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VOL. 38. No. 308. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. DEC. 31. 1937. Per Copy 10ct#
SECRETARY ICKES JUMPING BIG BUSINESS
Ordered Clamp Down Tipsy New Year’s Drivers
Secty. Ickes Is
Out After Big
Business Again
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Dec. fcl, —Se
cretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes, continuing the administra- j
lion's attack upon “big business”,1
asserted Thursday night in a na
tion-wide broadcast, that the pow j
ex orf concentrated wealth “must
be compelled to conform to our
laws”, at the coming session of
congress.
“The irreconcilable conflict be
tween the power of money and
• the power of democratic instinct
has reached such intensity in re
cent months that it is clear it
must be fought through to a fin
ish—until plutocracy or democra
cy, or until Americans of sixty
families or Americans of one hun
dred and twenty million people
win."
His speech was the third as
sault upon “big business” to
come from within inner admini
stration circles within a week,
two such addresses were deliv
ered previously by Robert H.
Jackson, asssitant attorney gen
eral.
The sixty families refer****! to i
are those listed in a book by i
Ferdinand Lundberg.
Ickes accused concentrated ec-;
■onomic power of going on a
strike against the administration,1
and of threatening to do no bus
iness unless the government re
straints upon business are re
moved.
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Anchorage Man
Found Nearly
Frozen Death
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MILTON LEEK LIES 12 HOURS
UNDER TRUCK—CAN’T
REMEMBER WHAT DID
REALLY HAPPEN
Trapped 12 hours in the cab of
an overturned truck, Milton Leek
aged 28. of Fishhook Inn, was
found nearly frozen to death on
the Anchorage-Palmer highway
near Whitney, Dec. 24th, accord
ing to a story printed in the An
chorage Times, arriving in yes
terday’s mail.
He was rushed to the Anchor
age hospital where his condition
•was found serious. The attend
ing physician reported at noon
that the frozen members were
responding to treatment. Optim
ism rose that he would recover
without amputation.
Rudolph Kruger of Birchwood,
an eighth grade student in school
Tiene, found Leek this morning
when he was on the way to town.
The youth tried to free Leek
from the cab but found his ef
forts futile.
Young Kruger hurried toward
town with the intention of order
ing an ambulance. He met Ed.
Kjosen and several other men
who were out after wood. The
men went to the aid of Leek and
brought him to the hospital in
th-dr truck.
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G-Man Tells Of
Murder Aboard
Yacht Recently
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31, John
Hanson, agent in charge of the
local Federal Bureau of Investi
gation, said in a statement Thurs1
day night, that Dwilgiht Faulding
aged 49, a Santa Barbara hotel
owner, had been killed by Jack
Morgan aboard Faulding’s yacht
the Aafje, near here ten days ago.
Hanson said that Morgan be
came involved in a dispute ab
oard the vessel “as result of
which he was lot at sea’’. A boat
finally picked him up, drifting
helplessly, and brought him here.
The Washington
News-Letter
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OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
J. J. Eckles.
Secretary to the Del- gat £ , |
December 11, 1937.
Delay in the commencement of
air mail service between Jun
eau and Fairbanks by way of
Whitehorse in Canada, is ex
pected because of the necessity j
for amending the Post Office
Department’s advertisement for
bids on this new route.
The original proposal inviting
bids for this service called for
opening of bids on December 15.
The amended proposal sets this
date badk to February 1, 1933. If
as is often the case, several days
pass while the bids are being an
alyzed before award of contract
is made, it is probaible that this
long-sought Juneau-Fair banks
aii- mail service will not be in
augurated until the second week
in February, instead of early in
January as had been expected.
Need for the amendment was
brought about when officials of
the bureau of Air Commerce
pointed out that the section of
the advertisement specifying the
general type of ying equipment
required could not be met by ev
en the most modern aircraft un
der winter flying conditions with
the present landing fields that
are available on this route. To
insure the utmost possible re
liability for this service the De
partment stipulated in its invi
tation for bids that the flying eq
uipment used most, among other
things, be “multi-motored and
capable of carrying a minimum
number of 10 passengers with
fuel sufficient for a 350-mile flight
at normal cruising and with re
serve fuel supply as required by
Bureau of Air Commerce regula
tions."
It seems that these require
ments could be met except on
the winter schedules when the
flight loss from equipping the
planes with skiis and carrying
axes, snowshoes, parkas, blank
ets and emergency Tations for at
least 10 passengers, in addition
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Give An Eye To
Know Popular
ity Of F. D. R.
(By Preston Grover)
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. UP)
—.Anyone who can tell just how
popular President Roosevelt will
be next year will confer a boon
on members of congress by lett
ing them know.
Many are coming up next year
for re-election—all the house and
a third of the senate. If the
President is slipping in popular
ity they can be independent as
all get-out, and it will be good
politics. But if the President ini
1938 still outs his old time wide
swath with the voters, it won’t
do a congressman any good to be
“against” Roosevelt.
$ » •
Situation In Florida
Take Florida as a sample:
Senator Pepper is finishing a
two-year term and will be up to
succeed himself. Opposing him
for the seat will be Representa-1
tive Wilcox. Already they are
sparring for position. Pepper
evidently would like the Florida
electorate to befliieve that Wilcox;
is anti-Roosevelt. Wilcox, it ap
pears, would like Florida to be
lieve that Pepper is subservient
to Roosevelt while he, Wilcox, is
independent, but not too inde
pendent.
It gives you an idea of how im-1
portant Mr. Roosevelt’s popular
ity trend is to his fellow politic
ians.
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Miscellaneous Notes
Diary:—Economy note:—Repre
sentative Phil Ferguson of
Woodward, Okla., a member of
the house rivers and harbors com
mitftee, says he is out to get all
funds possible for flood control,
and reservoir projects.
Metamorphical not: Senator
RECOVER BODY OF REV.
SCHWALBE FROM UNDER
ICE KUSKOKWIM RIVER
Arrivals in Anchorage from
Bethel report that the body of
Rev. F. T. Schwalbe, Moravian
missionary, was recovered recent
ly from the uskokwim River.
The automobile truck which
broke through the ice and carried
the missionary to death was pull
ed out and Rev. Schwalbe was
found in the driver's sea. His
hand was on the door knob, indi
cating his attempts to escape
proved futile.
For some time it was feared'
the river had earned the automo
bile downstream and that it wou
ld never be found.
Josh Lee of Oklahoma says: “To
day Europe is a powder keg and
Asia is a volcano. The very earth
of the eastern hemisphere is
trembling under the tread of
marching feet."
Secrecy note: Secretary Hull
addressed 240 congressmen on the
nine-power pact, neutrality and
other international questions. No
reporters were admitted.
Historical note: Senator Cope
land of New York wants $50,000
from congress to build a memor
ial to Frances Joseph Paul, mar
quis de Grasse-Tillev, French ad
miral, whose ships bottled up the
British fleet during the—-.
British fleet, and as a result the
French almost disowned him; but
Copeland believes he earned a
monument. Lafayette has a whole
square right across from the
White House named after him.
Fence-mending note: Repre
sentative Harry R. Sheppard of
California, during the 54 days be
tween sessions, visited every com
munity in his district, spoke 105
times to 31,000 persons and con
ferred with “literally hundreds
of job seekers and others.
Appeal Confidence
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. (/Pi
—Administration advisers said
President Roosevelt will make an
aggressive bid for public confi
dence in his January message
when the regular session of con
gress opens.
The appeal will be based on
the contention that the business
recession is largefly psychological.
At his press conference he assert
ed the psychology of fear is be
ing fostered by a large percent
age of newspapers and a small
minority of public utilities.
The accusation followed a sec
ret conference with seven of his
most loyal supporters in the sen
ate liberal ranks which he re
ported had pledged themselves to
no slackening in new deal activ
ities.
The favored conferees were
Senators Norris, LaFollette, Sch
wellenbach, Minton, Pepper and
Green.
Chinese Squads
Move Out City
Work Is Done*
(By The Associated Prcsa)
SHANGHAI. Dec. 31, —Chin
ese devastation squads marched
out of Tsingtao, leaving undetfend
ed, (the once rich, north China
seaport, marked for conquest by
the advancing Japanese armies.
Corps of foreign vigilantes arm
ed with clubs attempted to mair
i tain order, while the exodus of
Americans and other foreigners
continued.
Looters ran into the Japanese
business section and ransacked
what Japanese properties had
not been destroyed in nearly two
weeks of systematic dynamiting
The chief aim of foreign vigi
lantes was to prevent damage to
foreign property.
Departing Chinese units stated
dozens of new fires had been
started, especially in a Japanese
sil'k fadtory, and the Japanese
Tobacco company building which
are among the structures in flam
es.
i Word reached Shanghai today
I that Chinese legions, a hundred
I miles to the westward are ftght
ing desperately to stem the Jap
j anese advance long enough for
| destruction of Japanese Tsingtao
properties to be completed.
A heavy engagement was re
ported in progress near Wiehsien
; an important railway point.
No Leniency For
Tipsy Motorists
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Doc. 31, —No len
iency, was the watchword of the
police of scores of American cit
! ies as they prepared to crack
down on drunken and reckless
driving over the New Year holi
days.
Special motor patrols were or
dered into action in many com
munities, and police squads were
augmented in others.
The National Safety Council
asked law enforcement officials
“to damp down hard" on tipsy
drivers.
SHE'S A KNOCKOUT, thinks tVelterwei&l .
Barney Rosa as he greets his fiancee, pretty Pearl Scigel in Chicago.
The wedding date hasn’t been set. _ .,
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