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VOL^7. No7279 NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
5 More Bodies Found Juneau Slide
FOOD SUPPLIES BE ON WAY ALASKA SOON
Sen. Thomas Convinced Matanuska Colony Failure
r SCOTCH AMBULANCE UNIT AIDS WAR VICTIMS
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Wounds* are being lifted out of an ambulance on stietchers to be carried to a field hospital. (Assoc.atcd
Press Photo)
German Gets
Coveted Peace
Nobel Award
(By The Associated Press)
OSLO, Nov. 24, — Carl von
Ossietsky, German pacifist was
awarded the 1935 Noble Peace
Prize, and Carlos Saavedra Laim_
as, Argentine foreign minister
was given the 1936 peace prize.
Ossietsky was recently freed
from a German prison where he
had been held ever since Hitler
came into power.
German Minister Salu said:
“All leading circles will consid
er it a demonstration against the
Third Reisch.” Lamas has been
prominent in the League of Na
tions and was recently president
of the League Assembly. -
Wired Hopkins
Greater Quota
State Of Wn.
(By The Associated Press)
iSEATTLE, Nov. 24, — Senator
Schwellenbach today wired WPA
Administrator Harry Hopkins,
asking him to boost the state’s
WPA quota from twenty-eight
thousand to forty thousand be.
cause the influx of farmers from
the drought areas of the mid.
West is forcing up the relief rolls.
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SECRETARY ICKES PROMISED
ALASKA FOOD IN TEN DAYS
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(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24, —
Colonel Ohlson, manager of the
Alaska Railroad, who is directed
by executive order to charter ves
sels to transport food supplies to
Alaska, if necessary, said he was
hopeful today, that vessels will
be released to carry fresh food to
the Territory. Striking unions
are referring the proposal to
their memberships, and expect
to report to Ohlson late today.
''By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24,
—Secretary of the Interior Ickes
said today that food supplies
would be on the way to Alaska
“in ten days”.
At a press conference this af_
ternoon he said that Colonel Oh
Lson had completed arrangements
with strike leaders in San Fran
cisco for the release of vessels.
Ickes declared that arrange,
ments to ship food to Hawaii
were still incomplete) adding,
thalt the situation was not so
acute there.
The secretary said he had auth
orized Ohlson to charter as many
vessels as were needed, which
was agreed to by strike leaders.
It was further agreed that the
crew should be paid the recent
prevailing rate with a proviso for
a retroactive payment if any in
crease is obtained in the strike
settlement.
Ickes said he was keeping in
touch with Governor Poindexter
of Hawaii. In reply to questions
ekes said the Interior Depart,
ment was not relying on the
Navy far vessels—“it is doubtful
•vhether either would be avail
able for Hawaii.”
Indoor Baseball
Practices Were
On Last Night
Indoor Baseball practices start1
ed out last evening in the new
school gymnasium, to the tune of
joyful cries from players and
interested spectators, as four
teams got under way for the ap
proaching series^ to start immed.
iately after New Years.
To take part in raising funds
for the Community Christmas
Tree, there will be a double-head,
er played shortly before Christ
mas, and the teams are anxious
to put some good material on
the floor by that time.
Practices will take place on
Mondays and Wednesdays of each
week until the benefit game.
This evening the married worn
en of Nome are organizing and
practicing and some live.wire
ball can be expected.
Last night marked the first
time since the spring before the
fire in Nome in 1934, that organ-i
Said Radishes
Tasted Like An
Icicyle, Palmer
SENATOR THOMAS DAMNED
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AT PALMER ALASKA
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24
> i
—Senator Elmer Thomas, demo-'
crat of Oklahoma, who spent a
month in Alaska this past sum.
mer with Senators Frazier of
North Dakota and Shipstead of
M.nnesota, said today, that the
government’s effort to plant a
colony in the Matanuska Valley
was “a failure”.
Thomas said he was convinced
that the ambitious homestead pro
ject would “collapse as soon as
federal aid is withdrawn. The
experiment was worth every pen
ny it cost, because it has proved
once and for all that Alaska is
not suitable for large scale col
onization.
“The Matanuska Valley has on.
ly two seasons—July and winter.
“Because the sun shines twenty
four hours a day during the brief
summer season, vegetables grow
in lush abundance but their
1
rapid growth makes them wat_
ery and virtually worthless for
marketing.
“Matanuska radishes tasted like
icicles, and the potatoes have to
be dried out in a slow oven be_
fore they can be stored for even
a short time.
One-th.rd of the four hundred
family settlement are ready to
quit, although they will stick it
out as long as the government 1
keeps pouring money into the
project. Seventy.five families
have already gone,” said the
senator.
Thomas estimated that the
scheme has cost “about fourteen ;
thousand dollars per family, and
the homesteaders will never be,
able to repay the government or|
even support their own schools."
“Their produce cannot be sold
readily even in the local mar
kets because most Alaskans can
buy better vegetables from the
United States at nearly the same
cost,” declared Thomas.
BASEBALL NOTICE
All white married women inter
ested in indoor baseball please be
at Nome school gym, Tuesday,
8 pan. Not. 24. Please come pre.
pared to practice.
ized athletics on such a scale,
have been planned. 1
DEATH TOTAL RAISED
SIX WITH THIRTEEN
REPORTED MISSING
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Nov. 24, — District Coast Guard Head
quarters here today said that the Cutter Tallapoosa wire
lessed from Juneau at 11 P. M. last night that rescue
workers had recovered five bodies in the wreckage
caused by the big landslides there Sunday.
JUNEAU, Nov. 24, — Spurred by the recovery of
five more bodies, rescue workers redoubled their at
tacks on the earth and wreckage which, it is bel.eved,
might cover a dozer or more. The death list stood de
finitely at six, ten injured in the hospitals, and thirteen
still missing or unaccounted for.
Workmen frorp the Cutter Tallapoosa hejped extri
cate five dead persons, and dug out one other who was
nearly dead. Four of the bodies were found near the
top of the ruins, and were tentatively identified as Mr.
and Mrs. James Hoag, and her son Forest Beaudin, and
Mrs. George Lee.
An unidentified girl aged about 14, dressed in red
was found nearby, where Mrs. Gus Erickson was found
dead yesterday.
Warnings that new avalanches might tear down,
drove residents from their homes to the lower part of
the city. Rain started drizzling again as one hundred
and fifty men equipped with shovels axes, fire hose, and
a steam shovel drove slowly forward into the hundred
foot wide pile of earth and shattered buildings.
The Red Cross furnished food. Fire breaking from
the wreckage of the Nickinovich Apartments hampered
the crews, while firemen poured streams of water on the
flames which continued to break out sporadically.
business Houses
Nome fce Closed
Thanksgiving
Major business establishments
throughout the city today signi.
tied their intentions of remaining
closed all day Thursday, Thanks
giving Day, in commemoration of
that historic event.
The mayor of the city has in
dicated that a proclamation to be
published tomorrow^ will call on
all businesses to close their doors
on that day, and observe the
colorful custom of the Pilgrims.
Schools will take Thursday and
Friday off, city offices will close
Thanksgiving Day as will also
federal offices. ,
The U. S. Signal Corps will ob
serve short holiday hours, and
the Nome Daily Nugget, follow
ing the steps of other leading
concerns of Nome, will not pub.
lish on thait day.
To the public at large and the
housewives in particular, atten
tion is drawn that Thursday the
business houses will be closed,
and that they should do their
Thanksgiving buying now. Wed
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Tourists Now
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iONOLULU Nov. 24, — Most
af Honolulu’s strikebound tour
s.s ere today er.route to the Un
ted States after a dramatic trans
fer in a rough sea from a pine
appie barge to the Matson liner
Monterey, late last night.
The 447 passengers were trans_
ferred to the ship, two miles off
shore, under the vessel's search
lights, because company officials
feared that the ship might be
tied up if it came into port.
Their departure alleviates the
threatened food shortage.
FOR SALE—1 almost new linol
eum 6’ x 9’. 1 waterproof suit. 2
new silverplates 12 x 24. 1 camp
stove with 5 sections pipe, 2 ells.
2 shovels. 1 folding campchair. ..
Inquire at Nugget
nesday evening will be the last
opportunity to obtain needed ar
ticles for the Thanksgiving din*
ners.