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VOL. 37. No. 278 NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, NOV. 23, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
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LAND SLIDeITwRECKED HAVOC JUNEAU
Great Britain to Protect Shipping on the High Seas
Predict Decline
Cold Import To
United States
(By The Associated Pressi
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 23,
•—Administration banking auth
orities predicted a steady decline
in future gold imports, but an.
nounced they were considering
reducing the excess bank reserv.
es, which have now swollen to
abnormal proportions by the sus
tained flight of foreign money to
the United States, because of the
desire by the United States to
prevent a runaway expansion of
credit.
Great Britain
Protect Shipping
On High Seas
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fBy The Associated Press)
LONDON, Nov. 23 — Great
*
Britain will protect her shipping
on the high seas from either the
Spanish government or insur
gents, Foreign Secretary Anth_
ony Eden told the House of Com.
mons this morning.
The emphatic pronouncement |
also said that the government
would introduce a bill making it
illegal to carry arms to Spain
in British Ships.
It seems that there are two es
sential conditions to a modern
state. First, it must have a strong
and compact political organiza.
tion—one where there is good
communication between “its head
and tail,” coordination and close
junction between its limbs and
body. Second, it must be an or_
ganization which is strong and
sound both within and without.
It must have healthy blood cir
cuation in the shape of taxes, also
well developed muscles. The
more taxes that are collected, the
more successful the organization
will be.
“ir ORIGINATO
KEEP IN T(
(By The Associated Press)
“. .‘It’—that rare gift of the
Gods! . .
. • To have ‘it’, the fortun.
ate possessor must have that
strange magnetism which attracts
both sexes. He or she must be
entirely unselfconscious and full
of self.confidence, indifferent to
the effect he or she is producing,
and uninfluenced by others. There
REBEL AIR RAIDERS
DROPPED BOMBS ON
MINISTRY WAR BLDG
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Nov. 23, — Insurgent air raiders drop
ped several bombs early today on ministry of war build
ingin the heart of the city. One of them fell in the patio
of the buildine which is the headquarters for the em
ergency defense council, and several others fell in the
central district, in a renewal of air assaults which were
suspended for the past three days.
Charges that two unnamed foreign submarines at
tacked the government warships Cervantes and Men
dez Munea, in Cartagena harbor yesterday morning,
were made by the ministry of air and navy in Valen
cia. The report declared that the Cervantes was dam
aged—“at least two of several submarines certainly
must have belonged to s foreign Te^t.”
Flood Waters In
Brit. Columbia
Have Receded
(By The Associated Press)
PRINCE RUPERT, Nov. 23, —
Rapidly receding waters of the
Skeena River near here, raised
hopes today that flood conditions
in northern British Columbia are
nearing normal.
The Canadian National Railroad
expected to resume services be.
tween here and Alberta some time
today. The bridge at Salvus was
reported washed out, about 65
miles east of here.
SMILES
Kept His Word? Anyhow
Mrs. Pester—“Well, you mar
ried me after boasting that you
wouldn’t marry the best woman
in the world.”
Her Husband—“And I didn’t.
I know lots of better ones.”
Armor Smith—Sire, I have
come to collect for that last suit
of armor.
Duke of Durham—Odds Bod.
R DOESN’T
)UCH ANYMORE
must be physical attraction, but
beauty is unnecessary. Conceit
or self-consciousness destroys ‘it’
immediately. In the animal wor.
Id ‘it’ is demonstrated in tigers
and cats—both animals being fas
cinating and mysterious, and
quite unibiddable.” —From “It”
by Elinor Gyn.
LONDON, Nov. 23, — Elinor
Army Men Will
Get Schooling
General School
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 23,
—The War Department today an
nounced that Captain Lawrence
Castner in charge of the infantry
at Chilkoot Barracks and Captain
Dale Mason of the Signal Corps
at Anchorage, had been selected
as students for schooling at the
General Staff Command School
at Fort Leavenworth, for the
1937-38 course.
How to prevent tuberculosis is
a part of the campaign financed
by the annual sale of Christmas
Seals.
kins, knave! How did you get
across the moat and into my cast,
le?
Amor Smith—’Twas easy sire. I
caught the gate guard with his
bridges down.
Poet—Are you the man whos
cut my hair last time?
Barber—I don’t think so sir.
I’ve only been here six months.
Gyn^ who made “it” a household
word, isn’t interested in it any
more.
She has lost touch with modern
youth, she says—and after eight
years’ absence from America, she
has almost forgotten what “it”
is all about.
The “flaming youth” she made
famous seemingly is giving way
to sensibility, she said, but “it”
will take time.
Sitting on a 200_year-old chair
in her ornate, gold decorated liv_
(Continued on Page Three)
Oiie Dead Many
Hurl & Missing
Slides in Juneau
fBv The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Nov. 23—One woman
dead, seven persons known to be
missing and nine others in the
hospital with injuries as a result
of two destructive avalanches
which roared down the mountain
side here yesterday and buried
apartments and stores under tons
of mud.
The dead woman is Mrs. Gus
Erickson whose body was found
crushed behind the stove of her
frame home; her husband is in
the hospital, crushed and injured
internally.
The injured are Mrs. William
Lott, negress who was found
partly crushed by the piano in
her demolished house.
Alfred Bates,had his side pierc
ed with a board.
August Maki, suffered a broken
ankle.
Mrs. H. Lee, negress, suffered
a broken leg.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Perrson
and their children, were bruised
and shocked.
Gail Allen of the Cutter Talla_
poosa, was also bruised and
shocked.
At an earlier hour Fire Chief V.
W. Mulvihill placed the missing
at from five to twenty-five.
When the big slide struck, c:ti
zens, army men and firemen
rushed to the scene immediately
and set about the task of remov
ing the oozing mud and broken
timbers and jagged rocks which
engulfed two apartment houses,
a lodging house, the Peterson
Store and several small frame
houses.
The heavy rains ceased during
the night—the power lines hav.
ing been wiped out, fire trucks
and automobiles trained their
headlights on the slide while will
ing workers delved into the de
bris.
The second slide was the worst
>
cutting a one hundred foot swath
through the district in the vicin.
ity of Gastineau Avenue and Ew
ing Street, The cut ranged from
ten to forty feet deep and stopped
just short of the Juneau Cold
Storage Warehouse.
In every city there seems to be
people who think they know it
all, who can tell you with a
knowing wink just what should
be done for the betterment of the
Home city and how the other fel_
laws should spend their time and
money. The only thing they are
free with is advice. j
HOPE DWINDLING
CHARTER VESSELS
ALASKA SERVICE
(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 23 —
J
Hope dwindled today for the em
ergency operation of vessels to
relieve possible distress in Alaska.
’ The Pacific Coast committee for
the shipowners announced that
Col. Oh Ison of the Alaska Rail,
road was refused union person
nel to man ships so long as they
were operated by firms represent
cd on the coast. The committee
said the apparent alternative re
maining is that the government
| could charter vessels and hire
crews under the name of the
government.
Union heads have not yet an.
Commission To
Set Substitute
Mail Contr aefs
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D, C. Nov. 23.
J
—The Maritime Commission is
moving rapidly to operate the
new administrative machinery to
substitute the multi.million dol_
lar ship subsidy program, for the
present system of mai: detracts,
worth about thirty-three million
dollars annually, which must
terminate by June 30th. 1937.
The substitute subsidies funds
will be taken from a hundred m;l_
lion dollar fund for such chang.
es.
Newspaper advertising
will develop new business
for you.
swered Ohlson’s request fur their
attitude toward the latter propos
ition.
Colonel Ohl.'-on indicated he
might go to Seattle to seek ves
sel fur charter.
The committee statement said
that Ohlson had advised them
that the government had offered
to employ members of the mari_
time unions to man ships, under
the same conditions prevailing
at the time the strike was called,
also a further agreement on the
part of the government to give
the crews retroactive benefits in.
the event of any future agree
ment, but the unions declined.
“He also advised the commit,
tee that the unions had refused
to man any vessels owned and
operated by steamship l ues re
presented by the committee”,
the statement read.
Under these circumstances, the
committee indicated, it was im_
possible for the committee to
take any action.
In Y cry Serious
Condition After
Jump Into Lake
£
' P,v The Associated Prpss)
SEATTLE \ • ° - Mrs.
He 1 n it ' . a hospital
het • su ! i :-m1 i.s a serious
condition today.
She leap- 1 f tr the Aurora
Bridge in*.- Lake Union S turday
night.
NATIONAL GRANGE
HAS 13 POINT PRO
GRAM _NEXT YEAR
(By The Associated Press)
COL.UMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 23, — The National
Grange today announced a thirteen point platform for
next year, including sound farmer controlled soil con
servation programs, federal crop insurance, a tariff
designed to safeguard American markets, a sound cur
rency, continued aid for agricultural extension, coop
erative rural credit systems, a rural rehabilitation pro
gram, cheap transportation system, extension of rural
electrification, taxation of all incomes, support of buy
ing and selling cooperatives, nationalization of the mun
itions industry, efficiency and economy in government.
The platform represents the opinions of the delegates
to the convention which was held here during the past
week, and which adjourned Sunday.