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VOL. 37. No. 247 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Soviets Send Aid To Spanish Gov’t
SAILORS UNION NOT TO BOLT SOUP FRONT
Only Eskimos Given Legal Authority Kill Whales
LANDON CHARGES THAT ONE
MAN GOVERMENT IS DEFEAT
OF RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE
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(By The Associated Press)
ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL,
Enroute to Topeka, Oct. 16, —
Landon told Illinois farmers that
Roosevelt with “giving lip ser
vice to our system of free enter
prise, while administration spok
esmen insidiously attacked the
doctrine of home rule and in
dependent judiciary.”
“They would make congress
merely a body to ratify the arbi
trary actions of a one man super
government. What recovery we
have had, came after the supreme
court gave the country a breath
ing spell from the President’s
‘must legislation’, which has
been based on doctrines of regi
mented business, industry and
agriculture.
“It is the farmers who will ev
entually pay Santa Claus in the
present administration,” said the
Republican nominee.
Norwegian Boat
Carries Arms to
Spain from Sov.
(By The Associated Press i
OSLO, Oct. 16, — Norwegian
Telegraph Bureau reported that
the Norwegian steamer Bjoernoey
sailed from a Russian Baltic port
today with ammunition for the
Spanish government.
The Norwegian Foreign Office
stated that it was not responsible
for the shipment and could not
prevent it.
SHORT FELLOWS MAY SEE
KING EDWARD IN MIRROR
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, October—The little
fellow at the back of the crowd
may not miss the “show” during
King Edward’s coronation proces
sion next May. Officials are con
sidering erecting large mirrors
at points of vantage, tilted at an
angle to reflect the passing caval
S$ cade.
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Sailor Unions
Not Bolt From
A United Front
(By The Associated Press 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16, —
Officials of the sailor unions, dis
claiming any intention to bolt the
workers’ solid front, said that
their locals were refusing to take
strike votes as requested by the
union peace negotiators, and that
the sailors would give the Mari
time Commission “absolutely un
restricted cooperation.”
The spokesman of two other
maritime groups said they were
contemplating falling in line with
the sailors.
judge Withhold
Decision Bette
Davis Case Lon.
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Oct. 16, — Justice
Branson in the King’s Bench
Division reserved judgment un
til Monday on the Warner Broth
ers attempt to keep Bette Davis,
whose counsel says she is a con
tract slave behind gilded bars,
from acting in British pictures.
Bette did not testify, while op
posing counsels argued the legal
intricasies.
Holdup Payroll
Escape $10,000
In Motor Car
(By The Associated Press)
ROCHESTER, New Hampshire,
A holdup today, participated in
by three men, snatched the ten
thousand dollar payroll from the
Mayerberry Shoe Co., and forc
ed payment of employees to be
postponed until Monday. The
robbers fled in a motor car.
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Stalin Declared
Soviet Will Help
Madrid’s Gov’t.
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Oct. 16, —Joseph Sta
lin, head of the U. S. S. R. sent
a telegram today to the Spanish
Communists that the Soviets
were giving Madrid every assist
ance in their power.
Much speculation was provok
ed when they did not make clear
whether the aid was limited to
that permitted under the non
intervention pact.
Weather Man
C. J. McGregor
Is On Voyage
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(By Ernie Pyle)
NEWARK, N. J.—Clifford J.
1 MacGregor is by way of becom
ing a miniature Admiral Byrd.
Miniature is hardly the word,
for MacGregor weighs 220 pounds
I without his fur suit on, and the
Eskimos call him Ooksook, which
means “fat,” and you know you
can't fool an Eskimo.
But MacGregor and Byrd do
have many things in common.
For example: both are mixed up
in aviation, both like the cold
countries, both have spent con
siderable time there, both lec
ture about it when they get back,
and both are always planning
another trip.
That’s what this story is about
—Mac’s next trip. I call him
Mac because I knew him long be
fore he ever saw an Eskimo or
ate a frozen fish, way back in the
days when he was just a weather
man for the air mail, in a one
room shack at Bolling Field. I
used to sit around his stove at
night waiting for the mail pilots
to come in, and not paying much
attention to him, because how did
I know he would be a great man
some day?
Well, Mac disappeared, and ,
WEATHER DELAYS SEATTLE HOP
Pilot Chester Brown was pre- commencing,
pared this morning to hop off Mr. and Mrs. Billy French
for Anchorage from Nome with from Candle will be flying thru
a load of passengers, some of to Seattle. Two native girls are
whom are enroute through to enroute to the Office of Indian
Seattle, on the first flight of the Affairs industrial school at Ek
newly organized service, connect- lutna, and two other persons are
ing with the Glass Flying Service enroute to Koyuk. Mrs. Louise
there, for Juneau and Seattle. Polet and Mrs. Velma Brown are
Adverse flying weather, how- to accompany the big tri-motor
ever prevented the flight from plane as hostesses.
ECONOMIC & SOCIAL
SECURITY IS MAIN
ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN
President Declared Didn’t Believe Republican Leaders’
Opinions That Major Depressions Could Not Be
Avoided. Said Believed Trying Prevent It
(By The Associated Press)
DETROIT, Oct. 16, — Asserting
that he was not afraid of the ver
dict, President Roosevelt defined
what he called the outstanding
issue of the campaign—“Shall
social and economic security, and
the betterment of the masses of
Americans be maintained and
strengthened, or not.”
Speaking on the lawn of the
city hall, to thousands of people,
the President said he believed the
people on November 3rd, would
ask for a continuance of the pres
ent type of government in pre
ference to one which puts the
dole above human rights.
“I do not accept the many
Republican leaders’ conclusions
that major depressions are inevit
able in modern life. I believe it
is the duty of government to
bend every effort to prevent an
other major catastrophe such as
hit the country as the result of
republican leadership which ran
the government from 1921 to
1933. I have suggested that ev
ery industry still needs great
improvements in their relation
ship with employees."
—
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time drifted by, and then one day
he turned up and said he had
been in Alaska four years, estab
lishing airway weather stations.
He was full of Eskimo talk and
scientific terms about meteorolo
gy, and he had a lot of picture
slides, and I went up to his house
one night and watched while he
explained them. That, I am af
raid, was the start of his lecture
career, but I'm not really all to
blame.
Mac gave me an ivory cigaret .
holder carved out of a seal's tusk,
and disappeared again. He went
back to Alaska for one more
year, it seems, and now he’s the
meteorologist for the Weather
Bureau at Newark Airport. He .
must get practically no sleep at
all, for when he isn’t working j
he’s thing about this next exped
ition he’s going on.
But we must go back a little.
It seems that, in 1882, various j
nations got together and sent out'
expeditions to all kinds of weird
places to study weather. This
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Returns From
Stoyahok Final
To Be Heard
Following are the General El
ation Returns received from the
stoyahok voting precinct, the
inul returns to be received in
he election: 10 votes were cast—
vhat is believed to be a high for
i number of years past.
These returns do not alter the
inal results, which elect one
lemocratic senator and four dem
cratic representative from the
lecond Division, to the Territor
al Legislature.
For Delegate
DIMOND . 4
GORE.6
For Attorney General
McCAIN . 4
RODEN . 3
TRUITT . 3
For Auditor
BOYLE . 3
COLE. 6
SMITH . L
For Highway Engineer
HESSE . 4
STOREY. 6
For Senator
COCHRAN._. 2
KENNEDY . 6
For Representatives
BALDWIN . 0
DEGNAN . 0
GILLETTE . 7
HELLKRICH . 6
LAIBLIN . 3
LICHTENBERG . 3
NYLEN . 2
Eskimos Only
Kill Whales Is
New Regulation
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16,
—Eskimos, wielding home-made
harpoons, are virtually the only
people in the world legally auth
orized to kill whales.
The slaughter of fourteen var
ieties of huge mammals has been
forbidden to American seaman,
according to the new sea com
merce department regulations, is
sued today under the Geneva
Treaty of 1931.
Twenty-six nations have already
signed the pact for the protection
of nearly all types of whales,
which were threatened with ex
tinction.
Because whale blubber is a fav
orite item on Arctic menus, the
rules to not apply to the Eskimos
hunting whales with their own
boats and weapons.
The government hinted broadly
that it did not care whether the
extinction was effected of Moby
Dick and sperm whales, seagoing
murderers with teeth like rail
way spikes. The slaughter of
the gray whale, once plentiful al
ong the coast is also forbidden.
Porpoises and dolphins were
not protected by the pact.
Wcalher today
(TJ. S. Weather Bureau)
A deen c ntcrrd rnd extensive
storm area s v ...re ! around
Fai.-b’. r !;• v here a barometer
read:ng of 29.08 13 observed. Un
settled weather with snow and
rain are d rectly attending this
?.c-sure distribution. Rains con
tinue along the Gulf and in S.E.
Alaska; Cordova reported a 24
nour rainfall of 3.46.
Snow and fog conditions over
he NomeFairbanks air route has
nade flying eastward impossible
it 7 a.m. this morning.
Temperature changes have been
flight in all sections during the
last twenty four hours. The
invest temperature at Nome last
light was 22 and the highest yes
erday was 36.
Kotzebue reported 6 inches of
mow on the ground while Candle
lad 4 inches of loose snow at 7
i. m.
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O’CONNOR . 1
SCOTT.2
SMITH . 2
STEFFEN . 6
SWANBERG _ 7