TIIE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO S. MAYNARD. Editoi
RUSSELL G MAYNARD. Manager
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AID TO PROSPECTORS NEEDED
Recent telegraphic dispatches from the national
capital told of Delegate Dimond’s intention of push
ing thru for passage a bill to aid the prospector and
miner in Alaska. That one theme has been harped on
for years past, but always with little avail. - - .
Several years ago, the Territorial Legislature ad
opted a plan to assist the prospector in a financial way,
which appeared to work out all right for a couple of
years, but was found to be too inadequate to really
bring results. Since then the prospector has had to
get along entirely without financial aid from any gov
ernmental source.
With thousands upon thousands of acres of min
eral-bearing ground, Alaska today, after forty years
of mining and discovery, still has no systematic man
ner of developing the country. The finger of example
points to Canada which some years ago went into the
business of scientifically developing mineral-bearing
property. With the advent and development of air
planes in the North country, Canada went a step far
ther—the government went into every mining field
that could be discovered, built landing fields, outfitted
and transported prospecting parties into sparcely popu
lated and wild territory, practically inaccessible by any
other means of transportation, except by airplane.
And what has the United States done toward de
veloping Alaska in the mineral field? Exactly nothing
as far as a system of intensive prospecting, and nothing
even remotely resembling the Canadian system.
The development through scientific exploration of
the Seward Peninsula, for instance, of quartz proper
ties would place this section in the class of year-round
producer instead of only seasonal, as it is in the placer
classification. Men, companies, families, machinery,
transportation would be only some of the important
things to be affected. Besides opening up and devel
oping the country it would provide employment for
both capital and labor, the over-abundance of labor now
existing on the relief rolls. With reemployment, the
government has again commenced the system of pro
duction both for its population and its agencies. What
could be greater in principle than to again assist in
starting the system of assistance on a productive bas
is in which the labor becomes self-supporting, and in!
becoming so, also supports the government, through
the payment of taxes of aH kinds.
Mining has attracted the eye of capital all over
the world. Why should Canada alone provide the op
portunity for the investment of American capital out
side of the United States, when Alaska has hardly been
scratched, and which undoubtedly contains just as rich
if not richer fields of development? That is exactly
what is happening.
If Congress can be prevailed upon to set up a sys
tem of scientific exploration and development in Al
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aska, with financial aid to prospectors, then we will
sec an increase in production, population and prosper
ity in our Territory, never before dreamed of.
“LOVE” WITHOUT CHARGE
One of our great utilities now moves to disarm the
critic who in recent years has accused it of cashing in
on the ardent impulses of the consumer. A telegraph
company announces that “Love”—the traditional ten
th word in the wire—will hereafter be transmitted with
out charge.
There are those who have suspected that by getting
out folders of prepared thoughts, suited to such senti
mental occasions as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day;
ihe Yuietide, graduations and the like, the industry
was moved by low mercenary considerations. Noth
ing, it seems, was farther from its thoughts. Where
its business brings it in contact with the loftiest range
of human feelings, it is now willing to forego any pecun
iary advantage for its service. It will ask no exchange
of tender for its part in the tender exchange.
Somehow, the thought the average customer wish
es to convey by wire comes to precisely 10 words. How
HOW EDWARD SIGNED OFF
IKSTRtMEWT OF ABDICXnCH
I. Bduart the Sight*, of Croat
Britain. Ireland, and tha arltlflb DOrtnlcng
beyond tha Saas. King, Baperor of Mia, do
hereby declare My Irrevocable date red. nation
to renounce the Throne for Myeelf and for
My dascendanta. and My dealre that effect
should be given to this laatrvawnt of
Abdication laaedlately.
in token whereof 1 have hereunto eat
My hand this tenth day ol December, nineteen
hundred and thirty eix. in the presence of
the witnesses whose signatures ars subscribed.
SIGNED AT j £7/
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JN 1ME PRESEMCE 1
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Thiij Is the instrument of abdication by which King Edward formally
made It known he was giving up the throne of the British Empire to
marry Mrs. Wallis Simpson. The document was signed "Edward R. I."
and witnessed by Edward’s three brothers, Including Albert, who has
succeeded him as King George VI. This picture was radioed from
London. (Associated Press Photo)
many hours have to be spent gnawing the end of a com
pany’s pencil while pondering which of the indispen
sable 10 could most easily be spared. With this pro
blem we are now done. By throwing in a free Love ,
a whole new field of expression is opened to the send
er. No more will the recipient puzzle her fair head ov
er a wire which might have been crystal clear if a sig
nificant word had not been omitted to make room for
the essential “Love”.—Detroit News__
WAE PLANE
WRECKED
10 BO ARD
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plane engine sputter and finally
die,” near his ranch at 11:15.
Those aboard were Pilot W. W.
Tevis, copilot Owens, Stewardess
Esther Conner, and passengers D
E Spencer, H. Hules, T. Tilling
hast, J. Braden. S. Robinson, A L
Loomis, Miss L. James and R T
Anderson.
(By The Associated Press ^
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12—The
wreckage of the plane was report
ed found three miles in the hills
above Olive View Sanitarium,
which»is five miles from San Fer
nando. A telephone operator at
the Sanitarium said, the “plane
was located up in the hills, that
men had gone up there, we do
not know whether anyone is
alive in it or not.’’ The point of
the crash is about ten miles from
the air terminal and half way
between Newhall, where the air
plane made its last report to the
terminal.
Martin Johnson, the well known
explorer, who was aboard the
plane with his wife, said at Salt
Lake City yesterday: “the jung
les are really safe compared to
America, probably, because it is
the most civilized place in the
world that it is the most dan- :
gerous.”
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4 Billion Dollars
Military Funds
For the Soviets
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Jan 12, — Soviet
Russia answered the talk of war
throughout Europe with a four
billion dollar war chest.
In the presence of Joseph Stal
in and others high in the coun
cils of Sovietism, Finance Com
missar Gregory Grinko made the
announcement that this sum is
about thirty-six percent greater
than last year’s military expen
ditures, and also about twenty
percent of this year’s entire bud
get.
It was understood that the Sov
iets expected to use this money
to increase the Red Army and
swell the airforce, besides build
ing a great fleet.
Woman Shoots
And Kills Slayer
Of Her Son
JACKSON, Ky„ Jan.—Before
150 persons who were crowded in
the courtroom in Jackson, Mrs.
Viola Wickline, 35 years old, shot
and fatally wounded Johnny
Shepherd, aged 18, who was on
trial on the charge of slaying her
son. Harvey Gabbard, aged 17,
Christmas eve.
George Shouse, 27, a spectator,
was critically wounded, and two
other spectators were slightly
hurt. Mrs. Wickline was taken
into custody.
Young Shepherd succumbed to
his wound soon after the shoot
ing.
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