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VOLUME 35. No. 128. NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1934 Per Copy: 10 Cents.
Huge Russian Army Offered France
ENFORCEMENT NEW DEAL CODE FOR NR A
Sick Woman With “Rainbow” Skin Puzzles Doctors
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FLATLY REFUSE
ALLOW JAPS TO
HAVE EQUALITY
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Nov. 23 — The British
and American delegations to the
preliminary naval conferences ag
reed to insist on a continuance of
the principles of the Washington
Naval Treaty of 1922.
Representatives of the United Stat
es and Great Britain decided to ask
the Japanese for further explana
tions of why the Asiatic Island Em
pire thinks it should have as large a
navy as either the United States or
Great Britain.
Both Anglo-Saxons and brother
delegations, made it clear that they
did not have any intentions whatso
ever of granting the Japs the ton
nage equality which” she demands.
HAS “RAINBOW”
SKIN DOCTORS
PUZZLED CAUSE
(By The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 22 — Mrs.
Edith Perry, aged thirty-two, whose
“rainbow skin” has puzzled physic
ians, turned brown six days ago
when she entered a hospital.
Her skin was light blue, then
changed to purple, claret, red and
brown. The last two changes were
accompanied by a scaling of the
skin. She was described as very
ill.
Several physicians are in attend
ance, attempting to discover the un
usual activity of the color pigments.
Todate they have no inkling whatso
ever of its cause and effect.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 22 — Al
though physicians said they were
working on the theory that the ail
ment was “a drug rash,” she said
she could not recall ever having
taken any drugs.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 23 — Mrs.
Edith Perry, the “Rainbow woman”
continued to change color, being
red again, but her condition was re
ported as considerably improved.
PLAYWRIGHT
DEAD AFTER
OPERATION
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(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Nov. 23 — Sir Arthur
Pinero, aged seventy-nine, world 1
famous playwright, died at a nurs
ing home here, following an opera
tion.
ENFORCEMENT OF CODE
FOR NEW DEAL WILL BE
MADE THRU 10 OFFICES
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(By The Assoeiated Press) »
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — New Deal Code enforce
ment was promised the NRA thru the immediate decentral
ization of compliance machinery into ten powerful regional
offices, authorized to remove Blue Eagles and to carry on
direct court prosecutions.
This move represented another advancement in code
police plans, which began with the appointment of G. A.
Stanleigh Arnold as Special Assistant to Attorney General
Cummings, to be in charge of National Recovery Adminis
tration cases.
The new scheme empowers the regional compliance
director to adjust cases.Those cases failing of adjustment
are to be referred to the council headed by the NRA litiga
tion attorney, and having two other members—one for in
dustry and one for labor.
Regional councils are to have full power over cases
dealing with wages, labor and hours. They may refer such
cases directly to the district attorney and bring about court
action without going to Washington. Collective bargain
ing cases will remain as they were before, with labor rela
tions boards. - The regional councils are also to interest
themselves in trade practice cases.
One of the objects of the new organization is to exped
ite compliance and keep such cases from cluttering up the
courts. One official said “the NRA does not want to clog
the courts, as prohibition did.”
P. A. A. TO BUILD
AT JUNEAU BIG
AIRPORT DEPOT
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Nov. 21 — Lyman S.
Peck, Vice President of the PAA,
and General Manager of the Pacific
Alaska Airways, announced today,
the purchase of seventy-flye acres
of land on Mendenhall Flats, for the
development of an airport, which
plans call for the construction of
t^|o runways and hangars.
Construction work is to start next
week and be completed in the early
spring, when service will be inau
gurated from Juneau to Fairbanks
with new Lockheed Electras, two
motor, ten passenger planes.
^Landing fields between Juneau
and Fairbanks with radio communi
zation stations will be established
zarly in the spring.
The PAA Airport is near where
the Army bombers landed during
the Alaska cruise this past summer.
Peck also confirmed the purchase
>f the Alaska Southern Airways by
:he Pacific Alaska Airways.
Write in or drop in to the Nugget
Dfflce with your classified advertise
nents. If you want to find; sell or
»uy anything, use the advertising
zolumns of the Nome Daily Nugget;
they are read by everyone.
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OYSTERS FROM
ALASKA SHOWN
LOCAL MARKET
(By The Associated Press)
KETCHIKAN —The Alaska Fish
ing News says: J. J. Zerbetz of tlje
Central Market this week showed
in his window some oysters in the
shell caught near Ketchikan. For
several years now oySters have
been taken in this vicinity. While
planted, usually they have been
kept pretty well cleaned out by peo
pie having local knowledge of
where they grow. So far as known
there is no law in Alaska to protect
spayning oyster beds. Before such
an industry can be made to thrive
it is'said it will be necessary to ex
tend some kind of protection to
those interested enough to try and
raise them for the market.
WITHDRAWS 320
ACRES IN SALE
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LAND ALASKA
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — Presi
dent Roosevelt withdrew 320 acres
in Alaska from the settlement of a
location sale entry pending legisla
tion, described as Seward Meridian
T 66 Sr. 13 W Section 16 E half.
HUNGARY WILL
PRESS HEARING
FULL CHARGES
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Nov. 23 — Hungary is
to press the League of Nations for
a speedy airing of the Yugoslavia
charges, that she was guilty of “com
plicity” in the Marseilles assassina
tions.
“We desire the question be treat
ed immediately,” said Tibor Eck
hart, Hungary’s delegate to the Lea
gue.
“I protest against these felonies
which I characterize as acts of in
ternational terrorism,” said the Hun
garian delegate. He stated that the
object of the Yugoslavia note was
to ruin the moral integrity of Hun
gary.
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FRANCE PLANS
SHOCKTROOPS
AS “STOPGAPS”
PARIS, Nov — A speedier and a
bigger professional army will be
France’s contribution next year to
the military forces of Europe.
A body of shock troops, highly
trained and lightning fast with com
pletely motorized equipment, is en
visaged by the general staff. Able to
move at a moment's notice, it would
be used to plug up the few remain
ing holes in France’s frontier de
fenses until her reserve army could
be made ready for battle.
In order to test the capabilities of
reserves to do such work, the gen
eral staff called out a complete div
ision of conscripts for the first time
in France’s peacetime history. *
The division, 9,000 strong, was pit
ted against seasoned regulars in a
series of maneuvers along the Ger
man border. The conscripts were
commanded entirely by reserve of
ficers and non-coms, as would be
the case in war.
Unprepared For Rigors
Two weeks of exhausting maneu
vers convinced the general staff
that, however excellent the reserves
morale, they were physically and
mentally unprepared to cope with
veteran professional troops.
Stressing the fact that it is often
the first battle that decides the out
come of a war, military observers
decided reserves are incapable of
taking the offensive without a
month or more of training.
“They can kill but they can’t con
quer,’’ was the remark made by one
observer.
Approaches Legal Limit
’ Next year France will have 174,
000 professoinal soldiers and 258,
000 conscripts on the war depart
ment’s rolls. This year there were
162,000 professionals and 263,000
conscripts. In addition, there must
be counted a number of colonial
troops paid and recruited by the col
onies themselves and nearly 50,000
members of the guard mobile, a sort
of federal police.
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FRANCE SAYS RUSSIA
OFFERED HUGE ARMY
EVENT WAR GERMANY
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Nov. 23 — A budget reporter informed the
French Parliament that Russia had offered France its huge
army in the event of any conflict with Germany.
Although government officials termed his description of
the affair: “Exaggerated,” such an offer rwas announced by
Leon Archimbaud, reporter for the finance committee, in
presenting France’s war budget to the legislature.
Officials said that the relationship between France and
Russia was growing steadily closer, but:
“There have been no military agreements.” They said
it would take ten years more before the pre-war French and
Russians relations could be revived.
Archimbaud said “Russia has a strong well equipped
army which she offers us in case of a conflict with Germany.
Russia gave us the first warning that Hitler’s Reich was not
observing the Versailles Treaty, and an understanding has
been arranged between us. ” " _'
PLANE TURNS
OVER SEWARD
LANDING FIELD
Making a forced landing immediat
ely after taking off from the local
airport, recently, the plane of Dr. j
Vance B. Murray, of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, contacted with the
recently built runway and overturn
ed, breaking ribs of the ship. Dr.;
IV^urray escaped unhurt, says the .Se
ward Gateway of October 30.
The doctor had that morning step
ped off the MS North Star en route
from Kotzebue, and the intent to
fly the plane to Anchorage for win
ter storage and to return on the
train for'passage to the outside on
the same ship. He will now ship
the plane out on the North Star to
be repaired.
The accident, the first to occur af
ter a long flight from the States and
over the territory, was the result
of a necessitated landing because of
a vibration that was felt after rising
from the ground, which Dr. Murray
at the controls, was unable to de
fine.
DEPARTMENT
LABOR SAYS IS
BIG INCREASE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 — The
Department pf Labor reported an
increase of two hundred and eighty
thousand workers in- industry dur
ing October, while weekly payrolls
jumped, eleven million, three hun-'
ired thousand dollars, as compared
with September.
FOE SALE—Five dogs, heavy
draft, broke to work. Inquire at
Nugget Office.
KUSKO TIMES
IN FIELD ONCE
MORE—IS NEW
—Publication of the Kusko Times at—
Takotna, Alaska, has been resumed
by G. V. Rosander, and the first is
sues of the new weekly have been
received in Anchorage. A. X._ Grant
former editor of the paper, left Al
aska a few months ago, and dispos
ed of his intere:' ‘ ” Rosander,
a placer miner country.
Mr. Rosander came to the Territory
two years ago from New Hampshire
According to the present manager
of the Kusko Times, the paper was
originally printed at McGrath, type
being hand set. Later, Mr. Grant
transported his printing equipment
by dog team from Ruby, and in 1924
the plant was moved to Takotna the
present location. A model 5 Lino
type was purchased in 1927, which
aided in giving news to the resi
dents of the Kuskokwiin Valley.
The Times contains late news
flashes, minihg news of the Kusko
kwim country, and daily chronicles
of the doings at Ophir, McGrath,
Flat and Takotna. Mrs. B. J. Boyd
assists Mr. Rosander with the four
page publication.
EXPANSION IN
BUYING GOING
ON UNCHECKED
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK* Nov. 23 — A vig
jrous expansion in consumer buy
ng.says Dun Bradstreet Weekly Re
iriew, proceeded unchecked and
‘has now gained sufficient moment
am to render it immune to the va
gueness of weather.”