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VOLUME 36 NO 89. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 193;j. Per Copy Ten Cents
Vanguard Colonists Ready To Leave
PROPOSED $70,000 STIMULATE GOLD MINING
Says Financial Log Jam Now Ended By Cheap Money
Attempt To
Assassinate
II Duce Fails
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, April 15 —Reports said
today that two Italian anarchists had
been arrested in Marseilles, frus
trating attempts by them to assass
inate Mussolini at Stresa and Pierre
Laval, French foreign minister, at
Geneva.
The two arrested were Rudolph
Gunscher and Ida Carone. They
were said to have confessed to hav
ing belonged or had connections
with two groups who planned kill
ings of the League Council which
met in extraordinary session to hear
what the French said would be a de
nunciation of Germany by France.
In Italy, the first published reports
of the outcome of last week's Stresa
conference, was received with en
thusiasm, and the belief that a unit
, ed front would be determined upon
by the three powers to assure the
peace of Europe.
Talk Possible
Compromise On
Soldier Bonus
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 15—Talk of a
possible compromise between Presi
dent Roosevelt and the advocates of
immediate payment of the bonus
was stirred by the visit of Senator
Harrison, of the Senate Finance com
mittee at the White House.
Among the compromises talked of,
is one providing a cash payment by
1937. Another is the payment of
the bonus to veterans who are on
relief rolls, with others to get their’s
later, and give ex-soldiers negotia
ble bonds in places of the bonus cer
tificates.
It is believed these ideas may be
placed in bill form later.
Reduces Relief
WALLIAMSON, VV. Va'— The
dairy goat industry is flourishing in
a rural mountain community near
Williamson, West Virginia, as part
of the state relief administration’s
rehabilitation program. Goat milk,
the 100 recently initiated goat tend
ers are discovering, is more popular
than they supposed. Demand has
exceeded supply, and the prices are
going up. The relief administrat’on
started the experiment in rehabili
tation by taking the farmers off re
lief rolls and supplying them with
goats.
WOULD ADVISE AID FOR
MINING INDUSTRY FOSS
NATION RELIEF FUNDS
(By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, April 15 — A plan to align a power
ful congressional bloc behind a proposal to allot seventy
five million dollars of relief funds to stimulate gold mining
and develop reserves of deficiency minerals, was advanced
today on capitol hill.
Representative Schrugham of Nevada said he planned
to assemble early this week a group of congressmen and
senators to consider the endorsing of the program.
The money would go to the federal bureau of mines,
since it will be used not only in the west, but in mining
areas throughout the nation. Schrugham planned to seek
the support of one hundred and five members who represent
mining districts.
PROVIDE THOUSANDS WITH JOBS
WASHINGTON, April 15 — The seventy-five million
dollar expenditure is justified on a relief basis, Schrugham
asserted because it will provide thousands with jobs and
help readjust stranded mining populations in addition have
the advantage of increasing the nation’s monetary gold and
silver reserve. The developing of mineral resources is es
sential to modern industry, he said.
S. W. Taggart Tells
Conditions About
Alaska And Nome
Sam W. Taggart, General Manager
of the Nome Lumber Company of
Nome, who arrived from Seattle,
Saturday evening on an NAT plane
from Fairbanks, had several interest
ing and important articles of news
to relate concerning aifnirs vital to
Nome.
He staled that according to all re
ports, reservations on the four steam
ships scheduled to leave Seattle for
Nome by June 1st, were entirely
sold out, and that many- more were
clamoring for opportunities to come
to Nome. The general impression,
Mr. Taggart said, was that work
would be plentiful and that there
would be a surplus of labor and pop
ulation in Nome this summer.
Flew from Vaitiez-Fairbanks
Mr. Taggart flew from Valdez tc
Fairbanks on an NAT plane, in com
pany with him were Martin Strand,
Wilfrid Neily and Aaron Johnson.
While in Seattle on business Mr.
Taggart had occasion to converse
numerous times with old-timers of
this section who were anxious to
know the conditions in Nome and
the prospects for work. Mr. Tag
gart in his contacts with such ques
tioning assured them that labor
conditions and housing accomoda
tions were two of Nome’s largest
problems. He stated that labor con
ditions in Nome would probably be
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338 Registered In
Census Of Labor
Nome Conditions
The registration of skilled and un
skilled labor in Nome completed at
9 p.m. Saturday night resulted in
three hundred thirty-eight registered
as laborers. Thirty-two business
houses registered their status in re
lation to labor, with E. F. Serber,
Registrar.
The compilation of skilled and un
skilled labor will be turned over to
the special committee appointed for
the purpose of taking this census.
The committee is to meet with Dr.
Rex F. Swartz, chairman tomorrow,
and a definite survey made of the
results. Further details of definite
announcements to be made later,
will be made known at an early
date.
FOOD SALE
The Ladies Aid of the Nome Fed
erated Church will hold a pre-East
er home prepared food sale at Leh
mann’s Store, Saturday, April 20,
both forenoon and afternoon. Spec
ial orders may be placed with Mrs.
Aimer Rydeen or Mrs. Charles Code
any time prior to that date.
You can save money by having
the carrier deliver the Daily Nugget
to your residence. Subscribe now,
$2.00 per month.
Financial Log
Jams Are Broken
Says Morgenthau
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 15—Secre
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau
declared that the ‘'financial log jams
had been broken in this country on
the eve of seeing substantial bene
fits of this fundamental change," in
an address over the radio last night,
coincident with a call for the redemp
tion of a billion, two hundred and
fifty million dollars worth of Fourth
Liberty four and a quarter percent
bonds which will retire the last Lib
erty Loan bonds floated to carry on
the world war.
The redemption call is dated Oct.
15th. Morgenthau said the preval
ence of “cheap money" is proof that
the financial stress had lessened He
said tlic refunding of eight billion
dollars in Liberty Bunds had aved
the government approximately one
hundred million dollars annually in
interest.
Life Restoring
Serum Removed
Ape-Like Looks
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, April 15—Intra
venous injections of "life restoring
serum” removed, Dr. Frank Nolan
says, all ape-like appearances from
George Bocklet, aged 59 of Azusa,
California, whose strange ailment
was at first believed to be a revers
ing of the evolutionary process.
“Eskimo” Filmed At
Nome And Teller
Be Shown at Dream
The most adventurous of all film
expeditions to the Arctic was under
taken by a company from the Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer studios headed by
Col. W. S Van Dyke, to record in
photoplay and sound that great epic
of the North, “Eskimo”.
The picture, which will have its
first local showing starting Tuesday
at the Dream Theatre presents not
only a stirring and engrossing pano
rama of the life with its dangers and
hardships of the natives living in
the icy regions, but also is the first
photoplay to treat of the Eskimo’s
strange code of morals which per
mits the loaning of one's wife to
one’s friend and the exchange of
wives freely.
White Captain Intrudes
It is this extraordinary “matri
monial code” which provides the
story’s powerful theme. Mala, the
principal character of “Eskimo” has
two wives, and while he does not
mind lending his wife to his brother
Eskimos, he deeply resents the lech
(Continued On Page Two)
VANGUARD COLONISTS
PREPARING FOR TRIP
TO ALASKA APRIL 23
(By The Associated Press)
ST. PAUL, April 15 — The vanguard of what is expect
ed to be the government farming colonization of Matanuska
Valley, in Alaska, consisting of one hundred families are
now packing their household effects in preparation of the
trip to their new homes in Alaska.
Each family is allowed two thousand pounds for trans
portation of goods. They are electing only useful equip
ment. Each family is to be given a drawing account of
three thousand dollars, to be repaid in thirty years, with
three percent interest.
The families average four persons, and are of a rugged
Stock of men and women in the prime of life. The age lim
it is thirty-five years.
Bq April 19th the families are to be enroute to San
Francisco where they are to board vessels April 23rd for
Alaska.
Dust Storms
Turn Day Into
I\i"lil 60 m. p.h.
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, April If.-The south
west, after two days of clear skies,
and a respite from choking siLt and
sand, marked up another black dus
ter, and wondered how long it
would be before another came along
Sunday motorists were caught
when a dense black cloud bore down
upon them at the rate of sixty miles
an hour. Day was turned into
night. Static electricity generated
by dust particules, disrupted the ig
nition systems of autos. Texas resi
dents described it as the worst in
history. Residents of Oklahoma and
Kansas agreed with them.
Aii Appreciation
Pilgrim Springs, April 10th
Editor Nome Nugget,
Will you be so good as to express
my heartfelt thanks and that of our
staff, the five Sisters and the two
Brothers to each and everyone of the
good people of Nome who made the
St. Patrick Day entertainment such
a success and had the proceeds sent
on to us. We more deeply appre
ciate the charity which prompted
that generous gesture than we can
express it in words. Our gratitude
will translate itself in daily prayer
for each of our generous benefact
ors. May God bless them all.
Sincerely yours,
G. M. Menager.
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ON SALE AT
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W iley Post
3rd Stratosphere
Attempt Ended
(By The Associated Press)
LA FAYETTE, Indiana, April 15
-Wiley Post, stratosphere flier, who
left Burbank Union Air Terminal at
five twenty-seven and a half a.m.
Sunday, Pacific Standard Time,
headed for New York on a non-stop
record attempt, was forced down
because of supercharger trouble at
Pudue University Airport at 3:40 p.
m. Central Standard Time yester
day He averaged 231.48 miles per
hour for nineteen hundred miles.
(By The Associated Press)
LA FAYETTE, April 15th— Post
ended his third stratosphere flight
attempt here when his supercharger
quit. His future plans are uncer
tain.
FAIRBANKS MAN ASKS
FOR RADIO BROADCAST RIGHT
WASHINGTON, April 2 — The
federal communications division re
ceived an application for a new ra
dio broadcasting station of 250 watts
unlimited time, from Edwin A. Kraft
of Fairbanks.
The English Literature
A Frenchman was relating his ex
perience of studying the English
language. He said:
“When I first discovered that if I
was quick, I was fast; that if I was
tied I was fast, if I spent to freely
I was fast and that not to eat was
to fast. I was discouraged. But when
I came across the sentence. ‘The first
one won one one-dollar prize’ I gave
up trying to learn the English lang
uage.”