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Volume 36. Number 142. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Planning Build 53 Emergency Fields
FED. VOLUNTARY N. R. A. NOW IN EXISTENCE
Japanese Military Officials Are Dictating To Chinese
Fifteen Girl Spies
May Escape The
Death Sentence
Fifteen Girls Face Death Be
cause Spy Activities But
May Escape Penalty
(By The Associated Press)
FOOCHOW, China, June 17 —
Death before the firing squad or
under the axe faced fifteen girls as
a possible penalty for their activi
ties as communist spies.
Authorities said they had all con
fessed and were guilty. But they
escape the death sentence with the
warning—sex and beauty in China
will not always stay the execution
er’s axe or the firing squad.
Britain Asks Both
Japan And China
For Explanations
Chinese Situation Is Grave—
Indicated By British Re
quest for Clarification
(By The Associated Press')
LONDON, June 17 — Reliable
sources revealed today that Great
Britain had asked both the Japanese
and Chinese governments for a clar
ification of reports that Japan in
sists upon controlling the appoint
ment of new officials in North
China.
Semi official circles are said to be
lieve that this move by England
indicated that a grave view was be
ing taken of the Chinese situation.
Entente Between
Three Nations is
Being Considered
Bankers Believe Entente Can
Stabilize Moneys of The
World at Present Time
(By The Associated Press)
BASEL, Switzerland, June 17, —
An entente between the United
States, England and France, to stab
ilize world currencies, is being dis
cussed by bankers assembled here
for a meeting of the Bank for Inter
national settlements. The financiers
are confident that such an entente
would be designed to include Japan |
eventually and be sufficient to bring
about a stabilziation of world mon
ies.
Houses For Sale
Inquire , j
C. F. Yenney '
APPLICATION IS MADE
MONEY CONSTRUCT 53
SMALL FIELDS ALASKA
Plan To Construct Fifty-three Emergency
Landing Fields in Alaska And Would
Cost $371,000. Apply For Money
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 17—The applications and object
of the inclusion by the Department of the Interior, of Alaska
for the construction by the Alaska Road Commission, of
emergency landing fields, grading, drainage and surfacing,
materials, equipment, engineering supervision and conting
ent expenses is due to the popular appeal brought before
government officials.
The estimated cost of the above was set at three hun
dred and seventy-one thousand dollars. The application
states that safety demands make it imperative for these type
of fields to be constructed. The application listed fifty-three
villages and mining camps to be furnished with landing
fields.
Residents and operators utilize air transportation al
most exclusively in reaching these localities. Planes at pre
sent are forced to land on beaches, sandbars, and small clear
ings.
The estimated average for each field would be about
seven thousand dollars, sufficient only to construct a field of
most rudimentary type and of minimum dimensions.
The sites listed include Bear Creek, Bettle River, Brem
ner, Cache Creek, Candle, Chandalar, Chena Springs, Chit
ma, Circle Hot Springs, Haycock, Homer, Illiamna, Kaltag,
Kasilof, Kenai, Keewalik, Kobuk, Koggiung, Kotzebue, Koy
ukuk Station, Livengood, Lucky Shot, Marshall, McCarthy,
Moses Point, Mumtrak, Council, Cripple, Deering, Dilling
ham, Eagle, Egegik, Fort Yukon, Gaines Creek, Gold Run,
Golovin, Naknek, Ninilchik, Ophir, Palmer Creek, Pilgrim
Springs, Poorman, St. Michael, Seldovia, Steel Creek, Tel
Ida, Teller, Ugashik, Valdez Creek, Wales, Wasilla, and
Wiseman.
Woman Prisoner
Is Released After
12 Years Prison
Woman Released From Pris
on Who Killed Women She
Believed Was Intimate
(By The Associated Press)
TEHACHAPI, Calif., June 17, —
The gates of the women’s prison
here are to open today to send Clara
Phillips, notorious hammer slayer of
Mrs. Alberta Meadows, divorcee,
whom she suspected of being inti
mate with her husband, into the wor
ld after twelve years of imprison
ment, a free woman again.
All I want is for people to leave
me alone and give me an even break.
Mrs. Phillips said. Her husband is
somewhere in the Blast.
OLYMPIA DRAFT BEER
AT THE NEVADA
Hoover Warns The
1935 Graduating
Class Stanford U.
Herbert Hoover Tells Stan
ford Graduates Freedom
First in Social Security
(By The Associated Press)
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 17, —
Stanford graduates left their aca
demic cloisters with a warning from
Herbert Hoover that freedom was
the chief essential of social secur
ity, and that freedom must be gra
ciously guarded.
The first of social securities is
freedom—freedom of men to wor
ship; think; speak; and to direct their
energies to the development of their j
own talents, and to be rewarded for
their efforts, said the former repub
lican president.
Subscribe For The Nugget
Are To Find Out
How Works Relief
Money Be Spent
Work Relief Directors Called
To Hear How Administra
tion will Spend Money
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 17, — State
and works progress directors were
called together to get from Admin
istrator Hopkins, information on how
the administration intends to spend
the work relief money.
The works application division an
nounced that the Department of the
Interior had asked for three hund
red and seventy-one thousand doll
I ars for the construction emergency
1 landing fields at 53 Alaska villages
1 and mining camps.
Steamer Victoria
Sailed From Nome
For Seattle Sun.
The S. S. Victoria of the Alaska
Line sailed from Nome at noon yes
terday on its southbound voyage to
Seattle, leaving here the earliest of
recent years.
It carried 38 passengers from
Nome, a goodly quantity of whom
were round-trippers, and will return
in the fall. The vessel upon arriv
al at Seattle will immediately com
mence a sailing schedule to South
eastern Alaska points. The July
sailing of the company is to be made
by the S S Dell wood now in the
roadstead at Nome. Following is the
passenger list:
Tom Buck
Catherine Smith
Etta Buck
Laura Buck
Mother Rose
Mrs Helen Frost
Mrs Alma Wrettling
Rod Sargeant
Sammy Apkuk
Edward Pungpek
Laureance Carson
Mrs Gene Elms
Mrs E R Stout
Jimmy Stout
Gordon Burkher
Aileen Hughes
Mrs Lyle Nevins
Mrs G E Harney
Mildred Scott
Miss Gretchen Steffen
Howard H Burkher
Mrs H Burkher
Mrs D J Lyle
Mrs C W Code
Elizabeth Rude
Mrs H G Hughes
J A Bell
Mrs Jennie Hansen
Catherine Diener
Mrs L F Harper
Dorothy E Harper
Mrs Kurt Sprenger
Mrs A M Hartford
Helen Hartford
Dorothy Hartford
STOP GAP NRA IS NOW
EXISTENCE FORMAL
ORDER OF PRESIDENT
President Roosevelt Names James O'Neill
Administrator Of Voluntary NRA And
Sets I p Division For Fair Business
(By The Associated Press’)
WASHINGTON, June 17—The stop-gap NRA was for
mally organized by President Roosevelt Sunday, in an exec
utive order, naming James O’Neill, acting administrator,
and creating the Division of Business Cooperation, for fair
business and the maintaining of voluntary standards of
competition.
Prentiss L. Coonley was named as the director of the
Business Cooperation Division. Coonley served as division
administrator during the NRA code rule of industry.
O’Neill was vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany of New York. President Roosevelt in outlining the
functions of the abbreviated NRA suggested that future leg
islation would be passed, along NRA lines.
George L. Berry, president of the International Press
men’s Union, was named assistant to O’Neill, as a
representative of labor. He has been with the NRA for the
past half year as code control officer. Roosevelt named six
members as an advisory council with two members each,
representing industry, labor and consumers.
Japan Attempting
Dictate Who Will
Serve In China
Japan Dictates to China Who
Officials Shall Be And
What Troops be Used
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, June 17 — Rengo News
Agency correspondents at Hsinking
reported that the high military coun
cil there dceided that General Sung
Chey Yuan, governor of Chahar
Province, China, must quit office,
and if the Chinese National Army
government dose not remove him,
the Japanese army will have to do
so.
It was further reported that this
state was interpreted to indicate that
the Japanese Army is determined to
add another Chinese province to its
sphere of domination.
Pictating what Chinese officials
shall administer office and what Chin
ese troops shall garrison Chahar as
well as Hopei provinces, Japan to
day excited comment from Great
Britain.
Thos. Gaffney
Wilfrid Neily
John Olson
Carl Jepson
Cliff Allyn
J J Brennan
John Spencer
Governor Issues A
Warning In Street
Car Strike Omaha
Governor Nebraska Issues A
Warning to Street Car
Strikers to Arbitrate
(By The Associated Press)
OMAHA, June 17, — Swift arbi
tration of the street car strike under
threat of military punishment for
recalicitrant leaders, was decreed by
the governor's ultimatum to the em
ployees’ and company representa
tives today.
It specified that they accept his
six point program within eleven
hours and arbitration is to be com
pleted by midnight Thursday.
If either party declines it must be
responsible to the military authori
ties, the governor warned.
Paa Brings Radio Equipment
The Pacific Alaska Airways Ford
plane arrived at Nome yesterday
from Fairbanks and took off again
late last night on its return flight.
Bob Gleason, Charles Huntley and
Jack Stewart, PAA radio technicians
were passengers. A two-way plane
radio service will be installed in the
PAA office here, with Mr. Huntley
in charge of the installation. The
Ford also brought a quantity of ra
dio supplies.