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VOL. 36 NO. 121 NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
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HUEY LONG FAILS ON FILIBUSTER ATTEMPT
President Tells His Reasons For Votoing Bonus Bill
.
Orders Embargo
On Silver Coins
Into United States
Secretary of Treasury Mor
genthau Orders Embargo
Silver Coins Monday
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 21—Secre
tary Morgenthau with President
Roosevelt’s approval, late Monday,
ordered an embargo upon the entry
to the United States of foreign sil
ver coins. The step was explained
as a measure of cooperation to aid
those nations where the high price
of silver is largely caused by Amer
ica’s purchases, and which has prom
pted the melting of coins in bullion.
President Slashes
PWA Scale Of
Wages Real Low
Wage Is As Low as Nineteen
Dollars a Month in South
Much Higher in North
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 21—Slashing
PWA hourly wage scales all down
the line the President fixed labor's
monthly wage under much of the
four billion dollar works program,
as low in some cases as nineteen dol
lars in the south and ninety-four
dollars in the north. Senator Mc
Carran of Nevada democrat, who
sponsored the going wage amend
ment announced he would launch a
drive for new scales.
Japanese Chasing
Bandits Northern
Chinese Sections
Japanese Have Troops China
Chasing Bandits in North
Also With Airplanes
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, May 21, — The possibil
ity of Japanese military action ag
ainst ailleged bandit activities in nor
them China, was disclosed in dis
patches to the Rengo News Agency,
today.
Japanese military leaders are re
ported to be meeting at Tientsin to
consider what measures to adopt to
face the asserted operations of sev
eral thousand Chinese irregulars in
I the de-miilitarized zone, south of the
Great Wall. These reports follow
ed earlier advices that Japanese
troops weie moving on the Great
Wall with the intention of entering .
northern China on an anti-bandit
expedition.
PEGUES TELLS PUBLIC
NOME ABOUT FEDERAL
HOUSING ADM. ALASKA
Public Gathering At Dream Theatre List
ens Territorial Director Of Federal
Housing Administration J. E. Pegues
(By The Associated Press'*
At a public meeting held last night in the Dream Theatre
following the regular picture show- John E. Pegues, Terri
torial Director of the Federal Housing Administration, brot
the housing problems of Nome to a head and brought the
FHA to Nome to assist in the re-building of this city.
The public interest aroused over the possibilities of aid
in remodeling, construction and improvements of homes was
aptly indicated last night by the crowded theatre which
stayed to listen to Mr. Pegues explain the purposes of the
Federal Housing Administration in its work in Alaska.
Under the sponsorship of the Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce, the meeting proved to be the finest
opportunity for the public to become acquainted with Mr.
Pegues. Vice President Thos. D. Jensen introduced him to
the public and stated his purpose in addressing them.
Under the Federal Housing Administration there are two
divisions—Title I and Title II, under which home loans may
be classed, said the Director.
“Title One is the most simple and direct means of ob
taining funds for re-modeling, and improving of existing
property,” he said. Under this title, a loan of not more
than $2,000 may be made. In describing the qualifications
and procedure, Mr. Pegues stated: “the borrower must be
either the owner of property or have a lease on it which
term will continue during the period of the loan, plus an
additional six months. In the case of $2 000 and amounts
up to that sum, a period of five years is allowed in which
to repay the loan—therefore the lease would have to be for
five years and six months to conform to the requirements.
“Application is made to the local bank for a loan under
this plan. The loon is made on a
simple promissory note, unendors
ed by any other persons, and no
security is required except the pro
mise to repay. The period of re
payment is arranged so that he may
pay by the month or in quarterly
installments depending to a great ex
tent if he is a seasonal laborer. The
money obtained under this Title
must be expended in the remodeling
or improvement of, or construction
of property owned or leased by the
borrower."
The details of Title I were not
all taken in, but a general sum
mary of its scope and regulations
was discussed, the principal point
being that the great amount of red
tape has been done away with in
this class, thus making it possible
for a person to obtain money speed
ily. The rate of interest under which
the money is repaid is five percent,
and the repayment is so adj usted that
the loan amortized a certain amount
in each payment.
Discussing Title II, Mr. Pegues
explained that it was a more com
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Animal Trainer
Gored To Death
By Mad Elephant
Herd Stampedes Chases The
Trainer Up Pole Leader
Gores Him Thrice
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, May 21 —Attack
ed and gored by an enraged ele- i
phant during a rehearsaJ of an act j
for a motion picture, Joe Reed, a
veteran circus trainer, died here this,
afternoon.
He was putting a herd of elephants
and twelve tigers through an act at
A1 Barnes' winter quarters. The
elethants stampeded and “Prince",
leader of the herd charged Reed
as he tried to climb a light pole to
safety, in the center of the lot. The
animal gored him three times with
his tusks.
Huey Long Tries
Filibuster Move
But Makes Slip
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 22nd—Huey
Long provided the Senate with an
uproarious prelude to its march to
the house for the presidents bonas
veto Gibbing ait Roosevelt’s work re
lief wages, kidding his colleagues,
reading from the dictionary he
threatened to break up the show by
an all night filibuster against the
resolution authorizing a joint ses
sion, but he finally tripped up over
a quirk in the senate rule and the
filibuster was wrecked.
Just as the other senators were
returning from dinner last night at
the end of six hours with Long on
the floor, he left, under the impres
sion that a quorum call had been
started. Actually it had not. When
he returned he found he had lost
out, under the rule limiting the num
ber of times members can speak in
a single day on the same subject.
The senate then passed a resolution
for a joint session to hear the veto
read.
Bad Fire Pullman
In The Warehouse
Seetions Of (!ity
(Bv The Associated Press)
PULLMAN, May 22—Smouldering
ruins stretched for two blocks in
the warehouse district where a hun
dred thousand dollar fire raged for
four hours last night. It was of un
determined origin, and started about
midnight in a grain warehouse, tra
veling to other warehouses, coal
bunkers and oil depots and freight
ears.
Hitler Prepares
Longest Speech of
Political Career
Hitler Speech To Be On Stand
Germany With Other
Great Powers World
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, May 21—Hitler finished
writing today, his address which
many predicted would determine
largely whether Germany’s foreign
policy would develop amid world
friendship or suspicion.
It will be the longest speech of his
career, as a statesman. Informed
circles said the oration is addressed
to the Reich and might include an
invitation to Russia to conclude a
non-agression pact. „
ROOSEVELT READS HIS
VETO JOINT SESSION
PATMAN BONUS BILL
President In Unprecedented Message Read
To Congress Describes Reasons For The
Veto Of The Patman Bonus Measure
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON- May 22, President Roosevelt warned
Congress, in vetoing the Patman Bill, that if it enacted it
into a law ovei his veto, it would invite “an ultimate reck
oning in uncontrollable prices and the destruction of the
value of savings.”
Such a result, he declared in his unprecendented mess
age which he read to a joint session of the house and senate,
“will strike most cruelly, those like veterans who seem to he
temporarily benefited.
“The first man injured by skyrocketing prices, is the
man on a fixed income. Every disabled veteran on pension
or an allowance, is on a fixed income. This bill favors the
able-bodied veteran at the expense of the disabled veteran.
Wealth is not created, nor is it more equitably distributed
by this method.
"The government, like the individual- must meet legit
imate obligations out of the production of wealth by the lab
el' of human beings applied to the resources of natures. Ev
ery country that attempted this form of meeting its obliga
tions which is here provided, suffered disastrous conse
quences.”
He declared that the benefits which had been extend
ed to veterans might be measurd by the fact that seven
billion, eight hundred million dollars had been spent in be
half of them- up to the end of the fiscal year, not including
the amounts received by those on relief.
He spoke of “liberal legislation for
disability and for death compensa
tion” by which he said a million
men and women had already been
benefitted.
“Generous provision has been
made for hospitalization, vocational
training and rehabilitation of veter
ans.” He declared that the repay
ment of the bonus with new curr
ency under the Patman bill would
mean the paying of one billion, six
hundred million dollars more than
the present value of the adjusted
compensation certificates.
"It is a new straight gratuity or
bounty to that amount. It destroys
insurance protection for dependents
of veterans, provided for in the ori
ginal plan for the remaining period
of ten years. They will have lost
this insurance. This proposal, I sub
mit, violates the entire principle of
adjusted certificate settlement of
1924," the President stated to the
assembled congressmen.
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Ford Motor Co.
Raises Wages To
Six Dollars Day
(By The Associated Press)
DETROIT, May 22—The Ford Mo
tor Company announced the restor
ation of a six dollar day minimum
for all employees, which was the
1929 minimum. Employees are en
gaged at rates above the minimum,
which were also advanced to higher
levels The raise affects one hun
dred and twenty-six thousand em
ployees.
Acclaim Speech
Hitler On Peace
Nations Europe
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, May 22—While enthus
iastic Naxis acclaimed the peace ges
tures in Hitler’s address yesterday,
some skeptical foreign diplomats
saw in it a promise of an “unprece
dented rearmament race."