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VOL. 41. No. 15. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 3, 1939 Price per Copy l54
Senate Passes New Liquor Measure
Walk Out In Seattle Ties Up Alaska S.S. Service
Masters, Mates &
Pilots Union Walk
Out In Seattle
SEATTLE, Feb. 2 {PP)—Captain
Ernest Brinker of the Masters,
Mates and Pilots Local Union 90,
said the Union is standing pat in
a controversy over wages and
working conditions on Alaska
vessels. Operators, he said, made
•no attempt to meet the union.
He said “We're willing to
meet with them but in our posi
tion, no ships will sail from here
until the controversy is settled.”
Only four ships are involved.
The deadline is midnight when
the Ships at sea return here but
m-one sail out.
Sailings for the north coast
scheduled for Friday morning
were postponed. The Mount Mc
Kinley booked to sail Saturday,
may not go.
Republican Dies
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (/PI —
Frederick Steiwer, who served
11 years as Republican senator
from Oregon died early today.
He was over fifty five years of
age.
Near the end of second term
jn the Senate he resigned, on
Jan. 30. 1938, to practice law
•here. He has not been in good
health for the last three years.
Steiwer delivered the keynote
address of the Republican Na
tional Convention in Cleveland
in 1936 and was mentioned that
year as a possible presidential
nominee.
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Alaska Steamship
Service Out Of
Seattle Is Tied Up
SEATTLE, Feb. 3 f/P) —Alaska
j steamship service was tied up
when members of the Masters,
Mates, and Pilots Union walked
out in a wage dispute.
Operators of the Northland
Transportation Company cancell
ed the sailing of the North Coast
when five deck officers struck.
| The company paid off its crew, of
f>4. Only the master, Captain An
| drew Bolkland, remained aboard.
Ernest Brinker, secretary of the
Union's Policy Committee said
the union decided not to call off
the masters of the ship however,
j because they were considered
| custodians of the vessel for the
| owners 'and agents.
The Union announced, they
j would post observers but no
i pickets. Brinker said the Sail
ors’ Union of the Pacific voted
in support of the strike. Shipping
j officials said only a prolonged
strike would cause a serious
shortage of food and other sup
plies in Alaska although there
would be a lack of fresh fruits
and vegetables.
The Union asked increased sal
aries for Masters and pilots and
overtime for chief officers and a
guarantee of 11 months work in
each year, with separate state
rooms for each officer.
Premier Injured
BRUSSELS, Belgium. Feb. 2
(/P)—A group of ex-service men
nhouting for the resignation of
Piem.er Spaak, attacked Spaak
outside his home and slightly in
jured him with a blow to the
head.
25,000tli Coasl-to-Coast Flight ,
Sets International £ ir Record
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A world’s long distance airline record has just been established by
United Air Lines, which completed its 25,000th coast-to-coast flight
over the New York-Chicago-Paciflc Coast airway, equivalent to
i66,000,000 air miles.
1 Above Is depicted the plane which flew the first of the cross-conti
nent flights in 1927. This single-engined two-passenger mail plane,
now on permanent exhibit at the Edison Institute, Dearborn, Michigan,
required 33 hours to make the nation’s first commercially scheduled
coast-to-coast flight with passengers and mail.
Below is a Douglas twin-engined 12-ton Mainliner which completed
^tho 25,000th flight, carrying 14 passengers and a ton of mail and,
exv.-ss cargo from California to New York in 16 hours._j
Continues Liquor
Bill to Thursday
JUNEAU, Feb. 1 (TP) — After
an hour debate, the Senate, by
a vote of 6 to 2 again continued
[ the controversial “cocktail bill”
to 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon.
One amendment was added to
the bill, that the license be fif
teen hundred dollars whether
beer and wine only are sold.
The House passed a bill re
quiring employers to report reg
ularly on the status of employees
in regards to residence, citizen
ship. etc., also the joint memor
ial preventing territorial agen
cies from incurring deficiencies,
was passed.
A memorial was introduced by
Rep. Dowd requesting the De-1
partment of Agriculture give Al
aska Game Commission two air
planes to aid its work.
‘Cocktail Bar’ Bill
Passes Senate
Five to Two
JUNEAU, Feb. 2 (^—Senator
Walker’s bill, the so-called cock-'
tail bar measure, permitting the'
sale of beer, wine and also hard
liquor by the drink on the prem
ises with an annual license of
$1,500 passed the Senate by a
vote of five to three after a long
debate. Cochran, Rivers and
Sullivan were the three who op-i
posed the bill. The Senate galler- j
ies were crowded during the de
bate. The Senate also passed two
House memorials to Congress
calling for the session of the leg-j
islature on the fourth Monday in
January, and a 30 days session
on odd number years.
The House passed a measure'
limiting traveling expenses of
territorial officials outside by a
vote of ten to six.
The Senate also killed the bill
for a $25,000 vessel to aid the
Treasurer’s office to make col
lections in the Bristol Bay area.
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5 Russians Killed
In A Clash In
Manchoukou
TOKYO, Feb. 2 (JP) — The',
Domei News Agency reported
from Hsiking. capital of Man
choukou that the Manchoukou
garrison had killed five Russian!
soldiers and wounded three oth- J
ers in a clash 60 miles northeast
of Manchuli. The Agency said
authorities reported that a hun-!
dred Russians had crossed the
frontier but the Manchoukou
force had suffered no casualties.
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1 9 3 9 ' S MOONEY is
gray, spectacled. During 22
years’ imprisonment. Tom
Mooney lias said he was framed
by perjured testimony, would
accept a pardon but not a parole.
Says Mooney
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Wants Divorce.
SAN FRANCISCO. Fob. 3 (/Pi
— Mrs. Rena Mooney said her
husband, Tom Mooney demand
ed she divorce him. Mooney
would not comment, immediate-1
ier. I
iShe said she would fight any
divorce action and said his ex
cuse was “we drifted apart dur
ing the years he was in prison,
but we've been through too
much to think of divorce.”
Asks Explanation
Fascist Attacks on
j
Pres. Roosevelt
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ROME, Feb. 3 (/P)—The U. S.
Embassy asked the Italian gov
ernment for an explanation of
the bitter personal attacks on
President Roosevelt published
by the Facist press. The attacks
are part of the intense hostile
press campaign provoked by.
versions of the President’s meet
ing Tuesday with the Senate,
committee who quoted him asj
saying the frontiers of the Unit
ed States were in France.
It was learned /that Ambassa
dor Phillips sent a note to Count
Ciano, Foreign Minister, calling
his attention to the attacks on i
the President and requesting an!
explanation.
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Republicans
Deplore Actions
Of the President
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (/P) —
Nine Republicans, members of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mitee said in a statement that
they ‘deplore and protest the un
neutral actions and secret meth
ods employed by the President
of the United States” in connec
tion with the sale of airplanes to
France.
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President C alls
Frontier Statement
"Deliberate L i e*
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 </P» —
President Roosevelt termed “a
deliberate lie" the statement that
he said the American frontier
was on the Rhine. The President
in a press conference which re
stated, informally, the American
foreign policy, also described as
•a lie the report that he said the
American frontier was in France.
He declared that some reports
of his conference last Tuesday
with the Senate Military Com
mittee had given the erroneous
impression that this was the na
tion’s policy.
Says Secrecy
Is Necessary
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (/P) —
Secretary Morgenthau denied
that the treasury's two billion
dollar stablization fund had
been used to help France or any
other foreign country to buy
military supplies or other mer
chandise from this country.
In replying to a press question,
he said the fund had been creat
ed out of profits from the dol
lar devaluation in 1934 and con
ducts foreign exchange market
operations in an effort to stabil
ize the dollar. In reference to
foreign currencies, the Secretary
said secrecy was necessary for
the funds operations, adding that
its usefulness was lessened by
the full publicity advocated by
Senator Lodge.
City Banker (visiting the
farm); "I suppose that’s the
h red man."
Farmer (who has visited
banks): "No, tha.’s the first vice
president in charge of cows."
ARMSTRONG DECISIONS ARIZMKN’DI Staving rf Baby Aria
mendi’s closing rally, two-tcrown Henry Armstrong wan o gruelling
ten-round decision over the Mexican before a capacity crowd of
10,000 persons in Los Angeles who paid $25,000 to see the pair in
action—their 5th encounter. Arizmendi (left), is shown ducking
Armstrong’s left hook during the first round.
Cochran Opposes
I Passage Walker
Liquor Bill
JUNEAU, Feb. 2 (JP) —Debat
ing the liquor bill, Senator
Cochran talked for over an hour
: and read letters and radiograms
urging opposition of its passage.
He produced two shallow bottles
poured the contents into a glass
I then into a cuspidor, showing
they contained only one drink
i each. Several senators shook
1 their heads during the procedure
i indicating they thought he was
wasting good stuff.
Senator Hoffman from the 3rd
' division got a rise when he as
i sorted the churches were not do
1 ing their duty of raising the
| people’s morals. The floor, by a
I vote of six to two gave Rev.
John Glasse of the Presbyterian
Church a chance to refute the
charge.
During a debate in the House
t on traveling bills, Representative
i Davis from the 1st division assert
1 od that many trips were just
! honeymooning or for junketing
purposes.
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Bombs Explode In
Subway Stations
In London
LONDON. Feb. 2 (/P)— Bomb
1 explosions in two subway sta
tions in the center of London
. signalled a renewal of the series
of anti-English outrages attrib
uted by Scotland Yard to Irisih
Republican agitators.
The blasts occurred almost
simultaneously. A ticket collector
' was seriously injured and five
other persons were slightly hurt.
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