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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—FOR COMMERCIAL AS WELL AS MILITARY PURSUITS—IT CAN BE REACHED BY LAND OR WATER
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VOLUMK as. No. 58. NOMK, AI*ASKA. THIKSOAY, .JULY 12. 1034 »’or ('«»; IO erntH,
.SEATTLE HEARS:
NOME RADIO
BROADCAST
SKATTLK RKFORT8 RKCHIVING
NOMK BROADCAST TO
ADMIRAL BYRD
According to information re
ceived today from Robert Flagler
the radio technician for the Col
umbia Broadcasting Company, he
states that the CBS advised him
from Seattle that the N'pme pro
gram direct to Admiral Byrd in j
Antarctica was received in Seattle,
splendidly. The wire to Mr. Flag
ler also congratulated everyone
for their successful participation
in the program. ,
Mr. Flagler also wished to thank
everyone in Nome who assisted in
thft preparation and conducting of
the program.
Further evidence that Nome Is on
the map. It is not gecessar* Jo i
■argue with people about how wide
ly advertised Nome is in the Unit
ed States (ULd around the' .world. ]
ltadio, which is* the fastest' means
of con^munication seems to have j
placed .Nome on the map once;
again as ideally located for radio j
telephone communication.
Nome Is already well recognized ;
as being on the Great Circle air- j
plane rnnte ifoni the North Ameri- ■
can continent to the Orient.
Now radio has established the
fact that first class radio tele
phone communication between
Nome and Seattle, and between ,
(Nome and Hawaii is a complete .
success. Two way Communication i
throughout was experienced in ;
the broadcast made yesterday, by
teh Columbia Broadcasting Com- ;
pany, from Nome. j
MISSISSIPPI IS DRY
(By The Associated Press)
JACKSON, Miss.. July 12, Miss-j
issippi remained dry by a vote of j
about two to one.
SUBSCRIBE FOR DAILY NUGGET j
NUGGET 98.00 MONTH
BY CARRIER
91.50 MONTH BY MAIL
BASEBALL STANDINGS AT
END OF THE WEEK
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Won Lost Pc*..
New York „i._. 44 27 .620
Detroit .. 45 29 .608
Boston .—-- 39 36 .527
Cleveland .T— 37 35 .614
Washington _ 39 ' 86 .520
St. Louis _31 37 .456
Philadelphia —. 30 42 .417
Chicago .—. 26 49 .338
NATIONAL league
New York _ 47 -17 .685
Chicago_ 44 29 .603
St. Louie.. 41 30 .577
Pittsburgh' _ 37 31 .544
Boston __ 39 34 .534
Brooklyn . 30 44 .405
Philadelphia 27 47 .365
Cincinnati . 23 . 46 .333
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco . 8 4 .677
Hollywood _ 8 4 .677
Seattle a.. 7 5 .583
Los Angeles - 7 5 .583
Sacramento _ 6 6 .500
Missions ...... 6 6 .500
Oakland .„. 3 8 .273
Portland _L 2 10 .167
SHOTGUNS ABE USED IN ROWLAND
FORMULATES NEW CODE FOB INDUSTBY
TO FLY AROUND
WORLD VIA NOME
START SUNDAY
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ROUND WORLD PKACK PLIGHT
WILL PAHS THROUGH
NOMK
(By Tbe Associated Press)
CHICAGO, July 12, LleutenaAl.
Commander W. H. Alexander of
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New York, former Chief Jnstruct
or of the U. S. Navy Air Station
at Pensacola, Florida will be in
command of a plane carrying as
co-pllots, Lieutenant Commander
John Wyclifee of rseman, New
York and Major \V. C. Brooks of
Lincoln, Nebraska. The radio man
will be Captain Arthur Finch and
Flight Mechanic will be John Flt
alko. ^
The above mentioned personnel
will compose the crew of a plafc
which will embark on a good-will
Uljfht. -starting Sunday, irwiind the'
world. I
.
The flight is sponsored by a j
group of business men. The flight I
around the world will be made by j
way of Bermuda, the Azores Is-j
lands, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Si1- j
heria and into Nome. From Nom-i
.the plane will return to Chicago, j
CODE FOR INDUSTRY
IS PROMULOATiED BY
GENERAL JOHNSON
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JOHNSON PKOML'IjG.ATKS NEW
CODE FOR INDFHTRIES ^
(By The Associated Press)
" W ASH ItNOTON, July 12, Gen
eral Hugh S. Johnson promul
gated a new basic code for Indust
ries who are still without NRA
codes, Wednesday, and set thirty
days as the deadline to get under
the new regime.
Winding up with the Blue
Eagle code, and making an Inep^c
tnal order, Johnson gave all in
dustries who have not been opera*.
ln under National Recovery Ad
ministration codes the choice of
merging with the existing kind
red codes or of operating under
the new basic code s^lth the NRA.
Co0e authority will be created
by Johnson. He stated It was not
his lntentloh to force all remain
ing Industries who have remained
beyhnd the fold of the NRA
codes, under the new codes hut
gave notice to industries which
have been remaining outside of the
NRA which appear to be harbor
ing labor abuses, they maye have
the code imposed upon them.
He statedcthat uncoded Indust
ries, while numerous, employ far
leas than ten percent of America’s
twenty-four basic codes.
The new general.. industry code
leaves the wage hour provsions un
diced, with the direction that “they
shall be those . already approved
for proper kindred Industry."
POLICE USE SHOTGUNS
FOUR ARE WOUNDED
IN PORTLAND, ORE.
BLOOD »1*1LLKD IN
PORTLAND OVKR THK
STRIKN dlsagkkkmknt
tiiy TUe Asaociatel Press)
rXDATKD, July 1J, Blood was
spilled, in Portland when police,
fired into a crowd of pickets, an
act which some observers helievs
od might precipitate a general
strike there.
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Pour longshoremen were wound- j
ed. when strikers^ prevented ere.ws
from moving a freight train ' on
a municipal pier. A dozen shots
were fired.
A bloody shirt worn by onn of
those wounded, was waved before
a council meeting, as Matt Meehan
member of the Executive Commit
tee of the International Longshore
men's Association shouted “This is
blood on your hands.’’
ft>
In San Francisco, a pledge to co
operatp firHv with the Federal I-a
l»or Disputes Board in negotiations
to settle the strike, thereby pre
venting 'a possible general walk
out, was made by waterfront em
ployers, thru Thomas Plant,
who pledged their co-operation in
an “attempt to end I bp controver
sy, and permit the board to sup
ervise the dispute over the hiring
of union halls.
The first ship to he worked since
the strike started, began loading
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MANAGER NKNANA ICE
POOL HANGS SELF
(By The Assoclatsd Press)
FAIRBANKS, July 12, Charles
Halverson, sixty years old, an old
timer and manager of this year's
ice pool hanged himself In his
cabin, by using handkerchiefs
knotted together.
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The coroner’s verdict wajvigui
clde. He was proprietor of the
Nenana Pool Hell.
China experiences more
DREADPUIj PLAGUES
«By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, July It, China’s
old enemies, flood, famine, drought
locusts, heat and cholera again are
talcing their toll as the hottest
summer In more then sixty years
seared the Country. The price of
rice jumped fifty percent within
the last few days.
NPRS KN'ROUTK ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jnly 12, Five sub
marines which are enroute to Al
aska'are now off the Oregon coast.
PIONEER DEAD SEATTLE
(By The Associated Press)
SBATTIAO, July 12. Wm. Crihbs
plonker druggist of Dawson died
here today. He came to a sanltar
lum In Seattle a month ago. HU
widow plans to return to Alaska
Cribb’s funeral Is set for Friday.
STOCKS WAVERING
!.... NEW YORK. July 12. Stocks
generally, failed to follow the lea<*
of soaring grains. Trades after
an early expansion * turned dull.
Some specialties advanced, several
above new year’s tops, but the
success of alcohol retarded the
market. The cloee was lrrdgular.
f
at Bellingham, while in Seattle,
Alfred I.undin, chairman of the
Citizen’s (emergency Committe
said that he had asked Govern
or Martin to sent a state patrol to
Seattle to drive alien agitators out.
Agitators are blamed far the re
cent violence in connection with
the strike. Governor Martin de
nied receiving any such request.
I
•IINKAC KXPKRIUNCKS MANY
FOOD HHORTAGK8
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i Ty The Associate! Pres*)
JlLNKAl.’. July 1 -. All .meat
supplies with the exception of hart
and. bacon is exhausted here. Ev
ery meat market is closed await
ing the arrival of the ships from
Tacoma.
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Reflecting the new gold policy,
gold shipments front Alaska dur
ing the first six months have in
creased more than one hundred
percent in dollar val*r&s. over
last year. Government officials an
nounced the value of shipment*
during the first six months as be
ing $5.7 49,652.00.
3700 TKl't'K DRIVERS
GO ON STRIKE IN
SAN FRANCISCO
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. July 12.
Truck drivers in the Bay cities
left their machines in the garages
and walked out, thirty-seven hun
dred strong, in a sympathy strike
with thft maritime strikers.
Some observers saw it as a fore
runner to the much talked of gen
eral strike.
Kvidently the purpose of the
sympathy strike is to* serve as a
means of shutting of supplies to
groceries artd gas stations in near
ly all Bay towns.
The teamsters disregarded the
appeal nmde by the Labor Disput
es Boat’d, which today reported
the first definite step toward a
possible settlement of the strike
tangle.
The strike" board stated, notwith
standing. they would proceed with
their referendum among the mari
time unions, on their requests for
voluntary acceptance of mediation,
j" Waterfront employers in major
ports rm th. Pacific Coast, and for
tv-two shipping companies hare
submitted unconditionally to ar
bltr-ailijtn. _• ...1— -
Tile Washington State Federa
tion of Labor af its annual con
vention in EverPtt., voted to boy
cott all California products, as a
protest against calling out the Na
tional Guard in San Francisco.
,tr '
I/ocatlcm Notkw*. I’owem of At
torney, broki, etc.. on
sale at th«> Nncret Office.
MURDER MYSTERY
MAY BE OVER
HKMKVGD ATTEMPT PREVENT
MOTHERHOOD CAUSES
EIRE'S DEATH
(Uy The Associated Press)
NORMAN, Oklahoma, July 12,
The belief that Marian Mills died
as the result of attempting to pre
vent motherhood, was expressed
today by officials after Mrs. Haxe’
Brown said that Miss Mills had
been taking "quack” medicine pre
parations.
Neal Myers’ mother said that her
son and Mips Mills had been sec
retly married for some time.
NAZIS DEFY WARNING
ISSUED BY DOUIiFUS
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA, July 12, Two new
bombings were reported in Austria
only a few hours after Premier
Dollfuss announced his new, anti
Nazi terror campaign, with the
death penalty set for the posses
sion of explosives.
Five persons, four of them tour
Ists, were injured at Salzburg
when a bomb destroyed the auto
of a member of Pollfus’ Father
land Front Organisation.