NO FRENCH FAGS
GOING OVERSEAS
MARSEILLES (Special) — A
Yank boatswain’s mate, crew
member of a Coast Guard-manned
troop transport, went ashore here
some time ago and proceeded to
cement international relations by
learning the French language, ob
served Bill Pearsall, Coast Guard
correspondent. In a letter to his
wife he displayed his skill as a
linguist by writing, in part, “I
* been able to get beaucoups
/weeks later his devoted
replied via V-mail:
«rling, I’m glad you’re having
" luck with cigarettes than I
-uin. I’ve been able to get only one
pack a week, and while I thought
the dealer might have some new
brands, he has never heard of
BEAUCOUPS.”
LEARN TO FLY
NOW!
IN A PIPER CUB
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WEDNESDAY GAMES
* National Loaguo
New York 2, 2; Chicago 5, 10.
Brooklyn 5, Pittsburgh 3. Phila
delphia 0, 8; Cincinnati 1, 6. Bos
ton 2, St. Louis 4.
American League
Detroit 10, 1; New York 7, 5.
Cleveland 1, 5; Boston 2, 2. Chi
cago 15, 6; Philadelphia 6, 5. St.
Louis 1, 4; Washington 2, 3.
Pacific Coast League
Portland 1, 6; Los Angeles 4, 4.
San Francisco 3, San Diego 2.
Seattle 1, 4; Oakland 3, 5. Holly
wood 6, 6; Sacramento 3, 14.
THURSDAY GAMES
National League
Cincinnati 4, Philadelphia 1.
Pittsburgh 17, Brooklyn 5. Chi
cago 6, New York 1. Boston 9, 3;
St. Louis 1, 7.
American League
Detroit 5, 5; New York 14, 2.
Chicago 5, 2; Philadelphia 6, 1.
Boston 9, Cleveland 3. Washing
ton 2, 3; St. Louis 0, 2.
Pacific Coast League
San Diego 4, San Francisco 2.
Only game scheduled.
BOY SCOUT TROOP PUTTING
UP STREET SIGNS
The Boy Scouts of Local Troop
No. 666 were busy last evening
putting up street signs on the
main street corners. The boys
have been working on the project
for the past several months, paint
ing signs and cutting numbers
for houses.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
United States of America,
War Shipping Administration
Alaska Steamship Company, Agents
SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE
BALANCE SEASON 1945
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S.S. Diamond Head (Freighter)
Sailing from Seattle Sept. 1st
For St. Michael, Unalakleet, Golovin, Nome, Teller
FREIGHTER
Sailing from Seattle Sept. 23rd
For Nome
Will handle Cold Storage, Coolroom and
Semi-Perishable Cargo ONLY!
S. S. BARANOF
Sailing from Seattle Oct. 1st
For Nome
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS
DREAM
THEATRE
NOME. ALASKA
2 Shows, Sop!. 7th, 7:15 A 9 P.M.
FRIDAY
“RED RIVER RANGE”
JOHN WAYNE.
CORRIGAN TERHUNE,
POLLY MORAN
"SAILORS ALL"
And "TIPS ON TRIPS"
1 Show, Sopt. 8th, 7:30 P.M.
SATURDAY
“PRESENTING LILY
MARS”
JUDY GARLAND. VAN HEFLIN.
FAY BAINTER
And 'THE BOY AND THE WOLF'
2 Shows, Sept. 9th, 7:15 It 9 P.M.
SUNDAY
“RETURN OF
THE VAMPIRE”
BELA LUGOSI, MILES MANDER
FRIEDA INESCORT
And"DANGER AREA"
1 Show, Sept. 10 and 11, 7:30 P.M.
MONDAY and TUESDAY
FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM’
ROSALIND RUSSELL,
FRED MacMURRAY
And "GOOFY'S GLIDER"
1 Show, Sept. 12 and 13, 7:30 P.M.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
“WHISTLING IN
BROOKLYN”
RED SKELTON, JEAN ROGERS,
ANN RUTHERFORD
And "SNIFFER SOLDIERS"
CLASSIFIED ADS
WANTED — Telephone operator,
experience unnecessary. Call
Alaska Telephone and Tele
graph Company. 107-3t
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Administrator
Praises Puget
Sound Shipping
SEATTLE, Sept. 1— </P) — Ad
miral Emory S Land, Administra
tor for the War Shipping Admin
istration praised the wartime task
by Puget Sound shipping in a
message to local agents. He sin
gled out the Alaska Shipping Pool
as “one of the outstanding opera
tions of the war.”
Supporting huge military activ
ities in Alaska and the Aleutians
and maintaining the Territory’s
prime industries was a “magnifi
cent job.” The Admiral said Pa
cific Coast shipping carried thir
ty-two million two hundred
twelve thousand long tons of car
go, chiefly military, during the
first seven months of this year
and asserted the industry still had
a “great responsibiltiy.”
NOTICE
The Nevada Cocktail Lounge
will be dosed to the general pub
lic Tuesday evening for the Nome
Volunteer Firemen's Dance.
8.8. DIAMOND HEAD TO
LEAVE SEATTLE SEPT. I.
The S. S. Diamond Head of the
Alaska Steamship Co., which was
scheduled to leave Seattle for
Nome on Sept 1, has been delayed
and will leave tomorrow, Sept 8.
Admiral McCain
Dies Of Sheer
Exhaustion
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1 SAN DIEGO. Sent. 7— —
The s'out fighting hoa**f that car
i ried the slender greying John S:d
ney McCain, 61. through the
Navy's flying course at 52. and to
smashing victories over the Japs
1 gave out last night of sheer ex
| haustion from combat duty.
“Admiral McCain gave his life
I for his country, he was suffering
| complete fatigue resulting from
the strain of last month’s combat,”
asserted Capt. John Vann, his per
sonal physician.
The vice admiral, commander of
the famed far reaching fast carrier
task force thirty-tight, has been
directing almost constant raids,
mostly against the Jap homeland.
McCain’s planes have knocked out
six thousand Nip aircraft and two
million tons of shipping including
approximately a thousand war
^ ships.
Last year's production of cream
ery butter in the United States
was the lowest in nineteen years,
according to the 1945 Encyclopae
dia Britannica Book of the Year.
Civilian consumption was only
about twelve pounds per capita in
1944 as compared with more than
sixteen and a half pounds in the
pre-war years of 1935-39.
UNEMPLOYMENT DIRECTOR
VISITS SECOND DIVI8ION
j • ue
r -R. E. Sheldon, Executive Direc
1 tor, and Anthony Zorick, secre
tary. of the Unemployment Com- •
oensation Commission arrived irr
Nome Wednesday evening on the
Pan American plane, to conduct a
survey of Nome and the Seward
nPh;nsula to determine the advis
ability of establishing an office of
the r agency in the district.
Mr. E. E. Lincoln, Assistant Di
rector of the War Manpower Com
mission acompanied Mr. Sheldon
. and Mr. Zorick as far as Nome,
and will return to Juneau tonight,
while Sheldon and Zorick expect
to continue their survey through +
i the district.
At a call from the president, the
Chamber of Commerce met with
i these officials Thursday evening
in the Federal courtroom for a
general discussion of employment,
! unemployment, and compensation *
problems confronting employers
and employees in the Second Di
vision.
The Chamber went on record
recommending to Mr. R. E. Shel
; don, the executive director, that
his agency establish a full time
representative of the Unemploy
ment Commission here as soon as
practical. Mr. Sheldon stated that *
he would make the necessary
recommendations to the Commis
sion, and that a part time clerk
would be established temporarily
until some person could be quali
fied for the permanent office.
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