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r VOLUME 36. NO. 18.NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1935. _'Per Copy Ten Cents
Asks Abolition Alaska Liquor Board
ADMINISTRATION FACES ITS FIRST CHALLENGE
Pacific Coast Is Threatened With Dangerous Thaw
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PACIFIC COAST IS
DELUCED WITH ALL
KINDS BAD WEATHER
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 — While landsmen watched
thermometers fearfully at a threat of a thaw that would re
lease snow and ice in flood waters, off coast shipping took
the brunt of a newly developing storm in the Pacific.
SIXTY-TWO MILES HOUR GALE
Sixty-two miles and hour gales whipped up points off
the mainland. The President Jackson is due in Seattle to
day with the crew of the Maru.
SAFETY FELT FOR MANY VESSELS
At Astoria anxiety is felt for the safety of the pilot
schooner Columbia which has not been reported since she
passed beyond the Columbia bar. Ten vessels are weather
bound at the bar by the sixty-two mile an hour gale which
shattered windows in Astoria.
Ferry service to the Washington side of the river has
been suspended indefinitely.
RAIN ONE SIDE CASCADES—OTHER SIDE FREEZING
Bellingham reported five and one-half inches of rain
in the past twenty-four hours, eclipsing a seventy-five year
record. Despite the thaw, freezing weather was reported
in the Western Cascades, with two deaths from cold already.
Winter continued in the mid-west with cold weather
spreading East and South, leaving behind about fifty dead.
Floods have already begun visiting Dixie. _
GOVERNOR TROY GIVES
HIS OPINION OUTLOOK
FOR ALASKA NEXT YEAR
Alaska’s outlook with respect to
industry and commerce is reassur
ing and the continued development
of her resources is {promising, Gov.
John W. Troy sets forth in his an
nual report on conditions and af
fairs in the Territory. Copies of the
report have just been received in
Nome. He stresses the desirability
of a wider measure of self govern
ment and the establishment of a full
Territorial government.
Federal Government's Duties.
Inasmuch as the federal govern
ment retains control, through “con
servation policies of timberlands,'
water power, oil lands, coal lands
and other resources, the duty de
volves upon the Central Govern^
ment,” the Governor reminds it, to
"aid in the development of the coun
try and to furnish “the money to do
things that the Territory wpuld
have been able to do for herself if
people had been able to acquire re
sources as the pioneers of other
frontiers were able to do. •
The Governor declares that the
reindeer problem “demands the ex
tinguishment” of white_ownership
of reindeer.
’ Partial Text of Report
In submitting the report to the
Secretary of the Interior, the Gover
nor says:
"At this writing the industrial,
commercial, and development out
look for Alaska is reassuring. The
indications are that fishing and gold
mining, Alaska’s two principal in
dustries, are on a sound basis and
the prospects for the future are
bright. .
“Not since boom placer-gold days
did Alaska begin a season with as
rosy an outlook as that begun this
last spring. Generous Public Works
grants in 1033 and splendid aid in
providing work for umenplyoed and
caring for' the indigent throughout
the winter had enabled the working
people to face the beginning of the
season’s activities practically with
out debt, in good health, and a spirit
of confidence in their Government
and themselves,and a fine optimism.
A strike among longshoremen and
shipping employees, which interrup
ted commerce with the States' for
fiiany weeks in the-early season that
ought to have been devoted to pre
paring for mining, fishing, and other
I
City Council Favor
Getting Funds For,
New Nome School
Nome City Council met in special
session last evening in the apart
ments of the Mayor, Rex F.. Swartz,
in answer to a call to consider the
passage of a memorial pertaining to
the securing of a territorial appro
priation of $25,000 to be used toward
the construction of a public school
building at Nome.
The meeting convened with a^l
councilmen in their chairs with thb
exception of Councilman Polet.
Councilman Seidenverg introduce^
the memorial and upon motion lift
i rules Were suspended and the men*
orial was considered as read tne
first and second time and passed to
the third reading. Another motion
for its passage carried and the mem
orial was entered in the records, the
text of which herewith appears:
To the Honorable James Frawley
and John F. Devine, Senators’ and
Tolbert Scott, Garnet W. Martin,
Howard Lyng and Arthur M.
Chamberlain, Representatives from
the Second Division to the Terri
torial Legislature.
Your Memorialist, the Common
Council of the City of Nome, Alaska,
respectfully represents that:
Whereas the Public School build
ing of the City of Nome was erected
in 1902, and due to its continuous
use and the lapse of time it is in
such a condition that it has been
condemned by all of the Commis
sioners of Education and by the
Grand Jury year after year, and it
is an actual menace to the health
and safety of the pupils and teach
ers, and has been inadequate prac
tically since its erection and es
pecially so of recent years when the
enrollment has increased 100% since
1931, and since the disasterous fire
of September 17, 1934, destroyed all
fraternal and public halls within
the City which were available to
and used by the school for athletic,
social and dramatic events, and it is
consequently recognized and undis-j
puted that the City needs and must
have a new Public School building.
And whereas the size and kind of
new building needed is as designat
ed as “Plan No. 1” on file in the of
fice of the Commissioner of Educa
tion, Juneau,and to which plan re
ference is hereby made, and will
cost $100,000 to construct.
And Whereas in 1932 the Federal
Government allotted as a grant to
the City the sum of $50,000 for the
purpose of building a new Public
School building, and the Common
Council is advised that the Commis
sioner of Education has received suf
ficient favorable response to his ef
forts for an additional Federal grant
to indicate that another $25,000 al
DORBANDT HAS
ACCIDENT MEN
ARE STRANDED
(By The Associated Press)
HAMILTON, B. C., Jan. .21, —
Pilot Frank Dorbandt arrived here
late Sunday by automobile to organ
ize a dogsled expedition to rescue
his party.
Dorbandt and his party of three
took off from Atlin Saturday but
were forced down in a blizzard at
Kitwancool Lake, twenty-five miles
west of here. After spending the
night in an abandoned cabin where
the party had to cut wood all night
tot. keep from freezing, Dorbandt
took off for Beirnes Ranch to get a
supply of gasoline and return to the
Lake to bring his party here.
He obtained the gas but in the
take-off a ski stuck in a pocket and
caused the axle to break, turning the
plane over on its nose, bending the
propeller. Dorbandt, uninjured came
here for help.
In the party are Grant Reed, en
route from Anchorage to San Diego
to visit his sick wife; Herbert Reed
and Gus Gelles. Beirnes Ranch is
twenty-three miles north of here.
Lyman S. Brewster
On Property Deeds
Lyman S. Brewster of the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration,
Nome Committee, in an interview,
states his position in regard to the
assignment of deeds to property
owners in the re-adjustment area,
following the fire in Nome in Sep
tember, and the subsequent re-ad
justment of lots and blocks through
out the burned area.
James Frawley, who was appoint
ed by Chairman Jackson of the’
Nome Committee, was detailed to
secure the necessary deeds from pro
perty owners in the burned area
where adjustments of streets, lots
and blocks were being undertaken
in the program to lay out wider
streets and straighten various lots
and blocks for a new plat of that sec
tion of Nome affected by the fire.
Since Mr. Frawley’s departure last
fall, Mr. Brewster has had the work
in hand. The property owners have
cooperated to the fullest extent in
signing over their deeds of property
to the townsite trustee, J. S. Stang
room. According to Mr. Brewster,
numerous requests have been made
by property owners for deeds to be
re-issued assigning them their new
lots throughout the city.
Mr. Brewster states: “According
to the law, a city election must be
held and the duly qualified voters of
the City of Nome approve the ac
tion of the Nome City Council in
assigning portions of streets and
alleys to be incorporated into lots
TO ASK CONGRESS
NOT TO SUSPEND
ASSESSMENT WORK
(By The Associated Press) ^
JUNEAU, Jan. 22 — The House yesterday passed the
memorial requesting Congress not to suspend further an
nual assessment work on unpatented mining claims. It
will be passed today by the senate and then the delegate will
be informed of the sentiment of the legislature.
WANTS SINGLE HOUSE LEGISLATURE 24 MEMBERS
The Green memorial proposes a change in the govern
ment, namely: a single house legislature composed of twenty
four members elected every four years.
BILL ASKS $30.00 FOR MEN, $40.00 FOR WOMEN
Growden’s bill calls for fixing the old age allowance at
'thirty dollars for men and forty for women. In the Senate,
Roden and Powers introduced bills changing minor charges
in certain criminal laws.
WANTS TERRITORY BE SOLE VENDER LIQUOR
A petition was read from the Ketchikan Citizenship
League asking for the abolition of the Territorial Liquor
Board and making the Territory the sole vender of intox
icating beverages.
President Hess appointed Powers, Brunelle and Fraw
j ley to serve with a committee of eight from the House, who
1 were named last week in connection with drawing up a pro
j posed liquor legislation program.
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OBJECTION IS MADE
TO ADMINISTRATION
ON RELIEF MEASURE
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 — The Administration’s con
trol over Congress faced its first major challenge, after the
plan to rush the four billion dollars works and relief mea
sure through the House under the gag rule, struck expected
obstacles.
The measure is already one day behind fast schedule
because insurgent democrats on the House rules committee
declined to agree to its passage under the iron rules limit
ing debate and amendments.
There are indications of compromise that might result,
after a secret conference. Republicans under Snell pro
duced a plan to scrap the administration measure which
would give the president four billion dollars in a lump sum
with the discretion as to how it was to be spent. The chief
feature of the substitute plan aims at keeping the govern
ment out of competition with private business, and advocat
ed that each state be given its pro-rated share to be spent
through private contractors in a drive to transfer three and
one-half million unemployed from the federal dole to jobs.
owned by private individuals.
“When that action is taken and the
approval granted then it will be
possible for deeds to be issued on
property which has been added to
and others where lines have been
aJUU^ed.
^Another election is necessary by
tiie voters on the proposed bonding
of the City of Nome for the applica
tion from the PWA of a loan and
grant of $100,000. Both of these el
ections are directly connected thru
the re-adjustments laid out in the
burned area. Until such time as that
approval is granted by the duly
qualified voters, the matter must
stand in abeyance.”