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VOL. 38. No. 25 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY JAN. 30 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Roosevelt-Children’s Benefit Tonite
MISSISSIPPI FOLK AWAITING CREST FLOOD
Pres. Frisco Local Believes Maritime Strike Over
OPPOSES REOPENING WAR DEBTS
United States Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, ranking minority
member of the senate foreign relations committee, said he thought that
“we have been generous enough” regarding war debts and that a reduc
tion in the French debt "does not appeal to me.” He is shown as he
gave his view to newspaper reporters on returning to Washington for
the first time since his re-election to a sixth term. (Associated Press
Photo)
Dimond Asked For
Naval Base In
Alaska
(By The Associated Press >
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30,
—Delegate Dimond today asked
Congress in a bill, to authorize
the establishment of a naval base
in Alaska.
He said he doubted whether it
would receive consideration dur_
ing this session.
“Eventually, however, the Navy
will have to establish a base in
Alaska. This will at least lead
to the consideration of such a
project. Such a base is necess
ary for the adequate defense of
the United States and the Ter
ritory,” he said.
The bill would authorize the
Navy to spend not more than one
hundred million dollars for the
construction of a base, whieh
would embrace drydocks, ammuni
tion storage facilities, repair shops
etc. The selection of the site
was left to the Navy.
LOST—A RIFLE, a Carbine
Winchester Crag madel, fastened
with a webing sling for packing.
Was lost during the storm of the
night of Jan. 22nd, between Dry
Creek and the Power Plant. Re
turn same to Dave Colgate or
leave it at Nngget Office.
8nbeeribe For The Nugget
Bob Pastor Lasted
10 Rounds With
Joe Louis
('By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 30, — Bob
Pastor, although losing the offi
cial decision in his ten round
bout last night with Joe Louis,
sprang a major fistic sensation
by going the limit of the ten
rounds against the Brown Bomb
er from Detroit, Joe Louis.
He wethered the fight without
once being knocked off his feet.
A near.cnpacity crowd howled
mercilessly at the decision, as
Louis got the verdict.
He received the unanimous de
cision of Referee Arthur Dono
van and two judges, but failed
to show anything resembling his
customary dynamic punch again
st his opponent who beat a swift
retreat most of the time, but
likewise outsmarted the negro at
nearly every turn.
Louis had a big weight advan
tage, scaling two hundred and
three and a quarters, while Past
or weighed only one hundred and
seventy nine pounds.
Louis was slow thruout the
match, and wild in his aim, and
at the finish of the fight, was
bleeding from the nose.
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His Opinion Is
Maritime Strike
Now Over With
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, —
Maritime strike leaders, forecast,
ing an end to the 93-day walk
out, cailled for a meeting at noon
,oday to prepare to take a vote
on ending the conflict. ,
Henry Schmidt, president of the
ocal union of the ILA said the
meeting was called for the pur
pose of preparing a ballot for a
coastwide settlement.
“In my opinion the strike is ov_
er”, he said.
Harry Bridges, maritime leader
announced last night that strike
chieftains had delayed action in
cailling for a referendum, in hopes
of reaching better terms for two
unsatisfied unions, telegraphers
and cooks and stewards.
In view of the prospects muni
cipal officials in bay cities delay
ed any furhter plans to demand
government intervention in the
strike, which one business sour
ce estimated today, has cost six
hundred and fifty one million
dollars.
(Continued on Page Three)
Adolph Hitler Says
Rearming Business
Is German Affair
fBy The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Jan. 20, —Adolph Hit
ler, starting his rule of Germany
for another four years “with
drew’ Germany’s signature on
that part of the Versailles treaty
in which the Reich was declared
“guilty” of launching the World
War.
Addressing the Reichstag, in a
message awaited by the world,
he asserted that Germany's re.
sumption of military sovereignty
was a matter affecting only the
Reich.
“We have taken nothing from
any nation.nor have we done any
nation wrong,” he said. Hitler
announced the government would
henceforth hold sole sovereignty
over the federal railway system
and the Reich’s bank.
“The Nazi movement is the
most beautiful and the most per
fect democracy,” he shouted.
By way of contrast he said the
hundred and seventy thousand
deaths “is an achievement of the
democratic revolutionaries in
Spain”, as he concluded his ad
dress setting wild enthusiasm
loose among his listeners.
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New French Envoy?
Appointment of Georges Bonnet
(above) as French ambassador to
the United States was foreseen In
diplomatic circles. His special mis*
lion would be to settle the war
debt. (Associated Press Photo)
ALASKAN
WINDS ARE
THE CAUSE
(Bv The Associated Pressl
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, —
Chill winds from the Gulf of A1
aska have fathered the disastrous
Ohio floods, said Major Edward
Bowie, meteorologist, in charge
of the weather bureau here.
He reported that most Ameri
can rainstorms on the western
slope and over the Atlantic sea
board begin over the Pacific.
The strike which wiped out
weather observations from ships
at sea, makes the bureau from
a we ek to ten days late now in
predicting storms, he declared.
Tigers Claw Their
Keeper On Stage
(By The Associated Press'
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30, — A
theatre audience unwittingly ap_
plauded as two giant Bengal tig
ers attacked and clawed their
| trainer Roman Proske, former
Austrian soldier, in their cage
last night, before they were driv
en off by spears held by stage
hands. The condition of the
trainer was described as not ser
ious.
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EARTH TREMORS ADD
TERROR SITUATION
FLOODED SECTIONS
Roosevelt’s top men ordered to duty in flood areas, as
people along Mississippi await crest of Ohio
waters. Dike systems still holding
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Jan. 30, — People
throughout the broad Mississip
pi valley waited anxiously be_
hind bolstered levee systems, as
a pick and shovel army of one
hundred and fifteen thousand
men, aided by reinforcements,
rai- -d m re breastworks on both
sides of the river.
They awaited the zero hour
when the crest of the flood pass
es Cairo, Illinois, probably Wed
nesday, and starts toward the
Gulf.
President Roosevelt ordered his
top men in the fields of public
health, relief and engineering,
including Hopkins to begin a
week’s tour of the regions to
morrow and establish the extent
of the needs.
Cairo was eighty years old to_
day and saw the Ohio river at
the highest stage in its history,
and still rising.
A slight earth tremor injected
a new and fearsome element in
to the fight near Tiponvllie,
Tennessee, to keep the flood wat
ers from overflowing levees.
Dike workers and townspeop
le reported a brief trembling of
ti e earth about 3 aim. today
in the area, where a century
ago a quake forced a vast lake
east of the river.
A hasty inspection by engineers
indicated the earthen walls of
!he dike had not packed.
Chief of Police Pete Smith said
“the tremor lasted several sec_
onds but there wasn’t any dam
age to the levees whicii are still
holding above town.”
The known total flood dead is
numbered at 333 with property
damage set at four hundred milil
ion dollars.
More than a thousand refug
ees streamed into Memphis to_
day.
The remaining eight thousand
citizens of Paducah were order
ed to evacuate, and if they did
not do so voluntarily, they were
to be taken to places of safety
by force, if necessary.
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VICE PRESIDENT BACK ON JOB
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Arrival of Vice President John N. Garner at Washington so much In
advance of the opening of congress aroused much speculation. But In
any case, here he Is back In his capitol office at work with Mrs. Garner,
who acts as his secretary. (Associated Press Photo)