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VOLUME 35 No. 127. NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934 Per Copy: 10 Cents.
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Recovery Shows Substantial Results
PERMANENT NRA LEGISLATION IS ADVANCED
Legal Fight Over Ten Yeaar Old Gloria Vanderbilt
DISAPPEARANCE
OF PA. MAN STILL
IS MYSTERIOUS
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22 — Si
lence cloaked the progress of the
" search for the kidnappers of Will
iam Weiss, noted night life charac
ter, who the police fear, was killed
when the family failed to meet the
one hundred thousand dollars ran
som money demanded by the kid
nappers.
PERILS AND THE
PLEASURES ARE
TOLD OF TRAIL
By Dr. Will H. Chase
(Historian, Pioneers of Alaska)
Thirty-seven years have come and
gone since tiie memorable day when
the old S. S. Portland arrived at
San Francisco with a big shipment
of virgin gold and reports of a rich
placer strike on Bonanza Creek, a
tributary of the Klondyke River.
A great majority of those argo
nauts who responded to the chance
to obtain wealth and helped to
swell the vast horde that went to
make the greatest “gold stampede”
in history, have passed on. And
reminisce the humane sentiment
that was involved in that mad rush
. for riches. "The opportunities that
were lost and won. The victories
and defeats. The pleasures and
sorrows. And as we approach the
eventide of life it is pleasing to turn
back the pages of the “book of
time” and review the pictures that
are framed upon the “walls of mem
ory."
Perils, Pleasures of Trail
When our thoughts revert to the
past.we live the life again
and delineate the perils and pleas
ures of the trail .... is a privilege
accorded to only a comparatively
few remaining pioneers of those his
toric days.
To turn back the pages of time . .
. . . review the experiences of pion
eer .life in Alaska .... this is the
task assigned me. This with a limit
of a thousand words.to do this
would require volumes.
Were you there, when the old S.
S. Queen, Rosalie, Utopia, Al-Ki,
Clara Nevada, Willamette and num
erous other old ships discharged
their living cargoes at Dyea and
Skagway? Do you remember the
Ajax and Bejax barges when they
arrived in Skagway bay and forced
their cargoes of wild cayuses over
board and headed them toward
shore where the owners awaited
• ' their arrival at the beach? Do you
remember the exciting scenes that
took place under the old tree in
front of the “Pack Train Saloon”
where one paid $3 each for horse
shoes and 10 cents each for nails to
tack them on and $1 for the shoe
ing? Then the dollar we paid the
cow boys for putting a pack on each
(CoBttaaoi ob Pago Four)
SHRINE CEREMONIAL AT GIANT BOULDER DAM
More than 5,000 Shrlners from jvestern states g-thered at the h.ce of Ooulder cldui >^.i the ooiorado
river, at midnight Oct. 20 to participate in a ceremonial in which 200 novitiates joined the ranks of
Nobles. The canyon was lighted by huge floodlights, while colored lights played on the mammoth intake
towers and granite walls of the Blacs. Canyon. (Associated Press Photo)
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LEGISLATURE TO MEET
SOON AT JUNEAU: TIME
TO PREPARE PROGRAM
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The Legislature of the Territory of Alaska is to meet in
regular session the first week in January... It behooves the
citizens of the Second Division to take particular note of
what legislation can be brought before their representatives
in Juneau, to bring about improved conditions and thp pass
age of laws affecting their lives and business in this coun
try which require them.
This Division needs many things... There are many con
ditions which even in Nome alone which should be brought
before the attention of the Legislature... Matters of legisla
tion bear a serious, well-thought out, formulated program.
Without a program of legislation to guide your representa
tives, they have but a few things known personally and
which the general public knows nothing of, to bring before
their constituents for passage. With a program to follow for
the betterment of the Second Division, they will have some
thing concrete upon which to base their, conduct... The pro
gram, in addition has the support of the people who elect
them, and they know for a certainty that such legislation
is going to be in accord with what the electors want.
There is a time and place for everything... Now is the
time to formulate that legislative program and present it to
the senators and representatives you are sending to Juneau,
the Capitol.
In the past years, the N. W. Alaska Chamber of Com
merce has universally taken the initiative in framing such a
program, usually presenting it to the public before-hand
and gaining their support, before meeting with the legisla
tors and advising them of their suggestions... Such a prac
tice has resulted in this Division, with a satisfying degree of
success.Time should be taken now to insure the success
of a legislative program... The legislators will soon be leav
ing for the capitol. Meet and contact them now before
they go, and they will be in a position, better to serve you...
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“400” SOCIETY
OF NEW YORK
CHILD BATTLE
NEW YORK, Nov.22 — A new le
gal fight over ten-year-old Gloria
Vanderbilt, loomed in the wake of
the court order directing her mo
ther and her aunt to share the child
The order was handed down by
Supreme Court Justice John Carem,
and make the aunt, Mrs. Harry Pay
ne Whitney, Gloria’s legal custodiq^
and gives her the child for five days
a week. The mother, Mrs. Gloria
Morgan Vanderbilt, will have the
daughter on Saturdays and Sun
days. The mother’s attorneys said
she was not satisfied with the order
and would appeal.
WILL ATTEMPT
TO DISCOVER
CAUSE DEATHS
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 — In an
effort to clear up the mystery of
the two deaths of the Galapagos Is
lands, Captain G. Allan Hancock,
explorer, sails from here tomorrow
morning, headed for the bleak Mar
chena Islands, to view the scene
where the bodies of two marooned
persons who died of thirst and star
vation were found.
The belief is that the two men
founds dead on the beach were Ar
thur Rudolp Lorenz, formerly of
Paris, and a Norwegian sailor nam
ed Nuggergood.
PRESIDENT’S DIRECTOR
TELLS OF PERMANENT
LEGISLATION FOR NRA
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(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Nov. 22 — A program of essentials for
permanent NRA legislation, including a new conception of
the anti-trust laws, was advanced Wednesday night by Don
ald R. Richberg, Director of President Roosevelt’s Execut
ive Council.
Richberg, in an address before the Associated Grocery
[Manufacturers, pointed toward the strong administration
opposition, and organized labor’s national thirty-hour week.
His statements were considered of unusual significance, de
spite his repeated assertions that he expressed only his
own views. Richberg stressed thwe preservation of the
flexibility of the code, making both as to commercial prac
tice and labor conditions.
He advocated minimum wages, and maximum hours in
each trade of industry. He said that dishonest business
practice should be prescribed and removed. He declared that
exact reports on production, prices, wages, employment and
similar information was necessary for economic security in
this industrial civilization.
Regarding the change in conception of the anti-trust
laws, he said that they never were intended as a restraint
upon agreements, but were designed to bring about fair com
petition for labor. He upheld the principle of collective
bargaining.
ROOSEVELT DECLARES
SUBSTANTIAL RETURNS
FROM RECOVERY MOVE
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^CHICAGO, Nov. 22 — The President assured the may
(Jrsof the nation’s major cities that recovery efforts had
yielded substantial results. He informed them that the next
Congress would consider the extension of job-making re
lief projects. r
He said: “Our efforts along the road to economy and re
covery have been productive of substantial results,” in a
letter to the annual assembly of the United States Confer
ence of Mayors.'
It is undoubtedly true that the coming session of Con
gress will give further attention to proposalsflnvolving un
employment relief, public works, unemployment insurance,
old age pensions, and housing, all of which vitally effects
city governments.___
KANSAS CITY
HAS WINTER
COMING ON
KANSAS CITY, Nov. 22 — An
Indian summer ended in the south
west and Rocky Mountain states,
with the first cold wave ushering in
drought-breaking rains, sleets and
snows. The temperature here this
morning was near the freezing
mark.
MAN KILLS HIS
BOSS BECAUSE
WANTS BOOZE
MILLVALE, New Jersey, Nov. 22
—Geo. Petitt, Jr., aged thirty-two, a
chauffeur, confessed to police Lieut
enant Richard Haines, saying he kill
ed Mrs. Mathilda McGee, aged fifty
five, his employer, because she re
fused to give him ten dollars to buy
more liquor.