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Volume 36. Number 188. NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Airmail For Alaska Passed By Senate
SETTLEMENT7 ETHIOPIAN DISPUTE IS IN SIGHT
Wiley Post and Will Rogers Arrive Famous Klondyke
Post And Rogers
Arrived Dawson
4:30 P. M. Friday
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Aug. 10. —Wiley Post
and Will Rogers reported they ar
rived at Dawson at 4:30 P. M. Fri
day. They did not stop at Skag
way or White Horse, as they flew
inside via the Taku route.
Reveals Plans For
Prison System On
The Pacific Coast
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings reveal
ed plans for a three phase federal
prison on Islands in Puget Sound.
McNeil Island would become a “De
vils Island” similar to Alcatraz. On
two other islands, work camps and
vocational training schools would be
established for prisoners considered
capable of reforming.
Wins A Wrestling
Title But Loser
Won’t Give Belt
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, Aug. 9—Danno O’Ma
honey threw Don George and won
George’s title to the world heavy
weight wrestling championship. But
George won’t give up the $10,0'.!0
diamond studded championship belt
so O’Mahoney hired an attorney to
bring suit for it.
Will Poison Water
(By The Associated Press)
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 10, —Sev
eral tribes announced that they plan
to polute the water supply if war
with Italy comes. They will treat
the wells supplying Italian troops
with a substance creating nausea.
Nine Deaths Due
To Heat Recorded
Throughout U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 10, —Parched,
middle America found relief in scat
tered areas today after intense, wide
spread suffering.
Nine deaths from heat, five of
them negro convicts at the Angola
Louisiana prison farm, while lying
in a hayfield where it was a hun
dred and four in the shade.
There were two dead in Texas and
two in California.
Paa Clipper Plane
Makes A Record
Flight Honolulu
(13y The Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Aug. 10, — The Pan
American Airways Clipper plane ar
rived here without mishap at 8:09
A. M. today Pacific Standard Time.
Its flying time of 17 hours and 9
minutes is a new record for the
flight from the mainland. This time
is 50 minutes less than on the latest
previous record trip.
The flight was made at an altitude
ranging from thirteen hundred to
eleven thousand feet. The plane left
the charted course several times to
make special surveys of air con
ditions, and then slowed down dur
ing the last two hours of the jour
j ney.
Big Plane Makes
A Forced Landing
But No One Hurt
_
(By The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 9—An East
bound transcontinental ANL West
ern airliner made a forced landing
today near Otto N. M. The com
pany reported. None of the ten
passengers were injured although
the plane was damaged. It landed
: with landing gear retracted.
No Relief Strikers
Says President In
Ultimatum Today
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 10, —The con
test between the new deal and strik
ing relief workers appeared to be
headed for a showdown.
Union leaders predicted the New
York walkout would spread to many
cities. President Roosevelt issued an
ultimatum saying that those who
turn down work relief jobs will be
j cut off the dole and thus they will
be deprived of any form of federal
aid.
The Roosevelt tax program suffer
ed a blow, some sources said today,
when it was reported today that the
senate finance committee had reject
ed his plan for a steeply graduated
tax on corporation incomes.
—
Expected To Sign
Security Bill Soon
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —Presi
dent Roosevelt is expected to sign
the social security bill soon and
shortly thereafter set up a board of
three administrators for the old ape
pensions.
WHEAT DECRE ASES AND
CORN INCREASES JULY
CHANGE DUE DROUGHT
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Agricultural Conditions Announced As Of
August First By Department Of Agri
culture Difference Caused Drought
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—Reporting radical changes
in crop conditions during the last thirty days, the Depart
ment of Agriculture estimated that since July 1st, the corn
crop has increased two hundred and twenty-eight million
bushels, while the wheat crops have decreased one hundred
and twenty-four million bushels.
The wheat crop was estimated at six hundred and st» cn
million, six hundred and seventy-eight thousand bushels, as
of August 1st, compared with seven hundred and thirty-one
million bushels for the month previous.
George E. Farrell, Director of the AAA Division of
grains, however, said: “There’s still plenty of wheat.”
Hot weather and droughts are responsible for much of
the drop in wheat. The yield of corn was estimated at two
billion, two hundred and seventy-two million bushels.
Senate 0. K.s Air
Mail Provisions
Tor Alaska P>ill
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —1The
senate today adopted the conference
report on the Alaska Airmail bill
permitting the Post Office Depart
ment to contract mail service by air
without advertising for bids, provid
ing the cost does not exceed twenty
five thousand dollars annually.
The measure was sent to conferen
ce several days ago from the senate
when it eliminiated the emergency
service without advertising for bids.
The twenty-five thousand dollar pro
vision limitation was the result of
the conference.
Science Says Life
Should Extend To
150 Years Normal
_
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Aug 10, —Normal life
for human beings should be some
thing more than 150 years, Prof.
Peter Lasareef. member of the Rus
sian Academy of Science, declared
in Moscow recently.
The Professor revealed that he had
prolonged the lives of daphnia, mi
nute fresh water crustaceans to 4
times their usual existence by the
use of Roetgen rays.
He shortly will head an expedi
tion to the Georgian Republic, one
of the smaller units of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics, in an ef
Premier Laval May
Start l)i(la(orslii|)
(By Tlie Associated Press)
PARIS. Aug. 10, —Premier Laval
warned today that a dictatorship
was not unlikely if present measur
es fail in the enforcement of his re
covery decrees, which have already
caused disorder and bloodshed in
port centers by striking marine men.
Herbert Hoover Is
61 Years Old Today
(By The Associated Press)
OGDEN, Utah, Aug. 10, —Herbert
Hoover was 61 years old today. He
is here visiting former Senator
Smoot, enroute East. He said he was
on a business trip. ,
He described his fishing in Calif
ornia as “lousy”.
Hoover entered his 62nd year still
a political mystery to many, al
though he is being watched by ev
eryone for any political moves.
fort to discover what causes the long
evity of the Georgians, many of
whom are reported to live a century
and a half.
The professor declared he was not
ready to submit human beings to
his longevity experiments.
The large U. S Coast Guard Nome
Station power boat was launched in
Bering Sea yesterday from the Lom
en Commercial Co. Dock and is
now anchored in Snake River Har
bor and in readiness for any duty
calls which may be made for its
service. I
May Be Chance Of
Settlement Along
New Lines Is Said
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Aug. 10, —A precedent
for a possible basis for a peaceful
settlement of the Ethiopian dispute
was seen in League circles today.
Italy it was said, might be desig
nated to carry out ecenomic devel
opments in Ethiopia as an agent of
the league. In the past the league
has given economic assistance to
Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Huey Long Murder
Story Called Dream
fBv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —Huey
Long’s story that his Louisiana en
emies talked over the idea of kill
ing him on the floor of the senate,
drew scoffs from other Louisiana
legislators. One of them said that
Huey just had another bad dream.
Funeral Services
For Alaska Capt.
Of S.S. Humlmlrft
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, —
Funeral services were held today
for Captain Elijah G. Baughman, 73,
retired steamship master, known
from San Francisco to Alaska as the
"Salvager of more than a Thousand
Lives”.
He died of pneumonia Thursday
night. He was skipper of the ‘'Hum
boldt" which was launched in 1896
till it was taken out of service in
1930.
During the northern gold rush
days, the ship was credited with
carrying more than a hundred mil
lion dollars in gold from Alaska to
the states.
Captain Buaghman is survived by1
a widow and two daughters. The
last rescue which he performed was
in 1930 when he took off thirty-eight
members of the crew from the
Rhine Maru aground at Point Sur,
California.
—
Steam Schooner In
Need Help Calif.
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(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, —The
iteam schooner Santa Monica, bound
lere from Eureka, flashed distress
signals from near the Frisco light
ship. ten miles off Golden Gate. Sev
eral ships are now steaming to her
issistance.
Mail the Nome Daily Nugget to
four friends, and let them know
ibout the re-building of Nome.
Sen. Nye Believes
Third Party Will
Existence In 1936
fBy The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —Sena
tor Nye predicted there would be
a third party in existence for the
next election. He also said it ap
peared that Roosevelt would be re
elected unless there is a swing to
the right.
He said that many liberals felt
that a third party should be creat
ed now: "To be used as a progress
ive agency with an eye to the fut
ure."
Speaking what he believes is like
ly to happen w+ien Roosevelt leaves
office he said: “Without him it is
likely the Democratic party will re
sume its former conservatism.
“Should the Republican party re
main conservative there is no place
for us independents to go.” Thus
he sees the former party. He said
unless the republicans nominate a
real liberal he would probably sup
port Roosevelt at the next election.
Exhibition Against
Japan In Seattle Is
No Joke Japanese
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 10, — The Jap
anese consulate here revealed that
a telegram had been sent the Nip
ponese Embassy at Washington re
garding yesterday’s episode in which
a man dressed to represent the Em
peror of Japan appeared in a neigh
borhood here with clubs on the “coy
ote hunt’’ stunt, pulling a jniriki
sha containing men costumed to re
present the emperor of Ethiopia.
The spokesman at the consulate
said the telegram was not in the
form of a protest but was merely
informative: “I am sorry if the peop
le of America think things of this
kind funny.”
TOKYO, Aug. 10, —The foreign
office’s spokesman declined to com
ment on the Seattle episode.
Will See Shooting
Stars Over W/eek
End Cosmic Dust
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10, — The
earth will pass through a cosmic
cloud of dust this week-end, filling
the air with shooting stars. The
period will probably extend for six
ty or seventy hours, and the best
shows are expected on Saturday,
Sunday, and Monday nights after
the moon sets around midnight. The
showers will be visible in the North.
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