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VOL. 41. No. 137. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1939 Price *** W4
Rich Lode Vein Struck In Georgia
North Star Sails From Boston Enroute Antarctic
CANTOR'S $10,000 GRANDSON
This baby, Michael Metzger, ir.a’e his parents 813 039 richer v.hen
he was born in Hollywood. He is f-e first grandson of Eddie Cantor
comedian, who premised that sum to the first of his five daughters
to bear a son. Narse Slarriet Aieshire is shown holding the baby.
New Gold Strike
In Georgia—Ore
$68,089 Per Ton
DA H LON EG* A. Ga„ Nov. 15
i/P)—A new gold strike bearing
lode bonanza ore, the state geo
logist said, assayed $30,000 a ton
was disclosed by operators in the
century-o'd Calhoun mine three
miles south of here.
State Geologist Garland Pey
ton described the strike as “a
vein of quartz of two inches
thickness to an unknown depth,
so thoroughly impregnated with
gold that over approximately 10
inches appeared to be one con
tinuous ribbon of metal.”
Peyton asserted that the vein
is the richest he has seen in 25
years in Georgia and “definitely
classes it as a bonanza” with ap
parent richness comparable to
the famous Comstock lode which
yieded three hundred forty mil
ion dollars in gold.
Venezuela Oil
Port Destroyed
CARCACAS, Venezuela, Nov.
14 (A*) —Dispatches from Mara
caibo said the important oil port
of La Gunillas on Lake Mara
caibo was destroyed by fire last
night. Eight hundred persons
were reported dead and injured.
See “THE VALIANT” At The Federated Church
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 8 P. M. ADMISSION ADULTS 50( CHILDREN 25^
M. Guggenheim
: Capitalist, Age 81,
I asses
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 (/P) —
Murray Guggenheim, aged 81,
e- pitalist and member of the
,us copper mining family
lied here today.
Two of the Guggenheims have
long been identified with phil
thrcpic work in New York. He
tied in his fif'h Avenue home
cr an illness of several days.
Tie is survived by a widow, Mrs.
T _mie Bernhrim Guggenheim, a
on Edmond, and a daughter Lu
eil'e. '
With his father and three bro
thers Murray Guggenheim organ
iz.d the; firm of M. Guggenheim
and Sons in 1881 and merged its
melting and refining branches in
1901 with the American Smelting
and Refining Company.
Guggenheim was a director of
the Yukon Gold Company; the
Nevada Northern Railway; the,
Utah Copper; Kennecott; Keno
Hill, Ltd; Minerec Corporation;
and the Pacific Tin Corporation.
STATIONER!
That unique and humorous
and typical Alaskan stationery— j
“Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have beer 1
brought strictly uptodate, and art
now available at the Nugget offl
! ce.
War Sinkings
Mount to 120,
489.117 Tons
UNDATED, Nov. 14 (/Pi —The
sinking of five British and two
German steamers raised the toll
of ships due to sea combat to one
hundred and twenty and the to- !
tal known tonnage destroyed to
4839.117 tons & at least 1,375 per
sons killed or drowned and many
others i'.sted missing.
Great Britain lost 65 ships;
Germany 14; France 7; Scandin
avian countries 24; and other neiu
trals 10. Heading the list of the
most recent sinkings is an un
named British destroyer which
the British Admiralty said was
lost after striking a German
mine. One member of the crew
was lis.ed as dead: six missing
and fifteen injured.
The 275 ton British trawler
Cresswel was sunk by a sub and
the crew of six is reported miss
ing. The British freighter Matra.
8,000 tons sank in the North Sea
| after an explosion believed caus
ed by a mine. Two were killed.
The latest German casualties
j sunk by British warships are the
! 303-ton Mecklenburg and the
i o.DOO ton Parana.
. Proof of Labor Blanks car. new
be had at the Name Nugget office
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Present officers of the
Nome Chapter of the American
lied Ci oss wish to remind the
residents oi Nome and vicinity
inat at the meeting called for
last Wednesday night but three
persons attended. Another meet
ing is now called for 8 p.m. Wed
nesday. November 15 in the of-1
lice of the Maynard-Columbus
Hospital. If the response at that
time does not constitute a quo
rum it is believed that the local
chapter will have to be dissolv
ed. To keep the chapter going
does not require much time, if a
reasonable number of persons
respond so that the small amount
of work may be divided among
;nera.. However, the present oific
ers feel that they have given as
much time in tiic past as they
were able and cannot continue as
officers, bat are wilting to con
i.nue a-> members. a’he local
ciiapter uov lias on deposit in
me Miners & Merchants Bank at
Nome, the sum of $557 for use
ai aiding distressed individual’s
suffering as the result of natural
calamities that might occur in
our community such as fires,
floods and storm. This is Nome
money subscribed by Nome peo-1
pic from time to time in the past. \
If the local chaxiter is dissolved
and abandoned that $557 willj
automatically become tiie pro
perty of the National Chapter
and be removed to the Division
al Office at San Francisco. After
it is removed from the Nome
bank it will no longer be avail
able for needs in Nome.
Come to the important meet
ing.
C. W. Thornton
Chairman Nome Chapter
President To Do
Nothing About
Coy. Graemn"
WASIINGTON, Nov. 14 Mb
Pros ’ nt Roosevelt that at this
point he was planning to do no
thing about the Dimond protest
iga'nst the appointment of Er
nes1 Or > .ning as Governor of A)
a ka bu suggested that the ques
tion be repeated in a month or
so.
LAFCLL.ETTE, Tenn., Nov. 14
(/P)—Representative J. Will Tay
lor, Republican o Tennessee was
found dead of a heart airnent at
his home early today. He was
fifty-nine years o’d.
Taylor was found dead in bed
by his wife. He had suffered a
fceart attack 'as, night.
He was Republican National
Committeeman and was racogniz
ed as the Republican “boss” in
Tcnne. see He served in Congress
since 1919.
NOTICE
The Catholic Ladies will give
a canl pa*ty and social in St.
Joseph's Hall oil December 2nd,
1939.
FOR SALE — 7-deg team, with
leader, 10-ft. sled and some
rigging. Inquire at Nugget
Of/ice.
M S North Star
Sails from Boston
For Antarctic
BOSTON, Nov. 15 UP) —With
out the slightest fanfare, the first
ha t' of Uncle Sam’s first Antarc
tic expedition in a hundred years j
•ailed away from Boston on the
first leg of the journey to the
frozen southland.
Just before dawn, the motor
ship North Star, loaded down
wi.h everything from food,
phonograph records and sled
dogs to a 27-ton snow cruiser,
cast otV her lines from the army
base and slid quietly down the
harbor e?’.route to Philadelphia.
She will then head for Panama,
New Z viand and finally the base
in the Antarctic.
Airplane Wreck
i
Is Found On
Lake LeBarge
o
%
WHITEHORSE, Y. T„ Nov. 15
i o') — An airplane wreckage
found oi Lake LeBarge was
identified definitely as that of the
Whitehorse-Yukon route Air
ways plane which disappeared
afier 1 aving here Thursday for
Dawson. Pi’ot Jesse Rice, and
passengers Mike. McKallion and
D. H. Anderson were aboard hut
no trace was found of them,
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FOR SALE
—
One-half {’{n. 110-vplt A.C.
motor and new Magic Chef i
Flamo stove with guage and |
Flamo. Inquire Carry J. Nelson.
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SWEET?—Sunrar Heiress
Geraldine Spreckeis 6ocialUe
divorcee, carried a far cape on
her rounds of N, Y. nifiht spot*.
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vance for your subscription.
4 DIE IN COLLISION OF NAVY PLANES
Four F. S. Navy fliers were killed when two navy planes collided and burned over .Murray
Lake, near San Diego, Calif. The charred wreckage of the ships, with a shoe of one of the men
(in the foreground), is shown. The planes were on a dive bombing flight from the Lexington.