Air Force Day
To Be Observed
In every section of the United
States and throughout the world
citizens from every walk of life
will join the men and women of
the Army Air Forces in the ob
servance of Air Force Day on Au
gust 1.
The Air Force Association,
whose members are past and pres
ent members of the AAF. is 'he
official sponsor of the observance
which will mark the 40th anni
versary of the AAF. In more than
100 cities and towns where the
association has chartered squad
rons, the ceremonies will be plan
ned and carried out by these
groups with the aid and coopera
tion of personnel from nearby
AAF establishments.
Realization of the importance of
the AAF in safeguarding the na
tional security has brought to AAF
units voluntary offers of assist
ance and co-operation from many
civic organizations in planning lo
cal observances.
Air demonstrations are planned
by most of the bases and lunch
eons and banquets will be held in
many places.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
PERSONNEL HERE
W. E. Wrather, Dr. J. C. Reed,
A. Quentica, D. Singewold and
Robert Fellows of the Geological
Survey from Washington, D. C.,
arrived yesterday with Wien Air
lines.
Thinqs for Your Office
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Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Christian Roust.
Pres.
Murlin W. Day.
Sec'y.
ANVIL LODGE
NO. 140
Meets First and Third
Thursday each month
KARL DEWEY. W. M.
NORVIN W. LEWIS. Secy.
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NOME »,ODGE
A-5 i
Meets Second Friday
JOHN R. RAPP. N.G.
ROBERT BALDWIN. Secy.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Oppoubm Us '
Phone Main 40
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O. D. COCHRAN
Attorney At Law
Phone Main 121
Nome. Alaska
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nevada Building
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office:
801 Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 6396
J. K. BERRYMAN
ELECTRICIAN
Day Phone; Black 1S5
%
Army tlT. after 4t00 PM.
Sourdoughs Relate
Days Of ’98
Experiences
(By Jack Hewini)
1 SEATTLE, (/P»—There was no
J weaker sex on the trail of ’98.
Chilkoot pass? Sure, it discour
aged men and killed horses—but
Mrs. Emma A. McCain went over
it twice. White Pass? Mrs. Ethel
-Becker negotiated that when she
was a little girl, going over in a
pack train with her mother and
two other children and riding the
last lap to Dawson by dog sled.
About half the folks attending
the international sourdough re
union here are women and a big
i percentage of these went into the
i Yukon at the height of the gold
j strikes or were born there of pio
neer parents.
Mrs. Alice Handley went to
Dawson in 1900 over White Pass,
j then on to Fairbanks, where she
has lived since 1904. “Couldn’t
'get my husband 'William Henry
I Handley* to come along to the
meeting. He hasn't been ‘Outside’
since he went up there on the trail
| of gold.”
Mrs. Elvina E. Morrow made
j the jaunt north in 1888, when she
j was a little girl. Her father, an
engineer at Douglas, Alaska, met (
I her and her small brother when
J , j
, they arrived in the care of a ship’s
captain. She grew up and married
1 in the Territory.
Mrs. Becker can remember j
when a small jar of pickles sold ,
for $2 to the luxury-starved pros
pectors of Dawson.
The money, of course, was gold
dust. The lure of it took Emma
McCain on her second trip over
terrible Chilkoot.
“I went in first with Curly Mon
roe’s outfit as a dancing girl in |
1895,” said Emma McCain. “We
went to Circle and barely made a
living and were glad to get back
out again. But then came the gold
strike on the Yukon and I made,
up my mind to go back. I went1
alone over Chilkoot.
“I worked in Wrigley’s lesiau-j
rant, which was only a tern. Ev
ery meal was $2.50 and the cus
tomer could order everything we
had, but sometimes it wasn’t
much. Usually there were plenty j
of canned '’egetables and potatoes, I
but little meat.
“The main course usually was
eggs, when we had them; salmon
with eggs when we had the sal
mon; moose with eggs when we
had the moose.
“When he ate, the customer i
shook out the gold dust payment I
Bishop Protests
Divorced Marriage
NEW YORK, (£»)—Bishop Wil
liam T. Manning, in a letter in the
current issue of “The Living
Church,” has protested the fact
that the first wife of Elliott Roose
velt was permitted to marry a
clergyman of the Protestant Epis
copal church.
The retired bishop of the Dio
cese of New York also protested
the fact that the Very Rev. Kink
B. O’Ferrall, dean of St. Paul
Cathedral, Detroit, was allowed to
marry a divorced woman.
*In his letter, Bishop Manning
asked whether the action in the
two dioceses concerned meant
“we are now to have a number
of ecclesiastical Renos, and the
consequent abolition of any Chris
tian standards of marriage in the
church.”
into a triangular tray we called
a ‘blower’. Then I weighed out
$2.50 for the restaurant and if
there was any left, that was my
tip. I made $50 a week in salary
and $25 a day in tips. It was lots
better than dancing for two-bits a
dance, as I had at Circle.”
Alaska RR. Ba<l As
Old World Lines
FAIR BANKS, (/P) — Alaska’s
Seward-to-Fairbanks railroad line
was compared Wednesday by the
wartime head of the army rail
way service to "rotten and demol
ished railroads’ the American
t
armed forces faced in moving
wartime freight in Italy, Germany
and Iran. •
The "know how” acquired in
rehabilitating the war-wrecked
foreign lines, said former Maj.
Gen. Carl Gray, Jr., will enable
American crews to meet the prob
lems of modernizing the govern
ment-owned Alaska Railroad, but
he said it promised a staggering
assignment.
Gray’s comment followed his
inspection of the full route of the
475-mile line. He heads an offi
cial party inspecting the line with
Col. J. P. Johnson, the railroad
general manager, to report to sec
retary of interior Krug on specific
steps for bringing the Territory’s
inland "lifeline” to the standards
1 of United States railroads. The
road is under department of in
terior jurisdiction.
Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
OH, DIANA! V erse
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SUDIANA HAS TO LEARN A
PIECE FOR ENGLISH, LITTLE SIS
t~y~ —:
BREAK, BREAK.
BREAK ON TUY
■' COLD GREY STONES
^ OU SEA---"
JEEPERS 1 WHAT "BUT THOUGH
COMES NEXT, THOU BREAK
SLURP?-_J FOREVER
.•THEY'LL NEVER BE AS $
BROKE AS ME H"
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IT DOESN'T SEEM POSSIBLE KIDS
IN MY DAY WERE AS SILLY AS i
THIS BUNCH
WE DISCOVERED A NO!
VERY INTERESTING WUAT ?
FACT IN PUYSICS
CLASS TODAY, MR. //
DEAN ^ i/—- / /-•-«
IF ALL OF US SOPUOMORES
WERE LINED UP HOLDING
UANDS WE'D EXTEND HALF-WAY
ACROSS THE OCEAN «—_
AND WHAT'S MORE
I'M IN FAVOR OF IT 1
V— -7/-——
SCORCHY SMITH * No Life In Liherte
LIBgRTE'
THEZES TWC RIBBON > WE >
THEY CALL AN AIR-STRIP/ COME.'
SOUP WITH TVrLOCAL TUDGSl^/^ ^
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WELL, IT'S BEEN'1
A NICE QUIET
(FOURTH OF JULY.']
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THIS CANT BE ^
LAWLESS UBERTE, 1
IT'S MORE LIKE A J
GHOST TOWN/^X