► Chamber Holds
Luncheon
The noon-day luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce was held
Tuesday at the Nevada Grill.
Game Warden Grenwold Collins
was a visitor and called atten
tion to the meeting now going on
in Juneau of the Alaska Game
Commission. He suggested that
* should anyone in this section in
terested in game desire to make
suggestions as to regulations etc.,
they should communicate with
him and he would attempt to
place them in contact with the
Commission.
Mayor Alvin Polct, Bob Jack
son and Russell Maynard were
appointed as a committee to or
ganize a Nome Ski Club and pro
mote this now national sport in
this part of ithe country.
Mayor Polet reported receipt
of information that the Alaska
Aeronautics Commission was es
tablishing a temporary broad
casting station at Nome within
ten days, for the broadcasting by 1
radio of weather reports .assem
bled by the U. S. Weather Bur
eau.
Ralph Lomen, who has been
diligently working up the Cham
ber of Commerce pamphlet in
answer to many inquiries for in
formation on Nome and North
western Alaskia, reported the
material had been prepared and
the printer, The Nome Nugget,
was waiting the receipt from
Fairbanks of the halftone illus
jit,rations, to commence publica
| tion of the 5,000 copies desired.
' The pamphlet will be available
and free to the public.
Discussion ensued as to the leg
islative program reported by Sec
retary A. Polet, and after lis
tening to several of the resolu
tions calling for legislative ac
tion by the Territorial Legisla
ture, the meeting adjourned. It
appeared that a special meeting
would be necessary of the Board
to approve the program of this
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(POPE PIUS RESUMES DUT.ES This exclusive picture shows j
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400 Hungarian pilgrims following his quick recovery from a
heart attack.
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Chamber and speed it on its way
to the Second Division deiega
tion at Juneau.
NEWS ITEMS
New Mining Engineer
For Local Company
A telegram received by Jerry
Harney yesterday, from Mrs.
Harney, announces the arrival of
Richard Edward, an eight pound
baby boy, at the Providence Hos
pital, Seattle, and that all is well, j
Mrs. Rystrom is in receipt of!
information that her husband,
Dr. Rystrom, who is making a
dental tour of the outlyng sec-|
tions under the auspices of the
Office of Indian Affairs, had arriv
ed via Ferguson Airways plane
at White Mountain from Candle,
and that he expects to return to
his Nome office earlier than pre
viously planned.
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Congress is doing at Washington,
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The Pioneers of Alaska announ
ced that there will be a series of
six card parties and dances after
the one given this Saturday even
ing. It is planned that the series
will end about the first of April.)
As usual, there will be three priz
es for men and women at each
card party, and then there will
be the Grand Prizes for the series
to be given right after the last
game of the series.
The local lodge of Loyal Or
der of Moose at its meeting Mon
day night, decided to meet twice
a month due to the number of
new members joining the order'
which will greatly facilitate the
handling of business and initia-,
tions. The next meeting will be
Monday, Jan. 30th, at which time
a large class will be initiated.
The delator. Geo. S. Maynard,
was authorized to select a suit
able date for a Moose roundup
and big All-Alaska dinner, at
which real Moose meat will, for
the first time, be served by the
order.
An overheated stove in the
home of Tony Cerutti near the
old weather bureau quarters on
Fourth Avenue, caused a small j
fire this afternoon to which the)
Nome fire department responded.
Chief Laws stated the damage
was possibly $20.00. The alarm
was sent in by telephone and the
department lost no time arriv
ing on the scene. Mr. Cerutti is
delivery man for the Polet
Stores, but his daughter was at
home and gave ithe alarm, before
the fire had gained headway.
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Series of Bombings
Occur Thruout tbe
United Kingdom
LONDON, Jan. 17 t/P)— Police
throughout ithe United Kingdom
were ordered to question mem
bers of the Irish Independence
groups in an effort to fix respon
sibility for the worst series of
bombings since Fenian agitation
more than a half century ago.
Heavy guards were posted at all
power plants, gas works, and res
ervoirs in England and Scotland
to prevent /the repitition of ex
plosions in London, Manchester,
Liverpool, and Birmingham and
other cities yesterday.
Scotland yard worked on the
theory that the explosions, num
bering ten in all. were caused by
members of the Irish Republican
Army whose aim is a unite Ire
land, virtually free from British
influence.
One workman was killed and
two injured in Mancheste" while
fighting flames caused by one ex
plosion; buit most of the blasts
caused comparatively little dam
age.
Says New
Bases Should
Be Built
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (/Pi
Major General Arnold, Army Air
Corps chief, told the House Mili
tary Committee that new air
bases should be built in Puerto
Rico, Alaska, two in the United
States proper, and the Hawaiian
base expanded.
He testified at the opening of
the hearings on Roosevelt’s 552
million dollar defense program.
Any man (woman) can tell
you how to handle ainy woman
(man).
Very often, ignorance is a
man’s main excuse for speaking.
The man who has never been
broke often boasts about honesty
in paying debts.
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