Mexican Gov’t.
Is Thinking Of
Underprivilege
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boiling. It is an old Yankee trick
to report to the tax assessor that
a farm is worth for taxation only
a small part of its real value. It
has worked for years in every
state in the union and was brot
near to perfection in many places
in Mexico. Large landed estates
were valued by their owners for
tax purposes at only a fragment
of their true worth.
Very well, says Cardenas, that
is what we will pay when we
take them over.
Perhaps even that harsh treat
ment might have been passed ov
er without state department in
tercession if it were not that the
Mexican government is paying
the American land owners in
Mexican bonds of a type which
have no great immediate value,
instead of hard cash.
Mexico s Supreme court
Foreign land owners used to
have recourse to Mexican courts
but Cardenas performed an oper
ation on Mexico’s supreme court
that makes the Roosevelt court
plan seam as impotent as day-old
beer.
Terms of the justices were lim
ited to six years and they have
to run for office'right along with
the president. So effective was
the change that the court soon
agreed to cooperate with the ad
ministration’s social betterment
program. It exhibited the style
of its cooperation by refusing to
hear a test case of the constitu
tionality of the seize-and-divide
law.
The state department is talking
very frankly behind the scenes
with Mexican officials to remind
them that the “good neighbor”
policy must work both ways. But
frankness—not fury—character
izes the representations.
FOR SALE-Medium sized
Superfex oil heater, first class
condition. Inquire at the Nugget
Office. Price reasonable. 12-7
Services Sun., 19th
Next Sunday at the Federated
Church Christmas will be observ
ed. In the morning at 11 o’clock
the church school will present
the Christmas story in pageant
form. All are invited to attend.
Everyone w'ho cares to is invited
to participate by bringing a gift
wrapped in any attractive paper,
the gifts to be sent to Pilgrim
Hot Srings for the children there.
Please mark packages for boy or
girl.
“SOURDOUGH”
j STATIONERY
That unique and humorous*
and typical Alaskan stationery—
"Sourdough Roadhouse Letter
heads and Envelopes", have been
brought strictly uptodate, and are
now available at the Nugget offi
ce.
Write to your friends and re’.a-,
tives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour- j
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
I
BASEBALL LEAGUES SPLIT
OVER LIVELY BALL
—
CHICAGO. Dec. 16—Officials of
the two major baseball leagues
meeting in Chicago split over the
lively ball issue. The American
L aigue voted to retain the lively
ball. The National League de
cided to use^the deader ball.
89,965 RATS KILLED
BELTON, Texas, Dec. 15 (y!P)—
Children near Belton, killed 80,
965 rats in less than two months
in a country-wide extermination
congest. W. J. Williams led the
boys with 7,792 rats killed with
a .22 rifle. Helen Craft killed
1,683 to win the girls’ grand prize
FOX FARM VALUE
PUT AT S50.000.00
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 15
—Fifty thousand dollar damages
were awarded by the United Sta
tes court of claims in Washington
to Duke Stubbs and Elizabeth
Stubbs as reimbursement for the
loss of their silver fox farm in
1932 when it was included in an
area taken over by the National
Park Service for enlargement of
Mount McKinley National Park.
Evidence as to the loss exper- J
ienced by the farm owners was
taken at hearings held a few j
years ago in Fairbanks.
I
GRADES OF COAL
GIVEN CLASSIFICATION
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Initial
classifications on the grades and
sizes of soft coal produced in the
Western states and Alaska were
established by the Soft Coal Com
mission, meeting in Washington.
This action is preliminary to
the establishment of minimum
prices.,
GIVE THE MOST PERFECT
GIFT OF ALL !!
Choose from the wide selection of gifts from
HAGEN’S and give with the knowledge that
no gift could be finer. Quality jewelry, lovely
and attractive, will continue to give pleasure
for years to come . . . and HAGEN’S low
prices make it easy to give freely!
OUR CHRISTMAS STOCK HAS
MANY SUGGESTIONS FOR YOU
Distinctive gifts, in good taste and
designed in pleasing style will be
a constant reminder of your thought
fulness.
HAG
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Nome, Alaska.
Community Christmas
Tree Celebration
Thursday, December 23rd, 1937.
Benefit Baseball Games—
Wed. Dec. 15th
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CHEER AT XMAS
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Here is one of the many
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at my Salon.—Watch This
space for future announce
ments.
PHYLLIS’ BEAUTY SALON
Licensed Operator
Located Over Polet’s Branch Store on Front Street
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