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VOL. 38 No. 59 NOME, ALASKA, Saturday MARCH 13 1937 Per Copy 15cts
Dog Racing Fever Attains High Pitch Ice Carnival
Busby Won Friday, Kokrines, Team Wins Today
DOG DERBY DRAWING
MUCH INTEREST IN
INTERIOR TOWN
(Special to the Nugget)
FAIRBANKS, March 13, — Bob
Buzby of Fairbanks, Bergman of
Kokrines and Johnny Allen of
Ruby won the first, second and
third prizes in yesterday’s initial
heat of the annual three-day dog
derby.
Buzby’s time was one hour, 12
minutes 45 seconds. Kokrines’ 1
"hour 13 minutes 17 seconds. All
en 1 hour 14 minutes, 46 seconds.
The time of the others was:
Harold Myers 1:28:15
Mike Agaba 1:28:37
Mary Hansen 1:41:47
Hack Thomas 1:45:40
Ed Mayo 1:18:13
Joe Doleshal 1:30:19
Jeff Studdert 1:46:32
Paegean, cheechacco driver of
New York City had his team bolt
on him, and the wild half-wolf
dogs ran away.
Robert Hanson 1:36:22
Mary (Taku)Joyce noted long
■distance musher from Juneau was
the slowest, with 2 hours and 5
minutes flat.
Four mushers bfought in crip
pled dogs in their sleds. Having
-one each were Mike Agaba, Mary
Hansen, Hack Thomas,. Mary
Hanson’s dogs had a fight on the
trail and she brought in one with
» bloody head.
Mary Joyce will be the first
team out today and she was in
last place yesterday.
Mary Hanson says she febds her
dogs fish, meat scraps and moose
milk.
Julian A. Hurley’s team of not
♦d Nome dog racing breed, says
•bis team, driven by Biobert Hain
aon, is too young this year but
3s thoroughly pedigreed with the
standard of the American Ken
nel Club, and to look out next
year. He feeds hiis dogs dried sal
mon and meat tallow, sometimes
fresh meat.
The trail yesterday was excell
ent but the weather was too hot.
The temperature at noon was 27
above and the skies were clear
with a bright sun shining, caus
ing drivers and dogs to suffer
from snow reflection.
A great crowd thronged the
Chena river bridge to watch the
starts and finish.
Former federal district judge
Cecil H. Clegg officiated, as also
did Leonhard Seppala, interna
tionally famous winner of many
trophies on gruelling Nome, Lake
Placid and New Hampshire cour
ses. Jack. Warwick assisted at the
starting line.
Roy Lund veteran Alaskan dog
racer and winner of many cups
in such races, and also in mara
thon and bicycle trophy races, in
the gold rush days of Dawson and
Fairbanks, says no country ever
saw prettier getaways and races
than yesterday’s start of the 3
day dog derby.
The $1000 grand prize goes to
the winner with the best time
for the aggregate three days of
racing ending Sunday on the Col
lege loop, on which the run is
16 miles.
Walter NolLer’s time on the
same course in 1931 was 1 hour
11 minutes. Bob Buzby’s time in
1933 was 1 hour 5 minutes 9 sec
onds.
Nome Team Lost to
Anchorage By A
Score 57-20
! FAIRBANKS, March 13—In the
Ice Carnival basket ball games
Anchorage All Stars routed the
Nome basket ball team by a score
of 57 to 20. Fairbanks high school
walloped Anchorage high school
by a score of 10 to 2.
The second day’s dog races op
ened with a perfect daiy, 10 above
and sun-shiny, but trail rather
prickly, because of extra warmth
yesterday. Harold Myers failed
to sart, so Mary Joyce was the
first to get away with a flying
start. Robert Raegan, of New
York, a Cheechaoco musher, driv
ing Leonhard Seppala’s Siberian
pups, dragged them off course
400 yards out after the dogs had
bolted the trail, some dogs report
ed sick.
Allan dropped one dog out of
his team at Kokrines and dropp
ed out another later. Six of All
en’s dogs were unfit to run today
and is using double leaders.
Hack Thomas’ team snarled up
one hundred yards out, and Joe
Doleshal’s dogs jumped the trail
temporarily one hundred yards
out.
Mary Hansen’s team became
frightened from the crowds at the
start yesterday, they were so shy
she had to run ahead and drag
I Wonder . . Really? . . TV-.- * • -‘on .. TKaf’s C.^^'I
Gov. Frank Murphy, of Michigan, is shown here as he faced movie and news e • ) . ar.ta with
reporters after one of many conferences in Detroit witti motor and labor officials seeking to end the sit
down strikes. The camera caught the governor in various moods. (Associated Press Photos)
them across the finish line.
Mike Agaba made the fastest
get away today.
The racers are now ail on the
loop. Results of race will be sent
you :: .n as they arrive.
Fairbanks Daily New’s-Miner.
Correspondence)
Fin ng today’s dog races in
'the order named were 1st Kokrin
es of Kokr.ines 1 hour 12 min
utes 21 second, only three sec
onds ahead of John Allen. Third
place went to Ed Mayo 1:17:22.
Buzby who finished first yes
terday came in 4th today 1:18:19.
Mary Joyce made the slowest
time today 1:50:8.
Times of other racers today:
Agababa 1:34:20. Mary Hansen
1:37:48. Hack Thomas 1:45:2.
Doleshal 1:30:12. Studdert 1:49:
j 50. Robert Hanson 1:36:29 Pag
j ean failed to finish. Myers dropp
ed out.
The trail was extra difficult be
cause the sun raised ice on the
trail. The maiemutes today show
ed up better than the Siberians,
i Tomorrow’s run starts early to
I avoid the warm part of the day.
Yesterday Allen, the native driv
i er, used wood runners—today he
j used modern steel type, and
speeded up.
Robert Hanson brought in one
of his Siberians in the basket—
i the others all finished with full
teams.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
Special! Power of Attorney forms
Dongs Legislature
r Associated Press)
JUNEAU, March 13, — Eighty
laws were enacted by the Leg
islature which adjourned early
yesterday morning, and sixty sev
en memorials approved, also 14
resolutions, which is believed to
be an all time record of the in
troduction and passage of mem
orials, most of which dealt with
requests for roads, or prayers to
congress for federal aid.
Outstanding among the lawrs
enacted were the gold tax, levy
ing three percent on gross pro
duction of gold and platinum
mines, and the liquor control bill.
The Walker memorial urging
that contgress include a provision
in any fish legislation which
might be enacted, prohibiting
seine fishing in Alaska by non
residents. It was among the last
measures defeated in the House
after a bitter argument.
Roosevelt Starts
Second Day At
Warm Springs
—
fHv The Associated Press)
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. March
13 — In isolated wooded surround
ings, familiar to him for almost
a decade, President Roosevelt
started the second day of his
I vacation, which included a swim
j this morning, and another tour
of the countryside beside the
wheel of an open car.
He planned to splash in water
heated to a temperature of 85
degrees.
Amelia Earhart
Ready Hop Off
Sunday or Mon.
^Hv The Associated Press'*
OAKLAND, March 13, —Am
elia Earhart’s husband George
Putnam said that his wife was
going to fly around the equator
because ‘she wants to. After all,
isn’t that a perfectly good reas
on?”
She is nonchalant today and
showed not a vestige of nervous
ness, as she discussed the big ad
venture of 27,000 miles, on which
she will blaze a trail as the sole
pilot of her tiwin-<motored eight
ton plane.
She plans to start either Sun
day or Monday, and for her safe
ty the silvery plane, with a 55
foot winigspread, is equipped with
every modern device for direction
finding, navigation, speed and en
durance.
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS
THE ORDINANCE PROHIBIT
ING LOOSE DOGS WILL BE
RIGIDLY ENFORCED. Vicious
or diseased dogs must be con
tinuously confined. Other dogs
required to be confined from 8
a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Owners ol
loose dogs will be prosecuted by
the City and dogs without own
ers will be caught and destroy
ed.
W. W. LAWS, Chief of Police
Publish—March 9 10 11 12 13.
FOR SALE—Modern heating
stoves—burn either hard or soft
coal—slightly used, inquire at the
Nugget Office for information.
Chrysler Strike
Headed for Show
down Rapidly
fBv The Associated Press*
UNDATED, March 13, — The
Chrysler motor corporation’s dis
pute with unions, the major sore
spot in the nation’s strike-pitted
industrial body campaigns, ap
proached a showdown.
Sixty thousand idle workers
are involved, in the cororation’s
projected injunction proceedings
aimed at the removal of five
thousand strikers who have held
;ts eight Detroit plants for the
last week.
The United Automobile Work
ers’ insistence that it be the ex
clusive bargaining agent, precip
itated the strike.
Union officials have been sum
moned into the circuit court to
show cause why the sitdowners
should not be ejected.
Governor Frank Murphy of
Michigan, to whom was given
most of. the credit for settling
the General Motors strike, said
the Chrysler controversy was ser
ious and unfortunate.
Chicago, the nation’s second
largest city, is plagued with el
even sitdown strikes, and walk
outs.
Two non-strikers were injur
ed and an oil-soaked cab was
burned, in clashes of striking taxi
drivers.
A strike for higher wages in
the composing room forced the
Miami Daily News to suspend
publications, but later reopened
when employees voted against
the strike.
Four chemical plants at Charl
eston, West Virginia announced
a ten percent wage increase.
Numerous other firms announc
ed pay increases including the
Gulf Oil Corporation and the
Lockheed airplane factory.
“Trap-Drummer”
Born with a snare durm stick
in each hand, a pretty little baby
girl came into the woTld last
night at 8 o'clock to grace the
family of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Al
drich.
The new ‘trap-drummer” was
born at the Maynard Columbus
Hospital, Dr. Thomas Morcom at
tending, and weighed 7% pounds.
Mrs. Aldrich and daughter are
reported to be doing fine, while
Daddy Glen proudly accepts the
congratulations of their many
friends. Glen is the ace trap
drummer of the Nome Brass
I
Band and points West.