WASHINGTON
CliRRRANT
COMMENT j,
Mr. Kooseveelt’s Alteon percent
cut ln federal salaries did not
come as a marked surprise to
those whom it affected. Although
it applies for three months only,
the President has power to ex
tend it beyond that period, and
the indications are that it will be
continued, for some time at least.
The measure strikes impartially,
Irom members of Cougress all
the way down the line. When one
hears a government job mention
ed, the first thought and often the
definite conclusion, Is that It is
something in Washington. As a
matter of fact, about six percent
or federal place-holders are. loc
ated in the capitol city. The pay
ctit will be felt not only In Wash
ington. where the plums are sup
posed to grow largest and in larg
est numbers, but in the remotest
hamlet as well.
The sum of five hundred mil
lion dollars Beema to be a popular
tigure. It stands out in large
type in two different, connections.
That much gold is said to have
been turned in the Treasury by
people who had it salted away,
and it is proposed in Congress to
appropriate that amount to help
the states out of their vario-us
woes. It is a good thing, how
ever, that, each person in the
United States does not need a lift.
He would get $4.07.
A Senate errand boy collided
with a lady in the corridor, knock
ing her clown,„ and broke her hip.
Things are on the move in the
Senate, notwithstanding its rep
utation of extreme deliberation.
The favor accorded to the plan
for putting the unemployed to
work in the woods brings the gen
eral subject of forestry to minc^
There is~ little real forestry pra
Iticed In this country. Europe can
teach us along that line. Over
there, a t'mber tree is consider
ed worthy of as much care as a
Truit tree.
.Mr. Hitler has been made the
boss of Germany. That does not
concern us greatly. We shall go
right along paying our taxes and
praising or abusing the President
ami Congress, exactly as we did
before Adolf came on the German
stage. Nevertheless, there are
some timid souls who think that
every new dictator is one mo-re
evidence that popular government
is a mistake, and destined to be
supplanted by something more
modern and efficient. Those who
hold that view should recall that
George Washington was offered a
crown: hut the marvelous nation
al growth of the Nineteenth Cen
tury did not take place under a
one-man rule. If General Wash
ington had set himself up as a
dictator of the present-day type,
circumstances would have dispos
ed of him, because the world does
not progress in that way. Ten
years from now. school children
will have tp go to the dictionary
to find out wha: dictatorship
was. In times ofstress, the
world runs wild, hut it' does no’
become hopelessly and incurably
insane. Surrciidoci r everything
Into one pair of hands is some
t .-Miig so contrary to the pro not
ings of human nature that no
one should think for a moment
that such proceedings has perman
ence or an enduring future.
BREVITIES
People run in debt but crawl
out.
A few eat to live, more live to
eat.
Loose fellows are prone to get
tight.
Work is the best yeast that
raises the dough.
The bigger the fish the more
easily it gets away.
Some cities have the best judg
es that money can buy.
Beware o: the man who t-i'ks
too much of his honesty.
To a real big man authority
means only responsibility.
Love resists competition. It
gives all and demands all.
Some old parents are about as
welcome as some new babies.
The unpardonable sin is the one
committed by the other fellow.
No, a penny in the collection
hardly counts as a wodn payment
on a harp.
They talk most who have least
to say.
The easiest person to deceive is
yourself.
The sunny side of marriage is
on the outside.
It's a migth hard job to find
soft snaps.
The ouly real friend you can
buy is a dog.
Frowns make wrinkles, smiles
iron them out.
If sent by ship it’s cargo, if
sent by car it's shipment.
Women, like chickens, have less
on when dressed.
Pitiable is the girl who marries
only a meal ticket.
LlMRKIt KING DIRS
(By The Associated Presa)
KANSAS CITY, March 16 —
Uober.t A. Long, 83, Chairman of
the Long Bell Lumber Company
and founder of a large lumber
fortune at Longview, Washington,
died after an operation for Intest
inal obstructions.
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Location Notice*. Power* of At
I torney, Leasee, Deeds, etc., oa
sal* st the Nugget Office.
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NKW HOMKSTKAI» LAWS
FOB ALASKA
'By The Associated rr.is)
WASHINGTON, March 12 —
The De Rouen Bill to amend the
act extending Homestead Laws
with provision for the right-of-way
of railroads in Alaska Is reported
favorably upon by the House Pub
lic Lands Comm ttee and pro
vides that any citizen of the
United States, after residing on
the land described in the Act for
three years as his home may pur
chase five acres in a reasonabe
compact form as a home site,
without any showing as to his
occupation, on the payment of
two and a half dollars per acre
as a minimumu payment on any
tract sold under the Act of ten
dollars. No persons will be allow
ed to purchase more than one
tract. An amendment by Dimond
which has been adopted provides
that surveys may be made with
out any xpense to the, applicant
where he has had a habitable
house or done business for three
years.
SHIP RUN'S AGROUND
(By T*'e Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 —
The motorship Tai Yin with thir
teen passengers including three
women and a child, and a crew of
forty-five, ran aground on a sandy
heaeh near Point Reyes today.
There is no apparent danger of
ifs breaking up.
EXPLOSION CAUSES MUCH
DAMAGE AND DEATH
(By The Associated Press)
SAN SALVADOR, March 15 —
Much of the city of Lalibertad is
am ass of smoking ruins, having
been leveled by a tire which spread
after an explos on in the port. One
hundred and fifty were killed.
The blast wh ch was he-ard thir
ty miles away, occurred when jtlie
I dynamite exploded as it was be
ing unloaded from ship to shore.
! F re followed quickly, spreading
among the surrounding buildings,
and swept many blocks to ruin.
The City hall, a church and a
number' of other public buildings
were among those consumed. Not
one man among those handling
the two hundred and fifty cases
of dynamite escaped.
KIDNAPPER ELECTROCUTED
(By The Associated Press)
COLUMBIA, S. C., March 12, -
Robert Wiles, 49. mechanic, con
fessed to kidnapping and killing
Hubbard Harris, a school boy.
and, saying that no one elsejvas
i n vo lved,'‘he~’Wf!ffrJ’'T(5''”'t'ifie~’eTectrfc’
chair. As he was convicted and
electrocuted he sans the praise of
“God from whom all blessings
flow."
SAMVEL IXHVLL DEFINITELY
LOCATED
(By The Associated Press)
ATHENS, March 16 — Samuel
Insult has been definitely located
aboard a Greek freighter, the SS
Maiot's and is to be returned un
der Greek jurisdiction, according
to the Marine Ministry. It is
said he paid ten thousand dollars
to charter the ship, which sailed
Wednesday. It was previously be
lieved that he had fled Thursday.
STRIKES IN HAVANA
—
' (By The Associated Press)
| HAVANA, March 12 — Today
oile strike-breaker was killed and
nine were'"-wounded in a clash
among strikers and strike-break
ers on the docks of Havana.
1 ROM'S PAYMENT PROBABLE
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(By The Associated Press)
! WASHINGTON, March 12
I The House appeared ready to
[vote for the payment of the bonus
| to soldiers with two billion two
jhuiulred million dollars worth of
j greenbacks. A veto awaits the
'bill, however, if It passes the
j Sena te.
Washington, March 12 The
House took the Bonus Bill from
the Ways and Means Committee
by more than two-thirds of a
majority, the amount needed to
pass the bill over the veto which
was threatened by the White
House. But a final vote may not
be reached today because the
Democrats are eaut'ous on the
'Veteran’s legislation'. However,
I it Is apparent that the bill will
j he passed when the vote comes.
Washington. March 12 The
House Democrats dared in spite
of the President’s promised veto
I
1 to pas.s the Bonus Bill and then
quietly agreed on a caucus to sup
port the plan to spend ■ thre-j han
jdred and fifty»-four million dollars
| on the veterans and government
i pay increases. After a confer
j etice with the Senate they will
Iseek a compromise acceptable to
the President. The Bonus B'll
;then goes lo the Senate,
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Washington, March 13 — The
I House of Representatives today
j passed
Urge uln envelopes, big •’en
ough to mail the Nome Week!*
| Nugget and send vi* first cl**
j airplane mail, can now be h»d -**
' the Nugget ufllee.
INHULL STILL .MISSING
(By The Associated Prose)
ATHENS, March 16 — Samuel
Instill, who disappeared yesterday
about the time when the* govern
ment was about to evict him from .
the country, is still sought. There
were rumors that when the Greek
government was about to re-ar
rest him somewhere in Greece,
that he bdarded a ship enroute to
Par's; also that he had found and
boarded an outgoing Greek ship.
The fact that the Minister of the,
Interior. John Metaxas, resigned
from the cabinet is regarded as a
significant detail in connection
with the escape of Instill.
AX INDICATION OP RECOVERY
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tH> The Associated Press P
WASHINGTON, March, 16 —
Reports from many parts of tho
country showed the income tax
returns to be surpassing those of
last, year. , ,•
ASSAULTING NEGROES HANGED
(By The Associated pre&s)
HERNANDO, Miss., March 16
— Three young Memphis negroes
died on the gallows today, but -
neither the father hor the girl
attacked by them were allowed to
spring the trap, due to a proposed
h 11 which killed legislation _ on
that subject. Ernest McOrehee,
one of the negroes who went to
his death said, "Tell other color
ed hoys to behave, and not to get
1 n such a mess as we have gotten
In." n
VETERAN’S AID NOT SETTEKD
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
A House member announced that,
he will attempt to have the en
t're question of the Veerans’
Federal Employ Benefits re-open
ed for upward revision. This ac
tion is calculated to resuiltf in a
eftrfafn veto. When the House
takes up what ordinarily would
be routine matter in sending a
big independent office bill with
federal salary amendments to the
conference with the Senate, con
ferees plan to put in a motion
to have the chamber recede from
compromises. Should the majority
accede, the work of the house in
finally agreeing to slash ninety
millions from the Senate might
go for the night.
>1. .1. INKIER EXTRADITION
ORDERED
illy The Associa’el liens) •
TORONTO. March 16 —- Martin
.1. Instill, former t'hjcagb utilities
operator and brother of Samuel,
was ordered extradited to face
charges, by the United States of
embezzlement and grand larceny
in connection witjt^.tljf collapse of
(he Insull companies.
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Increased Gold Mining Activity In
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Nome Section Assured in Spring
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OLD BEACH LINES WILL PROBABLY BE SCENE OF ACTIVITY