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Coast Strike May Be Called Oct. 28
SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC AT NUSHAGAK
Bureau Vessel North Star Last To Sail Out Nome
MARITIME WORKERS MAY
CALL GENERAL STRIKE AT
MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY
_____
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 27, —
Representatives of thirty-seven
thousand coast maritime workers
announced that a strike would be
called at Wednesday midnight un
less “the fundamental issues” are
settled in whole with all parties.
Employees and unions criticiz
ed the U. S. Maritime Commission
which opened and quickly ad
journed a scheduled investigation.
Both sides telegraphed the com
mission in Washington, D. C. pro
testing the action of Rear Admir
al Harry G. Hamlet, the Commis
sion representative who adjourn
ed the initial investigation session
which led to the one coming up
later.
Indoor Baseball
League Formed
Winter Games
Four Teams To Comprise
League. Enthusiasm
Runs High
The meeting of representatives
of Athletic organizations inNome,
held at the Nome High School
last evening, under the chair
manship of Supt. Calvin Pool, re
sulted in definite, well defined
plans being started for the stag
ing of indoor baseball games this
winter, in the new gym.
A dozen, keenly interested men
took part in the informal discus
sion leading up to the adoption
of a four-team league, to be com
prised of the following teams:
Nome High School, Hammon Com
pany, Alaskans, and Commercials
It was brought out that mater
ial for the high school team and
a tentative Federal team would
be rather slim, and after proper
consideration had been made, it
was decided to form a combina
tion, filling out the high school j
team with federal men. The
same proved true concerning a
Hammon team and a Nome Ath
letic Club nine. In this case it
was discovered that the majority
of those who would go to make
up the NAC were also employed
by the Hammon Company, and
would have been included in the
company team. Therefore it was
decided to consolidate these or
ganizations into one called the
Hammon team.
With respect to the Alaskans
(Continued on Page Three)
President Told
Negroes There
Is A Real Policy
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 27
—Addressing a negro audience
yesterday, President Roosevelt
pledged the administration to a
policy ‘that among American cit
! izens, there should be no forgot
ten man, and no forgotten races.”
He made this promise on the
j campus of Howard University for
negroes, in dedicating the PWA
financed chemistry building.
The President said “as far as
is humanly possible, the govern
ment has followed the policy that
among American citizens, there is
no forgotten men. It is a wise
and truly American policy, which
shall continue, and be faithfully
observed.”
Bureau Vessel
“North Star"
Sailed Today
The Office of Indian Aflairs
vessel North Star, Captain Frank
Whitlam, which arrived last night
from Diomede and St. Lawrence
Islands, sailed today for the south
and Seattle.
Aboard were bureau officials
who were making an inspection
trip in this section. Also aboard
going south were Harry Gerberg
and wife, and Clinton Gray. A
young native boy named Arthur
Ahkiyah was aboard enroute to
the Industrial School at Eklutna.
Originally he was a Diomede Is
land boy, but went to High
School here last winter.
Clinton Gray is taking advan
tage of the opportunities under
the Wheeler Howard Act, to com
plete his education in craftsman
ship. He is going first to the
Wrangell Industrial school, and
will later be transferred to the
Mergenthaler Linotype School
in San Francisco, for specialized
mechanical training. Clinton
Gray is the first person from the
Nome, or northwestern Alaska
section to take advantage of the
provisions of the Wheeler Howard
Act, passed by the federal govern
ment last winter, to assist the na
tives of Alaska in maintaining an
independent existence.
Scarlet Fever
Epidemic Broke
Out Nushagak
_
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Oct. 27, — A Scarlet
Fever epidemic has broken out
in Nushagak Bay towns causing
schools to be closed at Snag Point
and Olarke Point, said a wireless
report to Commissioner of Educa
tion A. E. Karnes, today.
The report did not list the num
ber of cases or whether any
deaths had occurred yet.
Jury Acquitted
Woman Murder
Own Daughter
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 27, — A Sup
erior Court jury today acquitted
Mrs. Esther Olson, aged 33, of
the first degree murder of her six
teen year old daughter Rose, by
reason of her mental irresponsi
bility.
In her confession, the mother
said she killed her daughter with
a butcher knife, because Rose
—EDITORIAL—
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK
Suggestion a few days ago that “an ounce of pre
vention was worth a pound of cure,” also applied to the
prevention of fires in Nome, elicited comment from sev
eral sources.
An interview with Chief of the Fire Department
W. W. Laws revealed that there are numerous places
throughout the city where fire hazards exist in the way
! of defective stove pipes, flues, etc. In many cases, he
said, he has referred this type of hazard to the occupant
of homes and other buildings, and in the majority of
cases it has been rectified. However, he declared, such
inspection has by no means been entirely thorough, but
that the faults have resulted from merely a cursory ob
servation.
His belief, coinciding with ours, leads to the sug
gestion that the city government undertake a special
Fire Prevention Week, with inspectors calling from
house to house, to look over heating systems, thereby
bringing to light, if there be any, dangerous conditions
which sooner or later would result in a fire alarm being
turned in.
we nave nau several practical lessons in me dam
age which is caused by fire, and the danger to adjacent
property when a blaze does break out. Let’s not wgit
until it is no longer possible to stop a fire, before discov
ering that fire hazards exist.
Cold weather, of necessity, causes stoves to be turn
ed up high, and more heat to be generated. Under forc
ed draft, fires sometimes get going too strong, and then
is when defective pipes and flues are most apt to burn
through and the building catch fire.
Now is the time to repair those pipes and flues be
fore the extreme cold weather sets in. Bringing to light
defective heating apparatus is not only a great service
to the owner of the property but is also furnishing in
surance and assurance to tdjacent property owners.
It is the duty of the city government to enforce fire
ordinances and be on the lookout for dangerous condi
tions at all times. Regardless if only several hazards
are discovered and corrected, the good derived, and the
saving of much money and property is well worth the
expense.
Why wait? “Don’t close the barn door after the
horse has been stolen”—that is not fulfilling the duties
incumbent on persons appointed and elected to posi
tions in which they are to work for the betterment of
the city.
The same argument also holds true of the individ
ual. If he knows that he has a minor fire hazard in his
building, why wait until the fire has broken out? His
duty likewise, both n fairness to himself and his neigh
bors, is to correct it now.
How about a little action on this subject?
LANDON CALLS ON
TAXPAYERS NATION
DEFEAT ROOSEVELT
i
—
did not have the things other
children had.
Fish Commissioner
Bell Tells Salmon
Fishing of Japanese
_
I (By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Oct. 27, —Fisheries
Commissioner Frank Bell said to
! day tha t Japanese fishermen,
i working from sampans off of six
big floating canneries, caught
much salmon, outside the three
mile limit, off Bristol Bay, during
the past summer, and that their
unregulated operations threaten1
the extinction of the Alaska and
v^uimuian saimon nsneries.
Canadian authorities recently
made similar complaints to Bell.
The first detailed account of the
j operations of Japanese cannery
ships said the largest was up to
15,000 tons, and carried a crew
of six hundred. They took the
salmon in the open sea, although,
obstensibly they were fishing for
crabs. ,
The rich Bristol Bay fishing
area is so large at the mouth, that
under international law, it is not
under United States jurisdiction
beyond the three mile limit.
Bell said: "Nobody knows how
much salmon fishing the Japan
ese did, but they had an oppor
tunity of studying the channels
down which the salmon run. Al
so some of the mother ships kept
a lookout on their masts, making
it easy to determine the sections
where the run was toward the
coast.
“If Japanese fishing reaches the
proportions it could, all regula
tions and restrictions which the
United States has imposed would
go for naught, although, under
the present rigid control, the sal
mon industry is described as a
ten million dollars business, and
could continue indefinitely.”
For fighting fires beneath whar
ves a Seatte man has invented a
float propelled by a jet of water
and controlled from shore or a
fire boat that can be sent under a
wharf to direct a stream of wat
er upward from a nozzle.
Are you taking advantage
of six months paid in ad
i vance subscription ?
(By The Associated Press)
PHILADELHPIA, Oct. 27, —
Summoning taxpayers to defeat
President Roosevelt for reelection
Republican nominee Landon told
a Pennsylvania throng that “the
little fellow must pay for the
Now Deal waste and extravagan
ce, which violates the constitu
tion.”
Shouting to an audience of fif
teen thousand people, in the con
vention hall here, which over
flowed into the streets outside,
Landon said “Lot u.s then, here in
Philadelphia where the crater of
liberty was born, make a high
resolve—let us take the oath that
that bell which rang 16Q years
ago, shall not have rung in vain.”
A burst of cheers and a waving
of thousands of American flags
swept the hall.
Landon said “We must decide
if we want a free popular govern
ment, or a government which
concentrates on increasing the
power of the cnief executive.
“Extravagance of administra
tion is extravagance with the peo
pie’s money. It is not the well
to do who are going to pay the
P per. They haven’t that much
money. The little fellow is the
one who pays. When I take offi
ce as President I shall put an
end to the use of relief funds
for poll i.'. l purp -e«.'
Volcano Rrjpts
In Archipelago
Causing Threat
fBv The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 27, — The
mightiest of two thousand volcan
ic cones is erupting violently in
an archipelago which Charles
Darwin described as one of the
few if not the only that spot,
that has preserved a living hist
ory of the evolution of the spec
ies.
Captain Anton Hage, of the
tuna clipper Santa Cruz, reported
that the six thousand, three hun
dred and twenty-foot peak on
Narborough Isand has burst into
flames, and the wholes south side
of the island is a flaming mass
of molten lava, which is running
down into the sea.
The islands is the western-most
of the Galapagos Archipelago.
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