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VOL. 37. No. 290 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1936._Per Copy 15cts
Troy Stresses Importance of Mining
GOVERNOR OF ALASKA
SENDS RECOMMEN
DATIONS TO WN
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8
—Governor John W. Troy, Alas
ka's governor, told Secretary Har
old I. Ickes of the Interior De
partment, in his annual report
that “more people” was Alaska’s
greatest need, in describing the
Territory which is on its road to
progress.
He further Said that Matanus
ka’s successbeckoned prospective
settlers to the Territory, the land
of opportunity and progress.
Covering the fiscal year ending
June 30th, the report contained
a twelve point program of re
commendations, among them
were suggestions of government
aid to settlers moving north on
“their own violition to prosecute
agricultural development.”
Governor Troy also said that
more colonies ought to be estab
lished in other parts of Alaska.
Another major recommendation
urged, larger appropriations for
the Bureau of Mines and Geolo
gical Survey, to enable them to
make quick examinations—also
more intensive prospecting of
mining claims, both those already
staked and also those which may
be staked in the future. I be
lieve it is not to much to provide
them with sufficient funds—even
to developing mining claims,
where prospecting might warrant
it—increased gold mining means
increased population.”
Ten other recommendations
covered Fisheries, Fur Industry,
Territorial government, Trans
portation, highways, and again
recommended the establishment ■
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of a full territorial form of gov-1
ernment, giving the Territory
authority to create a County and
other organizations to control i
local matters. He urged Con
gress to enact legislation grant
ing the Territorial Legislature
co-equal power with Congress to
legislate on Fisheries and Game.
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IN ‘SMOKED GLASSES’ BATTLE
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Here are the principals in the famous “Battle of the Smoked Glass
es” at New York’s Stork Club. ..Top, left to right: Johnny “Tarzan”
Weissmuller of the films and Mr. and Mrs. James McKinley Bry
ant. ..Below: Lieut. Cameron Winslow Jr., of the V. S. Navy and
his wife, the former Natalie Hess of Los Angeles. The question of
who hit whom remained unsettled after the smoke of the fray, but
Lieut Winslow had a black eye. ..The Weismuller party wore these
dark glasses as a “gag”, and reports were that the lieutenant heck
led ‘‘Tarzan”. (Associated Press Photos)
Thousands Met
Death in Floods
Philippine Is.
(Bv The Associated Press)
MANILA, Dec. 8—Philippine
army officials said that thousands
of people met death December
4th in the rich Cagayan Valley of
Northern Luzon Island, when
devastating floods covered hun
dreds of miles of rich tobacco &
rice lands northeast, of Manila.
Government agencies are send
ing relief to people in the stric
ken area. Officials in the strick
en area were unable to call for
help until today, because com-1
munication lines were cut off by'
the typhoon. Fifty-four towns
were inundated.
The floods came on the tail end!
of the typhoon and entire fami- j
lies were carried to sea and!
drowned, before having an op-,
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portunity of saving themselves.
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Dredge To Be
Moved to Ester *
Creek Section
Fairbanks Exploration Co. Gold
Dredge Will be Set Up and
Ready to Operate Early
Next Spring.
Freighting of the big gold
dredge of the Fairbanks Explor
ation Department of the United
States Smelting, Refining & Min
ing Company from Goldstream
Creek to Ester Creek will be
completed by Christmas, it was
said recently at the company of
fices, according to the Fairbanks
News-Miner of December 1.
By spring the 1250-ton gold
boat will be set up and ready to
dig. It will be the first dredge
in the Ester district.
Hauling and dismantling are
going ahead simultaneously. As
soon as machinery is taken down
it is freighted to Ester. For the
ordinary work a big RD-7 diesel
Caterpillar is employed but when
real heavy equipment is to be
hauled a Caterpillar 60 is used to
assist the diesel tractor.
Special Sleds
.. The freighting is being done on
two special sleds made to order
in Wisconsin and shipped in es
pecially for this job, it was said.
Each can carry a load of 100 tons
and there are five separate pieces
to be hauled which will weigh
up to the carrying limit of the
sleds... The runners are 12 feet
long and six inches wide.....The
gauge of the sleds is 10 feet.
Go Over Rough Country
The route is down Goldstream
Valley to Happy Station and
thence across St. Patrick and Ace
Creeks to Ester a distance of 17
miles. The road is over rough
country, passing right over the
niggerheads. Only the brush
was removed. One bridge had to
be constructed on Goldstream
—
Suggest Alaska
Boats be Loaded
At Another Pier
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 8—The North
west Joint Strike Committee of
Maritime Unions, recommended
government chartered Alaska
vessels be loaded at another pier
and that freight unconsigned to
Alaska be removed from the Bell
Street Pier, where the steamer
Arctic is now loading for Alaska.
The committee charged that 1
“exhorbitant cost to the govern
ment will result unless present
methods are changed.” The com
mittee also asked that the unions
be permitted to choose the men
who are to work on the Alaska
boats.
Bishop Rowe to
Come to Alaska
Again January
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Dec. 8—The Right
Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe, Epis
copal Bishop for Alaska, joined
with clergymen in a farewell to
the venerable Winfred H. Ziegler
a retiring archdeacon, who now
becomes the new bishop of the
Wyoming Diocese.
Rowe, who is known as the
flying bishop, recalled the fact
that he ordained Rev. Zeigler at
Valdez in 1910 and said Zeigler
offered to come to Alaska to help
him. Bishop Rowe is expected
in Seattle in a few days and will
leave in January for a tour of
Ailaska on business in connection
with church activities.
Dr. R. W. Maurer, new govern
ment doctor at Barrow, reported
that the general health of the
natives is good, although a con
siderable amount of chronic sur- \
gery will have to be done. He
said that a few cases of tubercu- j
losis are being cared for.
near Happy Station. The main
road to Ester from the Station
is not used because it is too slip
pery for the Caterpillars and too
narrow.
75 Tons Hauled at Once
The biggest piece hauled to date
was the 75-ton digging ladder. It
was landed at the new dredging
site without any special difficul
ty. One of the spuds, weighing
20 tons has also been taken to
Ester.
Dredge siding is being removed
in big panels and 30 tons of that
has been freighted up to this
time.
The problem of moving the big
bull presented special difficulties,
and after much consideration it
was decided to cut it in five dif
ferent sections, each of which
(Continued on Page Four) i
Million Passengers
Carried lly Plane
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 8th
—Bureau Air Commerce officials
said that a million passengers
were carried by the U. S. Air
Lines this year and predicted
that forty .passenger, 20 ton plan
es will be used in two years.
Such a plane is now being con
structed —five companies pooling
a hundred thousand dollars each
for construction costs and test
flights.
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An Enthusiastic sportswoman, Miss Ethel DuPont, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene DuPont who is engaged to be married to Frank
lin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the President, is pictured beside her
favorite horse. Roosevelt Jr. is also piatured above. .They are to
be married June 1937, it was announced. (Associated Press Photo)
Senator Tlicmas
Call Invesliea
tion Mataniiska
(By The Associated Press,;
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8th
—Senator Thomas of Oklahoma,
said he would demand a Senate
investigation of Matanuska col
ony if Congress were asked for
further expansion of the project.
Ross Sheely recently attended a
budget hearing to request funds
for another year. Sheely’s an
nual report is not yet made pub
lic, but it is expected that the
colony will throw considerable
light on the colony’s future plans
Senator Thomas said he was
opposed to any further expan
sion of the colony beyond the
present federal commitments. “I
believe the WPA was in a jam
with the Alaska project, and I
would’t permit the government
taking another farm family to
the colony until that family had
full knowledge of what is going
on there and what to expect. My
belief is that eventually the gov
ernment shall bring all families
Possibility 0!
J. ?. Morgan
Called Testify
'Hv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8th
—The possibility of J. P. Morgan
will be summoned to the Capitol
and put on the witness stand, the
third time in four years, grew,
amid speculation on his reasons
for relinquishing control of the
nation’s largest transportation
system.
Testimony in the Senate’s Rail
way Financing Investigation re
vealed that Morgan sold control
of the three billion dollar Van
Sweringen rail industrial empire
for $274,682,00.
Advertising in the Nome Nug
get can be a paying investment.
Why not try it
back to the United States—they
can’t stay unless they pay taxes
and support themselves—that cer
tainly means they have to raise
something to sell, but Matanuska
crops are unsaleable.”