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The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-05-31

CONTINUOUSLY PRINTED NEWSPAPER IN THE TERRITORY
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-05-31

MEMBER oF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23

sion of his address. Eternal viz ilance is the role which must be played by all those who own any thing in Alaska or contemplate acquiring anything. The Secre- tary in a statement made public last fall, referred to those of us who live in the Territory and have any interests here and who are alive to the dangers apparent on the face of his schemes and proposals, as a group of monopol ists attempting to preserve their monopoly, which, according to him, must exist through our own ership of one-half of one percent of the lands of the Territory"
 Faulkner said the congress was better attended this year than ev CT before and that exhibits of mining machinery and other mat erials topped everything in the past,
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
Corcoran Quits

Thomas G. Corcoran, dynamic political half of the famed Cor coran-Cohen brain trust team. is quitting his government job-but not the New Deal.
 In fact, he is going to be more active in it than ever. Tommy" as the President calls him, will resign from the FRC legal staff to become one of the generahssi- mos of the independent cam paign organization to be headed by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and Senator George Norris.
 This outfit will operate inde- pendently of the Democratic Ma tional Committee. It will set up it's own state committees and raise its own funds Corcoran will function in the organizations headquarters, located in the Ho- tel Roosevelt in New York City.
 One of the major activities of the organization will be a trans continental speaking tour by La Guardia and an extensive mid We5tsr campaign by Norris. Un- der plans already completed La Guardia will make major address es in Chicago. San Francisco, Los Angeles, and possibly Seattle Norris will tour Wisconsin, Min nesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Nebraska.
 Corcoran is entering actively into the campaign at the express request of Roosevelt. Until re- gently the braintruster was busy with REC legal matters inVolV- ing defense, but when it was de eided to set up the Progressive campaign organization, Corcoran was asked to take an executive position. Benjamin V. Cohen, his non-politcal sidekick is continu- ing in his government post as an Interior Department attorney.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
HOME ARTS CLUB ORDERS PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT

The Home Arts Club which Is the local chapter of the General Federation of Wcmen's Clubs has just closed it's third successful year as sponsor of the Nome Playfeld. It has spent several hundred dollars in graVelling this playfeld for the children of Nome moving the old equipment formerly at Barracks Square and adding new swings and trapeze rings.
 The past season the Club un- dertook a new angle of the pro- ject and maintained a part-time playfield supervisor, Mrs. Char les Esch who reports that attend ance average between thirty and forty children until the rainy sea son began, showing that the child ren and their parents responded favorably to this project.
 The Club is planning to have more supervision next year with play indoors on rainy days. More playfeld equipment has been or dered to be shipped on the first boat. This order includes new teetertotters, and a giant stride which is considered the most pop ular piece of playground equip ment made and used today.
 To date the Home Arts Club h3s raised through its annual 1amboree over a thousand dol lars, all of which has been spent on the playfeld. As long as the children have a place to play they are not in danger on the streets or in other places where they should not be.
 The 1940 Jamboree, to be held in November is in the hands of a committee who promise many new features of entertainment. ard a grand program.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
Civil Aeronautics Changes Name CAA To CAB

The initials CAA, which have become more and more familiar and important in Alaska as act ivities of the Civil Aeronautics Authority have expanded, are no more.
 The agency, is now known offic tally as the Civil Aeronautics Board. It is under the Commerce Department and its initials are CAB, according to Walter P. p ett, Assistant Director of Al aska.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
Statement of Ownership

Management. circulation, etc, required by Acts of Congress of August 24, 1912, and March 8, 1933 of The Nome Nugget pub Hshed tri-weekly at Nome, Alas ka, for October, 1940.
 Before me, a notary public in and for the Territory of Alaska, personally appeared Mrs. George George s. Maynard, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the publisher of The Nome Mug get and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and be lief, a true statement of the own ership, management (and if a daily paper the cireulation). etc, of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above cap ticn, required by the Act of Aug ust 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1883, embodied in section 537, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the re- verse of this form, to wit:
 l. That the names and address es of the publisher editor. man aging editor. and business manao srs are:
 Publisher, Mrs, George s. May aard. Nome. Alaska.
 Editor, Mrs. George s. May nerd, Nome, Alaska.
 Managing Edi.ar Mrs. George 8. Maynard, N.me. Alazka>
 B4zinass manager Mrs. George 5. Maynard. Nome Alaska.
 ?. That tbe owner is: If own - hg 3 corea.. .aa its name , address mast be ssated and a'-o immediately hereunder the a.ma# and addre=-e# of stocEb5Id ~ owning OF holding one per .s.t ar more af tafal amount of rk. IT not owned by a corpora .0. the names md addresses of as individual owners must be given If owned 59 a firm. cam asrv or other unincoaporatad ; concern, is name and address, 8s well as those of each inGiVid- #al member mus. be given1
 Estate of George s. Maynard, Nome Alaska; Russell c. May aard. Juneau, Alaska. ] 8. That the known bondhold- er= mortgages, and other secur- .ty holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds mortgages, or other securities are:
 None.
 Mrs. George s. Maynard
 Editor and Manager Sworn and subscribed before me this 3rd day of October, 1940
 w. J.. DOWD,
 Notary Public for
 the Territory of Alaska l (SEAL) My Commission expires
 May 9th, 1943.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
Faulker Takes Alaska's Fight
 To Mine Farley

Nearly 2,O00 delegates to the American Mining Congress, one of the most potent industrial groups in the United States, re- gently applauded a speech made by attorney H. L. Faulkner of Juneau when he presented to the congress the problems of Alaska under progressing withdrawals of land from public domain.
 Faulkner returned on the Aleu ton after several weeks in the States during which he attend ed the Mining Congress annual session at Colorado Springs talk ing his seat as delegate from the Alaska Miners Association.
 To this body, Whicr lawmakers consider one of the most power ful retarding influences in the path of ill-considered national legislation, Faulknr presented an argument that "the policy of the present Secretary of Interior is to use Alaska for experimental purposes and to experiment there with things which have been tried before and which com mon experience has demonstrat- ed to be impractical"
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23

Suggestions and Criticisms Invited
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
N O T I c E

The Pioneer Water Delivery has bought the Allyn Water Del livery. Appreciate past business and your future trade with PiO- neer Water Delivery.
 Cliff Allyn
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
N G T ! C f.

That unlque and humorous 5nd typIcal Alaskan stationery SCurdough Roa0houSe Letter eaas and EHpeIopeS' nave beer rougnl .lrlc>ly lp.odate. and are 5W aVaaah.- Il ne Nusge: otb
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED

Tho Nome Daily Nugget carries everal forms af prlNtne hia ar vonr eorve=, roe
 ogs. 'hawaro Q dr,ll No=' 'T'ui7r- 70--' lace, a.1 .,
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The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23

Save S2.0O by paying in ad- vance for your subscription.
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
Licensing System

The Department of Interior plan for instituting licensing system for Alaska mines, per hitting operation on a royalty basis without title also drew Faulkner's fire, as did the propoS ed measure in Congress, sponsor ed by IckeS, that would with draw all lands within 80 rods of any water in Alaska from public entry or location.
 Of this bi'l Faulkner said: "In the Territory with its 25,000 miles of coastline, where most of the settlements and Industries are on tideWater, with it's vas. system of rivers and streams, its millions of lakes, it is difficult to find land of any description which is not within 30 rods of some water"
 Eternal Vigilance
 Torill1~nr doclarod in co~elu-
The Nome nugget., 1940-10-23
ICKES POLICY

Faulkner held up as glaring e&. ample of Ickes policy the with drawal of approximately 2,000,- 900 acres in Glacier National Monument, where prospecting may be carried on only under re- strictive regulations of the De- partment.'
 The well known Juneau attor- ney also declared, The Secre- tary is contemplating reserva- tions of large areas in Southeast ern and Southwestern Alaska to be set aside to conduct expert ments on behalf of the Indians in canning salmon, at public eX- pense and under government su- pervision-at the expense of pri- vate industry already establish
The Valley settler., 1940-01-26

Somebody scid aomo thing about :- ono half the world not knowing what tho other half did, judging from some Of the questions wo receive from poo pic "Outsiden an convoncod this is true. Here is scrplo of the questions we receive. ------ "t.ro thcro cny noighbors nocr enough for fricndse "hct language do tho mos of the people speak? Arc thoro Gnv
 social gatherings whoro you can moot people? Do the pooplo of Ne.tCnuslC have automobiles? Do tourists visit l-otcnusk2 during the summer and do they buy things from tho fcrmors? How ofton do9s the mcil come ? Is thoro ska ting in the vintor? In sunraor. ere '. @.. there any ponds Wcrm onouFh to swim in? IS farm work done vi tn horsos or mulos or tractors? Do any Indicns or EsQuimoos live noor TatCnuSl1a? Do you sec ony people other then tho col onists?
The Valley settler., 1940-01-26

THE VALLEY SETTLER is published every Friday by tho Nc tcnuskG Valley Fcrmors Cooporo ting Association ct Tclmor, L1cslc. Ming. Editor: Mario ~ilson
 5ubscrLpt on rctos: @l,0o year By mail: IFS yocr Nailed anywhere: 10 z copy This p- DOT is issued for tho pur- pose of GiVing tnfornati tion end :: nows Of tho "ctgnuskc VGlloy Fermor s Cooperating Ls8ociction' s work, problon5, cccomp1 ishmonts, also, nows Of loce1 end ronorcl interests; end to fostGr the coCpcrc5iivo spirit of t2:o farmers of the 'c tcnu8kc Vclloy.
The Valley settler., 1940-01-26

Ihoro sooms to be . n epidemic
 of nCu401's flying around and
 mcny ere reported frcm people
 with tho shop worn remark, IT
 SEW it myself ", or NSo cnd so
 told m a,nd ho ought to know." Runora 5ro unvorif1oG reports
 in circulc tions. Tho noxt time somoOnc tolls you tho alctost" fairy t21o, verify th4 story boforo you DIS it on to donross your noigh0ora, especially if
 the story is critical end duma C. inG to our project. Remember this: only thoso who hcvo fcith in tho l3VFCh, fifth in this pro joct, end abouo eli fefth in themselves, coupled with tho do termination to asco it through, arc tho only. ones who cen roma in in this valley. 4hoso who lcck this faith will autome tica1ly eliminate thom- selves. Remember c1so, that all rumors ccn be checked on if ono will tcko tho trouble to do SO. Thoro arc no socrot contracts in connection with tho opcrct tion of any of tho units in Civic Contor.
The Valley settler., 1940-01-26

The good people Of this valley cro not being cheated end dofraud- cd. Guu h ru7ors Cro usue lily circulated by persons with .polit- 1c@ t.lnb itiOns end who wish to avoid Gctivo fcrm labor for thom- selves. Thoy gro looking for cn ocsy job; don't be thoir goat. If you ollow such ( person or persons to rule end contro1l tho mcna gemcnt of your cffc irs, don' t cry ovor the consequences thct follow.
 Poisonous rumors cen end should be quickly s%sprossed. If you hoar s0mo thing which cppocrs plausible end which you cannot lightly forgot; invos S; to an d sGtI3IJ your solf. Don't pcs8 it on for the truth until you know it 1S the truth.
 Tho most nonossary thing ct the proscrt ti.oo is cooperation. Oar . @0D1r;,tiv bcnd wcGon is tc@po2> r-7T still stuck in mud hclo5 VIC cannot climb on ond ride until we hcvo pushod. ::*
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Norris Fears 7, Y, A,
Would Be Spy Victim
Under Civil Service
Power Trust Agents
Could Get Jobs There and
Sabotage Work, He Says

Spies of the power trust" could
get jobs in the Tennessee Valley
Authority and have access to the
records, if the force there were put
under the competitive civil service,
Senator Norris, Independent, of Ne
braska today told the Senate Civil
Service Committee.
The Nebraska veteran, author of
the T. V. A. Act, appeared before
the committee to urge that the Au-
thority-at least during the period
of conStruction-be permitted to re-
tain its independent personnel ma
chinery instead of coming under the
provisions of the Ramspeck civil
service extension bill, which would
make thousands of exempt positions
eligible for civil service status.
Senator Norris was warm in his
praise of the T. V. A. personnel set
up. declaring that the Authority "is
the only organization in the United
States that has the idea CT civil
service running from top to bottom.
1t is better civil service than is pro-
vided by law"
Explains His Fear.
His reference was to the fact that
members of the T. V. A. Board
must believe in the wisdom and
feasibility" of the act, and that
there is prohibition against politi-
cal considerations figuring in ap-
pointments or promotions of the
staff by the board, with removal the
penalty for violation.
Explaining that he expected to see
the construction period last three
years, the Senator said:
I'VE ought not to make it possible
for spy of what I have demon
strated as the power trust to get
into the T. V. A. through civil
service.
1t would be possible, he explained,
for an emissary of the trust to pass
an examination and get on an Au-
thority job where the records would
be readily available. There might
be great injury and sabotage" he
said.
Norris Questioned.
Chairman Bulow asked what ef-
feet Senator Norris thought an "ad-
verse administration" might have on
T. v. A. affairs and Senator Mead,
Democrat, of New York, got laugh
by asking Senator Norris ito turn
over in your mind the names of
some of the candidates who have
been suggested" when answering
the question.
Even though it were an adverse
administration, I cannot conceive
of any President violating the law
as he would be by trying to put in
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Star Staff Photo.

now that the fighting forces in Eu-
rope find themselves sorely in need
of tin the city is liable to become
part of the general land grab, ac-
cording to Mr.. Smith. 1t would
naturally 60, of course, to Japan.
Wife Helped.
Opium dealers, pirates who come
from a long line of pirates, mur-
derers and witch doctors of various
kinds figure iE the narrative that
Nicol Smith tells as he sits in front
OF the fireplace in the home of his
Wife's mother out on Reservoir road.
Mrs. Smith has accompanied her
husband on most of his trips-and
gave him a helping hand in gath
ering much of his material, he ad-
mitted. They have been married now
two years and hope to set up new
all high record for travel.
Born in San Francisco, son of
the oil magnate, Robert Hays Smith,
the boy Nicol got started on his
world ramblings when he was Just
out of high school. Then he went
to Europe and padded his way
down the beautiful blue Danube, the
entire length of it. Next year he
had himself hoisted over the cliffs
OF the Pindus Mountains-and he
swan the Hellespont.
Touch and Go.
From that time on it was touch
and 60 with Nicol Smith. He has
been to the colony at Devils Island
through the wilds of Dutch Guiana
and has explored the Island of
Hainan. What he likes best. though
are the experiences he had from the
time he hit Haiphong, the port of
entry in North Indo-China, where
began the trek of the Burma road,
Strange, too, in Canton, Mr.. Smith
met with strange character who
helped nightly in making the
whole trip successful. This was a
Langyal named Wang Yal-a high
religious man-who was on his way
to Hong Kong to buy silks and
brocades for the coronation of the
young Emperor recently crowned.
The Langyal, it developed, had been
schooled in England and spoke better
American than most New Workers..
Some time, If I can find time
Mr.. Smith said yesterday, I'D like
to sit down and tell you all about
that trip along the Burma road
but the best I can do is invite you
to one of my lectures"
Last night the explorer talked be-
fore members of the Women's Ma
tional Press Club. This evening he
will be the guest of Mrs. Gilbert
Grosvenor at an informal talk be-
fore private club.
Evening star., 1940-04-23

Britain says that 26 German trans
ports and supply ships have been
sunk or scuttled and 10 more hit
by torpedoes and probably sunk.
An informed naval source said
the British submarines Sea Lion,
Snapper and Sunflsh, which recently
returned home, had sunk 9 and pos
slbly 10 German ships totaling be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 tons, in
Guiding some troopships.
These sinking were said to have
brought Germany's total merchant
shipping losses since the start of
the war to 451 900 tons.
In addition to the latest German
losses, this source listed eight Nazi
ships totaling 52,1O8 tons "believed
to have been sunk" at Narvik on
April 9.
The same sources said that the
254-ton German ship Rhein had
been captured by a British warship
April 20, and that the 4,465-to
Torgen Fritzen was reported sunk
off Stockholm, possibly by a mine" i"
The ships sunk recently by British
submarines were listed as:
April 13, an unnamed ship of
about 5000 tons; April IA, an un-
named ship of about 5000 tons, and
one on convoy; April IS, four ships
In convoy.
Merchant Ships Sunk.
German merchant ships sunk at
Narvik were listed as:
Jan Wellem, 11,776-ton oil refin-
cry vessel; Neuenfels, 8,O96 tons;
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Is Ho|dups Held Solved
By Arrest Of ; Youths

At least Is holdups have been
solved by the arrest of three colored
youths, who were rounded up fol-
lowing shooting match with police
last week, it was announced today
by 1t. John Fowler, head of the
robbery squad.
The trio probably netted $4,000
for their criminal activity over a
period of three months, Fowler said.
The robberies they committed
brought $40 to $120 each, he stated.
Two of the youths were cornered
in a house on Sixth street NV. on
Saturday. a short time after they
had held up liquor store in the
1400 block of Ninth street NV,
police said. Police had narrowly
missed catching them twice Friday
evening, the boys escaping after ex-
changing shots with the officers.
The third bandit was arrested later.
Evening star., 1940-04-23

pre-war fleet of 1876, the statement
said.
The German casualties, as listed
by Britain, have been both of the
Reich's two 26,000-ton battleships,
two of her three pocket battleships.
both of two heavy cruisers, all six
6-inch gun cruisers with which she
started the war and IL surface and
torpedo craft.
The battleship Scharnhorst was
reported damaged by the Renown
and the sister ship Gneisenau was
reported sunk off Oslo. The pocket
battleship Admiral Graf Spec was
scuttled and the Admiral Scheer tor
pedoed, the statement said. Ger
many has acknowledged loss of the
heavy cruiser Blucher and the other
one was torpedoed in December, the
British say.
The Germans acknowledge loss of
the 6000-ton Karlsruhe, another was
hit by a torpedo in December, and
still another was sunk, according to
the British statement. British air.
craft were said to have sunk another
light cruiser off Bergen and hit an
other with a heavy bomb. The re-
naming vessel of the 6-inch gun
class, the Emden, was reported sunk
by the Norwegians.
Germany had As surface and tor
pedo craft at the start of the war.
of which only % were modern de-
stroyers, the British statement said,
adding that the German high CON-
mand in March said that two de-
stroyers we're lost. The British say
eight modern destroyers were sunk
at Narvik, one bombed at Trond-
helm April 4, and another probably
hit in the same raid.
Dent in U-Boat Fleet.
Britain claims to have made a
big dent in the fleet of 10 submarines
with which London estimates Ger
many started the war. In addition,
Evening star., 1940-04-23
DC. Wage-Hour Problems
To Be Subject Of Forum

An open forum dealing with wage
and-hour problems of workers in
the District will be held at 8:l5
o'clock tonight by the Women's
Trade Union League in the Y. w. c.
A., Seventeenth and K streets NV.
The meeting is sponsored by Local
No. 81, United Office and Profess
sional Workers of America, c. I. O.;
Hotel and Restaurant Workers, A. F.
of L.; Laundry Workers, C. l. O.,
and the Domestic Workers Union
independently. All District Office
workers are invited to attend, it is
announced.
Speakers are to include Mrs. Will
liam Kittle, chairman of the Dis
trict of Columbia Minimum Wage
Board, who will discuss The Work
of the Minimum Wage Board and
Proposed Changes in the Hours
Law; David Ziskind of the Depart
ment of Labor, who will speak on
the proposed minimum wage law for
men, and Miss Louise Stitt of the
Wage-Hour Division of the Depart
ment of Labor, whose subject will
be AN Hours Law for Domestic
Workers"
Evening star., 1940-04-23

Aachen, 6,388 tons; Altoona, 1892
tons; Helm Hoyer, 5,S36 tons; Book
enheim, 1902 tons; Martin Hendrix
Fisser, 4,879 tons, and Frieljnhaus,
4,339 tons.
British merchant losses during the
last week were said to be limited to
the Swainby, 4935 tons; Mersey,
1,037 tons. and Hawnby, $3.50. These
sinkings, it was said, brought the
total British losses for the war to
672.778 tons.
In last nights fighting off the
Thames and Humber estuaries
searchlights swept the sky over this
strategic southeast coast and ground
batteries thundered. Flashes, as of
exploding bombs. were seen at sea.
When the noise of battle died down
souvenir hunters went out to pick
up shell fragments along the coast.
German bombers also were re-
ported to have tried to raid the
Orkney and Shetland Islands north
of Scotland, but were said to have
been driven off by pursuit planes
before any bombs were dropped.
Sir Charles Craven, a prominent
figure in the ornaments industry,
has been named a full-time civil
member of the British Air Council
for development and production, the
Air Ministry announced last night.
At the same time, a communique
from 10 Downing Street announced
appointment of vice chiefs to "re-
lieve the strain on chiefs of the
three lighting stats who are on a
24-hour basis.
The new chiefs, who will be men,
bers of the board of the Admiralty,
the Army Council and the Air
Council, respectively, are:
Naval, Vice Admiral Tom S. v.
Phillips; Imperial General Staff, Sir
John G. Dill; Air Staff, Air Marshal
r. E. c. Peirse.