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VOL. 37. No. 241 ~ NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 9th, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Sailing Schedules Again Resumed
AL SMITH SAYS REPUDIATION HIS REASON
Stock Market Reflects Upward Trend Of Business
AL SMITH TELLS OF
REASONS WHY HE IS
“TAKING A WALK”
(By The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, Del. a, — Al
fred E. Smith, former democratic
candidate for president in 1928,
set out last night reasons why
he is “taking a walk”, declaring
his main reason “the repudiation
of the 1932 democratic platform
by the Roosevelt administration”.
He made no reference to Gov
ernor Alf M. Landon or his de
claration last week that he would
support the Kansas governor for
president.
Smith said the 1932 j/atform
was the best ever adopted by eith
er major party “but, never as
far back as I can remember, or
as far back as I am able to read
in nisiory uiu i see uuiiijjieie
a repudiation of a platform—in
letter, in spirit, in principles, and
in detail.”
Smith said the promise to re
peal prohibition and regulate the
stock exchanges, were the only
planks in the platform which
have been kept.
He spoke before a group call
ing themselves “Old Line Demo
crats of Pennsylvania.” This was
the second of four speeches which
he intends to make.
He concluded his address with
an appeal to the audience to sepa
rate “political bunk from facts.”
PAA Rates On
Pacific Flights
Are Made Public
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9, —
The schedule of fares for the Pan
American Airways trans-Pacific
Clipper flights were announced as
follows.
Frisco to Honolulu $360: round
trip $648.
Frisco to Manila $799: round
trip $1438.20.
Frisco to Midway Islands $445:
round trip ten percent reduction.
Frisco to Wake Is. $587: round
trip ten percent reduction.
* Frisco to Guam $704: round trip
10 percent reduction.
Honolulu to Manila $614: round
trip $1105.20.
The fare will include transpor
tation from airports to business
sections of the cities, meals aloft
and rooms and meals at the com
pany hotels on Midway, Wake,
and Guam Islands.
Sat On Rails
(By The Associated Press)
LOVETT, Alberta, Oct. 9th—
Homesteaders and their families
sat upon rails of the Canadian
National Railways refusing to al
low working crews to pull up t> ^
steel of an abandoned section of
the line between Foot Hills and
Lovett. Royal Canadian mount
ed police were called to remove
the squatters, who said, that the
loss of the rail-line would sever
permanently their connection
with the settlements.
Reporters Race
Around World
Draws Interest
(By The Associated Press)
ATHENS, Oct. 8—A full lap
ahead of his competitors in the
twenty-two thousand mile around
the world air race between three
New York reporters, H. R. Elkins
:of the Scripps-Howard newspap
ers arrived here Monday from
I Vienna. The other racers, Doro
thy Kilgallen of the New York
Evening Journal and Leo Kieran
i of the New York Times, NANA
Service, were in Italy and plann
ed to take an Imperial Airways
plane from Brindisi for the Or
ient.
' i —
First Seattle Hop
Waits on Weather
Manager Chester Brown of the
Arctic Airways announced today
that as soon as weather permits
he will take off in the tri-motored
Ford plane with passengers, mail
and express for Anchorage to con
nect there with Pilot Don Glass
of the Glass Flying Service, op
erating a Clipper amphibian
plane, which will take the pass
engers on through to Seattle via
Juneau.
This will be the first through
flight of the coalition, announced
recently, as a special service to
be featured this fall and winter,
from Nome to Seattle in three
days.
Stock Markets
Show Favorable
Trend Business
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK Oct. 9, — The
stock market gives promise of
moving into new high ground for
I the depression, on the basis of
| excellent business reports now
j forthcoming.
Frances monetary problem now
j has been removed as an uncer
i tainty. The Franc is definitely de
valued in an international move
that may bring some semblance
j of stabilization on the troubled
money market.
In addition, leading authorities
do not expect France to make a
| sudden and wholesale move to
repatriate funds that have been
invested in American stocks.
The domestic political situation
offers no very deep problem sin
ce business offers such good fore
casts that any election result
will probably have little effect on
the market that appears to be
heading higher.
Consequently traders and brok
ers are advising their clients to
watch for dips to buy stocks that
appear to have good earning pos
sibility. Many industries appear
I to be heading into further good
business including steel.
President Says
Not Worried For
Future Nation
(By The Associated Press)
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Oct. 9, —
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
opened his western campaign for
reelection with the declaration
that he wasn’t worried as long
as the nation’s future conduct re
mained in the people’s hands.
“I am trying to gain a better
first hand information as to the
needs of the country in the days
to come,” he added, saying that
the information would be useful
to him “whether reelected or
not.”
Strike Settled
Aboard Tanana
Boats to Sail
(Bv The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 9, — The Al
aska Steamship Operators Asso
ciation announced tonight that it
had received confirmation that
the strike on the freighter Tan
! ana at Dry Spruce Bay, had end
ed, with the result that scheduled
sailings of other Alaska ships
will be resumed.
Three Killed, Also
One Policeman In
Havana Cuba Raid
(By The Associated Press)
HAVANA, Oct. 9, — Three
members of the Jovan Club of
the Young Cuba Movement, and
. a policeman were killed today
during a police raid on the hide
, out of one of the leaders in the
suburbs of Havana.
The youths who were killed in
the battle as they tried to fight
their way clear, were Louis Car
cia Quibus, the leader, Pedro Mar
tinez Ortega, an army lieutenant,
and Miguel Cruz.
The policeman fatally wound
ed was Felipe Lastra. Another of
ficer was wounded in the raid
which occurred in Santos Suarex
a suburb.
Director Of At hi.
At State Collage
(By The Associated Press)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 9
—A four-year fight by students
and alumni t ooust Hugo Bezdek
director of the Penn State school
of physical education and athlet
ics, met success today when the
college board of trustees recom
mended that Dezdek be relieved
of responsibility as director.
THE GRAND OPENING OF
NOME’S NEW BALLROOM
SATURDAY NIGHT, 9 P. M. OCTOBER 10th
With Local Orchestra and Novelties
A $5.00 CASH PRIZE FOR MOST APPROPRIATE
NAME FOR THIS COMBINED DANCE HALL AND
ROLLER SKATING RINK WILL BE OFFERED
ADMISSION—$1.50 Per Couple WHITES ONLY
HOUSING PROBLEMS AT U.
OF ALASKA ACUTE DUE THE
HEAVY RISE ENROLLMENT
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 9, — The
University of Alaska Board of Re
gents, confronted with an increas
ing enrollment voted funds to
build a new dormitory, and heat
and power plant.
The enrollment for the fall
term reached 193 regular stud
ents, and 67 short term students,
some of which are obliged to
I seek rooms in private homes in
i Fairbanks, which already is hav
, ing a housing shortage.
The regents voted $431,000 for
jthe biennium, seventy thousand
j of which was for the dormitory
and a hundred and twenty thou
sand for the heating and pow
er plant, twenty thousand for ex
tension work, fifteen thousand for
summer school.
The University has 462 exten
sion students in Juneau, Ketchi
kan, Petersburgh and Wrangell.
The new program contemplates
adding Cordova, Nome, Anchor
age and Seward with new mining
extension courses. The present
enrollment of the University in
cludes 54 students from various
states, with Washington, Ore
gon and California leading, and
one from Germany. The mining
courses are the most popular.
Roosevelt Lauded
By London Paper
Efforts Recovery
•
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Oct. 9, — President
Roosevelt and his administration
were praised in a twenty-four
page supplement of a current is
' su to The Economist, a financial
publication.
In an editorial, that publication
concluded if the New Deal is com
pared, not with the absolute stan
dard of an Utopia, but from ach
ievements an adverse judgment
must be modified.
If it be compared either with
the performance or promises of
its rivals, it conies out well. If
its achievements be compared
with the situation that confront
ed it March of 1933, it is a strik
ing success.
“President Roosevelt may have
given the wrong answers to many
of his problems but he at least
is the first president of modern
America who has asked the right
questions,” said the editorial.
_
Monaco To Coin
Its Own Money
(By The Associated Press)
MONACO, Oct. 9, — Monaco,
which for years has used French
money that was wagered at the
gaming tables in Monte Carlo is
now to have it own currency, Prin
ce Louis II, in view of devalua
tion of the French franc, decreed
the creation of Monaco money.
The national banks will issue the
money.
New Ballroom
Work has been completed by
Art Brown and Company, on the
construction of Nome’s new ball
room, located on Front Street at
Ban's Way, this evening, ar.d the
establishment is opening tomor
row evening at 9 P, M.
The management, has announ
ced that a $5.00 door pr.ze will be
awarded to the person suggesting
the most popular and appropriate
name for the new ballroom and
roller skating r. 1 .
A . i ai four piece wuhestra will
furnish the dance n us.c Saturday
even'ng, and novelties will be
handed out during the entertain
ment.
Art Brown, Victor Lind, Emil
Youngve and Al Fallman, made
up the company which built the
new building, that will be open
ed to the first big dance tomor
row evening, for whites only.
TROOPS LANDED
(By The Associated Press)
GIBRALTAR, Oct. 9, — An
army of mere than 8,000 Arabs
and men of the Spanish foreign
legion with guns, ammuntion and
34 tri-motored planes were land
ed in the last twenty-four hours
between Algerciraz and Cadiz, it
was made known here today.
These included foreign war
plane pilots, it was alleged. The
troops were said to be part of two
columns of rebel forces which
will attack Malaga on one front
and March on Madrid on the oth