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FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944.
SITKA FIFTH WAR LOAN
DRIVE OVER TH EOP
Congratulations to Sitka in its achieve
ment in the Fifth War Loan Drive.
Yesterday, Sitka topped its quotas
in all classes of War Bonds.
According to a telegram received by
Garnet Martin, chairman of War Bond
Committee in Nome, from Mrs. Nordale- :
Territorial chairman, Sitka has exceed
ed both quotas in the Fifth War Loan
Drive, as of yesterday.
Sitka is the first Alaska town to
go over the top in the latest drive.
WHAT COST VICTORY?
Victory is likely to come slowly and
Sit great cost according to the men run
ning this war. (
There will be bad news with the good,
reverses and heartaches along with the
successes.
No matter what happens, we must
continue. We must keep the initiative in
this battle against the aggressor nations.
Nazi defeat is sure, in time, but that does
not mean it will be easy. No—it will
not be easy, but terrically hard and bit
ter.
Our forces are firmly entrenched on
the European continent. The boys at
the front are heartily interested in the
outcome of the Fifth War Loan Drive,
| and by it, will know, beyond any doubt,
' [hat we are with them to the end.
1 Our American boys in Cherbourg are
proving they can take it? Can we?
LA PRESNA
La Presna of Buenos Aires is not only
one of the greatest newspapers of the
Argentine, it is one of the truly great
newspapers of the world. An ornament
of free journalism everywhere, it has
| long been regarded by Argentinians as
| a great national institution, so much so
in fact, that it was La Presna’s great ri
val, La Nacion, which recently propos
ed that the Seventy-fifth anniversary
of La Presna be made the occasion of
a national celebration. La Presna, of
: course, was a thorn m the side of the Far
rell regime, and accordingly, a govern
ment decree has been issued sispending
i La Presna for five days.
The action shows far more fear than
temerity. The men who actually pull
the strings in Argentina did not dare
tell the truth about the suspension.
They said that La Presna had been criti
cal of the way the Buenos Aires hospi
tals have operated. The real reason, of
course, is that there is no place for a
free press in a totalitarian dictatorship
such as now exists in Argentina. Here is
another demonstration that Farrell and
the crew behind him represent in this
hemisphere precisely the same noxious
forces that we are fighting in Europe
and Asia. We can have no traffic with
those forces only to our own ultimate
hurt. That pestilential regime must be j
completely quarantined by all decent
governments of this hemisphere and the
world if the plague is not to spread.—
(Washington Post).
\ LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
By JOHN SELBY
•‘FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT." by
j Constance ' Robertson (Holt;
2.75).'
“But .this momentous question,
like a fire bell in the night, awak
ened and filled me with terror.’'
Themas Jefferson wrote .that to
John . Holmes in 1820, and-he was
Writing about the slavery ques
tion. One of the innocent by
products of his letter was the ti
tle for Constance Robertson’s
novel, which is one of the better
spring examples. It also bears the
signs of others to follow.
Miss Robertson has set her no
vel in Syracuse, N. Y„ which town
happened to be one of the east-,
*m centers of the 6lave-runnning
group, and also one of the places
where the Abolitionists ran into
serious competition. Her four
chief characters are remarkably
well done—Mahala North and her
father, who buy a Syracuse tav
ern for use as a depot on the Un
derground Railroad; John Palfrey,
who is a politically-minded young
Syracuse politician fighting the
Abolitionists, and Dallas Ord, a
Southern and a gentleman, who
is one of the slave runners, nev
ertheless.
Their differences are just as
well drawn, too. Mahala s bitter
ness at the loss of her twin bro
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ther in the fight for the slaves
has tied her to the movement, and
to Ord as well. Her father is just
as wholeheartedly in the * fight,
but his weapon is his shrewd
good-humor rather than passion.
And Palfrey is- qUfte 'SirApIy mad
about Mahala,* sifreePely a -* de
fender of Jhe .Fugitive Slave Act,
and strong,, cjjopgh.tp...force Ma
hala into marriage in .the. face of
local disapproval and the inner
knowledge that'she belongs1 irre
trievably tp Dallas Ord.
■’ Obviously--there is’disaster in
this set of relationships, and Miss
Robertson prepares1-'ft and plays
it out its high rrtelodramti against
a swift and sometimes lurid back
drop. The background and often
the foreground; 'too, moves with
the dark • figures ‘ of • Negroes
Streaming “secretly nor(h, iii*o
Canada; with their pursuers, some
decent and some otherwise, and
1 with the track force of the Un
derground, i'self, busy night after
night with their freight.
Miss Robertson’s method is di*.
rect rather than deft, • and she is
handy with literary coincidences.
Advertise in The Nugget.
ALASKA. GRAPHITE ON
SEWARD PENINSULA
i WASHINGTON, D. C. — A
preliminary report on the graph-;
ite deposits on the north side, of 1
the Kigluaik Mountains' Seward
Peninsula, with a brief descrip
tion of the geology and estimate
of the reserves, has been prepared
by the Geological Survey. The
deposits are about 36 -miles north
west of Nome and are two to
three miles from tidewater. The
report gives the results of a field
examination by R. R. Coats in
June, 1943.
DUTY—AND PLEASURE
WEST ORANGE, N. . —(AP>—
Letter-writing used to be a mo-1
notonous subject for students ' in
West Orange high school, but
English Teacher John H. Fuller
has discovered how to make, it1
popular.
The formula, he says, is to en- i
courage students to write to their
friends in the armed forces.
Tell them you saw it in The
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Nugget
FIREMEN FIGHT TWO
FIRES AT ONCE
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —<AP) —
The fire department answered a
call at a residence. But people
rushed up and said the fire was
two doors away.
The firemen went right on
fighting the residence blaze, but
some were dispatched to the sec
ond fire which happened simul
taneously.
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SOLDIER NEEDS
A BUNK
WITH SECOND ARMY ON
MANEUVERS, Tennessee' —CAP)
—Lebanon, Tenn., in the center
of the 21-county maneuver area
swells to three times its normal
population on week-ends.
A proprietor of a tourist home
was astonished When a soldier
knocked at her door. ' ■
“t come from Washington”, he
said. “It’s even more >crowded than
this, so if nobody’s going to take
a ba‘h tonight, I can find me a
blanket and sleep in the tub.”
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WHERE TO
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REAOIN G
! THE ADS
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AIR BLAST TRAP
CATCHES INSECTS
PLAINVIEW, Tex. —(AP) —
EighJ ^three-year-old A. R.
Nisbet has constructed a farm in
sect catcher.
Tried out on cotton and other
| crops, it operates on the air blast
| principle, covers two rows at a
j time and weighs only 250 pounds.
| The bug catcher can be attached
jto any make cf tractor and will
| work while-the farmer is culti
vating of working. with his crop.
A large fan propelled" by the
tractor’s mbtor blows au*4hroi»gh
two pIjrss, curyjed to project, the
air blasts up:war$. to.;.3tjrijk*.'in
.sectij seeking ^belter on the under
sides of.leaves.. ■
The blasts blow, the insects into
funnel shaped pipes with bags
attached to their ends, opposite
the air vents. These bags trap the
pests, which are burned
F. E. Posey, Pecos county farm
agent, said the machine was 80
per cent effective.
NEIGHBORLY SAVANTS
BERKELEY, Calif. — (AP) —
Furthering the good neighbor pol
icy by means of interchange of
scientific ideas is the purpose of
a 20,000 mile trip undertaken by
two University of California
scientists, Dr. Sumner C. Brooks,
professor of zoology, and hie'
wife, Dr. Matilda M. Brooks, re- ^
search associate in biology. They
will tour the leading university
centers of South Aiperica.
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