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Volume 36. Number 207. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Approves Nome Harbor Improvements
MUSSOLINI TO RAISE FORCES TO MILLION MEN
Six Marine Unions File for Changes Wage Scale Set-up
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Six Marine Unions
Filo For Changes
(By Tlie Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3, —Six
marine unions whose memberships
play a vital part in coast shipping,
went on record seeking changes in
the present working agreements
with employers,contracts wi/th whom
were automatically renewed by oth
er maritime workers.
It was assumed that shorter hours
and more pay would be demanded.
T.he six unions hung formal no
tice were the Marine Engineers
Beneficial Association; the Sailor’s
Union of the Pacific; the Pacific
Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Wat
ertenders and Wipers Association;
the Marine Cooks and Stewards As
sociation; and the Radio Telegraph
ists and Master Mates and Pilots
Associations.
Mrs. Harold Ickes
Killed Automobile
Accident Monday
(Rv The Associated Press)
SANTA FE, Sept. 2, —Mrs. Har
old Ickes, wife of the Secretary of
the Interior, was killed and Mrs.
Genevieve Forbes Herrick, well
known writer was critically injur
ed 30 miles North of here tonight in
an automobile collision.
State Police said the taxi in which
the two women were travelling had
been forced off the road by a “hit
and run” driver.
John Herrick of Washington and
the taxi driver Frank Allen were
also reported seriously injured.
(Children Are Told
Death Of Mother
Only One Realizes
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(By The Associated Press)
BRUSSELS, Sept. 3, —Members
of royalty from all Europe returned
from summer holidays to Brussels
to attend the queen’s funeral today.
Her children were told of the
tragedy by the lady in waiting to
the queen. Princess Josephine Char
lotte hurst into tears. Prince Bau
douin was too young to comprehend
and attended the weeping of his
sister for awhiile and then turned
to his playthings. Prince Albert
slept peacefully in his crib.
Signed Tax Bill
(By The AssocTated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, —Roose
velt signed the new quarter of a
billion dollar tax bill, and the TVA
authority amendments remained to
be signed today, besides many min
or bills, some of which face vetoes, j
IMPROVEMENTS NOME
HARBOR AUTHORIZED
BILL SIGNED BY PRES
Nome Project Calls For Extension Jetties
$253,000 Besides Annual Maintenance
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—The Pacific Northwest and
Alaska projects totaling one hundred and fourteen million
dollars was authorized when Roosevelt signed the Rivers
and Harbors Bill, including several projects under construc
tion such as Grand Coulee and Bonneville. The bill merely
gives congressional approval to those projects which were
started under the public works administration. The meas
ure carried no appropriations as yet. but they are expected
to come next session.
Projects authorized include Nome with an eight foot
entrance channel extension of the East Jetty six hundred
and sixteen feet, and the West Jetty not more than two hun
dred and sixteen feet—$253,000 and annual maintenance
twenty thousand dollars, a Nome turning basin two hundrod
and fifty feet wide by four hundred feet long, eight feet
deep, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Other projects included are twenty-two foot channel
Sitka Harbor—sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Wrangell turning basin four hundred by six hundred feet,
fifty-six thousand; Wrangell Narrows twenty four foot
channel—one hundred and forty-two thousand. The PWA
allotment was one hundred and thirty-nine thousand. Dry
Pass six foot channel—seventy-nine thousand; Stikine Rivet
removal snags annual maintenance six hundred; Kodiak
harbor twenty-two foot channel—seventy-seven thousand
dollars which provides for a cold storage plant to be con
structed. Petersburg harbor twenty-four foot channel to
wharves with small boat basin eleven feet deep—hundred
and two thousand; Egegik River five foot channel—five thou
sand dollars; Cordova harbor, shelter harbor two hundred
and ninety-five thousand dollars with annual maintenance
five thousand; harbor of refuge Seward nine hundred and
fifty foot breakwater on north side of jetty—seventy thou
sand dollars.
Comm. Education
Anthony Karnes
On Visit To Nome
Anthony E. Karnes. Commission
er of Education for the Territory of
Alaska who arrived Monday in
Nome, is on his annual trip of in
spection of all territorial schools.
He stopped over in Nome today
to draw up the contracts for the
construction of the foundation for
the proposed new school building
in Nome, the award of which is
being made to J. C. Kennedy of
Nome, low bidder.
The contracts are mailed to the
Governor's Office Juneau, and return
contracts should be received from
there soon, which will permit the
work to begin.
While here he visited the local
school and the new site on B Street.
He will be continuing to Teller to
morrow and expects to return and
take off for other northern schools
including Deering, Candle, Kotze
bue Haycock and others. He will
return to his headquarters at Jun
eau about the middle of October,
after visiting many sections of the
country including the Kuskokwini,
Bristol Bay, Kodiak Island and
Cook Inlet.
He was entertained at a luncheon
this afternoon attended by the Nome
School Board, City Council and the
Second Division Member of the Ter
ritorial Board of Education M. J.
Walsh.
Western Air Express
Plane Crashes
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(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3, —A twin
motored Western Air Express plane
crashed shortly after the take-off
here, killing Pilot George Sherwood
of Los Angeles, Fred Burlew copil
ot of Glendale, and Miss Donna
Taylor, attractive stewardess of Bur
bank. No passengers were aboard..!
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Dr. V ictor E. Levine
Describes Trip Of
Northland
By Dr. Victor E. Levine
The voyage from Nome to Point
Barrow on the U. S. Coast Guard
Cutter Northland, with Command
er William K. Scammell, Captain,
proved to be most interesting and
very instructive.
We left Nome at nine o’clock
Monday evening, August 5th and re
turned Friday August 13th.
We were favored on the whole by
very fine sailing and landing weath
er. We visited on our way up Sa
voonga and Gambell, on St. Law
rence Island; Little Diomede; Shish
maref; Kotzebue; Kivalina: Point
Hope; Point Lay; Wainwright and
Point Barrow. On the way back, we
revisited Wainwright. Point Lay, Pt.
Hope, Kivalina and Kotzebue and
also took in the villages of Deering,
Keewajik, Cape Prince of Wales and
Teller.
W picked up three passengers on
the cruise. At Point Hope, Miss Ber
tha M. Tiber, government nurse who
came on board, went as far as Point
Barrow and down again as far as
Kotzebue. At Wainwright Jim All
en became a passenger for Kotzebue.
At Point Barrow Miss Emma Stau
ffen nurse at the Presbyterian Mis
sion hospital embarked for Cape
Prince of Wales where she is to be
stationed fur the coming year as
nurse and missionary.
Everywhere we went the Eskimos
were indeed glad to see the "Katok
tura Imiakpuk,” the —Big White
Ship— the native designation for
the Cutter Northland. Many came
from shore in their oomiaks to sell
ivory, fox skins, fawn skins, siksik
puk skins, mukluks, and toy kayaks
and oomiaks. They came to trade
but often remained on the ship to see
and to listen to the talking movies
which is a daily feature of entertain
ment beginning at 6:30 P. M. At Pt
Barrow four or five oomiaks full of
Eskimos—over a hundred in num
ber—crowded to the show. Many of
them had seen movies but had nev
er heard sound pictures.
One of the most important objects
:>f the Northland's visit to the far
Norh is medical and dental service
for the natives. Dr. Eugene A. Gillis,
lie ship’s physician, and Dr. Char
es B. Galt, the ship dentist, held
elinics in each village visited, and
examined and prescribed treatment
:o all those that came with medical
jr denial complaints.
The medical examinations held
evealed that the most common con
litions encountered were tuberculo-!
>is, arthritis, chronic tonsillitis,
chronic constipation, and such as dis
;ases of the eye as catarrhal conjunc
ivities and keratitis. Scabies was
present among several native famil
es in Cambell. Several cases of can
:er were also observed along the i
•oute. All in all, it may be said that
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ITALY TO CONTINUE
DRAFTING SOLDIERS
FOR DUTY IN AFRICA
Arim .Maneuvers llal\ Demonstrate Morale
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Of (!ounlr\ Savs I’mnicr Mussolini
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(By The Associated Press)
BOLZANO, Sept. 3—Mussolini told the soldiers of his
army which is carrying on maneuvers, that two hundred
thousand more men will be called to the colors this month,
to bring the number under arms to more than a million.
He said: “The world should known yet again, that as
long as one talks absolutely provocatively of sanctions, we
will not give up one soldier or sailor or aviator.”
This was taken to point at Great Britain which has been
talking sanctions toward the agressor nation.
Mussolini told the assembled soldiers they would not
be permitted to return to their homes as usual after ordinary
field practice, but would continue to serve the flag. The
maneuvers, he said, demonstrated the morale of the army
and showed: “If tomorrow the country requires you to per
form duties necessitating more sacrifices, you will do it with
enthusiasm, courage and resolute decision until the very end.
World Fliers On
A Pleasure Jaunt
lu And Out Nome
Fritz Bieler, Mexican and Harold
Farquhar, Englishman, world fliers,
who are on a pleasure jaunt by
plane, landed at Safety Lagoon Sun
day from Fairbanks, and motored
into Nome.
They left Mexico City August 15
enroute up the coast and into Al
aska .
The plane being flown is a new
Beechcraft, biplane on pontoons,
and is powered with a 420 horse
power engine. After remaining in
Nome Monday and looking around
they took oflt today from Safety La
goon in the face of bad weather
reports for a flight to Whalen Sib
eria. From there they expect to fly
down the Siberian coast us far as
Kamchatka and then cross over to
Japan, China, and thence into India,
returning to England by way of the
Imperial Airways route. From Eng
land they expect to cross to Toron
to, and end their flight there.
Rex Beach l Irges
Development Of
Alaska By Youth
(By The Associated Press!
JUNEAU, Sept. 3, — Rex Beach in
a signed article in the Juneau Em
pire, urged the plan of increasing
the population of Alaska by utiliz
ing if possible in Alaska, army and
navy forces to develop mineral re
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sources first by aerial mapping and
stereseopic photography according
to the technique in development by
Canada, and second by utilizing the
personnel and equipment to trans
port prospecting units in and out of
mining areas, and to maintain there
fore also, plans for subsistence.
He also mentioned a project for
unemployed American youth with
mineral knowledge, to develop min
eral resources. He believes botti
ideas can be sold to the government.
Upon his return here from Lome
Surier Island lie plans to leave im
mediately for New York.
American Policies
Neutrality Not I5e
Altered Any W
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3, —Swift,
and emphatic comment that Ameri
ca was determined to steer clear of
foreign wars, was heard among sen
ators as they read of Emperor Sel
assie’s deeding of half of his king
dom for exploitation by Anglo-Am
erican interests.
Borah led in the comment and
characterized such transactions as
"Buying an interest in War". He
said this would not change the
country’s neutrality policy.
FUNERAL NOTICE
The funeral services of Mrs. A.
Lupp who died Sunday morning in
the Maynard Columbus Hospital,
will be held in St. Joseph's Church
Wednesday morning at 9 A. M.
B. LaFORTUNE
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