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VOL 38 No. 130 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1937. Per Copy lOcts
“DON’T LET JAPANESE GET A FOOTHOLD”
Moon To Obscure Sun At 2:06 P. M. Tomorrow
Senator Bone Working Hard Cct U. S.
Committed Stand on Fisheries
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7, — Senator Bone’s
appeal to Congress that it take a definite stand against
the invasion of traditional American fishing grounds by
the Japanese, contained in a letter to Chairman Pittman
of the Senate Foreign Relations Confmittee, drew com
ment from various sources today.
He declared that the resolution now before the
group, if passed, would “strengthen the hand of the De
partment of State”.
“From my study, it is my belief that a positive de
claration by the United States would help insure peace
between the t^’o nations, since the failure of the gov
ernment to protect its citizens in their right to earn a
living, might result in their efforts to protect themsel
ves in ways that would embarrass the United States.
“If japan is to be permitted to invade Alaskan
waters to take salmon, that country must also be per
mitted to take other kinds of fish available either in Al
askan waters or elsewhere along thecoast of the Unit
ed States,” said Bone.
“Once they ga;n a foothold, and their rights are re
cognized either by silent assent or by lack of a posi
tive policy, they will proceed to take over the fisheries
of the entire Pacific coast,” he declared.
Bone said that Secretary of State Cordell Hull was
apparently taking no positive action at this time, refer
ring to Hull’s recent statements. “Hull has not satisfied
the Pacific Coast by his response,” Senator Bone firm
ly declared.
(By Tlie Associated Press)
WENATCHEE, Wash., June 7—Robert W. Ma:k’y.
aged 21, died in the hospital here a half hour aft*4' his
plane crashed from a height of 160 feet folio win his
takeoff. Russell Parkhill, who taught young Mackay
to fly last fall, said that the young flier tried to climb
too fast and turn at the same time after the takeoff.
MANILA FIRE LEAVES 10,000 HOMELESS
Fire wiped out one and one-halt square miles oi flimsy residences
in Manila recently, leaving more than 10,000 persons homeless,
one dead, eleven injured and property damage estimated at $1,- i
000,000. This picture shows smoke billowing from the great blase.
Inquiry Board Inspects Wreckage of Zep
.-.timbers ol the deprrirr.enl of r.» amc ?e investigation board are show a “
s'atletoi of tue wrecked d-rigil-ie Hndenburg as hearings into the cj. * * ‘ . - ;.r : N. -1..
r!‘ a tar I.o.,aa.
London Sets Gold Price At $34.77 In
Effort Stem Exportation To The U S
(By Tlie Associated Press)
LONDON, June 7—The price of bar gold was pegged
to $34.72 per fine ounce in an effort to stem the flow of
metal to the United States. An advance of nine and
eight-tenths cents per ounce cut the profits of exporters
of bullion who stood to make shipments to the United
States at today’s price, and still stood a chance to make
a profit o? about five cents per ounce, compared to a
round fourteen cents Saturday last
The treasury soothed the nerves of London’s bullion
stock brokers in a statement, saying: “there is no indica-:
tion of any unhealthy credit condition,” as a result of
the gold price situation and that England has no inten
tion of departing from the tri-party money agreement, j
It costs about twenty-three cents per ounce to shipj
gold to New York, so the shippers of bullion must buy
for less than $34.77 per ounce in order to make a profit.
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS |
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 7—Naval observers and
National Geographic Society astronomers stood vigil
today over delieate instruments installed on a tiny is
land in the mid-Pacific for tomorrow's total eclipse of
the sun, the longest in 12 centuries, from the barren
and hitherto uninhabited Canton Island. One of the few
dots of land which lies in the path of the complete sha
dow, came a wireless report that the scientists expected
unexcelled visibility at the moment the moon obscures
the sun at 2:06 P.M., Eastern Standard Time. Scien
tists are ready to photograph and study the eclipse for
two minutes in a effort to solve the mystery of the sun’s
strange outer light, the fringe known as Corona.
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BOARD PUBLIC
WELFARE
TOLD ABOUT
Next Meeting of Board Tt;
Be Sept. 7. Applications
W ere Approved.
Returning Saturday afternoon
by plane with Pilot Hans Mirov
of the Mirow Air Service, from
t e fii\->t meeting of the Territor
al B ard of Public Welfare, Rus
ted Maynard, member of the
Board representing the Second
Division, hud much to say regard
d'g the administration of old age
•).n. ions, indigent rel'ef. care o'1
i ip ' ident ch idren, and care of
the blind, as set lip under the Al
ia S icia! Security Aef at the
•••a- rdinary s-e-'<on of the Leg
T o n-.ee’ings f the Bn i«l, be
nnii.n M !‘d ren - y d for
we ' t ’ L civ ring whi
ch time thi ch • -,vcr frxn th}
Pet • B ■■1 wa - effect -
i nd opr ■ 1 • ted for the
ent ns alread
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r o' Welfare. : 1 to San
Franc e to confer w .tii Regional
> rector* of the '.* I 'n; “over -
f it •' ore, the establishing of a
• sv-.om of ■ ’H n pensions
■i re ,rf in the T.rritory wrs
.' •‘•pnnui until tic* boards next
• e-.• rg. September 7th.
Federal judges wore requested
to continue administering the
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WATCHED AMBUSH OF ORGANIZERS
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Markham Clouse (left!, a low-headed boy of 12, told the senate
civil liberties committee in Washington, D. C., he did not go before
a Harlan County, Ky., grand Jury to testify he saw four deputy
sheriffs fire a volley of shots into a carload of union organisers I
because he was warned it would only “cause trouble.” Jong
Clouse, 13, son of slain Lloyd Clouse, also was an eyewitnass. He
told of the ambush, too. J