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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 37. No. 107 NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, May 6, 1936 Per Copy Ten Cents
Convention Delegations Are Tops
GERMAN DIRIGIBLE FLYING U.S. THURSDAY
Oranges Flown To Nome Less 5 Days From L. A.
Governor Rome
To Be (Axi\ Gov.
Of Addis Ababa
(By The Associated Press)
Rome, May 6, Guiseppe
Bottai, governor of Rome,
was named Civil Governor
of the Ethiopian capitol, as
the undeclared war resolv
ed into an unsigned peace.
Mussolini immediately
started to defend the fruits
of his African conquest
against the world.
Washington, May 0, —
Vice consul Cramp notified
the State Department to
day that the Italian guard
around the American Lega
tion in Addis Ababa had
been withdrawn, after the
disarming of natives.
The legation was undam
aged and the Americans are
safe, who were forced to
stave off a third onslaught
by Ethiopian bandits bent
on murder and loot before
the Italians arrived.
Washington, May 6, —
The United States received
assurances from the Ital
ian government that the
lives and property of for
eigners in Addis Ababa
would be protected accord
ing to the rules of war.
Washington, May 6, —
The state department was
notified that the American
legation in Addis Ababa
was reopened by the offi
cials and all contents were
undamaged.
ALL AT WEDDING
COULD KNOCK WOOD
Belliingen, N.S.W., May 6
A wedding at which every
member of the bridal party
was named Wood has been
celebrated here.
What makes the ceremony
so remarkable is that three
completely unrelated fam
ilies—all named Wood—
were among the guests.
The bride was Miss Dul
cie Wood. Her groom was
James Wood. James Wood
(brother of the bride) was
best man and the bridge
groom’s sister MarionWood
was bridesmaid.
The marriage service was:
read by the Rev. Gordon,
Wood, while his wife, Mrs.!
G. Wood, played the wedd-1
ir>cr marrli ;
Priest Say Mass
Dirigible Flight
To Usiited States
(Bv The Associated Press)
Friedrichshaven, May 7,
—Included in the fifty pass
engers who will be aboard
the new dirigible “Hinden
burg” when the ship leaves
Thursday for the United
States, will be Father Paul
Schulte, known as the “Fly
ing Father” who intends to
make a flying missionary
expedition to Canada and
the Territory of Alaska af
ter touring the U. S.
Much interest centers in
Father Schulte because of
his plan to say Mass daily
aboard the craft.
He has obtained permis
sion from Pope Pius to do
this during the voyage, a
feat which will take place
for the first time in history.
A church alter has now
been installed aboard the
dirigible.
Sluicing Winter
Dumps At Nome
Now Underway
J
Ed. Rohn and Victor Lind
who have carried on winter
mining operations on Dry
creek, about 1'- miles north
of Nome, are now engaged
in sluicing up their winter
pay dump, which consists
of 12,000 nine pan buckets.
It is expected that the work
of cleaning up will contin
ue until about June 1st.
Jack Skain who has been
mining at the Big Bend on
Snake river, this winter,
has commenced sluicing op
erations on his pay dump.
The Nome Daily Nugget
would be glad to learn of
others who may have start
ed spring operations, or
who intend to. We ask one
and all to work with us on
this vital subject, which
means so much to the min
er, prospector and working
man, to at least report the
activities in this field.
You can save $2.00 by
paying for your subscrip
tion for six months in ad
vance for the Nome Daily
WiifTfTdt Dn it nm»r I
POLITICAL PRIMARIES
STATES CLOSELY
WATCH ED
Democratic and Republican Returns
Centered on Delegates National
Convention, Show Leaders
(By The Associated Press)
Undated, May 6, — Pol
itics in the California pri
mary gave the republican
national convention votes
to an uninstructed delega
tion, and the democratic
support to Roosevelt.
The republican slate for
Landon lost, but its support
ers declared that he was in
the running for the forty
four convention votes.
The Roosevelt slate, car
rying forty^four democratic
votes, swamped tickets
headed by Upton Sinclair,
advocating production for
use, as a plank, and Con
gressmen McGroarty, auth
or of the Townsend bill.
Seventy percent of the
votes gave Landon 199,894
uninstructed 275,887, Roose
velt 614,257, McGroarty 44,
846, Sinclair 75,074.
In South Dakota, Landon
held a slight lead over Bor
ah for eight republican del
egates.
Roosevelt had no opposi
tion in Alabama, where
Senator Bankhead and his
brother William, the house
democratic leaders receiv
ed majorities. Roosevelt
won the state’s 22 votes
without opposition.
In Missouri Roosevelt re
ceived the state’s thirty
pledges.
Tennessee republicans
endorsed London and pled
god four delegates at large.
Baltimore, May 6, —
Roosevelt won the sixteen
Maryland votes in the na
tional convention, in yester
day’s primary by a margin
of nearly fifty and a half to
one.
Nearly complete returns
from fourteen of the thirty
four precincts gave Roose
velt 95,344, Colonel Henry
Breckenridge anti New
Dealer 17,202.
The vote for an unin
structed delegation was 16
to 16. Breckenridge said
the Maryland vote “has in
creased the pace started by
Pennsylvania—America is
•-urning.”
Fresh Oranges To
Nome 4 Days, 23
Hrs. From L A.
Los Angeles to Nome in
4 days, 23 V:; hours! That is
the record of a courtesy
box of Sun Kist Oranges
from the California Fruit
Growers Exchange,sent via
plane, steamer and plane to
Mayor Ed. Seidenverg of
Nome.
The oranges were origin
ally sent to Governor John
W. Troy who re-dispatched
them via the Pacific Alaska
Airways plane from Jun
eau to Fairbanks and Nome
setting a record for speedy
travel from thePacific coast
cfpfoc +r\ ATnmo
Following is a letter re
ceived by Mayor Ed Seiden
verg from Gov. Troy ex~
plaining the mission, and
how they were picked,
packed and sent via air ex
press to this point on Ber
ing sea.
Juneau, May 5 1936
lion. Ed Seidenverg,
Mayer of Nome,
Nome, Alaska.
I am relaying from here
a dozen Sun Kist oranges
greetings from the Calif
ornia Fruit Growers Ex
change at Los Angeles.
These oranges were pick
ed from the trees and pack
ed the morning of May 1st.:
At 12:30 p.m. the same day
they left Los Angeles and
arrived at Seattle at 8:10
that evening courtesy Unit
a t tu r»Tr itrn»*n ro I
N AT Toni Plane
Arrived Seattle
6:30 P.\I. Tues.
(Bv Tho Associated Press)
Seattle, May 6, — Pilots
Noel Wien and Victor Ross
of the Northern Air Trans
port in a tri motored Ford
plane landed at Boeing
Field here at 6:30 P. M.
Tuesday with a load of pass
engers, after a leisurely
flight from Nome via Fair
banks, and the inside air
lane south.
They reported the trip
was without incident ex
cept the weather was heavy
much of the way.
Jewish Influx Is
Cause Troubles
(H.y 1 he Associated Press)
Jerusalem, May— Incen
darism was added to the
horror or rioting betweep
the Jews and Arabs in the
adjoining cities of Jaffa and
Telaviv.
Bitterness is rapidly grow
ing throughout the county
as Arabs continue to talk
of a general strike to force
authorities to stop immigru
tion of Jews into the Holy
Land.__
eeived in Juneau this morn
ing, Tuesday, May 5th via
the courtesy of the Pacific
Alaska Airways and should
arrive there Wednesday af
ternoon.
The Pacific Alaska Air
ways is interested in trying
to establish a record for the
delivery of fresh fruit from
Los Angeles to Alaska thru
the Yukon Territory and
back into Alaska as far as
the Bering Sea.
The P. A. A. Seattle offi
ce estimates that this ship
ment should arrive at
Nome twelve-thirty p.m.
Wednesday exactly five
days elapsed time after the
shipment started at 12:30
Friday at Los Angeles.
Sincerely yours:
John W. Troy,
Governor of Alaska.
Mayor Seidenverg today |
sent a wire of appreciation
and congratulations for the
speedy service in the deliv
ery of this package of fruit
+n Mnmo ir> 4 Have Vir<3
Foreign Minister
Japan Talks On
Friendship Fast
(By The Associated Pr»ss)
Tokyo, May 7, — Japan,
“in solicitude for peace in
East Asia cannot remain in
definite” to the large Sov
iet troop concentrations in
the Far East, Hachiro Arita
new foreign minister told
the House of Peers, concern
ing Japanese and Soviet re
lations.
! He added: “it cannot be
said to be altogether felici
tous, the fact that the Sov
iet maintaining execessive
armaments on remote out
posts in the Far East, con
stitutes a real menace to
peace in this part of the
world.”
Arita however, stressed
Tokyo’s desire for “norma!
and peaceful relations”
with the Soviet, and do*
dared he would d> vote h s
“best efforts to the further
a nee of Japanese and v
erican understand:)' i
amity.”
The only pa rag. up i
his speech devoted to n
erican relations was
statement:
“In Japanese American
friendship lies the very key
to the maintenance of peace
in the Pacific.
“It is must fortunate, not
only are econo-m! -I lions
be* ween the two .. am tries
complimentary, An that
the two nations. . A/ vs re
sporting each otiv A iosi
tions and aims, should col
laborate more and n. a for
the insuring of pea e in the
Pacific. I shall devote m\
best efforts to the further
ance of Japanese American
amity and unde standing.”
Petersburg Couple Wed
At Petersburg recently,
Laura Larsen and Lester
Elkins were married by tee
Rev. Aasen. The bride has
been a nurse at the Peters
burg hospital for more than
a year. Mr. Elkins, who
was formerly connected
with the Lomen Drug Store
at Nome, Alaska, and has
been associated with the
People’s Drug Company,
here, as pharmacist, pur
chased the business with
his brother last August. He
has been a resident of Pet~
prshuref «;inr-p 1931