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The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27
SOVIET BASES SPUR EFFORT TO ARM ALASKA

WASHINGTON Reports that Russia has established naval and air bases near the Aleutians, con gressional sources said are be- hind the intensified efforts of the United States army to strengthen the defenses of Alaska.
 Informed legislators said they understand that the army has de finitely confirmed reports that Russia constructed bases on the Siberian coast, less than 100 mil eS from American-owned islands in the Aleutians which extends southWestWard from the Alaskan mainland.
 They indicated that General George C. Marshall chief of staff, will be questioned on this point when he testifies before a senate committee on the army's request for more than twelve million dol lars for a strategic air base at Anchorage.
 Senators Schwellenbach of Washington, Johnson of Califor- mia, Hill of Alabama, and Rey- holds of North Carolina already have publicly announced their full support for the Anchorage base.
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27

and Criticisms Invited
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27
EDITORIAL
TIME TO GUARD ALASKA
Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

The vigorous stand taken in Seattle by Governor Ernest Gruening of Alaska in behalf of the proposed army air base at Anchorage properly emphasizes the importance that responsible authorities are giving to this pro ject.
 Several weeks ago, when the House appropriations committee recommended the elimination of this base, The Post Intelligencer remarked upon the evident lack of knowledge of conditions in the North Pacific displayed by this group.
 Every development since that date argues for the strongest pos sible defenses in Alaska.
 It Is common knowledge that the Soviet Union has fortified two islands of the Komandorski (Com modore) group. These fortifca- tions lie only 26 miles northwest erly from Attu Island in the Aleu- tianS.
 What is less well known is that during several months a large group of German submarine com manders, other German naval ex- perts and technicians have been dividing their time betceen Vlad livestock, where the Russians are reputed to have a large f1otila of submarine, and at the Roman dorski Notifications.
 Japan is reported to be build ing from five to eight capital ships, which may place it's battle fleet above that of the United States, and larger type submar- ines, with a cruising radius of from l2,O00 to 15,000 miles.
 The British decision to prevent supplies from reaching Germany via Vladivostock apparently hast ems the day when Pacific war will break into the open.
 It is impossible to tell whether Japan and the Soviet Union will be aligned as allies or as enem- ie.s. In either case to keep Alaska ur defended when war Is being wzged in the North Pacific would be to tempt fate.
 Alaska must be neither a Fin Iand nor a Norway. The Navy will remain it's first line of de- fense and the air patrol bases at Sitka and Kodiak will be vital in this connection. But if the United States fleet were engaged else where a defensless Alaska, with its islands much nearer to Jap anese and Russian fortified posi- lions than to any American de- lenses, would be too tempting a xnorsel. The best safeguard again et involvement in any information al dispute in the Pacific is to pro tect Alaska adequately.
 That is the purpose of the An cga9- t9e air base
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27

Earl March, chief clerk of the Railway Mail service says there will be no air mail service be- tween Fairbanks or other Alas ka points and Canadian cities by way of the Yukon Southern Air Transport, Ltd.
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27
POSITION WANTED

COlOred woman wants work as cook on the creeks. Inquire Mug get Office.
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27
FOR SALE

Residence and restaurant build ing fully equipped. Inquire John White or Nugget Office.
The Nome nugget., 1940-05-27
FOR SALE

Family size Apex Refrigerator in good condition. Inquire George P. Madsen.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Ara college in the Middle West not long ago,
~ saw very clever girl play Camille. After
- - ward she asked, DO you know how l could
get chance at a part like this in New York;
NO." answered, but Ill tell you how another
actress did She entered a school of the theater
when she was thirteen years DID, and remained there
four years. Then she appeared in minor dramatic
role, and failed dismally. So she went into light
opera, and failed again. After twenty-five years of
study and playing tiny parts. and then more i'm
portant ones, she played Camille in New York and
achieved lasting success. Her nane" concluded
was Sarah Bernhardt."
What the hundreds of thousands of young people
who about to graduate from our high schools and
colleges need most. perhaps is the advice my grand
mother gave me in my boyhood. Learn to walk
before you rrn," she used to say. The world
wasn't made in minute nor the people who keep
it moving. The worst ignorance is not knowing how
much there is to know
Naturally, youth is eager and impatient 1t is the
young thoroughbreds that have to be held back at
the starting line; the old-stagers know how long the
track is, and how great the effort and endurance
required between the start and the end of the home
stretch. The late Rennold Wolf elaborated with
me in writing ten musical comedies; often, when we
had toiled all night single line he would remark
Cheer up old boy if it easy, everybody it,"
think our young thoroughbreds should remem
Der that, and be oomforted by it. If business, or
industry or literature, or art, or the professions
demanded 50 little that one could carry his sheepskin
straight to gene1al-managers desk, or the heights
of Parnassus, or the Supreme Court. captains of
industry would be earning five dollars day. and
Parnassus and the Supreme Court would be 50
crowded that there wouldn't be room for newcomers
anyway. Moreover, those 'at the top wouldn't be
able to stay there long.
American colleges and secondary schools turn out
hundreds of thousands of boys and girls every year,
and there aren't that many important posts at the
top. The equally bright boy or girl who was grad
uated last year. or the year before, must have his or
her chance. It's process of elimination: the survival
of the fttest not the fittest - and one doesn't
acquire fitness in moment, or year, or four years.
one did most of life would be static and the world
would soon be like the navy of a Central American
republic in which l spent part of my youth all
captains and no crew.
HAD written more than two hundred stories before
l sold my first one I had worked three months
without pay on The Washington Post" before
became cub reporter at 50 week. Don Marquis
and Garet Garrett and a lot of other lads who got
somewhere were my colleagues at only slightly higher
Evening star., 1940-06-09
WHATS YOUR HURRY?
BY CHANN|NC POLLOCK

wages. When was dramatic critic of The Washing
ton Times" - at seventeen Il discovered that l
should review the initial performance in America
of "Cyrano de Bergerac." devoted the whole sum-
mer to studying Rostand, and invested my life's
savings just under $500 - in trip to Paris to see
Coquelins Cyrano
After Richard Mansheld's opening performance
in America, l put all had learned into column
and my salary was raised 81 week! In diary,
noted, MY first STEP" 1t was too.
Meanwhile, had read hundreds of plays, for
gotten everything but the plots, made my own
scenarios from these, compared them with the
original treatments and observed my mistakes
After that, l told manager what thought was
wrong with his last act, and he said, why don't you
write better one?" did Sixteen months later he'd
produced my first play. Opportunity knocks every
day, but you've got to be ready when you open the
door.
/ HE same thing must be true of most other jobs
Success. like heaven in the old poem. is not reached
at single bound but we build the ladder by which
we rise. If we put initial energy and enthusiasm
into building rather than leaping we shall go higher
and stay longer.
George r. Beach. Jr., personnel manager of the
Du Pont Company. recently said that the college
graduate of today has better prospects than his
father and the better his college record the better
his prospect but added that his chief obstacle to
success was impatienoe. Accustomed to being pro-
NOTED at the end of each year. he said the college
man expects to proceed afterward at the tempo
He should be prepared for long probationary
period, during which he acc,mulates experience and
strikes his roots Deep
However, as Mr.. Beach remarked, having passed
from freshman to graduate in four years, frequently
the youth doesn't understand why he shouldn't pass
into an executiveslip in four more That transition
took MIR. Beach twelve years - which isn't long 1t
appears long, of course on Graduation Day. when the
world seems your oyster, to be swallowed at gup.
But there's half a century ahead of you on Gradua-
ton Day and half century would be tiresome
time to learn nothing and achieve nothing, if you
found it all waiting for you outside the college doors
If could pass on only one precept to American
Youth. it would be Josh Bllings's advice Consider
the postage stamp my son: its usefulness consists in
the fact that it sticks to thing until it gets there
Or. perhaps, the story of the Englishman, who was
asked how he got 50 beautiful lawn, and replied,
'Oh, quite simply we merely watered and fertlized
it for three hundred years."
You don't have to wait three hundred years, or
thirty. but suppose you keep your shirt on. and the
sleeves rolled up, for the first ten!
Evening star., 1940-06-09

CLAIMING POLLOCK. At 60. Claiming
Pollock is a successful author, lecturer and
playwright. But he never hesitates to admit
the poverty and hardship of his early years.
MY best luck, =" he said, lis that l never had
any luck l did not make for myself" Read his
article on this page and the meaning of that
sentence becomes dystal-clear
directly to the job problem of thousands of
Americans. we present it this week in place of
our regular job article by Lyle NJ. Spencer.
Next week, Mr. Spencer will be back with an
important new article, Which Job Shall
Choose?"
CLUE. While on an underwater treasure hunt
off the Isle of Pines last summer, Captain
John Craig, the deep-sea photographer. found
nineteen large cannon, two heavy anchors and
t,oo small cannon or bomb throwers. They
were all heavily encased in coral and only the
smaller pieces could be raised with the equip
ment at hand. Members of the expedition got
one of these to land and, after chipping off
the coral, found that the cannon itself weighed
76O pounds, and the chocks another 45O. They
also found that the gun had ''P" engraved
on it.
This may prove clue to something more
than just piece of treasure Two ships of the
United States Navy have sailed from a port
and vanished - nothing, not even a trace
of them, has ever been found One ship was the
U.S.S. Cyclops, collier, which left Barbados.
West Indies, in 1918 and disappeared with
3O9 aboard. The other ship disappeared sixty
four years before. 1t was the U.S. SIoop of
War Albany, and here are some facts about it.
In 1854, the Albany left Panama for New
York and simply dissolved from sight A new
type of bomb thrower was being tried out at
that time, but only six of them were ever
made. 1t was called the Paixhans Bomb
Tmow1 = and. according to Navy records,
the Albany carried too of them.
OPEN ROAD. July, the month of vacations,
is also the most dangerous month of the year.
Average figures for the United States for re-
cent years show that 38I PEOPLE are killed each
day IN July accidents Many of these accidents
take place on the highways Most of them can
be avoided. In this issue Paul W. kearney
contributes an important article telling vaca-
ton motorists how they can combine pleasure
and safety on the open road. M.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
Screwy News Gazette

A negro woman in Oxford got
mad at her husband and leveled
down on him with a shotgun. He
received II punctures of his intes-
tines.
Goldsboro residents asked city
firemen to dislodge thousands of
martins who were creating a dis
turbance. The firemen made two
successive raids on the birds with
high pressure hose but at last re-
ports the little feathered fellows
were holding their own. And to top
it off two Squads" of martins
camped on the very laps of the
enemy-on the hood of the hook
and ladder truck. Firemen said
they planned to haul out Heavier
guns"
Vegetation department.: A dozen
or more small ears of corr burst
forth from the place on corn stalks
where tassels usually appear in
the yard of A. j. Link of Hickory.
Sidney G. Thomas of Dunn found
two perfectly shaped watermelons
that had grown together. Hugh
Mann of Winnsboro, S. c., grew a
tomato which had six distinct
|prong-like sections.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15

CHARLOTTE, Aug. 14.-R-
Latest war developments depress-
ing? Try the Carolinas screwy
news gazette.
The invitation too make him
self sat home'' was taken entire
ly too literally by an overnight
guest at a Spartanburg home. The
guest was invited to spend the
night but, according to his host,
that didn't give him the privilege
of drinking all the liquor in the
house. Apparently that's what hap.
pened for the host had his guest
Jailed on a charge of being drunk.
S. o. Eaddy, former Florence
county legislator now seeking dem.
ocratic nomination for post again,
walks onto the stage of political
speakings playing a tune on his
accordian. The words to the tune:
II want to 60 there, I want to GO
there and you may expect me to
do all I can for you"
A man in Raleigh, driving on
one of the main streets, veered
suddenly to the left and proceeded
on the Norfolk and Southern rail-
roads tracks. Police finally stop
ped him, charged him with drunk
enness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
BERLINERS TAKE
TO AIR SHELTERS
Anti Aircraft Fire, They
Claim, Prevented Raid
Bv British Planes

BERLIN, Aug. 14.-R-Britlsf
planes reached a point 20 miles west
of Berlin early today but were turn
ed back by sharp anti-aircraft tire
before they could approach nearer
the capital, informed source said.
Air raid warnings which sent Der
lin residents %scurrying to shelters
for AZ minutes were sounded merely
as a precautionary measure, these
sources declared.
It was stated emphatically that
no bombs were dropped anywhere
by the British planes. which were
said to have penetrated to the re-
gion Of Potsdam, a score OF miles
from the capital.
Nc estimate was made OF n num-
Der of enemy planes which lew
over that area.
Although no firing was heard IN
downtown Berlin residents OF the
suburbs said they had heard SOUNDS
of distant shooting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
Cities Haze Legal Right To Pay
G,,ord Workers While At Camp

begged, not to watch It but to keep
looking at the place where it was.
Golf or Tennis After Fifty
It is advisable, therefore, not to
try to play both games at the same
time. Few athletes have concen-
tration enough to play both well
This is a good thing in age differ
ences. I am speaking now of the
average not the professional ath-
lete I know the Scotch verdict,
the one about the tyke who started
golf too old-he was four when he
began. Over As if you really like
tennis you needn't stop playing it,
but play for recreation not COM
petition.
I suppose theoretically you
should have a physical examina-
ton before you are advised you
can play golf Or tennis after fifty,
but I don't know. I would disre-
gard medical advice in this. Life
was given us to live to the fullest.
What if you have a little high
blood pressure or a little heart
murmur. unlike garlic there is
such a thing as a little heart muir
mur.) Let's have fun. We may die
on the barricades, not of albumi-
nuria.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15

RALEIGH. Aug. 14.-RNAttorn-
ev General Harry Mcmillan said
TODAY he had ruled that a munich
nalitv Undoubtedly has a right to
grant leaves Of absence Tor a rea-
sonable vacation period to en-
n1oves attending a National Guard
camn" unless there is a law to
the contrary.
Employees on such leaves may
be paid regular pay.
"A city would be justified IN
taking a liberal attitude toward
leaves of absence of members OF
the National Guard who are called
into service at this time for the
regular training PERIOD" McMul-
Ian wrote, land no jutifiable critl-
cism could be made for liberal
treatment of city employees called
into service in the National Guard
The attorney general released
digests of 25 recent opinions. They
included: -.
All statutes relating to the sale
of beer and wine enacted before
1888 we're repealed by the 1888
legislature. A municipality may
not by ordinance enlarge the areas
prescribed in the revenue act In
which sale of wine and beer near
churches and schools is prohibited
by the municipality may decline
to issue licenses for ION premises"
sale of the beverages.
A person may be extradited from
this state for giving a worthless
check in another state but tn e
papers must contain a statement
that the proceeding is not institut
ed to enforce a private claim bu
in order to punish the person for
crime.
Where a defendant was foune
insane at the time of trial for Sc
cond degree murder and hence.
was not tried for murder but wa:
sent to a state institution, his re
lease would be at the instance o.
hospital authorities when t e )
found him restored to his proper
mind and the governor would
have no authority to relase the
defendant.
The school machinery act pro-
vides that school may not be held
on Saturday, unless in case of an
emergency, and the fact that a
school cooperates in practice
teaching with a college which has
Saturday classes would not be an
emergency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15

studios. Without such encourage
ment, Brent usually has been at
tentive offstage to his leading
ladies. But these principals began
going together long before h e y
every worked in a picture. Last
January, he said.
BRENT BUYS
OOMPH-BOAT
Miss S and MIR. B intimated that
they expect to wait a while and
see how in endures. If, after max.
ing love all day in Honeymoon
for Three, they a go out eve
nings and still find the romantic
spark, then it must be the real
thing. This investigator believes
the most significant development
so far is that MI. B has become
quite docile about going around the
night spots and actually has beer
seen tossing a hip in the rhumba.
On her part, Miss S has become
nautical-minded. She and Brent
go sailing on most week-ends. HI
bought an 85-foot boat which has
been costing $4,000 a month in up
keep. That's n way to court ar
Oomph Girl"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D

BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. D.
The advantage of exercise in the
form of games is not alone that 1t
develops the muscles of the body.
They get you out in the open air,
they develop the eye, the ear, the
quilibrium, the poise of the body
the senses and complicated ner-
vous reactions as well as the mus
cles.
More they have a Psychological
effect. You can't play any games
u know about unless you concen-
trate. and that means you forget
your business, your domestic wor.
ries, your girl, your dyspepsia and
the war. When King James got in
trouble with the new 6 a Of
"gowff," about 1457, because his
ball got in a hole, and decided he
would like the game, he was lost
to the Scottish people and their
interests-some say forever.
Golf and tennis r antagonistic
sports. The tennis player m u S t
keep his eye on the ball in flight.
The golfer keeps his eye on the
ball - at least theoretically -
while it is lying on the ground in
front of him. When it takes flight
If it does-he is taught, in fact
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
Bv ROBERT E. %BUNNELLE

A SOUTH COAST IOWN, Lug
land, Aug. 14.--H-British tlght
ing planes Tended off a terrific at
tack along the coastline here to-day
in a gigantic air battle which In
volved $50 planes.
Machine gun fire and the roa'
of cannons and anti-aircraft 5lre
filled the air. From the shore foul
planes could be seen as they crash
ed into the sea.
The German raiders fiercely at
tackled barrage balloons a n
brought down several.
Six big Nazi Junker frs swoopee
down and sank a lightship in the
channel. British fighters dived or
them from high above and the
bombers moved away in the direc
ton of the French coast.
The fight at times became suck
an involved mass of wheeling.
twisting, dying planes that it was
impossible to tell which were Brit
ish and which were German.
Once we could see the splash O.
bombs in the sea off to the east.
Several dropped on land.
Suddenly a fresh swarm of Ger
man raiders appeared and began
blasting away at the barrage bal
looms. Some of the balloons were
ripped through and through and
fell. A shell from a Messerschmitt
cannon hit the ground and explod.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
UNC Trustees Study
Training Airport Site

RALEIGH, Aug. 14.-R-A pro
posal to establish an airport FOL
N, c. State college was considered
yesterday at a meeting of a special
committee of the University of North
Carolina trustees and university OIL
ficials.
A site was inspected on college
and prison farm property north o.
the state fairgrounds. The GROUP
also visited the Raleigh airport, pur'
chase of which is under consldera'
ton.
Chairman J. c. B. Ehringhaus said
another meeting would be held De
fore the committee made a recon-
mendation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
Alp Writer Watches
10 Planes Battle

led near where we were standing.
An empty machine gun clip drop
ped at our feet, and fragments OF
anti-aircraft shells sprinkled down.
While we were watching the
attack on the lghtship, We heard
the scream of a diving plane in
front of us. With a fearful noise,
it plunged at a balloon right over
our heads.
The balloon went down in flames,
and it's cable fell behind the shell
ter where we were standing.
Every gun on the anti-aircraft
front was hammering away. The
ground shook with the thunderous
bursts.
We saw a plane drop flaming in
to the sea. 1t looked like a Ger
man ship.
A short distance away another
splashed. Patrol boats sped out to
where it came down.
Near the close of the raid an
other balloon near us was shot
down. But the plane that got il
was ringed in anti-aircraft fire and
the pilot seemed to be in trouble
as he wheeled away to get out OF
range.
ALI through this fight Nazi planes
were extending their activities to
northeast England.
The bombing attack on t h e
lightship was preceded by machine
gun fire. Bullets splattered the
deck.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-15
THE POWER

THE POWER
HUTCHINSON, Kas. -R-Base-
ball teams, like armies, fight on
their stomachs, says Mrs. w. A.
Ficken.
She's n of the most ardent
boosters of the Hutchinson Pirates
of the Western Association base
ball league, but she seldom sees a
game. Most of the players board
at her home.
81 do them more good if I stay
home and prepare a good post
game meal" she says. a