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VOL. 37. No. 123. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY. MAY. 25. 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Wn. State Democrats Are Split Up
THE NOME MINING ACTIVITY HAS IMPETUS
Dr. Gruening Tells Of His Observations In Alaska
WASHINGTON STATE
DEMOCRATS BROKE
WIDE OPEN MEETING
Left-Wingers Gain Control Convention
Put Over Own Program In Frenzied
Twenty-four Session Aberdeen
{By The Associated Press')
ABERDEEN, Washington, May 25, — Self-styled
left-wingers stampeded the Washington State Demo
cratic Convention in the early hours of Sunday morn
ing and seized control and put through their own pro
gram, after riding rough-shod over the “organization”
delegates in the wild, all-night session.
The convention was in such an uproar and the em
battled democrats so rattled they forgot to specifically
instruct the delegates to vote for President Roosevelt
at the national convention next month.
The preamble to the platform however, dedicated
the efforts of the Washington democrats to the re-elec
tion of Roosevelt.
The convention was in session twenty-four hours
with only short recesses for meals. Three presiding
officers in succession were exhausted by the frenzied
delegates. Four roll-callers lost their voices and four
gavels were broken.
Planks adopted included production for use, two
old age pension programs, a proposed amendment to
the Federal Constitution to permit referendum on judi
cial decisions, public ownership and operation of muni
cipal plants and public utilities, in the form of a nation
al resolution, supervision of all basic industries, reasser
tion of the “right of congress to coin money and regu
late the value thereof, to the end that it will establish
federal ownership and operation of national banks”.
The convention gave democratic Governor Clar
ence D. Martin a direct slap, in a plank opposing the
state’s two percent retail sales tax which he sponsored.
Canoists Enroute
To Nome Leave
Ottawa, Canada
(By The Associated Press)
OTTAWA. May 25. — New
York canoeists Sheldon Taylor,
and Geoffrey Pope, today set out
on another lap of their journey
to Nome. Alaska.
They have been here since last
Wednesday. Yesterday they put
their canoe on a truck and took
it six miles to Lake Deschenes,
and started from there this morn
ing for the Great Lakes.
Selassie on Move
(By The Associated Press)
Hai£a< Palestine, May 25, —
Haile Selassie and entourage, to
day sailed for London aboard a
British warship. Further plans
or future place of residence were
not made known.
Alaskans Enroute
Nat’l. Convention
At Cleveland Ohio
(By The Associated Press'
FAIRBANKS May 25. — Cec
il H. Clegg, former District Court
Judge and Leslie Nerland, left
Fairbanks by plane Sunday for
Juneau to take a ship enroute to
Seattle and Cleveland as Anti
White faction republicans who
will attend the Republican Na
tional Convention there.
Clegg goes as a National Com
mitteeman of the artticWhites,
and Nerland as a delegate.
They will be joined by Dr. W.
H. Chase of Cordova and H. L.!
Faulkner of Juneau, also of the
anti-Whites.
Nerland is accompanied by his
wife and small sons who will re
main in Seattle while he attends
the convention. He will attend
^he Masonic Grand Lodge at Ta
|coma enroute home.
MINING MEN OF NOME SECTION
TELL DEVELOPMENT PLANS
SUMMER SEASON 1936
Harvey Grant and Associates, Carl Hallberg. and Sam
Godfrey in the Kougarok Section, Grover Andre
On Osborne Creek, Tell of Plans for Season’s
Operations, As Gold Mining Outlook Brightens.
Grant Mining Co. to Commence
Active Mining Coffee Creek.
Harvey Grant, president of the
Grant Mining Company, who has
acquired a lease on a large tract
of gold bearing ground on Cof
fee Creek in the Kougarok sec
tion, and who recently returned
to Nome from Seattle, in an in
terview with the Nome Daily
Nugget representative, had the
following to say about the activ
ities of his company for the pres
ent season:
36 tons of mining machinery
and equipment of various kinds
will arrive here on the steamer
Victoria, including a 35-Cat,
hoist, scrapers, and two high
pressure pumps, which will be
rushed over the tram road upon
its arrival here.
In addition to the above equip
ment, he has obtained two drills
and a quantity of hydraulic pipe,
nozzles and etc , which is already
here and which will be freight
ed to Coffee creek immediately.
They expect to have their mining
equipment all landed, set up and
in operation by June 25th.
Partners with Mr. Grant in this
new enterprise are: Cy Wallin,
E. K. Johansen, W. M. McDonald
and Henry Wuhrman.
Mr Grant is also interested in
mining operations on Dahl creek,
a few miles distant from Coffee
creek, with A1 Carey and John
Kanary as partners.
Among others in the Coffee
creek section, are Ed. Hoven,who
has been mining there for sev
eral years.
8am Godfrey Bringing In New
Equipment for Kougarok.
It was also learned thru Mr.
Harvey Grant that Sam Godfrey
has taken over the Wells Bros,
ground in the Kougarok section,
and is shipping in on the first
steamer an 85-Cat and bulldozzer
combination, a pumping plant &
Chief Quarantine
Officer Dead N.Y.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, May 25, — Dr.
Carroll Fox, 61.Chief Quarantine
Officer for the Port of New York,
died of heart disease at the
Marine Hospital here.
He has been in the Public
Health Service for the past 37
years, having been based at diff
erent times in Alaska^ Port
Townsend, Wash., Los Angeles,
and New York. Burial will be
at Arlington.
other modern equipment with
which to operate the ground in
an uptodate manner.
Carl Holberg Bringing in New
Dredge For Kougarok
Carl Halberg who has been in
terested in mining operations in
the Kougarok section for the past
few years, is bringing in a new
2Vfe cubic foot pontoon dredge,
built this winter by the Washing
ton Iron Works at Seattle, and
will be landed at Teller, thence
transported to Taylor Creek,
where it will be constructed and
placed in operation this season.
Jerry Galvin Shipping Machinery
For Bluff Quartz Mine.
Jerry Galvin, Mr. Grant says
has closed the deal for the Bluff
quartz mine and is shipping on
one of the first boat a Cat-bull
dozzer combination, also a heavy
duty power shovel and other min
ing equipment to begin active
mining operations on the Bluff
quartz property.
Grover Andre, general field
superintendent of the Greenstone
Mines Inc., which operates on
Osborne Creek about 15 miles
from Nome reported today that
all of the ice had been removed
from the dredge pond and that
as soon as minor repairs had
been made to the engines, the
dredge would be in readiness to
commence digging operations for
the summer mining season.
He stated, upon his arrival
from there today, that dredging
operations should commence im
mediately following the arrival
of the first boats, on proven
ground, and a very good season
is expected.
Soon after the first of the mon
th he expects that some exten
sive drilling operations will be
undertaken and continue for
sometime during the summer.
It was also learned that James
J. Keenan and Joe Lucas are op
erating a drag line system on
gold mining property in Mon
tana.
I
Boat Launched
_
The tug Carpenter of the U. S.
War Department employed in the
business of towing barges of dirt
dredged from the Snake River
harbor out to sea where the dirt
is dumped, was launched today,
and made a trial spin out on
Bering Sea.
GRUENING TELLS
OF OBSERVATION
NEEDS OF ALASKA
Lark of Adequate Lauding Fields, More
Population, Better Communications
Things Noted By Federal Visitor
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Alaska, May 24, — Dr. Ernest Henry
Gruening. Director of the Bureau of Territories and
Island Possessions, said that some of Alaska’s greatest
needs are more population, improved communications,
and an increased tourist trade.
He pointed to the Matanuska Colony as a definite
step toward increasing the Territory’s population with
“a particular type of population that would aid in Al
aska’s development.”
A lack of adequate airplane fields was observed on
his flight from Juneau to Fairbanks and Nome, which
created an unfair hazard to the “courageous and ex
tremely competent fliers” in Alaska, he said.
Dr. Gruening declared. “It is obvious that Alaska
needs more population, so located as to be self-sustain
ing, and likewise be able to make definite contribu
tions to the economy of the region in which the\ are
located.”
Gruening said the major purpose of his Alaskan
trip was to see “how best the Federal Government can
facilitate these projects, and what type of help c in best
serve Alaska’s needs.”
He will probably fly Monday to Sitka. Angoon,
Hoonah, Hydeburg, Kake, Craig, Petersburg!!, and
Ketchikan where he will connect with the steamer
Northwestern next week for the south. The official
said he was especially pleased at the many signs of
returning prosperity to Alaska.
Committee Has
Dared Become
Witness Stand
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 25, —Tim
hostile camps set up by the
Townsenders and the house in
vestigating committee "dared"
each other to engage in verbal
combat at close quarters.
James Sullivan, committee
counsel issued a statement today
that Townsend was a rich man,
and his weekly advertising was
communistic doctrine, saying:
“I challenge him to appear and
offer himself as a witness.”
At Baltimore, Townsend issued
a statement flatly denying the as
sertion of committee chairman
Bell, that he left because he
knew that new evidence would
soon be introduced which would
be “damaging and devastating.”.
The Townsend national head
quarters was moved to Chicago,
and combined with the central
and regional offices there over
the week-end.
Removed Ban
Non-Owners Of
Kil-iirj FVer
'Tiv The Associated Press)
JUNEAU. May 25, The bur
eau of Indian Affair Saturday
lifted the ban on non-owners
slaughtering reindeer for food,
it was announced here.
Officials made known they had
dispatched a dog team from Pt.
Barrow to rush emergency ra
tions to relieve hunger in the
barren lands between Point Bar
row and Demarcation Point.
The action was taken on recom
mendations of Frank Daugherty,
bureau superintendent at Barrow
who just returned from a six
weeks’ dog sled trip to investi
gate the plight of three hundred
Eskimos in the Arctic coastal re
gion.
Daugherty reported by wireless
lie found a food shortage existed
due to wolves killing reindeer
and caribou, and the fact that
the ice made seal hunting diffi
cult. He reported that he dis
covered only a few isolated cas
es of actual distress.