THE NOME NUGGET
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By Jack Stinnett
Wars may come and wars may !
go but the fall of the house of!
Oslo doesn't strike nearly as close j
to home as a cloud of whirring
mosquitoes on the night you and
the best girl have gone to the
Jake for a picnic and a swim.
Sitting in Rock Creek Park the
other night, I slapped at whin
ing noise nearing the back of;
my neck. It might have been the
first mosquito of the season. Like
a diplomat caught in a corner,!
it refused to be interviewed. But;
just faring it there gave me an
idea and I popped in on the Fed
eral Bureau of Entomology to
day. They know more about mos
quitos than J. Edgar Hoover, Mar
tie Dies, and the Army and Navy
combined will ever know about
Nazis.
For exampe, Kipling couldn't
jpssibly have written with so
•mch fervor about the “female
of the species" being more dead
ly than the male, if he hadn't
had a brush with mosquitos. As!
a matter of fact, it’s the femalej
mosquito that’s afflicted with
Hood lust.
They Croon of Love
The young men of the tribe are
just winged Rudy Vallees and
Bing Crosbys who vo-do-de-o-do
about the summer night trying to
get the ladies to pay them some
mind. And it's their little habit of
going where the female humj
tiling is thickest that the Bureau
of Entomology hopes will be
their undoing.
The bureau is pushing a new
electrical gadget which duplicat
es the siren love songs of the mos
quito femmes. When the young
men dash into the trap, the re
sult is shocking—at east shock
ing enough to kill the love-sick
swains. The theory is that if this
wholesale electrocution system
can kill off enough males, the
queenies will get discouraged and
the tribe will become extinct. It's
^ grand theory. I hope it works.
That wasn’t all I learned from
the bureau. Not ony are the girl
mosquitos the only ones that at
tack men but only one of three
famies of girls is deadly.
If you’ve merely had a night
out with the Culex and Aedie
girls, the bureau tells me, you
needn’t worry. They are pests,
it is true and can raise hob and
knobs on the skin you love to
touch, and yours too, but they
don’t do serious damage.
Hes Changed Gale
Edie Eedies and her clan used
to pack a kiss of death but
science put a stop to that. They
isolated the yellowjack sufferers
put them where Edie couldn’t
TEST OF PLANE TAN K—Taking a hint from the
European war, U. S. military experts now see the need of a fire
Eroof and leakage-proof gasoline tank for airplanes, and here's
ow a test was recently staged at the Glenn Martin plant in Bal
timore. Above, a gunner fires .30 caliber tracer machine gun bul
lets at an old style gas tank. See it in the sandbagged dugout.
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PUEL IS LOS T—Water streaming through
bullet holes in this old style gasoline tank, pierced by .30 caliber
machine gun bullets at a Baltimore test, shows how gasoline
might be lost by a plane in fiight. The test introduced a new gas
oline tank for planes, in which a rubber-like exterior casing
‘ seals up” or “clots over” holes made by the bullets.
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come up to see them any more—
which made a lady out of Edie.
That applies only to this country.
There are some nations where
Edie still is doing business as
Murder, Inc., but even there
she’s losing ground.
The Borgia of mosquitos today
is Anopheles. Annie is the girl
who held up the building of the
Panama Canal. Her specialty is
malaria. It wasn’t until the U. S.
Army Medical Corps went to
work on Annie—made her home
untenable, destroyed her larvae
by gillions—that workmen could
work in Panama.
On'y recently a flock of the
girls (Anopheles Gambiae)hitch
hiked from Africa on a trans
Atlantic plane and started a ser
ious outbreak of malaria in Bra
zil. That’s why you'll find the Bu
reau of Entomology boys down at
the airport, combing over every
plane that comes in from South
America.
It’s Annie’s sisters (inc’uding a
recent debutante Anopheles Wal
keri Theobald) down in the south
and that do the most damage in
the United States and malaria vie
tims are so common there that
it’s impossible to hide them all.
Annie has some kinfolks in the
west, too, but they have a hard(
time iind’^g malar!a b!ood.
The bureau and medicine and
education are making headway.
The time may come when the
Borgias of Mosquito-land may be
as dead as the Borgias of his
tory. But it’s still a good idea to
duck when you hear that hum
o-de-o-do, even if it’s only Bing
M:,cquito crooning to a lovelorn
mate.
That unique and humorous
and typical Alaskan stalionery
“Sourdough Roadhouse Lette;
heads and Envelopes”, have bee
brought strictly uptodate, and ar
now available at the Nugget ofl)
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Alaska Livestock anil Packing
Company
Notice of Adoption of Resolution
for Dissolution
To the Stockholders of ALAS
KA LIVESTOCK AND PACK
ING COMPANY:
Please Take Notice that a reso
lulion, of which the following is
a copy, was adopted by the Board
of Directors of Alaska Livestock
and Packing Company on the
17th day of June, 1940, and that
a meeting of its Stockholders will
he held at the place, date and
hour therein named.
“Resolved that in the judge
ment of this board of directors it
is advisable and most for the
benefit of Alaska Livestock and
Packing Company that said cor
poration should be dissolved, and
to that end and as required by
law, that a meeting of the stock
holders of said corporation to
take action upon this resolution
be and it hereby is called to be
held at the office of the said eor
poration in Nome, Alaska, on the
1st day of August, 1940, at 10
o’clock in the forenoon and that
the Assistant Secretary of this
corporation be anil she hereby is
directed within twenty days of
the adoption of this resolution, to
cause notice of the adoption of
this resoution to be mailed to
each stockholder of said corpora
': i as t!:.e names appear on the
books of the corporation on the
"7‘h day of June 1940. and also
ginning within said twenty
ays to cause a like notice to be
tifclished in the Nome Nugget at
ca t four weeks successively,
ice a week next preceding the
fine appointed as aforesaid for
aid meeting of stockholders, and
to do all others acts and things
deemed necessary or appropriate
to carry out the intents and pur
poses hereof.”
Dated: June 17th, 1940.
MARY A. STICKLIN,
Assistant Secretary
AFTER BULLET B A R R A G E—Research Director
R. 3. Grav examines a new plane fuel tank, tested at Glenn Mar
tin nlant in Baltimore. The tank, which is inside a ruhber-like
casi g, was peppered with .30 caliber machine gun bu els.
The h the tank wall itself (in right hand) was torn by bullets,
if.o casing had sealed the holes, to prevent full leakag .
UP IN FLAME S—Riddled by machine gun bullets dur
ing a test at the Glenn Martin plant in Baltimore, this old style
airplane fuel tank, which held 40 gallons of gas, bums merrily,
illustrating the ever-present danger of plane explosions and fires.
Engineers now seek a fuel tank in which the chances of leaks
and explosions from bullets are minimized.
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4th JULY
CELEBRATION
Thursday July 4th, 1940
LITERARY PROGRAM ^
OPPOSITE CITY HALL — 11:00 A. M.
BAND CONCERT 10: A. M.
Invocation . . Rev. W. P. W Jf
Patriotic Selections . Nome Ban*
Introduction . Mayor Milller
Declaration of Independence, Reading . Jane Jones
Speaker of the day . Father MdElmeel, S. J.
The Star Spangled Banner . Nome Band
Benediction .. Rev. W. P. Wood
WILD WEST FOURTH OF JULY DANCE
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 10:30 P. M.
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Dance Orchestra Admission 50^
SPORTS PROGRAM
IN FRONT OF CITY HALL, 1. P. M.
Blanket Tossing — 3 $3 prizes 1 $5
Nome, King Island, and Diomede Island for Men
For Women . $3
Bicycle Race, 5 miles, Free for all . $4 . $2....$1
Bicycle Race, 2 miles, Ladies ... $4....$2....$1
Bicycle Race, 2 miles, Boys, under 16 . $4....$2....$1
Bicycle Race, 2 miles, Girls, under 16 . $4....$2....$1
Boys Bicycle Race with Girl Burden, 1 mile, 18 and under ^
Girl burden not under 14 years old . $4....$2....^l
Girls Bicycle Race with Boy Burden, % mile, 18 and under
Boy burden not under 14 years old ... $4....$2... $1
Bicycle Race, Boys under 10, Vz mi'le, . $2....$1....50*
Bicycle Race, Girls, Under 10, Vz mile. $2....$1....50*
Bicycle Race, boys 'under 8 . $2....$1....50*
Bicycle Race, Girls under 8 . $2....$1... 50*
Slow Race, Bicycles, Boys under 10 . $2. ..$1
Slow Race, Bicycles, Girls under 10 . $2... $1
No Handle-Bar Bicycle Race, 200 yds. Men, Free for all .... $3 ...$2
No Handle-Bar Bicycle Race, 200 yds., Ladies, Free for all .... $3. ..$2
Boys Tricycle Race, under 6 . $1....50<*.. 25*
Girls Tricycle Race, under 6 . $1... 50*....26* g
Men & Women Bicycle Relay Race, Free for all, 2 mi. $5_$3_$1
High-Kiaking—3 $3 prizes 1 $5
Nome, King Isand, Diomede Island
100 yard Dash, Men, Free for all . $5....$2....$1
50 yard Dash, Married Ladies, Free for all . $3 ...$2... $1
50 yard Dash, Single Girs, Free for all. $3 ...$2 $1
50 yard Dash, Boys, 8 years and under . $2....$1
50 yard Dash, Boys, 12 years and under . $2... $1
50 yard Dash, Boys 16 years and under. $3....$2
50 yard Dash, Girls, 8 years and under. $2 ...$1
50 yard Dash, Girs, 12 years and under . $2....$1
50 yard Dash, Girls, 16 years and under . $3 ...$2
Pie Eating Contest, Free for all . $2....$1
TWO BALL GAMES
Alaskans vs. Commercials .... Alaskan Women vs. Nome Women %
-y/inner $10 Loser—$5 Winner—$10 Loser—$5