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VOL. 36 NO. 52 NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Johnson Says “Kingfish” is Demagogue
$50,000 ALASKA INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COM.
Death List And Casualties Mounting Grecian Civil War
LATE DAYS OF SESSION
SEE MANY BILLS BEING
PASSED IN TERRITORY
(By The Associated Press')
JUNEAU, March 5th—Without a dissenting vote, the
Senate passed the House memorial to congress urging a
protective tariff against foreign pulp products.. Two other
house measures providing for the re-establishing of aban
doned telegraph stations and service; and an appropriation
of fifteen thousand dollars for shelter cabins, were also pass
ed by the senate.
The proposed two million dollar bond issue was defeat
ed in the House yesterday afternoon when it was indefin
itely postponed.. An amendment fixing the gold tax at
seventy-five cents an ounce on gross production over seven
hundred and fifty ounces, was adopted by the House
The Green mining tax bill which originally provided
for a graduated tax from two and one-half to five percent
net income bill is expected to raise approximately a quarter
of a million dollars in revenue annually.
The Nerland bill to establish five directors on a school
board, and an appropriation of sixteen thousand dollars for
the construction of a school at Craig, were passed by the
house.. Other measures okayed include House memorials
in support of the Alaska highway, the establishment of an
air base in Alaska, and the creating of a department of
mines..
JUNEAU, March 5—Making all industrial plants sub
ject to the act, the Lingo-Green workmen’s compensation
bill, patterned after the Washington State plan, was pushed
through the house, setting up an Industrial Accident Com
mission with a commissioner’s salary set at five thousand
dollars yearly, and he. to be appointed by the Governor
An appropriation of fifty thousand dollars from territorial
funds was included in the bill to carry out the provisions of
the act. The auditor and treasurer are to make up the re
mainder of the commission.
Carrying certain amendments, the measure goes to the
senate.. It provides that upon the death of an alien with
no dependents the difference between funeral expenses and
a hundred and ninety-five dollars, the amount allowed for
death, will go to the old age pension fund
The payment for the death of a citizen is forty-five hun
dred dollars with nine hundred additional for each child
up to nine thousand dollars; while sixty percent of that
amount will be allowed in the case of the death of a non
citizen survived by a wife and minor child. The complete
schedule of injuries and the amounts to cover each case
were fixed, while the rates were left to the commission.
Bonus Question
Near a Deadlock
In U. S. Cong ress
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 5th—The
bonus is near a deadlock in the com
mittee over the question as to how
the certificates are to be paid..
President Roosevelt’s leaders set
out on an undisclosed course of ac
tion which they predicted would
bring a quick end to the deadlock
over the work relief bill.
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Chester Milligan
And Wife Arrive
Arriving today by plane from the
states were Chester Milligan and
wife, the former Agnes Rdss. Mr
Milligan is dredge master on the new
dredge at Sunset Creek, and return
ed to Nome early to place the boat
in condition for an extensive sum
mer’s digging.
Wrangell has appointed the First
National Bank of Seattle as its
agent to sell $40,000 bonds, issued
for municipal projects including the
waterworks..
CHILD’S STOMACH AND INTESTINES
OCT PLACE DOCTOR READJUSTS
(By The Associated Press)
(ALL HiVbn Mass., March a—
Little Alycc Jane McMenry’s upside
down stomach was set right by a
surgical operation today.
The doctor said she has a good
chance for recovery Dr Phillmon
E Truesdalc found that the stomach,
intestines, spleen and appendex
were in the chest, compressing the
left lung He said he had planned
to transfer them to their rightful
position over a long period of time,
but he discovered that the appendix
was near the heart level, so he corn
pleted the transfer in a single op
oration to save the child's life
Surgeons said that the success o
the operation depends on whethe
the abdomen can adjust itself to ac
comodate the organs Enroute t
the operating table Alyce sang
stanza from "The man on the Fly
ing Trapeze."
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Civil War Greece
Continues Death
Lists Increasing
(Rv The Associated Press)
ATHENS, March 5—Government
bombing planes, and heavily armed
loyal troops smashed into the mass
ed rebel forces in the Struma area
of Salonica
Official reports of heavy fighting
indicated a speedily mounting cas
ualty list, in the Greece Civil War
A concerted drive began after the
rebels were given one day in which
to surrender.
All business is at a standstill, as
the whole country is in the throes
of war..
Jealousy Causes
Murder of Girl
Killer Suicides
(By The Associated Press)
OAKLAND, March 5—Police said
that Walter Norris, twenty-five
years old, shot Miss Jean Marie
Stahle. aged eighteen, a Mills Col
lege student, and then suicided
Jealousy was given as the cause
for the shooting
Justice Holmes Is
Death Is Pending
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 5—Doc
tors this morning reported that for
mer Justice Holmes was sinking
rapidly, and that death was believ
ed to be but a matter of hours .
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Hitler Appears
To l>e Offended
Aetion Londoi
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 5 -Hitler post
poned the scheduled conference tf
day with Sir John Simon "on m
count of a cold," but Berlin dipli
matic circles expressed the opinio
that Hitler was offended by ycstei
day’s British white paper to parlia
ment which was a plea for an in
crease in military expenditures, am
alluded to Germany’s re-arming
CHAMPION OF
TOM MOONEY
COLLAPSES
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 4—Fre
mont Older, aged 78, editor of th
Call-Bulletin and a noted champioi
of Tom Mooney, who was convictei
of the Preparedness Day parad
bombing 1916, collapsed at th
wheel of his automobile and died
at Stockton, California, yesterday
He had taken his wife and ,
friend to the flower show there
Older was active for more than lift;
years in newspaper work
City Clerk Walsh
Returns To Nomt
City Clerk M J Walsh of Nome re
turned today by plane after attend
ing meetings of the Territorial Boari
of Education of which he is a mem
ber representing the Second Divi
sion. While in Juneau, where thi
meetings were held, Mr Walsh wa
especially active in the interests o
Second Division affairs coming be
fore the legislature.
HUEY AND HUGH ARE
[NO! N COMBAT OVER
DIFFICl TIES POLITICS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 5—fluey Long, hearing that
, Hugh S. Johnson, had denounced him and Father Coughlin
5 as demagogues appealing to the “lunatic fringes,” promptly
_ started “gunning” for the former Blue Eagle chieftain.
An assailant with him was Bernard Baruch, known as
the man who wrecked three administrations
“Those wreckers from Wall Street ruined Wilson, Hoo
ver and Theodore Roosevelt," said Johnson, to newsmen in
: New York He denounced Long and Coughlin as “Pied
Pipers” preaching revolution and holding the nation had
but two choices, to return to solidarity or in following Presi
dent Roosevelt and the dictatorship it would end in chaos.
He made the statements against Long and Coughlin at
a dinner given in his honor .
' American Trinkets
Are Re-Melted For
- Their Cold Content
i
fP.v The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 4th—Th(
biggest gold strike of last year, thi
j government disclosed today, was ii
old trinket boxes, were Americans
keep their family valuables.
Since the government revaluec
gold at thirty-five dollars an ounce
the mints revealed that so many old
etc., poured in, that the traffic ir
rings, watches, watch chains and
, scrap gold rose from relative ob
| -runty to a big business
Last year it passed the one hun
died million mark with old watches
leading the list. One winner cup of
- the Kentucky Derby was turned in,
' but the year and name of the owner
t were withheld.
I
Seattle May Ask
1 Alaska To Name
Waterfront Ave.
A proposal to have Alaskan cities'
commercial clubs submit names for
i Seattle's waterfront street has been
made to the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, reports the Seattle
Times, “because of the Territory's
■ great contribution to Seattle's mari
■ time commerce."
1 Captain A E Lathrop, Cordova in
• dustrialist, who was at the meeting
• at which the proposal was made
> commented in appreciation, “I can
i remember the Seattle waterfront
• when it didn't amount to much and
• so do a great many Alaskans who
helped make it what it is today. It
i
2 McGee Airways
Planes Bring Six
Passengers Nome
r
Pilots Chet McLean and Johnny
, Moore, flying for the McGee Air
, ways of Anchorage arrived at Nome
today from Nulato in two planes of
the company carrying six passen
gers.
As passengers were Grover Andre,
Chas. Gustafson, Albin Oberg, Hel
ge Johnson, Carl Heitz and Elis
Wiekstrom—all of whom were flown
from Anchorage to Nome Due to
adverse weather conditions the plan
es were forced to lay over three
days at Nulato before completing
their flight The passengers came to
Seward on the last boat and from
there to Anchorage by train
The McGee pilots stated they ex
pected to make another flight into
Nome about the last of the week,
weather permitting. They took off
on their return flight to Anchorage
late this afternoon
ought to have a name that will
mean something.” ,
Earl E Knight, editor of the Alas
ka Weekly, was also at the meeting.
He added to Captain Lathrop's re
mark, “Much good will between
Seattle and Alaska should follow
Alaska's choice of a name for the
waterfront that the Territory has
helped to develop and which has
helped to develop the Territory
And if I know the sourdoughs, they
will choose a real name, not some
thing like Cosmos Quay—phoey ”
At any rate. Seattle has never
been able to agree on a name for its
waterfront thoroughfare and an ap
peal may come north to find one
that will "designate it in a way that
will reflect the spirit of the north
west pioneers and make it famous
around the world.”