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VOIjUMH 30 No. 107 NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, Sipleinber 7. 1031. ,W r,,,,v: 10 c< nN 4
TEXTILE STRIKE TAKES TEN LIVES
SUBMARINE SCANDAL INCLUDES EIGHT NATIONS
UNITED STATES REFUSES SOVIETS BIG LOAN
SUBMARINES ARE
TIED UP WORLD
NATIONS SCANDAL
SUBMARINE SCAN DAE SEEMS
STRETCH AROUND
(By The Aasociateil Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. Evi
dence that the Electric Boat Com
pany, America’s foremost submar
ine builders had maintained clos"
“agreements" not only with Vick
ers o| England, but also leading
shipbuilding concerns in Holland,
Belgium, Norway, Russia. France.
Spain, Italy and Japan, was laid
before the Senate Munitions Com
mittee bv D. V. Spear. Vice-Presi
dent of the company. ""
•He said that cooperation with
[the governments of England. Franee
Italy, Russia, Japan, Germany,
Spain. Canada. Holland. Denmark,
Sweden and Norway was neces
sary to the effective world-wide
control of submarine production.
He further .stated that all private
submarine building in the worth
outside of the United States was
concentrated in these countries.
Evidence that the British govern
nient. had given Japan “Design K,"
1
type of submarine. wa« also pre
sented in the form of letters from
Heliry Parse. ' Pre.-ide'h t of lit"
Company, to Sp'V.
NATIONAL GUARD
IS PREPARING TO
ACT EMERGENCY
NATIONAL. GUAKI) PREPARING
FOR EMERGENCIES F. E. R AM
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(By The Associated Press)
PHOENIX, Arizona. Sept. 7.
Two National Guard Companies be
gan special drill this morning as
an aftermath of a savage battM
between the police and picketeers
in front of the Federal Emergency
Relief headquarters.
» Twenty persons were injured in
the flighting, pick handles, iron
pipes and rocks weer used as wea
pons by more than two hundred
agitators against the police clubs.
Officers jailed twenty-seven, in
cluding n woman and a boy. tkv
erncr M'>eur ordered the States
Attorney General to "assist’"- ;n
progecL'.ng them, after the County
Attorney Jennings, had refused
the executives request to file fel
ts.. .
ony charges. There were no com
plaints filed. Authorities said
that th6 picketers were attempt
ing to agitate a strike among the
men now . employed on the relfef
payrolls, for greater disbursements.
VOLCANO EROPTS
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
« ;
ERUPTION OF VOLCANO
'•IN HAWAII
(Bjr The Associated Press)
HILO, Hawaii, Sept. 7, The
spectacular eruption or Moun;
Kilauee was Interpreted by. Haw
allant that the Fire Qoddesa Pel
lee was pleased to them aa she
returned to her home.
A plum of white and green
sulphur fumes rose high above the
Halemaumau flre pit and carried
the message to the natives who
believed the eruption was a sign
ot Peelee’s pleasure.
The eruption resulted in the
splitting open of a six hundred
foot crack in the walla ot the pit,
which is believed to have relieved
the pressure, a volcanolst said to
day.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NUGGET
TEN KILLED MANY
INJURED RESULTS
EARLY DAYS STRIKE
TOLL OF LIFK KKUIXK
IX TKXTILK STRIKK
_ t
(Uy The Associated Press
rX'DATKO, Sept. 7, Ten men
are dead and scores' are injrtreij
as striking textile workers sitftj y
by picketing a > ! “flying squad
rons’' to close nulls still opera;-1
ing today, in an effort to prevent
mill employees from reporting to
work, 4*,
», . J
Shotguns, dynamite, sand bag.
barricades! dubs and tear gas
were used by one side or the other.
(iorinan. Chairman of the strike
committee saiil that the union
would agree to abitrate only af
ter all of the mills'ih all divisions
of tiitt industry were closed,
j Six picketing strikers were slain
land thirty wounded at Honeapath
South Carolina as guns blaze;
when flying squadrons of sti; ker.s
c*ame from nearby Helton. No one
knew who fired the first shot.
BARON FRIEDLANDER
TO BE BORIED NOME
BAKOV do FRIKLANDKK
TO BK BI RIF.O NOMK
Baron I*. M. rle Friedlander who
was found dead in his home at
Fort Davis Wednesday morning,
•by Chas. D. Jones will be buried
here according to information re
ceived from London relatives by
Mr. Jones. The date of funeral
services have not as yet been
completed. Dr. Rex Swartz pro
nounced death was due to heart
trouble.
The Baron had motored to
town tl»e previous evening and
while obtaining his copy of the
Daily iNugget he expressed himgelt
to the publisher that ho was in
good health and feeling tine, In
fact much better than a year ago.
He also told of his plans to go out
side on the next Bailing of the
steamer Victoria and make a trip
to London in the interest of his
mining company. Among other
plans were tile commencement of
active winter mining operations on
a claim on Holyoke in the vicinity
of Ihe famous Bessie Bench, about
two m|les north of Nome.
His jsudden demisp was a shock
to his many Nome friends and a
probable set hack to the working,
of a large .acreage of minitig1
ground which he had under super
vision.
Paulus Max de Friedlander was a
British subject by birth, having
been born at de Aaar South ,|frieas
Dec, 15. 1863. His hojjji^.,address
was I/ondon. His wife having died
some years ago, he is now survived
by two sons and a daughter, both
sons are mining engineers, one
I living in Argentina, the other
South Africa. The daughter. Mrs.
V._M.,. Constant, living in_county
Essex, England. He also has two
sisters, one in South Africa, the
other in New Zealand, also several
brothers living in South Africa
and one in Utah.
The Baron hau organized the
Cripple River Syndicate, of which
he was managing director. The
company operated a small gold
dredge last summer and prospected
with a drill last winter.
OLM'IMEK IN FAIRBANKS
DIES HEART ATTACK
iBy The Associated I'resS)
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 7, James El
well, aged seventy-five, died here
suddenly of a heart attack while
making candy In his store. Ho
came north In 1891 going to
Forty Mile and then into the
Klondyke. As an early stamped
er he mined on Eldorado Cre-ek
aind came to Fairbanks In 1903.
He was a widower and Is surviv
ed by two brothers, one Ifr Ne
nana and the other In Wisconsin.
He was a member of the Masonic
lodge.
PITTMAN IN NOMINATED
AGAIN FOR SENATE
(By The Associated Press)
RENO, Sept. 6, Nevada demo
crats nominated Pittman, tor the
U. S. 'Senate. He received ten
thousand, six hundred votes to
thlrty-dlve hundred for H. R. Cooke
Reno attorney.
State engineer George Malone
received the republican nomina
tion. Pittman bai just completed
his twenty-second year in th© Sen
ate. The outcome of th© six-cor
nered democratic race for gover.
nor is still In doubt.
P.A.A. SIBERIAN
PARTY ARRIVES
AT FAIRBANKS
•>
pax r.xitTx xukixks
U.X< R l imii.X VKS
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS. Sept, T I la rile ■>
Branch, 2nd Assistant Postuiastei
General, Robert Thatch, hymau S.
Peck, Robert Gleason, Pacific ;
aska Airways officMls art ved here
Thursday from Nome via Rub.. la.
a PAA plane piloted bv .low (’ros
son.
The party visited Whalen, Sib
eria Inn «• ere prevented from fly
ins to Aindvr by weather. Soviet
officials welcomed the parly at
Whalen. Thatch and Peck dis
cussed the Russian possibilities of
a connection between aerial ser
vices in Alaska and Siberia and
them-,, other European countries.
Branch. Thatch and Peck are now
enrnute to Seward by rail to con
nect with the next sailing of tha
S. S. Aleutian for Seattle.
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SOVIETS REFUSED
LONG TERM LOAN
THROUGH U. S.
KKKISKS U)N« TIM K 1,0.1 \
TO SOV1KT RI'SSI.I
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON'. Sept. 7, Presi
dent Roosevelt was disclosed . ;is
having refused to grant Russia a
long term loan on commercial cre
dits 4>f more than two hundred
million dollars. As a result. thV
debt trade negotiations between
the United^ States and Russia.
have collapsed.
Russia insisted on the loan if
she was (.0 uphold her promise to
pay the hundred million dollar.}
long standing American claims.
I’resident Roosevelt told tiro
State Department it would he in id
visable to grant the long, term
loan because of the many already
unpaid debts owing to the United
States.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
EVIDENT IN SEATTLE
DAXGEIt INFANTILE PARALYSIS
IN SEATTLE HCHOOIJi
• liy The Associatel lies*)
SEATTLE. Sept. 7, Because of
the danger of Infantile paralysis.
City Health Commissioner, Frank
Carnol Tecommend/ed that the
School Board which was planning
to open the schools in a day or
two, postpone the opening until
September 17th.
He also recommended that all
swimming pools be closed to per
sons under the age of eighteen
and that those specified persons
be barred from places of amuse
ment. Two new cases have de
}
veloped in the last day, bringing
the total since August 1st, to eight
een. v '
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IN APPARENT ANSWER, TO
HOOVER'S SPEECH
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, Donaldi
Richberg, apparently anwsering
"the issue of human liberty,"
raised by Herbert Hoover Wed- i
nesdav night said In a radio ad
dress:" The new liberty of the
New Deal Is an Increased free
dom for men and women who do
the hard work of the new world.**
Richberg didn’t mention Hoover
directly In his address.