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I You re Smart— I
I If you think Alaskagrams are loo I
I easy and haven’t entered, start I
I the contest today because from I
I now on you will he matching wits I
I with the smartest minds in Alaska. I
Money 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
I And to every contestant who takes part 10 g
I weeks, a copy of the ALASKA ALMANAC. I
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WHAT YOU DO TO WIN
Here’s how you take part in this big
opportunity! Every issue this news
paper vriil 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
in 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
tra 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
grains 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 coini.
In return for your remittance, after
you complete 10 weeks of the contest,
you w'll 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 have to decorate your en
tries. Just be sure your answers can
be read easily.
Nor will you have to write any let
ters, or slogans or essays. You must
understand that hundreds of Alaskans
are competing in this Aiaskagram
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.
ALASKAGRAM No. 25
j CLUE: This Northwest Alaska mining camp is
named for one of the wisest Biblical kings.
Some Loon .- -.
(Place) • (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. 0. Box.Town.
(SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 25 TO 30
AIASKAGRAM No. 26
CLUE: This is the first town you saw in Alaska
if you floated down the Yukon River from
from Canada. It's 10 miles from the boun
dary.
League — ..
(Place) (Extra Letter)
Your Name.
P. O. Box.Town.
SAVE THIS PUZZLE AND SUBMIT IT WITH THE
WEEKLY SET OF ALASKAGRAMS 25 TO 30
%
I “Alaska Can Be
Easily Captured”
Says Bartlett
((£*) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON, (Jf) — Delegate
Bartlett of Alaska said there is a
possibility an enemy could easily
capture Alaska and aim a “death
blow at the United States” from
the airfields there.
The Delegate reviewed Alaskan
development for the 24th Womens’
Patriotic conference on national
defense.
The Territory, he said, does not
have ample military protection
and were its big airfields captured
for raids against most large cities
by an enemy they could be used
of the United States.
“It is commonly said — and I
have never heard an contradic
tion,” said Bartlett, “that Fair
banks and Anchorage would fall
before one parachute division, or
at the most two.”
Alaska should be developed in
dustrially to attract settlers and
should be provided with ample
defense, Bartlett said in his pre
pared address.
While Alaska's development
has not been pushed, he contin
ued, Russia has created cities and
developed Siberia, just across the
Bering Strait.
One reason why Alaska is not
developed is that it is “locked up
tight,” Bartlett said.
The federal government, he
continued, owns 95 per cent of
the land in the Territory and
makes it difficult for settlers to
get land “because of a false in
terpretation of the principles of
conservation." He said federal
| laws contain "outright discrimin
ations against Alaska."
"It is to cure that situation so
that population may be attracted,"
Bartlett said, "so there may be
proper resource development, so
that adequate representat ion*
may be made in respect to nation
al defense needs, that Alaskans
now seek statehood.”
He said Alaskans feel that two
United States Senators and one
representative could do more to
get Congress to act to develop the
Territory than one voteless Dele
gate.
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