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VOL. 38 No. 40 NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY FEB. 18, 1937 Per Copy 15cts
Mozee Girl Increases Lead Contest
Joe Louis Gets Technical Kockout Over Brown
Dimond Introduces Bill Cover More Air Routes
DIMOND ASKED FOR
EXTENSION MONEYS
POST OFFICE DEPT
Measure which failed at last session congress said by
Delegate from Alaska to be included budget
and therefore hopes for success.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 18, .for Alaska.
—Delegate from Alaska Anthony j
J Dimond told the national house
today that he would offer an am
endment to the post office depart- j
ment appropriation bill to add
$72,735 for the extension of air
mail service to the more popu-1
lous sections of the territory.
The proposed addition would
be made to the item of $207,454
Because of our short railroad
and highway mileage costs are
high. If we had railroad service
roads and free delivery service
now available to the people in the
states I would not ask this in
crease said the Delegate
Dimond said the federal budget
had made a provision for the ex
tension which he seeks.
Brown Bomber
Again Vietor in
L
Fight In Kansas
c
(By The Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 18, -Joe
Louis, Brown Bomber from De
troit won a techncial knockout ov
er Natie Brown, in the fourth
round of their scheduled ten
round bout, at the municipal aud
itorium here, before a crowd of
fourteen thousand persons.
Louis yveighed 206 and Brown
199 pounds.
The first two rounds were
tame, with Brown carrying the
fight to his opponent.
Louis began connecting in the
third round. The end came after
forty two seconds fighting in the
fourth canto, when sharp rights
and lefts sent Brown reeling to
te ropes. Louis knocked him
down once, and although Brown
tried to regain his feet, Referee
Walter Bates stopped the bout
and awarded the decision to Joe
Louis.
✓
Louisville Busy
Rebuilding City
Following Flood
(By The Associated Press)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Feb. 18 —
This city bustled with re-build
ing activity three weeks after
the Ohio river had inundated
three-fourths of the city.
Traffic was congested where
streets had caved in, where bus
iness houses had moved goods by
the carload when seeking to es
cape the flood waters. Power lin
es are still partly down.
Mozee Increased
Lead Today In
Contest Queen
Jeanne Mozee increased her
lead by a substantial margin to
put her away out in front after
today’s count. The relative posi
tions of the candidates remain
unchanged altho Margueritte Lee
and Eileen Stangroom strength
ened their holds considerably.
Here are the standings todate:
Jeanne Mozee . 40,180
Gertrude Johansen .33,420
Margueritte Lee .29,680
Ada Baldwin .26,240
Rita O’Leary .25,860
Eileen Stangroom .22,080
Dorothy Nelson .12,160
Geraldine Rude .6,480
Borgny Ulricksen .4,200
There will be a meeting of the
Kennel Club at 8 o’clock tonight
at Frank Whaley’s residence to
formulate plans for the Queen
Carnival to be held the night of
March sixth. The contest closes
at midnight on the night of the
carnival and the votes will be
counted then so that the winner
may be announced as soon as
possible.
The Queen must be in Fair
banks before March 11th and
must be ready to leave on the
first plane after the close of the
contest in order not to be late,
due to poor flying weather.
A full report of the Kennel
Club meeting tonight and the
I Carnival arrangements will ap
pear in tomorrow’s Daily Nugget.
There is still quite a discrep
ancy between votes issued and
polled. Quit hoarding now, and
deposit your ballots for your fav
(Continued on Page Four)
Some Intimate Poses of President andFirst Lady of Land
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Mechanical Ant Described For
Boring Into Earth. Has Been
Demonstrated Successfully Cal.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 18 — A
mechanical “ant”, a round-bodied
machine thirty feet long and five
feat in diameter was described at
the annual meeting of the Ameri
can Institute of Mining and Met
allurgical Engineers, by J. B.
Newsom of the Idaho and Mary
land Mines Corporation of San
Francisco.
He says it enables a man to
drill the earth like an insect. It
has a body like a steel barrel,
about fifteen feet long, housing a
powerful electee motor, and jaws
in another fifteen foot barrel hol
low and which revolves under
the drive of the motor. It is fitt
ed with teeth on the lower rim
of the barrel. The teeth drill both
earth & rock. As they boro down
ward the empty barrel fills with
the “core” cut out of the earth,
and when it is full a cable hoists
it to the top of the shaft to be
emptied.
digs. He sits at the motor con
trols with a steel umbrella a half
an inch thick above his head.
Newsom said the machine has
drilled a five foot round hole 1125
feet deep in Grass Valley, Calif
ornia. It’s five foot diameter is
bigger than most blast shafts after
they have been timbered, and af
ter the ant's hole has been tim
bered it is still a larger hole than
the old method.
Newsom said it has great poss
ibility and shou’d be of potential
value to the oil industry when
the t:me conies t’ at the dwindl
ing supply has to be “mined.”
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OI VMP'A F b. n, — The state
’odd. > re p. cJ t e memorial
Urging congress to prevent the
Japanese from using their float
ing canneries off the coast of Al
One man rides the “ant” as it aska.
American Fed. Of
Labor Behind F.D.
fRv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb 18,
—The American Federation of
Labor rallied behind the Roose
velt court program with the pre
diction by Secretary Wallace that
the farmers favored the plan,
following close on the A F of L
announcement.
William Green, federation pres
dent said the program would
achieve social and economic ad
vancement for labor, which will
campaign for the program.
John L. Lewis also favors it,
the issue being one of the few
questions Green and Lewis have
agreed on.
Secretary of Agriculture Wall
ace said the program was neces
sary to the constitutionality of
p\ posed farm legislation.
!M AVI) DREDGE MEN
T p Nome Daily Nugget carries
ev t 1 forms of printing blanks
for vour convenience — Dredge
Lops, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
Special Power of Attorney forms.
Doings Legislature
(Special to the Nugget)
JUNEAU Feb. 18, —Just as
the senate did Monday, the house
today swept through the Brun
nelle memorial asking the reap
pointment of John W. Troy as
Governor of Alaska, and express
ing appreciation to President F.
D. Roosevelt and the administra
tion and widespread interest he
has shown in Alaska.
The senate passed a resolution
today by Brunnelle and Walker,
inviting the chief executive to
visit the northland.
The Brunnelle bill which would
set up regulations for aeronaut
i ics, was special order of business
! today.
The senate passed the Roden
bill appropriating over six thous
and dollars to pay claims against
hospitalization which included
hi: t v four hundred dollars to the
Ketchikan ho pital and nine hun
dred to the Seward hospital.
Flo >d, law revision and other
bills of a minor nature were in
troduced in the senate today.
Alaska Glaciers
Disappearing Is
Report Surveys
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON Feb. 18. — A1
aska’s great glaciers are shrink
ing away slowly said governmen
geologists, but it will probably b
thousands of years before the;
disappear.
R. II Sergeant, head of the A
askan Geological Survey said tha
in forty years one large glacie
had been reduced one thousam
feet in thickness, and others ar
shrinking similarly.
S R Capps who was near th
Black Rapids glacier last sum
mer said it was unlikely the en
tire glacier had made any grea
forward movement. Possibly
section near its terminus ha
broken off and upset an accum
ulation of ice and vegetation nea
it. The normal speed of the gla
ier is an inch a month. The fas
est speed of any glacier record
ed is a foot a month.
Thomas Riggs member of th
International Boundary Commit
sion, and a former governor c
Alaska said the glacier whic
comes to the ocean at Glacier Ba
north of Juneau is receding aero:
Alaska and the Canadian bourn
ary and may give Canada a ne
northern seaport.
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