THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday by The
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
Nome, Alaska
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 618
$1.50 PER MONTH S16.00 A YEAR
W. A. and EMILY BOUCHER.Editors
Entered as second class matter Octooer 14, 1943. at the postoffice at
Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1379.
Monday, June 10, 1946.
O. P. A. IN 300 A. D.
rwy HiL F-uLLOWNG QUOTATION is found in Raw
JL unson s Manual oi /uuicni mscory, (l-a^e i^o.
577, Paragraph 9), by George Rawiinson, Proiessor ai
Oxford University, and published by Harper Bros., in
1886. This book was used as a text-book at Oxford
and many leading English and American Universities
and Colleges. The period described was the reign of
Diocletion, Emperor of the Roman Empire about the
year 300 AD.
“Nor was suffering at this period confined to the
Christians. The establishment of four courts instead
of one, the multiplication of officials and armies, vastly
augmented expenditures, and the heavy increase of
taxation was the necessary consequence.
“The provinces groaned under the burden of op*
pressive imposts, which were wrung from the reluct
ant tax-payer by violence and even by torture..
“Industry sank beneath a system which left it
without reward.
‘Production diminished, and the price of all com
modities arose.
“To meet this evil, a futile attempt was made to
fix hy law a maximum of all prices for the necessaries
and most of the commodities of life - for com, wine,
oil, salt, honey, butcher's meat, vegetables, clothes,
fish, fruit, laborers’ wages, schoolmasters’ fees and ad
vocates' fees, boots, shoes, harness, timber and beer.
“Such an interference with the naturel course of
trade could only agravate the evils which it was in
tended to allay.”
It would seem that this description, and this con
clusion, would be especially applicable to the present
times. It may be reasonably assumed that certain
controls of Trade are necessary in War Times, but
how far they would extend, and for how long a period
they would endure, is as certainly debatable. The
verdict of History on similar emergencies, and similar
periods t othe present, would indicate that it is not
sound economics, or for the general welfare of the
people, for any government to follow a policy of Price
Fixation beyond the period of such emergencies.
Such important economic matters should be non
partisan, affecting as they do the everyday life of the
people, and it is hoped that you will give your indiv
idual aonscientious study to such Legislation when
advocating or voting on any such Legislative Acts in
the future.
(D. A. Noonan)
WALKIE-TALKIE BURGLAR AIDE
THE WALKIE-TALKIE has gone into crime. Wal
ter L. Rhodes, 24, a war veteran, who during sev
eral months in the Army observed the wide uses to
which developments in radio were being put, told Pe*
oria, Illinois, detectives how a walkie equipment
proved itself of great practical value during a recent
series of burglaries and had twice saved him from
being caught.
Rhodes said he and a partner had bought walkie
talkie outfits in Chicago and installed a set on a truck.
Their plan was for one man to remain in the
truck as lookout while another entered the building to
be robbed, the two could converse while the robery
was in progress, and the lookout could give timely
warning to the inside man in case of the approach
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of police.
The pair carried off two safes from the Foremost
Electric Company of Peoria, and a safe from the Peoria
office of the Western Union Telegraph Company.
On one occasion while they were robbing a grocery
store in Gridley, 111., the lookout saw the owner of the
store approaching and warned Rhodes, who was in
side the store. Rhodes hurried out and they drove
away. But the owner got a good view of the truck
and a description went to the State police and its own
ership was traced to Rhodes.
The truck, with its equipment intact was seized
by police when they arrested him at his home.—The
New York Times.
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THE UNITED STATES RANKS FIRST in egg
production, among all countries, although the poultry
is one of the most important in Erie, Canada, Denmark,
Holland and Australia.
The art of drawing is more than fifty thousand
years old.
WASHINGTON—The four years
after Pearl Harbor saw more
| new faces in Washington than
I any similar period in the capital’s
: history. Many of them are gone.
A lot of them departed in a some
i times deserved, often undeserbed
i hail of political or personal brick
bats.
One man who saw it through
without ever having his ears bat
ted back (and that’s a Washing
ton wartime record in itself) was
j Uncle Sam’s highest powered,
■ lowest paid salesman—the man
who sold 85,000,000 persons $157,
000,000,000 worth of war and vic
tory bonds.
A little less than four years
ago, Ted R. Gamble (the first and
middle n am e s are Theodore
Rooseveit, but he never uses
them) slipped into Washington
without the one blast on the pub
licity trumpets for a blind date
with Secretary of the Treasury
Henry J. Morgenthau, Jr.
The secretary, scanning reports
of the sagging bond sales, noted
that Oregon was first and quickly
over the top of its quota.
“Get this fellow Gamble down
here,” Morgenthau said. “If he
can do that in Oregon, maybe he
can do it in the nation.”
Gamble came and did. He went
back to Oregon the other day. He i
left behind a couple of truckloads j
| of verbal bouquets from the men
who really know a job well done.
Gamble protested they didn’t be
; long to him. He also left behind,
j several lush offers from the movie j
; industry. He took along the four
$1 annual checks which were his
salary.
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NOT IN ALL the heterogeneous I
mass of wartime Washington!
humanity was there another gov- j
ernment official like Ted Gamble, i
The 39-year-old owner of a chain i
of Oregon movies was about the!
quietest, most unpretentious, |
pleasant salesman I ever talked
to.
To hear him tell it, war bonds
just sold themselves, or it they
didn’t then the credit was all due
to the war advertising council,
or the movie stars, or the radio
hawkers, or the thousand-and
one agencies that did gratis over
the-counter business in bonds
and stamps.
It never seemed to occur to him
at all that the director of the War
Finance Division, which he was,
had a thing to do with it.
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THERE WASN’T anybody who
knew more about the complex
bond campaign than Gamble did,
because he listened to everybody
who had even the slightest con
tribution to make to the job he
had been assigned.
Ted has gone home to his the
aters, his family and his friends.
The real reason he turned down
those Hollywood offers is that ^je
has five brothers getting out of
the service and he wants to see
them started again in civilian life
on the right foot. ^
There has been much inside
Treasury talk that he may be of
fered the job of undersecretary.
Friends think that if he were
urged by Secretary Vinson or the
President he would take it. If he’s
even half willing, it would be a
shame to let a public servant like
Ted Gamble escape into private
industry.
“Who’s Who in Alaska'*
Out in August
SEATTLE. June 10,—Twenty-five
Nome residents will be listed in
"Who’s Who in Alaska”, a bio- .
graphical index of prominent cit
izens of the Territory, to be pub
lished in Seattle this August by
Tewkesbury Publishers. This
week the firm is mailing letters
to those in Nome who will be in
cluded in the new volume.
“Who’s Who* in Alaska” will
include names and biographies
of more than 600 outstanding men
and women now living in the
Territory who, by personal en
deavor or in their fields of waitfc,
have contributed to the develop
ment of Alaska. As an added
supplement the book will also
contain a complete, accurate dir
ectory listing the names and key
officials of business firms, pro
fessional concerns, government
agencies, welfare organizations,^
and community associations oper
ating in Alaska.
The firm of Tewkesbury Pub
lishers was established by David
Tewkesbury and William Tewkes
bury after their discharge from
the army last February. They
are the sons of the late David^B.
Tewkesbury, Alaska pioneer and
newspaparman.
David Tewkesbury was a news
reporter for the Anchorage Daily
Times prior to his enlistment ft
the army in 1942. He is a grad
uate of Juneau High School and
of the University of Alaska.
After graduating from Fair
banks High School and prior to
his enlistment early in 1942, Wil
liam Tewkesbury attended the
Art Institute of Chicago for three
years. In the service he was edi
tor of Air Force Newspapers at
Fairbanks and later at Edmonton^
Canada.
The brothers plan to return to
Alaska in the fall.
MOTHER OF HARRY HAGEN
PASSES AWAY IN CALIFORNIA
Harry Hagen has received word
of the death of his mother, Carrie
Hagen, 93, with whom he visiteft
last summer for the first time in
many years. She has resided
in California for more than 75
years and has made her home with
another son, Milton Hagen.