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VOL. 41. No. G. NOME. ALASKA. FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 1939. Price per Copy 15#
Sen. Reynolds Urges Alaska Defense
Gov. Troy Delivers Biennial Message to Legislature
Reynolds Urges
Alaska Defense
Be Strengthened
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 {&) —
Senator Reynolds urged the Sen
ate. .that Alaskan defense be
► (Strengthened to guard against at
tack from the West. “If invasion
(ever conies to the continental soil
.of the United States, it will come
perhaps from that direction, not
shorn across the Atlantic," de
clared the Senator. He asserted
that the Siberian coast across
Shorn Alaska was forfeited by So
viet Russia. “Russia is moving
toward Siberia,” Reynolds said.
He added that from the extreme
tip of Alaskan territory it is only
a half mile to the “territory of
Bolseviks.”
He also said “in a matter of
minutes you can fly from Am
erican soil to Japanese territory.”
Reynolds said his visit to Al
aska last summer convinced him
that the Territory could be made
into an impregnable outpost for
Continental United States and
urged the appropriation of funds
for the road linking Seattle and
Fairbanks.
WPA Is Cut
To 725 Million
»
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (TP)—
The House Appropriations Com
mittee contending that WPA
rolls carry “thousands neither
rightfully nor justifiably there
on” formally recommended that
the 725 million dollars appropria
tion keep the agency going until
June 30. The President asked for
. 150 million more, but that figure
the committee said “presages a
continued degree of unemploy
ment, out of harmony with gen
eral recovery indications." Four
Republican committeemen assert
ing that “this national scandal
requires immediate action” went
further in the minority report
and said the funds should be ap
propriated to keep the WPA op
erating until April 7 and by that
date, added, should have a basis
to conduct future relief activities.
J—HKjitiMwr- — —vrJ* i HI ill ni i ~ i>
POKER-LOVING Gen.
Ismet Inonu (above), the new
president of Turkey, was right
hand man of the late Ataturk
who said of him: "He is my con
science. He Is always on the alert
and finds out what is wrong
and criticizes me."
Petitions For
National Guard
JUNEAU, Jan. ll~(/pf — The
first joint memorial of the Sen
ate was introduced by request by
Senator Rivers, petitioning the
establishment of an Alaska Na
tional Guard for protection in
case of -attack by a foreign na
tion, addressed to Governor Troy
and Secretary of War Woodring.
Rivers also introduced a bill
for an appropriation of $800,000
for the construction, maintenance
and protection of pubic road-;,
bridges, trails, and landing fields
to be equally divided up among
the four divisions. This amount
is double that parsed by the last
Legislature.
T!ie Territorial Budget Board
submitted to the House recom
mendations covering the expend':
tures of $4,091,069 between Jan
uary 1 of this year and Dec. 81
of 1940. The budget shows a de
frercy to the amount of $172,236
and orders the restoration of pay
cuts of clerk’s salaries but ques
tion-in g the advisability of con
tinuing high payments -of coyote
and wolf bounties in view of the
present bootlegging.
Highlights Of
Gov. Troy ’ s
Message
JUNEAU, Jpn. 13 (/P> — A!
brief but concise biennial mes-'
sage of Gov. Troy was placed on I
the desks of the Territorial Leg- !
islators this morning and then
was read to both houses.
The Govern,c.r states that al-:
though the finances of the Terri
tory are on good condition econ- j
omv is still a paramount need. |
Generous appropriations for
| .roads and airplane landing fields,
i should be considered and avia-,
; tion development deserves care ;
ful study.
i The vexing problem of liquor
I sale to Indians demands attention j
'■ but believes the permit system
would correct the situation, with
; or without territorial, liquor;
; stores and also suggests a liq
i uor administration or board.
He suggests that recommend a
■ tions to be made by the Com
missioner of Mines in his annual
report, be given careful attention
as mining is the important in
dustry in the Territory. Stabiliz
ation o_f labor_cqr4.itiQ.ns is. also. .a.
, serious matter for consideration j
i and study should be made into;
the conditions that create strikes.
Resident laborers should be
■ g'ven the greater share of em
ployment and also consulted in
reference to strikes, especially;
those which affected the fishing
industry last year, thus eliminat-j
ing outside unions making the
decisions.
Abandonments of service on
the Copper River Railroad should
be studied; larger appropriations
, are necessary for welfare needs
j the building of a new separate
Pioneers hr,me to take care of
the overflow of anticipated fu
ture needs.
I He recommended the represent
ation of Alaska in the New York
land San Francisco Fairs, the Na
I tional Guard, appropriations for
! education in grade and high
schools and also the University
j of Alaska; warfare against coy
otes and wolves and a new plan
for bounties.
The governor stated that a gold
i.tax communication would be
submitted later.
THE ELECTION IS OVER. •o far as Ernie Lombardi Is concerned. Nation's sport-writers
I voted him the National League’s most valuable player. And if these boys could only vote!
Speaker Lyng
IJr^es Members
To Get Busy
JUNEAU, Jan. 11 (JP) — The
Senate after only an hour ses
sion adjourned till two o’clock
Thursday, a joint resolution was
introduced providing for two ex
tra helpers, in both branches.
Speaker Lyng urged the House
members to get busy as not a
single bill had been introduced
in the House yet. They adjourned
at 3:30 until 11 of the forenoon
on Thursday. After some wrang
ling among 1st Division repre
sentative, Davis was substituted
for Walker on the Ways and
Means Committee.
Petitions For $40
For Needy Over 65
JUNEAU. Jan. 12 Gover
nor Troy reappointed Margaret
Monkman of Anchorage and
John Talmer of Juneau to the
.B aard ul Public Health for four
year terms; H. L. Faulkner to the
Board of Education and Mar
garet Harris to complete the un
expired term of P. C. McMullen.
When the appointments reached
the Senate, Senator Cochran said
he didn't feel that the senators
were mere automatons to confirm
all apointments made by the gov
ernor.
HofFman also wanted time to
consult his constituents whereby
a joint session with the House
was proposed for Monday after
noon, to which the House agreed.
A petition to the legislature
from the Bering Sea post of the
American Legion, asking for a
forty dollar a month pension for
the needy over sixty five years
of age.
The Legion post at Petersburg
radioed endorsement of the Na
tional Guard for Alaska with
minor amendments. The unem
ployment compensation law pass
ed the Senate this afternoon.
Jacob Rupperl
Owner of N Y
Yankees Dead
NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (A*)—Col.
Jacob Ruppert, seventy one, own
er of the New York Yankees
base ball! team died. He had been
in ill health for many months
and took a turn for the worse
early in the week. Last rites were
administered by the Catholic
Church.
Ruppert, who was a bachelor
had a fortune estimated at be
tween seventy and a hundred mil
lion dollars.
LOST—A man’s cap with fur
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gray felt revives the buttoned
up shoes of past decades, with
black leather for the scalloped
edging and shiny buttons for the
buttonholes.
Rebels Cross Ebro
LERIDA, Jan. 13 (VP> —The In
surgent commend announced the
capture of Tortusa, one hundred
miles southwest of Barcelona, the
strong point of the government’s
defense system. Along the lower
Ebro River, insurgent officers re
ported that the Moroccan army
corps hammered its way thru
the government defense to the
left bank of the Ebro.
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Five Attempt
Escape From
"The Rock**
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13
i —Five desperate prisoners at
! tempted to escape fog shrouded
; Alcatraz Inland prison. Two were
shot before the guards captured
the quintet.
The prisoners who were all
serving long terms got out of the
cell building in some mysterious
manner at four a.m. and made a
mad dash for the water. The con
victs refused to halt at the com
mand of the guards, who opened
fire.
Arthur Barker, a member of
the notorious Barker-fKarpis
gang serving life imprisonment
for kidnaping was shot in both
legs. Dale Stamphill, also a lifer
for kidnaping was shot in both
legs. Other prisoners were Rufus
McCain, serving 95 years for a
national bank robbery; Henri
Young, twenty years for a bank
robbery; William Martin a ne
gro, twenty five years for rob
bing a post office.
W ife Steel
Magnate Dies
NEW YORK. Jan. 12 fsP>—Mrs.
Charles Schwab. aged seventy
nine, wife of the steel magnate,
died after being in ill health for
some time. Her husband was at
the bedside. They had no child
ren.
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THE K INC'S BROTHER was no exception to Belgium's
voting requirement, ai.d so Prince Charles (right) whose brother
is King Leopold strides through street after visit to the polls. In
Belgium everyone must vote except the raler._
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