Alaska Seems Ready and Alert to Meet
Sudden Red Attack, Says AP Writer
THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 , P.O. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
E. P. BOUCHER . Managing Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943. at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
TRICK OR TREAT ? _'
— - - - - -J -
HALLOWEEN
“Trick or Treat” is the most popular game tonight
as the children of the community make their rounds
with shopping bags for treats from their neighbors.
One teacher has made a suggestion worthy of ser
ous consideration. She has suggested to her pupils that
they have their fun, collect all the treats they can and
then, when they are finished, take their bag of goodies,
knock on the door of a needy family and leave it as a
“treat.”
FOREIGN STUDENTS IN AMERICA
There are now more than 30,000 foreign students
being trained in this country. This information that
.here is a record high in the number of students from
other lands being educated in the United States comes
from a report by the Institute of Foreign Education.
' While there are foreign students in every state in
the nation, the highest concentrations are found in Cal
ifornia and New York. Apparently, the most popular
American schools are the University of California, Col
umbia University, and New York University, each of
which has over 1,000 students from foreign lands in
he student body.
xYbout one-third of the foreign students are women
and the chief field of study for our foreign friends is
engineering. To be more specific, South Asians and
Near Easterners are apparently attracted to our engin
eering schools, while most European students are inter
ested in studying social sciences and the liberal arts.
Not only do students studying in America spend
snout $75,000,000 in this country a year, but we are
a No benefitted in that they get an opportunity to see
and know America, which in the end promotes the ob
jectives of peace and understanding.
Stratojets Being Produced
The Air Force has ordered upward of 1,500 B-47
medium jet bombers from the Boeing Aircraft Com
pany. The new contract extends Stratojet operations
at Wichita, Kan., to mid-1955. More than one of the
630-mile-an-4iour swept-wing six-jet planes are being
produced each working day by Boeing and more than
300 already have been delivered to the Air Force.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Our forefathers proved
that only a people strong in Godliness is a people strong
enough to overcome tyranny.”
Justice Dept Asked
To Probe $5,000,000
Unpaid Tax Claim
WASHINGTON, (/P)_Sen. Mar
tin (R-Pa) Thursday asked the
Justice Department to investigate
the settlement of $5,166,380 tax
claim for $295,000.
Martin sain in a letter to Atty.
Gen. James P. McGranery that
the claim was against the late
William Fox, film and theater
executive, for 1935 and “all prior
years.”
The senator said the claim in
volved taxes, penalties and inter
est and that from information he
acquired “it would appear that
the government could have re
covered the entire amount.”
Martin said that at the time of
the settlement in 1941 the FBI
decided Fox hed erred in report
ing the date of an important
stock transfer and that the trans
fer was not made until four years
after the date he had given. Mar
tin said the Internal Revenue Bu
reau knew of the FBI’s findings.
Martin said the compromise set
tlement was accepted by the then
attorney-general, Francis Biddle,
on Dec. 5, 1941, and the money
was paid to- the collector of inter
nal revenue in New York on Feb.
19, 1942.
Informed of Martin’s letter to
McGranery, Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue John Dunlap re
leased a letter to Chairman Wal
ter F. George (D-Ga) of the Sen
ate Finance Committee, of which
Martin is a member.
Dunlap’s lengthy letter, dated
i June 4, was similar in content to
Martin’s letter. It said that, before
the compromise settlement was
accepted, the Revenue Bureau had
“informal” advice that the trust
for Mrs. Fox was not executed
until 1935. It said that, while
legal memoranda and correspon
dence mention an FBI report, no
FBI report on the case apparently
was ever received by the Revenue
Bureau.
Dunlap said the Revenue Bu
reau settled for $295,000 because
it felt that was all that could be
obtained.
t __
Oregon Bonus Deadline
Oregon veterans or their next
of kin have only about one month
in which to' apply for the Oregon
bonus. The deadline is December
1. Service officers and others
coming into contact with veterans
or families of deceased veterans
are urged to publicize this fact as
much as possible.
Any applications filed after
December 1 will be invalid. The
constitutional amendment author
izing payment of the bonus is in
flexible in this respect. The state
legislature cannot extend the
deadline; it can be done only by
vote of the people, amending the
present constitutional act.
Applications filed by mail must
be postmarked on or before mid
night, December 1, and applica
tions filed in person must be re
ceived in the Salem or the- Port
land office of the Department of
Veterans’ Affairs before closing
time December 1.
For further information write
Department Service Office, Alfred
L. Zenger, Sr., Box 3051, Juneau,
Alaska.
The name “gypsy” is a corrup
tion of “Egyptian,” but there
seems to be no evidence that the
people had any special connec
tion with Egypt.
By Alton Fay <
Associated Press Military Affairs Writer
ELMENDORF 'AIR FORCE
BASE, Alaska, (JP)—Alaska, which
might be the first to feel a Rus
sian strike against the United
States, now seems ready for a
quick build-up of fighting men
•and warplanes to parry such an
attack.
Lieut. Gen. William E. Kepner,
chief of the combined ground, sea
and air Alaska Command, told re
porters Thursday he believes this
bastion point for northwest de
fenses of the nation is in a far
better condition of readiness than
•at any time since the end of the
war.
Even an initial look by visiting
newsmen at bases they flew over
enroute here appeared to confirm
this.
Here at this busy headquarters
and big airfield, in things which
may not be discussed in detail, an
•air of alertness for attack at any
moment is apparent.
Not at any installation in the
continental United States is pre
paredness so evident. There is no
huge force of either ground or
air troops based permanently in
Alaska. Nor is it either intended
or desired that there should be.
It was indicated some time ago
in Washington the plan was to
make Alaska thoroughly ready to
receive such forces almost instant
ly, but for reasons of strategy
and economy to keep them based
in continental United States ex
cept for rotational training or
maneuvers here.
That physical preparations for
such a program are now virtually
complete is apparent in new troop
housing, hangars, repair and ser
vice facilities -and huge airfields j
for handling the biggest bombers
and fastest jet fighters.
To get troops here in a hurry,
it is obvious the military depends
on a rapid airlift by a fleet of
multi-engined planes, and addi
tional movement of men and sup
plies over the Alcan Highway and j
by sea transport from west coast j
ports.
Alaska is the only place in the
world where the military of the
Soviet Union und the United States
can look across their back yard
fence at each other. Only 60 miles
of the Bering Strait separate the
mainlands.
In fact, a brochure of the Alas
kan Command points out “the
smallest distance separating North
America from Asia occurs be
tween Little and Big Diomede
Islands: on Little Diomede a pic
ture at Abraham Lincoln adorns
the schoolhouse, while on Big
Diomede, three miles away, the
schoolhouse contains a portrait of
I Karl Marx.
The Russians and Americans
are such close neighbors they can
hear what each other is doing.
Persons on American-owned St.
Lawrence Island, which is close
to the water boundary and to the
southeast corner of the Siberian
Peninsula, report they hear sounds
of explosions. Kepner did not
offer any explanation for the ex
plosions, nor did he appear to at
tach any grave significance to
them. They could be bombing
practice, gunfire training or dyna
miting for construction work.
Despite the powder keg possi
bilities in the close proximity of
the two nations long engaged in
a cold war, so far there has been
no known incidents except for
strong suspicion the Reds are oc
casionally making high-speed re
connaissance flights to see what
Americans are doing defensewise
in westernmost Alaska and the
Aleutian chain.
Alaska is one place where the
Soviets, lacking merchant marine
shipping to provide easy trans
port for an invasion, can literally
jump onto American soil.
Maps show that at one point
on the tip of the Siberian Penin
sula a Russian airfield is within
a few minutes flying time from
Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, and
that other Soviet airdromes, like
those at Chukotsky and Smidta
Bays, are within a couple of hours
flying time.
Kepner did not profess to know
what the Russians have ready or
can do. But he grants them the
assumption they are as well pre
pared for an air invasion as the
United States is in its airborne
program.
Less than half the sugar con
sumed in the United States goes
directly into the kitchen. Nearly
60 percent is sold to food manu
facturers.
; -----—
The Republicans
elected Roosevelt.
Now it's the
Democrats' turn.
— a—
CALL
MUNZ
AIRWAYS
for Dependable
Air Transportation
Main IDS
>, ■ ——*
r— ..-. ■ — s
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES
GE Vacuum Sweeper - GE Washing Machine
GE Automatic Roaster - GE Mazda Lamps
GE Hot Plate - Thor Gladiron
-•
Northern Light & Power Co.