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VOL. 36. No. 287. . NOME, ALASKA, Monday, December 9, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
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Demand Mussolini Show His Hand
LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE IN SESSION
Five Year Air
craft Program
Is Recommended
■ —
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 9, —A
five-year aircraft buying
program intended to near
ly quadruple the U. S. Ar
m’s fighting plane strength
by 1941, was recommend
ed today by Secretary
Dern.
The War Department
head proposed the annual
purchase of 800 planes of
all types during the next
five years, in his annual
report, holding that the
present air force is far
short of reasonable require
ments.
He estimated that this
program would equip the
Army with three thousand
combat plane at the end of
the five year period.
It now has 1,196 planes
of which only 838 are com
bat, the remainder being
observation, training, and'1
transport ships.
There are 314 unde r con
struction now. Other re
recommendations included
the maintenance of a regul
ar army the minimum
strength to be 14,000 offi
cers and 165,000 enlisted
men; the maintenance of d
National Guard minimum
strength 210,00 an increase
of 15,000, and increasing
from twenty to thirty thou
sand the minimum number
of organized reserve offic
ers to be given two weeks
annual training; the enroll
ment of fifty thousand
youths annually in the Cit-j
izens military training
camps. Thirty thousand
were enrolled last sum
mer.
Fails Rob Police
Sentenced to Jail
For Two Years
(By The Associated Press)
Wahoo, Nebraska, Dec. 9
—Judge L. S. Hastings of
Wahoo, Nebraska, recently
sentenced William Dryden
of Missouri Valley, Iowa, to
two years in the men’s re
formatory at Lincoln for
breaking and entering. The
youth pleaded guilty to an
intention to rob a state
highway patrol station. I
NAVAL CONFAB i
UNDER WAY IN
LONDON, NOW
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Dec. 9, —
Stanley Baldwin, Prime
Minister of Great Britain
today welcomed delegat
es to the International
Naval Conference in Lon
don, asking the powers
to yield some demands to
retain naval limitations,
in order to avert the cal
amity of unrestricted
naval competition.
Norman H Davis, Chief
of the American delegation
presented President Roose
velt’s suggestion for a pro-1
gressive reduction in sea
armaments, proposing a to
tal tonnage decrease of 20
percent below the existing
treaty tonnage.
Admiral Osami Nagano,
Chief of the Japanese del
egation urged a just and
fair agreement for disarm
ament, advancing his na
tion’s demand for equality
with Great Britain and the
United States.
The conference is called
with Great Britain, United
States, Japan, France and
Italy, the five main sea
powers represented, to
seek a new treaty replac
ing the Washington-London
Naval Limitation Pacts, ex
piring in 1936, as a result
of Japan’s denunciation.
Turkey Cost 8
Cents A Pound
1853 Record Says
(By The Associated Press)
Utica, New York, Dec. 9,
—Things were different in
Horatio Seymour’s heyday,
a bill rendered him just be
fore he took office in 1853
reveals, when the Weaver
building in Itica, where Sey
mour had a law office w^s
razed. Prices listed includ
ed 8 cents a pound for tur
keys, eggs at 12% cents a
dozen, potatoes 31 cents a
bushel and butter for 14
cents a pound.
ORDERS TAKEN FOR
XMAS CARMELS UP TO
DEC. 20—Delivered Xmas
Eve. Plain 75cts; With nuts
$1.00 lb.—Hank Miller.
WORLD GIRDLING AIRLINES
AS DREAM OF VISIONARIES
NOW ONLY MONTHS AWAY
(By The Associated Press)
San Francisco, Dec. 9,
—With the completion of
the first round trip of the
Pan American Airways
China Clipper to Manila,
with airplane, passengers
and express, the time is
very near when you can
step into an airline office
and buy yourself a ticket
for a flight around the wor
ld.
Except for a short span
to connect Dutch or Brit
ish lines at Java or Singa
pore with the new Am
UPHOLDS AAA
IN SPEECH AT
CHICAGO MON.
(By The Associated Press)
Chicago, Dec. 9, —
President Roosevelt de
clared today that politi
cal profiteers arc seeking
to stir up city people in
opposition to the New
Deal's farm program. He
sahl ihe* program was
aimed to “slop the rule
of footh and claw that
threw the farmers into
bankruptcy or turned
them into serfs.
While addressing the Am
erican Far Bureau Federa
tion he said, “Farm income
has increased nearly three
billion dollars in the past
two and a half years.”
endorsing the new Can
adian trade treaty he stat
ed: “Agriculture and the
farm, from being crucified
by the agreement as some
have told you, are actually
to gain from it.”
Evidently striking at op
ponent contending that the
AAA is an unwarranted en
croachment of federal pow
er into the domain of J,Jie
states, the President said
that 48 states, acting sep
arately, are powerless to
attain a balanced agricul
ture.
Picturing the whole Am
erican economy as a seam
less web, he declared that
higher farm prices conferr
ed net benefits on consum
ers, though he hit many of
the retail prices as too high.
erican line at Manila or
Canton, China, the world
is completely girdled by
airplane lines running on re
gular commercial schedul
es. Your annual two-week
vacation will contain more
than enough flying hours to
allow you to see the whole
round world.
All this has been hap
pening so fast that it has
slipped past many people.
Remember that only eight
years ago Lindbergh’s mag
nificent New York-Paris
flight showed the world
that trans-ocean air lines
were just around the cor
ner.
Quietly and efficiently
the corner has been turned
almost before we knew it.
In a matter of months, fly
ing around the world will
have become not the daring
stunt of an ace flyer, but a
mere matter of buying a
ticket.
fiO Hours to Manila
On its first Manila flight
the China Clipper carried
no paying passengers, but
as two more sister ships
come into service and fur
ther tests have been added
to the already exhaustive
preparations, the mere buy
:ng of a ticket will take you
from the Golden Gate to
Manila in 6d hours, and
very shortly thereafter, six
hours farther on to China,
probably to Canton.
Efforts are being made
to connect this new Ameri
can line direct from Man
ila to both the British lin
es at Singapore and the
Dutch lines at Surabaya,
Java. But in the meantime,
when the American line is
extended to Canton, it will
be very close to connection
with an existing British
line now running between
Hong Kong and Singapore.
Network over Europe
This short gap once clos
ed, a magnificent array of
almost parallel British,
Dutch and French airways
swings west across India
and the near East to Eur
ope. That continent is al
ready well net-worked with
Russian, German, French,
Dutch and British lines.
(Continued on Page Two)
UNITED FRONT
WANTS A SHOT
DOWN AT ONCE
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Dec. 9, — A
new Franco-British unit
ed front demanded that
Mussolini show his hand!
A speedy Ethiopian
peace or a possible Euro
pean war. informed It
alian sources said, would
hang on Mussolini’s reac
tion to peace proposals
drafted in London and
Paris.
The terms for ending hos
tilities, were described by
French officials as going
beyond anything previous
ly offered the militant dict
ator, to force a showdown.
Britain made marked
concession, and the events
of the next 36 hours are
expected to determine the
duration of the campaign.
Franco-Brit ish solidarity
is extended far beyond the
Ethiopian conflict, diplo
matic sources in Paris said
today.
Addis Ababa dispatches
tonight said that 850 Ethio
pians and seven hundred
Italian Somaliland warriors
were killed in a battle nor
th of Dolo, on the southern
frontier. Four Italian air
planes again flew over the
city of Dessye, but dropped
no bombs.
Wgi\(Ts Largest
kLve lie move ti
j
From Oven Sun.
(By The Associated Pre^sl
Corning, New York, Dec.
9, — The two-hundred-in
ch wide “eye,” for the wor
ld’s largest telescope, was
removed today from the ov
en where it has been cool
ing for the past year and
a day, at the Corning Glass
Works.
It was officially pronounc
ed a success, although the
face was unexpectedly
rough.
It was said however that
the pits in the surface could
be removed by polishing. It
is to be sent to Pasadena
soon.
Newspaper advertising
will develop new business
for you.
Spanish Cabinet
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T> • II*.
resigns After
Oily 2 Months
J
(Bv The Associated Press)
Madrid, Dec. 9, — The
Spanish cabinet resigned
today after being only two
months in power.
Joaquin Chapaprieta who
changed the cabinet around
October 29th, turned in his
resignation to President Al
cala Zamora his immediate
chief.
A political controversy ov
er the national budget for
1936. was given as the rea
son for his resignation.
Airport Tidbits
Pilot Hans Mirow of the
Mirow Air Service return
ed to Nome this afternoon
from Fairbanks with a lar
ge load of express, includ
ing a Spark Oil Burner
stove for B J MeConaghy.
contractor and builder.
Pilot Mirow is scheduled
to hop off again for FaV
banks with several pass
engers from Nome bound
for the States on business.
Pilot Chet Brovn of the
N ort hern A: r T ransport
hopped off from Moms this
morning and made a round
trip flight to St Michael.
Deputy Marshal Joe
Crabtree was a round trip
passenger, returning with
two prisoners from the St.
Michael area.
Phot Frank Whaley flew
into Nome today and depart
a .or Go. or in again with
lu tgoing mail to contact
rhc Pacific Alaska Airways
plane at that point. The con
tact was made and and pi 1
at Whaley return..; from
Go'-ovin with th null la.e
this afternoon.
Pilot Frank Whaley of
the Nome Airways yester
day flew 6 tons of freight
from Isaacs Point located
on Norton Bay, to Dime
Landing.
Pie has been busy in the
Golovin section hauling
freight for some time. Fri
day 2 tons were flown from
Golovin to Dime Landing,
and another 2 tons on Sat
urday according to the re
port.
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