NO 8R ifi THE STRATEGIC, WORLD FLIGHT AIR 3ASK—FOR COMMERCIAL A8 WELL AS MILITARY PURSUITS--IT CAN BE REACHED BY LAND OR WATER
Member of Associated Press Oldest Newspaper in Alaska
THE NUGGET
( GKO. 8. MAYNARD. Publisher. )
■—■———■■——■—b—■■!—mmmmj—mmmmmmmmmmta^mmmimmmm—e——— —**———^ai—"I—"1———"""^
VOLUME 34. . Xo. »4 « O M K, A L A 8 K A. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1IKIS v *sin«le coPY 25ct*- P«-month $1.
ALASKA 6ETS UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
BUSINESS ON UPWARD TREND
NEW YORK. Aug. 5, (IP)—Trade
and business continued the upward
trend last week with gains dis
tributed in more directions. Dun
and Bradstreets Review said. The
improvement is emphatic, despite
minor fluctuations in isolated plac
-es. Regarding the balance of re
tail purchasing against production
and wholesale operations, the
agency said: “The fact that con
sumer buying thus far has trail
ed somewhat hectic gains in whole
sale committments, industrial pro
duction has created no great cause
for concern, as the spending ha
bits acquired under the stark
grimness of the last three years,
are not expected to be changed
■with one fell swoop. Retail in
ventories are still (below normal
and the rapid inroads made into
the present holding will provide
ample room before the Fall ship
ments of merchandise will have
been received.
Ml’RDER STORY
APPARENTLY HOAX
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 5, (A3)—The
story of Phillip Charles Edwards,
the nineteen year old high school
graduate, who tried three days to
convince the police that he mutil
ated and killed Dal'bert Aposhian,4
aged seven, was disclosed to be a
hoax late Friday. The police an
nounced that the youth admitted
that he fabricated the entire tale
with the purpose of misleading
the police and the hope of be
coming famous and getting a vaud
vtHle contract.
The boy’s dismembered body
was found in San Diego Bay July
24th. Edwards is being held in
.iail for the time being.
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL
MOVEMENT SUCCESS
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4, (/P)—
The six weeks old ^pdustrial con
trol movement for higher wages
and shorter hours of work, spread
scj far over the country that the
officials directing it admit that it
outran their expectations. They
'they are soon planning a stock
taking to measure in terms the
new jobs made, the wages in
creased for those now at work,
and the results obtained.
CONSTRUCTION REACHES
HIGH VELOCITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, (yP)—
The Pacific Coast industry alter!
seven month record making awards
in engineering contracts, finds the
thirty-lthree pace speeded up a
hundred and eighty-two per cent
over the thirty-two velocity. .
BUSINESS ALlvOWEI)
TWO WEEKS LEEWAY
WASHINGTON. Aug. 5, (jP)—
Johnson announced that a two
weeks leeway would be allowed
before sanctioning pressure on
business and industry to comply
with the blanket wage and em
ployment agreement, but' he said,
"It is a dead certainty that the
teeth of the law will be used
againat recalcitrants of the minor
tty effort to hold up the recovery
program.
To save writing letters, aanH •
copy of The Nome Nugget on plane.
ELIM
(Special Nuggat Correspondence)
July 2 4
Nome Nugget
Nome, Alaska
As Elim ds almost deserted these
days on account of all the famtl
ies being out to their Ashing
camps, but occasionally there is
a bit of news comes out our way
Ibut by the time we get it to you
it is almost stale.
We had a very acceptable vgsit
frdin Lieutenant Tate from Un
alakleet, who stopped here on his
way to Nome, and was at the tea
cher’s home for a couple of hours
a.nd we had a regular gabfest.
We sure enjoyed it as he is the
first stranger to visit' Elim since
the first of June when the captain
of the Amy came here to pre
pare the boat for the’ summer’s
work of carrying the mail from
Golovin to Dime Creek. We are
always glad to welcome any and
all strangers who are reputable.
The Amy called in here on the
20th with mail anrf brot a box of,
drygoods from the Victoria for the
teachers thev had^-on board Mi
’ * |
aha Ivarooff’s wife and family for
Shaktoolik, and the water was a
little rough so they did not come
ashore here but proceeded to
Shaktoolik immediately.
We are expecting the Amy back
for Golovin in a day or two again.
Some of the Elim people expect
to start to St. Michael in a day or
two if the weather will permit,
to wreck a building there that has
been allotted to them so we are j
praying for good weather for them
to make the trip
The Elim people have done fair
ly well in fishing this summer and
they have some of the best dry
fish in the country again this
time as all their fish have been
dried with out any rain on them
and they have good shelter for
them when dry so they are bright J
and red without mould.
The village has had no time to j
work on the Spider this spring.)
The Spider is the boat which the
village of Elim bought from John
Olson of Koyuk last spring and
brot it home just before the high'
water last fall. If they had left j
It where it was it would- have
(been way bark on tihe tundra \
somewhere and perhaps wrecked i
or spoiled so it would never have!
been any good to any one. It
needs a new keel and they plann
ed to put one In this spring, and j
they have arranged to have the!
engine .repaired at White Moun
tain as It is broken up pretty
badly.
The gardens of Elim are not do
ing very well as it has been too
cold and dry, we have not had a
good rain this season so far, just
one little sprinkle, not enough to
make one half barrel of rain water
from the eave troughs
There are only two families
here this summer and the summer
has been rather lonesome for the
teachers, hut they have been busy
so they did not notice it so much.
Two men went to Walla Walla
lasit week and staked the mail
trail over the hill toward Golo
vin. the stakes were hauled for
lit last spring but it was not fin
ished, now it is finished.
John Kotongan from TYalla
Walla was a visitor in El1m a few
days ago. John has whipsawed
ALASKA IS GRANTED
INEMPliOYMKNT RELIEF
FUNDS UNDER ACT
__ •
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, .i/P) —
The Emergency Relief Administr
ation has granted Alaska $34, 629.
00 for unemployment relief, there
by bringing in all states and terr
itories eligible to receive federal
funds under the Relief act.
ANC HORAGE RELIEF PLANE
FOG HOUND
ANCHORAGE, Aug. 5. (/P) —
Pilot Blunt and Dr. S. Walkofsky
who are flying from Alitak to
here w<ith Henry Roof, a fivg year
old iboy who is hi a serious cond
ition, were forced down in thick
weather on Barren Island yester
day morning, and have been there
ever since. The mother is accom
panying her son.
It is tbelieved that there is no
immediate danger hut it is also
feared that peritonitis may devel
op if the operation -is delayed
much lomger. The plane is now
fog bound but Pilot Blunt will try
to make it thru the first clearing
■in the weather
PLANK (’ATt’HKS ON KIKE
FROM CKiAKKTTE
ANClIOitAGfa? Aug. 2. (A') —
Dropping of a lighted cigarette by
» passenger onthe bottom of Avia
tor Art Woodley’s seaplane while
it was in flight over the northern
end of the Alaska Peninsula re
cently set the aircraft afire and
compelled the pilot to plunge in A
heavy bead wind into the surf of
the Pacific Ocean.
Pilot Woodley and bis five
uassengers made shore in safety,
but the plane was engulfed. He
grave details of the accident on his
return today to Anchorage.
He will go "to Seward to embark
Friday on the southbound steamer
Aleutian for Seattle. He will buy
a now plane in the States and re-'
turn with it to Anchorage.
the lumber and built himself a
boat down ,at Walla Walla this
summer, but before he got his
boat finished he got a good duck
ing when his kyuk turned turtle
as- he was taking the fish out of
his nets, that was on the fourth of
July.
The reindeer marking was done
on the 15th of July again as
usual, and the drive was the best
we have had, and we heard that
•they had a good day for it, we
did not get' to attend as we have
no equipment for camping or tra
velling. C. S Replogle
TEAR GAS AT STOCK KXCHANGK
NEW YORK, Aug. 5, (A>) —
Fumes from what officials said
was a cylinder of tear gas swept
through the stock exchange at noon
and compelled the suspension of
trading, giving the district the
most exciting incident since the
bomb explosion in front, of Mor
gan’s office years ago. No one
was hurt but scores of workers
suffered severely from irritated
eyes as they groped their way to
th^ sidewalk. The reaeon why or
by whom the cylinder was placed
In the Intake of the ventilator
system is unknown.
Prices closed one to two points
Tower. Trade was slow.
THE
MUKLUK
TRAIL
(BY E. L. BARTLETT)
WASHINGTON, July 8, (/P)—
The" office of the Public Works
Administrator is said to be about
ready to fihsh the “Go" signal
which will set in motion tjie vast
forces summoned by the administ
ration to aid in curing the econ
omic ills of the nation.
It has been extremely difficult,
if not impossible, t'o ascertain
which projects will be included in
the initial program. That is not
because- Col. Donald II: Sawyer,
temporary administrator of puiblie
works, is loath to give information
but the whole set-up is in such ri
formative stage that decisions are
changed hourly.'
For that reason Delegate D1
mond has not learned which of
tlie Alaska projects, if any, are
on ,the approved list of the first
group of public works.
Practically all the Delegate
time since Congress adjourned has
been spent in protecting rhe Terr
itory’s interests in this respect.
He recently had a long conference
with General Pillbudy, a ranking
official in the office of the chief of
army engineers, and urged a com- !
prehensive rivers and harbors pro
gram for Alaska.
There was general cause for re
gret in tlie resignation this week
as director of the national park
service of Horace M. Albright.
There was no political reason Tor
Mr. Albright’s retirement from the
service, it is said. He resigned in
order to become vice president
and general manager of the Unit
ed States Potash Company, which
operates mines and refineries at
Carlsfliad, Now Mexico. .
Mr. Albright visited Alaska once.!
His visit was marred by a sudden
attack of appendicitis while he
was in Mt.- McKinley National
Park and he had to be rushed to
Fairbanks bv airplane for an oper
ation, but that unpleasant experie
nce did not prevent him from be
coming very much attached to the
country.
His continued interest was re
cently show,, in concrete form
when he recommended that $250,
000 be allowed from public works
funds to lie used in road building
In McKinley Park.
A member of the national park
service since its formation in 1917,
Mr Albright was its second dir
ector. Once superintendant of
Yellowstone Park, he succeeded
Stephen T. Mather as director.
Arno B. Cammerer will follow j
him as director. Mr. fammerer j
has been associate director since
1919. Arthur E. Deniarav is to
step uP to the position of assoc
iate director from that, of senior
assistant to tihe director.
A press dispatch to Alaska news
papers which may have created,
the wrong impression said that
1404.000.900 Toad funds under
tke public works act bad been
(Continaed on Page 5)
jSAVS ALASKA\S
NKV Kli FOUGHT
■ , ,—
SAL.KM. Ore., Aug. ,5, 0?) —.
Louis M. Johnson now ownk his
firm at Silvertnn free of Incum
brances. People hereaibouls are
saying Alaskans never forget,
j Back in 1919, Johnson was in the
i real estate business in Hyder.
| -Vick Thompson of Oklahoma City,
a former Alaskan, commissioned
I
I him to sell a piiece of property at
Hyder for what he could get,
keep what he wanted as commis
sion, and send him the balance.
Johnson was offered nine hundred
for the property but wouldn’t sell
it. A year or so later he sold it
to the Guggenheims for forty thou
] sand. Thompson since made a
i fortune in oil. Johnson invested
nineteen thousand of his savings
in a farm. Sickness and death in
(the family reduced his resources.
! Foreclosure proceedings were start
II (I last week. Johnson hopped a
; freight to Portland and hitchhiked ‘
I to Sea title. Lfnable to borrow
; among the Alaskans, who wore.
also feeling the brunt of hard
| times, Johnson wired Thompson
and received the reply: “I am on
my way.’’ Arriving in Seattle,
Thompson settled Johnson's hotel
bill, then went tor Oregon and
paid off Johnson's seventy-five hun
died dollar “ mortgage The mea
scarcely knew each other except
through business dealings.
NANKING FLAG IS STILL
PLYING OVER NORTH CHINA
PEIPING, Aug. 2. (/P)—Japanese
troops having evacuated the re
cent war zone in North China un
der terms of the Tangku truce, the
flag of the Nanking government of
China flies today over all the area
south of tlie Great Wall of China.
Thlp'atteni ion of Chinese auth
unties is now turned to peace en
terprises. Millions of dollars will
be spent in reconstruction work
and public welfare projects
Gen. Feng Yu Hsiang, independ
ent war lord, who is known as the
A
“Christian general," remains the
one disturbing factor. Nanking of
ficials have not yet determined
whether to conciliate him or crush
him with force.
TROTZKV FAILS TO
MXLIST AID OF LITVINOV
PARIS. Aug. OP) Leon Trot
zky, one of the organizers of Rus
sia’s soviet government' and its
former minister of military affairs,
is declared to have failed to en
list in his efforts to retnffp to the
country Maximum M. Litvinov, so
viet commissar of foreign affairs.
Trotzky wa$ exiled from Russia
when Joseph DJugasvili Stalin be
came a controlling factor in so
viet government affairs. In the
last few years. Trotzky has been
anxious to have the decree of exile
lifted. He probably could do so If
he could obtain in his behalf the
Influence of Commissar Litvinov.
The latter, as chairman of ' the
Russian delegation to the recent
World Bconomie Conference at
London made an enviable record
for his country, and is highly re
garded by Stalin and other soviet
leaders
■
FOR SALK
Slightly used 35 CaterpUler la
good condition. Inquire Mort
Powell.