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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET GEO. S MAYNARD. Editor RUSSELL G MAYNARD, Manager Published every evening except Sunday by The Nome Publishing Company, Nome, Alaska. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by carrier in Nome, Little Creek and Sunset Creek, for $2.00 per month. By mail postage paid out side of Nome and vicinity. $1.50 pe month. Entered in the Post Office in Nome as 2nd Class Matter MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 70 Percent Fund Used Locally to Help Children The Warm Springs Georgia Foundation devoted to the cure of infantile paralysis is close to heart of President Franklin D. ' Roosevelt, for he became a victim of that dread disease when a young man, and has since recov ered from its effects to a remark able degree. Annually the Pres_ ident has allowed his birthday to be used as the occasion for the staging of “Birthday Balls thru out the United States, the funds derived from which go to a com mittee which is turn finances the research by the most eminent scientist in the country, into the cause of infantile paralysis and means for its cure. Besides this thousands of children are being discovered who require treat ment at Warm Springs, Georgia, where other nationally prornin. ent physicians are returning them to normal, useful lives. borne sections ol the country, such as Nome, for instance, has little or no signs of infantile para lysis amongst its children, yet the public here is called upon to assist in this great work by donating 30 per cent of a fund raised, the other 70 per cent of which remains in this particular locality. Here it is devoted to useful purpose through the re lief of needy children, by medi cal attention, of one kind or an_ other. Infantile paralysis is still one of the greatest tragedies to be fall a child, and the nation thru repeated interest in Roosevelt Birthday Celebrations, has be come increasingly conscious of its danger. Saturday night the Roosevelt Birthday Celebration at Nome MiROW LOCKHE! will take place. A special mo tion picture will be shown at the Dream Theatre commencing at 7:15 p.m. Tickets have been on sale since the first of the week, the admission charges being $1.00 for adults and 50 cents for child, ren under 12 years of age. Has Only $1.35 Left Townsend Money January (By The Associated Press* CHELAN, Wn., Jan. 28, —Flem ing fingered the last of his two hundred dollars, and jingling the fow remaining coins he declared "Maw, I’m breaking that last one to go to the show tonight if the weather’s not too bad.” He has a dollar and thirty five cents left. He entertained all the young Flemings yesterday, with twenty one of them at two tables. “It’s the finest meal I’ve had in many years,” he declared. Mississippi Flood Control System is Still Holding Up (Continued From Page One) the flood crisis, the Red Cross hurried to evacuate thousands of reluctant inhabitants. Colonel Chet Rhodes, Army Engineer, warned against a sixty one foot crest during the next forty eight hours. Only men folks remained at Cairo, Illinois bolstering the six. ty foot seawall against an expect ed four foot rise. Eight thousand persons mostly women, children and aged fled Cairo last night. Rain began falling again at Louisville, and levee workers in Tennessee battled desperately to save the dike above Tiptonville, Tenn. ED VEGA PLANE FASTEST THROUGH SERVICE TO SKAGWAY We Will Make Your Reservations For The Boat FOR RATES AND INFORMATION CALL MIROW AIR SERVICE NOME, ALASKA. Pioneer Igloo No. 1 Institute a Big Drive Members With the adoption of the new amendment to the Pioneer laws wherein any one arriving in Al aska before 1910 is elligible to membership, the local Igloo No. 1 Pioneers of Alaska, the mother Igloo, launched a mammoth mem bership drive at the last meeting of the organization, this week. A large committee has been selected from the membership roll and each name drawn one by one dividing it in two sides which has been named the “Hus kies" and the “Malamutes”. WThen the names were drawn it was discovered that President A. Bahlke and First Vice-President Oie Hay were drawn on the op. posite sides, therefore, both were named leaders of their respective sides. The scoring of the contest will be in the hands of the Secretary, who is not a member of either team. The secretary shall keep records of the standing of the contest and report it at every meeting and have same publish ed in the Nome Nugget after each meeting. It is hoped that this contest will result in large gains in member ship and finances, so that it will enable the mother Igloo, to erect a new home for the Pioneers in Nome. To be enrolled with the Pio‘ neers of Alaska, especially Nome Igloo No. 1, is undoubtedly a dis tinction and an honor, there is numbered among the membership | the real pioneers who blazed the trail and laid the foundation for this great northland. Personnel of Teams Following are the names of the Membership Drive Contest: HUSKIES Ole Hay, 1st Vice.Pres; Charles Code 2nd Vice-Pres.; Aimer Ry deen past president; A. Polet past president; James Frawley, Ross Kinney, Gust Johnson, Harry Knutsen, Gus Kunelis, Charles Erickson, F. D. Sheldon, Robert Ledgerwood, James Haughey, J. J. O’Leary, L. Ketchison, Peter X Petersen, Harvey Grant, William Anderson, James Hewitt, Harry Hepworth, Chas. Cavey, Eddie Gross, Thomas Lyle, M. Jacobs gaard. ' MALAMUTES A Bahlke, president; Nels Swan — berg Sr., past president; Thomas Gaffney, past president; Garnet Martin, Gunnar Kaason, Hugh j O’Farrel, Harry Philhps, Ben Gillette, Ira Rank, A A Chagnon, John Ebberle, Albert Miller, Carl Yeager, Harold Stokes, Fred Bar. nofsky, Thomas Chace, Harry Jones, Joe Neuhouser, Pete Yea ger, Archie McDonald, Eli Nicola Phil. Bruner, Geo. Marshall, W.E. Cremer, Chas Alexander. Rales Governing Contest 1st. Contest to begin on the evening of the meeting of Wed nesday, Feb. 3rd and to end on Seward Day, March 30th. A party will be given on Seward Day, the losing side to pay expenses. 2. Scoring shall be as follows: For each new candidate accepted 100 votes. For each member in ! arrears paying one year, 100 votes. For each member in ar_ rears paying two years 250 votes. 3. For every member paying up as per announcement after the fire, cancelling all back dues and calculating from Jan. 1, 1935 at $3.00 per year; owing to all re cords being lost, receive 500 votes 4. Scoring to encourage attend ance—Every member attending meetings for each meeting gets 10 votes on the side that he is on or if not on the contest votes to be counted on the side of his choice. Subscribe for The Nugget. -- - - I TO BE PLAY SUNDAY (Contributed) The drama club of the Feder ated church presents next Sun day night at 7:45 a one act play by Percival Wilde, entitled “The Finger of God”. The play is a royalty play given by permission of French Publishing Co. Mem bers of the cast are Mrs. Leroy Sullivan,Andrew Sather and Carl Wuorinen. The doors of the church will be open at 7:15. Music will be provided for the half hour before the service be gins, and the cdngregation is re quested to maintain silence after entering the room. Although there will be. of course, no admission charge, and anyone is welcome whether he can contribute anything or not, it should be remembered that the church must pay a royalty for the privilege of using this play. This is our first attempt to use plays of the royalty class, and it is an experiment. If the Nome public desires to see plays of high qual ity, it must be ready to pay for them. —.■ « — THE NOME DAILY NUGGET Job Printing Department Is Equipped To Handle Your Job Printing Needs, Efficiently Speedily Executed. AT REASONABLE PRICES Subscribe for The Nome Daily Nugget By Carrier NOME RADIO STATION BROADCASTING THE WEATHER REPORTS -- Nome Radio Station WXY will make daily weather broadcasts on a frequency of 2604 kilocycles. These broadcasts will be made at 7:08 a.m., 9 a.m. and 11:30 a. m. on week days and 9:50 a. m. on Sundays and holidays. In addition to these broadcasts NuLato, Unalakleet and Kaltag weathers may be picked up daily at 8 a.m. Nome time from WXP Fairbanks which broadcasts on the same frequency as Nome. NOTICE The Directors of the North, western Alaska Fair Association will accept applications up to 5 p.m. Thursday Jan. 28th, for the position of Fair Manager—Sal. ary will be $300 for the entire period—work to commence imined lately and oontlnne until the bus. loess of the Fair is completed. Make year applications in writ., ing, stating gualiflcatfons and Fair experience if any. Address all communications to the Secre. tary, A. Folet (not later than & pm. Jan. 28th. -THIRD ANNUAL FAIR WILL BE HELD IN NOME, ALASKA. MARCH 31, APRIL 1, 2, 3, 1937 Send For Your Premium List And Reservation For Space For Your Exhibit NORTHWESTERN ALASKA FAIR ASSOCIATION A. POLET, Secretary. . ■■ Make Your Reservations to Juneau And The States NOW Via PACIFIC ALASKA AIRWAYS INC. Only Scheduled and Most Frequent Service By Radio-Equipped Lockheed Electras. Two-way Radio—Always Within 100 Miles of One of Our 11 Radio Stations G. E. BASSETT, Nome Agent OUR NEW STOCK OF » 4 * - W" V- '■*.* ,4*gjp SOURDOUGH LETTER HEADS AND ENVELOPES NOW ON SALE AlT THE NUGGET OFFICE