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VOL. 37. No. 283. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOV. 30, 1936. Per Copy 15ct*
Ohlson and Ummel Arrive at Seattle
OHLSON IS REMINDED
EFFORTS TO GET
HIM OUSTED
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Nov. 30, — J. J. Lichtenwalder assist
ant to Ummel and A. D. Lawrence met the plane which
brought Colonel Ohlson and Ummel here last night.
Reminded of Alaskan protests against the order
suspending Alaska railroad operations, and also terri
torial demands for his removal, Colonel Ohlson pointed
out that the Alaska Railroad was still running trains
each week.
He added “Everybody is crying of course that the
food shortage is not acute now, but it would be later.
By the time they get food up there they will need it,
especially in the interior, where they have stocked up
for only two or three months.”
Lawrence, who conferred with the Alaska mail
service, declared that it might send the Bureau of Fish
eries vessel Eider to southeastern Alaska Thursday, to
augment the mail service now in force. The volume
of mail for Alaska has shown a sharp increase, many
of the shippers now using parcel post to get in needed
supplies.
Mass Meeting to
Explain Strike
Called Tonight
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Nov. 30, — Harry
Bridges, Pacific Coast President
of the International Longshore,
men’s Association, Harry Lund
berg secretary of the Sailors’
Union, and Mayor John F. Dore
will address a mass meeting to.
night sponsored by the North
west Strike Committee, to ex.
plain the strike to the public.
Colonel Ohlson who arrived
here last night said that the Offi
ce of Indian Affairs ship Boxer
would sail probably Friday to
relieve the food shortage in Al.
a ska.
Overdue Plane
Arrives Nanaimo
Delayed Weath.
(By The Associated Press)
NANAIMO, B. C., Nov. 29, —
Four passengers who took off
from Juneau last Tuesday on a
flight to Seattle with pilot Al_
ex Holden and mechanic Lloyd
Jarman, arrived here Saturday
night and continued south aboard
the steamer Princess Elaine.
Hampered by dense fogs, Hol_
den set the plane down five tim
es before reaching Nanaimo.
Holden planned to fly on to
Seattle when weather permits.
The passengers were Lieut. I.
E. Baker of the Cutter Morris,
J. F. Blanchard of Seattle, Sam
Parker, Alaska dredge contract,
or, and Brkiton Sprague of Nome.
FOB SALE—Modern healing
stoves—barn either hard or soft
eoal—slightly need, inquire at the
Nugget Office for information.
Air Force Of
Soviet Russia is
Prepared Fight
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Nov. 30, — Vyache.
slaff Molotoff, president of the
Council of Commissars, professed
Russia’s love for the German peo
pie but hate for their leaders,
after an announcement that sev.
en thousand airplanes and a hun
dred thousand pilots would soon
be ready to defend the Soviet
union.
His speech was made before
the All.Union Congress of the
Soviets. An early meeting of
the congress heard a t^irt warn,
ing given to the Baltic nations
to mind their own business and
keep away from fascism, given
by Corps Commander Khahipin,
assistant commander of the Red
Army Air Forces.
Meanwhile in Tokyo, the Jap.
anese war office made known its
desire to build quickly, an army
equal to Russia’s, which it was
said, was necessary “to prevent
war and hold Japan’s lifeline on
the Asiatic continent.’’
U.S. FOOTBALL
SCORES
(By The Associated Press)
Georgia Tech 6 Ge&rgia 16
Texas Christ. 0 Methodist 0
Nebraska 32 Oregon State 14
Baylor 10 Rice 7
Tulane 0 Louisiana State 33
Florida 0 Auburn 13
Brigham Young 0 Colorado 0
The tuberculosis death rate of
girls and young women between
the ages of 15 and 25 is one and
one-half times that of boys and
young men of the same ages.
To Highest Command
, - !■■■ — . — i
Admiral^William D. Leahy (above),
commander of the battle force of
the United States fleet, was ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to
be chief of naval operations, the
topmost post in the navy’s high
command* He will succeed Admiral
William H. Standley, who is retir
ing, January 1, (Associated Press
Photo)
Further Setback
Inflicted Efforts
To Peace
(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, —
Federal mediators persisted in
efforts to bring peace to the mari
time strike despite another set
back which left the strike un
broken except for the released
Alaska food ships.
Assistant Secretary of Labor
McGrady called for further con
ferences hoping to bring seventy
coastwise freight operators back
to the discussion which ended
abruptly Saturday, when they de
manded that deck officers return
*
to the ships under pre.strike con
ditions.
The steamer Arctic, chartered
by the government from the A1
aska Packers Association leaves
Oakland tomorrow for Seattle
where it will load supplies un
der the direction of Col. Ohlson.
The U. S. Coast Guard announ
ced that the new 2,216 "ton cut
ter William J. Duane, would
probably sail from San Fran
cisco Thursday carrying emer
gency supplies for Hawaii.
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(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS Nov. 29,—Pilot
Hans Mirow of the Mirow Air
Service arrived here Saturday
from Nome bringing Mrs. Leo
Seddenverg, enroute to Seattle
for medical treatment aocom_
panied by her husband, Nome
business man, who will fly to
Juneau to take a steamer for
Vancouver B. C.
Thorulf Lehmann, Nome busi
ness man, and wife, came on the
same plane, and are enroute to
the outside. This is Mrs. Leh_
mann’s first tri]3 outside in 29
years.
Pres. Roosevelt
Arrived Today
Buenos Aires
(By The Associated Press >
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 30, —
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
was acclaimed by more than one
hundred thousand persons early
this afternoon when he arrived
at the Argentine capital aboard
the U. S. S. Cruiser Indianapolis.
Hundreds of vessels in the har
bor had their whistles shrieking
as the U. S. Navy vessel pulled
into port.
The President’s son James was
the first ashore to be met by Ar
gentine President Agustin Justo
and others in the reception group.
Alaska, Power
To Legislate,
Is Described
BY HOWARD LYNG
I
I (EDITOR'S NOTE—The follow
ing descriptive article of the Ter
ritory of Alaska, its industries,
and the powers of its legislative
body, are told in a very interest
ing style by Howard Lyng, mem.
ber of the House of Representa
tives of the 1935 Alaska Legis.
lature.)
The Territory of Alaska was
purchased from Russia in 1867,
and the treaty by which it was
transferred <to the United States
was signed on March 30th of that
year. Very little attention was
paid to Alaska from the time of
its purchase until certain epoch
al events that stirred the world
occurred in the late 1890’s.
The occupation of Alaska by
the United States during! this
perod was largely military and
commercial and at the time offer
ed no inducement for coloniza.
tion or settlement. Our great
Territory as we know it today, ^
was firmly fixed in the minds of
the people of the States as “Sew
ard’s Icebofc”—a vast country of
perpetual snow and ice, with
none of the comforts of civili
zation.
The Magic Word Gold
The discovery of gold that set
the imagination of the world j
afire in 1897 saw thousands of
people rushing into the Terri,
tory with the influx of the pro.
spector and miner, and the result
ant spreading out searching for1
new fields, one strike followed I
the other, until the paternal gov.
ernment was forced from the
lethargy of its somnolent atti
tude and on June 6th, 1900 by
Act of Congress, Alaska was
made a civil and judicial dist.
rict.
Main Producing Area
The continued advancement of
Alaska as the principal gold pro.
ducing area of the United Stat
es, the resulting building up of
population, the incorporating of
WAR’S TRAGEDY HITS BABES
This poignant picture of 6ne of war's tragedie* was tak .'i on a railroad
right-of-way near Cordova, Spam. It shows a young Spanish mother,
tarrying her smallest child, takmg a 'Inal look at her deserted home
municipalities and numerous
towns and cities, and the know,
ledge obtained of permanency
of population and industry, es_
pecially fish, caused the Cong
ress of the United States to pass
the Act of Aug. 24th, 1912 creat
ing the Territory of Alaska and
conferring the full right of Ter.
ritorial government.
This act of Congress, known
as the Organic Act, is the gen.
eric act or general law under
which the Territory functions as
a separate entity, and under
which the Territory is given the
power to enact its own laws.
Under this act, the Constitu
tion of the United States, and
all the laws thereof, have t e
same force and effect within
the Territory as elsewhere in
the United States. Under this act
all the laws passed in the Un_
ited States prior to August 24,
1912, establishing the executive
and judicial departments in Al.
aska, were to continue in full
force and effect until amended
or replaced by act of congress,
or in some instances by the leg
islature of the Territory esta.
blished by this act.
U. S. Laws in Effect
The U. S. Customs, Postal and
General laws of the United Stat
es are vested under the Consti.
tution, solely in congress, and
cannot be delegated to any state
or territory.
Territorial Legislature
Under the Organic Act the leg
islative power and authority of
Alaska is vested in a territorial
legislature consisting of a senate
and a house of representatives.
The senate consists of eight mem
bers, two from each of the four
judicial divisions into which Al_
aska is divided, each of whom
May Ask Extend
Special Labor Act
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28,
—Officials here are considering
asking Congress to expand the
scope of the Walsh-Healey Act
to obtain widespread observance
of labor standards similar to the
NRA, under which certain firms
doing business wdth the govern,
ment must pay prevailing scales
of wages, observe a forty hour
week, give healthful working
conditions and ban child labor.
Th se conditions, under the act
apply to contracts over ten thou.
?:nd dollars, lowing 07 percent
o,' the contracts outside of the
law. The officials want the law
to apply to all contracts.
DENTAL NOTICE
This is to notify the public
that Dr. Hughes, Dentist, expects
to make a trip to the states, leav.
ing about Dec. 10 anil returning
about January 10.
DR. H. G. HUGHES
shall have at the time of his el.
ection, the qualifications of an
elector in Alaska, and shall
have been a resident and an in
habitant in the division from
which he is elected for at least
two years prior to the date of
his election. The term of office
for each member of the senate
is four years, excepting in the
first session where the short and
long term was determined by
lot or drawing, so that from that
time on one member of the sen.
ate should be elected every two
years from each division which
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