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VOL. 37. No. 4. NOME, ALASKA, Monday. January 6, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
15 Cases Scarlet Fever Fairbanks
FOUR SAFECRACKERS NABBED IN SEATTLE
Pres. Recommends General Appropriation Alaska
Quartet of Safe
Crackers ( aught
In South Seattle
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Jan. 6. — One
suspected safe-cracker was
shot to death, another crit
ically wounded and two
others less seriously wound
ed, as four men walked un
suspectingly into a police
trap at a bakery in South
Seattle early Sunday morn
ing.
With the capture of the
gang, police believe they
have solved a series of safe
crackings which have pre
vailed here intermittently
since September.
The man who was killed
was named Carl Thomas,
aged 35, and is suspected
of having been the ring
leader. Joe O’Neal, a form
er Seattle policeman out on
parole following his convic
tion for participating in the
$22,000 Bon Marche holdup
in 1924, was badly wound
ed.
J. T. Hull, 42, received
buckshot wounds in his
right side and shoulder but
was not critically wound
ed. Dale Arthur, 29, was
slightly wounded in the
face.
Acting on a tip that the
bakery safe was to be at
tacked, the police have
been guarding the plant
since last Thursday night.
When the quartet ap
proached the plant, the
watchman whom they held
up, let them in, in accord
(Continued on Page Two)
Italian Bombings
Continue on Both
So. & No. Fronts
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Jan. 6, —Ital
ian war planes engaged in
an extensive bombing cam
paign over many sections.
Ethiopian government de
clared that the second Swed
ish life had been taken by
an earlier bombing.
The British legation at
Addis Ababa reported that
the second Swedish Red
Cross worker died Sunday
as a result of being wound
ed in last Monday’s bomb
ing of a Red Cross unit.
I
15 Cases Scarlet
Fever Reported
City Fairbanks
V
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, Jan. 6, — 3
more cases of scarlet fev
er developed Saturday
bringing the total number
to 15.
Pilot Crosson of the Pac
ific Alaska Airways brought
a large quantity of serum
from Juneau Saturday ev
ening.
The city is not alarmed
over the outbreak of scar
let fever, and the cases are
all isolated. Medical work
is in charge of Doctors F. I
B.Gillespie,Noble Dick and
J. S. Sutherland.
M. J. Walsh of Nome,
who wired requesting in
formation as to the condi
tion of his two sons who
are attending the Univer
sity of Alaska, received a
ware Sunday raying his
eldest son Joseph was sick
with the malady. Mr. Walsh
requested he be kept advis
ed daily as to his condition.
Late word today to M. J.
Walsh from Fairbanks said
his son Joe was improving.
Belated reports of hard
fighting came from south
ern Ethiopia, as Britain be
gan reinforcing her Afric
an military positions.
Air bombing in which
several hospitals and Red
Cross units were struck, is
being resorted to on both
the northern and southern
fronts in an attempt to halt
advances by the defenders.
In the Mediterranean, ;
where international ten
sion has been relaxed for ,
weeks, incident to the ad
vancement of peace propos
als, Britain is using com
mercial liners to carry her ,
troops to British posts near
the areas of greatest un
easiness.
Fascist aerial squadrons
were reported to have de
stroyed Daggah Bur and an
Egyptian Red Cross unit,
on the southern front, in
which locality three Ethio
pian columns have been
moving against General
Graziani.
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EUGENE UHILBERG, A V1ER
NOMEITE, WRITES ON MANY
SOURDOUGHS OF NOME
The Nome Daily Nugget
s in receipt of the follow
ing newsy letter from our
former townsman, Eugene
Chilberg, dated at Seattle,
Dec. 20th. Mr. Chilberg
it will be recalled by Nome
ites mined on the Third
Beach line and was connect
ed with the Miners and
Merchants bank in the ear
ly days. Mr. Chilberg is at
present manager of the
Chilberg Agency, a travel
Bureau, Overland—Steam
ship, with offices at 1323
Fifth Avenue, 5537 White
Henry-Stuart Bldg., Seat
tle. The letter follows:
Knowing that you would
be interested in reading
Rex Beach’s article, “The
Place Is Alaska; The Busi
ness Is Gold Mining”which
appears in the January is
sue of the Cosmopolitan,
prompted me to enclose
same. It is a very interest
ing article and should at
tract a lot of attention and
1 trust that the coming ses
sion of congress will do
something along the line
cutlined by Rex.
Instead of blowing in a
lot of money at Matanuska
it would seem more bene
ficial to use the funds in
making an aerial survey of
the mineral districts thru
cut the territory so as to
enlighten the people as to
t.he possibilities of the coun
try. Outfitting young men
for prospecting purposes
should be handled by com
cetent persons of experi
ence so as to eliminate all
cossibilities of graft which
cervaded the beginning op
erations of the Home Own
ers’ Loan Corporation and
t presume that the Matanu
ska project also had some
*raft attached to it. It itn
ioubtedly would be diffi
cult to put over any large
andertaking successfully
without some graft attach
ed to it. Anyway I hope
shat Rex Beach’s article
will stir up some interest
toward interesting the pub
lic in opening up the min
eral resources in the terri
tory of Alaska.
I want to congratulate
the publishers of the Nome
Daily Nugget on the fine
appearance of the paper
since the fire and I read it
regularly at the Seattle
Public Library. •
The old timers up there
will undoubtedly be inter
ested in the “sourdoughs”
who are now living in the
States so I am going to give
you a few news items.
-t
Tom T. Lane is now back
in Seattle after spending
some time in Washington,
D. C., with Mr. H. J. Sac
kett who is associated with
him in endeavoring to se
cure a loan of$ 150,000 from
the R.F.C. to open up the
Hurrah Quartz mine. Tom
has organized a company
under the laws of this state
and has sold some stock to
quite a few people in and
around Seattle. I hope
that they will be successful
in obtaining the loan which
will be of great benefit to
Nome and the Seward pen
insula.
James Barr Wood, who
was my partner in the
“Bella Kirke” bench on
Dry Creek from 1902-7,died
last month from heart tgpu
ble in Seattle.
Paul Denhart is now in
Seattle and is also afflicted
with heart trouble so he +
leading a quiet life this win
ter. During the past few
years Paul has been runn
ing down mineral prospects
all over the western states.
Mort Atkinson is still run
ning the Hollywood Poul
try Farm and he looks for
ward to an improvement in
business.
Jafet Lindeberg has been
doing some placer mining
in northern California.
Wm. Maloney, former ter
ritorial mining inspector in
Alaska, is laid up in bed
with cancer, in San Fran
cisco.
Shel Wettach of the Sour
Dough Roadhouse fame on
Continued on Page 3
Cunanl Liner Is '
Converted Into
Gov’t t ransport
i
<By The Associated Press)
London. Jan. 0, —Great1
Britain moved suddenly to
day to strengthen her mili
tary position in Africa.
The government convert
ed the 18,000 ton Cunard
White Star liner Scythia 1
into an army transport, |
taking her off the Atlantic
run. The Scythia is to sail,
January 8th with troops
and guns, probably for Al
exandria.
It was reported later in
the day that two other Cun
arders, the Laconia and the
Samaria, each about 19,500
tons, will be requisitioned
next.
Ail Time High 0?
$31,351,633,000.00
for Public Debt
fBy The Associated Press)
Washington. Jan. 3, —
A treasury deficit exceed
ing one billion dollars, with
out counting unestimated
new relief costs, was fore
cast to Congress today by
President Roosevelt, for the
new fiscal year.
Unpreeedentlv he with
held the complete budget
estimate on how much the
government would spend in
the twelve months begin
ning July 1st.
For the present he listed
six billion, seven hundred
and fifty-two million, six
hundred thousand dollars,
but said that later, requests
for work relief money in
all probability would be
forthcoming. He gave no
tice that next year’s deficit
in the public debt, would
mount accordingly.
Just now he foresaw a
public debt at the end ol"
the 1936-37 period of thirty
one billion, three hundred
and fifty-one million, six
hundred and thirty-eight
thousand dollars, an all
time high.
Giving not the slightest
hint of readiness to meet
the demands from the op
position for an immediately
balanced budget, Roosevelt
said “to run all regular act
ivities of the government I
Appropriation Is
Recommended At
T n. For Alaska
ft'v The Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 6, —
An increase of twelve thou
sand, three hundred and
five dollars in the general
appropriation for Alaska,
was recommended by the
President in his annual
budget message. Estimat
ed expenditures for the fis
cal year ending June 30th
are one million, two hun
dred and six thousand, five
hundred and ninety doll
ars. while the President
suggested congress provide
one million, a hundred and
niney four thousand, one
hundred and eighty-five dol
lars for the next fiscal per
iod.
In addition to the gener
al appropriation the presi
dent recommended the ap
propriation of one million
four hundred thousand dol
lars for the Alaska Rail
road as compared with one
million two hundred and
seventy thousand for 1936.
An item in the G oiogical
Survey estimate called for
seventy thousand, which
was suggested for the op
eration of McKinley Na
tional Park.
Recommended general
appropriations for 1937 are
as follows:
Saiarie of the governor
and se re.ary $13,600 and
contin0enc exp. uses fifteen
thousand eighty hundred
and ninety; legislative ex
pense $46,000; reindeer for
Alaska $33,500: public
schools $50,000; care and
custody of the insane $190,
600; roads, bridges and
trails $525,000; Alaska Rail
road funds $200,000.
need a total of five billion,
sixty-nine million dollars."
In his next expression of
policy he moved the Fed
eral public works, civilian
conservation corps, and ag
ricultural benefit payments
from the category of emer
gency, to regular federal
activities.
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