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VOL. 38 No. 70 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY MADCH 26 1937 Per Copy 15cts
PROTECTION ALASKA FISHERIES IS AIMED
Giant Airliner Crashes Kills Crew 3 and 10 Others
PLANE NOSE-DIVED
EARTH: 20 MINUTES
LATE IN ARRIVING
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, March 26, — A giant, white, Trans
:ontinental and West Airway skyliner crashed nose first
Thursday night ,about ten miles south of Pittsburgh,
killing the crew of three, and ten passengers. The trag
edy occurred eight miles from downtown Pittsburgh.
Witnesses said the plane was flying low and at first seem
«ed to be going all right, and then seemed to be labor
Italian Troops
Asain Defeated
In Sp anish War
(Hy The Associated Press)
MADRID, March 2b', — The
southern insurgent army was
rattened into continued retreat
.n what the Madrid government
describes as the second major de
feat for ten thousand Italian
troops.
The fighting is expected to shift
into the treacherous mountains in
lliat area.
Winter Storms
Hit Mid-West
Most Severe
■
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,* (By The Associated Proas)
UNDATED, March 25, — Weath;
er crppled commuruciation lines •
*jo isolated communities and par-!
,-lyzed highway transportation, as
evidence of this season’s worst
snow 6torms.
In sectins of the middle west
winds whipped the snow into
Pig drifts. Minnesota and the
Dakotas received rain and sleet.
Hail and dust tornadoes with
freezing temperatures plagued a
wide expanse of the mid-conti
nent A twenty two inch snow
fall deluged the Black Hills ter
ritory in South Dakota.
Rainfall records of twenty
three years were washed off the
hooks at Ims Angeles in a two
day storm which brought precip
jt&tion for the season to 21.86 in
ches, the highest since 1914.
Drafts in Mirvnesta were ten
feet deep. Alabama and Ken
tucky received tornadoes in
which two were killed at Ozark,
Alabama. ,
(By The Associated Press)
WARSAW, March 26, — The
government faces a nationwide
strike off eating one hundred thou
sand workers. The government
took stringent steps to halt the
rapidly rising prices, fearing that
a further rise would force thou
•ands more to strike for higher
ing. Finally it turned nose down
and crashed heavily into a hill
side.
The plane was a two-motored
OC-2 Douglas, one of the latest
types.
The plane didn't catch fire for
tunately. Several sacks of mail
aboard the airliner were saved.
TWO officials listed the pass
engers aboard as E. J. Fleming
Jr., of Knsas City, C. R. Lowers
Jr. of Kansas City. H S. Ilaxlie
of Chicago Miss M. Black and F.
Reed both of New York. E G
Neill of Minneapolis Frederick D.
Lehmann of Harrisburg, Pa., Miss
Pauline Trask of Germantown,
Pa. H. Herman of Elmhurst, Il
linois.
Members of the crew included
F L Bohnet of Newark New Jer
sey chief pilot, H E Warwick of
Newark copilot. Miss Doris C.
Hammons of Newark hostess.
The airliner crashed about 6:45
p m. EST yesterday.
Flying conditions were listed
as good. The plane left Newark
at 3:25 p.m. and was about 20
minutes overdue at Pittsburgh
when it crashed.
Pilot Bohnet was an experienc
ed flier and had been with the
company since 1932.
Copilot Warwick had been em
ployed by the company since
1935.
Supreme Court
Justice Passed
75th Birthday
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(By The Associated Press).
WASHINGTON March 25 Just
ice George Sutherland who has
voted consistently against the
New Deal, pased his 75th birth
day today.
The Justices who are older than
Sutherland are Brandeis, Van
Deventer, and McReynolds
*Chife Justice Hughes will be
seventy years old April 11th.
WASHINGTON. March 25 —
Administration and congressional
leaders said they believed the
governmet could do little about
the sitdown strikes, following a
conference with the President.
Speaker Bankhead said the
federal government lacks the
constitutional power to intervene.
WINS NORTHWEST SKI TITLE
!!
i
Arnt Ofstad. of Spokane, won the Pacific Northwest ski jump cham
pionship in a meet held during a snow storm at Leavenworth, Wash.
He jumped 192 and 179 feet on successive trials. He is shown hers
just after leaving the take off. (Associated Press Photo)
NEW' LIQUOR BILL FOR THE
TERRITORY CONTAINS A
FEW CHANCES THIS YEAR
AN ACT
(S. B. 9)
To provide for the manufacture
and saie of intoxicating liquors
in the Territory of Alaska.
Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the Territory of Alaska:
intoxicating liquor shah h- is
sued under this Act in precincts
outside of incorporated cities or
towns untess a petition having
signatures of a majority of the
bona fide residents residing with
in tw’o miles of the place where
intoxicating liquor is to bo sold,
and over the age of twenty-one
years, is filed with the Clerk of
the District Court asking that
licenses be issued within the
said precinct.
(Continued from Yesterday)
Section 9—Local Option.
A—Whenever fifty percent of
the total number of voters at
the last general election held in
any incorporated city or town
shall petition the Court so to do,
the Court may cause to be plac
ed upon a separate ballot at the
next municipal ejection in such
incorporated city or town the
following question: “For the sale
of intoxicating liquors”—yes or
no. It shall be the duty of the
regular election officers to can
vass the said ba'ilots and to re
port the results thereof to the
Clerk of the District Court. If,
upon receipt of the certificate of
election, the Clerk of the District;
Court finds that at least two- j
thirds of the voters are against
the sale of intoxicating liquor in
said incorporated city or town,
all applications for licenses with
in the said city or town shall
thereafter be denied and no fur
ther licenses shall be issued there j
in for a period of one year, and,
untl the voters therein, at a sub
sequent election hefld in the man
ner herein provded for, shall de
cide thait licenses may be issued.:
B—No licenses for the sale of
C—Disposition of Funds: All
moneys collected or due the Ter
ritory for licenses under the pro
visions of this act shall be de
posited with the Territorial Treas
urer: all such moneys collected
within the incorporated cities
■may be refunded semi-annual|!y
to the said incorporated cities:
provided, however, that in the ev
ent of the failure of the officers
of said incorporated cities to act
ively enforce all of the ordinan
ces of said incorporated cities, the
law of the United States, the laws
of the Territory of Alaska and
those regulations relative to the
manufacture and sale of intoxicat
ing liquors in the Territory of A1
aska, the Treasurer may deny
said refund and no further mon
eys will be paid to said incor
porated cities until the enforce
ment of such law’s and regula
tions is actively resumed within
such municipalities.
Section 10 Municipal Regula
tions—Incorporated municipalities
(Continued on Page Three)
Introduced Bill
Place In Effect
New Trade Pact
i By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D C March 26
Senator Schwellenbach intro
duced legislation in the senate
today designed to place in opera
t ; n the recenty ratified Cana
dian- Amercian treaty for the re
gulation of halibut fishing in the
North Pacific Ocean and in Ber
ing Sea.
-EDITORIAL
The Nome Daily Nugget out of
its sense of civic duty, wishes to
cal! to the attention of all citi
zens entitled to vote in the forth
coming city election, that tomor
row, Saturday, March 27th is
the final day for registration.
At the time of going to press
today the total registration is
212. When this total is compar
er! to last year’s final registra
tion of 403, it plaialy denotes
lack of interest in municipal af
fairs.
He said it would "in a measure"
discourage the invasion of the
halibut banks by foreign fisher
men "thrugh the expedient of
prohibiting ves ol of other coun
t 'ics landing at American and
Canadian ports to obtain provi
sions f r their crews, and fuel
ard wafer.”
It would not apply particular
ly to the Japanese fishermen “but
m- <4 -*sj* — -s—
r:*'n?r fo yny foreigners operating
in lithe tile North Pacific or
Ninth Atlantic, who have been
eying this area.”
Every citizen owes a duty to
his community, to see that those
placed in charge of municipal
affairs from year to year, are
truly representative cf all the
people, and not of any particular
lass or clique. This cannot be
accomplished unless every vott-i
registers.
There is another side that so
many citizens who enjoy the suf
frage of the ballot overlook, and
that is that their community is
always judged by the size of the
vote, when appropriations are
asked for from Territorial or
Federal funds.
It should be a matter of civic
pride, for every citizen who pos
sibly can, to register for the city
election.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, d. c. March 26
-Relief and sitdown strikers will
be major problems facing Presi
dent Roosevelt returning from
Warm Springs Georgia, tomorrow]
t> call congressional leaders to-!
gether. , i
Senator Vandenberg hopes the
President will make a strike state
mem but administration leaders
said the government could do litt
le unless the States ask for as-1
sistance. ,
Wage and hour standard must 1
he written into federal legisla-!
turn before the parent govern- j
ment could act, is their conten-!
lion.
Other probiems to face him will
be farm tenancy aids, crop insur-!
ance, court reorganization, chan-:
ge in diplomatic posts, and a re- ]
organization of the federal ad- j
ministrative machinery.
City Clerk M J Walsh has kind
ly offered to keep his office open,
for registration tomorrow Satur
day, from 9:00 a.in. until 10:00 p
m. ,
Let us all make the effort so
that when registraton ends to
morrow night, it cannot be said
that Nome is retrograding, but
on the contrary, going forward
to bigger and better times and
conditions.
JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER
Smart newt hats, straws and
felts—Up to the minute styles.
Ladies’ dresses in printed silks,
broadcloth, shantungs, linene.
$2.50 to $5.95 at POLETS.
IT WILL BE WEDDING BELLS
MARRIAGE TO OCCUR NEAR FUTURE