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Volume 36. Number 192. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Rogers To Spend Winter Hobnobbing
DEL D1MOND WATCHING ALASKA’S INTEREST
Speaker By ms Says Administration Will Be Re-Elected
Speaker Byrns Says
Prediction Wrong:
Democrats To Win
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. —Clash
ing predictions as to how the parties
will fare at the next election serv
ed to keep the capital conscious of
the approaching campaigns.
Answering Bolton’s prediction,
Speaker Byrns grinned and said:
That’s a damn fool statement. There
is no question that the democrats
will maintain every bit of their
majority in the house. The country
not only will re-elect Roosevelt but
show its approval of the aims and
policy of the administration by reel
ecting every democratic congress
man.
Bank Robbery By
Three Armed Men
Marshall Is Dead
(By The Associated Press}
ROSALIA, Washington, Aug. 15,
—Three robbers heavily armed, held
up the bank here and fatally wound
ed town marshall Bert Lemely, 50,
about closing time Wednesday.
They took Matt Elliott, cashier, in
their car with them as a hostage and
pushed him from the speeding ma
chine about a mile out of town.
Elliott was uninjured. Lemley
was felled with machine gun bull
ets from behind, by a lookout, dis
guised as a woman, as the marshall
fired through the window at two rob
bers in the bank. Merle Lemley,
son of the slain marshall pursued
the robbers and fired several shots
but had to give up the chase when
the robbers shot a hole in the front
tire of young Lemley’s car.
The robbers are believed to be a
Montana gang. They obtained be
tween five and seven thousand doll
ars in cash. The wounded marshall
was carried into a store where he
died within a few minutes after the
shooting.
Pea Strikers Are
Cause Of Martial
Law County Idaho
(By The Associated Press)
BOISE, Aug. 15, — A proclama
tion placing Teton County in East
ern Idaho under martial law was
issued by Governor Ross Wednesday
night, after county officials at Driggs
appealed to him for armed assistan
ce in the handling of approximately
fifteen hundred striking pea field
workers. About two hundred and
fifty guardsmen were sent to the
area.
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ROGERS SAYS HE WILL
RETURN TO ALASKA TO
PUT IN A FULL WINTER
Rogers ami Post Visit Anchorage, Matanus*
ka, and Fly Around Mount McKinley.
Rogers to Leave For Stales Soon Now
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 15, —Rogers denned up with sour
doughs in their cabins on the Yukon and McKenzie Rivers,
this winter, is the prospect Alaskans considered today with
interest here, while Wiley Post and Will Rogers visited in
Anchorage.
Rogers disclosed that he intended to return to the Stat
es soon but would return to Alaska this winter and “get
right in with the old sourdoughs and be denned up with them
in their cabins for the winter—hear their yarns—get the
real lowdown—and be one of them.
Wiley Post was silent on his plans and Rogers was in
definite. Both left for Fairbanks with Aviator Joe Crosson.
Will Rogers said below leaving that he wants to visit
Point Barrow and meet Charles Brower, known as the “King
of the Arctic”.
They flew around Mount McKinley and were delighted
with the scenery. They visited Matanuska and Rogers said
“She’s a might pretty place: with fine crops. I saw no mos
quitos. Post’s plane was being serviced while the pair were
in Anchorage.
Senate Will Vote
On Big Tax Bill
Of The New Deal
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, — The
Senate today crushed the republican
effort to defer all tax legislation un
til next session by a vote of 55 to
i 19‘
The motion to delay was submitted
by Senator Vandenberg of Michigan.
Administration leaders hailed the
action as assuring the senate pass
age of the measure by Friday and
adjournment by next week.
Democratic leaders foresaw a
quick windup of the senate debate
on the tax bill and a final passage
by tomorrow night, and then ad
journment plans will be speeded re
gardless of what administration bills
are still hanging fire.
Didn’t Stick To NRA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, —NRA
observers reported some twelve to
thirteen thousand American employ-'
ers cut wages or increased hours,
or both since the death of the old
Blue Eagle.
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your friends, and let them know
about the re-building of Nome.
Bigger And Better
Army And Navy
For United States
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug 15, — Aim
ing at a bigger and better army and
navy in 1936, the government wilh
spend on the two services a sum
equivalent to about six dollars and
thirty-five cents for each man, wom
an and child in the country.
Revised figures increased the to
tal appropriations for national de
fense by the present congress to
eight hundred and six million doll
ars, more than half of which is to
go to the navy. This year’s appro
priation is two million dollars more
than last year.
Ohioan Predicts
Pickup 100 Seats
In Congres 1 936
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, —Repre
sentative Chester Bolton, of Ohio,
chairman of the G. O. P. congression
al campaign committee, today fore
cast that his party would pick up
at least seventy-five or a hundred •
house seats in the next election. |
"There is an even chance we may
get a majority,” he stated.
Fire Fighters Are
Gaining Over The
Pacific Northwest
(By The Associated Tress)
SPOKANE, Aug. 15, —Fighters
tightened their entrenchments ag
ainst a dozen controlled forest fires
and fought to block the advance of
the two worst flaming menaces—
both of Montana—the Absaroka ran
ge and the Deer Lodge areas.
The fires in Montana remained as
the last major conflagrations to defy
the fire lines of the army of bleary
eyed battlers.
Tri-Motor Plane
Crashed And Four
Men Are Killed
(By The Associated Press)
GILMER, Texas, Aug. 15, —Four
persons were killed when a tri
motored plane crashed and burned,
after a vain attempt to land in a
cotton field.
The dead are Andy Diezon pilot,
Herbert Buckley co-pilot, J, W.
Thompson and P. A. Ivy passengers.
The bodies were all burned.
Silver Purchases
Made Wednesday
Excite Comments
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, — The
purchase Wednesday, alone, of more
than twenty-five million, five hund
rer ounces of silver—last year's es
timated domestic production—was
announced by Secretary Morgenthau
of the Treasury, who made the state
ment at a hastily summoned press
conference.
He used the occassion to say that
silver purchases would continue,
contrary to rumors in world trading
centers, that the program would be
abandoned.
His statement was accepted by
Treasury observers as a formal re
ply to these reports, and they were
accompanied by a heavy selling of
the metal in London, and a week's
slump in the world price below 66
cents an ounce. Silver touched 81
cents last spring, for an ounce.
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A J DIMOND INTIMATES
FLYING BAN IS FIRST
TOWARD AIR DEFENSE
Dimoml Declares School IVacluT
On Island in Alrnlians Wilm\ss<‘d Jap
anese Fishing Boat < !rew Sni*\ in<»
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, — Despite the explanation by
high military officials that the ban against commercial and
private flights over Aleutian Island was a safety measure,
Delegate Anthony J. Dimond intimated that he believed
the action was the first step toward the establishment of
aerial defenses in the Territory.
He discounted the spy scare, although, he said, he had
received numerous reports that Japanese surveying parties
were working in some of the islands on the western end
of the chain. He said he had received affidavits from a
school teacher on one island, testifying that she saw person
ally, Japanese men off a small fishing vessel, making sur
veys.
Dimond also said that he has statements from members
of the Coast Geodetic Survey parties, that survey stakes,
bearing Japanese characters had been picked up on the
same island.
He pointed out that there had been considerable dis
cussion as to the use of the Aletuian Islands for army and
navy purposes in the event that the Washington Naval
Treaty is not renewed. He stated that he personally, knew
many members of Congress who favored fortifications on the
Islands if the treaty expires. Dimond also suggested that
the renewed interest of the army and navy in the Territory
of Alaska by the visit of the bombing planes over the diff
erent areas, fleet maneuvers, and aerial mapping indicated
that the defenses of the Territory were being considered by
government officials.
Britain Predicts
World War Italy
Defeats Ethiopia
UNDATED, Aug. 15, —Premier
Laval in Paris still clings with faint
hope that the tri-partite conferen
ce will stave off war.
Meanwhile Viscount Snowden of
England said that Mussolini would
take the conquest of Ethiopia pre
paratory to absorbing Austria, thus
resulting in a world war.
Italy continued to ignore the tri
partite conference.
In Addis Ababa firms suspended
business with fear that war would
lead to the confiscation of their
goods.
Britain Is Killed
(Bv The Associated Press)
GIESSEN, Germany, Aug. 15. —
Sir Basil Phillott Blackett, British
authority on gold and economic pro
blems was fatally injured in an auto
and train crash near here last night.
Introduces Bill For
Skagway Bond It
self Improvements
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, — A bill
introduced by Delegate Diniond
would authorize Skagway to under
take certain municipal public works,
and to issue bonds to finance such
work, up to $12,000.
The work will include sidewalk
improvements, reconstruction of the
city hall, and regarding reconstruc
tion and construction of streets and
crossings.
Praise for Matanuska came in a
wire from Representative Dietrich,
who is now in Alaska on an inspec
tion tour, to Delegate Dimond. He
said he had interviewed many col
onists and had found them satisfied
and contented.
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