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New Board of
Directors C of C
Met Tuesday
The first meeting of the newly
elected Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber
of Commerce met at the M & M
Bank with all members present
with the exception of Directors
Ralph Lomen and Chas. Code
who are now visiting in the Stat
es.
Secretary Polet called the meet
ing to order and declared the
nomination for President open
whereupon B J McConaghy was
nominated and unanimously el
ected President.
Mr McConaghy assumed his
office and declared the nomina
tion for vice-president open
whereupon Dr Thomas Morcom
was nominated and unanimously
elected. He then declared the
nomination for Secretary open
whereupon A Polet was nominat
ed and unanimously elected. H
• G Gabrielson was nominated and
elected as treasurer and Carl Lo
man nominated and elected for
National Counselor.
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved
Secretary Polet read the follow
ing letter from the Fairbanks
Dog Derby and Ice Carnival Inc
of Fairbanks:
February 8
Dear Mr. Polet:
“We were very happy to learn
that your Chamber of Commerce
will assist to have Nome repre
sented again at the Fairbanks
Dog Derby and Ice Carnival,
March 7, 8, 9 and 10.
“We still hark back to the gala
day in the spring of 1937 when
the first “Miss Nome” became
“Miss Alaska,” With three years
gone by this may be the time
for Nome to repeat its previous
performance.
“We plan this year to have a j
special dog team and sled in our
carnival parade for each of the j
young ladies representing neigh
boring towns. If you have any
special scheme for decorating
“Miss Nome’s” sled and, team
please send them along. We are
also providing a driver for each i
team.”
Respectfully yours, i
Harry O. Arend, Manager
The letter from Director Lo
men read at the last meeting and
referred to the Board was taken
up and considered and the sec
retary was instructed to write
for the information from the
Territorial Treasurer as suggest
ed in the letter.
The question of appointing
committees was discussed and it
was the unanimous opinion that
the committees to be appointed
should consist of only 3 members
and not over 5 and that more
committees be appointed with
only one subject for each com
mittee.
The Treasurer submitted the
Annual Report which showed as
follows:
Balance on hand at the begin
ning of the year.$ 589.63
Dues collected .... 420.00
Alaska Products Dinner 85.00
Total $1,094.63
Disbursements
Printing and Advertising
. 112.00
Special Contract for pamphlet
. 250.25
Arctic Shop for publicity
10.00
Telegrams and postage
• . 26.33
U S Chamber of Commerce
dues . 10.00
Entertainment of guests
.: . 59.30
Entertainment of Japanese fly
ers . 33.10
Entertainment at Ladies’ Day
. 16.50
General entertainment expense
. 223.20
including tourist visit
Extra secretarial assistance
. 54.00
Miscellaneous' expense
. 10.95
Total $ 80563
Feb. 15 Net balance $ 289.00
The next meeting of the Board
will be held next Tuesday Feb.
27 at the North Pole Bakery and
the President will appoint all
heads of Committees.
Meeting adjourned.
By Their Nicknames Ye
Shall Know All of Them
By Preston Grover
WASHINGTON—You might as
wel be posted on the nicknames
attached to political stars star
lets because the campaigns are
coming and both sides will want
to humanize their proteges by
“that familiar touch,”
President Roosevelt was call
ed "The Boss” by the late Louie
Howe his wise No. 1 secretary.
He is called “Mr Big” fondly by
his friends, furiously by his foes.
Vice-President Garner calls him
“The Captain.” Everybody knows
him by his initials, FDR.
The runner-up Presidential
candidates haven’t generated pet
names for themselves yet. When
Hoover*’ was President he was
referred to as “The Chief.” His
friends still use the title.
General Hugh Johnson refer
red to Secretary Ickes as "Hon
est Harold” it didn't displace
Washington’s "Icky the ’ick" but
when Ickes in return called the
general "Old Iron Pants” that
stuck.
The sad face of Secretary Mor
genthau prompted the President
to call him “Henry the Morgue.”
His name helped a bit. Since
then a half dozen parellels to
that have grown up such as
“Harry the Hop” for Secretary
of Commerce Hopkins, "Tommy
the Cork” and “Benny the Coh
en" for the redoubtable brain
twins.
Don't overlook “Fanny the
Perk," the Secretary of Labor. It
is also “Ma” Perkins. She does
n’t like either one.
However “Pa” has hung fam
iliarly to Brigadier-General Wat
son the President’s Secretary,
even since his West Point days.
Vice-President Garner has
been known as “Cactus Jack” or
“Texas Jack” for a generation.
Postmaster General Farley is
variously called “Gentleman
Jim,” “Sunny Jim” or “Big Jim."
Some call him “Ginrai” with that
Irish touch.
Every boll weevil south of the
Mason-Dixon Line knows Senat
or Smith of South Carolina as
“Cotton Ed’ but in the Senate
gallery he often is called “Ipse
Dixit.” He uses is often in speech
es to mean that “tine thing
speaks for itself.”
The nearest thing to a nick
name for Senator Glass is the
hopeless effort of non-Virginian
to imitate his way of saying hi.,
own first name, Cyahteh. “Mr
Big” calls his “the unreconstruc
ed rebel.”
Speaker Bankhead of the
House somet.mes is teasingly call
ed “Tallulah” after his famous
actress daughter.
Col J Monroe Johnson, Assist
ant Secret: ry of Commerce is
“Rowboat” and Herbert E Gaston
Assistant Secretary of the Trea
sury has become “Admiral”
since he took up Coast Guard
work.
Colonel Harrington, -WPA Ad
ministrator is called "Pinky." It
has to do with his complexion no
doubt.
When Senator Henry F Ash
urst spouts forth a lengthy
speech which is rare because he
keeps them short his col! ■ ,m.
playfully remind him that his
i second name is Fountain. Sniny
nated Representative Doughton.
Chairman of the Ways and Means
(taxation) committee is called
Old Muley.” He is from North
Carlina.
Some of the lads are calling
Paul V McNutt “McNerts” but
not in front of him.
William Dudley Pelley, Silver
Shirt Legion head told the House
committee on un-American activ
ities he favored life improson
ment for Senator Robert M La
Follette Jr. CIO chief John L Lew
is and Congressman Dickstein,
Democrat of New York because
‘I consider these gentlemen are
engaged in Communistic activi
ties”.
Acting chairman Starnes pound
ed the gavel protesting the state
ment and permitting tiie com
mittee hearing to serve as a
sounding board for loose charges
against leading Americans.
District Attorney Pine issued a
fugitive warrant against Pelley
at the request of North Carolina
authorities. He is wanted on a
charge of probation violation,
having been convicted under the
1935 Blue Sky law.
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ARCTIC SOFT DRINK PARLOR
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All Kinds of Soft Drinks
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
—
Cloudy with occasional light snow tonight and Thursday; Not
much change in temperature
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 33 lowest temp — 27 Precipitation — T
Total precip this mo 0.30 Total since Jan. 1, 1940 0.75
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . „. 30 87 NE 11 Snow
8am .T.. 28 76 NE 18 Pt Cldy |
12:30 p m . 32 75 NE 18 Cloudy
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 31 Lowest temp — 26 Precipitation — 0.05
7Tomorrow: Sunrise—-7:37 am Sunset—4:53 pm
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind .Weather
1 Candle . 10 SW 3 Clear
Council . 13 NE 2 Cloudy
Golovin . 28 E 18 Cloudy
Kotzebue . 19 E 5 Clear
Solomon . 24 N 6 Pt Cldy
Teller . 20 E 6 Cloudy
Wales . 20 E 10 Pt Cldy
W'eather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time
Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 27 SE 3 Cloudy 0.00
Bethel . 35 E 10 Cloudy 0,00
Cordova ... 35 Calm Cloudy 0.11
Dutch Harbor .. 39 SE 35 Rain 2.10
Fairbanks . -3 Calm Cloudy 0.00
Juneau. 28 Calm Clear 0.00
Pt. Barrow . -5 SW 10 Foggy 0.00
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
* This morning barometric pres
sure is abnormally high over A1
aska with center of the high pres
sure over extreme northern Can
ada. There is a gradual and uni
form decrease in this pressure
towards the Alaska Peninsula,
where there is a well defined
area of low pressure centered to
the southwest of Dutch Harbor.
There is a steep pressure grad
ient which is indicative for in
creasing wind velocities.
Cloudy weather prevails over
most of Alaska and scattered
light precipitation over the south
ern half. Temperatures are well
above normal.
The present distribution of the
meteorolofical elements are favor
able for cloudy weather with oc
casional light snow and only mi
nor temperature changes tonight
and Thursday. Clearing and cold
er Thursday night.
Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
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G ° M E S THE W iND AND j. C. THOK^A S_For one-fourth of a cent a rife he can
operate his electric “windmol,ile,1 claims .1. C. Thomas, inventor in Si. Augustine In - ,,..dv
to make contact. Thomas savs the “w huimobile” w orks on storage batteries w hich kept
charged, as car runs, by large propeller on its “prow." Machine can do 50 ni.n.li., asserts
BEAUTY SOFTENS THE GRIM PATTERNS OF WAR
DESIGN FOR WAR—Rigidly a British sentry stands
guard beneath a Royal Air Force plane “somewhere in France,”
the arch formed by the camouflage shaping up like a great finger.
Note the wing of plane at lop.
MARS ‘LAYS AN E C C ’—Through the egg-shaped port
hole of another ship appear Britain's prized ocean liner, the Queen
Mary (left), and France's pride, the Normandie, tied up in New
York because of war. Rockefeller Center is at rear.
A girl is as strong as her weak
est wink.
Now comes a hand powered mixer,
with interchangeable parts which
gives it versatility similar tn the
electrical type. Geared for high or
low speed, and made of stainless
steel, its three detachable parts
makes it an egg beater, cream and
cake batter mixer, et cetera. It is
also useful in the preparation of
vegetables for children. •