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NELSON AND BULLOCK
Phone Black 44 or Main 15
Lyons & Orton
Attorneys At Law
Rooms 918-921 Alaska Building
Seattle, Washington
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of Fine Liquors, Win
es, and Bev.'s.
FRONT ST. NOME.
L. O. O. M.
No. 1413
Meets first and third Mondays
of each month
Odd Fellows Hall, 8 p. m.
WHAT THE WANT ADS
MEAN TO NOME
To Sell that gun. furniture,
baby carriage, coat, trunk at a
profit.
To Buy that ice box or rug,
piano or suit, car or accordian at
low cost.
To Rent that room, garage, j
apartment or that house to de-1
jsirable tenants.
To Hire that maid, gardener,
, nurse, chaugeur, cook or laun
; dress, etc.
THE NOME NUGGET
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SCHOOL DAYS IN POLAND-a nun adds a religious note to photo, approved by German
censors and sent from Berlin to show a school for Polish children In once-Polish Krakow.
ENGLISHMAN USES HIS BEAN—Seeing's believing at the Billingsgate fish market
In London, England, where this porter skillfully used his head for more than his hat.
Inner Circle
Skit Satirizes
1940 Scene
Political Writers Stage Stunt
Dinner—Show Lampoons
‘The ’40 Thieves’
The Inner Circle, an organiza
tion of political writers, City Hall
reporters and legislative corres
pondents of the past and present,
staged its annual stunt dinner at
the Hotel Astor recently. An aud
ience of 1.000 persons saw nation
al, State and local figures in offic
ial life satirized in songs, skits
and dialogue. The title of the
show was “The '40 Thieves.”
Governor Lehman, Mayor La
Guardia, Postmaster General Far
ley, United States Senators Ro
bert F. Wagner and Robert A.
Taft. Wendell L. Willkie, Edward
R. Stettinius and Owen D. Young
were among those who attended.
The opening act, with chorus
and several scenes, was strung
along the basic theme of a realiz
ation of Mayor La Guardia’s
dream of bringing the motion pic
ture production companies to
New York City. The Mayor was
shown selecting from among the
city's employes a cast for a super
spectacle entitled "Butch Goes to
Washington.”
"Butch” Picks the Cast
“Butch,” the Mayor, examined
prospective members of the cast.
Among these were Fire Commis
sioner John J. McElligott, whose
previous experience had been a
lead part in “The Pirates of
Pensions,” and Controller Joseph
D. (Marlene Dietrich) McGold
rick, who urged his own case: “I
haven’t much of a figure; but the
kind of work I do doesn’t call
for figures.”
The chorus commented that the 1
Mayor was the “benefactor of ev
ery old ham actor,” and suggest
ed:
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We'll swap Dietrich for Joe Mc
Goldrick,
Howard Hughes for Stanley
Isaacs
Those movie murder mysteries
get the play,
But why fake? We can make one
in Harlem every day.
The Hollywood emigrants, come
to New York to take part in the
budding industry, were advised: j
Live in Brooklyn,
If you’re thrifty,
The murder fee there is just •
two-fifty
Make six bits and you're taxed a
dollar,
Plus the sales tax if you holler.
If taxes fail to clean you,
Our hold-up men will bean you—i
You’re in God’s country.
The Mayor turned the produc- j
tion over to Director Grover A.,
Whalen with instructions to
“take this hodge-podge and make j
a spectacle of it—the same kind,
of job you did at the Fair.”
District Attorney Dewey, candi
date for a fat movie part, propos
ed himself in song:
In recent years I have neglected,
The work for which I was elected
And now my destiny is so clear
I work about six weeks in the
year.
If I succeed to the Presidency,
That will be the end of the GOP,
For years and years, the folks
will say
“As President he was a very j
good D. A.”
Scarlett and Rhett
The opening dissolves into a i
movie set where Directors Whal;
en and Farley are hard at work
on a picture entitled, "Garner’s
With the Winner.” The female
lead is played by Scarlett O Roose
velt; the male stars are Rhett
Lewis of the CIO and Ashley
Green of the A F of L.
In this super-spectacle Scarlett
O Roosevelt has rejected the suit
of Ashley Green and married
Rhett Lewis because, she ex
plains to him: “In 1935 you saved
me from being dispossessed when
you gave me that half-million
dollars”; and also because “if it
hadn’t been for you, that horrid
carpetbagger Landon would have
taken over the plantation, lock,
stock and pork barrel.”
Three years later Scarlett has
! had a change of heart. Now she
J woos Ashley Green, pleading. “I
■ married Rhett just for his money
besides, I hear he’s trying to or
ganize Belle Watling Wheeler to
take my place.”
At this point “Butch” La Guar
die rushed in protesting against
the presentation of Roosevelt as
a Southern belle and snorted:
“Lewis and Green as gentlemen!
Ridiculous! I’ll show you how
Roosevelt should be cast.”
Another scene is laid in the
Roosevelt home, with the fire
place in the breakfast room jam
med with microphones and a die '
taphone at Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt’s elbow. The "First Lady” j
wore a miner’s helmet and her
husband was dressed in a Faunt- j
leroy costume. She had brought
him a present which turned out
to be a Superman suit.
At breakfast Mrs. Roosevelt
paused to dictate her column for
the day, telling her readers that
wives should have breakfast with
their husbands occasionally be
cause “we should keep in t uch
with the childish viewpoint.”
When her husband begged to be
allowed to go out and play with
J. Edgar H ver, Mrs. Roosevelt
ordered him to "read the fairy
tales in your budget book." The
scene ended with Mrs. Roosevelt
driving off the stage behind a
dog team for a speaking engage ;
ment in Alaska.
Republicans Resort to Hat
In an act on Republican pol
itics, a smoke-filled room was
shown crowded with despairing
leaders in the thirty-fifth day of
a convention deadlock. Senator
Taft and District Attorney Dew
ey were so hopelessly tied that
even J. Russell Sprague. Mr. Dew
ey’s campaign manager, propos
ed drawing a candidate out of a
hat.
Republican County Leader
Kenneth F. Simpson, a Dewey op
ponent, sonorously declaimed
that the candidate must be 'some
body with color, beloved by the
masses, known for his humanity
and kindness, a real leader — a
dark horse.” Mr. Sprague reach
ed in the hat and drew forth the
name of Father Divine who was
nominated by acclamation.
“Mugs and hoodlums sprawled
in chairs” were shown manning
the Mayoralty campaign head
quarters of Brooklyn District At
torney William O'Dwyer. Kid
Twist was talking into a tele
phone.
“Tell him," the Kid said, “we
don’t go in for killin’ people no
more. Everything is changed, i
We’re all supporting O’Dw'yer
for Mayor. This is 1941 — not
1940."
O’Dwyer arrived, mobbed by
welcoming mobsters, and sang:
With this fine background, it’s a
cinch I’ll be
Elected Mayor by a very large
majority.
I’ll beat any candidate — any
man I ever saw—
Like Dew-ey beat Lehmann in the
race for Governor.
A real cow, whose name was
Elsie, played the title part in a
skit called "A Municipal Milk
Plant.” The Mayor, in favor of
Grade B milk, denounced Grade
A milk as a luxury while a re
porter jeered, “Sure—$60,000,000
for an airport is nothing.” There
W'as a good deal of stage business
with Elsie, the Mayor finally
squirting himself in the eye with
a stream of milk which he
promptly recognized as Grade A.
He berated the animal until an
attendant explained that was thei
only kind she gave.
Baby Scorns Grade B
A nursemaid wheeled a baby
on the stage. The Mayor gave the
child a bottle of Grade A, which
was happily received.
“Now,” said the Mayor, "we’ll
give him Grade B. He will not be
able to tell the difference.’ After
an exploratory sip the baby’s
face puckered, he leaped from
the perambulator and kicked the
Mayor, who fled, with the babyj
in angry pursuit.
A policeman, patrolling his
park beat, came upon a tired, be
draggled man who proved to be
Tammany Leader Christopher D.
Sullivan. The Leader explained
that Tammany had been evicted
ifor non-payment of rent. Then
[he sang, to the tune of Stephen
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Foster’s "Jeanie'*:
I dream of Jimmie with his
savoir faire,
Back in the days before we got
the air.
I dream of Murphy in the good
old time
When doing favors was not called
a crime.
Many were the joys then and sor
rows very few
Many were the jobs then—and
contracts, too.
I dream of leaders who were
mighty men—
Tammany will never see those
days again.
—New York Times.
Provides For
Patrol Base at
Ditch Harbor
SEATTLE. May 22 (/Pi— Repre
tentative Magnuson of Washing
ton wired that the emergency na
val appropriation bill was approv
ed Wednesday by the House nav
al affairs committee. The bill, as
approved, included $2,963,000 for
a patrol squadron base at Dutch
H-.rb'T :id $2,102,000 for the air
bate under construction at Kod
iak.
DEMPSEYS SPLIT I P
NEW YORK. May 23 — The
separation of Jack Dempsey and
Iris wife, the former Hannah Wil
liams, was announced by her at
torneys.
MIGHTIEST U. S.
BATTLESHIP IS READY
PHILADELPHIA. May — Gear
ed the highest production speed
in history, the Navy Yard will
launch the Washington, the migh
tiest battleship of the fleet, June
I, more than a month ahead of
schedule.
The Navy Yard will lay the
keel of the North Carolina, still
larger than the Washington, by
October 27.
Work on the sixty five million
dollars 35,000-ton Washington
was rushed despite other con
struction and reconditioning of
32 destroyers.
Work also started on mater
ials for the New Jersey, one of
two 45,000-ton battleships.
GREENING !S ON WAY
TO WASHINGTON
KETCHIKAN —Gov. Ernest H.
Gruening, ennoute East, said ap
propiiate steps for defending Al
aska will be speeded by the Eu
ropean v\ r, but added. "I can't
get any satisfac-ion out of war.
It is all b.:d. The fact that peace
ful people like ours lvcs should
have to arm to the t.e h because
of a madman loose in Europe is
a terrible tiling."
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Logs, ‘ns wing anu " p< n.
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Location Notices. Vouchers,
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BLASTS!—So important
was testimony about explosives
given by Lester Barlow (above)
to a secret senate committee in
Washington that minutes of the
meeting were burned. Barlow,
a Baltimore inventor, has de
veloped a new explosive.