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VOL. 37. No. .32 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 7th, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
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New Possibilities Peace Are Seen
UNION APPROVES MINERS TO GO WORK
High School Basketball Team Captures 3 Convicts
NEW POSSIBILITY PEACE MOVES
SEEN IN DISCUSSIONS IN
ITALIAN PRESS
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 7, — A
faint possibility of a new
peace move was seen in a
renewal of discussion in the
Italian press of the Fran
co-British plan for the set
tlement of the Ethiopian
dispute.
Observers of the situa
tion are interested in the
trend, for the Italian press
largely reflects govern
'merit opinion. They believe
this smoke of discussion
might indicate a fire of in
terest in the peace part of
the government.
Nothing new was report
ed at the front today.
The league committee of
oil experts continued to
study the possibilities of a
successful oil embargo ag
ainst Italy.
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INVITATION TO NOME PLAY
BASKETBALL DECLINED
A letter from Leslie Ner
land, chairman of the com
mittee on sports, of the
Fairbanks Ice Carnival, re
ceived yesterday by Art
Harris in response to a sug
gestion'imparted to Mana
ger Vic Ross of the North
ern Air Transport, inquir
ing into the possibilities of
a Nome basketball team fly
ing to Fairbanks to play
games during the Ice Car
nival there March 6, 7, and
8, included some very in
teresting facts.
Mr. Nerland advised it
was possible for a Nome
team to obtain March 6 and
7 in the evenings for two
basketball games, possibly
with the Elks and the Uni
versity of Alaska, 85 "per
cent of the gate receipts to
go to Nome. He also stated
that in the past the maxi
mum gate was $150 for
each night.
• me letter was reierrea
by Mr. Harris to President
G. R. Jackson of the N. W.
Alaska Chamber of Com
merce, and other business
interests in Nome.
After due consideration
today, various ones, includ
ing the president of the
chamber stated that due to
the short time remaining
it would be impossible to
develop a championship
aggregation to make the
flight to Fairbanks, with
any degree of ability with
which to combat the Fair
banjss teams. The matter of
financial backing also was
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Syrian Uprisings
(By The Associated Press')
Beirut. Syria, Feb 7, —
Seven persons were killed
in a fresh outburst of na
tionalist rioting at Hama,
after seventeen soldiers, 12
policemen and a number of
civilians had been injured
yesterday in an earlier
demonstration.
Troops fired on students
after failing to overpower
them in a running battle
through the streets, in dis
orders which followed in
flammatory speeches at a
mosque, and which was fin
ally brought under control
by the troops.
Drive On Migrants
(By The Associated Press)
Los Angeles, Feb. 7, —
Los Angeles authorities to
day concentrated on a real
roundup of vagrants with
in the county limits, while
a hundred and thirty-six
policemen patrolled the
borders of the state to halt
the influx of indigent mi
grants.
Sheriffs and deputies are
instructed to arrest persons
violating the begging laws,
in the residential districts.
Deputy Chief Cross of
the Police and foreign leg
ion, reported officers \yere
making an effective drive
against transients riding
freight trains into the state.
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Hotel Strike In
j New York Is
! Threat Today j
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(By The Associated Press)
New York, Feb. 6, — A
strike of hotel and rest
aurant workers threatened
to disrupt the city’s night
j.here.
i Hotel employees, who
claimed they represented a
union membership of, elev
en thousand, in two hund
red and ten establishments,
announced today that they
would waHc opt unless op
erators granted their de
mands of shorter hours and
higher pay.
Three settlements have
been effected in the build
ing service, fur and millin
ery disputes.
In the garment center, a
strike vote will be taken to
j morrow among a hundred
jand five thousand workers
j in the dress industry.
Armed Convicts
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i Walked Freedom
Thru Main Gate
(By The Associated Press)
Frankfort. Ky., Feb. 7, —
Four armed convicts walk
ed to freedom today from
the main entrance to the
Frankfort State reforma
tory, after overpowering
two guards and looting the
prison arsenal.
They hijacked a taxicab
at the gate and made their
getaway before the break
was discovered. The fugi
tives are James Morris,
Dexter Anderson, Henry
Coomer, and Clasen Craw
ford.
Skiers Of Norway j
Titles Downhill
(By The Associated Press)
Garmsch Partenbirchen,
Germany, Feb. 7, — Nor
way made a clean sweep of
both men’s and women’s
Olympic downhill skiing
titles.
Burger Ruud, crack all
around Nprse skier topped
the men’s division while
Nilsen Laila Schou of Nor
way led the women.
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TEXT DIMOND’S REINDEER BILL
MADE PUBLIC; WILL APPLY THE
NOME AND N. W. ALASKA AREA
Editor’s Note— The fol
lowing bill was recently in
troduced in Congress by
Delegate Dimond, and re
flects several years of un
tiring work on the part of
many of those interested in
the reindeer controversy of
this section, which at var
ious times has resulted in
investigations and other
disputes regarding the ques
tion.
With the setup as pro
vided in this bill, it appears
that at last a definite step
has been taken to end this
controversial issue between
white and native owners,
and as to how the industry
should be administered.
74th Congress, Second Session
H. R. 9959 ,
In the House of Representatives,
January !, 1936.
Mr. Anthony J. Dimond, Dele
gate from Alaska, introduced the
following bill: which was reierr
ed to the Committee on the Ter
ritories and ordered to be printed.
A BILL.
To provide subsistence for the
Eskimos and other natives of Al
aska by establishing for them a
permanent and self-sustaining
economy; to encoorage and devel
ope native activity in all bran
ches of the reindeer industry;
and for other purposes.
. Re it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con
gress assembled, that a necessity
for providing means of subsist
ence for the Eskimos and other
natives of Alaska is hereby de
clared to exis. It is also declared
to be the policy of Congress, and
the purpose of this Act, to estab
lish and maintain for the said
natives of Alaska a self sustain
ing economy by acquiring and or
ganizing for and on behalf of
said native activity and responsi
bility in all branches of the said
industry or business, and by pre
serving the native character of
the said industry or business thus
established.
sec. 2. The Secretary of the
Interior is hereby authorized to
acquire, in the name of the Un
ited States, by purchase or other
lawful means, including exercise
of the power of eminent domain,
for and on behalf of the Eskimos
and other natives of Alaska, rein
deer-range equipment and other'
property, real or personal, the
acquisition of which he determ
ines to be necessary to the effect
uation of the purposes of this act.
Any condemnation proceedings
undertaken by virtue of the au
thority granted in this section of
this Act shall conform, as near as
may be. to the procedure provid
ed for condemnation of real es
tate by the Act of August, -1888,
(ch. M6), or to that provided by
the Act of February 26, 1931,
(ch. 307). i
Sec. 3. All owners of Alaskan
reindeer shall, within one year of
the date of' this enactment, file
with the Secretary of the Inter
ior’s duly authorized agent qr
■gents, located2 -in Alaska, declar
ations of their ownership of Alas
kan reindeer. Said agent or
agents shall make and keep re
cords of said declarations and
shall keep said records open to
public inspection in Alaska. Will
ful failure of any owner of Alas
kan reindeer to comply with this
section of this Act shall be pun
ishable by a fine of not more than
$500.00.
Sec. 4. Title to any reindeer,
and the increase thereof, now
owned by the said natives of Al
aska or corporations, associations,
or organizations of said natives,
in event said reindeer are aban
doned by said owners or become
ferae naturae, shall, in such event
vest in the United States for and
on behalf of the said natives of
Alaska, the same as though ac
quired by the'Secretary, of the
| Interior, pursuant to section 2
i of this Act.
I Sec. 5. The Secretary of the
Interior is hereby authorized to
! receive, in the name of the Un
i ited States, for and on behalf of
said natives of Alaska, gifts made
for the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 6. The Secretary of the
Interior is hereby authorized to
receive and expend, for the pur
poses of this Act, properly author
ized loans, grants, or allocations
made to him for said purposes by
Federal agencies.
Sec. 7." All moneys collected
or received by the Secretary of
the Interior in his administra
1 tion of this Act shall not be paid
j into the Treasury but shall con
stitute a revolving fund to be ad
ministered by the Secretary of
the Interior for the purposes of
this Act.
Sec. 8. The Secretary of the
Interior is authorized and direct
ed to organize and manage the
reindeer industry or business,pro
vided for by this Act, in all its
branches, including the butcher
ing, packing, storage, transporta
tion, and marketing of reindeer,
both within and without the ter
ritory of Alaska, and to finance
or aid in the financing of such
reindeer industry or business in
all its branches through coopera
tive associations of the natives,
or otherwise, in such manner as
to establish and maintain for said
natives of Alaska a complete and
self-sustaining economy and to
encourage and develop the activ
ity and responsibility of said na
tives in all branches of said in
dustry or business.
Sec. 9. In such manner as the
Secretary of the Interior deter
mines to be proper for effectuat
ing the purposes of this Act, he
shall permit those of the said na
tives who are found by him to be
actively engaged in the said in
dustry or business or for whose
subsistence reindeer are neces
sary,’ to utilize, for food and oth
er domestic purposes, the rein
deer that, pursuant to his admin
istration of this Act, are within
his control. The Secretary of the
Interior shall from time to time,
and in such manner as he deter
mines to be proper for effectuat
ing the purposes of this 'Act, dis
tribute among those of the said
natives, or corporations, associa
tions. or organizations of said na
tives, who are found by him to
be actively engaged in the said
industry or business or for whose
subsistence reindeer are nece
ssary, whatever profits may be
earned by the said industry pr
business and may, in the judg
ment of the Secretary of tl\e In
terior, he distributed in accord
ance with sound business prac
tices.
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Sec. 10. The Secretary of the
Interior is hereby authorized to
grant, in his discretion and sub
ject to such terms as he may im
pose, to any corporations, asso
ciations, or other organizations of
said natives any or all of the pow
ers relating to the administration
of the reindeer industry or busi
(Continued on Page Three,
OK Miners To t
Work To Supply
Coal For Cold
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Feb. 1, —
United Mine Workers vot
ed to permit soft coal min
ers work tomorrow to take
care of any coal shortage,
John L. Lewis, union
president said the operators
should respond to the work
ers’ concession by seeing
that the coal reaches those
who need it most because
of the bitter cold wave.
Workers will work und
er the thirty-five hour
week schedule, although
they have been out on a
strike.
High School Boys
Capture Convicts
Attempted Break
(By The Associated Press)
Florence, Arizona, Feb.
7, —Three Arizona con
victs began a long seige of
solitary confinement, after
a high school basketball
team had frustrated their
escape from the peniten
tiary.
The convicts, Harry Jar
rett, Bill Lynn, and Floyd.
Smith were pursued by the
youthful players after they
had scaled a prison wall.
Victor Smith, a school
boy, saw the felons attempt
ing to steal an automobile,
and ran into the gym and
told the players, who gave
pursuit, capturing the pris
oners.
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