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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BA SE— ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL ANI) MILITARY AVIATION
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 29 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEB. 4, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Maritime Strike is Officially Ended
Miss Nome to be Elected—Contest During February
MEN TO GO TO WORK 8 A. M. TOMORROW
STRIKE WAS ENDED
2:45 P M TODAY AND
WORK START IN A M
Overwhelming Vote maritime workers completes the
decision to return to work and end 98-day
strike. Much cargo on hand.
FLASH
(Bv The Associated Pressi
.SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4th—
The ninety eight day Maritime
Strike was called off officially at
two forty five P.M. today by the
Joint Strike Committee, and the
men were ordered to return to
work at eight A. M. tomorrow.
Further details will be piven in
tomorrow's paper.
Workers Ordered
Stand By To Go
Back Work
(By The Associated Press'
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4, —
Maritime workers were ordered
*to stand by’ for an immediate
return to work when the long
tieup ends officially, with the
possibility that work might be
Tesumed late today after a state
ment was made public by John
Hogan, chief dispacther here for
the ILA hiring hall.
He said he had orders for a
hundred and sixty gangs of six
teen men each, to move the great
accumulation of cargo.
Fred Kelley, secretary of the
Maritime Federation announced
thait all ballots had been receiv
ed, except a scattered few returns
from the Pacfic Northwest.
Vancouver, Washington long
shoremen voted 77 to 1 in favor
of peace.
The tug boatmen’s strike here
still remained unadjusted, but
maritime men said it was only
necessary to dock the . big
ships, and not to move them out
Spanish Planes
Dropped Bombs
Near Warship
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. 4, — Three
Spanish government planes were
reported to have dropped three
bombs near the British battle,
ship “Royal Oak” off Gibraltar.
Officials “assumed” the planes
mistook it for an insurgent ship,
and are inquiring of Spain.
Young Farmer Is
Said To Be Killer
(By The Associated Pressl
WILLOW SPRINGS, Mo., Feb.
4, Sallow-faced, overalled, Robert
Kenyon, aged 20, a farmer, con
fessed to killing Dr. J. C. Davis
after luring him into the country
last week on a fake call for medi_
cal aid.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents announced that a first de
gree murder warrant had been
issued at White Plains by Prose
cutor William Robert.
Sheriff Cladue Garrett said that
Kenyon would be taken to Kan-,
sas City for safe keeping, until
the trial.
The family of Dr. Davis had
tried twice to contact the kid_ i
naper of the medico. The sec
ond time they announced they
were read to pay the five thous
anB dollars demanded.
At Kansas City Kenyon, the
young Ozark farmer, refuted his
earlier confession and insisted ^
that Dr. Davis had been abduct-!
ed and slain by a mysterious and
hill country acquaintance dubbed
‘The Nighthawk”.
He also clung stubbornly to a
new alibi that the Nighthawk
had forced him to write and
mail a ransom note. Kenyon is
is being held in solitary confine,
ment.
‘This Nighthawk feller knowed
I stole a motor car over in Mis
souri. He said if I didn’t write
the ransom note he would turn
me in. So I done it. When the
federate caught me at the post
office mailing it, that’s all I had
to do with the business”, said
Kenyon when questioned by the
authorities.
Lindberghs Visit
(By The Associated Press)
ROME, Feb. 4, — Charles A.
Lindbergh, ace U. S flier and his
wife are spending his birthday
here today.
He and his wife are planning a
flight tomorrow to Tripoli to
visit Governor General Italo Bal_
bo, Italy’s first ranking airman.
An ai. l . mu Lines plane that killed si* men at Dallas, Texas, snapped this
picture at the heu,. . -... a. ter the air nner crashed to the ground. The heat and gasoline explosions drove would-be
rescuers ana spectators back from the inferno in which the victims met quick death. (Associated Press Photo)
Congress Tries
To Pass Relief
Bill for Victims
i"By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 4,
—Congress kept flood relief needs
at the top of its agenda and
looked ahead as well toward a
vast plan for hobbling all rebel
ious rivers.
The Senate worked first on the
immediate problem, hoping to
send the seven hundred and nine
ty million dollar relief appropria
tion to President Roosevelt be_
fore WPA funds become exhaust
ed.
Admiral Cary Grayson inform
ed the President that the Red
Cross emergency fund aproached
the eleven and a half million
dollar mark.
More than a dozen flood con
trol plans are now before con
gress.
Flood figures released today
revealed the number of known
dead had been set at 372, home,
less almost a million.
At Louisville, Kentucky, the
river fell 2.4 feet during the last
four hours. There are two hun
dred and twenty one known
deaths and a reported two hun
dred and thirty thousand home
less in this area. Estimated dam
age at Louisville was set at two
hundred million—for the whole
state three hundred and fifty
million dollars.
Eighty thousand are reported
homeless in Illinois.
Relief Administrator Harry Hop
kins and party inspected the lev
FURTHER DETAILS OF MISS NOME
CONTEST ANNOUNCED
INTEREST ALIVE
Hardly had the Nome Beauty
Queen Contest been announced in
yesterday’s Nugget when a num
ber of prospective candidates got
busy on the telephone and be
sieged Contest Manager Ed. Stef
fen with questions galore regard,
ing further contest details.
As already announced the big
contest starts next Monday, Feb.
8th. Nominations are to be reg
istered at the Nome Drug Store,
the entry fee being $5.00.
The winner of the Nome Queen
Contest will go to the Fairbanks
Ice Carnival where she will com
pete with other ‘Queens’ from
every town in Alaska for the title
of ‘Miss Alaska’.
In last year’s Miss Alaska con
test in Fairbanks, contestants
were judged on the following
points; beauty of face, beauty of
figure, poise, personality and the
ability to wear clothes. ‘Miss
Alaska’ is chosen by a board of
seven judges. Candidates are re.
quired to pass in review in the
following attire: Skii clothes,
fur clothing, evening dress and
bathing suit. It is understood
that Miss Alaska will be judged
and chosen on the same basis this
year. ,
Nome's Chances Excellent
. A number of Nomeites includ
ing one of the judges who attend
ees in the Louisville section to
day. He said that WPA workers
“would stand by until the end.”
ed the Fairbanks Ice Carnival
last year stated that they are
confident Nome easily could have
won last year. They feel that
Nome could have sent any one
of a half dozen of its beauties &
won hands down.. Therefore, it
behooves the people of Nome to
send the best candidate available.
Miss Alaska, Last year’s winner,
had the honor of going to Atlan
tic City to compete in the nation
al contest for the coveted title of
Miss America. It is a known fact
that any girl who goes to Atlantic
City is well on her way to both
fame and fortune and a great
many of our present stage and
screen stars were once beauty
contest winners from some ob
scure small town.
As soon as a contestant files her
candidacy the Nome Kennel Club
will have her photographed. This
will be paid for by the Club and
each candidate’s picture will ap
pear at the following places:
Polet’s Store,
Nome Drug Company,
The Nevada.
The Board of Trade.
Bon Monche Store,
Pioneer Drug Company,
Votes will be counted daily by
the contest Manager and stand
ings will appear each day in this
paper. On Saturday, March 6th
at Midnight the contest will close
and the queen will be crowned
‘Miss Nome’ with all due pomp
Charges Monopoly
Come Before The
House At Juneau
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU, Feb. 4, — After sev
eral members had charged the A1
aska Steamship Company with
maneuvering an Alaska exclusion
clause into the much disputed.
Jones law, the house by a vote
of ten to six. passed a memorial
urging congress that the clause
be eliminated. Those opposed
were representatives Davis, Ken
nedy, Race, Rogge, Ross, and
Nell Scott.
Representatives Laiblin and
Lichtenberg of the Second Div
ision told of the high rates and
the monopoly which the company
holds in the Nome section. The
memorial now goes to the senate.
Representative J. P. Anderson
of the First Division offered a bill
to repeal the eagle bounty law.
Senator Brunnelle of the Third
Division introduced a bill to set
up regulations for air transporta,
tion in the Territory, after a re
port had been presented in per
son by Department of Commerce
Air Division Inspector Hugh
Brewster, that the territorial law
lacks regulations.
and ceremony befitting the title.
Merchants Enthusiastic
The merchants of Nome have
shown a fine spirit of coopera
tion and are virtually 100 per
cent in favor of the Queen Con.
test. They are to be compliment
ed for their foresightedness and
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