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VOL. 38 No. 78 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY APRIL 5, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
Navy War Maneuvers Start Soon
Land Set Aside Near Fairbanks Army Air Base
LARGEST CROWD YEAR ATTENDED FAIR
WINDUP FAIR WAS
GALA OCCASION IN
NOME SATURDAY
The Fair is over, following a
•week of hectic preparation and
activity which looked good to
Nomeiites at this season of the
year. Exhibits have been judged
and awards are to be made. All
That remains is to describe the
gala windup of the Fair which
took place Saturday night, before
The largest crowd ever assembled
,n the new school auditorium.
When the curtain was raised
for the opening of the program
Saturday evening, ine aduuoriuin
was overflowing. L. E. Rynning,
a director of the NWA Fair Asso..
was introduced as Master of Cer
emonies for the evening, and in a
»h*rt address thanked everyone
for the interest they had taken
in making the Fair a success, and
the Superintendents and their as
sistants for their untiring efforts
to make the displays attractive,
and the success they had attain
ed.
He then spoke of Nome’s suc
cess in having Miss Marguerite
Lee elected Queen of Alaska, af
Ter her selection as Queen of the
Trail for the Nome Kennel Club.
The curtain was raised to dis
cover Miss Alaska surrounded toy
her Princesses, the Misses Ger
trude Johansen, Dorothy Nelson,
Eileen Stangroom, Geraldine
Rude, Jeanne Mozee. Rita O'
Leary. Borgney Ulricksen and
Ada Baldwin, all beautifully
gowned.
Queen Marguerite was resplen
: dent in a custard-colored gown,
1 which she wore when she was sel
I ected as Miss Alaska at the Fair
banks Ice Carnival.
As she paraded across the stage
in her striking blond beauty, ti
was easy to see why she won at
i Fairbanks, and against the back
ground of youthful beauty of her
Court, it was a scene to be long
remembered.
The various acts attendant to
her crowning and the presenta
tion of the Miss Alaska Banner,
all lent to the pageantry of the
'occasion and made a colorful pic
ture.
The dancing of the Cherubs
was right in keeping with the
pictured plan. One might have
fancied themselves in Erin and
witnessing a dance of The Little
People Among the Flowers.
Car! Wourinen with his ven
triloquist act had the audience
with him from the start. His
gags all met with a hearty laugh.
The Cowboy stunt showed an
other source of entertainment
possible for next winter and gave
pleasure to the audience.
Carl Hansen is a master on the
accordion. If anyone had any
doubts all one had to do was to
listen to the applause at the con
clusion of his performance. Nome
is to bp congratulated on having
a performer of his calibre to en
tertain us.
The Master of Ceremonies then
(Continued on Page Three)
STRIKERS CHAIN SEI.VES
8:.ac!:,ii-.3 themselves in the cellar of a block-long Bronx apmtment
houe.-. t..ese New York building service workers are shown digging
in” for a long stay, if necessary, to win their demands in a * *" •
A policeman ie shown taking their names. (Aeeociated Prees Pno >
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U. S. Navy To
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Maneuver Soon
Alaskan Waters
(By The Associated ^ress)
SAN PEDRO. April 5. —Defen
se of Hawaii and Alaska, and
'tests of new vest-pocket cruis
ers and new submarines, will
feature the U. S. Navy’s annual
war games, starting within the
next two weeks.
They will be marked by new
tactics of strategy which will re
main secret.
Between April 16th and May
28th. the fleet will move into
the trackless wastes of five mil
lion square miles of ocean be
tween Alaska, Hawaii and Cal
ifornia to tests all their units—
one hundred and thirty nine ships
of the fleet and four hundred and
seventy four fighting aircraft.
The newest and fastest 1500 ton
destroyers, or vest pocket cruis
ers. will move in two divisions
into Aleutian Island waters,
where, in the wallowing season
of ttiis Arctic weather factory
for the world, they will have
real sea problems, .including no
directional compass, no radio
beams for aircraft and no light
houses—the ocean in the raw.
During the maneuvers a twel
ve plane squadron will fly from
San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Haw
aii, in the second mass ferry
flight to be made to the islands.
Another small force of the
navy including a battleship divi
sion of light cruisers and new
destroyers will shape their cour
se for the Aleutians while the re
mainder of the fleet will engage
in tactical exercises moving to
ward the Hawiian Island of Oahu.
Navy department officials dis
closed the development of a “ra
dio spy” by which enemy war
ships can be located or tracked
long distances at sea. It was in
dicated it would be used in the
Alaska-Hawaii maneuvers,
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Saloons Opened
Montana Today
Permit of State
(By The Associated Press)
HELENA. Montana, April 5
iTwro hundred Montana saloons
opened today for the first time
since pre-prohibition days.
The opening was permitted by
act of the legislature. The saloons
will be subject to strict supervis
ion and will bring to the state
a million dollars in revenue thru
I licenses and taxes.
I
j RESOJF.n FROM FLOODED HOME
> •' i • • i >. V’ i). i wU u s i < w i • v/. i * o t . i • t.i n i -
ties and homes in some districts had to be evacuated. Little Marlene
Harris. 6. appeared to enjoy the boat ride she got when William Lin
foot took her from the danger area. (Associated Press Photo)
Congress To Be
In Session Late
Coming Summer
(By The Associated Press t
WASHINGTON D C April 5—
Congress started its fourth mon
th of work, facing major pro
blems which will necessitate a
late summer session. ,
Each house has passed a score
of important bills, but the court
reorganization bill, the key to
the legislative situation, is enough
in itself to require a summer
session.
Other important bills awaiting
action are: the farm tenancy
measure, relief, wage and hour
legislation, government reorgan
ization, and taxes.
Bills passed and sent to the
White House include Spanish neu
trality, extensions of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation
and reciprocal trade law, the fif
ty million dollar seed and feed
loan bill, the billion dollar defi
ciency appropriation, twenty mil
lion dollar disaster loan to cor
porations, voluntary retirement
iof supreme court justices, and the
Mellon art gallery bill.
SEIZED BOMBS
(By The Associated Press 1
MADRID, April 5, — Wartime
i police seized a store of bombs
and arms in one of the capital’s
principal market places today it
was announced, breaking up a plot
to convert the market and a
nearby hotel into a Fascist fort
ress.
Epidemic Over
Bethel Section
Seven Are Dead
CBv The Associated Press)
BETHEI,, Alaska, April 5, —
The quarantine against the epi
demic of spinal meningitis in
the Bethel area on the Kusko
kwim river, was lifted, after sev
en native children had died in
four separate villages.
Dr. Otto George of the Bureau
of Indian Affairs said that eight
other cases are responding to ser;
urn treatments.
In stemming the epidemic. Dr.
George made three hundred and
eighty mile trips by dog team for
serum and food for the natives.
He said this was the first time
there had been positive diagnos
is of an epidemic of meningitis
in this distrct, although he be
lieved some deaths from it oc
curred each spring for the pasit
several years.
Miss Alaska Has
Been Invited To
Bridge Opening
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fBy The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5—
Miss Marguerite Lee of Nome,
chosen Miss Alaska, has been
invited to participate with the
queens from California and Ore
gon, in the Golden Gate Bridge
opening festivities which are to
take place May 27th to June 2nd.
Land Set Aside
Near Fairbanks
By Roosevelt
(Hy The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON D C April 5,—
President Roosevelt set aside nine
hundred and sixty acres of
ground near Fairbanks as a pro
>pective site for the U. S. Army
'•s proposed ten million dollar
iir base there.
The executive order prohibits
settlers from entering the area
It was said that the land is being
‘reserved for use of the War De
partment for military purposes."
Army sources however described
the site as a possible location of
the new base.
Other army sources declared
the land was withdrawn as a pre
uaution against settlers entering
:he area and possibly interfering
with or delaying the iina! deci
iion to locate the base there.
Delegate Dimond said: "There is
no question in my mind that,
what this reservation is made
with the idea of finally locating
the government airport on this
site."
He said that while the bureau
of the budget failed to submit
the estimate to congress for the
initial appropriation for the base,
he expected to go before the
house appropriations subcommit
tee soon to ask for two million
dollars to start construction.
Five sections of land were cov
ered by the President’s order
Dimond stated they were "not
more than eight nules from Fair
banks.
Hop es For Full
Settlement Next
Few Days Mich.
CBy The Associated Press)
LANSING. Michigan. April 5—
Governor Frank Murphy steered
the Chrysler strike conference to
ward settlement, and was confi
dent the entire automobile labor
controversy would be cleared, he
said, within a couple of days.
He said he would attempt to
place ten thousand Hudson and
two thousand Reo employees back
to work at once. Seventy thous
and Chrysler employees are idle.
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