THE NOME NUGGET
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The Nome Nuggel
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Suspending Publication
It has never happened before, although there is an
adage “that there is always a first time for everything.”
Business conditions, loss of population, and many other
circumstances incident to the war have compelled The
Nome Nugget to voluntarily suspend publication fcr
this winter.
The Nome Nugget has been in continuous publica
tion since the day it was started in the fall of 1899.
The title of the paper at that time was the “Nome Daily
Chronicle.” This paper was absorbed in the spring of
1900 by new interests and its name changed to The
Nome Nugget. It has passed through many trials and
tribulations—fires, floods, and boycotts—but has never
voluntarily been suspended during that time to this.
Failure to receive supplies, etc., high rates and the
other many increases in cost of doing business, coupled
with the fact that Nome is rapidly becoming an armed
camp for the purpose of waging war have caused the
management to consider all available avenues for the
continuation of the paper before reaching the conclu
sion that it must be suspended for the winter.
In this decision we know that many of our readers
and the many business concerns with which we do busi
ness will be deprived of what has been for the pas
forty-two years an avenue of common interest in the
promotion of the mining and business advantages :
Nome and the Seward Peninsula. We regret that we
are compelled to make such a decision.
We have tried to furnish Nome and the Seward F n
insula with the best paper that business would wane. *
In some days, The Nugget was a daily, in others .
weekly, and for the past five years has been published
as a tri-weekly. The Nugget during its forty-two years
of existence has supplied this section with the latest
and most up-to-date telegraphic news available. Fur the
past thirty years it has been a member in good stan
.n<; of The Associated Press, the world’s largest v
most competent news-gathering organization. The
Nugget has also represented the Associated P-ess in
gathering the news, and we take pride in ou>' long
record of many world-wide stories which originated in
northern Alaska and which were transmitted to “T%e
AP” for dissemination throughout the world. We are
sorry to have to break our long record ■ f representa
tion with this news-gathering organization, but the
conditions leave us no other course, at this time.
For the winter months at least there will be n fur
ther publications. Friday, November 27th will be the
last issue of “The Nome Nugget.” The up-to-date news
paper and job plant of The Nugget will remain here
and when conditions permit we hope to be able to fur
nish Nome again with a paper which will represent
the best interests and needs of this section of Alaska.
\ RCKS BONDS—NOW!
Acid II nd I'usler.—Now being displayed throughout the country is thi*
Impelling poster pointing out the urgency of buying War Bonds now before
U i too 1 . Tlii* is part of the general \ if Bond (..arnpa it in whieli every
* < is ’ d to in -t at least 10 percent of his income in War Bonds. Ulus
i»a i i b; F ai ei it Be .o g ini lit.
I Alaska Thirst Op ens New
Trade For Fishing Boats
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Ketchikan (/P) — An Al
aska “rum-running” trade,
reminiscent of the illicit
traffic into the States in
| the prohibition era, has de
! veloped as the aftermath
: of wartime shipping re
strictions.
The big difference is that
'the boats of the Alaska hal
.but fleet which have en
tered the current traffic
are in a strictly legitimate
business.
The flourishing trade
sprang up after the Thir
teenth Naval District re
! quested that non-essential
shipments be reduced to
10 percent of the cargo of
any regular northbound
vessels. Reports from Seat
tie said the Alaska ship
ments of liquor by regular
have vir
tually dried up in the past
two months. Previously,
there had been some com
plaints in Alaska of ex
cessive liquor shipments.
One halibut boat skip
per said he had completed
a trip from Seattle in his
fishing craft “for more
money than the liquor cost
wholesale, but the dealer
was so eager to get sup
!p ies that he paid willing
j ly.”
1 Travelers arriving from
I Nome and Kodiak report
that those outposts are fac
ing an immediate shortage
of alcoholic stimulants, but
there is no apparent dan
ger of Southeastern Alas
ka immediately becoming
a Sahara. There was no in
formation readily avail
able here on how many
boats were substituting
bottled goods for fish in
the off-season.
Weal tin Man
Kills Girl, and
Then Himself
Oakland, Calif. — A dra
matic murder and suicide
that took the lives of a
beautiful stenographer &
a middle - aged married
business man was being in
vestigated by Oakland po
lice.
The slain woman was
Miss Raisy Ruth Miller, 30
San Francisco electrical
company employe, who
was killed in a blaze of
gunfire in .the .lobby of an
Oakland he tel.
The man who killed her;
Paul J. Beck, wealthy gar
age owner and former man
ager of the Golden West|
Brewing Company, shot;
hims-Ti to death after fir
ing three bullets into the
stenographer as she stood
screaming behind the ho
tel desk.
Ran Info Lobby
Miss M Her, according to
hotel attaches, came run
ning into the lobby with
blood streaming from a
wound in her leg.
"Slop him!” she cried.!
"Ho’s got a gun.”
As attendants rushed to
help her, Beck strode in
from the street, his arms
folded across his chest. For
a moment, he stod calmly
surveying the scene, then i
whipped out a pistol and
fired three bullets point
blank at Miss Miller. As
she fell, he placed the gun
against his temple, sending I
the last bullet into his own
brain.
Wife In L. A.
Police learned that Beck
i has a wife living in Los
Angeles. Among his effects
they found a letter from
her which indicate that she
and Beck had agreed on a
pattern for living apart,
i Friends of Miss Miller
j told investigators that she
j had feared Beck ever since
i a few weeks ago, he told
1 her that “some day I am
; going to shoot both of us
1 after writing a thousand
dollar check to pay for our
funerals.”
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vill develop new business
or yau.
Pulp Firm To
Fight Closing
Tacoma (/P) — The St.
Regis Paper Company will
fight the WPB order clos
ing the Tacoma plant on
i the basis that the plant is
I now equipped to turn out
; the very war products now
being sought by the gov
ernment from such mills,
Walter DeLong, vice presi
dent of the company an
nounced.
R. T. Ferguson of New
York, president of the St.
Regis, plans to spend a
week in Wasington, D. C.,
in an effort to lift the ban
suddenly placed against
the plant, DeLong said.
The order also affects
the Tacoma mill of Rayon
;er, Inc., and the Anacortes
nlant of the Scott Paper
Company.
Is
Guilty of Slaying
Chicago (/P)— Mrs. Elea
nor Williams was convict
ed of manslaughter in the
slaying of Gordon Mc
Naughton, former Boston
Red Sox pitcher, and an
n- unreel she would remar
ry her former husband “in
ja:l if necessary.”
The blonde tavern dice
girl, twenty-five, who testi j
'led she killed McNaught-,
on. 32, because he would
not keep a promise to mar
ry her, said she and Clar- j
ence Williams, a telegraph
er, would be married soon.
Williams, who testified j
in his former wife’s de-!
fense, said he wanted to
marry her “right away” de
spite the l to 14-year man-1
datory prison sentence her 1
conviction carried. He said
he would bring along their j
daughter, Jacqueline, five.:
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Extinct Sloth Is Found In Alaska
(Farthest-North Collegian)
Childs Frick, honorary
curator of the American
Museum of Natural Hisory
has kindly permitted me to
examine and report upon a
phalangeal element of an
extinct megalonvchid
ground sloth from the
Quaternary of Alaska. The
specimen, No. F. A. M.
30844, a first or proximal
phalanx, possibly of the
fourth digit, manus, is larg
er than the corresponding
bone in “Nothrotherium”
j and represent apparently a
1 species of “Megalonyx.”
Curiously enough, it is the
only ground sloth material
thus far recorded from the J
frozen muck of Alaska.
This is all the more remark j
able in view of the fact j
that during thirteen sea-1
sons of work since 1929 the
Childs Frick Expeditions
in cooperation with the
University of Alaska have
conducted intensive pal
eontological exploration in
this northern region. The
present specimen, found
by Otto Wm. Geist during
the field season of 1941,
adds another mammal to
the extinct pre - tundra
fauna known from Alaska.
Discovered On Cripple
The site of discovery of
the “Megalonyx” phalanx
occurs on Cripple Creek,
approximately 15 miles
southwest of Fairbanks.
Associated fossil mammals
from this region include
the vvooly mammoth
( Mammonteus primigen -
ius), mastodon (Mammut
americanum), horse Equus
jalaskae), bison (Bison eras
l^icornis) ovibovids (Sam
bos tyrrelli and Boother
ium sargenti), camel (Cam
elops), saiga entelope (Sai
ga ricci), as well as large
carnivores like the great
I cat (Pantera atrox), short
faced bear (Arctotherium
yukonensis) and dire wolf
: (Aenocyon dirus).
Described by Jefferson
| The genus “Megalonyx”
I is associated with the Pleis
; tocene forest fauna of the
more southerly regions of
; North America. Remains
of this mammal were first
' described by Thomas JeT
erson from a lime-store
cave in western Virginia.
Since then these ground
sloths have been encount
ered at a number of Pleis
tocene localities in North
America from southern
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to
eastern Washington. The
occurence in Alaska ex
tends the geographical
range of “Megalonyx” con
siderably to the north of
its previously known dis
ribution.
The foregoing is reprint
ed from “Science,” May 29
1942, Vol. 95, No. 2474.
pages 552-553.
Secty. Knox
Tells of “Dark
Days Ahead”
Washington — Secretary
of Navv Knox solemnly
%• %/
warned the nation there
will be “many dark days”
ahead.
But “no matter what the
reverses along the road to
Tokyo and Berlin,” he
said in a pre-Navy Day na
tion-wide radio broadcast,
the navy is not going to al
low its tradition of victory
to die.
“We shall declare ‘Damn
the torpedoes —full speed
ahead.”
Admiral Ernest J. King,
commander in chief of the
United States fleet, told
the men of the fleet “that
more tools and more train
ed men to help win the
struggle will be forthcom
ing as soon as it is within
my power to provide them
Appeal For Speed
This statement by the
navy’s highest ranking of
ficer was construed in
some circles as an appeal
for speed in producing war
ships, planes and muni
tions as well as an- assur
ance to the fleet that all is
in readiness to rush these
“tools” to their aid.
Secty. Knox, while de
claring his assurance that
victory was certain, never
theless warned his listen
ers that “there will be re
verses — there will b e
many dark days.”
“The Navy,” he said, “to
gether with our great
army & forces of our Allies
is engaged upon the unplea
sant task of eradicating so
many of the enemy that
the enemy will have no fur
ther stomach for fighting.
“No matter what the re
verses along the road to
Tokyo and Berlin, yoU can
"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
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be sure that the task will
be done. We all know
there will be reverses —
there will be many dark
days. But the Navy has a
tradition of victory and we
shall not let that tradition
! die.
| “With justice on our
side, we shall fight in the
I spirit of Lexington and
Concord. And with grim
determination we shall de
Iclare ‘Damn the torpedoes
I—full speed ahead!’ That
is the spirit of our navy
today in action on all the
, seas and oceans of the
i world.”
Ex-Seattlle
Student In
Porter Crew 41
Seattle — A former Lin
coln High School and Uni
versiy of Washington stu
dent, Lieut, (j.g.) Harry
William Wood, whose par
ents live at 6029 5th Ave.
N. E., was the torpedo and
communications officer of
the destroyer Porter when
the vessel was sunk off
Guadalcanal.
Lieut. Wood, 22, was a
member of the Lincoln
High School track team.
He left the University,
where he was studying
aero nautical engineering
at the end of his sopho
more year to attend a na
val officers’ training course
at Northwestern Univer
sity. He was assigned to
the Porter after he receiv
ed his commission.
His father Harry Wood,
is well known on the Seat
tle waterfront, where he
has been a steamship and
transportation oxe cutive
for more than thirty years.