THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S. MAYNARD, Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, Manager.
Published every evening except Sunday by the NOME PUBLISHING
COMPANY, Nome, Alaska.
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MURDER ON THE HIGHWAY
Perhaps some historian of the future will write a para
graph like this about us:
During the early decades of the twentieth century a
strange disease attacked the people of the United States. It
killed them by thousands and maimed them by millions. In
the year 1934 more than 34,000 died of it. Most of them
died violently and unpleasantly. Inthe same year over 1,
000,000 Americans suffered broken limbs, blindness, disfig
uring scars and lifetime injuries from the same disease.
In the same year less than 100 persons died in a fire at
sea. This caused tremendous public indignation and result
ed in official investigations and Senatorial inquiries. But
nobody paid much attention to the disease which killed more
Americans in one year than died by gunfire in the Gieat
War. That was because the typical American of 1934
hadn’t much sense of proportion. He also hadn t sense en
ough to drive an automobile, but insisted on doing it.
Last year broke all existing records in highway murder.
More men. women and children were killed in traffic acci
dents than in any other twelve-month period since the world
began. , ,
Every fifteen minutes, on the average, somebody got
killed in a traffic accident. About 300 a day were so badly
damaged that the police or hospitals heard about it.
Whose fault is it ?
Some of it is the fault of human nature. No law can
keep a silly fool or incompetent ass from feeling like a big
shot behind a steering wheel. He has his hands on a lot of
horsepower and they itch to use it. He may be a mug in
business, a dub at golf, and a worm when his wife ciacks
the whip at home. But in the driving seat of his highpow
ered car he feels like a man.
Some of it must be blamed on the fact that machinery
becomes better, vear by year, but not the biains of those
who use it. The steering wheel of the modern car won't
weaken, but the wits of the driver may. An up-to-date au
tomobile can travel a hundred miles an hour, but the ordi
nary driver can't think that fast. j
‘ The fatal figures prove that the average American can t
take it. It goes to his head and makes him a murderous
menace on the open road. Nine times out of ten he is in no
real hurry to get where he’s going, but he is infected with
a vicious blood-lust for speed. He may kill himself or some
body else to save three minutes, though he has nothing to do
with them when he has saved them.—Exchange.
FINN ALLEY CAFE
Albert Therry, Proprietor
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Former King Was
Once Trounced by
A Village Youth
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May — In a side
street of East Cowes, Isle of Wight,
is the “shell house where an ingen
ious citizens has spent his years in
devising shell designs for walks,
fences, flower beds, and mosaics on
the walls. All of which would be
only for sight-seers were it not for a
story that goes back to the days be.
fore the Civil War, the National
Geographic magazine recounts.
A nattily dressed lad was playing
on Princes Green, on the heights
above Cowes, and, seeing a village
boy with a basket of peri-winkles,
he yielded to a normal prankish im
pulse to kick the basket, scatter the
gastropods and to run. The son of
Cowes sprinted in pursuit, overtook
his assailant, trounced him soundly,
and one conspicuous result was a
black eye.
When the aggressors mother heard
the details she sided wholly with the
boy of the basket and arranged for
a handsome apology. The mother
was Queen Victoria; the boy who
kicked the basket was her son, lat
er K;ng Edward VII. Years after
ward the son of Cowes received
from the queen the modest dwelling
which he converted into one of the
sights of, the vicinity.
POSTOFFICE HAS HUGE
INCREASE
The average number of letters go
ing out of the Albany, Oregon post
office at this time of the year is
about 2400 per day. The total jump
ed from 2400 Monday to 4180 for
Tuesday and to 9060 for part of
Wednesday.
Yesterday the total from 9:30 in
the morning until 8:30 last evening
was more than 5560. There were
hundreds of letters received between
8:30 last night and 9:30 this morn
mg when the count for each day’s |
business ends.
No doubt the Thursday letter
send-out was the greatest in the his
tory of the postoffice.
If chain letter business keeps up,
the Albany postoffice may become a
first class office, with more men em
ployed and with several raises in
salary.—Albany Greater Oregon.
Chain Letters Are
Declared To Be
Against The Laws
The increasing number of chain
letters received in Nome from all
parts of the States, has given rise
to much conjectures as to their sta
tus in law. The following statement
was made in Washington, D. C., by
W. E. Kelly, Acting Solicitor, de
claring that they are being operated
through the mails in violation of the
postal lottery and fraud statutes.
Following is an order sent to all
postmasters and received by the
Nome Post Office:
CHAIN LETTERS.
Office of the Solicitor,
Washington May 8, 1935
The attention of all postmasters
is called to the fact that the so-call
ed “send a dime” chain-letter sche
me, and similar enterprises, now
being operated through the mails at
various points is in violation of the
postal lottery and fraud statutes
(Secs. 601 and2350, P.L.&R. 1932)
This information should be com
municated to all persons making in
quiry as to legality of the scheme.
W. E. Kelly, Acting Solicitor
Placer
And Lode
Location Blanks
For Sale at Nugget Office
B. J. McCONAGHY
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