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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38 No. 255 NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 24, 1937 Per Copy 10ct»
6 Men Killed In Navy Plane Crash
HULL CALLS ON POWERS TO ARBITRATE
Nome Assay Office and Assayer Announced Today
Demos Against
Special Session
For This Fall
(By The Associated r*ress>
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug. 14, j
—A group of influential House
Democrats expressed today, a
strong opposition to a special
session of congress this fall, on'
the grounds it might increase1
party dissention.
One leader who refused to be
identified, said that no practical
good, and maybe some harm,
would come from a special sess
ion on wage, hour, and farm
legislation.
Searching For
Four Victims in
Wrecked Plane
(Bv The Associated Press')
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 24, —Res
cuers today searched th e wreck
age of a giant $150,000 Navy
flying boat, for the bodies of
four of the six men who were
carried to their deaths when
the plane crashed in San Diego
Bay while making a night land
ing last night.
Two of the bodies have been
recovered. Included in the other
four, are three officers.
This is the first disaster to
strike the Navy’s flying boats,
the type which made mass flights
to Honolulu and the Canal Zone
during the past two years.
Mystery Check
Payment Alaska
Been Explained
Washington, July 31, 1937.
Alaska enthusiasts who have
been using the figure recognized
as the amount of the purchase
price paid for the Territory of
Alaska when it was purchased
from Russia in 1867, namely $7,
200,000, as a base from which to
show the value of the Territory
through pointing out how many
times over Alaska has paid for;
itself in its production from fish- i
eries, minerals, furs, and other;
B resources, were apparently ultra!
conservative in their statements |
if the ‘bit of history’ chronicled j
l by Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secre-1
H tary of the Interior during the
1C Wilson administrations, is accur-i
p f ate. In fact, it appars that the
|k values shown by such compari
|g' (Continued on Page Two)
JOLLY GOOD BELLOW. "Lh, la bas” screams Kep. Bob Mouton (right) of Louisiana, rehearsing
for a'Contest with Rep. Otha Wearin of Iowa in wh ich the bayou bellow will be pitted against “sooie,”
Iowa’s hog call. Gov. Richard l.eche nf Louisiana 'loft) wagered a pig that the bellow would win.
Former Signal
Corps Operator
Writes to Nome
The following letter was re
ceived in the last mail address
ed to The Editor of the Nome
Daily Nugget, from a real old
timer of Nome and this section.
Following is the text of the
letter:
San Francisco, Calif.
August 4, 1937.
Dear Sir:
Greetings from an old mem
ber of the Nome Signal Corps,
radio station staff (1911-1915)
and the sad news of the recent
death of a former Operator in
Charge (1911-1913) of that station
as follows:
Master Sergeant Leon E. Har
per, (Signal Corps) U. S. Army,
Retired, died in the Letterman
General Hospital, Presidio of San
Francisco, California, July 31st,
1937, following a stroke at his
home on Plymouth Avenue, San
Francisco, July 28. Survivors in
clude Mrs. Harper and a two
year old daughter, Leona. A son,
by a former marriage. Signal
Sergeant Leon F. Harper, alsc
survives. He is on duty with the
Alaska Communications System
Sgt. Harper, who was well up
in the sixties’ enlisted in the
army in 1901, at Fort Myer, Va.,
while he was an expert telegraph
er in newspaper telegraph ser
vice in Washington, D. C.
He served in Alaska several
times, including in the early days
at Fort St. Michael, during the
original radio telegraph installa
tions around Bering Sea. He serv
ed in Siberia during the World
War. Retiring from active mili
tary service in 1922, at the Presid
io of San Francisco, he was ap
pointed a military storekeeper
in the Fort Mason Signal Corps
Depot, where he served as a pur
chasing agent for the Signal
Corps. He resigned from his duty
during the fall of 1936, largely
due to ill-health.
Many former comrades of the
deceased attended the military
funeral held in the Catholic
chapel, Presidio National Ceme
tery, Tuesday morning, August
3, 1937, with Rev. Father (Major,
Chaplain) McKenna, U. S. Army
officiating. Sgt. Harper was bur
;ed in the above-named cemetery.
Monday evening, the Colonel
Robert Lghry Post, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, of which the de
ceased was a member, held spec
ial services at Halsted’s funeral
parlors, with many veterans, in
eluding several who had served
with Sgt. Harper in Alaska be
fore the World War, in attend
ance. Many beautiful floral
wreaths decorated the casket.
Sgt. Harper was a member of
several of the leading fraternal
organizations during his life, but,
due to ill-health, had not been
active in them during the past
several years.
Many former Nomeites now in
Frisco who true to the “Call of
the North” frequently exchange
visits, include the Bahkes, the
Jones’ girls and boys, the Fred
Petersons, the Lindebergs, and
many others, appear to all be
, well and most have been visited
recently by the undersigned.
Through the Petersons, (and
Mrs. Peterson, the Miss Inez Lyle
of Nome) we often hear news of
, the old home town and now
and then a copy of the Nugget.
With best wishes to the May
(Continued on Page Three)
ABEN SHALLIT APPOINTED
ASSA\ ER-EQUIPMENT IS TO
COME IN ON LAST SAILING
_______
I Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stewart Emphasizes The
Opportunities to be Realized With Assay
Office Established at Nome.
Victoria is Due
To Sail South
Wednesday AM
The Victoria was reported to be
at East Cape today, and the pass
i engers were visiting ashore. The'
.ship is to arrive at 6 a.m. and,
j sail at 7 a.m. tomorrow.
Following is the outgoing list
of passengers from Nome aboard!
the S. S. Victoria, sailing tomor
row:
Mrs. H. W Johnston
H D Longfellow
Mrs E D Steffen
Gretchen Steffen
Mrs. E A Carlson
Miss Shirley Carlson
Mrs. Chas. Folger
Gene S. Fadden
Ernest Siegrist
Harry Pederson
Ivan G Noble
Mrs. Ivan G. Noble
Guy B Whitehead
Lloyd L. Root
G W Pope
S P TayLor
Virgil P Dickson
Allen Preston
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Secretary State
Speaks Warring
Japan & China
(By Ttie Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24,
—'A pointed public statement
from Secretary of State Cordell I
Hull emphasized to Japan and
China the United States’ views
that world opinion demanded a
peaceful settlement of the dis
pute now raging.
Telling the two nations that
the threat of serious hostilities
concerns all others, Hull said:
“We urge that they settle their
differences in accordance with
principles, which in my opin
ion, are not alone of our people,
but of most of the peoples of the
world, and which should govern
nations in their international re
lationships. Without attempting
to pass judgment regarding the
merits of the controversy, we ap
peal to the parties involved, to
.'refrain from resort to war.’’
B. D. Stewart, Commissioner
of the Territorial Department of
Mines, today announced the ap
pointment of Aben Shailit of
Nome as Assayer and Ex-officio
Associate Mining Engineer, with
headquarters at Nome.
He also made known the esta
blishment of the Nome Assay
office, to be situated in the for
mer Louis Kurth building, next
door to the Mirow Air Service.
Mr. Stewart announced that the
equipment for the office, which
was established by act of the
Alaska Legislature this spring,
would be received on the last
boat sailing from Seattle in Oct
ober.
in me name assay ornce. part
M the building will be partition
ed off for a grinding room, a wet
analysis room, a furnace room,
and a weighing and office room.
Work will go ahead, he said,
an remodeling the interior of the
building, while waiting for the
equipment to be received.
Also, said Commissioner Stew
art, it is planned that Mr. ShaLlit
*riLl make some field examina
tions and render reports on what
mining and development is go
ing on in the Peninsula, in ad
dition be of what assistance to
prospectors and miners, he can.
Under the act of the legisla
te $30,000 was appropriated
por the biennium, and half that
amount has been made available
for this year. The delay in get
:ing started on the offices at Ket
rhikan, Fairbanks and Nome,
said Mr. Stewart, was due to the
"act that an emergency was not
declared at the time of passage
jf the act, and therefore by law
he act could not be placed into
?ffect for 90 days.
The Ketchikan office commenc
jd actvie work July 19th, and
n Fairbanks the Geological Sur
/ey turned over to the Depart—
nent of Mines for the Territory,
;he office formerly located at the
University, July 1st,
“In both those district,” said
Mr. Stewart, “the interest in
taking advantage of the oppor
tunities offered, has been remark
able. The public, with mining as
ts avocation, has really come in
and it is believed that the offices
are rendering the acme of ser—
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