THURSDAY
. .(From Nufcget Daily Bulletin.)
WHIPPING BOARD
APPROVES AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON. April 11. (fl1)—
The Shipping Board approved a
eeren years agreement between the
Alaska Steamship Company and
the Pacific Steamship lines under
which the Alaska company takas
over virtually all service to Alas
ka points now maintained by the
Pttolftc concern and will withdraw
from the remainder of the coastal
trade.
The Pacific lines will maintain
only one passenger vessel in the
Alaska trade, which will not carry
freight, steerage passengers or can
nery laborers. Each company will
route all controlled passenger and
freight traffic between Alaska and
California or the West coast of
Mexico by way of vessels of the
other line. ;-****
LIKELY fLYING TO iVATICAN
VIENNA, April 11, (JP)—Chan
cellor Dollfus Is on a flying trip
some where. German leaders are
already visiting the Vatican and'
Mussolini. In some quarters it D
aaid that they are there in connec
tion with Mussolini's campaign for
the revision of the post war treat
ies. The trip brings together the
representatives of three different
options dissatisfied with the front
ier lines established after the waT.
MISSIONARY KIDNAPPED
SEATTLE, April 12, </p)—Dr.
Niels Neil son, an American m«d^
fcml missionary, was kidnapped by
Chinese brigands according to a
telegram received here from ths
American consulate at Mukden.
He was a native of Minneapolis.
No details were received in the
wire.
(STEAMSHIP COMPANY
ANNOUNCES WITHDRAWAL
SEATTLE, April 12. (IP)—A.F.
Haines,. vice president of the Pac
ific Steamship Company announced
the withdrawal of his company
from the Alaska field after April
twenty-fifth. He said that the
business would be left to the
Alaska Steamship Company under
an egreement approved by the
shipping board wheVdby the Ala
ska company will leave the South
ern coastal operations to the Pac
ific company.
BRITISH EMPLOYEES
PLEAD GUILTY
-r MOSCOW, April 12, (£>>— WJS.
MacDonald, a British employee of
the Metropolitan Vickers Electric
Company, and eleven Russian em
ployees of the company pleaded
guilty to charges of sabotage, es
pionage and bribery. Five other
British employees pleaded guilty
after the trial started. One of the
eleven Russians was a woman. L
The court-room was closely guar
ded, both inside and out by uni
formed and bayoneted soldiers.
SOVIET TROOPS MOVE CLOSER
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TOKYO, April 12. (AV^Sorlet
troops previously stationed at Dan
lia moved closer to the border ai
« demonstration over the friction
connected with the Chinese East
ern Railway. The Japanese spoke;
man said that there would be nc
serious eventualities.
farm relief
CONTROVERSY BREWING
WASHINGTON. April 12, (#)—
Ons of the sharpest farm relief
controversies of the present ses
sion is brewing as the Senate re
viewed the Simpson price fixing
plan which was written in the ad
ministration hill.
The threatened storm developed
at the .time when the program for
increaslhg farmers income and lif
ting the burden of mortgages was
bumped along oyer rough roads.
Sprinkled with demands for cur
rency expansion, as a means for
rostering agriculture.
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JAPANESE TROOPS ADVANCE
CHANGCHUN. April 12. (fl>)—
Japanese troops are reported to
have occupied Taltdwylng, a Chin
ese city, eight miles South of the
Great Wall. It is said that the
Chinese seemed likely to abandon
the entire triangle formed there
by the Great Wall, the river and
the sea. This undisputed Chin
ese territory extends sixty-five
■miles inland.
The Japanese lost twenty killed
and a hundred wounded. In the
(battle at Lengkow. yesterday, the
Chinese lost five hundred killed.
Barber to Customer—'How does
the haircut suit you?
Customer (afbsent-mindedly)—
The hair is altogether too short.
A little longer please.
. ROYAL ARCH MEETING
Conferring Royal Arch Degree
and refreshments... 8 P.M. tonight.
; _ HIGH PRIEST——
KNIGHTS OF THE ROSE CROIX
. Mannday Thursday ceremony, at
Masonic Temple, Thursday, April
18, at 7 p.m. . Attendance oblig
atory.
Nome Scottish Rite dab,
Guy C. Boyd, Pres.
FRIDAY
(From Nugget Daily Bulletin.)
TROY Wild ARRIVE TOMORROW
SEATTLE, April 13, iff)—Gov
ernor Troy arrived l»y plane Wed
nesday night from Oakland. He
was greeted at the Boeing field by
a crowd of well-wishers, including
the Chamber of Commerce. ~
Troy said hti ■Would wait until
be got back to* Alaska before ann
ouncing a program; but “The nat
ional administration Is friendly to
Alaska and understands her prob
lems. Alaska is JuSt embarking
rtpon one of the greatest eras of
her development,” the new gover
nof said.
With Governor Clarence D. Mar
tin, of Washington, he will at
tend the Jelferson-Roosevelt Dem
ocratic banquet here and fly north
tomorrow.
(Commenting on national affairs,
Troy said that Roosevelt was as
complete a dictator as Mussolini.
He said “The President Is a dic
tator because the people want a
man who can solve their problems
and they are willing to give him
free rein to do so.”
BODY FOUND IN TRUNK
NEW YORK, April 13, (>P)-The
body of an unlndentified woman
was found in a small steamer
trunk in front of a Madson Ave
nue residence.
MOTHER OF SECRETARY DEAD
NEW YORK, April 13, (/P)—
Mrs. C.R. Woodin, aged 86, mother
of the Secretary of the {Treasury,
died at her home. She will be
buried Friday. 8he angered a
stroke Sunday. The Secretary is
her only son. Her husband is
dead.
FARM RELIEF BEFORE SENATE
WASHXNOTQN .April It, <JP)—
The administration forces faces
one of .the biggest testa in the
farm relief bill as the Senate ap
proached the price fixing plan
which Senator Wallace wants stri
cken out. While the Senate was
nearing the determination of this
issue, Roosevelt read another mes
sage announcing another segment
of his recovery plan. This one
ia aimed at helping small home earn
ere and provides for a permanent
system of federal savings and loan
institutions to refinance mortgages
on homes with a valuation of np
to twenty thousand dollars.
CONVICTED BY COURT-MARTIAL
LONDON, April 18, {A3)—Lieut
enant Norman Bailie Stewart was
convicted by a court-martial for
violating the official secrets act
and was sentenced to dishonorable
discharge and five years penal ser
vitude.
EMBARGO BILL SIGNED
LONDON, April 13, (A*)—The
King signed * measure whereby
the government can place an em
bargo on all Russian goods.
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THROWN INTO MUD PUDDLE
WASHINGTON, April 13, (£•)—
Mrs, Roosevelt was Chrownfrom
her horse Into a mud puddle in
Potomac Park. She remounted
and continued to ride In her mud
splattered costume. "I slide off
very gracefully right In the mud’
she told friends.
TESTIFIES IN HOSTILE COURT
—— ■■ ■
MOSCOW, April IS, (A3)—Wil
liam MacDonald, the Britisher who
pleaded guilty to espionage, pro
duces- a sensation by testifying in
a hostile courtroom, that he made
a damaging admission at the time
of his arrest, because of ‘‘the cir
cumstances surrounding the invest
ig&tion.” Each of the six Brit
ish prisoners were interviewed sep
arately toy the investigators.
KETCHIKAN'S MAYOR
GETS FIRST BEER
KETCHIKAN, April 11, (fi)
Before a camera Mayor Davies and
Mayor-elect Glmore of Ketchikan
quaffed glasses of the first1 law
ful beer of 3.2 per cent alcoholic
•content ,to be consumed in Alaska
since the Territory went under the
dry law.
Although carloads of the law
ful beer have been ordered from
the 9tatea fey Ketchikan ddialers
only ten cases have so far arrived,
these having been received... late
Monday.
Sales were held up to await the
disposal of the first glasses by the
outgoing and t^e incoming mun
icipal executives.
The brew was retailed for 25
oents a pint bottle.
NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE
The most extensive pine for
ests in America are in Arizona.
Poland has about 15,117 miles
of railways that center in Warsaw.
A detachable wire handle has
been invented for carrying milk
bottles.
A new lead pencil is made entir
ely of graphite without any wood
covering.
Nearly 100 motion picture thea
ters in Central America are equip
ed to reproduce sound films.
For use in small airplanes a
radiophone transmitting set weigh
ing only 11 pounds has been deve
loped.
Founded by Spaniards in 1619,
Panama City claims to be the old
est white settlement in the Amer
icas.
For use in winter a Vienna
fire engine has been equipped with
endless chain tread wheels
and a snowplow.
To kelp keep lee cream and
other foods there has been In
rented a wax paper bag insulated
'by adbestos.
More than 8004 workmen la
Venice are employed In the man
ufacture of white glass, beads and
artistic glassware.
A spring wound by turning a
ring operates a generator to sup
ply electric current to a now bat
tryless flashlight.
Although virtually alt of the
raw materials has to be Imported,
wool manufacture la Increasing
rapidly In Uetrla.
- Aluminum window shades that
operate horizontally bare been In
rented to exclude street noises as
well as snnllght.
Brasil expects to harrest a bum
per erop of at least 20.000,000 or
87,000,000 bags of eoffee in the
1222-14 season.
A new 'sled for children resemb
le® an airplane and can bo convert
ed into a scooter for substituting
wheels for its runners.
An Englishman has invented
hazards to be placed on a billiard
table to give the game some of
the features of minature golf.
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Steel Bhetlds have bees invented
that can be inserted in place of
glams windshields to convert auto
mobiles into armored cars.
The Turkish government is fos
tering experiments in the produc
ing of jute with a view to est
ablish a native burlap industry.
Fourteen cylinders arranged in
two circles, one behind the other,
develop more than 700 horsepow
er in a new high speed airplane.
Radiotelephone service has been
■established between Germany and
Siam and a simillar service is plan
ned between Germany and Egypt.
Maryland scientists have found
that persons are taller, * sometimes
by as much as an inch, when lying
dawn than when standing erect.
A forest research institute in
India has developed a method for
treating native soft woods with
preservatives so they can be used
for rallwte ties.
Supplied with current by a dry
battery, a small electric lamp has
bee designed to be attached to a
telephone to aid in reading dir
ectories at night.
The United Kingdom exports
six times as many musical Ins
truments as it imports and the ex
ports represent about one third of
the British production.
A holder for a package of cig
arettes and a box of matches and
an ash they are combined in a
new device to be attached to an
automobile steering poet.
The French Government has op
ened a superior school of aeron
autics to which admission Is b>
competitive examination, the course
extending over three years.
SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR
SALE AT THE NUGGET OFFICE.
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ALASKA ft. «. CO. SCHEDULES
FOR BERING SEA
108S.
Alaska Steamship Company 1933
■ailing schedules from Seattle for
Bering Sea are as follows:
8. S. Victoria aaila Jane Second,
July Sixth, September Sixth, Octo
ber Sixth; and s. S. Dei*lay sail
on June First, August 12th; both
steamers calling at Nome, Golovin
and St. Michael. The SS Derblay
also calling at Teller and Kotse
bue Sound.
In view of present economic
conditions the company announces
a reduction of rates on two basic
c m modules, coal and oil. including
gasoline and dioBel oil.. The new
sacked coal rate from Seattle to
the anchorage at Nome, Golovin
and St. Michael is live dollars per
ton in carload lots, and Nine dol
lars per ton for lees than carload
lets. . Rate on petroleum oil will
be Seven dollars fifty cents per
ton on carloads, and ten dollars
per ton for leas than carload lots.
ALASKA S. S. COMPANY,
JAMBS DALY, Agent
. NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probata Court for the St.
xMichael Precinct, Territory of
Alaska, Second Division.
In the Matter of ike Estate of
GEORGE A. AKOFF, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that the undersigned, Ira D. Orton
has inn appoiv-il by the above
entitled court. Administrator of
the Estate of the Deceased above
named.
All persons having claims against
the ( estate of said deceased are
hereby required to present the
aeane, duly verified, with the pro
per vouchers, to the said Adminis
trator, at the Miners and Kerch*
ants Bank of Alaaka, at Noma.
Territory of Alaska, Second Divi
sion, within six months from the
date of this notice
Dated at Nome, Alaska, tkts 18tb
day of March, 1888.
IRA D. ORTON,
Administrator of the Estate of
George A. Akoff, 'Deceased.
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