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Volume 36. Number 152. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Only 6 Of Families Want To Return
LUMBER OPERATORS ARE REOPENING MILLS
International Longshoremen’s Asso. Is Taking A Ballot
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Lumber Operators >
Disregard Outside
Influence in Strike
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Lumber Men Disregarding
Mediators and Outside In
fluence Lumber Strike
ARE ON GUARD
More Mills Planning Open
Non-Union Labor: Guards
On Watchful Lookout
(By The Associated Press)
PORTLAND, June 28, —Lumber
operators continued to spurn med
iators and outside influences, as they
sought to end the lumber strike
by operating their mills with non
union help.
City, county and state officers are
alert, both here and in Tacoma to
stamp out isolated acts of intimida
tion and violence.
In Tacoma guardsmen continued
their bayoneted vigil, as more men
are expected to be added to the
working forces of the lumber indus
try daily.
Union officials here declared that
the re-opening attempt around Ta
coma was a “fizzle”
Rumors that Everett operators are
seeking troop protection for reopen
ing, caused a tension there, with the
Labor Council voting the sanction
of a general strike if the guardsmen
are called out.
Heard Will Serve
Time In Jail May
Take Pauper Oath
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Juneau Editor Will Serve A
Sentence in Jail Maybe
Take Pauper’s Oath
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, June 28, —Neil Heard,
editor of the Labor Dispatch and
secretary of the Alaska Mine Work
ers Union, who was found guilty of
libeling Mayor Goldstein was sent
enced to pay a fine of two hundred
dollars and four months in jail, the
latter part which was suspended,
pending good behaviour. He chang
ed his mind and has decided to serve
out the fine in the federal. He en
tered the jail last night and at the
end of thirty days may take the
pauper’s oath as provided by law
and escape serving the full hundred
days.
BASEBALL SCORES
(By The Associated Press)
Games today—American:
Washington 5 New York 15
Boston 2 Philadelphia 14
Detroit 9 Chicago 5
National:
Philadelphia 18 Boston 11 I
Introduces Bill to
Appropriate Sum
Alaska Education
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Washington Senator Wants
Bill Apply Alaska And
Thirty-five Thousand
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, June 28, Senator
Schwellenbach, democrat of ths
state of Washington introduced a
bill in the senate today to extend
the laws relating to vocational edu
cation and civilian rehabilitation to
Alaska.
The bill would authorize the an
nual appropriation of thirty thous
and dollars for vocational education
and five thousand dollars for voca
tional rehabilitation in the territory.
Schwellenbach also introduced a
bill to authorize Anchorage to con
struct a municipal building and pur
chase and install a modern tele
phone exchange through the med
ium of a seventy-five thousand dol
lar bond issue. The measure would
also authorize the city to accept
grants to aid in the financing of any
public works.
Perpetual Motion
Clock Is Shown
In Tourist Town
(By The Associated Press)
COPENHAGEN, June 28, — Vis
itors this summer to the medieval
town of Orebro in central Sweden
will see displayed in the public
square, to which it is to be moved,
the famous “perpetual motion” clock
which has been going and keeping
correct time since November 1916,
without being rewound.
The clock is actuated by changes
in air pressure, but is so construct
ed that if there is no change for 12
months it will still keep going. The
works consist of seven metal boxes
The movement which these receive
from variation of atmospheric pres
sure is employed to draw up a
weight which actuates the clock’s
hands.
Never sihce the clock has been in
work has the weight been near its
lowest position.
Docket Read Today
In the U. S. District Court for the j
Second Division Territory of Al
aska, with Judge J. H. S. Morison
presiding, the regular law and mo
tion day took place this morning.
The docket was read and many
cases disposed by either by dismissal
outright, or were reported to be in
the course of settlement.
Numerous attorneys present com-1
pleted various angles of cases about I
to be brought to trial, on civil
grounds.
MATANUSKA PROJECT
SUBJECT OF CONGRESS
INVESTIGATION BEGUN
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, June 28—Matanuska, the name which
rolls freely over the tongue, also rolled freely over the press,
wires, and newspapers front pages, as the proponents and
opponents of Alaska’s famous experimental colonization
project is discussed.
In the Halls of Congress, Senator Bone of Washington,
democrat, lauded the project, in answer to the recent speech
of Senator Vanderberg, republican of Michigan, who termed
it a “crazy experiment.”
Bone praised the project as an effort to open up Alaska
as a new frontier, by sending settlers to the valley which
is “rich and fertile.” He described the controversy as
“something in the nature of a tempest in a teapot.” He dis
played pictures, in connection with his speech, of communi
ties in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin from which the
settlers had been taken, describing them as “desolate, and
abandoned villages”, in most instances.
A few minutes after Bone finished his address, in the
senate, Harry L. Hopkins selected S. R. Fuller, New York
industrialist to make an inspection of the project. Fuller is
to be accompanied North by a small technical staff'.
From Palmer came reports that only six families out of
the two hundred had asked to be returned to the states,
while the leaders of the group of twenty, forty and fifty col
onists, Ray Hemmer and Mrs. I. M. Sandvik, who had sent
in the protests, to Washington, had about-faced and declar
ed that they were going to stick with the colony.
Meanwhile there was an adjustment of prices in the
commissary store which fixed the price of supplies at Seat
tle prices plus transportation costs.
The colonists looked forward to the arrival of Eugene
Carr, ace-trouble-shooter of the Relief Administration.
Some consternation was caused when a report got abroad
that the government was going to send the families all back
to the states. One leading farmer declared that he and his
family “would go hide in the hills first.”
Kansas Associate Justice Speaks Of West
White-haired William Hutchinson, Associate Justice of
the Kansas Supreme Court merely smiled, at Topeka, as he
discussed the complaints of the Matanuska colony.
The seventy-five year old jurist came to Kansas from
Pennsylvania in 1886 and settled in sand-swept Grant Coun
ty. Between battling grass-hoppers, sand storms, and high
winds, it was an actual struggle for existence. Corn meal
was the staple diet and buffalo chips practically the only
fuel, with sod houses the only dwelling places. There were
no provisions and no medical attention except what the set
tlers could provide for themselves.
“Those settlers in Alaska today don’t really know what
hardships are”, the Associate Justice said, with a twinkle
in his eye.
Agitators At Matanuska To Be Removed
WASHINGTON, June 28—Lawrence Westbrook, as
sistant relief administrator asserted here that the difficulties
at Matanuska were caused by “agitators.”
Westbrook, who supervised the establishment of the
colony, said that the report received said that ninety per
cent of the two hundred families “were satisfied with their
lot and determined to see the project through.”
He added that Leo Jacobs superintending architect re
ported that the “ten percent of the number responsible for
the stories of unrest are being sent from the valley, and they
constituted a group of agitators, who are idlers.”
With the arrival of Eugene Carr at Palmer yesterday,
Westbrook continued “I expect an early settlement of any
real or fancied grievances which the colonists may have.”
Eden Says Peace
Is In Laps Gods
Following Tour
Eden Admits Failure Regard
Continental Peace Tour
Results Are Really Nil
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, June 28, — On the 21st
anniversary of the assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sara
jevo, Great Britain suffered a set
back in its role as peace-maker—
Captain Anthony Eden having re
turned from a continental tour
bearing the report of the avowed in
tention of Mussolini to commence
war against Ethiopia.
Eden’s only comment was “It is
on the knees of the Gods".
Diplomats today discussed four
other prospective moves on the wor
ld peace chess-board. These four
were the Eastern European pact;
the Danubian treaty; the air locar
no and land disarmament.
A Borax Mixture
Checks Fires In
Airplane Mishaps
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK June 26, —Fire re
sisting, if not fireproof, airplanes
will be the rule instead of the ex
ception through use of a new coat
ing for wings and fuselage, it was
predicted by Dr. Gordon M. Kline
of the United States Bureau of Stan
dards before the paint and varnish
division of the American Chemical
society.
Airplane cloth, doped with a boric
acid borax mixture has been found
to resist heat to the extent that gas
oline poured on it can be burned off
without damaging it, Dr. Kline said.
While prolonged exposure to heat ev
entually will ignite the material,
sufficient time will elapse to enable
persons who might be trapped in
planes to escape.
Cites Costly Destruction
The destruction of costly aircraft
because of the accidental ignition
of the flammable coverings by the
back-firing of the motor, the careless
toss of a light match or cigaret, or
the chance settling of a spark from
a nearby flue has become too gener
al an occurrence, Dr. Kline contin
ued. ,
It became apparent that the pro
blem of developing a fire resistant
doped fabric could not be solved by
the addition of nonflammable rosins
to the cellulosic dopes or by the
complete substitution of rosins for
the cellulose derivatives in the dope.
The course of this investigation
then was directed toward the pro
duciton of an airplane fabric doped
with cellulose acetate and fireproof
ed by addition of fire retarding salts,
said Dr. Kline.
Longshoremen Are
To Take Vote On
Threatening Signs
Employers San Francisco Is
sue Warning Put Long
shoremen On The Job
VOTE IS CALLED
Threat Coastwide Strike Is
Again Staring The Pacific
Coast Shipping in Face
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO June 28, —
Faced with the threat that employ
ers might cancel their working
agreement with the San Francisco
Longshoremen’s Union, Pacific coast
locals of the International Long
shoremen’s Association, planned a
referendum vote on the retention of
awards won thru arbitration after
last summer”s disastrous coast-wide
strike.
Employers here delivered an ul
timatum that they would end the
agreement with local unions unless
immediate steps were taken to put
longshoremen to work on the S. S.
Point Clear which arrived last Sat
urday from Vancouver, British Col
umbia.
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Man, 73, Quits
Young: Wife For
His Former Wife
Blighting Frost Not Unusual After
May-Decernher Union Judge Says
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, June 26 —A 73
year-old husband who flew to Calif
ornia to escape both his 29 year old
wife and his septuagenarian sweet
heart in order-that he might be with
his divorced wife had his day in
court here.
In a decision replete with poetical
figures of speech, Judge M. A. Mus
manno ordered George F. Sloan to
pay Mrs. Stella Sloan, the young
wife $25 a week support money. It
is not unusual for the phenomenon
of a May and December wedding to
be followed by a blighting frost,
the judge said. ,
Remarking that the young wife
was 17 when she married Sloan,
the judge said: “It was not the eb
ullient spirit of youth that sought
to break the bonds which thd it to
enfeebling age. Whether it was be
cause of caprice or senile Lothar
ioism, it was the patriarch who flew
from juvenility.’
The septuagenarian sweetheart
was one Mrs. Monroe, the court
said, and the divorced wife for
whom Sloan deserted his young
wife, is Mrs. Anna G. Sloan.