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VOL. 37. No. 125 NOME. ALASKA, Wednesday, May 27, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Strikes Causing Disorders In States
$1,875,000 WON U.S. ON IRISH SWEEPSTAKES
Right Wing Wash. Demos Not To Hold Convention
BELIEVED HUNGER
SITUATION ARCTIC
IS RELIEVED NOW
Lac k of Word From Frank Daugherty
Point Barrow Convinces Hawkes
wortli Planes Nol Needed Now
(By The Associated Press')
JUNEAU, May 27, — Officials here of the Office
of Indian Affairs said they believed that the threat
ened famine of Eskimos on the Arctic Coast had been
relieved. Hawkesworth, official in charge, said that
a lack of word from Frank Daugherty, at Point Bar
row, satisfied him that the situation did not call for
aerial transportation of supplies to Demarcation Point.
Dr. Greist at Barrow telegraphed that the weath
er made dog sled transportation impossible at the pres
ent, and no supply team has been sent from Charles
Brower’s trading post He said “Daugherty sent lour
hundred pounds of flour and amunition from Chamber
lin’s post, 80 miles this side of the stricken area. No
emergency rations have been authorized’’.
The Bureau’s order lifting the ban on killing of
reindeer, and the prospect of seals available soon may
tide the three hundred Eskimos over. Greist said.
right wing democrats of
WASHINGTON STATE WILL NOT
HOLD A SPECIAL CONVENTION
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 27, — Conservative democratic
leaders abandoned plans today of a new right-wing
state convention to repudiate the Aberdeen convention
activities, after a protracted conference last night.
King County chairman Joseph Wethstone said
they had decided it might embarrass the national ad
ministration, although he approved calls for state dis
trict conferences to defeat the “radical” candidates
running in the democratic primaries. In the fall all
candidates will be compelled to announce publicly on
which platform they are running, he said._
Electric Storm
B. C. Did Much
Damage There
(By The Associated Press)
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 27,
—An electrical storm, one of the
severest ever experienced here,
struck the lower mainlands Tues
day night and disabled power
lines, set three houses afire, drove
residents of others into the street.
Lightning, tore boards from
houses, smashed windows and
destroyed one radio. Heavy rains
following the lightning aided in
controlling the fires.
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Investigation Of
Black Legion Is
Demand Repr,
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27
—Chairman Oiekstein of the
House Immigration Committee
this morning demanded a congree
sional inquiry into the activiitiee
of the Black Legion in Michigan
He was vice-chairman of the
special committee which held
hearings on “un-American activ
ities” in several cities, a yeai
ago.
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Oil Fire At San
Francisco Does
Much Damage
(By The Associated Press')
1 SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, —
An oil-fed fire swept the water
front near the railroad terminal,
causing three hundred thousand
dollars damage, last night.
More than a million feet of
valuable lumber was destroyed,
and loading docks and piers burn
ed.
Flames of oil covered the wat
er and set fire to the creosoted
piling under the railway trestle.
Peter Anderson, relief watch
man for the Christensen Lumber
Company fell dead of a heart
attack. Fifty pieces of fire ap
paratus fought the battle.
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Zioncheck And
Wife Pulled A
Stunt In N. Y.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, May 27, — A 5th
Avenue crowd, some laughing,
some frowning, gazed in amaze
ment late Tuesday as U. S. Re
presentative Marion Zioncheck.
and his bride, the former Ruby
Louise Nix, of Texarkona. Tex
as, pulled off their shoes and
stockings and went wading in
the outdoor pool of Rockefeller
center.
Zioncheck said he didn’t like
anything about the huge modern
Rockefeller development city,
within New York City, after a
Monday night's round of New
York night clubs. He decided
to retire early Tuesday night, a
resolution which was seconded
by Mrs. Zioncheck.
CAPT. JOHN BACKLAND OF
SCHOONER HOLMES BRAVED
RIGORS METROPOLITAN CITY
Arctic Skipper Said It Was Colder in New York and
Greater Fog in London Than in Bering Sea. He
Knows Eskimos This Country Better Than He
Knows Friends In United States. Europe.
SEATTLE, April 17, Spec ;ul
via mail)-—Able to protect ban
self from cold after years of ex
p 'l ienee in the Arctic, and gifted
with a linguistic ability neces
sary to those who trade with the
Eskimos, Capt. John Backland,
skipper of the trading schooner
C. S. Holmes, successfully explor
ed both New York and London
during the past winter.
He was back in Seattle today
safe and sound, and was looking
forward to sailing, in May to the
comparative warmth of Point
Barrow.
‘Braved’ New York
The ice floes of the Bering Sea
are commonplace to Capt. Back
land, who sails his schooner far
into the North each year, but he
talked today with the pride of a
Stefansson or a Byrd, of having
penetrated deep into the ice cov
ered avenues of New York, and
I of having escaiped with a whole
skin from a London fog.
“I’ve never spent such a cold
winter in all my life,” he said,
sitting in his warm office in the
White- Henry -Stuart Building.
“I’ve never been as cold in the
Arctic as I was in New York and
I’ve never had as much trouble
charting a course in the Bering
Sea as I had going to and from
i my hotel in London.”
Icy Street ‘Perilous’
“There wa-s ice all over the
sidewalks and streets of New
York when I arrived there early
in January, and it was still there
when I returned from England a
month later, although they were
trying to break it up with pneu
matic hammers.
“The average person in New
York, when I told them I was
•'tom Seattle, -;aid ‘Oh, yes, that’s
in Alaska, isn’t it. It must be
terribly cold.' When I told
them it was colder in New York
than in Alaska they wouldn't be
lieve me.”
Just Part of ‘Wild West’
While a good many people on
the Pacific Coast are surprised
when they learn that Captain
Backland goes North in an old
time sailing ship, this caused no
surprise either in New York or
London.
“In New York,” he said, grin
ning, “they assume that going
places in a sailing ship was just
part of the wild life out here. In
London the English shipping peo
pie seemed to think most Amer
(Continued on Page Three)
Schooner Holmes
Sailed At Noon
For Pt. Barrow
fBy The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, May 27, — The C.
S. Holmes, Captain Chas. Back
land. sailed from here at exact-,
ly noon for Point Barrow.
Aboard was a knocked down,
new Presbyterian church build
ing for Wainwright. The hold
will also bring the Wiley Post
plane wreckage south, on the re
turn trip.
Backland, wearing a double
breasted business suit, with a
brief case under his arm, board
ed the ship just before sailing.
LABOR STRIKES ARE
CAUSING DISORDERS
IN INDUSTRY STATES
Peace Negotiations Strikes Generally
Deadlocked: Forty-Five Thousand
y
Are Out or Being Called Strikes
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, May 27, — Strikes in fifteen states
have caused efforts to be made to seek to quell labor
disorders which have spawned with a vast, swiftly
growing army of strikers.
Peace negotiations are generally deadlocked af
ter twenty-four hours, during which union leaders esti
mated the roll of strikers out, or called out totaled
from thirty to forty-five thousand, with a hundred
farms and factories effected from coast to coast.
New York police intervened to prevent striking
seamen from picketing the home of Mayor LaGuardia,
following unsuccessful attempts by officials of the In
ternational Seamen’s Union strikers in Atlantic and
Gulf ports to reach an agreement at Chicago. Seven
thousand loggers are reported to be out on strike in
Washington and Oregon.
8Ui73,(M0- WON UNITED STATES
TICKETS HUSH SWEKPSTAKES
HAHOUD V; INNKK IN I5IC PACE
(Bv The Associated Press)
EPSOM DOWNS, England, May 27, — Mahmoud
and Taj Akbar, horses owned by Aga Khan, Indian po
tentate, ran first and second in the lo.'lrd annual run
ning of the Derby, while a half million people watched
a new record for the mile and a half, of two minutes
and thirty-three and fourth-fifths seconds set.
Twenty tickets on the Irish Sweepstakes are held
in the United States which will pay $1,875,000.
“Jack and Bill”, a San Francisco ticket, was on
Mahmoud.
Forest Fire 5s
Controlled Hut
Burned Areas
(Bv The Associated Press)
GRETNA, N. J.. May 27, —The
forest fire near here was control
led after more than 750 men
fought for 48 hours, and had rav
aged 15,000 acres.
Other victims of the fire were
John LaSalle, Edward Sullivan,
both twenty years old of New
Brunswick, and Kingsley White,
38 of Whitesulle. Others have
been accounted for.
DETROIT. May 27, —Attorney
General David Crowley announc
ed that grand jury investigations
would be conducted in every
county in the state, where the
Black Legion can be traced.
Artful Flattery
tPv Tho Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, May—The gal
lantry of Police Judge Thomas
V. Holland got the best of him
recently. Or was it flattery?
Speeding at 50 miles an hour
was the charge against Mrs. Lau
ra Gallup—but she insisted wo
men can’t drive that fast.
“You mean women are not as
skillful drivers as men?” asked
the judge.
“That's right,” replied Mrs.Gal
lup. “Men are more efficient &
skillful in handling cars.”
“Dismissed,” said Judge Holl
and. explaining later: "Didn’t she
pay us men a fine compliment?”