Current Comments
From Washington
While Congress is discu-' :ng
what should bo done in the w
of clipping the wings of evil d’
ers abroad (and thorough dis
cussion is desirable), the P >st
Office has settl d down to busi
ness without saying much abnu
its activities. During the past two
months, approximately twenty
tons cf Nazi and Soviet propag
anda mail have been confiscated
ar.d delivered through th. fur
nace door.
Speaking of destroying things
by fire, the papers carry pictur
es ale.gedly showing H. rvard stu
dents burning Mr. Hitler in ef
dred submarines soon will taka
f r so cultured a company to use
in giving expression to a very
simple idea. After all, the collage
boys selected a direct way , f 1 l
ting the word know what was on
their minds. Perhaps the word
“world” as not wisely chosen. It
is safe to s.-sume that the picture
will not be r published in Go
many.
War comment and near war
e mment is getting a trifle tire
some, but there seems to be lit
tle tlse to write at ut. The N zis
warn that any enemy merchant
ship that attempts to use a ra
dio will be sent promptly to the
bottom, crew and the whole bill
ing: which puts teeth into the
edag that silence Ls golden. The
Nazis are good talkers themselv
es, and even Mussolini, badly or
the run, drops threats and bom
bast as he goes. No one knows
tl • psych (logical working of
: avy ware's better than the
,F i-ircr. It is to be hoped that
news to the effect that six hun
dred submarines soon will take
n commerc in hand, is no
more than another move in the
! rr.pt to spread fear.
M: La Gu rrlia, of New
Y City, is qu ted as saving,
th although the eBarevs are 97.
• i 3 r.ga>?t the bombing of th
c it it s of the United St;.: s
the p sibility of b -r.bing at
r • hould not be overlooked
at i at the people sh uld be
tai:how to conduct them
selv- • under such circumstanc
es. M1 ybe the fear campaign is
g'‘ting in its work in this coun
try. On the other hand, there
was a time when practically ev
ery nr n was handy with a mus
k t, G neral Training Day brine
served. It is p sit le that
Mayor La Guardia is calling at
trition wisely to the circum tanc
e- that with the con ing of r*ew
ins rumen!s of warfar? kn .w
lcdg of a now sort is nccc-sary.
Money may be the root of all
evil but the government is will
ing to run the chance, and is on
to • lookout for ways and mem • •
to increase its supply of r : dy
cash. Th. day after tire P.a -nt
*
ft.use. the Treasury an tu reed
that future issues of n a *' on a 1
bonds must bear a tax. The fed
i r .1 income in 1940, by th way,
v, - 73 billion, nearly 5 bill:
n. •:i than in 1939.
r \ rilf : |v \ I : ■ ■
wverai forms of print.r.g nt ■,
•‘or y< .jr conven nc« - I>• ••,:.
Logs, ‘ha«:ng * t dnli
VT.ninc » 1 ;• • : ,- i
.oeaf' Vouchees,
Hollywood
Star - Liles
B • Chi1'1 • Corhard
vTr ’ ’ vwnnn :r' ■ • i>.-' i
?.! d Kino Cr-rrol will bcocmo
Mr- R.chard D. La R z! m in
even befor
you i this • pr >vidh g thor
1 1 M v iland start
r : g t i s yesterday and
b itfall v- ryone knew
. . to marry the
Frt n .via* r.
1 1 lb - d finally returned
to' p a;' Earli. r in the week
the at com d;:vn previewed
th t film in which he kept
hiii !f on the sidelines — and
ult is amazing. He still
kr. h w to n-ake audiences
: if i- "A G:rl A Guy
And A Gab" which k pt a crit
ical | : view audience in laugh
ter fi an beginning t end.
- f w th ■ film front'- Si
mo Sine t • return to Holly
w 1 and picture-making — first
La; g a role in RXO's “A Certain
Mr. a ’■' rch - bu \
n h .n this city—of course its
thi i when Uncle Sam col
let' 1 income tax from monoy
er r L cal gamblers are lay
ire ad ' of 2 to 1 that Orsoin
W - all w . h d up in the
p' u ine»; now that he is
bo a -reeling stage plays.
1 r -manee in town is the
Bl v Gr ile - Georg Raft affair
wit: h i ■ to th sizzling stage.
Jo- a- we said Myrna boy
and Art Ur Hornbl vv have an
1 la tin word their inten
‘' iv t i call off the divorce and
gin il a try. And America’s
scr> . ■ i : - ■ p:n feet
wife in private ife.
POWERFUL NEW NAVY COMBER MAKES BOW
A new long-range, four-motored patrol bomber, known as the PB2Y2. is being manufactured by the
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation in San Diego for the l\ S. Navy, and this is the first picture re
leased on the ship. Consolidated officials, who calf the plane a "big sister” to the hundreds of Con
solidated twin-engined patrol bombers known as PBY's, said the PB2Y2 is the largest ad most power
ful airplane in Navy service.
NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES MARINES LINE UP
Marines of the Netherlands East Indies empire lined up in full lighting kit at Batavia. These troops
are especially trained in landing operations so that they may be moved quickly to any one of the hun
dreds of small islands that make up the Netherlands East Indies archipelago.
Scotlv Alien
Racing Over
Old Trails
SAN FRANCISCO K tty A!
len * art cl run-nirg ! h ■. in Dun
S'-’otl ml. a good ninny years
ag . and ; wasn’t any time at all
before he became the n ghbor
' d speed champion.
Sine that tim ■ h 's crammed
a h t of races into his lifetime—
GOO or s ', he figures : d finish
■ d in the money every time.
N >t all of them v. o e won by
virtue of his own sp.eciy feet,
th; ugh. He quit relying . them
quite a while back, and went ov
er to hors s. That’s what brought
him to America -bringing over a
load of th r ughbn d from Nor
thern Scotland to the D. kotas,
wher he became an American
citizen.
Next, lie went on to d . -. And
that look him to A. Gold
mining, the lure of the Arctic,
the friendliness of those young
adventurers with whom h - shar
d life kept in there Tile North
had always been his r al love.
A; 20 lie had gone into the Arctic
with Hud on Bay Co. A; 40 he
was an "old timer" to th Circle
a: d knew the K1 ndike. Nome
nd Fairbanks as his h on .
l ives Here with Son
At 74 he is in San Francisco,
living with his son, George Allan
a 232 Bowduin St. But he does
n't forget the North. Keeping its
memory fresh with him, as with 1
. one 303 oth rs ;n the whole Bay
area are the meetings on the las* 1
Friday of every month .f the
Sourdough Club.
That’s no local orgar.zialion. It
is international. Even down in
Singapore and over in Moscow,
th is- may be a few members
who get together to recall the old
days. But the biggest units are
in Seattle and here, for these
: p rts still s em close to the North
to Alaskans of the 90s-and the
| early decade of this century.
With dinner and a dance the
main events of the evening ("W
don’t fool around with much
business," laughs Scotty) too
group gathers in the Masonic
Hall, 55th and Shattuck Ave.,
Oakland, every month. And tin
old races are run again, th- old
claims re-settl d, the old adven
tures relived.
Scotty Allen, one of the old -t
and hardiest of th' members is a
good sample, "People say w. are
clannish. We stick together tea,
much. Well, we're like any other {
family,” he xplains. “We share)
the same past.”
Way Back in 1907
Racing isn’t just incidental to a'
Sourdough's interest. Not when,
like Scotty, you’ve got a record
that includes helping to start th •
annual big spring Alaskan dog
sled run of 400 miles, from Nom
to Candle, on the Arctic Sea, and
back again. That was back in
1907. Scotty wasn’t betting then,
because he’d promised his wife
he wouldn’t. But the other bet
ters challenged him. So he left
his hardware business to itself
for a while and helped organize
the most sensational race in the i
North. And two years later, won
it. He has a watch for that, and a
record of being one of the best
mushers tha ever came from Al
aska.
The same record for handling
belong to Judge E. Coke Hill,
former federal jurist in the Terri
try. He, too, lives in San Fran
cisco, now.
He, too, spent more than 40
years in the Far North, his first
court house in a tent in Nome.
"I suppose I went there to
make a lot of money, like every
body alse did,” he reflects “But
I stayed, just to be a lawyer. Al
aska's a great country. Assum
| ing the world goes on as it is,
i some day those valleys will be
| very populous, with enormous
| farms feeding a lot of America.”
Judge Hill, and his wife, are
“Sourdoughs,” too.
To Scotty this war means some
thing in the way of memories.
He saw service of a strange sort
in the last one. He was commis
sioned to take 440 Alaskan dogs
to the French Alps, where they
pulled ammunition on sleds.
Immigration
Law To [>e
lightened
c
WASHINGTON, Mart Leg
i lotion seeking a three-; : nt r
vision of United States :i migra
tion laws will be introd : i into
ho Hous ■ by R pr at y -
'' aides Krarru r. Dem it, of
California.
As To Criminal Deportees
Th • bill will follow suggestions
f At: ■m y General Jack ■ . and
will call for confinement f trim
inal d p; rt< es, drastic r ' i n of
immigration at the sc-ure*-, and
Unification of existing laws
which specify on wliat ■_ und
an alien may be deport 1.
Attorn y General Ja n in
sisted that tighter inm ..'ration
li tricti ms are n ces. . be
cause several thousand .••port
hole aliens cannot be returned to
t heir native lands since . thor
i'i'.’s th r • refuse to tak»- them
c
’ • ' of Trasportation
lie m . pointed out that the
! ; k of transporta . ;
war zones affects the probl a .
Tlv new legislation wool cn -
ee an indi-p nd nt board t ru!
«n whether deportabl ■liens
haul 1 be impris ned or allow -
d to move about under parole
system.
FEDERAL WORKERS
PAY NO TOLL
SAN FRANCISCO. March
Federal Judge St. Sure ruled that
the Golden Gate bridge n ist p r
mit free passage of Arms nr!
N vv personn 1 at all times and
o ther government employes
when they are on official busi
ness.
Both ends of the Golden Gm
bridge r st on Army pr -perty
which entitles the gover men!
to free use of the span. Judge St.
Sure held.
LATIIOP IIAS BOl'GHT BANK
Oscar G. Olson and associates
have sold their interest in the
Bank of Fairbanks to Capt. Aus
iin E. Lathr p, Fairbanks capital
1st, Olson, first president and or
ganizer of the firm announc' d at
Juneau recently.
The bank, opened in the Inte
rior city on July 1. 1940. is lo
cated in the new Lathrop theatre
building on Lac y street.
Capt. Lathrop will immediate
ly assume the office of President,
and leading Fairbanks business
men will be added to the Board
f Directors.
Legal formalili s have been
instiuted to raise the capital of
the bank from $25,000 to $50,000
and to provide a substantial sur
plus.
Capt. Lathrop has hud long ex
perience as President if the First
Bank of Cordova.
No changes in the xisting per
sonnel of the bank are being pre
sently contemplated. Upon Capt.
Lathrop’s return to Fairbanks
from his present trip Outside,
which will be shortly, h intends
to put into effect certain plans
which he has evolved to increase
the variety and desirabiity of the
different s rviees now being ren
dered by the bank.
“They gould go right up to the
front at night without a sound.
I lost only 20 of the whole lot.
Today descendents of those dogs
are all over the mountains of
Europe. I suppose they are see
ing service in this war."
—San Francisco Chronicle.
To Call 1.0X0
Men From
Washington
SEATTLE, March i.Ti P
posed drafting of 1.030 men i:*
Washington by March 31 was an
n unced by Brig. G n Maurice
Thump on. state dir <•' r f S
eclive Service. The g- -rai point
- 1 out that this w h s- than
half the number ca.’ d for th •
army in the period ending
March 8.
YALE TO BE USED AS
AI ASKA SEA HOTEL
SAN FRANCISCO. March
The Matson Navigation Company
announced th sale of tie- 35-year
old coastal passenger steamer
Yale to the Siems-Drakt Com
pany of Puget Sound f r a float
ing hotel f r an Alaskan nnv, 1
building project.
The Yale is the last of th so
iled barnacle fleet of r: - Mat
son ships which have been in the
Oakland Estuary for five years.
' ’ T • r »M \ SIVE
LEI IS LAI i RE ENDS
OLYMPIA. March The m !
expensive legislation u W i-himr
ton Stat-’s history ad; >u: • t af
ter running nearly 86 hours m ■
the statutory hour to adjourn.
It appropriated $25't.i)00.(>!
fur the next biennium and ran
I the sales tax from 2 in 3 pe
r nt. It jump d s- anal s curit;
ists including old age pensions
from the JH3,O00,QO0 of the pa t
iv.'o years to $09,000.0 ;0 for *'
n. xt biennium.
SOCIAL SECURITY
TO BE EXTENDED
WASHINGTON, Mai ii - Pe .
slant Roosevelt reveal d t: at th •
• h: ni urat; n is stud d g rev:
-inns in the Social S< nirry Ad
ministration, to give g e tier soc
ial security benefits to larg ?
groups of p ople. an ) increase 1
benefit to the aged. Hi indicated
that a revision in the social w
curity setup might be announced
late in the spring.
vou can ive -2.00 by paying s x
nonths ii ndvance for your sub
scription t The Nome Nugget.
For That Pari\
Chop Suev, Chow Mien or any
Oriental or American Dish. Cat I
Frank Suzuki, care Polet’s Stor ■.
AU cooking and serving done at
your home.
ICE MOVED AT NENANA
1917— April 30 11:30 a.m.
1918- May 11 9:33 a.m.
1919 -May 3 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11 10:46 a.m
1921— May 11 6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12 1:20 p.m.
1923 May 9 2 p.m.
1924— May 11 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6 4:25 p. .
1929— May 5 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1 10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m
1935— May 15 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12 . 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6 . 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . . 1:26 p.m,
1940— April 20 . 3:27 pm.
Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Cloudy and continued warm tonight and Tuesday. Prevailing thin
cloudiness will become heavier T uesday afternoon. Increasing
‘wind velocity Tuesday.
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 34 Lowest tdmp — 23 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this month 0.13 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 1.01
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight----- 26 62 NE 14 Pt Cldy
lam ___ __. 27 59 N 12 Cloudy
12:30 p m.... 28 62 N 17 Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 5:47 a. m. Sunset 6:31 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
I Highest temp — 22 Lowest temp — 2 Precipitation — 0