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VOL. 37. No. 24. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Jan 29th, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Borah Suggests 1936 Pol. Planks
BRANDS ALFRED E. SMITH AS “TURNCOAT’’
“SMITH FORGOT THE
1928 CAMPAIGN” AS
SAME HIS ADDRESS
Robinson Of Arkansas Pans Smith
For Repealing Hoover During 1928
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 29, —
The New Deal officially por
trayed Alfred E. Smith as
a turncoat, “warring again
st his own people; against
the men and women with
whom he fought shoulder
to shoulder with in the past.
The spokesman in the re
ply to Smith’s Saturday
speech impugning Ameri
canism, and the integrity of
Roosevelt’s policies, was A1
Smith’s running mate in
1928—Senator Joseph T.
Robinson of Arkansas, who
said Smith’s hour-long har
angue before the mis-called
Liberty League was barren
and sterile—without a sing
le constructive suggestion.
Robinson said Smith had
approved of the NRA, farm
relief, urged federal spend
ing for public works, urged
congress to cut red tape and
confer wide powers on the
executive.
“With merciless logic op
Continued on Page 3
War Is Being
Waged On Fish
Traps in North
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 28th—
Salmon traps were describ
ed by former Gov. William
A. Sulzer of New York,who
is interested in mining in
Alaska as the “most mur
derous instrumentalit i e s
ever devised by the hum
an mind.” He testified re
cently before the House
Merchant Marine and Fish
cries Committee, which op
ened hearings on a bill in
troduced by Delegate An
thony J. Dimond to abolish
fish traps in Alaska waters.
Sulzer, who declared he
is a veteran of many Alas
ka gold stampedes,said that
unless traps are abolished,
the fishing industry in Al
aska will die. He declared
Proposes Plan
To Develop Tin
Cape Prince W.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 28—De
velopment of Tin resources
in Alaska through a liberal
government subsidy pro
possed by Representative
Scrugham, democrat of Ne
vada. In his recommenda
tion of the report to the
House Appropriations sub
committee. Scrugham said,
“Of all the possible short
age of metals, that of tin is
the most dangerous and
acute to the United States.”
Paul W. Gordon, super
visor ofAlaskan affairs,told
the committee of consider
able tin deposits in Alaska,
stating that “last summer
was a profitable one for the
mining interests at Tin City
about 100 miles from the
city of Nome.” Gordon al
so said at the same hearing
that the outlook of the Ma
tanuska colony was exceed
ingly bright.
Dimond Intro.
Bill Issue Bonds
Up To $80,000
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, Jan. 29, —
Delegate Dimond introduc
ed a bill today authorizing
an $80,000 bond issue for
the construction of public
works in the city of Wrang
ell, the proceeds to be used
on streets, water system,
harbor, and to float munici
pal structures.
hundreds of thousands of
fish are lost every year be
cause storms make it im
possible to empty the traps.
He urged members of the
Committee to get acquaint
(Continued on Page Three)
Recent Filings
For Legislature
Brot Up Todate
(By Tne Associated Press)
Undated, Jan. 29, —Re
cent filings for the Alaska
Legislature include the fol
lowing:
R. E. Baumgartner Sew
ard attorney, democrat, fil
ed for the house. L. V. Ray
Seward attorney squelched
the report he would file for
republican candidate for
delegate to congress. Mar
ion Edmundson of Circle,
republican, filed for the
house. W Rogge Fairbanks
democrat filed for house.
Julian A. Hurley, Fair
banks republican filed fj>r
the senate.
Mrs. R R. Hermann, Ju
neau republican admitted
to the bar last year filed for
the house. Mrs. Crystal
,Snow Jenne, Juneau demo
crat recently filed for the
same post. Mayor Oscar
Gill, Anchorage republican
I filed for the senate. John J.
;Bugge, pioneer Matanuska
I republican filed for the
house.
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WM. E. BORAH EXPRESSES 1st
OPINION REGARDS TO ISSUES
Idahoan Believes Townsend Plan Is Not
Practical But That Old Persons
Should Get $50-$60 Month
(By The Associated Press)
New York, Jan 29, —Sen
ator William E. Borah, of
Idaho, last night expressed
the view “that every old
person of 60 years or over,
deserved fifty or sixty doll
ars a month as an old age
pension”, but that the Town
send plan was impractical,
in the first comprehensive
exposition of his stand on
a number of vital issues
smce his name began to be
mentioned for the republi
can presidential nomina
tion.
The Idahoan called for
the delegate to the nation
al convention to be instruct
ed to frame a “living plat
form to take care of the
people as a whole”; hands
off policy of this country in
international political em
broilments; anti-lynching
legislation; if a law could
be framed that would’nt
infringe upon the states
rights policy “if it became a
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PRESIDENT-CHILDRENS
ENTERTAINMENT
THURSDAY JAN 30th
COME ONE! COME ALL!
Proceeds To Go Needy Children’s
Medical Care
Dream Theatre, 7:30 P. M.
Adm. Adults $1.00; Children 50cts
Ethiopians Hard
Pressed Italians
Following Defeat
L
(By The Associated Press>
Undated, Jan. 29, —De
layed accounts from the
southern front told of des
perate efforts of Ras Desta
Demtu, Ethiopian chieftain
to reassemble ms scattered
forces after fascist victories
along the Ganale Dorya.
Pursuing forces of Gener
al Rudiolfo Graziani found
retreating defenders had
fired one large supply mag
azine, hut the invaders
captured a second with
guns, ammunition and sup
plies.
Italians moved to cut off
possible Ethiopian supply
sources from British Ken
ya colony, as scattered Eth
iopian soldiers left water
holes in the sands to swiftly
moving Blackshirts.
Two planes flying across
the Kenya border were re
ported by the Italian high
command as signalling
troop movements to the
E.hiopians.
AL SMITH TURNS
DOWN INVITATION
IN A NICE NOTE'
Washington, D. C., —Mrs
Franklin D. Roosevelt dis
closed recently that Alfred
E. Smith in a nice note de
clined an invitation to be
an overnight guest at the
White House when he was
to come to Washington Jan
uary 25th to address the
American Liberty League.
Smith assailed as false a
published assertion attrib
uted to an anonymous
White House spokesman
that he had been invited at
least once each year by the
Roosevelts’ to pass either a
night or a week-end at the
White House and that he
had always refused.
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Richard Loeb,
1924 Killer Was
(hit Death Razor
(By The Associated Press)
Joliet, Illinois, Jan. 29,
Slashed 52 times with a raz
or in the hands of an enrag
ed fellow convict, Richard
Loeb, 30, co-perpetrator of
the “thrill slaving'’ of Bob
by Franks, in 1924, was kill
ed Tuesday at the State’s
penitentiary.
James Day, 23. serving a
term for larceny, confessed
to killing Loeb. State’s at
torney Will McCabe, of
Will County said he blam
ed it to Loeb’s persistance
in pursuing him over a long
period, with improper ad
vances.
Day first said it was just
a fight”. He denied he had
stolen the razor with which
he cut to pieces, the part
er of Nathan Leopold in
Chicago’s most revolting
cr ime, of nearly a dozen
years ago.
The razor, he claimed, he
wrested from Loch's hands
when Loeb threatened him
with it.
‘‘Ever since I have been a
prisoner here Loeb has
been hounding me and try
ing to get me to submit to
him. I always refused”,
Day said in a statement.
The altercation occurred
in the private showerbath
room. Loeb was taken to
the prison hospital where
e’ght doctors worked over
him, but to no avail. No
charges had been placed
against Day up to a late
hour.
Open Season On
Beaver Set i>v
Tile Game Com.
As a result of its field in
vestigation and in response
to many petitions and re
quests from trappers and
traders in the areas affect
ed, the Alaska Game Com
mission on January 11, an
nounced an OPEN SEA
SON on BEAVER in Bris
tol Bay, Kuskokwim, Low
er Yukon and Tanana Riv
er drainages for the Spring
of 1936 with a Bag Limit of
TEN BEAVER per Trapper
( Continued On Page Four )
Roosevelt-Children’s Benefit, Thursday, Jan. 30th