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VOL. 36. No. 114 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Many Alaska Home Loans Approved
U. S. CAN CHANGE CURRENCY AT ITS WILL
Nome City Council
Holds A Lengthy
Meeting Monday
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Numerous Lots Sold—Driv
er and Engineer Appointed
Nome Fire Department
The second regular meeting of
the new council met in the offices of
Mayor Swartz at eight P. M. last
night. All councilmen were pres
ent and the minutes of the last re
gular and special meetings were
read and approved.
Under the head of communica
tions E. B. O’Connor appeared be
for the council with a written com
munication proposing a municipal
owned power plant. Under the head
of new business Mr. O’Connor’s,
communication was referred to the
law ordinance and printing com
\ mittee, following remarks made by
him.
Approval Liquor Licenses Sought
Application was received from
Jack Solomon for a beverage licen
se. Another application was receiv
ed from Herbert Greenberg for a
retail liquor license, and an appli
cation for a similar license was
made by Leo Seidenverg. All were
referred to the law ordinance and
printing committee. Under the new
regulations applications before be
ing granted by the board of liquor
control must have the approval of
the city council. A special ruling al
lows the approval of the council to
be made in advance of the applica
tion being sent to Juneau.
Several Lots Sold
Bill Harber offered $20.00 for lot
6 in block 93. Upon passage of a
motion the council accepted his off
er.
J. C. Kennedy offered $40.00 for
lot 29 in block 29. The council accept
ed Mr. Kennedy’s offer.
A communication from the Indust
rial Workers of Alaska was receiv
ed by the council, condemning its
action in sending outside for a man
to occupy the position of Chief of
the Fire Department and Chief of
Police. The mayor replied that the
council had seen fit to call upon
the outside man for the position,
and that while acting in good faith
of course were open to criticism,
but that the matter had been decid
ed and the council would stand up
on its action.
An offer of $150 for lots 2, 3, and
4 in block 2-A was received from
B. J. McConaghy. These lots are
located down by the revetment on
^iver Street near the lumber yard.
The matter was referred to a spec
ial committee of Councilmen Poison
and Hagen to investigate.
B. M. Buckley offered $5.00 for lot
2 in block 9 located near his home
at the East end of town. The coun
cil accepted Mr. Buckley’s offer.
Fred Bourdon offered $10.00 for
25 OF 44 APPLICATIONS
FOR HOME LOANS ARE
APPROVED IN ALASKA
Home Loan Situation Been Delinquent
For Long Time—Alaska Applications
Receive Attention Of State Office
(By The Associated Press')
SEATTLE, May 14, — For the first time since the gov
ernment home loans were made available through the Home
Owners Loan Association, the state office took definite ac
tion on twenty-five loans out of forty-four. Only 25 were
approved the remainder of the 44 applications being disap
proved.
This action paves the way for a definite settlement of
the delinquent home mortgage situation in Alaska, which,
considering the elapsed time since the applications were
sent here approved, has been very bothersome, and has
been pending for more than a year.
Of the applications approved, nineteen were from Ket
chikan; three from Juneau and three from Petersburg.
The average loan was two thousand dollars. Officials
said that the distance of the applicants from the local
office necessarily caused the delay in obtaining the requisite
information and making the proper appraisals.
lot 6 in block 9 directly across the
street from his home at the East
end of town, for purpose of erect
ing a garage. His offer was accept
ed.
Federal Housing Day May 25
A communication from the Fed
eral Housing Administration, office
of the Administrator for Alaska,
John E. Pegues, was received call
ing the attention of the council to
May 25th as National Housing Day,
and suggesting that the city pro
claim that day, thereby bringing the
subject of better housing directly be
fore the people. The matter was
laid on the table.
Municipal Control of Liquor
A Communication was received
from the Territorial Board of Liquor
Control, Frank A. Boyle Secretary,
bringing to the attention of the
Nome City Council the necessity
and need of proper municipal ordin
ances to control the dispensing and
retailing of liquor in the municipal
ity. It stated that municipal con
trol had been left up to the cities be
cause of the varying conditions and
practices in different localities. The
matter was referred to the law, or
dinance and printing committee.
S. W. Taggart, manager of the
Nome Lumber Co. applied to the
council for a continuation of his
lease of city ground for business
purposes and requested a lease on
one additional lot to be included. His
lease does not expire until Novem
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Traffic Accidents
Numerous Over
Weekend on Coast
Death Comes Over Weew-eiul
Due to Numerous Traffic
Accidents Pacific NW
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 13, — Traffic ac
cidents over the week end included
C. Alfred Smith of Kent who was
fatally injured when he was struck
by an auto at Tacoma. James Clin
ton Parsons aged nine, was killed
when an auto blew out a tire and
turned over near Longview. W. T.
Dickerson, aged 34, was drowned
when hi car hit a light pole, and
dived into the Columbia River near
Kennewick. The driver, Mrs. Ber
nice Harris, 25, swam ashore.
Money Is Requested
For Mining Areas
Requests Money for Stranded
Mining Areas of West
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 14, — A re
quest for an initial allotment of
twenty-five million dollars for the
relief of stranded metal mining dis
tricts in the west, was made of con
gress today.
WASHINGTON
CURRENT
COMMENT
There are about a billion and a
quarter of the Fourth Liberty Loan
bonds unpaid. By early full they
will be back in the hands of the
authority that issued them, refinan
ced at a saving of approximately a
hundred million dollars in interest.
That will be a little hard on invest
or-. but a good thing for the count
ry at large. Speaking of the cost
of the war, it is stated that the great
conflict cost the United Stales more
after the conclusion of it than it cost
while the war was on. The refund
ing of the Liberty Loan bonds will
put a plug of considerable size into
the post-war leak. Shakespeare,
who liked to use words with a doub
le meaning, might have been talk
ing about the war when he said
that if it were d?>ne when 'tis done,
then it were well. The war is “clone
in the sense that it stopped some
time ago. It is far being "done" m
the sense that it ha ceased from
troubling.
There is a long line of statues in
the boy's ball of fame. Every youn
gster at one time or another has
been Buffalo Bill, Babe Ruth, or Col.
Lindbergh. Those gentlemen were
alright in their way, but a real hero
at length has arrived. The King
of Siam, at school in Switzerland,
has ordered that he be excused from
examinations and got away with it
Henceforth Siam is the boy's count
ry and its king is the emancipator of
a downtrodden tribe dispersed
among the schoolrooms of the entire
civilized world.
Taken literally, a bonus means
something good. It would bo better
to refer to the money which the sol
diers want as a consideration or sti
pend, or to describe it by some term
other than the one generally employ
ed. The bonus payment does not
look good to the Administration. Un
paid it does the veterans no good
It is a thorn in everybody’s side,
pricking all concerned in one way
or another. At present the chief ex
ecutive is considering a middle
ground which contemplates a pay
ment three years hence, with in
terest during the interval. This is a
time of generosity, characterized by
a desire to get money into circulation
The country could do worse than to
give the former men at arms an op
portunity to participate in the dis
tribution.
Over in Europe, a train load of
hungry passengers waits with ris
ing indignation while a dignitary on
the way to a conference eats alone
in a dining car and lesiurely smokes
two cigarettes thereafter. Older re
sidents of Washington recall an in
auguration during which a parade
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SECRETARY TREASURY
GIVES RADIO ADDRESS
UNITED STATES POLICY
Morgenthau Tells World Over Radio That
United States Currency Can Go Either
Up Or Down And Can Stabilize Easy
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, May 14, — Speaking much of gold and
foreign trade, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
Jr., in a radio address from the Treasury building, today,
warned the world that Washington will not be an obstacle
to an international currency stabilization, and that the
United States will not act singly to peg the dollar.
He summarized his own analysis as “First you have an
absolutely sound dollar; second, the monetary policy of this
administration rescued the United States from chaos, and
held forth din ing tlit* most trying period of the recovery
program; third, of the great trading nations that re-valued
currency we were the last until Belgium joined.”
He said “we are not unwilling to stabilize; we re-valued
currency no more than was necessary and can go either
way.”
Shipbuilders Will
Try Close Every
Shipyard Country
Shipbuilders Strike Camden
New Jersey and Want To
Close All Shipyards
(By The Associated Press)
CAMDEN, N. J„ May 14. — Strik
ing employees of the New York Ship
building Corporation announced that
they would make every effort to
tie up every shipyard in the coun
try.
Contention Over
President’s Stand
On Bonus Issue
Believe Roosevelt Will Take
Stand When Vetos Bonus
Regarding Inflation
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 13, — With
the Bonus Issue heading toward a
showdown, some leading democrats
predicted today, that President F.
D. Roosevelt, in vetoing the Patman
bill would include a stand against
inflation, among his arguments.
Some held, however, that it would
be impossible for the president to
retreat from the stand which has
already been taken that the govern
ment program is designed to take
care of the needy first. There is
still some talk of a possible com
promise or substitute for the Pat
man bonus bill, after action on that
bill is completed.
More Colonists
Non Enroute To
Seattle—Alaska
Second Party of Colonists Are
Enroute to Seattle Bound
New Matanuska Homes
(By The Associated Press)
GREEN BAY. Wisconsin, May 14,
—One hundred and three Wisconsin
and upper Michigan emigrants left
Wisconsin’s oldest settlement last
night to settle in Alaska's newest
settlement—Matanuska.
The train carried nine Wisconsin,
and six Michigan families to St. Paul
to join other families of the two stat
es enroute to Seattle.
The party was generally enthus
iastic at their leave-taking. The
youngest colonists will be Norma
Noreen Nelson of Mountain, Wiscon
sin who is eight months old today.
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bath. Size 20 by 30—double
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Attention—Skilled Labor Of The Building Trades
Meeting to discuss Your Problems will be held May 15th, 8 P.M., at St. Joseph's Hall. All Mechanics urged to attend