THE N OM E NUGGET
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EDITORIAL
ALASKA'S PROBLEM
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
It is difficult at this distance to
pass satisfactory judgement upon
the merits of the dispute between
the management of theMatan
uska colony and those settlers
who refuse to make payments on
their farm properties, under the
terms of their contracts.
It is evid nt that some of the
colonist are doing quite well and
that others, partly as a result of
having undertaken too heavy an
indebtedness are having rather
serious difficulties.
The Alaskans themselves are
in a better position to determine
where the blame lies and to seek
suitable adjustments.
And it would be well if the
residents of the Territory were
to devote some attention to this
issue.
Many sections of Alaska are
experiencing a trem ndous boom
from defense operations. But Al
aska needs a much better round
ed development than can be pro
vided by either temporary con
struction or permanent military
activities. It needs more diversi
fication in general and more ag
riculture in particular.
The Matanuska project was
planned as an experiment. To the
extent that it encourages future
developments it will help Alas
ka. If it is permitted to degen
erate into a failure through un
seemly quarrels it will be defin
itely harmful to Alaska’s future.
Alaska has long clamored for a
greater degree of self-govern
ment and voices have been raised
from time to time asking for
statehood.
We believe that more self
government is indicated. And the
mo'‘ helpful step that A ask an s
could take toward this end would
ibe to settle their local difficult
ies to the greatest extent that is
possible und r present regula
tions. The problems of Matan
uska strike us as one subject on
which we hnuld have the reason
ed judgement of Alaska’s citi
zens and the territorial officials.
NOT ESSENTIAL?
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
It is not enough that Britain's
horrors of war increase from
without. The Board of Trade has
added to them from within. In
one of its priorities rulings it has
decreed that the sale of corsets
shall be limited to half of last
year's volume on the ground that
th garment is non-essentia1.
That there have been protests
is not surprising for the ruling
strikes at the very fundamentals
of a large and important sector
of the populace. Even the British
willingness to take punishment
in silence is not enough to cover
this case. They can tolerate phys
ical terror and destruction but
they will admit no tampering
wi'h esthetic principles. They in
sist cn retaining the symbols as
well as the substance of civiliz
ation. They insist also that the
Board of Trade is not a compet
ent judge of corsets, that because
of its sheltered life it still thinks
and speaks of corsets in terms
tha:. apply to the ironsides grand
ma wore, of garments that weigh
ed four pounds instead of the
modern models that weigh four
ounces and consume none of the
steel the board is trying to con
serve. No four-ounce flimsy
would be the subject of haggling
in peacetime but when defense
is at stake nothing can be over
looked.
Thomas W. Lamont, partner of
J. P, Morgan and Company: “It
is not for the businessman to at
tempt to initiate the nation’s for
eign policies.”
Tiger Pitcher Fred
Hutchipson Praise
Alaska Magazine
Freddie Hutchinson, who pitch
es for the Detroit Tigers n the i
American League spent an hour J
today absorbed in his copy of,
the January issue of The Alaska1
Sportsman magazine.
“It’s a beauty!” he said. "It’s a j
winner in any league.”
In Ketchikan for a short visit, '■
Hutchinson is enthusiasic about
Alaska and The Alaska Sports
man, he says is the tops for in
terest in portraying this country.1
“That cover picture in full col s
or is one of the most beautiful J
views I have ever s;en,” Freddie |
remarked. “With country like
that in Alaska, I’d like to stay
here myself.
"And after reading the story
about farming around Cook In
I let ‘The Green Slopes of Homer’
it’s calLd, I d almost like to buy
a farm there too, even though
farming out* is something a ball
player doesn’t usually like to
talk about.”
Freddie was equally impressed
with the other stories and pic
tures in the January issue. After
r.ading A B Denman’s story
“White Sheep and Grizzly
Bear,” he said he hopes he can
do some hunting himself, maybe 1
next year.
“All in all." Freddie conclud- '■
ed "this January Sportsman is a
dandy, and I’ll bet people all ov
i er th? States would want to take j
; the Sportsman just to learn more
I about Alaska if they only knew
the magazine. It’s Okay. All hits
—no errors!”
Rising Price
Of Rice lias
Brought Crisis
HONG KONG, Dec. — A Jap
anese military official quoted
what was assert.dly a dispatch
from London that the Chungking
government was facing an acute
shortage of supplies.
The Japanese official asserted
that the information was that th:
rising price of rice had created
a grave political crisis for the
Chungking r gime. The official
claimed that the Chungking gov
ernment had prohibited public
gatherings because of fears of
rioting. It was also asserted that
the Chungking government in
tructed ail Chinese army and po
lice officers to intensify th ir su
pervisory activities in the light
f the asserted crisis.
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V. S. Iron Embargo
Slits Japanese
NEW YORK, Dec. — The Do
mei Japanes news agency de
clared in a broadcast from Tokyo
that the United States Govern
ment's extension of the export
licensing system to iron ore, pig
iron and certain steel products is
"regarded as h:r new economic
measure expressly aimed at Jap
an.”
“Newspapers have unanimous
ly pointed out that the appoint
ment of Admiral Nomura as Am
bassador to Washington first ap
peared to bring about a decrease
in tension, but this has not re
su t d in any modification of the
attitude of the United States Gov
eminent.”
$ E M A T 6 R—Named by
Nevada’s governor to succeed the
late Sen. Key Pittman, Berke
ley I.. Bunker (above). 34,
state assemblyman from Las
Vegas, will fill out a term end
ing early in 1941. He's a bishop
in the Latter Day Saints church.
FORFEITURE NOTICE
To Chas. Olsen, his heirs, ex
ecutors, administrators and as
signs.
You and each of you are here
by notified that I have expend
ed during the y ar ending July
1st, 1940, two hundred dollars in
labor and improvements upon
the Sand Hill Association Placer
mining claim, situated on the
right bank of Snake River about
three and one-half miles north
westerly from the mouth thereof
and th town of Nome in the
Cape Nome Mining and Record
ing District, Territory of Alas
ka, in order to hold said mining
laim under the provisions of U
S. C. Tit. 30 Sec. 28, and amend
ments thereto concerning annua]
'abor upon mining claims, being
‘he amount required to hold said
claim for the period ending July
1st, 1940.
And if, within nip ty days af
ar the publication of this Notice
v. u fail to contribute your pro
aor’ion of such expenditure as a
co-owner, which amounts to one
hundred d liars, your interest in
aid mining claim will become
the property of the subscriber,
tiur co-owner, who has made
th; required expenditure to hold
said claim.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, the
3th day of December. 1940.
John Carlson, Co-owner
Publish Doc. 6 13 2! 27, 1940
Jan. 3 10 17 24 31, Feb. 7 14 21
28, 1941.
S I C N ON LIN E—Some 200,000 federal emergency agency
employes will be added to civil service lists by Ramspeck bill
signed by F.D.R. Left to right: Rep. Robt. Ramspeck (D-Ga.),
Sen. James Mead (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jennings Randolph (D-W’.Va.).
Salko Finds His
Trip East W as
For Naught
RICHMOND, Va„ Dec. —
Paul Satko who gained fame
when he sailed to Alaska with
his wife and seven children in
his home-made craft “The Ark"
, said that he learned in Washing
ton, D. C. that his 4.500 mile
trip from Juneau to the capital
was entirely unnecessary.
Satko came here to ask the gov
; ernm nt to open new land to
homesteading at Juneau so that
he can make a farm for himself
i and his farni'y which now con
sists of eight children. He said
i he learned that he could have ac
'eomplished the same end by ask
ing the Forest S rvice at Juneau
I to classify the land he desired
as suitable for agriculture.
On the way back to Alaska,
Satko said he p’ans to stop in
Seattle to give authorities a
chance to do anything they wish
in connection with his disregard
of a Seattle court order last Ap
ril wh> n he sailed for Alaska se
cretly in disregard of the order.
“I am not going there looking
for trouble but if they're going to
do anything I would rather have
it happen while I’m alone so the
who e family won’t be tied up,’’
Satko said.
Satko avoided Seattle on his
way ast from Juneau passing
through Vancouver only. He
built his Ark on the eas. coast,
took it across the nation by auto
mobile for the trip to Alaska
where he sought new opoortunit
ity for himself and his family.
They have been residing in Ju
neau ever sino:.
T ie Seattle juvenile court for
aid Satko to depart for the Al
aska trip after the boat had been
lermed unseaworthy and top
heavy by Washington authorities.
He sailed secretly desite the or
der.
Pays Alimony
With His Blood
• CHICAGO —Thomas Donohue,
42. must contribute blood in lieu
of alimony under the terms of a
divorce agreement.
The unusual pact was approv
ed by Judge Joseph Sabath who
said that it would be made part
of a divorce decree issued.
Mrs. Anna Donohue brought
-uit for divorce charging h r hus
ba-d with chronic drunkenness.
Her attorney. Charles Grodmdn,
asked Judge Sabath to order tern
porary a imeny paid at once be
cause Mrs. Donohue was ill and
needed a blood transfusion.
Judge Sabath, perhaps the na
tion’s mo?: famous d vorc court
justice, turn, d to D no hue and
said:
“Ycu arc a big s’rappirg fel
low. Why don’t you be the don
nr for your wife’s transfusion?
Besides it might bring you two
;ogether again.”
“It would bring them together
in bedy, but not in spirit com
mented Attorney Gradman.
“And speaking of spirits,” in
erjsct d Mrs. Donohue, "I don’t
want any of his alcoholic trans
fusions.”
Under !!*> agreement subse
quon Iv reached. Mrs. Donohue
w;i> undergo a transfusion at the
Cook county hospital, drawing
on the blood reserves there. Don
ohue th n must donate blood to
the hospital “blood bank."
15,522 Civilians
killed in United
Kingdom, 3 Mos.
c
LONDON. D. c. — Civilian air
raid casualties in the United
Kingdom in November totaled
4,588 dead and 6,202 injured, it
was announced officially. The to
tal for the three months period
September, October and Novem
ber was 15,522 dead and 24,620
wounded.
Hiram Johnson, U. S. Senator
from California: “The idea of
unity is a hold-ov r from the
hysterics of the last few months."
Carlo Sforza, former Italian
dip. mat: “Art is, in its essence,
indtvidua istic and free. Other
wise it is not art.”
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Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox took off in a n vat plane from the Naval air station at Anacostia
n a flight which his office said would take him to Jacksonville and Key West an 1 the Panama
Canal. Members of the party were, left to right: Aumiral F J King of the Navy’s genera board:
Col. Knox; Rawleight Warner, Chicago, personal Irirn'l of Knox, and Capt. M L Deyo, aide to Knox
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This lG-inch gun is one of the defenses the United States maintains near the pa p.
Panama Canal. It’s being inspected here by a party that included Gov <sa„, u e,‘t,ante to the
v»<*v. sam Houston Jones of La.