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Vol. 38. No. 5. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, JAN. 7, 1937. Per Copy 15cta
Severe Cold Hits Western States
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Influenza and Pneumonia Epidemic Causing Deaths
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* Cochran Mentioned as President Alaska Senate
SESSION LEGISLATURE
IS NEARLY READY
► COMMENCE
Five of the Eight Senators, and Eight of the Sixteen
Eepresenatives in Juneau. Cochran Is
Mentioned for President Senate
—
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 7—With tne van
guard rriembers of t.'.e thirteenth
territorial legislature which con
venes for sixty days beginning
January eleventh, in town, poli
tical medicine :s being made
around hotel lobbies, committee
rooms and the territorial bui.d
ing. r -
F.ve of the eig t senators and
eight of the sixteen representa
tives are already here. Others
are expec.ed to a:rive by plane
from inter.or Alaska Frday or
Saturday, and also by a Coast
Guard patrol bo it from Soul east
Alaska, on Saturday.
It is rum', ed around that Sen
ator O. D. Cochran of Nome, is
being considered for President of
the Senate, and F.epresenta'ive
Joe Green of Hyder as a candi
date for Speaker of the House.
Lawmakers now here are wait
ing the arrival of others before
attempting any caucuses or even
discussing the personal staff of
both houses for which t'. ere are
scores of applicants, all of whom
are for clerical positions.
No Laughing Matter
Butter Keaton, tour-faced comedian
of the filma, wore thla doleful #x
preaalon when he appeared In court
at Loa Angelea aeeklng to have hla
alimony paymanta to Natalie Tal
madge, hla former wife, reduced
from 9300 to 9100 a month and to
gain cuatody of their two children.
(Aaaoclated Preae Photo)
Maybe Race Ship
Arms to Spanish
In The Interim
( Bv The Associated °ress i
WASHINGTON, Jan. V—A par
Lamentary knot. wn:ch held up
signature, but which was speed
ily enacted on Spanish arms em
bargo. gave rise to the possibility
of another race to ship war ma
terials to the Spanish loyalist
army. In the rush of business yes
terday, the senate failed to au
thorize Vice President Garner to
sign the resolution which is out
side of the session, keeping it
I from the White House until the
Senate convenes again. Both
‘he House and Senate took a re
cess until tomorrow.
Richard Dineley, a San Francis
10 munitions dealer, said he hop
:-d to get his four and a half mil
lion dollar cargo of planes and
Sprms off before then. He is wait
jing for Spanish officials who are
' Hying here from Mexico City.
The steamer Mar Canta Brico,
• which raced out of the New York
harbor yesterday, is safe at sea.
Crown Princess
Holland is Wed
With Ceremony
fBy The Associated Press'*
THE HAGUE. Netherlands, Jan
uary 7—The Royal Maid, Crown
Princess Juliana’, became the
bride of the German Prince, Bern
hard Zu Lippe Biesterfeld, amid
the rejoicing of two million sub
jects of the land of tulips, wind
mills.
First they went to the quaint
townhall for a civil ceremony,
then in historic color, splashed to
Groote Kerk, where they pro
nounced their vows.
There was only one other girl
wed in the Netherlands today,
she was “the other Juliana” Pet
ronelia Van der Meer, who mar
ried a canal-man. The honor was
permitted because she and the
Princess were bom on the same
day and hour.
13 DE AD
EPIDEMIC
DENVER
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(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED. Jan. 7—A severe
cold wave enveloped most of the
western half of the nation as far
, west as the Rocky Mountains and
was the coldest spell of th<; win
ter with sub zero temperatures
ba'.ng general wesl of M ssissippi.
Denver is stricken with influ
enza and pneumonia epidemic,
with the ten-.prra ure ranging !)
be o\v zero, and a death rate of
thirteen dead in twenty-four hrs.
Ending at four p.m. yesterday
tl’.r ‘ /al deaths ever the whole’
area was 142 since December 12.
It was 45 below in West Yellow
stone. twenty below at Billings.
At Cedar City, Utah, nine bus
passengers were marooned four
teen hours before being rescued
from blizzards raging in Utah,
Nevada and Arizona.
Temperature was 32 be ow at
Chewelah, Northeastern Wash
ington; four below at Spokane, &
; fifteen above at Tacoma,
i Washington state is experienc
ing its coldest winter.
MINERS AND DREDGE MEN
The Nome Daily Nugget carrie?
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
I Logs, thawing and drill reports.
; Mining D°eds. Placer and I,nd'’
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
.Special Power of Attorney forms
' SOVIET DELEGATES FROM STRANGE LAND J^SST
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Dressed In typical Kirghiz holiday costume, these delegates from the Kirghiz autonomous Soviet Re
public are pictured as they listened to Joseph Stalin report on the draft of the new constitution o* the
U S S R, at the eighth Congress of Soviets In the Grand Kremlin palace at Moscow. (Associated Press
Photo) „
Admiral Greaves
Died At Philly.
u\ I"*i Associated Press*
PIIILADELPHTA. Jan. 7—Ad
miral Albert Gleaves. aged 79.
retired, who was commander of
he Cruiser Transport force dur
;r.g the world war, and known as
the ‘man who took them over
and brought them back”, died
aere. He was author of several
naval officers biographies.
ribscribe lor the Nuu&et
DAUGHTER IN SECOND DEATH TRIAL
Edith Maxwell, 22-year-old school teacher accused of slaying her
father, Trigg Maxwell, is pictured conferring with her attorn-y,
Charles Henry 3mith, at her second trial at Wise, Va. The higher court :
ordered the first verdict thrown out. (Associated Press Photo)
TRYING AT
PEACE FOR
PAC. COAST
Bitter Rply Made Mayor
Roosi’s Attack On
Harry Bridges
(Bv The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 7th—
Negotiators called for new peace
conferences to spread their at
tack upon the issues of the sev
enty day strike on the so-called
‘‘toughest” problem, the prefer
ential union hiring for ships offi
cers.
At least four separate confer
ences with as many striking un
ions are scheduled, headed on one
side by the shippers and on the
other side by the masters, mates
and pilots.
Tiie District Council of the In
ternational Longshoremen's As
sociation issued a bitter reply to
Mayor Rossi’s speech and attack
on the union’s leader Harry Brid
ges, in which it was stated that
he resorted to lies and misstate
ments.
Bridges’ friends are urging that
he go to the hospital for treat
ment of a stomach ailment, for
which he underwent a serious op
eration two years ago.
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Fascists Approach
Madrid Suburbs
fBv The Associated Pr‘»ss>
WITH FASCISTS OUTSIDE
OF MADRID, Jan. 7th—Spanish
insurgent fough1 ‘''eir way to
the suburbs of Madrid again from
a new sector and are reported to
have occupied the railroad sta
tion and surrounding buildings in
a suburb five miles northeast of
the capitol.
Slain By Chum
Miss Elizabeth Giltner (above). 2S
year-old daughter of a Michigan
State College dean, was shot to
death white addressing invitations
to her scheduled wedding, only a
few days off, to an R. O. T. C. In*
structor at the college. Police said
Hope Morgan, a sorority sister who
was helping Miss Giltner, confessed
killing her “on Impulse." (Associ
ated Press Photo)