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The Arctic Club Announces
1940
NOME QUEEN
CONTEST
Tickets are on sale by the contestants and their friends.
Each ticket carries 100 votes for the Queen election and
the possibility of free air transportation to the Fairbanks
Carnival and return, with the Queen.
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The Queen's Wardrobe display in the Bon Marche window.
The Arctic Club will give the winning Queen, for her
wardrobe, $187.50.
Tickets $1.00 Tickets $1.00 Tickets $1.00
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ARCTIC SOFT DRINK PARLOR
Cigars Tobaccos Cigarettes
All Kinds of Soft Drinks
Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Fair and Continued old Tonight and Thursday
Data For 24 Hours Ending 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — -8 Lowest temp-26 Precipitation—0.00
Total precip this mo — 0.20 Total pricip since Jan. 1 — 0.66
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight . -27 36 Calm Clear
8am . -22 38 N-l Clear
12:30 p m . -13 43 E-l Clear
One Year Ago Today
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Highest temp — 29 Lowest temp — 23 Precipitation—0.01 i
Tomrrow; Sunrise: 8:01 am Sunset: 4:30 pm j
The Peninsula: Temp. Wind ..Weather j
Candle . -30 W-7 Clear,
Council . -21 WNW-25 Clear'
Golovin . -27 Calm Clear
Kotzebue . -48 Calm Clear
Solomon . -18 NE-15 Clear
Teller .-. -30 E-6 Clear
Wales . -30 NE-3 Clear
Weather Elsewhere: 1:00 am Nome Time ’
’ Temp. Wind Weather Precip.
Anchorage . 28 NE-6 Cloudy 0.00
PL Barrow . -10 N-20 Pt Cldy 0.00
Bethel . 42 N-3 Cloudy 0.19
Dutch Harbor . 17 • NW-20 Snow 0.00
Fairbanks . -17 E-3 Snow 0.00
Cordova . .. 35 SE-6 Rain 0.02
Juneau. -35 SE-6 Clear 0.00
WEATHER SYNOPSIS AND GENERAL
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This morning there is a well
defined area of low pressure
centered to the southeast of Ko
diak Island and much higher
pressure northward.
The winds are mostly north
erly over the entire Alaska;
cloudy weather with some light
precipitation along the entire
south and southeast coast and ex
tending northward into the
south central portion of Alaska.
Temperatures are generally well
below normal except along the
extreme south east coast.
Conditions are favorable for
fair and continued cold weather
during the next 24 to 36 hours.
Note: The data we have avail
able for forecast purposes is ex
tremely limited however we can
not see any definite prospects
for any great change from the
present clear and cold weather at
least for the next three days.
Suggestion* and Criticisms Invited
San Francisco-Golden Gate
‘Fair In ’40’ Ready To Go With
New Exhibits, Lower Prices
SAN FRANCISCO — Treasure
Island site of the Golden Gate
International Exposition will not
be discarded. It will be the scene
next summer of a “second edi
tion” of San Francisco’s World’s
Fair which closed last October
after an eight-months run.
Following months of negotia
tions during which reopening of
the Exposition often seemed im
possible satisfactory arrange
ments have been made with the
Fair’s creditors and a definite
scheme of operation has been
adopted for the summer.
Little change is anticipated in
the principal buildings which re
main intact and are expected to
require only very slight repairs.
Many exhibitors have agreed to
return for the “Fair in ’40,” and
some exhibits have been left in
place.
There will however be a change
in the general character of the
Exposition as contrasted with its
opening months in 1939. Greater
stress will be laid on large-scale
entertainment. Motion picture
and radio stars and famous jazz
bands which proved the biggest
crowd-pullers last summer will
be in evidence.
The motion picture industry
will take over one of the main
exhibits, and Hollywood show
manship will be given a chance
to demonstrate its skill at draw
ing box office receipts.
Billy Rose is expected to bring
a show similar to the ‘,Acqua
cade” which he put on at the
New York Fair and the manage
ment intimates that General Mo
tors may erect a display like the
one which drew such large
crowds there. These and other
new departures are expected to
make the “Fair in’40” more ani
mated than its “first edition” in
1939.
Admission probably will be
the same as formerly ('50 cents)
but there may be a decrease in
! the charge for parking space and
in tolls on the San Franeisco
i Oakland Bay Bridge leading to
the island. Special inducements
will be offered to schools and
large parties.
Much credit for devising a
plan satisfactory to the Exposi
tion’s ceditors—to whom it owes
more than $4,000,000—is given to
George D Smith, San Francisco
hotel men. He says an attend
ance ox 5,000.000 between the op
enirxg date on May 25 ox the clos
ing Sept. 29 will insure financial
success. Total attendance at the
fair in 1939 was approximately
10.000,000.
In place of the exhibits of It
alian and other old masters
which was for many an outstand
ing attraction of the Exposition
a comprehensive exhibit of Am
erican art is being assembled.
SOURDOUGH STATIONERY
That unique and humoroua,
md typical Alaskan stationery—
Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes”, have been
orougnt strictly uptodate, and are
mw available at the Nugget offi
ce.
THE FAN S CORNER
Times Batting
•Won Lost At Bat Runs Hits <Average
Commercials . 3 0 120 50 63 .567
Alaskans . 2 1 127 48 79 .622
Hammon . 1 2 119 49 66 .555
Nome . 0 3 109 38 51 .468
Tomgnt the baseball teams will play the first game of the
second half of the series. The following shows the standing of each
team for the first half:
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Ten Highest Individual Batting Averages
Kermit Rock—1.00
Andy Roberts—.889
Everett Jones—.875
Geo. O’Connor—.857
J. Cabimboy—.857
Tommy Givan—.765
H. Tyler—.750
Sammy Mogg—.750
Ralph Willoya—.714
Art Cabinboy—.706
MEN WHO ARE LEADING BATTLE FOR THE ALLIES
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These five French and British wartime leaders were pictured some where in France when the 'Grand Cross of the Legion cf lio^or was
Conferred upon Viscount Gort, British commander in France and upon Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside, British Imperial Staff chief. Left
to right, Gen. Ironside; General Alphonse J Georges of the French Army, Winston Churchill, British admiralty chief; Gen. Maurice
Gamelin, commanding Allied Armies, and General Gort.
GRENVILLE SEAMAN RESCUED MOMENTS BEFORE DESTROYER SINKS
•The bow of the British destroyer Grenville camouflaged with a b lending pattern which failed to save her is shown in this exclusive
photo (cablde from London to New York) shortly before she slipped into the water after she struck either a “mine or a torpedo” at
an undisclosed position while on war duty. The seaman clinging to the porthole was 'rescued but a moment before the vessel’s final
plunge. The Admiralty in announcing the loss said 81 lives were., lost.