MONDAY
• . From Nuy;get Dully Bulletin.)
VOTES FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING.
JUNEAU, Alaska. May 22.' (AP>
--The council voted to start (Jay
light saving here last %eek. This
is the first action ever taken here
to change the time.
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MORTGAGE* BILL
FAVORABLY REPORTED
- Washington, May 20th, (A.P) —
In a revised form, the Administra
tion’s* two billion dollar Home
Mortgage Relief Bill was favorably
reported ‘to -the 3enate Banking
Committee by a sub-committee.
The bill will Le considered Mon
day.
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MILL OWNERS INCREASE
EMPLOYEES WAGES
Lawrence, Mass., M"y 20. (API
—Five textile mill owners an
mounced an increase in wages for
20,000 ..employees, effective Mon
day. ,
Cantonese Repudiate Action
CANTON, May 22. (AP)— The
local government charged Frida 'r
ih tt the National governmer : at
Nsi king was ccn ddering a co n
promise settlement with Japan
which would involve the perman
ent loss to China of Manchuria
and Jehol. The Nanking officials,
the Cantonese administration de
clared, were making a formal
statement to grant virtual recogni
tion to the State of Manchukuo.
Canton leaders addressed a state
ment to the League of Nations,
aiid to the signatories to' the nine
powers treaty, including the Unit
ed States, and to- Soviet Russia,
protesting the reputed action of
the Northern government.
noted diplomat dead
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Grand Rapids._May, 22, (AP) —
Death wrote finis on the diploma-1
lie career of Thomas J. O’Brien,
aged 90. after a long illness.
BIG FINANCIERS
ARE SUBPOENAED
New York, May 22nd, (AP)—-j
Partners in Kuhn, Loeb and Com
pany and the Dillon Read Com
pany, were subpoenaed to appear
before the investigation commit-j
tee of the Untied States Senate,
which is a sub-committee of the
Ranking Committee, immediately
following the testimony of J. P.
Morgan and his ten partners.
Counsel for the sub^comniitte *
also announced that Albert Wig
gins, former chairman of the
Chase National Bank, was served
with subpoena before sailing for
Berlin.
VESSEL TOTAL LOSS • *j
JUNEAU. May 22. (AP) The
small trading vessel, Kingston,
struck a reef in Whltestotie Nar
rows. Friday night and in a total
lvss. he boat foundered at high'
(idc and is a total loss, as she
broke- In two.
Three of the six men aboard
were taken to Sitka *bn the North
land. The other three are stand
ing by on a tug. The Kingston is
an oil [burning boat owned by H.
E. Arvon, of Juneau.
Preparing 1,umber Bill
Washington, May 22nd. (AP)—■
The National Association of Lum
ber Manufacturers informed Pres.
Roosevelt Friday that the forests
products industry were preparing
a competitive code agreement -for
his approval under the pending in
dustrial control bill. A meeting
will be held here Saturday, prs
paratory .to a larger meeting to
be held In Chicago later.
The lumbermen hope to have
the code worked out by the end
of June at least.
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MARTIAL LAW IN TIENTSIN
TIENTSIN, May 22, (AP)—'Mar
tial law was decared throughtout
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.the city as a panic broke out as
the result of the arrest of two
armed Chinese, allegedly agents of
the Manchukuo government, sus
pected as leaders of a plot to cap
ture the city iby causing a revolt,
’ *> Members of a patriotic society
pulled a rickshaw through the
streets containing the body of a
slain Chinese, vyhom they claim
ed a Man-chukuo agent killed. The
society has started to exterminate
traitors.
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BROTHER THWARTS *
KIDNAPPING „
DENVER, May 22, (APl-^The
piercing screams of a brother thw
[arted the kidnapping of eight
year old Betty Lee Odell by a
woman described by the children
as nearly nude and a man entire
ly unclad.
The officers said that they be
lieved the -woman mentally un
balanced or a leader of the nudist
cult, after they found barefoot
tracks in the yard. The girl had
a bruised neck, but was" otherwise
unharmed. The couple fled after
the screams, Reaving the girl out
side the house on the ground.
AIRPRANF NEWS
Pilots Vic Ross and Hans Miroxv,
flying Two NAT planes with six
passengers, mail and express, are
enroute to Nome today and should
arrive about five P.M. Passengers
expected to arrive are A. Pole!,
Mort Powell, Mary and Kileen
Walsh, Margaret Ullrich and Mrs.
Si.lith.
Pilot Chester Brown of the NAT,
made two‘round trips to the Kou
gnrok today, with passengers and
freight. He is expected to make
another trip this evening, landing
freight at Taylor for J. Jl. White.
Pilot Monson of the PAA, arriv
ed late Saturday evening from
Ruby, with mail and four passen
gers, after having been delayed
there several days by bad flying
weather.
TUESDAY
(From Nugget Daily Bulletin.)
FIRST SKK8JON OF
CONGRESS NFARING FND
Washington. May 23rd. (AP) —
Congress is off on a driving finish
for the extraordinary first session
of the Roosevelt administration,
a
with a vital decision on what new
taxation to levy, and is heading
task set for today. This question
will foe for the House Ways and
Means Committee to settle, \vhich
is expected by nightfall. The pub
lic works bill is the biggest task
now before Congress, which is
also due for hearings before the
Senate Finance Committee, so that
the Senate will be ready by the
time the House passes the meas
ure. Passage of the legislation is
expected by midweek.
BRITISH AIK LINE TRIES
SPECIAL CRUISE PLAN
GAIKO, (AP)' —Ocean liners
which vary scheduled sailings with
special cruises have their counter
part in the air.
A *18 passenger Imperial Air
ways plane will he seen in a cruis
ihg role when it leaves Egypt for
England via Bengasi, Malta. Rome,
Lyons and Paris.
airplane news
Pilot Hans Mirow of »he NAT,1
took off for Pt. Hope today with
a load of freight for the MGM
movie people. He stopped enroute
‘at Kotiebue with Mrs. Doctor
Smith as a passenger. Mirow is
expected^t$ return to Nome late
tonight and will take off tomorrow
for Teller "and Wales, weather per
mitting. Nortfiern mall was taken
by the plane.
Pilot Vic Ross of the NAT, took
off this afternoon for Fairbanks via
Ruby. Manager Bill Oliver of the
NAT accompanied Robs to Fair
banks. The new six place plane
for the NAT has arrived from Val
dez and will be pressed into ser
vice to handle the increased busi
ness of the company at that base.
PUot Vic Ross is expected to re
turn to Nome, Thursday, wit^ a
capacity load of passengers and
express. The plane also carried
first class mail outbound..
PACK AIMING PEACH
FOR TEN YEARS ACCEPTED
UNDATED, May :>3rd, (AP' —
Premier Musso.i-uV four power
pact aiming to guarantee the
peace of Europe fur at least ten
years has been informally accept
ed by France, England and Ger
many and Italy.
Two of the provisions which
raised protests and were modified
instead of endorsing the revision
of post war treaties The pact
merey states that this is a possi
bility through the League of Na
tions as always has been, instead
of providing a pledge of gradual
arms equality with Germany, Aus
tria, Hungary and Bulgaria, and
mentions the disarmament ques
tion only generally, leaving Mac
Donald's disarmament plan to take
care of this matter.
The revised pact makes it clear
that the four chief nations in un
dertaking these measures' are to
prevent armed clashes, but are not
to impose their decisions on small
er nations. Officials at Washing
ton welcomed the new pact. The
formal signing is expected within
a few days.
ALASKA , MUSHER K\ROUTE
CHICAGO FAIR, VIA l>OG
TEAM, ARRIVES SI'OKANE
SPOKANE, May 23rd. JAP)—|
Clyde (Slim) Williams, mushed ini
here Sunday. 2700-miles out from
Copper Center, Alaska, enroute via ^
dog team to the Chicago World’s j
Fair. Driver and dogs were in!
good condition..
MUST RAISE NEW HAIL
OR GO TO JAIL
MLNEOL.A, N. Y.. May 23. (API
Joseph Harriman, banker. whose
quest for death proved in vain,
may have to raise new ball or go,
to jail to await trial on chatges
for falsifying the banks books.
Two agents of the bonding com
pany stood over him in his hospi
tal room where hq is now recover
ing from staib wounds inflicted on
himself after vanishing from the
Manhattan Nursing Home.
Agents said they would se’.ze
him as sooii as he was well and
take him before the. judge and
demand that his $25,000 hail lie
invalidated.
Oil, ANI> SII.VK1S DIHCrSKKII -
BY LAWMAKKUS
WASHINGTON. May 2:1. (AP)
- Federal regulation of oil prod tic
Gen. rehabilitation -6T silver ind
:he probable date of the adjourn-1
meni of Congress were uppermost
in the minds of executive and
lfK 5-lative officials iu the natioru'
cat ’tal.
President ftoos. vetf is pr par
ing to tell Cong, ess the need for
'mmediate legislutioi for the aii
production industry. His plan
would give the. Secrtary of tha
Interior regulatory powers.
A bill on the subject will be in
troduced in Congress thus antici
pating in a way the President’s
message.
A program for the rehabilitation
of silver has been formulated by
Senator Key Pitman, Democrat qt
Nevada.
He has discussed the subject with
all the foreign representatives, who
have held W'hite House conversa
tions with the President over econ
omlc problems. The Senator de
clares all these. representatives
have concurred in his plan.
Adjournment of the House can
take place May 27 and of the Sen
ate, June 10 .Democratic leaders
assured the President.
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All copy tor ebaagfag strertlo
meats In Weekly Naggst moat be la
the prtetere heads not later Uuta
THURSDAY, 8 P. M., to terare fa
WEDNESDAY
(From Nugget Dally Bulletin )
ASSESSMENT WORK
SUSPENDED BY PRESIDENT
Washington, May 24th, (AP) —
President Roosevelt, signed the bill
* providing for the suspension of
^annual assessment work on min
itig claims.
PLAN TO ATTACK PEIPING*,
UNDATED, May 24th, (API
Military activities are apparently
centralizing on Peiping, at one
time a forbidden city of China.
Battle plans were hurried there as
foreign military observers predict
ed that the city would become the
newest scene of conflict, although
this, is denied try the Japanese.
An armistice is reported near as
the Chinese have offered peace
terms which the Japanese can
meet half way. Six hundred Jap
anese soldiers were ordered to re
inforce the Japanese legation
guard at Peiping. Bombing in
the Japanese section of Tientsin
caused the extra guards to be
placid on duty.
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Wants 1)101-0 Ships Built.
Washington, May 24 th, (AP)
Secretary Swanson, Tuesday nigh',
sought the support" of the nation
for a thirty-two ship naval con
struction program, declaring, that
the navy was drifting info a' state
of obsolescence, and unless it is
made first class, it is a useless
expense.
ANCHORAGE MEN BUY
DRAGLINE SCRAPERS
ANCHORAGE. May 19, (AP) —
Three large dragline scrapers have
been, ordered from Seattle by An
chorage interests for use on gold
placer properties on Slate* Happy
and Cripple Creeks.
SPEAKEASIES ARE
DRIVEN TO WALL
SAN—ERA XCISCO, May 24. (AP)
’—‘At least fifty thousand speak
easies were driven out of busi
ness by the new beer, was the
opinion of Major A. V. Dalrymt
ple, National Prohibition Director,
and many thousands more will be
closed when better beer is manu
factured, he said.
NEW YORK FOR REPEAL
ALBANY, N. Y.. May 24. (AP)—-j
New York went twelve to one for
the repeal of the eighteenth :
amendment. ' The convention is to
be held on June 27th, but will be
a mere formality, adding the state :
to five others which are already
committed for repeal of tlie eigh
teenth amendment.
DENIES doixumj income tax
Washington. May 23rd. ' AP)
In the trial of two great hankers,
J. P, Morgan was called to testify
on the roll his house played on
American life at Washington,
while Charles Mitchell is expected
to take the stand soon at New
York to deny the government's
charge that he dodged income
taxes totalling almost a million.
TOM MOONEY ACQUITTED
SAN FRANSISCO, May 24,(AP)
-Tom Mooney’s trial ended ab
ruptly when the jury carrying out
Judge Edward's instructions brou
ght in a verdict of actjtuittal, after
Mooney took part in his own de
fense.
CALIjH ARE MARE ON
DEMOCRATIC WORKERS
Washington, Ma.v 24th, (AP)-—
A full fledged drive by the Ad
Btlhtstratlon is under way to speed
prohibition repeal. The prospect
of eliminating new taxes for pub
lic works financing, through the
revenue from liquor sales, with
the New York vote, combined to
spur the Roosevelt forces to ac
tion.
Farley, who is spreading a re
|peal campaign, announced that ho
twill ask each democrat worker in
the last election to turn out for
repeal. The announcement is re
garded as improving the chances
of the 3 6 states necessary to be
in line before March 16th, next.
ANOTHER KANSAS TORN'AIX>
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Garden OUy, Kansas, May £-'th,
J* —Tornadoes ..wh rled through
e darkeuc'. skied which ••/used
at least fifteen deaths in widely
separated parts. Tnere was conr
•sideraible property damage in the
mid-western wheat country.
Mrs. A. Ilahlko Passes Away
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Mrs. A. Bahlke passed away at
her home on second avenue about
4 am today, after a sudden at
itack of heart troutble. Alvin the
jhou of Mr/ and Mrs.. Bahlke who
has been attending College at
Fairbanks, is expected to arrive
here via plane Thursday. *■ Tho
Nugget speaking for the commun
ity extends heartfelt sympathy to
|the bereaved family in this, their
| hour of grief.
AIRPLANE NEWS
| Pilot Vic Itoss of the NAT, is
. expected to arrive Nome from Fair
i banks, Thursday. ,
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jv.ho is enroute to Point Hope, is
j held down at Kotzebue on account
I of fog
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j Pilot Chester Brown. NAT, re
j moved the No. 3 plane from the
j beach near Ft. I>avis to the sum -
JniPr landing field where wheels
I " ill replace skiis for summer fly
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HV THE WAV ‘
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| A man's dcibts are sometimes
the measure of his courage.
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Live a girl an inch and she will
make a dress of it.
The assets of youth are enthus
iasm and energy. With maturity
these must be exchanged for ex
perience and reputation.
What seems to be most needed
in the modern home, is the family'.
We hear that the chef at one of
our leading hotels has lost his
job. The reason appears to be
that he cooked the beans up side
down a lid ga ve everybody hie
coughst.
A salesman was doing his best
to induce the good lady of the
house to purchase a vacuum clean
er.
“And does it really pick up
dirt?-’ she inquired.
“Yes. madam," he replied. “On
ly yesterday 1 ran it over one of
those French novels and when I’d
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finished it looked like “The War
Cry.’’
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Footprints on the sands of time
are not made by sitting down.
1-ady—So you are on a sub
marine. What do you do?
Sailor—Oh, I run forward, and
hold her nose down when we want
to take a dive.
Doorbell Ringer—I’m a young
man who is taking subscriptions
for Harpo’s Bazoo so as to make
enough to go to college.
Man at Door—You’ve struck
the right place. This is a college.
Come right in.
Ail Irishman was carefully whet
ting his knife, with an earnest
I look on his face. ‘/What's the
! matter. Flannigan? Are you go
ing to commit suicide?” a friend
Inquired, *
“Yis,” responded Flannigan,
"ibut not on raeself."
'Circus man (searching for ele
phant that has escaped) •—Say,
Uncle, have you seen anything of
an elephant around herr?
Uncle Ezra -—N"o, sah; Ah ain't
seed no elphalent Ibut Ah did see
a great big gray bull eatin’ mah
corn wiv his tail.’*
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