Congressmen Seek
Statehood, Harbor
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at present because of labor short
age as there were only about 100
men on the payroll in place of
the usual 400 or 450 who worked
for them before the war.. He
stated that the operations this year
was necessarily limited to thawing
for future dredging..
He said, “I can’t see what fut
ure there is in the gold business
when we can’t sell our gold on
the open market.”
Rep. Crawford is a mem
ber of the House Banking com
mittee, and maintains that the
United States is not on the “gold
standard’ and that it is illegal to
have a supply of gold in one’s
possession.
Mr. Crawlord asked the group
if they were in favor of statehood
for Alaska. To which G. R. Jack
son, president of the Miners and
Merchants Bank of Nome, replied,
“I am against statehood now be
cause I think it would cost too
much, we couldn’t support a
state, with only about ten or fif
teen thousand to pay the taxes.”
Carl Lomen, general manager
of Lomen Commercial Company,
stated he was against statehood at
present in that he believed taxes
would be too high, and that there
would be no improvement in con
ditions in the Territory. He said
that since the southern part of ;
the territory were in favor of the
state idea, they might make a
state out of the First and Third
divisions and leave the balance of
the country as a place of refuge
for people to go when they are
taxed out of the state.
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A. Polet, local merchant, and
Howard Lyng, former legislator
from the Second Division, both
stated to the committee they were
filing briefs in favor of statehood..
Other problems discussed were,
the breakwater and tran^>orta-1
tion, being the two problems fac
ing Nome in particular.
The committee members were
all in favor of legislation to help
Nome in its battle against the sea.j
In view of the usual proceedure
in such cases the breakwater must!
be handled as an emergency, in
that the City of Nome will disap
pear if the erosion is allowed to
continue. When asked about the
strategic importance of Nome in
the defense picture, he said, all
Alaskan cities are of strategic im
portance.
H. F. Harper, local garage own
er, presented the committee with
a copy of the breakwater report
made by a committee of the NWA
| Chamber, of which he is a memb
| er.
• The shipping situation was dis
cussed briefly. There seems at
i present to be no immediate solu
"Lem” And Friend |
CHICAGO — Betti Thomas,
prominent cover girl and fashion
mannequin, shows her disapproval |
of “Lem Lubber”, the “horrible
example” character created by the
Outboard Boating Club of America
to call attention to the need for
common sense in water sports.
“Lem.” will be seen at docks,
boat clubs and boat liveries this
summer in a series of cartoon
posters which will enlist coopera
tion in a national campaign to re
duce water accidents. The posters
may be secured free through the
chib's headquarters in Chicago.
\
tion.
The congressional committee left
Saturday morning lor Kodiak,
Juneau and Ketchikan were they
will also hold hearings.
Miner Falls In Love With Picture,
But II is Romance Has Strange Ending
(By Hal Boyle) $
• Associated Press Stff Writer) I
NEW YORK — Two important!
things happened to Mark Evans, a
young mining engineer, during the j
snow-locked winter he spent alone
in the Canadian wilderness.
Evans found a vien of gold ore
of fabulous promise. And he fell
in love with Kathleen McDingle.
When his miner’s pick uncover
ed the yellow metal he had come
to search for, he knew his days of
poverty were over. In the spring
he would be able to sell his dis
covery for at least $1,000,000.
At night when the wind beat
against the tight-closed door of the
old, abandoned cabin he had made
habitable, he would stretch out in
front of his log fire and dream of
what he would do with his riches.
Travel, yes—he would see all
the strange cities he had read of
in his boyhood. He had been poor
and lonely all his life. Now he
would change all that.
It was then that Kathleen Mc
Dingle came into his life in an odd
way. While cleaning debris from j
a shelf over his bunk, he found a ■
scrap of newspaper apparentlyi
torn from the society section.
The caption beneath the picture
said she was Kathleen McDingle
of the McDingles of social-register
fame and that she was visiting
Florsheim Shoes
For Particular Men! ,
We’ve just unpacked seven fall styles in J
men’s famous Florsheim oxfords. Made of 9
finest quality calfskin in plain, brogue and I
conservative styles in black or brown. All 9
sizes in narrow to wide widths. 9
Nationally advertised 1
price $15 1
WOMEN’S LINGERIE
America’s leading lines, Kayser, Van Raalte,
and Luxite. A wide selection of the newest in
slips, gowns and panties. No advance in prices.
BEAUTIFUL LUGGAGE
We’re just unpacking some of the licest lug
gage that we have seen since pre-war days.
Bags of all sorts as well as small and medium
size trunks. This is the last shipment we will
have this year.
NEW HANDBAGS
You can select from dozens of fashionable
* handbags. Fine grain leather, patent leather
and Corde. Blacks, browns and other new
shades.
FORMFIT GIRDLES
A complete stock of these popular girdles
now on display. Fourteen new styles in all
sizes. Nationally advertised prices.
NEW
MERCHANDISE
COTTON PRINTS
CLOPAY CURTAINS
RAYON HOSIERY
NYLON HOSIERY
GIRL’S DRESSES
WOOL SKIRTS
BLOUSES
SWEATERS
friends in Montreal.
There were no books in the
cabin, no newspapers, no radio. In
the snowbound weeks that fol
lowed, Evans studied the picture
more and more. In time he fell
head over heels in love with her.
"By golly. I'm going to marry
her!" he told himself suddenly one
night. To a lonely young man who
had just found a gold mine, it
didn't seem a strange decision. He
began making his plans.
When spring came, Evans went
to a leading mining company with
his ore samples. In a few weeks
he closed a deal with the firm that
assured him of his million—and
more. He left at once to find Kath
leen McDingle.
The house was big and old and
impressive. Mark felt a little tim
orous after ringing the doorbell.
The door swung open and he
found himself gawking into the
face of a beautiful girl with long
dark hair.
“You’re Kathleen?” he stam
mered.
“Yes,” she said pleasantly.
“You’re even prettier than the
picture,” said the bemused young
engineer.
“I don’t know what—” she
started to say uncertainly. But
Evans didn’t let her finish. His
story came out in a swift torrent
of words. He told her of his gold
strike and the discovery of her
picture, and how he had come to
love her.
1 “Here,” he said nervously as he
finished, and pulled the worn pic
ture from his wallet. She studied
it and then looked at Evans
strangely.
Mother!” she called into the in
terior of the room. A sweet-faced,
graying woman of middle-age
came out.
, “Look at this, Mother!” said the
i glfl- The older woman glanced at
the picture and exclaimed:
! “Why, wherever did you get
this, Kathleen? That picture of me
1 was taken in Montreal in 1920
| when I was married!”
Bank Clerk Doubled
As Navy Chaplain
WILLIAMSBURG. Va. (JP)—A
! bank clerk in civilian life, then a
petty officer in the Navy’s Sea
bees, George W. A. Schreiner, of
Alexandria, Va., found himself
substituting for a chaplain to Sea
bees and Marines on a Pacific isle.
Schreiner, who calls himself "an
ordinary guy who sometimes went
to church,” took over the assign
ment when the need for a chaplain
arose as the invasion party was at
sea. He conducted church services
to which the friendly natives as
well as service men came.
Figures Majority Don’t
Use Toothbrushes
CHICAGO, (&)—Dr. H. Berton
McCauley, a Washington, D. C.,
dentist, says it’s evident the ma
jority of Americans do not use
toothbrushes. In the Journal of
the American Dental Association,
Dr. McCauley reports of the 185,
300,000 toothbrushes manufactured
last year, there were 106,000,000
for civilians after armed forces
| needs were filled. He says 220,
i 000,000 would have been required
to supply with two brushes yearly
persons between the ages of two
and 60.
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