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VOL. 38. No. 7 NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JAN. 9, 1936 _ Per Copy 15cts
Organize to Develop the Territory
ALASKA SHARE IN BUDGET IS INCREASED
‘Dimond Starts Legislation on Way In Washington
Shwellenkach
Of Washington
Working Alaska
(K\ Trie Associated Press i
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 9,
—Senator Schwellenbach of the
state of Washington undertook
today to organize house and sen
ate blocs to push measures for
the development of Alaska, des
cribing the territory as ‘‘one of
^ the United States’ greatest as
sets”.
The senator added that in what
ever respect it was aided, it also
a ded the entire Pacific north
west. He said he would attempt
to organize the delegations of
Washington, Otegon, Idaho and
California to back proposed leg
islation, the enactment of a four
year development program.
Proposals include the establish
ment of an army aviation base
in the territory, expansion of the
air mail serv ce, allocation of
greater amounts for territorial
road construction, development
as speedily as possible of the pro
posed international highway and
the rehabilitation of the Alaska
Railroad.
k Also included was the extension
w~~^ a
of federal aid to mineral prospect
ors for grubstakes.
Senator Schwellenbach announ
ced h:s plans after a conference
with Delegate Anthony J. Dim
ond and Dr. Ernest Gruening, the
Director of the Division of Ter
ritories and Insular Affairs un
der the Department of the Inter
ior.
Schwellenbach said that Gruen
ing ha d agreed to arrange a
meeting next week of all heads
of bureau.under which Alaska can
be benefited, at which an Alaska
development program will be urg
ed.
DELEGATE DIMOND IS
GETTING IN BILLS
EARLY SESSION
ELEVEN BILLS FOR ALASKA INTRODUCED, FIVE
OF THEM PERTAINING FISHERIES, BY
DELEGATE, HOPES PASSAGE
Britain Protests
Bombing Build
p
ing In Madrid
fBv The Associated Press)
LONDON. Jan. 9, — Gi-e" 8ri -
tain today sent a vigorous pro
test to the Spanish insurgent gov
ernment against the aerial bomb
ing of its Madrid Embassy build
ing last night.
The cabinet held its second em
ergency session in two days and
approved the representations.
Officials declared that eight
bombs were dropped on the Em
bassy building which was the
property of Great Britain, which
is now massing ninety four vess
els of its fleet in Spanish waters.
CRv The Associated Press)
MADRID, Jan. 9, —Four per
sons were killed, and two Brit
ish subjects injured in a night
air raid and bombing of the dip
lomatic headquarters of Great
Britain, Germany and Finland,
Socialist government officials an
I nounced.
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
SHE WINS BY HER HANDS
*_
Her hands won Jan Neu, 19-year-old Atlanta girl, a contract fora part
In a color picture at Hollywood. Artist Dan Sayre Qroeebeek dee arod
the hands, shown hero in a closeup, to be the "moat beautiful In
America. (Associated Press Photo) __ _ .,
'By The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 9,
—De egate from Alaska Anthony
J. Dimond introduced eleven new
bills, five of them dealing with
the fisheries. in congress this
morning.
They included a call for the
transfer of control over the sal
mon and other fisheries except
the fur seal and sea otter, from
the Department of Commerce to
the Territory; elimination of
traps, weirs and pound nets; con
struction and operation of a vess
el to use in fisheries research
work in Pacific and Bering Sea
waters of Alaska and Hawaii;
protection of oyster culture, and
another bill to extend to fisher
men the benefits of the federal
public health service.
Other bills included a measure
on roads that would extend the
provisions of the federal aid of
the highway act to Alaska; con
struction and qperation of a fed
eral hospital for the care and
treatment of the insane of Alas
ka;
Two educational bills call for
the reservation of sections num
bered thirty three in each town
site, support of the University of
Alaska, sale of timber and min
eral products under such sec
tions, the revenue to go toward
the support of the Territory's
common schools.
Under existing legislations sec
tions sixteen and thirty-six, each
townsite reserved support of the
common schools.
Dimond’s mining bill would
amend the 1872 mining act to
provide that land not contigious
to a vein or lode, containing no
known mineral value, not more
than forty acres in area, may be
entered upon as a mill site, and
that claims can be made for its
use for landing fields and air
ports, as well as reduction plants
or mills.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Jan. 9, — Coroner
Otto Mittelstadt announced that
an inquest would be held Mon
day into the fatal street car
crash yesterday in which a third
man Nick Riding, may die. Forty
others were injured more or less.
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YACHT MADE READY FOR WALLY SIMPSON t
Steam was kept up at Cannes, France, In this yacht, belonging to Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, after Mrs.
Wallis Simpson arrived there from England. It was believed the craft was kept In readiness should Mrs.
8lmpson decide to flee still farther from Britain, now in turmoil over King Edward’i desire to marry
her. This picture was radioed to New York. (Associated Press Phots)
ALASKA HAS BIG SHARE IN
NATIONAL BUDGET WITH
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE
'By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 9,
—Alaska’s share of the budget
recommendations submitted to
congress, totaled $4,803,600 as
compared with $447,628 appro
priated for the 1936-37 fiscal
year.
The President’s budget message
showed actual expenditures un
der appropriations for the same
services in 1935-36 amounted to
$4,631,798 as compared with ap
propriations for the present year.
Small increases recommended
several times included those for
the general operations of the Bur
eau of Fisheries in Alaska waters,
educational and medical aid to
natives.
Recommendations included the
fisheries bureau two hundred and
ninety thousand, enforcement of
game laws $130,798, education of
natives seven hundred thousand,
medical relief of the natives three
hundred and seventy-five thous
and dollars, maintenance of the
Annette Island Indian reserve
fifty thousand, Geological Sur
vey sixty thousand. McKinley Na
tional Park twenty-nine thousand
and the amount recommend for
maintenance of the reindeer bur
eaus under the territorial gov
ernment was $33,500, public
schools fifty thousand, care and
custody of the insane $190,600,
wagon roads, bridges and trails
one hundred and thirty five thou
sand dollars, maintenance of oth
er roads and bridges and trails
five hundred and thirty-five thou
sand.
The Alaska Railroad fund two
hundred thousand, Alaska Rail
road permanent appropriation of
one million nine hundred thou
sand. The message also recom
mended one thousand eight hun
dred dollars for flood control sur
veys on Lowell Creek and Sal
mon River respectively.
FOR SALE—Modern heating
stoves—burn either hard or soft
coal—slightly used, inquire at the
Nugget Office for information.
President OK’s
WPA Plans Co
Until Next June
Sixty Hundred 50 Million
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. D. C. Jan. 9,
—The President’s message sign
ed WPA go-ahead plans, to care
I for more than two million un
i employed persons for the rest of
the fiscal year.
The action was based on hi3
! statement that he would ask for
i six hundred and fifty million dol
lars in a single appropriation to
carry the Works Progress and
related programs, from February
1st though June.
PRESIDENTS EXCHANGE GREETINGS
President Roosevelt (left) Is shown embracing President Gabriel Terra
of Uruguay on disembarking from the U. S. 8. Indianapolis on his
visit to Montevideo. (Associated Press Photo) ^