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THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOL. 38. No. 93. NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, April 22, 1937. Per Copy 15cts
LLA. THREATEN TIE UP ENGUSH SHIP LINES
Last Meeting of Old Council Takes Place Tonight
New City Council
Takes Office
The 1937 city council meets for
*he last time tonight at the coun
cil chambers to transact business
pertaining to its term of office
during the past year.
An audit of the city books is to
be presented for approval of the
council, and after other old busi
ness, the body will adjourn sine
die and reconvene for the pur
ouse of installing new members,
and those elected at the recent
c ty election will then take their
positions.
As an example of city expense,
it was learned that the city of
Nome had expended in the neigh
borhood of $14,000 on the new
■school building during the past
year, part of which was received
in an amount turned over to the
city from PWA sources, as re
funds. Another item khich is of
special interest to the citizens of
the city is that calling for the
payment of interest and amortiz
ation on the PWA loan which the
city of Nome secured following
the fire, to finance the rebuilding
of city functions and activities.
It lias been intimated in numer
ous quarters, said reports, that
the city should be requested to
publish its annual financial state
ment, as do nearly every other
city in the Territory, giving to
the public, the benefit of the
many problems connected with
the management of city affairs,
besides showing the financial
standing of the city government
following the past year’s activi
ties.
Speedy End To
Strike Canada
Expected Soon
(Bv The Associated Press t
TORONTO, April 22—A speedy
settlement of the Oshawa Gen
eral Motors strike appeared pro
bable as representatives of the
company and leaders of the thir
ty seven hundred workers, plan
ned to confer today with Prem
ier Mitchell Hepburn.
Both sides have backed down
on their original demands and
the company it is believed, is
agreeing to sign a contract with
the United Automobile Workers
of America, but not with the
Committee for Industrial Organ
ization, which has withdrawn
fro mthe negotiations, yielding
to the insistence of Premier Hep
burn.
Atlantic Citv Hotel Destroyed Rv Fire
The Grand Atlantic Hotel, one ol the oldest in Atlantia- <'itv u is comoleteU »i«-stimi m 4 re
cent fire. Above is a general view of the blaze at its Height. (Associated Press Photo)
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Police Bottle
Sobered Up
Inebriates
OKLAHOMA POLICEMAN
USES AMMONIA
AS HIS NIGHTSTICK
<Tiv Trie Associated Press i
TULSA, Okla., (AP)—Frank
Todd, veteran TuLsa policeman,
carries his nightstick in a bottle.
Part of his night’s work is get
ting drunks out of pool halls,
beer joints and dives where they
have passed out.
"Drunks roused out of their
sleep come up fighting mad and
want to use their fists and feet,”
Patrolman Todd explains.
“Inexperienced cops have to
get out their nightsticks, beat
them up and later lodge assault
charges against them."
Todd has a pain'less technique.
He holds a bottle of double-stren
gth ammonia under the snorer’s
i nose and almost instantly the
• drunk comes to life and straight
ens up, sneezing, and with a clear
head.
“It really sobers them up," says
Todd, "and I find out where they
live and send them home and
don’t have to beat them all up
: with a club and then take them
to the poilice station.”
LOCAL ITEMS
LATE NEWS—Mirow arrived
with Barney Bellleview, 3 others,
i and fresh stuff. PAA plane is at
Golovin. Bach plane is at Bluff,
aft waiting weather to improve.
POSTPONEMENT MAY
RESULT FROM PLEAS
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. April 22—Con
gressional leaders agreed today
that President "Roosevelt’s econ
omy plea may force a postpone
ment of major farm legislation,
including tenancy aids, crop in
surance, and even normal gran
ary, because of unavailable funds
to support the plans.
Administration officials said
that the ps&e which business sets
during the next few months will
show whether new taxes will be
needed.
Hoping to speed activity, in
crease the flow of tax revenues
and remove the necessity for more
taxes on business which are more
than ten percent above last year,
Secretary of Commerce Roper
said industry was still a long
way from full production.
Ten Ma jor Bills
(Hy The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 22, —
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Ten major bills, besides appro
priation measures are still pend
ing in congress.
They are court reorganization,
relief, neutrality, government re
organization, wage and hour re
gulations, housing, farm tenancy,
crop insurance, pure foods and
drugs laws, and anti-lynching
legislation.
All of them excepting neutrali
ty are far from enactment
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Construction Over
(By The Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.—
The machine-gun-like clatter of
the riveting hammers, will be
heard for the last time next Tues
day, on the $35,000,000 Golden
Gate Bridge.
Chief Engineer Joseph Strauss
said the construction work was
virtually completed. The formal
opening will take place May 28
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
American League
Chicago 10 St. Louis 15—All oth
; or major league games were post
poned.
Coast League
San Francisco 9 Seattle 5
. Portland-—Los Angeles rain.
I Sacramento 5 San Diego 2
i Oakland 5 Missions 8
New York April 22—Manager
Joe McCarthy indicated he would
hold out to pitcher Charley Ruff
ings, an offer to split the salary
difference, which has held up the
decision on his salary, though
previously it was said that it
would not be acceptable.
Ruffing is reported to have de
manded $16,0OO, and the club
had offered $15,000. The com
promise is to be $15,500.
LONGSHOREMEN ARE
STRIKING NEW YORK
Bombard Madrid
(Bv The Associated 0ress>
MADRID, April 22, —Insurgent
gun crews began attacks stabb
ing at the heart of the capitol.
Twenty five shells dropped
here early this morning, while
the bodies of thirty wto persons
killed yesterday, were being bur
ied.
General Jose Miaja. chief of
the defense for Madrid termed
the insurgent “heartless hyenas".
More than two hundred per
sons have been killed since the
bombings began eleven days ago.
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Charges Grouping
(Bv The Associated p
WASHINGTON, April 22. —
Mrs. Vinson E. Sission, of Chi
cago, national defense chairman
of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, told a IJ. A. R.
.convention today that the Farm
er Labor party was linked with
communists.
She advised the women to have
the communists declared an 1 il
legal party and not entiiieJ tn
constitutional protection.
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, April 22, —A
strike of longshoremen from Port
land, Maine to Hampton Roads.
Virginia against the English ship
:>ers, Cura i d. White Star and
Purness-Withy line1-', called in an
.‘(Tort to force recognition of the
international Longshoremen’s A.
ociation at Montreal, threatened
to tie up four large ocean line*
:\vo of which eu:er to the rich
trade between New York and
Bermuda.
T e liner Q: ■ M. ry, carry
ing J. P. Mor.; r. .!•’ i other not
ables from the Ur ted States, en
r ute t > the C. r ation f King
Beorgt- VI, at Lond-ut. was bare
ly able to got aw -y yesterday.
Has Two Mouths
'in I’ho A . ?i-owl
SHELTON, V. i AP)—A
iwo-ni tithed s-i n • was caught
in a net by Bill A ' Skokomisr
li-ho: m. T. e up n. ’h w is
in a norm.; p - t i . ire t:m
}ue op-rat d !■ -
a it i he low' ru- - it separ
ate set of tt't,I, ’ ' w, i hod
15 pounds and v ■ l< n .
TWO-YEAR-OLD HAS I. Q. OF 1R.>
Ur. John 1*. Nafe, head of the Washington university, St. Louis,
department of psycholory, reported Mary Christine Dunn, 38
months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence T. Dunn, Bonne
Terre, Mo., has an Intelligence quotient of 185. This is 45 points
higher than the mark normally identified with "genius.” (Asso*
elated Press Photo) _'
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