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^OL 37 No 144< ’ NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, JUNE 18, 1936. Per CoPy 15cts
Rex Beach To Help Alaskans Mine
BLACK LEGION PRINTING PLANT IS FOUND
Bids to be Opened July 20th Nome Federal Building
BEACH IN FAVOR OF
OPENING COUNTRY
MINING INDUSTRY
i
Rex Beach Referred to The Glacier Bay
Area Which Been Closed to Mineral
Investigation For Number Years
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 18—R,ex Beach, the popular
novelist and former resident of Nome, appealed to the
Senate Public Lands Committee to throw open Glacier
Bay National Monument in Alaska to mineral explora
tion and development, picturing at the same time an
other Klondyke gold rush.
After listening to Beach the committee favorably
reported the bill thru Senator Schwellenbach of Wash
ington, to open the Monument to miners. Beach wrote
that the “reports of prospectors and the examination of
ores are so promising that the opening of the eighteen
hundred square miles of area might conceivably be an
other rush, when new towns will spring up and new air
lines and other transportation systems be established.
People will rush to the new area, deserted now even by
-sea .gulls.”
He further said that the rush would commence yO
days after congress’ approval of the area which was
withdrawn by former President Coolidge’s proclama
tion in 1925. Before that time exploration work was
negligable, but recently they established the presence
of highly mineralized deposits of gold, silver and cop
per. molybdenum and other valuable mineral. The area
is so scarified by receding glaciers that the deposits are
exposed so that you can “almost prospect with a field
glass and nearly throw your hat into highly mineralized
belts.”
The Department of the Interior approves the open
ing of the area for miners and prospectors, so does Ne
vada’s democratic senator Key Pitman, formerly of
Nome, who says “there isn’t a chance in the world of
Alaska ever amounting to anything except through
development of its minerals.” The Alaska Territorial
Chamber of Commerce, through Beach, also is favor
able to the opening of the area to miners.
2 Burned Death
Plane Crashed
After Take-off
(By The Associated Press)
NORFOLK. Va„ June 18—Lt.
Charles Mallory, radioman, W C
Gray, were burned to death in a
plane which crashed from one
hundred feet after taking off at
the Naval Air Station.
The men and plane were attach
ed to the cruiser Indianapolis:
The plane apparently stalled and
burst into flames on striking and
the men were dead before aid
reached them. They were en
gaged in making tests. An inves
tigation has been launched.
FOR SALE—Furnished house
and lot. Inquire Nome Nugget
office. 3-t
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 4 Portland 5
Los Angeles 4 Seattle 1
Oakland 3 San Diego 8
Sacramento 7 Missions 9
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 9 Chicago 4
Philadelphia 13 St. Louis 14
Washington 2 Detroit 1
New York 15-12 Cleveland 4-2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 6-10 Boston 9-2
Chicago 5 Philadelphia 3
Pittsburgh 14 Brooklyn 5
Cincinnati 4 New York 2
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Woman Suffers
Beating Hands
Of Black Legion
(By The Associated Press)
DETROIT, June 18, — Mrs.
William Guthrey, who recently
gave investigators information
about the Black Legion printing
plant, was found at her home to
day suffering from a severe beat
ing, bound and gagged.
She apparently had a fractur
ed skull and broken ribs. Phy
sicians declared her condition to
be serious.
Although she could not talk co
rerently for some time she told
police her husband printed Leg
ion literature on a hidden print
ing press, and that she had lived
in terror for months since she
had been initiated into the aux
iliary of the terrorist organiza
tion. Her husband is now being
sought.
Frank Dufresne
May Be App'td.
Charge Comm.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 18.
—The Biological Survey said that
the appointment of Frank Du
fresne as Executive Officer of
the Alaska Game Commission,
had been referred to the Civil
Service Commission which must
pass on his qualifications.
His appointment was recom
mended by the Alaska Commis
sion, Secretary Wallace of the
Department of Agriculture, and
the Biological Survey. The Civ
il Service Commission is to act
on the appointment later.
Dufresne has been a Biological
Survey employee in Alaska for
several years. He was named
to succeed Hugh W. Terhune, vet
eran Executive Officer of the Al
aska Commission, who is being
transferred to Washington, D. C.
Senate Dead
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 18—Sen
ator Duncan U.Fletcher. aged 77,
of Florida, died suddenly.
Funeral arrangement have not
been announced.
Notice To The
Public
The Pioneer Drug Store has
been purchased by Mr.C.J. New
lin of Fairbanks. All bills due
the Pioneer Drug Store up to and
including June 15th, will be col
lected by me personally at my
new Studio and Art Shop, two
doors East of that building.
Signed: Charlotte B. Potter
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Farley Visited
Convention City
Everything 0 K
PHILADELPHIA, June 18th—;
Visiting the Convention city.
James Farley said, “everything
is in good shape and was satisfied
that it would be one more of the
successful conventions to be held
He was entirely satisfied with
the situation throughout the coun
try and was fully confident that
the electorate would give com
plete approval to the Roosevelt
administration in November, as
it did in 1932. He was also con
fident of the abrogation of the
two thirds vote of party rule.
Abnormal Heat
Alaska Broken
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, June 18, — South
eastern Alaska’s prolonged dry
spell was broken by rain yester
day, as a low pressure area mov
ed over British Columbia, but
abnormally warm weather and
forest fires still raged in the in
terior and also along Kenai Pen
insula.
Rain checked a 70-acre fire on
Prince of Wales Island this morn
ing. The temperature mounted
to 85 degrees in the shade at
Seward it was reported.
The Chugach National Forest
was reported free of fires, but
conditions are serious where fir
es are still raging in the forest
and grass in the vicinity of Ho
mer.
Fairbanks had a temperature of
87 in the shade, the highest ever
recorded for the early part of
June, on Wednesday, which also
marked the 8th day with the tern
perature remaining over 8(T.
Since the first of the month
children have romped in the
streets in sun suits, bathing suits
and others wore the lightest
clothing available. Ice cream was
in great demand. There are only
a few small forest and brush
fires, but the situation is danger
ous.
Along with the heat citizens
are buying tickets rapidly in a
midsummer drive for a winter
ice carnival.
Anchorage merchants found a
mounting demand for tropical hel
mets, for which arriving pilots
brought orders from interior
points. In addition to protection
from the sun, the helmets afford
ed the best possible support for
mosquito nets.
Is Transferred
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 18—Ed
ward A Mueller of the infantry
stationed at Chilkoot Barracks.
Alaska, has been ordered to Fort
Warden.
FRENCH REFUSED
POLICE AID FOR U.
S, OFFICIAL PARIS
American Ambassador Feared Patients
Lives When Hospital Workers Went
On Strike. Called For Protection
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, June 18—The French refused the personal
request of United States Ambassodor Straus for police
action against strikers at the American hospital, Neuil
!y Sur Siene. The strike is regarded as endangering
the care of eighty-five patients, mostly Americans. 23
of whom are in a serious condition.
The strikers demanded shorter hours. Hospital
officials said that Ambassador Straus’ request was re
fused on the grounds tha1 police action might "cause
further trouble which might become serious.”
The cabinet decreed the dissolution of four right
ist league efforts to break combat groups. Private mili
tarist. directed especially against the Croiv de Feu, one
of whose officials immediately announced that the dis
solution might drive the leagues under cover, where
they would become a real menace. Communists had
demanded the disbandonment, blaming them for th
Marseille strikers and nationalists who claseh in the
combat. They also approved the bill for the defense
of France, the reorganization of the Bank of Franc
and the creation of a wheat board to organize the mar
ket by fixing a wheat price minimum.
British Dropped
Italian Sanctions
<By The Associated Press)
LONDON. June 18—The British
cabinet placed its final seal of
authority on the governments re
cession from Sanctions and an
nounced a new Italo-Ethiopian
policy. Hoare told the Com
mons government that it won't
abandon Malta and scouted re
ports that the Mediterranean na
val base will be discontinued, be
cause of the proximity of Italy.
Two Will Travel
26-Foot Boat To
Point in Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, June 18, — Amos
Burg of Portland, Oregon and
Roy Pepper of St. Croix, Wiscon
sin will sail from here tomorrow
in a Dorjun, 26-foot boat, to pho
tograph Glacier Bay Indians.
Burg a few years ago paddled
a fragile canoe 2,307 miles from
the headwaters of the Yukon
River to Bering Sea and took a
steamer from there to Seattle.
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New Commander
Coast & Geodetie
Survey Appfd.
'P- The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18.
—Commander Richard R. Luk
ens was appointed today Inspect
or in Charge at San Francisco ef
the U. S. Coast and Geodetic So:
vey, succeeding Captain T. J. M>
her, who is going tn Manila.
Included in Lukgns’ career a -o
twelve seasons of surveying A.
askan waters, when he command
ed the siiip Surveyor; chartin ;
the entrance channel to the Ku ■■
kokwim river where heavy ire
floes caused shifts from year to
year.
Captain Maher wrote a bo c
titled "The Coast Pilot of Sout
eastern Alaska” in 1922 which
the standard guide for all ships
navigating there.
Says: ‘Can’t Wm’
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 18, — Gen
eral Hugh Johnson, in an inte
view on his opinion regarding a
potential third party president! tl
campaign, said “It can’t win. Ii s
too late!”