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VOL. 37. No. 300 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DEC. 19 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Other Reports on Missing Airplane
STRIKES OCCUR AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY
Coast Strike Accords Being Reduced To Writing
A Wave To New York
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Gov. Alf M. Landon is shown wav
ing to the crowd from the window
•ill of his suite at the hotel at which
he stopped on his campaign visit
to New York. (Associated Press
Photo)
Germany Faces
Shortage Food
States Reports
(By The Associated Press')
BERLIN, Dec. 19th—Germany
stood face to face with one of the
gravest food shortages in years,
the nation has come so close to
depleting its resources, both
money and food, that officials ex
pressed fear that they will be
able to And no adequate solution
to the crisis, which they expect
by April, when further stringen
cies will be imposed on German
households. The preserving of
dwindling food supplies is dis
closed in the issuance of new ra
tion cards for butter and lard.
Big Appropriation
Asked For Relief
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, DC., Dec. 19
—Quick approval of Congress
was sought today fot Roosevelt’s
request for an immediate five
hundred million dollars relief
appropriation as current funds
aTe expected to last only another
month, making action early in
January necessary. Roosevelt
said he would ask for it the first
week of congress convening, Jan
uary fifth.
Third Meeting
Board of Equal.
Held Fri. P. M.
At the third meeting of the
city council sitting as a board of
equalization, Councilmen O’Con
nor and Rude were absent, the
other four being present.
L. E. Rynning, representing the
Lomen Commercial Co., which is
also general agents of Standard
Oil Company products here, was 1
present and entered an objection !
to what he termed unfair 'boosts’ S
in assessments for the Lomen i
Commercial Co., and for Stand-1
ard Oil.
He referred to the taking over
of the Nohalico lighterage plant,
an assessment of $22,000 pointing
out that the Lomen assessment
was voluntarily raised from $60,
003 to $70,000 and the Standard
Oil from $20,000 to $32,000, show
ing that the merging of this plant
meant no tax loss to the city: He
also referred to the fact that the
stocks of the Lomen company j
were not as large as formerly,
due to the decline in building fol
lowing the spurt following the
fire, also that their coal supply
was not nearly as much as in for
mer years. Mr. Rynning also
drew attention of the board to
the fact with tonnage taxes etc.,
his company paid between $4500
and $5000 in taxes annually, wind
ing up his objection with the
statement that he believed the
additional raises of $10,000 and
$8,000 for his company and Stand
ard Oil respectively, were unfair.
Motion was made by Council
man Polet seconded by Cavey to
maintain the raise of the board
on these two companies as $80,
000 and $40,000 respectively. The
motion carried. Mr. Rynning
thanked the board for its time
and consideration to his objec
tions and the matter was dropped
Report on North Pole
Special committee consisting of
3ross and Hagen reported inves
tigation of the personal property
:>f the North Pole Bakery, stating
they believed that business was
being assessed at nearly one hun
dred percent, considering the ad
ditional raise of $4000, making a
total assessment of $10,000. The
committee recommended that the
assessment be cut $2,000 leaving
a total assessment on personal
property of $8,000.
To this figure Mrs. E. G. Davis,
proprietress, who was present,
objected claiming that this as
sessment was not in fair propor
tion to that of other business
houses in Nome, pointing out that
she couldn’t possibly have an as
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VERBAL ACCORDS ARE
BEING PLACED IN
WRITTEN FORM
Declared Incorrect To Announce That Peace Terms
Have Been Decided Upon Yet. Must Wait Until
Proposals Been Prepared In Writing
(By The Associated Press)
SAM FKANUJ.SCO, Dec. 19th—j
Strike negotiators sought to whip
into written agreements the ‘‘ac
cords in principle”, growing out
of the endless conferences and
more meetings.
Lundberg of the Sailors union,
J. E. Ferguson of the firemen, &
Plant representing the shipown
ers. in a statement at the close of
yesterday’s session, declared “it
is incorrect to state at this time
that ‘‘peace terms have been
reached, as no official announce
ment has been made, because the
terms have not as yet been ag
reed upon; such announcement
will be made when those who:
know and when negotiations has
reacned the point where a writ
ten statement of the agreement
can be made.”
Conferees, however, reached
a point yesterday, and are having
stenographers start to put their
verbal accords down in writing.
At Portland the joint strike I
committee approved the release'
| of the forty-seven hundred ton j
: corn cargo aboard the Norwegian
motorship which Governor Chas.
Martin reported that the poultry
men were threatening to unload j
the vessel themselves.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was —6 and the high
est yesterday zero.
Strikes Curtail
Production In
Auto Industry
(By The Associated Press)
DEROIT. Dec. 10—Strikes in
plants supplying parts to automo
bile manufacturers frought fur-;
ther curtailment of production,
according to a statement by
Vards Automotive reports which
state the ‘‘industry is close to la
aor crossroads.”
There are two strikes in pro
gress in the General Motors As
sembly Branches at Atlanta and
Kansas City; also the Libbey
Owens, Ford Glass Plants, the
Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company,
here, and the Bendix plant strike
of a f j'.v .wuwiIm ago.
CANCELLED AUDIENCE
(Bv The Associated Press)
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 19—The
Pope cancelled his usual Christ
nas Eve audience of the College
>f Cardinals and Papal Court, on
he advice of his physicians.
THOUSANDS VIEWED GIGANTIC BRIDGE ON DAY IT WAS OPENED
Here is the world’s biggest bridge the 177,000,000 structure spanning San Francisco Bay between San
Francisco and Oakland, with the first rush of traffic as it was opened to use. Thousands traversed
its eight and a quarter miles of length in automobiles, and others walked part of the way, although
| ordinarily pedestrians will not be permitted on it. ..In the foreground is part of the approach sys
tem on the San Francisco side, with the suspension half of the bridge extending out in the back
ground to Yerba Buena Island in the center of the Bay. (Associated Press Photo.)
REPORTS
HEARING
AIRPLANE
Despair Settles As Hund
reds Searchers Push
Try Locate Ship
(By The Associated Press)
SPOKANE, Dec. 19—New north
Idaho reports of the missing air
liner has spurred the search
when Nick Mamer verified two
reports that the planes roar was
i heard near Mica Peak. 20 miles
southeast of here about four AM
yesterday; also a woodsman nam
ed Hansen, heard anguished calls
| for help twice -las-t right. In. »h®
isolated region forest trail three
' miles from Bayview on Pendore
ille lake, fifty miles north of
Mica Peak. Darkness prevented
search.
Haiti's wife is in a Seattle ma
ternity hospital with a nine day
oid daughter. She has not been
told of his missing.
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(By The Associated Press)
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19—
Twenty-five planes and upward
of a thousand men and boys di
rected the plane search in the 2
regions of the bleak Kavich
Mountains in Nevada, where flar
es were reported seen. Pilot
Ralph Hall is working with a
ground party; also in Cedar Mts.
in North Central Utah.
Vice President Allan Barrie,
said “we feel we have covered
every piece of ground to which
the plane might have traveled,
because of windshift, but I will
remain here to continue the
search.”
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