THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome. Alaska
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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, June 27, 1945
SEVENTH WAR LOAN
The present period in our nation’s
fight to control inflation is a crucial one
and the purchase of War Bonds is one
of our greatest weapons.
The buying of War Bonds is one of the
great demonstrations of faith in our way
of life. To the fighting man it is demon
stration of our faith in him and of our
unbounded determination to meet his
own demands of “Unconditional Surren
der in the Pacific” with our own pledge
of “Bonds to the Limit.”
We cannot fail in this Seventh War
Loan to fulfill our every pledge, for fail
ure to do so would in effect mean repudi
ating all we have stood for during these
strenuous years. The responsibility that
you and I have is a great one, for each
of us has the power to demonstrate to
our fighting men that here at home the
war is not over—and what they are do
ing over there has not been forgotten
over here. They have done what we
asked to have done in Europe. Ours is an
easy task in comparison.
Are we being fully conscious of our
obligations to them on their battlefront
and to each other on the home front
when we have only subscribed thirty
three and one-third percent of the quota I
set for us. Nome has only been asked for
$18,762.50. Do you part and add another
bond, before July 4th, to your share in
the drive.
WAR AMONG THE BY-PASSED
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
The headlined part of the war — but j
not the war itself—has long since moved
thousands of miles beyond this spot. It is
930 miles from Nares Tarbor, in the Ad
miralties, to Guam, our announced West
ern Pacific headquarters. From Guam to
Manila is 1,600 miles farther, or from
Guam to Okinawa is 1,200 miles. So
fighting is going on and death is incurred
thousands of miles behind the “front”
lines. No recent casualty list has called
attention to it, but the same thing is still
true in the Gilberts, where we first in
vaded the Central Pacific, and in the
Marshalls, next farther west. Marine
fliers and Navy surface patrol craft have
the job of pinning down the many thou
sands of Japanese who have been by
passed in strong island base. Truk’s
stockpiles of war material are central to
all these Jap bases; delivery of supplies
by submarine is not impossible. The
Japs are able to fight back, occasionally
shoot down a bombing and strafing
plane, or damage a patrol boat that
thrusts its prow unwarily too close to
shore.
It is war, with all the penalites of war,
without the glamor, the glory, the feel of
getting somewhere and accomplishing
something; with only monotony, the risk
of death, the certainty that there will be
no headlines to tell the story of those
whose job it is to keep the Japs ears
pinned back in these rear areas.
BSTABIISHIN<S A BBAOWBAD
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Hollywood
Star-Lites
By CHUCK COCHARD
HOLLYWOOD — The screen
could use some more funny men—
and women! Yes, indeed.
There isn’t enough comedy to go
around . . . Bing Crosby, who is a
orettv funny fellow now and then,
is tops in the box office draw Bob
Hope is third in the list and Ab
bott and Costello are in the first
ten.
The movie-makers should de
velop some more comedians, and
also import some . . . One of the
funniest men on the stage sat out
a contract at one studio recently
without appearing in a picture.
Back in the silent days the
screen was peppered with comedy
—and good comedy, too . . . Chap
lin, Harold Lloyd Harry Langdon,
Buster Keaton, William Haines,
Semon, Beery and Hatton, George
K. Arthur and Karl Dane, Victor
McLaglen and Edmund Lowe, Ben
Turpin, Chester Conklin, Slim
Summerville, Charlie Chase, Fatty
Arbuckle, Laurel and Hardy, Lou
ise Fazenda, Mabel Normand, and
many others were just a few of
the names to conjure with.
Then there were the famous
Keystone Kops, too.
Funny men and women are as
funny when speaking dialogue as
when doing pantomime. . . We
have just as much need for com
edy now as during World War I.
There is not so much the lack of
comedy material as there is lack
of comedy talent.
Danny Kaye is about the only
outstanding comedian developed
or brought to the screen in a long
time. . . . That’s not enoug.i.
What about it — Mr. Movie
Maker? . . . The movie moguls
should do a little serious thinking
about more laughter.
Along Film Row
'Member Monte Blue — he’s
celebrating his 58th birthday and
the beginning of his 35th year in
pictures . . . Ella Raines tells me
the reason she is consic^pred one
of the most graceful and distinc
tive walkers in Hollywood is be
cause she^ became an expert on
skis. ... For your information—
Real money is never used on the
screen—Uncle Sam prohibits—it
is all stage money.
On A Hollywood Sight-Seeing Bus
Items of more-or-less import
ance picked up around town:
Lauren “Baby” Bacall Bogart does
not get seasick, which pleases
Sailor Bogie no end. ... A pre
view of the all-white costumes
Lana Turner will wear in “The
Postman Always Rings Twice,”
including two-piece bathing suits,
gives the impression if the post
man doesn’t ring oftener than that
he’s a dope. . . . Whatever became
of Ann Sheridan? . . . D d you no
t.ce that all the glamour girls are j
having babies exclusively?
Construction
Controls Revised
Order £.-41, which controls all
construction, as of May 29th, has
been very considerably revised.
Construction, additions or re
modeling of bulidings in any one
year ,for occupancy of one farrn’y
may now be underatken without
an application for permit to con
struct if the cost does not exceed
$1,000; for occupancy by two fam
ilies, $2,000; for occupancy bv
»hree families, $3,000; for occu
pancy by four families, $4,000;
and for occupancy by five tami
lies, $5,000. As before, repairs and
maintenance to keen the struc
ture in a sound working condition
and safe for occupancy may be
done at whatever expenditure re
quired.
A farm, not including the faim
house, may spend up to $1,000 in
the construction of any necessary
building.
In any one year, a hotel, apart
ment building, or other residence
for six or more families, may
spend in new construction or re
modeling, up to $5,000, but if the
repairs and maintenance exceed a
sum equal to the number of square
feet of living space in the build
ing times twenty cents, then the
excess must be charged against
this $5,000 annual allowance for
new construction.
The same allowance of $5,000
and the same conditions as to re
pair and maintenance apply to an
office, bank, store, laundry, gar
age, restaurant, theater, ware
house or other retail or wholesale
service establishment including a
frozen locker plant.
In the case of church, hospital,
school, college, USO Club, public
playground for children, public
owned building or group of build
ings orphanage for other build
ings used exclusively for chari
table purposes) and a military ex
change on an Army or Navy res
ervation may have spent in new
construction or remodeling during
any calendar year up to $10,000
without obtaining permission from
the War Production Board.
Norman C. Stines,
Area Representative,
War Production Board
And that includes Alice Faye,
Betty Grable, Hedy Lamarr. Ann
Sothern, Susan Hayward, Rita
Hayworth, Lana Turner, et al. . . .
Angela Lansbury, English refugee
child who came over on a shipload
of 200 London blitz refugees, was
selling cosmetics in a department
store for a short time . . . Then
she won the Academy nomination
for her first screen role, the Cock
ney maid in “Gaslight”—and now
she is in a lead for the “Amber”
role in Forever Amber” . . . Now
she'll play the sophisticated torch
singer opposite William Powell in
“The Moddlum Saint”—she is 19.
T! at’s all—Bye Now and Buy
Bonds!