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VOLUME 36. NO. 81. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
New Liquor Regulations For Alaska
GOVT CLAIMS MELLON TRANSACTION SHADY
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Military Plans
Made Over Large
Part Of Europe
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(By The Associated Press')
UNDATED, April 5 — Military
moves occurred over a large part of
Europe as statesmen prepared for
next weeks security conference at;
Stresa.
The French moved thirty-two thou
sand troops into advancd posi- j
tions along the German border, in
creasing reenforcements of her bor
der garrison by about sixty thou
sand. New barbed wire trench fort
ideations were ordered to be built.
While Mussolini retired to his vil-!
la to prepare his European security
proposal to present to the French
and British, the Italian fascist mil
.itia began a movement for a vol
unteer mobilization estimated to be
more than forty thousand men.
Republicans Are
Active Concerning
Social Security Bill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTOS, April 5 — Official
calculations made on the social se
curity bill, showed that it would
mean about eight hundred million
dollars in new taxes by 1937 and a
minimum of one billion, eight hun
dred million in 1949. The statement
brought new energy into play over
the measure.
The figures were prepared by the
house ways and means experts. Re
publicans seized the estimates as
providing new support for their con
tention that the bill puts too heavy
a burden on business.
Republican members of the com
mittee talked over the figures, at a
meeting preliminary to a conference
of one hundred and three G. O. P.
members tonight. They indicated
that if possible they would try eith
er to eliminate the taxes or reduce
them, or postpone effective dates.
Alaskan Educa
tional Institutions
Given Recognition
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE. April 5 — The high
academic standing of Alaskan edu
cational institutions was given re
cognition by the Northwest Assoc
iation for Secondary Higher Insti
tutions, Friday at . their meeting
here.
The University of Alaska at Fair
banks was given permanent accred
ation, and five high schools at
Skagway, Nome, Sitka, Sheldon- j
Jackson school at Seward, and Dou
glas. were given full accredation. |
NEW REGULATIONS
MADE BY TERRI. B.
OF LIQUOR CONTROL
Cities Must Enforce Regulations
(By The Associated Press')
JUNEAU, April 5 — Providing for stricter enforcement
local option in incorporated cities, raises in license fees,
excise tax, and new regulations, the Territorial Board of
Liquor Control today announced its new regulations.
In providing for local option, the regulations require
that fifty percent of the total number of voters at the last
general election must petition before the board, the cause of
the question to be placed on the ballot at the next municip
al election. At the election two-thirds of the votes must be
required to bar liquor from within the city.
The excise tax was boosted from two and one-half per
cent of the invoice value of the liquor, to five percent. Re
funds to citizens on license paid, were raised from fifty to
sixty percent.
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JUNEAU, April 5 — If cities fail to enforce the regula
tions, the refunds are to be forfeited; at the same time the
board is to take charge of enforcement.
All licenses are to be issued by the board and applica
tions are to be held thirty days with notice of application
posted. Protests are to be considered at the time the ac
tion is taken.
The matter of closing hours and entertainment in dis
pensaries and other places where liquor is sold, was left up
to the cities.
The new regulations are effective as of April 3rd, 1935,
with the present license continuing in effect until their ex
piration.
The beverage dispensary license, giving the holder the
right to sell beer or wine for consumption on or off the prem
ises, whether in straight liquor stores or other merchandis
ising houses will cost $250.00
Restaurant licenses allowing the sale of beer and wines
with meals will cost one hundred dollars.
The roadhouse license provides that the establishment
be not less than ten miles from an incorporated city. The
roadhouse serving food to the traveling public will have to.
pay fifty dollars, which is the same as before.
A club license will cost fifty dollars. A general retail
license allowing the sale of all kinds of liquor in bulk will
cost one hundred and fifty dollars. Both licenses were rais
ed from fifty to one hundred dollars.
JUNEAU, April 5 — Wholesale licenses were divided
into three classifications. First, wholesale of all kinds of
liquor, one hundred and fifty dollars license fee; Second,
wholesale of hard and distilled liquor allowing the right to
sell not less than five gallons, one hundred dollars; Third,
wholesale of beer and wine licenses, one hundred dollars.
The board reserves the right to limit the number of lic
enses in any locality. The penalty for violation of regula
tions was fixed at five hundred dollars fine with revocation
of the license for one year.
JUNEAU, April 5 — A stringent regulation was also
passed concerning outside wholesalers and reads as follows: i
Any distiller, brewer, or wholesaler whose plant or
business is outside of the territory shall be required to ob-;
tain a wholesale license for products in the territory. A
separate license is required for each wholesale distributing
point in the territory.
Any wholesaler not a resident of the territory, selling
intoxicating liquor must designate the principal place of
business and appoint an agent who shall obtain a license.
Any liquor shipped in without a license will be confis
cated and sold by the Board, the proceeds to be turned into
the territorial treasury.
Nome To Make
Survey Skilled &
Unskilled Labor
A grouped committee consisting
of various persons from civic and
private institutions in Nome met
yesterday afternoon to discuss ways
and means of canvassing the labor
situation in Nome and determining
whether there will be sufficient la
bor here this coming summer, and if
such be the case, of informing pub
lic organizations in the states that
Nome will be seriously handicapped
if a surplus of labor comes in on the
first boats.
The committee was comprised of
Dr. Rex F. Swartz. Mayor, who act
ed as chairman: Lyman S. Brewster,
Vice-Chairman of the Nome Com
mittee of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration; Rev. Norman
McCay, City Attorney Leroy Sulli
van, and V. R. Farrell of the Relief
Committee of the FERA: C. O. Rob
erts representing the Industrial
Workers of Alaska, labor organiza
tion; Councilmen Alvin Polet and
Andrew Sather representing the
City Council; and A. M. Hartford
representing the largest employer of
labor in this section—the Hammon
Consolidated Gold Fields.
The movement regarding a deter
mination of labor census in Nome
has been discussed generally during
the entire winter, and the Relief
Committee brought it to a head by
commenting to the Vice Chairman
of the FERA, who communicated
with Governor Troy regarding his
opinion of taking a census of labor
and broadcasting information to cth
er parts of Alaska and the States,
should there be an ample supply.
Following are two telegrams, one
sent Governor Troy by Mr. Brew
ster and the other, an answer from
him:
Nome, Alaska, March 9. 1935.
Governor Troy,
FERA Administrator, Juneau.
Many reports indicate numerous
people anticipate coming to Nome
in anticipation of work next sum
mer Stop In the absence of the ap
proval of projects covering federal
office building and PWA loan to
City and PWA allotment for rein
deer service the only available work
will be such as provided through
private construction and at the pre
sent time the indications are that
there are more than enough carpen
ters and common laborers to satisfy
the demand on that basis Stop We
desire your opinion as to whether or
not it would be desirable to canvass
local labor situation as to supply
and demand in order that prospec
tive laborers could have the infor
mation available prior to leaving
the States Stop Would it not also be
advisable to inform the transporta
tion companies in Seattle at this
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GOV’T CLAIMS THAT
MELLON’S COAL DE AL
WAS A “SHADY SALE”
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, April 5 — A disclosure by the govern
ment, which thinks that the Andrew Mellon proposed fifty
million dollar art gallery in Washington was not exempt
from taxation, brought an assertion from his counsel that
the ruling was just some more “political persecution.”
Word of the Internal Revenue Bureau’s decision on the
trust organization to which Mellon has already turned over
nineteen million dollars worth of pictures, came while the
millionaire was testifying in his three million dollar income
tax hearing. Further developments are expected in
Mellon’s testimony concerning the Pittsburgh Coal Com
pany, which in 1927 offered him ten million dollars for four
hundred shares of stock in the firm’s securities, which he
sold for five hundred thousand dollars to the Union Trust
Company four years later, is claimed by him to be a capital
loss of five million dollars, and which he listed on his income
returns. The government claims the transaction was a
“shady sale” to evade tax payments.
Weather Continues
Adverse For Plane
Companies Nome
Reports from numerous airplane
companies in Nome state that their
planes are weather-bound at dill
erent towns throughout this section
of Alaska.
The Northern Air Transport plane
enroute from Fairbanks with passen
gers is stormbound at Elim.
The Roust Airways plane is still in
Fairbanks waiting for weather to
improve to come to Nome.
The Pacific Alaska Airways plane
is still at Golovin waiting for the
weather to lift to come to Nome with
the U. S. Mail..
The Mirow Air Service plane is
waiting at Nome for an opportunity
to take off for the North and Fair
banks, but weather still continues
adverse.
Court Matters
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In the U. S. District Court, which
convened at 10 am. today, the case
of the United States versus Cather
ine Amarok, was reset and will be
the last case on the calendar.
Johnny and Morris Thomas, both
minors, were arraigned in court this
morning on charges of larceny in a
warehouse. An order transferred
their defense from C. W. Thornton,
to Attorney Lyman S. Brewster,
who will represent them. Time for
pleading was set for tomorrow morn
ing at 10 o’clock.
The postponement of the Amarok
case resulted in the entire jury
panel being excused until Monday,
10 am., when the case of the United
States versus Max Gottschalk will
come before the court.
Four Robbers
Hold Up Forty
Aboard Train
(By The Associated Press)
KANAKEE, Illinois, April 5—Four
swashbuckling “two-gun’’ nattily*
dressed, robbers held up nearly
forty persons aboard the crack,
gulf-coast-bound Illinois Central
train.
They are now being sought in a
widespread manhunt. The loot was
only eight hundred and forty-three
dollars.
Railroad reports said they took
virtual command of the train, in
stigating a reign of terror, cowing
those aboard and relieving them of
their belongings in about twenty
minuses, as the train spread south
ward out of Chicago. The gunmen
were each armed with two forty
five calibre pistols.
They escaped after wounding one
man and commandeering the car of
Edward Goetzler whom they kid
naped and later released. The
wounded man was George Kerr, a
Chicago, salesman, who was shot in
the leg when he resisted the gun
men in the belief that they were
“kidding.” His condition is not ser
ious.
“Are you positive that the defen
dant was drunk?” asked t'np judge.
“No doubt,” growled the officer.
“Why are you so certain?”
“Well,” replied the officer, “I saw
him put a penny in the patrol box
on Fourth Street, then look up at
the clock on the Presbyterian church
and shout: ‘Gawd, I’ve lost four
teen pounds!”
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