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VOL. 37. No. 204 NOME, ALASKA, Thursday, AUG. 27, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
Landon’s 4 Principles Government
SEC. OF WAR PERN PASSED AWAY TODAY
Rebels Accusing France Of Helping Socialist Gov’t
I
I
Secretary of War
Dern Died This j
Morning in Wash.
_____
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, —
Secretary of War Dern died at
10:55 A. M. today Eastern Stan
dard Time in the Walter Reed
Hospital here, from heart and
other complications resulting
from past attacks of influenza.
He was 64 years of age. Dur
ing the night Secretary Dern
was placed under an oxygen tent
in an effort to prolong his life.
Friends said that his death fol
lowed a general physical break
down nrieinating from spveral
flu attacks, when 1.. was Cover
nor of the State of Utah, five
years ago, from which he never
fully recovered.
Dr. Fritz Meyer, noted Ger
man heart specialist was called
here from Boston at the direc
tion of President Roosevelt, for
consulation with the Army doct
ors before Dern died.
Five Killed And
Many In jured in
Truck Accident
, (By The Associated Press)
DARLINGTON, Maryland, Aug.
27, —Five persons were killed
and a score or more injured as
a truck crashed through a guard
rail and plunged down a steep
embankment over the Conowingo
Dam bridge near here.
The truck was reported to be
loaded with laborers enroute
from New Jersey to Florida.
Some were asleep at the time of
the wreck.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
All Western Alaska, except
Seward Peninsula enjoyed fair
weather this morning, but clouds
still hung low over Fairbanks
and it was raining at Anchorage,
Cordova and Juneau. At 8 A.M.
* temperatures were freezing from
Ruby along the Yukon River to
its mouth.
A new low pressure area was
creeping down on Northern Al
aska from the Arctic and shallow
disturbances covered the Western
Gulf region. Pressure was high
over Bering Sea.
The highest temperature in
Nome yesterday was 51 and the
lowest this morning was 34.
Commander Of
I3th Dist. Has
Been Moved On
(Bv Tine Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 27, — Com
mander M. W. Rasmussen, in
charge of the 13th Coast Guard
District including Washington,
Oregon and Nome stations, was
transferred to the Ninth District
at Buffalo, New York, in orders
received from Washington, D. C.,
which become effective Septem
ber 29th.
He came to Seattle from Buff
alo two and a half years ago.
His successor here was not an
nounced, it was declared.
Nazi Firm Build
Refinery Italian
Company Trieste
i German Industrialists To Get A
Share in Italy’s Expan
sion Program
(Bv The Associated Press)
BERLIN, Aug. 27, —Efforts of
German industrialists to put them
selves in a position to share in
the profits of Italy’s program of
expansion were seen in an an
nouncement that the Rheinmetall
Borsig company has been given a
contract to build a 3,500,000 mark
(about $1,400,000) oil refinery for
a corporation at Trieste.
This is the first time any Ger
man firm has been given a chan
ce to build a big refinery abroad.
British and American firms here
tofore have been enjoying a prac
tical monopoly in such business.
The new refinery will have a
capacity of 300,000 tons annual
ly and is designed to help make
Italy independent of foreign mot
or fuel. Particularly interesting
in view of the economic situa
tions of Germany and Italy is
the method of financing the big
order.
A South Germany company at
Mannheim will pay the Rhein
metall-Borsig company in Ger
man money a large portion of the
purchase price of the refinery eq
uipment and will in turn receive
shares in the Italian company,
the board of directors of which
will include four Germans.
MINERS AND DREDGE MEN
The Nome Daily Nugget carries
several forms of printing blanks
for your convenience — Dredge
Logs, thawing and drill reports,
Mining Deeds, Placer and Lode
Location Notices. Vouchers, and
Special Power of Attorney forms.
“COCKEYED” SYSTEM
TAXATION DECLARES
LANDONIN ADDRESS
Given At Buffalo When He Said That
The Government Was Living In
“Fool’s Paradise”
(By The Associated Press)
BUFFALO, New York, Aug. 27, —Governor Alf
M. Landon, republican candidate for President of the
United States, demanded an immediate return from
what he termed the “cockeyed” New Deal “corporation
.surplus tax law”, before a large outdoor throng here
today. He said “The government is living in a Fool’s
Paradise, and is wasteful, and
(spending beyond its income”.
! Landon advocated direct in
|come taxes on incomes of individ
uals and corporations for federal
purposes instead of indirect tax
jes on food, clothing, gasoline, etc.
He laid down four principles
for guiding federal financing,
I which were:
uovernment must guard and
preserve its source of income.
Government must make sure
it gets its dollar’s worth for ev
ery dollar spent.
Government must not get the
habit of spending more than it
has received.
Government must prepare f r
the rainy day.
The Republican Presidential
nominee left for Tokepa, Kansas,
immediately after his speech.
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Loaned His Belt
Whipping Boys j
Who Stole Pop;
(By The Associated Press)
MADISONVILLE, Ky., Aug. 27
—County Judge Charles E. Gar
nett’s leather belt served as the
lash with which three negro moth
ers and one grandmother carried
out his sentence on five boys
who stole some pop.
Arms akimbo to hold up his
beltless pants, Judge Barnett act
ed as referee of the whippings in
the courthouse basement. After
he ruled the punishment was sat
isfactory, his belt was returned.
Judge Barnett said he consid
ered the punishment just as eff
ective as sending the delinquents
to a reform school. Besides, he
said, it saved the taxpayers’ mon
ey.
Placer
And Lode
Location Blanks
For Sale at Nugget Office
Passenger List
Of S S Derblay
Bce:i Received
(By The Associated Press)
Following is the passenger list
of the S. S. Derblay of the Al
aska Line which is scheduled to
arrive at Nome Saturday morn
ing from Seattle, after stopping
at Dutch Harbor:
For Nome
Mrs. Lawrence Mead
J. Kelleher
For Dutch Harbor
Lillian Ross
Arthur J. Harris
For Teller
Rev. Kleve
Mrs. Kleve
Gertrude Kleve
Samuel Kleve
For Keewalik
Mrs. G B Smith
For Kotzebue
Dell Westbrook
Mrs. Westbrook
Miss O D Clarke
Baseball Scores
(By The Associated Press)
COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 10 Seattle 4
San Francisco 4 Portland 1
Oakland 0 San Diego 1
Sacramento 4 Missions 5
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 2-4 Chicago 4-7
Brooklyn 10 Pittsburgh 3
New York 6 Cincinnati 5
Boston 10 St. Louis 4
AMERICANS
St. Louis 5 New York 2
Chicago 6 Philadelphia 3
Detroit 0 Boston 7
Cleveland 1 Washington 14
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2 Fliers to Make
Round Trip Hop
N. Y. To London
(By The Associated Presst
BROOKLYN. Aug. 27. — Dick
Merrill and Harry Richman hop
ped off in the monoplane “Lady
Peace” from Floyd Bennett Air
port at 8:26 A. M. EST on a non
stop test flight to New Foundland
preparatory to a flight probab
ly Friday afternoon for London,
returning to New York after a
Sunday breakfast in Europe, to
New York next Monday.
1 Merrill expected to return to
;his job as senior pilot for East
1 ern Airlines after the London
| hop. He is now on his vacation.
Gracie Alien Is
Voted Me The
Most Intelikc”?
o
I (Bv The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 27. —
Gracie Allen—the professional
dumbbell—was selected by Uni
j versity of Southern California
j psychologoy students as the
;screen’s most intelligent actress.
An elementary class of 80 stu
dents and an advanced section of
40 participated in the poll. Each
group named the 10 actresses it
! considered to be Hollywood’s
most intelligent women.
The other nine named were
Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, j
Ann Harding, Irene Dunn, Clau
dette Colbert, Grace Moore Bet
te Davis, Ruth Chatterton and
Jeannete MacDonald.
Voting separately, the two
groups saw eye-to-eye on nine
selections. The difference was the
elementary class put Miss Chatt
erton in the list, while the ad
vanced group included Kathar
ine Hepburn on its roster.
But Gracie led both lists.
Miss Allen is known here as a
successful home-maker and a
shrewd business woman in addi
tion to the difficult personality
she displays professonally”, said
one student’s paper.
Odd But True
“Have you noticed a very odd
thing about blunt people?” Free
man asked his friend.
“Can’t say I have,” said the
latter. “They are certainly rath
er embarrassing at times.
Freeman nodded pensively.
“Yes, but hasn’t it ever struck
you that they are the ones who
generally come to the point
first?” he said.
Rebels Accusing
France Helping
Socialist Gov’t.
—
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 27, — Rebels
checked on the Bay of Biscay
front, gained what they called an
open road to Madrid, and were
only forty miles north of the cap
itol.
A number of columns pushed
three miles closer to dominating
Lozoya Valley through which
flows the stream providing Mad
rid with water.
With the Socialist's strongman,
Iron Chancellor Indalecia Prieto
denouncing Fiance and Great
Britain for not aiding and de
fending the government, the reb
els ironically announced fr m
Burgos, that France had given
succor to socialist 1 •
preparing grave measure- for the
pid of Madrid. France, neverthe
less, insists she is neutral.
The United Sta'es today warn
ed Madrid that it will insist on
freedom of the seas for Ameri
can shipping, the State Depart
ment declaring that Spain has no
right to bar merchant vessels
from rebel ports un’.e-s she can
apply an effectiv b! ckade.
To Supply British
Civilians W ith Gas
Masks Safeguard
<L
(Bv Tne Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 27, — Geoffrey
Lloyd, under secretary in the
home office, announced that the
British government planned to
produce 30,000.000 gas masks to
safeguard civilians against any
type of gas in wartime. He told
the questioners in the house of
commons the design had not been
decided upon but assured the
members all would be of British
manufacture.
“Long Count” Dave
Barry Died In Chi.
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Aug. 27, — “Long
Count” Dave Barry who gained
fame as the referee of the second
Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey wor
ld championship fight in Chicago
nine years ago, died in the hos
pital yesterday after a six weeks’
illness. He was 47 years old.
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