The Nome nugget., March 14, 1931, Image 1

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THE NOME NUGGET
( GEO. S. MAYNARD, l’ublft8h«r. )
ALASKA. SATUKKAV. MARIK 1 lt|u 1951
Sinulf copy
25 cts. Per month $1
DOG TEAMS RUN FAST RAGE
BILLS INTRODUCED IN LEGISLATURE
JUDGE FINDLEY AND GOVERNOR MIX
KILLS INTKOIHHfKI> IN
LEGISLATURE AT JIGNKAI
1HJKING PAST WKW
Juneau, March 13, (Special ser
vice t«i The Nome Nugget)—Repr<
sentative Andy Nyleu introduced i
hill carrying an aptpro-priation o
i 6,000 for the building of a. schoo
house at Fortyna Ledge.
Ilepreseutative George Hellerict
introduced a bill for permanentl]
rofund'ing the annual payment o:
$2500.00 to relieve tllie city o'
Nome in harbor maintenance.
Senator Alfred J. l/)meu intro
duced a bill authorizing the terri
tory to reimburse Harry Gavin ol
'Paylor^xTor service** rendered ic
fonmnion with the death and
burial of John Rotsser. carrying
im an’wopriaition of two hundred
and eighty four d-oLiars for same
Senators I^omen and Dunn iu
■trodaiced a bill authorizing the
government to have the laws of
Alaska com.pdled, an apipropriation
of twenty thousand dollars was in
cluded in the bill to cover the
Senators Gomeu and Dunn in
troduced a Memo-rial to permit the
residents of the Yukon River to
eittabli-h community canneries with
a limite/* catoh of twelve thousand
Senator Dunn introduced a bill
along t he Yukon to Unalakleet,
with an appropriation of seven
thousand dollars for same.
Gegi-ilator Winn of the First
Division, introduced a (Community
Property Bill.
Bragaw of th*> Third Division.,
introduced a bill establishing fur
t'.vrming commission, which is de
signed to encourage and d-eveloip
fntr farming industry, also provid
ing t'<*r the establishing and tnain
r* nance of an experimental fur
farm, with an appropriation of
150.000 for same.
While in Seattle. Senator Alfred
.1. Goinen advises that he called on
Golonel Griffin of the U. S. Signal
t’oirps. and was informed that late
congressional rulings prohibits the
establishment of any new radio
stations in Ala-ska ou account of
a move to sell the telegraph sys
:em to private interests. The
Legislature will memorialize Con
gress its objection to the sale. It
is also understood that private in
terests are not interested beyond
Fairbanks, and the territory has
neither funds nor an organization
with which to handle the remain
der of the system.
The Second Division delegation
is organized and meeting together
distributing the work of and for
the interest of our division.
Mr. and Mrs. Auderson. repre
sentatives of the Stanford Univer
sity, who spent last 3Uminer in and
around the Nome section, have ar
rived here. Mrs. Sam Magidis i«
here and Grant Elliottt the pilot,
passed thru here on his way to
Seattle.
Everything is harmto-nious here.
ALFRED J. LOMEN.
I
AUTHORIZES SW’T'V WAR
TO SELL ALASKA <
WASHINGTON, March 14. (&>
I The Interdepartmental Committc
formed to study the coordinatioi
, vices, made its final report t > Pre
; ident Hoover. Under i s rooom
mendations the navy radio station
at Kodiak and Sitka. Alaska, nav
been closed to traffic and transfcri
ed to the War Departin'-nr sta
ttions. ('.aigrese also authorized tli>
; Secretary of War to sell the Alas
ka cable to private interests,
j There are no prospects of an im
'mediate sale according to a repor
from the department,
i The WaT Department said tha
j any private concern which pur
j chaste the Alaska caible and radb
(system will be required to contin
•ue the prei=ent service.
WASHINGTON. March 14. UP
|- The disposal of 'the Alaska ca
J ble awaits action of the nexit Con
igreas. The Interdepartmental re
port yesterday was incorrect, a
jthe bill was only pending before
[f’.is congress aud was not passed
[ NEW YORK. March 14. (.T*)—
i R -oortfc- rhat the Postal Telegraph
j Company was negotiating for the
’purchase of the Alaska cable, i.
denied here by compan- officials
UNDER SEC ‘RET ARY OF
STATE <’OTTON, DEAL
j RA.IiTI MORE. March 13. (/P)
J>e Po-t/j r Cotton, aged 5:>. and
; Secretary of State, died, after un
• dergone a major operation on his
Up.Me aud rhe removal of his right
j.eye six weeks ago. The chief bur
idea of the State Department was
[thrust on him when' Secretary
jStimson w-r.s at the London naval
t conference, later hi' hpnlth failed.
| Hie wife and daughter where at
A TOY GALLOON BRINGS
A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
OMAHA. Neb . March 14. </F»
A toy balloon released at a dinner
party here last November, return
ed in 'he form of a marriage Pro
posal to Mrs Robert Tunberg,
from a Fairbanks miner and pros
pector. named Henry H. Prentice.
I
At the time of the party each
balloon released carried card,
name and address, of the sender.
Prentice wrote that be found
the balloon in February in a gulch
above my claim in the Nanook re
gion . My partner and I were out
of fresh meat and we tracked a
bear u,p the canyon, and finally
dropped him on a high lodge 50
feet up on ,he aide of the moun
tain Tt was tough getting to him
buit I made it. On the way I
found your balloon. You don’t
hnipipen to be .‘"ingle and unattach
ed, white, or over 21 and willing
to cook grub for a couple of lone
some batchelore way -up here in
no man's country.”
jjriHiK FINDLEY A\lt GOV.
HARTLEY MIX |\ POLITIC
SEATTLE, March 14. (/}») At
tacking Governor Hartley as im
plicated io ‘‘uefario-us transac
tions,’* Superior Judge Howard Fin
dley. removed Harry Johnson as
State Director of Efficiency as re
ceiver for the Puget Sound Sav
ings and Loan Association.
Judge Findley as he left the
bench collapsed due to havin’,
been ill from influenza.
The judge named H. .f. Hoffman
as supervisor of U:e Savings Loan
Association and temiporary receiv
er was reappointed
Caldwell, attorney for the re
ceiver. said he would attempt tc
persuade the presiding judge tf
call fop an investigation.
The jurist said "cau this court
at the time of proceedings which
I are still pending, shut its eyes to
[the published interviews and state
Intents made by the governor, cast
ing aspersions upon and impugn
! ing the motives of the judge of
I this court, which tend to bring
the court of justice into disrepute
land contempt." He said that he
|referred to the Hartley statement''
[that the governor would desis:
any arte;nipt* to go. back to the
j system of paying attorneys fat
! fees and bonuses and that John
son and the governor decided that
|Caldwell was not the right man
for attorney for the receiver.
; The Judge said further, that it
might not be am few to inquire un
der and by what virtue and what
{right the governor has undertaken
I to assume t.he right to dictate to
the court, as a-^ to whom this
court will tup-point as officer or
[agent ho assist in the proper ad
ministration of the trust of an
{estate, which this court alone is
•the guardian."
‘FIGHTING JIM" OX |)K('K
\V A SHI MG TOM. March 14. (/p)
| Judge James Wickers foam, dele
I gate elect from Alaska, who will j
I replace Dan Sutherland, ehalleng-l
I ed th“ authority of Secretary Wil-!
bur to sponsor the plan proposed I
by the Alaska Livestock Packing {
Company, to divide Alaska ino. !
five reindeer grazing areas.
Wi< kersfoam appeared before |
the WilMr commitltee and said!
any authorization for agreement j
with a -private company should
| co mi- from Congress. Wilbur
{said he urged a Clarification of j
rang,, rules. Wickeraham said !
the plain might create a monoply
favoring one company. Alaska
Commissioner Flory is ip favor of
immediate action, and said that
the com'initite ■ had sufficient facts'
and there was :•«> need to continue
DENISON V QUITTED
WASHINGTON. March
Edward Denison, former Illino5
representative, wt, acquA.ed a
the charge of having liquor in hh
1 msstasaon.
, I'OMTK AL LEADERS
IN' A MFDDLE
! WASH INC’,TON. March 14.(/P)—
! While Progressives Calked of un
j employment and industrial stabli
!ization in an attem,pit to make a
! clear path to follow in the next
jaeebiou o.f congress aud with a
'committee already named to carry
[on thru the uexi session in which
I the Independents have the bal
|am- :.f power, Norris d.recited at
i tent ion to a definite program cov
ering tariff, power, farms and uu
: employment.
; Senator LaFollelte o >ned the
| discussion with charged th ;t the
“industrial, financial 1 : t ideal
leadership was broken v a it i it. «Rd
.offered no remedy. *• yntito^ r.
a conference to drafit a program.
'STARTING FIRE WITH
KEROSENE KILLS FIVE
DUNCAN. Ok la.. March 14.
A kerosene expiosiou killed Mrs.
John Turlow aged 2o aud her two
I year old daughter and Mrs. Kdw.
! Turlow, aged 22. and her two
jdaughters aged live and two. The
j expkisi. n was followed by u fire
Which destroyed the home.
One of the women attempted to
istnrr a fire by pouring coal oil
from a five gallon can into the
kitchen stove The husbands and
a brother were n; work at the
WILKINS RHFEIVES MEDAL
PHILADELPHIA. March 14.</F)
—Sir iHuber: Wilkins wsgs .awarded
the Elisha Kent Kane medal for
exploration achievements by the
Geographical Society of Philadel
phia. at Cunulen, N. ,J.. yesterday.
Wilkins inspected his submarine
‘■Nautilus’’ which is now equipp
ed with numerous odd devices to j
make it seaworthy as well as ice- .
worthy for its cruise to the N > ;
Pole next •summer. Ir was an -
nounced thar the craft will te
ch ris ten ed by Jean Jules Verne j
a grandson of the famous novelist,
at New York, March 17rh.
DEDICATION H MIDI N<1
MEMORIAL JUNE Kith NEXT.
MARION. Ohi .. March 14. (>P)-~ j
Hoke Donithen. chairman of the
executive committee of the Hard !
ing Memorial .Association, tod > 1
notified Lawrence Richey, secretary,
to President Hoover, that Tuesday.
June 16th was satisfactory with |
the association for the dedication -
of the Harding Memorial. The 1
president previously inquired if
that date w,.uid he satisfactory.
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SILURIAN HUSKIES Ul.\
FAIRBANKS RACK CCVsSU
NKARLY ltt MILKS HP.
FAIRBANKS. March IS, (£>)
J:uk Murphy driving Bill Corey's
string of eight Siberian Huskie*.
•triumphed us victors in ft he H
j Wendell Eoiiiicoti Derby in the
opening race of Spring dog racing
'classic, in the remarkable time of
ore lour and fourteen miuutea,
, fifty seven second over a sixteen
I J'udee Cecil Clegg’s Siberian
team came in second, the judge
-watched the race from the hoapi
jtal window, where fi p is confined
| w>tU an attack of influenza.
Wrgh*'a B'rd a ^'U-^'ou by
, Herbert Lawrence, were favorite*!
jin the betting, but finished third,
j United States Attorney Hurley’s
string of 11 Siberians were out
running the other* whoa the lead
dog slipped a shoulder blade and
the heaviest winds of winter.
The Sign .1 Corps trophy rac
jwill be heid Saturday, and Sun
day. Races for Women will tak-1
S.AYs COUNTRY Sl FFKRI *»Q
FROM OVFR l>OKK COUTH'S
WASHING-TON. March 14. (/p)
Jtimes Burke. C.eneral Counsel of
the Republican National Commit
tee, said there will be no early
meeting of 'he committee, because
the country is now suffering from
an overdose of politics.
At the same time Chairman Fex*
said t.hat -the Committee plans to
get “into high gear" with more
intense publicity campaign, and
said the organization and sub-com
mittees ary speeding uip the work
<*f State organizations. He further
said we have “been running along
,ifi in easy bit. bug the time will
‘•ome when We mu1*' let rhe country
know about the quiet steady con
structive work that has gone on
under Hoover'- administration.”
Chairman Few in making hix
announcement at the Whitehouso
said he had not gone into details
with the president but planned to
lay a complete program before.
Hoover later n the month.
NOMK HARBOR AM/OTMRNT
WILL r.K SltMOO.Oftf
WASHINGTON. March 13. (/P)—
An allotment for more than fifty
and harbor work was announced by
?he War Donartment, and includes
$19,400.o0 for the Nome .harbor,
$30,000 f,,r Wrangell Narrows and
$70,000 for Ketchikan harbor. For
a refuge at Seward $4 0,000. Sur
veys in ti e Juneau disitriot twelve
thousand five hundred dollars.
All .the allotments for Alaska, it
is said come from the twenty two
million five hundred thousand un
employment fund.