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VOLUME 36. NO. 49. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935. Per Copy Jen Cents
Asks Asiatics Be Barred Serving U. S.
PROPOSES TERRITORY^BOND ITSELF $2,000,000
Delegate Dimond Acts As Teacher School In Congress
WANTS TERRITORY TO
BOND ITSELF AIM TO
BETTER DEVELOPMENT
(By The Associated Press')
JUNEAU. March 1—A proposal that the Territory
bond itself for two million dollars with the aim of carrying
out development programs in cooperation with the federal
government, was made in a measure presented by the House
Ways and Means Committee.
Under the organic act the Territory cannot contract
indebtedness, but should the legislature pass such a bill,
then an approval of congress is believed would validate the
action
JUNEAU. March 1—The senate by a vote of five to
three passed Roden’s bill prohibiting officers of the Terri
tory receiving iwo hundred dollars a month, from accepting
other employment for remuneration.
Brunnelle introduced a bill reducing the automobile
license tax from ten to three dollars, on vehicles carrying
passengers from fifteen to five.
The senate late yesteiday afternoon was considering
the Hofman graduated fish trap tax bill, and also the herring
reduction plant elimination measure.
A public hearing was to be held before the joint liquor
committee on six measures relating to the control of liquor,
last night.
JUNEAU, March 1—Late bills introduced were one by
Lyng for a better mail service to Shungnak; Martin—direct
ing the boanl of road commissioners to investigate better
housing conditions for employees in the Second Division;
' Green—an appropriation of three thousand dollars to con
struct a road one and a half miles from Berlin Bay to Old
Harbor trail at Kodiak, and two thousand for the repair of
roads and trails at Shungnak.
JUNEAU, March 1—The house and senate will concur
in a telegram to Congress protesting against the bill protect
ing the eagle, and pointing out the real menace for fur farm
ers and others, if an open season be allowed.
Other late bills introduced were one by Walker urging
the improvement of Alaska harbors; Martin asking for the
establishment of tuberculosis hospitals for natives in each
of the four divisions; Green, providing one hundred thous
and dollars from territorial funds for the operation of a
wholesale system of liquor distribution; McCutcheon, six
hour day five day week for all salary wage earners in the
territory, including territorial and federal officers; Nerland.
providing for five members on school boards in incorporated
cities; Chamberlain, raising the tax on privately owned
electric light plants, telephone and water companies, from
one half, to one percent on gross receipts; Lingo, the present
appropriation for road work in McKinley Park be supple
mented by an additional appropriation of fifty thousand
dollars.
Hauptmann Fund
Get More Money
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, March 1 — Haupt
mann’s defense fund is two thou
sand dollars richer today by con
tributions from thousands of en
thusiastic Germans who stormed a
rally on his behalf, and heard Mrs.
Hauptmann and Defense Attorney
Reilly talk. They cheered them and
booed Lindbergh and Wilentz when
their names were mentioned.
Well Known
“Knight of Grip”
Passes Away
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, March 1 — Ben S. Del
zell aged fifty-two well known trav
eling man in Alaska and a resident
of Juneau for 25 years, was strick
en by heart trouble and died yes
terday afternoon. His mother re
sides in Alameda, California.
Hitler Pays Visit
Saar-Population
Simply Goes Wild
(By The Associated Press)
SAARBRUECKEN, March 1, Hit
ler came to the Saar today and the
population went wild with adula
tion of the Reichsfuehrer’s visit, in
connection with the official re
turn of the Saar territory to Ger
many.
COMMUNISTS
HURL THREAT
OF KIDNAPPING
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 -
Major Albert M. Jones, Chief of the
Intelligence Unit of the Army’s Stli
Corps Area, denied today, the pub
lished reports of the Examiner thal
his twenty-year-old daughter Bar
bara had been attacked and beater
in a communist campaign of vio
lence against the officer's actions
The story said that his daughtci
was threatened with kidnaping am
harm unless the Major halted hi:
activities against the communists or
the military reservation.
BETRAYED BY
FOLKS LETTER
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, March 1 — Betrayec
by a letter to his folks, Alvin Eller
aged twenty-five, a chain gang fug
itive, awaited an order to send him
back to North Carolina, from when
he escaped, he said, to avoid beinr
called to testify against his pa
Dwight Beard, on a murder charge
SPOKANE, March 1 — Eller saic
that he had been accused of mur
dering Gus Bounous in a hold-up al
Valdez in 1932, but was acquitted
Later, Beard was arrested and tried
convicted and sentenced to die or
the same charge
Eller was convicted of a robbery
charge and they wanted him t<
testify against Beard. Eller escap
ed and was not hit when the guard
fired at him.
Andrew Bahr Day
Seattle, April 1st.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 1, Mayor Char
les Smith proclaimed April 1st, An
drew Bahr Day, in honor of the
Laplander who completed the drive
of three thousand reindeer from
Northwestern Alaska to the Moutt
of the McKenzie River. He is ex
pected to arrive here April 1st .
Congress Hold
School On Alaska
Dimond Teacher
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, March 1, A gen
eral school session on Alaska and its
resources in hopes to place plans
of the United States was conducted
in the house for forty-five minutes.
Delegate Dimond acting as "teach
er," who urged the House to follow
the action of the Senate and unani
mously the bill providing for nego
tiotions with Canada to build the
International Highway,
He also urged that Congress turn
over to the Territory the adminis
tration of the fishing industry, prom
ising the federal government it
would save three million dollars an
nually by the action, and the Terr -
tory would bo able to gain gii atly
in population through the home
rule of the industry lie further
proposed the colonization of the
Matanuska Valiev as part of the pro
gram to remove families from the
drought areas of the U. S
Dimond further urged the House
to act favorably on the relief min
ing bills which would provide that
the government would be a paying
activity in the Territory, expressing
the belief that the funds would
make possible the discovery of new
fields which contain valuable min
erals which have not yet been di.
covered in Alaska.
Famine In China
Mothers Dispose
Their Children
(Ry The Associated Press)
WASU, China, March 1 — Fam
ine, so terrible, that mothers are re
ported to be selling their own
children for as little as one Mex
ican dollar, for forty cents in United
Slates money, is slowly starving
three million Chinese in southern
Anhwei Province.
Warm Supporters
Social Security
Express Fear
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March I — Some
of the warmest supporters of the ad
ministration’s social security pro
gram expressed fear, that it would
be seriously delayed by the NRA in
vestigation, referred by the Senate
to the Finance Committee which al
so has under consideration the soc
ial security program.
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar
ed to do your job printing.
BELIEVES SABOTAGE
PLAYED ITS PART l\
DIRIGIBLE WRECKS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 1—A witness before the House
Patents Committee hearing proposed that all Asiatics be
barred from serving on United States war vessels or air
craft.
The witness was Roy W Knabenshue of Washington, a
balloon builder, who came before the committee to reassert
that he believes sabotage was played in the part of the
crashes of the Navy airships Macon and Akron, and to talk
on the Japanese peril.
Chairman Sirovich. Democrat of New York, contribut
ed the statement that Japanese fishing vessels were taking
soundings in Alaskan waters. Later, from the floor of the
house, Sirovich asked Delegate Dimond of Alaska, questions
concerning the fortification of Alaska against a Japanese
invision via the Aleutian Islands.
Dimond said that the only protection in the territory
was a force of one hundred and fifty army infantrymen at
Seward. lie renewed his plea for the establishment of an
air base in the Territory. Using the maps he showed Alas
ka on the great circle route between the United States and
Japan and asserted that for Japan to attack via Hawaii,
would mean that her vessels would have to go hundreds of
miles out of their way to the South.
ROOSEVELT
IS BACK IN
WASHINGTON
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 1 — Pres
ident Roosevelt arrived back in
Washington prepared to make a
close range study of the legislative
jam which is blocking his work re
lief program in Congress.
A report received from Capital
Hill said that some of his advisors
are perturbed over the changes al
ready r ado in the social security
bill.
Halibut Question
Is Still Unsettled
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. March 1 The hali
but question is still not settled. The
fleet is still able to move, and the
owners are to meet today.
Cloud Burst And
Hailstorm Pays
j
Visit Honolulu
(Bv The Associated Press)
HONOLULU, March 1 — Eight
are dead and six missing, and unes
timated property damage, is the toll
of Wednesday night's cloudburst and
hailstorm.
WHOLESALE
EXECUTIONS
AM) LOOTINGS
(By The Associated Press)
SIAN, China, March — A reign of
terror accompanied by wholesale ex
ecutions and lootings of towns, mark
ed the passage of twenty-five thou
sand communist troops through
southeast Sheni province during the
past fortnight.
Missionaries said that government
troops have them surrounded and ex
poet to annhilate them.
Joe Agnew Is
Arrested Charge
c
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 1 — Joseph E.
Agnew, once manager of the Seattle
Fur Exchange and more recently
employed by a California mining
firm was released here this morn
ing on a bond of five hundred dol
lars, from the county jail on a
charge of being a fugitive from jus
tice. San Francisco authorities ask
ed his arrest on a charge of pass
ing a bad check.
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