Alaska’s
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Own Contest
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Is Sweeping The Territory
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The hundreds taking part in the great Alaskagrams
race for hundreds of dollars in prizes are all living in
the Territory. The north is their home.
If you live in Alaska now you can test your knowl
edge of the Great Land. Write the Nugget for back
puzzles today if you have not already entered.
WHAT YOU DO TO WIN
Here's how you take part in this big
opportunity! Every issue this news
paper will publish Alaskagrams in
consecutive order, six each week for
12 weeks—a total of 72 Alaskagrams.
Each Alaskagram is a group of
scrambled letters which form mean
ingless words or a nonsensical phrase.
After an Alaskagram is unscrambled
the letters form the name of a place
;n Alaska: however, there is one su
perfluous letter which is not needed
to form the word.
All you do is re-arrange the letters
to form a single word which is the
name of a place in Alaska, and you"
also show which is the extra letter.
For example, the phrase "For a
change" when it is unscrambled
equals “ANCHORAGE" plus the ex
•ra letter “F.”
Just remember that all place-names
consist of only one word—and re
member to show the extra letter.
There is only one correct answer to
each Alaskagram.
SUBMIT ANSWERS IN
WEEKLY SETS OF 6
Your Alaskagram answers should
be mailed to Anchorage in units of
six. Whenever a group of six Alaska
grams have been published, this
newspaper will print an Alaskagram
Answer Blank. You will send all six
Alaskagrams for that week and also
the weekly Alaskagram Answer
Blank. And to be eligible for a prize
each weekly set of six Alaskagrams
must be accompanied by a quarter
(25 cents in coin).
In return for your remittance, after
you complete 10 weeks of the contest,
you will receive a copy of the 712
page Alaska Almanac which critics
label the best modern reference on
Alaska and which will be used as the
official authority for spelling and
definitions in this contest.
NEATNESS DOESN'T COUNT
You don't hav e to decorate your en
tries. Just be sure your answers can i
be read easily.
Nor will you have to write any let
•ers, or slogans or essays. You must
understand that hundreds of Alaskans
are competing in this Alaskagram
contest and it is possible persons may
be tied for prizes. In that case, there
will be tie-breaking puzzles to solve,
as provided for in the Official Rules
which will be sent to you immediate
ly on receipt of your first six solu
tions.
START NOW
This is your big opportunity, your
chance to win as much as $1,000.00
cold cash. If you reside in Alaska any
time between January 1, 1950 and
February 15, 1950. or if you are a
member of the Armed Forces sta
tioned in Alaska during any part of
that period, you can make that $1000
cash prize YOUR goal.
Just be sure you get every issue of
The Nome Nugget so that you can
keep up in this fascinating game
Leading newspapers throughout the
Territory are featuring Alaskagrams.
All 72 of your completed solutions
and your Answer Blanks must be
taken from the same Alaska newspa
per.
Monev Prizes For Alaskans
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First Prize .$1,000.00
Second Prize .$500.00
Third Prize .$250.00
Fourth Prize .$100.00
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Prizes.$50.00
TOTAL PRIZES .$2,000.00
And to every contestant who takes part 10
weeks, a copy of the ALASKA ALMANAC.
ALASKAGRAM No. 31
CLUE: One of the two principal Eskimo villages
on an island only 40 miles from Siberia.
Leg o’ Lamb . ...
(Place-* (Extra Letter*
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 31 TO 36
ALASKAGRAM No. 32
CLUE: A co-operative Indian village south of
Ketchikan founded in 1887 hy William
Duncan.
Take all at me —.—j—..
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. 0. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 31 TO 36
News of the World
At A Glance - - •
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through to find those contacts,
particularly to learn whether any
of them tie into high places.”
An informant, well acquainted
with Atomic development, told a
reporter that all evidence indi
cates that a number of other per
sons may have been involved with
Fuchs.
In London, the British editor
,who correctly predicted the Rus
sians would explode an atomic
charge in 1949, declared the Sov
iets already have touched off a
hydrogen super bomb.
Kenneth de Courcy, who claims
to have sources on both sides of
the iron curtain, says the Rus
sians have made three H-bombs
and exploded one of them. He did
not say when or where the blast
took place.
The U. S. high commissioner for
Germany took a slap at West Ger
man officials for criticizing the
Western Allies.
In a tough talking-speech Com
missioner John J. McCloy told
the Germans the United States
intends to keep a firm grip on the
former Reich’s political affairs.
He presented a nine-point pro
gram for Germany, ruling out an
ormy or air force and pledging
that Nazism will not rise again
there. It was the most critical ut»
terance McCloy has made con
cerning the Germans since he as
sumed his post here last summer.
West Brelin newspapers mini
mized a warning by Socialist
leader Kurt Schumacher that the
city faced a communist coup May
27.
The weather froze Berlin’s
highway traffic with Western
Germany delaying a conclusive
test of whether the Soviet “little
blockade” was ended.
The few trucks that edged
over the icy roads were cleared
by the Soviet guards without un
due delay.
In the Pacific the U. S. joint
chiefs of staff looked over Okina-1
wa, key air base in the American
defense line facing communist
troubled Asia.
There was no official inkling of
what the joint chiefs might re
port to President Truman and
naitonal defense planners, after
five days of secret strategy con
ferences with General MacArthur
and his experts. It was evident (
that high officers of MacArthur’s
high command urged a bolder
American attitude to save a situa
tion they regard as critical.
Dispatches from Formosa said
14 Nationalist bomber pounded
Shanghai today in the heaviest
airraid of the month. The Chapei
power plant was reported dam
aged heavily.
DATE FOR 11TH FAIR
TO BE SET
Chas. D. Jones, president of the
Northwestern Alaska Fair Assn.,
has issued a call for the stock
holders meeting of the organiza
tion for Tuesday evening at 8:00
p.m., in the City Hall.
At this time reports will be
read and discussed, concerning
the last Fair, vacancies will be
filled on the Board as well as
plans made for another Fair.
It is hoped that all stockhold
ers will attend the meeting if pos
sible so that plans can be started
for this important community j
event which could be a major
tourist attraction. Stockholders
who cannot be present should
give their proxies to someone else.
Barrow Eskimos
Reject Reservation
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that already had been marked by
contradictions. An interior de
partment announcement three
weeks ago was interpreted gener
ally to mean postponement of all
reservation votes. A department
spokesman later said the post
ponement applied only to the Hy
daburg election in Southeast
Alaska, that the other two elec
tions were going ahead on sched
ule.
Then, after the Senate interior
committee entered the picture
with a demand for postponement
of the elections, the second elec
tion postponement was announc
ed by the department—with the
resulting confusion over which
fine it was.
L. B. Williams, Alaska Native
Service, representative, advised
Reinholt Brust, assistant ANS di
rector at Juneau today, that na
tives objected to the failure to
include hunting, fishing and
trapping areas. A further objec
tion, Williams said, was the re
quirement that the Eskimos re
linquish all claims to possessory
right in the reservation area.
Search ^Continues
For Missing (1-54
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plane. Similar distress signals
heard yesterday were traced to
Denmark.
The few fragile leads to the
rate of the big plane and the 44
persons aboard have proved
groundless.
A rumor that the U. S. airforce
C-54 had been located in a nar
row canyon between a cliff and
glacier was spiked by search
headquarters.
“There is absolutely nothing to
the report," American and Cana
dian air force officials said.
The rumor was heard as far
away as Anchorage, and denied
there by authorities at Elmendorf
Air Force Base.
An aura of authenticity had
been given the story by the fig
ures it contained. The grapevine
report said the transport had
been spotted 180 miles off course
and 200.8 miles from Snag, the
tiny weather station over which
the C-54 last reported 20 miles in
side the Yukon Territory from
Alaska.
WE CARRY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
FINE LIQUORS. BEER AND WINE
Out-of-Town Orders Carefully Handled
THE NOME LIQUOR STORE
SERVICE CLEANERS
4th and B Streets—Opposite School House
QUALITY DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mickelson, Props.
Prompt and Courteous Service
Phone RED 96
THEGLUEPOTSODA FOUNTAIN
Serves the BEST ICE CREAM
MADE DAILY
AT THE GLUE POT
We Carry Also Standard Brands of
Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, Candy
-FRESH POPCORN
THE GLUE POT
We Buy Anything and Ship Anywhere
— write to —
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SHOPPING SERVICE
General Delivery, FAIRBANKS
— or —
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Box 1156, ANCHORAGE