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VOL. 37. No. 58. NOME, ALASKA, Monday, March 9, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
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France to Force German Troops out of Rhine Land
Johnny Allen
Wins Derby
At 1123 m p h
(By The Associated Press)
Fairbanks, March 9th —
Old time dog team drivers
and race officials agreed
that Johnny Allen’s nine
dog team was winner of the
Fairbanks Derby and the
thousand dollar purse. He
established a new Alaska
record for the first thirty
mile heat at an average
speed for the distance of
14.23 miles an hour against
Leonard Seppala’s recogniz
ed mark of 14.26 an hour,
established in ’26 at Nome.
After winning the first
two heats easily, Allen
came near disaster in the
final run yesterday when
Rip, his lead dog stumbled
in a hole and injured his
shoulder. He rode the last
twenty-two miles in the
sled. Allen’s total time is
six hours, thirty nine min
utes, eleven seconds. Sec
ond is Harold Woods of
Rampart in six hours fifty
four minutes seventeen sec
onds and third Berman Kok
rines of Nulato in six hour*
fifty six minutes twenty
one seconds.
100,000 French &
50,000 Germans
Rhine Frontier
&
(By The Associated Press)
Metz, France, March 9—
The French and Germans
are facing each other across
the Rhine -frontier and in
cidents are feared by the
officers who said that some
places are within machine
gun distance of each other.
There are a hundred thou
sand French in under
ground fobts and fifty thou
sand Germans on the front
ier. Swift French pursuit
planes were ordered to
force down or identify all
aircraft aloft over the front
ier in a determined effort
to end all flights of German
observation planes.
Attention Odd Fellows
Special meeting Monday
night March 9th, at 7
o’clock, business of import
ance.
Norvin W. Lewis,
Secretary
Stanford And U.
ofW. to Play For
Hoop Champion
(By The Associated Press)
Palo Alto, March 9th —
Stanford won the southern
division coast conference
Basketball Championship
Saturday night, defeating
the University of Southern
California thirty-nine to
thirty-six. Stanford will
meet the University of
Washington here next week
end in a three game playoff
for the conference champ
ionship. The Huskies won
the northern Division cham
pionship, taking two final
games from Oregon State.
Washington won the cham-.
pionship in a thirty nine to
.hirty victory, Friday night
and defeated Oregon State
again Saturday night, twen
ty five to nineteen.
Germany Cele
brates Rejection
Locarno Treaty
(By The Associated Press)
Berlin, March 9 — A na
tionwide celebration in re
jection of the Locarno pro
hibition of the re-miiitariza
tion of the Rhineland bol
stered Hitler against the
agitation arising around
Germany.
England Warns
Germany Against
Any Hostlities
(By The Associated Press)
London, March 9 — An
thony Eden told the House
of Commons that he was
thankful to say that there
is no reason to suppose that
the “present German action
implies any threat of hos
tilities,” but warned Ger
many that any attack up
on France or Belguim in
violation of the Locarno
Treaty would force Britain
to assist those nations.
Basketball Tonight
Tonight at the Native
Gym a double header bas
ketball game will take
place. Come early and
get your favorite seat. j
FAMOUS KOUGAROK SECTION
BACK OF NOME TO BECOME
BIG PRODUCER IN THE FUTURE
The Kougarok Consolidated Placers
Company To Operate On Uarge Scale
Probably in no part of A1
aska however, is there
more reason for genuine
satisfaction than can be
found in the famous old
Kougarok country of the
Seward Peninsula. This
section has been a steady
producer of placer gold
since the early days when
Nome was Queen of the
•Bering Sea section, and
judging from the results
that are being made thru
the introduction of modern
equipment, it is just get
ting started.
Since its discovery back
in the early days of the
present century, transport
ation has been the curse of
the Kougarok, or rather a
lack of any means of trans
portation, but today the air
plane and the giant “cat”
with trailer attached has
solved the transportation
problem, and this rich coun
try is apparently on the
verge of coming into its
own.
Probably the outstanding
organization in the develop
ment of the Kougarok is the
Kougarok Consolidated Pla
cers Co., Inc., formed in
Seattle for the purpose of
taking over the holdings in
the form of stakings, leases
and options held in that
district by Carl Hallberg,
pioneer mining man and
dredge master of that sec
tion.
Carl Hallberg has been in
terested in the Kougarok
since he first visited the dis
trict in 1928. At that time,
and after looking fhe poss
ibilities he thought he saw
an opporunity, provided
that the handicap of excess
ive cost of transportation
could be overcome, and be
ing somewhat farsighted,
he anticipated that this con
dition would improve soon.
He took over an old
dredge that had been used
by the Bering Dredging
Corporation and patched it
up so that it would handle,
gravel. This dredge had
been used in the bed of the
river merely handling thaw
ed ground and had made no
attempt to get into the
benches where the gravel
was still frozen.
Hallberg got the dredge
in operation and in 1931
ran 48 days cleaning up
$33,000. This proved to
him that there were dis
tinct possibilities in the
Kougarok. The following
year with a small hydraulic
plant on Merritts Gulch, he
took out 300 ounces and
started acquiring ground
along the Kougarok.
When the Kougarok Con
solidated Placers. Inc., was
formed, Hallberg turned in
his entire lot of holdings to
the company taking stock
for the same, and last year
the company sent a crew of
men in-o the section to thor
oughly test out their hold
ings. They flew eleven
plane loads of supplies and
equipment including air
plane placer drills, gasoline
grub and men and did it all
for the cost of what one
trip from Fairbanks to
Nome and back would have
cost in the early days of
Alaskan aviation.
They started drilling on
July io,th with Charlie
Holky in charge of the drill
and three weeks later on
the arrival of Barry Keown
a second shift was put on
the drill and by fall had
bedrocked 166 holes with
good pay in 90 per cent of
the holes. Spurred on by
the success of their drilling
tests Sam Godfrey, acting
for the company, took on
four additional miles of the
Kougarok together with
some promising side
streams, making the hold
ings of the company cover
ing not less than ten run
ning miles of the river.
This year it is the inten
tion of the company to start
mining in a big way. They
(Continued on Page Three.
More Dividends
Is Aim Of New
Tax Program
(By Tne Associated Press)
Washington, March 9 —
Roosevelt’s tax program is
foreseen as enlarging the
number of millions of dol
lars incomes and outpoints
the drastic tax of undist
ributed profits of corpora
tions and is expected to
lead concerns to pay out
much more dividends to
stock holders. The opera
tion will shift the wealth
from one place to another
but will not increase the
wealth of 238 millionaire in
comes in 1936 it was estim
ated.
0. S. Weaver Is
Appointed As
Committeeman
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, March 9th —
Hugh Brewster Junior, son
of the Aeronautics Inspect
or is critically ill of com
plications following a scar
let fever attack, but is show
ing improvement. Doctors
who came here from Fair
banks and Seward return
ed home.
A. Rasmuson, Republican
National Committeemen an
nounced the appointment
of O. S. Weaver of Nome as
Divisional Committeemen
for the Second Division as
successor to George Helle
rich, who went to the Slat
es last fall. The appoint
ment is recommended by
the Nome Republican
Club.
A report in Palmer states
that brass “bingles” are be
ing used as money. It
avoids bookkeeping former
ly required when the ac
counting department debit
ed one man and credited
another each time an artic
le of value changed hands.
Bingles may become accept
ed as money throughout
the valley. One taxi driv
er already is accepting them
C. E. Bisson, formerly of
Ketchikan and Jack Dour
born, formerly of Eastern
Oregon were named to take
tracts in the colony t.o fill
vacancies left by departur
es.
Prance Is De
termined To
Clear Rhine
(By The Associated Press)
Paris, March 9 — France
drove a line up of powers
to punish the Reich for
Treaty violations and to
force Nazi troops, at once,
out of the demilitarized
zone. France may reorgan
ize her cabinet and may
postpone the parliamentary
elections scheduled for the
| last of April. Officials fear
I that France alone has the
j determination o take quick
action and believes that
iBritain is unlikely to im
I pose sanctions and may re
fus to send an army to help
the French push the Ger
man army out of the Rhine
land. Italy is unlikely to
.join the sanctions while
smarting under the econom
ic seige imposed by the Lea
I gue on her.
Defensive War to
Continue Until
Peace Is Definite
(By The Associated Press)
Addis Ababa, March 0 —
Etheopia will continue its
defensive war until peace
negotiations begin on a de
finite basis. The govern
ment reported that the Brit
ish Quoram Red Cross unit
was bombed for the third
lime by Italians. Unofficial
reports from Quoram stat
ed that three of the planes
crashed and that the Brit
ish Unit Commander, fol
lowing the third attack, re
moved the Red Cross insig
nia and the British Flags
and resorted to camouflage
in the hope of avoiding fur
iher attack.
London, March 9th — Sir
Eric Drummond, Ambassa
dor to Rome was instructed
to protest the reported sec
ond bombing “in strongest
manner.” There is no re
port in London of the third
bombing.
Public Card Party
Bridge — Whist
Auspices Junior Class
Wed. March 11, 9 p. m.
St. Joseph's Hall
Double Header Basketball Games At Native Gym.
TONIGHT MARCH 9th, at 7:30 P. M., NATIVE GYM. ADM ISSION ADULTS 50cts. SCHOOL CHILDREN 25ct TONIGHT