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NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR RASE-EOR COMMERCIAL AS WELL AS MI LITARV PURS.HT8-IT CAN RE REACHED RV LAND Cl WATER
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VOI.I'MK 35. No. tot. __>PMK. ALASKA. _ * _ ■ ____
ARCTIC CRUISE IS SOUTH BOUND
DEMOCRATS BEWILDERED ELECTION SINCLAIR
TWELVE HOSE OIL TAMES EXPLODE ARGENTINE
VICTORIA SAILS FOR SOUTH
FOLLOWING ARCTIC CRUISE
FAR AS WRANGELL ISLAND
FIRST ARCTIC ADVENTURERS
CRUISE HA ICS SOUTH
KUOM NOME, .ALASKA
■ V’
Thp S. S. Victoria of the Alaska
Cine arrived Nome this morning
from the Arctic Ocean. Wrangell
Island, East Oape and points
west. following her first Arctic
Adventurer’s Cruise nortli ot
Nome.
Coming at this season of tin
year, with seventy-five or eighty
special tourists who were very
much interested in northern Alas
ka, tills trip Is unique, in that
this is the first time such a ven
ture has been instituted by ‘ the
•«.
Alaska Steamship- Company, em
bracing an • extensive tour of
Northwestern Alaska.
According to the. many re
i macks of enjoyment, pleasure and
! curiosity expressed by the visit-1
|ors fTOm the States, it is believed I
that this Arctic Cruise will pro
bably he continued next year and
I thereafter. .While in Nome the
! visitors availed themselves of the
'opportunity of witnessing all of
i
the pioneer landmarks once fam
| ous when Nome was first 'built.
.They saw huge gold dredges min
i ing on the third beach line. They
.were introduced to the Eskimo
and his wares, and manner of liv
ing. Their special entertainment
provided all that could he asked
for on such a cruise. in short,
the entire ship's company of tour
ists enjoyed themselves in Nome
to the utmost.
It is with happy lion voyages ;
that Nome hade the visitors of
' • -V
the Arctic Adventure's Cruise
goodbye, as they sailed south to
day on hoard the S. S. Victoria,
with invitations to return again
If such may he the case in the fu
ture we can eagerly "expect a con
tinuance of this tourist Qt'uise
tjext year, with many more tour
ists and many more interesting
side lights for their entertain
ASS'T PONTMASTKR CRN.
PAA OFFICIALS FLYING
TO FAIRBANKS
(Bv The
JUNEAU, 'JiAug, 30, Harlee
Branch Second Assistant Post mast
er General, Delegate Dimond. Ro
bert Thach, vice president of thn
Fan American Airways and Ly
man S. Peek. General Manager ol
the Pacific Alaska Airways lefi
here Wednesday for Fairbanks by
j plane, Intending to stop enroute
at Whitehorse. They intend t'i
| fly Thursday to Fairbanks front
j Whitehorse according to present
j plans as the party left here. They
I will probably fly front Fairbanks
to Nome within the next few days.
* 4'lasses in wwiriiig, register
now to -get orders for looms and
supplies on last boat. Other hand
icrafts • if desired. Mrs. R. IV.
Rent. _
I? HUGE OIL TANKS
EXPLODE ARGENTINA
DANGER OF FIRE
HUGE OIL TAN KM EXPLODE
IN ARGENTINA
(By The Associated Press)
(TAMPAN A, Argentina, Aug. 30,
Twelve huge oil tanks exploded
'yesterday shaking the country for
thirty miles around, and causing
damage estimated at flye and
one-half million dollars.
Thera are two known dead, and
‘two missing. Great numner*
were injured The burning oil
aprsad over the town, into the
nearby river and surrounding
swamp*. The tanks were tbe pro
perty of ihe National Oil Con
pany, a subsidiary of the S* md
ard Oil Company. Tte caus, e,
the oxp'M'-.in is rr known.
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WINDS HELP SAVE PROPERTY
OIL TANK FIRES
(By The Associate 1 Press)
O AMP AN A. Argentina, Aug. 30,
Favorable winds helped the Are
fighters bring under complete con
trol, the dlsasterous oil blaze
which last night threatened to
wipe out the city. Only half of
the forty men working on the job
were present when the fire started
Authorities have accounted for
two known killed, one missing
and three gravely injured. Nine
teen others are in the hospital.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY
NUGGET 92.00 MONTH
BY CARRIER
91 SO MONTH BY MAIL
TRKAHURY KKPOKT SHOW'S
MONEY CONDITION
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. HO, An
eventual inflation of two billion
eight hundred million dollars w;\.s. f
forecast Tuesday night by Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgan
than, with the announcement that
the treasury expects sooner or
later to apply its gold profit to
the reduction of the national debt
In a radio address the treasu' v i
head stated ^hat the cost of tb>*
new deal could not he measurea,
by the increase in the national
debt' which under ibe present ad
ministration he said amounts t >
six billion dollars, For this, lie
said, must be deducted an in
crease of a billion, six hundred
million dollars. The treasury's
cash balance and Increase in as
sets of the government, total on?
billion, ninety-five million, which
will later be realised on In cash
and gold profit. With all of the
reductions the net cost of the new
...
.deal would be about five hun
dred and live million dollars.
The center interest of the ad
dress was the disclosure that the
government. Intended eventually to
use the gold profits to reduce the
national debt. By use of this
profit, the Treasury wonld Issue
currency td the extent of the pro
fits, retiring maturing govern
ment securities.
IIKRUUV HAIDKD Alt; 27tli
Freighter Derblay, Alaska Diue,
sailed from Seattle 9 PM the 27th
for Nome, calling at Aikntan and
Dutch Harbor. The vessel has a
large cargo for Nome and other
ports. *
ment.
'iVe S. S. Victoria sailed from
Nome for St. Lawrence island
and thence for Seattle, at 1 p.m.
today with the following outgoing
passengers front Nome and ijboiit
one quarter of a million dollars j
in gold bullion aboard. In tomor- |
row’s issue an extensive descrip j
tion of tile Arctic voyage will be
milder
.«*"■ J
Miss Mabel Magaard
.1 B Olson
C T Griest
Rasmus Jensen *
Miss Emily Morgan
August Hamburger"
Lucille Lomen
j
Mrs Alfred Lomen
Marion Lomen
e Gene Lomen
Alfred Lomen. Jr.
Wilson Scott
Geo. Anderson
Victor E. llqvine
<’ \V Bailor
Edgar Heflin
Harry Michael
/■ G I! Games, Jr.
G H Ouraes. Sr.
it O White
Mrs. R H Julian
I (’ Brown
Mrs. C J, McGregor and child
W T Lockwi'i
Jot J Lewis
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Jo'mi j Lewis
John Wagner
Mrs B. Sprague
Mrs. I»c11h M. Swartz
.1 I* Calvin
ft F Kane
J E Lucas,
M P Sefivanoff
H Engstrom
Jesse White
, W B Ackerman
C II Ackerman
It. Brown
Carl Custafson
Alexander Majewski
Steve Merenlk
Arthur Mrooker
Win Voting
Allan Pearson
John Kojteen
Victor Erickson
Harry Jester
John l.te Friese
Irveii S Cooper
Kalph Walter
Carl Mirt son
Patrick Sthtfv
»
A, Campbell
M O Cameron
John L. Johnson
Arne Rielisfad
F W Foster
C C SlioJjpfc
Sam S Anderson
Andrew Vellen
Andrew Wickstrom
R T McCann
John R Siminisen ^
H E r Hager « -
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ACTKPTH INVITATION FOR
i MKKTIXO ni'T SUM.
■ STANBINti l*AT
(My The Associated Press)
Washington. a up :x tuo
strike committee of . the Cnited
Textile Workers accepted an imit
ation of the National l.ahor Re*
Unions Hoard to a lonteretuv wltit
manufacturers Thursday, hut re- j
|Iterated that a yeneral walkout ot
(!ie industry would tie averted on
!v liy "detillite eoticessious.”
j I'ltFSlItFNT I. VI tills V'F.ltlKS
MtOI'T INFLATION
' (ttv Tile Assncia.uji^l'res*)
in UK "ARK. X. Y Xu* * 'ft*.
President Roosevelt emphasised - It
was only the ultimate intention
■. TV~, >, limeli! t i l •* the a od
protit for the devaluation ot tha
I ill 11.1 -s It" Uniahed e 'Vay inn t:I'
ll - ; 1..11 iutl.it Ion niMit • suli i a
•i!" 'UllUei'tal, Use ot t < fltnj
*l'li;i qf.», ' protit fund.(t ,1 » Ml
so teas riled hi* said.
HCRHt'RIHK FOR THE RAII.T
Nl'titlKT StittO MONTH
BY' CARRIER
SI RO MONTH RV MAIL
FORMER SOCIALIST IS
NOMINATED DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE GOVERNOR
UPTON SINCLAIR SOCIALIST
WRITER NOMINATED FOR
i
GOVERNOR < A LI FOR N LA
• By The Associate Press)
- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 70
45 complete and incomplete pre
cincts out of 10,703 precincts gave
Sinclair 310,951 votes. His first
speech said that if elei ted in Nov
ember. his first act would be to
free Tom Mooney .
Ren Lindsey, former Denver
Juvenile' Court Judge and writer,
was nominated fur the Los Angeles
County Superior Judgeship by a
commanding majority.
Fear was expressed by some
democratic, leaders that the censer
vatlve voters opposed to Sinclair
might swing the entire vote from
democratic to republican, cutting
into the state’s party delegation
BRINGS THREAT KKA1A1NMEN1
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
(By Tho Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 30. Sit
Clair’s ^Conquest for the democrat'
ic nomination for Governor, brol
threats of a party re-alignment
while the victorious former sac
. • 4r*. 1
iialist prepared for his courtesy
call on tile President.
v Sinclair outlined his1 program
over the radio, while his major
ity continued to mouth. Support
ers of Merriam called upon mem
bers of the party to unite against
what they claimed was u threat
of socialistic state.
“If you give me a change t '
end poverty in California, and if
I fail to do it. life will mean
nothing to nte thereafter. All 1
have- taught all through the years
will then be without meaning. Be
lieve me and stick by tne and to
gether we will not fail,” said
Sinclair in his radio address.
SOME DISSENSION DEMOCRATIC
RANKS OVER VICTORY
OK SINCLAIR
(tiy The AssociatsJ Pres*)
WASHINGTON, Aug. HO, Nation
al Democratic leaders privately ex
pressed concern last night over
the clear victory of Upton Sin
clair, former socialist, in the Cal
ifornia Democratic gubernatorial
primary.
Republican chieftains were glee
ful. Contrary to the usual cus
tom of sending congrnthlary fob*
grams to successful ilcntoc ratio
• grants to successful democratic sen
atoriul gubernatorial candidates.
Postmaster (Jen ■•'s' Karl ex. ohalc
ntt.tt of tile \" 'll 1 Hen evr’ia
iConuuitt»e was silent, and flatly
declined lo comment on Sinclair's
*
victory.
However. Harry* I., Hopkins. It»
lief Administrator, told newspaper
men that he considered Sinclair'*
primary victor "gl'eat bnaihess,'*
and said he felt that he would wtn
in November. Asked If he thought
that Sinclair was a socialist, Hxtp
kins drawledi "Naw! he's a good
Democrat."
3' _
A mooting of President Roose
velt and Cpton Sinclair at Hyde
Park was agreed upon, but the
summer White House Insisted that
the meeting be a business and not
political basis. Sinclair himself
requested the conference.