THE NOME NUGGET
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MF.MRER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS_
DR. TOWNSEND’S UN
PAID INCOME TAX
The tidy sum of $20,412 is
claimed by the Federal govern
ment as additional and unpaid
taxes on the 1936 personal in
come of Dr. Frances E. Town
send. The news does not reveal
on how much of that year’s in
oome the good doctor paid tax
es; but adding X to the amount
which he is now charged with
having failed to render account,
and the total must have been
very large indeed.
Dr. Townsend has had his ups
and downs in the matter of per
sonal income since he started out
with the promise to get $200 or
more a month for each and ev
ery “senior citizen,” but the to
tal take must have been enor
mous. No need to question the
honesty of such “earnings,” since
the money, once set moving kept
on coming in vountary flow. At
the same time it is a bit disheart
ening to realize that one of the
country’s big incomes is derived
from the pitably small means of
the country’s aged people.—Seat
tle Times.
ALASKA LEGION STANDS
BEHIND TERRITORIAL
NATIONAL GUARD MOVE
Alaska’s National Guard be
came the first promotional objec
tive of the American Legion’s
1941 program of “Americanism”
in the Territory.
Establishment and mainten
ance of a National Guard in the
Territory was endorsed .by the
Alaska Department of the Legion
as one of the major resolutions
passed during the 1940 conven
tion in Juneau last week.
Don Adler, Chairman of the
Americanism committee and im
mediate past department com
mander, made clear the Legion’s
stand on the defense body move
ment in a statement he carried
to his home Dorman H. Baker
Post No. 11.
Training Necessary
“The military power of a na
tion,” said the Legion official,
consists of the economic resourc
es of that nation converted into
such shape as to be used for mili-I
tary purposes. And the most im
portant resource is manpower.
That manpower, however, un
trained, is not a military power
but a direct liability. We must'
bear in mind that weapons of all
kinds . . . tanks, machine guns,!
airplanes, artillery and all other j
types of weapons are valuable
only to the degree of the train-,
ing of the men who use them.
“Uncle Sam can spend a billion
billion dollars on defense equip-1
ment, yet, if we haven’t the train
ed manpower to manipulate that
equipment of what use is it to
us?”
The Americanism chairman em
phasized the need for a standing
army, with the regular army and
the National Guard as principal
parts.
Preparedness Stressed
Said Adler:
“Alaska particularly needs a
National Guard, * consisting of
young men acquainted with con
ditions in the Territory. With a
good knowledge of the topo
graphy and weather conditions
Of the country, plus a good work
ing knowledge in the handling
of modern war equipment, an A1
aska National Guard will give us
the nucleus of ample protection.
“Parents must not entertain
the idea that sending a son into
the National Guard is the first
Step in sending him to war. Am
erica does not want war, and as
long as the people of these Unit
ed States have anything to say
about it we’re going to keep out
Of war. But we are living in an ,
era of war and it is impossible
for us to be sure that war won’t
be forced upon us by some ag- 1
gressor nation or nations. It may
happen in a short time ... it
may never happen . . . but should
it happen, our young men should
meet it . . . prepared!”
Conscription Eliminated
The Legionnaire pointed out
that National Guardsmen, hav
ing already signified interest in
the defense of their home areas
are eliminated from military con
scription, such as set forth in
the Burke-Wadsworth bill now
awaiting Anal legislative action.
General J. L. DeWitt, head of
the Ninth Corps Area has,
already notified Governor Er
nest H. Gruening that the Al
aska National Guard will not be'
called out of the Territory for
service.
KETCHIKAN GUARD IS
REVIEWED BY GRUENING
JUNEAU GUARD IS NEXT
Ketchikan’s National Guard
unit was officially reveiwed for
Federal recognition September
17th.
Gov. Ernest Gruening arrived
in Ketchikan by clipper from
Seattle on the 16th and a party
of Army and National Guards
men left Ketchikan on the Coast
Guard patrol boat Bonham to
conduct the review.
Leaving in the party were Ma
jor Jesse Graham, in charge of
organizing the Alaska National
Guard, his aide, Sergeant Bond,
Adjutant General Roy Mulvihill
and Capt. Bill Walthers. in com
mand of the Juneau company.
Major Hart, in command of
Chilkoot Barracks, came in with
Capt. Harrison from Haines on
the Fornance in time to connect
with the Bonham party.
The party will review the Ju
neau company and continue on
to Fairbanks and Anchorage.
O. J. EGLESTON LEAVES
FOR SALT LAKE
O. J. Egleston, vice president
and consulting engineer of the
United States Smelting, Refining
and Mining Company, with head
quarters at Salt Lake City, Utah,
and Mrs. Egleston left Fairbanks
Monday by plane for Juneau, en
route to Salt Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Egleston have
been in Fairbanks and vicinity
for several weeks during which
he spent much time in coopera
tion with other officials of the
company, and visited the opera
tions of the company in this area
New Dredge for Nome
He returned to Fairbanks sev
eral days ago from Nome. While
here he viewed the site being
prepared for another large
dredge which the company is
planning to install on the third
beach line, just beow the Bessie
bench, about three miles from
Nome on the Bessie road. The
new dredge will be of the most
modern type, with nine-cubic
foot buckets, and will add mater
ially to the placer gold produc
tion of the company’s present
dredge fleet.
Mr. Egleston, formerly in
charge of the company’s opera
tions for years, was transferred
to Salt Lake several years ago
when he was succeeded by Roy
B. Earling, present general man
ager and vice-president of the
U. S. Smelter’s activities in the
Fairbanks and other Alaskan
goldfields.
GOERING ON FLIGHT
OVER LONDON AREA
BERLIN, Sept. 16 <hP) —'Reich
Marshal Hermann Goering last
night flew over London at the
controls of a Junkers plane, au
thorized German sources said.
The plane was accompanied by
only two destroyer planes.
Returning to his air force head
quarters at an unnamed village
in Normandy, northwestern
France, Goering was quoted as
saying “I am glad I made the
airforce such a strong weapon.
It was the decisive force in Po
land and Norway and undoubt
edly will play a similar decisive
role in the war against England.
Write to ycur friends and rela
lives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
■tick out of it.
AS EUROPE LOOKED A YEAR AGO
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This is Europe as it was a year ago. before Germany had conquered Poland, Norway, Denmark,
The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, and before Russia's territorial acquisitions.
Diagonally shaded area is Germany. Dotted area is Russian.
THIS IS HOW EUROPE LOOKS TODAY
rhis is Europe today, after a year of war. Diagonally-shaded areas are under German domination.
Jotted area is Russian. Russia has taken portions of Finland and Rumania, and incorporated Lith
lania, Latvia and Estonia.
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