
Maritime
Day Set j
On May 22
_
JUNEAU, May 6 —Acting Gov
srnor E. L. Bartlett has proclaim
°d May 22 as Maritime Day. His
statement follows:
“Again this year, as has been
'he custom since 1933, May 22
'ms been officially designated by
President Roosevelt as National
Maritime Day in commemoration
of the sailing of the first success
ful ocean steamship Savannah on
May 22, 1819. The Presidential
Proclamation will be issued short
'y from the White House. In
addition to celebrating the anni
versary of the Savannah’s sailing
the day has been dedicated by
the marine industry to the offi
cers and men who are serving
our merchant marine in the pre
sent war.
“In view of the tremendous;
tasks being accomplished by the
officers and men of America’s
•maritime fleet in the war — in
cluding citizens from every state
the observance of National Mari
time Day is a fitting tribute to
them, similar to the tribute to
our armed forces on Army Day
and Navy Day.
“E. L. BARTLETT, Acting Gov
ernor.”
NOTICE
Written applications will be re
ceivcd at the office of the City
Clerk until 5 PJUi Monday, May
25th, 1942, for the following po
sitions at Nome Fire Station:
Engineer: Driver; Utility man.
Salary S200.00 per month each.
NOME COMMON COUNCIL
By M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
\re you taking advantage
f six month.! paid in ad
nice subscription 9
NOTICE
Now is the time to look over
.•our joo pruning needs for the
pr:np and summer. The Nug
get Office will be glad to consult
vith you as to your wants and
■>rice? on same.
KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR
★ ★★★★ ★★★★★
★ ★★★★
€ P. a u.
BRAZIL — “A WORLD IN ITSELF”
The domain of Brazil, the only Portuguese speaking
nation member of the sisterhood that comprises the
Pan American Union, covers only a little less than
half the total area of the South American continent.
Rudyard Kipling, seasoned
Tavener, wrote ol it as A world
in itself.” The proportions of
he country are gigantic. The
consequent variations in life, cli
mate. topography, resources and
oroducts are in keeping. Brazil’s
frontiers are so far flung that
they meet with those of seven
of her nine sister republics in
South America, and embrace a
country larger than our contin
ental United States; larger than
all of Europe, excluding Russia.
Nearly half the population of
South America makes home of
Brazil. From ‘the equatorial jun
gles of the basin of the majestic
Amazon in the north, Brazilian
territory, with an Atlantic coast
line of 4300 miles, sweeps thru
pleasant and productive uplands
far into the south temperate
zone.
These central and southern up
lands are the heart of the Brazil
of today. Here are the most fer
tile lands; the best grazing areas.
From here comes the famous
coffee, base of about three-fifths j
of the total value of the nation’s I
exports. From here come the cot- j
ton, fruit and livestock, hides,
wax, tobacco and other items
whicn, with rubber and nuts
from the Amazon country, Bra
zil offers in exchange for her
needs in machinery, tools, fuel,
wheat, chemicals, automobiles
and iron and steel products. Here
too, in a region of half a million
square miles, less than a fifth of
the country’s area, lives sixty
per cent of a population of 44
millions, seventy of every hun
dred at work in agriculture or
stockraising.
Brazil is sending to the arsen
als of democracy manganese for
the manufacture of much need
er steel; and oil from the castor
bean essential to the lubrication
of the high-speed engines of
figher, bomber and pursuit plan
es. The turn of world events
If* wdMwva Jv.inoinL ij: ciy-11 ao Ui't;
of the rubber centers of t!ie
world.
Rio de Janiero, the capital, is a
city of more than a million in
habitants. But there is no conges
tion even here. Famed as one of
the most beautiful capitals of
the world, a city of marble,
palms and broad avenues, “Rio”
is also center of commercial, so
cial and cultural development;
seat of a government that has
given education high place in its
activities.
The Brazilian constitution di
vides power between national
and state authorities. The Presi
dent is the supreme authority,
charged with directing the pol
icies and maintaining the wel
fare of the state. He initiates
legislation, may nominate one
candidate in elections to choose
his successor, but by a two
thirds vote of a two-house parlia
ment, can be overridden in his
veto of legislation.
As in other countries new or
old, Brazil’s form of government
represents a people’s evolution.
Unlike that of many of the
young nations of the New World,
however, from disccovery and
first colonization by the Portu
guese Alvares Cabral at the
turn into the Sixteenth Century,
down through the rule of Mar
quis of Pombal, “the great mar
qis,” though independence and.
constitutional monarchy in the
reins of the Dom Pedros, father
and son, to the coup d’etat of
November 15, 1889, out of which
came the federal republic, the
romance of Brazil tells of change
after change without violence or
bloodshed.
The nation has been a growth,
not an eruption. Its natural
wealth has hardly been touched;
its native genius hardly reveal
ed. Its potentialities are far be
yond present reckoning.