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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL' 37. No. 222 NOME, ALASKA, Thursday Sept. 17, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
Salinas, Calif. Citizens Fear Massacre
Nome Experiences More Real and Actual Progress
and Development Today, on 2nd Anniversary Fire
BEFORE TWO MILLION DOLLAR FIRE DESTROYED ALASKAN CITY
The business section of Nome as it looked prior to being swept b
tually the ent't town in ruins. Hundreds were rendered homeless wit
The Above Picture of Nome Before The Fire in 1934
Was Printed In Every Large Paper in The United 4
States, and is Reprinted for the 2nd Time Here
Following Is Telegraphic Story Wired
From Nome On Request Associated
Press Reconstruction In Nome
Nome on this, the second anniversary of the fire of
1934, has experienced more real and actual develop
ment and progress than it had known for fifteen years
prior to the blaze. Crooked streets, alleys and dilapi
dated houses are all removed. Nome now shows fine
wide streets straight through the new business district,
also new streets and sidewalks through the residential
sections. Ninety-five percent of the merchants who
were wiped out in the fire are now firmly established
in new business houses and looking forward to a busy
winter season following a most successful mining sea
son at Nome and all over the Seward Peninsula.
New businesses have come to Nome, opened their
doors and are assisting in development and rapid pro
gress of this city from the day when its entire business
district was reduced to ashes, September 17, 1934- New
buildings, sidewalks, modern lighting and power sys
tems, fire mains, sewerage accomodations, and etc., now
make Nome a modern little city located on the north
ern shores of Bering Sea.
With its stable population increased nearly fifteen
percent since 1934, Nome has just started its determin
ed march toward prosperity. The winter following the
fire and last winter were serious conditions for the
business life of Nome due to lack of housing accomoda
tions which caused many people to spend the past two
winters in the States. Now, however, at least fifty new
homes have been constructed, several apartment build
ings, a great many business buildings in which their
owners have homes, and all being a direct influence to
cause the people of this section to remain in Nome dur
ing the winter.
With the advanced price of gold at thirty-five dol
lars per ounce, nearly the entire population has become
gold mining conscious. This has been the great aid in
bringing Nome and Seward Peninsula to the front in
gold production. The entire country surrounding
Nome for hundreds of miles, now sees scenes which had
disappeared from this country 20 years ago, that of
miners prospecting, draglines gouging out pay dirt,
dredges eating up yardage, hydraulic operations going
on in nearly every creek within sight of Nome and
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. ilan es which caused an estimated damage of $2,000,000 and left vir
i temperatures near the freezing point (Associated Press Photo)
I
Flight Lieut. Is
Found Alive On
Shore Of Lake
—
WINNIPEG, Sept. 17th—Flight
Lieutenant Sheldon Coleman and
his Aircraftsman J 40 plane was
I located alive on the shores of
Point Lake, 250 miles northwest
of Fort Reliance, their destina
i tion, when forced down. Search
details are unavailable.
FOR SALE—Small Kitchen
Coal Range, enamel front and
sides. Oven thermometer. Pric
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DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
J. A. MollLson
To Try Trans
Atlantic lit
(By The Associated Press)
LONDON, Sept. 17-^I.A. Molli
son, the well known Australian
flyer, announced that he will hop
off from Floyd Bennett Field at
Brooklyn, October 17th, on a
trans-Atlantic flight to Croylen
Airport outside of London.
In the seventeen hours of the
flight he planned to fly through
the sub-stratosphere. He further
stated he would leave London
for New York aboard the liner
Paris, tonight.
Second Division Returns, General Election’ September 8th, 1936
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CITY OF NOME . 384 144 115 192 201 284 155 27 316 146 328 197 115 68 184 248 275 72 191 154 286 180 165
LITTLE CREEK . 54 8 3 21 39 12 12 4 47 9 45 17 10 15 6 34 42 14 28 16 53 14 13
GOLOVIN . 25 5 6 19 1 20 7 0 11 11 23 7 25 15 5 18 7 1 18 1 3 15 3
BLUFF . 14 119678 15 10 88060 8 10 778 5 10 0
KOTZEBUE . 43 36 33 10 35 38 35 4 38 37 44 35 6 1 32 35 40 2 5 37 39 35 38
FORTUNA LEDGE . 33 4 0 9 28 32 4 1 34 1 37 0 2 0 0 28 30 1 0 35 37 3 4
DEERING . 30 1 0 27 4 23 2 1 6 9 27 2 3 0 1 30 22 4 13 24 20 0 0
MT. VILLAGE . 8110771 06390010 76017701
CANDLE . 56 34 29 18 40 47 33 5 53 34 60 29 12 3 29 43 52 24 14 38 47 26 39
TAYLOR .-. 25 5 3 11 18 24 5 3 29 2 16 17 0 2 23 22 29 6 4 5 22 7 6
COUNCIL. 11 6555 15 4 4 13 6 13 7564 55394 99 10
SOLOMON .-. 26 2 3 4 4 18 7 2 17 8 13 14 4 3 10 8 16 21 6 8 10 12 6
TELLER . 23 5 9 5 13 11 10 7 5 21 15 11 5 2 16 8 13 4 4 5 10 18 13
ST. MICHAEL . 6451554 15382201 68017634
SHUNGNAK . 11 124683 0 12 0 10 2202 99019382
HAYCOCK . 21 4 1 5 17 15 7 1 17 5 18 6 4 7 5 14 16 9 3 13 11 3 8
UTICA .
UNALAKLEET .
KIANA .
STUYAHOK ..
TOTAL . 770 261 216 340 429 566 297 61 625 305 674 354 195 129 318 523 580 168 305 371 568 343 312
Conditions Are
Serious Calif.
Lettuce Strike
(By The Associated Press)
SALINAS, Calif., Sept. 17th—
Warning that a “massacre is
awaiting you” as Doss, secretary
of the Fruit and Vegetable Work
ers. ordered Lettuce worker pic
kets to remain off the streets to
prevent a repetition of bloody
clashes with officers,” We don’t
want to assemble groups as it
would mean wholesale murder to
do so.”
Doss said in a pamphlet issued
by the strikers to officers to be
prepared to cope with further dis
orders of Salinas citizens associa
tion, and warned the strikers
that “disorders aroused public
indignation.”
Doss charged the Growers and
Shippers Association with keep
ing the workers in sheds under
duress, and also charged that the
officers fought with those inside
of the sheds. He added that “it
Would be murder to anybody to
go on the streets today as the
deputized citizens had gone en
tirely haywire.” He declared the
withdrawing of his son from high
school because students ere re
quired to cut pick handles into
clubs “for their fathers to be
beaten up with.”
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HOSPITAL
NOME BE
PUSHED
Bringing the local hospital sit
uation to the attention of the
public more forcefully than it has
ever before been presentd. Dr.
Thomas Morcom. in charge at the
Maynard Columbus hospital, to
day, stated that plans are under
way to organize an advisory
board for the management of
hospital affairs, maintenance and
other details, concerning the pos
ition occupied by that institution
in Nome.
Dr. Morcom declared that a
vigorous campaign is soon to bo
instituted among mining opera
tors and employers at Nome and
other mining centers for financial
support in order to equip the hos
pital at Nome so that it will be
in a position to better treat cases
coming in. ^ .*>
Following is a preliminary
statement concerning the status
of the Maynard Columbus Hospi
tal and its needs, together with
the clearly pointed assertion that
Nome and the community at
large are faced with a serious
situation and some plans for
bringing the problems home to
each and every citizen.
What a Properly Equipped Hos
pital .Means to Employers and
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