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VOL. 40. NO. 145. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, DEC. 12, 1938 Price per Copy 15#
Gaston Means of Lindy Hoax Dead
Asserts U. S. Always Maintain Adequate Defense
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CHIMNEY hat of ostrich
feathers on a felt base rives the
fall mode a structural note. Hat
and the black net (own with
shirring* are from Faquin.
Adequate Defense
Military Invasion
Be Maintained
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LIMA, Peru, Dec. 10 (A*)—Sec-1
rctary Hull told the Pan Amer
ican Conference that adequate
defense against foreign military
end political invasion was the!
••new world”s - immediate para
mount problem. Coupled with the
'warning was a stinging denur.
t ciation of despotic forms of gov
ernment. (Delivering the keynote
rtf the address Hull emphasized
that while all must work to
gether each nation must decide
by itself which measures it wants
to take. He said “As far as my
government is concerned, leit no
one doubt for a moment that so
P long as the possibility of armed,
challenge exists, the United Stat-;
«s will maintain adequate de
fensive military, naval and air;
•establishments.
Broken Toys Wonted
. ..Anyone having broken toys,
children’* playthings, sleds, skits,
bicycles, tri-cycles, and etc., wish
in* to donate them for the bene
fit of less fortunate children, are
requested to communicate with1
Harry Egbert, engineer at the
Fire Department, who is arrang
ing under the sponsorship ot the
Nome Volunteer Fire Depart
ment to repair and provide for
• distribution ait Christmas time,
numerous children’s gifts along
this line. I
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Gaston B. Means
Dies Heart Attack
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Dec. 12
| (A*) — Gaston B. Means, aged fif
; tv eight, oft-time convict, and
; widely known (for his hundred
j four thousand dollars Lindbergh
baby ransom hoax, died in the
I U. S. Medical Center. He refrain
| ed from disclosing, to the end,
his secret of what became of the
large sum Mrs. Evelyn McLean
of Washington, D. C., gave him
on the promise that he could re
turn the kidnapped Lindbergh
son alive. Death resulted from a
heart attack after an operation.
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B i g Pioneer
Roof Garden
j This Week End
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' Next Saturday, Dec. 17th, will
i witness the 34th annual Pioneer
1 Roof Garden given each winter
under the auspices of Nome’s
j Pioneer Igloo No. 1, the mother
j Igloo of the many spread thru
! out Alaska.
Many of the splendid great
■ hearted pioneers who participat
| ed in the Roof Garden parties
! when Nome was young, are gone
I from us—yet there is a surpris
1 ing number still with us who are
i enthusiastically lending of their
l time and spirit, assisting in mak
, ing this latest Roof Garden a
worthy successor of those that
have gone before.
To one who has been a resident
of Nome through the years,, the
I words Pioneer Roof Garden pre
j cipitate a nostgalia for the past,
; and conjure up before the minds
! eye a ghostly retinue that silant
| ly pass in review within the
; walls of memory.
Included in this vista of the
i past ia the happy recollection of
j many gladsome evenings spent
1 in the society of frkmds, enjoy
ing the games, programs, song
fests, dancing and other features
! of entertainment that these an
' nual Roof Gardens always evoke,
j The current Roof Garden gives
I every promise of being just as
! gay, entertaining, and as full of
wholesome fun as those of yester
year.
At this time of the year, when
winter takes over, most of us are
; inclined to spend too much time
indoors, and possibly neglect
! some of the amenities of modern
1 society relating to friendship, the
good neighbor theory, and to
j community well being. It is large
j ly with this thought in mind that
Pioneer Igloo No. 1, urges the
entire community to attend and
participate in their 34th annual
Roof Garden, guaranteeing to all
an evening of pleasurable enter
tainment and affording the oppor
tunity of spending an evening in
the company of your friends.
The place, Nome School Gym;
the date, Saturday, Dec. 17; the
time, 8:45. Admission, adults
$1.00. Children 25*. Watch for
the program of entertainment.
Froof of Labor Blanks can now
be had at the Home Nugget office.
OEFYINC BAN against uniforms, these youngsters sport
semi-military outfits, except for the buiinned model, near Ccsky
Krumlov, Nail center in Bohemia.
Telegraphic Briefs
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JUNEAU DRIVERS
GO BACK TO WORK
JUNEAU. Dec. — CIO trucks
delivery and cab drivers who
struck in sympathy with the
building trades union, went back
to work. Pickets are still in evi
dence, but prosprcts for early
settlement of the building hold
i out appeared brighter.
SMOKING BY WOMEN
BLAMED FOR FIRES
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. —
City Fire Chief Robert A. Bogan
says fires have increased 60 per
cent since women have started
smoking.
FIVE INDICTED
GRAND THEFT
SANTA MONICA. Calif., Dec.
—Five firemen and officers were
indicted by the grand jury under
a grand theft complaint. The in- j
dictment was understood to have
arisen from loss of . personal
goods by owners in the recently!
burned-over area.j
BORN “DEAD,”
BROT TO LIFE
WINDSOR. Colo., Doc. —
row was turned to joy in the fam;
ily of Howard Manweiler here;
when an eight-pound son, born^
apparently dead, was brought to:
life with an injection of adren-;
alin in the heart, 45 minutes af-,
te.r the child was bom.
The child, Eugene Lavem, ap
pears to be normally healthy
now, physicians said.
JAPAN’ S WAR BILL FOR
1939 OVER A BILLION
TOKYO, Dec. — An authorita
tive prediction of a $1,35*1,000,000
war bill for Japan next year was
made, as the largest budget in
the empire’s history was present
ed to the cabinet for approval.
The war bill indicated Japan
will continue spending $4,000,000
a day on her undeclared war in
China, and in addition to ordin
ary expenditures of government,
induing the army and navy.
Changes of copy for holiday
advertisements must be in the
Nugget office the day preceeding
publication, in order to insure |
their being printed._
Social Security
To Provide For
Funeral Expense
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 UP) —
The Social Security advisor
council drafted sweeping recom
mendations for broadening the
government old age insurance
system and would include fun
eral expenses. In some cases,
■moving up the date of the first
payments to broaden the act and
including the Seaman Bank and
charitable workers. Officials said
they hoped that the liberalizing
law would defeat “unsound”
pension plans.
M S Patterson
Grounded, 4th
Time 2 Months
SEATTLE, Dec. 12 UP)— The
ill-fated motorship Patterson of
Seattle grounded early thi«
ing ior the fourth time in two
months, near the Gulf in fair
weather, twenty miles south of
Yakutat. By radio, the Coast
Guard cutter Haida, said she was
steaming to aid the ship.
The skipper said that he had
lost one man overboard and that
the vessel was slowly breaking
up. The message was received in
Juneau at on a thirty a.m. and
also said the crew was preparing
to abandon the ship. The Haida
said she would not be able to
reach the spot in less than seven
hours, but left ten minutes later.
■Less than a month ago the
Patterson grounded in Wrangell
Narrows. The vessel is a veteran
oif the Alaska trade, fifty four
years old and owned by the Gil
key Brothers.
The Coast Guard Cutter Spen
cer lerft Cordova at five a.m. to
aid the ship. The Patterson is
commanded by Captain Harry
Bone of Seattle and carried a
crew of twenty.
WANTED—To buy a medium -
sized coal burning kitchen range
in good condition. Inquire at
Nngget Office
FIRST WOMAN #Verto
win title In mldret class of na
tional outboard championships
is Molly Tyson, ?0. of Chestnut
Hills, Pa., who competed at
Chattanooea event,
Roosevelt
Deeds Papers
Etc. To Govt.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (/Pi
President Roosevelt is going to
break another precedent to in
sure the preservation of his pa
pers for posterity. The Pesident
disclosed that his family home
*at Hyde Park, New York, would
become the property of the gov
ernment upon his death. In the
meantime, a special depository
for his correspondene, books and
papers and paintings would be
constructed on the grounds and
turned over to the government
Other presidents took their pa
pers back home with them when
they left the White House, mak -
ing it difficult for historians to
locate them.
Old Papers For Sale
Buy them by the bundle, Use
them for starting' fires. For Sale
at The Nome Nugget.
WHERE THE RIVER RHINE FLOWS In seeming peacefulness much can happen This shows Kehl, Germany, where
Nails are building fortifications to match those at onoosite Strasbourg. France, from which point this picture was taken. ^
Xmas Benefit Baseball Games Dec 14, School Gym