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VOL. 38. No. 190. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. JUNE 18, 1937 Per Copy 10ct3
Moscow---Frisco Non-Stop Hop On
BILL PROTECT ALASKA FISH IS PROPOSED
Soviet Airplane Crossed Pole—Due Sunday Noon
PROPOSED MEASURE
ESTABLISH POLICIES
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 13—Delegate from Al
aska, Anthony J. Dimond, yesterday, proposed that
Congress make Uncle Sam legal guardian of all salmon
^pawned and hatched in Alaska waters, when he intro
duced a bill which would set forth the policy of Con
gress as one, of protecting and preserving the salmon
fisheries, and also “to prevent the depletion thereof, by
illicit fishing operations carried on in waters adjacent
to the coast of Alaska.”
Delegate Dimond also asked Congress to modify the
Federal tax statutes as they affect power plants in the
territory, and introduced a bill to repeal the present
.aw taxing power plants operating for profit, to three
hundred dollars regardless of size. The measure would
fix a graduated tax scale, ranging from ten dollars on
the first four thoujfhnd gross annual income up to 'five
hundred dollars on companies grossing one hundred
thousand dollars annually.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ J une 18—Northwest con
gressmen followed up recent protests against Japanese
invasion of the North Pacific and Bering Sea fisheries
with legislative proposals to make Alaska born salmon
government property, after Delegate Dimond handed
the proposed legislation to congress, which would be:
(1) . To declare by Congress a policy of protecting and
preserving the fisheries by preventing its depletion.
(2) . To prohibit salmon fishing except by permit. (3)
To extend United States jurisdiction 12 miles seaward.
(4) The enforcement of the law to be placed in the
hands of the Coast Guard and U. S. marshals.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 18—Delegate A. J.
Dimond left here last night for Boise, Idaho, to attend
conferences of the Northwest Aviation Planning Coun
cil, but is expected to return to Washington Monday.
Basque Government Moves Elsewhere:
German Fliers Massacre Women Folks
(By The Associated Press)
BAYONNE, France, June 18—An official Basque
delegation announced that the Basque republic’s govern
ment left Bilbao’s besieged capital, for another point in
Basque territory, the location of which is held secret.
Official dispatches from Bilbao said: “Battlefields
are strewn with dead and dying, the cries of wounded
can be heard over the rattle of machine gun fire; one
hundred and fifty thousand people have evacuated to
Santander land by the sea, in the past 48 hours. Some
refugee ships were stopped by rebel warships and at
least one was sunk with a loss of many lives. The Ger
man aviation unit, not content with bombarding cities,
are still trying to prevent the evacuation. Pursuit
planes flying low after dropping bombs massacred an
immense caravan of women and children with their!
machine guns last night in pitch darkness, and present-;
ed a frightful spectacle the screams and terror of pain, j
people dying along the roads which are covered with j
torn bodies of women and children and their scattered
baggage.”
VALENCIA, Spain, June 18—Defense Ministry an
nounced that 18 sailors were killed and more than one
hundred wounded by an internal explosion aboard the
government’s battleship Jamie, which was drydocked
at Cartegena. The cause was undetermined.
They Spent $10,000 in Nickels to Cross Bridge
'i official count of pedestrians crossing the tiol Ion (iate bridge during the first 12 hours utter it
V. opened was 202,Win. fiach man, woman anti child who totik ;» walk on the great span paid a
ivekel! making the total count of nickels approximately SlO.JflO. The coin boxes broke down and
buckets had to he substituted (» hold the cash. This picture, taken front one of the towers, gives a
t general view of the crowds on the span.
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Golden Gate Fiesta
Bridge Opening
Was Big Affair
SAN FRANCISCO—This west
coast city planned and carried out
the most elaborate and spectacu
lar Fiesta ever held in the West
to celebrate the completion and
opening of the $35,000,000 bridge
across its famous Golden Gate.
Comparable in its own field to
the great bridge it celebrated, the
Fiesta was a gigantic community
celebration lasting from May 27
to June 2nd, in which Canada,
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Woman Pleaded Guilty Second Degree
Murder After State Rested its Case
(By The Associated Press)
RIVERHEAD, N. Y., June 18—Mrs. Helen Tiernan,
aged 28, brought here for trial in connection with the!
slaying of her daughter aged seven, came to an abrupt i
end, by pleading guilty to second degree murder after j
the State rested its case. Mrs. Tiernan, it will be re-,
called, slew her daughter and tried to kill her son, be
cause they crowded the apartment which she wanted
to share with her boy-friend.
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(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 18—The grand jury
declined to indict David Ross, a Chicago film salesman,
accused by Patricia Douglas of beating and attacking
her at the screen salesman’s party, which Ross denied.
MOSCOW
T() FRISCO
FLIGHT ON
Radio Communication Is
Being Maintained At
All Times
Stalin Applauds
Receiving constant reports of the
progress of the Soviet Moscow
San Francisco plane. Thief Sov
iet Josef Stalin ha> the utmost
confidence the flight will he en
tirely successful as he applauds
news that the fliers have passed
the North Pole.
(By The Associated Press)
EDMONTON, June 18. Sov
iet fliers Vuler; Chkalov, George
Baiducov and Beliakov mok off
from Moscow at 2 a.m Greenwich
time, 6 p.m. Thursday night Paci
fic Standard Time on a nonstop
flight to San Francisco, Major
J E Genet officer in charge of
the Royal Canadian Corps of
Signal Stations, said today.
He was informed of the
takeoff both by Director Patter
son, Dominion meteorological bur
eau director in Toronto, and the
Soviet agent in Seattle.
San Francisco, June 18, — A
message saying: "We are three
hours from the N >rth Pole, fly
ing nicely", was received here by
Gokhman from the three Soviet
airmen enroute from Moscow to
San Francisco. They expect to
land at Oakland between mid
night Saturday, and noon Sunday.
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