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VOL. 37. No. 51. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, Feb. 29th, 1936. Per Copy Ten Cents
Japanese Rebellion Quelled Today
BARROW DOCTOR CRITICIZES U. S. MAIL
Crosson To Broadcast Alaska Events From Plane
PREMIER OKADA OF JAPAN
FOUND ALIVE: RE-ASSUMES
POSITION: REBELS BEATEN
Assassins Mistook Brother-in-Law And
Killed Him Instead Premier
(By The Associated Press)
Tokyo, Feb. 29, — The
militarists’ rebellion was
quelled Saturday by the
Japanese government, an
official statement declared
today.
Premier Keisuke Okada,
earlier announced officially
to have been among the
four statesmen assassinat
ed, was discovered to have
been unhurt, today by the
cabinet which stated offi
cially that Okada had been
found alive.
No explanations or de
tails of Okada’s reappear
ance were issued.
Fumio Goto, Home Mini
ster, who was named act
ing premier after the up
rising, was formally reliev
ed of the premiership.
Tokyo, Feb. 29, — The
Japanese rebellion collaps
ed today under the weight
of the loyal imperial army. I
The mutineers yieded
their position after troops
Italians Claim
Capture Town
Ethios. Ignorant
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Feb. 29, Fight
ing between Italian invad
ers and Ethiopian defend
ers raged in the Tembien
sector on the northern bat
tlefield, Fascist Command
er Bodoglio reported to
Rome, following the report
ed capture of Amba Alaji
by the invaders, when the
troops of the third army of
the Eritrean army corps at
tacked the forces of Ras
Kasha, Ethiopian chieftain.
Ethiopian officials in Ad
dis Ababa said they had no
knowledge of the fall of!
Amba Alaji, the scene of an
Italian defeat forty years i
ago. They confined their re
port to the statement of
the suppression of a revolt
in Gojjam province.
rumbled tanks into place
and launched an offensive.
Okada resumed the pre
miership today. He said he
eluded the killers who in
vaded his residence and
slew his brother-in-law,
who bore a close resembl
ance to Okada.
Residents of the Nagata
cho district, where the in
surgents established their
base, were permitted to re
turn to their homes.
Reports that some or all
of the rebel officers com
mitted harikari were uncon
firmed.
Other reports said that
imperial permission had
been granted, when insur
gent officers unable to obey
the emperor’s command,
asked permission to kill
themselves. x
During the warlike op
erations the U. S. Embassy
was protected by a military
guard of about 80 men arm
ed with machine guns; bar
ricades, sandbags and logs
were used in defending all
approaches.
All of the thousand reb
els surrendered or were
captured, after Lt. Gener
al Kohei Kashie’s command
advanced on the rebel posi
tions in the center of the
capitol.
Although machine gun
firing was heard, as far as
could be determined, sup
pression was accomplished
without bloodshed.
NOTICE
All interested in the de
velopment of Northwest
ern Alaska are invited to
attend the Chamber of
Commerce Luncheon to be
held on Monday Noon,
March 2nd, 1936, at St. Jo
seph’s Hall, Stedman Ave.
75 cents per plate.
Please register with the
secretary or with any mem
ber of the Board of Direc
tors.
A. POLET Secretary.
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ALASKA EVENTS
FROM AIRPLANE
!
VOICE FROM SKY
Radio Equipment On Way
North Aboard The
S. S. Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle, Feb. 29, — The
steamer Alaska of the Alas
ka Steamship Company car
ried 600 pounds of radio
equipment to aid Alaska
publicity through a series
of broadcasts.
Pilot Joe Crosson of the
Pacific Alaska Airways, on
his flight north to Fairbanks
carried the.short wave rad
io broadcast transmitter us
ed on the first trans-Paci
fic Clipper flight.
With Joseph W. Baker,
Crosson plans to fly for
three weeks on a roving as
signment, broadcasting Al
aska events, which will be
picked up by the station at
Point Reyes, California,
and re-broadcast to New
York listeners.
How Veterans
Will Get Their
Bonus Money
Present Plans Call For
Bonds Cashable After
15th of June
Here are some of the an
swers to the questions fre
quently asked in connec
tion with the new law to
pay off the veterans’ adjust
ed service (bonus) certifi
cates in cashable $50 bonds
as compiled by the Asso
ciated Press:
Q. If I hold a certificate
how do I apply for bonds?
A. An application may
be filed with the Veterans
Administration in Washing
ton at any time before the
certificate matures in 1945.
A veteran may send his ap
plication personally or thru
a representative prescribed
in regulations.
Q. If I have not yet ap
plied for a certificate, may
I do so?
A. Yes. The application
should be sent to the same
place.
(Continued on Page Three,
I)R. GREIST LAMENTS FACT
LOW LIMIT MAIL IN AND OUT
BARROW: FURS PREFERRED
!
Declared Much Mail bailing Brought
Into And Out Pt. Barrow
Denies Veterans
Planning to Ask
More Money
(Uy The Associated Press)
Kansas City, Feb. 28. —
Talk of a general pension
after the bonus has been
paid is only a bogey raised
to confuse the public, Jam
es E. Van Zandt, command
er in chief of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, said to
day in a statement.
"Certain anti-veteran
groups are making a delib
erate effort to confuse the
public by referring to a gen
era] World War pension
threat implying that pen
sions will be asked for able
bodied veterans” Van Zan
dt said.
“1 denounce and deny
this insinuation as a mali
cious effort to discredit vet
eran organizations and vet
erans who are sincerely de
voting their time and ef
forts to the cause of Ameri
ca’s disabled.”
“The bonus”, he said, “is
only a phase of the V.F.W.
program and there is no
valid reason to suspect that
veterans’ organizations will
ever abandon the principle
that always has impelled
them to seek pension legis
lation only for those who
are disabled.
“The VFW still strongly
supports a uniform pension
system for disabled veter
ans and widows and orph
ans of those deceased.”
Pioneers Attention
Meeting at 7:30 P. M. St.
Joseph’s Hall Wednesday,
March 4. Card party, re
freshments, dance. Bache
lor Pioneers with a lady;
Lady Pioneers and an es
cort. Cards at 9 P. M.
Committee
Save $2 by paying in ad
vance for your subscription
(By The Associated Press)
Point Barrow, Feb. 29,
—Adequate mail service is
the crying need of the far
North says Dr. Henry W.
Greist, in charge of the
Presbyterian Mission.
Barrow get four mails a
year. January 1st there
were 900 pounds of mail at
Kotzebue for Point Bar
row. but as the carrier is
only p ■emitted to take 300
pounds, the rest will have
to wait until the summer
trip.
He said: “Postmaster
Charles Brower here, is not
allowed to send out but
325 pounds of first class
mail at a time. Already he
has 400 pounds of furs re
gistered 1st class for the
March 1st mail carrier.
“Authorities have denied
permission to send mure
hence all ordinary first
class mail will not be sent
until the middle of July or
August, by ship, if the ice
allows.
“It’s an unmitigated out
rage that furs are allowed
to crowd out legitimate cor
respondence and publica
tions, even though they are
sent first class,” Greist
concluded.
Money Allocated
Pub. Health Ser.
Alaska Approved
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Feb. 29, —
Allocation of three million
three hundred and thirty
three thousand dollars by
the Surgeon general to aid
in the establishing and
maintaing of an adequate
public health service, was
approved Friday by the U.
S. Treasury.
Allocations intended to
cover the remainder of the
fiscal year, included $14,
115 for Alaska.
Stanley Morgan
Receive Medal
On March 7th
(By The Associated Press)
Seattle. Feb. 29, —Mast
er Sergeant Stanley A. Mor
gan of Pt. Barrow will re
ceive the Soldiers Medal,
the highest peace-time aw
ard which can be conferred
on enlisted men, March 7.
The medal is for service
rendered in the influenza
epidemic last winter.
Last August Morgan wras
promoted from Technical
Sergeant to his present
rank for his work in con
nection with the Rogers
and Post tragedy.
He is now in Scat !e work
ing on plans to make living
less burdensome in the Arc
tic.
Charles Sexton
Old timer Alaska
Bead in Seward
(By The Associated Press)
Seward, Feb. 29, —Geor
ge Sexton, 74. died here
Friday. He lias lived in Al
aska for 38 years and was
connected with the Skag
way and White Pass Rail
road at one time. He also
farmed at the first govern
ment experiment station in
Alaska, and then at Sun
rise in the Moose Pass area.
He was marshal there and
then was first town marshal
at Seward. Later he oper
ated the Sexton hotel. He
was republican national
committeeman for Alaska
during the Harding admin
istration, and was born at
Dayton, Indiana. He is
survived by a son Neil, a
public accountant in Seatt
le, and a daughter Sylvia,
who lives here.
REPUBLICANS NOTICE
Nome Republican Clul
will meet in the City Hal*
8 PM. Monday, March 2nd
Business of importance to
all Republicans.
LEROY M. SULLIVAN
3-t. Temporary President
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