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YOL. 37. No. 257 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, OCT. 28, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Promises Aid Low Income Families
JOHN LEWIS DENOUNCES GOV. LANDON
U.S.Steel Corp. Reports Best Dividends In 6 Years
WOULD PURGE GOVERNMENT
USELESS WASTE MONEY FOR
PURPOSES FAVOR POLITICS
Old Cathedral
Reported Have
No Foundations
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, October—Craftsmen
of nine centuries ago have left a
puzzle for modern architects here
with the revelation that the mas
sive Norman structure of St. Al
bans Cathedral, in Hertfordshire,
has no foundations at all.
Nothing but wet clay and chalk
support the lofty arches and huge
buttresses of the north transept,
it was disclosed when trenches
were dug at the base of the walls
in an attempt to find the source
of water flowing into the church.
The walls have stood since the
twelfth century, with no signs of
cracking.
(By The Associated Press)
PERRY, Okla., October—Prof.
Leopold Radgowsky, once direc
tor of the Russian Czar’s imperial
band, was granted citzenship
here. Since coming to the Unit
ed States Radgowsky once was
forced to flee to Mexico to avoid
being extradited to Russia.
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28, —
Nominee Landon pledged that if
he were elected “a house clean
ing of the political debauch thru
which the New Deal has created
a vast army of mercenaries to
entrench Roosevelt in power.”
‘Coupling promises to expand
the civil service and consolidate
government agencies, the Repub
lican candidate for president clos
ed his campaign here last night
for Pennsylvania’s 36 electoral
votes just one week before the
election.
He said: ‘‘patronage has tripled
under President Roosevelt and
his Postmaster General Farley.
This is a direct violation of Roose
velt’s promises. This is not good
government—to have an army av
ailable for Roosevelt’s political
machine which is twice as big as
the regular U. S. Army, and with
an increase in the federal payroll
as a result, of more than five mil
lion dollars annually. The ad
ministration at present in power,
has gone hog wild in adding new
agencies and accumulating new
power. The time has come to end
this political debuach. The mer
it system must be restored, ex
panded and improved,” said Lon
don.
Sea Tonnage
Of Navies Is
Over Limits
Great Britain and United States
Have More than Quota of Subs
By Preston Grocer
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, — Any
one who is perturbed by Japan’s
desire to keep more submarines
than the treaty allows might glan
ce at British and American nav
ies and largely quiet himself with
the discovery tliat all are over
certain other quota allowances,
although less than four months
of the life of the treaty remain.
The idea behind the 1930 treaty
fixing the limits was to trim the
three major naval powers involv
ed, Great Britain, the United Stat
es and Japan, down to a fixed
tonnage of ships in each catagory
by the end of 1936.
All Three Building
But as the hour of reckoning
approached, Great Britain found
it had 208,000 tons of destroyers
where the treaty allowed only
150.000 tons. True, the bulk of it
was old stuff, but that country
announced it wanted to keep 40,
000 tons above the quota. In ad
dition it is already building, or
has money on hand to build, 55,
000 tons more.
The United States, with the
same destroyer tonnage limitation
has 220,000 tons, or 70,000 tons
excess. It followed the British
lead by proposing to keep 40,000
tons above quota. The United
States in turn, is building or fin
ancing 98,000 tons more.
Japan, with a 105,000-ton de
stroyer limitation has 123,000 tons
and is building or has money for
28.000 tons more. She merely
proposed to keep 15,000 tons of
excess submarine tonnage and
some destroyer tonnage in lieu
of the destroyer tonnage heT
treaty associates are keeping.
It is true that in all three na
^jpns the destroyer tonnage “un
der age" is well below the limit.
“Under age” ships are those which
have not passed the point where
theoretically they are ineffective
against an enemy. Some of the
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Steel Corporation
j Raised Dividends
i (By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, — The
giant, U. S. Steel Corporation to
day reported that it had enjoyed
the best earnings in six years,
during the past twelve months,
as it restored dividend payments
to the full amount for the first
time in six years.
John Lewis Of
Mine Workers
Labels Landon
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, October 28—John
Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers, denounced Governor Alf
Landon, republican candidate for
president, and said: “This Amer
ican Labor Party rally demon
strates that labor is organizing
politically. It is time for labor
to organize, because there is dan
ger ahead. Landon is the most
dangerous and weak man in all
America, he sold himself to the
lords and masters,” Lewis said.
Capt. Mollison
Off On Hop To
Jolly England
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, October 28th—
Wearing a dinner jacket, Captain
James Mollison, trans-Atlantic
flier, hopped off at 8:44 A.M. east
ern standard time, on a one stop
flight to London by way of Har
bor Grace, hoping to establish a
mark of seventeen and a half fly
ing hours between the Floyd Ben
net field and Croydon Airdrome.
Hops Off Pontoons
From Frozen Lake
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON, Oct. 28, — What
was termed as a new feat here,
but what has actually occurred
every year in Alaskan aviation,
was described by observers to
day.
The new, colorful feat in the
annals of northland aviation was
reported by Captain W. R. Wray,
who took off on pontoons from the
ice covered surface of a small
lake. He took off by skidding
his floats along the smooth sur
face as if they were skiis.
ROOSEVELT FAVOR
HELPING THE LOW
INCOME FAMILIES
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, — President Roosevelt de
! dared himself in favor of a new law at the next con
gress to heip the low-income families obtain improved
homes.
In a short speech at Roosevelt Parks, on New York’s
East Side, he said “we have not yet begun adequately to
spend money to help families in over-crowded sections
of cities, to live as American citizens ought to live.”
Earlier he sopek at the dedication of the PWA finan
ced gymnasium of Brooklyn College, and also at the 50th
I anniversary of the Statue of Liberty on Bedsoes Island.
! Standing near the statue, he praised the nation’s settlers
! and their love of freedom. He said “The present gen
jeration must carry forward their ideals.”_
Apple Growers
Threaten Send
Product Tacoma
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, October 28—Threats
of Wenatchee apple shippers to
send their products to Tacoma
instead of Seattle was branded
by Dore as a “Hartley political
scare.” Ross Collidge, North
western Fruit Exchange traffic
member of Wenatchee, said yes
terday that action will be taken
because the fruit growers are not
protected in hauling their pro
duce here.
Seven Percent
Increase Wages
Plants
!
(Rv The Associated Press) 1
CHICAGO, Oct. 28, — A seven
percent wage increase for eighty
thousand workers in Swift, Wil
son, Cudahy and Armour meat
packing plants, it was announced
today’, would go into effect this
coming Monday, which means
that pay envelopes will be eight
million dollars fatter each year.
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CAPTAIN BENSON SATISFIED
GOLD FINDS AT RED HEAD
Head of Dredging Firm Is Well
Pleased With Ocean Sands
Near Cordova
Captain John Benson, who is in
Cordova to locate prospective
gold bearing submarine sands for
the Alaska Bay Shore Dredging
Company, of which he is presi
dent, returned from Red Head &
reported he was very well satis-1
tied with the results of his scout- i
irtg expedition, says a recent is-1
sue of the Cordova Daily Times.
His Company is initiating a new
departure in placer mining thru
the means of large suction dred
ges mounted on ships. The dred
ges lift the gold sands from the
ocean bottom and extract the
metal by means of an extraction
plant on the vessel.
Captain Benson explored the
bottom of Red Head for a dis
tance of a mile off the beach and
i found an unlimited stretch of
to be from 50 cents to $1 a yard.
Submarine sands arc always rich
er than the exposed beaches, the
captain said, which assures him
that the Red Head area will be
profitable mining grounds for one
of his dredges.
Weather was excellent during
the entire trip which consumed
nearly a week and Captain Ben
son will investigate other pros
pects as soon as the present rain
and wind squalls end.
level sandy floor from 20 to 21
feet under the surface.
He took samples of dark ruby
sand on shore and found its value
17 Deaths Gridiron
Result up Todate
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 28, — A sur
vey showed that seventeen deaths
the total number of last year, had
been reported on the country’s
gridirons thus far this year.
Another report said that twen
ty two youths had died since
January 1st playing football.
Madame Lupescu
Striking Figure
King Rumania
King’s Companion is Queer
Example. Her Modes
Are Specialties
fBv The Associated Press) ‘
UNDATED, Oct. 23, — Mme.
Magda Lupescu, object of gossip
and headshaking again in the Bal
kins, following a turnover in the
Rumanian cabinet, has worries of
her ow n.
First, there are the freckles.
The few privileged Rumanians
who have met their country's
“uncrowned queen”, say that
freckles are one of her most dis
tinguishing characteristics, aside
from flaming red hair. Her roy
al friend, King Carol, rather lik
es the freckles, they add, and con
siders that they enhance her
beauty. But she wants none of
! ’’ 'in and has tried all sorts of
lotions ami .ia n\s o et rid of
then.
Diessf*; “to King's 1 iste”
Then Mme. Lupescu -“Bibi”
to the K'ng -has always to think
of the agitation again 1 her by
l.ose who dislike her race, her
reported political activ.ties or her
position as Carol’s companion.
But political worries haven’t
kept Mme. Lupescu from a lively
interest in hats and gowns.
Experts class the Jewish red
head as the best dressed and most
bejewelled woman in Rumania.
Information from Bucharest is
that she has a predilection for el
aborate French robes, ordering a
dozen at a time. Couturiers say
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