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VOL. 37. No. 286. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, DEC. 3, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Early End Coast Strike Is Predicted
MCGRADY CONFIDENT
STRIKE BE SETTLED IN
A WEEK TO TEN DAYS
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(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 3, —Express
ing confidence that the maritime
strike could be settled within a
week or ten days, Assistant Sec
retary of Labor, McGrady con
ferred today with representativ
es of the shipowners, civic lead
ers and the northwest joint
strike committee, following his
arrival last night.
He is to return to San Fran
cisco late today.
MoGrady suggests that the
Railroad Labor Act which put
an end to railroad strike be us
ed in the shipping industry as
a solution to the strike. He said
the hiring hall and other issues
could be settled by a committee
in each port consisting of an
owners’ representative, a union
representative and a member to
be named by the Department of
Labor.
Coonel Ohlson of the Alaska
Railroad, when interviewed to
day, said that freight for Alaska
will be loading commencing to
day and the Indian Affairs vessel
Boxer will sail at 8 p.m. Satur
day and the steamer Arctic at |
10 a.m. Sunday, for Alaska.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3, —
Striking maritime workers plan
ned a huge public demonstration
saying that twenty five thousand
persons, including women and
children would participate in a
big parade Saturday, in which
floats and marching units will
be featured.
The “big three” in the employ
ers group will also have a mass
meeting and parade next Tues
day night.
Bridges was charged by Inter
national Longshoremen’s Asso
ciation President Joseph Ryan,
with being in a hookup with
Joseph Curran, leader of the
striking insurgent seamen on the
gulf and east coasts.
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
Special Power of Attorney forms.
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* Herbert Hoover Says *
* U. S. Headed Crash *
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* By The Associated Press *
* NEW YORK, Dec. 3, — *
* Expresident Herbert Hoov- *
* er foresaw the United Stat- *
* es headed for another depres *
* sion “unless we can bring *
* inteligence, courage and en- *
* glneering into industrial *
* statesmanship”, when he ad- •
* dressed the American Soe- *
* iety of Mechanical Engin- *
* eers, last night. *
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Parcel Post Left
At Juneau. Not
Enough Room
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 3, — Ef
forts of Seattle shippers to make
deliveries through parcel post,
failed when the Cutter Talla
poosa left the parcel post mail
at Juneau on account of lack of
space.
A group of passengers left
here via train for Fairbanks,
from where they will go by air
plane either to Whitehorse or
to Juneau enroute to the Outside.
King Made Up
Mind Not Give
Up U. S. Woman
(Bv The Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 3, — King Ed
ward VIII made up his mind to
keep both his throne and his
friendship with Mrs. Wallis Simp
son, American, one of the highest
sources in the British Kingdom
today told the Associated Press.
Ensconced in his guarded Fort
Belvedere retreat, with Mrs.
Simpson and his brother, the
heir presumptive, the Duke of
York, Edward the bachelor head
of the House of Windsor, let it
be known that he would never
surrender to the demands of
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
who insists that the King give
up his fair-sex traveling compan
ion.
If he loses in his fight to have
his own way, it might even mean
his abdication, but even that
would not serve to break up
their friendship, it was made pub
lie.
The government and Church
of England are both bitterly de
manding that he renounce her,
and cease making the throne of
England a disgraceful byword
throughout the world.
Seeks Counsel
Of Queen Mary
Before Decision
London, Dec. 3, — Edward VIII
King of England, came to Lon
don tonight to seek counsel with
his mother Queen Mary, and
will then give Premier Baldwin
his final word.
Baldwin reported he had draft
ed an emergency bill which will
make the Duke of York sovereign
in the event of Edward’s abdica
tion.
His Face Tells Tales
This picture Introduces Jacob Tex
lore, Danish actor, who showed a
cameraman In New York how for
30 years he has been acting Hans
Christian Andersen tales as mono
loguls throughout Europe. He Is
short, rotund and partly bald and
has, as can be seen, a "plastic" face.
(Associated Press .Photo)
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Snow flurries were observed
between Nome and Solomon at
7 a.m. while generally cloudy
wearther obtained over the rest
of Seward Peninsula. Clear
skies were reported over the
eastern section of the Nome
Fairbanks airway. Fair weather
also prevails over the Gulf and
southeastern Alaska.
Temperatures below zero con
tinue over the central and eastern
portions of Alaska and the Yu
kon Territory; the lowest temper
ature observed last night was
minus 38 at Dawson while Fair
banks recorded minus 22.
High barometric pressure is
charted over Alaska, western
Canada and the western states
wh:le a “low” overlies the Ber
ing Sea district.
The lowest temperature at
Nome last night was 10 above
while the highest yesterday was
20 above. A trace of snow fell
for 24 hours ending at 6 a.m.
President Now
Enroute Home
South America
(By The Associated Press)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec.
3, — President Franklin D. Roose
velt of the United States, return
ing from his Latin American
voyage to the peace conference, j
stepped ashore from the U. S.
Cruiser Indinaapolis to the cheers
of the tiny republic of Uruguay,
into the outstretched arms of:
President Gabriel Terra.
This is the final port of call on |
the presidential South American
trip, until the navy ship gets
back to the Carribean.
A Continuation
Nuisance Tatffes
May Be Asked
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3,
—Congress may be asked to con
tinue most of the nuisance taxes
scheduled to expire by July 1st
including levies on gasoline, ra
dio parts, mechanical refrigera
tors, firearms, automobiles which
raised three hundred million dol
lars in the last fiscal year, and a
hundred and fifty million dollars
during the first five months of
the present fiscal year.
Tax experts said the revenue
was needed .if the budget is to
be balanced but some of them
could be eliminated because the
collection of the tax would cost
too much in relation to the re
turns.
The tax on gasoline alone dur
ing the last fiscal year raised a
hundred and seventy seven mil
lion dollars.
Two-fhirds of all the deaths
from tuberculosis occur before
the age of 45.
TWO VIEWS OF THE FAMOUS U. S. COMEDIAN
CHIC SALE, WHO DIED RECENTLY FROM A COLD
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‘PHAROAHS’ CURSE’ BALKS ROMANCE
The romance of the Hon. Tanis Guinness Montagu (left) and thu Earl
of Carnarvon (right), son of the Lord Carnarvon who opened King
Tut's tomb, had apparently gone the ill-fated way of everything
touched by the "Curse of the Pharoahs.” They were to have been mar
ried at Baltimore, but the ceremony failed to take place, and neither
would discuss their shattered romance. They were photographed
when they arrived at New York separately. (Associated Press Photos)
Pioneer Grand
Lodge Meet In
Ketchikan, Jan.
Thomas J. McCroskey of An
chorage, Grand President of the
Pioneers of Alaska, has fixed
January 7, 8, and 9 as the dates
of the next convention of the
Grand Igloo. The meeting will
be held in Ketchikan in conform
ity with the decision reached at
the 1935 session in Juneau.
Every Igloo is entitled to one
delegate at large in addition to
one delegate for each 50 members
or fraction thereof in good stand
ing.
May Extend Time
One of the most important
points to be taken up at the forth
coming convention will be the
question of extension of time of
eligibility for membership to
December 31 1910.
Other officers of the Grand Ig
loo are Andrew Nerland of Fair
banks, Past Grand President;
Charles W. Carter of Juneau,
F.rst Grand Vice President; Noah
Howell of Ketchikan, Second
Grand Vice President; H. R.
Shepard of Juneau Grand Sec
retary; John Rock of Juneau
Grand Treasurer; Mrs. H. P. Han
son of Ketchikan Grand Chaplain
Dr. W. H. Chase of Cordova,
Grand Historian; H H Henning
of Ketchikan Grand Sergeant at
Arms; Mrs J C Spickett of Ju
neau; H. P. Hanson of Ketchikan
and the Rev. Charles E Rice of
Juneau Grand Trustees
BROWN LANDS ANCHORAGE
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Dec. 3, —Two
airplanes made difficult landings
through a fog here late yester
day—Pilot Chester Brown of the
Arctic Airways landed from Jun
eau, after a bonfire had been
built to aid him in locating the
field. Pilot John Littley found a
hole in the fog and dropped thru
to make a landing on the field.
Governor Troy
Denied Charge
Senator Thomas
Governor Declares Senator’s
Statem.ut Shows Lack
Of Facts
(By The Associated Press J
JUNEAU, —Charging that Sen
ator Elmer Thomas, Democrat of
Oklahoma, who in a statement
in Washington, D. C. November
24,th termed the federal govern
ment’s farm colony in the Mata
nuska Valley a failure, did not
investigate the project thorough
ly when he visited there last
July, Governor John W, Troy of
Alaska said in Juneau that “the
senator has illustrated the mist
ake often made by those who ar
rive at conclusions and render
judgments without getting at the
bcttom of things.”
The Governor denied the Sen
ator’s charge that A.askan agricul
tural products are inferior, say
ing such a statement is contrary
to reports of the fed ral g vern
men.t's department of Agriculture.
Continuing, the Governor assert
ed:
“The Senator’s declaration that
Alaska has only two season,
‘July and winter’ s obviously er
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* Rockefeller Jr. Gave *
* $70,000 to G. 0. P.’s *
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* By The Associated Press *
4= WASHINGTON, D. C. I>ec. *
* 3, — Senate investigators *
4s said that John D. Rockefel- *
4= ler Jr. gave seventy thous- 4«
* and dollars to the Rcpubli *
* can campaign fund, while *
* Mrs. James R. H. Crom- *
* well, the former Doris Duke *
* world’s richest woman, and *
* tobacco fortune heiress, don *
* ated fifty thousand dollan *
* to the Democratic election *
* fund. *
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