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Gold—A Mainstay
Alaska’s gold production in
1940 was not $25,375,000 as the
Geological Surv y estimated in a
preliminary announcement the
first day of the new year. The
production was actually $26,782,
000, the U. S. Bucau of Mines
now announces.
To Alaskans already celebrat
ing the early figure which show
ed the gold yield to be the great
est in the history of the Territory
the new total comes as a matter
for even greater rejoicing.
Many persons think of Alaska
as a has-been locality as far as
gold is concerned. The gold rush,
which brought thousands of men
north half a century ago, is a
romantic chapter in the history
of Alaska. But not even in gold
rush days was there ever mined
gold to the value of that which
Alaska produced in 1940.
Another figure which will have
to be revised upwards in view of
the new gold production figure
is that which the Gov rnor refer
red to in his message as the
amount of g Id which left the
Territory in 1940 without paying
a cent of tax. either because it
was produced within the $20,000
exemption allowed und r the
gross gold tax law or because
miners simply refused or failed
to report production. As the
amount of production on which
the tax was paid is a known fig
ure, and as the total extraction
has now been found to be mor
than a m llian dollar? greater
than was thought previously. a:l
the difference between the Geo
logical Survey and Bureau of
Mines totals falls in this cat gory
of gold on which no tax was paid.
The estimate that more than fiv:
mil ion in gold paid no tax in
1940 will now have to be revised
upward to more than six million.,
That 1941 will be even a better
year than 1940 for mineral pro
duction in Alaska was for cast
by Dean Milnor Roberts, head of
the University of Washington Co
lege of Mines, in opening the
14th annual Mining Institute in
Seattle. Much of this gain h
Ihinks will come in copper, zinc
tin and other metals needed for
war. ’’Due to the war demand,
and the curtailment of supplies
from the Dutch East Indies, Al
aska now looms as the best
source of tin,” the Dean declar
ed. T\I:ich dev lopmenl work is
be ing carried on near Nome, on
the Seward Peninsula.”
From another front come ru
m rs which if they prove true,
will mean even great- r prosper
ity on Alaska’s gold fields. The
Fairbanks News-Miner last \v: ek
carried a news dispstch from Den
ver in which Alphonse P. Ar
doun 1 urges that the price of
go d be increased from the pres
ent $35 per ounce to $41 per
ounce in order to aid Britain
without loans or other hardships.
If suc~h a thing should come to
pass, the price of gold would b
almost exactly doubled what it
was eight years ago. The bene
fits to Alaska would, of course
be almost incalculable The in
dustry would be able to work
low-grade goldfields which arc
now unprofitable to touch, just
as the industry today is working
at $35 an ounce fields which it
could not have touched at the
$20.67 price.
The Alaska gold industry ap
pears to be fairly launched on an
era of unparalleled prosp rity.
It should be the wish of all Al
askans that nothing develop to
stand in the way of this sound
boom.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
The Nazis have decided not to
get excited about the San Fran
cisco flag incident. Hitler thinks
he had better not cross the Gold
en Gate Bridge until he comes to!
it.
Ctimnl Comments
Written From
Washington
It’s a rare thing in Washington
when a week goes by without
«orr.e news “sensation.” Mr. Roo
sevelt provided this week's bomb
.-hell. The press could hardly be
liv: its ears, or its good fortune,
when the President broke his “no
quote” rule long enough to apply
to Senator Wheeler’s wisecrack
about P nv ng under fourth Am
erican youth, the adjectives, “rot
t n,” untruthful,” “dastardly and
“unpatriotic." It was the talk of
he town for a bit.
We may now expect anything
to happen during the heated bat
tie which the aid to Britain plan
has stirred up. Of course the
learned (?) Senator from Mon
tana. Burton K. Whe.ler, might
find mere citizens to be impress
ed by and sympathetic to, his
“plow under" charg if he hadn't
aeon a little bit careless with
some of his facts during a couple
of rec nt addressed. Do you re
member how he suggested in his
iropa cd peace plan that Ger
nanv be vouchsafed her 1914
frontiers with Poland and Czecho
Slovakia given full autonomy?
We fe 1 moved to ask the Sen
ator, since when had Czecho
slovakia ever been a part of the
German Reich— or Poland, ex
ept for a very small part? And
Liter, during the American For
um of th: Air, cou d the Senator
eally have meant it when he de
•Tared that "the Kaiser’s blank
.’eek to S rbia in the first World
.far was a piker—compared to
.e Roosevelt blank check to.”?
At this writing, the War De
triment is Uncle Sam’s biggest
•hiring agency. It is taking on be
.ween 4,000 and 5,000 new em
ployes each wek. In Washington
a one about 350 stenographers
and typists are being put to work
each week; 11,500 new workers
in all, just in our town alone,
with 131,000 throughout the coun
try, in a seven-month period. Of
cours_ with all _ new employes
must be'certified from Civil Ser.
vice, so there isn’t the same wide1
opportunity for employment as
in World War days. However, the
department has estab.ish:d a
eccetime record of 130,000 civ
.1 an employes which is about
■ wice its normal number, and the
end isn’t in sight. Additional
employes running into the tens
of thousands are anticipated. The
per-onnel office is going on night
•lift to keep up and 10 branch
per. nnei offices are being set up
ughout the country to speed
ip i e hiring of employes. A per
so. nel training course is being
given here in Washington in
v.-vh employes are instructed on
). endures before they are sent
mo the field. The demand has
already called out three courses,
all so successful that more will
be forthcoming — Other advan
tages of prepar dness against a
perhaps inevitable war is a pro
gram designed to protect civil
ians in America against possible
bombings. Army Air Corps plan
es are soon to conduct extensive
trial bombings of air raid shel
ters of the typ. now in use over
seas as well as of design recently
developed by the Corps of En
gineers. The structures proving
most dependable will be produc
ed in a large scale for possible
use in air invasion, and pam
phlets, containing general inform
ation on protection from bomb
ings, will be released in the near
future.
Did it ever occur to you to won
der how the President of the;
United States gets paid? He is
the one Federal employe who
has never received a salary check
If Axis Wins War, Western
Hemisphere Invasion Is
Next Says Bullitt
WASHINGTON — Former Am
bassador Win. C. Bullitt dec’ared
the “German propaganda ma
chine” is r sponsible for the re
ports that he had made a state
ment abroad the United States
would come into the war.
He told the House Foreign Af
fairs Committee, testifying in sup
port of the aid to Britain bill,
that invasion of th: Western
Hemisphere is “almost cerain”
if the British navy is destroyed
and totalitarian powers gained
control either of the Atlantic or
Pacific before the United States’
two-ocean navy is r ady.
In response to questions from
R“p. Wm. Rogers, he said: "I
a ways have been of the opinion
the U. S. would stay out of war
if possible and could I so inform
ed every Prime Minister in
Franc: while I was ambassador.”
Bullitt characterized Italy’s po
sition' as a “slave to Germany,”
and said Mussolini could not now
quit the war as Germany w.ou'd
immediately occupy the country.
“The Japanese obviously, are
in a more independent position,"
he add d.
like the oth r 1,101.000 Govern
ment workers. Technically, the
Preident has to file a claim with
the General Accounting Office
f. r services r ndered. However,
the GAO automaticaly prepares a
c aim at the end of each month
entitling the President to “not
more than $6,250 from the U. S.
Treasury.” The Treasury Comp
troller and th Treasurer of the
U. S. A. sign it and a special
messenger takes it to the White
House—$75,000 in the course of a
year. Government wouldn’t be
.government without red tap; and
the reason for this choice bit is
that the President has no super
ior officer in the Federal service
and all payrolls are supposed to
b. certified by superior officers.
New posters adorning the
Army central offices here enjoin
recruits: "Don't Tell War Secrets
—Don’t Tell Aunty and Uncle—or
C >usin Jane—Certainly Not Your
Girl.”
_
Proof undeniable "of Mr. Roos-e- I
velt’s good spirits even in these
parlous times was in his recep
tion of the engraved invitation
bidding "the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt to attnd and partici
pate in the inauguration of
Franklin Delano Roosvelet as
President of the United States.”
Scrawling a notation in the up- ,
per right hand corner of the in
vitation, he turned it ov.r to his
secretary: the notation read:
"Tell them I will go if I can ar- 1
range it. F. D. R. ”
FINANCIAL REPORT
ON NOME'S FAIR
A cal’:d meeting of the North
w s'.ern Alaska Fair Association
was held in the offices of Director
Palet with the following direct
ors pre'ent: Chas. D. Jones. Presi
d°nt, Dave Gray, Treasurer, A.
Polet, Acting Secretary and Mrs.
T u 11a Grant, Director. After the
r suing of the minutes of the
last meeting held on Oct. 23.
1940, the report cf the auditor
was read and on motion was p'.ac
ed on file.
The financial report received as
follows:
D c. 31, 1940
Paid up stock and
surplus . $2,440.06
Territorial aid. 1.000.00
Admissions ... 486.40
Premium book receipts 464.50
Concessions. 238.25
Interest earned . 23.13
$4,652.39
Miscellaneous expense 41.30
Labor and salaries ... 447.50
Printing and
advertising 648.80
Prize awards . ... 453.75
Material and supp i s 3.48
R nts . 225.00
Equipment . 1.25
Freight and drayage 2.00
E itertainment and music 96.65
Fo tage and telegrams 20.30
Inventories . 1068.40
C ish on hand 1643.776
$4,652.39
Net a-sets as shown $2712.16
Net profit last Fair $272.10
On motion bills for 60<' and
auditor expense $25 ord red paid.
On motion a meeting is called
for next Sunday 1:00 p.m. to re
ceive nominations and elections
of two directors to fill the unex
pired terms caused by resigna
tions.
At the next meeting steps will
be taken to organize for the 8th j
Annual Fair and to select the
date.
PLANE WILL CIRCLE
OVER ARMY DOGS
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First aerial contact with the
party of 10 army m n which left
Chilkoot Barracks last week be
hind 43 dogs with Fairbanks as
their destination, will be made
by a plane from Ladd Field as
soon as flying weather “breaks.”
Officers at the Cold Weather
Experiment Station said a plane
wi 1 fly south over the mushing
aarty as soon as skies promise an
unhampered roundtrip flight to
;heir position on the trail.
H aded by Major Charles Hart |
Ir. and Captain Avery Cochran, |
he detachment includes four
ion-commissioned officers and
irivates. The party is equipped
,vith three Yukon sleds and two
oboggans.
r - .“
Gesturing as he spoke, Joseph P. Kennedy, retiring ambassador to
Great Britain, told the house foreign affairs committee in Washing
ton when war came and parliament passed a bill in two houtrs
without debate “Democracy went out the window.” Kennedy, who
went through 280 air raids in London, was called to testify on the
British aid bill.
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Department of Commerce Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
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Continued cloudy with light snow tonight and Saturday morn
ing. Partly cloudy Saturday afternoon. Not much change in tem
perature tonight and Saturday. Colder late Sat. night & Sunday
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 29 Lowest temp — 24 Precipitation — 0.05
Total precip this month 0.05 Total since Jan. 1, 1941, 0.25
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight ........ —.—-- 26 74 ENE 21 Cloudy
lam —.— - -- —— - 28 98 E 17 Snowing
12.30 p m ........ - - —— - 27 94 SE 16 Snowing -4IT y
Tomorrow: Sunrise 8:25 a. m. Sunset 4:09 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 10 Lowest te mp — 5 Precipitation _ T
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