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Volume'36. Number 205. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
H. Lyng Applauds Matanuska Colony
BRUSSELS MOURNS RETURN QUEEN’S BODY
Cec Allen Killed Takeoff In Bendix Air Trophy Race
HOWARD LYNG WRITES
STORY REVIEW ABOUT
CONDITIONS IN PALMER
Criticizes Move Sending CCC Men From
Slates Do Work Building In Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 30th—Howard Lyng, democratic
member of the last legislature from Nome, and now Assist
ant Manager of the Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation
in a signed interview with the Anchorage Times, reviewing
the Matanuska colonization project said:
"At the present writing the construction program is
about to the half-way mark—thirty-rfive colonists houses are
now occupied and seventy more are in various stages of con
struction.
"Had the project been prosecuted from the inception of
Alaskan labor under the direction of qualified Alaskans, such
as the Alaska Road Commission, the program would now be
well toward completion. The fact is demonstrated by Gree
ley when increased speed developed and sent the construc
tion additional forces up to 200 men when that number of
Alaskans, mostly skilled workers, were recruited from An
chorage, Seward and Fairbanks.
"It is to be hoped that the Federal Government will
profit sufficiently from this basic mistake in its Alaska rural
colonization project, to realize in the future how to take
care of them in similar undertakings.
“The most important fact is labor, and it is a fallacy to
presume that a hundred men can be transported thousands
ot miles with a wage of a dollar a day and board to be put
to work in a frontier country under conditions with which
they are totally unfamiliar, and at work which few, if any,
have had any experience.”
Lyng praised the idea of the colonization in Alaska and
the industry and intelligence of the colonists at Matanuska.
Professional Team
Is Winner Football
Game At Chicago
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, August 30th, — The
Chicago Bears walloped the College
All-Stars 5 to 0 before seventy-sev
en thousand spectators at Soldiers’
Field here Thursday night.
A field goal and a safety account
ed for the scores. Despite the low
score the Bears outplayed the All
Stars, who, however, played a great
defensive game.
The collegians threatened only
once, when they battered their way
to the eight yard line in the fourth
period. The professionals repulsed
four smashes, punting out of danger
each time.
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Alaska Sailing Ship
On Last Voyage To
Japan Be Scrapped
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, —The
four-master Alaska Packer ship'
Star of Zealand set said today with
a Japanese crew across the Pacific
Ocean bound for the scrap yards of
Japan, on her last trip.
She carried a load of scrap iron
in her hold and will be scrapped her
self upon her arrival at Nippon.
The vessel is 332 feet long and was
built in 1900 at Bath, Maine. She
was one of the largest American
steel sailing ships of her day.
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Northland Arrived
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The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter
Northland in command of Captain
Scammell, returned to Nome today
after making a round trip voyage to
Point Barrow, an annual cruise for
the Coast Guard.
No details of the trip were avail
able at the time of going to press.
Cec Allen Killed
Takeoff Bendix
Air Trophy Raee
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, —Cecil
Allen, the last pilot to get away in
the Bendix Air Trophy race to
Cleveland, Ohio, was instantly kill
ed when his Gee Bee, low-winged
monoplane crashed a mile from the
airport, demolishing Allen’s head,
which was almost severed from his
body.
All other participants in the race
got away without mishap.
Cecil Allen and G. Moyle spanned
the distance between Tokyo and the
United States by way of Siberia and
Alaska, stopping here at Nome for
several days. They were flying an
Emsco monoplane, and had been
missing on their flight for a couple
of weeks when they were reported
at a fishing village in Siberia. They
had originally intended flying dir
ect from Tokyo to Seattle but ad
verse weather conditions caused
them to become lost.
3,300,000 To Be On
Work Relief Rolls
By This November
(By Tho Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, — Sta
tistics showed there were two hun
dred thousand fewer people work
ing on relief jobs than six months
ago, relief officials disclosed.
They said this figure was correct
and added that with the New York
relief program speeding up, Admin
istrator Hopkins will attain a goal
of three and one-half million per
sons at work in November.
Ashes Ray Long
Scattered At Sea
As He Desired
—
(Bv The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 — The ;
ashes of Ray Long, magazine editor
and publisher, who committed sui
cide July 9th, were scattered over
the Pacific Ocean, carrying out his
last wish.
Peter B. Kyne author, Roy How- i
ai d newspaper publisher, and Long’s
nine year old son Ray Jr., put out
to sea in a yacht today and delivered
his ashes to the waters.
AAA Is OKed
(By The Associated Press) ;
YAZOO CITY, Miss., Aug. 30, —
Roosevelt’s amended AAA was de
clared constitutional and its pro- f
cessing tax provisions held collect
j able, by a federal court here today. [
BELGIUM MOURNS AT
DEATH QUEEN—BODY
RETURNED BRUSSELS
Troops Line Streets; Crowds Cather And
Prayers Said As Queen's Body Passes
(By The Associated Press’)
BRUSSELS, Aug. 30—Sobs from a bareheaded crowd
of thousands, broke the deep silence, as attendants placed
the casket of Queen Astrid in a motor hearse, outside the
somberly draped railroad station, and stepped back while
the drive was made to the palace.
The simple coffin, banked with white flowers and light
ed by six targe candles, was placed in the Palace Chapel.
Troops lined the street as the cortege wound its way up
to the palace gates. Church bells tolled throughout the
city and people in the streets crossed themselves and whis
pered soi*Jy worded prayers, as the body passed along.
The Queen’s three children played i 1 the garden
of one of the royal villas, unaware that their mother wocrld ;
never return to them.
The King was sad-eyed and fatigued from a troubled
day and a sleepless night.
Body Of Queen
Astrid Arrives At
National Capital
(By The Associated Press)
BRUSSELS, Aug. 30, — Long lin
es of Belgians entered the royal pal
ace here in sorrow, paying their last
homage to Queen Astrid.
The body came back to the capital
to the muffled roll of drums and
dirgeful sound of bugles playing in
Qux Champs. The funeral is to be
held next Tuesday.
King Leopold left the train be
fore the arrival of the casket and
motored to the palace awaiting the
arrival of his wife’s body with bow
ed head.
Buddy Baer Hits
Out Win In First
Round On Doyle
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 30, — The car
oling Californian, Jacob Buddy
Baer, brother of the former heavy
weight champion belted out a good
thrashing to Irishman Jack Doyle in
two minutes and thirty-eight sec
onds, in the first round of a sched
uled six rounder.
Doyle was knocked down three
;imes before referee Bill Cavanaugh
itoppd the carnage. Ten thousand
people paid twenty-six thousand dol
lars to see the bout.
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Laval Will Decide
French Stand On
Dispute League
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug, 30, — Premier
Laval of France with a free hand
authorized by his cabinet, went to
the country today to make up his
mind whether France will support
Italy or Great Britain in their stands
on the Ethiopian question.
His opinion will be displayed when
the League Council meets next week
on the subject.
Italy wants other countries to
keep their hand off, and England
wants to slowdown the Italians,
who are frankly prepared for war.
Artillery divisions threw real shells
over the heads of soldiers at man
euvers being held in North Italy.
Fur Market Clean
Coming Season
For Alaska Men
fBy The Associated Press)
TACOMA, Aug. 30, — Fur auction
lor August totaled thirty-six thous
md, the demand being better than
my previous monthly auction this
k'ear.
Beaver, muskrat, and silver fox
;s sold high with a keen demand in
Vew York and London by buyers.
The sale cleaned up practically all
>f the stocks here of last winter’s
;atch from Aaska, so northern trap
jers will go into the new season with
aractically a clean market before
hem.
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Knox And Borah
Mentioned 1936
Possible Contest
(By The Associated Tress)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, —Seek
ing to discern the dim uncertain
outlines of 1936, some Republican
leaders figured there would be a
memorable contest between Colonel
Frank Knox and Senator Borah for
the party’s nomination; with Lon
don, governor of Kansas, or Vanden
berg as possible dark horses.
Prognosticators agreed that it was
too soon to make any definite pre
diction about the discussed Borah
Knox struggle, as a possibility.
Some have it that the struggle
might result in a deadlock which
would bring in another name for
the nomination. Neither will come
out openly for the nomination but
it is believed if Knox enters the
primaries, Borah will also.
Studying Ways 1»
W rite A New NR A
By Next Session
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, — The
administration’s legal experts are
busy studying approaches to the
problem of writing a new NRA with
in constitutional limits, and the draft
ing of suggested measures already
undertaken.
Just before adjournment, Presi
dent Roosevelt requested the legis
lators to study the situation with a
view toward enacting legislation at
the next session, so as to preserve
the “advantages” of the recovery
law.
Father Boh Bartlett
Former Secretary
To Dimond. Is Dead
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 30, —Ed Bart
lett, a '98er, died Thursday at Inde
pendence Creek in the Circle City
district, where he had been work
ing hydraulic mining property show
ing big prospects.
He was born in Texas in 1870 and
arrived at Skagway January 1,
1898. He freighted during the early
days until he became interested in
mining at Independence. He also
freighted in and out of Dawson in
the early days.
He is survived by a widow and a
son E L Bob Bartlett former news
paper man and later secretary to
Delegate Dimond, but who is now
with the Federal Housing Admini
stration at Juneau.
The body of Ed Bartlett was
brought to Fairbanks Thursday
night.