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VOLUME ;ir». So. :17. • NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY. JUNK IO, t»:tl 1 .-i Copy: l<» <’<nts.
COASTAL CITIES NOW FIGHTING IN STRIKE
73RD CONGRESS ADJOURNED MONDAY NIGHT
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CONGRESS ADJOURNS
AFTER HISTORIC SESSION
MOOERN LEGISLATION
V’ONGRKSH ADJOl'RNH AKTKR
MURK THAN YKAR SESSION
< iiy The Associa’el liess)
WASHINGTON, June 19, Con
gress Mu ally adjourned Monday
night. A party- of Independents
took control of the closing, hours
of the session 'by furthering s
program of passing excess legisla
tion which consisted of railway
tabor disputes and the adjustment,
act, which (’resident Roosevelt
had previously indicated might go
t
over until the next session.
Congress’ slow progress with
the conferees of the Housing Bill
gave the independents time -t >
force through the Railway Bill.
The end of the session came
quickly after the railway bill had
'passed. The adoption of the eon
i
| I’orence report on the administra
tion's housing bill took place al
most as the last measure.
The House adjourned at 11:45
iiwnt. Western Standard Time, June
(IS and the. Senate took similar
action a short time after.
Offlficiaily the Congress which
concluded work Monday night, be
gan its session five days after the j
'nuuguration of President Roose
velt. It was called into special
session in order to deal with the
banking crisis, and since then has
enacted laws vitally affecting the
economic Jife of the nation.
This congress made a beginn
ing on the extension of social re
forms for wh icli the President
has aslfed action on for the next
STRIKE STILL IN
EFFECT: (HTIES ARE
MAKING EFFORTS
STRIKE STILL IN' BFFKOT
<Dy The Associated Prusj
-■■■—^BATTLE, June 19, Mayor
Smith said that the charters of
the coast groups of the Interna
tional Longshoremen’s Association
may be revoked so that commun
ists and agitators will be exclud
ed. When tfie new charters are
issued President Ryan of the 1.
L. A. will have the right to revoke
them.
Meanwhile a new settlement
plan has been Instituted by the
I. L. A. at Portland, and will
eooh be submitted to the employ
ers by the union.
STRIKB SETTLEMENT
SLIPPING FARTHER AWAY „
ALL THE TIME
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(By The Associated Press)
.. SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, In
to the hands of a committee of
flifty, coariti strikers plafced de
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wands, after issuing a pledge'- that
wily a general settle for all, will
and the walkouts, joining with
uther longshoremen who rejected
the seperate peace proposal after
It had been signd by President Ry
an.
Other allied unions refused to
return to work. Meanwhile water
rront employers In various ports,
[■slated either the longshoremen
abide by the agreement as signed
by Ryan or there would be de
clared "a fight to the finish.”
From Seattle to San Diego, sea
port and city officials took. atens
lo maintain order during possible
attempts to break the strike with
non-union labor. Shippers report
ed they were completing arrange
ments to more cargoes onto thelV
ships despite the strikers’ selge.
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session.
The session now conclu ded en
acted striking measures which al
tered the banking and currency
systems brought forth th& Nation
al Recovery Administration; plac
ed under government control ,the
stock exchanges; and took over,
the country's communication sy
stems. In short the Seventy-thii’d
Congress gave statutory validity
to the New Deal.
President Rosevelt applauded
the acomplishments of this session
on Congress, in a letter which ex
a
pressed tile spirit of deep satisfy-'
tion at the co-operation between
the legislative and executive
branches of t.he government, to
which he attributed the success
of the session.
With tliis sesion now ' passing
into history, no mention was made
of federal appointments for Alas
ka, particularly .in "'the Second
Division. One or two other, div
isions still have republican office
holder's. with names which sit-eo-M
have - come before Oo-ngrese. • —bn?"
nothing as been done in regard
»
to them yet. v
HKiH WINDS IN PDOltlDA
(Uy The Associated Press)
NEW ORJvEAiNS, June 18, A sev
enty-five mile wind struck Morgan
City near here, strewing houses
and trees all over the streets.
. POLISH MINISTER KILLED
(By The Associated Press)
WARSAW, June 18, Minister
of the Interior Bonislaw Pierackl
was assassinated Friday night by
a man who fired three shots into
the body ot the offlical as he was
entering his club for dinner. The
assailant escaped capture in the
large throng which immediately
gathered about the entrance to
the club.
STOCKS IRREOCLAR AGAIN
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 19, Stocks
shuffled hesitantly with price
changes narrow and meaningless.
Several issues remained -firm.
Some new highs for the year were
recorder, also a number ot soft
spots. The close wab irregular.
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1« OKKKCTION MADK ON l)K.\l>
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OASOMNK KX^LOSION
i < Tfy The Associated Press)
i .F AM HSTOWN, New Jersey, June
11The flaming explosion of huge
jgasoline tanks here killed five and
[severely horned twenty others,
1 Monday. This is a correction
on the first estimate of the num
ber dead and injured. Tile gas i
tanks belonged to the Richfield j
Oil Company and were located
just outside the city.
OASOMNK TANKS UXPMtDU
ITKTKKN KI I.J.kl)
(Ity The Associated Press)
JA.MKSTOVVX. N. Y.. June lit.
Between twelve and twenty per
sons were reported killed and
about titty injured, when gasoline
tanks here exploded. Several hua
dred watching firemen continued j
to guard against any spread of i
the blaze. „ The explosion is be-r
lieved to have been set off h.v an
electric spark. _ 1
HINDENBURG AND
HITLER MAY SPLIT
OVER NAZI POLICY
HIM>K.\RIK<; AM) HITI.KR
WAY SPIilT BW'AUSKm'
YON PAPKN SPKBCH
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sBy The Associated Press)
BKKJ.IN. .lull” 1!), Indication;
T n possible snlit between Pre-o
ient von IHndenburg and Adolf i
Titles’ oi?er Nazi* Policies «as seen
is an afterniath of the startliiiK j
>last aKainst the Nazi Government '
>.v von Papen, who it is under
stood is very close to the Presi
ient.
Observers were ciuick to couple
Ilia attack with the resignation of
Count Rudolf Nadolny as Ambaso
idor to Russia. Count Nadolny ia
Uso regarded as being very\close
:o the President, thus the t\e-nj»
’ollowing the critical outburst? by
ron Papen. Me is one of the tirSt
>t the Nazi rpgime to resign, ex
pressing disgust.
Crowing dis-satisfactinn among
•onservat ive elements including
he President and von Papen 1*
•vcniiiore strongly rumored, than
ipfore. _
CHINESE BANDITS ELUDE
CAPTURE KIONAPPING
TWENTY-SIX PEOPLE
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BR1TI8H'AN’!> r*-—;
WARSHIPS TO HINT
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FOR PIKATK8
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(By The Associaled Press)
SHANGHAI, June ID. British i
und United States warships have J
been ordered out to seek for the 1
pirates who kidnapped six British!
citizens, including two British nnv- i
al officers from a British coniiner-j
cial steamer at the mouth of the
Yellow Kiver.
CH INKS K BRIGANDS K8CAPK
PROM WARSHIPS
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, June ID, Chinese
brigands abandoned their pirate
junks in the Yellow Kiver and
fled to the hills with twenty-six
human hostages, six of them Brit
ish citizens. They landed their
victims after racing from United
States and British warships which
pursued them, after the pirates
had overpoxvered the passengers
and crew of a British steamer at
Bhumtien.
PRIMARY BISECTION 8TATK8
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, June 19, Shipstead
1,1 Minnesota and’ Frederick Halt
of Maine are vlrtualty assured or
renoniination according to the re
turns. from primary elections in
both states,
(lovernor Olson, a farmer-labor
ite was renominated. Martin Nel
son* leading republican for the
nomination for (lovernor, will run
against Olson. (lovernor Union,
of Maine. Democrat, will be oppos
ed by Republican Alfred Antes, a
lumberman. '
VETERANS WORK FOR
IIKHIWAV TO ALASKA
in an effort to stimulate action
among commercial, service and vet
eraus organizations, the Alaska
Highway committee of University
Post No. 11, American Legion, has
been enlarged and steps for act
ive work in the interest of Seattle
Alaska Highway *2,100,000 hill, as
introduced by Delegate Anthony J.
Dlmotid, Alaska, is being promul
gated, according to Dr. Evan Hal
way, chairman.
Those aded to the committee
consist of: A. L. Ployart Lee F.
Chartrand, Harry H. Lewis, Har
rison Babcock, Senator E. P..
Ridgeway, Art Tonsing, Jack (Iran
ger, Ellis Moehring and A. T. Q.
Novak.
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l».\Nfl-:i6 SHOKTI.Y
According to advices received i-i
Seattle, it will soon by Helene
Madison, dancer. The Seattle girl
who hi “(fine the world's champion
free-style swimmer, is in Chicago
rehearsing for her dehut as a
it
stage dancer with Sammy I.ee win
had the chief dancing role in the
recently closed “Follies," ■ , ,
It is tinderstood they will break
.n the act at a Chicago nite snot
before taking it info vodvil This
will mark her second venture into
the held of entertainment, she bar
ing previously worked in the fi.m
ing of two pictures.
W— > -
duke Wellington dead
(By The Associated Press)
BASINGSTOKE, England. June
18, The Duke of Wellington, aged
eighty-five years, and a grandson
of the famous Iron Duke, the win
ner of the ,Battle of Waterloo,-*
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died at his home here today, on
the hundred and nineteenth anni
versary of that battle. He hae
been afflcted with pneumonia for
some time past.
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