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VOL. 37. No. 234. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, October 1, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Pac. Coast Marine Strike Postponed
N. Y TIMES COME OUT FOR ROOSEVELT
Evacuation Of Madrid Begun As Rebels Advance
Portland Won The
Coast Title
(By The Associated Press)
OAKLAND, Oct. 1st—Portland
won the Pacific Coast League base
ball championship Wednesday
night by defeating Oakland 8-3,
taking four out of five games in
the playoff series.
Grand and Petit
Juries Dismissed
In Court Today
The U. S. District Court for the
Second Division, Judge J. H. S.
Morison, on the bench, convened
this morning in the city hall to
transact regular order of court
business. The Petit Jury, called
last spring, was returned this
morning, eighteen answering roll
call.
No criminal cases were present
ed to the court for trial. Mike
Horn, charged with first degree
murder, through his attorney O.
D. Cochran, pleaded guilty to a
charge of manslaughter, accepted
by the U. S. Attorney, and Judge
Morison sentenced him to seven
years penal servitude in McNeil
Island penitentiary.
James Gabriel, charged with
forcible robbery .changed his plea
from not guilty to guilty, and was
sentenced to ninety days in the
federal prison at Nome.
Upon recommendations and
consent of various attorneys, the
Grand and Petit Juries for the
1936 regular term of court were
discharged from any further duty
by Judge J. H. S. Morison.
The question of trial of two
mining cases was discussed in
open court and a grant of fifteen
additional days made by Judge
Morison before hearing of the
cases, due principally to the fact
that this is an important season
of the year in which to bring par
ticipants and Witnesses into Nome
for the trials, while they are at
present busily engaged in min
ing, several miles from Nome.
BOAT OF 1776 IS SALVAGED
TTCONDEROGA, N. Y., Sept.
—Lake ports around Lake Cham
plain will get a chance to see the
Philadelphia, a Revolutionary
war gondola that was once part
of Benedict Arnold’s proud fleet.
Captain L. F. Hagglund has sal
vaged the craft sunk by the Bri
tish off Valcour Island 160 years
ago and plans to restore it for a
tour of the lake on a barge.
NEW YORK TIMES COMES
OUT FAVOR ROOSEVELT
WITH A 3-POINT PROGRAM
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 1—The New
York Times in an editorial titled:
“A Reasoned Choice,” announced
its support of Franklin D. Roose
velt for reelection.
The Times, which is an indepen
dent democratic newspaper, in
its editorial said, “it was a con
servative newspaper in its own
sphere.”
The three reasons cited, first, its
belief that the second Roosevelt
Administration will be more con-;
servative. Second, Its view of
reelection “will provide insur-1
ance against radicalism of the I
sort which the United States has j
most to fear.” Third, “We be
lieve that the narrow nationalism
for which the Republican Party
stands for today, is in itself, a
policy which, if put into force
would carry the United States
rapidly in the direction of both
regimentation and radicalism.”
Rainy, Sloppy
Field Is Cause
Postponement
(By The Associated Press 1
NEW YORK, Oct. 1—The sec
ond world series baseball game
was postponed today on account
of rain.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1—The deci
sion to postpone the second game
of the world’s baseball champion
ship came after Baseball Com
missioner Landis and Terry Mc
Carthy sloshed over the field—
Landis said we might just as well
call the game off, it would be no
test of the teams to play on such
a field. The weather indications
leaned toward a cessation of rain
and cold sometime during the
day.
Weather To Give
Lucky Break To
The Fire Areas
(By The Associated Press)
MARSHFIELD, Oregon, Oct. 1—
While the weather will give the
fire areas of southwestern Oregon
another break, officials said, that
the “situation was definitely bet
ter” in many spots, where the
fires were set by the high winds
last week end, have been extin
guished. Efforts are being con
centrated on four or five big fires,
a slight north wind lifting the
smoke which was heavy, but still
provided protection against the
flames spreading.
Relief officials brought a ship
ment of stoves to Bandon and in
stalled them in araiy tents, hous
ing refugees.
Special Power of Attorney forms
Browder And
Pals Told Get
Out Of Town
(By The Associated Press)
TERREHAUTE, Oct. 1—Chief
of Police Yates released Browder
I and four associates from jail. He
j said he expected them to leave
i the city soon. “If they are cau
ght in the city again, they will
be taken back to jail,” the chief
stated.
TERREHAUTE, Ind., Sept. 30.
i—-Although Chief of Police James
C. Yates arrested Earl Browder,
Communist candidate for presi
dent, to prevent him making cam
paign speeches; his address was
given and being read over the
radio by the candidate’s attorney,
David J. Bentall of Chicago.
Bentall rushed to the studio,
where he was locked in a small
room and read the speech. Chief
Yates and several officers arrived
shortly after but could only stand
outside the door. Yates and the
others finally left the radio sta
tion. Bentall talked for a full
hour.
VETERAN PRISON
GUARD TO RETIRE
(By The Associated Press)
OSSING, N.Y., Oct. 1—Bernard
Simmons, veteran guard at the
penitentiary here who has com
pleted 27 years of service, and
now supervises an outdoor con
struction gang of inmates inside
the wall, has applied for retire
ment on pension. Simmons was
one of three keepers who were
bludgeoned and nearly smother
ed to death after being locked in
a vault, during a sensational es
cape 16 years ago.
Still Hope to Settle
Coast Trouble
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 1—
Chairman Henry Wiley of the
Maritime Commission, said after
a Roosevelt conference, that he
is still hopeful that the Coast
dock trouble could be avoided.
New Data Was
Compiled The
Lower Incomes
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 1—
A statistical picture of the aver
age American income-tax payer
is being put together for the first
time by a staff of 1200 relief work
ers under the supervision of trea
sury department tax experts.
George C. Haas, director of re
search and statistics,has the white
collar staff poised over income
tax tills throughout the country,
tabulating each return made for
1934 in the first all inclusive an
alysis of income-tax data made :
by the treasury.
When it is completed,” Haas |
said, “we will know the sources i
of income by small income tax
classes as well as the distribution
of income reported in every coun
ty and large city in the United
States.
“There is a mine of valuable
economic information in the in
come tax returns which has nev
er been made public. It will pro
vide the ways and means com
mittee (of the house) with valu
able information for considering
modification of taxes and be use
|
ful to the treasury in administer
ing the income tax laws.”
In the past the treasury has an- j
alyzed income-tax returns in
broad classification will be brok
en into for $5000 or under in one
category. In the work now un
der way the classification will be
broken into smaller brackets.
These will run from zero to $500;
$500 to $1000 and then—in the
class into which a vast majority
of returns fall—by $100 brackets
up to $1500, before continuing on
to the higher brackets.
Meteor Arrived
The M. S. Meteor, coastwise
mail boat, returned to Nome af
ter the recent blow on Bering
Sea, and is preparing to depart
for St. Michael, via way points
with mail.
15 DAYS TRUCE WAS
DECLARED IN PACIFIC
COAST SHIP DISPUTE
i
Picketing in Seattle
Of Drum Plants
o
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 1—Unions con
tinued picketing three wholesale
drug plants after the Central La
bor Council put the establish
ments on the unfair lists.
Hugh R. Bradshaw, Union bus
' iness agent, renewed denials of
statements that Seattle faces an
1 immediate shortage of medical
supplies and that the “scare stor
ies were put out as part of a plot
to mold pubhc opinion against us,
we have been to the hospitals and
doctors and they have plenty of
drugs to last them.”
North Star Is
In Nome After
Trip to Barrow
The Office of Indian Affairs
vessel North Star, Captain Frank
Whitlam in command, returned
to Nome this morning after a
voyage to Point Barrow, on whi
ch the ship stopped at every vil
lage along the way, contacting
native settlements and Indian of
ficials along the way.
Aboard is Chas. W. Hawkes
vvorth, Alaska head of the Office
of Indian Affairs, who has been
making his annual inspection trip
of the northern coastal region.
Numerous bureau teachers were
taken north and deposited at var
ious stations, where they will
continue the work of the bureau
during the coming winter.
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SULTAN DONATES
TO KING’S FUND
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. —A contribu
tion to the King George V. Me
morial fund of $5000 from the
Sultan of Johore has been anno-'
unced. The contribution was
sent on behalf of the sultan, his
people and his government in to
ken of their gratitude for the
many great benefits received from
the late king’s protection during
his reign of 25 years, a message
accompanying it said.
Subscribe for The Nome
Daily Nugget: $2 a month
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1st—
Assistant Labor Secretary Ed
ward F. McGrady announced ear
ly today that the Coast Maritime
Unions had accepted an employ
er proposal for fifteen days truce
to prevent a threatened tieup of
Coast shipping over the expiring
working agreements which were
to have expired last night.
The agreement followed the
coastwide Maritime strike of
19.14. McGrady said that under
the truce the Unions will appoint
committees to decide whether
they will arbitrate the unsettled
issues in the addit.onal forty-five
day extension of the present
agreements; if that decision is
reached officials announced that
negotiations for new contracts
which presently are deadlocked,
will be resumed between ship
owners unions, representing thir
ty-seven thousand maritime work
ers.
Evacuating Of
Madrid Begun
Rebels Close In
Children Leave First
(B.v T" ■ /Yssocla'ed Press)
MADRID, Oct. 1 The Spanish
parliament is me.! ng for the
first time since shortly before
the war. It approved an autono
mous statute for the Basque re
g.jns of northern Spain, and
heard Premier Francisco Largo
Caballero announce his determi
nation to force through the
"Workers Republic.”
Anti-craft guns were posed
during the session.
UNDATED, October 1—Madrid
evacuated its children as the In
surgent armies rolled down the
main highways to the capital.the
government disclosed that the
orphans of war and children of
militiamen at the front, had been
started on their way yesterday
toward Valencia and other safety
havens.
The advancing Fascists are mov
ing closer while the rear guard
“cleansed” Toledo of “red influ
ence.” It is reported that Tove
has reached Ulescas, the biggest
town blocking the way to the
capital.