THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editoi
RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager.
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ALASKA AIR SERVICE
A quarter billion yen, seventy-five million dollars,
is to be set aside by the Japanese government for air
line expansion in the next 15 years. There will be no
subsidized competition or aimless construction.
All routes have been planned as integral parts of a
definite network that will strategically connect every
part of the empire. There will be no waste mileage
and military values are the first consideration. Am
phibians will fly to the Asiatic mainland to connect with
Chinese and European airways as well as Japanese sub
sidiary systems operating in Korea and Manchukuo.
Of particular interest to the United States will be
the proposed service to the Philippines via Formosa and
an extension to Alaska via the U. S. S. R. Kamchatka
peninsula.
The Japanese empire of our older geographies con
sisted of Honshu, Yezo, and a few lesser islands. Now
it is the Japanese islands plus Formosa, Korea, Manchu
kuo, Jehol, the Micronesia mandates, the present de
mand for five north China provinces, and a steadily in
creasing influence in the Philippines.
Nippon is merely consolidating its gains and unit
ing them by airways, well aware that this new arm of
transport and welfare will more rapidly and thoroughly
extend Japanese influence than a shipping program.
Will grandiose plans for the future include Alaska
because its population is Mongolian Aleuts ?
Japan has made known its ambitions and the state de
partments should therefore formulate and announce
the attitude of the people of the United States.
Any request for airport accomodations on the Alas
kan mainland should be courteously but definitely de
nied. The Aleutian Islands are as much a part of the
United States as Illinois, and daily observation by for
eign pilots of flying conditions, physical and character
istics and activities should not be tolerated.
A joint field on the island of Attu would be the max
imum concession, offered only with the stipulation that
American aviation will have equal rights on the island
of Yezo, and thus facilitate joint operation of the inter
national section, £jpffr. '*3«Sf*** .
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A field at Petropavlovsk is contemplated. If the sov
iet government permits the Japanese to construct an
airport there, the same privilege would be extended to
the United States, thus providing a second alternative
for interchange.
Whatever the decision, no Nippinese-Alaska extension
should be authorized on any theory that an interchange
of passengers and mails on the Alaskan mainland would
be neighborly. The American aeronautical industry
is quite competent to establish and maintain service to
the extreme limit of our possessions.—Chicago Tribune.
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SPANISH IN THE SCHOOLS
Americans have long considered English—and for
the mqst part a bad example of the language—sufficient
for all purposes. This is because ail of our continental
dealings and social contacts have been possible with
this one tongue. •
However, the trend of events seem to point to a rad
ical change in the curriculum of our schools. Spanish
promises to open a new field to youth. Especially will
this be the case if the Pan-American conference fructi
les into what is hoped for it.
Spanish will be as important as English. The lack
)f it has been responsible for the United States losing
)r not gaining a large commercial field in Mexico.
The young man or woman who masters commercial
Spanish has the stepping-stone to success as represen
tative of American business in the Spanish-American
ountries.
Any bright student may secure command of a work- j
:ng knowledge of Spanish within six months of study
under a master of language.lt is not only easy, but has
a euphony and charm making it worthy, if for no other
urpose than a cultured tongue.
A good Latin scholar may master it within three
jhort months.
* . INFORMATIVE FLORA DATA
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Anyone holding the opinion that Alaska is limited
in floral growth had better get hold of the Tertiary
Floras of Alaska, a 182-page paper-bound issue gotten
out by the Geological Survey. Almost half of the book
;s devoted to illustrative reviews of plant life, while in
formative reading matter occupies 171 pages.
Every known plant is described. Forewords and in
troductions are written by Dr. Phillip S. Smith.
A valuable volume that shows the painstaking cour
age that must be acknowledged as belonging to men
who travel far and study hard to bring before the
world in printed word that great resource of the North
'and. A copy of this interesting book was received
by the Nome Daily Nugget in a recent mail._
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Steamer Gorgas
Was To Sail For
Alaska at Noon
3,09 Tons of Freight And
241 Passengers Aboard
t Ry The Associated Press i
SEATTLE, Jan. 15—The steam,
ship W. C. Gorgas was scheduled
to sail at noon today for Seward
and way points with U. S. mail
and three thousand tons of cargo.
The vessel will have 241 passen
gers aboard, including John Neu.
bauer, Anchorage mining com
pany and transportation manager
and his bride, the former Chris,
tine Wallacker. They met aboard
the S. S. Northwestern enroute
to the North last October and
were wed here Saturday last.
The Office of Indian Affairs ves
sel ‘North Star’ is posted to sail
tomorrow night with sixteen pas
sengers and two thousand tons
of cargo. Purchasing Agent Urn.
mel said there will be no cargo
on the docks when the vessel
sails as he will close the doors: if
I didn’t there would be about
five thousand tons on the wharf
which the vessel couldn’t take.
He also said that there was
very little liquor cargo on this
sailing, that the “Union has done
fine work in straightening up the
i crew so there will be no drunk
eness aboard ship”. Cargo figures
for individual ports may be avail
able tomorrow. .
TELEGRAMS ! ! !
Telegrams may be left at the
Pioneer Drug Company where
they will be picked up by the
U. S. Signal Corps Radio Station
messenger twice daily. The mes
senger will call at the Pioneer
Drug Store at 10 A. M. and 4 pm.
on week days, and at 4 p.m. on
Sundays and Holidays.
YENNEY’S
Water Delivery
Phone Black 7
Good Service
Complies With Sanitary
Regulations of The City
Of Nome.
Road Over Cape
Nome Said To Be
Glaciered Over
Fred Cook, Solomon river sec.
tion prospector and miner, who
arrived in Nome via “his shanks
pony”, carried the information
that the winter trail around Cape
Nome on the ice of Bering Sea
was impassable due to storms
which have broken up the ice &
caused it to be more or less afloat
all the time, besides resulting in
high pressure ridges and broken
up ice floes.
He said that the summer road
on the Cape was completely ob_
literated by snow and glacier and
that it was impassible to proceed
around the Cape by this route,
due to the serious danger of slid
ing on the glacier.
Fred said he came over the top
of the Cape where the old road,
many years ago, used to lead, and
that it was pretty tough going
due to lots of snow, and steep
climbing. Reporting on condi.
tions in the Solomon section, he
said everyone was well and bus
ily occupied. He also said that
Solomon was getting more than
her share of winter storms.
Interesting Items
About Alaskans
Waiving motion foz a newt trial,
Eugene Hogensen was convicted
of manslaughter at the Seward
term of court recently and was
given 20 years in the Federal pen
itentiary. Hogensen is 24 years
old, and has served time for bur
glary before his parole.
With a story of a gold eating
Moose, Richard Johnson has re
turned to Faust, in Canada, after
prospecting this summer. The
moose wandered into camp one
night and licked up $345 worth of
gold dust in a few minutes.
Walker’s Fork on the American
Fortymile has had 36 Americans
engaged in mining there this sea
son mostly with the Cowden dre
dge and yet the place is abso
lutely isolated with no landing
field and no highways. It was
days after the recent election be
fore returns were received.
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