A *G-EYE” VIEW
OF NOME
By COUP. W. D. STARNES
It seems that the recent flick
ering of the northern lights has
really started the fellows to
thinking in earnest about winter.
It won’t be long now before
those sights which appeared so
strange to us upon our fidst con
tact with them, begin to make
their appearance once again.
And strange it was indeed; dog
teams running rampant up and
down the streets, some loaded to
the hilt with cargo and headed
into the unknown . . . kids bun
dled in furs and having the time
of their life chasing each other
with sleds . . and babies being
pushed up and down the streets
in baby buggies with runners in
stead of wheels These and
many other things did something
or other to one’s trend of thought.
They made us all bug-eyed at
first and then we began to take
them as a matter of course. It
was when this happened that we
knew we were becoming accli- 1
mated.
Winter sports are now creeping
into our minds. This year we
shall profit by the experiences
gained during the last. Those
things which we wondered about
before are now imbedded as
knowledge and this knowledge
we shall exploit to its utmost.
It is not an uncommon sight to
see the skiis coming out of stor
age ... an industrious soldier
working intently on his skiis with
wax in preparation for some real
winter fun. Plans are also be
ing made for the promotion of
the '‘Winter Carnival” in con
junction with the Arctic Club
again this year. The event was
a huge success last year and this
year it should be even better.
All in all it should be a winter
well worth looking forward to
. . . and we are all ready and
waiting.
IS TRAINING
AS ARMY AIR
FORCE CADET
William H. Ullrich has begun
training as a cadet in the Army
Air Forces Training Command
School at Yale University at New
Haven, Connecticut. His train
ing at that point is aimed to pre
pare him for the dutes of a tech
nical officer,, and upon the suc
cessful completion of the course
he will be commissioned a second
lieutenant.
According to Colonel Charles
T. Arnett, commanding officer of
the post, the new aviation cadet
will study chemical warfare, elec
trical armament controls, small
arms, explosives and ammunition,
bomb ra.ks and synchronization
of machine gun sights and gun
cameras. In addition to practical
work, much of his schedule will
irtclude intensive training for j
physical fitness, toughening him
for terrain and temperature found !
in fighting fronts around the1
world. Part of his time will be
spent in the field under simulated
battle condtions.
After being commissioned, he
will be placed in charge of a !
crew of enlisted men specialists
at flying fields in the United |
States or overseas where he will j
maintain the armament of both
fighter and bomber aircraft later
taken aloft by flying crews.
“Sonny” Ulrich went to the
Nome Public Schools and will be
remembered by his many class
mates and frinds.
MOVING INTO
RYDEEN HOUSE
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey are moving
to one of the Rydeen houses on
First Avenue as their present
residence has been sold. Mrs.
Dewey is an operator for the
Alaska Telephone & Telegraph
Co. and Mr. Dewey is with the
Lomen Commercial Co.
A -
CALLED TO
FAIRBANKS
Binks ’Seffffert, manager of the
Northern Commercial Co. has
been called to Fairbanks on busi
ness but will return in the near
future.
OLDEST NEWSPAPER IN ALASKA—MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. 45.—No, 79. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1943. PER COPY—15c
AMERICAN FORCES IN
ITALY ADVANCE IN
DEEP ITALIAN MUD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Oct. 11.—(AP)
American forces in Italy were plodding forward to
day on foot, through deep Italian mud, which made
motor transport almost entirely useless.
Advancing against stiffening resistance of the Ger
man army, Clark s American Fifth Army captured
Pontilandolfo, 12 miles north of Benevento, in a fur
ther flanking move against the German front north
of the Volturno river.
Allied headquarters stated that similarly heavy go
ing was encountered by the British Eighth Army, un
der the command of General Montgomery on the
Adriatic front, where gains of two or three miles were
being checked up against the enemy, who is being put
under constant pressure.
Along the swollen Volturno river, where the Fifth
Army is established along a 44 mile front, official re
ports indicated that patrols were already skirmishing
the Germans along the north bank of the stream, but
that Clark’s forces were mainly engaged in consolida
tion of their positions, laboriously bringing up guns
and ammunition through the mud to the crossing at
the Volturno river, 20 miles north of Naples.
The concentrations will prepare to lay down a with
ering fire to minutely cover all bridging sites.
COMPLETE
OCCUPATION
OF ISLAND
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTH PACIFIC, Oct. 10—(AP)
—American forces in the South
Pacific captured the Vila airfield
without opposition, and complet
ed occupation of all Japanese
positions on Kolombangara Is
I land within the short time of
three days.
Thus Admral William F. Hal
seys’ command completed the
New Georgia campaign, which
was started thirteen weeks ago.
Seizure of Kolombangara gave
the United States forces domina- 1
tion of the entire southern cen
tral Solomon Islands.
The capture of the Vila air
field gives the Allies a strategi
cally located base from which to
carry the offensive to Bougain
ville and even Rabaul.
Japanese positions on Wake Is
land were smashed heavily and
more than 61 enemy planes were
destroyed in the two-day attack
by carrier-based bombers and
fighters and a terrific barrage
laid down by the big guns of the
naval vessels in the combat.
During Wake’s three attacks
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re
ported that more than 30 Japanese
planes were destroyed in the air,
and “we lost 13 in combat”,
Nimitz announced that in spite
of enemy air resistance and Wake
defenses, the barracks ships and
airfields were laid in ruins with
total of 320 tons of bombs. The
attack was carried on jointly by
aircraft-carrier task force, and
land-based Liberator bombers,
Commander Nimitz said.
Wake’s garrison was also bom
barded by warships of Admiral
Montgomery’s force. Casualties
to enemy personnel was not men
tioned, but "we saw considerable
number of dead Japs scattered
about the landscape,” said Com
mander John T. Hayward.
CHIANG KAI s
SHEK TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE
CHUNGKING, Oct. 11.—(AP)
J Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek
took oath of office as President
! of the Republic of China on the
day of the 3i2nd anniversary of
its founding.
The new president pledges
himself to wholehearted efforts
j to restore China’s lot territory.
From Wahington, Henry Wal
lace, vice-president, pictured
China as both the bulwark and
the cradle of concepts for which
j western democracies are fighting.
He said: “We need the help of
China, as much as she needs
ours.” !
Wallace said: "Amazing par
allel in the fundamental con
cepts of our thinking and living
patterns.” The parallel between
the Chinese and American peo
ples rests primarily in the Chin
ese recognition of the family as
“a sacred abiding unit of civili
zation”.
RIGHT CHURCH . .
WRONG PEW!
Juneau, Oct. 3. 1943.
"Anthony Polet,
Nome, Alaska
Best wishes for succen of
resuscitated Nome Nugget. Be
sure copies are sent Governors’
office.
(Sig.) ERNEST GRUENING”
Without belittling the efforts
of Antonio POIOt In th Of east1 the
editor of The Nonke* Nugget
wishes to hereby correct the
erroneous idea that Mr. Polet
has any Interest in The Nome
Nugget other than the extreme
ly high moral and cMt Inter
est he freely gives to city and
territortid Interests. The Nome
Nugget proudly accepts 'the
good wishes of the governor.
W BOUCHER, Editor-Owner.
NAZI PUNE
LOSSES MOUNT
UST 3 DAYS
4 4 „
LONDON, Oct. 11.—(AP)—
i Boosting Nazi plane losses to nfore
, than 300 in three days, British
, based African flying fortresses
i escorted by United States Thun
! derbolts, downed 102 enemy
(planes yesterday as the huge
j bombers tore through stubborn
1 defenses to blast important Ger
man tranmortation centers of
Muenster and Coesfeld.
Common ;e s report that 30
bombers and .vvo fighters were
lost in the operations.
American formations also hit
enemy air fields near Enschede.
Solland, and a blazing climax
I over the week-end was the re
sult of Allied aerial activity
which riddled German fighter
strength.
While the size of the attacking
American formations was not of
officially disclosed there is reason
, to believe that the number ap
j proached very near the record in
I any one operation.
Concentrations of 400 bombers
hammered the German targets
each of the two preceding days.
£meri “an raids re a (died a new
high in strength and numbers
Friday who tour-motored forts
and Liberators bombed the Stuka
factory at Bremen and the subma
rine shipbuilding yards at Vege
sack nearby.
Lt. General Eaker, commander
of the Eighth Air Force, disclos- j
ed that the attacking force, both
Friday and Sautrday, totalled 400
bombers. He said that these and
other raids which follow are in
preparation for Allied invasion
of ermany “across the English
Channel and the North Sea.”
FERGUSON IN
NOME OVER
WEEK-END
Archie Ferguson, well-known
I business man of the Kotzebue
Sound district, visited the office
of The Nugget Saturday afternoon
and made us blush with pride as
he praised our efforts in putting
out such a “fine publication” and
“will you please send the paper
to me in Kotzebue for a year . . . I
and put an advertisement in the
paper for my company.”
We are pleased to hear that I
Archie is doing so well in his en
terprises in the northern country.
The Ferguson Bros. Lighterage
Company has purchased from the
Magids Gros. of Deering. t
The business and equip
ment of the Kotzebue Lighterage
Company. The company now han
dles all the freighting and light
erage in the Kotzebue Sound and i
Kobuk river area. This summer j
the company freighted consider- I
able amounts of materials up the
Kobuk for the GAA.
The Ferguson brothers also op-(
erate three general stores, one:
at Kotzebue, another at Sela
wik and the third at tbe mouth
of the Kobuk river.
Ferguson Airways is also a
business of no little importance
in the operations of the Fergu
son Bros, company.
_
PURCHASES
RESIDENCE
F. C. Bingham has purchased
the home of Mrs. C. C. Crooks
through the Miners 8c Merchants
Bank. This home is more com
monly known as the “Powder
Puff Beauty Shoppe.”
BEAT FORMER WOLRD ;
CHAMPIONS 2-0 TO
TAKE SERIES 4 TO I
t r • —
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SPORTSMAN S PARK, ST LOUIS, Oct. 11— '
(AP)—Riding on a two-run homer off the bat of j
Bill Dickey, veteran Rankee catcher, the New York
Yanks whipped the St. Louis Cardinals, former ,
world champions, 2-0 to win the 1943 World Series
ami again place themselves in the spotlight as they
did in past years.
The final game was played before a crowd of ;
33,872 fans.
COURTHOUSE
NOTES
This mornig, Moday, at 10:00
o’clock, Oliver White an Eskimo
of Kotzebue made a plea of not
j guilty in the court of United
' States District Judge J. H S
i Monson. ffis trial wa* set for
| Tuesday, October 10th.
Lj.<t week Susan ‘vstei and
Ralph Leslie Kerren were mar
! ried by United States Commis
sioner F C. Bingham.
Saturday an application for j
marriage was filed by Glen H
! Hursey and Helen M. Shepherd,
! both of Moses Point.
On the calendar of the U. S.
District Court are the following
trials:
Set for Monday, October 18:
United States of America vs. Fred
Havercatnp, on a charge of as
j sault and battery.
Tuesday, October 19: United
States of Aanerica vs. Oliver
j White, an Eskimo of Kotzebue,
on a charge of rape.
—
HOLD REGULAR
MEETING
Alaska Igloo No. 1, Pioneer
Women of Alaska, held their
regular monthly meeting at the!
home of Mrs. Harry Hagen. After i
the business meeting adjourned
a few games of cards were en
joyed followed by refreshments.
The winners of the card games
j were: first prize, Mrs. Carrie
McJLum; second ptrizey Mr*.
Hewitt; third prize, Mrs. A. Polet, i
and consolation, Mrs. Ben Moz
zee.
SEAL SKIN AUCTION
SET FOR OCT. 18th
WASHINGTON — The annual
fall auction of govern,ent seal
skins from Alaska will be held
in St. Louis, October 18 by the ]
Foure Fur ompany, government
agent for processing and selling j
the akins.
About 18,000 skins that were
taken in government sealing op
erations on Probilofs Islands this
year will be offered.
ANNOUNCEMENT!
Members of the Territorial
Guard are asked to remember
that each Tuesday evening at
7:30 the organization meets in the
high school building. The meet
ing extends from 7:30 to 9:30 p.
m. Bayonets and scabbards will
toe issued to regulars. Training
film will be shown from 7:45 to
8:40. Let's have "full attendance
in the future.—Major Garnet
Martin, commanding, Nome Unit,
. Summary of the final gajne
i follows:
R H E
New York .2 7 l
Chandler and Dickey.
R H E
I St. Louis .0 10 t
; M. Cooper, Lanier, Dickson
and W. Cooper, O’Dea.
Losing pitcher: M. Cooper.
CARDS LOSE OX
SUNDAY, ALSO
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 10.—(AP)—%
The fourth game of the World
Series was played at St. Loul*
Sunday with southpaw Russo a*
the surprise star for the Yanks,
Only once during the contest wa*
he in serious trouble. That in tha
seventh inning when his support
fell to pieces, allowing the Gatda
to score their only run on two
errors and a double by Danny
Litwhiler, to tie the score, sln<^
the Yanks had counted in tha
fourth frame on Joe Gordon’*
double and a single by BUI
Dickey.
Russo broke up the tie by lead
ing off in the eighth with a dou
ble going to third on a sacrifica
by Tuck Steinback, and scoring
on Frank Crosettl’s fly to deep
center.
The seventh bobble nearly cost
the Yanks the game. With two
away, Crosetti dropped Ray San
der’s pop-up behind third, then
Litwhiler doubled and Marty
Marion purposely walked Bil|
Johnson. Frank Demaree pinch
hitted for Max Lanier and boot
ed an easy roller to third. Lo'4
Klein rolled into a force play to
put out the fire which should
have meant two more runs for
the Cards. , j
The game was played to a ca
pacity crowd of 36,156 fans.
The summary:
R H E
New' York ....2 5 3
Russo and Dickey.
R H E
St. Louis . _.l 7
Lanier, Breecheen and W,
Cooper. —
ODD FELLOWS MEET
Last Friday, the Odd Fellow*
held a regular meeting at 8.00
p. m., with a number of the best
of them present. Regular busi
ness was transacted and discus
sions about the building and ren
ovating the hall were held. Th«
Noible Grand, Gustav Masik, toUJ
the members that he was plan
ning to leave for the Outside
within the next few days. The
meeting was adjoumd until tjpe
first Friday in November
Remember! The Ladles AM
Bake Sale at Lehman'* Store,
next Saturday, Oct IS,