THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14, 1943, at
the Postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Wednesday, July 11, 1945
A WEIRD RULING
(The Alasaka Weekly)
No section of the United States or its !
possessions, with the single possible ex- i
ception of Hawaii, has been subjected to |
the inconveniences of wartime restric
tions in so large a measure as has Alas
ka. Rigid travel control, censored mail
and telegraph, crowded ships, derange
ment of territorial industry, have all
been part of the price Alaska has paid, j
Much of this was protested as unneces
sary but the army remained adamant in
declaring the Territory to be a combat
zone and therefore subject to full combat j
zone regulations. Alaska was declared
overseas and men serving in the Terri
tory were allowed overseas credit.
Now comes the most weird of rulings.
In considering points for service with re- :
gard to discharge, servicemen sent into ;
Alaska from the States will, be given
credit for overseas service, while Alas
kan residents serving in Alaska will not
be allowed such credits.
The ruling is so obviously absurd that j
it does not seem possible it will be able 1
to prevail against the indignant protest
such discriminatory treatment is certain
to arouse.
Commenting on this strange ruling the I
Ketchikan Chronicle recently said in
part:
“There is erroneous thinking from
two viewpoints. 1. The army pays all
GIs serving in Alaska at the overseas
rate of pay. Does it think Alaskans,
just because they are in their home
territory, should live more cheaply (or
less dangerously) than boys from the
States sent up here? 2. The army iron
ically treats Alaskans sent to the
States as being overseas, although i
they are not given overseas pay as are
boys from the States serving in Alas
ka. In addition, many Alaskans serv
ing at Attu or Adak are just as far
from home, as the crow flies, as are
some Oregon, Washington, Idaho and i
Montana boys serving at such places
as Anette Island, Anchorage, Seward,
Kodiak, and such. And it is just as
hard for them to get home.”
It might be added that they are fully
as anxious to get home and fully as en
titled to credit for overseas service. To
the lad from Ketchikan, the battle of
Attu was just as tough an experience as
it was to the boy from San Francisco.
CLOSE HARMONY
Prseident Truman’s conciliatory policy
toward Congress has paid its first sizable
dividend. Senators MacKellar and Stew
art of Tennessee have abandoned their
fight against Mr. Truman’s reappoint
ment of David Lilienthal as chairman of
the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Thus an able administrator is kept at
his job; a personal, time-wasting Senate
fight is averted; the gulf between Whtie
House and Capitol is further narrowed. I
We congratulate the President — and
the Senators from Tennessee.
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Hollywood j
Star-Lites
By CHUCK COCHARD
Lionel Barrymore's etchings
rank him among the foremost art
ists of the day . . . Laraino Day's
grandfather started the first set
tlement in San Bernadino, Calif.
. . . Brian Donleey writes poetry.
. . . Keenan Wynn's full name is
Francis. Xavier Aloysius James
Jeremiah Keenan Wynn.
Marsha Hunt holds the Holly
wood women’s ping-pong cham-;
pionship . . . Lucille Ball sleeps in
a bed 7 by 7 feet . . . Irene Dunne
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blends her own perfume . . . Van
Johnson has an excellent baritone
voice . . . Hedy Lamarr has taken '
out several patents on her own
inventions.
Richard Whorf started his act-!
ing career as a bewhiskered grand- j
father when he was 12 years old i
. . . Jos Iturbi started playing the
piano when h<e was 3 years old—
that he was recognized as a child
prodigy when he was 7 years old
. . . Gloria De 'Haven was once the
feminine vocalist with Bob Cros
by's and Jan Savin's orchestras.
. . . Gracie Allen made her first
public appearance at the age of 3,
dancing at a benefit entertainment
in San Francisco.
Jane Powell, the sensational
singing discovery of 14 years of
age, can’t read a note of music—
she sings by ear . . . Lena Horne's
California home is on Horn Ave
nue . . . Spencer Tracy's early am
bition was to become a doctor . . .1
Robert Walker's hobby is playing
the drums . . . Abbott and Costello
have been playing the same gin
rummy game for 12 years.
Wallace Beery once tended ele
phants for Ringling Brothers cir
cus . . . Myrna Loy was once a
film cutter . . . Ann Sothern's
grandfather, Simon Lake, invent
ed the submarine . . . Carlos Ra
mirez was bowling champ of
Buenos Aires for two years . . .1
Greer Garson's favorite dish is
Irish Stew . . . Lana Turner's
favorite drink is a chocolate ice
cream soda . . . June Allyson
studied to be a nurse.
Katherine Hepburn has a doctor,
of psychology degree . . . Tommy j
Dorsey ran a sliphorn and a hand-!
ful of musicians into one million
dollars *cool income in 1944 . . .
Educate your kids to play the slip
horn . . . Marlene Dietrich says
she is through with Hollywood—
but not as long as Hollywood will
pay her big money she isn’t . . .
Errol Flynn failed to make the
headlines one morning.
Smudge Pots are now used for
something besides saving citrus
crops in cold weather . . . They
provide the smoke in night club,
scenes to offset the lack of cigar
ettes . . . For those Technicolor;
besch scenes they have to paint
the send to make it look like sand
. . . The Wilde Twins look so muen
alike that they can play each
other’s roles when one happens to
be ill and the director never knows
♦he difference.
In Hollywood they call Gregory
Peck, the “king-sized Sinatra” . . .
George Raft, one of the least
superstitious men you’d expect to
meet, hangs on to one particular
coin—a sliver half dollar—as >f
his life depends on it . . . It*s the
one h£ used in that memorable
scene in “Scarface,” first of the
gangster films of more than a
decade ago . . . As a debonair coin
flipping hard-guy he kept tossing
and catching it in spite of a 45
slug in his stomach—the scene
made such a hit it brought imme
diate stardom for him.
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