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VOL 38 No. 98 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, APR. 23, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
CCC Activities Alaska be Expanded
VOTE ON COURT PLAN NOT LATER MAY 18
Roosevelt Requests Check Up Market Speculation
CCC TO BE ENLARGED
THROUGHOUT ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON D C April 28,
-(Robert Fechner, director of
Emergency Conservation Work,
announced thait the activities of
he Civilian Conservation Corps
m Alaska “would be materially
expanded”, under the new pro
gram of development, which be
comes effective immediately.
It calls for the increasing in the
number of local enrollees from
the present number of 325, to a
yearly average of 600, and an ex
tension of their work heretofore
oonfined to national forests local
ities, to other parts of the ter
ritory.
Fechner said the increased en
rollment “was primarily intend
ed to give more Indians and Es
kimos a chance to engage in em
ergency conservation work activ
ities.
The new work program will
include the construction of air
plane landing fields, local roads,
forest trails. Forest surveys are
also planned as well as prelim
inary investigations to determine
whether lands are suitable for ag
riculture.
Vote Be Taken On
Affiliating A. F. L.
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, —
Harry Lundberg, secretary of the
sailors union of the Pacific said
a coastwise ballot would be tak
en to determine whether the un
ion would reafllliate itself with
the American Federation of La
bor or join the Committee for In
dustrial Organization.
Leaders Seeking
Means To Obey
President Plea
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D C April 28,
—Administration authorities are
seeking a means to carry out Pres
ident Roosevelt's request to check
stock market speculation, and will
attempt to revise anti-trust laws
to chedk increasing prices.
The reserve board is studying
the speculation problem and has
authority to increase the margin
requirements to one hundred per
cent instead of the present fifty
five percent. Authorities said
Roosevelt may appoint a commit
tee to examine the anti-trust laws
in the hope of tightening those
regulations to check rising pric
|es.
President Roosevelt broadened
his warning against government
employees taking part in stock
speculation, to include the pub
lic at large.
Asked at his press conference
what prompted the letter to the
civil service commission advis
ing federal employees to refrain
from speculative transactions as
distinguished from bonafide in
vestments, the president said he
had the country’s general good
in mind.
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With the Kentucky Derby set for May 8, scenes such us i
becoming common in Louisville as the bluebioods of the u.rl re
being prepared for the racing classic. Sceneshiftcr (left), \ ih
Jockey R. McNamee up, and Fencing, ridden by George i: :i
stein (right) are shown in an early morning workout. (Assoeia'ud
. Press Photo)
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Press Photo!
Jack McCord Is
On His Way
To Goodpastor
WORK ON NEW GOLD
GROUND WILL GO AHEAD
RAPIDLY THIS SUMMER
A gold quartz mining plant em
ploying at least 2,000 men was
foreseen here today for the Good
pastor district if the American
j Smelting and Refining Company
puts in a mill and begins opera
tions on a big scale.
Jack McCord, noted Alaska min
ing promoter, said this is entirely
possible in the Goodpastor dis
trict, as he stopped in Anchorage
on his way to Fairbanks, accord
ing to a recent issue of the An
chorage Times.
Mr. McCord was instrumental
in turning over the ground in the
Goodpastor area to the American
Smelting and Refining Company,
and in getting the latter concern
interested in the area. He said
the company has about 17 men
working two shifts on a tunnel,
and that the firm has expended
probably $150,000 since taking
the ground over.
Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields
Reported to Become Active
Operators Nome Section.
The Yuba Consolidated Gold
Fields, a world wide placer drcdg
ing outfit, has also been interest
(Continued on Page Three)
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Baseball Scores
fOv The Associated Press i
ST. LOUIS, April 28, —“Lefty”
Bob Weiland, held Pittsburgh to
;six iiits at St. Louis won the
I game by a score of 3 to 1.
Hus victory may have assured
him of a regular berth on the
gashouse gang.
Today's win placed the Card
inals in first place in the Nation
al League. It was the only game
in the big leagues yesterday.
Oakland 3 San Diego 18
Seattle 1 Los Angeles 2
Missions 12 Sacramento 6
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President Left
Early Today By
Train On Trip
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 28,
President Roosevelt left by spec
ial train at 6 a.m. today for the
Gulf of Mexico, for his long
planned tarpon fishing trip on
the Texas coast.
He is to return here May 30th.
His departure was delayed six
hours, to avoid a layover enroute.
He is due at Atlanta tonight. He
will visit the home of Jefferson
Davis at Gulfport, Mississippi,
and will then board his boat at
New Orleans.
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Adding Wizard
Tied Champion
Warsaw. Poland
LA PORTE. Ind.. April—John
F. Gierke, Jr., known profession
ally as “Jean the Human Adding
Machine”, shares honors with
Salos Finkelstein, 33, of Warsaw
Poland, in the field of rapid cal
culation.
Gierke demonstrated his abil
ity in an exhibition before pro
fessors at Ohio university, equal
ing Finkelstein’s world-record for
lightning calculation.
Druing an hour and a half dem
onstration in which he added five
two-pace numbers, seven three
place numbers, 10 four place num
bers, five two-place numbers side
ways, six three-place numbers up
sidedown, two six-place numbers
alternately, Gierke came through
without a single error.
Professor is Surprised
“Gierke, you surprise me”. Dr.
Samuel Renshaw, head of the
university psychology depart
ment, said at conclusion of the
demonstration. “You are as fast
as Finkelstein, although it would
take delicate instruments to set
tle the difference, if any, in your
speeds.”
Renshaw said Gierke’s records
would go on file as the first cal
culation records ever kept by the
school. The university will study
the records in its psychology de
partment.
(Continued From Page Three)
May 18th Is Set
Final Time To
Vote Court Bill
tBv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 28,
The senate judiciary committee
decided to vote not later than
May 18th on the president's
court bill, which would not pre
vent an earlier vote if the com
mittee is ready to make its de
cision. It means that it will
merely place a limitation on de
bate within the committee.
Leaders of the senate opposition
to the measure agreed informally
to oppose all compromise propos
als.
Marriage Melvin
ed Indefinitely
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(Bv The Associated Press!
SAN ANTONIO, April 27,
The marriage of Melvin Purvis,
former chief at Chicago of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
the man who trapped John Dii!
inger, to Miss Janice Jarratt,
pretty photographer's model, has
been indefinitely postponed.
The change in their plans was
not explained, and neither would
comment.
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Yotin«! \«'lross I Mi's
Helen Burgess, Portland, Ore.,
high school girl who rose quick
ly to him fame, died at her home
in Hollywood from lobar pneu
monia. Sle was 18 years old.
(Associated Press photo.)