SPECIAL FUND NEEDED
TO BUY WOLF TRAPS
Biological Survey Sees In
tensive Trapping of Preda
tors is Necessary.
(By The Associated Press!
WASHINGTON, D. C„ <AP)—
An appropriation from other than
federal sources to permit Alasikah
natives and white men to pur
chase adequate traps will be nec
essary before the heavy infesta
tion of wolves in Alaska can be
controlled, according to officials
of Biological Survey.
There is no federal fund, they
explained, from which such an
appropriation can be made. The
Eskimos, Indians and white men
in Alaska who are at present
trapping wolves and coyotes,
many of them spurred on by a
representative of the Biological
Survey, lack the finances to out
fit themselves. with traps good
enough to catch larger animals, it
was said.
The bureau's representative in
Alaska, Harlan S. Gabser, trans
ferred there from Idaho, and one
of the bureau’s best trappers, has
been travelling through interior
Alas-ka, the heart of the reindeer
territory, teaching natives how to
go after wolves, officials said.
Wolves Are Menace
The natives, Gabser reported,
know how to catch foxes, musk
rat and the smaller animals, but
are far from proficient in trapp
ing wolves and coyotes. Gabser
has been travelling continually
since July 1, 1936, and has ’con
tacted hundreds of trappers and
checked up carefully on reindeer
herds.
Gabser reports that the wolves
are a very serious m^enac^ to the
existence of many of Alaskan
natives.
"This is the worst infestation
of wolves in years,” he said, "and
it affects the property of 3,000
Eskimos vitally and in a lesser
degree the property of 10,000
more.”
In a majority of reindeer herds
counted two years ago, about 50
per cent of the animals are now
missing, Gabser reported, killed,
apparently, by bands of wolves
and coyotes.
While in Alaska wolves are dif
ficult to trap because they travel
in circles within a radius of fifty
to 100 miles, trapping can be en
couraged, it was said. The boun
ty of $25 an animal, plus about
$25 realized from sale of a wolf
skin, plus some means of provid
ing trappers with modern, larger
traps, would do much to curtail
the depredations of the wolf in
j Alaska, it was pointed out.
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Arrives Frisco
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30,—
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt arriv
>ed here last night from Chicago,!
I and leaves this afternoon for
I Seattle for a week's visit with
her son-in-law and daughter Mr.
and Mrs. John Boettiger. Boetti
1 ger is in charge of Wm. Randolph
Hearst’s Seattle Post Intelligen
:cer.
She knitted during the Chica
go-San Francisco flights. The
' Boettigers are here on a business
trpi, and will fly north with the
First Lady.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
—
In the probate court for the
Cape Nome Precinct, Second Div
ision, Territory of Alaska.
In the matter of the estate of
John Glenn Rose, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly ap
pointed Administrator of the Es
tate of John Glenn Rose, deceas
ed.
( Notice is further given that ‘all
persons having claims against
said estate, are required to pre
sent them with- proper vouchers,
within six months from the date
of this notice, to the undersigned
at his office at Nome in said pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska.
Dated at Nome Alaska this 8th
day of April 1937.
A. POLET,
Administrator of the estate of
John Glenn Rose, Deceased.
Publish—April 8, 15, 22 29 1937.
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Plane Turns Over
(Rv The Associated Press 1
OMAHA. April 29th—Headed
west for Seattle to visit her dau
ghter and soninluw, Mr. and Mrs.
John Boettiger, Mrs. Roosevelt’s
airliner plane made a perfect
landing at the Municipal Airport
then mired down on the soft earth
runway extension. She and the
other passengers were brought to
the Administration building in an
automobile. Mrs. Roosevelt sat
knitting, undisturbed through it
all. Passengers said they left
Washington at midnight.
.MASSACHUSSETS CIRCUIT
COURT OF APPEALS
MAKES RULING ON
SOCIAL SECURITY
ACT.
The following information in
reference to the social security
Act being declared unconstitu
tional, was heard by some radio
listeners but were not clear on
its meaning, the Nugget’s press
reports did not cover it, so we
are taking this opportunity to
reprint it from the Juneau Em
pire of April Ifith.—Editor.
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, Mass., April 16—Oall
ing upon the Federal Court in an
effort to safeguard the power of
states, the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals, First Circuit,
labeled the Social Security Act
as unconstitutional.
In a two to one decision, the
Circuit Court reversed the ruling
by the Federal District Court
against the challenge of George
Davis, public utility stockholder,
and declared invalid both the un
employment insurance tax pro
vision and the- old age assistance
provision of the Security Act.
Judges Scott Wilson and James
Morton Jr. were the majority de
cision with Judge George Bing
ham dissenting.
The majority decision, although
admitting that Congress had
broad taxing powers, added, “but
that it intended it should reach
every possible relation between
employer and employee, as in the
subject of taxation, we cannot
agree.”
FAIRBANKS BOY STRIKES
I'OR PROM DATE
PULLMAN, Wash., April 27—
Brice H. Howard, Jr., from Fair
banks, Alaska, five-foot, five-inch
freshman at the Washington state
college in Pullman, a "sitdown”
strike was staged last week again
st Roda Le Cocq from Belling
ham, Wash., a five-foot, ten-inch
senior, because she refused him
her date for the Junior Prom on j
May first.
Howard's “sitdown” strike was
abruptly brdken up soon after it
had started by Bud Bankson from
Sp»—ne. Wash., a freshman,!
W’hose stature is more imposing
than Howard’s.
Howard pitched a tent on the
lawn of the girl's sorority house, I
Kappa Alpha Theta, of which
Miss Le Cocq is a member.
“I'll stay until she gives me the
date, even if it takes all sum
mer," Howard declared.
When Bankson arrived on the
scene, he ousted Howard and
squatted in front of the tent him
self, Bankson said:
“Howard is my buddy, but he
has neither the facial beauty nor
the physical stature to warrant
him in seeking the favor of the
beautiful Miss Le Cocq. It’s not
fair to her, so I’ll take up the
strike myself."
Miss Le Cocq kept out of sight.
Troy Announced
Members of The
Unemplov Comm.
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU. April 29. — Gover
nor Troy announced the appoint
ments to the Unemployment Com
pensation Commission, authoriz
ed under the act passed by the re
’’cent extraordinary session of the
Territorial Legislature, to admin
ister that phase of Social Secur
ity in Alaska.
E. L. Bartlett of Miller House,
Richard E. Hardeastle of Ketchi
kan and R. A. Bragaw of Anch
orage, were those appointed, to
take effect immediately.
The commission will appoint a
director at a salary of $4200 a
year.
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Got her Decree
From Barrymore
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, April 27th—
Elaine Barrie 21-year-old bride
of John Barrymore, 55-year-old
stage and screen actor; obtained
a divorce April 23, in court in
Los Angeles. Only the young ac
tress and her mother, Mrs. Edna
Jacobs, testified at the brief trial
that marked the end of Miss Bar
rie’s first and Barrymore’s fourth ,
marriage. The marriage had last
ed only a little more than five
months.
The young woman’s charges i
against Barrymore were that he
had treated her cruelly by calling
her names and humiliating het
before friends and strangers. In
granting the divorce decree, Jud
ge Walter Gates sa.d:
"I certainly think the plaintiff
is entitled to a divorce. I grant
it. Better luck next time "
Neither Barrymore nor his at
torney was in court.
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