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Vol. 38. No. 21. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JAN. 26, 1937. Per Copy 15eta
Over Half Million Homeless on Account of Floods
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers Continue Devastation
CONDITIONS BECOME
MORE SERIOUS EACH
HOUR FLOOD AREAS
Danger of A Super-Flood Injected Into Already De
vastating Flood Conditions In The States.
Mississippi Region Be Affected
Flood Waters of
Ohio Pouring in
To Mississippi
\
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Jan. 26. — An om
inous warning of a “super flood’’
in the vast Mississippi Valley was
added to the fury of the ram.
paging Ohio river as it contin
ued its wide path of devasta
tion through middle and west
«rn states.
the danger will be to the low
er Mississippi area where six
hundred thousand were made
homeless by the flood in 1927.
This imminent danger develop
ed as the flood waters of the Oh
io began pouring into the Mississ
ippi river at Cairo, Illinois.
Lieut. Colonel Eugene Reybold
District Chief of the U. S. Army
Engineers at Memphis gave warn
ing and predicted extreme flood
conditions to the general states
along the river, where flood stag
es are some ten feet beyond the
records set in 1913 and also in
1927.
Those companions of floods—
disaster, panic, famine, pestilen
ce, and fire—are constantly men.
acing cities and towns in eleven
states in the flood area which
holds more than a third of the
nation’s population.
The water situation in Cincin
nati becomes more serious hourly,
as the water supply becomes pol
luted. The health department in
sists on boiling the water, and
cutting the ration to one hour a
day.
Troops moved into Louisville
today to complete the evacuation
of more than two thirds of the
city’s three hundred thousand in
habitants. The city is under mil
itary rule, clamped down by
Governor Chandler, who acted
despite the fact, he said, that he
did not have such authority un.
der the state constitution.
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stoves—burn either bard or soft
coal—slightly used, inquire at the
Nngget Office for information.
President Said
Hurry up Grant
Relief Money
(Bv The Associated Press*
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 26.
President Roosevelt sent out a
crisp command to national leg_
islators who are debating the
seven hundred and ninety mil
lion dollar relief request, to “step
on it.”
He sent word that the fund
originally intended to care for i
work relief, would be appropriat
ed for flood sufferers.
Administrator Hopkins estimat-1
ed there would be at least six
hundred and fifty seven thousand
homeless tomorrow.
National Guardsmen near Cairo
dynamited the twenty one mill
ion dollar Birds Point.New Mad
rid floodway levee sending wat
er into the great systems of dik
es and levees built along a three
hundred mile front. This is the
first test of the giant flood preven
tion measure.
(By Tne Associated Press)
PADUCAH, Ky., Jan. 26, —
Fourteen persons were drowned
when a rescue barge loaded with
refugees capsized in the muddy
floodwaters in the city streets
here, Red Cross officials announc
ed today.
Coes to Death
(By The Associated Pressi
CARSON CITY, Nevada, Jan.
26, — Luther Jones, 32 an ex_
convict of Indiana and Montana,
who murdered four men near El
ka in a forty dollar holdup Oct.
ober 16th, paid the penalty with
his life, in the gas chamber.
A minute and a half after the
lethal gas pellets were dropped
into the bucket, he slumped and
became unconscious.
Forty witnesses watched the
execution including W. S. Dress
ier brother in law to Otto Heit.
man 42, Douglas County Commis
sioner who was one of Jones’
victims.
LABOR CORPS OFF TO ‘CIVILIZE* ETHIOPIA
Under Premier Mussolini’s scheme for the colonization of Ethiopia these members of an Italian lab
or corps will take part in road-building and other development w >rks in the east African country.
They are pictured just before departing from Naples. Many were expected to make Ethiopia their
permanent home. .Associated Press Photo.)
Five Persons Are
Hurt Clash With
Police Detroit
(By The Associated Press'!
DETROIT, Jan. 26, —Police
pickets clashed again in the three
weeks old General Motors strike
resulting in Injury to five persons
as union men sought to prevent
office workers from entering the
Cadillac plant. One of the five
was a woman.
Three were hurt last night in
a similar clash at the Anderson
Indiana plant, as strikes extended
from coast to coast today for the
first time. The Oakland, Califor
nia Chevrolet and also the Fish
er body plants were affected.
Frank Salby, local union head
there claimed that half of the
three thousand employees have
walked out. The managers of the
plants disputed this saying the
only reductions in the list were
due to illness. The company mean
time completed plans for the re_
turn of forty thousand of its
more than one hundred and
twenty-five thousand idle em
ployees, to work tomorrow, in
ten plants in Michigan and In
diana.
Government efforts to negotiate
the strike were stalled again by
the refusal of President Sloan of
the General Motors Corporation,
to confier with union leaders
“while men hold our plants un
lawfully.”
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It’s All Off
The wedding plans of Gladys Witt,
pretty airline hostess, and Erich K.
Balzer, steamship line official, ap
peared to be all off. They are
shown aa they announced their en
gagement at Los Angeles. But Miss
Witt kept Balzer waiting vainly at
the church, and after a flying trip
to Kaneae City with him said she
preferred James H. Roe, airline
pilot, although the latter had not
proposed to her. (Associated Press
Photo) „ . .
LOST—A RIFLE, a Carbine
Winchester Crag madel, fastened
with a webing sling for packing
Was lost during the storm of the
night of Jan. 22nd, between Drj
Creek and the Power Plant. Re
turn same to Dave Colgate 01
leave it at Nugget Office.
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Legislators On
Visit To Sitka
Held by Storm
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(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU, Jan. 26, — The fail
ure of two boats, owing to inclem
ent weather, to return with twel_
ve Representatives and three Sen
ators, from a bienniel trip to the
Pioneers Home at Sitka, caused
the Alaska Legislature to mark
time Monday afternoon.
The absentees were due to re
turn to Juneau last night, said a
radio message from Sitka which
declared the visitors were high,
ly pleased with the magnificent
institution, where they renewed
friendships with old timers from
their own districts.
They found only minor com
plaints. Some pioneers wanted
more eggs while others wanted
more “snoose”. An enthusiastic
pioneers mass meeting was led
by McCutcheon with talks by
Representatives Green, Rogge &
Laiblin.
2 Women’s Games
Due to injuries, it was explain
ed, on the Commercial team, and
the impracticability of arranging
a HuskiesiHammon game for a
substitute for the Alaskan-Com
mercial game because of injuries
on the Huskie team, the men’s
game for tomorrow night has
been postponed. Another women
's game will be played. Oppos
550,000
HOMELESS
DUE FLOOD
Associated Press Makes A
Tabulation Homeless
And Those Dead
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED. Jan. 26, — Main,
taining as close a check as poss
ible. in connection with all relief
agencies the Associated Press to
day announced the number of
homeless had mounted to at least
five hundred and fifty thousand,
and that the dead numbered at
least 125, in eleven states, due
to flood conditions. ,
Kentucky 37 including an esti
mated 12 in a reformatory riot
and in which one official said the
death toll might reach 45: Tenn
essee 23 Arkansas 18, Ohio and
Missouri 13 each, West Virgin,
ia 9. Indiana 6 Illinois 3 Mississ
ippi, Pennsylvania, South Caro
lina one each.
Wire From Daly
Is Encouraging
Condition Better
Encouraging news was receiv
ed today by Clerk of the District
Court Aimer Rvdeen in a tele
gram from James P. Daly, who
is now in Juneau, concerning his
condition, following his trip by
plane from Nome enroute to the
States for medical attention, after
having been confined to the May
nard Columbus Hospital at Nome
since the departure of the last
boats in October.
Following is the text of the
telegram:
Juneau, Jan. 25, 1937
Aimer Rydeen, Nome.
Arrived Juneau Friday after a
pleasant trip. Am in Catholic
hospital, still very weak. Doc
tors give encouragement. Grub
pile better in Nome than Juneau.
Will be in Juneau about 10 days.
Mrs. Daly joins me in regards to
yourself, Polets, Gaffney, and
friends.
Signed: Jas. P. Daly.
ing teams will be between the
High School Girls and the Al
askan Women, and between the
Married Women and the Native
Women.
The decision was not reached
until late today and no other
details are forthcoming.
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Double Header Baseball Games Wed. Jan.27
MARRIED WOMEN VS NATIVE WOMEN—HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VS ALASKAN WOMEN—SPECIAL ADM. ADULTS 50cto SCHOOL CHILDREN 25cta