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VOL. 37. No. 17. NOME, ALASKA, Tuesday, January 21, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
ASSUMES TITLE EDWARD VIII
ED. CANTOR RECEIVES EXTORTION NOTES
Further Mobilization In Ethiopia Is Ordered Today
ROUND THE WORLD PLANE
FLIGHTS BE COMMONPLACE
1936 SAYS UNITED AIR LINES
Commercial Airplanes Can Carry One
Around World For Less Than $3,000
NomeIgloo No. 1
Donor
Alaska Lodges
The following account of
the Christmas Celebration
at the Pioneer Home at Sit
ka was received by late
mail from Eiler Hansen,
Superintendent.
Pioneers’ Home Xmas 1935
“This was the first Xmas
in the new Home. Many of
the men told me it was the
best Christmas they could
remember. During the hol
iday entertainments were
given by the Sitka Public
School, Mr. and Mrs. By
ron L. Miller by courtesy of
the Northland Transporta
tion Company, the carolers
from the S S Victoria and
the orchestra from the S S
Alaska of the Alaska S. S.
Company.
Xmas dinner was as us
ual an event represented
principally by 200 pounds
of Turkey. The West Coast
Grocery Co. furnished ex
tra cigars and cigarettes.
The Golden Glow Brewing
Co., represented by Heinie
Berger supplied the beer.
After dinner the Pioneer
Xmas Fund was paid out.
To ninety percent of the
men the amount they get
represents their entire cash
capital for a year. The Pion
eers have asked me to ex
press to every contributor
to their happiness their
sincere gratitude. Welcome
as this money is the thought
that they have not been
forgotten by their friends
is a sustaining comfort for
the future.
“I submit herewith an
account of the money re
ceived and its disposal.”
Collections by W. D. Gross
Douglas . $14.00
Ketchikan . 221.00
Juneau.446.00
(Continued on Page Three,
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Commercial Air Tickets
May Be Available Per
haps Next Spring
(By The Associated Press)
Chicago, Jan. 21—Round
the World flights will des
cend from the adventurous
to routine this year, the
United Air Lines announc
ed at the completion of a
survey of recent develop
ments.
The international air tra
vel globe-trotter who pre
fers wings will be able to
buy a'single ticket which
will take him from an Am
erican airport clear around
Mother Earth back to his
starting point, perhaps as
early as late spring.
The company said it is
possible at present to fly
around the world by com
mercial lines via circuitous
route at a cost somewhat
under $3,000. A projected
line across the North At
lantic which will cut the
distance and costs of the
present round the world
route, takes a person from
San Francisco to the Philip
pines, thence across Asia,
Europe, and South Ameri
ca, back to Miami and a
cross the United States to
San Francisco.
POUND AND HALF
BABY TO SURVIVE
(By The Associated Press)
Chicago, 111., Jan. 21—A
baby who weighed less
than a pound and a half at
birth has lived two days
and stands a seventy-five
per cent chance to live, at
tending physicians announ
ced. Except for her size
the baby girl is normal in
every respect, doctors said.
She lives in an incubator
and is fed with a medicine
dropper.
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Extortion Notes
Received Eddie
Cantor in Calif.
(Bv Tne Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Jan. 21, —
The Los Angeles Examiner
said it had learned that Ed
die Cantor, millionaire
stage and screen comedian,
was the target of an extor
tion plot recently, threaten
ing his five daughters with
harm unless he paid $5,000.
The newspaper said that
two extortion letters were
received at the Cantor re
sidence in Beverley Hills,
on successive days, several
weeks ago. The paper fur
ther declared that the lett
ers were turned over to fed
eral agents.
Security Plan
Explained In A
Letter to Troy
Administration Of Federal
Program Will Start
Next Year
Details of the progress of
the administration’s Social
Security Program were set
forth in a letter received by
Governor John W. Troy,
from John G. Winant, chair
man of the Social Security
Board.
In response to some confu
sion existing among em
ployers as to records, taxes
and so forth, required of
them under the act. Winant
reports that none of the
payments are due until Jan
uary 1, 1937, and that all
employers will be notified
through proper channels of
their duties in due course
of time.
The Board and the Treas
ury Department are now
working on rules and regu
lations for the administra
tion of the act. The first
tax for which employers
are liable is an excise tax
on payrolls, which will ac
crue next year.
Taxes for old-age benefits,
an income tax on employes
and an exise tax on employ
ers,are concerned only with
employment after Decem
ber 31, 1936.
The provisions of the act
relating to grants to states
for old-age assistance, un
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Ruler Ride Plane
NEW KING AND DUKE
YORK PLANNING
FOR CEREMONIES
(Bv The Associated Press)
Sandringham, Jan. 21, —
Edward, Prince of Wales,
assumed the title King Ed
ward VIII, in signing the
message notifying London’s
Lord Mayor of his father,
King George’s death.
London, Jan. 21, — The
Naval Conference cancell
ed today’s session, as well
as the scheduled meeting
of the technical sub-com
mittee in respect to the
memory of the late King
George V.
London, Jan. 21, — King
EdwardVIII flew from San
dringham to London, being
the first English monarch
to ride in an airplane, to
take up officially his new
duties as the ruler of the
vast British Empire.
The body of his father,
King George, awaited re
moval to a little village
employment compensation,
aid to the blind, dependent
or crippled children and
needy mothers ae still sub
ject to appropriations from
Congress. The state acts
must be approved by the
Social Security Board by
1946, but not all of these,
now conform to Federal
standards, according to Mr.
Winant.
173 Deaths Due
Winter Weather
In United States
CBy The Associated Press)
Chicago, Jan 21, ,— In
estimable tons and tons of
snow weighed down the
larger half of the nation, as
deaths mounted to 175,
following the worst bliz
church where first public
homage will be paid the
departed sovereign.
The new King and the
Duke of York, worked with
palace officials throughout
the early morning drawing
up plans for King George’s
funeral.
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The new King’s formal
ascension to the crown, and
final plans for all ceremon
ies will be made public af
ter further consultations
here.
Bells tolled, and guns
boomed in London and
throughout the empire, an
hour after the bell on St.
Paul's Cathedral began its
mournful dirge, telling the
world of the passing of an
English King.
British warships at home
or abroad began firing guns
at minute intervals. Every
British ship and naval esta
blishment throughout the
world lowered its colors to
half mast, to remain there
until George is laid to rest
at Windsor.
Official Decree Orders Additional
Mobilization 11 ight Italian Advance
Delegates Named
Natl Convention
From Alaska Pty.
(Bv The Associated Press!
Seward Jan. 2, — Alas
ka democrats adjourned af
ter endorsing the Roosevelt
administration and favor
ing fish trap abolition.
The convention named as
delegates to the democratic
national convention, Arth
ur M. Chamberlin of Deer
ing, Joseph W. Kehoe of
Seward, Harry Phillips of
Fairbanks, A. J. Dimond of
Valdez, William A. Holz
eimer and Governor John
W. Troy of Juneau.
zard of the year.
A tornado and storms
which swept the southeast
ern states of the United
States, accounted for thir
ty-two known fatalaties, in
Florida, Georgia and Ala
bama. In the territory
from Pennsylvania north
ward through the New Eng
land states, more than 50
persons died.
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(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Jan. 21, — The
Italian government report
ed today, the loss of a Fas
cist bombing plane on the
northern front, a communi
que said, in which it was
declared that General Graz
iani's troops were contin
uing mopping up Has Desta
Demin's fleeing warriors on
he Eritrean front.
One oi Eas S ymum’s
lieutenants submitted his
men u the Italian authori
ties end reported that Ras
Desta had narrowiy escap
ed capture by the Italians.
In Addis Ababa, a new
decree, ordering further
mobilization of warriors
throughout Eth opia, was
read at the palace.
ALASKA STAMP
PLAN POPULAR
The Alaska Weekly re
ports an enthusiastic re
sponse by Alaskans and
o hers to the suggestion
that the government print
a series of Alaskan postage
stamps.
Suggestions for the design
included one by Thomas
Plunkett Arlington, Wash.,
that the stamps be printed
in gold and silver, the col
ors of ores found in Alaska.
A majority of suggestions
advocate the stamps depict
some of the natural scenery
of the Territory.