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HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
SUNDAY, DEC. 21, 2 P. M.
High School Band
Bemie Knudsen, Director
INVOCATION BY REV. W. P. WOOD
Office'of Indian Affairs School
Native Children in their Native Eskimo Dances
Mr. and Mrs. Skold in Charge
Christmas Carols by Eskimo Methodist Choir
Miss Constance Erickson, Director
Nome Public School
CHRISTMAS WITH MOTHER GOOSE
First, Fourth & Fifth Grades
Directed by Miss Kramer and Miss Erfle
RHYTHM BAND:
.'March of Little Lead Soldiers
Ace of Diamonds
By Second and Third Grades
Directed by Miss Riordan
BENEDICTION BY FATHER McHUGH
APPEARANCE OF SANTA CLAUS
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"SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Attack On
Wake Island
Is Described
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.— The
first eye witness of the raid on
Wake Island described his ex
perience after arriving in San
Francisco.
He is the captain of a Pan Am
erican Airways Clipper received
a radio message while enroute to
Honolulu that hostilities had
broken out and was advised to
return to Wake Island.
The Clipper returned, just in
time to see nine Japanese planes !
fly over in formation. They ma
chine-gunned the barracks, drop
ped bombs on Pan American
buildings and destroyed the dock
facilities, but somehow missed I
the big Pan American Clipper.
After the raid, which lasted
only five minutes, the captain of
the flying boat rounded up all
Pan American employees and
again took off for Honolulu. In
spection showed 16 bullet holes
in the Clipper plane, but appar
ently they did litle damage to
the ship.
The crew and passengers were
glad to arrive in San Francisco.
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Russia May Offer
Bases In Siberia
LONDON, Dec. — A Soviet
spokesman in London said he is1
watching with interest progress
in the new war developments in
the Far East. The spokesman said
he had no official word from his
government, and could offer no
answer to reports that Russia
might offer bases in Siberia from
which the United States and
Britain could attack Japan.
Chinese Flv
By Oi:or Says
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A keen sense of smell sup
plants radio beams in the daring
flights made by commercial Chin
ese pilots over the war-torn
country between Hongkong and
Chungking, members of the Jun
eau Chamber of Commerce were
told recently by Amos Berg, Na
tional Geographic Society explor
er and photographer who was
guest speaker at a meeting at th?
Baranof Hotel.
"The planes spiral to an ele
vation of about 10,000 feet above
Hongkong," Berg declared, ‘"then
level off for Chungking. They
always fly at night and I asked
the pilot how he knew where he
was. He told me it was partly
by watching the stars and partly
by smell. He said he could al
ways smell Canton on the left."
Berg, who has had an enviable
variety of experiences as repre
sentative of the National Geo
graphic Society, Library of Con
gress, newsreel company and oth
er organizations, entertained the
Chamber members with amus
ing and out-of-the-way incidents
for a good 20 minutes.
On Last Legs
Japan, Berg declared, seemed
staggering on its last legs when
he was there last year. He de
scribed the nation so short on
gasoline that few automobiles ap
peared on Tokyo streets and taxi
drivers took routes which would
allow’ them to coast as much as
possible. In the countryside, out
side of Tokyo, he said he found
jibe people living in a primitive
state, with no modern farming
methods.
Berg spoke of “some 1,500 Nazi
military technicians who hang
\ around the Imperial Hotel in Tok
yo, giving Japan advice in her
war tactics.”
At Chungking, Berg stated,
there are accomodations for
around 200,000 persons under
ground. He said that during
bombing raids there, when he
realized that the attacking Jap
anese planes w’ere flying w'ith
American gasoline and dropping
American scrap iron on the Chin
ese city, it was sometimes hard
for him to decide whether to be
angry at the Japanese or the
Americans.
With Berg at the meeting was
Willis Johnson, of Thistle, Utah,
comrade with whom he once fol
lowed the course of the Colorado
River, and who accompanied him
to Alaska last summer on Berg's
small boat, the Endeavor, now
moored at Juneau. When Berg re
turns south Johnson will remain
in Juneau as an employee at the
Alaska Juneau mine, Berg de
clared. “Our bit for defense," he
described Johnson’s decision to
W’ork here.
Berg first came to Alaska in
1928, when he made a canoe trip
from Juneau to Taku Glacier,
then up to Skagway and took the
frail craft down the Yukon Ri
ver. During the past summer he
has made a motion picture of
Southeast Alaska resources now
being shown in the States, and
just completed another film of
Eskimo family life on Nunivak
Island.
Old Tapers For Sale
Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting fires. For Stale
it The Nome Nugget.
LET S TALK TURKE Y—It’s entirely by design that the turkey “drumstick” Corky Zawackl.
4, is feeding Gayle Alger, 4, at a N. Y. party staged by the Children’s Aid Society is a dressed-up
carrot, and not a real gobbler shank. These and 98 other children gave up real turkey, earned pennies
so as to contribute to the society’s fund for homeless children.
WATCH IN AKCENTIN A—Vigil against trouble and possible sabotage Is kept unceasingly
by marine police (as above) at the port of Buenos Aires which handles 85 per cent of Argentina's
exports and in normal years has totalled 14 million tons of trade. Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,
is proud mistress of La Plata Estuary and one of South America’s chief neutral ports.
NECESSITY MOTHERS A NEW ON E—To satisfy demands for simple, inexpensive homes in defense production centers,
this experimental igloo-type house was built in Fairfax county. Va.. workmen spraying concrete mixture onto inflated rubber forms