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The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17
Warns Reggistrants Concerning Notice
 Change of Address

heRlSlTdnlS uIlQeT the SeleCtlNe Training and Service Act must notify their local boards of any change of address or become liable to severe penalties provid ed by the Act, John L. McCor- mick, Territorial Director of Sel- ective Service, warned them to- day.
 Director Mccormick said he had been advised by National Selective Service Headquarters that many cases of delinquencies investigated by the Department of Justice have been due to care lessness of registrants concerning their duty to report changes of address or ignorance of the law requiring them 10 do so.
 The Selective Service Act pro vides that any registrant who Vio lates the law shall be liable to fine and imprisonment, the Dir ector pointed out. This punish ment, he also called to attention, is specified as "by imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine of not more than S10,000, or by both such fine and imprison- ment."
 It is the policy of the Selective Service System, Director McCor- mick said, and of the Depart ment of Justice which is charged with enforcement of the Act, to take action in those cases where there is willful intent to violate the law. Nevertheless, he stress ed, investigation of borderline cases is taking up much valuable time of local boards and of De- partment of Justice agents which should be devoted to urgent work for National Defense.
 To relieve this situation, and also to protect registrants who do not Willfully try to violate the law, Director Mccormick has asked local boards to use all means of investigation at their disposal before reporting appar- ent cases of delinquency to the Department of Justice.
 In this connection, the Director also stated that there is no ob- jection to local board using voluntary assistance of local or State police officials to find a reg istrant who has failed to respond to notification. He said:
 If, after a reasonable effort on the part of the local board and, when volunteered, by the local or State police the whereabouts of the delinquent registrant can not be ascertained, and nothing has been heard from him in re- sponse to notification the local board then should report the de- linquent to the United States Dis trict Attorney"
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17
DEFENSE BOND
IF

O. Can Defense Savings Stamps be redeemed? A. Yes; they can be redeemed for cash at face val ue or exchanged for Defense Savings Bonds. For example, 75 of the 25-cent Stamps-total cash value $18.75-may be exchanged for Defense Savings Bond which in 10 years will be worth $25
 O. How long have Defense Savings Stamps been on sale at retail stores? A. Sale of Stamps at retail stores originated in the State of Michigan on July 10. The idea met with such success that it is spreading rapidly, and soon Stamps will be sold in most retails stores on Nationwide basis.
 Note-To purchase Defense Bonds and Stamps,
 20 to the nearest post office or bank, or write
 for information to the Treasurer of the United
 States, Washington, D. C.
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17

An appeal has been sent to the Metal Reserve Board at Washington, Office of Production Management, and to congress men from the western states, sug gesting the following program through the efforts of Western Minerals Associates of Fresno, to help increase output of the strat egic and critical mineral that are needed now.
 Small loans to mine owners and operators for installation of small mills and necessary mining machinery, and for road construc ton.
 "Stabilization of metal prices high enough so each operator could repay this loan and return him a fair profit for his efforts.
 Payment for ore such as man. ganese and chrome in carload lots, instead of 1000 ton lots.
 Payment for 100 units at a time of tungsten concentrates and other concentrates sold in units.
 Make contract with producers for a period of three years at least, whereby price would be set and an assurance of market so as not to have to close pro- perty down without a chance to liquidate the loan made by the government"
 - Fairbanks News-Miner
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17
Report Of Dr. Victor Levine
 And Ed Levin on l94l Summer
 Study of King Island Eskimos
Continued from last issue of The Nugget

Continued from last issue of The Nugget
 White flour and sugar are con- sumed in excessive amounts among the King Island children. The older folks are less inclined 10 use vitamin-poor foods and mineral-poor foods than the younger children, who are prone to make a meal of bread alone or of flap jacks and tea. White flour should be prohibited by law. The bureau of Indian Affairs con trolling native stores should send only whole wheat flour. This type of flour is rich in the B vita mins and vitamin E. White flour is almost devoid of vitamin con- tent. White flour for the Eski- mos should be put in the same class as intoxicating liquors.
 This summer we came across a large number of children and adults who suffered eye disease due to deficiency of a number of vitamins, especially the B vita mins. We have seen a number of cases of aribohavinosis due to a deficiency in the vitamin known as ribof1avin. Aribofiavinosis is an eye disease characterized by inflammation fo the lids, redden ing of the white of the eye, and formation of opacities. It results in blindness.
 Whole wheat flour contains ribo f1avin, white flour does not. This eye disease was observed espec- tally among those who lived largely on white flour, sugar and coffee and very little meat. To cure this disease it is advisable to have King Island and other Eskimo villages obtain a liberal supply of brewers yeast, which is rich in B vitamins to prevent the disease, the King Island Eski- mos consume more fresh muscle meat more liver, kidney and heart and more whole wheat flour. Father Lafortune has set a good example by using whole wheat flour himself and by ad- vising the Eskimos to do like wise.
 Plant Foods
 The plant foods on King Is- land would be of great advan- tage in increasing the nutrition al quality of the Eskimo diet. Two types of plant foods are used: leaves and roots. The leav- es are rich in vitamin A and in vitamin C. The roots are very poor in these two vitamins or are entirely devoid of them. The following leafy plants are used as foods: assezets, eleukrit, sac lait, kunghlit, ignukrit and kem agluit and ookrik. Aleukrit, kem agluit and kunghlit are sorrels. The roots used as food are kakat and kassuit. Dandelion greens are not eaten and the Eskimos have no names for them.
 While the plant foods are val uable additions to their diet, they are not collected as a staple article of food Some are assidious in collecting plant foods and pre- crying them in oil for use in lat CT months. Others do not collect any or very little.
 The interest We displayed in these plant foods this summer aroused the curiousity and en- thusiasm of the Eskimos. More plant food was collected, eaten at once or preserved in seal oil, than ever before.
 Seal Oil Poor In Vitamins
 Seal oil, contrary to popular opinion, is poor in vitamin A and
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17

in vitamin D and therefore can- not be considered a substitute for cod liver oil.
 The livers of the seal, of the Walrus, of the sea lion, as well as the livers of the various birds eaten on King Island are very rich in vitamin C. They are no doubt double rich in other vita mins although we have made no tests for them.
 Liver should be given to all sick children and sick grownups. It is the chief source for vita mins among the Eskimo. The Es- kimos in many villages barter the liver to the traders and oth- CTS for tobacco or some flour in sugar. Such bartering, which i'm perils his health, should be dis couraged.
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17

The movement sponsored by the Alaska Miners Association, the Fairbanks Chamber of Com merce and others to obtain prior ities and other favorable arrange ments that will assure adequate replacements, parts and the like for the mining industry should not be relaxed. The matter is vital to all Alaska.
 Uncle Sam is going to need all the gold Alaska can produce be- fore the world crisis is past and the long uphill pull of reconstruc tion starts. And he is going to need more and more the taxes that are available when industry carries on normally. It's a cinch he will not get them if the ma jor industries of the region are paralyzed.
 The quest throughout Alaska by several geological parties for strategic minerals and individ- ual prospecting efforts also should not be relaxed. Alaska may yet produce no inconsider- able quantity of such minerals.
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17

Other mining areas in the na- tion are bending every effort for favorable legislation and regula- tions, to Keep Elm Digging" in order to Keep Elm Flying" No doubt about it. America must maintain her mining industry if she is to come through the chao- tic world conditions successfully.
 What is being done in other mining communities affords good examples to Alaskans and stim- ulates thinking on these lines. Here's a sample, from Fresno, California, as to the method be- ing pursued in one region, full of timely suggestions and well worth study right here:
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17
LiVers Allowed to Putrefy

On King Island the greater sup ply of liver is allowed to ferment and to putrefy before it is used or stored in the cave. Such pro- cess should be discouraged, as it destroys entirely the content of vitamin C, one of the most inn portant vitamin for the Eskimo, and one which he is very liable to be short of. The liver should be eaten fresh, cooked raw or stored away to freeze without preliminary fermentation Or put refaction.
The Nome nugget., 1941-09-17

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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31
CHARACTER THE
FOUNDATION STONE.

Mobile, Ala, Register)
When Kent Cooper. general manager
Of The Associated Press. put character
along with professional competence as
prime requisite for war correspondents
the other day. he was citing general
fact more and more coming to be recog-
nized.
The brilliance and ingenuity which have
characterized aggressive American pro
gress in all fields are not trusted very
far unless accompanied by stability OF
character that gives a Scrupulous regard
for truth. Education IS a necessary TOOL.
EXperience alone gives nicely OF Judge
ment in tight situations. But these Mr..
Cooper rightly puts second to spiritual
and professional accomplishment. Char-
acter is not like book, complete and to
be. taken out on occasion. 1t Is a constant
determinant which has to be worked at
every hour. just as the alert man or wo-
man in any line today has to keep brushed
up on world happenings and their signlt-
icance.
Il was ever more important to hold up
character for its worth than today, when
nations built on character are so chal-
lenged.
Character will win out against all odds.
1t will win this war But it will doubt
lesslv be a protracted struggle before
this demonstration can be made Mean
time. to youth with fewer standards OF
comparison. our lives and our attitude
can say a great deal that will help IN
the right direction.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31

It is being freely said that in
some mysterious manner President
Roosevelt holds the peace of Eur
ope and of the world in his hands;
that word from him would stop
the war.
That is a frightening power and
responsibility to attribute to any
one man. II it were literally true,
it is hard to see how any man
could fail Immediately to exercise
that power.
To what extent is it true, and in
what manner?
let Us see.
First. it is too clear that the
rest of the world would n t
stop fighting merely because the
president OF the United States told
it to. We have long and bitter eX-
perienece to prove that. We have
that the president, using only NOR
al suasion, asked most earnestly
on Aug. %, 1899, that the war be
avoided In virtually identic notes
to Herr Hitler, to President Mos
cicki of Poland, and to King Vic
tor Emmanuel Of Italy he asked,
in the name Of all humanity, that
they refrain from hostilities for a
a period during which negotiations
could be arranged. Poland replied
favorably, and Roosevelt transmit
ted its reply to Hitler, again ap-
pealing that countless human lives
can yet be saved, and hope may
still be restored if you will
agree to the pacific means of set
tlcment accepted by Poland . -
In vain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31

Congressional junkets-vacation trips
By members of Congress at the taXpay-
ers' eXpense-have often been the sub
iect of justified criticism, but the survey
of agricultural conditions in the United
States undertaken by fifty-seven Repub-
lican Representatives appears to be de
serving only of highest praise-the more
so since it is not costing the public treas
ury penny The visit of fifteen of the
committee in New England should be
productive of new viewpoints.
A Congressman who makes himself
familiar with conditions outside his own
district is qualifying for membership in
the body which makes laws for the Ma
ton. Occasions frequently arise when
first-hand information is more reliable
than that passed on to him by individuals
with axes to grind. Therefore, these tray
cling lawmakers will be wise if they study
each problem from every angle.
Representative Clifford R. Hope of
Kansas. chairman of the Republican
Farm Study Committee is one Of the
best-informed men in Congress on agri
cultural conditions. He and his colleagues
may we'll be in a position to perform a
great service for the Nation after their
survey. Surely American agriculture de-
serves to be rescued from its eleemosy-
nary position Neither should it be a po-
litical football. Americas rural popula-
ton has alternately been exploited by
tariffs faVoring the industrial interests
and pampered with bonuses. 1t should
stand upon its own feet, but on basis Of
equality with other groups and without
the disadvantage Of hampering legiSla
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31
WHO ARE WE KEEPING
THESE SECRETS FROM?

Sometimes the inside workings OF Il
newspaper become a matter of grave pub
lie concern. Such a time, we believe, Is
this.
On Friday a nationwide press service
carried this note 10 editors ON Its hleh
speed wire:
please kill -. story ON survey Of
American and Russian tankers carry
ing gasoline to Russia. The maritime com
mission has requested that nothing at all
be published regarding names and Cd
pacities of ships assigned To carry cargoeS
to countries whose defense the United
States is assisting; the actual or pros
pective sailing dates of such ships; OF
the names of ports from which they sal.
SO far. no objection. 1t Is easy 10 see
why such information should be kept
from our potential enemies. II II can b.
kept from them.
But wait
On August a United Press correspond
ent in-of all places-TokEo. wired back
to the United States dispatch which
said:
"A San Francisco dispatch 10 the news
paper Miyako { a japanese newspaper
printed in Tokyo) said that six American
oil tankers left Aug. / for Australia
where the American navy allegedly was
storing an auxiliary fuel supply. The
tankers' departure. the dispatch said, was
significant as part of widely reported
encirclirt formation against Japan.
And there is where we object. and where
We believe the people Of the United States
have cause to object
We in America are kept in ignorance
Of shipments, sailings and such like news
eve did not know until we found it cut
from Tokyo that the United States was
establishing a big fuel depot in Austral-
la, yet our potential enemies are kept
thoroughly informed of such news by
dispatches filed by their correspondents
FROM OUR OWN COUNTRY.
1t would not be so bad if this were an
isolated instance Il is not.
The people in England knew before we
did that Roosevelt and Churchill were
meeting at sea. They knew before we did
that American naval units We're on the
way to Iceland. Germans knew before we
did that our government planned to en-
courage "yolunteers' to China. Japan
probably knew it. too)
The list is too long to publish here
1t makes US wonder more and more who
il is that is supposed to De kept in ignor-
ance these days-our potential enemies
or the American people themselves
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31
WASHINGTON
FEVER CHART

The War Department has auth
orizod construction Of a new army
airSeld at Vichy-MissoWf, not
France. New Mexico, because it's
a border state, will be given the
first experimental statewide black
out ON Sept Il. ArmY's corps
Of chaplains now numbers 1449-
1863 Protastants, 362 Catholics and
1G Jewish. WPA now has 10000
army pilots enrolled in its Spanish
classes. and is teaching Portuguese
to Pan American Always employees.
Bureau of Census has been
given a job of locating all supplies
Of strategic metals in the United
States. American Automobile
association has advised eastern mo-
torists to 90 ahead with their vaca-
ton tours. gas shortage or no. .
Washington's traffic court casas
are increasing at the rate of 1000 a
wear because OF the increae Of
emergency defense workers in the
capital 80. Feeding the 100000
soldiers now costs S233 million a
year. Department of Interior
which used to award contracts to
bidders farthest from the site to
make more work for the railroads,
now awards contracts to bidders
closest to the site, to save the rail
roads.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31
DESIGN FOR DISTRIBUTION

A new pattern for a planned
postwar economy was dropped into
the laps of students a. the South
ern Farm Bureau training school
in Hot Springs, Ark, when Assis-
tant Attorney General Thurman
w. Arnold made a talk down there
on Monopoly and the South" Main
theme of Arnold's speech was that
for the last 20 years the industrial
east has been exploiting the south
and the west as raw material col
onies. He paid his respect to
capitalists and labor unions which
by monopolies bar farmers and
consumers from advantages Of mod
ern efficiency.
Suppose" ne said, that hst
of civilian necessities were selected.
Clothes, a minimum standard house
the essentials of diet, drugs and
fuel. Suppose we should say to
the consumers that the govern
ment would do it best with price
ceilings on commodities in general,
and in addition would standardize
particular products and see that
they get around at the lowest
available prices.
This would involve. in the case
of a suit of clothes, the use OF
priorities TO aid those who are
willing to manufacture a serviceaolc
article at low price. 1t might
involve announcement Of the
manufacturer through government
financing. 1t would certainly in
volve elimination of all restraints
of trade which stood in the way
of distribution of the minimum
standard house or the minimum
suit of clothes.
IF the American people can be
sure of the minimum necessities,
they will be more willing to 90
without the luxuries. Here is a
] technique in which the farmer Of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31
by Willis Thornton -.
The u. 5. Influence for Peace

There is no reason to believe
that today an appeal on purely
humanitarian grounds would have
any effect at all
On what ground, then? Only on
the ground of action, immediate
or potential, by the United States.
Even the peace appeal of former
Ambassador Cudahy had an or
else
What action, then?
One possible action would be to
threaten the British with cutting
off all material aid. Perhaps, see
inc then that they could not win,
the British would sue for peace,
which, based on the existing mill
tary situtiOn and the known Ger
man ambitions, could be little diff
ferent from the peace" of COM
plete German victory.
Another possible course would be
to threaten the Germans that we
would declare war if they refused
a peace based on the Eight Points
But that implies willingness tc
back up the offer with an "ol
else which is just the possibility
which those will not admit who are
most zealots in suggesting peace.
In short, any influence which the
United States may now have il
world affairs rests primarily on
two things: the force at its dis
posal. and it's apparent willingness
to use that force to back up thu
kind of a peace it believes to be
right.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 30.-Tricks
Of the trade: There are a lot of
interesting facts in movie making
that the public seldom hears about
but which, so far as I can see, de-
tract nothing from the illusion and
glamor of the screen. Makeup is
one of the things usually taken
for granted-just a coat OF grease
paint, some eye-shadow and lip
stick, but it's much more complex
in almost every case.
The fact that Claudette Colbert
prefers being photographed only
from the left side has been men,
toned many times, but few real
i2e that almost every star has
some favorite way of appearing
before the camera, especially in
closeups Faces seldom are SYM
tai structure and sometimes movie
talstructure, and sometimes movie
sets have been reconstructed at
considerable expense so that a
star can move into a scene at q
more flattering angle.
The trick is in finding out just
what to do. Marlene Dietrich
leaped ahead in the glamor field
when she discovered that a thin
white line drawn along the edge
of each lower eyelid made her
eyes look larger. Luise Rainer used
gold Leaf on her upper eyelids
to gain a languorous appearance.
TRACY SPURNS PAINT
Spencer Tracy rarely uses make
up because he does most of his
acting with the wrinkles in his
forehead and he doesn't want them
obscured. It's a joke among make
up artists that screen heroes al
most always ask to be made tough
looking. or at least more yirile,
while heavies usually want to be
made handSomer.
Speaking of eyes, Colleen Moore
had one brown and one blue eye,
and her shiny black bob was ere
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31
by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in Washington

America, who have to go without
luxuries anyway, should be inter-
ested.'
The New Deal, as you can see,
isn't dead yet.
BAD NEWS FOR DUCKS
With practically everything else
in the world running short, duck
hunters will get some consolation
this fall from the fact that instead
of being held down to a daily BAG
limit of thee canyasbacks and rud
dyducks. the quota will be 10. But
the use of cattle. horses or mules as
blinds will be prohibited. And it's
none other than Hard Boiled
Harold Ickes who lays down these
regulations, in his role as boss of
the fish and wildlife service.
PANTY WAISTS
The War department, faced VIII
a shortage of qualified army in
structors last year, put into pro-
duction a series of training films,
Hollywood cooperating, to show
how to ski, how to care for a
trench mortar, hoWs and why's
of saluting, dangers of veneral dis
ease. and 50 on Sound films
were made on the horrors of war
dive bombers, exploding shells, ma
chine gun fire-to season and paE-
chologically condition the troops.
Some of these films were given a
previeW in Washington the other
night. Everyone took the horrors
of war film all right, but when one
of the other films was shown. a
lieutenant colonel and a sailor
tainted dead away.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-31

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Vice
President Henry w. Wallace's new
Economic Defense Board. made up
of all the cabinet members except
Miss Perkins and which is sup
posed TO do all the high powered
planning for the Waging of econ
omic war. won't get going for seV-
eral weeks because Milo w. Perkins,
the man Wallace named as execu-
tive director, is still recovering from
q long illness.
Appointment of Perkins was con-
siderable of a surprise, but it is
significant of what can be expected
when the board starts rolling. Wal
lace and Perkins are Department
of Agriculture buddies and Perkins
currently has the title of surplus
marketing administrator. Only Al,
he was born III Milwaukee. went
to high school there, then became
a bag salesman and manufacturer
in Texas. 1t was from this JOB
that he was called to the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
One of his pet beliefs is that
the challenge Of this generation IS
to learn to distribute what we
have learned to produce. Perkins
has been doing something about
that through his work in AAA and
SMA. but what he does about t
on a world recovery basis will have
to await his own personal physical