THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor.
RUSSELL MAYNARD, Manager.
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ICKES AND MINES.
Secretary Ickes hit the nail on the head recently. He
said, “The Bureau of Mines needs more money.”
Ickes drove home again when he said, “We are going
to make the bureau a scientific and not a political organiza
tion.”
This sounds like business. It will be great news to the
men who are struggling to develop Alaska’s mineral resour
ces to the maximum.
It is to be hoped that in his new mines bureau reform
work Mr. Ickes will remember that the geological corps of
Alaska was trimmed to the bone when it should have been
enlarged to help in the recovery plan.
It is to be hoped that the reform Mr. Ickes plans in the
mining service will be made comprehensive enough to pro
vide a real Bureau of Mines service for Alaska, either in a
direct federal organization or aid to a territorial organiza
tion.
Alaska has practically no mines department. The neigh
boring territory of Yukon has a well established mining ser
vice with geological parties working there annually and a
free government assay office. Every sample obtained by a
prospector in Yukon can be sent in and tested without the
payment of fees for each mineral for which the rock is as
sayed. In Alaska the prospector must pay—and that is a
handicap on the man who spends his last cent to get his out
fit and into the hills. It is the poor man who strikes mines
and makes them—not the big concerns operating on paying
-properties. The big concerns will buy good properties but
they do not go into the wilderness and find them.
In British Columbia are 19 mining engineers and other
experts in the mines bureau services. British Columbia has
thousands of new gold and mineral seekers where Alaska
counts them only in tens.
Alaska has only one official devoting his time to mining
and he is hedged about and harfdicapped with lack of funds
and authority.
Secretary Ickes is on the right track. Let him make his
bureau comprehensive, and the territories as Well as the
states, urge that the Alaska bureau be set up in a modern
way and Alaska, already giving Uncle Sam a gift of $20,
000,000 annually in gold will multiply that gift and do it
soon.—Anchorage Times.
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I the refugees from Yugoslavia were eighty babies. The Bel
| grade Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied that Serbian troops
had crossed the border: “There has been no mobilization
whatever of our troops on the frontier,” The spokesman as
serted. He stated: “The reports circulated are circulated
by Hungary in order to divert the world’s attention from
'Yugoslavia’s protest to the League against Hungary’s com
plicity in the murder of our King.” He discounted the pos
sibility of diplomatic relations being severed with Hungary.
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Dec. 10—France dramatically resumed the
discussion of the central European conflict before the Lea
gue Council, with a declaration by Premier Laval:
“In this grave affair France stands beside Yugoslavia.”
He continued amid an impressive silence: “In the killing of
King Alexander they sought to destroy the power that was
throttling their opportunities for the continuance of peace.
It depends on us as the Council of the League to see that
peace shall not be placed in peril.”
Previously a secret session of the Council approved the
dispatch of an international army to patrol the Saar terri
tory prior to the plebiscite.
UNDATED, Dec. 10—The Hungarian cabinet withheld
comment on Yugoslavia’s expelling of Hungarians, and turn
ed its attention to the relief of refugees with apparent will
ingness to allow popular indignation subside.
The position of Belgrade was to minimize the gravity of
the friction between the countries, with officials indicating
that a milder policy would be pursued in the expulsions.
Although it is planned to go ahead with the deporting pro
gram at Szeged, Hungary, the military command decided to
sacrifice that city rather than attempt to defend it even in
an attack by Yugoslavia. The city lies almost defenseless.
Officials denied that reinforcements were being rushed to
the border.
In Italy official sources interpreted the war speech of
Benes yesterday at Geneva as being neither warlike nor
menacing.
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