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VOLUME 36. Number 122 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY MAY 23, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
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Walk Out Of Mine Workers Is Ordered At Juneau
Six Naval Fliers
Killed In Crash
On Mercy Flight
(By The Associated Press)
Aboard Battleship Pennsylvania in
Mid-Pacific, May 23.—Six Naval
fliers on a mercy flight were killed
when their huge paitrol plane crash
ed during fleet maneuvers Tuesday
night.
Commanding officers revealed that
they formed the crew of Seaplane
6 P-7, and apparently went to their
deaths without knowing what hap
pened, after the shattered remains
of their craft had been picked up.
All of those killed had been from
the station at Honolulu. The trag
edy brought fatalities from the un
precedented maneuvers up to eight,
all but one of whom died in airplane
crashes.
The 6 P-7 pulled out of flight for
mation to call a nearby surface craft
to the rescue of one of her sister
planes the 6 P-10 which had been
forced to land in heavy seas. While
circling over the 6 P-10, the huge
bomber crashed, apparently in full
flight.
To Be Walkout At
Juneau Mine For
Wag es And Hours
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU May 23, — According to
an official statement by the directors
of the Alaska Mine Workers Union,
a walkout has been called which
will become effective tonight, from
the Alaska Juneau mine.
Last Friday the Union submitted
demands for a forty-eight hour week,
an increase in wages of a dollar and
fifteen cents a day, closed shop, and
collective bargaining. ,
Superintendent L. H. Metzgar met
with the directors and made the re
ply that none of the conditions
would be met, claiming that the un
ion represented only a minority of
the men employed and that the wag
es they asked would be. the highest
paid of any mine property in the
states,
The present wages at the mine are
laborers both surface and under
ground four dollars and eighty-five
cents a day; others four dollars
and thirty-five cents; miners five
dollars and eighty five cents to six
dollars and eighty cents a day; mech
anies six eighty-five per eight hour
day.
It was estimated that the walkout
would affect eight hundred men
wiho are employed by the Alaska
Juneau Mine.
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SENATE UPHOLDS VETO
PATMAN BONUS BILL AS
NEW BILL IS PREPARED
House Overrides Veto By Large Majority
But Senate Refuses To Pass Legislation
And Bonus Leaders Working Again
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(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, May 23—With the stern Roosevelt veto
of the Patman bill already overridden emphatically by the
House by a vote of 322 to 98, the Senate agreed to take it
up at 10 A.M. today, under the limitation of time for debate.
Flaunting the president’s personal warning that the bill
invited “disasterous consequences,” the House thundered
the necessary two-thirds to override his veto, and thus the
issue was placed squarely up to the senate, where the ad
ministration is counting on a few votes margin to sustain
Roosevelt.
Objection to the president’s statement that the govern
ment debt to the veterans could not be considered in excess
of the cash surrender value of their certificates, was inter
preted in some quarters as an indication that he would ap
prove such a measure as the Harrison compromise, which
the Senate killed. ‘ This plan would permit the veterans
to convert their certificates into government negotiable,
three per cent bonds, immediately or take their current sur
render value in cash.
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SENATE STICKS BY PRESIDENT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 23—The Senate blocked the
enactment of the Patman bill, refusing to pass legislation
over the veh> by a vote of 54 to 40.
The Senate and the House both immediately opened
the way for a new drive, when a bill was introduced in the
house to pay the bonus by public works funds.
Bonus forces are ready to offer a senate bill as a rider
to the pending naval appropriation measure. The president
was having a meeting of the allotment board when the vote
came from the senate, but made no comment. The senate
had listened to widely conflicting claims, ranging from the
assertion that the Patman legislation might “lead to ruin,”
and to another, that it would be “good business” to pay off
the obligation, before voting on the measure.
Bonus Vote Come
Today In Senate
Believe Upheld
(by The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 23, — The
scene of the bonus struggle shifted
swiftly to the senate where that
chamber headed for a final vote pro
bably today.
Most of the bonus chiefs and ad
ministration leaders are saying that
the bonus will be upheld.
If so, this will be the signal for
a new drive to pay the bonus. Sen
ator Clark is so convinced that the
veto will be supported that he is
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ready to offer a substitute immed
iately as a rider to the pending nav
al appropriation bill, offering the
President the alternative of payment i
by new money, borrowing the cash,
or by using the work relief funds.
On
Pacific Coast Big
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, — Pac
ific Coast foreign trade crossed the
hundred million dollar mark this
year, and is running fifteen percent
ahead of last year.
Mail the Nome Daily Nugget to
your friends, and let them know
about the re building of Nome.
The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A, J, DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
May 4, 1935
Grant Jackson of Nome arrived in
Washington Monday Mr Jackson
made the trip from Nome to Skag
way by air, being one of the pass
engers of the first southbound flight
of the newly inaugurated Pacific
Alaska Airways schedule between
Fairbanks and Juneau He plans to
return on the Victoria, leaving Seat
tle June 1st
Herbert J Murchison, Mayor nl
Metlakatla, arrived in Washington
April twenty-ninth accompanied by
Henry V. Benson member of thf
Metlakatla City Council. Mr. Mur
chison and Mr. Benson are repres
enting Metlakatla at the National
Rivers and Harbor congress that i
now in convention. They have ap
peared twice before the Projects
committee in support of the propos
ed breakwater needed by Metlakatla.
The result of their efforts is shown
in the following letter from the Na
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress:
May 3. Itm
City Council
Metlakatla, Alaska,
Gentlemen: I am pleased to ad
vise that the Projects Committee of
the National Rivers and Harbors
congress reported that after due
examination of the Metlakatla har
bor project, and listening to the very
able presentation of the same by
Messrs. Herbert J. Murchison and
Henry V. Benson, it has been en
dorsed as being sound needful and
sufficiently advanced in status, and
should be promptly constructed in
the public interest. Copies of this
endorsement will be forwarded to
the members of congress, the War
Department, the Public Works Ad
ministration and other appropriate
government agencies.
Sincerely yours,
H H BUCKMAN,
Vice Chairman, Projects Committee.
The bill for the relief of C. H.
Hoogendom, compensating him in
the amount of $1500 for the loss of
his gas boat “Comrade” while un
der chanter to the Department of
Agriculture, passed the senate Wed
nesday and is expected to be sign
ed by the president in the near fu
ture.
The Committee on Mines and Min
ing reported unanimously in favor
of the Serugham Bill to provide for
unemployment relief through the
development of mineral resources.
This bill is substantially the same
as the Pape-Dimond bill to assist
the development of privately owned
mineral claims and to provide for
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CONSCRIPTION ORDER
ISSUED BY GERMANY
FOR REGULAR ARMY
All Germans Between Ages Of Twenty
One And Forty-five Must Serve One
Year Of Military Training Germany
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, May 23—The German government issued a
law Tuesday compelling all Germans between the ages of
eighteen and lorty-live- lo serve one year in the Army, ef
fective immediately. Persons over forty-five years of age
are to form the reserves and “during war, every German
man and woman is obliged to serve the Fatherland.” said
the decree.
While the government didn't divulge the exact size
of Germany’s army, under the recent conscription law, it
was reported that it would consist of thirty-six division
strength.
The decree did not state, but Jews are apparently to be
barred from military service, except in special cases. Young
Germans will not actually be called to arms before the age
of twenty-one. The conscription decree was issued shortly
before Adolph Hitler’s speech in the Reichstag, told world
powers that Germany would abide by all but the military
sections of the Versailles Treaty, and would limit arma
ments with anyone even to scrapping submarines.
While declaring that Germany preferred peace, she let
it be known that she would insist on adequate defense mea
sures for herself.
U.S.C.G. Northland
Is At Dutch Harbor
Advices were received today by
Kurt Sprenger, Acting Officer in
Charge of the Nome Station of the
U. S Coast Guard, that the Cutter
Northland was at Dutch Harbor.
The cutter wired for information
on ice conditions in Norton Sound
and opposite Nome. A telegram
was sent back to the vessel notifying
them that according to airplane pil
ots’ observations there was no ice
from St. Michael, Unalakleet, Golo
vin and on up the coast to Nome,
in sight. To the westward of Nome
no ice could be seen around King
Island, and St. Lawrence Island, re
ported that the ice was out of sight
there.
Steel Industry Is
For Open Shop
Says Statement
J
—
NEW YORK, May 23, — Leaders
of the steel industry launched a con
certed attack on closed shop and la
bor union activity, and especially
the Wagner bill, at their annual
meeting at the iron and steel insti^
lute.
"We stand squarely for an open
shop”, declared Eugene G. Grace,
President of the Institute, in the
keynote address. He called the
Wagner bill vicious.
Rioting Sawmill
Brings Deputies
(By The Associated Press)
FOREST GROVE, Oregon May 23
— With sawed-off shotguns in their
hands and riot equipment stacked
:!ose by, special deputies guarded the
Stimson sawmill south of here as an
ever-growing crowd of striking lum
ber workers gathered for the avow
ed purpose of halting all operations.
Four hundred strikers are on the
ground and others are declared to
be coming. Two men were reported
to have been beaten, as pickets
tried to keep employees from enter
ing the mill for work. Beaten were
Deputy Shaiff C. V. McMonacle, and
a Portland newspaper photograph
er. His camera was wrecked. Ernst
Schmidt a mill worker was dragged
from an auto and beaten.
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