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VOL 38 No-52 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY MARCH 5, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
MISS LEE JUMPS INTO FIRST QUEEN PLACE
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Rivers Liquor Bill Amended In Legislature Today
Lee Girl Hits
Top Day Before
Final, Carnival
The sale of general admission
tickets for the Kennel Club Car
nival scheduled for Saturday
night, opened with a bang this
morning. Most of the Queen can
didates were on the job early to
day anxious to pile up a big vote.
Rivalry to sell tickets is very
keen as the Queen candidate re
ceives 1000 votes free for every
adult ticket sold.
Some of the contestants were
handicapped in not being able to
get out and sell tickets early but
expected to get busy this after
noon and tonight.
Following is the standing of
the Queens today:
Margueritte Lee .461,660
Gertrude Johansen .460,700
Eileen Stangroom.341,820
Jeanne Mozee .306,840
Ada Baldwin .132,120
Rita O’Leary .111,020
Dorothy Nelson .48,360
Geraldine Rude .26,660
Borgny Ulricksen .18,080
The next count for publication
in the Nome Daily Nugget will
be made at 3 p.m. tomorrow.
After that time votes may be
deposited in the ballot boxes un
til 9 p.m. in the business houses,
when the committee will gather
up the boxes nnd the count will
be made public at the Carnival
during the evening of fun and
snerryiment at the Public School
Gym.
The Carnival commences at 8
p.m., admission is $1.00 for adults
and 50 cents for children. Adults
tickets entities you to 2000 queen
tickets and children’s tickets will
give you 1000 votes.
As this is an Alaskan project
every body is entitled to attend
and help elect a Miss Nome.
It is reported that owing to the
giving away free of 2000 queen
tickets with every $1.00 admis
sion ticket and 1000 free votes
with every children’s ticket, and
also 1000 votes to the candidate
for queen selling the ticket, that
much rivalry is anticipated, said
Queen Manager Ed. Steffen, who
is busy handing out admission
tickets today. The sale of admis
sion tickets is much larger than
anticipated, due to the rivalry for
extra votes gained thereby.
This means that each candidate
selling an admission ticket may
be able to accumulate at least
three thousand votes on the sale
oi $1.00 admission tickets.
Yesterday’s Totals
Gertrude Johansen . 395,700
Blum Said Free
Cold Market Be
Set up France
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, March 5, — French
Premier Leon Blum announced
a free gold market would be es
tablished in this country Mon
day—one of the first steps to ease
the country’s critical financial
situation.
Stabilization of the franc was
not mentioned in his surprise
communique, which was read at
an emergency cabinet session, but
it is believed that measures have
been taken which have indicated
a defacto stabilization at about
the present rate of 21.50 francs
to the dollar.
Another measure for restoring
confidence Blum said would be
large cuts in the budget.
One Half Billion
Dollars Naval
Costs in Britain
fRv The Associated Press)
LONDON, March 3 — The Brit
ish navy announced it would
spend a half billion dollars this
year to construct three large bat
tle ships, two aircraft carriers,
five heavy cruisers, two light
cruisers sixteen destroyers, seven
submarines forty five smaller
vessels, and would add eleven
thousand officers to men bringing
the total naval personnel to one
hundred and twelve thousand
men.
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LEAVES LICENSING UP
TO DISTRICT COURT
BY AMENDMENT
Majority of persons would have to apprcve of license
before it could be issued, according to the
amendment passed by the House
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, March 5, — Amend
ed to leave the final granting of
licenses to the District Court,
the Rivers liquor bill which pass
ed the Senate Wednesday is now
before the House.
According to the bill, requests
must be signed by a majority of
the residents before the license
can be granted.
Both houses have cleared up
old bills. They held only brief
sessions Thursday, giving the com
m-ittees time to work.
The house passed the Nell Scott
bill requiring drivers of automo
biles for hire, to be finger print
ed.
The Senate killed the Nell Scott
measure which would have re
quired three days to elapse be
! tween the issuance of a license,
| and the wedding.
The fur farm bill, with a twen
ty thousand dollar appropriation
which passed the senate, is now
before the house, with a fair
chance of passing there.
Memorials which have passed
, both house include requests for
roads to mining districts in prac
tically all sections; urging con
gress to change the organic act
so that representatives can be el
ected for four years instead of
two; an appropriation tor a steel
revetment for the Nome harbor;
a hospital at Craig; and harbor
improvement at Metlakatla.
Governor Troy signed the gross
gold tax bill today.
Money Expected
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 5,
—Income tax revenues are ex
pected to bring four billion eight
hundred and forty million dollars
into the federal purse this mon
th with only ten days remaining
in March until the deadline for
filing returns.
Authorities also estimated re
ceipts would aggregate a million
and a half between now and June
30th.
Pioneer Igloo Initiates Another
New Class. Amended Constitution
Lets 1910 Alaskans Join Lodge
Pioneer Igloo No. 1 on last Wed
needay night initiated another lar
ge class of new members. The
membership committee has a
large number in view to sign up
before the next meeting. On ac
count of the Rebekahs having
Marguerltte Lee. 389,660
Eileen Stangroom . 341,820
Jeanne Mozee .-. 306,840
Ada Baldwin . 132,120
Rita O’Leary.111,020
Dorothy Nelson. 48,360
Geraldine Rude . 26,660
Borgny Ulricksen .18,080
the prior right to the hall, by
motion the next meeting was set
for Wednesday March 17th. This
day falling on St. Patrick Day
the Pioneers not willing to con
flict with the usual celebration,
have set their meeting for 7 p.m.
in order to complete their busi
ness and adjourn to attend the
St. Patrick celebration.
The Seward Day celebration
committee reported the arrange
ments well in hand for the cele
bration to which the public will
be invited by the members of the
(Continued on Page Two)
Sawmill Workers
On Strike Seattle
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, March 4, — Between
twelve and thirteen hundred saw
mill and lumber workers, all
union members struck today, clos
ing all but two of the city’s maj
or lumber mills, after negotia
tions for new contracts for wage
increase of ten cents an hour ov
er the present rate of four doll
ars and forty hours, as minimum
standards, broke down.
Mills affected included Nettle
ton, West Waterway, Bolcorn Can
al, Seattle Cedar, and Stimson
Pankratz.
Operators announced Seattle
would export lumber via the Sea
board Lumber Companies which
are not affected. Mills operators
had offered five dollars a day
minimum, it was announced.
TORONTO, March 1, Conser-'
vative opposition in the Ontario
legislature is ready to demand a
complete public airing into the
source of the Dionne quintup
let’s income. ,
Welfare Minister David Croll,
the guardian of the quintuplets,
introduced a bill to gradually re
unite the babies and their par
ents. They will be three years
old May 28th.
Development of
Alaska Past Due
To Fur Trade
University Professor Describes
part played by navigators
and early traders.
Searchers for a northeastern or
northwestern passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific played a
considerable part in the early his
tory of Alaska, according to Dr.
Cecil Robe, professor of history
in the University of Alaska.
Addressing the home makers’
class at the University Doctor
Robe pointed out that various na
tion sought out thatyy ,WYS,’Ja
tions sought such a route in order
to obtain a monopoly on it.
Spain and England were the chief
seekers throughout the two ex
ploration periods—roughly from
1500 to 1600 and from 1770 to ar
ound*1850.
Explorers Found Furs
‘Although Spanish, English,
French, American and Russian
navigators found no such passage,,
they did find furs,” continued
Professor Robe. ‘ The Russians
were interested primarily in the
fur trade and .much less in the
i
Threatened Row
Waterfront Was
Averted Today
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.
—'The threatened disruption of
relations between employers and
longshoremen, was averted Thurs
day night, with the sailors union
announcing that pickets would be
withdrawn from the Canadian
steamer Rochelie, thus permitting
stevedores to resume work today.
The ship has been picketed sin
ce February 23rd, in a jurisdic
tional dispute. The waterfront
empolyers association announced
Wednesday they would suspend
relations Saturday with the local
union of the International Long
shoremen’s Association, unless
the men furnished work to the
Rochelie.
discovery of „ north we.,' passage
“The navigators from other na
tions began to appear in greater
numbers and develop the China
fur trade which played a consid
erable part in the commercial de
velopment of New England.
“To prevent foreign intrusion,
(Continued on Page Four)
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GOES
AETER SUPREME COURT WITH
HAMMER, TONGS IN ADDRESS
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 5,
— President Roosevelt swung i
Thursday night into the thick of
the fight over his proposal to re
vamp the Supreme Court, with
the charge that the tribunal’s
majority had condemned the na
tion to “no man’s land of final
futility.”
Accusing the justices of render
ing congress impotent to attack
by social and economic ills, the
President called for action “now
to free from legal doubts, those
policies which offer a progressive
solution to our problems.”
With obvious reference to the
“dictator” charges hurled by his
enemies, he disclaimed any in
tent to seek a third term in of
fice and struck again at the tri
bunal’s majority with accusations
that some of the justices were let
ting their own economic beliefs
control their decisions.
His speech last night was his
first utterance on the proposed
court revisions, since his mess
age on the judiciary went to con
gress a month ago.
It was delivered at a gigantic
Victory Dinner here, the featured
event of dozens of Democratic
dinners throughout the country,
celebrating the 1936 landslide.
Mother-in-Law
Day In Texa&
rRv The Associated Press)
AMARILLO, Texas, March 5,
—Irtt mother-in-law day in Tex
as, as one thousand women gath
ered here today, all duly regist
ered with letter of recommenda
tion from their children’s mates.
They are being entertained at
a free luncheon, a free show, and
many merchants have some free
merchandise for them.
Next year Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the nation’s number
one mother-in-law is being in
vited.
The custom was started here
four years ago by Editor Gene
Howe, and has since been made
official for all of the state by
Governor James Allred.
Be Sure and Attend The Carnival Sat Night