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VOLniK 34. No. 31. * H II K, ALASKA. SATURDAY, 'December 33, I ft S3 Per Copy 36cta. Per month |1.25
G01D $34.06—SILVER HUES * JUMP
FLOODS DEVASTATE
WASHINGTON STATE
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SEATTLE. Dec. 18, (AP) —
Storms lashed the Washington and
Oregon coast lines. Rain deluged
the Washington coast with Aber
deen and Hoquin emerging again
from the unprecedented high wat
ers. Five hundred had to be res
cued at Gray’s Harbor from the
borne sections.
Two to four feet of water flooded
two thousand homes. It is the
third consecu' ive high tide. One
of nine cities' rivers was hacked up
Kiri 1 farther by gales from the sea.
From midnight till noon yesterday
a eleven and one half foot tide
followed tile nine footer of the pre
vious night. Victoria was also hit
by high .tides. The coast guard
directed the rescue of persons mar
ooned at their homes in South
Aberdeen. The highways were
blocked. The main power plant |
i* out of order. Seventy five fam
ilies of tlie metropolis were order- .
ed to leave their homes. The city j
reservior is feared to be weaken- 1
1ng.
Port Orchard on the Oregon
coast was hit hard when their sev
entyfive thousand dollar dock wash '
<d on . Ten fishing boats were’
tossed mi the beach. The wires
are down to Astoria.- trees having
fallen across the Columbia River
Highway. _
HTORMN * CONTIM K IWfiATKl)
SBATTLK, Dev. 19. (AIM—Re
newed gales on land and s«a claim
e.d two more lives, disabled four
sh'ps and wrecked many small
craft and flooded cities. Winter
reached from Juneau to Southern
Idaho. Juneau registered, eight
below, the coldesi in flfteen years.
Snow in [daho imprisoned fourteen
autos.
A deckload of lumber was swept
off the freighter Losniar. She
was guided thru heavy aea» fcf
temporary steering gears and is
off the Oregon coast under convoy,
hoping to reach Columbia- today.
At Seattle the Admiral Cole is
a the mud llats where
a nurled by strong riptides,
i _ as she started for
Th Charles Wheeler
aground on the Desdemona
mouth of the Colum
The freighter Henry
Longview, her aft
quarter wrecked by the seas off
the Oregon coast.
Itchard Hillaire was killed and
an Lummi Indian in a road
crew was fatally injured by a
falling tree near Bellingham.
M key Fumar, and three Filip
inos were drowned at Port Angeles.
SEATTLE, Dec. 20, (API —
Damage mounted at points widely
separated as Western Oregon. Brit
ish Columb a and Eastern Wash
ington entered the fourth day of
the series of winter storms. The
cold wave continued at Juneau.
Three lives were lost in the north
west and fifty barns were wrecked
and herds of cattle posibly drown
ed. Rich farm lands are under
water at Tillamook, and the rich
dairy distirct is in an area of half
darkness as the power lines are
down. High tides whopped ashore
at Astoria and a land slide tied
up the Kootenay Bake ra'l line 1
for days.
At Vancouver, thousands of acres ;
in the sou li edge are under the ]
highest tide in a year whi£h broke i
throught the dikes on the Fraser !
R ver. Forty sheep and a num'ber j
of hogs were drowned in the Spo
kane cattle yards. Streets in the
southwest part are inundated. Mew
snow is falling in the western sec- i
r'on of Washington. The Belling- :
ham Harbor is full of logs and v
wieekage as the tides pounded the'
s'eamer Charles Wheeler, which is1
still fast in the sands of the is- i
land.
It. was ten below at .Juneau, the •
coldest since 1915. . Deaths were: i
Sam Brewer, killed by a falling
tree near Snoqualimie; Rieharo 1
Hillflire, an Indian fataly hurt !
'near Bellingham by a falling’ tree I
land N cky Fumar, a Filipino child ,
i drowned at Port Angeles,
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FRENCH HI*Y RING UNCOVERED
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PARIS, Dee. 20, (AP)—An Am-j
ericon man and his wife, Robert
iSwita, a traveling salesman of i
Beast Orange. New Jersey and*
j Mrs, Switz, formerly Marjorie
Tilley of New York, are among
ten suspects who are held on
char gens of complicity with a high
! international spy ring. allegedly
joperating in France. Anothei
I couple were arrested and were
described as naturalized Canadians
Benjamin Bercowitz. a merchant
and. his wife, Clara. Both were
born in Rumania. The prisoners,
including three women charged
with complicity, one of whom ia
the daughter of a former Paris
police commtsar, were seized by
raids in various parts of France,
after incriminatng documents had
been gathered by the counter es
ponage service.
SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR
SALE AT THE NUGGET OFFICF
SON HORN TO EMPRESS
OF JAPAN
TOKYO, Dec. 22. (AP)—A son
was born today to the Empress of
Japan. The long awaited crown
prince of the empire is destined
to carry on the succession ot‘ the
oldest dynasty in the world. He
|is the twenty-fifth mikado. Court
physicians announced that the em
j ["-ess and the princeling are do
it.ig well. The baby we'ghed sev
| en and one eighth pounds. The na
tion imediately began devout, cele
brations. There are four other
children to the royal pair, three
of whom ai« living are girls,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (AP)
President Roosevelt s nt a mes
sage of congratulations to the em
peror and Empress of Japan on
.the b'rth of the prince.
NOT KIDNAPPED,
JUST FORGOTTEN
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. (APt
Jesse L. Livermore, promnent
Wall Street operator ’’whose dis
appearance led to fears that he had
been kidnapped returned home
safedy after an absence of twenty
four hours. He said he awoke in
a midtown hotel apparently a vic
tim of amnesia.
MURDERED IN ARGUMENT
OVER I1RKAD
BOSTON. Dec. 22. (APt. - The
brutal slaying of eighteen-.vear-old
EThel Ktikerman who was found
dead behind a counter with a
butcher knife plunged thru her
throat, in a bake shop
was laid by police to an argument
over stale bread. It was learned"
that the girl sougth to sell a man
fresh bread when he asked for ten
loaves of stale bread.
SOITRDOTJOH STATIONERY FOR
SALE AT THE NUGGET OFFICE
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SENATE TO QUESTION
EDS El, FORD
VV ASHIiNOTON, J5e*T 20^ TAP)
—Senate investigators disclosed a
plan to call on Edsel Ford to in
quire into the current Detroit
Banking collapse.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 19. (AP)
—The idea of making direct gov
ernmental loans to industries
gained strength because of the
lack of new corporate and bank
financing from private sources.
HAVANA, bee. (9. (AP)—Seven
bombs exploded tonight ihid injur
ed four as soldiers and sailors pat
tolled the streets in an fforts to
tbrotile the new wave of violence
and bloodshed.
HAVANA. Dec. IS, (AP)—Count
ed six dead and thirteen wounded
hi the Cuba,, capital’s latest dis
orders and bloodshed. A hundred
Spaniards were rounded up and
put into a fortress charged with
participating in the outbreaks.^
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Hi*: You look good enough to eat.
She: I do eat,. Eet us go to the
NORTH POIiK for Xmas Dinner.
SILVER TO BE COINED
ON 50-50 BASIS
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WASHINGTON, Dec. t‘l, (AP)
--Roosevelt, Thursday night or
dered the government mints to
coin silver on a flfty-llfty basis
with producers. The President's
proclamation formally ratifying the
London Silver Amendement
provided that half the annual
production of twenty-four million
ounces lie returned in dollars to
producers and the other Via 1 f kep'
in the treasury in reserve. This
will give the price estimated at the
White House at sixty-four and one
half cents per ounce for silver us
compared with the current mar
ket price of forty three cents.
Roosevelt stipulated in the proc
lamation- that the “present ratio
of weight and finenss of silver
dollars to gold dollars shall for
the purposes of this proclamation!
i be maintained until changed by
further orders of proclamation.”
The proclamation is effective un
til January first. Thirty-eight
otfier silver producing nations
either have ratified the I^ondon
Agreement or expected to do so
soon. The advantages claimed by
[the propped silver program are a
: large increase in foreign trade,
[world stabilization of the price of
[silver at sixty-four and one half
cents, per ounce, and to increase
foreign buying power, especially in
the 'Orient and South America,
boost commodity prices, aid dom
estic mining industries. The proc
lamation applies only to newly
mined silver.
To save writing inters, mali a
copy of The Nome Nugget on plan*
DEPLORABLE MURDER'
OCCURS AT FAIRBAKS
KA.IHBAiN.KS. Dec. IS. (AIM
Thomas Koprovich, a farmer, aged
fifty-five was shot . and killed of
fic'als said by Larenee Kerraia. a
prospector, aged for y-five. Both
were, old, timers ,ol,the.i»toctoe^DK
feelings of long standing were
harbored between them. Kopro
v'ch was employed at a farm here..
Kerrais recently came from the j
Kandphna District,- Doth were
friends of Mr. and .Mrs. Michael
Agbaba. Koprovich was in the
Agba’ba home talking to Mrs, Ag
baba when Fermi* entered, spoke
a few words anil began shooting,
hitting Koprovich four times, kill
ng him instantly. Mrs. Agbaba
van >o the neighbors and phoned
MwrsteF “Fafflfh O’Connor who
found Ferrais in the room with the
body. Ferrais surrendered saying
"He was going to beat me up;
lie was too oig for me." O’Con
tror—said—KoprovTch was” unarmed.
Neither of them were married.
Ferrais was jailed and will be
charged with 'murder. Officials said.
S, S. PRINCE GEORGE
ABANDONED BA' CRKAV
SEATTLE. Dee. 22, (API -The
Canadian Nutional liner,, Prince
George was abandoned by her crew
about midnight after »he was
wrecked on the Vadao Rocks. Tw
elve pa wengers manned the life
boats and went ashore at. eleven
p.m. last night. Frantic calls for
assistance were sent within a short
time. Their plight was serious, but
the lifeboats found their way to
Anyox. four miles away. Baggage
was also landed.
The vessel was badly punctured
and number one and two holds
were not expected to float the
vessel without assistance said1
Captain N. MoClean in a message
shortly after the distress mess
ages. Two rescue ship, the cut
ter, Alert at Ketchikan and the
George’s sister ship, the Prince
John at Prince Rupert put out.
The Prince John went to pick up
passengers and continue the Geo
rges schedule north to Anyox.
The Prince George left Vancouver
Monday with forty passengers.
All but twelve of them disembark
ed at port6 enroute. Among the
passengers was Thomas Louden,
SuperlnVendant of the Pacific
Coast for the Canadian National
Steamship Co.
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