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VOL. 36, NO. 118 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Germany Has Speed Boats Defense
OIL COMPANIES ARE THROUGH ARBITRATION
60 M l HOUR SPEED
BOATS TO BE GERMAN
NAVAL DEFENSE ARM
Boat Have Crew Of Only Five Men And
Can Carry Four Torpedos. Is Capable
Sinking Giant Warships With Ease
(By The Associated Press'!
BERLIN, May 18, — Armed with speed boats which are
capable of attacking men of war, is said by foreign naval
experts to be the Reich’s hope for the protection of the Ger
man coast.
Confronted with the necessity of devising some sort of
a defensive naval weapon, both cheap and effective, German
inventor.; busied themselves with speed boats which can
show their sterns to any craft afloat, at a speed of sixty
knots an hour, and can carry four torpedos. Each boat will
require a crew of only five men.
Experts say that four hundred and fifty of them are
to be constructed. The boats are believed able to approach
great battleships'and cause commanders no end of worry
and possibly could send the giant crafts to the bottom of the
sea.
Details have been strictly guarded but the boats are
said to be strictly defensive Experts also said that another
naval development by the Germans, is along similar lines,
and is a boat which is twice the size of the five man crew ty
pe. It is reported to have a cruising range of nearly two
thousand miles.
Britain Turns A
Cold Shoulder To
U. S. On Currency
Britain Not Receptive to Talk
On International Stabiliza
tion Currency of World
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON May 18, — With
British authorities turning a cold
shoulder toward hints by the gov
ernment of the United States that it
might welcome overturers looking
toward an international currency
stabilization, financial circles won
dered if the lead in such a move
might come from another quarter.
Some observers said one possibili
ty was that stabilization advocat
es might seek to persuade the Bank
of International Settlements to sub
mit a plan which could be used as
a basis for a lasting agreement.
Wagner Bill Passed
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, May 17, — The
Wagner Labor disputes bill passed
the Senate by a vote of 63 to 12 and
was sent to the House.
School Program
Yesterday Is Well
Attended Citizens
The program held yesterday af
ternoon and evening at the Nome
Public School under the supervision
of Superintendent W. H. Bloom and
the faculty, with the students of the
high school performing, attracted
widespread interest from the citizens
of Nome.
The program lasted for about an
hour, and other features depicted the
work carried on during the past
semester. The Nome City Council
attended in a body, as did many
of the parents and others.
Following the program light re
freshments were served. Yesterday’s
affair was a departure from past
methods of the school in presenting
results of a school year in Nome,
and proved to be very successful.
Much credit is due the faculty
and the students for their fine work
during the school term, which will
soon end in commencement exer
cises and promotions for the school
children.
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Lumber Shipments
Tor Nome Are Tied
Up By The Strike
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In view of the disastrous lumber
strike and the efTect which it may
have upon Nome, whereby no lum
ber would be loaded aboard the
first vessels leaving Seattle for here,
Dr. Rex F. Swartz, Mayor of the city
of Nome sent the following telegram
to the Industrial Representatives of
Brotherhood Carpenters, and to the
Executive Board of Timber Work
ers, Seattle, requesting them in the
interest of the people of Nome to
release Nome shipments of lumber.
The wire was sent at the suggestion
of G. R. Jackson who is in Seattle,
and who advised Mr. Swartz that all
efforts todate to have the Nome lum
ber shipments released, had proven
unsuccessful.
Following is a copy of the tele
gram:
“In view of the lumber strike and
the failure of permission to release
lumber shipments for Nome, 1 beg
of you to reconsider your stand in
this matter and allow such ship
ments to proceed unhampered. The
arrival of the first boats at Nome
will add greatly to our present over
crowded city and it will be impera
tive to provide some shelter. Pres
ent supply lumber Nome practically
exhausted and I appeal to you fr m
a humanitarian and urgent relief
view point that restrictions be lifted
on lumber shipments for Nome.'
Signed: Mayor Hex F. Swartz
John E. Pegues Of
Alaska FHA Due
Nome Tomorrow
Alfred J. Lomen is in receipt of a
telegram today from John E. Pegues
Administrator for the Federal Hous
ing Administration in Alaska, who
is at present in Fairbanks.
Mr. Pegues states he will b;
coming to Nome Sunday aboard a
Northern Air Transport plane. Winh
in Nome he will confer witli as
many persons as possible regarding
their plans for improvements, alter
ations, and construction of houses
applicable under the FHA.
He stated in his wire that it would
be necessary for him to return to
Juneau almost immediately and that
he could remain in Nome for only
two days.
Numerous others in Nome also re
ceived telegrams today from Mr. Pe
gues, in answer to wires sent by
them requesting him to come to
Nome at this time to explain and
discuss the FHA with Nomeites who
are desirous of applying for this
type of assistance.
(la I Is for Veterans
To March (lapital
On Bonus Issue
Says Veterans' Will Stay In
Washington Until Bonus
Is Paid—No Women
(By The Associated Press)
l.OS ANGELES, May 18, — Royal
Robertson, disabled veteran leader
of the California delegation of 'bo
nus marchers" to Washington in
1932, called ex-soldiers to mobilize
in another trek to Washington.
He declared that the veterans
would leave for the capital on
freight trains as soon as the presi
dent vetos the Patman bill.
He said the "army” would remain
there until the bonus was paid.
"We won't disband this time," he
declared, "for this time there will
be no autos, no women and no child
ren."
He seemed assured that at least
five thousand veterans would join
the trek.
Meeting (la I led On
Ship van I Stril ve
Slop Naval Work
If Shipbuilding Strike Called
Will Tie Up Almost Entire
Naval Ship Program
(By The Associated Press)
CAMDEN N. J . May 18 The
Industrial Union of Marine Ship
building Workers called a meeting
today of its general executive board
to discuss a widespread shipowners
strike, which union leaders said
would tie up practically the entire
naval building program in private
shipyards.
Social Security
Plan On Top Of
Heap Of Bills
Social Security Plan Believed
Will Pass Senate Unchang
ed but With Debate
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON May 18, — Presi
dent Roosevelt's social security pro
gram took its place in the high
pile of administration measures aw
aiting action in the senate.
The finance committee of the senate
approved it without a record vote.
When interviewed, administration
leaders said they were confident it
would get through the senate with
out major changes, although they
foresaw a long debate on the issue
ahead.
TANKER OPERATORS IN
STATEMENT REFUSE TO
ARBITRATE ANY MORE
Oil Companies Refuse To Arbitrate With
New Board Appointed Bv Secretary Of
Labor Say There No Major Issues
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. May 18. — Pacific Coast oil tanker
operators flatly declined Friday night to consent to arbitrate
the prolonged strike ot tank ship sailors by a new board ap
pointed by Secretary of Labor Perkins.
“There’s nothing now to arbitrate”, operators declared
in a statement to Mayor Angelo J. Rossi of San Francisco.
The operators said that the strike in reality was over,
but continues only because of the contentions of the unions
that they were denied collective bargaining. The operators
said the men had collective bargaining within the terms
of last summer's agreements, and abandoned it themselves,
and resorted to a strike.
“We will not abandon men who came to work for us in
this crisis; we will not adopt a closed shop; therefore, we
cannot arbitrate these issues, and there is no other geniune
issue," was the stand taken by Associated, General, Rich
field. and Union Oil Companies, in a signed statement today.
Secretary of Labor Perkins appointed a new arbitration
board of three members, Thursday, after an earlier media
tion board had failed to solve the difficulties.
Fourteen Killed
Street lighting
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In (lily Vienna
Unofficial Reports Say 14 Arc
Killed When Recruits Re
fuse Military Duty
(By The Associated Press)
VIENNA May 18, — Unofficial un
confirmed reports said that fourteen
persons were killed in street fight
ing in tbo Yugoslavia provinces of
Slovenia and Croatia. The fighting
started when young recruits refused
to perform military duty in Mace
donia.
Lommutes Death
Sentences of Four
To Life hi Prison
Commutes Sentences of Four
Plotters from Death To
Life Imprisonment
KUANAS, Lithuania May 18 —
The President of Lithuania com
muted to life imprisonment, the
death sentences of four Memel Nazis
condemned by the Lithuanian court
for plotting the return of Memel
territory to the Reich.
World s Largest
Plane Crashes In
Mm •o\v 47 Dead
fBy The Associated Press!
LONDON, May 18, — A Reuter’s
News Agency dispatch from Moscow
this afternoon said that forty-seven
persons were killed when the 'Max
im Gorky", the world's largest air
plane, crashed at the big airport at
Moscow today.
The dead included eleven mem
bers of the crew and thirty-six
passengers.
The dispatch added that the pilot
of a smaller machine which collid
ed with the huge aircraft also lost
his life.
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