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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL.. 38. No. 96. NOME, ALASKA, Monday, April 26t)h, 1937 * Per Copy 15cts
Encouraging News Nome Fed. Bldg.
GOP^^HAIRMAN TO BEGIN RADIO TALKS
Cutter Northland Will Be First Vessel For Nome
Shortstop Strange Gels First Hit Of Season
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The 1931 Pacific Coast League baseball season opened with games at Sacramento, Oakland, San
Francisco, and Los Angeles. Here is Strange, Seattle shortstop, connecting for the first hit in the
opening game between Sacramento and Seattle. The Indians won, 6 to 4. (Associated Press Fhoto)
CHANGE IN POLICY OF
REPUBLICANS EVIDENT
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 26th—
Tne decision of republican chair
man Hamilton to break the poli
tical silence is a forecast of a
change in the party’s policy of
Jetting the democrats argue na
t-onal issues among them selves.
Hamilton delivers Saturday, his
first of four radio speeches in
successive weeks. Republicans
have heeded Hamilton's advice
against making the court reor
ganisation proposal a partisan is
sue, confining speechmaking on
economy issues.
IJSCC Northland
Sail Nome May 20
(By Th<v Associated Press.)
SEATTLE, April 26-The Cut
ter Northland, commander Fred
Zeusler, is posted to sail for Bar
row and Arotic Coast points May
20th from Seattle. The autter is
carrying Dr. Hrdlicka and party
•enroute t.o continue the search
for clues and the origin of west
ern Alaska ancient tribes.
Commander Zetxsler was tem
porarily chief of staff in place of
Commander M. J. Ryan who was
dispatched last weelc as comman
der of the Cutter Samuel Ingham
and on his return Ryan will re
vert to his duties here. Cornman
der Warner Thompson, now with
the cutter Itasca, will be com
mander of the ingham, headquar
ters said.
Onposes Court Plan
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John D. Miller, president of the Na
; tional Cooperative Council, which Is
1 composed mainly of farm coopers*
: tives, told the senate Judiciary com
I mlttee that the Roosevelt court bill
| wae not needed for the government
to "perform the maximum services”
possible for farmers. (Associated
Press Photo)
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Makes Record Hop
(By The Associated Press)
I ISTRES, France, April 26th—
| Maurice Rossi, famous French
flier, celebrated his thirty-sixth
birthday Saturday by making a
l five thousand kilometer, three
! thousand one hundred and five
miles flight, in sixteen hours four
minutes and thirty seconds. His
average was 311.184 kilometers;
192.9 miles per hour,a new record
Associated Press
Has No Squawk
Court Decision
—
(By The Associated Press) j
NEW YORK, April 24th—“We
have no hesitancy in saying we'
have no squawk to make over
the United States Supreme
Court’s decision upholding the
constitutionality of the Wagner
Labor Act," Frank B. Noyes, pres
ident of the Associated Press de
clared in opening the annual
meeting in Washington of mem- j
bers of the Associated Press and
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the American Newspaper Publish 1
ers Association.
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Other matters to which the at
tention of the gathering was di
rected were what Secretary of
Commerce Daniel C. Roper char
acterized as “the two outstanding
needs of the nation,” the unprece
dented diversity of important
news articles and news pictures i
in the past year, and the creation
of associate members of the As
sociated Press.
I
Associated Press Case
President Noyes’ reference to
the Supreme Court’s five deci
sions April 12 upholding the Wag
ner Labor Act was prompted by
the fact that one of the decisions
was directly against the Associ
ated Press. This case was brot
by Morris Watson, a writer in,
the New York office of the Asso-,
ciated Press. He claimed he had j
been discharged because of his
activity in behalf of the Ameri
can Newspaper Guild, an organi
zation of news writers and edi- ]
(Continued on Page Three)
NEW BIDS CALLED FOR
MAY 4 NOME FED BLDG
Tilings look much brighter for
llie construction of the Nome
Federal building on .Barracks
Square next summer, by receipt
of a wire from Grant R. Jackson
to J. S Stangroom, cashier of the
Miners and Merchants Bank, of;
which Mr. Jackson is president. |
Mr. Stangroom turned over the
information to O. S. Weaver, vice
president of the Northwestern Al
aska Chamber of Commerce, who
informed Postmaster Guy Mich, I
of the fact that the new federal
building bids will be opened May
'4th. Following is the informa
tion: Building plans were com
pleted Saturday, May 24th. Ex
pect to call for bids May 4th, and
hope to shorten the time between
the calling and opening of bids
to enable materials to be shipped
in on the second sailing of steam-,
ers. Foundation will not be of
piling, but will be of two concrete:
slabs with layer of gravel be
tween.
Mr. Jackson is at present in
Washington and is exerting every
effort to rush work on the new
federal building. His answer was
to a request recently made bv the
local chamber of commerce.
Baseball Scores
fBv The Associated Press)
Saturday Games
Pacific Coast League’
Los Angeles 4 Portland 7
Seattle-San Francisco—rain
National League
Chicago 13 St. Louis 12
Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 3
Boston 0 New York 3
Brooklyn 3 Philadelphia 7
American League
■St. Louis 4 Cleveland 3
New York 6 Boston 5
Philadelphia 6, Washington 4
Detroit at Chicago game post
poned account wet grounds.
American League
Sunday Games
New York 9 Boston 3
Cleveland 5 St. Louis 4
Chicago 11 Detroit 7
Philadelphia-Washiragton, rain.
National League
Boston 3 New York 1
Brooklyn 10 Philadelphia 6
St. Louis 4 Chicago 0
Cincinnati-Pittsburgh rain,
Pacific Coast League
All double headers.
San Francisco 8-4, Seattle 4-5.
Los Angeles 4-1, Portland 3-5
Sacramento 5-0, San Diego 4-2
Oakland 6-6, Missions 4-7.
First Test This
Week President’s
Pleas Reduction
(By The Associated rlp-s.s)
WASHINGTON, D C , April 20
—President Roosevelt’s pleas to
reduce government spending gets
its first test this week on a senate
motion to consider the Harrison
Black Educational Aid Bill, pro
posing a maximum of three hun
thvtk million dollars a year f t
Federal aid to schools.
Administrationites want the
measure deferred.
The Senate adjourned today,
out of memory to the late Sena
tor Bachman.
The House will debate the latter
part of the week on the four bun
dred million dollar war depart
ment appropriation bill, that the
republicans want to cut 10 per
cent.
PRINTING BLANKS CARRIED
The Nome Daily Nugget came.
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and dr.11 repo: ts
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers,
Child. Mother Slain
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Tw&vd-year-old'Marguerite Wor
den (above) was found dead be
side the body of her mother, Mrs.
Edna A. Worden, 46. in their
small apartment in Los Angeles.
The beads of both mother and
daughter were crushed with a
brickbat. (Associated Pres*
Photo)
Bus Strike London
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LONDON, April 2t> -Tne Labor
Ministry conciliation depart men’
have schedul'd cor ft:. with
representatives of transn rt tin
i ions hoping to get forty thousand
I bus-men to agree to , :r.; v until
after f e O r nation May 12th
The bus-men want seven and j
half hour dry inste. d 1 eight.
MEASURES FAINTEST STARS
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A photometer capable of measuring the light rays of a 100-watt bulb
2,000 miles away has been Installed on the 36-Inch telescope at the
University of Arizona's Seward Observatory at Tucson. The Instru
ment will enable observers to detect and measure light from the faint
est stars. Shown with the telescope, left to right, are W. G. Schmidt,
graduate fellow In physics; A. H. Hoff, graduate student; Dr. Edwin
F. Carpenter, professor of astronomy; and Dr. F. E. Roach, Instructor
In physics and astronomy. (Associated Press Photo)