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Volume 36. Number 228. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935._Per Copy Ten Cent?
Pope Pius Issues General Call Peace
APPOINTS LABOR LEADER TO HIGH POSITION
Chicago Cubs Beat Cardinals National League Crown
Agreement Made
Ending Soft Coal
Strike October 1
(By The Associated Press)
WASHISGTON, Sept 27, — Agee
ment to end the nationwide soft
coal strike next Tuesday, October
1st, was reached Thursday night
between producers and miners.
The union spokesman announced
that their men will return to work
on that date. John L R Lewis, Pres
ident of the United Mine Workers
said that the miners got everything
they asked, which included nine
cents a ton increase in pay for min
ers who dig and load coal; fifty
cents increase in pay for day men;
ten percent increase in pay for
yardage and dead work.
The strike was called last Sunday
night. The new compacts extends
to April 1, 1937.
Post Buried At
Memorial Park
Cemetery Today
(By The Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 27, —
Wiley Post was buried in Memor
ial Park Cemetery Thursday. Brief
services were attended only by the
family. Pine trees were planted at
the head and foot of the grave. A
permanent headstone will be erect
ed later.
POPE PIUS PLEADS FOR
PEACE IN AN ADDRESS
OVER RADIO THURSDAY
Etaly Allays Fear That Hostilities Will
Commence Immediately At Close Rainy
Rainy Season—Will Wait Two Weeks
(By The Associated Press)
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Sept. 27, — Pope Pius,
seated at the desk in his private library uttered words of feli
citation, prayer and peace, Thursday night, in a message
broadcasted to the Seventh National Eucharistic Congress,
assembled at Cleveland, Ohio.
He spoke in Latin, which was translated as it came over
the radio. His message was brief, but his voice trembled
with emotion as he referred “to the unspeakable, material
and moral havoc of wars, and their dire aftermath of tears
and sorrow.”
He implored profusely for “that peace so much desired
bv—Peace to those who are near and Peace to those who
are far.”
Ethiopian Frontiers Are To Be Watched
UNDATED, Sept. 27, — Fears that the close of the
rainy season which is practically at an end, will bring im
mediate commencement of hostilities between Italy and
Ethiopia, were allayed by the Italian government spokes
man today, who said that Italy would wait ten days or two
weeks before taking action.
The League of Nations decided to accept Selassie’s plea
for a commission of neutral observers to watch the borders
and frontiers of Ethiopia.
Vatican prelates interpreted the Pope’s address to
the Cleveland Eucharistic Congress, as a plea for peace speci
fically to Italy and Ethiopia.
MAYOR E. B. COLLINS FAIRBANKS
DESCRIBES VISIT BY AIRPLANE
TO IIERSCHEL ISLAND IN ARCTIC
Fairbanks Mayor, Who Spent Day
And Night on Herschel Island
Gives Information
“Herschel Island is a very pros
perous place’, Mayor E. B. Collins
said upon his return to Fairbanks
from an airplane trip to the Cana
dian outpost, which is at the mouth
of the Firth River in MacKenzie
Bay. Mayor Colins flew to Hersch
el Island recently with Gen. A D
McRae and Pilot A1 Monsen of the
Pacific Alaska Airways and flew
back to Fairbanks the next day.
“Eskimo families there travel ar
ound in schooners costing from
$2,500 to $5,000’, Mayor Collins con
tinued. Gasoline sells at $1 a gall
on They make their living by trap
ping in the winter, and last winter
the catch was good and the prices
for fox skins were high. Eskimos
there are healthy, intelligent and
thrifty.
They spend the summer travel
ing around in their schooners to.
villages on the Arctic coast. The
shore ice is now 30 miles out. The
night we were at Herschel Island.
Eskimos spent the night shooting
hair seal in the harbor for food. The
population of Herschel in the wint
er time consists of only traders
and policemen. In the summer, the
population numbers about f\fty whit
es and 200 Eskimos.
Has Interesting History
I was surprised to find that
Herschel Island is only about a mile
from the Canadian mainland, and
in area is about 9 by 12 miles.
Herschel has an interesting his
tory. It was formerly a base for
whaling ships which wintered in
the harbor. It was the custom for
a whaling ship to spend about four
years in the Arctic at a time. Ribs
of the ships and bones of the whal-!
es can still be seen on the beach.
The Mounted Police station has
four men with Inspector C E Car
nac in charge. Inspector G M Cur
leigh had just arrived there with his
wife to relieve Mr. Carnac, who, |
I
with Mrs. Carnac and their baby,
will leave for the south soon.
The Hudson Bay Store is the main
store there. It is managed by W P
Johnson whose wife is at Herschel
with him. The Hudson Bay Post
sells everything a person could wish
from motor parts to calico, cotton
sock, polar bear hides and seal oil.
It is a regular department store.
While we were there, R H Bonny
castle, district manager of Hudson
Bay Arctic Posts, was there on a
tour of inspection. Mr Bonnycastle
has a very pleasing personality. He
makes his headquarters at Winnipeg
Dr J A Urquarth, medical health
officer of the district, and his wife
called in at Herschel in their boat
while we were there.
Herschel Island is a veritable
flower bed with daisies, Buttercups,
forget-me-nots and many other
kinds of wild flowers growing in
profusion everywhere. No trees or
willows grow on the island. I brot
some of the forget-me-nots to Fair
banks and planted them in my gar
den here.
Last week Herschel experienced
the three most perfect days the Arc
tic has experienced in years, with
the sky clear and the sun’s rays
beating down.
The temperature rose to almost 50
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Chicago Cubs Win
National Pennant
From Cardinals
(By The Associated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27—The Chica
go Cubs won today from the St.
Louis Cardinals by a score of 6 to 2.
The sensational Chicago team came
to the end of a glorious baseball
j road by slugging the great Dizzy
! Dean into submission with fifteen
hits, winning the game and thereby
clinching the National Pennant,
with their twentieth straight victory
Derblay To Arrive
Nome And Sail For
I
States Sunday A. M.
Agent Jas. P. Daly of the Alaska
Line, is in receipt of a wire from
the captain of the steamer Derblay
stating that the vessel will arrive
Nome early Sunday morning. Sept
29th from Northern ports.
Agent Daly states that the vessel
will probably remain one hour be
fore departing for Seattle with pas
sengers and express.
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LABOR LEADER TO BE
DOMINANT FIGURE IN
IKY AT COOPERATION
"Coordinator Cor Industrial Cooperation"
Appointed l>\ President Roosevelt To
Brin* Industry Anil Labor Together
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, —George L. Berry, Labor
Leader was named today by President Franklin D. Roose
velt to supervise business conferences looking toward a
speedy recovery, and a slashing of unemployment.
In the creating of a new title, Berry was designated as
a “Coordinator for Industrial Cooperation".
Without comment, the White House made public this
morning, two executive orders apparently designed to en
courage voluntary trade agreements to replace the defunct
NRA Codes. One made Berry the dominant figure in the
new setup for bringing industry and labor together, occupy
ing a post apparently the equivalent to that formerly held
under the NRA by Hugh S. Johnson and by Donald R. Rich
berg.
The second order was that delegates to the Federal
Trade Commission are to have the power to include labor
provisions in its trade practice agreements. Officials said
that the lack of this authority had prevented the commis
sion from formulating a single code since the collapse of
the NRA, following the adverse opinion of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in judging it unconstitutional.
STRATOSPHERE THEORY BEING
WORKED OUT HAS THE HUMAN
ELEMENT AS BIGGEST PROBLEM
Planes Can Be Made But Fear
That Humans Can't Stand
Conditions
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Sept. 27, —Four
stratosphere planes—to fly above
30,000 feet, which is not strictly
stratosphere but close to its lower
edge—are planned secretly in three
countries.
Two are American, one French
and one German.
The engineering problems before
planes fly the stratosphere are de
finite, their solutions theoretically
are known.
There is another problem, little
discussed, the human one, or, as the
aviation experts say, the physiologi
cal limit. It was hoped the ascension
of the ill-fated Explorer II would
give a clue to this problem.
Supercharging Difficult
The biggest difficulty comes at
present in climbing to stratosphere
heights, or anywhere near. The
horsepower falls off in climbing more
rapidly than the density of the at
mosphere. If there were no cure
for that higher altitudes would be
impossible.
The cure is supercharging. This
(Continued on Page Three)
Senator McAdoo Is
Hurt In Car Crash
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27, —Sena
tor McAdoo received a fractured,
nose, bruised chest, and a fractur
ed left wrist when his car crashed
into a pole, after he had swerved
to avoid colliding with another ma
chine that ran through a stop sig
nal.
President Enroute
To Pacific Coast
For Month Visit
(By The Associated Press)
Enroute on the Rooevelt Special—
Sept 27 —President Roosevelt sped
across the middle west enroute to
the Pacific coast for a month’s vac
ation. His land trip ends at San
Diego, then a twenty day fishing
cruise and back from the Panama
Canal to Washington.
During the trip, the politically
wise look for pronouncements with
a bearing on the 1936 campaign
Finer Tonsetli Is
Appointed Clerk
Court Fairbanks
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 27, —Judge
Harry K. Pratt, Thursday appoint
ed Einar Tonseth, Clerk of the Dis
tict Court for the Fourth Division
to succeed Alton G Nordale who dis
appeared on a flight from Dawson
to Fairbanks, August 19th, with
John Lonz and wife and pilot Art
Hines.
U S Commissioner William N.
Growden, in his capacity of pro
bate judge appointed Mrs E L Dis
el of Toledo, Ohio, sister of Lonz,
as guardian of her brother’s es
tate, and named Percy Hubbard,
guardian of Hines’ estate. No trace
of the missing plane has ever been
found.
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