Gus Johnson
Tells About His
Vacation Outside
Gus H. Johnson, old time em
ployee of the Lomen Commercial
Co., who left here in the early
part of January for a vacation
to the outside, was a returning
passenger to Nome on a P A A
plane Wednesday.
Mr. Johnson states he had the
time of his life, visiting sour
dough friends as well as meeting
many Nome sourdough friends
at the Gold Gate Exposition. Gus
as he is called by his many
friends, not content with a visit
to the Fair, also visited Bouilder
Dam, Los Angeles, San Diego,
Tia Juana, Mexico, and' many
other places during his vacation.
Gus with numerous other
Nomeites visited the Lido Cafe
and Cabaret in San Francisco,
■where they met Helen Stipek,
former pianist of Nome, who is
leading the orchestra at this
night club, who requested to be
remembered to her many Nome
%iends.
During the evening Mr. John
son, A1 Carey, George Waldheim
B. J. McConaghy and other
Nomeites were announced as vis
itors from Alaska, and were
compelled to stand up and bow
gracefully to the applause of the
many diners attending the Cab
aret.
After sailing on the steamer
from Seattle for Alaska, Gas
said: “We stopped at Ketchikan
where all the Nomeites aboard
the boat were greeted in real old
fashioned sourdough style by
George and Bertha McKay, form
er resident of Nome, wtho are
now conducting the Marine Hotel
there. Mr. and Mrs. McKay meet
you at the dock when the boat
comes in, and when you arrive
and leave they give you the
“Radiator’s Club of Nome” high
sign, which is—weil that is a
secret. We also met Mr. and Mrs.
Ed. Stevens at Ketchikan, and
their charming daughter. Ed. is
(running a drug store there. Ail
wanted to be remembered to
their many Nome friends, he
said.
Gus said, however,’ that he
was glad to get back to “God’s”
country again and settle down
to real work and life.
Federated Church
Rev. Vincent Widney, pastor.
Church school 11 o'clock.
Worship service, 7:45 p.m. Ser
mon topic, “Why Christianity
Lives.” Mrs. Rynning and Mrs.
Widney will sing a duet, “The
Lord is My Shepard.” All cor
dially invited to worship with
us.
Native Methodist Church
Church school, 11 o'clock.
Evening worship 5 p.m.
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
Thos. R. Lyons Ira D. Ortor
SKI CLUB NEWS
The sport of skiing has advane
ed by leaps and bounds. It is
estimated that the number of
skiers has tripled each year in
the United States for the last
three winters, until there are
now almost a half million peo
ple who ski in this country. The
same is true in Europe except
that the enthusiasm started years
earlier there. Consequently, Eu
ropean countries have a much
greater percentage of skiers. The
interest in the sport has spread
to the four corners of the world.
! Japan has hundreds of thou
l sands of skiers. Skiing is very
| popular in the South American
! countries bordering on the An
' des, especially Chile. Australia
i and New Zealand have develop
ed the sport to a high degree.
Visitors to Russia report a num
ber of ski factories near Moscow,
and even in tropical Hawaii ski
ing got its start last winter on
Hawaii’s highest peak.
Skiing really came into its own
after the development of mod
| ern ski technique by the famous
Arlberg school in St. Anton, Aus
tralia. This technique made it pos
s:b!e to negotiate the steepest
1 opes of safety, through control.
By utilizing turns, skiing was
brought out of the hazardous
class into a sport which everyone
could enjoy.
Jumping requires long years of
practice and together with its
element of danger, will never
have the popular appeal of down
hill and slalom skiing, which can
be indulged in by both young
and old on the easiest slope or
the steepest hill. Cross country
racing, while admirable for con
ditioning the competitor, is gen
erally too strenuous for anyone
except the competitor in the
peak of training. In other words,
skiing has developed from a
sport -with a handful of compet
itors and a few thousand spec
tators, into a sport enjoyed by
hundreds of thousands in this
country who are skiers in their
own right, and who may be
found each week end on the
slopes at any one of the Ameri
can centers.
Keeping in mind, therefore,
the above information and with
the desire to create interest in
skiing in our particular section
and perhaps build up exception
al skiers of our own to compete
elsewhere, the Nome Ski Club
sponsors the first of a yearly com
petition.
Downhill, Slalom, and a short
Cross country race are the events
to be staged. Miss Jeanne Mozee
will hold the stop watch. Any
and all 1 decisions concerning the
races will be made by the Board
AMID LOFTY ALPS sits Berchtesgaden, the Fuehrer’s
Bavarian retreat, where foreign statesmen could survey a peace
tul scene and hear Hitler threaten use of Nail might to further his
pan •Germanic dream—union of all Germans under a swastika.
AFTER MUNICH, where England's umbrella-toting Ne
ville Chamberlain (left) got a phrase, “peaee in our time." and
Hitler (right) got the Sudetenland, anxious nations »t*»die<i C.*r
o&jt»*> * * a*r strength. sp**H*H i*** ul'V pr<Hlmtion
DER FUERIIER AND IL DUCE
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Debt to Mussolini (left), his partner in the Rome-Berlin axis, linking two powerful dictator na
tions, has been acknowledged by Hitler. He wrote: "At that period (about 1923) I conceived a
fervent admiration for the great man south of the Alps." Hitler’s Reichstag speech Jan. 30, 1939,
promised that in case of a war against Italy, Germany would be at “her friend’s side.”
of D rectors of the Ski Club. If
the present weather prevails, the
club has mad? accomodations
with Cliff A lyn for the trans
portation of the large crowd
which is expected. Everybody
meets at the Nevada Grill to em
bark for the hills at 9:30 Sunday.
Bring your own lunch. Coffee
will be served by the c'ub.
O Lee O Lay e e e e
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Have The Nome Nugget sent to
your mining claim.
Tenderized Beef
PITTSBURGH, Pa., — A new.
cheap process for makng all
kinds and grades of beef more
tender was announced liast week
bv Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute
of Industrial Research. The pro
cess, sponsored and financed by
Kroger Grocery and Baking Co.,
involves “hanging” the meat so
that its enzymes may weaken
and break down the fibres and
connective tissues that mak-i
meat tough. Ordinarily such
hanging (to obtain choice steaks*
requires four to eight weeks un
der expensive cold-storage cond -
lions. In the Meilon-Kroger pro
cess it is done in a few days at a
temperature of 60 degress, a re!
ative humid.ty of 90 per cent.
Molds and bacteria, which would
spoil such warm, damp meat If
eft to themselves, are put out of
action by ultra-violet light from
a W'stinehouse lamp.
FRENCH TROOPS MASS AT MAGINOT LINE
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An undirclcsd number of Franc , tr.iliiary reserves were called l . .be colors to man the Magi not
Line in Central Europe’s crisis c > =se:I bv Adolf Kit'er’s ezire o' add ticnal territory. And even
as the French troops were mov ’g into place, Germanv took ove* >frmel from Lithuania.
These French s 'diets are marching in the C ■ 'tips Elysees.
HOW GERMANY HAS CHANGED SINCE VERSAILLES
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This map show how, by plebisci < b» v hat V f IIs l«*r rail d a *\>nit|iie ; r: e; s. «■ r •para
lion,’’ Germany has recovered or tiadv recovered seme of the -r a- fahen a” >v ‘rom her in
Europe under the Treaty of Ver lies in ( on.inent i Germany todaj is cnn;n*se> of the
striped areas shown above. Arc striped (liagorall lave been recovered as shown in the I’R
ends. Black areas were surrend r rl under the Trn'y and have net been recovered.
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LITHUANIAN TROOpS MOVK OUT AS GERMANS ARRIVE
Lithuanian troops, surrendering without a struggle, are shown loading medical supplies in a truck
at Memel a they movci ancad of German ol.dier who marched in to formally take over Hitler’s
newest acquisition. This picture was radioed from Berlin to New York.
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