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VOTERS
For sound representative government
elect
For Delegate to Congress:
For Attorney General:
For Auditor:
For Highway Engineer:
For the Senate:
For the House:
E. L. (Bob) BARTLETT
J. GERALD WILLIAMS
FRANK A. BOYLE
FRANK A. METCALF
EDWARD ANDERSON
HOWARD LYNG
WILLIAM E. BELTZ
GEORGE P. MADSEN
ALMER RYDEEN, Nome
FRANK DEGNAN,
Unalakleet
All of the Democratic Candidates are pledged:
1. To the support of our schools and the University
of Alaska.
2. To seek economy in our Territorial Government.
3 To enac.t an equitable tax program to support our
Territorial institutions.
4. To give equal opportunity to every citizen in ac
cordance with the rights guaranteed by the Con
stitution and Laws of the United States and the
Territory of Alaska.
5. To grant pensions and financial support of the
pioneer and needy commensurate with the needs
of the times.
6. To support the right of the people to elect their
own Governor.
7. To the passage of a Municipal Airport Act to pro
vide all communities with adequate air service.
8. To work for fair and reasonable regulation of
child labor for the protection of our children.
9. To the improvement and expansion of our high
way system in the Second Division.
10. To the enforcement of all laws including the
liquor laws.
11. To work for additional heme facilities for pioneer
men and women.
12. To work together for the betterment of the Terri
tory in harmony and without self-interest.
i
FRANK A. DEGNAN—House of Representatives. Born
St. Michael, Alaska, 1901. Parents, Eskimo mother and
an Irish father. Educated in the public schools of St.
Michael, Unalakleet and Nome. Employed by the U. S.
Smelting Co., Nome, for 10 years. Resident Unalakleet
last 12 years. Mayor Unalakleet 10 years. President
Alaska Native Brotherhood, Unalakleet 3 years. Mar
ried—4 Children.
NOME DEMOCRATIC CLUB
Many Hear Carl !
Lomen Talk On
Reindeer Industry
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periments were unsuccessful in
that the Eskimo had no knowledge 1
of the methods of caring for 4p
mestic animals and the herds did
not prosper until the government
brought in a total of 1200 reindeer i
and some 30 Scandinavian Lap-!
landers to take care of the herds.
The inducement, stated Mr. Lomen,
for the Laplanders to come to
Alaska was in allowing them to
become owners of some percent
ages of the reindeer increase.
This went on for a number of j
years and the herds flourished un
til at one time there were an esti
mated million reinder in North
I westm Alaska. Since there was a
need for handling and marekting
of the reindeer and the by-prod
ucts, the Lomen family, father and
four sons, interested themselves in
i the advancement of the industry
j by purchasing of some reindeer
! from the Lapp owners.
There was no change in the
method of herding; the Eskimos
were employed as herders under
direction of the Laplanders as be
fore, while the business of slaugh
tering, storage, and marketing was
j built up through untiring efforts
'of the Lomen family and their
agents throughout the United
States.
The reindeer business, as a food
source for the United States, said
Mr. Lomen, we believed was here
to stay. But we were due for a
complete surprise. The Interior
Department announced that the
reindeer industry was begun in
Alaska for the benefit of the na
tive and not the white man, so the
Lomens were forced to sell to the
government the business they had
at great cost and effort built into*a
self-supporting industry.
Mr. Lomen went on to say that
the transfer was made, and the
reindeer were now under the Inte
i rior Department. The next several
years say the catastrophic de
cline of the reindeer in the Terri
tory until today the number of I
reindeer can be tallied in just a
, few thousand.
Today, Mr. Lomen advised, the
picture is different, there must be
; a change in the law which prohib
| its the white man from owning the
! reindeer and giving the reindeer
t industry a chance to survive. The
youth of Alaska should be given
j some aid to assist in developing en
| terprise in Alaska.
Following the talk by Mr. Lo
men, Col. H. Burkhalter, com
manding officer of the air base
here stated that in his opinion the
army should take some interest in
the reindeer as a means of winter
transportation in addition to the
food and clothing problems..
Miss Jane Sniffen, . Red Cross i
* I
representative for the Special
Service on the base, stated that
further informative subjects will
be presented each Sunday evening.
Mrs. C. D. Anderson left today
with the Alaska Airlines for a few
days in Anchorage to receive med
ical treatment.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McDonald
arrived home for the winter after
the summer spent dredging at
North Fork. Mr. McDonald stated
that they were handic a p p e d
through ^he month of September
due to lack of water.
South America stretches "about
4,500 miles north and south and
3,200 miles at its widest east-west
point!
R. H. Stock Rallies j
Nome Republicans
At a general called meeting of
the Republican Club of Nome, Sat
urday night, R. H. Stock, Repub
lican candidate for Delegate to
Congress spoke to gathered Repub
licans and told them they must
elect a complete ticket in order to
get the desired results in the next
legislature.
He stated that the time had
come for Republicans to “save the
country from ruin,” and to get a
definite plan of action or Alaska.
Mr. Stock favored Statehood lor
Alaska eventually; against fish
traps; for roads and communica
tions; against withdrawal of lands
by the Interior department.
Mrs. Stock accompanied her
husband on the campaign trip.
They departed on the Pan Ameri
can plane Sunday for Fairbanks.
SS. “Southeastern”
Aground Off
Vancouver Island
SEATTLE, (JP)—The coast guard
reported today that the Seattle
steamship Southeastern is aground
on the west side of Vancouver Is
land but doesn’t appear in any
danger.
The Southeastern, carrying a
load of emergency cargo for Alas
ko, grounded at 7:30 a.m. The ship
left here Thursday, bound for
Ketchikan.
A Royal Canadian air forces op
erations officer on Vancouver Is
land ordered a tug to help the ves
sel off.
The Southeastern grounded at
Kiltik Creek, northwest of Nanai
mo. Several holes were punched ip
her bow but watertight compart
ments forward were expected to
keep her afloat and her cargo dry.
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