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Vol. 38. No. 30. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 5th, 1937 Per Copy 15cts
First Boat Sails Sunday for Alaska
RITS OF EJECTION ISSUED IN AUTO PLANTS
Better Wages, Hours, Hiring Hall Granted Strikers
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SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY
SIX MILLION DOLLARS
IS COST COAST STRIKE
FORTY THOUSAND MEN GO BACK TO WORK AT
END STRIKE. STRIKEBOUND CARGO
RELEASED AFTER 98 DAYS
(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4, —
The maritime strike committee
announced early Thursday an ov
erwhelming union membership
approval of agreements to end
the record breaking walkout, but
tabled temporarily a motion to
call foT a return to work Friday,
pending a report on the status of
the strike involving affiliated un
ion strikes.
Strikes of shipyard workers,
bargemen, ships scalers complicat
ed the situation.
The committee asked for a re
port by their leaders who immed
iately went into conference.
The voting showed that the
marine firemen had rejected the
tentative agreement proposed by
the negotiators, but balloted in
favor of arbitrating their differen
ces. The cooks and stewards
which has only a partial agree
ment to end the strike negotia
tions, iballotted to accept in full
the offer of the employers on
which their incomplete accord
had been reached.
San Francisco, Feb. 4, — The
costliest maritime strike in Am
erican history ended at 2:45 p.m.
Pacific Standard Time Thursday
on a call destined to send forty
thousand men and 239 ships back
into action.
The men were ordered to re
turn to work beginning at 8 a.m.
Friday.
‘The coast maritime strike is
ended” strike publicity chairman
Henry Schmidt declared in an
official announcement. That was
the only direct declaration that
came from the room where un
ion leaders reached their decision.
One of the seven major unions
involved, the marine firemen, re
jected the tentative accord ne
gotiated for them. However,
they voted in favor of an arbi
tration of their differences with
employers, meanwhile returning
to the ships.
Tentative agreements accepted
assured the workers of generally
higher wages, union control of hir
ing agencies, and eight hour day
or less, and adjusted working
conditions. ,
San Francisco, Feb. 5, — The
ninety eight day coast maritime
strike which cost an estimated
six hundred and eighty six mil
lion dollars and paralyzed com
merce at sea while slowing in
dustry on land, was dissolved
Thursday, and the rush back to
work of forty thousand strikers
began today.
Disputes involving waterfront
workers remained unsettled in
two ports, but the signing of new
contracts last night by owners
and seven striking unions, closed
the major controversy.
Shipowners vied with each oth
er to get the first vessels under
way. Longshoremen and seamen
beseiged hiring headquarters for
CONNIE STILL LOOKS AHEAD
Celebrating his 74th birthday at work in his office, Connie Mack,
manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, said he planned to deliver
another pennant winner before quitting baseball. He Is pictured at
lunch surrounded by trophies and mementoes of his 54 years In the
game. (Associated Press Photo)
available jobs, while merchants
completed their service of ob
taining strikebound cargoes.
Booking space for shipments,
one line was forced to invoke the
“seniority” rule. Shipowners are
having difficulty in providing for
the rush for passenger accom
modations.
Harry Bridges, strike leader,
said “forty thousand men are
grateful. I’m only one of them.”
The strike of tugboat deck
hands at San Pedro, and the stand
of Blast Coast seamen who said
they would not permit work on
East Coast ships tied up until the
operators meet the terms award
ed to the West Coast seamen, and
the strike of truck drivers here,
are still Irritants of the situation.
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Mail Carrier Is
Rescued From A
Mine West Va.
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(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, West Virginia,
Teb. 5, — Robert Johnson, 36,
a rural mail carrier, lost for the
past eight days, in the debris-fill
ed passageways of an abandoned
mine, was carried out safely and
very much alive, puffing happily
on a cigarette.
“I’d given up all hope”, he said.
Rescue workers found him near
ly two miles away from the en
trance. He had carted coal out
of the mine from time to time, to
■ell, and became lost on his last
entrance into the mine.
GENERAL MOTORS ATTORNEYS
NOT IMMEDIATELY PUT IN
TO EFFECT POWER
(By The Associated Press)
FLINT, Michigan, Feb. 5, —
General Motors obtained writs
of attachment requiring the ejec
tion of strikers from its two Fish
er Body plants. They withheld
announcement where the service
of them would be requested.
FLINT, Feb. 4, — Roy Brown
el, attorney for General Motors
said he believed “the union will
ask its men to leave the plants
here peaceably’.
He announced he would defer
filing a petition for a writ re
quiring their ejection.
At Detroit the governors’ con_
ference lunched and planned to
resume discussions on the strike
later this afternoon.
But isn’t your son sort of list
less, Mr. Moneybags?
Heavens no! He’s got a list of
blondes, a list of brunettes, and
a list of redheads.
So your father is a southern
planter.
Yes, he is an undertaker in
Memphis.
Freedfrom Charge
Libel Brot 1928
(Hv Thr 'Associated press'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, — Re
presentative Tinkham of Massa
chusetts won a directed verdict
in a half million dollar libel suit
brought against him by Bishop
James Cannon Jr.,
Justice Jennings Bailey of the
Federal District Court ordered the
jury to find a verdict in favor of
him, after a lengthy argument j
yesterday.
The suit was filed as a result of
i
a statement whichTinkham made
about the Bishop's handling of
anti-Smith campaign funds in
1928.
Hopkins Adamant
Pictured here in a typical attitude,
Harry L. Hopkins, WPA adminis
trator, was reported prepared to re
sign unless he receives $750,000,000
to carry the relief program through
next June. An administration spilt
In congress loomed ss a result.
(Associated Press Photo)
Geo. D. Schofield
Nome Attorney,
Died Long Beach
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Feb . 5. —Judge
George D. Schofield, 72, former
Alaska and Seattle attorney died
Wednesday night of bronchial
pneumonia at his home at Long
Beach, California, friends here
learned today.
He was a native of Nebraska,
born August 23rd, 1864. After
serving as district attorney of
Nebraska City in 1894 he moved
to ChehaMs, Washington and be
came prosecuting attorney there
in 1896.
George Schofield moved to
Nome in 1900 and entered the
mining business and continued
to practice admiralty law.
He was a past president of the
Alaska Bar Association, a Dist
rict Judge at Nome, and was ac
tive for many years for Alaskan
Chambers of Commerce. He prac
ticed law in the summertime in
Alaska and came here for the
winters. He made his home in
California in 1932. He represent
ed the New York law firm of
Roosevelt and O’Connor in which
the Democratic President was a
partner, until he moved to Long
Beach five years ago.
A widow, Sarah, a son George
of Seattle, and a daughter Miss
Mary Gwen Schofield of Porter
ville, California, survive him. His
son is going to Long Beach to as
sist in the funeral arrangements.
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Doings Legislature
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU, Feb. 5, — Providing
for a three percent license tax on
the gross production of gold and
platinum mining operations in
excess of twenty thousand doll
ars, the second mining tax bill
made its appearance. It was in
troduced by Senator Brunnelle
of the Third Division. The pre
vious bill for a gold tax was in
troduced in the house.
Senator Roden’s nepotism bill
was passed in the senate by a five
to two vote.
Introduced was a bill by Nell
Scott requiring attorneys to re
gister and pay licenses in their
divisions annually. Representa
tives Green and Ross introduced
a bill prohibiting the depositing
of garbage within three hundred
feet of highways.
Rep. Coffey of the Third intro
duced a memorial asking con
gress to place an embargo on for
eign wood pulp.
Envoy To Russia
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Joseph E. Davies (above), promt*
nent international lawyer of Wash
ington, D. C., was appointed United
States ambassador to Russia to
succeed William Bullitt, recently
named envoy to France. (Associated
Press Photo)
Peterson Jury
To Said Go Easy
On his Sentence
(By The Associated Press'
SEATTLE, Feb. 4, —Recom
mending leniency, the jury in Sup
erior Judge Robert Jones’ court
last night convicted Captain H.
M. Peterson, elderly Alaska gold
mine operator on three counts of
grand larceny.
Peterson, a former operator of
fishing vessels in Alaska, was ac
cused by Deputy Prosecutor Al
bert Rosellini, of taking more
than five thousand dollars from
three persons who invested in
his gold mine at Dime Creek
near Nome.
Witnesses Emma Oakquist, Ed.
ward Hanson and Hans Ebeltoft,
said they invested in the mine
after Peterson declared he was
getting two dollars and a half
in gold per square rod of dirt
mined. They said they received
no returns on their investment.
Peterson pleaded not guilty,
saying he worked the mine in
good faith. Sentence was defer
red for today.
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register to take part in Sun
day’s Cheechacco dog race, will
take place at the Nome Drug
Store, at 7 p.m. tonight.
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