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VOLUME 36. NO. 99. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Mediation Fails in Oil Tanker Strike
FIRE DESTROYS OREGON’S CAPITOL BUILDING
Nome and Seward Peninsula Mail Sent Back to Seattle
67 Minnesota
Families Start
Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, April 26—Sixty-seven
families, all members young, and
taken from a hardy Minnesota stock,
assembled here today for the jour
ney to Matanuska, their future
home.
A special train will leave here late
today and start them on their way
to San Francisco, their first lap on
their long trip to Alaska.
They are to sail from San Fran
cisco May 1st. Each family is bound
by contract to remain in Alaska for
thirty years. Before leaving here
they heard a lecture on Alaska by
Arthur Armstrong, former college
faculty man at Fairbanks.
The sixi.y-seven families are high
in hope, in leaving for their land of
promise.
Police Attempt
Unravel Mystery
Murder Hollyw’d
(By The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, April 26th—Con
fronted with apparent cases of mur
der, near murder and suicide, the
police today sought to unravel the
weird maze of facts surrounding the
fatal shooting of Paul Wharton,aged
25, a dress designer, William How
ard, aged 35, ex-navy ensign and
chauffeur of Wharton, and the ser
ious wounding of Henry E. Bolte, 38,
law instructor at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Wharton was known professional
ly as Paul Ivar, who designed cloth
es for several screen actresses. He
was slain in his apartment studio,
climaxing a supper party.
Bolte was found wounded in front
of his apartment door, and Howard
was found dead in an apartment
building entrance several blocks
away, when sought after the discov
ery of Wharton’s death.
Fire Mains
Were Found
Frozen Up
It was discovered this morning
that there were several places in the
temporary fire mains where the pipe
had sagged creating a trap. When
the water was run through recently,
several points in the main froze and
it was the belief that if a serious
fire had occurred, the mains would
have been practically useless from
the point opposite the fire station, on
First Avenue eastward to Stedman
Avenue where most of the traps
were.
Beginning shortly after the fire
alarm this morning men have been
working on the main, thawing out :
MARITIME UNION
ELECTS OFFICERS
PACIFIC COAST
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, April 26—Harry Lundberg, aged 34, of
Seattle, who believes “in keeping to the middle road,” was
elected President of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific,
regarded as the most powerful union labor group on the
Pacific Coast.
Fred W. Friedl, of San Pedro was elected vice-president
and M. Keely of San Francisco, secretary-treasurer. Lund
berg said his organization represented thirty-five thousand
workers who were now welded into one.
While emphasizing the primary dependence on arb’tra
tion of all labor disputes, the organization planned to rn.'ke
extensive use of the strike weapon, where negotiations fa
ed.
The federation voted an approval of the tanker strike,
even to the extent of calling a general strike, in its support
if necessary.
The Maritime Federation binds several maritime un
ions, such as longshoremen, engineers, sailors, firemen, oil
ers, water-tenders, cooks, stewards, ferry-boatmen, radio
men, masters, mates, and pilots into one unit.
Mediation Fails In Oil Tanker Strike
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26—Mediation efforts of the
government board in the coast-wide tanker strike, collapsed
Thursday night. Marine circles today admitted that the
situation was delicate. They said the outcome of the tanker
walkqjit, or whether it would spreads into a general marine
strike, could not be determined at present.
The breakdown of efforts at the settlement of this strike
was announced by Albert A. Rosenshine, chairman of the
mediation board, as the members of the joint tanker’s strike
committee and company members, left the conference room.
Tanker strike committee members blamed “the arrog
ant attitude of the Standard Oil Company for refusing to
give an inch,” in its recent stand on the strike deadlock.
One leader said: “There’s nothing more to do but tighten
up our picket lines and live up to the strike.
the traps and water has been pump
ed at different times during the day.
to clear the lines.
The dangers of spots in the main
freezing and preventing the proper
flow of water, are well apparent to
the citizens of Nome, and efforts are
being made at present to rectify
this condition.
At a recent meeting of the last city
council, the fire committee was or
dered to test the mains once a week
to ascertain whether they were froz
en or not. The water was turned
on this morning when the fire alarm
came through for the home of B. J
McConaghy, and in this way the
traps were discovered.
Will Fly To Nome
According to reports, Mrs. L. H.
jrant, Louis Nashenwing, and Ben
jillette and wife are enroute into
Vome, and are expecting to fly in
ler within the next few days.
J
Dun Bradstreet
Weekly Review
Shows Up Trend
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 26—Dun Brad
street in their weekly review, said,
“sentiment in business continues to
trail actual trade improvement. This
condition prevails in spite of proof
displayed by distributive totals. The
spurt in preEaster buying was more
than a flash as witnessed by the en
couraging recovery of wholesale
markets and the maintenance of in
dustrial operations in most divisions
at previous levels.”
Mounted on four small wheels, a
manually operated crane has been
invented by a Kansas City man to
facilitate lifting of trucks from carj
wheels in railroad shops, having a
capacity of half a ton.
Nomeites Will Have
To Wait Till June
For Mail
Efforts were made during the past
two days, following receipt of in
formation of a considerable quan
tity of mail at Fairbanks for this
section, to have it brought to Nome
by airplane.
The Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce here, wired to the
Chief Railway Clerk Marcband re
questing that he authorize its trans
portation by plane to Nome. The
following two wires are printed for
the information of the public in this
matter.
Nome will have to wait now until
the arrival here of the first boats be
fore it can have the mail which hud
in Fairbanks following the expira
tion of the star mail route contract
which was carried by the Pacific
Alaska Airways this winter.
Following are the telegrams:
Nome Alaska
April 24, 1935
Marchand, Seward
We are informed that an accum
ulation of approximately twenty-five
hundred pounds of Nome mail at
Fairbanks stop Nome public great
ly interested in having this mail
forwarded to Nome via plane stop A
large number people anxious re
ceive their papers and magazines
stop Many interested in this class of
mail more than letter mail stop If
accumulated mail held until open
ing navigation papers and magazin
es will be too old to be of any bene
fit to reading public stop We assure
Nome public will appreciate your
efforts in having this mail sent to
Nome.
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce.
Seward, April 26, 1935.
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce
Telegram received my arrival Se
ward today stop Account depletion
appropriation for emergency service
no additional expenditures possible
stop Weight reported your message
includes all Seward Peninsula points
and lower river.
Marchand,
Chief Railway Mail Clerk.
Placing an auxiliary landing wheel
in the nose of the craft to enable the
regular wheels to be set farther
back, a designer has constructed an
amphibian airplane that lands on
dry ground with more safety than
usual with planes of that type.
Intended for schools to use in
teaching astronomy, a German scien
tist has invented a planetarium that
shows stars and planets os black
spots against a white background on
the interior of a hemisphere 15 feet
in diameter.
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OREGON’S STATE
CAPITOL BUILDING
RAZED BY FLAMES
(By The Associated Press')
SALEM, April 26—The smoldering of an ugly black
shell, are all that remain of Oregon’s state capitol building,
which was razed by flames and in which fireman Floyd Mc
Mullen a former Williamette University student, was killed.
He was killed when a crumbling chimney fell on him.
A CCC worker was also injured. Firemen still continued
this morning to train water on the ruins.
The restoration fund contained only one hundred and
forty thousand dollars. The sixty-year-old building, which
contained the main offices, executive offices, and senate and
house chambers, cost seven hundred thousand dollars.
The value of equipment and records, in addition to his
torical relics is expected to bring the actual investment loss
up to around one million and a half dollars.
Governor Miers prepared today to call a special session.
The fire started at six thirty-five pm in the basement, yes
terday, and swilled upward through the elevator shaft. In
little more than an hour the dome had collapsed.
Band Practice
Monday Nijjht
/
During the past several weeks, ac
cording to the reports, the band has
been planning on staging a big dance
to raise funds to purchase music, in
truments, stands and etc.
Last Monday’s practice was post
poned and at Tuesday night’s prac
tice very few members put in ap
pearance. Director C. C Tanner
stated today that he was very anx
ious to see all members present next
Monday night at the Nevada Hall at
7:30 p.m. sharp. Affairs of business
concerning the band and an exten
sive program of music for the con
templated dance are to be taken up,
according to the statements.
S. H. Burgh, proprietor of the
Nevada, states that the band dance
will probably be the last dance to
be given in his hall, as he is con
templating on furnishing it for apart
ments in the near future. The call
to band members is made today.and
their appearance next Monday is
urgently requested.
FOR YOUR
INFORMATION
Bills introduced in the House of
Representatives of the Territorial
Legislature during the past session,
whcih became laws were printed
yesterday. The senate bills in
troduced and which became laws
are printed in todays edition. As a
suggestion to those who are inter
ested in referring at different times
to these matters—why not clip this
information from the Daily Nugget
for future reference?
Republicans
Make Drive For
Vinson Bonus B.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 26th— The
Harrison bonus payment bill was
reported out of the senate finance
committee yesterday, but ran into
difficulties in the form of a Republi
can drive for the Vinson bill to pay
the bonus in full immediately.
The republicans are lining up un
animously for the Vinson measure
which was defeated by the house by
a narrow margin. The republican
stand has thrown a scare into admin
istration leaders.
tomes tp Monday
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 26th— The
bonus bill will be called up Mon
day at which time either the Vinson
or Patman bills will be offered as
a substitute, to give the senate a
chance to select which bill they pre
ferred to vote on.
With the republicans solidly be
hind the Vinson bill which however,
does not state how the money is to
be raised, it is believed to be a real
threat to the administrations com
promise Harrison measure, rather
than the Patman bill.
The Harrison bill offers cash only
up to the current surrender of the
value of certificates.
The Spanish government has lim
ited the use of the term “silk” to
products made entirely from silk
cocoons and forbidden its use to pro
ducts weighted chemically beyond a
certain amount.
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