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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL’38 No. 60 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY MARCH 15 1937 Per Copy 15cts
Injunction Issued Against Sit Down Auto Strikers
Nome Girl, “Miss Alaska” Winds Up Ice Carnival
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MISS NOME RECEIVED
MANY FUNCTIONS
IN FAIRBANKS
(Special to the Nugget)
FAIRBANKS, March 14, — A
gorgeous night parade at 7 p.m.
last night climaxed the four day
Ice Carnival, lead by the royal
float bearing Miss Marguerite Lee
of Nome as Miss Alaska, and her
court of beauties from other cit
ies. The parade was similar to
the Friday’s parade in which Miss
Alaska was crowned Queen, mid
st Arctic splendor.
Following the parade last night
spectacular fireworks illuminated
the throne scene and the entire
city.
Sunday’s festival woundup with
a Grand Midnight Ball, at which
silver cups and prizes were aw
arded to all athletic participants.
Miss Alaska received a hand
some, long lackey chain of Al
askan nuggets, with a magnifi
cent jeweled pendant, bearing an
inscription and the name of the
winner of the contest.
The other beauty queens re
ceived gold-mounted bracelets
made of Alaskan ivory. The pre
sentation took place before the
huge throng which packed the
Moose Hail.
Miss Alaska has been a guest
M numerous dinners and other
events given in her honor, with
the other attendant beauties pre
sent.
Fairbanks sourdoughs, who
were former residents of other
parts of Alaskan and the Yukon
Territory gave numerous dinners
and banquets honoring delega
tions from various cities.
FAIRBANKS, March 14, —Dash
ing across the line in the fastest
heat of the three-days’ series,
Johnny Allen, wiry 27-year-old
native from Ruby on the Yukon
River, Sunday won the grand
prize of the Fairbanks 1937 Dog
Derby.
His total time for the series
was three hours and thirty sev
en minutes, 59 seconds.
The time for his final heat was
1 hour 10 minutes 49 seconds.
Bergman Kokrines, native from
Kokrines won second place for
the series with a total time of
-3 hours 39 minutes flat.
Bob Buzby of Fairbanks won
third with a total time of 3 hours
48 minutes and 11 seconds.
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Ice Carnival Was
Concluded At
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Fairbanks
FAIRBANKS, March 15—The
Fairbanks Ice Carnival was con
cluded at m'dnight when Miss
Marguerite Lee of Nome as Miss
Alaska, was presented with a
handsome large nugget chain and
other trophies, following the
grand parade and fireworks.
Miss Alaska will remain in Fair
banks for several days visiting,
before returning to her heme at
Nome. Athletes and others are
returning on planes today.
Flight Postponed
! he Associated P> ess
OAKLAND, Calif., March 15—
Amelia Putnam Earhart who was
scheduled to start on her flight
around the world today, postpon
ed her takeoff until tomorrow,
because of a severe storm 600
miles off the coast.
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College President
Dr. Roswell Q. Ham, of Yale, has
been appointed president of century
old Mount Holyoke college In Bos
ton, the first man ever to head the
Institution. He succeeds Dr. Mary
Emma Woolsy, who retires In June.
A storm of protest from alumnae
followed hie appointment. (Aesool-.
ated Press Photo)
rt’~w~T' nVAPD DUTY ON STRIKF FRONT
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^ - e . -. wnevroiet avenue, their machine gun pointing directly at Chevrolet plant No. 2 In Flint,
Mich., where sit-down strikers held siege, these Michigan national guardsmen kept vigil through wind
swept wintry nights. .The men carried full combat equipment and were ready for any eventuality. (Associ
ated Press Photo)
Bombardment of
Madrid Increases
Is Much Damage
’ I'he Associated Pres <
MADRID, March 15, — Four
t emendous explosions, apparently
in the government mines at the
battle-scarred University City,
rocked Madrid as insurgent ar
tillery shells tore great holes in
buildings in the downtown dist
rict.
Meagre reports from the Univer
tity city zone where government
militiamen and insurgent troops
nave contested the control of the
district, described the explosive
attacks as fresh attempts of Gen
;ral Franco’s forces to break thru
i new route to the barricaded
nositions of the loyalists.
Italian troops reported fighting
jn the insurgent side, were des
:ribed by the war ministry, as
neing forced from their strategic
aosition in the Guadalajara sec
;ion northeast of Madrid.
Queen Marie Of
Rumania Is 111
BUCHAREST, March 15—Phy
sicians said Dowager Queen Mar
e is definitely ill of influenza and
denied emphatically foreign re
sorts that she was poisoned. Her
emperature is almost normal.
Doings Legislature
(Special Correspondence)
Juneau, March 15—Three items
in the general appropriations bill
! passed by the legislature, were
vetoed by Governor Troy.
They included one which mak
es a law ineffective. This is the
! Walker measure setting up a bur
jeau of criminal investigation and
i which asked for an appropriation
of seven thousand dollars.
The other two items were, ten
thousand dollars for a subsidy for
the Ketchikan and Anchorage ra
dio stations.
And the third was the three
thousand dollar subsidy for ship
ping between St. Michael and
Kotzebue. The Governor said he
did not believe in subsidies.
U. S. Court Doings
A true biLl was returned this
morning by the Federal Grand
Jury in the District Court, indict
ing R. B. Merrill on a charge of
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. No other report was
made by the body at this time.
The Petit Jury reported at 11
a.m. to Judge J. H. S. Morison of
the District Court here and was
excused until Thursday morning,
due to the Grand Jury not having
completed its investigation as
yet.
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issued Injunction
Evict Sitdowners
Chrysler Plant
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^By The Associated Press'
DETROIT, March 15, — Circuit
Judge Allan Campbell granted
an injunction calling upon sit
down strikers to evacuate the
plants of the Chrysler corpora
tion, which have been occupied
since last Monday.
He held even if the Wagner
Labor Relations Act was ‘valid,
it still doesn’t give the defend
ants the right to occupy proper
ty belonging to others."
Respect for law and order and
for the courts, is menaced. There
must be no compromise in this
issue," he said. The defendants
freely admitted seizing the pro
perty.
LOCAL ITEMS
Einer Ulricksen, employed on
the drills, for the Hammon Com
pany suffered the misfortune of
having several of the fingers on
one hand, cut quite severely this
morning. He received medical at
tention from Dr. Thomas Morcom.
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Invitation of Nome
Presented Sat.
To Soviets
(By The Associated r,ress)
WASHINGTON D C March 15,
—Delegate Anthony J. Dimond
extended to the Soviet Embassy
here Saturday, the invitation of
the Chamber of Commerce of
Nome, Alaska, to have Soviet
Flier F. B. Fahrig who at present
is at Anadyr, land there on his
Arctic Circle flight.
Delegate Dimond said he ex
pected to receive a reply Mon
day.
Last Day Filing
Income Returns
Cause of Mopes
(Hv The Associated Press>
WASHINGTON D C March 15,
-Treasury officials checked the
last minute flood of income tax re
turns, hoping it would put the
government on a balanced bud
get for the remainder of the fis
cal year. March receipts are ex
pected to total eight hundred and
forty million dollars, the largest
total since world war days.
If this estimate is borne out,
the Treasury may not have to
borrow additional funds for this
fiscal year.
From the March collections Se
cretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.
intends to retire three hundred
million dollars of maturing dis
count bills, and pay about on*
hundred and sixty million doll
ars interest on the public debt.
Besides the income tax receipts,
collections under the taxing pro
visions of the Social Security
Act, will put substantial sums
in the government purse.
Supreme Court Not
Hear Cases Mar. 29
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 15th—
The Supreme Court stirred spec
ulation among administration of
ficials by refusing to review eight
new cases, challenging the con
stitutionality labor relations act,
which the government won in
the lower courts. The tribunal
postponed further meetings until
at least March 29th, when final
decision on the validity of the
labor act, railway, labor laws,
and the Washington State mini
mum wage law, are expected.
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