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WASH. STATE SETS IIP LIQUOR STORES
GOV, JOHN W. TROV ENROUTE JUNEAU
WASH I NOTON STATE SETS UI*
LIQUOR STORES
(By The Associated Press)
OLYMPIA, Jan.’ li? — Beer and
■wine by the glass, also hard liquor
etate stores were set up by the
Washington citizens. This was
the final outcome of a 40 day fight
over liquor control legislation in
a special session of the state’s
legislature, which Friday night
put the official stamp of approvar
on the plan outlined by Governor
Clarence D. Martins.
The advisory liquor control com
mission then quit work to close
the meeting tomorrow. It is es
timated to take 12 hours to pre
pare the bill for fl^el presenta
1ion to>the governor. The lav per
njlts the sale of 17 percent wine
by the glass."" Liquor control wiii
■— b . .administered bv *hree com mi -
aloners who will rete've a $4,500
annual salary each. Tlte^ revenue
vill go SO percent f > the state
20 percent to the county end 50
j-^r-«n’t to the old agf tension
fund in 50 cities i.i d •■nt.iiiies.
illKlNKSS FORECASTS
ARE VERY FAVORABLE
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 12 —Business
trends thus far in January forecast
more favorably for the first quar
ter than previously estimated, the
llun-Bradstreet Review said. “'In
all pans of the country there is a
pronounced uniformity in reports
of unexpected high levels at which
retail sales are being maintained
Jii spite of nearly record propor
tions ia December’s business. While
file movement in staple merchan
dise continued to receive fresh im
petus weekly, as employment to
tals swell, it is not this division
that forms the bulk of the new
baying, as the demand for high
p>iced goods, with quality the
ptlme consideration, has attained a
fdrce uneguaMed since 1929,” ac
cording to the review.
NATION’H income
JUMPS UPWARD i
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WtA&HINGTON, Jan. 10 — The
Nation's Income Jumps upward
sAme sixty-two million in the
Jf33 year, and what’s more, cost
th'e government less to collect It,
Gtfcy T. Silverman, commissioner of
Internal Revenue, disclosed in Ms
aiinual report though the treasury.
Although three point two beer
and wine was legal for only a
small part of that fiscal year, the
former brought In thirty fixe mil
lions and the later, eighty thou
sand dollars. The total revenue
for 1933 was a billion, six hun
dred million dollars.
ABVimiSBKS- Copy tor ada
tn the weekly Nugget must be la
this office not later than Thursday!
ASKS PLANE MAIL
LEGISLATION FOR ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 — Post
master General James A. Farley, re
commended to the President in
his annual report, that legislation
he enacted to permit him to con
tract for airmail service in Alas
ka. He asked that' the present
!laws be amended to authorize the
postmaster general at his discre
tion to contract after advertise
ment, in accordtnce with law, for
the carrying of all classes of mail
within the territory of Alaska by
airplanes and to permit the pay
ment to be nvtde from appropria
tions for stet route service in Alas
ka.
LKJtl’OR RE VEX IK FLOWS IN
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — The
now liquor tax law completed its
first day of operation Friday with
importing revenue estimaed at up
wards of six hundred and forty
live thousand dollars. It is es
imated that the income for Jan
uary under the new high reven
ue rates will amount to at least
wenty million dollars, according
to an announcement made by the
federal alcohol adm'nistration. One
hundred percent liquor imports
will be allowed from the United
Kingdom with the provision that
such imports clear foreign ports
before midnight January 2,7. This
increase is the result of a recent
trade agreement., ^ .
LIQUOR TAX BILL SKINKI)
BY ROOSEVELT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 — Pres
ident Roosevelt signed the liquor
tgx bill. This bill is estimated to
bring into the government treas
ury a half billion dollars annually*
PLEDGED TO
DOWN BOOTIiEGERK
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(By The Associated Presa)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — Pledg
ed to keep bootleggers and the
Illicit dist’.llers of prohibition days'
out of the new legalized liquor in
dustry, Doran, head of the. Distill
ed Spirits Institute, expressed as
surances that the old time rack
eteers will have a hard time if
they seek to operate illegitimately.
11ABE KPTH TAKEH OPT
i By The Associate! Prcbs)
NEW YORIi, Jan 12 — E'Oe
jltuH) came to an agreement with
t|o Yankees over his salary In
vtilvhg his continuation with the,
famous baseball team. It is re^
puted that his salary was reduc
ed from $52,000 to $35,000.
JUBSCRIBB FDR THE NUOGBT
Kl’DY VALLEE IV DIVORCE
ENTANGLEMENT
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( By The Associated Press1
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 — Rudy
jValee was accused by his estrang
'd actress wife of associating with
other women. He countered with
the asser ion that during his ab
sence, in some planned rendevous
another man whom she caled “dear
‘darling” saw her. The court up
held the singer’s right to seek a
; Mexican divorce.
I Mrs. Fay Vallee made public
documents guaranteeing to be re
productions of records made on a
hidden phonograph of telephone
'conversations with “Leon” Vallee’s
jludependent male -An affidavit
stated that Garfield Leon was a
dancer whose wife named Mrs.
jValee defendent in an alienation
I of effection suit. Friday’s dec
ision affirmed the lower court’s
decision that Mrs. Vallee couldn't
restrain her husband from going
to Mexico for a divorce. In Los
Angeles Ben Cohn, Mr. Vallee's at
torney, said if Mrs. Vallee attempt
ed to use any conversation pend
ing the main suit, he would ins’st
on the entnre conversation being
Produced which would cause a sen
sation.
FORMER JAPANESE
A M BASS A DO K l»EAD
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, Jan. 13 — Aimiro Sato
Japanese ambassador to Washing
ton from 1916 to 1918, died, a
victim of arterio sclerosis. -He
was aged 77.
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ITALIAN GETS DECISION
(By The Associated Press)
■NEW YORK, Jan. 13 — Cleto
Locatelli, of Italy, pummled Jack*
I “Kid’' Berg, the British light
I weight, almost at will, Fridav
night, in a ten rouud decision be*
[fore a scan and disappointed 6,000
[fight fans.
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MIX NAVY PLANKS RKADV
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 10 —Six
huge Navy sea planes are poised
for the hop serose the Pacific to
Honolulu. The weather is report
ed ts good. Lieutenant Command
er Knottier McGinnis, squadron
leader predicted landing at Pearl
Harbor by noou Thursday. Six of
ficers and twenty-two men will
make the flight.
HATTLKHHIP NELSON
IS KK-FIjOATK D
(By The Associated Press)
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 12 — The
battleship NelBOn was refloated af
ter having been aground for 12
hours at the mouth of the har
bor here.
PLANKS N MAKING HONOLILC
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 —
Only two hundred and fifty miles
from Diamond Head, Honolulu, the
six IT. S. Naval planes are approach
ing their goal at greatly increas
ed speed, expecting to arrive there
at li p.in. Pacific Standard Time.
They have been reported regular
ly as they passed over a siring of
navy vessels s;ruiig across!) the Pac
ific. Everything is progressing as
expected. One plane separated
from the others during the early
hours of the morning but soon re
turned to formation. It flew blind
throughout the night.
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all planks arrive safely
i Hr The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 11 >~
All naval planes arrived safely at
Pearl Harbor, the first plane land
ing at 2:5!» p.m.. Pacific Standard
Time, the others following im
mediately. The elapsed time was
24 hours and 88 minutes for the
2400 land miles.
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Plight participants
KOYALLY ENTKKTA INK!)
4 By The Associated Press)
HONOLULU, Jan. 12 — Still
thr lied over the record breaking
mass flight from San Francisco of
I he Navy's seaplanes 'ne’er l.ient.!
t omander Kntfley McGinnis, rounds
of entertainment for hint and his
29 officers and nten are planned,
as the rested front their 2 4 hour
dash thru darkness, fog and other .
hazards. ^The flying squadron
came through without a. slip, in i
what the navy insisted was mere- ;
l.v a routine movement,
i Lieut. McGinnis described it aa
just another all night hop. Civ- j
ilians, however, supported the op- j
inion that a regular air route to
the main land is blazed. i
SKA PLANKS MAKING
GOOD PROGRESS
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(By The Associated PresBt
SAN FRANlCKKX), Jan. 11 —Six
U. S. Nhvy sea planes which lin-!
ally took to the air yesterday, af- j
ter four of the planes took shout
two hours to make a getaway, be- !
cause of lack of wind, are soaring |
along the Pacific enroute to Hon
olulu. Everything is apparently
all right. They were last report- •
ed by the mine sweeper. Whlppoor
will,, as twelve hundred tnd twen
ty miles from here. They passed
over the sweeper at four fifty-five
a.m. They bucked headwinds the
first six hundred miles and en
countered short dense fog belts.
The latest report said tail winds
were helpiug.
Location Notice*. Power* of At
I tonify, Lease*, Deeds, etc., oa
[sal* at the Nngf** Office,
joOVKRN'OR TROY
ENROITK HOME
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(By Tho Associated Press)
i SKATTBE, Jan. 10 — Oovernor
John W. Troy arrived here after
a visit to Washington. lie is op
tomistic over Alaska's trend to
ward goad tines, and with tho
rising prices of gold. He said
that when the new price of gold
was stabilized at a point where
capital could be insured of its
permanency, "I expect to see con
i -iiderable development of the now
! dormant gold fields. Public Works
| projects have taken up the slack in
'lie Terr'lory’s employment prob
1 lems. Practically all the pernian
w/
are not incouraging anTnnux of
new residents, who have not de
finite connections at this time, but
1 do believe that our own people
are being taken care of with em
ployment.” '"
1)1 MO.\ | > INTRODKES
MORE RIEliS
(By The- Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. ID — Del
egate; D'mond introduces a bill
authorizing $47,000 for a bond is
sue for Wangell for a water sy
stem, paving and sewers. Another
hill for one hundred dollar bond,
issue for regrading and paving at
Juneau, and one hundred thousand
dollars for a survey in co-opera
I loti with Canada and Alaska for
ter than previously estimated, the
two millions for roads in Alaska
to connect the territorial road sys
tem with Dawson in the Yukon
Territory.
ABASK.WK among
8KXATK NOMI N ATION S
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. S — Nom
inations sent to the Senate by the
President included George Alexan
der of Oregon for judge of the
first division of Alaska; Joseph
Kehoe for U. 8. Attorney for the
third division; for U. R. Marshal,
W'. T. Mahoney for the first div
ision; Thomas Gaffeny, IT. 8. Mar
shal for the Second Oivi^lon; a®d
C. J. Todd as Marshal for the third
division of Alaska.
BONUS ON THK UPGRADK f
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK. Jan. 12 — The
price ot gold is unchanged. Stocks
settled down quiet, the leading is
sues mulled around about an ex
tremely narrow range. Alcohols
were firm, and equities much im
proved. Much ot the equities were
furnished by low priced specialties
which closed irregular. Sales were
one million and a half. Bonds
continued on the up grade despite
active realization in some second
ary issues. Utility shares and
specialties were firm on the curb.