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VOL. 37. No. 287 NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1936. Per Copy 15cti
King Rushes Lady Friend to France
14 Lost In Plane
Twelve passengers, a mechanic ind
Pilot Chet Brown (above) were
mlealng in a trl-motored plane which
took off on the dangerous 500-mile
flight over the Gulf of Alaska from
Cordova to Juneau. An aerial search
was organized for the craft after It
failed to arrive at Its destination.
(Associated Press Photo)
Pilot Chester Brown of the
Arctic Airways, is scheduled for
an immediate hop to Juneau
from Anchorage with a full load
of passengers, and is then to re
turn to Anchorage and possibly
continue back to his Nome base.
U. Pittsburgh
Selected Rose
Bowl, Jan. 1st
(By The Associated Press)
PASADENA, Dec. 4—The Uni
versity of Pittsburg and the Uni
versity of Washington will meet
in the annual Rose Bowl Football
game to be played New Year’s
Day. The decision was announc
ed by Ray Eckmanm, director of
athletics at the University of
Washington. Pittsburgh has the
honor of playing at the Rosebowl
three times previously, being de
feated each time, once by Stan
ford and twice by Southern Cali
fornia.
Studying Plan
Business Men
Raise Standards
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 4—
The United States Chamber of
Commerce is studying a plan un
der which business men would
act voluntarily to raise commer
cial standards and check unfair
competition, including selling un
der cost, espionage, false adver
tising, disparagement of compet
itors and commercial bribery.
DENTAL NOTICE
This Is to notify the public
that Dr. Hughes, Dentist, expects
to make a trip to the states, leav.
log about Dee. 10 and returning
about January 10.
DR. H. G. HUGHES
Special Power of Attorney forma
Will Investigate
Deaths of Three
—
fBy The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 4—The North
west joint strike committee an
nounced they will hold an inves
tigation into the deaths of three
Filipino labor leaders, killed in
a gun fight Tuesday night, saying
it was an “attempt to smash the
principle involved of the hiring
hall in the canning industry.”
The victims were Virgil Duy
angan, president of the Cannery
Workers and Farm Labor Union;
A. A. Simon, secretary; and Ba
seda Patron, head of the Filipino
employment agency, which is not
connected with the union.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Generally fair skies with ceil
ing and visibility unlimited were
! reported over the Nome-Fair
| banks Airway and Nome-Kotze
; bue Airway at the 7 a.m. obser
vation.
Snow was falling over the Kus
kokwim section while rain was
reported in the vicinity of Ket
chikan and Prince Rupert, along
the southeast coast.
High barometric pressure is
charted over interior Alaska,
western Canada and the western
States. Pressure is falling over
western and southwestern Alas
ka due to a disturbance near St.
Paul Island, moving eastward. It
is therefore likely cloudy and un
settled weather with occasional
snow flurries and somewhat high
er temperature is indicated for
Nome and vicinity for the next
24 hours.
Temperatures continue much
below zero over western Canada,
eastern and central Alaska.
The lowest last night was —60
at Aklavik while Dawson record
ed —44, Fairbanks —24.
The lowest Nome temperature
last night was 4 above and the
highest yesterday 20 above.
PRESIDENT FISHES IN TROPIC WATERS
This exclusive picture shows President Roosevelt (second from right), in sweater and dark glasses, fish
ing In the Gulf of Parla at Port of Spain, Trinidad, from a navy dory while the warship bearing him to
the Inter-American conference at Buenos Aires refueled. (Associated Press Photo)
Amendments To
Be Introduced
Coming Session
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 4—
Constitutional amendments to be
introduced at the next congress,
include establishing of a congres
sional fight to control production
of products, interstate commerce,
the right-of voters to veto a dec
laration of war, prohibition, Am
erican participation in a foreign
war, authorization for the con
scription of money and factories
during war; giving Congress the
power to regulate agriculture,
commerce, industry and labor;
also the requiring of a two-thirds
vote of the Supreme Court to
declare a law unconstitutional; a
six year presidential term; civil
service—all except the highest
administrative posts.
Judging from past records only
a few of the amendments have a
chance to pass. Since 1889 only
22 amendments have been enact
ed out of 3,795 considered by the
Congress.
Subscribe for The Nome
Almost Extinct
Species Of Sea
Otter is Found
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 4—
Discovery by the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries of a colony of almost
extinct Sea Otters in Alaskan
waters does not mean that poach
j ers will have a chance to trap
the animals for pelts, which, it
is said range in price from three
hundred dollars to twenty-five
hundred dollars each. The Bur
eau is keeping secret the location
of the colony which is being con
trolled, and lies in an area pro
tected toy the 1911 treaty between
the United States, Great Britain,
Russia and Japan. The area is
I
being patrolled and a resident (
custodian will be sent there next1
spring.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4—
Fear that International poachers
might seize the rich prize and
rare Sea Otters, newly discover
ed in Alaskan waters, brought
quick action of the Bureau of
Fisheries to guard the breeding
grounds. The island and its ex
SCHOOLDAYS NOW FOR BLOND QUADRUPLETS
Recovered from an Illness, the blond Morlok quadruplets of Lansing, Mich., were back studying their
three “R’s" In their first grade classroom. Left to right: Edna, Helen, 8arah and Wilma. (Associated
Press Photo)
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Mrs. Simpson Is
Rushed Out Of
England-France
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 4—King Edward
staged a dramatic coup in his
fight to hold the throne by rush
ing Mrs. Simpson out of Eng
land so as to enable him to gain
ground against the government
and church critics. Mrs. Simp
son went during the night, going
straight from Belvedere Castle to
France.
Her removal from the scene,
which it is understood she her
self urged, apparently eased the
whole situation. She arrived at i
Rouen today and departed shora- !
ly after noon for Cannes, France.
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act location is not disclosed, but
l
lies within the territory embrac- ,
ed by the Treaty of 1911 between
the United States, Great Britain,
Russian and Japan, to protect the
sea otter.
The fur seal island was cited
recently by Commander L. V.
Kielhorn of the Cutter Chelan.
Some of the otter pelts are re
ported to have sold as high as
twenty-five hundred dollars, al
though the average is about $300
or $400.
Ward T. Bower, Chief of the
Alaska Service, said that a resi- i
dent custodian will be sent to the
island next spring. In the mean
while the Otter herd will be pa
trolled as frequently as possible.
Death Toll Land
Slides at Juneau
Reach Fifteen
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Dec. 4—Avalanches
death tolls reached fifteen when
Mrs. William Lott succumbed to
injuries from being crushed by
debris. The temperature dropp
ed suddenly to 21 above, thereby
lessening the danger from addi
tional slides.
I red Tracy Of
Alaska S. S. Co.
E)ied at Seattle
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Dec. 4—Frederick
Tracy, aged G4, general agent of
the Alaska Steamship Company,
died yesterday of a sudden heart
attack. A widow survives him.
Fred Tracy, began with the Al
aska Steamship Company during
the gold rush days of 1898. He
broke in as a ticket agent when
the company was headed by Chas
Peabody, later became purser of
the Steamer Victoria during the
Nome gold rush, he also acted as
purser on other company ships.
Fred, as he was usually called,
was transferred to Cordova in
1910 and placed in charge of the
Southwestern Alaska route and
established an agency at Anchor
age 1914. He became general
agent in 1933, with headquarters
at Seattle.
Captain Benson
To Mine Cold
Under Ocean
CORDOVA—Cordova will be
come the headquarters of the A1
aska Bayshore Dredging Com
pany, Captain John Benson, pres
ident of the gold mining concern
told a group of business men.
A dozen men gathered at the
invitation of the veteran sea cap
tain and gold miner at an inform
al luncheon in the Model Cafe
and listened to his plans for min
ing gold from the sands under
the sea.
The captain, who with Mrs.
Benson, has been in Cordova for
the past six weeks, said he had
finished observations of likely
gold bearing sands in this sec
tion and was convinced that his
company would be able to mine
profitably here.
He will return in March, he
said, with a ship fitted with the
gold recovery apparatus, but will
continue to Nome where he will
operate during the open months,
returning to his locations in
Prince William Sound later in
the year.
Has New Method
Benson has developed a new
and unique method of gold re
covery from under the surface of
the water. Using powerful suc
tion dredges, gold-bearing sand
(first tested for its content by
clamshell excavators carried on
the ship) is sucked on board and
passed through gold recovery
machinery, including newest type
of) sluice boxes and amalgama
tion appartus. The ship in the
words of Captain Benson, is act
ually a floating gold mill, with
limitless mining locations at its
disposal.
Captain Benson first conceived
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