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VOL. 37. No. 38. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 14th, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
China Clipper Is Forced To Return
NOME KENNEL CLUB PLANS MORE RACES
Says Big Interests Delaying Alaska Development
China Clipper Is
Forced Return
By Head Winds
(By The Associated Press)
Alameda, Feb. 14, —
Strong headwinds that cut
down the speed of the huge
airliner, far below 100-mil
es-anhour, again balked the
China Clipper’s attempt to
resume trans-Pacific air
mail flights.
The plane turned around
and headed back to Ala
meda after covering less
than one thousand miles on
its intended Honolulu hop.
It bucked headwinds of
around forty miles an hour
all the way out.
Senators Seeking
Inside Expose Of
Townsend Plan
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Feb. 14th—
Investigators for the Sen
ate lobby committee, are
busy collecting highly in
teresting information on
the financial operations of
sponsors of the Townsend
Plan for Old Age Revolv
ing Pensions.
The investigators learn
ed that a “file on data” is
being reserved for comba
tive use by enemies, when
ever the Townsend lobby
becomes active in the na
tional capital.
The mere tact that data
on the Townsendites is
being collected does not in
dicate that any of it is un
savory; however, with the
backing of this data, gath
ered by unmentioned ag
ents, the Senate committee
could fire on the plan with
real bullets when the lobby
ists start their anticipated
drive for congressional sup
port for theTownsend Plan
Not only is the file sup
posed to have a list of suc
cinct arguments against
the Townsend Plan, but it
is also reputed to contain
charges of malfeasance and
corruption within theTown
send organization.
The Townsend Plan is
one of the biggest election
thorns in the side of the
senators and congressmen
returning to their states
Continued on Page 3
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RENO IS WHERE THE I
CREAM COUNTRY GO
Reno, they say, now J
claims to be an important
factor in the dairy indus-l
try. That’s where the
cream of the country goes
to get separated.
The old man who found
last summer too hot is find
ing the winter too cold.
Secretary Navy
Swanson Is 111
Pleurisy In Wn.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Feb. 14, —
The condition of Secretary
of the Navy Swanson, who
is gravely ill of pleurisy in
the Naval Hospital here, is
reported to be much im
proved today.
A spokesman said “He’s
getting along fine”.
Captain George C. Thom
as, commanding officer of
the hospital told newsmen
a short time later that the
Navy Chief had spent a
very good night and was
resting comfortably.
Asked if he believed
Swanson had a good chan
ce to recover, Thomas said
“it certainly looks more
favorable.”
Got No Money
Back But Now
Has New Wife
(By The Associated Press)
Union, S. C., Feb. 13, —
Probate Judge A. G. Ken
nedy, who has married
quite a number of persons
in his day, vouches for this
one.
A would-be bridegroom
called at his office and want
ed his money back for an
unused marriage license,
as the girl had changed her
mind.
“I can’t give you your
money back”, Judge Ken
nedy told him, “but when
ever you find another girl,
bring her along and I’ll
change the name on the
license without charge.”
A few hours later the
man returned with another
girl, and the judge made
the substitution of names.
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JOHN BALLAINE ATTACKS THE
BANKERS, RAILROADERS
SLAMMING ALASKA
Destruction Alaska Railroad To The
Detriment Matanuska Charged
'_
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle. Feb. 14, —John
E. Ballaine. builder of the
Alaska central railroad,
and founder of Seward said
policies are “emanating
from the offices of New
York bankers and railroad
owners” blighting the ter
ritory, and added “their
activities are also destroy
ing the possibilities of suc
cess of the government’s
Matanuska colony”, in an
open letter to President
Roosevelt.
Ballaine, a former Wash
ington and Alaska news
paper editor, named J. P.
Morgan and Company and
the Harriman, Union Paci
fic Railroad interests.
Ballaine, a one-time bull
moose Roosevelt leader in
Washington State and also
chairman of the state re
publican Roosevelt move
ment in 1932, said:
“Their transactions aim,
as they did under Secretary
of the Interior Albert B.
Fall and his associates, to
destroy the Alaska Railroad
and deprive it of traffic
earnings possible from the
development of coal, min
ing and timber in the terri
tory.” Ballaine wrote:
“They are more active
and successful in their Al
askan plottings of recent
and present times, than ev
er before during the last 20
years. That is evidenced by
the taking up of rails and
the abandonment of the 19
33 branch line of the Alas
ka Railroad which reached
the fields of the highest
grades bituminous coal in
the Chickaloon and adjoin
ing districts of Matanuska.”
Ballaine said that two
naval coal commissions in
1914 and in 1921 reported
the coal to be the highest
grade of ;ny bituminous
coal in America. At least
two million tons were
blocked out they reported,
of a field estimated at thir
ty mil lion tons.
Failure to develop the A1
askan fields, Ballaine wrote
resulted in coast markets
from Los Angeles to Seattle
being compelled to rely on
lower grade coals, now sup
(Continued on Page Three,
New Board Elected
Nome Kennel Club
Attended by a large
meeting of dog owners and
many others interested in
promoting the dog racing
season at Nome, the Nome
Kennel Club Meeting this
afternoon at the city lyjjl
elicited much enthusiastic
support. • ■"*
The report of the Lincoln
Birthday race was accept
ed as approved by the jud
ges.
The matter of the dead
heat for second place be
tween drivers John Hoem
and John Kost was discuss
ed and a special race will
be run this Sunday at 1:00
P. M. starting from the cor
( Continued On Page Four )
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OPENING UP ROAD TO
LITTLE CREEK TODAY
The Nome Motor Com
pany caterpillar has been
busy today opening up the
Bessie Road to Litlle Creek
and are making a through
trip tonight with their taxi
to bring anyone coming to
town into Nome.
Many Score Are
Burned to Death
Big Fire China
(By The Associated Press)
Tientsin, China, Feb. 14
Firemen today removec
150 bodies from the ruin?
of slum-district houses, de
stroyed by fire yesterday.
It was declared that it is
expected many more score
of bodies will be found bur
ied in the debris. The blaze
left 1,300 without shelter.
Direct News From
Barrow Received
A telegram to the Gener
al Reindeer Office at Nome
from Frank Daugherty,tea
cher and local reindeer su
perintendent at Barrow,
gives the following infor
mation: There are eight
cases of mumps, two fami'
ies quarantined, and the
rest of the people well.
Trapping is the best it has
oeen for three years, altho
seal are not plentiful. Sev
eral families are without
meat and fuel through fail
ure to store a supply. It
is possible during the sum
mer to secure provisions
for the whole year. There
are good dog teams able to
haul meat and fuel. Ample
reindeer are available; two
thousand deer were butch
ered for this winter’s sup
ply. One day’s trip from
Lhe village are thousands
of tons of solidified oil avail
able for fuel.
Mr. Daugherty’s annual
Reindeer Service report of
last spring records 328
shareholders in the Barrow
herd. Although some of
these may live outside the
village, it can be concluded
that practically all adult
villagers are shareholders,
since the population is list
ed at 340, of which some
are children too young to
Activity Is On
Increase In S.
Ethiopia Today
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 14, — In
creased action on the south
ern frontier of Ethiopia, is
indicated by Italian and
Ethiopian communiques to
day.
The Italian government
reported its southern arm
ies had defeated two Eth
iopian detachments at Bal
lei Bulbul and Dibdig.
Ras Desta Demtu, com
mander of Ethiopian forces
in the South, reported from
Sidamo, that 650 Eritrean
troops of Italian forces had
surrendered to him, and
stated three hundred more
had announced their inten
tions of surrendering. Ap
parently they took the
wrong road and became
lost.
"\es-Yes Men*
Cause Stutterer
(Bv The Associated Press')
Chicago. Feb. 13, — The
“yes-yes” man got the
blame for making people
stutter.
Dr. Meyer Solomon of
Northwestern University’s
school of medicine explain
ed it this way to the Na
tional Association of Teach
ers of Speech:
“The desire to keep pace
in a conversation and the
fear of interruption are con
ducive to stuttering for the
person so inclined. It is be
cause you sit there with a
‘yes-yes-go-on' expression
on your face that the stut
terer is stuck. If you try to
have the situation by inter
rupting, you initiate a feel
ing of inferiority and the
stutterer finds it impossible
to speak clearly.”
To clinch this point, Dr.
Solomon pointed out that
stutterers do not stutter
when they whisper, or
when they take part in
group singing or recitation
own deer. The average
ownership is above 82 pe:
person; and during 1934-3
the consumption per yea.
I was over eight deer per pe
son.