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Oldest {Newspaper in Alaska. Member oi The Awsoeiated Press DEVOTED TO THE BUILDING OF A BETTER NOME AND THE SECOND DIVISION. NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY/* VIATION THE NOME DAILY NUGGET _-—!---- -- - ' —- - - —- ’"-I■_ . . . . , . -—-y ■■■■■ .-j. jr. ^m—ggrr__ .-:—:- .» -——*--———--* VOL. 37. No. 260. NOME, ALASKA, SATURDAY OCT. 31 1936 Per Copy 15cta Strike Remain Status Quo-Monday Roosevelts Says New Deal Is For Better America Landon Said Household Budgets to Pay For Waste LANDON ARGUED BUDGETS ! OF HOUSEWIVES WILL PAY j FOR WASTES OF NEW DEAL Republican Candidate For President Speaking At St. Louis Tonight For Missouri’s 15 Votes _ (By The Associated Press) ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31, — Gover nor Alf M. Landon, republican candidate for president, arrived here on his “Sunflower Special” at 8:30 a^m. today, fcm an all-day visit, culminating, in his last maj or address of his campaign for the presidency tonight. Rain which had been falling for several days, stopped as he arriv ed to be greeted by his wife and daughter Peggy Anne. He said he had drafted his last major plea of the campaign, aim ing to get Missouri’s fifteen elec toral votes. On his way west he told a Char leston, West Virginia audience that “household budgets must pay for the New Deal waste and extravagance”. After his speech tonight, Lan don will board his special train for his home at Topeka, Kansas. Air Raid Madrid Killed Many and Started Panics (By The Associated Press) MADRID, Oct. 31, — Stalked by the first real terror since the Spanish civil war began, women and children here, shunned the streets in the wake of an air raid yesterday, which killed 59 and wounded at least one hundred and fifty persons, mostly women and children. The government issued a state ment calling it an airplane raid and denying reports which had been circulated that bombs had been thrown from housetops. A load of dynamite bound for j the front lines exploded at the time, heightening the terror. SEA MAMMAL WASHED UP ON BEACH NEAR NOME DEFINED AS KILLER WHALE BY GEIST Dissecting of Beast And Investigation Of Contents Of Stomach Are Main Features In Determination Otto Wm, Geist, of the Museum Department of the University of Alaska, who had been sent to Nome by Dr. Chas. E. Bunnell, President of the University, to ex amine the remains of the animal ■which washed ashore on the beach above Nome recently, in an in terview today regarding the id entification of the animal, stated: “That I found it to be a killer whale, species Orca.” ‘The identification was deter mined conclusively the other day when I dissected and examined the stomach of the mammal, for it contained the best evidences, namely the digested and undigest ed remnants of such warm-blood ed sea mammals as oogruk and various other species of hair seals.” “Since it is well known that of the toothed whale species only ( the killer whale will eat warm < blooded mammals, the identifica- ; tion is quite final. However, the j stomach contents will be for warded to scientists in the states i for the absolute determination of i the seal species consumed by t this animal. The entire carcass i has been skeletonized and dissect- 1 ed, the skeleton’s parts having i been moved high up on the tun- i dra and covered with driftwood 1 for safe keeping until such a time when the University will be pre pared to remove them. Since 1 considerable flesh and oil is ad- 1 hering to the skeleton at this time it will take from one to i two years before it will be dry i (Continued on Page Three) Hoover Said That as Under Way j (By The Associated Press) DENVER, Oct. 31, — Herbert Hoover said he rejected, when he was president, most of the ideals which were subsequently adopted by the Roosevelt administration. “I rejeoted all of these things because they would not only delay lay recovery, but because I knew that in the end they would shack le free men.” The former president of the Un ited States made his speech be fore a Republican gathering in the municipal auditorium here, urging the election of Governor Alf M. Landon, to “save the soul of America.” In his address, which was broad aast, Hoover reiterated his prev ous declaration that recovery was already in progress toward the end of his administration. He asserted that the New Deal had retarded this recovery. Army Of Men Minus Country Seeking Homes League Supervised By Norwe gian Judge Still Issues Passports (By The Associated Press) GENEVA, Oct. 30, — A million Tien without a country—a con inuing world economic crisis vliich retards effective help for his great horde of refugees. That is the problem confront ng the Nansen international off! ;e for refugees, and the league >f nations. This problem of refugees be :ame acute when, following the oviet revolution in Russia, about i million “white” Russians fled ram the civil strife. International relief organiza ions jumped into the picture vith the resultant creation by he league of nations of an inter lational office for refugees and he appointment as high com nissioner of the Scandinavian ex ilorer, now deceased, Dr. Fridtjof Jansen. Passport System Worked Out Nansen evolved as a solution or the refugee problem the now amous “Nansen passport.” Nansen soon had another assign nent when some 350,000 Armen ans had fled from Asia Minor. (Continued on Page Three) COAST STRIKE LIKELY SPREAD TO EASTERN PORTS IS REPORT j Believe Situation Remain Stalus Quo Until Monday. Affects Strike Spread Many Industries NEARLY HUNDRED AND FIFTY VESSELS TIED UP, THOUSANDS ADDITIONAL WORKERS PLACED ON IDLE LIST (By The Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, — The spreading Paci fic Coast strike held nearly one hundred and fifty ves jsels in coast ports, and paralyzed cargo movement, at the peak of the fall season, threatening to add twenty thousand new workers to the idle list. Federal officials here and in Washington strove to bring accord out of the situation. At midnight last night fifty-seven vessels were strike bound here, and another fifty-seven in north Pac ific ports, including Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland. Twenty-two were tied up at San Pedro, San Diego and in Hawaii. The West Coast Lumberman’s Associa-! tion in Seattle estimated that twenty thousand lumber workers would be forced out of work if the strike lasts a week. San Francisco is also harassed by the strike. A thousand warehousemen, grocery and storage plants! are in difficulties thru the effect of the strike. Officials on both sides of the dispute expressed the opinion that the situation would remain in a status quo until Monday. Assistant Secretary of Labor McGrady said “I’m going to try to get them together before then.’’ Jerry Galvin To Open Up Quartz Mine At Bluff | BETWEEN EIGHT ANI) TEN MILLION TONS OF 9 DOL LAR ORE IS IN SIGHT ON SEWARD PENINSULA. (Fairbanks News-Miner) Seward Peninsula, heretofore known almost exclusively as a placer gold producer, is likely to be among Alaska’s important gold quartz areas soon as the re sult of development of a big mine at Bluff by Jerry Galvin and his associates. Mr. Galvin, oldtime Alaska min ing man and president now of the Alaska Homestake Gold Min ing Company, E. M. Michaelson, who is interested in the company and J. M. McDonald, mining en gineer, arrived here (Fairbanks), Monday, October 26, from Seattle enroute to Nome and Bluff. They came by plane from Juneau and hoped to fly on to Nome Tuesday if weather permitted. Much Ore In Sight Three million tons of ore going nine dollars to the ton have al ready been blocked out, it is an nounced, and several million ad ditional tons are in sight. The ore body starts right on the beach at Bluff, which is 50 miles east of Nome, and extends back for a couple of miles. Control of the mine has been held for two years by the Alaska Homestake. Active development work has seen carried on all during that period. A great number of prospect shafts, ranging in depth to 100 feet have been sunk about 3,000 feet back from the beach and ov ;r a width of 800 feet. The aver ige value of the ore as disclosed jy prospect samples in nine dol ars per ton. Cheap to Mine All the ore is decomposed and j sxidized, said Mr. Galvin, so "it :an be dug with a power shovel and put in the mill bunkers for less than 50 cents a ton. Continued on Page Four Roosevelt Spoke Last Night On Ret ter America fBv The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 31, —Assert ing that his administration had laid the foundation for a “safer and happier, and a more Ameri can America”. President Roose velt said Friday night, “an equal ly important tusk remains in the destroying of inequalities and the creation of opportunity and of security”. Reviewing the New Deal before a Democratic rally at the Brook lyn Academy of Music, the chief executive of the nation said that “some people call these thingu meddling and interference. You and I know them to be new ston es in the foundation—a founda tion on which we can, and are determined to build a structure of economic security of all of our people, and a safer, happier and more American America.” Expenditures _ i (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 31, —Reports from the Ckrk of the House showed that Delegate An thony J. Dirnond reported expen d.tures of $3,018.00 and contribu tions of $2,873.00 during the re eon; Alaska campaign. Judge Lester O. Gore’s expen d.lures wcr ■ ■'ported as $2,903.00 and caniribut jns . $3,0 >0.00. Lumen Commercial Lo. Affected by * !ie West Coast Strike Seriously afTeeted by the mari time strike on the Pacific Coast s the Lomen Conumercial Cora aany which shipped a great many reindeer carcasses out on the S. 3. Victoria, winch was only par tially discharged yesterday. Today, a telegram to the Nome office of the Lomen Commercial Company said that workmen walked olT the boat and refused to discharge any further cargo from the Victoria, leaving about fifteen tons of reindeer meat aboard the vessel, with the refrig oration stopped. The wireless advices also in formed the company that the SB. Bering of the Alaska Line, had been diverted to Vancouver, BjC., to discharge reindeer meat, etc.