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The Nome nugget., 1943-10-27

q selection of those least satur- ated, for the tents were small and not everyone could get his clothing around the stove to dry. Placed outside, the clothing el- ther was drenched by rain or blown from lines and scattered n the mud by vicious bursts of wind. There were, | IS true, q few clear days, but these were In the minority.
 At Adak, the army engineers did a job that will go down in engineering annals. Five days after the first troops occupied that island an army bomber land ed on a new runway. This was accomplished only by master stroke of engineering.
 The runway was built on a ti- dal flat which was submerged at high tide and drained by a creek al low tide There was no time for careful study or plan ming, or even for surveys. A sand dike was thown across the lower end of the flat to keep the ocean waters out. Bulldozers sliced an opening in the dike to permit drainage at low tide.
 Low areas were filled with sand from nearby dunes, the whole area was levelled and graded and steel mat laid down. Within II days, the field based large units of bornbers and fighter planes.
 The sand dike was eventually replaced by timber gates and streams were diverted outsi.e a dike thrown up along almost hte entire length of the runway, which was. later extended several thousand feet.
 When the Japanese attacked Dutch Rarbor, the silent work of Army and civilian engineers proved its worth. Army off cials believe that a land inva- sion of Dutch Harbor, possibly the mainland of Alaska proper, was the real objective.
 But Japanese Intelligence slip ped up. They had believed there was no U. S. army air base with in several hundred miles of the outpost When planes attacked the task force from the west, the Japanese revised their plans, and after bombing Dutch Harbor, sneaked back the archipelago to occupy KiSl1a and Attu.
 The army airfields al Umnak and Cold Bay, until that time known to outsiders only as Blair Packing Company and Saxton
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-27
By CPL. ALLAN MERRITT (Arnay CortoSbondent)

HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DEFENSE COMMAND - For completing an airfield "in an area where the muskeg varied from six to 18 feet in depth," using two Civilian Conservation Corps companies, several hundred civ ilian employees from the United States and some native Alaskan labor, as well as his own troops, and for welding these units into an efficient working team," the citation said.
 The citation went with the award of the Legion of Merit to Brig. Gen. George J. Mold, staff engineer officer of the Alaska Defense command, recently pro, noted from Colonel.
 This was in recognition of a project at Annette Island, accom- plisked m the face of conditions which would heve been consider ed prohibitive until wartime urgency changed engineer plan ming standards. This project is typical of others in Alaska and the Aleutian archipelago where uf1inhabited undiscovered areas have become bustling military bases.
 With the swift conquest of At tu and the subsequent occupa- ton of Japanese-abandoned Kis- ka, the battle for the Aleutians ended suddenly, but behind this lay long, gruelling months of one of the most incredible construc- ton programs of all time.
 Fundamentally, the battle for the Aleutians was a battle of con- struction, and here-as was the case in the skies over the fog bound islands where Japanese planes were destroyed almost as fast as they could be brought in, and in the fox holes of Attu where the Japs were routed out of prepared positions and exter- n1inated-the American soldier has done his job we'll.
 The bulk of the big job is the work of the army Engineers, and the story of the construction of the big bases by the Engineers has never been fully told.
 They worked under pressure night and day, seven days a week, for the allotted time was short for the jobs to be done; they overcame almost insurmountable handicaps; and they worked in the worst weather in the world.
 Together with civilian construc- ton crews, they built the secret airfields at Umnak and Cold Bay, credited with turning back the task force that attacked Dutch Harbor.
 At Amchitka and Adak, they built air bases that launched the terrific air assaults on Kiska and Attu. These air bombardments, together with naval lombard ments, brought the Jap to his knees and proved for the first time in this war that he does not always fight to the end.
 Few soldiers have faced such hardships for so long a period as the Army Engineers in the Aleu- tians and accomplished so much. Some of these soldiers have been in Alaska more than three years. A large percentage of them were here before the Japanese occupa- ton of the western Aleutians. They have had few furloughs, except in a few emergency cases, and they are still on the islands for the job still is not finished.
 Islands that were uninhabited less than a year ago are buzzing with military activity today and, on the basis of the Alaska con-
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-27

WANTED: Small cash register. Must be good, must be cheap. if it is not you may keep.-TeX's Chili Parlor.
 FOR SALE: Chevrolet Pickup, $250.00; 312 rolls 90-lb. roofing s15.0o; II vols World Book En- cyclopedia, s25.00; Aladdin lamp, $4.O0; waffle iron. $500; Sandwich Grill, $8.0O; Zenith radio to highest bidder; blew torch, some tools; wringer and
 ironing board, 2 tubs and wash
 board.-O. A. Margraf It
The Nome nugget., 1943-10-27
CLASSIFIED ADS

FOUND-Three sets of keys.
 Owners may have same by
 identification and payment of this ad. If
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05
GIVE JUST PUNISHMENT

club paper this evening. so ] think
you had better wash the dishes
USUALLY they are excused from dish
washing during the school week.
Children really feel better for an
honest tit-for-tat reprisal. Their
nerves are smoothed out. they have
more respect for the parent or
teacher. good will is re-established.
Try i'll"
But here's an incident which IL
lustrates just the opposite OF this
mothers sense of fair punishment.
The other night, coming home late
father with a three-or-four-year-old
child who should have been in bed
hours before. They had evidently
been Christmas shopping and quite
possibly there was no one with
whom to leave the boy. ! didn't
censor them for keeping the child
up under these circumstances-but
when the sleepy youngster whim-
pered the father shook him and
slapped his hands. He was taking
out on the child his own WEAKNESS
and bad temper and II was plain
that the little boy was often SUBJ
jected to just such childish out
bursts on his fathers part. Now II
anyone had asked this father the
kind Of man he would like this son
70 be he would no doubt have de-
scribed an amiable. thoughtful. gen.
erous. self-reliant person. Yet the
father IN his unreasoning. petty re-
taliatipns on the child was laying
the groundwork for resentments
against authority. possibly for taking
out on still another generation a
deeply buried sense Of injustice.
Yes. as the mother wrote, children
respect parents for seeing that they
receive just punishment for misbe-
having But even a very little child
knows when he is being, bullied-
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

We frequently have letters ask
ing US to recommend q specific
punishment for a child's misdeed.
These letters really worry US. for
We know the parents are trying 10
be fair 10 their child-but how can
someone who knows very little OF
the circumstances lay down the
law? A Judge hears all the wit
nesses and then often calls on the
Jury to help him decide on a pen
atty. So we were delighted to re-
ceive the following letter telling
how one mother has worked out
nicely balanced cause and effect
method Of discipline.
She writes: For some time ]
had been struggling with the age
old problem of discipline. Children
must have II. or their adult life
will be too full OF II. But how pun
ish the youngsters for infractions Of
necessary rules without making
them resentful and rebellious? Why.
by following literally. whenever pos
sible. the advice given by the ad-
mirabls Koko. the Lord High Exc
cu;ioner Of the Mikado. Make the
punishment ft the crime A child's
sense Of justice accepts this YER
dict a. nnal-thers 10 no loophole
by which 10 escape. For example.
] had been having great dificulty
In getting my Ave bouncers to come
TO meals promptly. and once ar
rived at the table. TO finish In
buainessliks way. without SQUAD
bles, complaints about the food. or
unnecessary delay. So now / ring
the bell Eve minutes before meals
for the preliminary wash-up. Then
when the meal is on the table, II
each child IL not in his place ready
for grace. or II he dswdles over his
food. / say to the offenders. You
have wasted exactly Is minutes Of
my time. wanted TO work on my
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

o Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Rose have
received word that their son. J. c.
Rose. Jr., L. s. Navy. has been
promoted to fireman 1/c and
transferred from Las Cruises. New
Mexico, to Treasure Island. San
Francisco.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

o Mrs Nolan CKen) Kennedy LETT
Saturday for Columbia. South
Carolina to join her husband, who
is stationed there Private Ken
nedy is serving in the medical
corps Mrs. Kennedy is the for-
mer Darlene Havens. daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs Dan F. Havens.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

o Mr.. and Mrs. William Elliott Of
Tucson, former Coolidge residents
are visiting Mrs. Elliotts mother.
Mrs. Helen Dayison, at her ranch
home.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

o Reed Chesley left Monday to re-
port for duty at Fort Macarthur.
California. He is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jake Chesley. whose
older son. Technical Sergeant Don
aid Chesley recently left for over
seas duty.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

Q Word has been received here
that Stephen Parke Soule. baby
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Parke Soule
OF Santa Fe. New Mexico, is ser
iously ILL., The Soules are former
Coolidge residents and have many
friends here.
o Mrs. A. T. Bicknell received
word Monday from Ira G. Goodwin.
yoeman first class. that he has
reached overseas destination safe
ly. Goodwin was former clerk
at Casa Grande Ruins.
Q Charles Reed left Tuesday on a
busine3s trip to Los Angeles. He
plans to return this weekend.
. Peter Schuft, chief petty officer,
has completed his basic training
at Norfolk, Virginia, and is now
stationed just outside Chicago,
where he has been joined by Mrs.
Schuft and their son Johnny Bill.
Schuft was formerly ranger at
Casa Grande Ruins.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Kjormoe
have received word from their son
Jack, u. S. Navy, that he has
completed basic training at San
Diego. and is now attending a
naval training school at Farragut,
Idaho.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

@ Mrs. Leon Conett and Mack
Burke, both of Ell Paso, Texas
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

o James c. Roberts, petty officer,
second class, is here on furlough
visiting his mother. Mrs Rose
Roberts and other relatives.
q Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Fisher Of
Ajo. former Coolidge residents.
became the parents of a baby boy
on February End. He weighed
eight pounds two ounces. Mrs.
Fisher is the daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. c. w. Hooper. Both she and
Mr.. Fisher formerly taught in
Coolidge schools.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

fined TO his home for 1.eek witt
influenza.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

Q Charles Reed left Tuesday on a
business trip to Los Angeles. He
plans TO return this weekend.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

left Thursday after a weeks visit
with Mr., and Mrs. George Truitt.
Mrs. Cornett is Mrs. Truitt's sister
and Mack is her grandson.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05
COOLIDGE LOCALS

OF. p. Jameson is recovering
from an attack of influenza which
kept him confined for several
days.
. Mrs. Lucy Thomas has receiv-
ed worn from her sson. Samuel
Thomas who is attendiug officer
candidate school at Fort Benning,
Georgia, that he was cne OF "a
who passed the mid-seasou tests
and that he expects TO graduate
soon. Officer candidate Thomas.
Pima Indian, has two brothers IN
the service. Pfc. Arthur Thomas.
and Roy Thomas. petty officer
third class.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

fined TO his home for l.eek with
influenza.
6 Mr. and Mrs J. J. Jones, Mrs.
George Truitt and daughter Mary
Lou were in Phoenix Friday, on a
trip that combined business with
pleasure.
Q Mr. and Mrs. c. J. Wells were
transacting business in Phoenix,
Friday.
. Lieutenant James L. McMullen,
who has recently been transferred
to Davis-Monthan Field from Lou
isiana, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. George Truitt Lieutenant
McMullen, navigator in the U.
S. Army Air Corps, is Mrs. Tru-
it's nephew. They had not seen
each other in six years.
The Coolidge examiner., 1943-02-05

. Ed Stringer was up and around
on Friday. after having been con-
Evening star., 1943-09-12

and water items, $685. ,5s4. for ar
increase Of $1,697,176.
The new budget is being set up
in "simplified" form, listing the
many different services and agen-
cies under II general headings, far
less than formerly.
As the total picture was outlined
yesterday. the city heads made pub
lie details of eight divisions, wherein
but minor increases are sought for
the year beginning next June 30.
Asks S367,443 for Zoo.
For the Zoo, DR.. William lann,
director, seeks an outlay of 1857, ,443,
as against $270,l30 for this year.
Wartime extra and overtime pay
would take up $4,000 of the in
crease, and supplies and materials
costs are up by more than $4,000,
partly due to increased costs of
food for the Zoo collection. Also,
DR.. Mann asks for $4,000 for the
purchase of additional animals and
other specimens. He emphasized
that the collection had been allowed
to deteriorate because of war con-
ditions. An expenditure of nearly
$4,000 is proposed for construction
Of an incinerator which was held to
be badly needed from the public
health standpoint.
Officials of the Public Utilities
Commission request SLOT 1903 for next
year as against sos, 900 for this year,
virtually all the increase being for
the legislated extra pay.
The Office of National Capital
Parks calls for an outlay of 81 ,26l .642
for next year, an increase of more
than 100000 over this year. Extra
pay and overtime account for some
$4,000 and an increase of more than
$4,000 is asked for maintenance
repair and operation, including some
S60000 for raising of wage rates for
per diem workers to meet the pre-
vailing rates for similar employees
In the District.
Cite Population Growth.
Parks officials showed that the
District now has 6,489 acres of park
lands, including Sc acres added in
Evening star., 1943-09-12

the past fiscal year. In support Of
its requests, the agency argued that
the Washington population had gone
up so per cent above normal and
was increasing daily due to expan-
sion of the war effort. and that this
growth was reflected in additional
use and abuse" of park facilities.
For the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission request
is made for s54,856 for next year
as against s47.o5o for this year, al
most all the increase being due to
extra pay legislation.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board seeks S44,458 for next year
most OF a minor increase being for
salaries.
$4,000 Rent Cases Filed.
Rent Control Administrator Rob-
ert F. Cogswell asks $87,733 for next
year, against s79,680 for this year,
with most of the increase for salary
items. He reported that of more
than $4,000 rent. cases filed since
the Office was established January l,
1912, nearly 10000 had been de-
cided. In addition, his Office. has
received $4,000 personal or written
appeals and $4,000 inquiries or COM
plants by telephone.
Poundmaster Frank Marks pro-
poses an increase from $17,380 to
S25,555' to permit the hire of two
more laborers and the purchase of
an additional truck, to pay for more
dog food for an expected larger
number of captured animals, and
to cover other costs. He stressed
that due to the citys increasing
dog population and to rationing,
the number of stray dogs had been
increasing. Last year the pound
master received more than 1900
stray dogs, large number of which
had to be destroyed. A larger staff
and the extra truck, Mr.. Marks said,
were needed to meet conditions
should there be a recurrence OF
rabies.
One of the interesting new items
requested is $172, 200, sought by Ed
ward P. Brooke, superintendent of
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Budget
Continued From First Page.)

group spokesmen and individuals
will have opportunity to present
their views on the totals, the pro-
spective effects on District taxes,
the Federal payment and on sep
arate items. The Commissioners
now have begun private hearings,
for department executives. calling
on them to justify their requests.
Debt Retirement Reduced.
This year the Districts debt pay
ment to the United States, for the
old public works and the more re-
cent wartime facilities loans, was
stepped up to $6,s50, 900 in a move
to make the "best use" of District
revenues which could not be spent,
due to priorities, for needed building
construction and other capital i'm
provements. For next year, how
ever, the debt retirement payments
would be cut back to $4,150, 900.
Also, the budget proposals this
year are different in that there are
included items totaling $1,10o, 900 to
cover the Districts share of costs
of the District courts and Freed
mans Hospital. Heretofore, these
items have been included only in
Federal appropriation bills, with due
charges against District revenues.
Now 1t is planned to list them also
In the District supply bill so as to
show, in one act, the total obliga-
tions of the District.
The inclusion of this $1,1oo 900
item in the 1945 requests and not
In the total D. C. appropriations for
this year indicates a proposed ag-
gregate increase of $l17O0, 900,
though actually it is more nearly
sl0,6oo, 900, not yet counting on the
Evening star., 1943-09-12
500 Defense Volunteers
Asked in Manor Place Area

Capt. William l.. Clemens, assist
ant to Civilian Defense Director H,
G. Whitehurst, appealed for 500
volunteers for the Manor Place
Civilian Defense Area No. a. at a
meeting last night at Paul Junior
High School, Eighth street and Con-
cord avenue NV.
Capt. Clemens said that this war
Is being fought by civilians as well
as armies, and therefore civilians
must give as lavishly of their time
as the men who are in the fighting
forces"
Capt. Clemens was introduced bv
Evening star., 1943-09-12

the Rev. Howard 8. Arnold Of the
Holy Comforter Church, Seventh
street and Oglethorpe avenue NV.
The Rev. Mr.. Arnold paid tribute
to Harry B. Moss. $40 Madison street
NV. for collecting the poster dis
play on the walls.
The Loew's Theater Boys Cadet
Band, headed by Capt. Raymond
Hart, played.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Furnishings Requested
For Servicemen's Rooms

An appeal for chairs, couches
tables, desks, lamps, ping-ponr and
pooi tables and games Of all kinds,
Is being made by the District Red
Cross.
Iney will be used to furnish rec
reatlon rooms, now being prepared
IN military posts in the Washington
area. Tnese posts are to be manned
oy servicemen returning from the
oattiefronts for rest and recreation,
Any one wishing to make contri-
buttons can call Republic $500, Ex-
tension 80.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
Norfolk PIone crush
Victims Are Identified

By the Associated Prese.
LANGLEY FIELD. Va, Sept. IL.
Five Army airmen Killed in the crash
OF an Army bomber at the Norfolk
Municipal Airport yesterday were
identified today by the Langley Field
public relations ONCE. They are !:
Evening star., 1943-09-12

the District buildings, for installa-
ton Of four modern elevators in the
old District Building. The city
heads some weeks ago announced
their determination to replace the
old lifts if the Federal Budget Blu
reau. Congress and. war priorities
made it possible.
Evening star., 1943-09-12

Flight Onicer Rayford c. Roberts,
Stanton, Tex: Pvt. Eugene p. Mar-
quart. North Fargo, n Oak: SsAn
Sergt. Charles G. Jennings, Belle-
Rose. Long Island, N. r.; Technical
Scrgt. William D. Mercer, ZanesviIle,
Ohio, and Sergt. Frederick H. COL
lings, jr., Manchester, Conn.
Evening star., 1943-09-12

The book Of the week II the War
stamp book. II spells Victory II
filled In.
Evening star., 1943-09-12
expected 100000 deficiency TO,
extra pay.
New Budget Simplified.

I New Budget Simplif1ed.
n A summary table on 1945 appro-
priation requests as compared with
funds carried In the 1914 District
Appropriation Act tconsidere d
alone) shows an indicated increase
of $l1,741,496, with requests divided.
as ;foilcws General fund items,
S58s s595, ,758, for an increase of ST.
708,285; highway fund items, $4,-
695. .923. for an increase of 50, 1856 ,O34,
The Glasgow courier., 1943-02-18
Last Rites Held for Arthur
Maxwell, Nashua Old timer
BY Courier Correspondent

NASHUA - Funeral services fol
Arthur Maxwell, SO, resident of this
section for % years, were held ir
the Peterson chapel in Glasgow
Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. H. F
Widen officiated and burial was in
the Glasgow cemetery. Mrs. Gordon
Vallandigham sang, Tell Mother
I'll Be There"
Pallbearers were William Soper
Bert Sorenson, A. Torkelson, H. M
Priest, w. j. Wittmayer and Virgil
Wagner. Mr.. Maxwell died in a
Glasgow hospital last Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. Maxwell was born in New
Albany, KanS., Feb. 8, 1874, and
lived there until 1914. That year the
Fort Peck reservation was opened
and he filed on a homestead 10
miles north of Nashua.
During this homestead period he
also worked in a Nashua clothing
store and was manager of the I'm
perial elevator here. He also pur-
chased land in the Grain commun-
ity and donated five acres of ground
to the Grain Lutheran church, on
which the church was built and a
cemetery established.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Matte Badgley of New Albany,
Kans., and Mrs. A. C. Busby of
Compton, Calif.,. and a brother,
George Maxwell of New Albany. Mr..
Busby arrived Saturday to attend
the funeral.
The Glasgow courier., 1943-02-18
WHEELER
BY Elva ID. Pehrson

Phyllis Grayson of Glasgow and
Ivy and Clarice McNulty of rural
Wheeler were week end guests at
the Pehrson home. They are former
students of the Wheeler school and
came to attend the basket social at
the school Friday evening.
Mrs. Floyd Richter and daughter
Yvonne spent the week end at
their home in Wheeler. Mrs. Rich
ter teaches at the Tiger Butte
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dascher and
daughter Donna and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Maxness and children were
Friday evening dinner guests at the
Ivan Miller home.
Mrs. E. Pehrson received a mes
sage last week that her nephew
Staff Serg. Manford Deal Jr., who
was stationed in England, had been
killed in action Jan. 81. Sergeant
Deal had three other brothers in
the service of their country.
Donna Richter was an overnight
guest at the Byron Richter home i'll
Fort Peck Monday.
The Glasgow courier., 1943-02-18
National Ceiling
Price on Milk Is
In Near 0efins

WASHINGTON - A nationwide
ceiling or. prices paid to farmers
for fluid milk will be issued in the
near future, the office of price ad-
miniStration announced.
In general, the order will provide
that no distributor of fluid milk
may pay more to producers for his
supplies than the highest price he
paid for milk delivered in January
this year.
The regulation will be temporary,
to be replaced within 60 days by
permanent regulation on milk
prices.
Ceilings over prices Of fluid milk,
the OPA said, are being issued lin
an effort to prevent further rises
in the cost to the public of this es-
sential food"
The announcement said OPA, in
an effort to lower farmers cost of
feeding dairy COWS and other live
stock, would issue companion Or
der reducing prices of alfalfa hay
in California, oregon and WASH
ington by 81 to SO a ton.