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Volume 36. Number 220. NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
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Constitution to be Issue 1936 Election
ITALY AND ENGLAND GIRD NAVAL STRENGTH
Roper, Fletcher, Hoover, Talk On Constitutional Issue
CONSTITUTION ISSUE IS
BROUGHT INTO PUBLIC
DEFINITE ISSUE OF 1936
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper
Voices New Deal’s Prospective Ideas
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, — On Constitution Day yest
erday, forums in several parts of the nation resounded with
speeches, forming a prelude perhaps to the 1936 presidential
election. The argument of Herbert Hoover was that the
bill of rights denied the government the power to sacri
fice personal liberty in order to bring about economic se
curity.
Chairman Fletcher of the Republican National Com
mittee hit the “philosophy of the new deal as utterly foreign
to the Constitution”.
Roper’s talk over the radio last night “Forward with
the Constitution” was on the occasion of the signing and sub
mission to the states, the federal charter, drafted in the consti
tutional convention at Philadelphia in 1787.
Herbert Hoover did not mention the New Deal. Fletch
er said its “Apostles” are ready to deprive the people of
their rights and our states of their sovereignty, guaranteed
by the constitution.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 18, — The question of the New
Deal’s future stand on the subject of a Constitutional chan
ge, aroused renewed interest in the light of Secretary
Daniel C. Roper’s speech declaring that the rights of amend
ment is “the heartbeat of our Constitutional system.”
His statement appeared in his Constitutional Day Ad
dress at Alexandria, Virginia, where he declared,
“If there is not sufficient constitutional authority for
the Federal Government to deal properly with a devastating
nation-wide, economic and social emergency; and if it is the
will of the American people—then amend the Constitution
so that the Federal Government in a time of acute distress
nationally, may be bold to direct action to avert utter chaos.
This question must be answered in the next decade if our
present economic governmental system is to endure.”
Observers wondered whether the Roper utterance
meant that the New Deal might conduct an intensive effort
for a constitutional amendment, should other major admini
stration measures meet the fate of the NRA in court tests
beginning this fall.
Hoover said that some of the moves in the present fed
eral government “are the same sort of first sapping of hu
man rights, that have taken place in other lands. Liberty
dies from encroachment and disregard for its safeguards. Its
destruction can be no less potent from ignorance or desire
to find shortcuts to jump over some immediate pressure”
Pres. Recommend
Program Forest
Conservation ’36
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, —Pres
ident Roosevelt is expected to re
commend to the next Congress a
six point forest conservation pro
gram. as indicated in a letter writ
ten to Senator Fletcher of Florida
and just made public today.
“What I have in mind is the round
ing out of existing legislation, sup
plemented by new provisions, and
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altogether something which will
supply the organic basis, so far as
we can now foresee it, for the next
ten or fifteen years.” the letter said.
Treaty Peace Was
Signed in Versailles
(By The Associated Press)
VERSAILLES, France, Sept. 18—
The street on which fronts the lib
rary where England and the infant
republic of the United States signed
the peace treaty of 1783, is to be re
named “the street of American In
dependence."
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Nine Fishermen
Have Close Call
. Death In Water
(By The Associated Press)
PORT ANGELES, Wash., Sept. 18 j
—Imperilled when the purse seiner
American Beauty of Anacortes
swamped in heavy swells late Sat
urday in the Juan de Fuca Straits,
nine fishermen were brought here
to safety, although suffering from
exposure.
Their empty, high-riding boat
was bound from Neah Bay to Ana
cortes. Two successive heavy swells
filled it. trapping three men below
decks and sweeping valuable nets
and purse seine dories off the stern.
The three men fought their way
to the surface through portholes,
and with the six others, clung to the
half-sunken craft until taken off by
the halibuter Nordic of Seattle.
The patrol boat Atlanta took over
the task of towing the American
Beauty into port. 'Airplanes were
used to locate the stricken craft.
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No Change In
Constitution Pa.,
Voters Register
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 18, — The vot
ers of Pennsylvania apparently re
jected the New Deal’s plan of chang
ing its constitution, in yesterday's
off-year election. So did New Mexi
co though it proposed alterations
there which are less involved with
the national policy.
New Jersey opponent of the sales
tax claimed enough legislative vict
ories to repeal that law. New York
laid a basis for the November show
down in New Deal strength by nom
inating party regulars over insur
gents in both democratic and repub
lican assembly contests. Few insur
gents won.
The fond dream of Governor Earle
of Pennsylvania for a constitutional
convention to remodel the 161 year
old charter, for purposes of New
Deal social legislation, was running
more than one hundred thousand
votes behind.
Rex Beach Noted Author Describes How
He Developed Characters For Alaskan
Novels. Were Composites From Many
(Juneau Empire)
“Very few of the characters in
my Alaskan books are patterned di
rectly after persons I knew. Most
of them are composites of half-a
dozen people. The most that can
be said for them is that they are
sometimes recognizable by the sit
uations in which they are cast".
In this fashion. Rex Beach, well
known author of adventure novels
who was in Juneau for a week’s
stay, preparatory to a vacation trip
into the Interior, repudiated the
many legends that have grown up
concerning the originals of his fam
ous characters.
“But I like having people claim
recognition of my characters," he
added. “It is complimentary in that
it proves I have accomplished my
aim in writing—to be photographic,
and to establish my romances again
st a background of authenticity. And
of course many of my characters
have been motivated in part by peo
ple I knew. It might be truer to say
that I have used the history of cer
tain characters, rather than those
characters themselves. That is, I
have taken the situations in which
I found certain people and projected
into that problem a composite figure
of my own imagination and then let I
him work the problem out in his own
fashion.
The Iron Trail
“For instance, there was the story
of “The Iron Trail”. This was a
story of the Copper River Railroad
and the main character in it was j
patterned after a man named M. J.
Heney, known around Alaska as the
'Irish Prince.’ Heney was an extra
ordinary interesting fellow, never
fazed by obstacles: liked to do the
thing that seemed impossible; would
risk anything to back his own judg
ment. He decided to take a try at the
railroad enterprise at Copper River.
There were three railroads here, one
of them financed by the Guggen
heim interests, and 1 or two which
were wildcat enterprises starting
from Valdez. It was generally un
derstood that the first man to get a
railroad through would be in con
tol of the whole situation.
“The Guggenheim interests decid
ed to start their railroad from Ka
talla, where they thought the har
bor would hold up, and work up
the river valley. Heney thought
they were wrong about the harbor's
standing up and decided to go ahead
and he risked everything he had to
back his own judgment. He made a
preliminary survey, established a
terminus at Cordova on Prince Wil
liam Sound, got a gang together, and
went to work.
“That fall everything the Gug
genheims had done was carried aw
ay in the storms, and he was left
pretty much alone in the field. The
wildcat enterprises tried to hire his
crew away.
Dr. Whiting Mentioned
“An interesting thing happened in
connection with that. Heney had a
doctor on his staff who had been
(Continued on Page Two)
NAVAL DEV OPMENTS
ITALY ENGLAND GIVE
LITT1 5 HOPE OF PEACE
Lillie Mope Held Bv League Committee
I hat Italy \\ ill Aeoept Compromise
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(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 18, — Authoritative sources today
said that the Italo-Ethiopian committee of the League was
convinced that its report now in preparation would be re
jected by Italy.
Mussolini recalled from reserves, Italy’s two largest
battleships and also sent orders to squadron commanders in
the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Red Seas, L. shape their
navy into compact fighting units.
The strangely small British home fleet of only 19 ships
steamed up off Portland, for maneuvers ordinarily held
off Scotland. Doubt was expressed as to just where tactics
will take place.
In Addis Ababa Emperor Selassie banqueted eight
thousand of his troops on raw meat, in celebration of their
imminent departure for the frontiers.
Both Italy and Great Britain marshalled their naval
strength in the Mediterranean as the hour drew near for
the League Council to make a decision in the Ethiopian dil
emna.
UNDATED, Sept. 18, — The Italian cabinet passed
sweeping provisions to raise funds for “defense of the East
African colonies”.
The British Admiralty postponed indefinitely the regu
lar autumn maneuvers of the British fleet.
The Ethiopian committee of the League evolved a plan
for “assistance” to Ethiopian and hoped that Italy might
agree to it thereby averting war. Their hopes however, were
discounted by the immediate Italian reaction in Geneva,
when Italy indicated a probable rejection of the compromise
plan.
Naval developments in the Mediterranean went for
ward with increasing momentum with about 150 British
warships there.
Italian naval and military movements are gaining in
velocity. In Ethiopia the governor of Harar Province called
all men to arms, under penalty of death to slackers.
Freddie Steel Is
Outstanding Man
For Middleweight
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Sept. 13, —Freddie
Steel loomed as^ the country’s out
standing contender for the middle
weight championship, following a
clean cut decision over Gorilla Jon
es of Akron, Ohio, negro., in a ten
[round bout held here last night.
Jones took few chances with the
youngster’s now famous cyclone j
punches and hid behind an impene-1
trable defense, most of the time, ap
pearing content to stay the full
route.
The negro who was the former
middleweight champion, got in sev
eral good licks to the jaw with his
right, but Steele only laughed when
he was hit, realizing that his oppon- i
ent had no power left and was far
behind him.
Whe the final gong sounded Jon
es dashed across the ring and raised
Steele's arm in recognition of his
victory.
Jones’ defense was perfect and
Steele never once landed a punch
that looked anything like the
blasting swats that kept Dundee
bouncing on the floor. There were
no knockdowns scored in the fight
last night.
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