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VOLUME. 36. NO. 54. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
Tax on Gold to Dominate Legislature
GREEK TROOPS-ARTILLERY TO CRUSH REBELS
Alaska Senate Kills Industrial Accident Commission Bill
HOUSE SOLON'S
RESOLVED SELF INTO
INDIGNATION SESSION
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, March 7 — The House resolved itself into an
indignation meeting yesterday afternoon and verbally lam
basted at some length, the action of the senate, because of
the killing of many house measures.
An effort was made to appoint a grievance committee,
but this failed. Ziegler and McCutcheon voiced the sent
ment of several when they pointed out that the senate had
been put on the spot, meaning that house members voted
for certain bills in order to be on the prevailing side, and
then urged the senate to kill them.
Zeigler said, “The thing we are getting is just what is
coming to us,” knowing that many bills should have been
killed in the house before going to the Senate.
Hof man, Growden, Nordale. Lyng and others voiced
the opinion that the senators had not given proper consider
ation to the bills. The. senate voted out unfavorably on
thirty house bills.
JUNEAU, March 7 — An indication that the proposed
tax on gasoline and also the reduction of the auto license
fee would fail to pass the house, was given when the ways
and means committee reported both bills back recommend
ing they not be passed. The measures were approved by
the senate.
The tax an gold mines will probably dominate the re
maining days of the session. The senate mining commit
tee today proposed an amendment to the gross production
tax bill passed by the house, which would place a levy on in
come, advocating three percent tax in excess of twenty
thousand.
The House bill would levy seventy-five cents an ounce
on gross production over seven hundred and fifty ounces on
the grounds that, the senate amendment in its setup of
operation would be too costly, on the basis of population.
The senate killed the house industrial accident com
mission bill by indefinite postponement. It also indefinite
ly postponed action on the house memorial asking for the
establishment of a military base in the territory on the
grounds that it was an unnecessary gesture which might
prove more detrimental than helpful. Several other house
bills were reported on unfavorably by committees.
Matanuska Valley
Project Forming In
To Definite Shape
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 6 — Dele
gate Dimond said that the Depart
ment of the Interior has withdrawn
several thousand acres of public
lands in the Matanuska Valley. Al
aska, from Homestead Entry in an
ticipation of the establishment and
subsistence homestead project there
this summer.
Plans for the proposed project call
for the establishment of a Corpora
tion Board of nine men to super
vise activities of approximately two
hundred families which the govern
ment expects to take to the valley
within the next two months.
Nine Persons
Killed In Oil
Well Explosion
(By The Associated Press)
St. GEORGE, Utah, March 7—Nine
persons were killed last night in a
tragic oil well explosion which rock
ed the countryside.
A deadly charge of nitro was drop
ped into an unfinished oil well be
ing drilled in a promising field, and
exploded prematurely, ripping the
derrick from its moorings and hurl
ing in onto the crowd which had
gathered to witness the shooting of
the first well in the district.
A blinding sheet of flame spread
over the crowd surrounding
the well. Scores were thrown to the
ground and many injured.
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Mary Kelly Is
Convicted Todav
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Of Manslaughter
(Ry The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. March 7—Mary Kelly,
one-time member of Russia's war
time “battalion of death,” was con
victed today of manslaughter, for
the slaying of Otto C. Johanson, a
tideflat fisherman, with whom she
lived as a housekeeper for the past
five years.
Johanson was hammered to death
and his throat cut on the night of
January 15th in their tideflats shack.
The former peasant woman was
married previously in Siberia. She
pleaded self defense, after Johanson
had challenged her to “fight for
your life.”
She related a long account of
cruel and abusive treatment in her
testimony. The maximum penalty
for manslaughter is twenty years.
Sentence will probably be passed to
morrow.
After 42 Yrs. As
Postmaster
Miss Hall Resigns
(By The Associated Press)
MEDICAL LAKE, March 7—Forty
two years of unbroken service as
postmistress here will end for Miss
Theo Hall, when she retires Friday.
She was appointed by President
Cleveland in 1893. Broken health
caused her not to seek re-appoint
ment. She has served under nine
presidents.
Governor Olson
Is Called Prophet
And Next Pres.
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, March 7 — Governor
Olson was called the prophet and
the next president by Milo Reno,
President of the National Farmer
Holiday Association, who suggested
an “economic revolution” to several
farm-aid advocates who marched on
the capital. They returned home
after hearing his suggestion.
Reno belabored President Roose
velt as “big business.” Olson said
he was not preaching revolution
“but I do believe in economic rev
olution.
“The men who brought this coun
try from a mere colonial posses
sion were all revolutionaries and
advocates of violence for the pur
pose of bringing about the revolu
tion and independence.”
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Greek Troops
And Artillery
To Crush Rebels
(Bv The Associated Press)
ATHENS, March 7 -Government
troops, their ranks bristling with
heavy artillery, poured through the
Struma Valley, intent on crushing
the embattled East Macedonian reb
els.
An air attack is also planned to be
launched, as unfavorable weather
conditions continued to hold up the
progress of the land forces.
The rebels awaited the zero hour
knee deep in mud, in weather-beat
en old trenches which were striped
across the Salonika plains and have
remained since the world war. Their
contingents are stretched along a
front line from Doiran Lake to the
mouth of the Struma River which
the British held in 1917 and 1918.
The possibility arose that the in
surgents on land might receive aid
from the sea, as the cruiser Averoff
the flagship of their fleet, is now
anchoraged off the Island of Mytil
ene, and has landed marines.
Operators And
Unions Reach An
Agreement 0 k
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—
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. March 7 Operators
.of Alaska shipping lines and union re
presentatives have reached an agree
ment on wages and hours, whereby
the demands for a six hour day and
a wage increase of fifty percent have
met with a compromise, with the
strike apparently averted. Union and
ship officials said they would announ
ce the exact terms of the agreement
when it is signed Saturday.
John Johns, A
Former Noineite
Died Anehorage
r
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE, March 7 — John
Johns, a veteran of forty years in
the North, and a pioneer in the
Klondike, Nome, Circle and other
famous gold camps, was buried here
today under the auspices of the
Pioneers of Alaska.
He was born in Pennsylvania, and
a graduate of Lehigh University. He
leaves no known survivors.
John Stayton, a miner was fatally
injured by a falling timber while
at work on a flume in the Ruby dis
trict, recently, according to the re
ports brought in by a plane arriv
ing here.
AFTER MORE THAN
12 HOURS HEARINGS
COMM DEADLOCKED
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 7 — After more than twelve
hours of hearings, the Ways and Means Committee is still
thirteen for the Vinson bill and twelve for the Pattman
bill.
After the committee reports the Vinson bill to the floor
it will instruct the chairman to ask the Rules Committee
for a special resolution making it in order to offer the Patt
man currency expansion bill as an amendment to the Vin
son measure.
Speaker Ilyins and Chairman O’Connor of the Rules
Committee said they would favor such a procedure.
WASHINGTON, March 7 — The House is prepared
for another test of strength on the McCarren amendment
to the work relief bill today or tomorrow’.
Democratic leaders said with obvious relief, that the
Townsend pension plan was dead for this session. Only
thirty signatures were obtained so far on the house petition
to force a vote on the bill. Two hundred and eighteen are
required.
The administration raised the temporary ban. an auth
oritative source said, against congressional consideration of
legislation to discontinue tax exempt securities although
the president, some of his confidants said, was still on the
idea that it should not be considered at this time. The
president’s belief regarding the question is that the idea of
abolishing tax exemption on future issues of federal, state
and municipal securities, is sound. The administration is
said to have asked congressional leaders to avoid hearings
on this proposed legislation at this time.
Foreign Policy
Aimed at keeping
Things American
r
(1 !v The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 7 —A for
eign policy, aimed at keeping the
benefits of this country’s reciprocal
trade treaties, away from nations
whose nationalistic policies are
detrimental of American trade, was
enunciated Wednesday by President
Roosevelt.
Specifically, the President explain
ed that tariff reductions and achiev
ed trade pacts would not be extend
ed to countries which do not in re
turn give favored nations the treat
ment of this country's goods.
Elsewhere it was learned author
itatively that the policies pursued
by Germany, Italy and Soviet Rus
sia have been brought under close,
scrutiny by the State Department,
to study and determine whether
those countries are to receive any
benefits derived from the reciprocal
trade agrements program.
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Prince Ananada
Was Officially
Proclaimed king
r
BANKOK, March 7 — Prince An
anada, aged eleven, was officially
proclaimed King of Siam by the Na
tional Assembly. He is now at
Lausanne with his mother, going to
school.
He said that he did not want to
become King, and that he did not
want to return home. He would
rather stay at Lausanne and play.
England To
Build Many
New Warships
(Ry The Associated Press)
LONDON, March 7 — The con
struction of three new cruisers, one
flotilla leader, eight destroyers and
three submarines, was provided for
in Navy estimates for 1935. The
measure was sent to the house of
Lords.
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