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VOL. 38.No. 17 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY JAN. 21,1936 Per Copy 15cts
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Demos Plan New Legislation Soon
Hammon Team Leading In Nome Baseball League
Pope Pius XI Is Weakening From Increasing Pain
Hammon Leading
League Yet With
I Other Three Tie
The Hammon team remains the
undisputed leaders of the Indoor
baseball series which commenced
shortly after the first of the year,
after defeating the Commercial
team last night by a score of 15
to 9.
The Huskies developed into a
strong aggregation last night de
feating the Alaskans by a score
of 17 to 10. Following are the
short scores of the games:
HUSKIES. 3 0 4 0 1 7 2
ALASKANS. 0 0 5 0 2 2 1
COMMERCIALS. 4 2 1,2 0 0 0
HAMMON. 2 4 14 13
Following are the lineups:
HUSKIES—Slack left short, A.
Lee catcher, R. Lee 2nd base, M.
Willoya pitcher, Mann right field,
Elms, 1st base, Wade 3rd base,
Amarok right short, Don Lyle
left field. Substitutions were
made Tom Martin and Ed. Shed,
ley.
ALASKANS—Kanyak 2nd base,
l John Kawasuk right field, Fred
Larson left short, Sam Mogg 3rd
base, James Gabriel catcher, Alec
Mogg right short* Art Cabinboy
pitcher, Patch 1st base, Pat Mil.
ler left field.
HAMMON—Glavinovich right
abort, Chuck O’Leary pitcher,
Marx left short, Harris catcher,
Humling 1st base, H. Roberts
right field, Harney second base,
Ludwig left field, Rolando third
base. Subs. Andy Roberts and
Garnet Martin.
COMMERCIALS—Givan first
base, Chris O’Leary right field,
Brown catcher, Rude 2nd base,
O’Mara right short, Mayanrd left
short, Woufjnen left field, Davis
3rd base, Lehmann pitcher. Subs
Parlett and Will Boucher.
Students Protest
Order To Finger
Print All Them
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(By The Associated Press)
MADISON, Wis., Jan. 21—Fol
lowing a series of thefts in the
University of Wisconsin men’s
dormitories, 365 of the 540 stud,
ents living there have been finger
printed by police and university
authorities seeking to trap the
thieves.
Objections on the part of many
students to submitting to finger,
printing have been so strenuous
that this method of investigation
(Continued on Page Four)
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMEN
EXPECT DISCUSS PROBLEMS
LEGISLATION WHITE HOUSE
(Bv The Associated Press 1
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Key
Democratic congressmen expect,
ed to be called to the White
House soon to confer with the
President on wage and hour
standards, crop control, slum
clearance, farm tenancy and oth
er economic readjustments.
Leaders of both parties hailed
the President’s inaugural mess,
age as a noteworthy statement of
| his ideals, but congress wonder,
ed how much social legislation
will be attempted this session,
j Concrete suggestions on social
security may develop at the meet
ing of governors and other state
officials wlTch opened today.
Progress Is Noted
(Bv The Associated Pc»ss'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—Un.
animous reports of industrial and
agricultural improvements came
today from Governors here for
| an inaugural survey, bringing pre
[dictions that the upward trend
would continue.
Executives told of reopened
mills, higher farm prices, greater
auto registrations, better mone
tary conditions, but the Gover.
nors of Prairie States said, they
need further drought relief funds
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Elmer Hemerick
Famed Brewer,
Died in Tacoma
fBy The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Jan. 21— Elmer Hem
erick aged 46, brewery executive,
died in the hospital here last
night of a heart attack.
He was the son of the late Al_
vin Hemerick, pioneer Seattle
brewer, and a descendant of a
long line of brewers in Germany.
Elmer Hemerick was president
of the brewing company bearing
his name in Seattle, and the Hem
erick Winery here. He also own
ed a surf cannery at Kukah Bay,
Alaska.
The funeral is to take place
Monday at Seattle. His widow,
Nina Hemerick, his seventeen,
months old twin daughters, and
two brothers Andrew of Seattle
arid Walter of Tacoma, and his
mother in Seattle, survive him.
STOKES IN HOSPITAL
James Stokes, early pioneer of
the Nome country, who has been
in ill health for some time, was
admitted to the Maynard Colum
bus Hospital Tuesday, to receive
medical attention.
POPE PIUS
HAS TURN
TO WORSE
(By The Associated Press)
VATICAN CITY, Jan. 21st—
Pope Pius XI, weakened by a bad
night and increasing pain, took
another turn for the worse, suf
fering the greatest in his left leg
where the circulation is poor.
The Holy Pontiff is bearing the
pain with extreme fortitude.
His attendants quoted him as
i
saying:
“The pains are atrocious! There
is perhaps no word in the diction
ary that can really describe
them.”
The Pope remained abed today,
his condition not permitting at_
lendants to lift him onto his new
wheeled d;van.
Former King Alfonso of Spain
arrived at the Vatican, express,
ing hope for his recovery.
Buddy Rogers And
Mary Pickford
Wed March
(By The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Jan. 21st
—Friends definitely announced to
day that Charles (Buddy) Rogers
and Mary Pickford expected to
be wed in London in March.
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Fascist soldiers are «hown in this picture, sent from Spain to Paris by courier, by telephoto to London
and by radio to New York, carrying a wounded comrade to eafety during tho final advance on Madrid.
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POPE PIUS XI WHO IS CRITICALLY ILL
Old Letters Of
Tex Rickard Are
Brought Light
(By The Associated Press #
PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 21—
Tex Rickard, who braved Alaska
to find gold and later became the
premier showman of the world,
didn’t want his ‘‘Ma’’ to know
that he had gone to the Yukon.
That intimate fact, and numer.
ous others, were revealed in a
letter written forty years ago by
Tex Rickard from Juneau to his
boy-hood chum E. S. Matlovk,
now living here.
They were written in an almost
illegible scrawl. The spelling
was poor. When he was twenty,
seven years old Rickard left his
job as town marshal of Henriet.
ta, Texas, to follow the Gold
rush. The letter referred to was
written December 9, 1895 from
Juneau, and told of how he had
acquired his nickname.
“Dear old friend, we had a jolly
good trip to this country. Like
old times. Everybody has money.
By the way, I got a nickname.
People on the boat call me Tex.
Everybody in Juneau calls me
that. It will stay with me as
[ long as I stay here”, said the let
ter.
The nickname stayed with him
| thru life. Matlock recalled that
“Dink" was his nickname in Hen
Superior Father
Coughlin, Died
On Wednesday
(By Tne Associated Press)
DETROIT, Jan. 21—The Most
Rev.Michael J. Gallagher, Bishop
of the Catholic Diocese of Detroit,
died in the hospital here Wed_
nesday night, aged 70 years.
Bishop Gallagher died of throat
trouble from which he had been
ill ten days. He was the immed
iate Superior to Father Charles
E. Coughlin whose activities over
the radio and head of the Nation,
al Union for Social Justice, he
frequently defended, but the bis.
hop announced last fall that he
favored the reelection of Presi
dent Roosevelt, who Father Cou.
ghlin earlier attacked bitterly in
several addresses.
rietta. The next letter was dated
February 22, 1896: “I am going to
leave here the fifteenth of April.
I am going into the Mukon. Don’t
tell Ma. I told her I would not
go. Wee, I guess you boys will
soon commence to play ball, and
don’t let Wichita Falls beat you
all to bowie”.
Matlock declared that Jack
Dempsey, former heavyweight
champion of the ring, had asked
, for one yellowed, crumbling let.
1 ter as a keepsake, but Matlock
declined to part with them.