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Volume 36. Number 177. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY' 29, 1935. Per Copy Ten Cents
British 7 Year Naval Plan is Revealed
LEAGUE COUNCIL MEET ETHIOPIAN DISPUTE
Soviet N. Pole Flight May Be To Discover New Lands
Communist See'ty.
Tells About Parly
In United Stales
Secretary of American Com
munist Party Tells About
Increases Membership
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, July 29, —Earl Brow
der, general secretary of the com
munist party in the United States
told the 7th Communists, that the
International American Communist
party was carrying on the traditions
of the U. S. War for Independence.
"We have assimilated revolution
ary traditions of 1776. We are the
heirs of the revolutionary move
ments from which the United Stat
es originated", he said.
The native American membership
of the party is increasing from ten
percent in 1930 to forty percent at
the present time, with a total mem
bership now of thirty thousand.
United States Loses
Davis Cup As Team
Of Britain Victors
British Team Defeats Ameri
can Contenders for Poss
ession of Davis Cup
(By The Associated Press)
WIMBLEDON, July 29, —Allison
and Van Ryan lost in the doubles
tennis match to the new Britain
doubles team, George Hughes and
C. R. D. Tuckey, 6-2; 1-6; 6-8;
6-3; 6-3, winning the coveted Dav
is Cup for the third year.
Britain’s victory was the final
crushing blow to America’s hopes of
recapturing the Davis Cup, lost to
France in 1927. Allison and Budget
lost to Austin and Perry last week.
Are Circulating A
Petition To Retain
Don Irwin, Palmer
Some of Colonists Will Not
Remain If Irwin Is Trans
ferred Away Colony
(By The Associated Press)
ANCHORAGE,. July 29, —Fearful
that Don Irwin, head of the Mata
nuska Colony Farm Division will be
returned to his old post heading the
Alaska University’s and govern
ment’s experimental farm this fall,
colonists are circulating a petition
that he be retained at Palmer.
Visitors at the colony said that a
large number of them assert they
will not remain if Irwin drops out
of the colony picture.
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LEAGUE COUNCIL WILL
MEET WEDNESDAY ON
EAST AFRICA DISPUTE
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, July 29, — The League of Nations is pre
paring for a Council session Wednesday, at which attempts
to settle the Italio-Ethiopian dispute by arbitration, will be
considered.
A final check-up of the situation as the session ap
proaches, discloses that the Ethiopian government has es
tablished a national Red Cross in preparation for conting
encies which may arise if war is declared.
Italy wants the adjourned conciliation commission to
concern itself with the frontier incidents, while Ethiopia
wants a decision on international boundaries.
Mussolini, waging war against nature in the Italian
province of Eritrea in preparation for a possible war against
Ethiopia, has chosen that place as a base for operations.
11 Duce will literally have to transform the colony to
make it an effective stepping-off place for his Fascist leg
ions. Thirty-five thousand workmen are now engaged in
road-building, construction of barracks, and the digging of
aqueducts.
League circles said late today that Ethiopia had made
major concession in its dispute with Italy by refraining from
an insistence that the Council dig to the bottom of the con
troversy. Emperor Selassi contented himself with getting
back to attempts for arbitration.
Tension Somewhat
Relaxed Germany
Political Warfare
Persecution of Jews, Catho
lics and Steel Helmeters
Is Trifle Eased Today
(By The Associated Press)
BERLIN, July 29, —Tension among
the Jews, Roman Catholics and
world war veterans of the steel hel
met organization, was considerably
eased today by news of the social
visit of General Werner Von Blom
berg to Hitler.
The general feeling prevailed in
political circles that Blomberg point
ed out to Hitler the unfavorable
international impression created by
the drastic measures in the past
fortnight against political Catholi
cism, the steel helmets and by the
personal attacks upon the Jews.
Meanwhile persistent rumors have
i circulated that Heinrich Himmler,
j chief of the Secret Police, the dom
inant figure in the 1934 Nazi blood
purge, would replace Wilhelm Frick
as Minister of the Interior.
BAND PRACTICE TONITE
Another regular weekly practice
of the Nome Brass Band takes place
at the Band Hall tonight at 7:30 P.
M. Sharp. All members urged to at
tend, and anyone else who is inter
ested or would like to join.
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Republicans Are
Attempting Get
Congress Ad journ
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, July 29, —Facing
j renewed republican attempts to get
Congress to adjourn by August 10
without acting on President Roose
velt’s tax proposals, democrats push
ed their work on the bill and ex
pressed confidence that it would be
enacted this session.
Bear Hunt Was
Like Gold 1 li
During Days ’49
(By The Associated Press)
LOON LAKE, N. Y., July 29, —
The past winter’s drive for beaver
pelts in the Adirondacks resembled
the rush of the ‘forty-niners’ for
gold. Trapper Bill Williams of Loon
Lake, avers.
With beaver pelts at $8 to $20 per,
the temptation for otherwise unem
ployed was great and many took to
the woods. In many places traps
were like gold claims staked out
within a foot of one another. Fights
were frequent and traps were oc
casionally stolen.
Beavers are almost as smart as
fox, derlares the veteran woods
man. Never use a new shiny trap.
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Soviet Flight May
S»e Discover New
Land Near Pole
General Nobile Believes Sov
iet Flight May Discover
New Land in Arctic
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, July 21), —The discov
ery of new land between the North
Pole and the North Amereian con
tinent, is one of the possibilities of
Sigmund LevanolTsky’s over-the
North Pole flight, said General Um
berto Nobile, Italian aviator, writ
mg in the Soviet newspaper Prav
da.
Nobile is now serving as air ex
pert for the Soviet’s dirigible con
struction program. He said that fog
obscured a great area near the Pole
on previous flights which he, him
self had taken.
Meanwhile, the Soviet fliers are
still awaiting favorable weather to
start their Oakland hop.
General Nobile, Ronald Amund
sen and Lincoln Ellsworth made a
(light across the North Pole from
Spitzbergen to Teller, Alaska in
1925. All three of them were in
Nome and made the voyage to Seat
tle aboard the S. S. Victoria of the
Alaska Line, accompanied by their
full crews.
Captain Amundsen Liter, lost his
life in a search fur members of
the wrecked dirigible Italia, in the
Arctic. General Nobile was com
mander of the dirigible at the time,
and came near to death before res
cued.
Boeing Bomber Is
Test-Mopped At
Seattle Sunday
J
Half-Million Dollar Bombing
Plane Tested at Seattle To
Be Shown Army Aug.
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, July 29, —An official
of the Boeing Airplane Company,
Leslie R. Tower, test pilot, looked
forward to demonstrating their new
flying battleship before high Air
Corps officials at Dayton, Ohio, Aug
ust 22nd, after a preliminary test
flight yesterday, with the stream
lined bomber, which has a wing
spread of one hundred feet.
On its maiden flight, he said the
half-million dollar plane met every
one of the tests.
It is capable of dropping several
tons of explosives, or of engaging in
battles in the sky, with her five ma
chine guns.
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NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
TELLS OF BRITISH 7
YEAR NAVAL PLANS
(By The Associated Press')
LONDON, July 29, — Great Britain plans to build al
most a completely new battle fleet, costing approximately
seven hundred and fifty million dollars, by 1942, the London
Daily Herald said in a Sunday article, which claimed to have
revealed the secret of a seven year plan to develop the Ad
miralty.
The newspaper said that the major part of the pro
gram would consist of the construction of twelve new cap
ital ships; thirty-three cruisers; and three new aircraft car
riers. It also included sixty-three new flotila leader de
stroyers and twenty-one new submarines.
In Washington, D. C., American naval officials said they
were reluctant to believe that any such program was con
templated, but added, in remarks concerning the surprise
story, that any such development would mean a world-wide
building race.
Other navy men in Washington were inclined to be
lieve that the reported program might be intended to form
the basis for attempts to encourage attempts for a new naval
limitations agreement. The present naval limitations treat
ies expire in 1936.
Harvard Men Dis
miss Job Prefer
ences Questioned
ONLY 45 PERCENT OF 31fi SEN
IORS TO FOLLOW WORK
THEY WISH TO DO
(By The Associated Press)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 29, —
Only 45 percent of members of the
graduating class of Harvard college
will enter vocations for which they
have a personal preference, it was
revealed in the results of a poll
taken among the seniors.
The questionnaire, designed to show
the occupation which the seniors
plan to follow upon graduation, dis
closed that a large number of the
young men would prefer to write,
travel, enter the diplomatic corps or
follow other avocations were it not
that external circumstances were
diverting them from the desired car
eers.
Still other seniors would enter the
fields of music, aviation, farming, en
tomology, journalism, or even enlist
in the army if there were not cir
cumstances requiring that they go
into other vocations, the answers
stated.
The poll showed that law, busi
ness, medicine and teaching are the
occupations which the majority of
the class actually will follow. Chem
istry, engineering and architecture
rank next on this list.
Varied Interests
Three hundred and sixteen mem
bers of Harvard’s graduating class
replied to the questionnaire. The
occupations which some of them will
follow range from archaeology, av
iation, piano-making and the thea
atre to comic art, puppetry and pio
neering agricultural work in Pales
tine. Of those who answered only
11 stated that they had as yet form
ed no definite opinions concerning
their life work.
In reference to their hobbies, 169
seniors indicated that their interests
lie in the field of arts, 106 said that
they would like to try their hands
at politics, and 76 declared that they
favored scientific pursuits.
Pennsylvania Will
Jail Or Fine Hitch
Hikers In The State
(By The Associated Press)
HARRISBURG, July 29, —De
nouncing hitch-hikers, Captain W.
C. Price of the state highway pa
trol said that every thumber caught
will be clapped into jail or fined.
A hitch-hiker and a panhandler
are the same, Captain Price said,
except that the panhandler whines
for a dime and the hitch-hiker
whines for a ride that often is worth
a $10 bill.
Pointing to an increase in ride
bumming with the coming of sum
mer vacations and the closing of
colleges, Captain Price warned that
his men have been ordered to en
force the law to the limit. This
provides a fine of $2 or a day in jail.
S. Edward Gable, president of the
Pennsylvania Motor Federation
pointed out that the motorist is lia
ble for injury or death of a guest
in his car, even hitch-hikers.