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VOLUME 36. NO. 43. NOME, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935 Per Copy Ten Cents
Gold Decision Means Added Business
PRES. ROOSEVELT DELIVERS SPECIAL MESSAGE
GENERAL CONFIDENCE
-REAWAKENING SEEN
IN GOLD CASE DECISION
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Out of the gold decision
some of the officials and legislators, saw a possible political
issue emerging which would sound a call in the election
campaigns.
Some wondered whether the future might see the sold
iers of the government organized to carry to congress, the
fight to be paid the equivalent of the old gold dollar.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21—Many business leaders are pon
dering the gold decision and its effects, and have decided
that it meant more dollars, in circulation. Many are posi
tive that the decision has now ensured added business.
Business minority used the word “boom.” Some busi
ness men were merely hopeful. The conservative element
felt that if the decision were reversed, it would save exploita
tion and have a much better long-time effect, even if it dis
rupted business temporarily.
Prospects are bright in the steel industry. Wholesalers
and manufacturers who depend in a measure, on credit facil
ities of the nation, included in their view of the outcome, a
favorable view of the decision, a re-awakened and general
confidence, which would create buying.
Taken by the majority of business leaders was the be
lief that increased prices were also foreseen.
2 Daughters Of
U. S. Consul End
Life Plane Jump
(By The Associated Press)
UPMINISTER, Essex, England,
Feb.. 21—Elizabeth, 23, and Janet
aged 20, daughters of the United
States Consul Dubois, stationed at
Naples plunged fifteen hundred feet
to their death from a plane which
was speeding them to Paris, this
morning.
They were alone in the plane with
the pilot, having reserved and paid
for every other seat in the transport
ship, apparently in order to be with
themselves on the Channel Crossing.
Witnesses on the ground said the
girls were clasped hand in hand in
a last embrace as they plunged
downward from the heights. The
pilot did not notice their disappear
ance until an hour later. He found
two sealed letters on one of the
seats. The plane will be turned over
to Scotland Yard men to examine
The Dubois family has lived
abroad for the past several years,
in the service of the government
The mother in Naples was prostrat
ed and could give no reason for the
girls committing suicide. Both were
very beautiful The Dubois family
formerly resided in San Francisco .
Friends said they started on their
last flight, heart-broken over the
recent crash and deaths of two
young men of the Royal Flying
Corps near Messina, Italy.
Official Organs
Soviet Gov't Up
braid Germany
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW. Feb 21st—The official
organs of the Soviet government up
braided Germany with accusations
of plans for aggression in both East
ern and Central Europe
On the heels of the approval of the
London agreements by Maxim Lit
vinoff, Commissar for Foreign Af
fairs, and his insistence that the
agreements be rigidly effective.their
entirely authoritative press pictured
the Nazi as hungry for war. Under
the disguise of "diplomatic chatter
ing” a general display was given
charges by the Czechoslovakian
newspaper "Narodini Politica,” that
Japan. Germany and Poland, were
preparing for a war against the So
viets..
Move To Forestall
Any Further Con
cessions Germany
(By The Associated Press!
LONDON, Feb . 21st—Diplomatic
quarters viewed Russia unexpected,
and shrewdly timed note, demand
ing that Britain and France stand
solidly behind their entire pacifica
tion program as an adroit move to
forstall any further concessions to
Germany.,
$30,000 APPROPRIATION BILL
DESIGNED TO ASSIST RELIEF OF
DESTITUTION IN TERRITORY
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Feb 21—Interpreted as
a victory for the opposition, the
Hoffman graduating fish trap meas
ure passed the House unanimously,
but carrying an amendment aimed
to make the act unconstitutional
The amendment labels it as a bill
to regulate and control salmon fish
eries. The impression prevails that
the act will be knocked out if taken
into court. It now goes to the Sen
ate.
The Green resolution asking Con
gress to approve of the Townsend
plan passed the House. The Ziegler
bill providing that municipalities
elect a board to handle municipally
owned plants passed the House.
One new bill, asking for an appro
priation of three thousand dollars
for the Alaska Territorial Chamber
of Commerce was introduced.
The effort to amend the Walker
memorial asking for the abolition of
herring reduction plants failed by a
vote of nine to seven. It now goes
to a third reading
The Senate approved Walker’s
bill to appropriate thirty thousand
dollars for the relief of destitution.
President Brunnell, of the Alaska
College, appeared this morning and
urged an appropriation of forty-five
thousand dollars for the women’s
dormitory at the college. Eiler Han
sen, Superintendent of the Pioneers'
Home, asked for his complete bud
get appropriation.
SHRINK HALL
Members of Anvil Lodge, their
wives or lady friend—members of
the Eastern Star and their escorts—
all visiting Masons and visiting
Eastern Stars are cordially invited
to attend the Shrine Ball at the Ne
vada Hall. 9:30 P. M„ Saturday,
February 23rd.
DELEGATE DIMOND DELIVERS
SPEECH IN HOUSE OF REP.
IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORY
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Denying that the Hawaiian
Islands are the only defensive key to the Pacific, Delegate
Dimond, said in a speech in the House of Representatives,
that any enemy in the Far East, would ignore those islands,
in striking at continental United States.
He urged the establishment of a naval base in the Aleut
ian Islands, and an army air base on the Alaskan mainland.
Admitting the importance of Hawaiian defense plans.
Dimond cited straight-line distances from Japan to the Unit
ed States and points for strongholds for Japan, showing the
Aleutians and the Alaska mainland would be logical points
of attack in case of war. He argued that not only shorter
distances between the United States and an Oriental nation,
but also lack of defenses in the northern Territory make it a
logical victim. The shortest line between Seattle and Yoko
hama would pass just south of the Aleutians and would be
4924 miles, while from Yokohama and the nearest point in
the United States via Hawaii was 6316 miles.
He said : “It is obvious that in case of attack on the
United States the enemy would not follow the longer and
more heavily fortified route, but would go by the shorter
way, which at the present time has no defense works what
soever.”
Dimond explained that the major cities of Alaska are
from seven hundred to fourteen hundred miles from the
chief seaport of the Pacific Northwest, distances, which with
the present flying equipment “would mean nothing to an
attacking force. It is obvious that an enemy moving across
the Pacific would not come by way of Honolulu or within
two thousand miles of it, but would rather first strike, in
vade. and take Alaska at one gulp. Once the enemy is in
possession of Alaska, Hawaii would be ignored because Al
aska would be on the inside strategicline. If a foreign pow
er should take possession of Alaska, billions of dollars in
money and probably thousands upon thousands of lives
would be required to expel him.”
Alaska, Dimond stated, would be impossible to defend
thru the fortifications of the Hawaiians because of the more
than twenty-three hundred miles separating them.
SAYS PEOPLE NEED
GOVT SUPERVISION
TO ELIMINATE WASTE
(Bv The Associated Press')
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—A two year extension of the
National Recovery Law with its “Fundamental purposes
and principles” was recommended yesterday to Congress,
by President Roosevelt.
In a special message Roosevelt proposed that the gov
ernment be allowed “unquestioned power to establish cer
tain minimum standards of random competition in commer
cial practices, and especially adequate standards in their
relationships.”
For example, he said, child labor must not be allowed
to return. The fixing of minimum wages and maximum
hours of work, and the practical and necessary rights of em
ployees to organize for the purpose of collective bargaining,
should be fully protected. The fundamental principles of
the anti-trust laws should be more adequate in its applica
tion to monopolies. Private price fixing must not be allowed
or condoned he said, in his message.
But in the in e ot such natural resources as oil, coal,
and gas, the President said that the people “need govern
ment supervision to eliminate waste, control the out-put,
and stabilize employment, so that the public is protected
from ruinous price cutting.”
Another “'Dead**
Man Is Brought
Bark To Life
(Bv The Associated Press)
TYLER, Texas Feb 21—Life ap
parently left him for five minutes
and returned slowly, to seventy-one
year old W A Strang, said Dr. How
ard Bryant, who revived the former
sheriff by injecting adrenalin into
the stilled heart after "death.” He
said that Strang has good chances
of recovery.
Planes To Carry
Dawson Ice Sports
[ banks Carnival
(V\ The Associated Press)
FAIHUANKS, Feb 21—Pacific Al
aska Airw: ; planes leave here Sat
urday for Dawson to bring to Fair
banks twenty Hockey players and
curlers, and other passnegers to com
pete with the Alaska College and
local players in the Fairbanks Ice
Carnival.
An exclusion train from Anchor
age will bring other hockey, and
basketball players. A dog derby
starting March 8th, will be one of
the features of the carnival. The
Klondikers are favored to win in
out-door sporting events
The Nome Daily Nugget is prepar
ed to do vnur job printings_
Says Body Could
Not Been That Of
Lindbergh Baby
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb 21—A former
defense investigator said that coun
sel for Hauptmann ignored the evi
dence that the body in the murder
case, could not have been that of
the Lindbergh baby, and seven au
topsy experts, were ready to show,
declared George H Foster, that the
body found near Hopewell and iden
tified by Col. Lindbergh as his son,
was in reality more than four inches
taller than Lindbergh Jr , and was
decomposed more than would have
been possible in the mild weather
after the kdnapping. His assertion
came as the defense stalf prepared
to gather at Trenton for a confer
ence on their disagreement over the
proceedure toward making the ap
peal .
Backers of Pattman
Bonus Bill Against
Any Compromise
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21—Stand
ing flatly against a compromise, the
backers of the Pattman Bonus Bill,
decided on immediate steps, to force
action on the bill.
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