NOME VOLUNTEER FIREMEN’S DANCE
Wed. Eve. Nov. 24—Swing Music by "Tommy’" and his Neopolitan Stars
Special Surprise Numbers By Talented Entertainers — A Valuable
Door Prize Will Be Awarded to the Holder of the Lucky No. Ticket
ALSO OTHER PRIZES GALORE
4 HOURS OF MUSIC, DANCING
AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM
9 UNTIL 1-PRIZES WERE
MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GEN
EROUS CONTRIBUTIONS OF
THE FOLLOWING:
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
LEHMANN’S STORE
JACK SEIDENVERG
DREAM THEATRE
THE POTTER STUDIO
ARCTIC BEER PARLOR
POLET’S STORES
NORTH POLE BAKERY
U. S. MERCANTILE CO.
LOMEN COMMERCIAL CO.
MINERS St MERCHANTS BANK
NOME DRUG STORE
NORTHERN L. AND P. CO.
ALL.YN WATER DELIVERY
BON MARCHE STORES
MIROW AIR SERVICE
NOME MOTOR CO.
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
YENNEY WATER DELIVERY
NOME BARBER SHOP
PACIFIC ALASKA AIRWAYS
B. J. McCONAGHY
NEVADA GRILL
NEVADA BAR
NOME LAUNDRY
BOARD OF TRADE
POLSON WATER DELIVERY
ARCTIC SHOP
NOME DAILY NUGGET
MANY OTHERS STILL COMING
ADMISSION GENTLEMEN $1.00—LADIES FREE—9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
““Mocker” War
Time Pigeon
Is No More
Dying in the hands of Thomas
Ross, pigeon expert at Fort Mon
mouth, New Jersey, Mocker, the
last of the carrier pigeons hav
ing served* America in France
during the World War, succumbed
after an illness of two months.
For three days the famous
gray pigeon, which was twice de
corated by Army officials for his
message carrying feats during
the war, was restricted to a liquid
diet of whiskey and water, in
last ditch, but vain efforts to save
his life.
Mocker was shipped to France
during the spring of 1918, along
with thousands of other carrier
pigeons. Many times he flew' over
the lines before he was finally
w'ounded, shrapnel, piercing his
skull, causing the loss of his right
eye. Even then he continued to
his dest inution and the valuable
message he bore resulted inthe
silencing of a German gun with
in twenty minutes. On later oc
casions he* was twice wounded,
less seriously.
For his service under fire Mock
er was awarded two citations,
the Distinguished Service Cross,
and the Croix de Guerre. His fun
eral was conducted with full
military honors and his body
stuffed and mounted beside that
of Spik:e, the famous dog hero,
$1.50 RELISHES $1.50 ’
Stuffed Olives Fresh Celery <
SOUP
CTeam of Tomato ‘
SALAD
Fruit. and Nut
ENTREE
Roast Young Tom Turkey with Dressing and Cranberry Sherbet
VEGETABLE
Whipped Potatoes Com on the Cob
DESSERT
I I
Pumpkin or Hot Mince Poer
Ice Cream
Grapes After Dinner Mints
COFFEE
NORTH POLE BAKERY E ° ^s
in the Fort Monmouth Administ
ration building.
Following the war Mocker was
kept for breeding purposes and
several fleet fliers are among his
offspring He was nearly twenty
one years old at death, which
pigeon exports consider equal to
the humor, age of eighty years.
CHINESE NO LIKEE
LOS ANGELES PROGRESS
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22, <^P)—
Steel framework of the clock
tower of the new union railroad
passenger terminal.rising 250 feet
above the street, is a grim remin
der to residents of Los Angeles’
Chinatown that in a very short
time they will be forced to seek
new homes. ,
The Chinese district is being
demolished to make way for pro
gress—for what the Chamber of
Commerce contends is one of the
most important projects under
taken by Los Angeles in years.
But to Len Gee Low, patriarchal
Chinese, who sits in the doorway
of his tea shop puffing medita
tively upon a long-stemmed pipe,
it is not so good.
“M% dome Los Langles long
time ago." he says. “Stleet here
velly quiet—noblody biother Len
Gee Low all di ent now. Bang—
bang—<bang, all day. Just like
war in China. Plenty too much
noise.”
First Conductor—“How do you
keep the ladies from going out
! the back way to the streets?”
Second Conductor—"Oh, I just
say, ‘Out the front way please.
| Old ladies can go out the back
1 if necessayr’—and they all go out
i the front.”
BULBS
NOW ON SALE AT
POLETS STORES
I
Gas Attacks On
Large Cities Of
Nation No Good
(By Preston Grover) .
WASHINGTON. D. C . Nov. 23.
—Don’t worry so much, There's
been a lot of talk about cities be
ing wiped out by gas attacks in
.the “next war”, but there’s an
other side to that story.'
Authorities have computed for
| us that the cost of gassing all the
: population of a city or harassing
| it to the point of driving the res
I idents out would be so great in
terms of money, equipment and
time that it would not be worth-j
i while as a military objective.
Hair-raising pictures have been j
painted by imaginative souls of;
the devastation which might be!
inflicted on a city by an attack of i
several hundred planes.
But it must be understood that i
planes cannot safely spray defend
ed cities as they do weevil-infest-1
ed cotton fields. The job must be!
done from altitude of 6,000 to 12,- j
000 feet. Anti-aircraft guns with!
modern automatic sights are sOj
accurate that low-flying planes j
might be brought down like
ducks over a swamp.
It Could Be Done
True enough a cluster of planes
dropping explosive bombs or gas
bombs can raise Old Ned in spots.
They can damage or temporarily
paralyze individual factories or
railroad yards. But the figures
indicate that no one nation owns
enough planes to paralyze a large
city in a single assault provided
there is any worthwhile defense.
And any city worth devastating
by the enemy likely would be
well defended by the home
troops of a first line nation like
the United States.
Here are some of the factors
! which support such conclusions;
j Field calculations call for 4,650;
; mustard gas bombs to provide an
“effective” concentration of gas
on a square mile in open country.
Our authorities say double this
amount would be required in cit-j
ies where many bombs, striking
on roofs,would be virtually wast
| ed. The gas would fritter away
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jin the sun and wind too high up
J to reach the populace.
Standard army bombing planes
jean arry 20 mustard gas bombs,
so a fleet of 465 planes would be
required to plaster a square mile
I of a city with mustard gas—if it
| was to be done at once. The cost
of these bombs alone, at $16.17
each, would be $150,381 a square
mile. Cost of planes to carry the
bombs is not included in that fig
ure. Any shot down—and some
assuredly would be—would add
to the cost.
Calculate then the task of thus
sousing New York with mustard
gas. The city spreads over 320
square miles.
But It’s Not Likely
Now mustard gas does not have
to be put down all at once. It Ls
a "persistent” gas that will re
main effective from three days to
a week, and longer on soft ground
or in protected spots where wind
and air may not reach it effec
tively.
Mustard gas actually Ls a sort of
oily spray, lingering where it in
dropped, and blistering all who
touch contaminated object* or
come within range of its vapor.
Because of its persistence, mus
tard gus can be laid down a patch
at a time, so a single enemy air
fleet could make repeated trips
if it had a nearby base. But cal
culate the trips necessary to soak
320 square miles of New York at
465 plane loads a square mile.
Other gases are less persistent.
Phosgene, ranked with mustard
as one of the “successful" gases,
loses its effectiveness in the air in
10 to 15 minutes, so if a city is to
be wiped out with it, the whole
job must be done in two or three
minutes.
For gassing a city area with,
phosgene, 3,628 large bombs per
square mile are estimated as nec
essary. That takes 181 planes per
square mile or 57,920 bombing
planes to gas New' York City’s
320 miles. Probably there are
not that many bombers in the
world.
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Staked In Alaska, length, Bread
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pamphlet form, for sale at The
Nugget Office, for 10 cents.
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