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VOL. 38 No. 309 NOME. ALASKA. THURSDAY OCT. 27 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
6 Killed 8 Missing Alaska Coal Mine
Acquitted Murder Charge Signs Big Movie Contract
Passenger Train Jams Stalled Freight—Heavy Loss
...AFTER A BUM STEER this erformer went out on a
stretcher. His fellow prisoners hauled him from the field after a bad
briii.ee from the back of a bucking brahma, cattle ra sed 01 the
prison farm to be mean and encouraged by their handlers lo be
meaner. It's all for sport.
MAJOR COAL MINE
BLASTS OCCURRED
NEAR ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 27, —
An explosion in the Evans
Jones coal near near here,
resulted in death to at least
six men, while another eight
remained unaccounted for,
somewhere inside the mine.
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 27, — Res
cue parties are searching in the
Evans-Jones coal mine, sixty mil
es from here, today, for eight
men trapped underground late
yesiterday. when a mysterious ex
plosion ripped through a shaft,
killing at least six men, one ofj
them eighteen hundred feet upi
the side of a mountain.
Recovered Six Bodies
Six of the bodies were recov
ered last night, soon after the
explosion took place.
It was tentatively determined
there were nineteen men in the
tunnel at the time of the blast.
Four Men Escaped
Four men escaped uninjured.
Another, Vic Raide, mine foreman
received serious burns, and pro
bably a broken leg, while eight
others remained unaccounted for
underground.
Made Quick Exit
The four who escaped, told
their rescuers they made a quick
exit, on hearing the blast. The
■spot where they stood was soon
engulfed, as sections of the mine
caved in, following vibration of
the blast.
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Father Menager
Suggested Style
Following are printed the texts
of several letters received by
Father Francis Menager of Kot
zebue, the originator of “Old Man
Alaska”, in reference to the sug
gestion of adopting the idea, as
the inscription for an Alaskan
postage stamp
Sometime ago The Nugget car
ried an account of Father Men
ager’s original idea and the state
ment that it had been suggested
to Postmaster General Farley
that it ttiight be adopted as the
Alaska stamp. The following let
ters are in reply to the above
suggestion, and show with what
appreciation the idea was receiv
ed:
Washington, Sept. 23, 1937.
Father F. M. Menager, S. J.,
Kotzebue, Alaska.
Dear Father Menager:
Thank you for your letter of
August 27, sending me your clev
erly designed sticker and po3t
card of Alaska. Both of these it
ems contain much informative
material about Alaska, and the
manner in which they are got
ten up displays much original
1 ity on your part.
\ As you are probably aware, we
are issuing a postage stamp in
honor of Alaska within a short
time. I hope that it will meet
I with your approval.
(Continued on Page Three)
11 BODIES OF
MINERS ARE
RECOVERED
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 27,—
Eleven bodies of the miners
killed in the explosion of the
Evans Jones coal mine were
brought to Anchorage, leav
ing the fate of three others
still undetermined. Five bod
ies were removed during
the night. Most of the bod
ies were so badly burned
that they could not immedi
ately be recognized. Offic
ials of the mine have not as
yet Issued a list of the nam
es of the 19 men working at
the time of the explosion.
JUNEAU, Oct. 27th—B.D.
Stewart, Territorial Conimls
sioner of Mines and H. B.
Humphrey, Safety Engineer
U. S. Bureau of Mines in Al
aska, left here at five o’clock
this morning aboard the S.S.
Alaska enroute to Anchor
age. Commissioner Stewart
said Alaska coal mining pre
viously, had a one hundred
percent record against acci
(Continued on Page Three)
Hoover Called
For G. 0. P. To
Take Stand Now
BOSTON, Oct. 27, — The
former Republican president
of the United States, last
night called for his party to
gang togther to reform the
destructive policies which are
endangering the middle class
Americans of today, in a ra
dio speech broadcast before
The Boston Republican Club.
(By The Associated Press)
' BOSTON, Oct. 27. — The Re
publican Party had a fresh de
mand made upon it from Herbert
Hoover, for a National Conven
tion to draft a new platform—,
“Of positive and affirma
tive principles, with the safe
ty and wellbeing of Ameri
cans at heart.”
Has a Mighty Service
The former Republican presi
dent told the Republican Club
of Boston, before which he spoke
! over the radio last night that:
“There is a mighty service
to be performed and this par
ty must make the humanitar
ian objectives of the nation
possible, which have other
wise been wrecked.”
Calls Accounting
j His reference to the wercking
j of these objectives were contain
i ed in his words: “By wrongful,
ineffective methods. We must re
form the destructive economic
policies which are undermining
the standards of living of the ec
onomic middle class of Americans
j and thus all the people,” he said.
...AND SOME FALL HARD just a jump or two out of
the chutes. The brahma steers mean business, although to the 50 con
victs who stage the wild west show, it’s all in fun for they get no
money. Special guests included the governor and other high ofi. ils
of Texas, where steers are business.
PAUL IVANOFF TELLS CUSTOMS
NUNIVAK ISLAND REINDEER
SUPERVISOR, ON TRIP
Mr. J. S. Rood. Acting General
Reindeer Supervisor, has recently
returned from a trip to Nunivak
Island. When asked regarding
his trip, Mr. Rood made the fol
lowing statement for the Nome
Daily Nugget:,
Yes, I visited Nunivak Island
last week. During this trip I
stayed at the village near Cape
Etolin, which contains over 100
of the Island's total population of
about 190 Eskimos.
Two officers from the Clerical
Staff of the U.S.C.G. Cutter Duane
assisted me complete certain
work there. They had not prev-:
iously visited Eskimo villages,
and we found interest in incidents
of the 17th.
Visited In Tunnel
Paul IvanofT. Nunivak Agent of
the Nunivak Development Com
pany, took us visiting. We step
ped through and down a hole in
the side of a sodgrown bank. It
was the entrance to a low under
ground tunnel about forty feet in
lenght. Two tunnels branched
from it, one leading to a large
underground women’s apartment,
the other to two sod-roofed fam
ily igloos. At the end of the main
tunnel we entered a Kashim
about thirty feet square in size.
The walls were lined with beach
poles, black from smoke. They
sloped upward to a single sky
light, covered with a strip of par
ohmentdike seal intestine. Aro
und the wall were low bunks,
covered with hay.
Paul moved two of the split
poles which covered the floor
aside, to disclose a round pit.
about three feet deep. And he,
explained:
Take Baths Every Day
"The men and boys live here
tog.-tlier. They take hot baths
every day. This earth-covered
room becomes very warm when
a small fire is built in the pit. A
man bathes by cooking himself
in hot a'r Afterward he rubs
his body with urine, which you
will notice has been collected in
some of those wooden vessels:
standing against the wall.
Nunivak Customs
"The men visit their wives]
when they wish. But only for
short periods. It is not consider-,
ed manly to be much around,
women, and men lose prestige
thereby.
An expectant mother must re
move herself from the social
group as soon as labour pains be
gin. She ventures off alone to
have her child. In winter she
generally makes a small snow
house in the side of a drift, where
she gets protection from the
wind. When her child is born
she returns it to the community.
Training Boy Children
“If a male Child is born, the
father assumes its care from the
moment it is weaned. It lives
with its father in the Kashim, &
is taught the arts of travelling,
hunting, fishing and building by
him. Girl children remain with
their mothers, to be taught sew
ing, the preparation of foods, the
care of the home. The people
(Continued on Page Three)
MYSTERIOUS
IS CLEARED
OF CHARGES
W AS ACQUITTED OF ROBBERY*
CHARGE AND SIGNED
MOVIE CONTRACT
ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y„
Oct. 27, — The mysterious
golfer of Hollywood, whose
identity was established some
months ago, as a person want
cd by the police on a robbery
charge, is soon to join some of
his film colony friends on ra
dio and personal appearance
tours around the nation fol
lowing an acquittal on the
aged charge.
(By The Associated Press)
ELIZABETHTOWN. N. Y. Oct.
27. Acquitted of a seven year
old robbery charge John Monta
gue. today plotted a new, and
richer chapter in his already am
azing life.
Signed Movie Contract
Shortly after the jury freed the
fabulous golfing pal of movie
stars last night, officials of the
Paramount Studios announced in
Hollywood that “Monty” had
signed a contract amounting to a
million dollars.
Personal Appcaranese
The seven year pact, signed
with Everett Crosby, his oldest
brother, studio official, calls for
appearances over the radio and
in pictures as a professional golf
or. Spectators, last night cheered
the jury's verdict.
S. S. Baranof
Is Sailing Early
Tomorrow P. ML
The local office of the Alaska
Steamship Company, today de
clared that the S. S. Baranof was
sailing for Golovin early this ev
ening, after discharging cargo at
Nome, and would possibly re
turn here tomorrow noon.
While not stating the definite
time of departure from Nome
for Seattle of the Baranof, the
office declared the vessel would
probably sail early Thursday af
ternoon, tomorrow.
Fair weather has expedited the
handling of freight at Nome and
it was believed the Alaska Line
ship would probably gat away
for Seattle as advertised.
Chinese Retreat
NANKING, Oct. 27, (/Hi—
General Chiang Kai Shek in
commenting on the retreat
of the Chinese at Chapei sec
tor, declared, that the Shan
ghai operations were never
envisaged as a part of Chi
, na’s real defense plans, but
further said that the nation’s
real defenses were west
I ward.