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Volume 36. Number 186. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1935. per Copy Ten Cents
Will Rogers Wants “Lasso Reindeer”
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MUSSOLINI CONTINUES MASSING MORE ARMIES
Joe Louis Administers Severe Beating to King Levinsky
WILL ROGERS SAYS HE
WANTS HURRY TO NOME
TO “LASSO REINDEER”
Wiley Post And Will Rogers Remain In
Juneau While Weather Is Adverse: But
Rog ers Is Anxious To Get To Nome
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU. Aug. 8—Wiley Post and Will Rogers mildly
disagreed over plans for resuming their flight, today. Post
yearned for salmon fishing and Rogers urged a quick take
off for Nome so that he could “lasso reindeer.”
Inasmuch as weather forecasts are unfavorable Rogers
said that he would compromise and let Wiley do his fishing.
Post will also visit a short time with Joe Crosson of the
Pacific Alaska Airways.
It is unknown yet whether Mrs. Post will come to Alas
ka to meet her husband-flier and continue with him on to
Nome.
“We were flying over Ketchikan and I told Wiley I thot
. that was a nice looking place. He said he knew of a better
one, so we kept on going. He’s been to Alaska so often he
knows his way around, kind of like an old settler up here,’
said Rogers. They spent the night at the governor’s man
sion.
Levinsky Receives
Terrible Beating
1st, Only Round
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Aug. 8, —Joe Louis,
the brown bomber from Detroit,
scored a technical knockout in the
firsit round over King Levinsky, the
ex-fish peddler from Chicago, of a
scheduled ten round fight.
The fight lasted only two minut
es and twenty-one seconds. A crowd
of forty thousand people saw the
fiasco. Levinsky was knocked down
four times by Louis hy heavy punch
es to the head and body, and was
sitting on the bottom rope of the
ring, in a neutral corner when the
referee, McGarrity ended the one
sided battle.
Levinsky was down for the count
of two the first time, and took
the count of five on the next two
knockdowns. He was sitting on the
ropes, punchdrunk, when the time
keeper tolled off four, as the battle
ended.
Levinsky landed only one solid
punch—a wild right to the head.
Louis was aggressive from the
start. The fifth or six punch that
Louis landed knocked Levinsky to
his hauches, and as he came to his
feet at' the count of two, Louis
charged after him lashing out with
terrific punches.
The crowd was in an uproar from
the outset as Levinsky kept bounc
ing to the floor. The cheering was
thunderous. The referee finally step
ped in and led Levinshy to his cor
ner, awarding the technical knock
out to Joe Louis.
Intimates Propose
Borah For Repub
lican Pres. In 1936
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, — Some
of the most intimate associates of
Borah are pondering whether to
put him forward actively for the re
publican presidential nomination
next year.
The decision hinges largely on
whether the senator is willing to
run.
Heat Records Are
Broken In Middle
West More Deaths
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 8, —The middle
west’s summer heat waves left pro
strations and deaths, and shattered
previous temperature records.
Two fatalties were recorded in
Oklahoma and one in Missouri.
The temperature ranged from 109
to 114 in Oklahoma and 103 to 108
in Kansas.
Floods occurred in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, with hundreds
fleeing from their homes. Two were
drowned in Ohio when swollen
streams overran their banks.
ETHIOPIANS PREPARE
TO DEFEND COUNTRY
EVENT ITALY ATTACKS
(By The Associaled Press')
UNDATED, Aug. 8th—Emperor Sellassie ordered his
warriors away from Adua, expecting that Italy would at
tack there, and an authoritative source today forsees a sur
prise campaign by the Ethiopians on Italian Somililand ini
the event of such a move.
In Italy II Duce is waiting for the tri-power conversa
tions to begin, but is continuing his massing of war-power
for military maneuvers about Brenner Pass, and is sending:
more troops to Africa. The Italo-Ethiopian conversations'
are set for August 16th in France.
An Italian expedition was crushed at Adua forty years
ago, according to the history of the section. Authoritative
sources expressed the belief that the “king of kings”, realiz
ing that Adua would probably be Italy’s first goal, may de
cide not to defend it but use punitive surprise tactics else
where.
Reports said that Emperor Selassie had discussed with
his chiefs, the concentration of forces on the Italian Somili
land front, so that if Italy moves on Adua, they would swoop
into the slightly defended area of the Italians in Somililand.
The Italians would then be allowed to take Adua and pene
trate deep into northern Ethiopia and then when they were
there the Ethiopians would cut them off and demoralize
them with guerilla tactics.
Mining Report For
1934 Of Alaska Is
Made Geo. Survey
Mines in Alaska produced minerals
worth $16,721,000 in 1934, as against
$10,366,000 in 1933, according to an
announcement made by the Inferior
Department late in July, through the
Geological Survey. The total val
ue of the mineral output of the
Territory since 1880 is $680,316,000.
The following table shows in sum
mary form the mineral output of
Alaska for 1934.
OUTPUT FOR 1934
Gold, $16,007,000
Silver ' 100,000
Copper 9,700
Lead 62,100
Coal 451.500
Miscellaneous mineral products
including petroleum, platinum
metals, tin, etc. 90,700
TOTAL $16,721,000
OUTPUT FOR 1933
Gold $9,701,000
Silver 55,000
Copper 1,900
Lead 85,600
Coal 481,000
Miscellaneous mineral products
including petroleum, patinum
metals, tin, etc. 41,500
TOTAL $10,366,000
The value of gold in' 1933 was
computed at the old standard price
for that metal, $20.67 a fine ounce,
whereas the value of gold in 1934
was computed aat the new price of
$35 a fine ounce.
OUTPUT LIMITED
Numerous causes other than those
connected directly with the actual
mining limited the output of Al
aska mines in 1934. Many of these
were local and affected only a small
part of the Territory, but several
of them had much widespread sig
nificance. Of these more general
factors it is hardly necessary to call
attention to the fact that this coun
try, as well as most of the rest of
of the world, has not yet emerged
from the violent depression that has
deterred normal activities and dis
couraged the starting of new enter
prises. Furthermore, even those1
new enterprises that have been start
ed require a large amount of pre
liminary preparatory or dead work
before they even begin to yield a
small production.
SHIPPING TIEUP
Another of the general incidents)
that adversely affected the Alaska
Mining industry in 1934 was the gen
eral tie-up of shipping for nearly 2 .
months at the beginning of the op
en season, by a serious strike of long
shoremen and water-front workers.
Even a short delay is seriously felt
in a region like Alaska, where the
open season is so short, and this was
aggravated by the fact that even af
ter regular shipping was resumed
congestion of freight was so great j
and the orderly handling of it so up- j
set that even a longer time than !
usual elapsed before the miners in
remote parts received all their need
ed supplies and equipment. S
LODES AND PLACERS 1
The output of gold from Alaska 1
corned from both lode (hard-rock) 1
and placer mines. In 1934 this out- c
put was distributed between these 1
types of mines in the proportion of *
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HUNT BEING MADE FOR
UTILITY MAGNATE DUE
BE QUESTIONED SOON
Ariniinislnitiou Forces Striving Hurd For
Vole On Bill Outlawing Cold Clause
Suits Against II. S. Government
(Bv The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8—Administration forces drove
toward a vote in the Senate today, on the Hill outlawing the
gold clause suits against the government.
Apparently impressed by cries of confiscation some sen
ate finance committee democrats indicated they might seek
to case the proposed inheritance levies in the new tax bill.
Lobbying investigators of the house rules committee
assembled today to question H. C. Hopson, utilities magnate,
il he is found. It was intimated that he was somewhere in
Maryland. A break in the hunt for him. may be expected
momentarily.
Meanwhile the senate and house conferees made some
progress toward the settling of the dispute over the utilities
bill. The principal argument, the question whether utility
holding companies labeled as unnecessary, should be abol
ished in s&ven years, still remains ^o be tackled by the con
ferees. Considerable delay is being caused by the failure
to bring Hopson before the committee for questioning.
Post And Rogers
Arrived At Juneau
At 3:30 Last Niglil
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Aug. 8, —Eight hours
ind fifteen minutes after he hopped
>ff from Renton Airport for the
northland, Wiley Post accompanied
ov Will Rogers, landed here at 5:30
P. M. yesterday Pacific Standard
rime.
Rogers stated he intended to ac
■ompany Posts farther and that
hey might resume their flight to
light.
Post’s only comment was that he
vas going to stay here until they
(et ready to take-off for somewhere,
t was later revealed they planned
o fly to interior Alaska.
Republican Fess
Says Democrats
Will Win In 1936
(By The Associated Press)
MOODY, N. Y., Aug. 8, —Former
lenator Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio,
epublican, expressed the belief that
le expenditures of the Roosevelt ad
ninistration would bring about a
emocratic victory in 1936. He said
[Owever. that he believed Herbert
loover would be the strongest fac
or in the country by 1940.
I.) Year Old Hoy
Falls To Death In
Rocky Mountains
(By The Associated Press)
CAMP CHIEF OURAY, Colorado,
Aug. 8, —William Brode, 15, scion
of an old Memphis family, plummet
ted to his death from a mountain
eering adventure near Lindbergh
Peak, in the Rocky Mountains. Ro
bert Henderson of Omaha, his com
panion, brought out word of the ac
cident.
Man And Woman
Rescued From 2000
Foot Ledge in Park
(By The Associated Press)
YOSEMITE, California, Aug. 8, —
Robert Tate, 35, of Inglewood is ser
iously injured and in the hospital,
and Miss Elizabeth Lorimer, 23, Mas
sachusetts girl, was rescued without
any injury from a two thousand
foot ledge above Yosemite Valley,
on the Granite Mountain side, after
a full night with only a scanty foot
ing between them and death. Tate
had broken his shoulder and had
body bruises and scratches, and poss
ibly a skull fracture from a fall. The
park rangers rescued them.
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