Oldest Newspaper In Alaska. “The News of the Day In Pictures Member of The Associated Press.
DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETIER NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION.
NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE-ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY / V1AT1QN_
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 3». No. 83. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, APRIL 10, 1937. Per Copy 15ct«
GMC Is Fighting Strike In Canada
FIENDISH COMBAT IS RAGING AT CAPITOL
Secretary Hull is Severally Criticized For Opinion
END OF RUNAWAY TRUCK’S MAD DASH, _
!___ — - —K
A large truck abandoned when is brakes failed to nold dash?d wildly down > steep hilt in Baltimore.
Hilled one peisoo, mimed mo e» and tore awc*y several stone walls uetore it came to rest under the
porch of d house as snown jjove. < Associated Press Photo)
Police Massed
Toronto As GM
Ready Start Up
(By The Associated ni"ss)
OSH AW A, Ontario, April 10
Provma'al authorities massed
police reserves nearby Toronto,
ready for instant action as Gen
eral Motors of Canada, prepared
to resume partial operations in
its strike bound plant.
Premier Miiteholl Hepburn, op
ponent of the CIO. declared that
government protection will be
provided, if necessary, when the
factory parts of departments re
opened. Extra police will not be
sent unless “trouble devO'opes &
gets beyond the control of the
municipality. ”
Hepburn sai.d that Hugh Thomp
son the CIO organizer, said that
t.he General Motors must “sign
the agreement to recognize the
UAWA before it builds another
oar in Canada.”
A representative of thirty sev
en hundred strikers saiid: any
worker wishing to enter the plaint
may do so, but he will be consid
ered a strike breaker, whether he
thinks so or not.
MINERS AND DREDGE MEN
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
Increase Freight
Rates Apply this
Section As Well
Tine Board of Directors of the
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce held its meeting yes
terday pursuant to the postpone
merit on April 5th, pending the
reply from the Alaska Steamship
Company regarding present rais
es in freight and passenger rates.
The reply is self exp amatory:
Seattle Apr 8 1987
NWA C of C Nome.
Yours sixth regarding increas
ed mates effective February 15th.
We made general increase appro
ximately one dollar ton more or
Less on all freight ^movement
southeastern and southwestern Ai
aska also later similar advances
in joint rates with Alaska Rail
road and Copper River railway
and White Pass route also rates,
to Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay
and Bering Sea and the Arctic,
similarly advanced.
Cannery and salbery freight,
canned salmon salted fish mining
{ supplies 'and ore included.
These general freight advances
.and relative adjustments in pass
enger fares absolutely essential
to keep pace with general in
creases in operating costs due to
(increasing wages and overtime
i pay and number of personnel
afloat and ashore forced upon
steamship operators by union
(Continued on Page Four)
Fishing Interests
Criticize Hull for
Stand on Fishing
(Bv The Associated Press!
SEATTLE, April 10—Salmon
Packing interests and the Ameri -
can Fishermen, criticized Secre
tary HrfJs statement minimizing
the word 'probable' that Japanese
fishermen were invading North
Pacific watiers.
Bert McGovern, a salmon brok
er, said: “Hull shouldn't be con
tent with ‘believes’, that this is
a serious situation, he should
take a firm stand that the Japan
ese should agree to stay entirely
oiut of the Northern grounds."
Louis Mostad, secretary of the
Alaska Fishermen’s Union, criti
cized Hufl's statement as: him -
possible and indecisive; we know
that the Japanese have and are
already invading our waters—
they hafTe invaded before and are
planming to invade again this
year with a fleet of fishing ves
sels and floating canneries. The
entire industry will crumble if
Secretary Hull doesn’t change
hits ideas”.
FOR SALE—Two story house
(furnished or unfurnished) Price
reasonable. Inquire at Calkins
Shoppe.
You can save $2.00 by
vance for the Nome Daily
Nugget. Do it now !
I
Reasons Why The j
Nome Federal hid
Judged too High
Bids on tiie construction of the
Federal Build mg scheduled fori
Nome were opened March 23ird.!
Three contracting firms had filed)
bids for the construction of the'
building. These firms and the'
amount of their respective bids'
were as fol'lows:
Hansen Construction Company,
Seattle, Washington, $469,000.
McDonald Construction Com
pany cf St. L.ouis. Mo., $518,422.
Jas I. Barnes Company. Spring
field, Illinois, $526,000.
the amount ot me lowest Din.
which was made by the Seattle
firm, is more than $100,000 in ex
cess of the funds available for|
construction. The amount set up
by the Government for the bui'-d 1
i'ng was $425,000. However, this
figure was the total amount for
'he building complete with nec
essary equipment for the several
Federal cffioes that will occupy
the building. After making res
ervations for purchases of post
office equipment, jail equipment,
superintendence of the building,
and other -items not included in
construction, plans were drawn
for the building to. cost approxi -
mately $375,000. which was the
available balance.
This large discrepancy in the
amount of the bids and the esti
mated cost of construction tits be
lieved to be largely due to in
creases in costs that have taken
place since the building was plan
nod. That some of these costs
have increased since formal bids
were filed by the contracting com
parties is indicated by the report
that two of the bidders recently
telegraphed the Treasury Depart
ment and raised the amount of
their bids above that quoted
when originally filed. The expla
nation for this being that labor
costs had increased 20 per cent,
cost of materials had risen 15 par
cent, and transportation charges
had increased about 10 per cent.
Delegate Dimond said that the
difference in the amount and that
which wiill be required to proper
ly construct the building is so
great that there is little likeli
hood that plans for construction
can be revised down suflftaieeitly
to bring the cost -within the am
ount of money now set up for
the project, but expects that it
wi'il be necessary to have addi
tional funds allotted for the build
ing. The Delegate said that he
hoped that funds can be secured
soon and that a contract may be
(Continued on Page Three)
Terrific Battle j
Gates of Madrid
Insurgents Govt
(Bv The Associated Press)
MADRID, April 10—1The gov
ernment's major counter offen
sive to break the Insurgents grip
on the Madrid Province, brought
forth a terrific combat to the
very doors of the city. Three
thousand of General Francisco
Franco’s men were reported cau
ght in the machine gun trap in
the city by cross fire from govern
ment troops. General Jose Mk»
ja’s men are holding main lines
of the Insurgents, whiich appear
ed for a long time to be menaced
by shattering fi~e of massed infan
try, artillery and planes.
An Associated Press correspon
dent saw government artillery
men shoot five out of six six-inch
shel's squarely on the roof of a
strtegically located building
Canada Favors
Halibut Treaty
With The U. S.
(By The Associated Press'
OTTAWA, April 10—The Cana
dian Senate approved the Cana
da-United States Halibut Treaty
which was s gned in Ottawa Jan
uary 29th. The pact is designed
to preserve Halibut fisheries in
the Northern Pacific and Bering
Sea areas. The treaty previously
passed the House of Commons
and only awaits Royal assent by
the Governor General, which is
the usual formality, that remains
to complete the ratification
Ford Charged
Labor Strikes
Not Sincere
(By Tlie Associated Press)
WAYS, Georgia. April 10th—
Henry Ford said, that the Ford
Motor Comany ml',! demonstrate
“wages, productions and compe
tition such as never was seen be
fore, as soon as--the current strike
, disturbances subside, and also
said it was a war of seeking fin
anciers backing labor unions.
Ford further said his company
has been holding down production
so as not to taike advantage of
strike beset conditions. He also
said: “We are all workers togeth
er, the men and I. Our company
pays the best wages it can and
J always hats.”
Scientists Out
After Bubonic
Plague Germs
(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY April 10th
—Armed with, among other thin
gs, shotguns and rifles, scientists
are setting out in five western
dates to catch the bacillus pest is
The arms are not to be used
agaitnst the germ which causes bu
bonic plague, but against the ro
dents carrying them.
Director of a state laboratory’ E
II. Brnmhill said bubonic germs
were known to bave infected ro
dents in all western states.
He said “liin Utah only rodents
inhabiting mountains and the
foothills are known to carry the
germs but it is feared mice and
Other small animals on towns
and cities will swn be infected.
The laboratories will be park
ed along roadsides and autopsies
will be performed upon andmaks
to serve as a basis for rodent
control activity."
COAST BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Associated P’ess)
Missions 15. San Diego 1
Los Angeles 2. Sacramento 1
Oakland 5, Seattle 8 10 innings
San Francisco 11, Portland 5
Hospital Notes
One hundred and nine person*,
have undergone the X-ray tes's
for tuberculosis tod ate, and about
two hundred have been examin
ed by the skin tests, in was learn
ed today, from the Maynard Col
limbus hospital, where Dr. Cars
well from Juneau and Dr Mar
coni of Nome are conducting tu
bercuIosi's examinations.
Tomorrow children of the pub
lic schools will be examined. And
any adults who care to take the
tests are also envifed to present
themselves at the hospital. Ex
am iin at ions will! continue from 9
a.m. on, lit was stated.
Pred Bourdon is convalescing
from an appendicitis operation.
Miss Jcwephiine Kayhj is receiv
ing medical treatment at the hos
pital.
John Ebberle is in the hospital
for medical treatment.
Jimmy Kealliher and H. E.
Moon’s condition remains about
the same.
Subscribe for the Nugget