THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday, Friday, by The Nome
Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska.
Telephone Main 114 P. o. Box 518
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Authorized Take
Possession Ships
WASHINGTON, June 27 (/F) —
President Roosevelt authorized
the Secretary of the Treasury to
take posstssion of any domestic
or foreign vessel in American
ports if necessary to protect them
from damage or injury. The or
der was interpreted as the
groundwork for the possible de
tention of French shops or ships
of other German-dominated coun
tries in Europe, which are now
in American waters.
Germans Bomb
British Isles
6 Times In 9 Days
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LONDON. June 27 i/P> — The
people of this island kingdom,
dug in for a seige. were cheered
by indication, that strong units of
the French fleet w’ould fight on
the side of the British navy.
German bombing planes made
their sixth extensive early morn
ing raid in nine days marking
the first attack on a Welsh town.
Five bombs were dropped on that
unidentified community.
British aviation circles mean
while reported new “very
heavy” attacks on various mili
- t?ry objectives in Germany’s
highly industrialized Ruhr valley
in a daylight sortie yesterday.
Bridge Architect
Bases Away
LOS ANGELES, June 27 (JP)—
F lph Modjeski. aged 79. famous
l idge engineer, died at his home
t -e yesterday.
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Royal Air Force
Bomb German
Held Dromes
LONDON. June 27 I.P) — The
air ministry announced that the
Royal Air Force yesterday bomb
ed German-occupied airdromes!
near Rotterdam and near Col-1
ogne. Dortmund, Easton, and Es-I
sen, Germany.
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Sells One Mining
Claim In Alaska
To Fit e Persons
SEATTLE. June 27 i/P) —Peter.
Sansarzich, aged 48, the prospect
or who sold the same Alaska min
ing claim on Chichagof Island to
five persons at a profit of $5,255
was sentenced by Judge Black to
one year and a day at McNeil’s
Island, for using the mails to de-.
fraud.
Mirow Air Service
Activities
June 27—Pilot Sasseen made a
flight to Anchorage via Ophir
with Wm. Hesse for Ophir and
one passenger from Ophir to An
chorage.
Pilot Sasseen will arrive Nome
from Anchorage today about 6:30
p. m. via Marshall and Unalak
eet. Four passengers are for
Nome from Anchorage and four j
others from Marshall.
Pilot Chambers flew to Anchor
age via Ungalik with T. W. Street
er to Ungalik. Chambers w*ill re
turn today via Russian Mission
and Unalakleet with passengers
and express.
A trip is planned for Council!
and Teller tomorrow.
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NEW SPORTSMAN’S DIVISION
TO BE INAUGURATION IN
SEVENTH ANNUAL FAIR
A New division, the sports
man's division—L, ias been add
ed to the premium book of the
Northwestm Alaska Fair Associa
tion's for 1940 and is as follows:
Entries may be made at any
time from July 1st until the open
ing of the Fair, with either
Judge, H. G. Baker, at Polet’s
Store or Leonard Krohlow, at
Lichtenberg's Hardware.
District division—1. Nome and
Snake Rivers. 2. Streams other
than Nome or Snake Rivers.
3. Bering Sea. Each location will
be judged separately.
Class 1— Greyling. 1st prize
one automatic reel. 2nd prize one
fish basket. Lot 1. Best display of
greyling caught with rod and line
Class 2—Trout. 1st prize one
bamboo fly rod. 2nd prize one fish
basket. Lot 1. Best display of
trout caught with rod and line.
Class 3—Largest fish. (To be
judged by weight) Lot 1. Largest
greying. Lot 2. Largest Trout.
Lot 3 Largest Salmon. 1st prize
Bristol Telescope rod. 2nd prize
50 yds level fly line.
Class 4 — Commercial fishing.
Fish in this cass must be caught
in Bering Sea. 1st prize 10 pounds
cotton net twine. 2nd prize One
pound Linen net twine. Lot 1.
Best display of any fish not other;
wise listed.
Class 5 —For minors—9 to 16
;
years of age, competing in Class
1 and 2. 1st prize One steel tele- (
scope rod. 2nd prize One hand
reel.
Anyone who is away from
Nome and wishing to enter this
contest may do so by fling an j
entry blank to be provided by
the Fair Association and having!
same signed by three witnesses. [
Wien Airlines
Activities
June 27—A flight was made to
Council and Haycock in the morn
ing with freight. Mrs. John Naas
and Wallace Johnson were pas
sengers from Haycock on the re
turn trip.
Pilot Lund took freight to the
Kougarok from Nome and Teller.
Pilot Wien made a trip north
1 with freight. Rod Pohl was brot
to Nome from American Creek.
Herman Lerdahl arrived in
Nome from Fairbanks with Don
Lahmon and Volney Richmond, j
The return trip was made today
via Taylor, Deering and Candle.
June 28—Rod Pohl, Mrs. Price
and Miss Brown were taken to1
American Creek.
Pilot Wien left Nome this morn
ing to continue freighting opera
tion from Teller to Taylor.
Bill Lund took freight to the
Kougarok and Teller.
A trip is scheduled for Coun- j
cil and Bluff this evening.
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THE WAY A BRITISH PILOT SEES A MESSERSCHMITT GO DOWN
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•IS picture, mad- by a 16-mm car era synchronized with the machine guns on a British pursuit ship, shows, according to the British i
captions, the destruction of a German Messerschmitt 110, a power in 1 twin-engined fighting plane. The picture shows the damaged
r>‘ -erschmitt after two bursts of machine gun bullets struck it. The caption calls attentiin to the blur along the left wing, saying it
had developed a “severe flutter.”
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