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VOL- 41. No. 18- NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 10, 1939 Price per Copy it
Pope Pius XI Passed Away Today
8 P’cent Gold Tax Killed-Bone Dry Law Introduced
Pope Pius XI
Dies Friday
Heart Attack
ROM*:, Feb. 9 (tP) — Friday,
the Vatican City News Service
said Pope Pius died today at
5:32 a.m. or 3:31 p.m. Pacific
Standard Time. Extreme unction
was administered a half hour
previously.
Was Improving
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 9 'A’)
The* Vatican News Service said
that-Pope-Rilis .had suffered an at
*• ’tack* of ie3rdiac asthma and was:
(unconscious fo'ir, nfbfe”ftfan 'half
asi haur. Physicians in attend
ance administered restoratives
and brought Mm back to con
sciousness. He is reported to be
“improved and resting tranquil
ly."
Flags at Half Staff
1/QNJDON, Feb-.-10 (/P)_-Men of
all ranks joined-in common be
reavement, kneelingi to pray .for
the- repose. of the. soul , of- the
Pope
Amid-joy and triumph on the
battlefield* General Franco order
ed flags at half staff, in mourning.
Mtt^ollni called his death a
eounc* of grief to the church and
the-(Italian nation. King Victor
Emanuel ordered his court in
.mourning for eight days.
Premier DeValera of Ireland
paid tribute to the Pope’s work
with an eulogy*
Flags on all public buildings in
Berlin were ordered at half stair.
The press waS instructed to re
view the Pope's career with the
respect due his office and person.
The great Catholic population
of France learned of the Pope’s
death with universal expressions
of grief.
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To Be Buried
| Feb. 15 St. Peter
! Cathedra]
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VATICAN CITY. Feb. 10 f/P)—
Pope Pius XI “Poop of Peace”
! the 261st head of the Church of
Rome died at dawn, just five
days after the 17th anniversary
of his reign.
■His frail body wasted by ill
' ness, and his features shrunken,
j was borne in the afternoon to the
j 15th century’ Sistine Chapel
j where the new Pontiff will be
ejected. The body w’ill lie in
' state and homage will be paid by
: dignitaries. Tomorrow the body
l will be taken to St. Peter’s Cath
; iedral where the ficnst. of nine
funeral services w’ill be held
! Sunday. Burial will take place |
February 15th at St. Peter’s.
The death of the Pope, who
j w’as nearly 82 marked the interr
egnum administration of the
!church which Eugenic Cardinal;
j Pacelli wil! fill as “Chamberlain j
(of the Holy Roman Church” until
a new pope is elected.
| The oonclave of Cardinals may
[convene Feb. 25, though it can
be called as late as Feb; 28, to
choose his successor.
Three U. S. Cardinals are-ex
pected to -leave New York to
morrow Ux. attend the assembly
1 for the first time as a group.
The. new Pop© will be elected on
a two-thirds majority of the. 62
Cardinals who attend: the con
clave. The time of the coronation
| will depend on how quickly the
balloting wiU end.
8 Per Cent
Cold Tax
Is Killed
JUNEAU, Feb. 10 i/Pi—A bone
dry law was introduced in the
' House by Representatives Garnet
! Martin of the Second Division,
John McCormick of the First
I Division and Harvey Smith of.
the Third Division, this forenoon.
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Sylvia Sidney and Franchot Tooe.c whs'*•>«*» *way six years.
They left Hollywood to play inlS-V.-Show. ".The Ge»\tle People."
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Unemployment; s
Compensation
Is To Apply
* —
JUNEAU, Feb. 9 (fP) — The
Senate only after a brief session
read a journal from the House
and passed the resolution for a;
plaque for the Griffin Memoriali
Hospital at Kodiak. They passed
the Reindeer Branding bill and
the bill requiring Territorial of
fices to ask for bids for any ex
penditures of over $50.
Rep. Walker introduced a bill
appropriating $14,0i0(> for radio
stations to disseminate news and
ether information, for the Terri
tory, but withdrew the bill de
signating only Ketchikan.
Anderson introduced a bill
changing the law which will per
mit old age pensions to any resi
dent whether they be alien or
not.
Rep. Smith introduced a bill
requiring the Unemployment
Compensation law apply to any
one hiring one or more em
ployees for five weeks of any
year.
To Establish
Fisheries Com.
JUNEAU, Feb. 9 (d3)—'The es
tablishment of an Alaska Fish
eries Commission of eight or
more bon a fide fishermen to be
appointed on the recommenda
tion of labor unions, by the Presi
dent or Secretary of Commerce,
was asked in a House memorial
by Rep. Walker. The commission
will meet annually to talk over
the proposed regulations for the
sedsom
Thursday, the legislators made
a trip through the Alaska-Jun
eau Mine. The House met at 3
in the afternoon and the Senate
at five.
I
Juneau Fire Is
Placed $350,000
JUNEAU, Feb. 9 UP) — Four
concrete walls of the five story
Goldstein Building are all that
remain as a result of Wednes
day’s fire, but firemen continue
to pour water onto the smoking
debris, remnants of the belong
ings of the tenants of the 59
apartments, the majority of
whom escaped with only their
nightclothes and lost eveything.
They are being taken care of
and housed by the Red Cross.
Aid was extended to twelve
small children who were among
those who safely escaped from
the Williams Building, on Second
Avenue, whose second floor was
gutted. The Pioneer Rooming
House adjoining, the Goldstein
Building was gutted. Kann’s
Novelty Store also Hellar’s Bar
ber Shop suffered water dam
ages. Windows of stores opposite
the Goldstein on Seward Street
were smashed by the heat.
Charles Goldstein is reported!
to be a passenger aboart a north
bound ship due to arrive Friday.
The property loss is now estimat
ed at about $350,000.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Funeral services for the late
William Allison will take place
Saturday, Feb. 11th (tomorrow)
at 2 p.m. at the Federated
Church. AH Pioneers are re
quested to attend.
Chas. H. Code, President
Igloo No. One. Nome
Pres. Roosevelt
Confined Bed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10
President Roosevelt was ordered
to remain in bed as treatment for
what was described as a “light
touch of grippe.’’ Rear Admiral
McIntyre, White House physician
reported the President ran a one
degree temperature and is suff
ering from one of his recurring
head colds. He will probably
stay in bed over the week end.
Secretary of State Hull is also
ill.
Bedclothes Save
Youth’s Life In
Slide
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BINGHAM, Utah. Feb. 9 f/P)—
Rescuers digging in the debris
and snow of an. avalanche brot
■out a youth wrapped in bed
blankets, alive after being. bimed
all night.
The body of a girl -was. found,
making two. known. fatUriWae* of
the slide, which roared down nar
row Bingham Canyon last night.
One man is still missing.
A physician said the youth,
Duchin Tomas, aged 19, may, not
live. A snow slide at 10:30 p.m.
carried away the top of his home
and killed his mother Mrs. Stana
Tomas, aged 4t and his sister
Helen, 11, and swept him along
securely wrapped in bedclothes,
accounting for his survival until
he was reached at 9 a.m. by
copper miners who dug all night.
Sam Narich, age 40, a boarder
at the Tomas home is still miss
irg.
PIONEER CARO PARTY
Monday, Feb. 13, 9:15 p.m.
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Bone Dry Law
Is Introduced
In The Houst
i JUNEAU, Feb. 10 f/P) — Th
Ickes proposed gold tax was in
troduced in the Senate at 12:2
this afternoon by the Senate Mi
ing Committee and was killed b
request at 12:32. It proposed a
eight per cent gross tax on gol.
and three percent on platinurr
with an additional heavy' grad
uated net tax.
Spanisli Govt.
No Longer
In Existenci
UNDATED, Feb. 9 </P) — Th.
Spanish insurgent conquerors o
Catalonia reached the Frenci
frontier as government official
abandoned Minorca, apparently
as a sign of surrender then*-, U
Franco's forces.
In Paris an informant close u
the French foreign- office said th.
French government consider*
the Republican; government o
Spain “no longer in existanpe’
since the government, as Propwej
Negrin entered France Wedtves
day.
Swift development came amic
French and British efforts to enc
Spanish Civil War although- sup
porters of Negrin and- Genera
Jose Miaja, the government coit
mander of central Spain said
they were determined to contin
ue fighting.
Franco’s forces planted theij
flag on the Spanish side of thi
boundary at 6:05 a.m. PST, tht
goal in the great offensive whicl
the insurgents launched on Dec
23 which wiped out the last o;
government resistance in north
ern Spain.
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ORCHID TO YOU, Don G. Abel, Washington WPA
administrator, might have said, handing one of the rare plants to
Mrs. Helen Stragier of Fairbanks, Alaska. On her first trip “out
side” since a child, Mrs. Stragier viewed modern skyscrapers and
stream-lined planes but she said: “If only I could see an orchid.”
She did. in a greenhouse operated as WPA project in Seattle.
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