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Volume 36. Number 160. / NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Long Calls Roosevelt Liar And Faker
EFFORTS AT CONCILIATION ARE POSTPONED
Floods In New York State Do $10,000,000 Damages
Naval Program Of
Germany Calls For
28 Dread U-Boats
Naval Construction Is Based'
Naval Agreement With
England Says Order •
2o SUBMARINES
Calls For 28 Submarines And
Large Warships and 16
Of Fastest Destroyers
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 9, —Germany con
centrated its new naval building
program on submarines and the
dread U-boats of the world war—
forbidden the Reich by the Versail
les Treaty.
The communique appraising Ger
mans and others of its plans for
naval construction was based on
Germany’s naval agreement with
Great Britain, and disclosed that
twenty-eight submarinese are pro
vided for in the 1935 naval buildiijg
program, three of which have al
ready been launched.
The program also included the
construction this year of two battle
ships, each of twenty-six thousand
tons and armed with twenty-eight
centimeter guns; two cruisers each
of ten thousand tons and carrying
twenty centimeter guns; and sixteen
destroyers of one thousand six hun
dred and twenty-live tons each.
The United States
Is Losing Textile
Market In Islands
America Is Gradually Losing
Philippine Textile Market
As Japanese Increase
(By The Associated Press)
MANILA, July 9 — Pointing to
a threatened loss of the entire Phil
ippines’ textile market by American
exporters, due to the remarkable
gains of the Japanese, Governor
General Frank Murphy asked the
insular legislature to increase the
tariff promptly, as an emergency
measure.
In the past two years, Japanese
exploiters have captured more than
half of the textile trade with the
Islands.
The Philippines’ cotton goods im
ports have averaged twenty-three
million dollars annually since 1909.
The Governor General cited that the
American share was seventy-two
percent in 1932; and forty percent
last year.
It was only thirty-eight percent
for the first half of this year.
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Floods Do Millions
Damages In Slate
N. Y.: 37 Are Dead
Flood Waters Do Ten Million
Dollars Damages To Area
In Upstate New York
AID IS RUSHED
Governor Lehmann Sends Re
lief Workers to Area And
Red Cross Steps In
(By The Associated Press)
ALBANY, July 9, — Receding
flood waters left upstate New York
with thirty-seven dead; eight are
still missing, and property damage
has been estimated at approximately
ten million dollars.
More than two thousand are tem
porarily homeless and scores of vill
ages and cities are presenting a
formidable relief problem to state
and federal agencies.
A dozen towns and cities near
the Pennsylvania border, and with
in fifty miles radius of Binghanipton
appeared to be the worst sufferers.
The story however, is the same
throughout the area—ruined homes;
wrecked communication lines and
utilities, damaged highways; bridg
es washed out and railroad tracks
washed away with an unestimated
amount of crops and livestock lost.
Governor Lehmann obtained the
transfer of twenty-five thousand
FERA workers and one thousand
CCC men to the scene. The Red
Cross rushed relief workers to the
area today after the area had been
stricken over the week-end with
the worst flood in its history.
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Life Prisoner Free
After Two Years
Fight Get Pardon
Woman Doctor Is Released
Life Imprisonment F or
“Highball” Slaying
(By The Associated Press)
JACKSON Mississippi, July 9, —
Free after a two year fight to win
a pardon from Governor Connor,
Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, sentenced to
life imprisonment for the “poison
highball” slaying of Dr. John Pres
ton Kennedy, looked forward to re
suming hgr practice as a child spec
ialist.
The governor’s action in granting
the pardon, was relayed to her while
she was still in bed at the prison.
The governor said that he was “in
benefit of information not available
to the courts either at the original
trial or at the appeal’’ in the state
supreme court.
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CALLS THE PRESIDENT
A LIAR AND FAKER IN
SPEECH OVER RADIO
(By The Associated Press)
NEW ORLEANS, July !), — Senator Huey P. Long of
Louisiana, in a radio speech last night, called President
Roosevelt “a liar and a faker".
While reviewing the work of the recent special session
of the Louisiana Legislature. Long attacked the administra
tion’s old age pension plan. He cited a resolution adopted,
urging congress to replace the pension act with one draft
ed by himself.
Long said that the two hundred and eighty thousand
persons qualified under the pension act would get a little
less than one cent a day.
He shouted: “That’s what Franklin Delano Roosevelt
sends you down here. Franklin is a liar and a faker! Now
let them indict me for that, and I’ll prove him a liar ! ”
Continuing his attack on the President, Long said:
“Don’t think those senators and the President’s con
gressmen are too big—I’m as big as President Roosevelt!
Why! He’s copying my share of the w( alth speeches now,
that I was writing when I was fourteen years old—so he’s
just now getting as smart as I was when I was in knee
breeches.” He added: "1 wouldn’t believe the present Pres
ident of the United States on oath! : :
Registration (Hose
Midnight Tonight
Eor Horn! Election
The City Clerk’s office, M.JWalsh
city clerk, will remain open this
evening until 12 o’clock Midnight to
accomodate all who are qualified to
vote in the pending bond election,
for purpose of registration.
Tonight is the last opportunity to
register for this election. Every pro- '
perty owner qualified to vote should
consider it his duty to register as
registration will close at Midi i ;ht.
Such was the result of an ii-u rt- j
ant conference by the city council
last night, in regular session. Coun
cilmen, city officials and others de
plored the lack of interest shown in
this respect.
While commenting on the bonding
election, it was also determined that
the preliminary engineering data
was being worked out and was rap
idly nearing completion, so that by
the time the federal authorities in
Washington, DC., sign the loan and
grant agreement of the PWA which
was signed by city officials and mail
ed some time ago, it will be possible
to almost immediately advertise for
bids and get the rehabilitation work
started in the near future.
The specifications for graveling
the streets of Nome have already
been worked out and will soon be
ready to advertise for bids. Work
on preparing the data for the fire
mains is already partially completed
and an architect is engaged at the
present time in drawing plans and
specifications for the City Building.
i
Everything possible has been done
todate in Nome to prepare for im
mediate commencement of i’WA
work here as soon as it is authorized
by Washington.
In comparison with results attain
ed by other cities in connection witli
PWA applications, Nome has pro
gressed more rapidly than any of
them, in securing the necessary au
thorization to proceed. At present
a resident PWA engineer is enroute
to Nome to stay here during the
period of the rehabilitation work of
the city functions. This will expe
dite much red tape and eliminate
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Rill Permit Cities
Alaska Bond W ith
out Act Congress
Would Be Permitted Bond Up
To 10 Percent Assessed
Valuation of Property
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 9, — Alask
an cities will be permitted to incur
a bonded indebtedness on public
works including public utilities, up j
to ten percent of their assessed val
uation of property, under a bill in
troduced in the House Monday by
Delegate Anthony J. Dimond.
The approval of 65 percent of the
voters would be necessary before
the indebtedness could be incurred. |
Delegate Dimond explained that j
ihe legislation was to correct a sit
jation requiring a special act of ^
congress every time Alaskan cities
lesired to issue bonds.
The Washington
News-Letter
OFFICE OF A. J. DIMOND
Delegate from Alaska
(By J. J. ECKLES)
Juno 22, 1935.
The President has advised Dele
gate Dimond that he is in complete
sympathy with the objectives sought
in II R 1G0, a bill introduced by
the Delegate to authorize the Presi
dent to negotiate and enter into
agreements between the Govern
ment of the United States and the
Dominion of Canada for the sur
vey, location and construction of the
Pacific Yukon Highway. The orig
inal bill authorizes an appropriation
but at the President's request this
will be stricken out.
H. R 275G, a bill introduced by
Delegate Dimond tu authorize the
Tlingit and llaida Indians of Alas
ka to bring suit in the court of
claims for any claims they may have
against the United States has been
approved by the president.
Known as the Indian Claims Com
mission Act, H. R 7837, a bill to
create an Indian Claims Commission
is now before Congress. Tiie pur
pose of the Commission is to invest
igate all claims against the United
States submitted by any communal
group of Indians residing in the Un
ited States or Alaska, to ascertain
the merits of the claims and to
make a detailed report of its find
ings of facts of each claim to Con
gress, together with its recommen
dation for action to be taken. The
Commission is to be composed of
a Chief Commissioner and four As
sociate Commissioners, two of whom
shall be Indians. The Commission
ers can be removed from office only
for inefficiency, neglect of duty or
malfeasance in office. While the
bill does not provide for the settle
ment of any Indian claim, it will
greatly expedite the handling of all
such claims by providing Congress
with competent impartial advice on
the merits of requests by the various
tribes for the passage of jurisdiction
al acts and will also speed the work
of the Court of Claims by remov
ing much of the burden of fact find
ing. As a member of the Commit
tee on Indian Allairs Delegate Dim
ond has been very active in devel
oping this proposed legislation,
which has been favorably reported
by the Committee.
The bill authorizing a preliminary
examination of the Tanana River
and Chena Slough with a view to
the control of floods has been re
ported favorably by the Senate com
mittee on commerce.
Alaska has a sufficient stand of
spruce to supply one-third of the
present demand of the United Stat
es in perpetuity according to sur
veys made by the Forest Service. ;
Yet this timber, which should be ^
Conciliation Avert
War Fails As Dele
gates Have Scenes
Conciliation Commission In
Italo-Ethiopia Dispute Has
To Postpone Meetings
HIGH SPIRITED
Italian Delegates Ilel’use To
Listen to Ethiopian Wit
nesses At Conference
fBy The Associated Press)
SCHVENINGEN, Netherlands July
■ n —Th* Goiiciui*«.on Commission
seeking to avert war between Italy
'and Ethiopia decided to suspend
hearings indefinitely today.
Two Italian delegates were report
ed to have refused to bear witness
es for Ethiopia, after a meeting of
attempts to reconcile difficulties
among the members had broken up
in failure.
Angry scenes were reported when
Professor Gaston Jeze, adviser to the
Ethiopian government asserted that
this was the usual scene after a
first major frontier incident in Eth
, iopian territory.
The Italian representatives enter
ed strong protests against his testi
mony asserting that the commis
sion was empowered to consider on
ly the causes and incidents them
selves.
(!ar<l ina I LaFontaine
Dead Today Venice
(By The Associated Press)
VENICE July 9 — Pietro Cardinal
LaFuntaine aged seventy and a Pat
riarch of Venice died here today of
arterioclosis. The Cardinal was
once mentioned as a possible suc
cessor to Pope Benedict.
His death reduced the membership
in the College of Cardinals to 49
out of a possible 70.
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one of the leading income produc
ing resources of the Territory is
rotting with the advanced matur
ity that each season brings while
the United States is importing a
continually growing percentage of
its paper and pulp.
When the making of paper from
wood was first being developed,
during the period from 1860-80,
spruce of the northern states sup
plied the entire demand for paper
pulp. No efforts at reforestation
were made and as the years pass
ed it was necessary to go into more
inaccessible regions for suitable tim
ber which brought a eorressponding
increase in the cost of production.
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