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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 235 NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCT. 2nd, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Yankees Run Away Second Game
PRES. ROOSEVELT PROMISES BALANCING
A1 Smith Said He Was An American First of All
NEW FRANC IS
NOW ON THE
STOCK SALES
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Oct. 2, — The deval
ued Franc made its debut on the
French foreign exchange market
at 21.50 to the dollar, compared
to the closed quotation on last
Friday of 15.19.
The Bank of France lowered
its discount rate from five to
three percent, to release business
industry of high interest costs.
Elevators For
Lazy Fish Put
In Large Dam
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, A few
more weeks and electric elevators
for lazy fish, courtesy the federal
government, will be operating in
the Columbia River.
These elevators are so de luxe
that the fish won’t even have to
press a button when they want
to ride six floors up. They are
an integral part of the great
Bonneville dam, a model of which
features world power conference
exhibitions, which opened in the
capitol recently.
The war department, in design
ing the gigantic dam, found the
piscatorial problem especially
vexing. The Columbia river sal
mon industry is a multi-million
dollar one, but the trouble is you
can’t tell which way a fish is go
ing to jump, if any. The depart
ment therefore built special
causeways for ambitious fish so
they can swim past the dam un
der their own power.
For lackadasical fish, fish with
out much gumption, fish which
merely would bump their noses
into the dam and fret, the army
engineers installated elevators.
Just Imagine!
Imagine, now, that your’e a tir
ed and weary fish, a salmon, all
worn out from the trip in from
the ocean. You’re in a hurry to
get where you’re going—up the
river—and here’s a gigantic dam
smack in your way. It makes you
feel pretty sore at the govern
ment and all, but you nudge
around the dam anyway, because
you haven’t any place else to go.
Pretty soon you find a hole,
a big, black hole, so you swim in
to see what you can see. Well,
sir, you swim and you swim for
a block or so through a channel
in solid concrete, and there,
waiting for you is your elevator.
It’s a nice, comfortable elevator
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YANKEES WIN 2«<1
GAME SERIES BY A
SCORE EIGHTEEN 4
-FLASH
New York, Oct. 2, —
The New York Yankees
won the second game of
the World Series, by a
score of 18 to 4.
Lineups
YANKEES—Crossetti shortstop
Rolfe 3rd base, Dimaggio center
field, Gehrig 1st base, Dickey
catcher Selkirk right field, Pow
ell left field, Lazzeri 2nd base,
Gomez pitcher.
GIANTS—Moore left field, Bar
tell shortstop, Terry 1st base,
Leiber center field, Ott right
field, Mancusco catcher, White
head 2nd base, Jackson 3rd base
and Schumacher pitcher.
Batteries
YANKEES—Gomez and Dick
ey. ,
GIANTS—Schumacher, Smith,
Coffman, Gabler, Gumbert and
Mancusco.
Short Score
YANKEES—18 runs, 17 hits,
0 errors.
GIANTS—4 runs, six hits and
1 error.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2—The full
might of the Yankees’ slugging
attack was climaxed by Tony La
zeri’s home run with the bases
full in the third inning, when it
fell upon the Giants today, in
view of President Roosevelt and
forty three thousand five hun
dred forty-three baseball fans,
crushing the National League
champions by a score of eighteen
to four, thereby evening the civil
war of Manhattan at one game,
and setting a new series record
for runs scored during a single
Hollywood Painter
Picks Pretty Legs
(By The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2, Duncan
Gleason, painter, selected five of
the most beautiful pair of legs
in the movie colony last night,
naming:
Marlene Dietrich, Ruby Keeler,
Ginger Rogers who are movie
stars, Jane Hamilton feature play
er, and Jacqueline Dax, night
club dancer, appearing in movie
parts.
-1
game.
Lazerri’s belt to the rightfield
stands in the third inning, dim-,
axed the seven run rally and
blew the game apart as Crossetti, j
Rolfe and Dimiggio scored ahead;
of him. The only previous time!
the feat has been accomplished!
was by Elmer Smith of Cleveland
1 against Brooklyn in 1920. ,
Gomez was erratic, walking
and fanning seven in the first six
' ::..*ir.g;. Schumacher for the
Giants lasted only two innings,
and was replaced by Lefty A1
Smith.
With the bases loaded and none
out, the Yanks leading two to!
one in the third. Smith allowed
three runs and filled the bases
again before Dick CofTman came
in to be greeted by Lazerri’s home
run. Gabele went in the fourth
inning and was removed in the
last of the eighth by a pinch hit
ter.
Gumbert finished for the Giants
being greeted by a six run bar
rage in the Yanks half of the
ninth, when Dickey knocked a
home run with two on.
Lazerri surpassed the record
A1 Smith Came
Out Requests
Vote Landon
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2, — Alfred
E. Smith closed his address in
Carnegie Hall Thursday night
with an appeal for the election
of Alf M. Landon as president of
the United States.
Speaking before an anti-Roose
velt national coalition of Ameri
can women in Carnegie Hall,
Smith said:
“I firmly believe that the rem
edy for our ills, is the election of
Gov. Alf M. Landon.”
i
Smith said that Landon could
be ‘‘relied upon to preserve the
fundamental principles of Amer
ica, and to keep his promises.”
“I am an American before I am
a democrat, republican or any
thing else,” Smith declared be
fore he urged Landon’s election.
Subscribe for the Nugget
for runs driven in, when a long
fly in the seventh drove in a run
totaling five for him. The pre
vious record was four.
Crossetti, and Dimaggio had 3
hits apiece. Rolfe, Gerig, Dickey
and Powell had two apiece. Dick
ey also drove in five runs.
PRESIDENT F. D. ROOSEVELT
TALKED LAST NIGHT ABOUT
FINANCES OF GOVERNMENT
(By The Associated Press)
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, —Pres
ident Roosevelt stood under the
brilliant floodlights of Forbes
Field Thursday night and told an
audience of thousands that if the
national income continues to rise
as it has been rising, the govern
ment’s annual budget could be
balanced “within a year or two",
without additional taxes.
Levelling off at the Republi
can opposition he said he had
cast aside the policy to do noth
ing which was the idea of the
“previous administration.
“It has cost money” he said "but
the people knew in 1933 that it
would,” he said.
“I had promised that my ad
ministration was determined to
keep the people of the United
States from starving”, declared
the President.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away,
Colonel Frank Knox, republican
Vice-Presidential nominee, assail
ed the democratic administra
tion’s fiscal policies as “financial
dance of death”. Knox spoke at
a republican rally.
Goes to his Death
(By The Associated Press)
FLORENCE, Arizona, Oct. 2,
Roland H. Jerry Cochrane, for
mer U. S. Marine who bravely
faced death for the government
during the Nicaraguan rebellion,
calmly and smilingly, went to his
execution in the lethal gas cham
ber of the state penitentiary at
dawn today, in payment of a two
dollar and forty-cent holdup and
slaying.
He was pronounced dead seven
minutes and forty seconds after
deadly cyanide eggs had been
dropped into the pan beneath
the chair to which he was strap
ped.
SUGGESTED ARBITRATION,
UNION LEADER CHARGED
SHIP-OWNERS JOCKEYING
(By The Associated Press’)
SAN FRANCISCO, October 2—
Shipowners sent a telegram to
the Maritime Commission men
tioning arbitration should negoti
ations fail to effect the water
front settlement within the truce
period. Bridges immediately
charged the shipowners with at
tempting to jockey the Commis
sion and International Longshore
men’s Association ,n!o an arbitra
tion position, and added, saying,
that satisfactory progress was
being made in negotiations with
Union officials. McGrady said,
that the truce was accepted "with
no strings for arbitration attach
ed.”
I
Spanish Rebels
To Starve Out
People Madrid
(By The Associated Press)
I UNDATED, Oct. 2, — Reports
at Lisbon from Spanish insurg
i ont strongholds of Valladolid,
; said that several Spanish cabin
et ministers left Madrid via the
: Alicante, aboard an Argentine
warship on September 25th en
route to Marseille.
Reports also quoted General
Franco as declaring a proclama
tion that “New Spain” would be
ruled by a cooperative system
similar to Portugal’s. “Work for
all will be absolutlev assured and
will no longer be subject to cap
italism. Minimum wages will be
established and all worker-;' rights
will be respected. Social spong
ers will be destroyed," he said.
Insurgents schemed to destroy
Madrid’s resistance with fear of
a barrage, although General Fran 1
co declared he would starve the|
capitol into submission rather j
than attack with artillery, there
by hoping to trick the populace
into surrendering.
Prehistoric Horse
'
Fairbanks—The leg bones and
foot of a horse of the Pleistocene
period were recently found ot
Goldstream. The leg is wonder
fully preserved and the skin is
intact and tightly stretched over
the bones and dessicated tendons
of the flesh.
Some few tufts of black hair
still adhere to the skin around
the hoof and fetlock. Both finds
were made by the Fairbanks
Exploration Department and
have been presented to John B.
Dorsh at the University of Al
aska who collects specimens for
the American Museum of Nat
ural History with the coopera
tion of the University of Alaska.
Summary Of
w
Weather At
Nome Station
—
The brief snow storm on Sep
tember 7th was outstanding in
U. S. Weather Bureau rec r:is f r
the month. A cool period of s ib
normal temperatures followed
this storm otherwise the month
averaged about normal both in
temperature and precipitation.
The mean temperature for the
month was 42.6 compared to the
normal of 41.4. The mean maxi
mum was 40.1 while the average
minimum was 30 2. The highest
temperature was 58 on the 18th
and the lowest 24 on the 10th.
Measurable amounts of precip
itation in form of r iin, hail and
melted snow occurred or 10 days
during the month for a total of
2.01 inches The normal is 2.71
inch- for Sep'eo h r. An inch
of fell on to 7th while the
most rainfall in 24 hours was -54
of ai ;nch on t e 2y:h.
Sunshine was below the aver
age with only 129.8 hours record
ed out of a possible 394.7 hours
for a percentage of 33. Nineteen
days were recorded cloudy, sev
en partly cloudy and four clear.
The wind movement amounted
to 6825 miles during 720 hours
for an average hourly velocity of
9.5. The prevailing direction wras
Northeast. The maximum velo
city for a 5 minute period was
30 miles from the southwest on
the 26th.
Light fog occurred on six days
during the month while one den
se fog was observed on the 14th.
Hail was recorded on the 6th.
Three auroras were noted during
the month. A solar halo was
noted on the 13th while no lun
ar halos were reported.
Upper Air Data
The highest altitude reached in
balloon ascensions at Nome, Al
aska, during September was 26,
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