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VOL. 36. No. 284. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, Dec. 5th, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Great Britain, France Say “Take It Or Leave It”
TAKE IT OR
LEAVE IT IS
FINAL WORD
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, Dec. 5, —
Great Britain and Fran
ce have given Italy a set
of suggestions for ending
the Ethiopian war, with
an appended comment
which said in effect that
Italy could “take it or
leave it!”
Diplomatic sources said
it represented the last word
from London and Paris be
fore the oil embargo was
established.
The attitude of the Ital
ian govenment has regist
ered no apparent change.
The proposals did not fix
the plans for peace but
merely were suggestions to
forestall any possibilities of
a complete rejection by II
Duce.
The suggestions were re
ported to have included the
cession of a seaport in It
aly’s east African colony of
Eritrea to Ethiopia, and a
slight change in the fron
tier between Ethiopia’s
northen Tigre province
and Eritrea, leaving Ethio
pia in control of the holy
city of Aksum.
Other suggestions were
reported to be the acquisi
tion by Italy of Ethiopian
territory south of eight de
grees north latitude includ
ing Ogden province, and
west to thirty-eight degrees
east longitude, the remaind
er of Ethiopia to be entire
ly independent.
The Italians are watch
ing the United States
closely for further indi
cations of her attitude.
The United States furn
ishes about six percent of
Italy’s oil imports, and
could, if desired meet all
her emergency require
ments.
From London came the
report that the battle cruis
ers Hood and Renown, with
other vessels were being
rushed to Gibraltar, and
are going out into the At
lantic for exercises this
week.
Several million votes un
doubtedly await the first
candidate whose slogan pro
mises a pork chop in every
pot.
Alaska Projects
Receive Cuts In
Loan and Grants
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 5, —
The withdrawal of the loan
and grant of fourteen thou
sand one hundred and fifty
dollars for the remodeling
of the governor’s mansion
at Juneau, was revealed by
the public works headquahf
ers today.
Two other Alaska pro
jects received reductions in
their loan and grants. The
seventy-five thousand, five
hundred dollars for the new
municipal building at Cor
dova, was reduced to fif jy
thousand, five hundred, and
the one hundred thousand
dollars for street improve
ments for Petersburg was
educed to forty thousand.
Townsend Plan
Cause
To Both Parties
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 5, —
The growth of the Town
send old age pension move
ment stirred political talk
as the strategists of both
major parties sought to
guage its probable influen
ce on the 1936 elections.
Leaders generally con
ceded that it wouldn’t be an j
issue in the voting for pres
ident, but stated it might
cut across party lines in
the balloting for members
of congress, possibly to the
extent of scoring upsets in
normally republican and
democratic districts.
B G Rankin, aide to Dr.
F E Townsend, originator
of the movement which
would give two hundred
dollars a month to all per
sons over sixty years of
age, asserted however, that
it would affect the presi
dential election, on account
of the number of persons
connected with the move
ment.
Various estimates place
the membership at from 4
to 8 millions. Congressional j
leaders who have been tour
ing the country, agree that
the movement has attract
ed a following of formid
able strength. _
NEWS ITEMS ABOUT ALASKANS
FROM ALASKAN NEWSPAPERS
I
William Davis and Annie
Nelson were married last
week in Juneau.
The steamship Alaska
has made her last voyage
of the season, her sched
ule being taken over by the
steamship Northwestern.
A marriage license was
issued recently to Morris
Eriksen, a Ketchikan fish
erman, and Vivian Keller,
a Spokane waitress.
Able bodied persons on
California direct relief rolls
who refuse to accept em
ployment on WPA or oth
er federal projects will be
refused further aid, it is an
nounced.
Sheriff Blankenship of
Kitsap County said he is
convinced that the death by
poison of Mrs. Hilda Man
tyla, a widow, was suicide.
Her son, Arthur, of Ketchi
kan, is beneficiary of a $500
insurance policy.
Fr. Kashevaroff of Jun
eau. has a diary which was
compiled by W W Suteieff,
a most prominent Russian
of the 19th century. The
diary is owned by Otto
Kraft, a prominent merch
ant of Kodiak, and tells of
life in the westward towns.
New officers for the Na
tive Brotherhood of Alaska
r
were elected in Juneau re
cently, as follows:
J Cropley president, Jam
es Miller vice-president;
William Paul secretary;
James Gamble treasurer,
and Sam Hopkins sergeant
at-arms.
Treasury Department of
ficials said that the bids for
the Ketchikan post office
and federal building will
be rejected on the ground
they are too high for the
amount of money set aside
for construction purposes.
Plans will be revised and
bids again called for in the
spring.
The condition of Walter
Smith, Dupont Powder Co.
agent, who went to Seattle
recently after an accident
in which a dynamite blast
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No Pickets Order
Is To Be Upheld
(By The Associated Press)
Detroit, Dec. 5, — The
entire day shift of the Mo
tors Products Corporation
entered the plant this morn
ing without molestation
from stiking workers.
The strikers announced
they would abide for the
present by the police order
fobidding picketing.
G Men Searching
For Five Convicts
(By The Associated Press)
Hartshorn, Oklahoma,
Dec. 5, — G Men, undaunt
ed by the “code of the hills”
pressed their search for five
fugitives from the Musko
gee jail.
They believe the fugitiv
es found refuge with the
hill dwellers whose code
requires that food and
lodging be given strangers.
Cattle Received At
Palmer Colonists
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, Dec. 5, —Se
venty-two cows, one yearl
ing, two calves and two
rams, sent from the stat
es, arrived at Palmer Wed
nesday morning. They suff
ered no injuries on the trip.
;The colonists will draw lots
jfor them today.
—
Injured Men Are
Brot Anchorage
(By The Associated Press)
Anchorage, Dec. 5, —Pil
ot Estol Call and Stanley
Hermanson, an Anchorage
druggist, injured in an air
plane crash, were brought
to the hospital here yester
day. Hermanson had a brok
en leg and Call just a min
or leg injury.
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Alaska Business
Increases In Five
Years $509,000
(By Tne Associated Press)
Juneau, Dec. 5, —A great
gain in Alaska business and
industry during the past 5
years was reflected in the
monthly report of Terri
torial Treasurer Oscar Ol
son, which showed a cash
balance November 30th of
nearly a half million doll
ars more than for the cor
responding date of 1931.
On the close of business
last month, the Territory
had $716,050. The corres
ponding date in 1931 show
ed a balance of $262,757.
The uptrend was made de
spite increased appropria
tions.
Planes To Search
Ellsworth, Pilot
Carry Provisions
(by The Associated Press)
Canberra, Australia, Dec.
5, —The Australian govern
ment is equipping two air
force planes with wireless,
floats and skiis to be used
in the search for Lincoln
Ellsworth and pilot Her
bert Kenyon.
The pair have been un
heard from since their ra
dio failed on their trans-At
lantic flight November 23.
F. Trubee Davidson, pres
ident of the American Mus-:
eum of Natural History an
nounced that a plane would
rush emergency rations to i
Antarctica for the pair.
Admiral Byrd said he be
lieves they are in or
near Little America. Byrd
said that Ellsworth had
six weeks food supply and
a tent, or he could dig in
to the houses at his former
base there, if they reached
it.
Convict Caught
(By The Associated Press)
Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 5.
—George Wilbur Ross, one
of three convicts who escap
ed from the penitentiary
Tuesday, was captured last
night at Tazewell, Tenn.
Guy McCoig, and Pete
Lane escaped in an automo
bile.
NAT’L COM. TO
IN
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 5, —
Making the first formal
democratic move, in the al
ready loudly rumbling 19
36 campaign, Chairman
James A. Farley called the
democratic national commit
tee to meet here the second
week in January.
The meeting is to official
ly set the stage for the in
tended renomination of
President Roosevelt, which
is generally considered a
foregone conclusion.
The republican nation
al committee has already
arranged to meet here on
opposition plans for the
campaign, three weeks
earlier.
r arley predicted the re
nomination of both Roose
velt and Garner, and fore
casted that they will carry
as many states in 1936 as
they did in 1932.
The actual date for the re
publicans to meet is Decern
ber 16th, and the demo
crats on January 7 or 8.
They are to pick a con
vention city for next sum
mer and transact other bus
iness. Farley said that no
choice of a city had been
made for the democrats,
but that his understanding
was that Chicago, Phila
delphia and probably Kan
sas City and St. Louis
would bid.
The city getting the con
vention usually puis up be
tween two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to
help defray the expenses.
Farley indicated that the
democrats would convene
sometime after the republi
cans who are expected to
meet early next June in a
city yet to be selected.
ATTENTION
Complying with instruc
tions from A. A. Shonbeck,
democratic territorial chair
man: I hereby call a meet
ing of democrats to meet at
Pioneer Hall, on Thursday
evening December fifth at
eight o'clock.
JOHN F. DIVINE,
Chairman Divisional
Committee.
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