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VOL. 37. No. 243 NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCT. 12, 1936. Per Copy 15cts
‘We Are Around Comer’-Roosevelt
109 LIVES LOST TYPHOON-MUCH DAMAGE
Landon Says Roosevelt Statements Are Misleading
ROOSEVELT STATED
AMERICA HAS THE
SOUNDEST MONEY
r ' ——
’ (By The Associated Press)
DENVER, Oct. 12, — President Roosevelt, on his
central states’ campaign tour, today coupled a declara
tion “we are around the corner”, with a statement that
America’s monetary system “is the safest in the world
today”.
He asserted that government relief costs were com
ing down with the increase in private employment, and
pledged the New Deal to “more action—sound action,
to save the Constitutional and the representative form
of government in which we rejoice.”
He spoke of the tremendous revival in mining af
ter the Democratic administration had “laid the ghost
of the old gold parity of the dollar”, and also when the
administration purchased gold and silver.
Great bullion reserves are now in the United
States Treasury he said “sufficient to redeem every
dollar of our currency far more than one hundred per
cent, yet people, for partisan reasons and purposes on
ly, spread the gospel of fear, that our currency is not
on a sound foundation. I tell you, and you know, that
our monetary system is the soudest of any in the wor
ld today.”
Landon Accuses
Roosevelt Of
(By The Associated Press)
ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL,
Oct. 12, — Enroute to Cleveland,
Alf M. Landon, Republican can
didate for President, told Ohio
farmers, that Roosevelt’s Omaha
statements “were more calculat
ed to deceive than enlighten the
American farmer, suffering as a
result of the New Deal tariff poli
cies.”
He said that Roosevelt at Om
aha had indicated agricultural
exports were increasing.
Landon said “facts showed that
exports in terms of actual quan
tities exported, had declined.”
North Star Returns
Voyage Eastward
The North Star, Captain Frank
Whitlam in command, returned
to Nome Sunday from St. Michael
and east coast ports. The vessel
will sail tomorrow from Nome
carrying many passengers to Dio
mede Island, King Island Teller,
Wales and Tin City. At the lat
ter place a cargo of fresh killed
reindeer meat will be taken
aboard for shipment to ports en
route to the States.
Chas. E. Kimball
Tells of Mining
Council Section
Chas. E. Kimball, Well known
dredge man from the Council
section, is a recent arrival from
there after concluding a success
ful mining season. He states the
mining season in the Council sec
tion is just about closed for the
season by the early frost. Mosl
of the dredges and hydraulic op
erations have ceased and others
are digging floation for the dred
ges for winter quarters. All in
all Mr. Kimball says, the season
has been one of the best, although
the early part of the year was
lacking rain.
The North Star dredging Com
pany were putting things in shape
for winter. The Hugh Pearson
dredging company was digging
floation for their dredge for win
ter quarters. The Ophir dredge
Messrs. Thomas Shaw and asso
ciates were closed down for the
season and about ready to take a
plane for Nome. All the opera
tors are bringing in their final
cleanups for the season’s opera
tions, and they all appear to be
satisfied with their showings.
Mrs. N. Strand, accompanied by
Bobby, Betty and Peggy, were
arrivals this morning on the S. S,
Victoria, to join Mr. Strand foi
the winter.
S. S. Victoria
Arrived Nome
Last Trip 1936
The steamship Victoria of the
Alaska Line arrived at Nome at
3 A. M. this morning from Seat
tle on her last northern voyage
of the 1936 season. The trip was
described by passengers as a very
stormy one, and the vessel was
buffeted by head winds during
most of the trip which delayed
her arrival here.
The Victoria is heavily loaded
with a cargo of merchandise and
general cargo of every descrip
t:on to care for the inhabitants'of
Nome and vicinity untl the mid
dle of next June when the steam
er Victoria arrives again.
After unloading here the ves
sel will proceed to Bluff, Golovin
and Egavik to discharge cargo
and take aboard freight, includ
ing reindeer meat, a cargo of
Golovin herring and last but not
least the fall shipment of gold
bullion from the mines around
around Nome and vicinity.
The Victoria is expected to re
turn to Nome about Monday,
October 19th before sailing for
Seattle.
ruuowuig is me passenger nsi.
Dan Connolly
Ray Decker
John Marshall and wife
Miss L. Stillwell
Geraldine Rude
Betty Bradshaw
Jeanne Mozee
Mrs N. Strand, 3 children
i
Jane Parks
Miss N J Bouck
J. Mulkey
Mrs Chas D. Jones
Jean Dempster
Grace Roberts
V R* Farrell and Wife
Mrs Gunnar Kaasen
Mrs S. W. Taggart
Polly Fredicks
Lucia Petrie
Mrs Calvin Emery Poole
Mrs E K Johansen and
daughter
Mrs David S. Mazen and
two children
Wills, G. H.
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TYPHOON MISSED MANILA
BUT DID DAMAGE IN OTHER
PARTS OF PHILIPPINE ISLES
AT LEAST 109 PERSONS DEAD, MANY OTHERS
REPORTED MISSING LATEST TYPHOON
WHICH HIT PHILIPPINES
(By The Associated Press)
MANILA, Oct. 12, — All avail
able Philippine relief agencies
went into action today, aiding
survivors of the typhoon which
killed at least 109 persons and
left some four hundred missing.
Reports indicated that the
death list will rise. Officials ex
pressed the fear that missing
people were apparently washed
awray by the floods and wouldn't
be found alive.
All of the victims were on Lu
zon Island, most of them in the
provinces to the north of here.
Reports indicated that many in
Nueva Ecija, were marooned in
treetops and on the roofs of huts.
A number of small boats were
1 reported missing, including one
carrying 17 fishermen off the Pan
gasian Province coast.
Manila, on the outskirst of the
i
i storm, was swept by high winds
and rain, but escaped damage or
loss of life.
The storm raged north of here
for forty hours, during Friday
and Saturday, and again for a few
hours on Sunday.
A new typhoon is reported mov
ing northwest from a spot about
four hundred miles east of here.
Northern Luzon observers said
it would probably miss the Phil
ippines, but might strike south
ern Japan.
Weather Today
(U. S. Weather Bureau)
Considerable fog with light
snow and freezing mist were re
stricting ceiling and visibility ov
er most of the Nome-Fairbanks
Airway at the 7 a.m. observation.
Heavy snow storms were clos
ing in at Golovin and Deering
and threatening conditions ob
tained generally over Seward
Peninsula and western Alaska.
Heavy rainfall was reported
from southeastern Alaska at 1 a
m.
Low barometric pressure ob-1
tains over Alaska and the north
Pacific Ocean on this morning’s
weather map.
Temperatures were somewhat
higher this morning in western
and central Alaska but were
somewhat below freezing. Mod
erate temperatures are recorded
in southeastern Alaska.
Unsettled weather with occa
sional snow is indicated for Nome
tonight.
The lowest temperature at
Nome last night was 16 and the
highest yesterday 38.
PUBLIC DANCE
NOME’S NEW BALLROOM
CELEBRATING THE ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. VIC
TONIGHT—10 P. M.
EVERYONE WELCOME LADIES FREE
The $5.00 Door Prize Contest For Name Will Continue
All This Week.
Lomen Co. Teller
Store Total Loss
Meagre details concerning the
fire at Teller last Saturday,which
destroyed the Lomen Commerc
ial Company store there, were
brought back to Nome by Jack
Anderson and Pilot Whaley.
It seems that the cause of the
blaze, which completely destroy
ed the building, nearly one bun
dled feet long by seventy feet
wide, and two stories high, origi
nated in the gas engine room. A
gas engine is used to furnish the
power for the radio telephone
apparatus in force at Teller.
Smoke was first noted and up
on investigation it was discover
ed that the engine room was en
tirely ablaze. Efforts to obtain
fire extinguishers were necessar
ily slow and when concerted at
tempts were made to stop the
fire, the flames had become en
tirely beyond control. No other
buildings were destroyed or ser
iously damaged.
TO SPEND WINTER
Mrs. S. W. Taggart of Seattle,
was an arrival this morning on
the famous steamer Victoria, to
join her husband and son George
This is Mrs. Taggart’s first visit
to Nome in 22 years, and is look
ing forward to spending a pleas
ant winter in Nome renewing old
acquaintances.
Supreme Court
Will And Will
Not Do Reviews
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12, — The
Supreme Court refused to recon
sider its decision of last June in
holding unconstitutional the New
York law establishing minimum
wages for women, but agreed to
pass on a similar case attacking
the constitutionality of a Wash
ington State law establishing min
imum wages for women. It also
consented to review the decision
by the Washington State Supreme
Court upholding the law, which
was enacted in 1930 requiring
the payment of wages sufficient
to supply women with the neces
sary cost of living, and to main
tain them in health.
1 The Court refused to pass on
the case filed by Bradley Lum
ber Company of Arkansas attack
ing the constitutionality of the
Wagner-Labor Relations Act.
It granted the New Deal a re
view of its contention of the 50
percent tax on silver profits made
prior to the passage of the Silver
Purchase Act. The court refus
ed to review the ruling of the
Western Missouri Federal District
court upholding the constitution
al ly of the Frazier-Lemke Act,
granting a three-years' morator
ium on farm mortgage f 'reclos
ures.
Police Battled
.Poks lx Loudon
Demons l rations
(Hv The Associated Press)
LONDON, Oct. 12, — A hund
red police, wielding batons, re
peatedly charged a crowd of sev
eral thousand at Liverpool where
fighting broke out after Sir Os
wald Mosley, leader of the British
fascists, delivered a speech
In London a disorganized crowd
smashed the fronts of fifteen
shops and pillaged the contents
of store windows. Most of the
raids were on establishments own
ed by Jews. Store raids follow
ed a day-long battle between
communists and fascists.
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