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VOLUME 88. No. 105. NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. September 5, 1081 . Ivr <'op.v: 10 out*.
-PARALYZED WOMAN RECOVERING ATTACK ANTS
KILLS FIVE WOUNDS 6TH ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
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DIMOND DISCUSSES
ALASKA LEGISLATION
AND PRESENT NEEDS
LARGE AND APPRECIATIVE
AUDIENCE LISTENS TO
DELEGATE DIMOND’S ADDRESS
Standing room only, was very
noticeable in Arctic Brotherhood
hall last evening, when Alaska
Delega'e Anthony J. Dimond ad
dressed the citizenry of Nome. At
tor’ney O. D. Cochran acted as
chairman -of (lie meeting and hi'
opening remarks were principal .y*
in relation '» the personnel of t'r*
Democratic. ticket. and after sr«ok
ing of th, (tualities and fitne
ot the different candidate who
Were .".elected by the voters n
the rece.it pflmary election. Ik
asked the r.f iple to v.ifo end wo s
for their eletiion in the comic..-,
general, election. Tuesday, Sept.
11th. Mr. Cdchran tlien address
ed his old friend, saying that AT.'.
Dfmond very seldom talked about
himself, and, therefore he was go
ing to tell those present so
thing about the qualities of our
honorable delegate, after which
lie introduced the speaker of the
evening, the Honorable Anthony
.7. Dimond. delegate from Alaska.
Delegate Dfmond state,) right
at the beginning that he was glad
of the opportunity to visit with
the people of Nome, that, lie be
lieved that the people of Alaska
were entitled to see and hear what
their delegate had done and accom
plished during the past two^years
at Washington, therefore he wa
here to give an account of his
stewardship, even though his v, a
unopposed for re-election as d •
igiite In the coming election.
He thanked the people for tiled'
I courtesies and cooperation extend
1 od to him and stated tha* he was
able to rep “sent them' without
f-uir or favoritism and partisifisliiti
itd not. enter into Ms uetivi ten
in representing the people of Alas
t'a at the N’a ’onal Capitol.
The dt legal > >uid lie note i many
mprevements tiliont the ei*y of
.'l ime, since 1: c lad visit and a
I spirit of’ progress and determina
I lion amongst 'he business men.
■iad last but tot least prataally
[every body working at sonre thing
t<'r ether.
Ht. stated 1 at he had iut'oduc
" I 21 kills in Congress which lie
was fortunat' in having passed,
and only one bill .that was vetoed.
He spoke of the Pacific -Yukon
highway and believed that the ii>
del-taking would soon be accom
plished.
Delegate Dimond laid much
stress on the defense and fort
ification of Alaska against at
tack by foreign powers saying that
after many years of endeavor, tie
believed that Washington was in#
Alaska minded, and that soon ar
rangements would be made to de
fend Nome, Fairbanks and the
Aleutian Island as well as othei
strategic points. That the money
spent now for defense would h
spent not for going to war. but
to maintain our present peaceful
existence to the occupancy or tin
Pacifln ('oast line.
In speaking of Home Rule for
•Alaska, he touched on the matter
of the changing of the laws, thus
permitting Alaska to manage its
own self in respect to (lie regula
ting the making, distribution md
conservative handling of tile li
quor problem, and hoped
the Alaska Legislature, would act
v'sely on this subject, so thu* ii
would not be abused.’
Another matter on Home Rule
was the changing of the date of
the general election from Nov to
Sopt. and the changing of the
date of the meeting of the Alaska
Legislature from March to Jan
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NATIONAL RELIEF
AFFECTS INDIVIDUALS
VS. CORPORATIONS
OIVK8 ACCOUNTING OP
NATIONAL RELIEF
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(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, Don
ald Fitchburg, secretary to the
Roosevelt Executive Council, pre
sented an accounting of the gov
ernment’s enormous relief pro
grams saying: "Under the present
administration the Individual Cis
getting aid."
He said prior to March 1933' the
major efforts had been to pro
vide for corporate relief; . ‘"Un
der the present administration mea
sures to relieve financial pressures
have been emended through a var
lety of means for the relief of in
dividual distress.”
He mentioned the Home Own
ers Loans; Deposit Insurance, Cor
poratlon and Federal Savings Loan
Associations, Farm Credit; the Ad
mistratlon of Commodity and Cred
it; Corporation and Federal Hous
ing; Administration of national
Mortgage Associations. <,,
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HOOVER APPEALS TO <JIVI\<J
TO NEEDY PERSONS
(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANOBL.ES, Sept, 5, Char
acterizing a president as passing
through “his year of greatest test,”
Herbert Hooveir appealed before
service club meetings for an open
hearted giving to the needy.
He said: “We must -recognize
that in the last half century we
have heralded fifty million human
beings into our towns and cities,
where the whole setting is new
and unaccustomed to our race.”
He remarked, "The city and nation
must have their heart and souls
in this aqalr. From these soics
only, will come the spiritual Id
eals that truly shape the future
of our people.”
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RELEASE WORKERS HELD
INSIDE TEXTILE MILL
(By The Associated Press)
' FALL RIVER. Mass., Sept. 15,
Pistols and tear gas were brought
'iuo play by the police, seeking to
narv, all of which has been giv
en over to the power of the Terr
jitory to change wheal-deemed mo
' essary.
| In commenting on mining, Mr l,)i
! moiid stated that in 1912 Con
i’gross had passed a special act
I"'tii respect to the location of
j placet- claims in regard to Alaska
only, limiting the size of claims
■to 2o acres and limiting the. num
ber to tie located by one person li
I two claims, but ’permitting the lo
| cut or to locate under t w^> pow
[ ers of attorney in addition, fo i
any one calendar month.
Tile act further prvided tlm j
tin powers of attorney must be re- i
corded in some district in the jud- 1
icial division in which The loca- j
lions wer,. made. before the
claims, ciiuld be located .under such
powers of attorney.
Several years ago the l.egisl.
>ure memorialized .Congress f. i
tli(. repeal of tliis act. since : i
was thought that the people of :
Alaska should have full power !
to pass laws on this subject. ■ j
Accordingly Mr. Iliptond scured
(Coni in tied on page Three l
CRAZED MAN KILLS
EIVE AND WOUNDS
6TH TRIES SUICIDE
»
MAS HI VS ANH( K AM)
Kiiii<s n\i: i*i:kso\s
(By The Associate 1 Press)
KI LTO.V. 111., Sept. 5. Five p "
sons- were slain and the sixth v
critically wound- d. whop , F
Blink . aped about f.rrty-'Jiv<-. irin-K
driveiv ran amuck
Blink was ariv-N-d after in- al
ternated to (urn 1 lii ■ shvleiin en
himself. - Four Of ’ the .victims wore
sli-o-t wlitle e.iiwerinp avaitist a
farm house wall. Tile other r as
killed its he soushl to escape. Tin
|.~.syti then wounded anuther man
j t w ii... WJmm captured; he told the
, police lie had killed eleven others
j-who-e bodies have not . ye't been
foilII I.
Ilis wife said that H,Vitjik left
'home today saying “I'm going to
do unmet hing" about the m ney
which utie of his victims otvi d him.
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ARMY OF RED ARTS
ATTACK WEALTHY WOMAN
St'FFKKK KXTHKMKLV WHKX
HKD ANTS VIHTIALLY
KAT HKK A 1,1 VK
(By The Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA (MTV, Sept. 5. A
teal life horror story was unfold
ed today as Mrs. MV. A. r.ott, a
wealthy widow, who has been para
lyzed for some time, recuperating
from an attack of thousands of red
ants, which advanced upon her
while she was lying in bed.
The woman suffered for over two
hours before her screams attract
liberate liree hundred workers
Held prisoners inside a textile pl-i.v.
A .fleet t cars loadej 'vi'h work
ers raced through a crowd of ten
thousand persons, after tear gas
had dispersed thein. Shots were
tired into the air. Xo one was in*
jjured.
REAL SOURDOUGH DIES
NEAR ANCHORAGE
(By The Associated Press)
I ANCHORAGE, Sept. 5, Edward
! Barber, aged fifty-eight, who has
been a resident of Alaska for the
l
past forty-two years, died of a
heart attack in the avoods near
Otter Lake, about fifteen miles
from Anchorage.
A hunting party out for ducks
found him. He had been dead
about thirty hours. Barber had
been engaged in the fox farming
business. He Is survived by a
widow and two sons.
*
jed her neighbors. She was nn
j conscious when rescued, and h *r
.eyes and mouth swelled shut, hy
| poisoning.
i A stream of ants, yards long and
about two fingers wide was seen to
enter the Gott home by/tescuers.
Tfie ants got onto the bed by
using llie* chair as a ladder. Her
inaid hjtd been given the night off,
so f,MfetTrs!he could not even calf on
her to come to her aid.
The neighbors said they heitrd
screams for an hour before decid
ing they came from ai human be-1
ing.
200,000 WORKERS
ONLY WALKED OUT
IN TEXTILE STRIKE
ESTIMATES MADE OX THOSE
WHO IX OX TEXTILE STRIKE
(By The Associated^PreBB)
TINDATED, Sept. 5, Over two
hundred thousand textile workers
seemexl to have obeyed the union
'■order for a general strike which
f would have made six hundred and
fifty thousand workers idle over
twenty-two states.
The exact number is disputed
between the unions and employ
ers, as both claimed a victory. Re
ports from the south Indicated
that the strike was only fifty per
cent effective, among a hundred
and sixty thousand employees of
the Carollnas.
Francis Gorman, chairman of
the strike comhiittee hailed the
strike as "a tremendous success."
Peter van Horn, chairman of the
Silk Code Authority said tl^it a
survey applied to the silk rayou
and synthetic fabric industries
showed that the strike was al
l .
most a complete failure.’’
George Sloan, chairman of the
cotton and textile code authority
said that a survey in the New Eng
land states indicated "that the
majority of the workers were not
in sympathy with the strike move
ment.”
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