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VOL. 38. No. 110. NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, MAY 12, 1937 Per Copy lOcts
GEORGE VI CROWNED AS BRITAIN’S KING
Six Men Buried Alive Gigantic Slide Near Seward
Six Men Missing
In a Snow Slide
Near Seward
(By The Associated Press)
SEWARD, May 12—Six men
Hissing in a snow slide at Lynx
Creek, are believed to have come
mostly from Seattle, and were
employed by H. C. Cooper Gold
Mine Co. Cooper is safe. The
-Jide is two ntiies long and twen
ty-five feet deep. Road crews &
ail available men in the district
were rushed there and began dig
41** ,
SEWARD. May 12—W.W. Sher
man, forester in charge of the
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Dr.E.II.Gruening
Is Big Booster
For Territory
m
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12
-The Interior Department assert
ed yesterday, that Alaska has
colonization opportunities. Dr. K.
II. Gruening, director of Division
of Territories, told the House Ap
prapriations sub-committee, when
he further said: “We feel very
definitely that the population of
Alaska can be increased and will
’ serve as an outlet for a great
many people of this country."
Representative Johnson of Ok
lahoma, democrat, brought up
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London Gives
Bi^est Ceremon
ial Show History
Hv The Associate J Press)
LONDON. May 12—An Empire
that no night can darken, crown
ed and consecrated its ruler, Geo
rge VI ai d Scottish Queen Eliza
beth, with its solemn and beauti
ful ritual, from the dawn of
proud centuries, to the peak of
the greatest show in a thousand
years.
Today, the Archbishop of Can
terbury, venerable and erect, gave
to the new King the Crown, whi
ch symbolizes the rule of five hun t
dred million souls, scattered over t
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GREAT BRITAIN’S NEW QUEEN
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This is a recent portrait of the new Queen of England, who attended to the throne with her husband,
the former Duke of York, upon the abdication of Edward VIII. (Associated Press Photo)
r iseball Scores
i Bv The Associated Press*
National League
Pittsburgh 3 Boston 0
Chicago 1 New York 10
Cincinnati 12 Philadelphia 3
S'. Louis 7 Brooklyn 9
American League
Philadelphia 4 Detroit 1
New York 2 Chicago 7
Cleveland 4 B ston 11
Washington 5 St. Louis 7
Pacific Coast League
San Francisco 2 Oakland 1
Seattle 2 Los Angeles 9
Missions 21 Portland 0
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 11
-The House appropriations com
nittee has recommended twenty
line thousand dollars for Mourn
rlcKinley Park next year.
Steele Is Winner
_
fBv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 11th—Middle
; weight champion Freddie Steele
of Tacoma, knocked out Framk
Battaglia of Minneapolis, his chal
lenger, in the third round of a
scheduled 15 round title fight.
Steele weighed in at 156 and
Battaglia at 159.
Steele scored a knockdown in
the first and second round and
floored his opponent for the full
count of ten, in thirty four sec
onds in the third round, with a
crushing left, following with a
; j two-fisted barrage which sent
Frank flat on his face on the can
vas. His handlers dragged him
to his corner. About nine thous
jand fans saw the fight.
$665,000 Is Recom
mended Deserving
Alaska Projects
'By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. May 12—The
Land Office estimated that there
is three hundred and seventy-si*
million acres of Alaska land that
has never been surveyed.
Delegate Dimond’s program to.
make the Eskimo self sustaining,
by putting him back in the
reindeer business, gained support,
for the proposal to appropriate
two million dollars for the pur
chase of reindeer from the white
! owners now operating and return
the animals to the natives. It
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HIS MAJESTY THE KING . ^
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The Duke of York became ruler of the British empire upon renunciation of the throne by Edward Vlll
because of governmental opposition to a morganatic marriage with the twice-divorced American, Mrs.
Wallis Warfield Simpson. This is a recent portrait of the new Kir.g who was txpecled to assume the
name George VI. (Associated Press Pho.oi
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