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VOL. 36. No. 305 NOME, ALASKA, Tuesday, DEC. 31st, 1935. ' Per Copy Ten Cents
Advises
Del. Dimond Proposes Special Session lature
MORGAN PLANS
TRIP THRU N.W.
PASSAGE AUTO
(By Tnc Associated Press)
Payson, Utah, Dec. 31, —
Plans for a ten thousand
mile land journey around
the northern rim of the
North American Continent,
were revealed here today
by Master Sergeant Stan
ley R. Morgan, Signal Corps
operator at Point Barrow,
who recovered the bodies
of Will Rogers and Wiley
Post after their tragic crash
last summer. .
The trip will depend,
Mprgan said, upon his abil
ity to sechre financial back
ing. He will leave from
Seattle and proceed to Pt.
Barrow. From there his
route will go East through
the historic Northwest Pass
age to the northern tip of
Hudson Bay, down the west
coast of Hudson Bay to
New York and thence back
to Seattle.
The automobile to be us
ed on the trip will have
skiis and a tractor tread,
similar to the one Morgan
constructed for use in the
Barrow region, but in ad
dition will have a special
steam attachment to keep
the lubricating system op
erating in extreme low
temperatures. The purpose
of the trip will be to dem
onstrate the feasibility of
land travel other than by
dog team in the far North.
Lindberghs Land
Liverpool Then
Quiet Seclusion
(By The Associated Press)
Liverpool, Dec. 31, —
Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh and family, were de
clared by members of the
crew of the ship on which
they crossed the Atlantic,
to have left the United
States to avoid the execu
tion of Bruno Hauptmann,
convicted and sentenced to
death for the kidnaping of
Charles Lindbergh Jr. their
first-born.
After a rough trans-At
lantic trip, they went into
immediate seclusion in a
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New Year Celebration At
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Nome Under \¥ay Tonite
OUT WITH THE OLD ! !
AND IN WITH THE
NEW TONIGHT
The New Year’s Celebra
in Nome is centered this
year, as in the past, around
the get-together dance on
New Year’s Eve, tonight,
when friends meet friends
and together usher the old
year out, and the New Year
in, to the tune of an excit
ing dance and party.
The dance this year takes
pave a' tho Pioneer Hall
and is open to whites only.
The admission is $1.00 for
adults. The time is 930 P.
M. In the arranging of the
details of entertainment to
night, every effort has been
made to make the dance as
enjoyable as possible and
provide an opportunity for
the merry-makers to see
the old out and the new in.
Noise-makers, serpentine,
favors, balloons, and etc.,
have been provided and as
the New Year draws near,
it is certain that the large
crowd will catch the engag
ing spirit and enter into the
fun of it, in that great big
way so famous in Nome.
Invitations are broadcast to
individuals and parties to
meet at the Pioneer Hall
and to the tune of Auld
Lang Syne greet each other
on the New Year. Don’t
miss it! Is the slogan heard
everywhere in town today.
Your friends will be there
and all may join in and
have the time of their lives.
Exceptionally fine dance
music is being provided by
a four piece orchestra in
cluding Mrs. Neva Whaley,
Glen Aldrich,Alvin Bahlke
Lord Reading Dead
(By The Associated Press)
London, Dec. 31, —Lord
Reading, former Viceroy to
India, died at the age of 75
of heart trouble, today, fol
low a chill contracted two
weeks ago.
Subscribe for The Nome
Daily Nugget: $2 a month
by carrier.
and Russell Maynard. They
have promised music for
the young, the old, and
those who think they are
sometimes young,and some
times old. New Year’s Eve
should see everyone pres
ent.
Floor Managers, those to
keep the fun and merri
ment at its heighth during
the evening, will work in
I connection wilh Mr. Frank
Whaley, pilot for the Nome
Airways, who is an accom
plished entertainer. Other
members of the committee
have been selected and they
should have some interest
ing things to propose at the
dance tonight.
Also, not to be forgotten,
is the practice of calling
from house to house New
Year’s Eve and New Year’s
morning. On a whole, it is
expected, from the many
things heard during the
past few days, that the
NewYear’s celebration this
year will indeed be a lively
one.
BLOODSHED IS KEYNOTE
1936 EAST AFRICAN WAR
TROOPS GREET NEW YEAR
Italian Troops And Nation Are Sober
As Year 1936 Commences
(Hv The Associated Press)
Undated, Dec. 31, —The
old year will go out to the
j crack of rifle fire in East
Africa. Reinforcements are
moving up for the support
of the Italian northern
Blackshirts, as Italy pre
pared for its most sober
New Year celebration sin
ce the dark days of the
world war.
The nation awaited calm
ly the turn of the twelfth
month, in the knowledge of
increased bloodshed at the
front, which will probably
be a keynote of 1936.
Soldiers were given spec
ial rations today, and rifles
were cocked and bayonets
fixed along eighty miles- gf
jagged mountain front.
Abandon Tactics
Ethiopians for the first
time are abandoning guer
illa warfare and are engag
ing the Italian in hand to
hand fighting.
Italian authorities an
nounced today that nearly
five hundred white and na
tive troops, and fourteen of
ficers had died during the
past month, and many more
were wounded.
The Ethiopian losses
were estimated at four
thousand dead and double
that number wounded.
The Ethiopian govern
ment charged today that a
Swedish Red Cross air
plane was bombarded yes
terday 19 miles from Dolo
by Italian pianes and that
a chief had been injured.
Gangsters Guns
Blaze In Boston
Over Pool War
(By The Associated Press)
Boston, Dec. 31, —Gang
ster guns cracked twice to
day, killing James M. Buck
ley 26, and wounding an
other, in what police fear
ed might be the beginning
of “the number pool war.’’
Three men are being hunt
ed by the police for prob
ing in connection with the
pool racket.
NOTICE
I will be leaving Nome
for Teller in January and
will not return unti about
January 15th,during which
time my dental office will
be closed.
DR. H. HUGHES.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 31. —
Chairman James A. Farley
of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, today assert
ed that the Republicans
would nominate neither
Herbert Hoover nor Sena
tor Borah for president, in
a special radio address.
Of Borah, he declared:
“Republican convention af
ter convention has turned
him down as an unregener
ate liberal for everything
the backers of the G. O. P.
ever bought and paid for.”
Of former president Her
bert Hoover, Farley said:
“The progressive end of the
Republican Party wouldn’t
stand for ‘another dose’ of
Hoover. I wouldn’t venture
to guess who the G. O. P.
candidate might be, but it
would ‘save time, trouble,
and expense if their politi
cal lightweights should
shake dice or shoot craps
for the nomination.’ ”
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Dimond Mails
His Declaration
Of Candidacy
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 31. —
Anthony J. Dimond, Dele
gate to Congress from Al
aska mailed his formal de
claration of candidacy to
Juneau Monday, subject to
the April democratic pri
maries.
URGES SPECIAL
SESSION LEG.
SOCIAL ACT
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Dec. 31, —
A special session of the Al
aska Legislature to clarify
social laws, was urged by
Delegate to Congress from
Alaska, Monday in a tele
gram to Governor Troy at
Juneau.
Dimond said it would be
necessary to change terri
torial laws relative to de
pendent children, the blind,
length of residence necess
ary to obtain pension; and
in addition those changes in
the present oldage pensions
must be made applicable to
whites and natives alike.
Dimond stated that old
age pensions and other soc
ial obligations cost the ter
ritorial government about
two hundred thousand dol
lars annually.
The delegate said that by
calling a special session to
amend the present laws
and the passing of new on
es to conform to the Feder
al Social Security Act, the
Territory would be in a
position to obtain two hun
dred thousand dollars ad
iitionai federal funds, dur
ng the next federal year.
He explained that the
:Jd d two hundred thous
and dollars wouldn’t mean
dditional money for the
present program aione, but
would be used lo a large ex
tent for added social work
which would be undertak
en under proposed new !eg
islation.
ETHIOPIAN EMPEROR HAILE
SELASSIE CALLED USURPER
(By The Associated Press)
Rome, Dec. 30—Court in
trigue, puppet rulers and
untimely deaths figure in
an Italian version of the sue
cession to the Ethiopian
throne on which sits Em
peror Selassie, who once
was Ras Tafari Makonen.
The story was told by Dr.
Pietro Lecco, the physician
in whose care the father of
Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa,
aspirant to the Addis Aba
ba throne, died.
Its point is a claim that
Ras Gugsa, who has joined
General DeBono’s Italian
troops in the Tigre provin
ce, is the legitimate heir to
the scepter held by Haile
Selassie. This is Dr. Lec
co’s story.
“King John, whose death
made way for Emperor
Menelik in 1889, had two
sons, Ras Araja and Ras
Mangascia. Both died, each
leaving a son, but the pri
mogenital line is continued
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