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VOLUME 36 NUMBER 141 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Ask Federal Funds Sum $2,048,000
SECTY. PERN BALLS OUT MAJ. GEN. FOULOUIS
No Suspension Annual Assessment Work In Alaska
Alaska Excluded
Suspension of Ass
essment 1 Year
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 15 — Act
ing on the request of the Territor
ial legislature of Alaska, prospect
ors and mining claim owners were
specifically excluded from the pro
visions of the act suspending assess
men work on mining claims for
another year.
Delegate Dimond said that the
territorial legislature unanimously
voted to request that in any meas
ure suspending assessment work,
Alaska be excluded. Congress re
cognized that request.
Court Battle Now
Being waged Over
The lumber Strike
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND Ore., June 15 — In
the national limelight, is Portland
as a ^test ground to determine the
rights of union labor to peaceful
picketing and to define the word
peaceful.
State police, ordered to strike
duty by the governor of Oregon,
continued to drive all pickets from
two mills.
The hearing of the union petition
for an injunction to prevent officers
from arresting peaceful pickets at
Bridla Veil mills, was continued be
fore Circuit Judge James Craw
ford. Officers are to give their
story today. Union witnesses giving
theirs yesterday related they were
clubbed and driven from the Bridal
Veil mills site and even ejected
from nearby ground which they had
rented.
Floods Threaten
West Again With
Rivers Overrun
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED June 15 — Floods
surged down the streams of the
West again threatening further loss
of life and destruction of property.
There are at least eight known
deaths in southern Texas where
several rivers overran their banks,
and scores are missing.
Another flood threat near Sheri
dan Wyoming subsided. Along the
Republican Kaw and Missouri Riv
ers from Colorado to the Mississip
pi lowlands dwellers are busy clear
ing away debris and repairing the:
damages caused by last week’s
floods.
MAJOR GEN FOULOUIS
REPRIMANDED BY THE
US SECRETARY OF WAR
Secretary of War Dern Exonerates Major
General Ben Foulouis From Charges
Severe Reprimand
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. June 15—Secretary of War Dern ad
judged Major General Benjamin D. Foulouis, Chief of the
'Army Air Corps “not guilty” of charges preferred against
him by the House Military Committee, but at the same time
reprimanded the air chief on his conduct.
Dern reprimanded Loulouis for what a formal state
! ment termed “his unethical conduct” and making unfair and
misleading statements, before the house subcommittee
which conducted the inquiry into alleged irregularities in
the War Department.
The procurement house group among other things ac
cused him of violating the law by the method through which
airplanes were purchased. Dern wrote the reprimand to
Foulouis which was not made public. It is believed he will
retain his rank and stay at the head of the air corps until his
term expires next September.
Japan Is Pouring
More Troops Into
Chinese Regions
(By The Associated Press)
TIENTSIN, June 15 —Japan pour
ed more troops into the Tientsin and
Peiping areas, and massed addition
al forces near Shankwikwan, as two
series of demands confronted Chin
ese authorities.
Fresh representations were made
to Chiher province authorities as a
result of the detention at Changpei
of four Japanese.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
PLANE FLIES MIDWAY IS.
ALAMEDA, Calif., June 15, —The
Pan Amercian Clipper plane landed
at Midway Islands 8:40 p.m. Eastern
Standard Time completion of 1323
miles’ flight from Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. It made the flight in 9
hours and thirteen minutes. The
plane took off from Pearl Harbor at
11:27 E.S.T. The flight marked the
first commercial air venture west of
Hawaii, although a flight was made
several weeks ago by forty-three of
the U S Navy planes.
MAIL NOTICE
Registered mail closed at 5 p. m.
tonight, and ordinary mail will be
picked up at the Nome post office
tomorrow morning for the suthbound
sailing of the S S Victoria, depart
ing tomorrow.
OLYMPIA DRAFT BEER
AT THE NEVADA
Codeless NRA Bill
Signed President
Extension April 1
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 15, — The
stop gap NRA extending the code
less remnant of the recovery unit
until April 1st, 1936, was signed to
day shortly after it passed the house.
The only arguments were the spats
between republicans and democrats
as to who first thought of the re
solution placing the anti-trust law
in force under the new arrangement
made necessary by the recent su
preme court decision.
To the republican claim for honor,
Doughton, democrat from North
Carolina retored ‘that amendment
adds nothing to, or subtracts noth
ing from the house amendment. I
hope it makes them happy.”
England Orders 8
Battalions Defense
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON June 15 — Great Bri
tain ordered eight battalions to be
formed immediately on a wartime
basis for anti-aircraft defense sur
prise. The war office announced
that this culminated the nation's
air force expansion program.
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A Supreme Court
For the Territory
Proposed In Bill
To establish a supreme court for
the Territory of Alaska, a bill was
introduced by Delegate A. J. Dim
ond recently providing for the ap
pointment by the President, with
the consent of the senate, of a chief
justice who shall reside in Juneau.
The supreme court will be compos
ed of the chief justice and the four
district judges of the four divisions
of the Territory. ,
The court shall have jurisdiction
to review by appeal any final de
cree or proceeding of the district
court in all civil suits and in all
criminal cases, in accordance with
the laws of the United States. The
United Slates marshals and the Un
- ited States attorneys in Alaska shall
I perform the same duties for the su
preme court that they now perform
for the district courts, and the clerks
of the United States district courts
shall act as deputy clerk under the
clerk of the supreme court who will
be elected to his position by a maj
ority vote of the court.
Bill Differs From Former One
The bill differs from that intro
duced by Judge Wickersham in the
Seventy-second Congress, chiefly in
that tiie Wickersham bill limited the
jurisdiction of the court to review
by appeal, civil suits wherein the
value in controversy did not exceed
$1,000, and criminal cases below the
grade of felony. As now before
congress. Delegate Dimond’s bill
authorizes jurisdiction to the sup
reme court to review by appeal in
all civil suits and criminal cases.
Enactment of this bill should facil
itate the furtherance of justice in
the Territory without greatly in
creasing the cost to the government.
Cost of Appeal Prohibitive
As the matter now stands, the
cost of appeal from an Alaskan
court to the appellate court at San
Francisco has been prohibitive, and
this luxury only available to the
man of means. By the time an at
torney was paid for his transporta
tion to San Francisco and for the
time lost it were ofttimes better to
allow the case to go by default
when it reached the appeal stage.
1
With the district judges acting as
supreme court judges and but one
ohief justice to appoint, the saving
to the Territory in litigation ex
penses would be enormous.
Saves Expense of Printing
One of the principal values of the
bill is that it creates a Supreme
Court in the Territory of Alaska
where all Alaskan litigation finally
reaches a termination .with so little
expense to the litigants.
At present the records are requir
ed to be printed before presentation
to the Appellate Court, whereas, un
der the requirements of the propos
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16 PROJECTS ASK FOR
FEDERAL. FUNDS WITH
WHICH TO CONSTRUCT
Federal Proposed Projects For Money In
elude $33,000 For Work In Shelton To
Dahl (Ireek Region Near Nome
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 15—Proposals for additional fed
eral projects were made public Friday by the information
and applications division of the public works administration.
The program included the Interior Department, the
Alaska Railroad Commission; and the construction of public
roads and trails including all work, materials, and contin
gent expenses, totaling two million, forty-eight thousand
dollars. Sixteen projects were listed, the application of 8
of which the PWA and previously allotted amounts totalling
seven hundred and forty-two thousand, two hundred dollars.
ONLY $35,000 FOR SHELTON-DAHL CR.
The sixteen projects allotments requested are Olnes
Livengood two hundred and fifteen thousand; Shelton
Dahl Creek on Seward Peninsula, thirty-five thousand; Kan
tishna Park-Boundary fifty thousand; Talkeetna-Cache creek
fifteen thousand, various small projects two hundred and
sixty-eight thousand; Cantwell-Valdez Creek three hundred
and forty-five thousand; Hot Springs road system seventy
live thousand; Willow creek system eighty thousand; Tacot
na-Nixon Fork one hundred fifty thousand; Poorman-Ruby
two hundred thousand; Ferry-Eva creek fifty-five thous
and; Illiamna Bay-Illiamna Lake thirty thousand;Newhalem
Lake-Clark forty thousand; Gulkana-Nabesna two hundred
forty-five thousand; Good New Bay-Platinum Creek, thirty
five thousand; Christo Chena-Slate Creek forty thousand;
construction and equipment forty thousand. These appli
cations will be acted upon later.
Not Decided On
Trial Of Vi a leys
For Kidnaping
(By The Associated Press)
TACOMA. June 15, — The Wey
?rhaeuser case is at almost a stand
itill while authorities are deciding
vhether the trial will be by the
itate or by the federals. Govern
nent indicated their wish that the
rial begin about July 1st.
Young George Weyerhaeuser vis
ted the Olympia jail yesterday sup
>osedly in an attempt to identify
Valey as a kidnaper. Only G Men
ecompanied him. What took place
lefore Waley is unknown. The
hase for Mahan continued but no
lew developments have taken place.
Authorities are now watching for
ansom bills with altered serial
lumbers.
JLYMPIA DRAFT BEER
AT THE NEVADA
Street Car Strike
Cause One Death
Fifty Are In jured
(By The Associated Press)
OMAHA, Nebraska June 15 —
John Duster a milk wagon driver
was shot to death last night, and
at least fifty others nursed injuries
as an aftermath of the third suc
cessive night of rioting in the
street car strike.
However, authorities reported to
day that the situation was under
control.
The condition of seven persons
was described as serious. Rioters
burned six street cars during the
night and stoned the police in sev
eral sections. Several women and
three police were among the injur
ed.
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