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THE NOME NUGGET
VOL. 43. No. 10. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, JAN. 22, 1940 Pr,ce per 001,7 15*
[ McReynolds Resigns High Court
j British Launch Attack on 30,000 Italians In Tobruk
Rioting Attends Arrival German Troops Rumania
ROYAL TOAST IN TEA—Princess Helena Victoria
(center), president of England's Y.M.C.A. Canteens, drinks in tea
to the success of four new mobile war canteens which were pur
chased with funds donated by Girl Guides of the Empire.
I
Education Now Pays Great Atten
J
lion To Defense; Plans Made
By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — The evolu
tion taking place in education
under the impetus of national de
fense is not just a spontaneou
I burst of patriotism in the ch.s's
of modern educators.
It is a planned program stTl
a little hit-or-miss perhaps, be
cause of the speed . with which
it had to be set in motion, but a
planned program, nevertheless.
The Office of Education of the
F d.ral Security Agency, under
the direction of Commissioner
J )hn W. S'.udebaker; the Nation
at Education Association: Con
gress; statte and city boards of
education, and numerous other
agencies and*hdividuals have acr
( ed as the spurt. The program is
row taking definite shape.
The latest development is a
$9,000,000 project in which 04 en
gineering schools in 35 states, the
Distrcit of Columbia and Puerto
Rico are offering 250 intensive
courses to turn out within a few
months 25,000 industrial design
ers, inspectors and supervisors.
These skilled m:n of tomorrow’s
defense industry will be select
ed by the colleges. Their tuition
will be paid from government
funds.
EXCHANGE STUDENTS
Only a few months older is the
exchange of students and profes
sors between the United States
and 12 of the 21 Latin-American
republics. This phase of heimis
peric defense and “intellectual
cooperation” already has borne
fruit cither in actual or definite
ly planned exchanges between
ithe United States and Brazil,
Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Hon
'ura5, Nicaragua, Panama, Para
guay, Peru and Venezuela.
A little older still is the na
ion-wide vocational school pro
gram. In off ring short courses of
intensive training to both stu
dents and adults it already has
turned hundreds of thousands of
skilled and semi-skilled workers
into defense factories.
The National Education Asso
ciation and the Office of Educa
tion have been issuing bul’etins
hand ov:r fist to instruct every
one from kindergarten teacher to
collage president in the practical
ways which education may adapt
itself to meeting defense needs.
Commissioner Studabaki r in
public addresses, pamphlets and
the official journal of his office,
has given the green light to the
entire profession and through his
department and many other edu
cation agencies is . trying to gut
1 all the way out to the educational
grass roots with practical sug
gestions for changing the three
R’s into Defense with a capital
D.
The education office’s “radio
j script exchange” is working over
j Lime to supply the demand for
radio scripts and record transcrip
lions for schoolroom use. In the
J last two months they have sup
plied requests running into the
thousands. The titles run some
thing like this: “Let Freedom
Ring!” a dramatization of the
backgrounds of civil liberty;
i "Freedom on the March,” a dram
j atization of the settlement of
| the Northwest Territory; “Ameri
cans All.” “I’m An American;”
“This New World of Peace;”
“Making Democracy Work;” and
“A Century of Pan-American
ism.”
I
Justice McReynolds Resigns From
Supreme Court-Atty. Gen. Jackson
Mentioned As Possible Successor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 UP) —
Justice MeReynolds, outspoken
opponent of much of the New
Deal i .tion notified Presi
dent R >os velt that he will re
tire fr rn the Supreme Court on
February 1, after 26 years of ser
vice. The veteran justice will be
79 years of age on February 3rd,
and is the only member of th
tribunal described by administra
tion officials as conservative.
IPs reth rment opens the way ,
f ir President Roosevelt to make
his sixth appointment to the li
man court.
There hav been rep rts that
i .ief Justice Hughes, aged 73.
n • t r.tire soon but they are
u confirmed.
A am: >• General J. A on has
be. a meniiohecl frequt n ly as a
p- siblr appoint e to the first
v c: cy in t! e c url.
U. S. To Be
In War Predicts
Rotarian Head
—
“If you believe in a thing,
soon r or later you’re going to
have to get out and fight for it,’'
D'slriet Governor R. Vincent
(Nig) Borleske of Rotary Inter
national said in predicting that
the United States would eventual
y be in the war.
Borleske, who visited Juneau
■nroute to Sitka and Fairbank.
to install chart-rs for new Ro
tary Clubs, said he had been tell
ing Rutary gatherings for the
: past four years that there was
| urging to be a war and that we
were going to be in it.
Up To Us
“A fellow like Hitler doesn’t
quit until he’s licked, and maybe
w-’re going to have to help lick
him,” the Whitman College foot
ball coach and athletic director
said.
The District Governor spoke of
the inspiration he had received
in hearing Canadian Clubs thru
out the District sing “There’ll Al
ways be an England.”
Borleske said that though dark
ness now lay ov r the British
Empire, “They’re going to em
erge again, because they're
I right.”
He declared that Rotary would
I help after the war in solving the
| problems which wiil confront
th world. This is where we
failed last time and let lasting
peace slip from out of grasp, h<
said.
International Police
Remarking that it is necessary
! to have a police force in every
town even in this “most civiliz
j d country in the world,” Bor
; leske said it was equally neces
| sary to have an international po
ke force which would “tell
j men like Hitler ‘you can’t do
this.’ ”
Borleske, visiting Juneau for
the second time in his year as
head of Rotary organizations in
the world’s largest district, lias
traveled 27,000 miles calling on
the 86 Rotary Clubs under his
supervision. He is in a year’s
leave of absence from Whitman
College at Walla Walla
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
|Major Attack
Launched 39,660
Italians in Tobruk
————
Bombing and Street Fighting
Reported in Bucharest
And Other Cities
UNDATED, Jan. 21 f/P) — Brit
ain’s desert army launched a ma
jor attack on the 30,' 00 Italian
troops in the be??;ged fortress it
Tobruk. T.ibya. the British g. ror
1 al headq a; ‘ rs an:ru ced while
in the Bn’kcru. bloody s reet
fighting and bombings were re
ported in Bucharest and other
Rumanian cities. The Italian c; m
rrnnd previously noted increased
arti lory action around Tobruk
and acknowledged that RAF
bombers had raked th fortress
caustng “material damage.”
I The Nome Daily Nugget earn*
several forms of priming blanit.
for your convert nee Diec.g
Logs, thawing a\d drill reports
vlimng Deeds lacer and Lode
vocation Not!' Vouchers,
MINES OVER MATTE R—Rows of mines provide reality for this discussion of a controlle*
mine field and its organization, being diagrammed by an officer at *°aadtu“-mbraceY- Nor
scliool. Hampton Roads, sea gateway to nation s capital, Is located in an area that emb aces. N **,
folk naval base, Portsmouth navy yard, Newport News shipbuilding yard*. j
Rumanians Riot
In Resentment Of
German Army
•*
UNDATED, Jan. 21 f.-T’i Fresh
u* it- af the German am y arc n
■ •' ■ 1 s‘r aming into Rumania
-.n 1 1 \ de-pread rioting. D • lo
■ • • 1 patches from Sa "n, B 1
gr1 ' d Budapest said Germ-.
sa dlar . c vilians and C' ntmun
is' - va 1:a-h d among 1 e <•
ti 1 Rumania’s fro- ; to
Yu :••. 1 • v a and Bulgaria were
rl e cept to a few frav 1 r.
' ’ :ratic passports.
li e Balkans capitals speculat
ed t! t the disorders n have
fl red frem resen/tm nt of the
G rn i .ilitary cone: rrtrati t .
a Hr : a. Others suggested the
i r r -. ry between Rumar. n
iro- G .1 c ements is the ause.
‘s by Governor L h
n : N w York and Mayor La
half of the $420,000
sign f ti Bry Scout Foun
d li n S Gr ter New York
w re mad. >ub ic by Phillips R.
TurnbiiP chuirm n of the drive.
Cl veruor Lehman urged the
S uts to coord rate their lUir.er
£ei vice rps program
vvi.h the u rk o' other emergen
cy • g nicies < ;j I ng that many
r un including those active in
Scaut.ng, w rc b.iug drawn into
military service.
Mayor La Gur.idia comm nd
_d the S ut n v ment as "a
fine American i solution, use
ful and n:cos-ary." The Mayor
declared that Sc . g "gives to
our boys r.ot uly proper train
ng Liu an upyr .o ton of discip
iine and an inspiration to public
service,”
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England Register
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% orkers For
La-;or Draft
I CNDON, J' n 21 if?) — Labor
M 1' vin a nr unoed the
' v- ■ ■ d; cision t:> register
' ■. rking rr.an and wo
ir n for fling info w * f ctor
B Id the I! of Com
■ : i rodue
»n . s ' ly i cr a it g but
. d > reached a st J* whops
• i any lake industrial
.1 sti. :> by age gr ups.”
Rottenest
Filing FBR
Ever Heard
!
I Rscent Statement of Plow mg
Every Fourth Child Under,
Raises Ire of President
WASHINGTON — Pros ident
Rods vet d -scribe d as the “rot
tenest thing ever s d in public
during my generation,’' at state
j ment he said he had read n a
pap r t!\at every f urih Ameri
can child should be plowed un
der.
I He made his statement in dis
cussing aspect- of the controver
sy over leers!;.-i. r. t. authorize
j him to carry out a policy of total
| aid to “democracies.’’
He declined to say who made
j the statem nt orig na ly.
! In a radi > speech Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler, leader of the op
! position to the Administration’s
i a e-lend bill, termed the mea
sure the “N vv Deal's Triple A
foreign po icy to plow under ev
| cry fourth American b y."
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