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VOLUME 36 NO 75. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Pres. Warning Against Discrimination
POLAND NOW ACTIVE IN PEACE DISCUSSIONS
Federal Salaries Are Restored To Former 1933 Levels
City And State
Elections Took
on Nat. Importance
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April 2—“Off year”
city and state elections in a half
dozen states took on national impor
tance, with party chieftains eying
them as barometers of the 1936 pre
sidential elections.
Chicago democrats and Wisconsin
progressives went to the polls to de
termine whether they had gained or
lost strength.
In Los Angeles the municipal pri
mary promised an indication of the
power of the “Epic” party of Sin
clair.
Michigan republicans claimed the
first scalp, in early returns yester
day which indicated that M R. Key
worth had defeated the democratic
candidate for superintendent of the
schools. Dr. Paul Voelker.
The democrats of Chicago concen
trated on a record majority for their
present incumbent. Mayor Kelley.
In the contest were Emil Wetten,
republican, and Newton Jenkins a
third party nominee.
Thousands Parade
Streets Of Athens
In Big Protest
(By The Associated Press)
ATHENS, April 2—Thousands of
students and others paraded the
streets of Athens this morning pro
testing against the failure of the
government to sentence to death the
leaders of the Venizelist rebellion.
Athens resembled a beleaguered
city. Armored tanks were station
ed before the home of Premier Thai
daris, and in front of public build
ings. Troops patrolled the streets
with fixed bayonets, and cavalry
men dashed about the ancient city
with drawn sabers.
Prosecution
Asks Exemption
For Two Spies
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, April 2—Public Prosecu
tor Hamel asked exemption for Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz, Am
ericans, from sentences, as spies, as
a recompense for having disclosed
the workings of a spy ring, which
they were alleged to be connected
with.
The two were expected to be con
victed by the chamber of espionage
on the basis of confessions, but Ha
mel’s plea is expected to result in
their immediate liberation, after a
trial in which the verdict will be ■
“absolution.”
MAY PROPOSE
CHANGES IN THE
LEAGUE NATIONS
(By The Associated Press)
WARSAW. April 2—Captain Anthony Eden, British
Lard of the Privy Seal, began conversations with the Polish
statesman this morning, who it is hinted by the semi-official
Gazetta Polska, may propose changes in the League of Na
tions.
It is assumed the conversations may amplify views
leading to a new proposal for allaying mutual distrust
among European nations.
The scheme might take the form of a re-named Eastern
Security Pact that would satisfy Poland’s preferences. A
limited agreement with Germany’s opposition. A mutual
assistance clause would sooth Russia’s fear regarding Polish
and German intentions.
R. F. (, Funds
Available For
Mining Industry
Included in Senate Bill 1175, Na
tional Congress—“An Act to extend
the functions of the Reconstruction
Finance .Corporation for two years
and for other purposes”—is the fol
lowing information pertaining to
mining and aids for it which may be
applied for to the R. F. C. Follow
ing is printed Sections 12, 13 and 14:
Sec. 12. Section 14 of an Act en
titled “An Act relating to direct
loans for industrial purposes by
Federal Reserve banks, and for oth
er purposes”, approved June 19,
1934 (Public, Numbered 417, Seven
ty-third Congress), is amended to
read as follows:
“Sec. 14. The Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation is authorized and
empowered to make loans upon suf
ficient security to recognized and
established corporations, individuals
and partnerships engaged in the
business of mining, milling, or smelt
ing ores. The Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation is authorized and
empowered also to make loans to
corporations, individuals, and part
nerships engaged in the develop
ment of a quartz ledge, or vein, or
other ore body, or placer deposit,
containing gold, silver, or tin, or
gold and silver, when, in the opin
ion of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, there is sufficient rea
son to believe that, through the use
of such loan in the development of
a lode, ledge, or vein, or mineral de
posit, or placer gravel deposit, there
will be developed a sufficient quan
tity of ore, or placer deposits of a
sufficient value to pay a profit upon
mining operations: PROVIDED,
That not to exceed $20,000 shall be
loaned to any corporation, individ
ual, or partnership, for such devel
opment purposes: PROVIDED fur
ther, That there shall not be alio-j
rated or made available for such
development loans a sum in excess
of $10,000,000."
Sec. 13. Notwithstanding any oth
er provision of law, the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation is author
ized and empowered to use as gen
eral funds all receipts arising from
the sale or retirement of any of the
stocks, notes, bonds, or other secur
ities acquired by it pursuant to any
provision of law.
Approved, January 31, 1935.
Andv Balu
Left Today For
Vancouver
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON. Alberta, April 2—
After a brief night’s rest in a hotel
two floors above the street full of
noisy traffic, Andy Bahr left today
for Vancouver with Dan Crowley,
field superintendent of the Lumen
Reindeer Corporation, who assisted
in delivering the Alaskan reindeer
herd to the Canadian government at
Aklavik. The roar of the airplane
engines on his flight from Aklavik
left Bahr slightly deaf.
Two Of Nine
Defendants
Are Released
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2—Two
of nine defendants, Frankie Fields,1
and Louis Markovich, both bartend
ers, were granted their freedom
from charges of conspiracy to har
bor George ‘‘Baby Face” Nelson, but
motions seeking to acquit the other
seven were denied, by Federal Judge
Walter C. Lindley, as the govern
ment rested its case. The evidence
against the two was admitted to be
“too thin”, by Assistant U. S. Attor
ney Robert McMillan.
Salaries Of Gov’t.
Employees Are Up
To Former Level
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 1—Salaries
of government employees were re
stored today to pre-depression sca
les. adding an estimated sixty-five
million dollars annually to the fed
eral payroll.
Simultaneously with the effective
ness of the recent congressional act
increasing government wages to the
point where they stood before the
11)33 economy paycuts, the Civil
Service Commission announced that
its workers in federal executive de
partments numbered six hundred
and eighty thousand, the largest
since the war period. There are
ninety-five thousand civil service
workers in Washington, D C.
Ship Subsidy Bill
Defeated in House
By Vote Of 11 to 5
The following account of the move
presented which resulted in the kill
ing of the measure introduced by
Representative Tolbert Scott for a
subsidy to aid shipping on Seward
Peninsula, appears as an interesting
high-light on the session of the leg
islature completed recently: Follow
ing is the clipping, from the Juneau
Empire:
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL DEFEATED
IN HOUSE 11 TO 5.
By a decisive vote of 11 to 5 the
House turned down the Scott bill
to appropriate $10,200 to aid ship
ping along the coast of Seward Pen
insula from St. Michael to Kotze
bue. Opposition to the measure was
led by Representative Howard Lyng
of the same division as the author,
Tolbert Scott, and the debate waged
around the vessel Meteor operated
by Frank Williams who has the
mail contract for the 750 mile trip,
St. Michael to Nome to Kotzebue.
Bad Precedent
Lyng declared that if the Legisla
ture passed the measure it would
set a precedent and that every con
tractor would submit bids in the
future figuring the subsidy in. The
result would finally be that the Ter
ritory would be paying the contrac
tor and the government would be
getting the mail hauled for virtually
nothing. Asked if he bid on the job
when the present contract was let,
Lyng replied he did not because he
knew it would be impossible to do (
the job at the figures submitted by
the other bidders.
“If they lose money its their own
fault,” he said. “After all a contrac J
tor has no right to figure in a sub- ]
sidy when bidding on a job and I ■
PRES. ROOSEVELT
OUTLINES FOREIGN
TRADE POLICIES
\
( By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 2—To its policy of attempting
to revive foreign trade by a series of give and take treaties
with other countries, the United States added a warning
that it would hit back at any nations discriminating against
American goods.
President Roosevelt disclosed that the government was
studying the question of ending existing trade pacts with
Germany, Italy, Denmark and Portugal, as he proclaimed
the new reciprocal treaty with Belgium.
The President outlined the foreign trade policy in a
letter to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau describing
economists’ long-noted multiplicity of devices to channel
trade in the modern world, including tariffs, exchange con
trols, quota systems, and sanitary restrictions.
am very strongly opposed to pussing
this hill and setting a precedent
Scott Hallies to Support
Scott rallied to the support of his
measure on the grounds it was a
service the community affected just
had to have, and that the contractor
really was losing money on the job.
Municipal And
School Hoard
Election Today
The regular annual Municipal and
School Board election was held to
day, and in addition, a special elec
tion to receive the ratification of the
qualified voters, on bonding the city
not to exceed $70,000.
Up to noon today ninety-six bal
lots had been cast in the regular
election and sixty-three were cast
on the bond issue.
During the day considerable talk
as to the bond issue was heard in
many public places. Enthusiastic
supporters of the issue were heard
in heated discussion with some per
son or other who did not fully un
derstand the purposes and proposi
tions being made by the city coun
cil, and pertaining to the rehabili
tating of the function of the muni
cipal government, and the town.
Up to the time of going to press,
5:30 p.m. 327 ballots were east in the
'egular election, and 192 east on
the bond issue. Temporary voting
booths were installed in the city
clerk’s office, where the judges of
election also sat and handed out the
aallots.
BURIED TODAY
The funeral services of the infant
laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
Pastel were held this afternoon at
he Methodist Church, Rev. Norman
VIcCay officiating. A large number
>f friends of the Castel’s attended
he services and accompanied the re
nains to Belmont Point Cemetery,
vhere internment was made.
(/Hind Larceny
Charges Filed
Against Peterson
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTI-E, April 2—Grand larceny
charges were filed in the Justice
Court against H. M. Peterson, when
five Seattle men complained that he
had buncoed them out of money in
connection with a gold mine at
Dime Creek, located near Nome.
They charged that Peterson took
them to Nome to “work” the mine,
and left them stranded.
They were Olaf Peterson, (no re
lation), who said he invested five
hundred dollars in the month of
April two years ago, in the mine;
Hans Ebetoff, Richard W. Anderson,
Edward Hanson and Joseph Lee.
The mine was merely a claim, they
declared.
<S Communists
Convicted Of
Syndicalism Law
(Bv The Associated Press)
SACRAMENTO, April 2—The con
viction of eight cpmmunists fur a
conspiracy to violate the California
ci iminal syndicalism law, is expect
ed to stimulate action on proposed
amendments both strengthening and
liberalizing the law now pending in
the state legislature, as the defense
pressed for a new trial.
The retrial motion will be heard
tomorrow. If the motion is denied
the sentences will bring a prison
term of from one to fourteen years.
The eight were acquitted of actual
syndicalism. “If any of us are
guilty, all were," one of them, Jack
Wurnick, commented.