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VOL. 37. No. 260. NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY OCT. 31 1936 Per Copy 15cta
Strike Remain Status Quo-Monday
Roosevelts Says New Deal Is For Better America
Landon Said Household Budgets to Pay For Waste
LANDON ARGUED BUDGETS !
OF HOUSEWIVES WILL PAY j
FOR WASTES OF NEW DEAL
Republican Candidate For President
Speaking At St. Louis Tonight
For Missouri’s 15 Votes
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(By The Associated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31, — Gover
nor Alf M. Landon, republican
candidate for president, arrived
here on his “Sunflower Special”
at 8:30 a^m. today, fcm an all-day
visit, culminating, in his last maj
or address of his campaign for
the presidency tonight.
Rain which had been falling for
several days, stopped as he arriv
ed to be greeted by his wife and
daughter Peggy Anne.
He said he had drafted his last
major plea of the campaign, aim
ing to get Missouri’s fifteen elec
toral votes.
On his way west he told a Char
leston, West Virginia audience
that “household budgets must
pay for the New Deal waste and
extravagance”.
After his speech tonight, Lan
don will board his special train
for his home at Topeka, Kansas.
Air Raid Madrid
Killed Many and
Started Panics
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Oct. 31, — Stalked
by the first real terror since the
Spanish civil war began, women
and children here, shunned the
streets in the wake of an air raid
yesterday, which killed 59 and
wounded at least one hundred
and fifty persons, mostly women
and children.
The government issued a state
ment calling it an airplane raid
and denying reports which had
been circulated that bombs had
been thrown from housetops.
A load of dynamite bound for j
the front lines exploded at the
time, heightening the terror.
SEA MAMMAL WASHED UP ON
BEACH NEAR NOME DEFINED
AS KILLER WHALE BY GEIST
Dissecting of Beast And Investigation
Of Contents Of Stomach Are Main
Features In Determination
Otto Wm, Geist, of the Museum
Department of the University of
Alaska, who had been sent to
Nome by Dr. Chas. E. Bunnell,
President of the University, to ex
amine the remains of the animal
■which washed ashore on the beach
above Nome recently, in an in
terview today regarding the id
entification of the animal, stated:
“That I found it to be a killer
whale, species Orca.”
‘The identification was deter
mined conclusively the other day
when I dissected and examined
the stomach of the mammal, for
it contained the best evidences,
namely the digested and undigest
ed remnants of such warm-blood
ed sea mammals as oogruk and
various other species of hair
seals.”
“Since it is well known that of
the toothed whale species only (
the killer whale will eat warm <
blooded mammals, the identifica- ;
tion is quite final. However, the j
stomach contents will be for
warded to scientists in the states i
for the absolute determination of i
the seal species consumed by t
this animal. The entire carcass i
has been skeletonized and dissect- 1
ed, the skeleton’s parts having i
been moved high up on the tun- i
dra and covered with driftwood 1
for safe keeping until such a time
when the University will be pre
pared to remove them. Since 1
considerable flesh and oil is ad- 1
hering to the skeleton at this
time it will take from one to i
two years before it will be dry i
(Continued on Page Three)
Hoover Said That
as
Under Way
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(By The Associated Press)
DENVER, Oct. 31, — Herbert
Hoover said he rejected, when he
was president, most of the ideals
which were subsequently adopted
by the Roosevelt administration.
“I rejeoted all of these things
because they would not only delay
lay recovery, but because I knew
that in the end they would shack
le free men.”
The former president of the Un
ited States made his speech be
fore a Republican gathering in
the municipal auditorium here,
urging the election of Governor
Alf M. Landon, to “save the soul
of America.”
In his address, which was broad
aast, Hoover reiterated his prev
ous declaration that recovery was
already in progress toward the
end of his administration. He
asserted that the New Deal had
retarded this recovery.
Army Of Men
Minus Country
Seeking Homes
League Supervised By Norwe
gian Judge Still Issues
Passports
(By The Associated Press)
GENEVA, Oct. 30, — A million
Tien without a country—a con
inuing world economic crisis
vliich retards effective help for
his great horde of refugees.
That is the problem confront
ng the Nansen international off!
;e for refugees, and the league
>f nations.
This problem of refugees be
:ame acute when, following the
oviet revolution in Russia, about
i million “white” Russians fled
ram the civil strife.
International relief organiza
ions jumped into the picture
vith the resultant creation by
he league of nations of an inter
lational office for refugees and
he appointment as high com
nissioner of the Scandinavian ex
ilorer, now deceased, Dr. Fridtjof
Jansen.
Passport System Worked Out
Nansen evolved as a solution
or the refugee problem the now
amous “Nansen passport.”
Nansen soon had another assign
nent when some 350,000 Armen
ans had fled from Asia Minor.
(Continued on Page Three)
COAST STRIKE LIKELY
SPREAD TO EASTERN
PORTS IS REPORT j
Believe Situation Remain Stalus Quo
Until Monday. Affects Strike
Spread Many Industries
NEARLY HUNDRED AND FIFTY VESSELS TIED
UP, THOUSANDS ADDITIONAL WORKERS
PLACED ON IDLE LIST
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, — The spreading Paci
fic Coast strike held nearly one hundred and fifty ves
jsels in coast ports, and paralyzed cargo movement, at
the peak of the fall season, threatening to add twenty
thousand new workers to the idle list.
Federal officials here and in Washington strove to
bring accord out of the situation.
At midnight last night fifty-seven vessels were
strike bound here, and another fifty-seven in north Pac
ific ports, including Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland.
Twenty-two were tied up at San Pedro, San Diego
and in Hawaii. The West Coast Lumberman’s Associa-!
tion in Seattle estimated that twenty thousand lumber
workers would be forced out of work if the strike lasts
a week.
San Francisco is also harassed by the strike. A
thousand warehousemen, grocery and storage plants!
are in difficulties thru the effect of the strike.
Officials on both sides of the dispute expressed the
opinion that the situation would remain in a status quo
until Monday. Assistant Secretary of Labor McGrady
said “I’m going to try to get them together before
then.’’
Jerry Galvin To
Open Up Quartz
Mine At Bluff
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BETWEEN EIGHT ANI) TEN
MILLION TONS OF 9 DOL
LAR ORE IS IN SIGHT ON
SEWARD PENINSULA.
(Fairbanks News-Miner)
Seward Peninsula, heretofore
known almost exclusively as a
placer gold producer, is likely to
be among Alaska’s important
gold quartz areas soon as the re
sult of development of a big mine
at Bluff by Jerry Galvin and his
associates.
Mr. Galvin, oldtime Alaska min
ing man and president now of
the Alaska Homestake Gold Min
ing Company, E. M. Michaelson,
who is interested in the company
and J. M. McDonald, mining en
gineer, arrived here (Fairbanks),
Monday, October 26, from Seattle
enroute to Nome and Bluff. They
came by plane from Juneau and
hoped to fly on to Nome Tuesday
if weather permitted.
Much Ore In Sight
Three million tons of ore going
nine dollars to the ton have al
ready been blocked out, it is an
nounced, and several million ad
ditional tons are in sight.
The ore body starts right on the
beach at Bluff, which is 50 miles
east of Nome, and extends back
for a couple of miles. Control of
the mine has been held for two
years by the Alaska Homestake.
Active development work has
seen carried on all during that
period.
A great number of prospect
shafts, ranging in depth to 100
feet have been sunk about 3,000
feet back from the beach and ov
;r a width of 800 feet. The aver
ige value of the ore as disclosed
jy prospect samples in nine dol
ars per ton.
Cheap to Mine
All the ore is decomposed and j
sxidized, said Mr. Galvin, so "it
:an be dug with a power shovel
and put in the mill bunkers for
less than 50 cents a ton.
Continued on Page Four
Roosevelt Spoke
Last Night On
Ret ter America
fBv The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, —Assert
ing that his administration had
laid the foundation for a “safer
and happier, and a more Ameri
can America”. President Roose
velt said Friday night, “an equal
ly important tusk remains in the
destroying of inequalities and the
creation of opportunity and of
security”.
Reviewing the New Deal before
a Democratic rally at the Brook
lyn Academy of Music, the chief
executive of the nation said that
“some people call these thingu
meddling and interference. You
and I know them to be new ston
es in the foundation—a founda
tion on which we can, and are
determined to build a structure of
economic security of all of our
people, and a safer, happier and
more American America.”
Expenditures
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 31,
—Reports from the Ckrk of the
House showed that Delegate An
thony J. Dirnond reported expen
d.tures of $3,018.00 and contribu
tions of $2,873.00 during the re
eon; Alaska campaign.
Judge Lester O. Gore’s expen
d.lures wcr ■ ■'ported as $2,903.00
and caniribut jns . $3,0 >0.00.
Lumen Commercial
Lo. Affected by * !ie
West Coast Strike
Seriously afTeeted by the mari
time strike on the Pacific Coast
s the Lomen Conumercial Cora
aany which shipped a great many
reindeer carcasses out on the S.
3. Victoria, winch was only par
tially discharged yesterday.
Today, a telegram to the Nome
office of the Lomen Commercial
Company said that workmen
walked olT the boat and refused
to discharge any further cargo
from the Victoria, leaving about
fifteen tons of reindeer meat
aboard the vessel, with the refrig
oration stopped.
The wireless advices also in
formed the company that the SB.
Bering of the Alaska Line, had
been diverted to Vancouver, BjC.,
to discharge reindeer meat, etc.