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VOL. 41. No. 93. NOME. ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 4. 1939 Pr ce per copy
Sen. Taft, Presidential Candidate
Japanese Good-Will Plane Due Nome August 15
Again Kill Bill Restore Reindeer Native Ownership
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PADEREWSKI BIDS U. S. FAREWELL
Lame and weary, Ignace Paderewski. 78, lifted his hat in farewell to
America as he boarded the Normandie at New York to sail for his
home-in-exile in Switzerland. The Polish wizard of the piano can
celled his American tour because of illness. ,4
Jurist Dies
CHICAGO, Aug. 4 </P) — Cir
cuit Judge John Cavery, aged 78
veteran Cook County jurist who
presided in the Loeb Leopold
murder trial of 1924 died in Ber
muda.
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CROWN PRINCE
Robert C. Townsend, 26 (above),
son of Dr. Francis E. Townsend,
has been voted “Crown Prince"
of the national pension plan
movement as the group ends its
con vention in Indianapolis.
Townsendites recommended the
father continue as head, but that
the son stand ready to take over
the group. Robert is now secre
tary-treasurer.
Navy to Ask
Bids Soon For
Alaska Air Bases
j Final plans far enlargement of j
the naval air base at Sitka, Al-!
' aska, at a total cost exceeding j
| $10.009,000, are now in prepara- [
| lion and bid calls for prelimin- j
I ary work will be issued shortly, I
according to word received from |
Washington, D.C. Subs'antial con
struction will begin at Sitka next j
month but work at Kodiak this |
j year will consist largely of dredg
in>g and filling, with building con i
struction to start early next year.'
Editor’s Note —The above in
, formation was contained in the
j Daily Journal o<f Commerce of
j Seattle, Wash., edited by Mr.
, Lesley Brown, son-in-law of Ira
| D. Orton prominent attorney of
| Nome.
POST OFFICE BILLS
PASS UPPER HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 — The
Senate passed and sent to the
Whitehouse the resolution author
izi'ng postmasters in Alaska to
administer oaths of affirmations,
take acknowledgements and per
form all functions of a notary
public.
The bill also authorizes the
postmaster general to contract
for certain powerboat service in
Alaska.
The bill will provide passenger
and freight transportation from
Seward to Bristol Bay.
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“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Senator Taft
Willing Become
1940 Candidate
WASHINGTON. Aug. 3 <7P) —
Senator Taft expressed his will
ingness t) become a candidate
for the Republican presidential
nomination.
The son of the former presi
dent and- Chief Justice, stated
his position in a letter to George
Yrich, chairman of the County
Republican Executive Committee
of Cleveland which endorsed him
for the presidential nomination.
"I’ll be willing when the time
comes to give my consent to have
my name designated as first
choice by the candidates for del
egates throughout the state,”
Taft said. Ho told Yiich that his
work as Senator was extremely
interesting and he preferred it to
any other job but he wouldn't
run away from a harder job "un
less the whole present tendency
of the government be redirected.
We cannot maintain financial sol
vency or free enterprise or even
individual liberty in the United
States. The leaders of the move
ment against New Deal fallacies!
must have the courage to incur
unlimited displeasure from ev
ery vested interest whose selfish
purposes conflict with the radical
| policy of reform."
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Yacht Stranger
Captain Lewis
Visits Nome
The yacht” Stranger,” Captain
Lewis of Los Angeles, in com
mand, arrived at Nome early this
morning on a cruise to the Arc
tic ocean. Of late years, this has,
been an annual cruise, Captain
Lewis playing host to the famous
Sea Scouts” organization of Los
| Angeles. The "Stranger,” named
after its famous predecessor, is!
a much smaller vessel, but ad
mirably suited for cruising in the
Arctic. The vessel is scheduled
to sa l for Pt. Barrow soon, ice
condition to the north permittng. ■
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ALASKA DAY
i “Miss Alaska,” Irene Reen
strorn and “Miss Fairbanks,”
Jane Gordon, will be honor
guests at the San Francisco ex
position on August 17, “Discov
ery Day,” marking the anniver
sary of the discovery of gold at
Dawson and the resultant rush
during which Fairbanks took
root as the metropolis of Cen
tral Alaska.
Judge E. Coke Hill, former I
Federal judge, is chairman in i
charge of the Alaska Day pro
gram at Treasure Island.
NOTICE
George Anderson, expert Piano
tuner with Pianos for sale or
rent will be in Nome about Aug- j
ust loth.
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for your subscription.
Senate Kills
$720,009 Item
Restore Reindeer
WAS INGTON. Aug. 4 UP) —
The S'.'.e eliminated from the
third ; b ncy bTl the Hcuse
1 ap: ■ ,ttm 1 $720.000 for the
re. ■ f Alaskan re n • r
! to I r, and Eskimo ownership.
I The Sena acted upon the re
} cor n : bat ons of its appropria
tion . !. ttee. The ac ion. how
ever - be confirmed by the
Sen at and H .use committee
Which w..l be appointed to ad
just the differences between the
tw 1t :• s is to the terms of
the !••! .
Farm Fund
Is Restored
i Washington. Aug. 4 i,pi —
The $110.000,000 farm fund was
restored in the session's last ap
propriation bill, by the Senate
subcommittee in a renewed drive
to adjourn Congress by tomor
row night. The action came al
most simultaniously with the en
j dorsement by President Roose
1 veil of Secretary Wallace’s in
sistence that the money for the
j commodity eredi. crop be restor
'd in the third deficiency b;d
from which it was slashed by
the House. Wallace said the mon
ey was essential for the contin
uance of the farm loan program.
He declared prices were for ma
jor farm crops.
For Meals Bring Your Friends
To The NORTH POI.F. BAKERY
Japanese Plane
Due Nome About
August 15th
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SEATTLE, Aug. 2 m — The
Nippon Vusen Kaisha steamship
1 no a nr. cnees a projected
round -'.he-world flight by the
Jap: : ose plane Nippon, to start
ft" :n Tokyo shortly with Nome
its first stop in foreign territory.
The huge ship, powered with
: two 9") horse power motors will
1 arrive a'. Nome about August 15.
j It will fly from Nome to Wnite
| horse, thence to Vancouver and
Seattle.
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Big Take
This Year Of
Pribilof Fur Sea!
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 bP) —
f The B.. -.-.u of Fisheries said
i his seas u’s take of Pribilof Is
land fur seal skins was the larg
• st since 1839. Acting commis
sioner Jacks n said the total of
60,473 skins was an increase of
2,109 over he 1938 lake and in-1
eluded 47.6Jt3 from St. Paul Is
land and 12.827 from St. George!
Is and. They will be sold at .auc
i m by the United States govern
rncnt, 15 percent going to Can
ada and 15 percent going to
Japan.
Write to your friends and rela
lives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
kick out of it.
NO. 55293
This picture of Thomas J. Pea
dergast, Kansas City Democratic
joss, was made at the Federal
PenPtnthsr. in I . .‘.-'"vmorth,
Kansas., where he is serving a
sentence for income (ax evasion,
and was released by the Depart
ment of Justice. ’
Head of Mission
Passes Away
b
WESTON. Mass.. Aug. 4 ‘TP) _
Rev. Augustine Dinar.d, 3. J.,
aged 67, a Jesuit missjaner for
■45 years died at Weston Co!lego
while visiting his brother Rev.
Joseph Dir.and, S.J He was form
er rector at Holy Cross college.
Seven years ago he became head
f the Jesuit mission at Ketchi
kan.
WRONG GUESS, BUT EVERYBODY S HAPPY
I Sidney A. Fortel, who made news by coming right out and saying that the stork was headed
! for his house with a boy, and who even named the date the bird would arrive, i* shown here
with his wife and their new daughter. Fortel, who foretold the s<-x wrong and mi-sed the date
two days, is stil glad to welcome Hazel Ann, and says that next time he’ll hit it right on the nose,
[ when tire stork again heads for their home in Newark, N. J.